In Huazhou City, there was a vendor selling old soup for breakfast. His eyes were sleepy, but he was still yawning. He came out with a pole and prepared to set up a stall. When he passed by the corner of the mansion of He Prefecture, the prefect of Honshu, he was about to follow the daily schedule. He was used to coughing up a lot of thick phlegm and spitting towards the official residence. But in the hazy moment, the merchant vaguely felt that something was wrong. There seemed to be vermilion smearing on the gate and wall of He Prefecture's official residence, and the originally closed door was also half open. There seems to be something hanging above the door eaves.
It was still dark at this time, and the vendor couldn't see clearly. He became curious, so he lit a lantern and squinted to take a closer look. When the vendor walked another twenty steps, he finally saw After finding out what was smeared on the Qinghe Prefecture's mansion and what was hanging on the door, he immediately screamed out! The merchant sat down on the ground in shock, and all the old soup he carried on the pole was poured out. Underground.
Because the merchant saw clearly that there was blood smeared around the wall around the entrance of Prefect He's residence, and there was a bloody human head hanging in front of the residence. There were also a few lines of big characters written in blood on the gate of the residence!
Although this vendor was illiterate, he saw that the head with frightened and distorted facial features was none other than the notorious prefect of Huazhou, Prefect He!
"Oh my God! This scares me to death!" The merchant was so frightened that he stood up on all fours and was about to run to the government office to report to the official. He was just a greedy and ruthless bastard who harmed the people and bullied the market. Now he was decapitated with a knife. But after all, this was a murder case that the state officials should investigate. If that guy died, who should investigate this case?
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The assassination of Governor He in his own mansion immediately caused a sensation in Huazhou. The people in the market talked about it in the streets, and most people applauded. And the officials of the government office, such as Kongmu, Tongpan, and Daobi Li, etc., were in conflict with or Those who had more or less followed Prefect He to do evil were always in fear. Since that group of thieves dared to assassinate the state officials, most of the government officials, servants and other officials in the government died that night. Who knows what day it will be? Wouldn't you come into your own house at night?
As for the few lines of blood written on the door of Taishou He's residence, it said that the person who killed the dog official was a hero in the green forest on the border of Yongxing Military Road, because some of the family members of a group of sworn brothers were killed by Taishou He. The miserable people died, firstly to eliminate harm for the people, and secondly to avenge their brothers, so they sneaked into the mansion and killed the dog official, and the other corrupt officials who had caused evil with Prefect He were not spared, and in the city People can rest assured that our brothers will not harm innocent people and are kind and so on...
And most of the people in the city were willing to believe the information left by that group of "green forest heroes", because apart from Prefect He, most of the people killed that night were vicious officials from the government who often bullied people in the market and used their power to bully them. , or it could be the overbearing and arrogant guardian of He Mansion, the other cooks, servants, maids, and maids, as well as Prefect He's three-room concubine, who were either knocked unconscious or tied up, but their lives were not ruined. , it is said that this group of ruthless bandits who dared to break into the magistrate's mansion to take revenge should have killed all the people in the mansion.
In fact, after Xiao Tang killed Prefect He, he really planned to leave the words "The murderer is the Iron-faced Xie Zhi Quan Yu". Later, he only made a rough calculation and found that he had already been killed by the soldiers and civilians in the city when he appeared on the border of Huazhou.
, but it happened that the co-owner of several mountains in the green forest, "Quan Yu", also came and went all the way to He Taishou's dog life... Wasn't this a clear attempt to lure the true identity of the mysterious hero in the green forest to himself?
Therefore, the content of the bloody words left behind did not reveal at all the person who killed Prefect He, which kind of green forest man was responsible.
Even so, there will still be some people who are suspicious of Xiao Tang.
It's just that now the officials in Huazhou Prefecture have no time and energy to investigate the relationship between the murders of Xiao Tang and Prefect He, because since the people in the city learned that the dog official who harmed the good people finally suffered retribution, first two people
A woman came forward to make the first complaint, accusing Prefect He of plundering by force, tarnishing the innocence of a good woman, framing good people, and other crimes. Now that Prefect He, who suppressed the people under his rule, was dead, someone else took the lead in exposing the accuser, and there was a sudden eruption in the city.
A large number of people came to the government offices one after another to denounce the dog officials for harming the people. The originally angry public sentiment was once again incited, and they gathered all the boundaries of Huazhou to report all the scandals and evil deeds of the prefect He. It was really countless!
The officials in the Huazhou Prefecture are as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Now the Yongxing Army Xiansi Division has not sent any officials to control the situation. Now that they have lost the backbone of Prefect He, they have always acted in a domineering manner.
