Just as Zhang Chong was arranging his army, a military report from Guan Yu in Ying County was delivered to the Fenggao Office. However, it was indeed not about military affairs, but about a criminal case of killing people. This matter is obviously very important, otherwise
Guan Yu will not rush to send military reports.
The thing is like this, Guan Yu has stayed in the agency since he captured Ying County in the middle of last year. On the one hand, he maintained order, and on the other hand, he divided the fields and established collective farms on both sides of the Yingwen River. Guan Yu's handling of this matter was also consistent with
Zhang Chong has always had the same style of doing things, which is to pilot the project first and then roll it out.
But this time something went wrong as soon as things started, and the cause of the matter was the death of Guo Si, the Huo family's bili household.
The Guo family is located in a small dock on the west side of Yingwen River, only ten miles away from Ying County. There are fifty households and a population of 436. This dock is composed of four families with the surnames Guo, Wang, Zhang and Meng.
Among them, the Guo family and the Wang family have all lived here for a long time, while the Zhang and Meng families are immigrants. Although Guo and Wang are local ethnic groups, the biggest powerful family in this wall is the Meng family.
Ying County deals in medicinal materials and has some connections with the Taishan Shanliao. He started his business by selling some medicines from the mountains.
This time, Guan Yu's field allocation came to Guo's wall. The county sent a field allocation team here. They were organizing the field allocation, but they reached a deadlock because of the death of a man named Guo Si on this wall.
This is the report prepared by Guan Yu after a preliminary investigation. It says that the rich man of the Guo family colluded with the leader of the Fentian group and killed Guo Si, the leader of Guizhou. It was the rich man of the Meng family who colluded with the leader of the Fentian group to lure the Fentian group.
Zhang Qing, the leader, stoned Guo Si to death, who was determined to report the Meng family.
As soon as the murder occurred, Guan Yu told County Magistrate Wen Yu to go to Guo's wall to investigate.
Wen Yu belonged to the Wen clan of Fenggao, and was one of the four families that joined Hu's mother's family at that time. Cai Yong, who later became the prefect of Fenggao, promoted Wen Yu, a member of the Wen clan, to Ying County to assist Guan Yu's herdsmen.
Wen Yu went to the local area to understand the situation of all parties. He believed that Zhang Qing, the leader of the field allocation group, had caught the evil in Qianshouzhong and there was nothing improper in handling it. He only sent Zhang Qing back to the county office and left the field allocation group.
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Wen Yu was easily criticized for what he did, because this Zhang Qing was from the Zhang family in Dasangli. Although he was not the elder brother of Zhang Chong, the leader of the Ququ, he was still a relative, so Wen Yu was very protective of Zhang.
Clear suspicion.
Then Guan Yu sent military officials to investigate. The results of the investigation were completely opposite to Wen Yu's conclusion, so he arrested Meng Qi, a powerful man in Guo's wall, and his vassal Zhang brothers at that time. However,
Zhang Qing, the head of the field division team, did not take action immediately, but sent it to the county to see how the chief officer would handle it.
At that time, Wen Yu went to see Guan Yu privately, and the general idea was that now that the man is dead, the matter is over, and Guo Si, an idle and evil young man, will die as soon as he dies, so why miss a good official.
This good official is naturally Zhang Qing.
Guan Yu didn't say anything at that time, but continued to let people investigate the case, and then more and more details of the case were sent to Guan Yu.
Guo Si is the head of the Guo family in Biqian. He has a family of three, a six-hole underground cave, and 25 acres of land, which he cultivates by himself.
In the winter of the fourth year of Guanghe's reign, Ying County urged grain tax. Guo Si could not pay it, so he was hung up and beaten severely, forcing him to sell ten acres of good land along the river to the powerful Meng family. In the fifth year of Guanghe's reign, the Taishan Army set out to the west.
In Taishan, Ying County prepared troops, and Meng Qi sent Guo Si to join the army and became a civilian husband. After that, Ying County and Taishan Army fought several times under the flag, and Guo Si defected to the Taishan Army before the battle, and became a soldier in Feijun under the flag.
Horse soldiers and servants. Afterwards, the Taishan Army Guan Yu Zuo Xiaowei's troops captured Ying County. Guo Si returned to his hometown with the army and redressed his grievances against Tian Xiong, the then commander of the army, claiming that Meng Qi had occupied his land.
Tian Xiong is Tian Jun's second brother. When Tian Jun defected to the Xue family, he brought his two younger brothers with him. Tian Xiaoyong had not yet grown up and joined the baggage corps, and although Tian Xiong was thin, he was still quite tall.
, he joined the Tuqi Cavalry with his brother Tian Jun, but Tian Xiong was just a horseman at that time.
After four years in the army, Tian Xiong has grown into a strong man, and has been promoted step by step from a groom to a general on the cavalry. However, his jealous temper is just like his brother's. He has not forgotten how his father died. That is.
Those evil tyrants. These people deserve to die.
So as soon as he heard the complaint of his horseman, Tian Jun urged his horse to capture Meng Qi, a local tycoon from Guo's wall, into the army, tortured him and returned the occupied fields to each family. How could Meng Qi withstand this?
Even the land that was originally occupied was handed over.
After that, Guo Si left the Taishan Army and returned to his hometown to farm. After that, the field division team came to Guo's wall, and Guo Si took the lead in responding to clean up Meng Qi's various crimes. As a strong man in this wall, Meng Qi naturally still has prestige.
At that time, the people who were divided into fields were grouped into the Guo family. Only the Meng family had a big house, so they all lived in the Meng family.
Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group at that time, hooked up with Meng Qi's sister-in-law Meng. Among them, Meng Qi's companion Zhang Zhong also used his surname Zhang Lai to greet Zhang Qing politely.
They became relatives. Under the instigation of this distant relative and the beauty around him, a meeting that was supposed to be a public trial for Meng Qi turned into a public trial for Guo Si, and Guo Si was designated as a bad guy in the wall.
At that time, someone in the team advised Zhang Qing, saying that Guo Si had been in the army and should not be killed like this. Zhang Qing said solemnly:
"This is a good thing to make decisions for the people. Even if I bring trouble to my clan uncle, he will support me in doing this."
The clan uncle he spoke of was naturally Zhang Chong, the leader of the Taishan Canal.
Afterwards, with the participation of many Guo people, Zhang Qing took the lead, and the others added sticks, and beat Guo Si to death with sticks and rocks on the Yingmo River beach.
After killing the people, Zhang Qing said to the residents of Guo's wall in such a fierce manner:
"Those who dare to complain about injustice will be treated as guilty of the same crime."
When Xin saw this, Zhang Chong was already furious. He was angry that his tribe dared to use power for personal gain in such a name and took human life seriously. He was angry and won the county magistrate to protect Zhang Qing. However, although he was angry, he knew Guan Yu was a person. Since
If the investigation has been so clear, there must be a follow-up.
Sure enough, he looked down and saw the aftermath of this incident.
After Guan Yu understood the whole story, he immediately called County Magistrate Wen Yu, reprimanded him for harboring illegal things, and ordered him to go to Guo Si's burial day to put mourning on Guo Si, and represent the county office.
The temple apologized to Guo Si's widow, paid for the coffin from the county office, and gave Su Baishi as a gift. His son entered the county temple and was raised by the county temple, and was later sent to the Liebao camp for training.
The Liebao camp is a teaching camp for the children of officials and soldiers who died in the Taishan Army, where they learn and live in a unified way.
As for Zhang Qing, he committed adultery and harmed good people. Although he was a member of Qu Kui's clan and was an elite member of the Dashangli clan, he was still sent to prison to await his punishment.
However, during this process, Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu once again spoke out. On the one hand, he emphasized several times that the problem with Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division team, was not a violation of the law, but a matter of specific private ethics. In dealing with Guo Si, he was deliberately deceived by powerful forces.
, the processing process is completely in line with the normal field allocation regulations of the field allocation group.
In the past, some stubborn fools had to be beaten to death and hanged when dividing fields, so the field dividing team had specific law enforcement powers.
Later, when Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, came to put mourning on Guo Si on the day of his burial, he asked the people passing by for their opinions on the treatment of Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group. At that time, the households in Qianshou unanimously agreed that Zhang Qing was a good person.
Yes, Guo Si himself was idle, evil to others, and good at killing.
Then Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, issued a judgment on Zhang Qing's issue using the seal of Ying County, once again stating that this was a matter of personal morality, and vouching for him. According to Guan Yu, this man said in court:
"I have dismissed Zhang Qing from his post as a warning to others. This is how we will close the case. If there is a problem, he will be responsible."
After that, Wen Yu ordered the prison chief of the Ying County Temple not to treat Zhang Qing as a prisoner, and visited the prison temple several times.
Guan Yu later learned that the so-called civil trial meeting was actually a show. Those who participated at that time were the original group of accomplices who agreed to label Guo Si as a stubborn accomplice. Among them were not only Zhang Zhong's five brothers, but also those who had committed adultery with Zhang Qing.
The woman's husband, the younger brother of local tycoon Meng Qi, also participated and agreed that Zhang Qing was a good man.
Guan Yu naturally understood that the reason why Wen Yu protected Zhang Qing to death was because he was a member of Qu Kui's clan, and the reason why he dared to do so must be someone who guaranteed him something and promised him something. It was nothing more than those people from the Zhang family in Dasangli.
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But Guan Yu knew that this was definitely not Qu Kui's intention, so he couldn't let these people use Zhang Chong's name to cover up crimes, especially those who harmed the people.
So Guan Yu wrote a letter in Li, reporting the whole incident to Zhang Chong, who was in high office. He sent his troops to the temple prison to personally take Zhang Qing, and sent him to Guo's wall in front of all the households.
Later, Zhang Qing was hanged. Also hanged were Meng Qi, a local tycoon of the Guo family, and his five brothers, the Zhang family.
In this way, Guo Si's one life was worth seven lives, and one of them was a member of the Zhang family in Dashangli. In addition, Guan Yu also confessed his crime in the letter. Because he also sent troops to surround the Ying County Office and captured the county magistrate Wen.
Yu was arrested. According to the system, although Guan Yu was a local official, he was more responsible for the military. Unless there was really something about Wen Yu's rebellion, he could not send troops to capture a civil affairs official elected by the Taishan County Sheriff.
Seeing this, Zhang Chong finally let go of the anger that had been blocked in his chest. Sure enough, Guan Yu was still the same Guan Yu. If this gentleman also became a person who was afraid of power, he would really feel sad.
As for whoever takes the lead for Zhang Chong and delivers the message to the Ying County Magistrate, Zhang Chong will naturally dig it out for him. If this kind of cancer is not removed, it will be fatal in the future.
But just when Zhang Chong felt that the matter had become clear and could even be concluded, Cai Yong, the governor of Taishan County, went out to seek an audience.
Just when Zhang Chong thought that two of Mr. Cai's students had arrived at Fenggao to introduce them, Cai Yong came in with a solemn face and handed Zhang Chong a letter.
The letter he brought was actually written by Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, who had been detained by Guan Yu, and it also wrote about the death of Guo Si of Guo family. But his statement surprised Zhang Chong.