Chapter 196: The Public Trial of Liu Wanchun
He was speechless all night. Because when Hua Rong was reading a book at Du Jia yesterday, he had sent someone to post the notices all over the city, requiring everyone to gather at the square in the center of Heze Mansion the next morning. Those who violated the orders were at their own risk, so before dawn, the square was already full of people.
Like in Yuncheng County before, there were also soldiers from Liangshan standing around, and all the leaders sat in sequence on the platform, and Du Jia was naturally in the middle.
The people below were all looking at the people on the stage with trembling fear. Qingzhou is also located in the Central Plains, located in the southeast of Yanzhou. It is facing the sea, surrounded by mountains on the other side, and the other two sides are plains. Therefore, there is no shortage of food, rice, fish and salt. It has always been very wealthy. Therefore, although the society is turbulent and the court is in chaos, the people here can barely survive, and it is much better than the rest of the prefectures.
In addition, this place is not on the border, and few barbarian cavalry can set foot here, so life is relatively safe. Since the founding of the Song Taizu, the Heze Mansion has never been compromised by outsiders. At most, someone comes to "borrow grain" or harass the surrounding areas. So today, everyone is extremely panicked when they see the Liangshan people and don't know what will happen next.
As Hua Rong shouted "Take a prisoner", two minions immediately took Liu Wanchun up. Just one night, the guy's condition was completely different. His head was scattered, his eyes were deep, and he was staggering. How could he have the majesty of the prefect before?
In fact, Du Jia did not make things difficult for him, nor did he peel his clothes, nor did he lack food and drink, nor did he tie him up, but just imprisoned him in an empty room. After all, he wanted to interrogate him in public and then pay attention to it. If he really wanted to make things difficult for him, he would just kill him with one knife, so why bother so much?
But Liu Wanchun couldn't eat or drink. He thought about it all night and thought about it again and again - he had heard that the strong men who attacked the city this time came from Liangshan, but he never expected that they were of this size, with three to five thousand strong soldiers, and even Han Hao and the others surrendered, and he did not expect that these "strong thieves" would be so brave that they would dare to attack Heze Mansion directly!
As a confidant of Yang Jian, one of the four treacherous ministers, Liu Wanchun naturally knew about the other three thieves of Fang La King Qingtian Hu, and they dared to capture the county government and openly opposed the court. He was glad that he did not have such a powerful strong man in Qingzhou area, but he did not expect that it would appear so soon, and he caught up. It was really a big trouble for eighteen generations.
He thought about it all night and didn't fall asleep for a moment. He finally sat there in the morning and was roughly awakened by the guards and brought him over. He looked up and couldn't help but feel deeply moved. He naturally came here often before, but before, he sat on the platform and gave orders or preaching to the people below, all of which were so majestic. He didn't expect that he would become a prisoner today.
Today, Du Jia handed over the task of hosting the conference to Hua Rong, and he was just listening. There were two reasons for doing this. The first was that Hua Rong had a grudge against Liu Wanchun's brother Liu Gao. When the latter was in the Zhengzhi Village of Qingfeng Village, he suppressed and bullied the deputy Zhizhai Hua Rong, and asked him to deal with Liu Wanchun, which was considered to help him vent his anger; the second was that Du Jia now deliberately trained his subordinates to be alone, and Hua Rong was naturally no exception.
After Liu Wanchun brought it to Hua Rong whispered to the people below: "My fellow villagers, we are righteous men of Liangshan. We were very disturbed by everyone yesterday. I am sorry to you here. After all, the outside world has a deep misunderstanding about us now, and we can't get in normally."
No one of the people below spoke, but just listened honestly. To be honest, they were actually still in a state of being "scared" and didn't know what these Liangshan 'brethren' want to do.
Hua Rong paused and pointed at Liu Wanchun and said, "Everyone should recognize this dog official? Yes, he is Liu Wanchun, the governor of Heze Prefecture. But as the parents of the villagers, this guy is not about serving as an official and benefiting the people, but about plundering people's wealth, corruption, abuse of power, and domineering the countryside. Everyone suffers a lot of losses, right? Today we are here to uphold justice for you. If you have any grievances, just come and dominate everything. "
Hua Rong asked a few times, but no one responded to the people below. Since ancient times, the idea of "the people do not fight with officials" has long been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts. Even if he saw Liu Wanchun becoming a prisoner, who knows what kind of people like Liangshan are so worried about? What if Liu Wanchun accused Liu Wanchun today and they left tomorrow, Liu Wanchun will gain power again, then will he not be able to have sex?
Hua Rong also considered that the people would react, so he stopped asking more questions but said to the personal soldiers next to him: "Take all the things you searched from this dog official to the stage, so that everyone can take a closer look."
After agreeing, dozens of minions were coming over, and then they carefully placed the things on the long table on the high platform. They saw that the yellow ones were gold, white ones were silver, bright ones were pearls, red ones were treasures, and countless decorations, calligraphy and paintings were decorated with antiques, calligraphy and paintings. The people had never seen such things, and they were all dazzled and stunned.
Seeing that everyone was finally no longer like the stagnant pool of water before, Hua Rong smiled faintly: "How about it, this is what was found in the stolen official's home. This does not include many real estate deeds and money lending things. We had already counted them last night. Do the villagers want to know how many there are in total?"
Now the people finally reacted, and many people couldn't help but whisper "think", but the sound of thousands of people gathered together was quite loud.
Hua Rong smiled and waved his hand. A small minion in the accounting department next to him immediately took out a piece of paper and said loudly: "I have found a total of 1,200 taels of gold, 20,000 taels of silver, more than 55,000 guan of money, and the remaining jewelry pieces in total, which is about 180,000 guan."
There were immediately sounds of gasping in the people. If they had a family of 100 cents of money, they could be considered a medium-sized family. The things Liu Wanchun got in the family were equivalent to 1,800 such families. How terrifying is this?
Moreover, this does not include his real estate, real estate and external debts. According to general rules, the amount of those will only be greater than that of cash. If we include those, we may not be able to catch up with him. Almost all the assets of the five thousand families may be accounted for 10% of the people in Heze Mansion.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!