After yesterday's incident in court, Zhou Wenbin also figured it out, if he wants to handle this case clearly and beautifully, and make His Majesty in the capital feel comfortable, he has to start to investigate in the market by himself.

And he felt that His Majesty asked those two princes to come over purely to find something for them to do, after all, he didn't want his son to be lazy, once people became lazy, they couldn't do anything!

Zhou Wenbin is actually very interesting, because the palace test was good in his early years, he was quite optimistic about the former Xiangguo who is now locked up in prison in Dali Temple.

And Xi Fang is also the only one who is in a high position, but he came to the gate of Chang'an City to personally meet these poor candidates.

Although some things cannot be said in the open, these grateful people will still talk about it at home and friends in the middle of the bargain.

Naturally, you don't dare outside, after all, you don't know when this sentence will spread to where, and I don't know if you will go to accompany the former Xiangguo the next day.

Zhou Wenbin may have been because of Xi Fang's action of patting him on the shoulder in the main hall, which made those important people take care of him, so Zhou Wenbin, who had just entered the officialdom, was also smooth sailing, and there was not much hindrance.

It is said that Zhou Wenbin is because of his personal personality, which makes it difficult for his career to go to the next level, but more people still think that it is because of the reason why the backer has fallen.

In short, in those years, the secretary of the ministry said that he would return to his hometown to support the elderly, and the notebook that handed over the burden of the ministry to Zhou Wenbin was refuted.

Zhou Wenbin himself has always felt nothing, he only recognized a reason for death, in his position, seeking his own government, there was too much blood in the capital that year, but he didn't flow, even if it was a little bit.

Because the all-powerful Lord Xiangguo said that when you sit on the high position of these temples, you are no longer living for yourself, you are living for Jingguo, which has 80 million people.

It is not easy for Zhou Benbin to come out of the small mountain village at the border of Jizhou and the perennial war, and he naturally knows what he should do!

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"My lord, the clothes you want are ready, I don't know what you are?"

Zhou Benbin's personal entourage found a wealthy businessman who came to Yangzhou to play in Guangxing Building and bought two clothes that fit well.

Zhou Wenbin picked up one, looked at it twice and said, "You change it with me." ”

At the earliest, on the way to Yangzhou, although Zhou Wenbin vomited every day, he kept thinking about how to deal with this case.

He originally thought that if he could find clues on the prisoner, it would naturally be great, if not, then he could only serve a private interview.

After the two changed their clothes, they looked at each other for a while, Zhou Wenbin stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, you really mean to be such a rich kid!" ”

After hearing this, the attendant felt that the adult in front of him who had picked up the bronze mirror and looked at his own clothes was taking advantage of him.

Because when the two of them were changing clothes, the adult said that he had to pretend to be a merchant who bought salt, otherwise this clue would be difficult to find.

In this way, he will become his son!

Zhou Benbin looked at the expression on the entourage's face and knew what he was thinking, so he said with a serious expression: "The case is important, and the rest doesn't matter!" ”

The attendant also nodded hurriedly, he felt that as long as he didn't mention it again.

In order not to let others notice, the two went directly down the back stairs of Guangxing Building to the backyard and did not show up in the main hall.

It was indeed the first time to handle the case, Zhou Wenbin was also a little at a loss at this time, and the two people standing on the street didn't even know where to go, so they could only learn to walk around the street like ordinary rich businessmen.

And in the Yangzhou Mansion in the east of the city, there is also a group of people discussing the matter of this private salt case.

Within the second hall, there were about seven or eight local officials, not many people, but they were all there, not including the one in Scoop City, of course.

Because when Yangzhou was first incorporated into Jingguo, it still retained the management system of the old country of the previous generation.

Not counting Qingzhou, which is north of Yangzhou, there are nearly 200 large and small counties in Yangzhou alone, and even places with a population of only a few hundred claim to be counties, and they also have their own county offices, which makes Yangzhou, which has just suffered from the war, more difficult to manage.

Later, after a reasonable re-planning, of course, there was also a force to suppress those old state officials, or village heads, who wanted to keep the county seat!

In the end, it was changed to 11 counties, and all of them were replaced by officials of the dynasty, so that the management was more perfect.

Xi Yuanxiu was able to become the magistrate of this city, and it was all because of the old man who had returned to his hometown.

In the main seat of this room sat the prefect, who frowned and listened to the arguments of the prefects standing in front of him, like a vendor in a vegetable market, arguing endlessly with the bargaining women!

"If you want me to say, you should go through every house, and you can always catch one or two!"

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't understand what he said that day, you can't disturb the purity of the people, and you can't let these people feel that this matter is very serious!"

