The Golden Age Chapter 44: Public Court
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When Mencius and Niu Zhi came to the office gate of the county guard mansion, it was already black and light. Fortunately, there were two lanterns hanging under the porch, so I could see clearly.
Several officials have been whispering outside the county guard's mansion, and Mencius can see at a glance that they are all officials of Xing Cao.
Zhen Jun Liu Cao and Du Wei Mansion are both under the prefectural guard mansion in name, but everyone knows that the county guard master of the prefecture guard man does not have much power in his hands.
The reason for the establishment of the prefectural government in Zhen County back then was that Zhen County was actually at least nominally part of the territory controlled by Datang, and half of the six Cao Cao’s below were nominal.
Hu Cao is nominally responsible for levying taxes, but in fact, Zhen Hou’s taxes are collected by the Zhenhou Mansion. Hu Cao can’t even collect a couple of silver, so he has to send people to help Zhen Hou from time to time. The government calculates the accounts, even if the soldiers, rites, workers, and officials are four Cao Cao, it is even more useless.
Among the six Cao Cao, the only one with real power is Xing Cao.
However, it is well known that Lu Siyuan, the official of the Xing Cao Cao, was directly recommended to the court by the Zhen Hou Mansion. This person was originally from the Xiling gate clan. Although the Zhen Hou Mansion pretended not to use the Zhen family directly, the Lu family was also Zhen Jun. The powerful family clan directly clings to the foot of Zhenhou Mansion. The Xing Cao controlled by Lu Siyuan is equivalent to Zhenhou Mansion's own territory.
Mencius sneered when he saw Xing Cao officials whispering in front of the county guard house.
When Xing Cao's people saw Menci Mo bringing a few people over, they naturally recognized that they were from the captain's mansion. They didn't have any good expressions. If it were a few years earlier, they might deliberately provoke a few words. But today's captain's mansion has Han Yunong in charge, and Han Yunong is also considered famous in Zhen County. Zhenhou's mansion must be a little jealous, and the people of Xing Cao naturally dare not easily provoke the captain's mansion.
Meng Zimo went forward and saw the gate of the county guard's mansion open. Four guards with knives lined up in front of the mansion gate, and said, "Mencius Mo, the captain's mansion, is ordered to bring the jailer Niu Zhi back and forth."
The guard of the county guard house obviously received the order long ago. Hearing Niu Zhi's name, he immediately gave way. Mencius was about to step forward. A guard reached out to stop him: "Niu Zhi enter, you wait outside."
Meng Zimo didn't argue, turned around and nodded to Niu Zhi.
Niu Zhi was nervous and didn't dare to look directly at the guards. When he entered the mansion, someone led him directly through the front yard to the main hall.
The main hall of the county guard house was brightly lit, and Niu Zhi walked outside the main hall. The person leading the way had already said: "Master Qi, jailer Niu Zhi, bring it here!"
"Let him in!" A voice came from the hall.
Seeing that the man leading the way made a gesture to himself, Niu Zhi arched his hands and walked into the hall with a half arch. From a distance, he saw the adult in the front seat leaning on a chair in an official mansion, knowing that he could sit there. The position can only be Du Hongsheng, the county guard, stepped forward and fell to his knees: "Little man Niuzhi, meet the county guard."
"Niu Zhi, let me ask you, what is the reason for Qin Xiao's resignation?" The voice did not come from the front, but from his left. This made Niu Zhi couldn't help turning his head to look over, only to see An official was staring at himself with a chill and recognized Lu Siyuan, the Xing Cao official.
Nu Zhi hasn't answered yet, just listen to Han Yunong's voice from the right: "Master Lu, the county guard is here to preside over this case, you stay safe and restless."
Han Yunong has a high reputation in the captain's mansion, and one of the reasons is that he protects his shortcomings.
Niu Zhi suddenly calmed down when he saw Han Yunong beside him, and saw Lu Hong and Qin Xiao standing under Han Yunong, thinking that he was there
Every word spoken here must be careful.
The county guard Du Hongsheng coughed, and then asked: "Niu Zhi, this officer asks you, did Qin Xiao leave the Jiazi Supervisor in the early morning yesterday morning?"
"Return to your lord, it is true." Niu Zhi replied respectfully.
Du Hongsheng nodded: "Where did he go?"
"He went out of the city to chase Lu's head."
"Why do you want to hunt down Lu's head?"
Niu Zhi said: "Lu Butou yesterday took away the prisoner Wen Budao detained in Jiazi Prison. Although he signed the letter, he forgot to take the imprisonment document with him when he left." He glanced at Qin Xiao. , Then continued: "Without the **** document, even if the prisoner was escorted to Fenggan Mansion, Qin Xiao was worried that the **** was tepid and could not be transferred. The paper catches up."
"Really?" Du Hongsheng said solemnly.
Niu Zhi kowtowed to the ground: "The villain dare not lie."
Lü Siyuan sneered: "My lord, what this person says is not enough to believe. It must be the people of the captain's mansion who colluded with each other in private, so they fabricated lies."
"Master Lu, you are the official Xing Cao Cao. You should understand that there is no evidence and you can't spit people." Han Yunong said lightly: "If you think Niu Zhi's statement is not true, you must always show evidence."
Lv Siyuan was about to speak, when there was footsteps outside, everyone followed the sound and saw Zhen Yujiang, the youngest son of the Zhen family in brocade, striding into the hall surrounded by several people.
Everyone present was taken aback.
Lu Siyuan's face immediately showed joy, and the first one to greet him and arch his hands: "Young Master!"
