late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou washed his face with water, shook his head a few times, he seemed to be a little dizzy, and he asked for it, and then used a trick to scare people.At this time, Li Guolou had only one road to Huashan, so he ran to the group of passers-by first, where the possibility of a murderer was the greatest. More than 100 passers-by stood in rows, and Li Guolou walked past them one by one.

Li Guolou yelled: "Extend your fingers to me!"

After walking around, Li Guolou dragged out five people from the crowd and shouted, "Take them to the yamen."

Ai Haihu questioned: "Deputy Li, why are there five suspects?"

Li Guolou glanced at the five suspects and said, "Some of them are murderers, some of them are accomplices at the scene, and some of them may be at the crime scene and have been threatened by the murderer. Go back and interrogate them to make sure they are right."

Ai Hai asked: "Captain Li, how do you know?"

Li Guolou said: "Ai Tuzi, you all have a runny nose, but I have a dog's nose. They all smell of gunpowder, and they were at the scene when the crime happened."

Wu Defu leaned beside him, sniffed the smell of the five suspects, frowned, ran to Li Guolou, and whispered in his ear, "Little Li, what are you doing? Why can't I smell it?"

Li Guolou brought his fingers to his mouth, and said softly, "Master Wu, don't talk about cheating, the five of them have serious suspicions, and if a dog bites a dog, it will definitely be revealed."

Wu Defu said softly: "Xiao Lizi, how do you know?"

Li Guolou said in a low voice: "Master Wu, I know how to read people's faces the most. I touch the calluses on their hands and smell the smell on their bodies. They are already flustered."

Wu Defu asked anxiously: "What about the gun?"

Li Guolou glanced at the merchants in front of him, ran over and said: "Who among you has hidden two guns, hand them over quickly, or they will be searched later, and the whole house will be ransacked. The hunting dogs will come later, you I can’t hide it even if I want to.”

He only frightened those merchants with a hunting dog, and one merchant plopped on his knees, howling and crying: "The official is none of my business, it's that young man who forced me to hide the gun, that's the thin guy in the middle."

The skinny man didn't wait for the yamen servant to take him down, took out a pill from his bosom, stuffed it into his mouth and shouted: "A good man does what a good man does. I do it alone, and it's none of other people's business."

Li Guolou said anxiously: "Hurry up and grab the person next to you!"

He expected that the other murderer also had poison, but it was too late. Another person in his 30s also swallowed the poison, laughed and collapsed to the ground and died.

Li Guolou didn't expect that the two murderers were dead men. It seemed that there was a bigger conspiracy in this case. Who in the world could support dead men?It can also be equipped with poison for the dead. What is the secret behind this case? It has become a no-nonsense case.

Wu Defu had never encountered such a strange thing. Two murderers committed suicide in the street, and the great work they had achieved was in vain.The anger was directly vented to Li Guolou, angrily said: "Little Li, why don't you tie up these five suspects, I will beat you to death."

Li Guolou was tongue-tied, pointed at those yamen servants, and said, "Master Wu, none of them are under my command, how can I order them?"

Wu Defu said angrily: "Little Li, how dare you talk back, go back and imprison you for three days."

Li Guolou felt wronged, he was just a team leader, and there were many people at the scene who were higher than him, so there was no reason for him to order others.Just now he was just scared and dazed, he didn't find the real murderer, he had to go back to the Yamen to screen out the five suspects, and he never thought that the suspect would commit suicide, who would have thought that?Wu Defu was the highest officer on the scene, but he completely shirked the responsibility.Instead, he became the number one criminal in this case, which is so unreasonable.

The case was solved, and two fine short-barreled fusiliers were recovered.But none of the yamen servants and arresters present had a sense of accomplishment. Instead, there was a gloomy chill, colder than winter. People couldn't help but imagine what would happen if they met two dead men?Let people taste the bitter fruit of failure. The four dead bodies are their harvest today. The main culprit of the murder is hidden behind the scenes, and no one can find out.A clueless case made everyone bow their heads, not as mighty and heroic as they usually walk on the street.

Li Guolou and his small group walked behind the large group of people. Although he was depressed, his five subordinates had become arrogant. Their small group was the most beautiful, and they took care of both good and bad things.

Wu Defu deliberately walked slowly, stopped beside Li Guolou, and said in a low voice: "Little Li, don't touch this case again, I don't want to collect your body for you."

Li Guolou looked at the officer. Just now in the Biandan Hutong, Wu Defu loudly said to the general public and the family of the deceased that he would investigate this case to the bottom and praised him in public.He said that he would hand over this case to the best policeman, so isn't he the best policeman at the scene of the crime?Li Guolou's fighting spirit was already burning, but it all came to naught.

The capital hides filth and evil, and has too many ulterior secrets. The palace, nobles, high-ranking officials, gangs, rivers and lakes, including himself are all doing dirty things. How many of them can be revealed?Li Guolou thought to himself, thinking about the case of the Ministry of Household Loss of Silver from the treasury. In this shocking case, is there really only 15 taels of silver that do not match the books?

