Chapter 528: Eliminate evil

Liu Peng gave an answer immediately without thinking: "Since Sister Yao said she wanted to deal with the Zheng family in Linqing, then let's send the Zheng family in Linqing on the way!"

Yao Yulan was very satisfied with Liu Peng's reply. Although she and Tian Linian could not be considered real couples, and eunuch Tian was very sorry for Yao Yulan in many aspects, but Tian Linian had been a nominal couple with her for ten years. Tian Linian died under the plot of the Zheng family in Linqing, and she had to avenge this hatred.

Therefore, Yao Yulan's tone suddenly became gentle: "Thank you for this matter to your best brother Liu Peng!"

After thinking about it, Liu Peng said, "Sister Yao, don't say that. This is what I should do. The last time my sister returned to Beijing, she didn't tell me to deal with the Zheng family in Linqing, but so far, I haven't given the Zheng family in Linqing yet."

Yao Yulan's fingers gently flicked Liu Peng's forehead: "I know everything that Brother Liu Peng has done. It is more important to deal with the Heng Prince's Mansion. It is more meaningful to save so many lives than to deal with the Zheng family in Linqing. Besides, we also deal with the Heng Prince's Mansion and also clean up the Zheng family in Linqing..."

"And you didn't say it the last time, and Jin Baiwan didn't explain it. The Zheng family of Linqing also colluded with the Jianzhou Jurchens. Most of the military supplies sent by Jin Baiwan to the Jianzhou Jurchens were raised by Linqing Zheng's Zheng family for them."

Liu Peng nodded: "That's the case!"

"Then we have to deal with Jin Baiwan, which is naturally equivalent to cutting off a palm of the Zheng family of Linqing!" Yao Yulan thought very clearly: "Besides, it is really a pleasure to deal with the Zheng family of Linqing with my own hands!"

Seeing the kindness of Yao Yulan and Liu Peng, Zhang Yuchan couldn't help but interrupt and asked: "How should we deal with the Zheng family in Linqing? You can't really get Wuming out, right?"

Just as Yao Yulan disliked her, she also disliked Yao Yulan. Although the two of them were not very good at being pointed at, they had been having trouble since the first meeting.

Jiang Qingyue also stood in her position: "We have to find out a reason to deal with the Zheng family of Linqing!"

Cause? If you want to inflict a crime, you will be in trouble!

But Liu Peng quickly came up with something, and he immediately said: "Even if Sister Yao is not going to deal with the Zheng family in Linqing, I am also going to take action, because the Zheng family in Linqing is actually selling women and children in our East Three Prefectures."

Yao Yulan was shocked. Although she was once a chaste, she was finally protected by chastity, but she hated this kind of trafficking of women and children: "In addition to colluding with the Later Jin Dynasty, the Zheng family in Linqing actually made such national disaster wealth."

With the forty-three of Wanli, the severe drought in the fourth year caused many social problems, and the trafficking of women and children was particularly serious.

If it is said that poor people sell their children to local wealthy gentry as slaves to seek food and clothing, and at the same time, they can also solve their children's food problems, then there is some positive significance, at least to alleviate the disaster to a certain extent.

However, with the serious disaster and the huge profits brought by population trade, this kind of population trade quickly developed into cross-regional and cross-provincial trade, and the scale of trade was getting bigger and bigger, especially in the south of Zhili, Zhejiang, and in another time and space, "women sold their goods, and Huaian, Jiangnan became a city." The local chronicles of many places such as Laizhou Prefecture, Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture have records of women selling in the south of Wanli forty-four years.

Li Yuexin, a native of Cao County, used a seven-character poem to describe the despairing situation at that time. This poem says: "There are locusts flying in Bingchen, forming formations to drain the sun. After eating seedlings and regaining ears, they catch the kiln and regaining warehouses. The morning cooks are missing in the well, and hundreds of thousands of merchants sell girls."

People at that time even said that "there are only a million women in the Eastern Province who have been trampled into other provinces and direct traffic." This naturally also represents the complete breakdown of millions of families. Moreover, Changyi, Weixian, Anqiu and other places with a large number of women are also areas with particularly severe plagues in the spring of the 44th year of Wanli. These poor women brought the plague to Nanzhili, resulting in a serious plague in Nanzhili, and "seven out of ten people died and had not returned."

In this time and space, the disasters suffered by the three eastern prefectures are incomparable to those in history, and the disasters suffered by the three western prefectures are much lighter, so the trafficking of women and children is also incomparable to those in history.

Whether it is parents, daughters or wives, the first thing they consider is not to leave their hometowns. Therefore, although some people have become popular, some sell their children and some sell themselves as slaves, few people voluntarily leave their hometowns and become women on the Qinhuai River.

Although Liu Peng also considered that many people who have been forced to the dead end, and even have their families destroyed, they must give them a way out, so they had to open the door to buy slaves.

Although he knew that his behavior of bribing slaves might not meet the moral standards of some Virgin Mary, he had to do this if he wanted to maintain high food prices and keep the vast majority of people alive.

