Chapter 97: Why is the Chinaman angry?

Rain pattered down, hitting the roof above the workshop, crackling, and the dead silence below the roof formed a stark contrast.

The workers in the workshop gathered at the back of the room in fear, their faces unconcealed, but their hands were already subconsciously touching the shovels and wooden planks, no one knew what would happen next.

The treasurers who stood at the front, presiding over the strike, were even more fearful, looking at the Lord Qinzhi sitting in his chair at the entrance of the workshop, no one paid any attention to the dead Master Xiao, no one even dared to take a look at the tragic scene of the corpses and heads being separated by the furnace mouth, but only gazed at Fan Xian’s gentle and soft face in fear, and all the people’s feet subconsciously retreated backward.

One person retreated, ten people retreated, all people retreated, the footsteps of the treasurers retreated with a rustling sound, like millipedes crawling in the desert, only the workshop was only so big in total, and the back of it was taken up by the workers wearing thin clothes, so where could these treasurers wearing green clothes retreat to?

Fan Xian looked at the scene in front of him, subconsciously shook his head, and said in a harmonious voice: “This official is not a man of brutality, all the workers should not be afraid, what the court is investigating is only the matter of the treasurer’s embezzlement and deduction of pay, and it has nothing to do with you.”

The workers at the end of the party looked at each other twice, their minds were slightly settled, but they didn’t dare to completely trust this young magistrate, still holding the handle of the shovel in their hands.

“You …… Even if you are a court official, how can you kill people indiscriminately!” A treasurer finally couldn’t stand the pressure of this silence and cried out in a shrill voice.

At this time, the deputy envoy of the Running Department, Ma Kai, was standing stupidly behind Fan Xian, and he hadn’t even expected that Fan Xian would first chop off the head of a Da Fang master without saying a word! This is a big deal today, how can we end this?

He said in a trembling voice, shocked and angry: “Mr. Qin, why is …… this? Everything is good to discuss …… finished, this is finished.”

In Ma Kai’s mind, the most important thing about the inner treasury is the group of treasurers in front of him, only these people know how to keep the inner treasury going. Even if you Fan Xian today cut dozens of heads, forcing these treasurers to give in, but what about the future? Who knows what the treasurers will do with their grudges, and who knows what will become of the inner treasury?

What’s more, there are two big workshop masters are also in the labor dispute, if you know you killed the A workshop of Xiao masters, stirred up the people’s grievances, the strike really continued …… day la! If you really kill all the people, who will do the work? Do you expect those workers who can’t read or write a word?

Fan Xian paid no attention to the at-a-glance deputy envoy beside him, signaling Su Wenmao to lean over, and then said in a clear voice to everyone in the workshop, “Listen to me word for word!”

The crowd was stunned.

Su Wenmao took out a few sheets of paper from his soggy lotus garment, squinted at them for a moment, and then began to read aloud.

“Today, it is ascertained that Xiao Jing, the head of the three major Fang A Fangs of the Internal Treasury Transit Division, has committed many evil and unlawful acts since the first year.”

Su Wenmao frowned and glanced at those cowering treasurers, and continued, “In March of the second year of the Qingli calendar, Xiao Jing concealed the Copper Mountain mine disaster, and ate the dead man’s pay for five years, totaling a total of thirteen thousand seven hundred taels. Qingli four years on July 9, Xiao Jing bribed the Suzhou chief, at a low price to buy seven hundred acres of good land. In the first month of the sixth year of the Qing calendar, Xiao Jing headed the three major workshops, and a cadre of treasurers, owed workers more than 10,000, triggering a riot, fourteen dead, more than fifty injured …….”

The crimes do not know how many listed out, read Su Wenmao mouth are a little dry, only to hear him finally said, “his crime is unforgivable, according to the law of Qing, when the beheading.”

Then he took out a number of land deeds from his bosom, the confession of Suzhou’s chief bookkeeper, and related evidence.

“Don’t ask me for evidence again.” Fan Xian then opened his mouth, “I’ve kept the human evidence, and there’s quite a bit of physical evidence as well, and since this official is in charge of the inner treasury for a bastard like Xiao Jing, he will never keep it.”

