Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 92 The Nobility's Dirtyness

A mountain of grain was piled up in Feng's mansion's warehouse, all of which had been packed and put into sacks. If it hadn't been for the sudden attack by Mo Jun on this trip, these grains would have been shipped out of Feng's mansion by now.

Gaze over.

In this warehouse alone, there are a total of [-] to [-] shi of grain, but the black armor soldiers found four such warehouses in Feng's residence.

Add up to 10,000+ stone grain.

What is the concept of 10,000+ stone grains?
Among the Seven Kingdoms, Qin has the largest population, with about 600 million people.

And the total population of the entire South County is only 60 million people. The scope of this flood is not extensive, and it can only be regarded as a small disaster. Even if all the victims are added up, there are at most 4 to [-] people. God.

Even if only half of the 10,000+ stone grain hoarded by the Feng family is sold, it 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.

As such.

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, and ask him to bring someone to transport the food here. The rest, follow me!"

Mo Jun, who already knew that the people of these clans urinated, was not shocked by the 10,000+ stone grain hoarded here. After all, he had already seen this kind of thing once when he was in Korea.

After arranging the next task with a blank 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 didn't intend 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 is not clear whether the other three major clans are involved in this matter, Mo Jun plans 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 basement 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 peaceful mood fluctuated unprecedentedly...

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The clan land of the Zhu clan is not far from the Feng residence.

Among the four major clans, the Zhu family is in charge of the most "underground forces" in Nanjun. Most of the "underground forces" are lawless and 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.

Therefore, 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, Li Xin personally commanded the army that surrounded the Zhu family, 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 clan, the two parties were confronting each other.

On one side was the black armored soldier of Qin State headed by Li Xin, but 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.

The duty of Jun Cheng 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.

In the former Nanjun County, Meng Wu served as the county lieutenant, and Lu Buwei's concurrent censor.

And now 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 appeared calm and composed.

"The general received a report that someone smuggled armor from the state of Chu 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 the laws of Qin, anyone who mobilizes more than [-] soldiers must pass an edict written by the king himself. Even if General Meng sits on the border and has the right to mobilize 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 up to the king and the queen mother for participating in General Li's private army and oppressing the people."

In 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 moment.

What Zhu Lunian said was not completely unreasonable, at least from the perspective of the laws of the Qin State, the troop transfer tonight was indeed unreasonable.

If enough 'evidence' cannot be obtained for tonight's action, then once the other party turns back to them, I am afraid that Mo Jun, Li Xin, and Meng Wu who mobilized tonight will be overwhelmed.

Li Xin became famous when he was young, and now he has reached his current position in just the year of the crown, so he naturally doesn't want to give up his status and reputation that he has worked so hard for.

Therefore, facing 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, do you dare?"

As soon as Mo Jun's voice sounded, he saw an old man in Tsing Cloth who looked like an angry lion rushing out of the gate of Zhu Mansion, his eyes were breathing fire and his beard was flamboyant, and he said loudly towards the front.

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, and anyone who dares to resist will be killed!"

After Zhu Baili was crucified with a spear, before Li Xin and Zhu Lunian could even 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.

Unsurprisingly.

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 Zhu family, there are quite a few masters in the rivers and lakes. After all, they are in charge of many "underground forces" in South County, but it is a pity that there are more masters on Mo Jun's side.

This time, Mo Jun did not exterminate the entire Zhu family. After all, there will be a public trial, and there must be some examples of "beheading for public display and 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..."

puff!
Before he could finish speaking, Mo Jun backhanded his sword and directly pierced his heart.

This kind of decisive shot made the hearts of the people 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 were bloodshot, and the low air pressure around his whole body could be felt even a foot away. This kind of Mo Jun was completely different from the carefree and unrestrained appearance in the past.

Even Li Xin, who was always cold and arrogant, shut his mouth wisely at this time, simply leaving a team of people to guard the 'criminal', and after shutting down 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 Jian Chi nodded suddenly.

As a wandering swordsman who had sneaked into the palaces of the Four Kingdoms several times to steal wine, Jiu Jianchi 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 was puzzled 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."

Regarding Mo Jun's anger, Zhuyeqing also felt somewhat puzzled.

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.

From Zhuyeqing's point of 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, came the Cheng family.

The Cheng clan was not much different from the previous two. When the army led by Mo Jun and Li Xin arrived, they were instantly flattened.

But 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.

Mo Jun was quite surprised by the person who took the initiative to control all the Rong clan. It was none other than "Mrs. Rong", the contemporary representative of the Rong clan.

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 Mo Jun 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.

Mo Jun glanced 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 said slowly, "I don't know what Madam Rong means?"

Seemingly seeing what Mo Jun really wanted to ask, Mrs. Rong didn't hesitate much, she 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 Nanjun.

Rebellion is a serious crime committed by the "Yi clan", so once the evidence is conclusive, as the contemporary "acting patriarch" of the Rong clan and also the main wife, Mrs. Rong's natal "Lu clan" will also not be able to escape liquidation.

So in order to preserve the 'Lu family', Mrs. Rong's righteous extermination of relatives sounds reasonable.

However, Mo Jun had dealt with Madam 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.

Mo Jun 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 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 [-] shi.

After a brief inspection of the food.

Suddenly, Mo Jun asked casually, "Is there a meat pool for the Rong family?"

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(End of this chapter)