"You let me go. I was appointed by the court and recommended by the official. I have nothing to do with Zhang Yonglian. I don't know about him..."
The county magistrate of Lulong County was being dragged out of the mansion by the Yamen, struggling violently and shouting.
Qi Lian sneered and said, "You are his disciple. You have been obedient to him over the years and have done so many nasty things. Do you think I don't know?"
Yanzheng looked at Qi Lian and said angrily: "You capricious villain, you think you can escape, Zhou Zheng can deal with my teacher today, and tomorrow will clean up you!"
Qi Lian didn't care at all, and said, "Stop it back!"
Yanzheng was taken away with a look of anger. Qi Lian looked at Shangguanlie with a smile and said, "Shangguan sir, Yanzheng has been arrested. I will immediately send someone to Funing, Changli County, and transfer the other two magistrates. Also caught..."
Shangguan Lie gave a hum, then suddenly said: "They want to catch, Zhang Yonglian must find out as soon as possible!"
Qi Lian said solemnly: "My lord Shangguan, don't worry. Even if Zhang Yonglian has been operating in Yongping Mansion for many years, there are countless hiding places. We search from house to house like this and he won't be able to hide for long!"
Shangguan Lie sternly said, "Quick! You have to find out today. There is still a lot of work to do for Master Patrol, and there is no time to waste!"
Qi Lian hurriedly said, "Yes, Lord Shangguan said that we can't delay Master Zhou's affairs!"
Qi Lian took more than two hundred people to search house-to-house. Almost all the officials in Yongping Mansion were arrested. The officials from the six rooms, the household records, Zhaomosi, the prison division, etc., were all arrested. Entered the prison of the government office.
The prison is overcrowded. I don't know how many people are calling for grievances, and how many are guilty and meritorious.
Yao Tongshun, Ding Qi, and others are being interrogated. There are not many people who are killed, but they are vying to explain a lot. The interrogation transcripts alone are thick.
Yao Tongshun took a stack into Zhou Zheng's study and said with a deep sigh: "My lord, I am an eye-opener. These local officials are much more ruthless than the people in Beijing..."
Zhou Zheng took it, glanced at him, and started to turn it over.
Yao Tongshun continued to say, saying: "For the time being, Zhang Yonglian is the emperor of Tujia, colluding with bandits and murdering the imperial court order officer. If he just said that he cleverly established his name to collect taxes in Yongping Mansion, I don't know how many people were looted... Yongping Mansion. The officials below are involved, and all the people dare to be angry but dare not speak..."
Zhou Zheng turned around casually, indifferent to Yao Tongshun's words.
What's this? In the northwest, those officials directly used the army to force donations, and many civil commotions were initiated because of this. In the name of suppressing bandits, they asked the court for money and food, and then searched from the people again.
This is cruel!
Zhou Zheng turned over and said, "Enough is enough. Find out Zhang Yonglian. Regardless of whether he confesses or plead guilty, prepare manpower and escort him to Beijing."
Yao Tong said: "It's an adult, the villain will prepare now."
If it was someone else, Yao Tongshun was also worried that Zhang Yonglian would have some waves in the capital, but Zhou Zheng made a move, he was not worried about this at all.
The arrest team of Yongping Prefecture departed from Lulong County and rushed to the entire Yongping Prefecture to capture Zhang Yonglian's comrades.
In fact, Yao Tongshun and others proposed that, regardless of whether they are with the party of Zhang Yonglian, as long as they do not get close to Zhou Zheng and lose honesty, they will take this opportunity to win and replace them with obedient people.
At night, Qilian, Shangguanlie and others still did not find Zhang Yonglian. The entire county was searched, but Zhang Yonglian seemed to have evaporated and disappeared cleanly.
Shangguan Lie looked ugly, staring at Qi Lian, gritted his teeth and said: "If you can't find Zhang Yonglian, I will acquit you and guarantee that you will not survive April!"
Shangguan Lie was extremely angry. This was the first errand Zhou Shuo gave him. It was a good deal, but now he hasn't seen anyone, so why not be angry.
Qi Lian is even more nervous. Zhou is his new master. This is his guilt and meritorious deed. If he doesn't do it well, he may really die!
Qi Lian looked gloomy and said: "I will search again! If you can't find it, you will search until dawn, if you can't find it at dawn, you will search until tomorrow, until you find it!"
"I'm going to transfer people too!" Shangguan Lie said.
The Yongping Mansion has been searched once, and the people were very nervous at first, but when they did it again, every household was more anxious and the lights were on all night.
Yongping Mansion is as bright as daylight, which is unprecedented.
Zhang Yonglian is now hiding in an abandoned yard in the west of the city, in a dry well.
He hasn't eaten for most of the day, hungry and hungry, but listening to the movement outside, he dare not risk his head.
Now, he doesn't believe anyone, no matter what is happening outside, he just refuses to show up. Hearing the back and forth of the bureaucracy outside, he hides in the dry well, his expression never relaxes.
His stomach kept screaming, making him more uncomfortable.
He has forgotten the feeling of hunger, now he is dizzy, nauseous, and uncomfortable.
But he dare not go out!
The lights in Zhou Zheng's study were also on, and Ding Qi and others stood in front of him.
Ding Qi said: "My lord, it's strange to say that we searched all the places that Zhang Yonglian's cronies said, but we didn't find him..."
Yao Tongshun was a little puzzled, and said: "Will he have been out of the city?"
Cao Bianjiao immediately said: "No! I was there as soon as he ran out of Zhang Mansion, and I immediately sealed four doors. He was not that fast."
Zhou Zheng thought for a while, and said: "Then clean up the periphery and catch his cronies. Yao Tongshun, Ding Qi, you continue to investigate, prepare the manpower, Yongping Prefecture and the officials at all levels in the three counties, and draw up as soon as possible. Give me the list and arrange a time to see them."
Yao Tongshun and Ding Qi hurriedly said: "It's an adult, we have been doing it, and many people have come to us today. They are very excited and want to see an adult, but we stop them."
Zhou Zheng mumbled, and said, "Don't worry about it now, press them down, and talk about it in a few days."
"Yes." Yao Tongshun and others were very excited and impatiently preparing to do something.
Zhou Zheng looked at Cao Bianjiao, and said, "I’m going to rise, you prepare. Three days later, you will go out of the city to suppress bandits. For some bandits, you can surrender, expand the team, and strive to expand to 500 people. In addition, I will be in the city after a while Set up a new barracks abroad, recruit soldiers, and the target is 3,000 for the time being. You must be prepared and train well..."
Jinsheng is the word for Cao Bianjiao, and Cao Bianjiao was also borrowed by Zhou Zheng from Wang Zhichen, who was mainly responsible for rectifying the armaments of Yongping Mansion.
"The final commander!" Cao Bianjiao knelt on one knee and said in a deep voice.
Zhou Zheng looked at Shangguanqing again, and said: "In a few days, when Qi Lian cleans up the soldiers in Yongping Mansion, you will pull them out for a good training. When the time comes, the official will kill all the bandits in Yongping Mansion. As well as the threat of insecurity, you six rooms must be prepared, cooperate and support at any time!"
"Yes!" a group of people raised their hands together and responded loudly.
This is the beginning!
A group of people are excited, excited and looking forward to it.
It’s been dark for long. Shangguan Lie was hungry, but he was not in the mood to take a bite. Seeing that he searched again, he still couldn’t find Zhang Yonglian’s shadow. He angrily cut a tree with a knife, and said angrily: "This old thing , It can hide, don’t be found out by the little master, otherwise it will cut you into eighteen segments!” (End of this chapter)