There was a fierce battle at night, nine were killed on the spot, two more died on the way back from Qilidian, Chen Jingjun, who had just been carried away by Chen Youdao, and the most seriously injured in the lobby, it is estimated that they will not live for a few days.

It's not a trivial matter to die more than a dozen people at once during the Chinese New Year!

Although all the dead were ruffians, they still had to appease their relatives. If it is not easy to be appeased, not only will he be infamous as a "cool official", but he may even be sued by some family members of the deceased who are not very good at talking and have some way to go to the government office, the provincial office and even the yamen of the Taiwan system.

Although there was a reason for the incident, Han Xiufeng was almost certain that Futai and Daotai would not care about these, because they all wanted to be peace officials and wanted to rule peacefully. If the defendant really comes to them, although he will not be dismissed and investigated, but this inspection is not to be done again, if you are lucky, you will be transferred to another place to deal with the vacancy, and if you are unlucky, you will be appointed casually, and you will not be left alone after the errand is completed, so that you will be wasted like this, and you will be left to fend for yourself.

The good days had just begun, Han Xiufeng didn't want to do a "hammer" deal, so he walked into the public house opposite to listen to the trial, read the transcripts made by Xu Lequn, and waited for Dean Gu, Wang Jiansheng and other gentry.

Zhang Daring has never done such a face-revealing thing, he has never made such a great achievement, he couldn't sit still after the trial, let his subordinates escort away the private lord who had just finished the trial, turned around and said with a smile: "Master Han, we have seized so much illicit salt and captured so many key criminals, you have to report to Master Zhang, and I have to report to President Xu Qian and Qian Shoubei!" ”

The credit belongs to everyone, and it cannot be monopolized by one person.

What's more, this skill is not so easy to grab, to be exact, this skill can't be robbed indiscriminately, Han Xiufeng said quietly: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and write an official letter and ask Wang Ruhai to help you send it to Taizhou." ”

"Master Han, I'm ...... I'm a rough guy from the ranks and can't write. ”

"I thought it was a big deal, I wouldn't be able to write it, right, I'll write it for you."

"Master Han, why don't I come." Xu Lequn couldn't help laughing.

"No need, I'm tired of you helping all morning, doing so many notes, you must be very tired, your hands are probably painful, let's rest for a while." Han Xiufeng beckoned him to sit opposite him and drink tea, while spreading out the paper and picking up the pen, leaning over to help Zhang boldly write the submission.

Zhang Daring obviously didn't know how to read, but he rubbed his hands and stood on the side to watch.

Xu Lequn drank a few sips of tea, came over to take a look, and hurriedly said: "Master Han, this is an official document written for Master Zhang, and an official document for Master Zhang to ask for credit, what are you asking me for?" I'm a white ding, and it's useless to give me this credit! ”

"The ins and outs of the matter must be written clearly, otherwise the Qian garrison will see it in a fog and mistakenly think that Master Zhang lied about his military exploits."

"Yes, yes, Master Han is right, the ins and outs of the matter must be explained clearly."

"But ......"

"But what, it's not something unsightly."

Han Xiufeng was perfunctory, Zhang Shiheng walked in quickly, respectfully gave the three of them a look, and then looked up and said: "Master Han, Dean Gu, Master Wang and Master Yu have arrived, Master Huang went to the countryside early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings, and his family said that they would not come back until dark." ”

"Okay, I'll go over here." Han Xiufeng quickly helped Zhang Dadao write the payment, then put down the pen and found a transcript, walked to the door with the transcript and turned back and said: "Mr. Xu, I will go to accompany Dean Gu and them to talk for a while, and I would like you to read the submission you just wrote to Master Zhang." ”

"Mr. Xu, I'm tired." Zhang boldly smiled.

Xu Lequn was so made that he couldn't cry or laugh, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "It's not about work." ”

………

Han Xiufeng followed Zhang Shiheng into the front yard, only to see Dean Gu, Wang Jiansheng and Yu Jiansheng already stunned by the corpses in the courtyard, standing by the courtyard wall and not moving.

"Dean Gu, Brother Wang, Brother Yu, let the three of you be frightened."

"Master Han, you ...... You watched the play with us yesterday afternoon, why did you make it like this today, one, two, three, four...... Nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, how did so many people die! ”

Han Xiufeng walked around a row of corpses, greeted him and said helplessly: "It's the New Year, Xiufeng doesn't want to kill." But Xiufeng, as an official of the imperial court, clearly knew that a gang of thieves and bandits could not ignore it when they entered Hai'an, otherwise they would not only be responsible for the holy grace, but also sorry for the people under their jurisdiction. ”

"Master Han, are these all private shackles?" Wang Jiansheng covered his nose and asked.

"Here it is, there are those who are killed...... The young man who died in battle. ”

"Young and strong?"

"Dean Gu, don't ask knowingly, Xiufeng really didn't expect that he thought it was just a gang of thieves, thinking that he would benefit one party for the first term of office, and he wanted to clean up the atmosphere and not kill them all, and planned to give Ma Guozhong and other splashes who were rampant in the township a chance to atone for their crimes, but I didn't expect that these private tyrants were all outlaws......"

