Song Yi

Chapter 377 Collecting Nets and Harvesting

I saw the woman holding the door frame with one hand, putting the other hand on her waist, sizing up Du Wenhao and the others, and blinking at Du Wenhao habitually, then twisted her waist and moved out of the way. Said, and immediately, a man with a big belly came out with three steps and three shakes.It was Zhouzhi County of Lugao County.

"You want to sell the land?" Zhou Zhixian asked in a drawn out voice.

Du Wenhao and Master Shen stood aside timidly, whispered: "Yes!" They took out a few land deeds from their arms and presented them with both hands.These land deeds were bought by Du Wenhao when Dr. Xie came to report the matter to Du Wenhao earlier. They are the land that Dr. Xie's daughter-in-law's natal family is planning to sell.

Zhou Zhixian didn't pick it up, and sat down on a chair: "Do you know the rules?"

Du Wenhao looked blank: "Master, what are the rules?"

"The mortgage period is eight months, five percent interest, if you don't redeem it when it expires, it's considered a absolute sale!"

"Ah?" Du Wenhao was really surprised, and stammered: "No..., isn't it a one-year contract and four-point profit?"

Zhou Zhixian stared at him: "Huh, that's the price before the autumn harvest. It's almost the beginning of winter now, you know? In a few days, it will be the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the price will increase to half a year. It's a six-cent profit! It's up to you! Hurry up! The master still has something to do."

Du Wenhao and Master Shen looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "It's too..., it's not worth it..., it's so..., how can I live!"

The magistrate of Zhou slapped the handrail, and said sharply: "Two country bumpkins, they said they were going to publish codes, but they didn't. Are you free to come and entertain the county when you're full? Someone is here! Get them out!"

Master Shen hurriedly said: "My lord, calm down, let's make a deal, let's make a deal!"

"Hmph!" Zhou Zhixian sat down again and ordered the scribe to write the deed and release document.

After the deeds were written, signed and pledged, and the deposit was paid, Zhou Zhixian turned around and gave the deeds to the charming woman: "Here, it's yours!"

The woman was overwhelmed with surprise, and hurriedly saluted: "Thank you, Eldest Master! Thank you, Eldest Master!" hurriedly took Tian Qi over.

Du Wenhao was dumbfounded at the rogue Zhang Yang of Zhou County magistrate: "Master..., this, the little one here has to be redeemed..."

"Redeem it? Hehe, five cents profit, no grains in the field, what do you use to redeem it? If you can redeem it, you won't use it here. Hahaha"

While Zhouzhi County was laughing unscrupulously up to the sky, the prison clerk ran in in a panic: "My lord, something has happened...!" Seeing someone in the flower hall, he hurriedly stopped talking.

Zhou Zhixian glared at him: "What are you doing in such a panic?"

The clerk leaned over and whispered in Zhouzhi County's ear: "Two women came to sue the captors for rape and beat the women to death! They also said that the captors had already pleaded guilty, and they wanted to kill them!" Master, you are willing to give a confession when you go."

The magistrate of Zhou was taken aback, and stood up in a huff, ignoring the affairs here, and hurried out of the door.

Du Wenhao and Master Shen both ignored it. What they wanted this trip was the deed to exploit the common people.The goal has been achieved, and the moment is gone.

The magistrate of Zhou came to the execution room in a panic, and saw a few scribes standing around the door looking at a stack of manuscripts, but no women were seen, and asked anxiously, "Hello! Where are the two women?"

The scribe with the manuscript in his hand hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "Report to the lord, they left. They left this stack of confessions, which are said to be the confessions of the captors, but they are just copies."

Zhou Zhixian grabbed the stack of manuscripts and quickly looked at the ten lines at a glance. Not only did the black-faced arrester and the long-faced arrester quickly find out how to kill the grass and throw it downstairs to death, but also There are a lot of shady things they do.Immediately his face turned pale, and he said angrily, "Why didn't you keep those two women?"

Several scribes said with a bitter face: "They are very powerful, especially the tall peasant woman. We fell down with a wave of our hand, and when we got up again, they had disappeared."

"Idiot!" Zhou Zhixian yelled angrily, "Where is the head arrester?"

"It's gone. Just now we went to the police squad to check. There was no one."

