Chapter 9: The Peng Family Makes Troubles, Shameless
Taozhou!
At this moment, Taozhou is in a state of paralysis!
There were more than 800 people sitting at the Taozhou government office. Each of them was covered with white numbness, and the word "scarlet" was written on the white numbness.
They were young and old, and they sat at the entrance of the Taozhou government office with their families, lighting incense and candles, and enshrined their spiritual seats.
The first person was an old Confucian scholar with a very old and white beard. He could not tell how old he was, but his head and face were full of wrinkles and his face were telling the traces of time!
They have been gathering in the Taozhou Prefecture Office for a day, and it has been difficult to implement the normal operation of the government to relieve the people.
The old Confucian scholar's surname was Peng and his name was Peng Bai. However, as early as thirty years ago, no one had called him real name, but he respectfully called him "Old Lady Peng".
The Peng family is not a family, but a big family in Longyou!
As a big surname that has been around for nearly a thousand years, the Peng family occupies 20% of Longyou. Twenty percent of the people in Longyou have surnames Peng, and the remaining 80% of the other hundreds of surnames are shared. This shows that the Peng family's county is highly regarded.
Old Mrs. Peng is 99 years old this year and is about to be a hundred years old. His status in the Peng family belongs to the ranks of ancestors.
Because of his high moral character, he is respected as Mr. Peng.
All the Peng surnames in Longyou all regard the old lady Peng as the stallion, and regard themselves as the old lady’s husband as the inherited branches and leaves.
Old Mrs. Peng is a pedantic man and attaches great importance to family concepts. He pursues the maintenance of family order and reputation throughout his life. At the age of 50, he inherited the position of head of the family and handles things in the family with an attitude of "fairness and selflessness", and deserves praise from the people in the family.
As he grew older, his prestige also increased, and he became the ancestor of the Peng family and everyone respected today.
Peng Qi was killed by the mysterious Jianghu people and left a letter indicating that the country was in trouble and wealth. The government obtained three thousand hu of grain as he said, helping the people of Taozhou to overcome the food shortage.
There is almost no doubt about this, but Old Lady Peng doesn't believe it.
In the eyes of this old lady Peng, all the children of the Peng family were Confucian pioneers. They all had the five constant ways of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trustworthiness", the five virtues of "warmness, kindness, respect, frugality, and mercy", and the noble character of "loyalty, filial piety, integrity, shame, and courage".
Peng Qi would not do anything that would insult the Peng family. Someone must have framed him maliciously.
People in the martial arts world despise the law and the words are not trustworthy. Old Mrs. Peng firmly believes that Peng Qi was framed: he did not pursue the mastermind behind the Taozhou government office, but instead believed the rumors about the martial arts world people. He was extremely dissatisfied and came to Taozhou in person to call Gu Xin wronged.
Gu Xin did not blindly believe a letter from a mysterious man, but went through a detailed investigation. Although there was no definite evidence to prove that Peng Qi was in trouble in the country, almost all the fingers were pointed at him.
Gu Xin persuaded him kindly, but Old Lady Peng was unyielding and asserted that Gu Xin had colluded with his official bandits.
In order to protect the face of the Peng family, the old lady Peng directly instigated the Peng family's children to force the palace to ask the Taozhou government office to give the Peng family an explanation to prove the innocence of the Peng family.
Old Mrs. Peng has such a grand position. In just one day, the Peng family has gathered more than 800 people at the government office.
They were all filled with righteous indignation, as if they had suffered a huge grievance.
Gu Xin is angry with the public and should not come forward.
The governor of Taozhou, Du Binke, was forced to come out to uphold justice in person. Facing the Peng family dressed in unjust clothes, Du Binke was also one of the two big ones. He came to Mr. Peng sitting on the ground and bowed deeply: "Mr. Peng, you are old and talk!"
Old Mrs. Peng hummed in a angrily way, but ignored it. Although he was white, he was the head of the Peng family and was old. The old man didn't think anything was wrong with Du Binke, a third-rank official, to salute him.
Du Binke was quite angry, but the old guy in front of him was too old. He was afraid that one would handle it carefully and force the old man to death. At that time, all the Peng family members in Longyou could not afford to cause trouble for him, so he could only smile and said, "Old Mrs. Peng, I promise you this matter and I will give you a satisfactory reply. As long as the Peng Dong family did not secretly hoard food in the national crisis and make money in the general situation, this governor can guarantee that he would give him a cleansing."
Old Mrs. Peng said angrily: "My Peng family is very strict. Are the children in the clan a disciple of Saint Kong? How could they do such a thing? It's just a cleansing person, how can you repay him with innocence? What you have to do is to capture the murderer, not to imprison my Peng family!"
His angry shout was full of energy and did not look like a ninety-nine-year-old man.
Du Binke stammered and couldn't speak at once. He was good at military affairs, and his verbal skills were really not his strengths.
The eight hundred Peng families behind Old Lady Peng shouted one by one, "Catch the murderer and release the innocent!"
"Catch the murderer and release the innocent!"
"Catch the murderer and release the innocent!"
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The shouts of more than 800 people actually echoed over the government office, which was particularly amazing.
Du Binke looked at the people, young and old, and had nowhere to expose his strength.
"Okay, what a murderer to release the innocent!"
The rapid sound of horse hooves sounded, and Pei Min looked angry and looked from far away.
When Du Binke defeated Tubo, they had a chance to meet.
Pei Min recognized him, ignored the eight hundred Pang family members in front of the government office, and handed him his appointment edict and said, "Governor Du, this is Your Majesty's edict. Governor, please hand over the seal of the governor to me. Leave this matter to me to handle!"
Du Binke was relieved to give Pei Min the seal he carried with him.
Just when Pei Min took over the seal of the prefecture from Du Binke: the transfer of power had been completed.
Pei Min officially became the governor of Taozhou.
Holding the seal of the prefecture in his hand, he looked at the more than 800 people in front of him, and his face was angry: The main reason why he chose to deal with Peng Qi's affairs in the form of a gangster and lake was that Peng Qi had the identity of the Peng family.
A large family like the Peng family, they have more or less invisible power. If they had not had real evidence, they would not be convinced. Even if they had real evidence, they might argue with the reasons such as a traitor.
Pei Min did not have real evidence at that time, nor could he be sure whether Peng Qi was really taking advantage of the national crisis. Peng Qi's methods were very clever. He did not hide the food in his home, but hid it in the cellar of the Zhangjia Inn, which had nothing to do with it.
There is no food and grass as physical evidence, so it is not easy to deal with him in a legitimate manner. Even if there is physical evidence, the physical evidence is still owned by the Zhang family, not the Peng family.
This goes back and forth, and there are too many loopholes in the law that can exploit loopholes, and simple things become complicated.
Pei Min came to Taozhou to deal with Tubo, so that the people of Taozhou can live and work in peace and live a good life, rather than intrigue with the Peng family and consume each other.
With this consideration, he handled the matter directly in the easiest way.
Chapter completed!