Chronicle of Emperor Jing

Chapter 161

Zhao Shi returned to the capital, and escorted the carriage into a private house, which was a secret stronghold of the dark guard.

They got a total of four survivors this time, and interrogated them separately. The news they got was somewhat beyond his expectations. These people were not the family members of any adult, but some idlers who had gone astray.

According to their account, they are members of the Flying Fish Gang.A few days ago, their boss ordered them to watch Guanshi Liu in the farm to prevent him from escaping. As for why they did this, they didn't know the specific circumstances.

The idlers in Beijing are divided into many small gangs, each with its own boss, and they have set up many halls that sound famous, but are actually only known to people in their profession.

Although some halls do trivial things, they are quite legitimate when they are said, such as running errands for others, passing on messages, inquiring about some news, and entrusting others to warm up the situation and watch the situation.There are also some who just go astray, bullying the market, fighting, and setting up schemes to harm people.

For the latter, the government will attack and arrest people from time to time, but there are always people who are domineering, lazy, opportunistic, or because of various other reasons, join this business, so these ancient businesses will never be cut off inherited.

The people in the government office know a thing or two about these things, but even if they catch this group, the next group will come out, so the government officials will not drive them away, let alone keep these people. People, when there is something, are also useful.Once strongmen from other places come to Beijing to commit crimes, they need to cooperate to provide information, or arrest some people to take the blame.

These people are very slippery in their behavior and deeds. They should be filial to those who should be filial. Their tricks must be clearly displayed. They must know who can be messed with and who cannot be messed with. Therefore, even though they are doing things that cannot be clearly stated, they still exist in a stable way. Kicked to the iron plate, offended a big shot who cannot be offended, and was uprooted.

Now, they do this kind of thing for others, does their boss think that Marquis Yongning is someone who can be provoked?

Zhao Shi looked at the confessions of the four people and thought about this question very seriously.

He thought about it carefully, and found that Yongninghou was probably someone who could be provoked. At least these days, when the people in Beijing gossip about him, he has never made any excuses to make some people ruin their families and kill them. All of a sudden, let everyone realize that his gossip cannot be said indiscriminately.

However, the fact that Marquis Yongning can be provoked does not mean that the people behind him can be provoked.The worst person in the world to provoke——His Majesty the Emperor is supporting the Marquis of Yongning, don't these people know?

After Zhao Shi thought about it, he realized that most people really didn't know.

Marquis Yongning is favored because he is favored. He has all kinds of honors, wealth, high officials and rich salary, but when it comes to what the emperor has done for him, although many things have happened before and after, but in the end, many things really cannot be counted on his head. Going up, at least the emperor has never made such a gesture in front of people.

Every time the emperor does something, there are other reasons. The biggest reason for the conflict between the emperor and the empress dowager Xie's family is for power. Even if there is no Marquis Yongning, the emperor will do this sooner or later.Only the previous emperor's dismissal of the harem probably had something to do with the Marquis of Yongning, but he never recognized the emperor, so it is understandable for others to think that the emperor only cares about the Marquis of Yongning.

If Zhao Shi hadn't been with the Marquis of Yongning for these years, he probably wouldn't have known so clearly about the matter between the Emperor and the Marquis of Yongning, or wouldn't have dared to believe it if he knew it.

"Since there are people who don't have eyes, if you want to mess with people who shouldn't be messed with, then let them learn how to be good! Go, bring everyone back!" Zhao Shi ordered coldly.

If he can't handle this matter well, the emperor will probably feel that he has the kindness of a woman again.

Zhao Shi admitted that he didn't. He had concerns about doing things because he didn't want to do things that would make Marquis Yongning unhappy.

He insisted on the principle and made the emperor unhappy, and the Marquis of Yongning would definitely protect him if he knew about it, but if he made the Marquis of Yongning unhappy, the emperor would never protect him. Send him away so that he won't get in the way of Marquis Yongning. This is the real reason why he puts Marquis Yongning's thoughts first in his work.

No matter how capable he was, he would never think that in the emperor's heart, he was more important than the Marquis of Yongning. Zhao Shi had always had this self-knowledge.

However, these people who strayed from the door did not know how many bad things they had done. No matter what happened to them, Marquis Yongning would not care. Zhao Shi was quite free-spirited when doing things.

The secret guards are not easy to deal with some idlers.Soon, the leader of the Flying Fish Gang, as well as many key members of his subordinates, were arrested.There were only one or two inconspicuous young people who happened to be neither in the gang nor at home that day, and Zhao Shi didn't bother to trouble them afterwards, so he escaped unharmed.

With more than 30 thugs and more than 50 errand runners, the Flying Fish Gang can be regarded as a well-known faction in the side gate of the capital, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

These forces who went sideways confronted the government by hitting a stone with an egg, but the government was far inferior to them in terms of well-informed information. It didn't take long for this incident to happen, and the big and small forces in the capital all received the wind.