Those workers who had been trembling uneasily listened to Lord Qin’s discussion of the crime, listened to that article of the crime, and immediately thought of how Xiao Jing was usually rampant, and how harsh and insidious the workers under him were, and immediately felt that Lord Qin had killed well! The Lord of the Qinzhi killed good!

And those treasurers in the eyes of the resentment is more and more heavy up, some people are not convinced shouted: “Even if you want to punish the crime, but also to open the case …… want to add to the crime, why do not you have to say!”

Standing behind Fan Xian’s deputy ambassador Ma Kai, listening to Su Wenmao read the crime, I know that the Lord is looking for excuses, Xiao Jing do these things, in fact, within the Treasury Transit Division of the official heart are clear, just even if you want to rule according to the Qing law, but …… you can not be so indiscriminate kill ah!

After all, because of his cousin Ren Shaoan’s relationship, Ma Kai wants to maintain a good situation with Fan Xian, so no matter how much he does not agree with Fan Xian’s style of behavior, he is also forced to keep his mouth shut and not to question.

He does not question, but the Division of Transit and the Princess left behind the beloved can refuse to let go of this opportunity to put, sinister said: “adults deal with things decisively, just …… like this kind of corruption and abuse of the law, it seems that we should open up the hall and openly interrogate, so that he personally admitted, in order to be wary of the curfew, and the adults have given the treasurers Three days of the period, this three days of time has not yet arrived, it is not …… inevitable.”

The treasurers trembled, but did not die, listening to the officials in the ranks of some people to help speak for themselves, even more boldly clamor.

Fan Xian did not turn his head at all, the corner of his lips spread a cold smile: “This official is the Supervisory Yuan, and is also the internal library of the Transit Division, the Supervisory Yuan is responsible for investigating the case, the Transit Division in accordance with the Qing law special exception, by the main ambassador to break the case, try him to decapitate what is wrong with him? Besides, …… this official is not using these charges to behead him.”

He slightly bowed his head and said with a smile, “Provoking the workers to cause trouble, strike, and resisting His Majesty’s will, could this official not be able to behead this kind of ruler-less and fatherless person?”

Qing law is meticulous, like killing this kind of thing, secretly doing it is no harm, but like Fan Xian so openly killing people in a dignified manner, then it needs an excellent excuse, if he just uses Xiao Jing’s unlawful deeds as a rope to justify his own killing, it will give the officials treasurers an excellent opportunity to rebut – beheading people without asking questions about the case, put in which Yamen is not justifiable.

But Fan Xian this person is doing things very real, obviously found the crime of Xiao Jing, but said that because the other side disrespect His Majesty’s will and beheading …… this kind of thing, the most is vague and ethereal, he is as an officer, of course, have the right to the final interpretation.

And the Supervisory Yuan to check the crime of Xiao Jing, but also very necessary, later in Kyoto in the courtroom to fight the imperial lawsuit, these forced to buy good land, bullying the people to death of the crime, enough to block the suspicion of the aftermath.

Currently kill to establish authority, after the evidence to block the world’s mouth, this is the arrangement of long-term planning.

One person had already died in the big workshop of A workshop, and the workers had expectations of Lord Qinzhi, the treasurers were as timid as rats, and the officials could not accuse Fan Xian face to face even though they had ghosts in their hearts, so the situation was stabilized a little bit.

After some time, the labor unrest in the B and C workshops also calmed down, but those two places took some more time because they were handled by two people, Senator Ye and Shan Da, who weren’t as bold as Fan Xian, and only dared to arrest people, not to kill them.

The treasurers of the remaining two workshops were escorted by the soldiers into the large workshop, the workers were strictly prohibited to stay in the workshops, even so, suddenly flooded into more than two hundred green-clothed treasurers, but still let the large workshop suddenly seemed a little crowded.

The army’s swords and spears were pointed out, and the Supervisory Yuan’s crossbows and arrows were pressed against them, so the crowded crowd didn’t dare to move a bit.

Watching this scene, the officials of the Transit Department who came to the workshop with Fan Xian were shocked! The officials didn’t realize until then that Lord Qinzai had already made arrangements for the situation on the last day of the Three Day Order, and that he seemed to have guessed that the treasurers would have an overreaction!

