Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

Li Liuqi just realized at that time that his second brother probably knew from the beginning that the young master of the Fan family accidentally killed a wealthy kid in the town while drunk in a brothel and needed someone to take the blame.

Otherwise, how can I take myself to Landlord Fan’s house to borrow rice? How can it be so easy to borrow rice from a landlord’s house?

Just now, Landlord Fan asked him who of the two would follow him in. After eating the broth, his blood boiled over, and he agreed without hesitation. At this time, he was imprisoned.

But Li Liuqi didn't blame his second brother in his heart, let alone regret it. Droughts and floods had come, and the disaster year had reached this point. He had to give up his wife for every meal. They were brothers, so it was natural for him to have some thoughts of his own.

But for the sake of his family, if he had to choose again, he would still do it. He was ready to take the blame.

However, what Li Liuqi never expected was that when he arrived in the county, his crime was not just murder by mistake!

It's the leader of the rioters who gathered a crowd in Qingpingbo to cause trouble. He must be punished as soon as possible!

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, death row prisoners from all over the country must be sent to the emperor for review and execution, and then be executed in the autumn.

Unless it was someone like Jing Qing or Mei Yin who was quick to deal with it, the emperor would directly issue a special order to kill it without waiting for Qiu Zhan.

Therefore, at first, Li Liuqi thought about either being sentenced to exile, and he admitted it. If it was the death penalty, he would try to find a way to escape on the way to escort. Usually, death row prisoners would be escorted to Wujin City, not the county town.

However, Emperor Yongle's order to local officials to first try to quell the civil unrest was immediately distorted by the local monks.

The original intention is to deal with what can be dealt with by oneself, and if it cannot be dealt with, the court will use the army.

This is a very normal countermeasure. You can't have dozens of people in civil unrest and have to wait for the army to arrive, right? Under these traffic conditions, if we have to wait for the army to deal with it, it will only make the situation worse.

The local government did not shirk the blame, and almost unanimously chose to deal with it quickly and severely.

However, what we are dealing with is not entirely civil unrest, but rather, taking advantage of the civil unrest, we begin to seek revenge and complain. Those who have no grudges or grudges must also push away the loopholes, scapegoats, and shortcomings that cannot be dealt with. Go to the civil turmoil.

As for whether there is civil unrest, just say it if you have it, just find a few "riot bandit leaders" to deal with it.

So, Li Liuqi naturally recanted his confession and refused to give in even after being tortured. If he really confessed, he would be killed in a few days and his family would be harmed.

As for the so-called rioters in Qingpingbo, they are those people with tiger and leopard tattoos who appear in the village. Although these people look like green-skinned scoundrels, it is not that they are not involved in the industry at all. Selling fish and shrimps is the main business, and helping people ferry people is the auxiliary business.

At this time of the year, they are not causing trouble, but it is a pity that the common man is innocent and carries the jade.

Several gentry in the county have taken a fancy to the Qingpingbo land and plan to clean it and use it half as a fish pond and half as a paddy field.

Therefore, they also became "rioters", and Li Liuqi, whose life trajectory seemed to have no intersection with theirs, became the "rioter leader".

But what neither Landlord Fan nor Magistrate Huang knew was that Li Liuqi had to retract his confession after he was beaten to death, but it was because the leader of Qingpingbo's gang of rogues, "Yi Hu", was really an old acquaintance of his. His nephew, who was a fellow martial artist in his youth, was his senior brother's apprentice. He studied martial arts with him, but based on seniority, he became his uncle.

For the sake of his family and his nephew, Li Liuqi was beaten to death in the county. It was the fingerprints on the corpse.

Before he died, his wife Aunt Liu went to visit him and got all this information.

However, the Li family did not escape the fate of being ruined.

After the second son came back with rice, he heard that his beloved son had become the culprit. Chen fainted and never woke up.

The old man from the Li family died on the bed before the big bag of rice came back.

As for how the eldest brother of the Li family died, the woman, Aunt Liu, kept it secret. This time was between the death of the Li family's parents and Aunt Liu's departure to the county town.

He only said that he heard from the villagers that the second son was wrapped in a straw mat and buried his parents and eldest brother. Then when he saw that he was out, he took the rice with his sister-in-law and nephew and fled to a foreign country at night.

So when Aunt Liu came back from visiting Li Liuqi in the county town, she saw the original family of nine, only herself and her son staying at home alone.

Aunt Liu didn't complain about this. She had remarried to the Li family with her son. Since they accepted her son, they probably didn't regard the two of them as family members at the beginning, but only for the old bachelor Li Liu. Seventh, get a wife.

So when they fled, they were left behind, so they had no choice but to accept their fate.

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"Then what's going on?"

After listening to Aunt Liu's narration, Jiang Xinghuo pointed to the porridge shed in the distance, and then pointed to the killing cry at the north end of the village.

"This is our local custom, porridge with decapitated heads. My son and I can't eat this porridge even if we starve to death. They robbed the food of the rich households in the village to make porridge. This is a rebellion." Aunt Liu looked at the porridge shed with fear. said.

