County government office.

Wei Lan walked into the lobby of the county government office and looked around. It was so empty that it made people feel that they were not angry and slightly gloomy. The people were unwilling to come to such a place, probably because they might think that the judge's yamen in the underworld were also the same.

"A county government office is empty, it looks awkward."

Wei Lan sighed.

Helian Dongnuan followed in from outside, was stunned when he heard Wei Lan's sigh, and then smiled and said, "It's like you don't know why you're empty."

He waved back: "Take everyone in."

The imperial guards escorted hundreds of people in one after another. So many people could not be put in the lobby of the county government, and most of them were pressed to kneel in the yard. All of these people were frightened and they didn't even dare to let out arrogance.

Wei Lan looked back and said, "It turns out that there are more people, it looks better."

Helian Dongnuan said: "Why do you seem a little excited when you don't go out to Chang'an often?"

Wei Lan glanced at him: "It seems like you often go out of Chang'an."

Helian Dongnuan laughed loudly.

A commander of a large guard and an imperial guard general, both of them cannot leave Chang'an City at will.

"Bring the county magistrate Lao Ya up there."

Helian Dongnuan gave an order, and the imperial soldiers came in with the tied Lao Ya. The two soldiers raised their feet and kicked Lao Ya's left and right legs at the same time. Lao Ya pounced and fell to the ground.

"Did I ask or do you say it yourself?"

Wei Lan looked at Lao Ya and asked.

Lao Ya knelt down and said, "I don't know what mistakes I made, nor why I was treated like this. The county magistrate received a report that a criminal robbed merchants on the Grand Canal. The county magistrate sent the captain Du En to take all the constables of Qi County magistrate to capture the criminals. As a result, all the constables were attacked by the criminals, and only one of them ran back to report the news. So the county magistrate asked me to mobilize the soldiers to deal with them. This is a normal measure."

He looked at Wei Lan: "I don't know, what's wrong with this."

Wei Lan nodded: "What you said makes sense."

He waved: "Bring Dun in."

Soon, the county magistrate Du En was also taken into the lobby.

After Du En knelt down, he lowered his head and his forehead was almost pressed against the ground. Wei Lan walked up to him and leaned over to look at him: "Ask you a question, I hope you will answer this question truthfully. I just wanted to ask you."

"Yes, yes, yes, even if you ask, Hu Zi will definitely answer truthfully."

"Did your name be chosen by your father?"

Wei Lan asked.

Du En was stunned: "Ah?"

Wei Lan said: "Your name is not good. The first time I heard someone say that your name is Dun, he said it faster. He said that your name is Ton. I was stunned for a moment and said why there is such a strange name? I asked him if it is your surname or name. He said that it is Ton and the surname is Ton. I asked again, is it the one that drinks water? He was confused."

Helian Dongnuan coughed a few times, thinking to himself, can you, the commander of the big guard, be more solemn?

"this"

Duen replied: "The name was indeed chosen by his father. He probably didn't think of so much. He said that he would not forget the word "grace" to me. He also said that the most important thing people should remember in their life is the kindness of others to behave themselves."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Lan sighed: "Your father gave you a good name and the meaning is also good, and you should have done this."

He squatted down and looked at Du En's face at close range. When his two pairs of eyes were facing each other, Du En immediately lowered his head and did not dare to look at Wei Lan.

“When it comes to grace.”

Wei Lan patted his shoulder, then stood up, and walked around and said, "Actually, I understand you too. Who else can be the people in this world who are kind to you? Of course, it is the county magistrate Yin Zhiyin, and the county magistrate Lao."

As soon as he finished speaking, Dun's shoulders trembled slightly.

"Although I just arrived here, I did some research."

Wei Lan continued: "You were originally a butcher in the county town. At first, the manager of Lao Lao's family always bought meat at your stall. You never received money. On the contrary, you would give the manager some benefits every once in a while. This manager would do things if you took your little money. From time to time, he would like to talk to the county magistrate Lao Lao, saying that before you became a butcher, you were a martial artist, and your martial arts skills were not bad, and you were honest and honest."

Wei Lan stopped and looked at Du En and continued, "Then Lord Lao asked the manager to mention it to you in vain. If you are willing to bring out some benefits, he will arrange for you to go to the county government to do business."

Du En suddenly raised his head: "No, no, really no, I was indeed a butcher who sold meat before, but it was really not the one who brought me into the county government, but it was the care of the county magistrate Yin Zhi."

Lao Ya said loudly, "You can't just press such a crime on my head. These are nothing. Sir, I don't know who said these words to you. It's clearly a frame."

"Um"

Wei Lan said: "Actually no one has said these words to me, so you are wrong to use these two words "frame"."

He walked up to Laoya and looked at Laoya's eyes and said word by word: "Your Duke Yu said that Anguo is a hero of Daning. He has also defended Anbang for Daning. Do you frame him? To be private, I am friends with Anguo and I respect him. Do you frame him?"

Lao Ya's face changed.

"So when it comes to the word "frame" you should believe me. What you say in my status must be more credible than what you say."

He looked at the big eunuch beside him: "What I said just now is just recording it, and let Lao Ya sign and seal it later."

Lao Ya's eyes were so wide that he stared at Wei Lan.

"Don't convince?"

Wei Lan shrugged her shoulders and walked to the chair to sit down: "Continue to remember."

His great eunuch nodded and continued to record.

