Chapter 532: Know people and make good use of them
Qi Baoer frowned slightly, and asked after a moment: "Can you confirm that what they told is the truth? Did the White Ghost Sect drive them out, or let them continue to work for the White Ghost Sect as bandits?"
Cheng Si was very confident about the results of the interrogation: "There is not just one bandit den, but seven bandit dens working together. The six bandit dens add up to a total of 27 leaders. Sixteen people were killed, and 100 were captured.
Eleven.
These eleven people were separated on the way back, and they were also interrogated separately, and the contents of their confessions were largely the same."
The confession should not be false.
Unless, these people can predict that they will be arrested, and then give good confessions in advance.
At this time, Qi Kang'an strode in sweating profusely. He happened to hear Cheng Si's words when he entered the door, and as soon as he came in, he spoke for Cheng Si.
"Bao, Secretary Cheng used to be responsible for interrogating prisoners. The results of his interrogation were all right."
He really admired Cheng Si. He usually looked like a naive old man, but he was so ruthless. He used all kinds of methods during interrogation.
Then he was so moved that he looked at his daughter. Little cotton-padded jacket is still a little cotton-padded jacket. With such an expert in interrogation by his side, how could someone with such magical powers like his daughter not know about it? She asked him to interrogate her together. Obviously, she didn’t really want him to understand.
These interrogation methods allowed him to understand Cheng Si's true ability and led him to understand the principle of knowing people and making good use of them.
How wasteful it would be to have such a talented interrogator be used as a military officer?
Qi Baoer calmly accepted Silly Dad's gratitude, "Obviously, there are still many things we don't know about the White Ghost Sect. The White Ghost Sect known to the court is an insurrectionary army of disaster victims, with a large number of people.
But it didn't work out. Even though we had snatched two disaster relief donations, we never received much attention from the imperial court. Otherwise, the imperial court would not have sent us just to deal with the White Ghost Sect incidentally, but would have sent troops to specifically encircle and suppress us.
Things in the south are not as simple as they seem on the surface. Dad and Uncle Cheng know this well. King Xuan has been in charge of the Ministry of Personnel for many years. The south is a land of plenty. King Xuan's power in the south must be huge. Although King Xuan has been driven away now
In Yingzhou in the north, there should still be many people from King Xuan in the south.
Now there is a natural disaster, and we don’t know what level of man-made disaster it is..."
After a pause, Qi Baoer rubbed his temples tiredly, "If we really just send a disaster relief food supply, the number of ten or twenty thousand soldiers would be enough, but..."
There is no need to say the next words, Qi Kang'an and Cheng Si both understand.
The disaster relief envoys also received the secret order to purge the three southern states, and their Qi Family Army, in addition to escorting the disaster relief money and grain, also had to protect the safety of the disaster relief missions and the imperial doctors.
In other words, the disaster relief mission and the Qi Family Army are inseparable from each other in the three southern states, whether they are public or private.
Qi Kang'an and Cheng Si looked at each other, and both saw the dark color in the other's eyes.
They knew that this trip would not be easy, but they originally thought it would not be easy because it would be difficult on the way to deliver the disaster relief money and grain. After the disaster relief money and grain were delivered safely, they would just check the accounts and then inspect the matter.
I never thought that because my daughter/princess was on the road, it was not easy to think about it. On the surface, it was relatively easy for them to deliver the disaster relief money and food safely; on the contrary, it was after the disaster relief money and food were delivered that it was really not easy.
Start.
Alas, I don’t want to think about this anymore. They are already here. It’s useless to think about it now. They can only go down step by step. Can they still leave their choices behind?
Qi Kang'an thought of the news that had just arrived and suggested: "Bao, why don't we move the victims who have nowhere to go due to the earthquake to Pingcheng?"
Cheng Si was stunned for a moment when he heard this. After thinking about it, he felt that this might be a solution.
Pingcheng is a prefectural city and has not been affected by the earthquake. Now there are only a hundred people left in the city, and the houses in the city are still in good condition. It just so happens that the victims of the earthquake have nowhere to go, and Pingcheng is short of people.
He also echoed: "Princess, I think what the general said is reasonable. There is more fertile land around Pingcheng, and the terrain here is higher than that of the surrounding counties, so floods are less likely to occur."
Although Pingcheng is poor, the main reason for poverty is the surrounding counties of Pingcheng. Because they have low terrain, they will be flooded in heavy rains. Pingcheng, the main city, is flooded almost every year.
We need to provide relief to several surrounding counties.
Therefore, after Pingcheng suffered a disaster, not many people escaped from Pingcheng. On the contrary, many people fled towards Pingcheng. After all, Pingcheng has been providing porridge to the victims all year round.
However, it is precisely because of these reasons that the destruction of Pingcheng was so tragic.
Just thinking about it makes me heartbroken.
Qi Bao'er had actually thought about their suggestions, "We'll talk about this later. Let's deal with matters in the city first."
Seeing the two people's expressions of indifference, Qi Bao'er explained: "I know what Dad and Uncle Cheng mean. You are thinking that we are short of manpower. If we decide to let the victims live in Pingcheng in the future, why don't we let them in now?"
The city is doing something to reduce the burden on the soldiers, right?"
Both of them nodded. There were more and more victims outside the city. It was all labor. After all, it was to clear their future residence for them. So what if they were doing their part now?
"Pingcheng has just experienced a massacre. We are not afraid to look at the corpses and the blood on the ground. Those victims are just ordinary people. If they see what is happening in Pingcheng, will they still dare to live there?"
Those victims are not the kind of people who are really desperate. If they knew the terrible situation in Pingcheng, most of them would definitely run away if Qi Baoer dared to put his head on the line.
At worst, they could just walk a few more days to Mucheng. If Mucheng didn't accept them, they could continue walking towards the capital. There would always be a place that would accept them.
When the two of them thought about it, they both sighed helplessly and stopped mentioning the matter.
To be honest, if it were them, they would not be happy to settle here after knowing that this city had just been massacred.
Qi Kang'an thought of the Qijia Village where they now settled. Twenty years had passed and the village had not yet been wiped out. As soon as they found out about this situation, everyone in the village was filled with resentment.
At this time, Qi Baoer patted the account book and put it on the table, "If you have anything to do, please help me sort out the account. There are only two clerks left in the yamen. I heard that those two clerks are on good terms with the master."
This meant that she couldn't trust those two documents, so she took care of the accounts herself.
As soon as Qi Kangan heard that the account was being taken care of, he turned around and ran away: "I have to go outside the city and keep an eye on it."
Cheng Si also said, "Princess, there are still many people in the prison who have not been tried and will eventually retire."
Qi Baoer: "..."
cut.
He shouted at Cheng Si's back: "The focus is on the matter between the bandits and the White Ghost Sect. It's best to ask if there is any other collusion between them."
"The general will understand, Princess, don't worry."