Zhang Pei and Yao Zhen followed him, and Gu Zhengchen was happy in his heart.
These two people were born in the military, had been on the battlefield, and had killed people. The fact that they were selected as Mu Ying's personal guards showed that they were elites in the army. Although there is a suspicion of being monitored, in this era, if someone can protect your own safety, what else is there to complain about?
The next day he went to church.
Xu Lin, Xu Rong, and Xu Guang knelt down in the hall and explained.
Gu Zhengchen was shocked and looked at Xu Lin coldly: "You were originally the head of the county government office. After you left the county government office, you collaborated with Xu Guang and The leader and subordinates will be sent to the army together!"
Xu Lin's face turned pale and he kowtowed repeatedly: "My Lord, please spare my life."
Gu Zhengchen sneered, stood up and walked down the hall: "If you don't want to join the army, you have only one way, and that is to serve your crime. You were in the county government office when Xu Erya was involved in the case. If you don't know about it, I won't believe it. Tell me who you are. Xu Guang's fake injuries were examined, and who forged the file! If you come forward to testify and point out the mastermind, I may consider reducing your sentence by one degree for your attempt to extort property!"
Xu Lin raised his head and wanted to look away, but Gu Zhengchen stepped forward to block it: "Xu Lin, if you don't want to, I won't force you. Xu Guang, if you tell the truth, your sentence can be reduced by one degree. Xu Rong, you and him are both the same." He is a close person, so he is probably an insider. Yang Liang, imprison the three of them separately and give them two hours to explain first. Whoever does not confess will have his sentence reduced! Whoever refuses to confess will be sent to the army. They are not allowed to make noises and collude in confession. Pull them down!"
"The county magistrate..."
Xu Lin and others begged, but to no avail.
Gu Zhengchen turned to look at Zhao Doubei, who was wiping off cold sweat, and said majestically: "Master Zhao, it's not too hot today. If you are sweating so profusely, could it be due to physical weakness?"
Zhao Doubei smiled bitterly and prevaricated for a few words, then excused himself and left because he felt uncomfortable.
Gu Zhengchen did not retreat, but waited.
Xu Lin, Xu Guang, and Xu Rong are all figures. Xu Lin is just a team leader in the county government. He has no influence on the injury investigation, and he has no energy to rewrite the confession file. Behind Xu Erya's case, someone in the county government must have given instructions. do.
Who is it? Don’t worry.
Outside the prison cell, Zhao Doubei came in a hurry, but was stopped by the prison chief Wang Ren.
Zhao Doubei calmed down and said seriously to Wang Ren: "I am ordered by the county to supervise the three of Xu Lin to prevent them from colluding with each other and open the door!"
Wang Ren shook his head and refused: "The county magistrate has told me that no one is allowed to enter the prison cell without his warrant."
"How presumptuous! I am the county government clerk!"
Zhao Doubei shouted sharply.
Wang Ren stretched out his hand and bowed: "The county magistrate has told me that no one is allowed to enter the prison cell without his warrant."
Zhao Doubei was a little anxious and looked at the prison room: "Wang Ren, if you open it now, I can pretend that nothing happened! You should know that there is no history, and the chief bookkeeper is also in charge of the prison room! How dare you disobey the officer's order? ?”
Wang Ren looked at Zhao Doubei with a smile and continued to repeat: "The county magistrate has told me that no one is allowed to enter the prison cell without his warrant."
Zhao Doubei glared at Wang Ren, who kept saying nothing, and was filled with anger. He glanced at Wang Ren's waist, looked at the bunch of keys, and gritted his teeth: "I am the master of the prison room, what can you say if you take the keys?"
Wang Ren pointed at something: "Master Zhao, you can give it a try. Is it faster to find the right key to open the prison door first, or let me inform the county magistrate."
Zhao Doubei's expression changed.
