Qingfeng County has jurisdiction over four counties, and each county has four towns. The subordinates report to the superiors, so that the efficiency of the Wolf Guard is the highest.
Among these people, the ones most appreciated by Liu Yijin were Yu Jiang and Zhang Liang.
These two people are both old men of the Wolf Guard, and their internal strength is also quite good.
It's just that these two people alone are not enough. After observing these days, Liu Yijin made mixed changes to the Three Thousand Wolf Guards, and asked Yuan Shuo to go to Piaomiao Temple with his own handwritten letter to transfer Hui. I can wait until a group of warrior monks are invited over.
After all, Liu Yijin knew that Pianmiao Temple could be involved in Maitreya Buddhism, and Huiji and Huineng were definitely not as simple as they seemed.
Perhaps, they are the most effective people arranged by the empress in Qingfeng County.
When Huineng brought a group of monks to meet Liu Yijin, the latter directly gave them a secret mission.
The officials of Qingfeng County had not seen Liu Yijin for several days, and they gradually got used to it. The teacher Zhang Cheng still reported to the Yamen on time every day, and then distributed various files to various departments.
Every day when it gets dark, I get ready to go home from get off work.
As soon as Zhang Cheng's carriage stopped at the entrance of his courtyard, he saw several men in fine clothes walking over: "Are you Zhang Cheng?"
Zhang Chengdao: "When did you Wolf Guards take care of this kind of thing?"
"Master Liu wants to see you."
"Why do we have to wait until this point to talk about it? I'm already off work."
"I'm sorry, but please come with us."
Two wolf guards, one on the left and one on the right, held Zhang Cheng towards a carriage.
Zhang Cheng's face darkened: "I'm just a master, can't we wait until tomorrow to talk about anything? Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to take me away from home like this?"
"Master Zhang, please don't go out. I just want to ask you something."
On the carriage, Liu Yijin looked at him with a smile: "Master Zhang, please."
Zhang Cheng snorted coldly and walked directly onto the carriage. The old god closed his eyes and rested on the ground.
Liu Yijin was not surprised and said straight to the point: "I want to know about the child theft case."
Zhang Cheng snorted coldly: "Master Liu, are you talking to me now as a county guard, or are you talking to me as a chief?"
"What difference does it make?"
Zhang Cheng sneered: The difference is huge. If you are the county guard, I will naturally cooperate, but if you are the chief of the department, then I want to know why you summoned me here.
Liu Yijin laughed heartily: "Don't be offended, Mr. Zhang. I just feel that the county's Yamen servants are not good at using them, so I have no choice but to use the Wolf Guards for my use."
Zhang Cheng sneered: "Master Liu now has three jobs, so naturally he can use people from whomever he wants."
"But I, Zhang Cheng, am just a master. Although I have assisted two county governors, I have never done anything illegal."
"Master Zhang misunderstood."
Liu Yijin directly handed over a newspaper from the old residence: "This is the missing person notice someone published in the Qingfeng County residence newspaper when the first child was stolen three years ago. I don't know if Mr. Zhang still remembers it."
Zhang Cheng glanced at it lightly: "Yes, this is indeed the Di newspaper from three years ago. And I wrote it myself."
"Why, are you asking me to be held accountable?"
Liu Yijin smiled: "I don't dare to hold him accountable, but I would like to ask Mr. Zhang, has the child been found three years ago?"
Zhang Cheng's face turned red and he didn't know how to answer.
Three years ago, he was also a master. He met an old woman on the road who was looking for her grandson. Out of sympathy, he helped the old woman write a missing person notice, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Sir, this is just a missing person notice from back then. So what if I wrote it? Could it be that you think I am the one who stole the child?"
Liu Yijin casually took out some missing persons notices and handed them to Zhang Cheng: "Look at these notices again."
Zhang Cheng didn't know why: "It's okay for you to speak directly if you have something to say."
"Didn't you find anything special in these newspapers?"
A special place?
Zhang Cheng looked at each one in confusion and said suspiciously: "You might as well tell me what you mean, sir."
Liu Yijin smiled and said: "Master Zhang still didn't look carefully enough. In fact, these places are not very far from each other."
Zhang Cheng checked them one by one again and couldn't help but wonder: "What's this? It's just a coincidence. Besides, do you think you are linking the home addresses of these lost children together, and then you can locate them by finding the same distance?" Is there a suspect?"
