Anyway, the deal is done, and it should be impossible for Li Guanhua not to sell her father and her brother's face.
In fact, Li Guanhua made a mistake this time as Xu Zhilan guessed.
But looking at this letter that was tricking him all over the place, Li Guanhua couldn't help but shook his head and said, "This little girl has so many tricks."
But at the end of the day, he asked the soldiers around him to cooperate with Xu Zhilan's letter and retreat.
At the same time, he himself asked people to escort him directly to Anxi County.
The butler named Wang Zheng on the other side took only one soldier to the village where these gentlemen lived outside the town.
Although the buildings in this kind of Zhuangzi are not as grand as those in the county, the area they occupy is very huge.
Therefore, there were many guards in Zhuangzi, so as soon as Wang Zheng entered Zhuangzi, he immediately said to the thugs in Zhuangzi, "Come here, arrest them!"
After hearing this, the thugs naturally began to surround the soldiers. Wang Zheng did not hope that this group of thugs from Zhuangzi could capture these people or return to the town to counterattack.
He was just yelling like this to delay others, so after the soldiers were surrounded, Wang Zheng ran quickly.
He took advantage of the twists and turns of Zhuangzi's terrain and quickly escaped from another side door. At the same time, he did not forget to take out a horse during his escape, and then he led the horse to the state capital. direction.
Naturally, he did this to pass on the information about those gentlemen to the people in the state capital.
If the master can delay time, maybe the people in the state capital can come to rescue them in time. If they can't delay the time, the people in the state capital can be reminded early and make countermeasures to avenge their master.
With such a wish, the man moved forward almost day and night.
Fortunately, Anxi Town was not too far from the state capital. It took the man about a day and a night, and then he arrived at the state capital before noon on the second day.
When Wang Zheng arrived at the gate of the prefect's Yamen, it was the time to eat in the Yamen. Therefore, when Wang Zheng arrived at the gate of the Yamen, there was no one there except a few listless guards.
However, when Wang Zheng passed the majestic stone lion in front of the door and came to the yamen gate, the guards immediately shouted and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Facing the other party's rebuke, Wang Zheng replied calmly, "I am from Mr. Ke's place in Anxi Town. I want to see the prefect."
Hearing that this man was from Anxi Town, the guards immediately stopped trying to stop him. One of them only took the initiative to tell him, "The prefect is currently dining in Ruilian Building. Why don't you wait in the Yamen." "
After hearing this, Wang Zheng couldn't continue waiting in the yamen. After all, their master's situation was clearly dangerous.
Therefore, he just waved his hands to those people and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but this matter is extremely urgent. I'd better go directly to Ruilian Tower to find the prefect."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man headed towards Ruilian Tower, which is the largest restaurant in the state capital and is almost a place for eating, drinking and having fun.
Those who listen to music, those who watch operas, those who tell stories, and those who play horse games.
Almost everything you can think of is here.
After passing through Caimen Huanlou, the waiter downstairs immediately came over diligently to guide Wang Zheng's horse.
"Sir, do you want to work as a professional or stay in a hotel? Or maybe you need some other entertainment."
Wang Zheng just waved his hand and said, "I'm looking for the prefect."
Hearing this, the waiter unconsciously looked at Wang Zheng.
He then said, "I wonder what the guest calls me?"
Wang Zheng himself is a slave who observes words and emotions. At that moment, he naturally knew what the waiter's words meant. After all, the waiter was a member of the store. If he casually communicated for others and offended the nobles, he would not be able to forgive himself, so he Information that needs to be communicated with caution.
Therefore, Wang Zheng only said, "It doesn't matter what my last name is. Just tell the prefect that Mr. Ke sent someone to find him. I guarantee that no one will cause trouble for you."
From Wang Zheng's tone, it seemed that his matter was not a big problem, so the waiter naturally stopped asking any more questions.
The waiter only said to Wang Zheng, "Please wait here first."
Then, let me go and say something. "
Wang Zheng nodded.
Then the waiter quickly went upstairs.
In just a moment, the waiter arrived at the private room where the prefect was staying. Naturally, the private room was filled with adults from the prefecture, so there were only a few government servants guarding the door.
The waiter couldn't get past the government officials, so he only whispered to the government officials, "There is a man downstairs who claims to be sent by Mr. Ke. He said that he has something urgent to do and wants to see the prefect."
After hearing this, the yamen servant just nodded, and then one of them opened the door and walked in.
At this time, the fat magistrate was drinking heavily. When he saw this person coming in, the magistrate asked displeasedly, "What are you doing here?"
"Replying to the master, the person sent by Master Anxi Zhenke said that he had something urgent to report."
