The yamen where the recommendation officer is located.
Suddenly, a policeman called in temporarily knocked on the door and came in.
"What's the matter?" Liu Tuiguan did not raise his head and continued to look at the case file.
"Tell the official, there is a man named Wu Sanwen outside the door."
"He said that he was the real deceased, no, he was the real Wu Sanwen." The policeman said with a surprised look on his face.
"He came to the Yamen to ask for his identity document so that he could take up his post."
When Wen Rensheng outside the door heard this, he immediately understood that it was a fishing bait.
But other people naturally don't think so.
At least the policeman took it seriously.
Liu Tuiguan's expression suddenly changed, and then he said: "Okay, call him in quickly."
"Forget it, I will go see that person in person."
Of course, Liu Tuiguan was also acting.
Not long after, in a side room of the second hall of the Yamen, a middle-aged man who was a little thin but seemed very capable appeared.
He is about thirty years old, and his weight seems to be about 100 kilograms.
No wonder he was easily killed by assassins.
After Wu Sanwen came in, he handed over his hands to the official and said:
"Reporting to the official, the people who live in Liu Gen's house are in low-level positions."
"That night, a friend came to see me. We were both very drunk. He had no place to stay at that time, and I happened to have some things to buy, so I gave him my sleeping place."
"And I went to stay in the inn myself so that I could go shopping early the next morning."
In fact, there is a loophole in this statement.
Wen Rensheng recognized it as soon as he heard it.
If an outsider suddenly came to stay, why didn't Liu Gen and Liu's father mention it before?
It can be said that Liu Gen is not at home, but Liu's father is always at home at night.
If Wu Sanwen was replaced by another person, wouldn't he ask a few questions?
Even though Wu Sanwen deliberately avoided Liu Gen, the two drunk people made a lot of noise when they returned home.
Why didn't Liu Gen's father hear it?
Liu Tuiguan also asked: "According to what you said, why didn't Liu Gen's father hear it? Why didn't he report it before?"
"That's because Liu Gen's father is old and goes to bed early. When he wakes up, he snores like thunder."
"I don't know anything about what's going on around me."
"This is what Liu Gen told me." Wu Sanwen quickly replied.
"It is precisely knowing this that I let my friends stay at my place while I slept in an inn."
After hearing this, Liu Tuiguan nodded.
"This can explain a thing or two."
"Yes, you can only hear the sound unless he gets up at night." Wu Sanwen quickly agreed,
"And he happened to be snoring at that time, so I wanted not to disturb the old man. Anyway, I would leave early tomorrow morning to save trouble."
When Liu Tuiguan heard this, he continued: "What you said is okay."
"But why did it take so many days for you to come here to admit that you are not dead and to get your identity documents?"
Wu Sanwen looked around, and then whispered:
"Actually, the villain is afraid that the killer will appear again."
"In the past few days, I found that the rumors were gone, so I dared to come to collect the identity documents."
"Killer, do you know that person is the killer?" Liu Tuiguan asked subconsciously.
"Yes, the villain has never offended anyone, and that friend has never offended anyone either. This is our first time in this county."
"No one knows us. If someone comes specifically to kill me, it must be the killer."
"I must have taken a fancy to the identity on the villain's document. It was this identity that offended some people." Wu Sanwen said in a low voice.
Hearing this, Liu Tuiguan pretended to be real: "Then what is your identity? You haven't been recruited based on the truth."
"Well, I'm just an ordinary low-ranking official at the border." Wu Sanwen looked around and didn't speak directly.
Liu Tuiguan then asked people to leave.
Then I saw Wu Sanwen mysteriously take a white flower from his arms, take out a veteran, and put it on top.
Wang Zaishang is going to rebel...
"This is all a mess." Liu Tuiguan took a deep breath and matched the code.
This man is what the strong man calls fishing bait.
For safety reasons, he did not go with the strong man to meet the bait in private.
Otherwise, once exposed, there will be no room for maneuver.
He only knew the secret code for connection spoken by the strong man.
"Okay, okay, I understand. After comparing the documents, I will return them to you. Remember not to lose them again in the future," Liu Tuiguan said directly.
As soon as Wen Rensheng heard this, he knew that a loophole had appeared.
In order to fish, fatal loopholes had to be exposed.
This document is an important piece of evidence, so how could a referee hand it back to the suspect at will?
Isn't this funny?
