Wang Shengdao: "How many prisoners are being held in the prefect's prison now, and what crimes are they committing?"

Lu Xiangming was stunned for a moment, and said: "Back to my lord, the criminal and prison litigation affairs are still in charge of Liu Jinfeng and Liu Yanmu, and the lower officials don't know the details. ”

Wang Sheng said lightly: "Now that Liu Jinfeng is no longer a official, the affairs of the prison will be handed over to you, and the case will be investigated by yourself, whoever dares to stop you will be taken down and put in prison directly, if you can't find the file and case, just find the prisoners one by one to ask, I will send someone to do this with you, and after three days, you must give me a clear answer." ”

Lu Xiangming hurriedly said: "Yes, give an official order." "But I was thinking in my heart that overseas Chinese want to investigate prisoners, and this is very on the road.

It turns out that in ancient China, if a new local official wanted to establish his reputation, it was best to start with a prison, although there were local officials who were specifically responsible for the trial of criminal and prison lawsuits, but the final judgment power was still in the hands of the local officials, so the ability to investigate and decide cases was often an important aspect of the local officials' political performance. Ancient Chinese legend of the investigation experts, such as Bao Gong, Di Gong, Shi Gong, Liu Gong, etc., are actually not full-time criminal officials. Moreover, the new local officials take over all the cases left over from their predecessors, and they have no baggage, and they do not need to offend people; if they can find out a few unjust cases from them, they will add a very heavy color to their political achievements; of course, when investigating cases, they should also pay attention not to investigate cases related to local forces, otherwise, not only will the cases not be solved, but their own officials will not be able to continue. However, the overseas Chinese obviously have no scruples in this regard, so they have no hindrance to investigate the case.

At this moment, I only heard the sound of footsteps, and saw Li Shan and the other four people coming in from the yamen together, and went up to the lobby to salute Wang Sheng, Li Shan said: "Back to my lordship, we were ordered to arrest Cai Yi, Yang Huaiyuan, Feng Siping, and Liu Jinfeng, but these four people are not at home, and they don't know where to go, so they are here to report to your lordship." ”

Wang Sheng snorted and said, "The four of them are not at home, this is really a coincidence." ”

Li Shan said: "Hui Yu, these four people are indeed not at home, we dare not cheat for personal gain, deceive the adult, if the adult does not believe it, don't send others to check, if we have a lie, we will be punished by the adult." ”

Wang Sheng sneered and said, "You don't need to send anyone anymore, stand aside for me." ”

A few people stood aside, but they all had a triumphant smile on their faces, and when the others saw it, many people thought that the new prefect was probably helpless, because almost all the servants in Jinan Mansion were from Feng Siping's disciples, and Li Shan and the other four were Feng Siping's apprentices, of course they wouldn't really arrest people, just now I am afraid that they sent a message to Feng Siping, probably because they got Feng Siping's face, so the tone when he came back to deal with Wang Sheng this time was also very different from just now, quite a deal"What can you do to me" means. And whoever Wang Sheng sends is the same.

As a result, some people began to gloat in their hearts, just looking at how the prefect stepped down, only Lu Xiangming knew in his heart that the means of overseas Chinese were more than that. They must have a backhand.

At this time, Wang Sheng had been sitting behind the table and did not speak, and everyone was silent, and the atmosphere in the lobby was quite oppressive for a while.

However, after a short time, only the sound of footsteps was heard, and a soldier of the People's Army came straight to the lobby and whispered a few words beside Wang Sheng, only to see Wang Sheng's spirit perked up, and said, "Bring it up." ”

And just when everyone vaguely felt that something unexpected was about to happen, they saw a group of soldiers of the People's Army coming in from outside the yamen, and in the army, they were remanded with four people, and they were pushed to their knees on the ground in the lobby, which was Cai Yi, Yang Huaiyuan, Feng Siping, and Liu Jinfeng who Li Shan said "are not at home and do not know where to go". Moreover, the sharp-eyed people have seen clearly that there are a few bruises on the faces of these four people, and even blood marks, and their clothes are also torn in a few places, obviously they have suffered a lot of losses.

In fact, when Li Shan and the other four people were pointed, Wang Sheng knew very well that they would definitely not really arrest people, and Wang Sheng had already made arrangements and had made the People's Army ready to come to arrest people. Of course, if Li Shan and the others really caught someone, it would be no better.

After Li Shan and the others received the order, they first went to Feng Siping's house and informed Feng Siping that Wang Sheng was going to arrest the four people. But Feng Siping didn't think so, and on the one hand, he asked the four people to report that they were not at home, and on the other hand, he sent someone to send a letter to the other three and asked the three to come over to negotiate. As soon as Nazhi waited for Li Shan and the others to leave, the People's Army immediately took action, surrounded the house of Feng Siping and the others with lightning speed, broke into the door and arrested people.

Although these four people are all big families and have many disciples and apprentices, they are naturally not willing to be captured, so they have picked up knives, guns and sticks to resist. However, the People's Army is not a vegetarian, and before it strikes, it has been authorized to shoot and shoot if it resists arrest. After all, the traverser is ready to take these people under the knife, as a chicken to scare the monkeys, anyway, these four people are notorious in Jinan Mansion, and the bigger the noise, the better.