As soon as he heard that it was about Anxi Town, the prefect naturally didn't care about the beautiful women hugging him.
He just said immediately, "Let him come in."
After hearing this, the guard quickly went in to invite the gentleman. After the guard left, the wine girls and other accompanying guests immediately left in cooperation.
By the time Wang Zheng came up, there was no sound of singing, dancing, silk and bamboo in the private room, and there was no longer a crowd of guests.
There were leftover soup on the table. The prefect only glanced at Wang Zheng, and then whispered, "What's wrong with Ke Xianzhi?"
When the prefect asked, Wang Zheng replied in a low voice, "Sir, Master Ke and the others were detained by General Li Guanhua and Li. Li Guanhua was enumerating the crimes of Master Ke and the others, and it seemed that he was serious about taking action."
Hearing Wang Zheng's words, the prefect immediately stood up excitedly, "What! You said those people started making trouble with me?"
"What kind of investigation does Li Guanhua have? Without my order, wouldn't he be doing whatever he wants!" the prefect continued.
But then he immediately sneered and said, "But since he dares to do such nonsense, I am worried that I have no reason to pull him down. Now he has brought this to his door! Even if I punish him for intending to rebel, I will not It’s too much.”
Wang Zheng didn't want to care about these fights. He only knew that if his master went there later, everyone would be dead.
Therefore, he immediately followed the prefect's words and said, "Sir, what he is saying is that we heard him keep saying that he was looking for General Xu Yong, but our master has never offended this person. I doubt that General Li Guanhua was tricked by someone." Fooled."
Hearing this, the prefect nodded cooperatively.
Wang Zheng then knelt in front of the other party and said, "Sir, please show your noble hand and save our master. If something happens to our master, it will be bad."
The prefect nodded and said that he understood. Then he just signaled the guards to arrange for the guards to follow Wang Zheng to Anxi Town to rescue those people. Then he only told Wang Zheng, "Wang Zheng, don't act rashly. It would be much better to at least know who instigated Li Guanhua and find out the mastermind. We can deal with the mastermind first and then deal with Li Guanhua."
Although he didn't know why the prefect was so cooperative, Wang Zheng still nodded.
On the other hand, several people in Anxi Town who bullied men and women in nearby villages and did all kinds of evil were brought to the county town together with the torturers in the town. When these torturers heard that the county magistrate would do something for them, They redressed their grievances and naturally no longer flinched. They immediately followed him to Anxi County.
When they arrived in Anxi County, in order to avoid long nights and many dreams, the Anxi County Magistrate immediately interrogated these people when they came.
At the beginning of the interrogation, the crimes of how this group of people committed crimes in Anxi Town and how they exploited the surrounding villages were first revealed.
When people mention these people, they are naturally filled with anger.
They bullied men and women, forcibly expropriated and occupied the fields of small farmers, provided seed loans at usury, and forced the farmers and small landowners who were weak against risks to sell their land and people.
The people they bought became slaves in their houses, and the beautiful women became their concubines. As for the original fields, all the land became theirs. In addition, they only used their relationships with the superiors. Every time it was their turn to pay grain taxes, they collected taxes from various places.
However, they did not report the taxes collected to the court at all. Instead, they only allowed all the money and grain to go into themselves.
purse.
As for the imperial court's taxes, they always paid no or less money to the silver and grain collected from the local area. As a result, these problems fell to other places, and with someone helping them operate, they only filled their own pockets.
As a result, as long as these crimes are classified, or if we continue to dig deeper, we don't know how many people will be brought out.
Of course, the county magistrate obviously has no intention of digging into the matter at the moment. Anyway, these are the only people he wants to deal with first.
Therefore, he decided to focus the case first on the burning down of Lulin Village.
After hearing what happened in Lulin Village, those people naturally refused to admit it, "Sir, we were not involved. How could we have time to go to Lulin Village when we were all at home?"
"That's right. We have no enmity or enmity with the people of Lulin Village. Why should we burn down their village?"
"Could it be that they burned down the village themselves because they couldn't build a home, and they wanted to blame it on us."
I have to say that these people's sophistry skills are really top-notch.
But lying on the ground, they could still feel the dull pain in the area where they had just been beaten.
When the people in Lulin Village down below heard that they not only refused to admit what they had done, but also criticized them for their behavior, everyone became angry.
"It was clearly your thugs who set the fire, and the leader was Mr. Wang, the steward of Mr. Ke's house. It was you who set the fire. How dare you argue that our ancestors have lived here for generations, how could we do such a stupid thing." Someone from Lulin Village also jumped out to refute.
