Mancheng County Yutong Girls' School was officially opened in early October, and it has already enrolled more than 100 students in just two months.
Most of these students are ordinary people from ordinary families in the city. They are attracted by the school's free policy and the various skills taught.
There is also an age limit, from six to thirteen years old. This is a chance for your daughter to read, read, and learn a craft so that she can get married in the future.
After all, not everyone can afford a tutor in these days. As the country becomes more and more powerful, it is difficult for an illiterate woman to find a husband.
Ordinarily, the women's school was opened by the government and was a sacred place. Safety should be guaranteed and there would be no danger.
But it happened that less than twenty days after the girls' school opened, one day at the end of October, the students got up early to fetch water from the well and found a female body in the well.
When I picked it up and took a look, I discovered that it was an eleven-year-old girl from the school...
"The county government determined that Wu Cuiwei accidentally slipped and fell into the water. The school also paid for the funeral, and the county government also gave some compensation. However, Cuiwei's mother, Feng, was not willing to believe that her daughter had slipped and fell into the water. She said that Cuiwei was first When I came home one day, I was very resistant to going to school and expressed a strong fear..."
Are you resistant to going to school or are you afraid?
Although Daiyu has no experience in investigating and judging cases, she has a better grasp of people's hearts than Jia Cong.
What is Wu Cuiwei resisting? What made her fearful?
The soldier told the situation one by one, roughly restoring the entire incident.
Wu Cuiwei's father, Wu Tiejiang, had already accepted the county government's decision and was even buried in Wu Cuiwei in accordance with the county government's instructions.
But from the beginning to the end, Ms. Feng did not believe that her daughter accidentally slipped and fell into the water and died. She appealed to the county government many times and asked the county government to re-investigate the case.
After being nagged a lot by his wife, Wu Tiejiang also had a suspicion. Although he no longer went to the county government to file a complaint, the couple began to ask around in school and among his daughter's classmates, hoping to find evidence and uncover the truth.
However, the women's school is a major project in Mancheng County this year and one of the important achievements of the county officials.
He also heard that Princess Wen'an was about to resume her inspection tour. Fan Bi was worried that this matter would affect his future. In addition, Feng had no concrete evidence, so he repeatedly objected and had people escort Feng home and warned Wu Tiejiang to take good care of him. Wife, please stop making trouble.
After Daiyu arrived in Baoding Mansion, Feng heard about the princess' inspection somewhere and planned to go to the city to complain.
Is this a big deal? Fan Bi, the magistrate of Mancheng County, sent people to intercept Wu Tiejiang and his wife on the way. After repeated warnings, they were still worried, and finally put them in jail and temporarily guarded them.
"It's ridiculous! The case was hastily closed before the case was fully investigated. As a parent official, he actually stopped people from appealing for redress of grievances. It simply doesn't take the "Taizu Dagao" seriously!"
The first page of "Taizu's Great Edict" states that when people have grievances, local officials must not prevent people from filing complaints, but must help people redress their grievances.
Fan must feel that his head is too stable on his neck?
Regardless of whether this case was really a mistake, Fan Bizhu stopped the people from complaining, which was enough for him to be dismissed from office.
Daiyu, who was about to leave Mancheng County tomorrow, had doubts in her heart. After cursing Mancheng County for being ridiculous, she got up and came to the bed.
She took out a small wooden box, placed it on the table and opened it.
There are three tokens placed in the wooden box, all of which are gold tokens with dragon patterns.
She only holds the title of Doctor of the Ministry of Rites and has no power to interfere in local government affairs.
But there are three tokens in her hand that are enough to mobilize all the bureaus in Beizhili. Royal orders from saints and emperors, and Eastern Palace orders from the prince. Any one of them is enough to suppress Mancheng County from reiterating the case...
No, what Mancheng County did in this case is no longer enough to make Daiyu trust her. The case has to be tried in another place. It is best to find officials outside Baoding Prefecture.
Daiyu was silent for a long time, thinking carefully about the connection.
The Baoding Prefecture cannot be too trusting. The best way now is to go to the capital to ask for help, and ask officials from the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the Dali Temple, or the Northern Zhili Supervisory Censor.
She picked up the Panlong Golden Order given by the emperor, and asked her soldiers to rush to Hejian Mansion with the gold order and a handwritten letter, and asked the Northern Zhili Supervisory Censor and her cousin Lin Bai to come to the city.
For the Wu family and his wife, this case was half the sky. But for the Third Division, it was an extremely ordinary case.
Daiyu didn't want people in Beijing to say that she was looking for trouble, so it would be more appropriate to look for trouble from her own family.
In order not to alert others, Daiyu left Mancheng as planned the next day and continued her inspection in Ansu, Lin County.
However, she left a lot of people in Mancheng County, firstly to secretly investigate matters related to the Mancheng County Girls' School, and secondly to monitor the officials in Mancheng County.
