Chapter 350 (1/2)
Chapter 350
Chapter 350: Why Was The Iry?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The rain pattered down, beating a tattoo into the roof of the workshopIt was a sharp contrast to the death-like silence below
The workers were gathered at the backThe shock and fear on their faces was unhidden, but everyone's hands had subconsciously began to reach for shovels and wooden boardsNo one kneas going to happen next
Standing at the front, the treasurers who had organized the strike also had faces full of fearThey watched the i on a chair before the door and did not pay any more attention to the dead ic scene of the separated body and head beside the furnaceThey only stared in fear at Fan Xian's warentle faceThe feet of the crowds unconsciously backed up
One person stepped backTen people stepped backThe crowd stepped backThe sound of the treasurers' feet stepping backacross a desertHowever, the workshop was only so big, and a large space at the back had been taken up by the thinly dressed workersWhere could these blue-robbed treasurers back up to?
Fan Xian watched the scene before his eyes and instinctively shook his headIn an even voice he said, ”I am not a violent personWorkers, don't be afraidThe court is only investigating the esIt has nothing to do with you”
The workers at the back met each other's eyes and felt their hearts steady a little, but they did not dare co powerful officialTheir hands remained wrapped around the handles of the shovels
”You…even if you are a court official, how can you kill people for no reason?” A treasurer could no longer endure the oppressive silence and cried out in a sharp voice
Deputy Ma Jie was standing stupidly behind Fan XianHe had never expected that Fan Xian would chop off a workshopfurtherToday'sHow could they clean this up?
Shocked and angry, he said in a shaky voice, ”I could be discussed…it's over…it's all over”
In Ma Jie's heart, the s to the palace treasury were these treasurers in front of themOnly these people kne to maintain the palace treasuryEven if Fan Xian chopped 10 heads today and forced these treasurers to submit, what about the future? If the treasurers worked with resentment, who knehat they would turn the palace treasury into?
Besides, there were still twoIf they knew you killed er of the people, and the strike continued on…my God! If you really killed everybody, ill do the work? Were you counting on those illiterate workers?
Fan Xian did not acknowledge the bewildered deputy next to himHe indicated for Su Wenmao to come overHe then clearly said to everyone in the workshop, ”Listen closely to every word!”
The crowd froze
Su Wen wet robeHe squinted a little and then began to read in a loud voice
”Today it has been discovered, Xiao Jing, e workshops of the palace treasury transport con, coal acts”
Su Wen and restless treasurersHe then continued, ”In the second year and thirdhid the disaster at a bronze es of the dead for five years, for a total of 13,700 liangIn the fourth year, seventhbribed the official registrar of Suzhou to buy a good plot of land of 700 mu at a low priceIn the sixth year and firstas the leader of the roup of treasurers owed the workers tens of thousands of accues, caused violence, 14 deaths, over 50 injured…”
A countless nu a little dryAt the end he said, ”These cri law, he was decapitated”
He then took out the land deeds, Suzhou's official registrar's written confession, and other related evidence
”Don't askthe announcement”I have many witness testimonies and not a s could certainly not be kept since I a the palace treasury”
As the workers ere shaking with fear and uneasy heard the imperial envoy discuss the crimes and heard the lines and lines of cri usually wasHe was harsh and insidious to the workers beneath hiht by killing hirew even strongerUnsatisfied, someone called out, ”Even if you punish him, you still need to open the court and try the case…you trues to convict hi behind Fan Xian, heard Su Wenmao read out the cri for an excuseThe officials of the palace treasury transport co had doneBut, even if he were to be punished by the Qing law, you…you couldn't just kill hiood terms with Fan Xian because of his cousin Ren Shao'anNo matter how much be disapproved of Fan Xian's actions, he forced himself to keep his mouth shut and did not question hi, but there were trusted aides of the Eldest Princess left in the transport company ould definitely not pass up this opportunitySinisterly they said, ”Sir has acted decisively, but…for corrupt and lawless people like this, is it not better to open the court and try him openly? To have hihtFurtherave the treasurers a three-day limit, and these three days have not passed, perhaps…”
The treasurers shook with fear, but they had not given upHearing one of the officials speaking on their behalf, they began to daringly start quite a din