For a while, those Xinyang’s close officials were disappointed, it seems that this mess won’t be big today, but at the same time, they were also expecting Fan Xian to be more ruthless later, and it’s best to offend all the treasurers – in the future, when the inner treasury’s production decreases and the quality goes down, let’s see how you can explain it to his majesty!

After the workshop had quieted down for a while, Fan Xian stood up from his chair, and a few small puddles of water that had been in his lotus garment flowed onto the ground.

He looked at the treasurers in front of him, and saw that there was a sense of disbelief in their eyes, and the treasurers who had been escorted over from the B and C workshops were even more proud of themselves, seemingly unaware of what was going on.

“People have arrived quite well.” He said with a gentle smile, “Last night the sky rained heavily, this workshop was doused, what about your side? Also, how come the workshop treasurers, who are clearly separated by thirty to forty miles, are all near the government office today? Even if the workshops were shut down due to the rain, you should have gone to your own workshops to keep an eye on them; it’s early in the morning, could it be that you’ve already gone there and then turned around and came back?”

He spoke to himself, while the treasurers, through the explanation of the treasurer left behind in the workshop earlier, finally realized what had happened earlier, and their faces gradually paled.

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “This is good, the charge that you all are on strike has been taken, so this official can also get down to murder.”

After Xiao master’s unnatural death, through the word spread, the treasurer now finally know that the Lord of the Qinzhi is really a murderous and ruthless role, listening to this faint words, the treasurer buzzed a pot, there are out of words to beg for mercy, there are still ruthless cursing, some people’s eyes turn straight to the workshop, seems to want to look at the workshop where there is a dog hole can be drilled out of, the crowd gradually dispersed, the situation is slightly chaotic, only! The army and the monitoring court on the periphery of the tight watch, and forced the crowd back.

There are two people from the treasury squeezed out, not the other person, it is the three leaders of this tide of labor, B C two workshops of the chief treasurer.

These two masters were in the largest workshop under the autonomy of the two before in the air, mouth like a river, commanding the treasurer and the workers to strike, words, amazing momentum, although the workers have the breathless intentionally look at him two, but hundreds of treasurers were they said immensely moved, thinking that with the wisdom of their own brain, the imperial court how to not be able to punish, of course, the two masters also strictly order all of you! The treasurer for the Chinaman adults to be respectful, we just want the silver home is not taken by the court, rather than really want to rebel.

I did not expect, strike but a moment of time, by the workshop outside the countless soldiers rushed to the inspector general’s spy, the face of weapons, the two master of words suddenly no power, obediently tied their hands, was escorted here, but all the way they still have the courage to think of their own these people acted in a measured way, you are not good how the Lord of the Qinzhi.

I did not expect, the Lord Qinzai did not do things in proportion, in the crowd stood for a while, the two master of the two masters to know, the original and their own conspiracy to strike with the master of the Xiao …… even died!

The two masters stand outside the crowd, looking around in the workshop, finally found the corpse of Xiao Jing on the edge of the furnace mouth, the piece of blood stains and the head all of a sudden shocked their minds, the two cried and howled sadly: “Lord Xiao …… Lord Xiao!”

There were swords and guns all around them, so they didn’t dare to go to the fireside to call for mourning, but they still raised their heads and glanced at Fan Xian with extremely resentful gazes, knowing that they probably wouldn’t be able to escape today.

Fan Xian did not look at them, but only inclined his head slightly, listening to Shan Da’s report, and when he knew that the C Square should be business as usual, and that the technicians from the three divisions of the Supervisory Yuan had all taken over, and that no one dared to take advantage of the chaos to do anything, then he let go of his heart. And at this time, a tiger guard who was supposed to be stationed in the mansion quietly crossed over the officials and came to Fan Xian’s side, and said by his ear, “The one in the mansion wants to go out for a stroll.”

The reason why C Square is important is because that place is responsible for the production of ordnance ships and other important things, if the secrets of that place are leaked, in the future in the battlefield, I do not know how many young people will die in the Qing Dynasty, Fan Xian can not dare to take the responsibility, originally listening to Shan Da’s report heart a little bit more at ease, but listening to the tiger guard’s report, the frown is wrinkled up again.

