Three days later, Liu Dajiang submitted a petition to the government office.
The prefect Yelv Qiyan had a good reputation among the people. He cared about the sufferings of the people, took care of the orphans, widows, the old and the weak, and was an honest and upright official.
On many principled issues, he and Zheyanzhi disagreed. For example, he opposed harming the interests of the people for the sake of defense, but Zheyanzhi believed that defense was the most important, and the interests of the people must give way to defense.
Specifically, the demolition of residential houses along the city wall involves the vital interests of nearly 10,000 households. Yeluqiyan only agreed to demolish houses within a hundred steps, while Zheyanzhi believed that within a hundred steps was far from enough, and he insisted on demolishing three hundred houses.
step.
The two were in a stalemate over this, but because Zheyan had taken control of the county government, he finally cooperated with the county government to demolish all the houses within 300 steps and emptied the government office. The people burst into tears, and Yelv Qiyan was so angry that his teeth were itching.
There is no way.
Also, regarding the refugee issue in Yingzhou, it should be logical that the military and the county government should cooperate to resettle the refugees, but Zhe Yanzhi acted as a hand-off shopkeeper and pushed it to the government government on the pretext of being busy with military affairs. The county government ignored it.
It was because of Zhe Yanzhi's face that Zhe Yanzhi didn't care, so the county government didn't do its best. Yelv Qiyan had to run around to collect food supplies. Fortunately, Niugao sent troops in time to deliver a batch of food tents, and finally solved the problem.
The survival issues of refugees.
These are just individual examples. In fact, the contradiction between Yelu Qiyan and Zheyanzhi exists all the time. The fundamental reason is that Zheyanzhi wants military and political control, but Yelu Qiyan does not cooperate, which leads to deep conflicts between the two parties.
Yelu Qiyan read Liu Dajiang's petition and frowned. County captain Du Shun actually abducted refugee girls and forced them into prostitution. He had already succeeded in seven cases. The eighth case was unsuccessful because he lost his life, but he accidentally killed someone in order to fight.
The father was sentenced to death.
He ordered his entourage: "Go and bring this Liu Dajiang, and I will ask him personally."
The entourage went out, and after a while, the entourage brought Liu Dajiang up. Liu Dajiang knelt down and kowtowed, "I pay my respects to the Lord!"
"Are you Liu Dajiang who wrote this statement?"
"Xiao Minzheng!"
"Let me ask you, what is your relationship with Yao Dalang in the complaint?"
"Yao Dalang is the villain's brother-in-law."
"I saw in your statement that Yao Dalang did not kill the man. What happened? Tell me what happened in detail."
Liu Dajiang tricked Yao into drinking and owed three hundred dollars for no reason. When the other party came to collect the debt, he beat Yao Dalang. His son Yao Song was eager to rescue him, but accidentally injured the leader of the debt collector. He finally said: "In fact, the other party struck first and used a knife."
He cut my nephew's shoulder and back. If he hadn't been wearing more clothes in the winter, he would have been completely disabled with just one blow."
Yelv Qiyan frowned and said: "There are four people in total. Kill one person and three more. These three people should have witnessed the leader being killed. Since it can be proved that Yao Song did the murder, why did the county government arrest Yao Dalang?"
"That's the problem. The county government's review clearly meant that the deer was a horse, and the common people also found it strange. Later, the county captain's aide Jiang Qing found the villain, and the villain realized that the matter was not simple."
"Jiang Qing?"
Of course Yelv Qiyan knew that this person, a staff member of the county government, was full of evil.
"What did he ask you for?"
"He said it could work. Yao Dalang could even be released without being sentenced to death. The condition he offered was that the daughter of the Yao family would become a concubine for the county captain."
Yelu Qiyan sneered, this is another way to sell this woman into prostitution!
"Then what? Did you agree?"
"How can a villain believe them? They are all demons who eat people without spitting out their bones. I asked Yao Song to take his sister and escape to Daizhou overnight, just because I was afraid that they would jump over the wall to catch me."