As a result, several platoons of the People's Army shot down and killed some of the people who resisted the arrest, and the resistance suddenly collapsed, after all, the knives, guns and sticks could not carry the smoke-emitting guys, Feng Siping and the four of them were also arrested and sent to the lobby of the prefect's yamen, and the homes of the four were also blocked, and the family members were imprisoned, waiting for the next step of disposal.

But this time it scared everyone in the hall to their heartbeats, I didn't expect overseas Chinese to really dare to do it, it seems that today's things are not going to end well. And Li Shan and the other four messengers who were ordered to arrest were all frightened at this time, and they knelt on the ground with "plop" and "plop", kowtowed to Wang Sheng again and again, and said repeatedly: "The villain should die, the villain should die." ”

At this time, Feng Siping, who was pressed to his knees on the ground, struggled twice, and shouted sharply: "You guys have no useful things, what are you kowtowing to, do you think that if he catches us, he can be the master in Jinan Mansion, it is easy to catch us, but it is difficult to put it down." ”

Wang Sheng was also a little surprised, he didn't expect these people to be arrested, and they were still so arrogant. Smiled: Let it go? That's such an easy thing, even if I arrest you, I don't plan to release you. ”

Liu Jinfeng also said: "The surname Wang, what do you want, don't think that we will be afraid that you are the prefect, offended a few of us, and you can't be disciplined as a prefect." ”

In fact, these four people are used to being arrogant in Jinan Mansion, and they usually don't even pay much attention to the prefect, and naturally they will not take the newly appointed prefect seriously, they were arrested at home just now, and they didn't dare to resist at the muzzle of the black hole, but in the lobby of the prefect's yamen, they were all angry when they faced the prefect, and no one believed that the newly appointed prefect would really kill him, because everyone believed that their disciples and grandchildren would only listen to themselves, and there were all the documents, files, and files in Jinan Mansion. The case books are all in their own hands, so if they don't have themselves, Jinan Mansion will have to be chaotic.

Wang Sheng was not angry and said with a smile: "If I dare to arrest you, of course I am not afraid of offending you, you think that I control the poor people below, as well as documents, files, and case books, will I not dare to touch you? This kind of thing can threaten others, but it can't scare me." Saying that, Wang Sheng's voice also became stern, "A few of you have done a lot of evil in Jinan Mansion, disregarding people's lives, the people's anger is boiling, and there is more than enough to die, today is your death." Drag Liu Jinfeng out first, execute him on the spot, and see if I dare to move you. ”

I saw two People's Army soldiers, one on the left and one on the right, holding Liu Jinfeng up, and Liu Jinfeng's heart was in a panic, struggling desperately, shouting: "The surname Wang, you dare to kill me, do you want to ...... the prefect?"

Unfortunately, no matter how much he struggled, he was still dragged out of the lobby by KPA soldiers, and in the courtyard outside, a soldier raised a gun and shot him in the head. Hearing only a "bang", Liu Jinfeng's body straightened, and he fell to the ground and did not move.

The whole lobby suddenly let out a burst of exclamations, the overseas Chinese actually killed Liu Jinfeng! And Cai Yi, Yang Huaiyuan, and Feng Siping really woke up, it turned out that the overseas Chinese were really not talking about fun, and at this time, the three of them dared to carry it hard, and one by one they turned pale with fright, and they said one after another: "The adults spare their lives, the adults spare their lives, and the villains don't ......

It's a pity that Wang Sheng didn't bother to listen to their nonsense at all, just waved his hand, and the People's Army soldiers dragged all three of them to the courtyard in turn and shot them one by one.

At this time, Li Shan and the other four were so frightened that they were paralyzed to the ground, their whole bodies were shaking, and two of them were even so frightened that they couldn't even say a complete sentence.

Wang Sheng glanced at them and said: "I let the four of you arrest people, and specially instructed you not to engage in personal fraud, and let you choose whether you can go or not, you are good, but go to report to them, if I hadn't prepared for it, I'm afraid they would still be at large, what's the use of me keeping a few of you, Lu Tongju." ”

Lu Xiangming hurriedly stepped out of the ranks, bowed down and said, "The lower official is here." ”

Wang Sheng said: "Remove the four of them from the government, put them in prison first, and wait for me to deal with them. ”

In fact, Wang Sheng didn't kill Li Shan, the main reason is that these four people are guilty of not killing after all, and Wang Sheng killed people only to establish authority, shock the officials of Jinan Mansion, including local forces, and not kill people for the sake of killing, and Li Shan and the other four people are too light, killing them will not play the role of Liwei, and the execution of Feng Siping, Liu Jinfeng and other four people has already achieved this goal, so there is no need to kill more.

Seeing that Wang Sheng didn't kill these four people immediately, Lu Xiangming breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and hurriedly said, "Yes, please rest assured." Then he immediately called a few messengers and asked them to put Li Shan and the other four in prison.