There was a hint of sarcasm on Zhang Cheng's face: "If the case was so easy to solve, we would have solved it long ago. Besides, what absolute certainty do you have?"
Liu Yijin smiled and said, "It's just because I'm not sure, that's why I came to you."
"I want to know, in the past three years, have the two county guards of Qingfeng County investigated the theft of children in this way?"
"without."
Zhang Cheng answered simply: "Besides, we don't think the suspect would do such a stupid thing and leave such a big flaw waiting for us to investigate."
Liu Yijin's fingers fell on two places: "Then if you were a suspect, which of these two places would you choose?"
Zhang Cheng looked at the locations on the map and couldn't help but frown: "Sir, do you know what these two places are?"
"The two places actually arrived at the scene of the crime at about the same time, and if a target as big as a child is far away, other accidents will inevitably occur, so if I kidnap these children, I will definitely find someone who is more lively or a Lock it up in a place where people don’t dare to explore easily.”
"absurd!"
Zhang Cheng looked at Liu Yijin: "Master Liu, although you are the governor of a county, you can't make such absurd inferences. Besides, do you know where these two places are?"
"The first one is Yihongyuan, which is the largest brothel in the county. They make a lot of money every day. Do they need to kidnap children to blackmail them?"
"And the other place is the territory of the guarding father-in-law Liu Chang. Liu Chang is a close confidant of the prime minister. You don't think Liu Chang is also one of the murderers."
Zhang Cheng moved the prime minister out just to let Liu Yijin know how stupid his idea was.
"Do you think a guardian father-in-law would do such a despicable thing? Or do you think a brothel is the most suitable place to hold children?"
Seeing the cold sarcasm on Zhang Cheng's lips, Liu Yijin smiled faintly: "Sir Zhang, I'm just here to verify this matter with you. As for how I investigate the case, that's not something you should worry about."
Zhang Cheng was speechless.
Liu Yijin said calmly: "Since Mr. Zhang is an old man from Qingfeng County, he must also know some rumors."
Zhang Cheng snorted: "Three years ago, children were missing every year. The county would investigate the matter at the beginning, but in the end it was ignored because it was an inconvenient matter in itself. Easy stuff and no clue to find out!”
Looking at Zhang Cheng's matter-of-fact expression, Liu Yijin sneered and said, "Did Mr. Zhang never lose any children in his house?"
"Sir, what do you mean?"
Zhang Cheng snorted coldly: "I have told you everything I know, but what I didn't expect is that instead of looking for clues, you came to me to lose your temper."
Liu Yijin looked at Zhang Cheng coldly: "Although you are a master, since you know this, why don't you report it? Instead, you think it's natural. And as far as I know, a family who lost a child here also had an affair with you." There must be relatives in the Zhang family."
"What do you want to say, sir?"
Liu Yijin sneered: "Zhang Cheng, you are fired."
"What!" Zhang Cheng was startled and couldn't help but sneered: "Sir, what mistake did I, Zhang Cheng, make?"
"malfeasance."
"you!"
Zhang Cheng's face turned livid: "I, Zhang Cheng, was the number one scholar in the late emperor's dynasty, and an official personally appointed by the Ministry of Personnel. I refuse to accept your dismissal of me."
Liu Yijin sneered and said: "If you don't accept it, you can appeal, but from now on, you have been fired by the county magistrate's office, which means that I will no longer use you."
"Somebody come!"
As soon as Liu Yijin finished speaking, the voices of two wolf guards sounded outside the carriage.
"Send Mr. Zhang back to his home. He will be under good supervision. You are not allowed to go out without my order."
Zhang Cheng was placed under guard by the Wolf Guards, and no one in the Zhang family was allowed to go out. This incident spread instantly the next day.
And just when everyone was speculating on what Liu Yijin was going to do, he also kept the chief bookkeeper Wang Han at home.
At this time, the entire officialdom was shaken and uneasy.
Some old people looked on with cold eyes, while others were already speculating whether Liu Yijin was purging dissidents.
Then Liu Yijin sent out all the wolf guards. These people walked around the streets, asked for records, and counted all the families who had lost their children in the past three years. They also specially arranged for people to meet Liu Chang in the brothel. The surroundings of the mansion were surveyed.
This behavior immediately attracted the attention of interested people.