Zhou Zhixian's complexion changed even more: "Immediately send someone to search all over the city for me! We must catch these two women!"

"Yes!" The scribe agreed, and hurried to deliver the order.

Zhou Zhixian immediately called several of his masters and showed them the copy.

Several masters looked at each other, and the master who was in charge of drafting the memorial bowed and said: "Dong Weng, I'm afraid this matter is not that simple. In the confession of the arrest, many of the people involved in the government office Mr. Liao are of great importance, and they have to be reported to Mr. Liao." OK."

The rest of the masters also nodded frequently.

After Zhou Zhixian walked around the house like a headless fly for several times, he stomped his feet: "Get the car! Oh no, get the horse! Master, I want to go to the government office immediately and report to the prefect face to face!"

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Jingjiang government office.

Liao Guibing sat on the grand teacher's chair in the middle with a gloomy face, and the yamen assistant officials and county magistrates sat respectfully on the chairs on both sides.

Liao Guibing said slowly: "Everyone heard what Lugao County Magistrate Zhou said just now, how do you feel?"

All the officers and assistants were silent for a moment.

Liao Guibing looked at Zhang Tianning.

Zhang Tianning hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "I don't know what the other party's background is in this matter. Why did you show us the copies of the confessions of the two arrests? I don't know what the purpose is. What I see from my humble job is to plan for a rainy day. You have to deal with things first, and deal with everything that needs to be done in a timely manner. For example, there are so many seeds in the granary. "

Zhang Tong knew: "The magistrate Zhang is right to plan for a rainy day. But you can't do nothing. If you burn all the seeds, what will you sell to the lower next year? Can't you sell real seeds? I'm afraid the court's disaster relief funds will be greatly reduced. There must be continuous natural disasters, and this disaster relief is enough. Our plan can be successfully completed."

Other magistrates and officials also nodded in agreement with Zhang Tongzhi's point of view.

Liao Guibing said: "That's right, the stall is so big, it's impossible to destroy it all. You can't just give up because of the disturbance of two unknown women. However, what Zhang Zhixian said to be cautious is also correct. Be careful. Zhouzhi County, you must intensify the search and arrest. You must catch these two women and find out what happened. Before the matter is clarified, the small ledgers of each county will be handed over to the official for unified storage. Sent by you yourself! All the seeds are also put into the regular warehouse, and mixed with the relief food allocated by the imperial court. But it must be well marked, so that it will not be confused when the time comes. Those troublemakers in the government prison All the people who were involved were transferred to the barracks and locked up. At the same time, during this period of time, the vigilance of all places must be strengthened, and strangers and suspicious persons must be strictly interrogated."

The commander-in-chief agreed in unison.

a few days later.

Liao Guibing called Zhang Tongzhi, his aide, and asked, "Why didn't any of the small ledgers from the counties below be delivered? No one was there?"

Zhang Tongzhi also looked suspicious: "Yeah, why don't you go down and check?"

"no need!"

This sentence was not said by Liao Guibing, but came from behind them. The two of them were taken aback. They looked back, and at some point, there was already a man in black in the room, with a short silver blade in his hand. point at them.

Just as the two were about to shout, the man shot out the money dart in his hand. The two groaned and fell limply on the ground.

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When Liao Zhifu and Zhang Tongzhi woke up, they were stunned, not only because they were tied up like rice dumplings, but also because there were several people in the room who were also tied up, but they were the missing people from the counties. Magistrates.They all sat down on the ground in dejection.

There was a row of guards with knives standing against the wall all around them. They looked familiar, as if they had seen it somewhere before, and when they looked at the grand master's chair in the middle, Liao Guibing shivered, and suddenly everything became clear. ——The man in the middle is the criminal officer Du Wenhao!Sitting next to him are his master and two concubines.

On the Sifang tea table next to Du Wenhao, there was a pile of ledgers, all of which Liao Guibing was very familiar with.It is the small account book of each county, and it records the shady internal accounts of each county.There is another one among them, but it belongs to their government office. Once the things remembered on it are known by the court, Liao Guibing can figure out what will happen with his toes.

Liao Guibing let out a long sigh: "Master Du, you are so poisonous for luring snakes out of their holes!"

