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Chapter 112 Yao Tongzhi’s Investigation (Part ) (Please subscribe)

Two days later, Jiazhou's fellow magistrate Yao Lu finally arrived in Fugu.

Lin Feng led the relevant officials of the county government to greet him at the door. Even if he was no longer welcome, he still had to do this.

"Sir Tongzhi, you are welcome to come to inspect our valley." Lin Feng greeted.

"County Magistrate Lin, my coming here may make you unhappy, but I have to do my duty." Yao Lu showed a businesslike attitude as soon as they met.

"Understood, Lord Tongzhi's impartiality is admirable." Lin Feng made a pun.

"Then let's go to the county government first. I will check the files of the Liu family and the Guo family first." Yao Datongzhi showed off his official authority.

Since the words were not conducive, Lin Feng didn't bother to talk to him anymore. He sent Su Shunnian to accompany him to investigate the case, and he just did what he had to do.

When Lin Feng returned to the public house, he asked Fang Xiaoyu to call Fang Tiezhu and Wang Qin from the cavalry team to discuss how to deal with Yao Lu's investigation.

"Your Majesty, you called me here today. What can I say to you?" Fang Tiezhu came in and said.

"The state government has sent a new colleague to investigate the case of the Liu family in Dabao Town and the Guo family in Yihe. There may be trouble, so I came to discuss it with you." Lin Feng said.

"Lord of the county, how about I go and kill him?" Fang Tiezhu said carelessly, not paying attention to the governor of the state government at all.

"Tie Zhu, I think you have been a little arrogant recently. Now you don't even care about openly killing officials and rebelling. Can you rely on the people to resist the imperial army?" Lin Feng became a little confused when he saw that Fang Tiezhu had suppressed several gangs. , approved a meal first.

Fang Tiezhu chuckled and said quickly: "How dare I drift? It's just a suggestion, a suggestion. Everything depends on you, the county minister."

"Wang Qin, what do you think?" Lin Feng asked.

Wang Qin thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I think we need to prepare for two things. One is to prevent that colleague from finding out the problem as much as possible. Now is not a good time to raise a flag of rebellion.

The other is that if the state government must find trouble and find out some fatal problems, we must be prepared to quietly solve them. "

"Well, what Wang Qin said is very accurate. If there is a real problem, let Hong Tu take action and kill him as a Mongolian invader." Lin Feng said, and several people discussed that there was no pressure to kill a fellow comrade.

"Understood, it is most appropriate to let Hongtu's Mongolian cavalry do this." Wang Qin replied.

"But we have to prepare for the worst. Once the imperial court really wants to attack us, we can't just sit back and wait for death. You two teams must train quickly. The cavalry team can recruit another 300 people and expand it to people. The cavalry is highly mobile. , will definitely be the core force in the future." Lin Feng arranged.

"What about our civilian team?" Fang Tiezhu asked anxiously.

"On the bright side, the Minzhuang team cannot be overstaffed at the moment. You should recruit more auxiliary players first. If anything happens, they can be added immediately. I will give you two teams, one thousand taels of silver for each team to recruit people. You must recruit more people. The money has been spent for me.”

Lin Feng ordered while taking out 2000 taels of silver from the space. The money for raising soldiers should come from his own small treasury. Anyway, the treasury is quite full now.

"Understood!" they both replied in unison.

In the afternoon, Su Shunnian came over and complained: "Your Majesty, that Yao Tongzhi has made it clear that he is here to target us. He is rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find problems. He is completely trying to infer guilt."

"Then what problems did he find?" Lin Feng asked.

"He was mainly investigating the Liu family's case today. He called every scribe in the torture room for interrogation. He hinted that everyone should actively expose the problems Shangguan was handling the case. Don't be afraid. Jiang Yin almost went crazy from being questioned. ." Su Shunnian said.

"Tell everyone, don't worry about him. If he asks him, you can answer whatever you want. If you don't want to answer, just say you don't know. It's my decision. Let him come to me." Lin Feng ordered.

"Would that offend the state government?"

"Offend them. They are all determined to cause trouble, so why are they afraid of offending them?" Lin Feng said disdainfully. County government guest house.

Yao Lv, a fellow magistrate of Jiazhou, was checking files with several scribes who came with him.

After reading the file, a clerk said: "Sir, there is indeed nothing wrong with the case file of the Liu family in Dabao Town, and the evidence is very solid."

"What about the Guo family case?" Yao Lu asked next.

"The evidence of the Guo family's crime is slightly less, but their steward Guo Lian colluded with the Liu family's dead men in an attempt to open the city gate to the Mongolian Tatars. They were caught on the spot. There were many witnesses, so there should be no problem." The scribe replied.

"That only proves Guo Lian's problem. I think the death of Guo Xiangdong, the head of the Guo family, is very strange." Yao Lu said.

"Judging from the files, the problem is not big. He is suspected of colluding with foreigners to offer the city. This crime is worthy of Lingchi. Resisting arrest is normal." Another scribe added.

"I asked you to come here to find problems, not to endorse Fugu County. If there is no problem in the file, just ask more witnesses. There must be a problem." Yao Lu said angrily.

At this time, Fan Wei, the clerk of Jiazhou Prison, interjected: "Sir, the people in Fugu County are not very cooperative. They are very dissatisfied with us for obviously looking for problems. It is not good for us to do it too obviously."

"What's wrong? This is a task assigned by the Inspectorate. You must cheer up, keep your eyes open, and find out the key issues." Yao Lu explained.

"Then we have to interrogate Guo Lian. As long as he retracts his confession, it will be easy to handle." Fan Wei said.

"Okay, Guo Lian will be interrogated in the afternoon."

County prison.

In the simply arranged interrogation room, fellow magistrate Yao Lugao sat in the middle. On one side was Fan Wei, the official of the execution room of the prefecture government office, and on the other side was Su Shunian, the official of the county government office.

Fan Wei was the first to interrogate him and asked: "Guo Lian, why did you go to the courtyard in the north of the city? If you have any grievances, such as being beaten into a move, even though the state government will make the decision for you."

"Sir Tongzhi, this is obviously an attempt to induce prisoners, and I object." Su Shunnian protested.

"It's normal to ask this. Let's continue." Yao Lu ignored Su Shunnian.

"I, I have confessed before, I have nothing to add." Guo Lian said hesitantly, and looked at Su Shunnian from time to time. The warning he gave him two days ago was still in effect.

"Guo Lian, what you plead guilty to is a capital crime, you have to think clearly!" Fan Wei shouted.

"I, I..." Guo Lian wanted to retract his confession, but he didn't dare.

"Prince Fan, it's not good for you to so obviously induce the prisoner to retract his confession." Su Shunnian couldn't help it anymore.

"Well, Su Shunian, you have repeatedly interfered with our state government's trial, get out of here." Yao Lu showed his official power and drove Su Shunian away.

Then he personally came to the scene and said: "Guo Lian, don't be afraid. If you have any grievances in the Guo family, just tell them and I will naturally make the decision for you."

"Sir, I, I'm afraid of the revenge of the county government officials." When Guo Lian saw that Su Shunnian was driven away, his mind immediately became active.

"They will soon be unable to protect themselves, just say so." Yao Lu continued to encourage.

"Sir, the villain was wronged. The Guo family was wronged. Our head died miserably!" Guo Lian cried bitterly and started his accusation against the Fugu County Government.

　The trouble from the state government has begun. Let’s see how Lin Feng responds.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)