Chapter 92 Noble Dirty
A mountain of grain was piled up in Feng Mansion's warehouse, all of which had been packed and put into sacks. If it hadn't been for Mo Jun's sudden attack on this trip, these grains would probably have been shipped out of Feng Mansion by now.
Looked with rough eyes.
In this warehouse alone, there are a total of 30,000 to 40,000 shi of grain, but the black armor soldiers found four such warehouses in Feng's residence.
Add up to more than 100,000 shi of grain.
What is the concept of hundreds of thousands of grains?
Among the Seven Kingdoms, Qin has the largest population, with about six million people.
And the total population of the entire South County is only five or six hundred thousand people. This flood does not affect a wide area and can only be regarded as a small disaster. Even if all the victims are added up, there are at most thirty to forty thousand people. Insane.
Just the hundreds of thousands of shi of grain hoarded by the Feng family, even if only half of it is sold, is enough to easily help Nanjun survive this disaster.
However, the Feng family and the other three major clans not only did not sell the grain, but also purchased all the grain on the market, artificially manipulating the price of grain, causing the price of grain to skyrocket.
In this way.
The 'flood', which could only be regarded as a cautious disaster, directly expanded into a 'food shortage' affecting half of South County.
"Leave a team of soldiers and horses here to guard, and send someone to the county guard's mansion to inform Zhanqin, asking him to bring someone to transport the food here. The rest, follow me!"
Mr. Mo, who already knew the peeing nature of these clansmen, was not shocked by the hundreds of thousands of grains hoarded here. After all, he had already seen this kind of thing once when he was in Korea.
After arranging the next task with no expression on his face, Mo Jun was about to turn around and leave the Feng Mansion, heading for the other three clans.
In fact, at the beginning of the other three clans, Mo Jun did not plan to do it himself. Originally, he only needed to find the 'evidence' here, and then he would send a signal with fire sulfur stone to notify the other three parties to do it directly.
However, the fact that the Feng family cultivated an 'army' privately exceeded Mo Jun's expectations.
So when it was unclear whether the other three major clans were involved in this matter, Mo Jun planned to act safer.
However, just as Mo Jun was about to leave, he saw a black armored soldier rushing over and reported to Mo Jun in a low voice: "My lord, there is a situation!"
After a while.
Following behind the black armored soldiers, Mo Jun came to the underground of Feng Mansion, an extremely hidden basement.
And just after Mo Jun saw the situation in this basement clearly, for the first time, his originally calm mood fluctuated unprecedentedly...
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The clan land of the Zhu family is not far from the Feng residence.
The Zhu family is among the four major clans, the family in charge of the most "underground forces" in South County. Most of the "underground forces" are lawless people who have no rules at all.
Those who want to subdue the "underground forces" can only be more vicious, more brutal, and more lawless than them.
So Zhu Baili, the patriarch of the Zhu clan, is also the one with the most violent temper in the entire four major clans.
In order to prevent the Zhu family from jumping over the wall in a hurry, the army that surrounded the Zhu family was also commanded by Li Xin himself, and cooperated with Jiu Jianchi, a first-class master of the rivers and lakes, to take joint action.
"General Li's reckless mobilization of border troops is probably against the law!"
At this time, in front of the gate of the Zhu family, the two parties are confronting each other.
On one side was the black armored soldiers of Qin State headed by Li Xin, while on the other side there was only one person, an old man with narrow eyes, smiling, and wearing official uniform, who looked like a fox.
This person is Zhu Lunian, the magistrate of Nanjun County.
The duty of Juncheng is to assist the county guard in managing the administration and prison work in the county. He has the same status as the county lieutenant and concurrent censor, and belongs to one of the three highest officials in a county except the county guard.
Before Nanjun, the county lieutenant was concurrently held by Meng Wu, and the concurrent censor was from Lu Buwei.
And behind this Jun Cheng is the Zhu family, one of the four major clans.
So even in the face of an entire army at this moment, Zhu Lunian still appears calm and composed.
"The general received a report that someone smuggled Chu armor into Yingdu with the intention of rebelling. How is it unreasonable to be ordered to mobilize the army to investigate the rebels?"
"Hehe~~ General Li doesn't seem to understand what I mean. What I mean is that General Li's investigation of rebels is legal and reasonable, but what evidence does General Li have to prove that this matter is related to my Zhu family?"
