Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 284 Direction
Back at the Patrol Case Division, Ma Dayuan had already placed three confessions in front of Yang Qian with a smile.

"Sir, the female corpse has many bruises on her body, and it is obvious that she was beaten before her death. There are obvious lacerations on her lower body, and there are some dirty things inside, which can be confirmed that she was raped.

We then interrogated Tan Wen, Yi Lin, and Wang Gui and found out the truth.”

Yang Qian raised his chin, motioning Ma Dayuan to continue, while he began to flip through the confession in his hand.

"Sir, the woman was favored by Tan Wen and his two companions. They initially said they wanted to hire her for laundry work. After luring her into the courtyard, they took turns raping her and finally gave her some food to send her off. After returning home, the woman was so upset that she hanged herself."

"Are these three people involved in the violence?"

"There are four more, all of whom are officials under Lord Zhou Ting of the Ministry of Revenue. Sir, these people are all accomplices in the case and need to be arrested according to the law. Do you think we should strike while the iron is hot to prevent complications after they react?"

Yang Qian said nothing. He simply flipped through the confession in his hand and asked, "Did anyone come to ask for someone or visit you while I was away?"

"Some sirs, but they were all turned back. There are still a few imperial guards living in our courtyard. Deputy Hu An said that they will temporarily follow our patrol department. With them here, no one dares to break in here by force."

Yang Qian thought for a moment, closed the confession in his hand, and said, "Then you can take those imperial guards with you and bring the remaining four people to justice. Is one hour enough for you?"

"Don't worry, sir. I can bring the person back in half an hour at most!" Ma Dayuan said as he took the command arrow handed over by Yang Qian, put it on his waist, bowed, turned around and ran out. Soon, footsteps and shouts were heard in the yard.

Yang Qian smiled when he saw Ma Dayuan being so enthusiastic. How could he not know what the people below were thinking?
Jizhou Prefecture was hit by a disaster, and the police station was hit hard. The staff was less than half of the original, and most of the positions were vacant. These people didn't dare to think about the position of chief police chief, but the position of police chief of each flag was still very tempting.

Especially those people from the Patrol Case Division such as Ma Dayuan, who are close to Yang Qian and can be regarded as Yang Qian's "own people" now. In the future, when the situation in Jizhou Prefecture stabilizes, the prefectural police station will definitely be rebuilt and those vacant positions will be filled. So, can I try hard to get a chance for myself?

Faced with the direct temptation of "promotion", no matter how noble a family you come from, you have to stand aside!
This is why Ma Dayuan did it so neatly. Selling well is also a way to show performance.

After all, it seems that Yang Qian's succession to the post of Chief Constable of Jizhou City is a foregone conclusion. And the positions of the various constables in the police station are all decided by the Chief Constable.

Yang Qian saw all these twists and turns very clearly. Of course, he didn't think that Ma Dayuan and others were wrong. People always have to have some thoughts in life, whether driven by desire or forced by survival. They can't always give up, right? Being positive and optimistic is the universal idea.

After all, these things were just trivial matters to Yang Qian.

He took out a map of the territory from the drawer. It was not the kind of detailed map used by the army, but a simple map that simply outlined the distribution of various prefectures and the direction of famous mountains and rivers in the Hongwu Dynasty.

After a little searching, Yang Qian quickly found two places on the map: Hengcheng and Linshuicheng.

These two cities belonged to the same prefecture: Shuangqing Prefecture.

It is located in a remote area, with many wars on the border in the south and steep terrain in the west. There is also a big river winding through the middle, with turbulent water and frequent floods.

The harsh geographical conditions made it difficult for the word "prosperity" to occur. Instead, it made the local people tough, with pirates and bandits everywhere, and killing officials and storming the city walls were common.

If the catastrophe that Jizhou Prefecture encountered this time happened in Shuangqing Prefecture, it would be very troublesome for the imperial court to send troops there to deal with the aftermath. The dangerous roads alone would be a nightmare for transporting supplies, and it would be impossible to send a large army in without half a year or even more than half a year of preparation.