At such a fast speed, so many people were captured quietly, and they were all alive and dead. This kind of thing, at the feet of the emperor, can only be done by the government. Others, can't do it. Even if other gangs that have feuds with the Flying Fish Gang want to seek revenge, they can't do it so cleanly.

As soon as this incident happened, the atmosphere in Beijing was immediately cleared up.

No matter which yamen is responsible for it, if it can attack the Feiyu Gang, it may attack other gangs. If you want to cause trouble at this time, don't you want to use the head on your neck to accomplish those adults who want credit? official position?

Smart people definitely wouldn't do this kind of thing, so they are all honest, and all of them have become honest people who abide by the law.

Of course, the others were secretly guessing what the Flying Fish Gang did to get them all taken away.The two young men who slipped through the Flying Fish Gang were questioned and asked again and again.

The Flying Fish Gang has disappeared without a boss to cover them, and the two young men didn't dare to attack casually. They could only tell people what they knew over and over again. Their gang leader took over a big deal and sent someone to go The matter of Xifeng County was occasionally mentioned several times.

At first, the other gang leaders who heard the news didn't pay attention to the news. Xifeng County is a little far away from the capital.

Later, this place in Xifeng County was mentioned again and again, and these people finally realized that the Flying Fish Gang had no eyesight and offended someone who absolutely shouldn't be offended, so they ended up like this.

The so-called overturning and lessons learned from the past, with the example of the Flying Fish Gang, others will definitely not make the same mistakes again.

Some things are for later, let's not talk about them first.

It was only said that when Zhao Shi was cleaning up the Flying Fish Gang, Wei Minwen from the farm finally got the arrest of Guanshi Liu.

Although Wei Ze was also here, if he appeared on the stage, he would be too solemn, and there might be troubles. So he changed into an ordinary person's clothes, sat in the inner room, and listened to Wei Minwen entertain people from the government office outside.

"My son!" Wei Minwen is the son of the Marquis of Yongning conferred by the imperial court, with a distinguished status, and the arresting and servants of the government office are all low-ranking officials, and they are incomparable to him, so when they meet him, they are the first to go A hug ceremony.

Wei Minwen returned the gift and invited them to take their seats before he said, "My lords have received a report from me to the county government and are here to investigate the case?"

As soon as he said this, everyone who came here was stunned.

"Your Majesty sent someone to report the crime? We didn't meet him on the way here, so we might have gone astray with us, but what happened in Zhuangzi?" The leading policeman was stunned for a while, and finally came to his senses. asked.

"I came to inspect the Zhuangzi today, and I don't know which adult in Beijing has kidnapped my steward. The servants in my family are all registered servants in the government. May I ask this lord who kidnapped servants and hid and escaped?" Slave, what should I do?"

"It depends on how many slaves are abducted and how much the case is worth, so that they can be convicted."

"In that case, I'm going to report a case here, and I hope that you adults can help me try this case. I am still young, and this is the first time I have shared my father's worries. I have encountered such a thing. If I can't solve it, I am really shameless." I'm going to see my father, and I ask all the adults to help me with this." Wei Minwen stood up and bowed to these people.

"Your Majesty is too polite!" Everyone turned sideways one after another, not daring to accept his gift.

At this time, the servant brought tea.

There was a yamen servant who was busy on the road and was a little thirsty. He picked up the teacup, only to find that it was a little light. He opened it and saw that there was no tea in it, so he put a few golden melon seeds in it.

He understood immediately, poured the golden melon seeds into his hands, stuffed them in his arms, and accepted the gift.Then, he winked at the others, and they agreed.

Since the son is so good at being a man, the people in the government office must reciprocate.

Although the governor hasn't issued a signing order yet, it doesn't prevent them from investigating the case first. Then Wei Minwen will either go to Xifeng County or the government office to make up a certificate.

Wei Minwen called in those farmers who still didn't know anything, and asked the government officials to question them.

Only then did the people in the government office know why Wei Minwen felt that someone had kidnapped his family's steward, or that his family's steward had escaped.

The steward of his family hadn't left his nationality at all, and he didn't ask him to resign, but he told people that he had made a fortune and returned to his hometown.

Either he was abducted, or he ran away by himself.

The detectives thought about the case they were supposed to handle, and all of them began to think about it.

Which family's adults are this, who want to make trouble with the Wei family, and set up such a poisonous plan?

And that Manager Liu didn't leave early or late, he left suddenly just before Shizi came to inspect, could it be that someone got the wind, knew Shizi was coming here, and informed him, so he ran so fast?

With this in mind, these people asked about various situations.

The farmers didn't know anything, so they naturally had something to say, and they explained everything. When a stranger came to the village, Manager Liu accompanied them to drink every day. Food and drink were offered to them, and every piece was shaken out.

These things further confirmed that Wei Minwen's words were not false, but that someone was actually abducting his family's steward.

Now his family is in charge of the whole family and servants, a total of nine people are missing, even if each person is worth ten taels of silver, it is still a case of 90 taels, and when they left, they also took away a lot of property in the village, a rough inventory After a while, there is also a value of more than 200 taels. A case of 300 taels is not a small case no matter where you report.