Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

As soon as the news came out, thousands of young men, including some women in their prime, rushed in this direction like crazy.

If there hadn't been a team of people in front of the table to maintain order, they might have torn the mayor who announced the good news into pieces.

Such a scene fell into the eyes of the patriarchs of the other four major families and the village chiefs of the surrounding villages without missing a beat, making them unable to help but feel deeply.

"The Keelung Army is indeed well-deserved. Not only is it powerful in force, but it also has a good grasp of people's hearts! These grains, clothing, cloth, salt, and so-called floating wealth are all accumulated by Deng Wentian's lineage for decades and hundreds of years. Now Keelung With just one word from the army, they all went out and used the accumulation of the Deng family to bribe and win over the members of the Deng family. This is a business without any capital! "

The head of the Bai family nodded in horror and responded: "But this business without capital is still a complete conspiracy, which is hard to guard against. If the same trick is used in my family, will the same be true for those ineffective people in my family? So positive?”

Yes, it will definitely happen! The head of the Bai family already had the answer in his heart.

Just as the people of the Deng family were happily registering their household registrations, another news came!

Two staff members from the Department of Household Affairs ran out of the big house happily and placed a basket full of documents, contracts, account books and other things in front of Weizhou.

"Sir! We copied this from Deng Wentian's home!" A man took out an account book with a cover made of mulberry paper from the basket and handed it to Weizhou as if he was doing something good.

"Most of these are land deeds, land deeds, house deeds and other documents of the Deng family, as well as deeds of sale for the purchase of maids, servants and concubines, various correspondence documents, contracts, etc. Among them are many usury documents."

The people of the Deng family who were still excited about their finances just now calmed down as if a bucket of ice water was poured into boiling water. Even if the accounts were not settled, they were still penniless.

They looked eagerly at this big shot in the Keelung Army, hoping to get good news from him.

Weizhou looked at the contract in his hand, and then at the desire in the eyes of the people of the Deng family. At this moment, he understood what his lord said, "The people's hearts are huge!"

"Dear fellow villagers and elders! We copied this from the house of the ancestor of the Deng family. He may be the elder of most people here, but these account books, land deeds, land deeds, house deeds, personal documents, and personal documents Wait, you can see the true face of this ancestor of the Deng family. Do you want to know how much wealth he has? How did he get it?"

If people's emotions were boiling just now, then when Weizhou finished reading the outline of the property under Deng Wentian's name, the emotions of the villagers present, especially the members of the Deng family, were already on fire!

"There are more than 7,000 acres of good paddy fields and 20,500 acres of mountains and forests. There are ten houses in the provincial and county towns, more than 400 market houses, eight shops, 11 fishing boats, and eight merchant ships."

These simple numbers are jaw-dropping!

"This old man is really good at making money! He has so many real estates and shops without making any noise. It's really...!" Now the people of the four major families don't know what to say. , both good and bad have disappeared into nothingness.

Seeing that the emotions of the Deng family people on the field were almost exaggerated, Weizhou motioned to bring Deng Wulang and others to the stage. He wanted to question him in public to add fuel to the fire.

"Deng Wulang, it's been a long time! Let me ask you, is this account book true?"

Facing Weizhou's questioning, Deng Wulang was dejected. He no longer had the spirit and pride to scold Fang Qiu, and just thought about how to survive.

He raised his head and glanced at it. It was a familiar cover and handwriting. He nodded and said, "Yes, it's a debt letter written by my grandpa himself."

"In the autumn of the fifth year of Tianqi, we spent a total of 373 taels of silver to perform sacrifices, build colorful archways, hire musicians, and repair the ancestral hall. The cost of reimbursement was 2,756 taels of silver."

"In the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, we spent a total of three hundred and thirty-four taels of silver to make sacrifices, build colorful archways, and hire musicians, and we spent two thousand, eighty-eight-eighty-five taels of silver to pay the bills."

.........

I see!

No wonder we have to pay so much land tax and money every year. This was all embezzled by Deng Wentian!

At this time, everyone, big or small, knowing or not, cast their malicious eyes on Deng Wentian who was lying on the reed mat.

The emotions of the people were like a prairie fire, and the patriarchs of the other four major families in Jinping County who were watching in the shanties were frightened. They have done things like creating clever names and collecting taxes.

The patriarch of the Bai family and the patriarch of the Kong family looked at each other and found that the other's face was full of fear.

Then more and more people from the Deng family screamed and spoke out about the injustices they had encountered.

"Three years ago, my family's land was on the border with Deng Wulang's land. It was as if he had grown legs to hold the boundary markers. He ran to my house every month. I went to argue with him, but he scolded me and kept going. Accused me of false accusations! Later, I asked Mr. Deng to mediate and sold my land to Deng Wulang at a discount based on the number of acres on the land deed! Just now I found out that the paddy fields were under the name of Mr. Deng. It turned out that they were a nest of snakes and rats. At first, I I’m so blind to thank him!”

"Deng Wulang! You beast! That year, several of your family members took my son to drink and gamble with me. My son lost the money, and in a hurry, he took my wife out. Didn't you guys have it earlier? It was a trap that forced my son to go to Nanyang, and I don’t know whether he will live or die! Tell me, was my wife sold into a secret trap by you?”

Like magma spewing out from cracks in the ground, people's anger was directed at the filial sons and grandsons directly related to the Deng family.

"Please ask Mr. Qingtian of Keelung to make the decision for us and other people!" The Deng clan members knelt down in front of the wooden platform one after another, begging the Keelung army to impose capital punishment on these guys who sucked the flesh and blood of their own people, and vented their hatred.

The results of that day's treatment were speechless. No matter how many members of the Deng family cried and begged for mercy, they could not escape death.

They have to pay for what they did to the common people before!

A few days later, the results of the five major families were sent to Keelung by Weizhou by speedboat and submitted to Qin Hao's desk.

"First, the properties and fields belonging to the ancestral halls of the Deng family and other five major families will be sold by the Keelung Army organization at a discount, and the proceeds will be equally divided among the men, women, and children of the clan. Everyone registered in the Keelung Army household registration will receive a share."

"Secondly, the villages belonging to the Deng family and other families are surrounded by different areas. The clan leader and village chief no longer have the power to deal with the clan members, but only have the responsibility to organize ancestor worship. Matters such as public security in the village are fully completed by the village chief appointed by the Keelung Military. "

"Third, Deng Wentian and his direct descendants organized armed resistance against the Keelung Army and killed all their families. The remaining four major families corrected themselves in time and were exempted from this punishment!"