"In addition, General Li said that he was ordered to mobilize the army. Whose order was it? Is it General Meng, or... the county guard?"
Zhu Lunian is a bit rich, and he smiles like a kind rich man, but through his fox-like eyes, it can be seen that this person is obviously not as simple as he appears on the surface.
Li Xin squinted his eyes and said, "This matter is a military secret, so I have nothing to say."
Hearing what Li Xin said, Zhu Lunian was not annoyed, he still laughed and said, "Since General Li doesn't want to say more, then I won't ask more questions."
"However, according to Qin law, any mobilization of more than 50 soldiers must be personally issued by the king. Even if General Meng sits on the border and has the right to deploy troops, he can only mobilize troops outside."
"If General Li can't give a reasonable explanation for today's incident, then don't blame me for going to the king and the queen mother for participating in General Li's private army and oppressing the people."
At the end, Zhu Lunian didn't continue to hide his true nature, and two gloomy and cold lights suddenly burst out from his narrow eyes.
Hearing this, Li Xin also fell silent for a while.
What Zhu Lunian said is not completely unreasonable, at least from the perspective of the laws of the Qin State, the troop transfer tonight is indeed unreasonable and legal.
If the action tonight cannot obtain sufficient 'evidence', then once the other party turns back to them, I am afraid that Mo Jun, Li Xin, and Meng Wu who are mobilizing tonight will be overwhelmed.
Li Xin became famous when he was young, and now he has reached his current position in just a year of crowning, so he naturally doesn't want to give up his status and reputation that he has worked so hard for.
Therefore, in the face of Zhu Lunian's remarks, he fell into a bit of a struggle for a while.
And Zhu Lunian seemed to see Li Xin's inner hesitation, suddenly his face changed, and he smiled and said: "Of course, if General Li retreats tonight, we can discuss it slowly in the future. I can treat tonight's matter as a matter of course." A misunderstanding, how does General Li feel?"
Li Xin looked at Zhu Lunian, who was smiling like a fox, before he had time to respond.
suddenly.
I only heard a cold voice without the slightest emotion coming from behind: "I don't think so. Zhu's family privately manufactured armor with the intention of rebellion. The evidence is conclusive. I now issue a verdict with the power of the Nanjun County Sheriff to arrest Zhu immediately. The whole family will be brought to justice, and if they encounter resistance, they will be killed on the spot."
"Mr. Mo, how dare you?"
Whoosh!
As soon as the old man in Tsing Yi finished speaking, a spear shot out suddenly, piercing through the chest of the old man in Tsing Yi in an instant, nailing him, including the man and the spear, to the gate of Zhu Mansion.
The old man in Tsing Yi is the current patriarch of the Zhu clan "Zhu Baili". Zhu Baili obviously did not expect that Mo Jun would actually dare to do something to him, so until he was dying, his face still maintained a furious expression, and his eyes were still full of anger. With an incredible color.
"The Zhu family intends to rebel, anyone who dares to resist, kill!"
After Zhu Baili was nailed to death with a spear, before Li Xin and Zhu Lunian could react, even Mo Jun led the black armored soldiers and rushed directly into Zhu's mansion.
The battle ended after two quarters of an hour.
As expected.
The Zhu family also hid a group of 'guards', but this time Mo Jun was prepared in advance, and Li Xin brought a lot of troops, so the other party did not cause any trouble.
As for the fact that the Zhu family has a lot of masters, after all, they are in charge of a lot of 'underground forces' in South County, but it's a pity that there are more masters on Mo Jun's side.
This time, Lord Mo did not kill the entire Zhu family. After all, there will be a public trial, and there must be a few examples of "beheading to show the public and using canonical punishment".
After dealing with the matter of the Zhu family, Mo Jun walked out of the gate full of blood, when he saw Zhu Lunian who had lost his previous composure, pointing at him with trembling hands,
"Mr. Mo, you, you, you madman, the Queen Mother will never..."
Poof!
Before he finished speaking, Mo Jun backhanded his sword and pierced his heart directly.
This kind of decisive shot made the hearts of those around couldn't help but jump.
Then Mo Jun got on his horse and said in a hoarse voice, "The next one!"
At this time, Mo Jun's eyes are bloodshot, and the low air pressure around his whole body can be felt even a foot away. This kind of Mo Jun is completely different from the previous carefree and unrestrained appearance.
