The Inspection Department is an agency under the county level. Its main function is to catch thieves and rape. It is a local security force with a military nature and is responsible for maintaining local security. It is similar to a modern police station and has an inspection officer (chief officer).

There are two deputy inspectors, and there is no fixed number of patrol officers, usually about a hundred people.

Inspection departments are generally located in sparsely populated rivers, lakes, or mountainous post roads. They are responsible for inspecting business travelers and identifying traitors.

Puzhou is located at the junction of Shandong Province and Henan Province, and the Yellow River crosses the two provinces here. There are many thieves in this place, so there is an inspection department on the edge of the Yellow River about thirty miles northwest of Puzhou City, and its name is

In the Catfish Mouth Inspection Department, the inspector (chief officer) is named Ma Debiao, who is the younger brother of Shouzhang County Magistrate Ma Debing.

In terms of location, Catfish Mouth Inspection Department is located due north of Shuibao Village, and the distance is only about twenty miles away, which can be said to be quite close.

Since it was raining lightly this evening, the patrolmen hung up wind lanterns on the lantern tower in the water village, and then hid in the inspection office to have fun, or lazily went back to their rooms to sleep.

After waking up, those with wives in the house would do some primitive sports for reproduction. The pace of life of the ancients was very slow and there was a lack of entertainment activities. There were only a few things that could be used to pass the time at night.

At this time, a banquet was set up in a hall of the inspection office. Inspector Ma Debiao and deputy inspector Niu Jisheng were entertaining a guest. In fact, he was not a guest, because this person just arrived today.

Another deputy inspector.

The deputy inspector's name was Qi Jingtong. He was about thirty years old, tall, strong, and very powerful in appearance. The key was that Qi Jingtong had some background. His father, Qi Xuan, was the commander of the Dengzhou Guards in Shandong Province (a fourth-grade military officer).

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, all military attaches below the command of Qianshi can be hereditary. In other words, after his father retires or dies, Qi Jingtong can inherit his father's position as commander of Qianshi of Dengzhou Guard, and now he comes to patrol Catfish Mouth.

The Inspection Department serves as a small deputy inspector (from the ninth grade) with mixed seniority. Therefore, although Ma Debiao is the chief officer of the Inspection Department, he still has to treat Qi Jingtong, the newly appointed deputy inspector, politely.

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"Come on, I'll give you a bowl of wine, deputy inspector!" Deputy Inspector Niu Jisheng raised his bowl and shouted with a smile.

Warriors naturally drink more generously than literati. For them, using a wine glass is too girly, and drinking from a large bowl is more pleasurable. Qi Jingtong is undoubtedly a generous warrior. He picked up a bowl of wine and started having sex with Niu Jisheng.

One of the patrol leaders smiled and raised his bowl and said, "Young man, please give me a bowl, Deputy Inspector Qi!"

As a result, Qi Jingtong soon became red-faced and dizzy from drunkenness, under the constant siege from the inspector Ma Debiao and others.

At this time, Ma Debiao stood up and laughed and said: "Brother Qi is drunk. Come, help Deputy Inspector Qi back to his residence to rest."

"I'm not... drunk or not, I can still keep doing it. Everyone, drink... Come on, keep drinking!" Qi Jingtong said with his tongue hanging out.

"Brother Qi is drunk. Let's rest tonight. We have a long time to come. Let's drink some other time!" Ma Debiao winked, and two patrolmen helped Qi Jingtong out of the hall. The latter still shouted to himself that he was not drunk.

Ma Debiao showed a hint of contempt on his face and said calmly: "Just a mallet!"

"Isn't that better!" Deputy Inspector Niu Jisheng laughed.

Ma Debiao glared at Niu Jisheng and cursed: "You're laughing, my butt is on fire, why haven't the messengers come yet?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a guy covered in water vapor was brought in by the patrol and reported nervously: "Sir, the imperial envoy has arrived in Puzhou City and immediately led people to inspect the embankment."

Ma Debiao was stunned for a moment and cursed: "Damn it, this imperial envoy is really a good official who loves the people like his son, does his best, and will die till death. He even inspected the river embankment in the rain at night. But it's okay,

Working at night is more hidden, Lao Niu, let the brothers bring their tools and set off immediately, and we will help the imperial envoy to be a good official who will devote himself to his work and die till death."

Ma Debiao bit the word "death" very hard, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

Niu Jisheng swallowed his saliva and said hesitantly: "Boss, you really did it. He is an imperial envoy. If the incident comes to light in the future, our whole family will have to..."

Niu Jisheng said, wiping his neck with his hand.

Ma Debiao said with a ruthless tone: "Strike first to gain strength, then strike later and suffer disaster. Now the chief officials of Fan County, Yuncheng County, Caozhou, and Puzhou have all been confiscated, and even our Yanzhou prefect, Tongzhi, and Yanzhou guard commanders

They were all thrown into prison, and I don’t know when my eldest brother (Ma Debing, the magistrate of Shouzhang County) was caught.

That eunuch Huang Jinxin is so ruthless. You don't know what happened to Guo Gang, the magistrate of Puzhou recently. His house was ransacked until not even a hair was left, and his wife, daughter, and servants were raped and raped by Jin Yiwei. Once my brother is investigated, we will definitely

You can't run away, Lao Niu, do you want to follow in the footsteps of Guo Zhizhou?"