After Lin Bai received Dai Yu's letter, Lin Bai immediately saw the abnormality of this case from what was said in the letter.
There are problems with both the investigation and trial process and the decision-making process.
And it's definitely not because Daiyu is in a hurry to close the case when she patrols the place, and Mancheng County is covering up something.
Unlike Daiyu, he was promoted to the Metropolitan Procuratorate after being dismissed from the Hanlin Academy and served as the Supervisory Censor of Beizhili.
He has been patrolling the local area for more than half a year, often defending people's grievances, and he can be said to be very good at trying cases.
There are as many as six officials who have been pulled down by him, as low as the eighth-rank county magistrate, as high as the second-rank chief envoy. How dare a small county magistrate to play tricks in front of him, ha!
Although this supervisory censor is only a seventh-grade civil servant, he is the noblest among the nobles.
When Taizu founded the country, he changed the Censorship Station to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and set up thirteen supervisory censorships, with the seventh grade.
He is in charge of overseeing hundreds of officials, patrolling prefectures and counties, attending prison proceedings, military affairs, sacrifices, camp operations, and the cashier of the Imperial Palace. He knows the left and right rooms of the court and the outline of the hundred departments.
The imperial censor of the capital was responsible for correcting hundreds of officials, defending those who were wronged, admiring the various departments, and serving as the emperor's eyes, ears, and officials.
Any minister who is treacherous, a villain, a member of the party, or someone who threatens and disrupts the government will be impeached.
All officials who are corrupt, corrupt, and violate official discipline will be impeached.
Anyone who is not academically correct and writes a letter stating that the chaos has become a constitution and hopes to use it will be impeached.
During the meeting, he inspected and asked whether the Xian of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was deposed. The heavy prisoners in the prison will be imprisoned in the outer dynasty, and together with the Ministry of Punishment and Dali, they will be pacified. They follow the orders in the interior and follow the orders in the outer areas, each doing their own thing.
Due to their low position and power, the princes of one party often had to give some respect to the censor who patrolled the local area.
Lin Bai was able to serve as the supervisory censor of Beizhili. In addition to his outstanding talents, his uncle Lin Ruhai and his future father-in-law Jia Zheng also contributed a lot.
As long as he makes no mistakes in his role as supervisory censor, he will be promoted to at least one level in three years. Moreover, there is a wonderful thing about this supervisory censor. The official title has the word "imperial envoy" in front of it.
In other words, when the censor leaves the capital, he is a serious imperial envoy. He can face the king directly and write to the emperor.
This means that the promotion of the supervisory censor does not depend on seniority. As long as he has made meritorious service and the emperor is interested in him, it is not uncommon for him to be promoted from seventh grade to third grade.
Lin Bai's lobby, Bolin Ruhai, was originally promoted from the seventh-grade Nanzhili supervisory censor to the fifth-grade prefect, and later promoted from the prefect to Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor. In just ten years, he went from a seventh-rank official to a second-rank household minister. This is the advantage of the Qinggui censor.
After the Hanlin Academy disbanded in mid-June, Lin Bai actually had the opportunity to serve in the Six Ministries and Five Temples, but he still chose the lower-level Metropolitan Inspectorate because he wanted to follow the path of his cousin.
There is someone in the court, wouldn't it be a pity not to take a chance on such a good resource...
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"Girl, the third young master is here..."
While talking, Lin Bai walked in wearing regular clothes. The room was full of family members, so there was no need to shy away.
Daiyu said happily: "Third brother, you are finally here."
Lin Bai stopped Daiyu and the others from saluting, met Tanchun's eyes, smiled, and then replied: "I rushed here after receiving Qimei's letter, but it snowed heavily on the road again, which delayed me for two days. Fortunately, I arrived in time, so I didn’t delay you.”
Daiyu shook her head and handed over a stack of information on the table: "Third brother came just in time. I have had people secretly investigate the affairs of Mancheng County in the past few days, and I really discovered some strange things."
Lin Bai didn't bother to talk to his cousin about their daily life. Even when Tanchun poured tea for her, he just nodded as a greeting and focused on the information in his hand.
Sure enough, there is something fishy about this case!
According to what this paper said, not only did one female student die in Mancheng County and the same girls' school, but several students dropped out after only one month.
Moreover, these female students who dropped out of school soon moved their families out of Mancheng County. As for where they moved, the soldiers have not yet found out the specific situation.
Moreover, the donors of Mancheng County Women's School are not just the wealthy gentry in the county, and the largest source of funds is not people from Mancheng County, or even people from Baoding Prefecture.
Lin Bai failed to see any specific information from the intelligence, so he raised his head and asked, "Where is this Yan Qingxiang from?"
"I don't know yet. I just know that this person is a fur trader. He has a lot of wealth and is extremely generous. He donated three thousand taels of silver to Mancheng County alone."
