Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Chapter 692: Rushing to the Door

The aristocratic families in this divided era were still quite humane in their arrangements for their descendants.

After the identity of the heir is confirmed, the family will not provide special training to other family members except the heir.

In other words, other family members who are not chosen to be family heirs have no choice but to choose other paths.

For example, just living a life of idleness and waiting for death, or passing an imperial examination to gain a good academic reputation.

Under the premise of a large family, the eldest sons of each family below will also have their own benefits, which is the huge family fortune earned for them by their parents.

And those legitimate sons, second sons and illegitimate sons can only choose their own paths.

Generally speaking, if they are not the eldest son of a family or a small family, they have more choices.

Compared with the choices made by these children of the gentry, the gentry themselves no longer have any choice after confirming the heir.

In order to ensure that the family will not be divided in the future, they can only unwaveringly choose this heir and train him specially.

Even if this heir does not meet their expectations at some point in the future, they can only make a firm choice.

Unless the heir does something unforgivable, the heir will basically not be changed.

Under the premise of the times, the gentry naturally followed suit.

This also led to the birth of a problem.

What if the heir is killed and the family is unable to train the next heir in time?

Of course, it is generally believed that the heirs of aristocratic families will not encounter any danger, and bandits who want to kidnap people will not be stupid enough to cause trouble for the heirs of aristocratic families.

Now, with such a mess happening in Luzhou, even the aristocratic families have lost their dignity and don't follow the rules.

Lu Dayou no longer wanted to follow the rules.

The young patriarch of the Cai family would tie up or kill anyone he wanted, leaving no room for maneuver.

In Shangdang City, Cai Wentao, the young patriarch of the Cai family, who is still drinking wine in Hongxiu Pavilion, has no idea what will happen next.

An hour later, at the east gate of Shangdang County, cavalrymen from the Qianniu Guards escorted a carriage outside the city.

From the city gate, officials from Shangdang and the Inspectorate filed out and finally lined up in two rows to welcome the imperial envoy.

In the carriage, Li Cunxi lifted the curtain and glanced at the officials expressionlessly.

With just one glance, he felt that these officials had ulterior motives.

"It's not just to welcome us, it's also to give us a warning."

Wu Sansi, who was standing by, was furious and clenched his fists.

"These officials and aristocratic families in Luzhou are so bold that they dare to openly intimidate me."

"They'd better pray that I don't find out anything, otherwise I will definitely kill them!"

Li Cunxi was amused, shook his head and said:

"Just follow the original plan. It would be better if they come out, so we don't have to go door to door looking for them."

The carriage slowly drove to the outside of the city gate and then stopped until a cavalry and infantry caught up.

The leader, Hu Jinghui, pulled the reins to stop his horse, and then turned his horse to the side of the carriage.

"Cunxi, I've brought four hundred soldiers with me. They're all reliable and ready to go."

"Well, let's get started." Li Cunxi took a deep look at the leading officials Gao Wang and Sima Li Cheng, and smiled evilly.

Hu Jinghui put his sword back into the scabbard, picked up the five-clawed flying hook and sickle spear on the victory hook, and turned to the Luzhou officials.

"Listen up, you rebels!"

"I am Hu Jinghui, the General of the Thousand Oxen Guards, in the presence of His Majesty the Emperor!"

"The news that Luzhou officials colluded with assassins to murder Luzhou Governor Di Guangyuan and Imperial Counselor Lu Dayou has been leaked!"

"I have been ordered by the King of Qin to arrest you and bring you to justice!"

"If anyone resists, all ten clans will be exterminated!!!"

The Luzhou officials were originally in high spirits and were ready to make Li Cunxi and Wu Sansi suffer a loss in silence.

After hearing what Hu Jinghui said, he stopped laughing immediately.

Some of the officials even started picking their ears, fearing that they had heard something wrong.

Soon, they spotted the soldiers swarming towards them.

"No, no, we are not colluding with the killer!"

"we do not have!"

“This is slander, slander!!”

"If you don't have evidence to prove that we killed the imperial envoy and the governor, you can't arrest us!"

These officials were almost scared to death, but they didn't dare to face the soldiers, so they turned around and tried to escape.

But how could they possibly escape? The internal guards who had already sneaked into Shangdang County, led by Fenghuang, blocked the city gate and killed more than a dozen gatekeepers who intended to stop them.

"According to the orders of the King of Qin, arrest the rebels!"

"Why don't you all kneel down? Are you trying to resist arrest?"

Fenghuang roared, raised his hand and grabbed the neck of a councilor, and broke his neck in front of the Luzhou officials.

These Luzhou officials are almost becoming idiots.

They never imagined that the imperial court would dare to take action against officials from aristocratic families like them without any evidence.

This is really disgraceful.

Isn’t the imperial court afraid of losing the trust of the aristocratic families?

"Since they are resisting arrest, they should all be hacked to death."

"Death will put an end to everything. Death will bring peace. It can be considered as a revenge for my two brothers."

Li Cunxi in the carriage showed no mercy and directly issued an order to kill.

As for whether there were any good officials among those who greeted him, Li Cunxi didn't bother to care. If there were any good officials, they would have knelt down and been arrested, and then waited for the truth to come out.

Anyone who resists arrest must have something to hide.

"kill!"

Hu Jinghui raised his five-clawed flying hook spear, clamped it on the horse's belly, and rushed out like a sharp arrow.

In just a moment, he had reached the doorway and pierced an official's body with his spear through two infantrymen.

"what--"

The official let out a miserable cry, but it was of no avail. Hu Jinghui swung his spear hard, knocking the official to the ground more than ten meters away.

The official was already in his fifties or sixties. How could he withstand such a heavy fall? He vomited blood on the spot and was obviously dying.

"You rebels, why don't you surrender immediately?"

Hu Jinghui roared, raised his gun, pierced one man, and then threw him to the ground and killed him.

The commander-in-chief did this, and the soldiers under him naturally followed suit, chopping an official to death with a single move of their hands.

Dozens of officials who initially came to greet Li Cunxi were surrounded at the city gate, and more than a dozen of them were hacked to death.

At this point, they did not dare to resist and could only kneel on the ground with humiliation on their faces and kowtow to Li Cunxi's carriage.

"Please forgive us, Your Highness the Prince of Qin. We dare not move!"

The official who spoke seemed to be frightened, but in fact he was vicious and had a cunning plan in secret.