Chapter 200 They also have a conscience? Here they come!(2/2)
You, Zhang Jun, are from the Zhang family in Pucheng. Isn’t your Zhang family such a family? The money you spend on studying is derived from the exploitation of these innocent farmers. Why are you pretending to be a white lotus with me?"
Zhang Jun did not explain.
An Hanzhang sighed: "You think we are behind the scenes, right or wrong, we just communicated and pushed a little bit.
These greedy families will work together to push up food prices, and then stick to their own sphere of influence, using usury, use of force and intimidation, and other means to make farmers incur debts they cannot afford to repay.
Then all the fields can be naturally merged into the family, and the farmers will either become refugees, or they can only become their tenants or even slaves. In this way, they will become the local emperors, and they will be rich and prosperous for generations.
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Zhang Jun was full of anger. An Hanzhang looked at the angry Zhang Heng and said with a smile: "Zhang Tongpan is still young, and his heart is particularly passionate. I think I was the same way back then, but after seeing too much darkness,
, slowly, I became disappointed and despaired, and then I regarded it as normal, and then I was involved in it..."
An Hanzhang had many emotions.
However, Zhang Jun did not accept this, and quickly asked for more details, and implemented them one by one. He asked An Hanzhang to sign and stamp them, and then rushed them to the capital.
At the same time, similar things were happening in other states, and all evidence was quickly sent to Beijing.
The time when these things happened coincided with the time when Song Xiang Dingdu initiated the impeachment.
Arguments and corrections in the court are of course fruitless in the court. They are nothing more than quarrels and accusations. The final winner is not decided at this time.
Zhao Zhen felt his head hurt when he heard this, so he postponed the discussion until later, announced his withdrawal from the court, and then summoned Zhang Heng.
Zhao Zhen had a headache: "Zhang Qing, where is the evidence?"
Zhang Heng said: "We are already on the way. The certification and physical evidence chain are all complete."
Zhao Zhen took a deep look at Zhang Heng, who quickly lowered his head.
"Tell me carefully, what's going on?"
Zhang Heng hurriedly said: "A few days ago, my brother Zhang Jin came back from Haizhou to deliver a message, saying that the governor of Haizhou, An Hanzhang, colluded with grain merchants to hoard grain and manipulate grain prices. At that time, I thought that was all.
But then I received news from Han Jiang, the governor of the Central Bank, saying that in counties in Haizhou and other prefectures and counties, state and county officials, together with local families, secretly boycotted the central bank's loans to farmers, forcing farmers and local families to borrow loan sharks at usury. There were also cases in various places.
Signs of food price manipulation.
It is clear that Chang Pingcang has replenished grain, and the Neizang warehouse has also participated in it. However, in many places, the price of grain is rising in the market, but no grain is being sold.
Chen thought this was just an isolated incident, until his brother Zhang Kun accidentally learned that there was a force in the prefecture and county that was guiding the refugees towards Bianjing, so he and Zhao Guangda, the military official of Haizhou, conducted an undercover investigation and finally targeted Haizhou and Ganzhou.
The Zhang family, a large family in Yu County.
So my brother and Zhao Guangda took action decisively, took control of the Zhang family, and followed the clues to find out that the magistrate of Ganyu County and the county lieutenant were involved. What is even more surprising is that Haizhou Magistrate An Hanzhang was the mastermind behind this.
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The minister then began to suspect whether there was any connection between the increase in food prices, loan sharking, land annexation and refugees. Sure enough, under interrogation, a conspiracy surfaced.
Taking Haizhou as an example, the magistrate Anhanzhang of the prefecture, the magistrate of Ganyu County, and the county magistrate united with the local families to first control Changpingcang and not provide disaster relief, and then the grain merchants stopped selling grain, so the price of grain rose rapidly.
Farmers can't afford to buy food, so they can only take out loans. There is a central bank to help farmers, so they slander the central bank and then use force to intimidate farmers, forcing them to borrow usury loans from them. What's more, they directly force farmers to sell their land and houses.
Directly turn them into refugees.
Originally, the refugees dispersed in various directions, either to make a living in Fujian, to the south of the Yangtze River, or to come to Bianjing, but they forced the refugees to come to Bianjing.
Officials, they let dozens or millions of victims come to Bianjing. When someone starts to incite them, it will be a large-scale civil uprising. If someone takes the opportunity to rebel..."
Chapter completed!