"In the year 815 of the Great Xia calendar, the eldest son of the Wang family was in a bad mood. He rode his horse on the street and killed an elderly vegetable vendor..."
"In the year 816 of the Great Xia calendar, Jiujiang County was devastated by a massive flood. The Wang and Li families jointly emptied the granaries in Jianyi and transported grain and fodder to Jiujiang County, selling them at high prices. Within a year, their land holdings increased by nearly ten thousand acres, and they had hundreds more servants..."
"In the year 816 of the Great Xia calendar, the eldest son of the Wang family..."
Seeing that the Wang family was still stubborn, the captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard finally changed his attitude and publicly announced more detailed facts of the illegal and criminal activities.
He was an eyewitness to the Jiujiang flood that year. He and several colleagues discovered traces of demons on the river bank and tracked them, resulting in a major flood.
The boat capsized on the spot and he was attacked by demons under the water. He fainted at that time. If the victims on the shore had not pulled him up from the river, he would have died.
Being seriously injured and having to hide carefully to avoid demons, he lived with the victims for almost a month.
He deeply understood how difficult life was for the disaster victims. He had never experienced such a tragic scene in his life and still did not want to recall it.
That year, Jiujiang County suffered a severe flood, and official statistics showed that the death toll exceeded hundreds of thousands.
Many years ago, he had been thinking that as the Jinyiwei, an agency that governs and monitors the world on behalf of the emperor, there was such a chaotic scene inside when Jiujiang County was hit by a major flood.
The victims had already sold their children and exchanged their own children for food, but the government still did not open the warehouses to increase the supply. Instead, the high-priced grain was selling like hot cakes in the city, and the wealthy families in the city bought slaves in large quantities.
He had been suffering all these years, and he gave generous rewards to the disaster victim who saved him, giving him a hundred acres of fertile land and dozens of taels of silver.
But when he went to see it again several years later, the disaster victim who had saved him had disappeared, and the land under his name had been returned to a local wealthy family.
Does he have a share of responsibility for this situation? When will he be able to eliminate these advantages and disadvantages?
He thought for a long time but couldn't get an answer.
At most, he would help his benefactor find his descendants, change his appearance, hide his identity, pretend to be a fisherman, and raise the benefactor's child.
Ruihai's behavior showed him a way forward. Knowing that Ruihai was on a road of no return, he still took the initiative to apply to be with Ruihai, just to do something for Ruihai and Daxia.
After seeing the detailed investigation report Ruihai gave him, all the doubts he had for many years were answered. He was filled with anger. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he would think of everything that happened today and the crimes he had publicly accused these wealthy families of.
He thought he would be extremely angry, but the years of time and experience had gradually calmed him as he read out the crimes.
When the Wang family heard him read out their crimes, unlike what he had imagined, they knelt down and cried bitterly, seeking forgiveness.
The Wang family looked serious and angry.
"Slander, this is shameless slander. Bringing up something that happened almost ten years ago is simply ridiculous. I have no knowledge of the murder you mentioned."
"I also know something about the flood that year. When my Wang family heard about the disaster in neighboring Jiujiang County, we immediately mobilized manpower and allocated food to relieve Jiujiang. Your Majesty is in distress, and you are saving the neighboring country from disaster.
"It's ridiculous that someone has turned this incident upside down and accused us of stealing food. They're always looking for excuses to accuse someone of something."
If Li Xin, a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, had not personally experienced the events of that year, he would have suspected that he had wronged this "good man" when he saw the head of the Wang family crying and acting so hard.
Seeing the other party's state, he didn't want to say anything more and directly ordered: "Capture them all!"
…
Zhang Mingtu sat cross-legged on the roof, with black air exploding around him one after another. As the air exploded, it connected with the essence of heaven and earth, and in a way that Zhang Mingtu could not understand, it turned into huge essence and sank into his body.
Then it was refined by the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra and the Tai Shang San Sheng Jie Yuan Sutra.
Most of it was swallowed into the body by Tiangang Guiyuan, and a small part of it steadily and persistently strengthened the true qi in the body, making Zhang Mingtu's true qi more and more powerful.
Of course, the obsessions behind Zhang Mingtu have not been dismantled or eliminated.
Their obsession was not directed at the Wang family or the Li family, but at the individuals within the Wang family and the Li family. Perhaps these people who died silently at that time could not have imagined that the Wang and Li families would fall and their properties would be confiscated.
Their greatest obsession before their death was to kill the person who had killed them.
However, Zhang Mingtu was not worried that the remaining obsession could not be eliminated.
Ruihai was quite good in this regard. He quietly called in external troops, Jinyiwei and even people from the Six Gates, and the local people basically did not interfere.
Moreover, the action was so sudden and swift, and it also took advantage of the influence left by the previous demon's prison escape. It can be said that it was extremely sudden and swift.
Basically no one reacted, and the Wang and Li families didn't even have time to send warriors to station in the fort. This trip can be said to be quite successful.
Under Zhang Mingtu's watch, the standoff was quickly resolved. There was a little confusion, but no large-scale fighting occurred.
After all, Ruihai was well prepared, with crossbows and even cannons mobilized.
Thanks to Jianyi's well-connected waterways, the dispatch of so many people did not cause much trouble.
In the last future, since there was no demon incident, the future actions still aroused the vigilance of the Wang and Li families.
They hid in the dirty treasure and had a head-on confrontation with Ruihai. It took the army many days to capture the fort and bring all the people involved to justice.
Now that a group of people have been arrested smoothly, it is already a great success.
Zhang Mingtu knew Ruihai's methods and did not tell Ruihai about the future changes. He knew that Ruihai would adapt to the situation, and his methods of adapting were definitely much stronger than Zhang Mingtu's current methods.
…
"The main criminals of the Wang and Li families have been apprehended. What should we do next?"
Li Xin, a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, respectfully reported to Rui Hai.
Ruihai didn't even raise his head. He had anticipated this matter. He was still working on sorting out various information on farmland and other properties.
He was unfamiliar with the place and was parachuted here from Xingguo County. Most of the people here have strong connections with local people. Many things that should have been done by his subordinates have to be done by him personally. He has been so busy these days that he can't stop.
"All of them were locked up in the Jinyiwei prison."
"Jinyiwei Prison..."
Li Xin's heart skipped a beat: "But all the jailers in the Jinyiwei prison are dead, and no one has come up to replace them..."
"It's precisely because they're all gone that I feel comfortable locking these people up in the Jinyiwei prison. Otherwise, I'm afraid they'll escape right after I lock them up, and I'll have to dispatch troops to patrol there day and night..."
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