Of course, there were too many loopholes in feudal ancient times.
Everyone is too lazy to care.
Apart from other things, is the palace strict enough?
In my Qing Dynasty, wasn’t it the same that the hawkers broke in directly, the rebels broke in directly, and the cooks broke in directly?
The so-called strictness is actually a stereotype left by people from movies and TV series.
The real feudal society is just a big scam covered with paper.
The big one deceives the small one, and the small one coaxes the big one.
Everyone is barely maintaining a system that is destined to collapse.
Some are good at cheating, so they last longer, while some scams are so rubbish that they fail after a few years.
Some scams are relatively high-end and can last for hundreds of years.
"Thank you, sir." Wu Sanwen quickly bowed.
From beginning to end, he did not kowtow.
This actually proves to others that he is not a commoner.
The kowtow between officials is based on a system. The two parties are not in the same system, so they do not necessarily have to kowtow.
"However, you still need to prove your identity." Liu Tuiguan said again at the critical moment.
The other party then took out another small seal.
"This is the official seal that matches the identity document."
"At that time, my documents were put in a package because they were a bit big and difficult to carry around for fear of being broken."
"But I carry this small seal with me." Wu Sanwen handed the small seal to Liu Tuiguan.
Liu Tuiguan took it out and compared it, and the comparison was serious.
You can't tell at all, but he handed this to the strong man with his own hands.
"The comparison is correct, it seems that you are the original owner."
"You should take the documents first and leave the county as soon as possible."
"Don't cause any more trouble for me." Liu Tuiguan waved his hand.
He vividly portrays the image of a bureaucrat who doesn't want to get involved in big things.
As for what to do with the deceased and what to do with the case, just leave it there.
Let the murderer flee far away and be difficult to capture.
Anyway, there are a lot of cases piling up every year.
Does anyone really think they need to solve every case?
Isn't it just someone who died?
In what year is a group of people not killed in vain?
So from this point of view, there is no big flaw in this matter.
This is also the basis for Liu Tuiguan and the strong man to make a plan.
Then Wu Sanwen left from the Yamen Gate with documents, seals and other items.
When walking, he chose the narrow path.
Wait until the other party has walked more than half a day's journey.
At this moment, Liu Tuiguan called over Wen Rensheng and a group of policemen.
"Okay, let's set off now."
"You don't need to ask anything, just follow me."
Naturally, he doesn't have to worry about getting lost.
Because the route has been determined in advance.
As long as they follow him from a distance, they don't need to see Wu Sanwen.
This prevents anyone from being discovered.
As for the name, just use the name of a business trip.
Later, Liu Tuiguan greeted the county magistrate and told the government that he was going out on official business.
Naturally, the government did not refuse.
After all, it would be nice to have someone to take care of this hard work.
No matter how hard it is for Liu to push the official, if he doesn't do it and everything is ruined, it will be unsightly to ask the superiors.
Therefore, people who work hard in the yamen may suffer hardships when they are promoted, but if they do things normally, as long as they are not stupid at the top, they will still follow the procedures that need to be followed.
Of course, there will never be a shortage of fools, so the system will collapse sooner or later.
"If it doesn't go as I expected, the poisonous snake will be out soon." Liu Tuiguan said casually after leading the people on the road.
The police around me didn't understand, so they just followed him anyway.
It is impossible for everyone to have a horse and not be able to ride it.
Only Tuiguan has a horse.
And the horse is very old.
If you walk thirty miles in a day, you will be as high as the sky.
At this time, when everyone was following Wu Sanwen from a distance, Wu Sanwen hired a carriage from a trading company in the city after leaving the city.
This carriage has a fixed route.
Only walk between county roads.
Because there is too much food in this world, and there are frequent cases, there are very few wars.
Similarly, there are very few bandits on a large scale.
Because there is no source of population.
Only occasionally a few fugitives gather together.
Since they have no shortage of food, they rarely go down the mountain to rob.
After all, a robbery is a risk.
So it's safe on the road.
After all, we are all strangers to each other on the road.
Strangers rarely have a motive for murder, so the probability of a crime on the road is very low.
Wu Sanwen first took a carriage, and then went south to take a boat on the canal.
In this way, wait until you reach the Central Plains area, then take a boat from another river connected with the canal and head northwest.
After traveling northwest for several hundred miles, we turned the carriage and headed northeast.
After the carriage, we took the official road again.
