The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 176 Bleeding and Tears

Chang Feng took a candle and shone it on the shadow's face.

It turned out to be the drunk cat inspecting Gao Chenghu!Could it be that Gao Chenghu is a murderer pretending to be a woman?
Gao Chenghu looked drunk and hazy.

Chang Feng asked, "What are you doing here?"

Gao Chenghu replied: "Drink too much, come out to pee."

Fatty Xu and the others rushed over.Fatty Xu asked: "Have you caught the person pretending to be a woman?"

Chang Feng said: "I caught it. Come on, I want to interrogate the woman at night! Take Gao Chenghu to the lobby."

Everyone entered the lobby.Chang Feng planned to dismiss Jin Bao, Huang Liang, and Lin Sanjiu.

He smiled and said, "Brother Jin, Brother Huang, and Brother Lin, the three of you go and inspect the body of that little scribe first."

The three looked at each other, as if they wanted to participate in the interrogation of Gao Chenghu.

But because Chang Feng is their new chief officer, he had to obey the order and leave the lobby.

Chang Feng then ordered the yamen servants: "You also go to each hole and arrow hole to be vigilant. Prevent evil people and evil ghosts from causing trouble."

After a while, only Chang Feng's own people and Gao Chenghu were left in the lobby.

Zhou Wen asked Chang Feng: "Is the high patrol inspector turning into a woman?"

Chang Feng didn't answer, but asked Gao Chenghu: "Is there no bucket in your room? Why did you pee behind the scribe's bedroom?"

Gao Chenghu replied: "I am from Wuzhou, Guangxi. People in Wuzhou never use buckets in the room. They always pee outside the room."

Chang Feng smiled and asked, "What kind of wine did Gao Xunjian drink? How much did you drink?"

Gao Chenghu replied: "Prickly pear glutinous rice wine, I drank three catties."

Prickly pear glutinous rice wine is one of the specialties of Yinjiang.It belongs to rice wine with little energy.Even confinement women can drink it.

Chang Feng and Yang Yiqing once drank once when they went to Sinan Xuanweisi.I know that drinking too much wine is diuretic.

Chang Feng asked: "You usually drink too much, do you always go to the scribe's bedroom for convenience?"

Gao Chenghu replied: "Yes, there is a loquat tree behind the scribe's bedroom, which I planted. Wuzhou people pay attention to defecation as fertilizer."

Fatty Xu on the side became a little impatient: "Master Chang, don't listen to his clever excuses! Put him to death! Tiger bench, foot nails, and playing the pipa. Once the memory recovery technique is applied, I'm not afraid that he won't recruit!"

Chang Feng ignored Fatty Xu.Instead, he asked an irrelevant question: "Gao Chenghu, as an imperial official, why do you indulge in drinking all day long?"

"Don't you know the truth that you have to seek your own government when you are in the position?"

"Some people say that your drinking and depression are due to your reckless actions and improper command during the Guangxi counter-insurgency war, which killed [-] brothers under your command."

Gao Chenghu's answer was harsh: "I have never killed any brother! I drink because I hate the injustice of the court! The government is not righteous!"

Fatty Xu became angry: "Damn it, you are an official who knows how to drink all day long, and instead of doing business, you are blaming the court and the government!"

Chang Feng waved his hand: "Fatty, keep quiet. Let him talk. Gao Chenghu, I would like to ask you how unfair the court is, how unfair the government is?"

Gao Chenghu narrated what happened to him and the robes with tears in his voice.

During the Guangxi Anti-Rebellion War, he had [-] robes under his command.It was used as bait by Guangxi Dusi to lure the rebels into the bait.

The so-called bait is actually a dead soldier.To face ten times the rebels.

Gao Chenghu believed at that time that serving as a soldier eats food, serves the country, and obeys the orders of the general.Even if you die in battle, you will not hesitate.

Gao Chenghu and Pao Ze regarded death as home.Before leaving, he drank Zhuangxing wine.As soon as the strong men go, the wind is blowing and the water is cold.

The battle is over.Of the 50 strong men, [-] died in battle, and only [-] survived, and [-] of the [-] became disabled.

The main force of the official army, relying on their sacrifices, completed the lure and encirclement of the rebel army.

After the suppression of the rebellion, according to the rules, the survivors of Paoze who died in the country can each receive ten shi of rice.Inheritable posts with heirs.

Disabled brothers can receive eight stones of rice each.People with disabilities cannot continue to serve in the army and eat food, and they can inherit the posts even if they have children.

The clerks of the Dusi Yamen privately distributed the rice that originally belonged to the martyrs!Sell ​​the posts of the loyalists!

The martyrs shed blood and tears!
Gao Chenghu and the brothers who survived were overwhelmed and went to the guard.The commander asked them to find the Dusi Yamen.