With so many people dying at once, I can't help but give someone an explanation, Dean Gu frowned and said, "Although Ma Guozhong and others have bad deeds, they are not guilty of death. ”

"So Xiufeng is also very sad, but everyone is dead, so he can only be compensated."

Wang Jiansheng felt that it was good that this gang of scourges had died, so he couldn't help but turn around and said: "Thirty taels of silver for each family is really not a small amount, and even if they don't die in battle, just the things they committed before, they will not die in prison, but they will also die on the way to exile." ”

"Reason is this reason, but after all, it is more than a dozen lives, their families are reasonable, and there are unreasonable, what if they encounter nonsense?"

Yu Jiansheng looked at the corpses all over the ground, and muttered: "Master Han, Dean Gu, if you say something disrespectful to the deceased, it's better to say that these dead people in the courtyard are afraid that they are not dead now but will not live for a few days." ”

"Brother Yu, do you mean the third son of Dean Chen's family?"

"Master Han, I can't hide it, I just went to Chen Youdao's house, and the third child of his family was not lightly injured, and it is estimated that it is only a matter of the past few days."

Han Xiufeng knew very well that if Chen Jingjun died, Chen Youdao would definitely not agree. However, in Han Xiufeng's opinion, as long as other people's families don't say anything, Chen Youdao's family alone can't make any waves.

Dean Gu didn't think about it so much, he just felt that as a local gentry, he had to say a few words for the local people, but looking at the corpses all over the ground, he didn't know how to speak, so he simply turned around and said, "Master Han, this is really not the place to talk, why don't we go to the pawnshop and sit for a while?" ”

"Okay, Dean Gu, please."

"Master Han, please."

Yu Jiansheng followed him to the outside of the yamen, and couldn't help but say, "Master Han, these corpses can't always be parked in the yamen!" ”

"Parking until tomorrow at most." Han Xiufeng stuffed the transcript into his arms, helped Dean Gu across the threshold, and explained: "Of the eleven young men who died in battle, I have already sent the archers to call their families to receive the pension money, and by the way, carry the corpses back to collect them. As for the corpses of those bandits, they will be sent to Taizhou tomorrow at the latest, and the state government will not be able to handle this case, and it is estimated that they will be sent to Yangzhou together with the bandits captured at night, and will be judged by the prefect yamen and the Yunsi yamen. ”

"So many illegal salts have been seized, so many private thieves have been captured, this is a big case, a shocking big case!" Dean Gu nodded slightly.

If there was no birthday and no money before, the people in the town respected Han Xiufeng, the incorruptible inspection master, then now it is not only "respect" but also "fear"!

As soon as he walked out of the yamen, the people who saw the excitement avoided him as if they saw Lord Yama. It's not a good thing to be an official to this point, Han Xiufeng secretly decided to implement "benevolent government" next, but he can't let the people under his rule think that he is a cool official who kills people without blinking.

Walking into the pawnshop, the pawnshop shopkeeper was also so frightened that he even became distracted from speaking.

Han Xiufeng didn't care, said a few auspicious words of "Wishing you prosperity", then sat down and asked: "Dean Gu, Brother Wang, Brother Yu, last summer, was there a woman in Jijiazhuang who was raped while washing clothes by the river?" ”

"Yes, Master Han, how do you know?" Dean Gu asked puzzled.

"How do I know later, tell me what the woman's surname is, what is the situation now?"

"The woman's surname is Ji, and the country girl has no name, and the family calls her the third girl. Her father is a tenant of Ji Laocai's family, named Ji Guishan, and her mother is the fourth daughter of Deng Youyu in the town. Speaking of which, the girl also has a strong temperament, and after being ruined, she felt that she had no face to see anyone, so she hanged herself the next day. ”

"Dead!" Han Xiufeng asked in surprise.

"Death by starvation is a small matter, a loss of festival is a big matter, and she has no face to live if she doesn't commit suicide by hanging a beam! It's a pity that the brute who raped her hasn't been caught until today, and his death is unknown, it's really a blind death! Speaking of this, Dean Gu suddenly reacted: "Master Han, why did you suddenly mention the three girls of the Ji family, is this case an eyebrow?" ”

"It's not a secret, if the three girls of the Ji family hadn't died, Xiufeng's words would only be here, after all, it would damage a woman's reputation, and it would force a big living person to death. I didn't expect the third girl of the Ji family to be a fierce girl, since she had already committed suicide by hanging herself in order to keep the festival, then the official must give her justice! ”

"Master Han, what do you say?" Wang Jiansheng asked eagerly.

Han Xiufeng took out the transcript Xu Lequn made in the morning from his arms, and said coldly: "The thieves who were captured at night confessed that they had smuggled a batch of salt in the salt field with us in Hai'an last summer, and among them was a fugitive named Xun Liu, who raped a woman who was washing clothes by the river when he passed through Jijiazhuang, and after the rape, he knocked the woman unconscious, and then fled by boat. ”

"What about Xun Liu?" Dean Gu asked subconsciously.