Fu's Huazhou commander made the Imperial Guards in his department afraid to show their faces these days like a group of frightened quails. Officials of all sizes in the government offices were also afraid that before long, the increasingly agitated people would kill those who had followed them.
Prefect He dragged out a dirty clerk and beat him to death for helping him.
Finally, an officer in the government office, Kong Muguan, slapped his forehead and thought of Taiwei Su Yuanjing, who was about to go to Huashan to drop incense according to the imperial edict and would be passing through Huazhou that day.
That Su Yuanjing was also a Taiwei who served in the front department of the palace. Although he was not as powerful as Gao Qiu, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sanya Palace, who controlled the troops and horses of the imperial army in Bianliang, Tokyo, he was still an imperial censor at any rate.
The most important minister, now he has gone to Mount Huashan in Xiyue to pay incense to worship the gods and pray for the Song Dynasty. However, there is such a thing happening in Huazhou, which is near Mount Hua. It is supposed to attract the attention of the emperor.
Only when a high-ranking official like Yuan Jing takes charge of the overall situation can he control the situation.
Of course, the helpless officials in Huazhou Prefecture also thought of asking Xiao Tang, who was now near Huashan and about to return home, to come and appease the people for the time being. But they all knew very well that Xiao Tang was visiting Huazhou.
The state wants to go against Taishou He. These government officials who have followed Taishou He for a long time are not clean themselves. If the assassination of Taishou He really has something to do with Xiao Tang...then
Isn't it like a moth flying into a flame, and he wants to hit the edge of a knife that has been sharpened long ago?
As a result, as soon as the official ship arrived at Su Yuanjing, a river port not far from the boundary of Huazhou, the officials in the Huazhou government office begged and begged, and they were invited to the Huazhou government office in a daze.
If Su Yuanjing is a kind-hearted person and has a kind attitude towards his subordinates, even though Zhao Ji is a foolish king who is greedy for pleasure, he would rather displease the officials than report the sufferings of the people to Zhao Ji. When he learned about Huazhou
After the prefect was assassinated by a strong man from the Green Forest, and a civil uprising was about to break out in the city, he was unambiguous. He immediately sent out the accompanying Yuhou army to restore order in the city of Huazhou, and saw people coming to report the evil deeds of Prefect He one after another.
They gathered the people who were doing this and sorted out the clues to figure out who was responsible for the assassination of Prefect He.
But now that Taishou He has been killed by Xiao Tang, the members of Cai's party, and even the human relationships he managed with gold and silver in the officialdom are no longer needed. All the civil and military officials in Huazhou Prefecture know that Taishou He has tried his best A series of scandals and evil deeds, such as using deceitful means to imprison good girls for prostitution, framing their families, and using their power to bully civilians, will soon be exposed to the world. When the time comes, they will be pulled out of the carrots and brought out of the mud, and they will also be severely punished by the officials. sanctions.
So at this juncture, all the officials in Huazhou Prefecture also poured beans into Su Yuanjing like a bamboo tube to report and expose the lawless and obscene activities of the congratulatory prefect. When the dead man, Prefect He, was splashed with water, he only said that he had no knowledge of it before. It was only after arousing public outrage in Huazhou that they found out that Prefect He was such a well-dressed beast.
After Su Yuanjing compiled the confessions of officials and people in Huazhou and ordered the governor of the government office to take out the files on the unjust, false and wrong cases that had been previously concluded by Governor He, he already knew exactly why Governor He was assassinated and what he had done before. A fly is like a dog and a dog is like a dog, and the country is a fool. Su Yuanjing immediately turned livid with anger. He scolded in his heart that he was indeed like Cai Jing and other treacherous officials and sycophants. The disciples he taught were such beasts that ruined the country!
But since it was a murder case, it was also necessary to find out who the culprit was. Su Yuanjing also immediately thought of Xiao Tang. He heard that Xiao Tang had been unjustly convicted of an old friend some time ago, and wanted to save his daughter who was imprisoned by Prefect He, so he led a group of people to break in. At the magistrate's residence, news like this also made a fuss in Huazhou. Since Xiao Tang was praised as a knight, he had many close friends in the world. Although a strong man from the green forest of the Yongxing Army left a bloody note saying that he wanted to kill officials to eliminate harm, this murder case How can we get away from Xiao Tang?
Just as Su Yuanjing was frowning and thinking, thinking about how to report to the court, one of his subordinates, Yu Hou, came to report to him: "Su Taiwei, Marshal Xiao Tang and Xiao Jie have arrived at the government office and are here to pay their respects."