Du Hongsheng also got up, walked down the hall and bowed his hands.
Zhen Yujiang has no official status, but his father is Chang Xinhou, who is the ruler of Zhen County. According to reason, Du Hongsheng, as Zhen County's guard, does not need to salute Zhen Yujiang, but he is obviously very jealous of the Zhen family. Don't dare to be rude to Zhen Yujiang.
"Master Du will continue the trial." Zhen Yujiang smiled and said, "I heard about this case, so I came here to see what happened."
Han Yunong didn't give a false expression to Zhen Yujiang, and said, "Young Master, this case involves the Duwei Mansion and Xing Cao, and has nothing to do with Zhenhou Mansion, so...!"
"Wei Han was wrong." Staff Lang Shenshui stood up from behind Zhen Yujiang, took a deed from her arms and held it in his hand, and shook it up: "This is the title deed of the Golden Hook Gambling House. Actually As early as two months ago, Qiao Leshan had already paid the Golden Hook Gambling Shop to Houfu."
Everyone was surprised.
"Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that the Hou Mansion wants a gambling shop." Lang Shenshui smiled and said: "In order to facilitate the circulation of silver for the people, the Hou Mansion opened a bank in the city many years ago. Qiao Leshan was in dire need of money at that time. The Golden Hook Gambling House is used as collateral, so the Golden Hook Gambling House is actually owned by the Hou Mansion." He glanced at Han Yunong before continuing: "I heard that this case involves Qiao Leshan, and Hou Ye is worried that Qiao Leshan is borrowed. I can’t repay the money, so I came over to figure out what happened."
Lu Hong couldn't help but said: "We have just returned to the city, and we have just explained to the county guard what happened last night. How did the Hou Mansion know that Qiao Leshan was involved so quickly?"
"Zhenhou Mansion was entrusted by a saint to guard the people of Zhen County." Lang Shenshui sneered: "Early this morning, someone found a lot of corpses near the station, and some people recognized one of them. It’s Qiao Leshan of the Golden Hook Gambling House. Such terrifying murders are self-evident
However, someone immediately reported to the Hou Mansion. "
Qin Xiao sneered, knowing that Lang Shenshui's subterfuge was nonsense.
Although Golden Hook Gambling Shop is well-known in Guicheng, not many people really know Qiao Leshan.
It's not surprising that a few corpses were seen near the station, but it was incredible that someone could recognize Qiao Leshan.
He knew Qiao Leshan's actions last night, and Zhen Hou Mansion must have known it well beforehand, but Qiao Leshan had not come back to report the result for a long time, and Zhen Hou Mansion would naturally send someone to find out what was going on.
Although it takes a day to walk from Turtle City to the post station on foot, if you ride on horseback, the speed is much faster.
When returning from the inn, he and Lu Hong and others also returned on foot. If the other party sends someone to ride back and forth, they will naturally let Zhen Yujiang get the news in advance.
"Come here, let the young man take a seat!" Du Hongsheng told the office worker to bring a big chair and invited Zhen Yujiang to sit down. Then he said: "Young man, yesterday the captain’s mansion sent someone to **** the prisoner to Wen Budao. In Fenggan Mansion, there was a bandit on the way, and the prisoners were taken away."
"Hijacking a prisoner?" Zhen Yujiang asked faintly: "Master Du, I don't understand that much."
Du Hongsheng said to Lu Hong: "Lu Hong, what's the situation, you personally explain clearly to Young Master."
Lu Hong arched his hands and said: "Young Master, we arrived at the post last night, because we were tired from the journey, so we drank some wine. After everyone fell asleep, I watched the prisoners alone. In the middle of the night, Qiao Leshan suddenly led someone in. Station."
"What did they break into the post?"
"Qiao Leshan wants to ask Wen Budao about the whereabouts of a penny of silver." Lu Hong didn't change his face: "Wen Budao's mouth is hard and he did not give in."
"You are the officer who escorted the prisoners, let Qiao Leshan do anything wrong?" Lang Shenshui said solemnly: "How do you prove that Qiao Leshan is going to ask Wen Budao?"
"Because I am also a participant." Lu Hong said calmly: "A few days ago, Qiao Leshan found me in private, and asked me to ask him where the money was from Wenbudaokou. Once successful , Will give me a sum of money, I was confused for a while and promised him."
Han Yunong obviously just learned of this situation, his face changed slightly.
Du Hongsheng was also a little surprised, and said solemnly: "Do you have a private agreement with Qiao Leshan?"
"Exactly." Lu Hong said: "The salary in the captain's mansion is meager, and my family has a hard time, so when Qiao Leshan promised a lot of money, I was motivated by greed and promised to work with him to ask the gentleman. We planned in advance that whether Wen Budao informed the whereabouts of the silver, we will kill people, and then I will make up another excuse, saying that a thief attacked and killed Wen Budao, then this matter can be covered up."
Zhen Yujiang smiled at the corner of her mouth: "Then you say that Wenbudao was hijacked by thieves, so naturally it is fake."
"This is exactly what we did not expect." Lu Hong sighed: "We asked for a long time, but Wen Budao never confessed, so Qiao Leshan became murderous. At that time, we heard the sound of horseshoes. When it sounded, I immediately guessed that it might be the robbers. Qiao Leshan and I ran out of the station while holding Wen Budao."
"No." Lang Shenshui said immediately: "As far as I know, the post firewood room was burned, why is that?"
Qin Xiao stepped forward and raised his hand: "I burned it."