Wang Ren pulled up a stool and sat down directly, crossing his legs and looking at Zhao Doubei: "Actually, there is no need to enter the prison room. You will understand everything when you show up here. The county magistrate asked me to tell you something."
"What words?"
Zhao Doubei felt that he had been fooled.
Wang Ren reached out and patted the door of the prison cell and said: "Your Majesty, he is not only waiting for Xu Lin and the other three to explain, but also for you to take the initiative to explain. The difference is that they are inside the prison cell and you are outside the prison cell."
Zhao Doubei's cheeks trembled a few times, then turned around and left.
Wang Ren looked at Zhao Doubei who was leaving, and spat: "I really thought I could defeat the county magistrate, huh, I don't know whether to live or die."
In the prison cell, Xu Lin was caught in an inner struggle.
After betraying Zhao Doubei, he would probably be retaliated against. After all, there were Liu Boqin and the Guo family behind Zhao Doubei.
But if he doesn't betray Zhao Doubei, he will be exiled from the army, and permanently!
Being a sergeant costs lives.
Especially now that there is a war in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The Beiyuan Dynasty may counterattack at any time, and people will die no matter what year. He was really going to be exiled. Xu Lin was sure that with his body, he would never be able to stop the Mongolian sword, and he would die on the way to the expedition...
Either way, it's death, and if you want to die, you have to die in Jurong.
Xu Lin made up his mind and shouted to the guard outside the door: "I will explain!"
After hearing this, Yao Zhen shouted: "Xu Lin has confessed, and the other two don't need to ask anymore!"
A voice swept across the alleyway, and two voices came from the distance: "I will explain!"
Down the hall.
Xu Lin, Xu Rong, and Xu Guang were scrambling to explain. Gu Zhengchen looked at this scene and took a photo: "It is said that Xu Erya's mother is Wu, and his wife is Zhang."
Mrs. Wu and Ms. Zhang knelt down in the hall.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Xu Guang and said coldly: "This happened because of you, come here!"
Xu Guang had no choice but to explain clearly:
After Xu Erya punched Xu Guang, Xu Guang pretended to be paralyzed and sued Xu Erya. His intention was just to make Xu Erya suffer and had no other plans.
But after the matter reached the county government, the chief bookkeeper Zhao Doubei found Xu Guang and asked Xu Guang to insist that Xu Erya was beaten to disability and received a benefit of 10 taels of silver.
Later, during the court trial, Xu Erya was not seen at all. The magistrate directly closed the case and sentenced Xu Erya to be exiled for three thousand miles.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Zhao Doubei: "Master Zhao, is this something?"
Zhao Doubei wiped his cold sweat and said: "Your Majesty, he is talking nonsense, how can you believe it!"
When Xu Guang saw this, he immediately shouted: "Master Zhao, it was you who asked me to pretend to be sick and gave me benefits to shut up. The county magistrate and prison chief Zhou Hong are also present and you can confront him."
Gu Zhengchen sneered, took out the letter, signed it, and threw it to Yang Liang: "Arrest the former prison chief Zhou Hong and bring him to justice!"
Zhao Doubei looked at Liu Boqin, who lowered his head and said nothing.
Gu Zhengchen slapped the alarm and looked at Xu Lin: "There is no need for you to explain what Xu Guang explained. If you don't want to be exiled, just explain something else. I think you know a lot, right?"
Xu Lin gritted his teeth and looked at Zhao Doubei: "County Lord, Zhao Doubei told us to arrest more young people. If there are disputes between common people and they are brought to the Yamen, one party will be benefited and the other party will be sentenced severely, either exile or imprisonment. In one year, there have been at least fifty cases!”
"What?"
Gu Zhengchen looked at Zhao Doubei.
Zhao Doubei almost fainted, his hands trembling slightly.
Xu Lin opened it and no longer kept it: "Although these cases were sentenced to exile and imprisonment, they were not completely reported to the Ying government. Instead, two files of Yin and Yang were written, and one judgment was sent to the Ying government in a reasonable and reasonable manner. Most of them were rod punishments. , a serious sentence was kept on file in the county office, most of which were exile or imprisonment."