"It was closed at the yamen, and it was captured at night."

"It's really Skynet that is not leaking, Master Han, since he has been caught, you must help Ji Guishan and the martyred three girls to call the shots!"

"This is nature, the sins of heaven are forgivable, and the sins of people cannot live, and it is intolerable for people like him not to kill heaven!" Han Xiufeng paused, and asked puzzledly: "Dean Gu, according to what you just said, the three girls of the Ji family are martyrs, have the Ji family asked for a suspense?" Please make a table for the court? ”

Dean Gu didn't expect Han Xiufeng to ask this, and couldn't help but say helplessly: "Master Han, how can it be so easy?" Not to mention that Ji Guishan is just an honest tenant, with no money and no power, even if he has money, he may not be able to invite him. Master Zhang, you know, you have been sick for a few days after taking office, how can you have the energy to take care of these, there have been many leaks in the past few years. ”

The husband is the wife, from the beginning to the end.

Chastity and filial piety, eternal love!

There are regulations in the imperial court, as long as the martyrs, festival women, and martyrs who meet the requirements of the invitation, the local officials must submit a document to ask for the award, not only to build a memorial arch for the silver, make a plaque to hang the forehead, and build a tablet in the festival of filial piety to engrave the name, but also to enter the state and county local chronicles, who has a martyr or a martyr woman, a martyr woman will have the general glory of winning the move with the family, and even the township is proud of it.

However, the law is the law, and if you don't give money, the yamen will not help you ask for money.

Han Xiufeng has been helping the yamen for so many years when he was in Ba County, how can he not know that it is normal to leak money, but he still pretended to be indignant and said: "As long as it is in accordance with the rules, you must ask for it, if you can't please the rules, how can you talk about education!" ”

Dean Gu said helplessly: "Master Han, don't you know that the three girls of the Ji family committed suicide by hanging themselves the day after they were raped. ”

There are rules in the imperial court, like the three girls of the Ji family, who only commit suicide after being raped, can be regarded as a martyr, and can ask the court for help, and those who hang themselves the next day are not counted. But in Han Xiufeng's opinion, this is too harsh, it is simply forcing people to die, and the sooner they die, the better.

"The next day...... The next day, Dean Gu, the three girls of the Ji family were raped and knocked unconscious by Xun Liu, and they were all unconscious, so why did they commit suicide. ”

"Master Han, are you saying that the three girls of the Ji family committed suicide by hanging themselves after waking up the next day?"

"It should be, it must be!"

"Master Han is high-minded, although Gu is neither related to the Ji family nor has a reason, he still has to worship the Ji family!"

"Dean Gu, what are you doing all the time?" Han Xiufeng hurriedly helped Dean Gu up, and said conclusively: "Three, there are a lot of things in the yamen, Xiufeng really can't care about helping the Ji family write the paperwork, so he can only bother the three of them." Leave the rest to Xiufeng, and Xiufeng will go to Master Zhang! ”

This is a great thing to do for the township, how could Dean Gu refuse, and was getting up to let the pawnshop shopkeeper serve him with pen and ink, Wang Jiansheng couldn't help but ask: "Master Han, what about the other women who have missed the time, can you also help them and their families to intercede with Second Young Master Zhang?" ”

Why don't you do it, not to mention that this is a "benevolent government" that is like a fake, as long as it can be done for ten miles and eight townships, who dares to say that the inspection master is a cool official? How could Han Xiufeng miss this opportunity to buy people's hearts, and said without thinking: "If there is one, as long as all the examples are counted!" ”

"What about the deceased?" Yu Jiansheng asked.

"Brother Yu, not only the civil widow's thirty-year-old ex-husband died to observe the festival, but those who do not change the festival after the age of fifty belong to the list. In the second year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng Ye issued an edict: Those who have died in the age of more than 40 should also be honored if they have been observing the festival for more than 15 years. In the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong, Qianlong Ye also inscribed 'the late virgin does not limit the number of years', and the book is customized! ”

Yu Jiansheng is just a scholar in the countryside, and he is a scholar who has not even taken the exam, where do you know this, and can't help but sigh: "Master Han, according to what you said, we have been able to invite more women in Hai'an in the past few years, not to mention more than a dozen." ”

Han Xiufeng said categorically: "As long as you honor your in-laws after your husband's death, you can teach your children to become adults and please do all the examples, and no one can be missed!" ”

Thinking that the table is not only glorious but also beneficial, a festival woman yamen is routinely given fifty taels of silver, which can be used to build an archway or not. In short, fifty taels of silver may not be anything to a large family, but it can be a lot of money to an ordinary family.

"Okay, great!" The more Dean Gu thought about it, the more excited he became, and he stood up again and made a deep gesture: "Master Han, no matter whether you can be invited or not, the people of Hai'an and I will not forget your great kindness!" ”

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