"This is a great place! But why did we have to come to Jizhou Prefecture?"

Yang Qian looked at the map and saw that Shuangqing Prefecture and Jizhou Prefecture were separated by a distance of more than 2,000 miles. Moreover, the geography of Jizhou Prefecture did not have any advantages over Shuangqing Prefecture, right?

Of course, Yang Qian's mind was filled with the remnants of the Huashen Sect. This was what he was most worried about. After all, Yang Qian couldn't ignore the things that the Immortal Sect didn't care about. Even if he couldn't stop the trend, he had to make preparations in advance.

According to what Jiang Yun said before, the Tianhan Sect was originally lingering in Shuangqing Prefecture to avoid its enemies. They often moved around in Linshui City and Hengcheng in Shuangqing Prefecture, and they also had a feud with the remnants of the Huashen Sect.

Later, in order to pursue the secret realm, Jiang Yun and his companions traveled all the way to Jizhou Prefecture. But after they arrived in Jizhou Prefecture, they found that Huashen Sect had also come.

Shuangqing Prefecture is a good place for independent cultivators, evil cultivators, and demon cultivators, but the competition pressure is huge when too many of them gather here. If you can't stand it, you have to run away.

So the Huashen Sect had to flee to Jizhou Prefecture because they could no longer bear it? Did they settle down after meeting Zhou Zhong?

Yang Qian had few clues in his hands, but he felt that if Zhou Zhong really became the second person in the world to possess evil thoughts as he guessed, he would definitely need a "free place" to accumulate strength.

Otherwise, blindly acting recklessly would only lead to the same fate as Jiang Yuhe. Zhou Zhong must have understood this principle.

Yang Qian looked at the map and put himself in Zhou Zhong's perspective. If he were Zhou Zhong, the best place to go at this time would be Shuangqing Prefecture, because he was familiar with the place and the Huashen Sect had a presence there, and he could also recruit enough forces.

Considering that Zhou Zhong could plan for decades while serving as a prince to reap the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Jizhou Prefecture in one fell swoop and make a fool of the people of Huashen Sect, it would be too easy for him to replicate in Shuangqing Prefecture what he had done in Jizhou Prefecture.

As for escaping outside the Hongwu Dynasty, Zhou Zhong is unlikely to be so stupid as to leave the convenience and familiarity behind and specifically choose to set up forces in a place where he is unfamiliar with the place.

But Shuangqing Prefecture was too far away. No matter how many ideas Yang Qian had, he couldn't reach it, and it was all in vain.

However, after communicating with Liu Chuan today, Yang Qian seemed to see some paths that might be worth a try.

As the saying goes, "unintentional planting leads to the formation of a forest", perhaps this is what it means. Yang Qian even felt that even God was dissatisfied with Zhou Zhong's killing and was pointing him in the right direction.

After sorting out the current situation, Yang Qian's mouth corners slightly raised.

Half an hour later, Ma Dayuan came back, but he was accompanied by Zhou Ting, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

At this time, Zhou Ting was so angry that his face turned blue. Looking at Yang Qian, he was definitely looking at a big trouble.

"Master Yang, what are you doing!?"

Yang Qian waved his hand, signaling Ma Dayuan to send the four playboys he brought back to the dungeon.

Zhou Ting wanted to stop him, but was stopped by Yang Qian with a smile. You couldn't even stop him when he was arrested, so why are you pretending now? Are you doing this for those evil young men to see?
"Master Zhou, don't be so excited. I've already told you before that the Patrol Division has taken over a case in which Tan Wen, Yi Lin, and Wang Gui took turns raping a woman. The four people arrested this time are also accomplices."

"Why did you arrest him without informing me?"

Yang Qian took two steps closer and said in a voice that the two could hear: "Isn't it because I'm worried that Lord Zhou will have a hard time? These people have their own way to die. Isn't it a good thing that Lord Zhou can use my patrol department to get out of trouble?"

Zhou Ting's eyes widened, he looked at Yang Qian in disbelief and said, "You want to kill them?!"

(End of this chapter)