After hearing this, Gu Qinghuan asked, "Carpenter Zhang is still locked up in his house."
The woman nodded, "When I came out, Carpenter Zhang was still locked up in his house."
Gu Qinghuan understood. She felt that this would be easy to handle. Everyone would get the stolen goods and the evidence was conclusive. Now she would not be afraid of collecting evidence and delaying the departure time.
After Lu Bai waited for them to come over, he handed Shiren to his men, asked them to peel off his flying fish clothes, remove his embroidered spring knife, and escorted them into the city.
The city gate is guarded.
They undoubtedly saw the scene just now. Not only did they not stop Lu Bai, they even treated him respectfully.
"You deserve it!" the city guards gloated.
The Jinyiweisheren, a group of Jinyiwei from the capital, have caused a lot of trouble to their city these days. Now that they are being treated obediently and with a defeated look on their faces, they feel extremely happy.
Lu Bai and the others entered the city, and after asking the people, they went straight to the magistrate's office to find records of the cane punishments and redemption of silver.
The prefect was caught off guard by him.
Of course the prefect knew what the Jinyiwei people were doing in the city to hunt down the escaped craftsmen, and he also knew that these things should be returned to the Yamen Pass, but these matters had always been handled by the Jinyiwei themselves, and it had almost become a routine.
As for the law - the law is only useful when officials are fighting, but he doesn't dare to offend the royal guards, so the law is just a piece of waste paper.
The prefect looked at the guard in Jinyi.
Sheren looked at him with a bad look. The prefect knew that his father was from Qianhu in the capital, and he didn't want to get angry, so he didn't want to record it for Lu Bai. He smiled and said: "Sir, this record is related to the secrets of our Yamen. I'm afraid I can't give it to you.
, how about you solve the internal case within Jinyiwei by yourself?"
Lu Bai smiled.
This is the embarrassment of Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei.
They only have the right to supervise the Jin Yiwei and have no binding power over the officials. Therefore, unless there is support or instructions from above, no official will betray Lu Bai.
However, these are only for ordinary Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei. For Lu Bai, he nodded, "I understand, the prefect is protecting the Jinyiweishe people! Come on, take down the prefect and give me the records.
Search it out!"
When the prefect heard this, he was shocked and angry, "A cover? What cover? What evidence do you have? This is slander!"
Lu Bai said matter-of-factly: "Search the records and I will have evidence."
Ever since he last saw Gu Qinghuan's operation in Yongle City, Lu Bai had deeply understood the essence of this operation.
"You are talking nonsense!" The magistrate's face was furious, but in his heart he felt that what Lu Bai said made sense, "Am I that kind of person? I will give you the record now."
The prefect politely asked his subordinates to send over the records.
The people in the Jinyi Guardhouse were dumbfounded, wondering what the hell kind of operation was going on to sell him like this?
His subordinates quickly brought the record book over. Lu Bai took a look at it and found that there was obviously no record of redemption of silver or punishment with a rod, and the craftsman had obviously paid the silver. Therefore, it was enough to conclude that the Jinyi Guardsman was corrupt and perverted the law.
"Thanks!"
Lu Bai waved his hand to the prefect and took away the conclusive evidence.
The magistrate watched him leave, and finally shook his head, "Damn, why does Nanzhen Fusi trust the Zhenfu envoy? He is so ruthless."
Without saying a word, he would accuse Renhe and Luo Zhi. He was simply better at framing people than the Jin Yiwei of Beizhen Fusi.
The master next to him came over and said, "I heard that his surname is Lu - Sir, could it be Lu Bai, the original Jin Yiwei Qianhu of Yancheng?"
The magistrate was all excited, "Is it the Lu Bai who killed several masters of Yiqiu Villa?"
The master nodded.
Their city is not far from Yongle City, and what happened in Yancheng has also been heard here. They know that he not only killed the masters of Yiqiu Villa, but also evaded the city lord and killed the father-in-law of Xichang——
The prefect rejoiced, "Fortunately, fortunately."
People from Yiqiu Villa and Xichang dared to kill, so the prefect felt that it was very merciful to tie up Luo Zhi for just one crime.
After leaving the magistrate's office, Lu Bai asked the woman to lead the way to Jinyi Weisheren's residence.
At this moment, the guard in Jinyi finally recovered from the panic of being slapped on the city wall. He knew that Lu Bai had this record in hand, which was enough to make him suffer.
He could only admit that he was unlucky and walked to Lu Bai, "Sir, please be merciful and merciful. I can give you the money. For the sake of my father being a Qianhu, you have bypassed me this time. This time
Stop investigating the matter."
In his opinion, Lu Bai was involved in this affair just for the sake of wealth. At most, he would add a new official to take office. Now he admits his failure and is willing to give all his property away. He hopes that Lu Bai will let him go.
return.
However, Lu Bai said sincerely: "This is not for money, but for justice!"
Although this justice is on the panel.
