All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 249 Qin. Doing Black Work. Huizhi
"What is benevolence? It is forbearance!"

"Benevolence is forbearance, and forbearance is benevolence!"

"The word '忍' is like a knife hanging over your head."

"Only by enduring what ordinary people cannot endure can one survive."

"Confucius said, 'To restrain oneself and return to propriety is benevolence.' I must keep my benevolence and remain useful, so that I can find an opportunity to rescue the government!"

"Only by holding back your anger for a while can you get the spring flowers to bloom. The people of the world are about to fall into the hands of the thieves. For the sake of the people of the world, I must hold back!"

A selfish person like Qin Hui, when faced with a major change, will subconsciously seek justifications for his actions in the name of justice.

It doesn’t matter whether you are accepted by others or not. What matters is that you feel comforted in your heart and have a way out.

Qin Hui wrote the word "forbearance" in his study all night and finally vented his anger.

When the sky was just getting light, Qin Huizhi, who was cautious by nature, brought a brazier to the study and burned all the papers with the word "忍" written on them.

I have to say that this person is indeed a cautious person.

After dawn, Qin Hui changed into his official robe and went on duty.

His current job, in addition to being the supervisor on the execution platform, is to be the tax officer guarding the Nanxun Gate, specifically responsible for collecting city entry taxes.

Many people coming and going in Bianliang City recognized him.

Outside the Nanxun Gate, there were crowds of civilians and caravans preparing to enter the city.

The city gate slowly opened, and a large number of people clamored to rush into the city.

A group of tax collectors armed with short sticks came forward, waving their sticks and shouting loudly, "Line up, line up, everyone line up!"

After a while, there was finally some order outside the chaotic city gate.

According to Chen Ran's instructions, no tax should be collected from the people who brought daily necessities such as fruits, rice, flour, chickens, ducks, meat, eggs, etc. into the city to sell.

They lined up and were allowed to enter the city after a brief inspection.

The ones who really need to be taxed are the caravans traveling back and forth from the south to the north.

Commerce was developed in the Song Dynasty, and commercial taxes were an important source of tax revenue for the imperial court.

There are caravans selling all kinds of goods, the difference is that in the past, caravans with backing naturally did not need to pay taxes to enter the city.

But now, all those who could be called backers in Bianliang City have fallen, and it is useless to look for anyone.

According to Chen Ran’s regulations, the more expensive the luxury item, the higher the tax rate.

Products like pearls, jade, ginseng, etc. are subject to almost the same tax rate.

Some caravans could not bear the high taxation and approached Qin Hui, taking out a stack of Jiaozi and shoving it in front of him, saying, "Please be lenient, sir."

Qin Hui didn't even raise his eyelids and waved directly.

Immediately, several tax collectors pounced on him like wolves and tigers, captured the man who was delivering the tax, dragged him to the foot of the city wall, and stuffed him into a wooden cage.

There are many wooden cages at the foot of the city wall, and you can hardly see the end at a glance.

Most of the people inside are imprisoned, and their identities are not ordinary.

In the past, they were either the top heroes of the fighting societies, or members of the Beggars' Gang in the Guandi Temple, or the madams of brothels, or the ruffians who roamed the streets, or the evil clerks in government offices, or the hangers-on who assisted the evildoers in the government offices, and so on.

In the past, these people were well-known and prestigious figures in Bianliang City. Ordinary people had to avoid them when they saw them.

But now, under the iron fist of the army, they are all like wild dogs, locked in wooden cages where they can only squat and cannot even stand up!
The usual detention period is one month.

If they are not dead after being locked up for a month, they will be sent to a coolie camp to do hard labor.

If they are not dead after working as coolies for a month, they will be sent back and kept in wooden cages.

This cycle repeats itself until the dead are thrown onto a cart and taken to a mass grave outside the city.

Cruel?
Compared with how they had bullied men and women in the city of Bianliang in the past and humiliated and abused the people, that was not cruel at all.

How many evil things have been done by the gangsters who killed and injured civilians, the beggars who committed fraud, robbed beggars and snatched children, the madams who forced women of good families into prostitution, the scoundrels who extorted, beat and smashed homes, the clerks who were a scourge to the world, and the hangers-on who bullied the people, bullied men and women, and confiscated their homes and exterminated their families for the many yamen officials who had long been executed?
When you feel sorry for these people, have you ever thought about the people who have been harmed?
Who will pity the people? Only Chen Ran will stand up for them and avenge them!
"Huh?" Looking at the idiot who was locked in a wooden cage and still crying out for justice, Qin Hui sneered and stroked his beard, "Want to harm me? Hurry up!"

The tax collectors around him had been replaced several times.

Qin Hui had witnessed many times how tax collectors who had collected money were stuffed into cages.

The numerous guards inside and outside the Nanxun Gate were staring at them.

"The one who gives the money and the one who receives it are equally guilty!"

"Qin Huizhi!" Several students dressed in Confucian robes rushed out of the teahouse near the city gate, ran to Qin Hui and cursed him, "You are an accomplice to the tiger and a bandit."

Qin Hui stood expressionless with his hands behind his back, and faced the spit gushing out of him without letting himself be spitted.

As for the gazes of the people passing by, they were bounced back by his face which was as thick as the Great Wall.

All the officials in the court, big and small, were basically swept away.

Qin Huizhi, who took the initiative to join Chen Ran and worked in public, became the target of venting for those so-called "hot-blooded" Confucian scholars.

