These four families are all famous and wealthy families in Jiangnan. They have been in succession of senior officials and have been well-known in Jiangnanji! It can be said that they responded to one call! Therefore, their deaths in the scholars caused great shocks!

However, the local government also attached great importance to this matter. But strangely, they did not investigate the case as before, but formed a temporary joint investigation team! There were local gentry, scholars, ordinary citizens, and even local farmers.

The government publicly claimed that the case must be investigated strictly to the end and all the problems were found. This attitude was supported by everyone. Therefore, the joint investigation team was quickly formed and the investigation began.

But unexpectedly, the major case of four gentry families occurred in three county towns and the result was the same day!

Because the confession from those who survived by luck and the letters of surrender to officials all indicate one thing: they were connecting the locals to oppose Liu Pei's rule, and paid a lot of money to buy bandits to prepare for the uprising and support Emperor Yongli! As soon as the matter began, the bandits discovered that his family was rich, so they simply made a vote to escape!

Now the one who is unyielding is no longer the people in the scholars, but the government is unyielding! Under the bright world, you have been scholarly, officials, and gentry families, and powerful families, have actually raised troops to rebel! We must suppress it strongly!

So the people from the Intelligence Bureau searched everywhere based on the remaining letters, and a large number of gentry and scholars were arrested. They also confessed their crimes under strict clues and evidence!

When these people found that Liu Pei had no hidden his combat plan, they formulated a simple plan, which was to rebel while Liu Pei was fighting in Liaodong and welcome Emperor Yongli to return to Nanzhili to restore the world in which their scholars were in power!

After that, things became simple and cruel! The people from the Intelligence Bureau sent out again and sent batches of people to prison! Unlike before, the arrested were only the main culprits at all levels, but this time, they were sent to prison with their families. What awaited them would be a miserable end!

As more and more people are arrested, the clues of the whole matter become clearer and clearer!

They really didn't wrongly accuse them. They were indeed preparing to contact Emperor Yongli, and even the people who sent the letter were sent out!

When the whole story was announced, in the eyes of others, these people were simply stupid! They actually used letters to contact each other and did not destroy it, but instead kept it as evidence to praise the future! Didn’t they think that the secret leak might leave evidence?

When the case was clear in the first instance, batches of people were sent to the court and their heads were cut off! A small number of them were sentenced to hard labor ranging from thirty years to life. Their families were sentenced to slaves and would face hard work!

Moreover, there are definitely not a few people who were killed this time! In Nanzhili alone, nearly a thousand people were cut off their heads! Including the entire Jiangnan, I am afraid that six or seven thousand people were killed! There are also many people who don’t know whether they are lucky or unfortunate, sentenced to hard labor and become slaves!

So many people were arrested and killed, but the Jiangnan region miraculously maintained stability! This is mainly due to Liu Pei's target of the attack entirely in these scholarly classes. Even if those ordinary people who were bewitched were arrested, the team would lift up high and fall gently!

In addition, the government's publicity was in place, so ordinary people knew that these people who were executed were all a group of bastards who were leaving good days, but they were thinking about the bastards who had to rebel every day!

Under the guidance of the Intelligence Bureau, ordinary people regarded this incident as a wonderful drama and watched it! They like to see the heads of the men who were arrogant in the past bounced on the platform! And those ladies and wives whom they could not usually contact would only be dragged away by the buyers!

Now the entire killing has become a farce. Although it is guided by the Intelligence Bureau, it is more of a bad habit of human beings! What's more, after these people fell, a large amount of land was vacant and distributed to local people.

When the news spread, the people who received actual benefits naturally wished that all the dignitaries and nobles would die! Many of them began to help the government to track down the scholars and sailors around them. Is there really a possibility of rebellion? Are they slandering the general and the court?

Some of them are just false accusations.

I hope to get a share of the property of the deceased! Under Liu Jiang's command, unless those false accusations can be seen through at a glance, all those reported by the people were put into jail! He also made up for the evidence for some incomplete links of evidence! There are also some cases, which are simply unjust cases created by the Intelligence Bureau itself.

But there is nothing we can do about this. After all, Liu Pei and the others are dealing with a whole class. Naturally, they hope that the more people in this class will die, the better, and use their newly cultivated class to replace these people.

During the nearly three months of turmoil in Jiangnan, Jiangnan has generally remained stable. Although some people are really taking risks and rebellious, before they can break out of their location, they are completely crushed by the ready-to-run Shandong soldiers!

The most interesting thing is that many rebels were reported by the villagers before the uprising! The villagers' idea was very simple, that is, you passed all the taxes on us and forced us to devote the land to you! We couldn't resist, so we stood up!

But now everyone is going to collect taxes, but you are going to rebel! What should the NetEase government do if we treat us as a member of the party? So we have to pay taxes together, or we don’t pay together! Don’t think about taking the blame again!

So by April, when grass grows and birds fly, the whole Jiangnan has recovered from peace. Except for the large number of people hanging on the city heads of each county town, there seems to be no change.

The only change is that those scholars. They almost never go out now and stay at home honestly. Like the flower boats on the Qinhuai River and the brothels and Chuguans everywhere, the houses are also deserted! They will no longer see those people holding beautiful prostitutes, drinking fine wine, and giving wild advice to the country! This makes many madams heartbroken!

In this strange and quiet atmosphere, Liu Jiang announced more severe text inspection measures. In addition to articles that gangs slander Liu Pei and the imperial court's decrees, any articles that record this text inspection operation are also banned!
Chapter completed!