Li Mu is a very capable person.
After making up his mind, he immediately sent someone to convey the order to the Linhai Guards outside the city.
Linhai Guard is a guard station stationed in Linhai. There are 800 to 900 soldiers in total. The person in charge is a Qianhu household named Ling.
After Ling Qianhu received Li Mu's order, he did not go to Taizhou Fucheng in person, but only sent forty or fifty people to Fucheng to obey the order.
Because that's what it says on Li Mu's warrant.
Just as Linhai Guard moved, Li Mu and Shen Yi on the other side had arrived at the gate of Taizhou Magistrate's Yamen and revealed their identities.
The people from the government office quickly verified the identities of the two. Yuan Yuan, the official of the government, hurriedly walked out of the back office, ran all the way to Li Mu, and saluted Li Mu respectfully: " I am going down to Yuan Yuan, the magistrate of Taizhou, to pay my respects to the crown prince!"
Li Mu said calmly: "I am not an heir apparent now, but an imperial envoy who has been ordered by the imperial court to inspect coastal defense!"
Yuan Fuzun lowered his head again and said in a respectful tone: "Yes, I have seen the imperial envoy."
After saying this, he raised his head and looked at Shen Yi, with a smile on his face: "This must be Shen Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy?"
Compared with Shen Yidi's status as Si Zheng, the status of Hanlin Academy is obviously more noble and nicer, so Yuan Zhifu calls him Hanlin.
Shen Yi smiled, nodded, and returned the salute: "Your Majesty Yuan, you're welcome."
Magistrate Yuan turned sideways, made an invitation gesture, and then said: "Two imperial envoys, please come in..."
Shen Yi shook his head slightly and said: "Yuan Fuzun misunderstood. Only the Crown Prince is the imperial envoy. Shen was just ordered to accompany him and write down the Crown Prince's actions along the way and publish them in the imperial newspaper in the future."
Yuan Yuan lowered his head again and said: "Please come to the back office to drink tea, your Majesty the Imperial Envoy. I will prepare a banquet for you immediately."
"You'll have to drink tea for now."
Li Mu's face darkened and he said: "The Wang family, a wealthy businessman in Taizhou Prefecture, is suspected of colluding with Japanese pirates. I have been ordered to inspect the place and have the power to make decisions on the fly. I am here to..."
Li Mu looked at Magistrate Yuan and said calmly: "Order Taizhou Magistrate's Yamen and Linhai Magistrate's Yamen to send people to surround the Wang family's mansion tightly and not allow anyone from the Wang family to let go. At the same time, from now on, the four gates of the city will be sealed and waiting. After I find out all the truth and deal with it, I will open the city gate again."
After saying this, Li Mu looked at Yuan Yuan and shouted: "Did Governor Yuan hear this?"
Yuan Yuan was in a daze, but after being drunk like this, he immediately woke up. He looked up at Li Mu and swallowed: "Your Majesty, Imperial Envoy, is this serious?"
Li Mu frowned: "What? What connection does the government office have with the Wang family? What caused Magistrate Yuan to hesitate like this?"
"If your local government is unwilling to do it, I will transfer Haiwei to the city now."
"Don't dare!"
Magistrate Yuan hurriedly lowered his head and said: "Xiaoguan, go and blockade the Wang family's mansion immediately, and we will not let anyone escape!"
"Um."
Li Mu nodded lightly and said: "Prepare the sedan. I am going to the Wang family mansion with Shen Sizheng to watch you blockade it with my own eyes!"
"yes!"
Without saying a word, Yuan Yuan immediately prepared two sedans. The two sedans quickly got up and swayed towards the Wang family mansion.
During this period, Li Mu urged several bearers several times because they were not walking fast. Several bearers responded repeatedly, but the speed still did not improve much.
Finally, under Li Mu's somewhat impatient urging, the two sedans stopped at the entrance of the Wang family mansion. At this time, the Wang family mansion was tightly surrounded by officers and soldiers from the government office and the county government, determined not to let even a single person go.
Li Mu and Shen Yi got off the sedan one after another.
Shen Yi once again stood behind Li Mu and said rather uncomfortably: "It feels really strange to sit in a sedan for the first time."