The Dusi Yamen asked them to go to the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of War is far away in the capital, four thousand six hundred miles away.They are sincerely embarrassed.

Gao Chenghu and the two hundred households have a very good conscience.He sold his property and bribed a county magistrate in Wuzhou to lead the way.Prepare to go to Beijing to sue.

On the day of departure, more than a hundred disabled or injured Pao Ze came to see Gao Chenghu off.

They are full of expectations, hoping that Gao Chenghu can seek justice for them in the capital.

However, the Dusi Yamen sent five hundred soldiers with big sticks to beat them up!
The idea of ​​​​the Guangxi Dusi is: the scribes are greedy for your pension rice and resold your posts.I will handle it myself.

Of course, the scribes are all my relatives and friends.The so-called treatment.
Although you suffered a loss, you took advantage of it.But the ugliness of the family cannot be publicized. How could he go to the capital and lose someone from the Guangxi Dusi Yamen?

Let the officials of the Ministry of War think of our Guangxi Dusi Yamen?
It should be played!
Pitiful for that hundred-odd robed Ze, who managed to escape from death on the battlefield, but was beaten to death by the five hundred soldiers of the capital who had never been on the battlefield!
After the beating was over, it was not counted, and they were put in prison.

Figure out the cell.Can!Write a letter of repentance, and kneel and recite the letter of repentance in front of other thousands of households in Weili!

Poor more than a hundred survived Zhongyong.Nine deaths for the country, covered with scars.In the end, he ended up kneeling down and "repenting".

The leader Gao Chenghu is a hereditary thousand households.Military posts cannot be dismissed, but they can be demoted and appointed.

The Dusi Yamen directly demoted him from a five-rank thousand household to a nine-rank patrol inspector.Guangxi could no longer tolerate him and kicked him to Yinjiang, Qianjiang.

After Gao Chenghu told all this, he cried hysterically: "I failed to seek justice for those killed and disabled. I have no ability!"

"I can only forget all this by drinking!"

He who had never shed a single tear on the battlefield, now his eyes were red with tears streaming from his eyes.

Fatty Xu was furious: "Guangxi Dusi deserves to die! I want to join him!"

Gao Chenghu turned his head and glanced at Fatty Xu: "You are just the chief follower of Chief Yinjiang. Can you join the second-rank capital division?"

Fatty Xu knew that he had slipped his tongue, and quickly said, "Ah, I'm fighting for you. If I become an official in the future, I'll definitely be raised by those bitches in Guangxi."

Chang Feng asked Zhou Wen: "Gao Chenghu drank too much wine and liked to pee under the loquat tree behind the scribe's bedroom. Does the chief lawsuit know?"

Zhou Wen replied: "Yes. I have seen him peeing under the loquat tree more than a dozen times."

Chang Feng directly revealed his identity to Gao Chenghu: "Gao Chenghu, I am Commander Zuoqin of Jin Yiwei, and I am Chang Feng."

"I will seek justice for your robe!"

After speaking, Chang Feng threw the Jin Yiwei badge to Gao Chenghu.

Gao Chenghu was dumbfounded after reading the badge: "Are you Jin Yiwei?"

Fatty Xu was a little anxious: "Master Chang, why did you leak our details to the murder suspect?"

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "He is not the murderer at all! He is the scapegoat for the murderer to mislead us!"

Turning around, Chang Feng said to Gao Chenghu again: "Let me tell you the truth. The purpose of our trip is to find out the truth about the murder of the fourth official Zhengtang!"

"You have to cooperate with us. As long as you catch the murderer, I'll pay you back immediately and seek justice for your robe!"

Gao Chenghu said: "If your lord can uphold justice for my robe, I will have nothing to say if you let me die!"

Fatty Xu was puzzled: "Master Chang, how do you know that he is not the murderer?"

Chang Feng said with a smile: "He was transferred to Yinjiang two years ago. How could he kill the first four officials."

"Let me tell you. The murderer who killed the little scribe has been with us all the time. It is one of Jin Bao, Huang Liang, and Lin Sanjiu!"

Mrs. Ninth was a little strange: "Brother, you are not mistaken! You have said that when the scribes died, they were with us!"

Shi Wenyi interjected: "Maybe there is an accomplice?"

Chang Feng shook his head slightly, and asked, "How did we know that there was another murder tonight?"

Ninth Madam replied: "Naturally, I heard the ghostly cry of Bian Po."

Chang Feng asked again: "When the ghost cry appears, it must be when the scribe was killed?"

"If the murderer kills the scribe first quietly, he will forge the scene of the murder."

"Then come to us and get the evidence of alibi. Then make your accomplice scream and pretend to be a ghost?"

Sun Guishou was the first to react: "We were almost fooled! The murderer is deliberately creating evidence of his alibi!"

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "What happened tonight just proves that the murderer is among Jin Bao, Huang Liang, and Lin Sanjiu!"