The Qing Empire was ruled by the Manchus for more than 100 years, and the white money in the treasury made many people jealous.Whether the silver is big or small, it must be melted again and cast into unified silver nuggets and ingots.The local fire consumption costs at least three renminbi, and the excess money is consumed by those local officials. The tricks in this are well known in the world.

"Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflake silver!" It was obtained from the fire consumption.In the past, there must have been silver stolen from the treasury, and the broken silver was re-melted to fill the gap through fire consumption, and those officials could fill the gap in the treasury.

He had seen Ku Yin from the State Treasury today, and he had already guessed why Yu Shuzhen, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, would expose this scandal?Those Manchu men did not take Yu Shuzhen seriously. There is no miscellaneous silver or broken silver in such a large treasury, but all Tongzhou silver ingots unified. Yu Shuzhen, Minister of the Ministry.No wonder Yu Shuzhen broke the boat, offended all the Manchu colleagues, and directly reported the loss of money from the treasury to the emperor.

This case is a battle in the officialdom. The highest level of the Qing Empire has already drawn swords and crossbows. It has reached the point where fire and water are incompatible. Even assassinating officials has been done. What will happen next?He couldn't imagine it, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

It was only after returning to Li Guolou of the Ministry of Criminal Justice that he took a deep breath, took a sip of tea, and did not call his subordinates for a meeting.When Wu Ta came over and asked him to meet Wu Defu, Li Guolou said, "Xiao Wu, is Lao Lu at Master Wu's place?"

Wu Ta nodded and said, "Of course, Xiao Lizi, today you have to accept praise and go to confinement. It's your turn for good and bad things."

Li Guolou asked Wu Ta to wait for him for a while, called Ai Hai and other subordinates, and said: "Here is the list of all the officials and treasury soldiers who can enter the treasury. Please carefully investigate their family and financial situation. Be real and don't screw up the errands or I'll be on my knees."

Ma Dequan laughed, and the people in the room were elated. In the past, they were unknown members of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but now their squadron is the most famous team.

After Li Guolou explained what he was going to do next, he and Wu Ta went to the back hall. A group of fake foreign devils Du Xianyu, Huang Guang, and Yu Hanbing were being interviewed by the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Without him, as for whether he will be confined at night?I'm afraid it's going to be yellow, because there is still a banquet waiting for him.Li Guolou had a good idea. When he arrived at Wu Defu's place, the defendant went directly to the confinement room. He didn't have to go out tomorrow, and he had to be locked up for three days.

Li Guolou looked at the faces of Wu Defu and Lu Haikong, and said, "Master Wu, you are joking. Since you want to bluff people, don't shake your sleeves. Your expression has not changed, but your body movements have deformed."

Wu Defu shouted angrily: "Nonsense! The commander's order will not be changed. This is an order from Mr. Bao."

Li Guolou sat down, and said: "Master Wu said so, I am more at ease, Mr. Bao has to give orders directly even for such trivial matters, so I climbed on top of Master Wu."

Wu Defu said anxiously: "You, you, why do you drink my tea? You don't pay attention to hygiene."

Lu Haikong couldn't hold back, and said with a smile: "Master Wu, I say you can't hide from Xiao Lizi, his ability to bluff people is innate, and the gang of people in the household department have been making trouble for a long time, but they still can't see through Xiao Lizi's old background."

Wu Defu refused to admit defeat, and said: "Don't worry about your size, you will be locked up at night, and when you will be released depends on the mood of the officer."

Li Guolou put down his teacup and sighed: "Anyway, I'm a donkey, and I'll be ordered by you casually. I just ask your subordinates to be merciful and don't do things like killing donkeys."

Wu Defu pointed at Li Guolou, and shouted: "Be honest with Master Bao, don't make up your own mind, you drew your gun at the Ministry of Households, and the man hasn't come back yet, the matter has already been stabbed to Master Bao. This is good Now, everyone thought Master Bao and Master Yu had reconciled, but we didn’t even get a tael of money from what you did, so we’ll declare our position on such matters first.”

Li Guolou said: "Master Wu, you have to look at the future. With the help of Mr. Yu, everyone will have a good life in the future. You can't just look at the current interests. Little Lizi never does business at a loss."

Wu Defu beat his chest and stomped his feet, looked up to the sky and said: "Xiao Lizi, how come you can even overhear what I said to Mr. Bao, do you have a good ear?"

Li Guolou glanced at him and said, "It would be great if I really have a good ear. I know how long you're going to lock me up. Now I can only know how sad I am if I go to find out how long you're locking up Liu Chengle."

Lu Haikong said with a smile: "Little Li, brother Yao knows that you beat Liu Chengle, a bastard, and he died laughing. I hope you beat Liu Chengle into a eunuch, that's the first step towards success."

The three of them began to talk about intrigue in the room, their voices were very soft, and they made it clear who they would target next, and the task of how to calculate the opponent was still planned by Wu Defu.As for the grasp of the opportunity, just like Li Guolou's move this time, the opponent fell with one move, and Liu Chengle's reputation in the Ministry of Criminal Justice became bad.It turned out that Li Guolou deliberately found fault to make Liu Chengle angry, and all the plots and tricks were traceable.