Haitang’s disguise as a maidservant following him could be concealed from the officials, from many people, but not from the eagle-like eyes of Gouda. Although Fan Xian realized that he had made this big mistake, it could no longer be remedied, but fortunately, Qiyan’s team was keeping a secret eye on it, and the Tiger Guards had not released any information to the outside, which made him feel a little more at ease, and he began to wonder again.

But right now is not the time to deal with this matter, the one …… that the tiger guards are referring to is naturally Haitang, it seems that the village girl knows that today is lively, and is only afraid that she wants to take the opportunity to do something.

Fan Xian calmly said, “No one is allowed to go out, keep an eye on it, and use all methods to keep her in the mansion today.”

Seven tiger guards against Haitang was exactly the standard configuration on top of the meadow last year, Fan Xian wasn’t worried about anything, and once force was brought to bear, Haitang would naturally quiet down knowing her determination.

Only after handling his own affairs did Fan Xian bet his eyes back on the field and said, “Tie up these two sinners who instigated trouble and fought against the court.”

There were soldiers who came forward to tie up the two masters, although the treasurers showed horror and hatred, no one dared to come forward to help, on the one hand, it was the machine of violence that was in front of them, on the other hand, it was that these treasurers had earned their silver over the years, and they really had no more courage to fight against the viciousness of the people. The more money one has, the less courage one has, and Fan Xian saw this matter extremely clearly.

“Lord Fan!”

The two masters did not resist, and somewhat numbly allowed the soldiers to bind their hands, but Master B Fang was still staring at Fan Xian’s face, “If you want to kill, then kill! I just want to see how you are going to answer to the court in the future.”

“Are you threatening this official?” Fan Xian laughed, “On the way here before I came, I had said …… that if Zhang Butcher died, would I have to eat pigs with hair? With less of you little treasurers, does this official not take care of the inner treasury?”

Master B Fang laughed miserably, “Is that so? We have indeed underestimated your determination, Lord Qinzai, but it seems that you have also underestimated these insignificant workshops!”

His last words were practically shouted, obviously desperate, but even more so, he had the ruthless intention of turning into a ghost to see how Fan Xian would abolish the inner treasury.

Fan Xian glanced at Su Wenmao, who took out another case file from his lotus garment and, with a sullen face, began to read out the names one by one, according to the names written on the paper.

“Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Ba, Long Jiu ……”

As these dragon names were read out one by one, the faces of the dozen or so people in the treasurer’s crowd suddenly turned white, not knowing if they were about to be killed in two pieces just like the A-fang’s Master Xiao! There were a few timid ones whose legs were shaking, and the top of their pants were actually wet.

Su Wenmao disgustedly looked at these people, do not understand why the Lord Titus did this, after swallowing a mouthful of saliva, said with a black face: “You can come out, the Lord Qinzhi pardoned you not guilty, tomorrow will be submitted to the court, for you to guarantee.”

Not guilty? And also write a letter to the court? The treasurers who were named were suddenly dumbfounded. They thought it was hell, but who knew it was a paradise with cool spring water and seventy-two virgins!

In the gazes of the surrounding treasurers who were puzzled and suspicious, these dozen of treasurers foolishly walked out from the crowd, walked up to Fan Xian, and with a poof, knelt down, thanking Lord Chinaman, but did not understand why this was happening.

Fan Xian, with a gentle smile on his face, helped the treasurers up with both hands, and said in a harmonious voice: “To be able to hold the three principals’ real crimes, and to be able to know that there are so many unlawful things in the treasury, is all due to the righteousness of all of you, and your loyalty to the imperial court, or else this official would not have known that the treasury had become so chaotic, and that some people had the courage to instigate a strike and riot today! instigated a strike and trouble …… all in the state merit, this official naturally will not be treated poorly.”

The neighborhood was in an uproar, and it turned out that the dozen or so treasurers were actually the mole! Even the officials behind Fan Xian were dumbfounded, thinking to themselves, “Lord Qinzhi came to the inner treasury for only three days, how did he develop so many eyes, the name of the secret agent of the Supervisory Yuan is really not a falsehood.

The treasurers knew that the dozen or so colleagues who were invited out by Fan Xian had betrayed themselves in secret, and could not help but burst into a rage, and although they did not dare to go forward and beat them up, they cursed fiercely, and obscenities flew all over the place, burrowing into the ears of those inner traitors.