Although he had to change his name after becoming a slave of the Liu family, and it was difficult to regain his freedom, Liu Peng still allowed those desperate refugees to join the Liu family's name and became his slaves, and even gave a very suitable price to sell. So far, Liu Peng alone had thousands of slaves, which was not the slaves under the names of Jiang Qingyue and Gu Mengyu.

Liu Peng's selling value was very high, which greatly pushed up the price of the entire population illegal trading market, making most of the small players involved unprofitable, so the scale of illegal population transactions in the East Three Prefectures is only a fraction of another time and space.

Among the sellers selling women and children, the Zheng family of Linqing is a real big player. Especially during the period when the Hengwang Mansion monopolized the rice market in Qingzhou Prefecture, the Zheng family of Linqing received full support from the Hengwang Mansion and almost monopolized the illegal population trading market in Qingzhou Prefecture.

According to the information obtained by Liu Peng, the Zheng family in Linqing made a fortune at that time, and at least trafficked thousands of women and children to Nanzhi. At that time, when the carriage was on the road, he cried and felt heartbroken, but many gentry who had taken advantage of the Zheng family in Linqing insisted that they were "doing good things."

However, after Liu Peng strongly intervened in Qingzhou Prefecture, although the illegal population transactions of the Zheng family in Linqing cannot be said to be unable to be carried out, due to the decline in rice prices and Liu Peng offered a very high selling price, both profit and scale were greatly restricted. Jiang Qingyue there remembered something: "Now, the Zheng family in Linqing is not only engaged in selling, but also directly colluded with some evil people to play with it?"

According to the local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty, there were two forms of human traffickers selling humans in the 43rd and 4th year of Wanli. One was that human traffickers bought women and then sold them at their destination, which was called "trafficking". The other was that illegal people were entangled on the road from Shandong to Nanzhi to rob and sell them directly, which was called "short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-short-s

Although "trader" has the elements of cheating, it seems at least that it seems like one thing or another, but short-sighted is a typical robbery of women and forced them into chaos. It can be said that it is the most sinister thing in the sun.

In order to make a profit, the Zheng family in Linqing has reached a lawless state. In the current chaos of order, they not only cheated and cheated women everywhere in the name of "large households buying slaves", but also forced women everywhere to be transported to Jiangnan for a good price.

When he heard this, even Zhang Yuchan was angry: "How could the Zheng family in Linqing do this? It's too much and shameless. Why didn't Mr. Liu deal with them earlier?"

Liu Peng smiled bitterly and said, "Although they are lawless, they do not do such shameful activities in Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture. After the patrol team enters Qingzhou Prefecture, as long as there is a patrol team stationed, they will withdraw and avoid us from finding opportunities to attack. On the one hand, we are out of reach, but on the other hand, there are too many unfair things to let us do the way for heaven! Wait a minute..."

Liu Peng stood up his palm and his expression became solemn. He finally thought of something. After a while, he said: "The urgent report sent by Li Xiuwei today said that it was possible that the lackey from the Zheng family made a vote in Changyi and captured a little woman..."

Zhang Yuchan couldn't help but clenched her fists. Although she didn't say anything, everyone's thoughts were the same: "I'm not afraid of Wuming now!"

Liu Peng continued: "At that time, Li Xiuwei said that the Changyi Patrol Team had sent someone to chase after him. I specifically explained to Qin Ming that no matter how much the price it costs, it will be investigated to the end. We will never stop the army unless we win the entire victory!"

Zhang Yuchan rarely spoke, but when she heard Liu Peng say this, her eyes were full of stars. She even remembered the unbearable years she deliberately forgotten. Therefore, she suddenly seemed a little disobedient. The girl's heart she treasured in her heart suddenly burst out. She held Liu Peng's hand and said, "Husband, this matter must be investigated to the end. We must tell me what the final result is! We cannot let these evil people go to justice."

She had the same experience, but that experience was even more embarrassing than Yao Yulan was forced to fall into the world. She was entrusted to be unman. After discovering that she could not refuse the second marriage arranged by her father and brother, he followed him to escape, but found that it was not a good person. Instead, she sold herself to a brothel.

These things have been forgotten by Zhang Yuchan for a long time, but now Zhang Yuchan understands that she has never forgotten these past events, but has been engraved in her heart. She just hopes that a wishful husband will fall from the sky.

Liu Peng immediately replied: "Yu Chan'er, this is definitely no problem, so I will leave it to your husband... You are finally willing to call me husband!"

But Yao Yulan patted Liu Peng on the shoulder and said, "Don't say so much, this case may not be handled perfectly by relying on the power of Changyi alone. I will take action with you!"

"Yeah!" Liu Peng added: "The sky net is waving, and it is not leaked! Since Changyi is already my territory, and these ignorant dog thieves dare to come to my territory to commit crimes, then I will kill all the evil things!"
Chapter completed!