"Then what should we do, just wait for the Lord Qincha to check it himself, if he finds out, I don't think we all need to go to the Holy Lord to ask for sin, just judge yourself in public!"

"Then it's the same as when the crime happened that day, or continue to send more people to investigate in various places out of the city?"

"If you think you can find out, you will be able to eat authentic mutton steamed buns every day in the future!"

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Xue Luping, who was sitting there, finally couldn't help it, patted the table, and said, "I asked a few of you to come, just here to argue for me, if you can make a result, then Your Majesty still needs to send a messenger?" ”

One of them hurriedly flattered: "Lord Xue's lesson is that I don't know what your opinion is, my lord, and the officials are listening!" ”

The people around also chimed in: "Yes, it's up to you to decide this matter!" ”

Xue Luping stood up, paced back and forth, thought for a while, and asked a little tentatively: "I don't know if the private salt is found in the jurisdiction of you people, no, no, no, if it is some clues, what do you think that Lord Qincha will do?" ”

Everyone was silent, although they had already talked about an issue just now, but if it was really found in their own jurisdiction, wouldn't it be a hundred words to argue!

When the case first happened, I didn't find it under my nose, but if the Qincha who came from afar found out, it would be different, and it might be mistaken for the same party!

No matter in which country the case of illegal salt is involved, it is a capital crime to punish the nine tribes and lose their heads.

And if these people are really found in their own places, according to the prefect, it is estimated that the fate of these people is almost the same, and it will not be much better after all.

But there are still people who want to help Qin Cha solve the case by themselves, then maybe they can really eat mutton steamed buns every day!

Xue Luping was able to survive on such a chaotic battlefield back then, and he sat in such a position, he was naturally a human spirit, how could he not know what these people were thinking.

He said in a convincing calm tone: "You also have to dispel those thoughts that have been on the rise, that steamed bun is not so easy to eat, and now those salt gangs like rats crossing the street don't even have a salt particle, you see, and besides, your foundation is not too clean, when the court first put you in this position, do you remember what you did?" If this Lord Qincha knows, hehe, I don't need to say more! ”

The faces of these people suddenly became extremely ugly, because the people who lived here were not Jingguo people who were born and raised in Jingguo, so they did many disgusting things that they didn't dare to let people know when they took office.

In those years, it was common to wantonly loot people's fat and ointment, and even robbed people's daughters, and also made several lives, but these complaints were pressed down by Xue Luping before they left Yangzhou City, which also made the magistrates present look at Xue Luping.

Xue Luping looked at the expressions of these people and felt very interesting, and the people who were thinking about climbing up again with this case just now also did not move.

Xue Luping flicked the rice grains that accidentally stuck to the cuffs when he drank porridge in the morning, and said with a little joke: "Coupled with your behavior in Guangxing Building yesterday, how good will that Lord Qincha have a good impression of you, he is a ruthless and unrighteous thing, and when his backer fell, he didn't even shed a single cat tear!" ”

The crowd was silent again.

Finally, one person spoke: "Please also ask Lord Xue for some advice, so that we can have a solution!" ”

"Yes, please also ask Lord Xue to think of a countermeasure, when we came, we also brought some souvenirs to you, I am afraid that you will work too hard, and I have already asked the housekeeper in your house to send you to the study!"

Xue Luping's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said to these people with flattering faces: "Don't deal with it, what should you do." ”

"My lord, what is this called, then we will wait for him to investigate the case?"

Xue Luping had an expression of hatred that iron could not become steel, looked at the person who spoke, sighed, and said: "What do you want me to say about you, where did your brain go when you robbed someone's daughter-in-law, what I said is very simple, he is just two or three people, where can he go to investigate so many places in Yangzhou, you don't help him investigate the case, as long as you don't do too much, he naturally can't do anything about you!" ”

Xue Luping cleared his throat and continued: "Your Majesty's will is for him to finish this case before the end of the year, and this salt gang estimates that he doesn't dare to make too big a move now, he estimates that he will have to go back to Beijing to ask for guilt, and when the limelight has passed, find a way to attribute this case to the gang of water bandits who have not been cleaned up a few years ago, and then draw up a false confession of the person in the prison, saying that there are people in the capital or something are casual nonsense, and then you can borrow some military salaries from this people to suppress bandits on the grounds of suppressing bandits, I don't know what you adults think?" ”

When these people heard the last borrowed military salary, their eyes lit up, and they didn't have to worry about their ugly things being known, so they naturally praised them again and again!

Xue Luping couldn't help but think of the city gate official who came to the court to argue with him that day, and couldn't help laughing!