Here, County Magistrate Gao had a good idea and ordered the county lieutenants to carry out the ambush and verification arrangements in an orderly manner. What about over there?

Over there, County Magistrate Zheng was anxiously discussing with his county lieutenant how to find and arrest the two escaped prisoners. After all, the crime occurred in his own county, and the criminals were also from his own county. The Ministry of Punishment ordered him to organize people to arrest and bring them to justice.

However, he searched Liuhe Village for many days and searched all the rooms of the residents in the village, but could not find the whereabouts of the criminal.

The county lieutenant once again interrogated the villager who had met Han Fengying. The result was that although Han Fengying was not dead, he was also sure that Lu Tong had told the villagers before leaving that he and General Cui were going sightseeing in Kuiper and would be back soon. Therefore, these were all well-founded.

It is difficult to establish the case as a wife-stealing and murder case based on these alone. But Han Fengying could not be found, and Lu Tong had not returned, so they had nowhere to start.

"What is the Kuiper Belt?" Zheng Tiancheng asked the county captain.

"You ask me, who should I ask?" the county captain looked confused.

"Maybe, this is the name of a place. It's not far from here. Otherwise, how could he say he would be back soon? Go and find out. If it's not far, take someone to that place. Maybe you can find Lu Tong?"

"Listening to the villagers' answers, the Kuiper Belt should be a place name where those extraterrestrial visitors live. It's in the sky, not on the ground. There's no way to find it." The county captain shook his head.

At this moment, Lu Hechang sent an urgent letter telling him that Lu Tong and others had been found.

Since Lu Hechang was transferred back from the Ministry of Punishment, Magistrate Zheng's heart became empty. Before Lu Hechang left, he also held a sumptuous banquet, and the county magistrate and the ministry officials exchanged farewell poems. They are all literati.

It is common for people who take the imperial examination to write and write. Magistrate Zheng was so excited that he even shed a few toad tears.

After reading Lu Hechang's letter, Magistrate Zheng found out that Lu Hechang had been transferred to Huainan Road by the Ministry of Punishment, but the object of his investigation had not changed and it was still a bizarre case that occurred in Wucheng County.

"This Fan Zhendong is really not an economical person." Magistrate Zheng felt very uncomfortable. This was obviously a case that happened in Wucheng County, so why did it become a case that happened in Zoyu City based on a letter from him? This is not an open case.

Are you telling lies with your eyes?

"He did nothing wrong to us." The county captain did not agree with the magistrate's view: "In this way, our county government will no longer bear the blame. If a murder occurs in the county we manage, it will also

It’s not a glorious thing.”

"What you said makes sense." Magistrate Zheng finally felt that this was a good idea. One more thing was better than one less thing.

However, the order issued by the Ministry of Punishment to arrest the two death row prisoners as soon as possible has not been revoked. I don't know what medicine is in the gourd of the Minister of Punishment.

"But our case has not been dismissed." The county magistrate sighed. We have to step up the investigation. If we fail to do so, we will be "accounted for."

"Before it is cancelled, we have to continue to investigate." Magistrate Zheng pointed to Lu Hechang's letter and said: "Since Lu Dushi said that the whereabouts of the criminal had been found in Shengtang County, you should take people to Huainan Road and take a look.

Can the criminal be caught and brought to justice?"

The county magistrate asked him to go to Huainan Road to handle the case, but the county captain was unwilling to do so. Recently, he was having a hot affair with a prostitute in the county town, so how could he want to take on such a hard job?

But the county magistrate wanted him to go, but there was nothing he could do. Women and official hats were more important than what they wore on their heads.

No, he had to reluctantly leave his little beauty behind and go on a business trip.

He led six county officials and rode six horses that the county government had recruited for them to handle the case, all the way north.

The county captain here was rushing north with anger towards Lu Du, while over there Lu Hechang was thinking about how to take credit for himself.

Well, Lu Hechang knew that Magistrate Gao was intervening and investigating the case according to his own will, so why did Lu Hechang bring Magistrate Wucheng, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, into the matter? Wouldn't this disrupt the situation?

