Zhou Yuan's cold eyes moved away from Yu Siye's face, looked at Gu Zhengchen, and said slowly: "Is this recruitment really the confessions of Zhang Erjiu, Jiang Cai and others?"
Gu Zhengchen took the tea bowl sent by the official and replied calmly: "Why, Commander Zhou wants to meet these people and discuss the merits in person?"
Zhou Yuan stared and took a step forward: "Wang Cong, Zhang Erjiu, Jiang Cai, and Ding Erquan are Quanzhou Guard sergeants. How could they fall into the hands of Magistrate Gu? Could it be that Magistrate Gu robbed the sergeants and made them slaves?"
It is a grave crime to plunder soldiers and civilians and make them slaves.
Zhou Yuan counterattacked with his sword, which was indeed sharp.
Gu Zhengchen opened the lid of the bowl, blew in, took a slow sip, and said softly: "Why did it fall into my hands? Of course I ordered the arrest. As the prefect of Quanzhou, I had to arrest a few people who were acting suspiciously in the night. I don’t need to come here to tell you, do I?”
Acting suspiciously?
Zhou Yuan's heart trembled.
The sharp blade of his counterattack was avoided by Gu Zhengchen in an understatement!
With a smile on his lips, Gu Zhengchen examined Zhou Yuan's expression and continued: "Now the situation of these four people has been investigated clearly, and they will be sent to Quanzhou Guards soon. If Commander Zhou wants to see them, there are many opportunities. Yes."
Zhou Yuan's chest was rising and falling, and his face was full of murderous intent: "So, the twenty missing sergeants were also detained by the government as suspicious persons?"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head: "Those twenty people have nothing to do with me. Their whereabouts are best known to Commander Zhou."
Zhou Yuan shouted angrily: "Prefect Gu, I have never heard that there are sergeants detained in the prison cell of the government office. I think Jiang Cai and others were locked out of the prison cell by you!"
"That's right."
Gu Zhengchen admitted frankly.
Zhou Yuan seized on the flaw and took action again: "As a prefect, the arrested people were not interrogated in the lobby or put into the cell, but were set up in private prisons. I think there were many lynchings. Gu Prefect, so How do you explain what you did!"
Huang Senping frowned and looked at Gu Zhengchen.
No matter how Zhou Yuan is nothing, what he said makes some sense.
The prefect can order people to be arrested, but they cannot be detained secretly. They should be detained outside the prison cell. This is inappropriate and does not comply with the regulations of the court and the government office's procedures. To put it more seriously, this is setting up a private prison cell, abusing power and overstepping the bounds. Emperor Quan, if caught and beaten hard, might lose his official position or even his life.
Ding ding!
The metal touched the tea bowl and made a sound.
Gu Zhengchen revealed a copper coin between his fingers and said calmly: "Explanation? My explanation will naturally be sent to Zhongshu and the emperor. If you want to know the reason, you can send an official document to the court."
Zhou Yuan was a little angry and immediately shouted: "The other missing sergeants must have been captured by you privately! Commander Huang knows that it is related to the life and honor of the Quanzhou Guard sergeants. Someone should be sent to search Jinjiang City to find the missing sergeants. !”
Huang Senping said nothing. He looked down at his shoes, which seemed a little dirty.
Gu Zhengchen flipped the copper coins with his fingers and stood up: "Zhou Yuan, don't talk about him. You can't deny the content of this recruitment, can you?"
Zhou Yuan naturally would not admit it and said sternly: "It's extremely ridiculous. These people have been secretly detained by Magistrate Gu for so long. It's not difficult to fabricate a few recruitment lists! It's really ridiculous to try to use these things to punish me. !”
Gu Zhengchen looked at Zhou Yuan who denied the crime and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Cheng, bring Jiang Cai, Zhang Erjiu and others over. It's time to arrive."
Xiao Cheng took the order and left.
Not long after, Xiao Cheng brought Jiang Cai, Zhang Erjiu and others to the office.
Gu Zhengchen pointed at Huang Senping and said to Jiang Cai, Zhang Erjiu and others: "This is Quanzhou Guard Commander Huang Senping. He will make the decision for you."
Jiang Cai, Zhang Erjiu and others quickly saluted.
Huang Senping said seriously: "Tell me, what is going on!"
Jiang Cai glanced at Zhou Yuan, filled with hatred.
During this period, Jiang Cai and others were not abused. They even ate well, drank well, and slept with quilts. In addition to not being allowed to leave the yard, there were no restrictions on a few people visiting the house to talk.
Everyone knows that Zhou Yuan is cruel to his own people without blinking an eye, and he can easily be hacked to death if he is suddenly sent back. Until one day, Gu Zhengchen ordered someone to send news that the commander of the Quanzhou Guard has been replaced, and Zhou Yuan will lose control of the people. With the control of the Quanzhou Guards, he finally thought about going back. After all, his wife and children were still in the military camp, so they couldn't always be outside.
Since Zhou Yuan was unkind and lost his power, and these people all confessed the situation, Zhou Yuan was completely offended, so they simply confessed.
Jiang Cai and others introduced more details and details than the witness Hang Chen. After all, they were appointed by Zhou Yuan to report the news and knew more.
Pretending to be pirates, planning to burn down houses, specific location allocation, task allocation, including Zhou Yuan ordering his troops to withdraw, encountering Gu Zhengchen on the way back, and then being invited away for tea...
Huang Senping glared at Zhou Yuan: "These are Quanzhou Guard sergeants. Are their words all lies?"
Zhou Yuan's face was livid, and he still denied: "I had a problem with a few of them, and I just spread rumors and slander."
Huang Senping didn't expect that Zhou Yuan could be so calm and still quibble and refuse to answer the question. When he was about to speak, he was stopped by a hand.