Yelu Qiyan nodded. This Liu Dajiang was quite clear-headed and was not fooled.
"You said in your complaint that County Lieutenant Du Shun was the instigator behind them. What evidence do you have?"
"I would like to inform you, Lord Fu. Although I have no direct evidence, this matter can be investigated. It has happened seven times. The refugee camp calls them hunters and hates them deeply. Lord Fu can arrest these hunters.
, torture them about the people behind the scenes, and then arrest the madams and ask them who they gave the money to, wouldn’t we know the truth?”
Yelu Qiyan said slowly: "If there is really a case of forcing a good girl into prostitution, of course I will take care of it. You go back first and wait until I have a clear investigation."
"Thank you so much for upholding justice, my lord, and I, the common people, must resign!"
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Liu Dajiang left, and Yelu Qiyan paced back and forth in the lobby with his hands behind his back. As soon as Liu Dajiang said this, Yelu Qiyan immediately realized that this was an opportunity to overthrow Du Shun. From Liu Dajiang's explanation, Yelu Qiyan also
It is certain that Du Shun is the person behind this incident.
But the key point is that there is no evidence. Liu Dajiang's suggestion of arresting hunters and bustards is one way to go.
With the confessions of these people, Zheyanzhi would not dare to defend himself, otherwise he would directly issue an ultimatum to His Highness King Yong. As long as Du Shun was overthrown, Zheyanzhi would not be able to use the county government to evade himself.
But now there is another trouble, that is, there are no archers in the government offices, only some civil servants, and the county government does all the specific things. Therefore, if the government government wants to arrest people, it must go through the county government.
Yelu Qiyan hesitated for a moment, and the only way was to go to Yan Jun and ask him to lend him some soldiers.
........
Yan Jun is really a bit difficult to deal with. Borrowing troops is not impossible, but Yelu Qiyan should borrow troops from Zhe Yanzhi. Obviously Zhe Yanzhi refuses to lend him troops, but if he borrows troops himself, wouldn't he offend Zhe?
Yan quality?
Of course Yan Jun knew about the conflict between Yelu Qiyan and Zhe Yanzhi, and was slightly worried that Zhe Yanzhi trusted the Du family too much, but he did not want to participate in the struggle between Yelu Qiyan and Zhe Yanzhi.
Yelu Qiyan saw Yan Jun's hesitation, and he simply said frankly: "I only borrowed troops to protect the refugee people from harm. I want to catch the people behind the murder of the refugees. I don't know that when General Yan went north, King Yong
How did His Highness tell General Yan that if General Yan wants to protect himself wisely and is unwilling to stand up to protect King Yong's reputation, then I will not force him, I will find a way to organize the refugees to protect themselves, and I will say goodbye!"
Yan Jun was slightly shaken. He was obviously hit hard by Yelu Qiyan's words. He was here to protect the interests of King Yong, not to be a good old man. He was afraid of offending others, which was not what King Yong expected of him.
Yelv Qiyan turned to leave, but Yan Jun sighed and said, "Why are you so anxious, Mr. Fu? I didn't say I wouldn't borrow it. I was just considering a compromise."
"Does General Yan have any compromise solution?" Yelu Qiyan turned around and asked.
Yan Jun nodded, "It stands to reason that without the consent of the commander-in-chief, I, the deputy general, can never borrow troops. However, I have three hundred guards, who are considered my direct personal soldiers. I do not need the commander-in-chief's consent to mobilize them. I will use these three hundred people."
Let me lend it to you!"
Yelu Qiyan was overjoyed and apologized quickly: "I just said a little too much, please don't blame me, General Yan!"
Yan Jun smiled bitterly, "What you just said woke me up. Protecting King Yong's reputation is the most important thing. Everything else can be put aside."
He took out a silver command arrow and handed it to Yelu Qiyan, "With this command arrow, you can command my three hundred guards. They have generals. You just tell them what to do, and they will definitely carry out the order to the letter."