"I told you just now, I'm here with a sword in hand to put an end to the injustice in the world!"
The people in Jinyi Weishe believed his evil deeds and said, "All the silver belongs to you. I, I, I will add another thousand taels of silver."
Lu Bai smiled and shook his head.
He was engaged in the private salt business, and he owned three salt mines, and the Shunfeng Warehouse and Bank were going smoothly. The last thing he lacked was money.
The man in Jinyiweishe was stupid, he didn’t want any money, so what did he want?
"Sir, everything is negotiable. Whatever you want, just ask." He caught up with Lu Bai again,
Lu Bai stopped and said, "I really want something."
The people in Jinyi Weishe were delighted, "You say it, you say it."
Lu Bai looked at him, "I want you to plead guilty!"
If you plead guilty, the case will be solved, and if you solve the case, you will have a chance to win a lottery. If you have a chance to win a lottery, you can become stronger, and becoming stronger - Lu Bai can't get anything he wants.
When the guard in Jinyi heard this, his face darkened, "Sir, my father is the right-hand man of Fusi Town Fushi in Beizhen. If you don't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, my life will be uncomfortable, and so will you.
Wouldn’t it be comfortable?”
"Threaten me?" Lu Bai looked at him sideways, "What a coincidence, what I like most is discomfort."
He wished that all the people who had wasted their lives and were burdened with merit points would come to make him uncomfortable. As long as there were merit points, he didn't mind being uncomfortable.
Lu Bai ignored him and led the people forward.
His men were escorting the guards in golden clothes from behind, jokingly saying: "Okay! Boy, if you dare to threaten our lord, you don't want to live anymore, and you don't want to inquire. We, your lord, are the masters of Yiqiu Villa who have offended you all."
The guard in Jinyi was stunned, "What?!"
Lu Bai's subordinate was too lazy to explain to him, so he patted him on the shoulder and gave him a wish-for-goodness look.
Led by the woman, they quickly arrived at the compound where Jinyi Weisheren and the others were staying temporarily.
There are many servants in the courtyard, as well as some gangsters who help out.
As outsiders, the Jinyiweishe people had to recruit local snakes to help them do things and find out information.
These gangsters were used to being arrogant. Seeing Lu Bai open the door and walk in, the gangster couldn't help but angrily said: "You fucking——"
boom!
The pup stuck on the treetop and swayed in the wind.
Lu Bai took back his hand and looked at this scoundrel in surprise. He actually had the name of someone he killed in vain.
However, Lu Bai was too lazy to pay attention to him at this time. He turned around and asked the woman, "Where is the Carpenter Zhang you mentioned?"
The woman pointed to the backyard and said, "In the woodshed in the backyard."
Lu Bai asked his Jin Yiwei and disciples to rescue the person. After a while, the group of people helped out a man who had been tortured into a state of disgrace, with disheveled hair and blood all over his body.
"Sir, this is Carpenter Zhang." The subordinate reported.
Carpenter Zhang was still conscious. He raised his head and looked at Lu Bai, then slowly lowered his head.
Lu Bai waved his hand and said, "Send him back for you."
After his men left, Lu Bai looked around at the imprisoned guards, his men, and the frightened gangsters.
"Catch these scoundrels." Lu Bai asked someone to move a chair and sit in the yard.
He wanted to torture these scoundrels on the spot and ask them to tell them all the bad things that the Jinyi Weishe people had done.
Jin Yiwei is the best at extracting confessions through torture.
As for these scoundrels, they were working for Jin Yiwei's people, and they never expected that one day they would fall into the hands of Jin Yiwei.
Once the torture was over, they quickly took action.
I don't know if I don't know this, but I'll be shocked by this move. This Jinyi Weishe man is really not a thing. The silver was originally used to redeem him and avoid the punishment of the rod, but when it came to him, the punishment of the rod was to let the craftsmen pay for the silver.
In order to earn this money, he had accidentally killed four or five runaway craftsmen.
The superiors asked the escaped craftsman to be arrested for the sake of the project. He beat the man to death and the engineering craftsman was gone. It was difficult for the superiors to pursue the case, so he quietly buried the dead craftsman and reported it to the police for traceability.
Not only that, this guy is also particularly fond of young girls. Whenever there is a girl from the Fugitive family, no matter beautiful or ugly, Jin Yiwei will always get their daughter to his bed.
With such an animal's behavior, Lu Bai felt that if he didn't kill him, he wouldn't be a human being.
"good very good."
Lu Bai narrowed his eyes and wandered around these rogue gangsters. Whoever fell on them would be frightened and trembled all over. "Is there anyone else who needs to be confessed?" Lu Bai asked.
They shook their heads.
"Are you sure?" Lu Bai's face was expressionless.
The gangsters became anxious, and after racking their brains to think about it, one gangster raised his hand cowardly, "I, we just, just beat up Carpenter Zhang's wife this morning."