Even Li Xin, who has always been cold and arrogant, shut his mouth wisely at this time, simply leaving a team of people to guard the 'criminal', and after sealing off the Zhu family, he followed Mo Jun and left.
"Hey~~ what's wrong with him?" After Mo Jun walked a certain distance, Jiu Jianchi finally couldn't help but asked Zhuyeqing in a low voice.
"It's nothing, I just saw some dirty things of nobles." Zhuyeqing glanced at her and said calmly.
"oh!"
Jiu Jianchi suddenly nodded.
As a wandering swordsman who had sneaked into the palaces of the Four Kingdoms several times to steal wine, Jiu Jianzhi naturally knew many dirty things about nobles. He was also very angry at first, but after a long time, he gradually became numb.
Because there are too many such things, so many that it can't be changed at all with only one's own strength.
But then Jiu Jianchi wondered again: "Isn't this kind of thing already normal? Isn't that guy also a nobleman? Why is he so angry?"
"You ask me? How do I know."
Zhuyeqing also felt somewhat puzzled by Mo Jun's anger.
After all, although the scenes I saw in the basement of the Feng family were rare, they were definitely not uncommon among the aristocratic group.
In Zhuyeqing's view, as a member of the 'noble' group, it is impossible for Mo Jun not to have heard of these things.
But at this time, the killing intent emanating from Mo Jun's body could not be faked, so Zhuyeqing felt a little strange.
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After the Zhu family, there is the Cheng family.
The Cheng family was not much different from the previous two. When the army led by Mo Jun and Li Xin arrived, they were instantly flattened.
However, when Mo Jun led the black armored soldiers to the last Rong clan, a little accident happened, because everyone in the Rong clan had been subdued before Mo Jun entered the mansion.
The person who took the initiative to control all the people of the Rong family also surprised Mo Jun. It was none other than "Mrs. Rong", the contemporary representative of the Rong family.
The difference between the Rong clan and the other three major clans is that the current patriarch of the Rong clan suddenly contracted a serious illness three years ago, and after that, no one knew what method the current head wife of the Rong clan used to He actually held the 'temporary power' of the Patriarch in the hands of a woman.
When Mr. Mo arrived at the Rong Mansion, most of the main members of the Rong clan were already in a coma, as if they had been drugged, tied up, covered their mouths, and handed over to the black armor soldiers led by Jian Jiuyuan to guard them.
"My concubine has met the governor."
Seeing Mo Jun walk into the lobby, Mrs. Rong hurriedly stood up to greet him.
Jun Mo looked around at the members of the Rong family who were still awake, all staring at Madam Rong in front of him with hatred, resentment, and anger, and slowly said, "I don't know what Madam Rong means?"
Seems to have seen what Mo Jun really wanted to ask, Madam Rong didn't hesitate much, but just smiled wryly and said: "I just want to protect myself."
"Not long after my concubine married into the Rong family, I discovered the ambition of the Rong family to 'rebel against'. I knew very well that they were playing with fire, and sooner or later they would catch fire."
"That's why I guessed this when I just got the news that the governor of the county has taken action against the other three major clans, so I just killed the relatives one step ahead of time, and I only ask the governor of the county to let the concubine know how to return. My "Lu family" has a way out."
The Lu family is Mrs. Rong's natal family and one of the old aristocratic forces in South County.
Rebellion is a serious crime committed by the "Yi clan", so once the evidence is conclusive, as the contemporary "acting head" of the Rong family and also the main wife, Mrs. Rong's mother's "Lu family" will also not be able to escape liquidation.
So in order to preserve the 'Lu family', it seems reasonable for Mrs. Rong to exterminate relatives righteously.
However, Mo Jun had dealt with Mrs. Rong a few times during this period, and he knew very well that this woman was by no means an easy-going lamp, so no one knew how much of what she just said was true or false.
thought for a moment.
Mr. Mo did not respond to Mrs. Rong, but instead asked, "Where is the food?"
"It's in the grain depot. I can take the governor there now."
The amount of food hoarded by the Rong family is not as good as that of the Feng family, but the amount is also quite large, close to 100,000 shi.
After a brief inspection of the food.
Mr. Mo suddenly asked unintentionally, "Is there a meat pool for the Rong family?"
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(end of this chapter)