In this way, you can reach the northern border by trekking and detouring all the way.
The whole journey is actually not that far, even if it's far, and it's not that close, either.
If he could endure the bumps and not be greedy for convenience, he would fly all the way from the border grassland to the capital.
After running through the flat wasteland, we then passed through a mountainous field, then entered the plains, and flew into the air again.
In this case, it will only be difficult to walk through the mountains and wilderness.
In other places, you can cover 600 miles a day.
It takes about a week to reach the capital.
And this place happened to be carefully selected by the prince's staff.
In this way, when you look at it from a distance, it won't attract anyone's attention.
But at the critical moment, as long as you endure hardship and stand hard work, you can overcome the difficulties of the journey and reach the capital in time.
Of course this must be an elite person.
And the scale can only be less than three hundred.
In fact, during the transformation, 300 people in key positions are enough.
And coveting comfort is what I am doing now.
First go south, then west, then north, then east, making a big bend.
Try to take a boat or a horse-drawn carriage as long as you are comfortable.
And it’s also safe for the body.
If you take shortcuts, your body may die.
Many migrants and officials died on the road.
We cry when we say goodbye to people who are traveling far away, because the probability of death is too high, so we basically have to be prepared to never see each other again.
In this way, riding a carriage or boat is safer because it requires less physical exertion.
Time will drag on for a long time.
It will take at least 2 months to get to the place.
However, the term of office is relaxed to half a year.
It is normal for a certain position to be vacant for half a year in one place.
I walk less than fifty miles every day.
This is the normal driving speed of ancient people.
In fact, the ancients had the word "slow" in mind.
It is common to walk thirty or forty miles a day.
From the perspective of modern people, this is not as fast as riding a bicycle for an hour.
There is a huge gap between ancient and modern paths.
Nowadays, there are various roads, which are very smooth. There are villages around the roads and they are relatively safe.
Even for a normal walk, you don’t need to bring too much stuff, just buy what you need on the way.
In ancient times, if you did this, you would be dead.
You have to carry a lot of dry food and water, and you have to calculate how many miles you have to walk every day.
Never take unfamiliar roads.
Otherwise, encountering thieves on the road is a trivial matter, but without water or dry food, it would be a dead end.
Therefore, ancient people rarely traveled far.
Except for a few official roads, they can still be maintained to a certain extent, which is to use loess to compact them.
Most of the other roads are made by people.
There is no maintenance, everything depends on the weather.
Whether it is marching or passing by, the speed is quite slow.
If an army of tens of thousands sets out, it will appear like a long snake.
Why is it most dangerous for an army to march?
Because the front has already traveled dozens of miles, and the soldiers behind are still in the camp and have not gone out?
Once attacked, the leader and the tail will not know each other's situation.
Even though there were messengers running back and forth to inform them of the situation.
The poorly organized Chen team had no time to organize a temporary counterattack.
They will only be defeated one by one by using more people to defeat the smaller ones locally.
Then there will be chaos and murderous attempts.
Countless generals and troops died on the march.
That’s why we need to have pioneers.
Those who often say that hundreds of thousands of troops are entrenched in one place are simply impossible.
The reason is also very simple, because the roads are limited.
Hundreds of thousands of people cannot get away just by walking.
Forget about logistics, how about walking in the wild?
The wilderness is full of dangers.
In ancient times, development was incomplete, and walking would trample the fertile farmland on the roadside.
It's still an easy road to go if you have fields.
When you go into the wilderness, you will die.
On both sides are mountains, forests, or hills.
Why does this army need to divide its forces even though it knows that dispersion will lead to weakness?
It's not that I don't want to concentrate, it's that I can't concentrate.
It is too inefficient to gather together and follow one road.
Can we reach the battle site in the Year of the Monkey and the Year of the Horse?
Therefore, in general, ancient battles involved attacking in several directions and finally converging.
In this way, the marching efficiency can be improved and more supplies can be obtained from the road. In fact, it means looting local warehouses and looting local people.
Even within the homeland, it was plundering.
They forced men to be strong and confiscated food.
So wherever the army went, it was a mess.
It will take several years for tax exemption to recover.
After one march, within a few years the route was abandoned.
Abandoned means that the village is finished.
Wen Rensheng naturally knew these things. The reason why he paid attention to this was because the man named Wu was deliberately observing the road and even writing on the paper.
Apparently he was planning to send troops back to the capital in the future.