Gu Zhengchen held the copper coin in his hand, walked up to Zhou Yuan, and said softly: "Four witnesses are not enough, what about more witnesses?"
The flesh on Zhou Yuan's cheeks trembled a little, and he looked at Gu Zhengchen in disbelief: "Did you capture Ningdu and others?"
Gu Zhengchen laughed and shook his head: "Ning Du, known as Ning Toad in the guard camp, is a poisonous person who cannot be provoked or touched. He is a brave general under Zhou Commander Qian Shi and a confidant. Man. I wonder if he has any quarrel with you, and will he spread rumors and slander you?"
Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and said sternly: "Impossible, there are only a few people around you, how can you be Ningdu's opponent!"
Gu Zhengchen spread his hands: "Yes, I am not his opponent. I have always said that I did not capture other Quanzhou Guard sergeants, but that does not mean that I don't know who captured them..."
"who?!"
Zhou Yuan couldn't believe that there were only a few people in Quanzhou Mansion who could control the crazy Ning Toad. No one without more than a dozen people could even get close to him!
"he!"
Gu Zhengchen pointed to the door.
Zhou Yuan quickly looked around and saw two people walking outside the originally empty door.
Chu Xing laughed loudly, clasped his fists and shouted: "Commander Huang, everyone of the Quanzhou Guard, I am the commander of the Huai'an Guard. Now I am serving as the Naval Staff General, stationed at Quanzhou Port. I came uninvited. What is that? No wonder. Strange!"
Yu Siye's eyes trembled and he looked at Huang Senping and then Gu Zhengchen. It was incredible to be able to invite everyone from the Navy!
Lin Baifan grinned, looked at Hang Chen aside, and whispered: "Look, there will be justice today!"
Hang Chen nodded heavily.
No matter whether they live or die, the Quanzhou Guardsmen cannot bear the crime of fleeing in fear of fighting. This will make their family members and descendants unable to hold their heads high!
Zhen Fu Lu took a deep breath and looked behind Chu Xing. Outside the gate, there were many footsteps. It seemed that many people from the Navy had arrived!
Huang's tactics were astonishing. He actually summoned Magistrate Gu and the Navy Admiral!
It seems that Zhou Yuan will spend the night in Zhenfusi tonight.
The scribe Yang Jing felt cold all over. The situation was getting worse and worse for Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan's thigh was probably going to be broken. No one could help him reconnect it, and he couldn't even hold a broken leg by himself.
Zhou Yuan looked at Chu Xing, who was acting like a leader, and the lingering doubts in his mind were finally solved!
Gu Zhengchen didn't have the strength to catch Ning Toad and the other 20 sergeants, but the navy had the strength!
That night, Gu Zhengchen had no time to act like a monster, but the navy had plenty of free time!
Looking back now, Gu Zhengchen must have found the Navy while asking the Quanzhou Guard to dispatch!
Damn it!
When the navy captured Tang Bahu and others, he should have thought that Ning Toad had fallen into their hands! It was only because Gu Zhengchen and the navy did not take any action for a long time, and Ning Toad was not seen when they killed Tang Bahu, that the navy did not suspect the navy.
Gu Zhengchen made it clear that he was taking one thing at a time, not not not taking action, but waiting for the opportunity to take action again!
Now the Quanzhou Guard has a new commander, Huang Senping. While he was away from the guard camp, he recruited some generals and sergeants of the guard camp. They thought the time was ripe, so they were ready to take action against him!
Today is a bad day!
Chu Xing's voice was loud: "Commander Huang, Commander Gu, the navy went to Hui'an some time ago to capture two groups of pirates. One group has been sent to Jinjiang City to be beheaded in public, and the remaining group has been imprisoned in the water. On the division ship. Because the person behind it was not found out, the news was never disclosed to the outside world. It was not until recently that he opened his mouth to explain. What is shocking is that the true identity of these pirates turned out to be the Quanzhou Guard sergeant. The leader was also a One hundred households, named Ningdu!”
Huang Senping looked at Zhou Yuan with a gloomy face and said solemnly: "Ningdu is your confidant, what else can you say?"
Zhou Yuan stared at Chu Xing without saying a word.
Chu Xing stood on the left side of Gu Zhengchen and said coldly: "Ningdu and others have confessed that you ordered them to pretend to be pirates. The purpose was to disrupt Quanzhou and prove the incompetence of the new prefect. And I hope to use this as an excuse to drive him out of Quanzhou. Meng Qianhu, please take out the recruitment list."
Meng Wanli took out a stack of recruitment books and handed them to Huang Senping: "Ning Du and other sergeants have also been brought outside the office. If there is any doubt about the recruitment, you can directly question the sergeants."
Huang Senping took the recruitment book, glanced at it a few times, and threw it directly towards Zhou Yuan. The papers were scattered in front of Zhou Yuan. Under the black words on the white paper were bloody fingerprints.
Zhou Yuan lowered his head and saw Ningdu's name.
This group of people are really fucking white-eyed wolves, they actually betrayed themselves when something happened!
No amount of care and favors in the past can earn their loyalty!
Zhou Yuan shook his head and lamented: "Now that things have happened, I have nothing to say."
Huang Senping narrowed his eyes slightly: "So, it's you who ordered the sergeant to disguise himself as a pirate, it's you who ordered the sergeant to set fire to people's houses and kill people, it's you who wanted to cause chaos in Quanzhou!"
Zhou Yuan laughed out loud, arrogant and rude, suddenly stopped laughing, and shouted sternly: "Whoever betrays me will die! Today's Quanzhou Guard, I have the final say! Cai Ye, Qu Huan, lead the people Close the office!"
