The main target of usury in the Ming Dynasty was merchants. The income of usury was not based on exploiting farmers and the poor, because how much oil and water can be squeezed out by those people? Therefore, their main target of profit was merchants.

When merchants are doing business, they will inevitably experience poor capital turnover, and at this time they will go to usury lenders. Although there are already Royal Ming Dynasty merchants that can issue loans to merchants, the series of review procedures for merchants who want to borrow from Royal Ming Dynasty merchants are relatively strict, especially for some small merchants who do not have such strong funds. It is not easy to get a loan approved.

The banking industry is not a charity. The bank likes the most is the icing on the cake and will not provide timely assistance. The richer people are, the easier it is to get a loan when they find a bank; the less money people are, the harder it is to get a loan from the bank.

Therefore, it is not difficult to completely eliminate usury lenders, especially those who lend money in casinos, which are simply impossible to eliminate usury.

Since China's Heshe has existed for more than two thousand years, the Mohist school that appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period was the earliest organized Heshe organization in China.

In fact, the Mohist school did not commit crimes, and focused on craftsmanship and martial arts. The Mohist school was not as violent and criminal as the later rogues, and they carried out illegal criminal activities. However, the Mohist school did not obey the constraints of political axe, and the people who joined the Mohist school were moral and advocated righteousness. The Mohist school's organizational structure was similar to the later Hesh Club.

Later, the Beggars' Sect and various so-called sects of the martial arts world, even the Shaolin Sect, Huashan Sect and so on, were actually real Heshuihui organizations. Later, the Liangshan heroes, Ming Sect, White Lotus Sect, etc., including the Hong Sect that would have appeared in time and space in a few years.

Zhao Peng believes that the long-standing Heshouhui is difficult to fundamentally eliminate, and he never thought of completely eliminating Heshouhui. What's more, the casinos, brothels, salt gangs and the like that legally opened in the Ming Dynasty all need a group of rascals to protect. With those people, those profit-making industries have become orderly.

Although Zhao Peng did not prohibit Heshouhui, one thing he strictly prohibited: that is, rogues can go to cheat merchants, gamblers, and brothels, but they are absolutely not allowed to affect the normal lives of ordinary people, that is, good people.

Zhao Erlu is a gangster and deserves his crime, but his wife Xiaofeng is an innocent good woman, and Xiaofeng himself is also a victim of Zhao Erlu. Zhang Shitou and Yang Er forced the good to become prostitutes for a little money, resulting in a major case of two lives. Such things are absolutely intolerable.

The Jinyiwei arrested Zhang Shitou and Yang Er. Under Zhao Peng's pressure, the prefect Song had to sentence the two of them to death. However, after the trial of the case, many people came to Zhao Peng through various channels to plead for mercy, demanding that Zhang Shitou and Yang Er be exempted from the death penalty.

"Kidnap women, force good men to become prostitutes, and kill two lives. Is it still possible to keep such a serious crime if I don't kill them?" Zhao Peng refused all those who came to tell the Qing Dynasty.

"But it is natural to pay back the debt. Since Zhao Erlu is unable to repay it, there is nothing unreasonable to Zhang Shitou and Yang Er use Zhao Erlu's wife to pay off the debt." The person who came said.

Zhao Peng said: "Although Zhao Erlu owes gambling debts, he has received the punishment he deserves. Zhao Erlu's wife is a good citizen, not a slave, and is not a lowly person. Zhang Shitou and Yang Er kidnapped Xiaofeng, raped her, and sold her to a brothel. This was a serious crime! Now it has led to the death of Zhao Erlu's mother and Xiaofeng. These two people should be killed on the grounds of crime!"

"But Zhang Shitou and Yang Er are both strong men, so it would be a pity to kill them like this, right? Why not give them a chance to commit crimes and make meritorious service and let them go to the battlefield to make merits and sacrifice their merits." The man said.

"A man with iron or strong?" Zhao Peng sneered, "A man with iron or strong will never bully weak women. Only cowards can bully women! I can guarantee that these two guys will definitely wet their pants when they see Jiannu on the battlefield!"

Afterwards, Zhao Peng ordered his men to return all the generous gifts sent by the man and drive the man out of the mansion together with his gifts.

Three days later, Zhang Shitou and Yang Erliang were taken to Caishikou. With the order of the prison officer Gao Wencai, two executioners raised their swords and fell, and Zhang Shitou and Yang Er's heads fell to the ground.

Killing Zhang Shitou and Yang Er inmates could not fundamentally solve the problem. Next, with the cooperation of the Nanjing New Army, the Jinyiwei launched a decisive lightning operation in Nanjing City, and a large number of rogues with great public anger were arrested.

At the same time, the head of Yingtian Prefecture, the constable, and the yamen runners were also arrested by the Jinyiwei. At the same time, a group of officials in the Yingtian Prefecture Prefecture's prefecture's prefecture, including the Tongzhi, the magistrate, the patrol, the prison, and other officials were also arrested by the Jinyiwei on the charge of corruption and abuse of power and escorted to the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei North Town Fushi.

The magistrate is equivalent to the senior municipal political and legal officials, the director of the Public Security Bureau, the inspector is equivalent to the captain of the Municipal Armed Police Detachment in later generations, and the prison is equivalent to the director of the Judicial Bureau and the president of the Procuratorate in later generations.

Tongzhi and Tongzhi are considered to be relatively large officials in the prefectural office. The inspector and the prison are both small officials, but the nature of Yingtian Prefecture is different. The prefect of ordinary places is a fourth-rank official, but the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture is a third-rank official, which is as big as the governor. The Tongzhi of Yingtian Prefecture also has a fourth-rank official, which is equivalent to the prefect of other places.

The magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture is a fifth-rank official, the inspector is a sixth-rank military position, and the prison is an eighth-rank official, which is two levels higher than those in other places. These small officials with the size of sesame seeds are not worth mentioning in front of Zhao Peng. Zhao Peng, who possesses the Shangfang Sword, can even kill them first and then report them. However, these guys are a noble master in the eyes of the local people.

Almost all the officials in Yingtian Prefecture related to the name of the Criminal Guard were caught in one go, and the constables under their command were sent to the imperial prison.

These guys who collude with gangsters and commit crimes on weekdays have been arrested, which is a very pleasing thing for the people of Nanjing.

But then, the judgment of these people became a headache for Zhao Peng. After all, it was not the Hongwu period. If you want to convict these people by corruption and abuse of power, not to mention whether you can convict them, even if you take the blame, it will not hurt.

The "Ming Law" that severely punished corrupt officials during the Hongwu period was actually equivalent to being invalidated.

When Emperor Hongwu was in power, officials could be beheaded if they embezzled forty taels of silver and bribed for eighty taels of silver and hanged if they were corruption; if they embezzled for one hundred taels, they could be peeled and made into specimens; and if they embezzled forty taels of silver, they could be executed directly.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment for corrupt officials was severe, the court's salary was too small. After studying hard and becoming an official, he could not support himself by relying on the salary of the court. Moreover, in the county governments of the Ming Dynasty, those masters, grooms, sedan chairmen, etc. had to rely on the officials to pay for their own money to support him.

In this case, if officials are not greedy for money, it will be a problem for the whole family to survive, let alone a life where all the family can live without worries.

Therefore, although the "Da Ming Law" is very strict with corrupt officials, no one has strictly followed the "Da Ming Law" after Zhu Yuanzhang. If they were all implemented in accordance with the "Da Ming Law", every official in the late Ming Dynasty could have been able to silence and kill the nine clans. By this era, the provisions of the six internal organs in the "Da Ming Law" had long been in name only.
Chapter completed!