Daming King of Punishment

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"The county magistrate is right. We only need to have evidence to judge this matter." Song Wuya smiled slightly, and turned to look at Li Xiuqiong and his wife, making them tremble all over. "However, let's forget about today's matter!"

What the county magistrate said is correct, it would be a troublesome thing for Song Wuya to prove that Li Xiuqiong and his wife falsely accused him.Song Wuya also knew this, the reason why he still said this was just to make them wake up, so as not to make any troubles to him in the future.

"Those adults, can Xiaomin leave?" Li Xiuqiong's forehead was already dripping with cold sweat, and he looked at several people one by one.

"Okay!" Song Wuya nodded and said, "However, Master Li is still the same as I told you yesterday. Your 100 taels of gold and I bought the news, it is definitely not a loss, if you don't take it for a while I don't care about things, but then you won't even have a chance to regret it."

Li Xiuqiong bowed, saluted several people, and immediately left the court with his wife.

After watching the people from Fengshengzhuang leave, the county magistrate heaved a sigh of relief, and walked carefully in front of Song Wuya.

"My lords, please move to the back hall. Your servant has prepared some tea." The county magistrate kept cursing Li Xiuqiong and his wife inwardly. They have caused a lot of trouble for themselves today.As the saying goes, a senior official crushes people to death, but the two in front of him are quite a few ranks higher than him, and it is only a small matter to make him look bad.

Song Wuya nodded: "Okay! It just so happens that I also have something to talk to you, the county magistrate."

Several people moved to the back hall, and the county magistrate greeted the people to prepare tea and sat down.

"The two adults came from a long way, why didn't you come directly to the county office, why did you offend the people from Fengshengzhuang for no reason?" The county magistrate was full of doubts at the moment, and couldn't help but ask first.

"We were originally on an unannounced visit. If we came here directly, we might startle the snake!" Song Wuya said indifferently.

Hearing this, the county magistrate was sweating profusely. The so-called snake that frightens the snake, isn't it worth it?

"Your Excellency is really joking." The magistrate responded awkwardly: "Although the lower officials are stupid, they can be regarded as conscientious. Even if they have no merits, they can be regarded as no faults, right?"

"Let's not talk about this for now, we will naturally see clearly what kind of person the magistrate is." Song Wuya didn't want to hear such nonsense from the county magistrate. "The Red Mountain outside the city, can the magistrate explain it to me?"

Song Wuya's first question made the county magistrate's face change suddenly, and the expression of horror was beyond words.The look on his face was enough to explain everything, and he already felt fear in his heart.

"This... this..." The county magistrate was terrified and speechless.

"Huh!" Bai Zhuo snorted coldly, "How dare the county magistrate dare to say that even if you have no merit, you have no fault?"

"My lords, please listen to your explanation, the matter is definitely not what the two lords think." The county magistrate explained in a panic, "It's definitely not that the lower officials don't pay attention, it's just that the bandits in Hongshan are really hard to destroy! The imperial court has sent officers and soldiers three times to encircle and suppress it, but all of them returned in vain."

"Huh? There are other things like this?" Song Wuya murmured in his heart when he heard this. Could it be that he still blamed the county magistrate by mistake?

"That's right! Since I took office, I have learned that there are a large number of bandits hiding in the Red Mountain outside the city, so I sent the yamen servants to encircle and suppress them, but the yamen servants were too frightened to enter the mountain. After questioning the officials, I learned that those bandits were very difficult. To deal with them, occupying the geographical advantage of Hongshan, they are not afraid of us people at all. Therefore, the officials went to the court, and the court responded quickly, and dispatched a hundred officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress. But in the end, more than half of the officers and soldiers were killed and injured, but they took The thieves in Hongshan have nothing to do."

"Keep talking! What happened to the subsequent rounds of siege?" Seeing him stop, Song Wuya immediately asked.

More than 100 officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed, but more than half of them were killed or injured and returned without success. This is definitely not a small matter. One can imagine how powerful these Hongshan bandits are.

"In the next few times, the number of officers and soldiers continued to increase, but the final result was still the same. The imperial court has prepared to choose a good man to wipe out the bandits in Hongshan in one fell swoop, but the date has not been set, and the officials are still looking forward to it."

The county magistrate explained this matter, which shocked Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo.Hundreds of officers and soldiers had nothing to do with this Hongshan bandit. Where did these bandits come from? They were so capable and dared to openly confront the court.

"Has the county magistrate ever thought of setting fire to the mountain?" Bai Zhuo said suddenly, "Under the siege of the fire, those thieves and bandits will surely flee like a bereaved dog. At that time, the officers and soldiers only need to guard the periphery and kill them one by one. .”

Bai Zhuo asked, but the county magistrate shook his head: "How can it be done! If the fire goes down, the consequences will be even more terrifying than the bandits in Hongshan!"

Bai Zhuo frowned. After hearing what the county magistrate said, he had obviously thought about this matter, but it was more harmful to do so.

