The house search lasted all night.
When the people of the entire county of Ling woke up at eight o'clock the next morning, they suddenly found that the sky seemed to have changed.
The Wang family, which was once arrogant and domineering, is now occupied by a group of soldiers.
The county magistrate had gone somewhere unknown, and the chief clerk and the county lieutenant could only watch from afar with the yamen runners, not daring to take any action.
According to historical records, the main officials of an ordinary county in the Song Dynasty were the county magistrate, the chief clerk and the county lieutenant, and the remaining officials numbered about two to three hundred people, including yamen runners.
However, many of these two or three hundred people were minor clerks such as clerks, accountants, bailiffs, and other officials in the county government. There were only a few dozen real yamen runners and constables, and they could not compete with Zhao Jun's imperial guards at all.
So the other party can only watch and can't do anything.
They watched as Zhao Jun moved out box after box of things, and he was already searching the entire city for victims, asking people to spread the news and get the oppressed people to come and file complaints.
Although the news is spreading slowly at the moment, it is estimated that the people in the villages outside the county town will know the news at least after noon.
The oppressed people in the county town did not dare to come here rashly due to the power of the Wang family, but if this continued, they would not be able to hold on for long.
So now the officials of Ling County are in a very embarrassing situation.
Go ahead and take care of it, but I don’t dare to.
Just ignore it. They have completely overstepped their authority and raided the Wang family in front of them. They don't take them seriously at all.
It seemed as if they were the officials in charge of the local area, and all the officials in Ling County were extremely angry for a while.
But Zhao Jun didn't bother to care about the officials' unhappiness, because he was also very unhappy.
After looking at what the Wang family had done, it was found that not only the local officials of Ling County were implicated, but also his brother Wang Zai, and many local officials of Bozhou, such as Shi County Magistrate, Guo Zhizhou, and even many Bozhou officials who had been transferred.
This kind of interest transfer lasted for many years. It was not so rampant in the early days because the Wang family was just an ordinary landlord in Ling County and the land and wealth they owned were far less than they do now.
It was not until the third year of Tiansheng, thirteen years ago, that Wang Qian's younger brother Wang Zai passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. With his brother's more than ten years of experience in officialdom, Wang Qian's business grew bigger and bigger, and he had become the largest local evil force in Ling County, plundering and committing all kinds of evil.
Among the murder cases under his jurisdiction alone, there were as many as thirteen that were uncovered, and it is unknown how many more were left uninvestigated.
It can be said that the Wang family of Ling County was guilty of heinous crimes. There must have been innocent people among the entire Wang family who were executed, but beheading Wang Qian and his servants would probably make the entire Ling County happy.
By the next morning, Zhao Jun was tired from ransacking the house. He hadn't rested the whole night before. He walked out of the Wang family mansion, rubbing his dark circles. He planned to find a place to rest.
There were already huge crowds of people outside the door. People from Ling County came to watch the excitement in an endless stream, and surrounded the luxuriously decorated Wang family mansion in three layers inside and outside.
Zhao Jun was startled by the scene when he came out. He yawned and was about to order the soldiers to clear the way when the crowd outside started to commotion. Someone shouted, "The governor is here!" "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" "Go, go, go."
In an instant, the crowd dispersed and teams of soldiers rushed in. Seeing this, the guards around Zhao Jun also came to protect him. He brought a battalion of 500 people, with unsheathed swords and strung crossbows, and shields blocked Zhao Jun in front of him. At the same time, various whistles sounded and cavalry surged outside the city.
Seeing this scene, the people crawled away and the streets were suddenly filled with dense soldiers. Guo Chengyou rode on horseback and came with Bozhou's wing troops and imperial guards. He looked around and then looked in the direction of Zhao Jun who was surrounded.
The two sides suddenly entered a confrontation phase.
A step late?
When Guo Chengyou saw that Zhao Jun had already confiscated the Wang family's property, he immediately frowned.
He learned the news at midnight last night, and set out at three quarters past three in the morning. The 36-kilometer journey took him more than three hours, urging his soldiers to hurry, but he still failed to catch up.
But it doesn’t matter, the people have been blocked and the things can’t escape.
Thinking of this, Guo Chengyou put his heart at ease and urged his horse to go out from the crowd. He was also from a military family, so he was naturally good at horsemanship. He stepped forward and shouted, "Who is Liu Bin?"
No one answered.
Guo Chengyou was furious. He looked in Zhao Jun's direction and said, "Liu Bin, you've just met me, the prefect, and you're not coming out to greet me?"
His attitude was very rude.
The Yingzhou Commander that Zhao Jun reported was the head of the local imperial guards. Guo Chengyou had several of them under his command, including the Commander-in-Chief of the Wing Army and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guards. In front of him, they were just small officials.
But Zhao Jun yawned in the crowd, took out his badge from his waist, handed it to Huang Sanlang, and said, "Go, take the military power of his local army!"
"yes!"
Huang Sanlang took out his badge, then pulled out an imperial edict from his pocket, walked out and shouted, "Bozhou's wing troops, receive the edict!"
For a moment the entire field was silent.
Huang Sanlang walked up to the opposing garrison troops and the Imperial Guards, ignoring Guo Chengyou. He raised the silk imperial edict in his hand high in the air, glared at the garrison troops, and said, "Are you planning a rebellion? This is the Emperor's edict!"
Regardless of whether it was true or not, at that moment the Bozhou wing troops and the imperial guards panicked and quickly put away their weapons. Guo Chengyou, who was standing by, was stunned and did not dare to move.
Seeing this, Huang Sanlang opened the imperial edict in his hand with satisfaction and said, "This is an imperial edict from Zhao Jun, the head of the Song Dynasty's Political and Administrative Bureau. It states: Zhao Jun, the Duke of Song, has been ordered to tour the country. All local garrison troops and imperial guards are to obey his orders. Any matters requiring attention must be reported to the emperor in full. This is a special edict!"
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