"The murderer's scheme is simply killing two birds with one stone! One is to clean himself up, and the other is to frame the high inspector."

"Heh, they know Gao Xunjian's habits. When Gao Xunzhang urinated under the loquat tree behind the scribe's bedroom, he deliberately led us over. Catch Gao Xunzhang now!"

Fatty Xu still has doubts: "Why did the murderer frame Gao Xunjian? Just to divert our attention?"

Chang Feng thought for a while, and replied, "I'm afraid it's not just to divert attention."

"The post of inspector, in the eyes of us big shots from the capital, is a petty official who can't even be counted as a sesame seed or mung bean."

"But in Yinjiang, he is an official with great power! He is in charge of the military equipment and security of the entire Yinjiang."

"Someone wants to squeeze out the high patrol inspector and let his own people replace him!"

Fatty Xu finally understood, and he waved his fist: "Cough, I almost fell for the murderer's trick!"

Chang Feng said with a smile: "The murderer has many schemes, let's use his tricks. Let's see what other tricks they have."

After a moment of effort, Chang Feng called the person in charge of the lawsuit into the lobby.

Chang Feng patted the gavel, and said: "This official has just arrived here, and he has uncovered a big case of patrolling people pretending to be ghosts and killing people! Li Qi, the yamen servant, and the little clerk tonight were all killed by Gao Chenghu!"

"Heh, I have a pair of piercing eyes. I can see through all the evil spirits in the world!"

"Haha, I solved the murder case as soon as I took office. Report it to the Xuanwei Division, and the Xuanwei Division may not know how to praise me!"

Chang Feng pretended to be overjoyed.

Jin Bao, the chief official, held out his thumb: "Master Chang is brilliant!"

Chang Feng laughed and said: "Since the so-called 'Bian Po' has been arrested, Mr. Zhou's life is safe. I don't think there is any need to face the enemy all day long!"

"Get rid of those who protect Mr. Zhou day and night! Let them rest."

"In addition, the minzhuang on the watchtowers are also withdrawn. It's fine to keep ten or eight people on duty overnight!"

In fact, the murderer took a lot of trouble to frame Gao Chenghu. The biggest purpose was to make Zhou Wen think that the "transformed woman" had been arrested and his life was safe, so he relaxed his vigilance.

Zhou Wen was surrounded by ten entourages brought by the "new chief Chang Huayu" day and night to protect him closely, and it was difficult for the murderer to take his life.

Chang Feng guessed the murderer's purpose.Simply use the trick to lure the snake out of the hole.

There are still two days before Zhou Wen takes office.

The night is over and the day is coming.

Follow Chang Feng's instructions.The four chieftains of Yinjiang Miao, Tu, Dong and Yi came to the gate of Changjusi.

They didn't enter the long-term lawsuit: the new chief has no problem talking to us.The place of conversation is set outside the gate, just set up a big tent.

The four chieftains are suspicious by nature, fearing that the new chief will catch a turtle in the urn and beat a snake to an inch.

There are three poles in the sun.A big tent was set up outside the court.

Chang Feng brought [-] robed men, hundreds of strong men, a group of entourages and officials, walked out through the suspension bridge, and entered the big tent.

Everyone sits down.

Chang Feng cupped his hands: "Xia Xin came to Yinjiang to serve as the chief officer. In the next three years, I will need four chieftains to help me."

All four chieftains can speak Chinese.In name, he is the native official of the long lawsuit.

They politely said: "It's all up to the adults."

Chang Feng got to the point: "Before I came to Yinjiang, the consolation envoy Yang Yiqing, Lord Yang, ordered me to carry out reforms in Yinjiang."

"Changed the Chief Law Office to the Yinjiang County Government. All tax collection, criminal names and other matters in Yinjiang follow the rules of the Central Plains County Government."

The eyes of the four chieftains focused on Huang Liang.

It seems that the Huang family's influence in Yinjiang is indeed great.

Don't look at Huang Liang, a seductive man, who is just a tax collector, but the four chieftains all follow his lead.

Huang Liang coughed: "Everyone, don't look at me! You have to listen to Mr. Chang."

The chieftain of the Miao family smiled slyly: "That's fine. Everything will be done according to Master Chang's instructions. From now on, the government will directly send people to our Miao village to collect taxes."

"But I have something to say first. Now that the land has been changed, I, the chieftain, have no duty to collect taxes for the government."

"If my people are unwilling to pay taxes to the government, then don't look for me!"

The chieftain of the Dong family said: "There is more! In the eyes of the Han family officials, we Dong people have always been ruthless barbarians. In fact, they are indeed so."

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand members of my clan can't read. They fight with knives all day long if they don't agree with each other."

"My lord said that the punishment will be directly controlled by the government in the future. Then I don't care about it. If there is a case, you can send the government officials to arrest people!"

