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Chapter 101 Blood Splattered on Guanchao Tower (Subscription Request)

Before Hu Butang sent out invitations to invite the gentry from various prefectures in Yuhang Province to discuss important matters, Hu Butang and Lu Jing and others went to do some things separately.

First is Hu Butang.

Long before Hu Butang took office as the governor of Yuhang and encircled and exterminated the mountain lions and other monsters in Yuhang, Hu Butang had already begun to send his soldiers with swords and pens to collect information on the gentry in various prefectures in Yuhang.

There were no more than fourteen prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yuhang, and a total of twenty-one wealthy families.

The other officials and bailiffs in the counties and towns are all local tyrants and are nothing to be feared.

As long as we take down the local gentry in the provincial capital, we can slowly control the local tyrants in the counties and towns.

A few scrapes today, a few beatings tomorrow, within three to five months, those so-called county and township tycoons will die suddenly or suffocate to death in the county.

And because they are located in different states, they can't even communicate with each other.

As for connecting with people from other counties in the same state to create civil unrest?

If that's the case, then the knife in Hu Butang's hand is no joke.

First kill the chicken to scare the monkey, then fight and defend at the same time. How many local tyrants can withstand such torment from Hu Butang?
As for the wealthy gentry entrenched in the various provincial capitals, Hu Butang had already figured out their details.

Whose head branch has bad relations with other branches, who has the ambition to replace the previous one, or which young and strong man in the family is dissatisfied with the elders, which elders in the family are foolish and conservative, and even which gentry has which enemies, and which family in the same prefecture wants to replace the top gentry in that prefecture... Hu Butang knows all this information clearly.

Therefore, under Lu Jing's instigation, when Hu Butang was really ready to implement the plan of "annihilation", all the masters of Lingyuan Realm and even masters of Shentong Realm under the Commandery were dispatched by Hu Butang overnight.

They disguised themselves, lurked in various state capitals and began to prepare to overthrow the power of the gentry in various state capitals according to their long-prepared plans.

As for Lu Jing, he began to collect monsters from all over the East China Sea.

Lu Jing killed those who were too strong.

In the end, they only captured forty or fifty monsters in the True Qi Realm, suppressed them and locked them up, waiting for the gentry from various prefectures to arrive at the Guanchao Tower in Lin'an Prefecture.

……

On April 24, it is auspicious to offer sacrifices to the broken house, but it is taboo to move into the new house.

There was a constant stream of traffic and people in front of the Tide Watching Tower, with loud gongs and drums and colorful flags fluttering. It was a magnificent and lively scene.

At the invitation of Hu Butang, the gentry from various prefectures in Yuhang Province came one after another. They bowed to each other and greeted each other. The atmosphere was more lively than that of the Spring Festival.

In order to show the importance of this meeting, Hu Butang, as the governor's daughter, personally met with local gentry at the Guanchao Tower.

This greatly surprised the gentry in various prefectures in Yuhang, but at the same time they felt particularly proud!

The second brother surnamed Hu finally gave in!
Humph, no matter how powerful you are, how can you fight against a group of local snakes?
There was a lot of noise about the demon-suppression campaign at the beginning, but when the local gentry finally instigated the people to take action and let the man surnamed Hu see the consequences of "competing with the people for profit", he immediately became cowardly.

Therefore, facing Hu Butang's personal reception, the local gentry from various prefectures even seemed a bit arrogant.

The spring breeze is brighter than the peach blossoms on the mountain top in April.

After the wealthy families or the people in charge of various prefectures had taken their seats on the rooftop of the Guanchao Tower, Hu Butang began the ritual that scholars and scholars usually do before a drink, with toasts and pleasantries… This made Lu Jing, who was accompanying him, feel drowsy.

If only he were to come!

Ah…

He just said "skip" and then the Guanchao Tower would be flooded with blood and filled with bloody anger.

It's a pity that Hu, an official of seven or eight ranks higher, can crush people to death.

Lu Jing felt sleepy after listening to this, but Hu Butang felt a little sad about the upcoming bloody massacre, so he wanted to give the gentry from various states present one last chance. So after three rounds of drinking, Hu Butang said earnestly: "We have talked and drunk, so I will not keep you in suspense."

"This banquet is because Mr. Hu has a request for you all."

"I took up my post in Yuhang on the orders of the cabinet, and I have a heavy responsibility. So I invited you all to come here to discuss two things with you."

Before Hu Butang could continue, a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe, a square scarf on his head, and a majestic beard stood up and said, "Hu Butang! We have heard about your policy a long time ago."

"Measure the land! Reopen the sea ban!"

"But these are all the laws established by our ancestors. It's not that I am just being nosy. The rules set by our ancestors cannot be changed. If they are changed, chaos will arise!"

Hu Butang said with a smile: "Measuring the land is also the same?"

The middle-aged man said with a stern face: "Hu Butang! The land we are working on is all the land that our ancestors have saved up bit by bit. It is all the hard work and accumulation of our ancestors."

"You can't just go after anyone who's rich, right?"

"Such behavior will chill the hearts of good people like us who have passed down the tradition of farming and studying and have been loyal for generations."

Lu Jing rolled his eyes inwardly when he heard this.

In years of poor harvests, they lent money at high interest rates, forcing farmers to use their good farmland as collateral. When they could not pay back the interest, they would forcibly seize the land.

This is not the end.

After plundering and plundering, these wealthy families would bribe the government to reduce the size of the fertile land they had obtained in order to reduce taxes.

This is what Dayu now calls "farming and reading passed down from generation to generation, loyalty and righteousness from generation to generation."

Lu Jing was already beginning to get impatient.

Start killing!
When will the killing start?