Li Mu smiled hoarsely: "You are already an official of the imperial court, and you will gradually become familiar with him in the future."
After saying this, the prince raised his head and looked at the rather grand Wang family mansion in front of him, and asked: "Zi Heng, do you think the Wang family has spread the news?"
Shen Yi smiled: "We are here so slowly. If they don't have time to spread the news, either the prefecture and county levels are loyal, or the Wang family is indeed innocent."
The message the two of them were trying to send out was simple.
One is that the Wang family was investigated for treason with the Japanese.
Secondly, the people who checked them were people at the county level, and Linhaiwei did not enter the city.
Tongwa...is a serious crime that involves confiscating one's family and annihilating one's clan.
If this crime is proven, not many members of the Wang family will be able to survive.
Therefore, if the Wang family is really exposed to the Japanese, in this case, they will definitely find a way to fight to the death, such as...
Contact the Japanese pirates outside.
And this is exactly Shen Yi's intention.
After the two people stood together and pondered for a while, Li Mu took the lead and entered the Wang family mansion in a swaggering manner.
At this time, nearly 200 people from the Wang family had been controlled by the officers and soldiers of the Fuya and County Yamen.
Of course, not all of these two hundred people are members of the Wang family, most of them are servants of the Wang family.
The head of the Wang family is named Wang Chengwang. A few days ago, he was sitting at the same table with the county master and the government master, chatting and laughing.
But now, the head of the Wang family, with his hair a little disheveled and a look of disbelief on his face, kept shouting: "I want to see Mr. Yuan! I want to see Mr. Yuan!"
Just as he was shouting loudly, Li Mu walked into the Wang family courtyard with his hands behind his back.
Wang Chengwang guessed Li Mu's identity almost immediately. He knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed to Li Mu and said, "Master Imperial Envoy, the Wang family has been wronged!"
Li Mu looked at Mr. Wang who was kneeling on the ground with interest, and then narrowed his eyes: "Who told you that I am an imperial envoy?"
Wang Chengwang swallowed and was speechless.
Naturally, someone from the county government told him secretly, but at this time, he obviously couldn't tell it. Once he told it, even if Li Mu, the imperial envoy, didn't kill him, the two local officials would try their best to kill him. he.
The prince did not look at Mr. Wang again, but said calmly to the administrator on the side: "Go and bring two chairs."
Soon, two chairs were moved over. Li Mu sat on one of the chairs unceremoniously, and then pulled Shen Yi to sit on the other chair.
His Royal Highness looked lazily at Mr. Wang and his family, and said calmly: "I patrol the coast on behalf of the sky, and now I suspect that your family is colluding with Japanese pirates."
"But don't worry, I will not wrongly accuse a good person."
Having said this, the prince waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Search!"
"Search everyone in the Wang family and find evidence of their collusion with the Japanese pirates!"
Mr. Wang's face turned red with anger.
You have surrounded my house without any evidence!
He blushed, but did not dare to show off. He could only hold back his anger and said, "Master Imperial Envoy, what if we can't find any evidence of the Wang family's crimes..."
Li Mu narrowed his eyes and sneered slightly: "Then I'll let you go, what? Do you still want to take revenge on me?"
"Or, find me a ginseng in the court?"
Mr. Wang knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said: "The common people... don't dare..."
Li Mu snorted coldly, waved his hand and said, "Go and search immediately!"
All the officials nodded immediately.
"yes!"
Dozens of government officials began to turn the Wang family upside down.
In the front yard of Wang's house, Li Mu and Shen Yi had stood up from their chairs and found a quiet place to talk.
Li Mu was still a little undecided and asked, "Zi Heng, are the Japanese pirates really coming?"
"Your Majesty, it is the crime of annihilating the clan to communicate with the Japanese."
Shen Yi lowered his head slightly and said, "If the Japanese pirates along the coast of Taizhou were raised by the Wang family, they would definitely come..."
"After all, the only people who control the Wang family are two local government officials. These people are not an obstacle at all to the fierce Japanese pirates..."
"However, the Japanese pirates probably won't act rashly. Let's wait first."
Shen Yi thought for a while, and then said: "I guess if the Japanese pirates take action..."
"It should be tomorrow or the night after tomorrow..."