Daiyu also frowned when she mentioned this. The soldiers under her command not only included the elite Rongguo Mansion sent by Jia Cong, but also the experts transferred from the three imperial guards.
With such a strong army, it is really strange that Yan Qingxiang's specific identity cannot be found.
"Is the fur business so profitable?"
Lin Bai murmured to himself: "Those who run the fur goods business are usually from places close to Jiubian. Liaodong, Xuanda, and the Shaanxi-Gansu area..."
"Shanxi!"
"Probably Shanxi!"
Tanchun and Baochai spoke almost at the same time. Lin Bai and Daiyu turned around to see Tanchun and Baochai smiling at each other.
In the end, Baochai signaled Tan Chun to speak first, but Tan Chun said with a blushing face: "I hadn't thought of it before, but only after Brother Lin reminded me did I think of it. Isn't the Yan family in Taiyuan running a fur goods business? The largest fur goods business in Beijing. The shop is the Yan family's property. Brother Zhen has dealt with the Yan family. If Uncle Jing hadn't suddenly returned to Beijing, Brother Zhen would have almost gone into business with the Yan family."
Baochai on the side nodded and added: "My family has also dealt with the Yan family. We originally wanted to join hands with his family to sell fur goods to the south, but his family was suspected of smuggling and had evil intentions, so the matter was shelved."
Lin Bai was not very familiar with the family in Beidi, but fortunately two female Zhuge reminded him.
He wrote a secret letter and asked Daiyu's personal soldiers to quickly return to the capital and asked Jia Lian to help investigate and find out the true identity of Yan Qingxiang.
Although Baoding Prefecture is not far from the capital, it has been snowing heavily these past two days, so it is estimated that the trip there and back will take several days.
In order not to alert the enemy, the brother and sister decided to stay put and wait until news from the capital came.
It's a pity that the two of them don't know that Jia Lian is not in the capital at all. After waiting for several days, the news from the capital has not come back.
Waiting to death was not an option, so Daiyu had no choice but to let Tanchun and Baochai stay in Ansu County to attract the attention of Baoding officials. She and Lin Bai concealed their identities and returned to Mancheng County in the name of visiting relatives to investigate secretly. .
Princess Fenghu has been stationed in Ansu County for half a month. It is almost the end of the twelfth lunar month and there is no sign of returning to Beijing yet.
Fan Bi, the magistrate of Mancheng County, and others, who had already felt relieved, had noticed something was wrong.
A dignified princess of a country with a distinguished status, it is absolutely impossible for her to stay somewhere to celebrate the New Year.
Fan Bi, who couldn't feel at ease after thinking about it, called his confidants and sent a letter outside the city.
At night, a man wearing a black cloak and a hood walked in from the back door of the county government office.
After entering the back office study room, the hooded man took off his cloak, revealing a face that looked elegant and about forty years old.
"Brother Jicheng, what happened to calling me here in such a hurry?"
Fan Bi asked his confidants to guard the door, then closed the door and window himself, then asked him to sit down and said: "I have been uneasy these past few days, always feeling that something is going to happen. The way the matter was handled was a bit rough, Lin's daughter She has been staying in Ansu and has not returned to Beijing until the end of the twelfth lunar month. I wonder if she discovered something."
"Lin's daughter? That Princess Wen'an?"
The hooded man also darkened his face and snorted coldly: "She's just a woman who doesn't understand the world. Is Brother Jicheng worrying too much?"
"You do not understand!"
Fan Bi was a little dissatisfied with the hooded man's dismissive attitude. Unlike the hooded man, he had actually met and dealt with Daiyu.
"Although this Princess Wen'an is a woman, she can make the emperor break the thousand-year rules and appoint court officials to preside over government affairs. How can she be a simple person? Not to mention that she has a father who is the minister of household affairs. She is a girl. Su Linshi..."
Gusu Lin family, which generation does not produce a person with amazing talent and beauty? Maybe this generation should belong to the Lin family girl.
The hooded man still sneered, but reluctantly responded to Fan Bi's concerns: "In that case, it's better to deal with those two despicable people as soon as possible."
It's okay not to say this. When Fan Bi mentioned this, he objected angrily: "Are you kidding me? If Wu Tiejiang and his wife died at this time, wouldn't there be three hundred taels of silver here? I said it at the beginning, let Don't go too far, but you just don't listen. If I had known I would not have made this deal with you. Now that a life has been lost, if it is found out, not only me, but you and the people behind you will be killed. …”
Bang!
The hooded man slapped the table hard, and the loud sound interrupted Fan Bi's complaint.
I saw the hooded man staring coldly into Fan Bi's eyes, with murderous intent overflowing: "Master Fan, watch your words! She is just a pariah. If she dies, she will die. Do you want me to pay for her with my life?"
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