"Yin Yang Files?!"
Gu Zhengchen was shocked. He didn't expect the officials of Jurong County Government to have such tricks!
"Master Zhao, is this something?"
Gu Zhengchen's eyes became sharp.
Zhao Doubei stood up and walked out, already a little unsteady on his feet: "Here, County Lord, we will report this later..."
"Why wait to report later? This is the lobby, speak your mind! It is not difficult to check the Yin and Yang files. You only need to send a document to the Yingfu and check the files from that year, and everything will be revealed!"
When Gu Zhengchen finished, he was stunned.
Zhao Doubei knelt down directly and said with a mournful face: "County Lord, I can't help it. If we don't eat the rich households and get benefits, how will the people of the county government support them!"
When Gu Zhengchen saw Zhao Doubei's admission, he suppressed his anger and shouted: "Here, take off Zhao Doubei's official hat and strip off his official uniform!"
"have!"
The yamen officer stepped forward and treated him roughly, including a few kicks.
Zhao Doubei knelt down in the hall, feeling extremely sad.
Gu Zhengchen sneered twice: "Okay, okay! Chief Zhao, your official seal will be temporarily confiscated. I will report the truth to the staff and have you dismissed and investigated!"
Zhao Doubei looked at Liu Boqin. Liu Boqin sighed, took off his official hat and uniform, walked to the hall, looked at Gu Zhengchen and knelt down: "There are many bad debts in the county government, and I am also guilty of dereliction of duty."
Gu Zhengchen stared at Liu Boqin and shook his head slightly: "Dereliction of duty? I'm afraid it won't be that simple. Since you took the initiative to stand up, then escort both of you to the prison cell and wait for trial. If there is any injustice, I will personally invite you two Come out, come here, take them down, no one is allowed to touch these two people without my order, and the food for the two of them will be left to Yao Zhen and Sun Shiba."
"Take orders."
Yang Liang and other government officials took Zhao Doubei and Liu Boqin down.
Gu Zhengchen stood up, looked at Xu Lin and others kneeling below, and ordered: "Detain him temporarily pending trial."
Xu Lin and others were taken down.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Xu Erya's family members, the Wu family and the Zhang family: "Xu Erya occasionally caused people to be disabled, and it has been found to be an unjust case. I will write a document to the Ying government and ask people for the reason, so that Xu Erya can be found as soon as possible."
Mrs. Wu and Ms. Zhang kowtowed and thanked them.
Gu Zhengchen waved his hand, ordered someone to take the two of them down, and announced his withdrawal.
Second hall.
Gu Zhengchen was looking through the Xu Erya case file.
Not long after, the scribe Lin Shan walked in and knelt down: "Your Majesty, the Yin and Yang Files were written by me, but I was forced to do so. It was Zhao Doubei, the chief secretary, and Chen Zhong, the administrator, who coerced me into writing them. for!"
"Dian Shi Chen Zhong is also involved?"
Gu Zhengchen raised his eyebrows slightly.
Lin Shan lowered his head: "Your Majesty, Dian Shi is in charge of arresting thieves and jailing prisoners. Without his personal participation, this matter would not have been possible."
Gu Zhengchen took out a letter card from the desk, wrote the seal, and called to Gu Cheng who was at the door: "Give it to Yang Liang and ask him to take Zhang Pei and others to take Chen Zhong to the county government and temporarily lock him up in the prison cell. "
Gu Cheng took the letter and left.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Lin Shan with a slightly cold look: "When civil disputes come to the county government, they will either be imprisoned or exiled, and they are worried that the government will find out the problem and write a Yin and Yang file. What the county government does is not to intimidate the people, right? Or, these The prisoners who were sentenced to exile and imprisonment were not actually exiled and served their sentences?”