Du Wenhao sneered: "This is the only way to deal with poisonous snakes like you. Let me tell you some background first, maybe it can help you make a decision. ——It was our people who secretly arrested the black-faced headhunters and long-faced people in Lugao County. Arresting the head, giving you the confession is to make you move, because I heard that you are suspicious, you called a meeting of the county magistrates to discuss countermeasures, you didn't know at the time, my concubine's room is in the hall where you have the meeting On the roof, we all know your secrets and your arrangements, so on the way, the magistrates who sent you the account books were invited here one by one. They were very cooperative and explained all the problems .What you have done, the officer is clear. Now I need to look at your attitude. It is up to you whether you say it or not. Having a good attitude may not mean much to you, but it may help your family Reduce or even exempt from implicated liability."

Liao Guibing glanced at the dejected county magistrates, knowing that what Du Wenhao said was true, he let out a long sigh: "Okay, let me tell you. For the past ten years, I have forced the farmers in this prefecture to buy seeds only from the government office." , and the ones we sold to them were all fake seeds. In this way, if the crops in the fields are not harvested, they can apply for the imperial government’s disaster relief money and grains to be embezzled. The annexed land can only be mortgaged to the yamen. The conditions are very strict, and basically the land cannot be redeemed when it expires, and then these lands will be embezzled under various names. At the same time, we have opened a large number of embroidery workshops in Jingjiang Prefecture and various counties. All kinds of workshops recruit these farmers who have sold their land to work."

Du Wenhao sneered: "Your idea is quite high. On the one hand, you can devour the imperial court's disaster relief money and grain, and at the same time, you can annex a large amount of good land at a super low price. After a large number of farmers lose their land, you can provide your industrial workshops with the cheap Labor. This is more vicious than the 'enclosure movement'."

Liao Guibing didn't know what the enclosure movement was, and looked at Du Wenhao blankly.Du Wenhao didn't bother to explain, so he picked up the ledger and flipped through it: "I have read all of your black ledgers carefully. It can be said that everyone carries them on a sedan chair. From you down, everyone benefits, even the yamen servants and civilians." Zhuang and even Wu Zuo have the sweetness of dividends. No wonder these people follow you wholeheartedly. It’s like an iron bucket managed by the entire prefecture and county. It's a ghost, but I don't know what the hell is going on. However, if you walk too much at night, you will eventually encounter a ghost, isn't it?!"

As soon as he said this, Du Wenhao suddenly remembered that what he said was equivalent to saying that he was a ghost. Liao Guibing and others also heard it, but no one laughed, no one dared to laugh.Not in the mood to laugh either.

Du Wenhao coughed and said, "Do you know where this is? This is Hengzhou. I know that you are very powerful in Jingjiang Mansion. After secretly arresting you, you were drugged and anesthetized and transported all the way here. I have already ordered Hengzhou The prefect of the prefecture temporarily served as the prefect of Jingjiang, and dispatched Hengzhou arresters. With the assistance of the Hengzhou Xiangjun, they controlled all the main officials of your Jingjiang prefecture, released the so-called troublemakers you arrested, and took their testimony. And send it to the imperial court."

After hearing this, Liao Guibing and the others were all paralyzed. They didn't expect that the prison mansion was so deep and the plan was so thorough.It's a pity that the plan of many years of operation was annihilated.

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"The world is full of fragrance in April,

The peach blossoms of the mountain temple began to bloom.

Ever regret that spring has nowhere to go,
I don't know how to get into it. "

Du Wenhao took Pang Yuqin and other girls, as well as Master Shen, surrounded by Li Pu and other guards, standing among the beautiful peaks of Lushan Mountain, seeing peach blossoms everywhere, he couldn't help reciting Bai Juyi's famous poem.

After Du Wenhao cracked down on Liao Guibing and other mermaids, and reported it to the imperial court, Song Shenzong hated such corrupt officials the most. Longyan was furious and arrested Liao Guibing and other officials with black faces. He and the long-faced detectives were all put to death in a hurry.It decreed to return all the land that was forced to go under the code to the original owner, and allocated special funds and food for disaster relief, and issued young crop loans without interest, increasing the number and period of loans, so that the local people passed the cold winter safely.The emperor also specially allocated a special fund for the care of the Cao'er family who were arrested and about to die.In addition to being grateful for Dai Huang's kindness, the local people knew that this was the credit of the criminal officer Du Wenhao, and they were also very grateful to him.Cao'er's mother and other kind-hearted people set up incense tables at home to worship Du Wenhao as a Bodhisattva, burning incense and praying every day.