Those traitors treasurer? Originally was loved to death by the little Fan adults, this time is hated to death by the little Fan adults, not bad, they are secretly return the treasury silver, but also secretly said a few sentences they have heard of things, but …… where is the little Fan adults said so serious, this strike thing, they are also yesterday night to know, where is the time to report, as for the Xiao master and the The other two masters …… Tianla, he himself just wants to be a pretty wall grass, how dare he offend the chiefs of the treasurers!

These treasurers who have been criticized by thousands of people are looking at each other, wanting to cry, even if Fan Xian let them go today, but today in front of all the people pointed out their own betrayal and shameless behavior, how can they face more than two hundred colleagues in the future? How can he face more than 200 colleagues in the future? How can he be a human being?

Zhang San looked at Li Si, Wang Ba looked at Long Jiu, and inquired sadly with his eyes, “Are you also a traitor?”

“Yes, we are also traitors.”

Fan Xian’s next words shocked the workshop again.

“Well, these thirteen treasurers were brave enough to expose the shortcomings, and have served the country well, so this official has decided that from today, they will be the deputy chiefs of the three major workshops.” Fan Xian smiled gently and asked the deputy envoy beside him, “What do you think of this proposal, Lord Ma?”

The deputy ambassador, Ma Kai, was still worried about how the inner treasury would be able to produce normally, and was in a very depressed mood, but when he heard this, he still nodded his head and said yes, and inwardly, he was very impressed with Fan Xian–this is a really beautiful move, to show the shameless faces of these treasury spies, and in the future, when the treasury uses these people as its henchmen, there is no worry that they won’t be convinced, and this is to create a divide among the treasuries. The treasurer in a chasm out, if this matter can be successfully concluded today, the future of the treasurer is difficult to re-entangled into a class that can be confronted with the officials.

Suddenly someone sneered.

The crowd fixed their eyes and looked at it, it was the B Square treasurer who was tied and kneeling on the ground, only to see him sneer sadly and say, “What a group of shameless villains …… Lord Fan, could it be that you think that just by relying on these guys, you will be able to make the inner treasury work as it did before? I am not trying to coerce the court, but with less of us in our heads, the inner treasury …… will only not last a few days!”

The moment these words came out, the atmosphere in the room was strange again, vice envoy Ma Kai wanted to come to Fan Xian’s ear to plead for mercy, but he didn’t know how to open his mouth. The Xinyang believers among the officials of the Transit Department also began to consider the court openly, and secretly cheered for the master, saying to Fan Xian that everything should be focused on the production of the inner treasury, and that the killing of Master Xiao had taught the other party a lesson.

Fan Xian didn’t listen to these words, and just stared at the B Square supervisor, not saying anything for a long time.

The pair of sharp and clear gaze, actually stared at the head of the B Square can no longer bear, slowly lowered his head.

And only at this time did Fan Xian angrily say, ”Dead to the world, still dare to threaten the court …… treasurer? Tear your underwear over your face to see if it’s your head or your ass that grows on your neck!”

Lord Qinzai thundered, and the place went silent.

Fan Xian swept a glance at all the treasurers, and said with pity and anger in his disdain: “Do you really think you are very outstanding? Do you still think that this inner treasury is the same as the Ye family back then? If you don’t look at what you can do, and say that others are shameless villains, what about you? In addition to greedy silver, will steal materials to sell, will deduct the wages of those who work hard, will take other people’s wives, what else can you do? Shameless? If you guys had shame, you wouldn’t be in this mess today!”

He turned around and said angrily to Master B Fang, “You’re very tough, the inner treasury can’t do without you? Then tell me, how come the glass has become more and more muddy over the years? How the wine is so bland that it’s giving birth to a bird! Perfume has been discontinued for ten years, have you found a way to do it?”

“You were also a fellow of the Ye family back then, old man.” Fan Xian was in pain, and cursed at the officiant, “How the fuck did you degenerate into this? I’m getting fucking pissed off!”

The crowd in the neighborhood flinched, and the slow-witted ones remembered that there seemed to be a rumor going around-that the angry Chinaman in front of him was a descendant of the Ye family? What the fuck, what the fuck? Whose mom gets angry?