Niu Jisheng couldn't help but show a ruthless look when he heard this, and gritted his teeth and said: "The boss is right, instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to give it a go and do it!"

As a result, Ma Debiao and Niu continued to summon patrols, brought various digging tools and torches, and headed straight to the Yellow River embankment upstream of the inspection office in the rain.

Ma Debiao and others were stationed here and were very familiar with the terrain. They quickly found the river embankment seven or eight miles upstream. The river embankment here was relatively narrow and the soil was relatively loose.

Ma Debiao gave an order, and hundreds of patrolmen began to dig out the river embankment. It seemed that they were going to dig a gap in the river embankment. In fact, this location had been excavated in advance, but was later refilled with sacks and the like.

At this point, all the patrols have to do is to move the sacks away again, and then continue to dig deeper and bigger.

"Hurry!" Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng held torches and kept urging the patrols to speed up. They looked very crazy. After all, this was a gamble with their lives on the line.

The patrolmen who worked were all trusted confidants of Ma Niu and Ma Niu. The patrolmen who could not be trusted had long been driven back to their hometown to visit their relatives using various excuses.

Soon, all the sandbags were moved away, and the turbid Yellow River water overflowed along a half-meter-wide gap, gurgling down the slope of the embankment.

Of course, this was not enough, and the patrolmen began to use hoes and shovels to deepen and widen the gap.

At the same time, the imperial envoy Xiao Huai was leading a group of imperial guards in this direction, holding torches under the guidance of a guide. Xiao Huai was worried that the embankment would collapse, so after arriving at Puzhou City, he immediately led his people into the dark

Come check out the situation.

While the two men, Horse and Niu, were directing the patrols to dig in full swing, a sharp shout suddenly came from behind them: "What are you doing?"

Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng were startled. They suddenly turned around and looked around. Their expressions suddenly changed. They saw the new deputy inspector Qi Jingtong appearing behind them at some point. He was wearing a raincoat, holding a torch in his left hand and a bright torch in his right hand.

He was looking at Ma Niu and the others with wide eyes and a confused look, his face still covered in a drunken blush.

Ma Debiao couldn't help but secretly complain, wasn't this guy drunk? Why did he touch him without making a sound?

It is said that Qi Jingtong is a good drinker. He drank more than a dozen bowls of wine in one breath and was indeed a little drunk. However, after going back to his room and lying down for half an hour, he woke up from urinating. He got up and went to the toilet, only to find the huge inspection office.

It was completely empty and no one could be found, not even the patrolman on guard duty could see a single person.

After all, Qi Jingtong came from a military family, so he immediately became vigilant. He went back to his room to get weapons, and after asking the family of a patrolman, he found out that Ma Debiao and Niu had gone out with all the patrollers. There was probably something going on.

Qi Jingtong was immediately unhappy. These guys got him drunk and then came out in droves. They must be doing something big, but they didn't let him participate. Wasn't this rejecting him? So he picked up a knife and followed the footprints, and saw that

When I saw that Ma Debiao and others were digging the embankment, I was a little confused, so I shouted and asked.

"You...you want to dig down the embankment?" Qi Jing's face changed after he spoke on the phone, and all the alcoholism disappeared instantly, and he shouted sternly: "Are you crazy? Bastard, Ma Debiao, Niu Jisheng, what the hell do you want?

Well?"

Ma Defiao's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he shouted decisively: "Kill him!"

Without any urging, a dozen patrols raised their weapons and pounced on Qi Jingtong fiercely. Deliberately digging down the embankment was already a capital crime, not to mention deliberately murdering the imperial envoy. This was a serious crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. Naturally, these patrols wanted to kill Qi Jingtong.

This living mouth will be destroyed.

Qi Jingtong's expression changed with horror, and he swung his sword to resist. His martial arts skills were good, and he killed several patrols in succession. However, in the end, his two fists were no match for his four hands. He was injured one after another. Finally, he received a knife on his left thigh, and blood suddenly gushed out.

Unsteady, he rolled down the embankment and disappeared into the darkness.

At this moment, a long dragon with torches appeared in the distance, meandering towards this side. Ma Debiao's face darkened and he shouted: "Don't worry about it, hurry up, dig up and drown him!"

The patrolmen dug frantically, and the gap opened wider and wider. Finally, the turbid Yellow River water roared out from the gap, and the impact of the water flow further widened the gap...

rumble……

It has been raining continuously for the past few days, and the water level of the Yellow River, which was already high, surged out like a herd of wild horses running wild.

Wow...

The embankment completely collapsed, and huge floods poured down from the sky. Some slow-running patrolmen were directly involved in the huge waves.

When Ma Debiao and Niu Jisheng ran a few hundred meters and looked back, they saw that the gap had grown to more than ten meters. The terrible flood was rushing down the slope like a giant dragon. The torch team in the distance was very fast.

They were in chaos and rushed to the nearby highlands. However, most of them were swallowed up by the floods. Only a few torches rushed up the high hillsides by chance. However, the floods were still rising sharply...
Chapter completed!