For many ordinary people, they may really rather starve to death than dare or be unable to rebel.

"As for what's going on at the other end of the village, I don't know."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded. Although this was Aunt Liu's one-sided statement, the whole story was probably already clear.

He untied a dry food package from the guard and handed it to Aunt Liu. Seeing the woman's profuse thank you, Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a few moments, but finally said nothing.

There are too many people who need his rescue.

"Go look over there."

Wang Bin grabbed Jiang Xinghuo's sleeve, pointed behind him and asked, "Do you need it?"

What he meant was that there was no need to call in the army from afar, it would be safer.

Jiang Xinghuo waved his hand. The few guards here were all elite veterans. This kind of small-scale village fighting-level battle was enough to provide thorough protection.

Although it is a big village, it is still a village after all. After a few people walk for a while, the scene ahead can be seen in the distance.

When they saw what happened, the eyes of these guards suddenly became sharp.

At the north end of the village, more than twenty men in black suits holding steel knives formed a group. The leader was a young man in a brocade robe, staring at a man in front of him.

Half of his shoulders were cut off, and a blade was inserted into his abdomen. Blood flowed from the wound and dyed the soil on the ground red.

His lips were slightly open, as if he wanted to send out a final cry, but he could no longer make any sound.

It was the tattooed green-skinned leaders of Qingpingbo.

A dozen of his companions armed with homemade weapons were also chopped to the ground, and the Fan family's servants also paid the price with nearly ten casualties.

"Hmph! Trash, you still want to do this?"

The young man in brocade robes was the son of Landlord Fan. He raised his foot and kicked the fallen man on the chest. He sneered and cursed, then turned his head and stared at Jiang Xinghuo and others fiercely.

"Who are you? You are tired of living!"

His eyes swept across Jiang Xinghuo and others, and his eyes fell on several of the guards.

It was obvious that these guards had killed people before, so Landlord Fan's son gave them a little "respect".

"Don't you know?"

Wang Bin asked with interest.

Landlord Fan's son shouted in a cold voice: "I don't care who you are, if you have any sense, get out of here, otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"

When he heard that the fishermen in Qingpingbo had gathered to cause trouble and plunder the village, he hurried over with his servants. Most of the land here was their family's property, and no accidents were allowed to happen.

The reason why he didn't let his servants take action was because he had already lost a lot of manpower today in order to kill the Qingpingbo mob, and he didn't want to lose any more.

But if the other party continues to be obsessed with it, then he will have no choice but to kill him.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at him calmly and asked: "Is the imperial court's decree to quell chaos meant for you? Or are you also interested in the paddy fields in Qingpingbo?"

Hearing this, the man in brocade robe laughed twice, but a trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes.

"Okay! You are really brave. I might as well tell you clearly that several big shots in the county have taken a fancy to the Qingpingbo land. Some of the rioters there are now lying here, and the remaining people , no one can escape!"

"What do you mean by rioters?"

Jiang Xinghuo saw the killing intent in the other person's eyes.

"Those who work against me are the rioters!"

"Don't talk about the emperor's will."

The young landlord of the Fan family sneered: "Here, I am the emperor!"

At this moment, the Qingpingbo fishermen leader 'Yi Hu', who had fallen on the ground, opened his eyes like a flashback. His throat was full of blood, but he still shouted silently to Jiang Xinghuo: "Let's go."

Look at the other person's mouth shape.

"good."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, turned around and walked towards Wang Bin.

The young master of the Fan family felt that Jiang Xinghuo was scared and winked to the left and right, but he had no intention of leaving him alive.

However, at this moment, Jiang Xinghuo waved his hand.

Wang Bin frowned slightly, feeling impatient for a long time. In his opinion, it was a waste of time for the Imperial Master to deal with these country tycoons and spend time arguing with them.

Now that they saw the signal from the Imperial Master, they were not polite at the moment, and several guards shook off the belongings wrapped in cloth strips.

"——Xiuchundao! Are you Jin Yiwei?!"

The young landowner of the Fan family was so frightened that his face turned green. He never expected that Jiang Xinghuo was actually from Jin Yiwei.

How could he not know the power of Jin Yiwei, a terrorist organization specializing in investigation and torture.

If he was targeted by Jin Yiwei, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Wait a minute, we have something to discuss!"

Seeing this scene, the young landlord of the Fan family finally gave up.

"Don't be obsessed with fighting, fight quickly."

Jiang Xinghuo gave a faint reminder, and a strong murderous intention spread from his words, as if the surrounding air was solidifying and turning into ice and snow.

Wang Bin didn't bother to explain anything to him. Except for the two of the six guards who were left to guard the Imperial Master and Master Song, the remaining four followed him and faced him with swords. It was clear that they were going to fight five against twenty.

PS: [Important reminder (there is no charge for this content)] Chapters 316 to 356 are about the rectification of officialdom and the suppression of rebellions in Jiangnan. They do not contain any theoretical knowledge. They are all practical content. If you are not interested, you can jump directly to Chapter 366. "Lecture" will contain theoretical knowledge content from now on.