"I don't care if the criminal attacks the yamen servant with a knife when arresting people!"

The chieftain of the Yi family said with a smile: "What the two chieftains said is true, so do I!"

Only Tujia chieftain said nothing.

The chieftains would be deprived of their power if they were to be reformed and returned to the natives. Of course, the chieftains did not agree.

They "fee for fireworks, rice, funerals, marriages, husbands and horses, all of which are taken from the native people."

"When a chieftain marries a wife, the natives are not allowed to marry for three years. If the natives are guilty, the chieftain can be executed. The relatives still have to pay for the knife."

"The natives will never see the light of day."

The chieftain is simply the local emperor.To take their power is to gouge out their flesh.

The attitudes of these chieftains were not as expected by Chang Feng.

Chang Feng smiled and said: "That's good. Let's talk about the matter of reforming the native land and returning to the country later. I will prepare a little wine for the long lawsuit. Can you appreciate it?"

The chieftain of the Miao family shook his head: "No! I still have something to do in the village, so let's go first."

Yi and Dong chieftains also refused.

The Tujia chieftain took a look at Chang Feng.He didn't speak, and left with the crowd.

Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, it seems that it is really difficult to carry out reforming the land and returning it to the people."

Huang Liang said: "My lord, my ancestors were exiled officials in Yinjiang when they were in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. In the past dynasties, which exiled officials would not want to promote reforming the land and returning to the exiles?"

"However, taking away authority is like killing one's parents. The chieftains will naturally resist it."

"If the land reform is forced to be carried out, maybe it will spark a rebellion."

"That's why, if you are an official for one term, save more money, show filial piety to the superior, and be transferred to the Central Plains and the rich places in the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible."

Jin Bao agreed: "That's right!"

Chang Feng put on a greedy look again: "You said that the tax is [-]% and [-]%. Can I really take all the [-]%?"

Huang Liang said: "It's natural. You only need to report to the court, and say that the barbarians of different races are unreasonable, and it is refusing to pay taxes."

Chang Feng asked: "But I did collect tax money! If the chieftains find the court, they will expose me. Why don't I lose my job and lose my head?"

Huang Liang smiled slightly: "My lord, don't worry. They won [-]%!"

"Tax silver three seven, to put it bluntly, is a kind of tacit agreement reached between the chieftain and the officials. They use [-]% of the tax money to block the mouths of the officials."

"Liu Guan took the money, just don't care about the chieftain's affairs."

"The wool comes from the sheep, and the tax money comes from the native people anyway."

Chang Feng nodded frequently: "As expected of you, you are all old officials in the Yamen. What you said taught me a lot!"

Everyone returned to the long lawsuit.

Zhou Wen found Chang Feng: "Master Chang. I still feel uneasy. You should send a few people to protect me day and night!"

In front of Jin Bao, Huang Liang, Lin Sanjiu and others, Chang Feng could only comfort Zhou Wen: "Master Zhou is too worried!"

"Gao Chenghu, the murderer who pretended to be a woman-turned-wife, has been arrested by us and is under custody. Just pack your bags and prepare to leave the country in two days."

"It's really unnecessary to make it look like an enemy."

After finishing speaking, Chang Feng looked at Lin Sanjiu: "Boss Lin, are you right?"

Among the three, Chang Feng still felt that Lin Sanjiu was the most suspected.

Lin Sanjiu said: "What Master Chang said is true."

Zhou Wen had no choice but to say, "Okay. I've been staying in my bedroom for the past two days, staying at home. Wait for Ren Man to leave the lawsuit."

Chang Feng returned to the lobby.Drink tea and chat with all the officials.

Chang Feng asked Lin Sanjiu: "How long has Bantou Lin been in the Yamen?"

Lin Sanjiu replied: "16 years."

Chang Feng said with a smile: "It is said that you were born as a hunter? I am a fun-loving person. How about you lead me to hunt in the mountains in a few days?"

Lin Sanjiu smiled and said, "Your Excellency likes to hunt? Then you came to the right place! Fanjing Mountain is full of wild game."

"The skin is peeled, the hair is shaved, and it is oily when it is roasted on the fire. It is very beautiful."

Chang Feng said with a smile: "Then it's settled. I've been hunting in Yinjiang for fun these three years. It's nothing to play with girls of different races."

"When the term expires, leave with [-]% of the tax money."

Chang Feng keenly noticed that when he said "playing with girls of different races", Jin Bao's complexion changed!
It was a fleeting look of anger.

Chang Feng suddenly remembered the legend about the transformation into a woman in the ghost yamen.

Legend has it that Chief Lin 15 years ago was drunk and robbed a Tujia girl before leaving office, ruined her to death, and turned the girl into a wife and took her life?
Is the momentary anger of official Jin Bao related to this legendary girl?
(End of this chapter)