Of course, a large part of the reason why the emperor was able to handle it this way was that Shen Shiye wrote a wonderful memorial, which allowed Song Shenzong to fully understand the ins and outs of this matter. Song Shenzong greatly appreciated Du Wenhao's talent. Helping to speak, Song Shenzong finally let go of some of his doubts about Du Wenhao, and decreed that Du Wenhao's rank should be promoted to the fourth rank. The probation officer is already at the same level.However, he was still not given the assistant officer under Qi Ti's criminal officer.It was only decreed to appoint Li Pu as the sixth-rank Zhaowu deputy lieutenant.Li Pu also gained something.

After that, Du Wenhao continued to make medical tours and referred to various prisons.

months later.

The twelfth lunar month has passed, and the spring is warm and flowers are blooming. Du Wenhao went all the way to visit the doctor, and came to Luzhou at the foot of Lushan Mountain on this day.

Du Wenhao wanted to visit mountains and rivers along the way, and he would never miss a famous mountain like Mount Lu.After finishing the official business, I took my family to visit the famous mountains and rivers as usual.Of course, as in the past, such tours are not accompanied by local officials, and they are not even allowed to reveal their whereabouts. It is more fun to play as a civilian.

They went up all the way, passed Xiufeng, and came to the famous Kaixian Waterfall. This is the place where Li Bai wrote the famous sentence "Flying down three thousand feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way falls nine days".

After Du Wenhao sighed, he climbed up the stairs again.

Not long after walking, Lin Qingdai suddenly exclaimed, stopped, and stared blankly at a scene.

Du Wenhao was a little strange, walked up to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Qingdai pointed to the mountain peak in the distance, and said in a low voice, "Wen Hao, look at that mountain, why is it so familiar?"

Du Wenhao tilted his head to look at it for a long time, and he didn't realize it was familiar, and said, "Have you been to Mount Lushan before?"

"No, but, where have I seen this scene!" Lin Qingdai frowned and thought.

"Is it the same scenery as somewhere you have seen before?"

"No!" Lin Qingdai shook her head and said, "I always feel that I have seen such a scene somewhere, but I just can't remember where I saw it."

"Have you seen it in paintings?" Du Wenhao said with a smile.In ancient times, there were no movies and television, and I had never been here before, and the scenery was not the same as that I had seen before, so I could only see it in pictures.

Lin Qingdai's eyes lit up: "That's right! I've seen it on the painting! ——The painting in the parchment!"

"Parchment?" Du Wenhao didn't react for a moment.

"It's the silk painting in the interlayer of some sacred object in the White Clothes Society! I always feel that there must be a purpose for hiding this painting so precious. Before putting it in, I studied the painting repeatedly, so remember This is the scenery. Absolutely right, the scenery in that painting is here! It’s a pity that I have already sewn the silk painting on, or I’ll know if I take it out and compare it.”

"No need to compare, I believe your eyes are right." Du Wenhao folded his hands and looked at the scenery, "I have some impressions after you say that, um, this is here. However, the scenery here is good, but it is not the same as There is not much difference elsewhere, there is no need to draw it into the painting and hide it in the interlayer of sheepskin rolls?"

Lin Qingdai nodded and said: "That's right, this parchment scroll was written by Master Huiyuan, and he should have hidden the contents inside. By the way, I heard from Luzhou Zhizhou that Master Huiyuan used to practice on Lushan Mountain. 30 years, and this painting is the scenery of Lushan Mountain, and it is so hidden, there must be something strange in it.”

Du Wenhao joked: "It's hard to believe that this painting is a treasure map? Hehe"

Lin Qingdai didn't smile: "It's entirely possible! Otherwise, why is he painting and hiding in such a hidden place?"

"It makes sense, okay, we have nothing to do, so let's come and find out, what kind of treasure is hidden in this mountain by this Great Master of the Eastern Jin Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)