"Why on earth are the bandits in Hongshan encircled and suppressed several times without destroying them? Are they numerous?" Song Wuya asked immediately after listening to the county magistrate's explanation, knowing that there must be something strange in this matter.

"There are only a hundred of them in number, and the reason why they are difficult to destroy is because they have completely occupied the territory of the Red Mountain." The county magistrate shook his head and denied Song Wuya's suspicion. "They occupy Hongshan, and after years of building fortifications, they have already built their thief den into a fortress-like existence!"

Chapter 352 Red Fort

Chapter 352 Red Fort

"What did you say!" Song Wuya was shocked!

His exclamation shocked the county magistrate, and he stood up immediately: "My lord, calm down, is there any disrespect for this subordinate?"

Only then did Song Wuya come to his senses, he himself lost his composure.

"No, magistrate, you continue."

The county magistrate heaved a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "They have an advantageous location, and they use rocks and rolling logs from top to bottom. Annihilate."

"You mean that place has been built like a fortress by them?" Song Wuya lost his composure just now because he heard the county magistrate say this.

"Yes! That's right." The county magistrate nodded in affirmation.

"Red Mountain! Fortress! Isn't this the Red Fort?" Song Wuya thought to himself, and then he asked the county magistrate, "Those bandits call their den Red Fort?"

"How does your lord know about this?" The county magistrate was also taken aback: "They did call it that, but few people know about it."

The county magistrate's confirmation solved a doubt in Song Wuya's heart, so it seemed that the villa Wuliangjiao was going to attack was Fengshengzhuang at the foot of the Red Mountain.The biggest problem now is where are the people of the Wuliang Cult hidden, and what method should they use to find these guys.

"I've heard of it!" Song Wuya responded casually, but he didn't state his purpose directly.

The county magistrate nodded, seeing his thoughtful look, he probably knew that Song Wuya didn't want to tell him.

"Those two adults are here, but the imperial court sent them to deal with these bandits?" The county magistrate remembered what he had just mentioned, and asked immediately.

It's just that Song Wuya shook his head, which made him extremely disappointed.

"That's not the case. When I passed by here, I came here for you!" Song Wuya said indifferently. "By the way, can you accept the case of the shopkeeper of the teahouse?"

The county magistrate shook his head: "No one came to report the case! The officials have not accepted it yet! The officials have also inquired about this matter. It should be the bandits in Hongshan. What should I do?"

If no one reports the case, the government may not be able to intervene.It's just that although this matter was involved with Hongshan, so that the county magistrate was helpless about this matter, so he ignored it.

"Does this kind of thing happen often?" Song Wuya looked at the county magistrate. Although the county magistrate didn't give him a very good impression, it seems that this county magistrate may not be an inconspicuous guy.

The county magistrate nodded, but shook his head again: "It's not a frequent occurrence! However, these bandits often haunt the county town, and they have always been elusive. The lower officials have nothing to do with them. But something like this happened Such a big movement seems to be the first time."

"They often appear in the county, but for money?" Song Wuya continued to ask.

"The tribute they want from the shops in the city is to extort money from the shops. All the shops are afraid of their cruelty, so they can only compromise. But after several times of siege by the government, they failed to do anything to them, so that they became even more rampant. Things became more unscrupulous, and the amount of money they asked for from merchants has doubled. Many merchants have complained, and many people are already planning to leave the local area and go to other places to make a living." When the county magistrate talked about this incident, he also had a look on his face. The bitter look, very distressed.

"Then why do I see that there aren't too many closed shops in this city?" Song Wuya walked around the city a few times, but he didn't notice anything, at least he didn't see any shops closed.

"That's right! Those merchants who sold their properties were all bought at a low price by the Fengsheng Village that your lord saw just now." The county magistrate is quite familiar with this matter. Being able to explain this matter to Song Wuya in such detail.

"Which shops did Fengshengzhuang buy?" Song Wuya was a little puzzled.If Hongshan is the Red Castle, then what they are dealing with is Fengshengzhuang.But why did Fengshengzhuang become a beneficiary instead? "Then why didn't the bandits in Hongshan attack Fengshengzhuang?"

"This... According to the officials, it must be those thieves and the guards of Fengshengzhuang!" The county magistrate expressed his thoughts.

This is indeed an explanation, and it makes sense.Fengsheng Zhuang's family has a great career, and their wealth is naturally innumerable. If they can be taken down, then the bandits in Hongshan don't have to come to the city so covertly to ask for tribute.

The weapons forged by the Immeasurable Sect were sent to Hongshan, so the bandits in this place are the hands of the Immeasurable Sect.That day he checked the two guys who were following him, but he didn't find the imprint of Wuliangjiao.This made his guess come to nothing, but now after hearing what the county magistrate said, he was sure that the Red Mountain was the Red Fort.

As a result, the relationship between the bandits in Hongshan and the Wuliangjiao became even more contradictory.

"Brother Wuya, this Fengsheng Village can do business!" Bai Zhuo, who had been silent all this time, saw that the two of them were silent and said, "He bought so many properties at a low price. If the bandits are wiped out, they will definitely be able to gather more wealth again."