Chen Ran closed the Imperial College because he hated Confucianism from the bottom of his heart. Naturally, he would not use these students and dismissed them all.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven," Qin Huizhi counted quietly. When he finished counting, a team of city gate guards came over, arrested several students who were making trouble, and escorted them to the wooden cage. "Those who obstruct public affairs will be detained for three days!" "Heh~~~"

Looking at the embarrassed figures of the students, Qin Hui sneered, "If you have the guts, just go to the palace. It's nothing to take it out on me. Bah! A bunch of corrupt scholars and trash!"

As the saying goes, what the superiors like, the subordinates will like even more.

When Chen Ran showed his contempt for Confucianism, Qin Huizhi immediately abandoned his identity as a Confucian disciple and spoke on the opposite side.

Following the superiors is the core of what he has learned throughout his life.

Just when Qin Hui was busy collecting taxes, several people from the Imperial City Bureau quietly entered his house.

After some searching, thick burnt ashes were found in the brazier in the study.

The people from the Imperial City Bureau were overjoyed and searched carefully again. Finally, they found a small piece of unburned paper in the ashes. There was probably half of the word "忍" on it.

More than half an hour later, the eunuch took half of the paper and brought it to the outside of the Funing Palace.

Listening attentively to the noises of continuous commotion in the hall and the woman's intermittent scolding, the eunuch did not dare to say much and waited obediently outside.

After the palace calmed down, he called out carefully, "Your Majesty, the Imperial City Department has something urgent to offer."

On the big bed in the Funing Palace, Chen Ran played with a lock of Li Qingzhao's hair and responded, "It's so early in the morning, waiting."

Li Qingzhao, with a flushed face, rolled her eyes and raised her hand to hit him, "You bastard!"

After taking a breath, Li Qingzhao gradually came to her senses and raised her hand to pinch Chen Ran's arm, "Where did you take Defu (Zhao Mingcheng)?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Chen Ran, who had transformed himself into a sage, simply spread his hands and said, "I am a gentleman. How could I possibly do such a thing as killing a husband and taking his wife away? He took the initiative to write to me, saying that he wanted to go back to his hometown to guard his father's tomb. I also gave him a large sum of money for the trip, which is enough for him to continue playing with gold and stone in the future."

"You've also read the divorce letter." Chen Ran pointed at the divorce letter that Li Qingzhao had thrown on the ground. "You should be able to recognize his handwriting, right?"

"You must have forced him to do that."

"It's really none of my business." Chen Ran complained, "I just said a few words about our relationship, and somehow Qin Huizhi heard it. He went to find Defu himself and persuaded Defu to divorce you on his own initiative."

This was indeed the case, but Chen Ran said it deliberately for Qin Hui to hear.

Qin Huizhi, who was good at guessing his superiors' intentions, went to find Zhao Mingcheng as expected.

Zhao Mingcheng, who was just a playboy, would never believe that Chen Ran would fall in love with his thirty-something woman.

After all, with Chen Ran’s current power, he can get any stunning beauty he wants.

Just like the emperor’s many beautiful princesses, weren’t they all taken as concubines by him?

Qin Huizhi had no doubts because he was very good at guessing people's thoughts and knew why Chen Ran deliberately told him this.

After much intimidation and enticements, Zhao Mingcheng was finally frightened into writing a letter of divorce, and Li Qingzhao was tricked into attending the banquet.

After this banquet, he never went out again.

In history, when the Jin army marched southward in large numbers, Zhao Mingcheng, the prefect, abandoned his land and people and fled in a hurry.

He even didn't take Li Qingzhao with him when he escaped!

From this we can see that he had long lost interest in the yellow-faced woman, after all, he had beautiful concubines around him.

Things were simple after that. Zhao Mingcheng received the message asking him to return to his hometown, so he packed up his things and ran back home overnight. He was afraid that Chen Ran would secretly send people to attack him, so he was shot in the back with eight crossbow arrows and committed suicide.

Li Qingzhao was trapped in the palace and couldn't get out at all.

When Chen Ran returned from the war, he came to find Li Qingzhao with the divorce letter, but Li Qingzhao didn't believe it at all. She cried and made a fuss, and wanted to leave the palace.

There was no other choice but to resort to physical persuasion, which took an entire night of effort and I persuaded him seven or eight times intermittently before I could have a normal conversation at dawn.

"Heh~~~"

After her passion faded and her reason returned, Li Qingzhao sneered, "Everyone in Bianliang City knows that Qin Huizhi is just a dog you raised! He is there to do dirty work for you. That's what you mean!"

Talking to smart women is troublesome. You can't hide things you need to know from them. There is no other way but to change the subject.

"Look." Chen Ran explained, "Defu has already returned to his hometown, and the divorce papers have been given to you."

At this point, he reached out and gently stroked the girl's abdomen, "We have the fruit of our love."

"Bah!" Li Qingzhao was so angry that she laughed, "Don't talk nonsense, there is nothing."

"Of course there is." Chen Ran said confidently, "I have invested so much, I will definitely win."

After a struggle, Li Qingzhao was not as thick-skinned as Chen Ran. She struggled to get up, shouting that she wanted to leave.

For Chen Ran, who has seen all the beauties in the world, Li Qingzhao, the greatest female talent in history, is his white moonlight.

The living white moonlight is right in front of me, how could I let go?

He continued to pester her immediately, and she had no choice but to say reluctantly that she must hear Defu's personal statement of divorce, and until then she could stay for the time being.

This is not a difficult matter, as the Imperial City Bureau just happened to report on Qin Hui’s affairs.

Chen Ran arranged Qin Hui to be the lobbyist and bring Zhao Mingcheng back to completely cut off ties with him.

(End of this chapter)