In Xingguo County, the Six Gates and Embroidered Uniform Guards who were specially mobilized from other places surrounded the last family in the plan tightly, leaving no room for any leakage.
They all looked at the person in the center of their crowd with complicated eyes.
Groups of troops were joining together to attack the fortress built by the family.
The fortress, which took hundreds of years to build, is as strong as a city and is difficult for ordinary people to enter.
But they were still defeated by large numbers of troops.
If they were really caught, no one would be able to confront Daha head-on.
Seeing that the last door was broken and a group of depressed people were pulled out by the army, Ruihai finally looked away.
He calmly gave orders to the Six Gates and Embroidered Uniform Guard personnel around him.
"Go and check their fields, their lands, and their hidden bills."
"Yes, sir!"
Even though the inventory work has not been completed, Ruihai already has an idea in his mind.
The unknown person who silently provided him with information had already made some statistics on the relevant situation. These major families that he was familiar with owned nearly one million acres of fertile land.
Most of the land in Xingguo County is in their hands.
It can be said that the lifeline of people's food and clothing is controlled by them. They are dressed in fine clothes and eat delicious food, and everyone in their family lives an extremely rich life, while other people can only barely make ends meet even if they work from sunrise to sunset and are busy all day long.
"There's a problem in Xingguo County!"
Rui Hai sighed, and at the same time marveled at the help given to him by the unknown man An Zhong.
There is a lot of evidence that he has not yet obtained, but he already has the corresponding graphics, and even knows where to get it and how to obtain it.
The other party seemed to have rehearsed his entire operation, and was now proceeding completely according to plan without much obstacles at all.
"My way is not alone!"
Ruihai admired him in his heart, and the many people from the Six Gates and the Embroidered Uniform Guard who helped him carry out these tasks looked at him with extremely strange eyes.
Rui Hai knew why they looked at him so strangely.
The Jiangnan families are not clean. No one cares if one or two families are missing. After all, it is okay if one's hands are dirty, but if they are caught by the authorities, they are courting death.
But there is no one like him who has completely wiped out several major families in a place, and done it so ruthlessly without leaving any room for others.
The major families are not of the same blood. Many times, because of their different interests, they are like mortal enemies.
But when facing a person like Rui Hai, their interests and demands will be surprisingly consistent, and they will truly be of the same blood.
Because Ruihai really wants to dig up their roots.
Ruihai didn't care, but just looked at a group of people in tattered clothes with numb expressions looking at this place in the distance.
After a brief silence, he instructed, "Carefully check the relevant account books and keep the land deeds. If any were illegally seized, be sure to find the person responsible and return the land to them."
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After listening carefully for a while, he soon received secret news from the Jinyiwei in Xingguo County.
Rui Hai did take action, and his action was extremely swift and fierce. He directly mobilized troops from other places and personnel from the Jinyiwei and Liushenmen, and took action on the spot.
They acted as fast as lightning. Using the excuse of discussing important matters in advance, they gathered together the leaders of the major families and the people in the government who were on their side and who were specifically informing them of the situation, and then took them down in one fell swoop.
Then they publicly announced their guilt in Xingguo County, and no one could stand up to them under the Thunder Operation.
Various news spread quickly among the Six Gates and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and internal information became more certain.
Ruihai checked the land of the local wealthy families and returned it to the local good people.
Xingguo County, which originally could not even collect much tax, suddenly obtained more than one million taels of silver by confiscating property and exterminating families.
The prosperity of Jiangnan is indeed well deserved.
While he was busy in the restaurant at home, the Jinyiwei suddenly sent a message that they should gather together in the Jinyiwei Command Building.
Zhang Mingtu didn't need to go, after all, he was a secret guard and needed to keep his identity secret.
But at night he also received an official notice, which was a document issued by the higher authorities.
The content is also quite simple, if you simply remove the confusing text.
The first part was a criticism, criticizing the Jinyiwei of Xingguo County for their ineffective performance. The situation in Xingguo County was so bad, but the Jinyiwei did not provide much clues or information.
On the contrary, it was the Xingguo County Magistrate Rui Hai who, with the help of the Six Gates and the relevant forces of the government, investigated the situation so clearly.
Urge the Jinyiwei in various places to work hard and not be too negligent so as not to make a fool of themselves.
The document is quite elegantly written, but if you don't know the characters involved, it's hard to understand as it's quite confusing.
If Zhang Mingtu had not worked in the Jinyiwei for decades and had many years of experience as a Jinyiwei, he would not have been able to understand it at all with his mindset as he had just joined the Jinyiwei.
"But there's no need to gather all the Jinyiwei just to announce a document like this..."
Zhang Mingtu's eyes flashed. The Jinyiwei were all descendants of nobles. Their families could inherit related positions without much assessment. After the father's death, the son would inherit, and after the son's death, the grandson would inherit.
For hundreds of years, all kinds of documents were issued at will, and if the Jinyiwei listened, you would win.
Anyway, as long as you don't make any serious mistakes, you will basically not lose this position.
For the meritorious nobles of that time, it was a great reward just to pass it down from generation to generation. But for the descendants later, it was the same salary whether they just lived a life of idleness and waited for death or not.
Why not just eat and wait for death? People always prefer to be idle and hate to work.
It’s not so bad at the grassroots level in various places, after all, they still have to work. But if you’re in a place like Kyoto, it’s really a place of debauchery.
"They should be secretly investigating the people in the Jinyiwei and selecting useful materials. The underground river demon incident should be about to unfold."
Originally, there was no need to use so many people from the Jinyiwei. Xue Cheng, his friends, and the people he had taken a fancy to in the past would be enough.
But Zhang Mingtu reminded that many people would be mobilized by Xue Cheng.
Even when Zhang Mingtu turned to the bottom of the document, he saw a secret order from the Jinyiwei, asking him to wait at the entrance of the underground river next to the Ganjiang River three days later and await instructions.
"Sure enough, he's going to take action!"
Xue Cheng obviously did not inform the higher authorities. If he had informed Longxing Prefecture, it is very likely that the relevant investigations and intelligence he obtained would have been reaped by the descendants of a big shot on the higher authorities' side.
The credit given to him afterwards was insignificant, so even if all the Jinyiwei in Jianyi were stretched thin together, Xue Cheng still insisted on doing it.
"It seems that his mind is still clear."
Zhang Mingtu nodded secretly. The reason why he chose Xue Cheng was because Xue Cheng was upright, but at the same time not completely pedantic.
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Inside the Jinyiwei residence, Xue Cheng was smiling broadly as he bowed to the three tall men who looked somewhat like him and said, "I'll have to trouble you, my three uncles, with this matter."
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