On the one hand, it is causing trouble for County Magistrate Gao, and on the other hand, it is quenching the desires of County Lieutenant Wucheng. It’s really interesting.

But Lu Hechang also had his own plan. Although he knew that arresting criminals related to these alien visitors would lead to death. But if it was planned well, it would be a drama of lending a knife to kill people. He would take the advantage and let others bear the trouble. Coke

Rather than.

Then why did Magistrate Gao go to arrest the prisoner first and then write a letter to Magistrate Zheng to inform him? Can he get any benefit from this?

First of all, County Magistrate Gao is handling the case successfully. He feels that the former senior general is very expert in this area and has a high chance of success. Moreover, according to Hu Yang, the former veteran also praised the work of his counterpart Cui Jianfeng.

The style of handling cases. From this point of view, this county magistrate is very different from the other county magistrate in Wucheng. This county magistrate has great hope of success.

What if it succeeds? Who gets the credit? He is the official who came to investigate the case, but the case also has the characteristics of a local criminal case. If it is handled this way, it will become a case that is not handled by him, but by the military.

The case was not a case of treason. Moreover, judging from the accounts of the arrested Tang soldiers, although they saw the big round bird in the sky, the bird did not attack them. It was actually the gang of escaped murderers who abducted them.

The murderer.

Obviously, this case is not related to the case of rebellion against gods. In this way, if County Magistrate Gao solves the case and captures the criminal, the credit will naturally go to Gao, and Lu Hechang will get nothing.

So how can we connect this case with the God Demotion Case so that the Ministry of Punishment considers the case solved under his command even if he doesn't show up?

He suddenly remembered Zheng Mingjie. Although this short county magistrate was a bit silly, he was also cute. Wouldn't it be better to bring him in and follow his orders to take advantage of the high county magistrate?

In this case, he can not only explain to his superiors smoothly, but also save Magistrate Zheng from being dismissed. Kill two birds with one stone, why not do it.

However, Lu Hechang was just a civilian official and did not understand the staunchness of military officers. He might have angered these former generals and cut off their heads with a sword. He had military exploits. Those military exploits were like money. Just pay a little.

It's okay. But if your head is cut off by him, it won't grow back.

In any case, he secretly wrote to Magistrate Zheng to inform him of the situation. However, he did not tell Magistrate Zheng that Magistrate Shengtang was investigating the case. The purpose was to control the situation opened by Zheng Mingjie using Magistrate Gao

, to share the credit gained by County Magistrate Gao.

Of course, County Lieutenant Wucheng didn't know all this. He was just following County Magistrate Zheng's instructions to hunt down the criminal.

Of course, according to Lu Hechang's instructions, they did not go to Zoyu City, but to the place where the crime occurred. Lu Heyong's thoughts, as a member of the Ministry of Punishments, naturally have something in common with Magistrate Gao's thoughts, that is, the perpetrators of these crimes are all from Jiangnan Taoism.

, it is more likely to flee to Jiangnan Road after committing the crime. It is unlikely to stay in Huainan Road, an unfamiliar place.

Such a common idea led Wucheng County Magistrate to follow Lu Hechang's reminder and, like Gao County Magistrate, adopt an ambush plan of squatting on the nearest road from the crime scene to Wucheng.

However, Wucheng County Lieutenant brought only five government officials. Compared with the government soldiers sent by Shengtang County Lieutenant sent by Gao County Magistrate, they were too shabby and could not take advantage of Ren Ke. Otherwise, they might be defeated.

The county captain of Shengtang captured him and caused a misunderstanding.

In this way, the county lieutenants of two roads and two counties set up an ambush on the same road for the same purpose and waited for the criminal to be arrested. However, County Magistrate Gao's purpose may not be to arrest, but to close the case through other means, that is, like Cui Jianfeng.

But Wucheng County Lieutenant's approach was different. They set up an ambush, and once the criminal was discovered, they immediately arrested him and escorted him back to Wucheng.
Chapter completed!