Lu Bai raised his eyebrows and said, "Carpenter Zhang is locked up, why did you beat his wife?"
The rogue who spoke looked at the guard in Jinyi who was being held captive and kneeling on the ground, and said: "We sent a message to Carpenter Zhang's wife yesterday, telling her that Carpenter Zhang was starving and asked her to bring food to Carpenter Zhang every day.
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In fact, the Jinyi Guardsmen couldn't wait any longer, so they decided to attack Zhang Carpenter's daughter Bawang.
Yesterday Carpenter Zhang's wife sent him the meal. Today they beat Carpenter Zhang's wife and she couldn't deliver the meal. In order to prevent his father from starving to death, his daughter had to deliver it.
"Sir, your lord, just prepare to use force on Carpenter Zhang's daughter when she is delivering food," said the rogue.
Lu Bai glanced at Zi Jinyi's guard, "Did you succeed?"
The people in Jinyi Weishe didn't say anything.
Lu Bai waved his hand and asked his men to prepare for execution.
The guard in Jinyi hesitated for a moment, but before the person who wanted to be tortured came up to him, he struck, "No, I didn't succeed."
Carpenter Zhang and his daughter have not yet come to deliver food.
Of course, there is no need to deliver meals.
Lu Bai nodded happily, not bad, at least he did something good.
Unexpectedly, just as he thought about it, the people who sent Carpenter Zhang back came back. They hurried to Lu Bai's side, "Master", "Sir", the two men said in unison.
Lu Bai asked them one by one to say: "What happened?"
"Sir," Lu Bai's Jin Yiwei said, "Carpenter Zhang's wife was beaten to death!"
"What!" Lu Bai turned his head instantly and glared at the rogue, "What's going on?"
The gangsters panicked, "I, we -"
Lu Bai's disciple followed and said: "Master, he was injured internally and was beaten to death without a strong blow."
Okay! Lu Bai stood up suddenly. He must have just been happy. These rogues gave him such a big gift. It was really lawless.
"Let them deposit the signatures they just confessed to. Carpenter Zhang's wife's injuries will be examined by the magistrate's court." Lu Bai doesn't need to check now. Now that the evidence is conclusive, it's enough to kill them.
"In addition, protect Zhang Carpenter and his daughter. They are very important witnesses!" Lu Bai said.
The disciple shook his head and said, "Master, Carpenter Zhang's daughter is missing."
"Huh?" Lu Bai was surprised, "Why are you missing?"
He looked at the guard in Jinyi, "Were you lying just now?"
The guard in Jinyi waved his hands hurriedly, "No, no, absolutely not. Sir, you are wrong. I really didn't succeed."
Lu Bai sat down, held up a cup of tea, and said, "Give him a longer memory."
Without saying a word, the Jin Yiwei under his command went up and tortured the Jin Yiwei, until he begged for mercy, "Sir, I will attack you, I will attack you all, I, I have succeeded, don't, don't hit me."
Lu Bai waved his hand and asked his men to stop. He asked his disciples to hand over the transcript and ask the recruited guard to sign it. Then, he asked: "Since you have succeeded, where did you hide Carpenter Zhang's daughter?"
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The guard in Jinyi was stunned, "I, I - I really didn't succeed."
The Jinyi guards felt that he was unjust, and he was really unjust. He thought that if the beating was enough, Lu Bai would not torture him. He never expected that Lu Bai would still want someone else.
"How dare you tease the governor of this town and continue to fight." Lu Bai stood up.
However, Lu Bai believed what Jinyi Weishe said, he really didn't know where Zhang Carpenter's daughter had gone.
Fortunately, Carpenter Zhang's daughter is not an important witness, and the existing evidence is enough to convict Jinyi Weishe.
The panel thinks so too.
Almost at the moment when the Jinyi guardsmen signed the signature, Lu Bai got a chance to draw a lottery.
Lu Bai nodded with satisfaction, waved his men to stop, tied up the Jinyi Guardsman and his men, and took them to the woodshed at the back. When they set off tomorrow, they would be escorted onto the ship.
His men agreed and took the man behind him.
Lu Bai's disciples were puzzled, "Master, this guy is so hated by others, how can we just take advantage of him?"
"Otherwise, kill him?" Lu Bai asked back.
He shook his head. The Jinyi Guards of Fusi in North Town had the right to kill first and report later, but he, the governor of Fusi in South Town, did not have such a right. He had to report it and wait until the superiors verified it before he had the right to kill.
"Then if we bring them to the capital and their superiors deny our evidence, won't they get away with it?" the disciple asked.
The Jinyiwei commander came from Beizhen Fusi, so he must be biased towards Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei, not to mention that the father of this person is a member of Jinyiwei Qianhu.
Lu Bai smiled and said, "Yes, it will be difficult to deal with him when we get to the capital, but - can they make it to the capital alive?"
On the road, sitting on a boat, there are so many ways to make people die.