Wei Lan continued: "County Chief Lao Ya, because he accepted bribes from the butcher Du En, he recommended him to the county magistrate Yin Zhi and arranged for Du En to join the county government to work. In order to repay his kindness, Du En blackmailed the passing merchants as a captain for many years and secretly pretended to be a water bandit to rob the merchant ship."

He glanced at Lao Ya: "County Chief Lao Ya is also involved in it. There are many serious cases in the county, which were actually committed by Lao Ya and Du En. He even colluded with important criminals to steal the disaster relief food carried by the Tianji Ticket and secretly exchange it for the disaster relief official silver of the Ministry of Revenue."

After saying that, he looked at the Imperial Army General Helian Dongnuan: "This case can be settled."

Helian Dongnuan smiled and nodded: "It's okay to settle it. You and I will join forces to solve the case in such a short time. Your Majesty should be very happy and should also give you and me a reward. You can restore the sacred orders from above and calm the people's hearts."

Wei Lan said: "But there is one thing that is not safe. If Your Majesty asks, where did the official silver and food they robbed go?"

"food"

Helian Dongnuan said while walking, "Just say they have sold them to Fanbang merchants at a high price. According to you and I, they should be Sanren, so one more crime is to connect with the enemy country."

Lao Ya's face turned pale: "You can't do this!"

Wei Lan said: "It should be OK to write the memorial like this, just say that the silver has also been transferred to Sang Kingdom."

He asked Helian Dongnuan: "According to the laws of the Daning, in such a big case, the main culprit should be punished by the nine clans, right?"

"That's right."

Helian Dongnuan nodded: "The main culprit killed nine clans. If the accomplice is accused, if he has made meritorious performance, he will take the initiative to confess and reduce it as appropriate. He should not involve his family."

The captain Du En suddenly raised his head: "Sir, I confess, I have told you everything I know, I am not the main culprit!"

Wei Lan smiled and said, "Then tell me, let me listen to what you said is useful or not. If you are talking nonsense, I will even make you the main culprit." Computer::/

Du En hurriedly said: "A few days ago, a relative came to the wife of the county magistrate. He was a man who looked about fifty years old. On that day, the county magistrate Yin Zhi invited a banquet in the restaurant in the city, and the county magistrate Lao Ya was accompanying him."

Lao Ya glanced at him and suddenly kowtowed: "I am willing to confess, I am not the main culprit. I am actually really wronged, sir."

He knelt down and said, "One day the county magistrate Yin Zhi suddenly found me and said that a relative came to his house and was engaged in sea transportation business. He transported a large batch of goods, but because there was no buyer, he would lose money. He said that he had contacted Chen Sanyang, the manager of Chongqing County, Tianji Ticket No., and asked him to come and check it out to see if he could collect all the goods."

"He also said that this batch of goods is actually very valuable, so please ask Chen Sanyang to take the fleet to Dakaishan as much as possible. If the goods are available, they will be shipped away directly. The price is only given to the Tianji ticket number according to the price of the goods received."

"Chen Sanyang was embarrassed to refute the face of the county magistrate Yin Zhi, so he brought a few ships and went directly to the Dakaishan."

After Lao Ya said this, he began to kowtow again: "That's all I know, I really don't know about the others. County Magistrate Yin Zhi never said what those goods were, nor did he mention the name of the relative."

Wei Lan frowned and said, "Then why did you take people to the riverside? And you just went to silence me."

Lao Ya hurriedly said, "It was also the order of the county magistrate Yin Zhi."

Helian Dongnuan sighed: "You are still unwilling to tell the truth."

Duen said: "I said! I know!"

Lao Ya immediately turned his head and glared at him fiercely, with murderous intent in his eyes.

Du En no longer cared about that much. He said loudly: "Actually, the county magistrate Yin Zhi in the restaurant that day had already told Lao Ya that day. He said that the court would set up a bureau to suppress Duke An Guo, Shen Leng, because the court's treasury was empty, and he planned to take the Tianji Ticket to the court, so that the court could earn millions of taels of silver to provide disaster relief and war in the East China Sea."

Lao Ya said angrily: "Shut up!"

Wei Lan frowned: "Put and mouth!"

Two big inner guards went up, one of them took the order board on the table and began to slap Lao Ya's face. The crackling sound was particularly crisp. Not long after, Lao Ya's face was beaten to blood and blood, and his nose was beaten crooked. Every time he hit, blood beads were splattering.

Wei Lan looked at Du En: "You keep talking."

Du En said: "County Magistrate Yin Zhi also said that this matter was explained by the court. If it is done, we will be promoted. He also said that if he goes to Chongqing County as the county magistrate, I can be transferred to the Chongqing County Army and County Government Office as the chief magistrate."

"But I was not in the restaurant that day. Some of the words were said to me later by Lao Ya, and some of them were said to me later by the county magistrate Yin Zhi himself. He also said that the court would pretend to behave, no, no, no, no, yes, yes, just check it, but I would not really check anything. In the end, I would investigate and take the Tianji Ticket Number to the court."

“Just before.”

Du En pointed to Lao Ya: "He told me that there were more than a dozen people driving a centipede and a cliff boat on the side of the Grand Canal to investigate the case. It should be that Chen Leng's people did not give up and investigated privately. That was Chen Leng's own intention, and it was definitely not the court's intention. If his people found out, we would have something to do, so we asked me to take people to kill those dozen people. Who would have thought that those dozens of people would be so fierce. I would not be able to defeat others and instead be restrained."

Wei Lan asked: "So after you were restrained, Lao Ya personally took the soldiers there to silence him?"
Chapter completed!