Hu Butang stared at the leader who was speaking. He knew this person; he was from the Xu family in Huating.

But this person is not the leader of the Huating Xu family, and he is not even a direct descendant. He is just a more capable branch of the Huating Xu family.

But how could a member of a side branch like him dare to speak to the governor of a province like this!

This is a second-rank official in the imperial court!

amazing.

The Xu family in Huating is amazing.

Hu Butang also lost his patience, so he said simply: "Okay, then I'll be frank. Those who are willing to support and cooperate with my policies can stand beside me now." As soon as Hu Butang finished speaking, the top floor of Guanchao Tower was dead silent.

Only the river breeze blows through the hall, making faint humming sounds.

Some of them were actually a little moved, and their bodies were swaying there, but when they were glanced at by the man from the Xu family, they immediately became obedient.

That’s the Xu family!

A cabinet minister in the previous emperor's reign, a former prime minister, and a big shot whose students and former officials are all over the court and the country! With a big shot of this level taking the lead, even if Hu Minister is making too much trouble now, it won't hurt his bones.

But he had to leave eventually.

So who can be offended and who cannot be offended——

Clear at a glance!
Seeing that no one moved, Hu Butang was deeply disappointed: "Is there really no one?"

The Xu family branch said with a straight face: "I hope the minister will sympathize with the people and show more grace, so that the world can be peaceful!"

Following this man's lead, leaders of other wealthy families stood up and knelt, begging Minister Hu to revoke the policies he had previously promulgated.

"Ugh……"

Hu Butang was finally tired, so he called out softly, "Commander Lu."

Lu Jing immediately became excited!
He didn't even reply, he just clapped his hands.

Then the soldiers of his Xianzhen Camp went upstairs and surrounded the gentry. As for the servants brought by the gentry, they were also surrounded by Song Yuheng, Pei Guanyin and others.

The entire tide-watching tower was suddenly surrounded by water.

The man from the Xu family's side branch had a gloomy expression on his face: "Hu Bu Tang! You know who I am! You know who are the people here! What do you mean by bringing troops here directly?!"

"Xu can certainly die, but if Xu and everyone present die, Yuhang will be in chaos!"

This member of the Xu family's branch branch was full of energy and his words were powerful.

But Hu Butang just closed his eyes calmly.

Lu Jing was even more impatient, waving his hands in disdain and saying, "Skip it, skip it."

Then a group of soldiers were seen leading more than thirty True Qi realm monsters up the stairs... When the gentry in various states saw those monsters tied up with iron chains, their faces suddenly changed!

The branch of the Xu family was even more furious: "Old bastard! You actually colluded with the demon clan!!"

Lu Jing was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Let go!"

As a result, these monsters, who had been hungry for five or six days, pounced on the wealthy and powerful people who were fat and bloated like hungry dogs.

Suddenly there were screams from the Tide Watching Tower, and soon the screams turned into wails.

Amid the endless wailing, the sounds of monsters tearing flesh and blood could be heard one after another, and the sight of blood splattering was dizzying.

In just two breaths, the rooftop of the Tide Watching Tower turned into a hell on earth with blood flying everywhere, broken limbs and blood all over the ground.

"Old man Hu!"

The branch member of the Xu family was extremely furious at the moment. He himself actually possessed the strength of great true Qi. After killing the two monsters with a wave of his hand, he rushed towards Hu Butang with full of anger.

Lu Jing lightly tapped his toes and grabbed his seemingly powerful attack.

Then Lu Jing grabbed his opponent's hand and shook it gently, and then the opponent's arm was torn off by Lu Jing directly... This man was as fragile as a candy man.

This member of the Xu family's branch family immediately fell to the ground and wailed.

When the monster nearby saw this, it immediately pounced over and was about to bite through the neck of this member of the Xu family's branch.

But Lu Jing raised his hand and grabbed the monster's neck.

Then the monster immediately became obedient...

Monsters are all intelligent, so they are much easier to train than dogs, and they can even understand human language.

Lu Jing held the monster and said, "Ask your brothers to come over and eat together. Be polite."

This monster is still very smart!
He immediately understood what Lu Jing meant, and the ugly monster's head nodded like a rattle.

Lu Jing let go of the monster, and then the monster called a few monsters to come over. Some of the disobedient and impatient ones were slapped on the head by the monster. The force was so great that a high bulge of the slap mark was left on the monster's head: "Si, be more polite."

"Eat from the feet first."

Xu family branch: “?!”

He no longer had the arrogance and arrogance he had before. He held his bleeding arm in horror and shouted at the top of his lungs, "You old bastard Hu, you shall not die a good death!"

"You will be punished by God! Ah...Ah!!!"

Listening to the shrill screams that came one after another, and the crunching sounds of the monsters chewing flesh and blood, even the ruthless and scheming Hu Butang felt his scalp tingling.

He still kept his eyes closed, but couldn't help asking Lu Jing beside him: "Is it necessary to be so ruthless?"

Lu Jing had a blank expression on his face: "During a famine, there were starving people everywhere. Is it really that cruel to eat your own children?"

Hu Butang: “…”

The last trace of pity and compassion on his face suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving only iron-bloodedness and indifference.

In order to change rice to mulberry, the eunuchs in the palace even destroyed the dikes and flooded the fields, which led to famine in Yuhang. At that time, he ran around to borrow grain from the court and surrounding provinces.

But those bigwigs in the court are busy with political struggles!

They don't care about the lives of the people at all!
They said, "We have no choice but to make the people suffer a little more." "It's just the people of a few counties, if they die, they die."

Think of this!

The murderous aura and evil spirit emanating from Hu Butang were even stronger than that of the branch of the Xu family that was being devoured!
(End of this chapter)