Fan Xian didn't even turn his headA sliver of a cold smile rose to the corner of his lips, ”I am the coer of the palace treasury transport co the case, and the transport coer determine the caseWhy can I not question hi hihtly lowered his head and s, disobeying His Majesty's edict…can I not behead this man who respects neither his father nor his E like murder, it was fine to do in secret, but for Fan Xian to kill soood reasonIf he was only using Xiao Jing's illegal activities as an excuse to justify his killing of hiood opportunity to counter hi the criminalPut it to any yamen, and none would be able to let it pass
However, Fan Xian did things practicallyHe clearly had 's crime, but he continued to say he was beheaded because he did not respect the E like the edict was theAs the imperial envoy, he had the power of final interpretation
The crimes the Overwatch Council had found were also necessaryWhen the case was brought before the Eood land and h to res
To kill now to establish ht, and then later provide the evidence to block thetere workshop of the First WorkshopThe workers were filled with expectations for the imperial envoyThe treasurers were terrified church h the officials had ulterior motives, they did not dare accuse Fan XianThe situation slightly calmed down
After another period of time, the strikes in the Second and Third Workshops were also calmedHowever, these tere taken care of by General Ye and Dan Da, so it took extra ti as Fan XianThey only captured people; they did not kill them
The treasurers in the other two Workshops were escorted by soldiers to the large workshopThe workers were strictly kept in each of the workshopsWith the situation thus, the large workshop appeared to immediately feel a bit crowded after 200 more blue-robed treasurers suddenly spilled in
With the soldiers' sharp spears pointing and ows and arrows of the Overwatch Council forcing theroup did not dare tothis scene, the officials that had co surpriseIt was not until now that they realized the i prepared for the situation of the last day of the three-day order and had already uessed earlier that the treasurers would react so intensely
For now, all the trusted aids of Xinyang were disappointedIt looked like the er, but at the sa down ruthlesslyHopefully he will offend all of the treasurersThen we'll see hoill explain the lowered production and decrease in quality to the Emperor!
After the workshop quieted a little, Fan Xian rose from his chairThe pockets of water that had been trapped in his robe spilled onto the floor
He looked at the treasurers squeezed into a group at the front and saw there was a sense of rebellion in their eyesFurthermore, the treasurers who had been escorted from the Second and Third Workshops looked even more proud as they didn't knohat had happened
”Everyone's here,” he shtThe workshop's furnace was extinguishedWhat about on your sides? Also, why are all the workshop treasurers who are separated by 30, 40 li all by the yamen today? Even if the work had to stop in the workshops because of the rain, you should first go check your oorkshopsIt's still so earlyHave you already been and then co attention to the othersThe treasurers who had just been led in had the situation explained to them by the treasurers ere there earlierWhen they realized what happened, their faces gradually paled
Fan Xian shook his head and said, ”This is good, I have true evidence of your crio ahead and kill people”
After master Xiao's abnormal and clean death had spread by the word of mouth, the treasurers knew the i an eyeHearing these light words, the treasurers broke into a claan to curseSo to see if there was soradually spread about, and the situation becahtly chaoticThe es still kept a close watch and forced the crowd back in
Two people squeezed their way out of the treasurersThey weren't bystandersThey were the master treasurers of the Second and Third Workshops, two of the three strike leaders
Earlier, these two h-spiritedly ordered the treasurers and workers to go on strikeTheir words had flowed like water, a torrent of words that were astonishi+ngly ih the workers had watched them dispiritedly and listlessly, the hundreds of treasurers had been hugely e in their heads, the court would not dare punish them severelyOf course, these two masters severely ordered that the treasurers were to treat the i the silver in their ho
Unexpectedly, not long after the strike started, countless soldiers and spies of the Overwatch Council flooded into the workshopFacing weapons, the words of the two masters immediately lost any powerThey obediently raised their hands in sub the way they were still confident, thinking the people would do things within li much the imperial envoy could do
Unexpectedly, the i in the group for a while, the two masters realized that master Xiao, who had secretly planned the strike with them, was dead
The two masters stood outside of the crowd and looked around the workshopFinally, beside the furnace they found Xiao Jing's bodyThat patch of blood and the head stunned them in a flashThe two cried out mournfully, ”Sir Xiao…Sir Xiao!”