[Continue to ask for red tickets, ask for collections]

"Watch out for cold arrows."

"He doesn't have a chance to ......" Wang Zhongde's reply was more sonorous than the reminder on the side of the granary, and the owner of the cold arrow had already been shot in the chest, and the bow with more than one stone was not very strong, but it was better because the distance was close enough, and the other party did not have any armor. On archery, the fourth brother didn't think that a few little minions could take advantage of him, not to mention that he still had armor on his body to rely on.

I thought I was just coming to Guiyang City for a ride and drinking, but who would dare to mess around with the location of the state guard? By the way, I can still get close to Wang Xingping, but I didn't expect to really catch up and do a battle, I really don't know if it's good luck or bad luck.

But that sentence was the last conversation in the battle that had already ended.

The moonlight was like water, and the hideous and frightened faces of the thieves who fell in the courtyard solidified into the pale of death.

Among the sixteen corpses, the results of the musket accounted for forty percent, and most of the remaining ones were cooked by Wang Zhongde's people, but Shang Bao's methods were surprising, and he helped the furnace workers get the only kill with the kung fu of a throwing knife.

Oil and blood mixed together, accidentally stepped on it, the same slippery and viscous made people feel uncomfortable, Wang Xingping had to admit that he had a faint trick, the oil tank was put away, and all fell to the ground, although it was far away from the warehouse, but it was windy tonight, and it was very dangerous to ignite a large area.

Zhang Changgeng was tied up by Wuhua and escorted to Wang Xingping, like a deflated ball, drooping his head listlessly.

"Zhang San, you should thank us."

Wang Xingping's clueless sentence made Zhang Changgeng look up as if he had grasped something, and his swollen cheeks squeezed his eyes into a slit, but he still wanted to try to open them wider.

Wang Xingping's idea is actually very simple.

Who got this gang of thieves here? Who let this gang of thieves fall into the trap? Who gave him the opportunity to command the brothers who had been waiting for him to wipe out this gang of thieves in the night?

Opportunity is never wishful thinking.

If Kuzi and Ding Zhuang in the courtyard have been killed by the thieves now, and the thieves after the granary is also burned, they will definitely point the finger at Zhang Changgeng who caused them casualties, if the leader of Asha is still there, he will pinch this bed bug to death and not even frown.

It's a pity that everything came to an abrupt end because of Wang Xingping's caution, and Zhang Changgeng could only kneel on the ground and wait for the other party's fall and ridicule.

The moonlight that appeared from time to time shone behind Wang Xingping, plunging his face into darkness again, and in the eyes of Zhang Changgeng, who had collapsed to the ground, the little boy could be so tall. Facing the muzzle of the gun in front of him, Zhang Changgeng no longer had the courage to fight, and his body couldn't stop trembling.

"Is it the He family or the Gu family?"

He Degu's letter is still in his hands, Gu Fengming is the behind-the-scenes commander who contributed to some of the previous encounters, Wang Xingping has already roughly understood, except for these two, Wang Xingping really can't think of anyone else in Guiyang Mansion who can have such a big feud, not to mention that this day is such a coincidence.

If you don't come early or late, waiting for the last day of this delivery so that your worries can gradually become a reality, will there be anyone else in this way?

Wang Xingping's question hit Zhang Changgeng's weakness, not to mention that he would not end well, and there may still be a glimmer of life when he speaks, and he can no longer support it.

Tears mixed with snot made his words indistinct, "The villain is blind and ate the Gu family's ecstasy soup, but the villain is really just leading the way, and the villain's whole family is in their hands, so they can't shirk it." ”

After saying that, he kowtowed again.

"Zhang San, when the fuck did you get married? Didn't your father and mother have already been buried in their hometown in Zhenyuan Mansion? Wang Xiaoliu immediately exposed Zhang Changgeng's nonsense.

But Wang Xingping didn't care about Zhang Changgeng's random family members, but asked the most critical question, "Who gave you such courage to kill people and sell more goods?" ”

Zhang Changgeng was so frightened that he trembled, and his heart tightened.

"You tell the truth, I won't kill you."

"When...... Seriously? Zhang Changgeng seemed to grasp a life-saving straw.

"Say it." Wang Xingping did not answer.

"It's all Gu Fengming's old dog's idea, but the person is He Degu looking for, and the leader is Shui Xiyu's family's scolding Chu Asha."

Ding Deshui had already come up, "I've checked the proprietor just now, and it's true that they are all Yiren, and they ...... Look at this. ”

He was holding a short stick-like thing in his hand, but Wang Xingping recognized it.

Soak the fresh sweet potato vines in water and soak them thickly, then take out and beat them flat, add cotton wool, reeds, and then soak and hammer them again, if it is seven or eight times, then take it out and expose it to the sun, and then add saltpeter, sulfur, rosin, camphor and other substances after it is completely dried. After that, it is kneaded into strips, and after smoldering, it is put into the bamboo tube and carried around, and it can be rekindled as long as it is taken out and shaken or blown on a few breaths.

"That's a lot of money." Just look at the craftsmanship of this thing to know that it will not be cheap, on weekdays are used by dignitaries or in the army, and now these on the market in Ding De's sailors are sold for close to two taels of silver, and several have been found from these corpses, so Wang Xingping sighed.

"Gu Fengming's eyeholes are also a little smaller, just for a few thousand stones of grain to set fire, can he afford this crime?"

As soon as Zhang Changgeng heard it, he knew that the matter of Shuiwozhai had already been targeted, and he no longer concealed it in the slightest when he answered, "Actually, he wants to blame a few masters." ”

"Destroy the corpses."

"Well, by the way, I will plant a fire for the owner."

Fire prevention and theft prevention has always been a matter of importance to the government, Guiyang Mansion sent down the post of "get up early and sleep late, be careful of the fire candles", and there is more than one on the wall of each warehouse in this courtyard, but where there is a fire and the households, the first one to burn up is called the fire head, if the fire is big, the head of the fire is also to be imprisoned and punished.

'Gu Fengming played a good calculation'.

Wang Xingping has now figured it out clearly, and put the charge of murder and arson on a few furnace workers from outside the road, anyway, the words miner, furnace worker and rebellion are often linked, and it is best for them to be charged with such crimes, not to mention that Ding Deshui has no foundation in the local area.

And the most important thing is that these people were brought back by Wang Xingping, and they have nothing to do with him Gu Fengming. In the past, there had never been an accident in this grain depot, but this time there was an accident as soon as the person was replaced, and the logic is really very reasonable. And the Wang family, as the head of the fire, is naturally busy exculpating it, where is there time to pay attention to the disappeared grain, even if they know that the government will not take care of this matter first. Three birds with one stone, if it weren't for his own opponent, Wang Xingping felt that he should give Mr. Gu a big thumbs up.

Of course, the other party's ability to think of arson coincides with Wang Xingping's first consideration, because this is really the best way to destroy the evidence of the crime.

At this time, there are never many cases of deliberate arson, either to cover up the guilt or to hide people's eyes, arson is always the most effective means, a fire to the white land is clean, at least to cover up the true image of embezzlement of property, and at worst can even save their own lives. Wang Xingping discussed the "Da Ming Law" with people in the academy during the day, and it was also because of the tragedy caused by the resale of grain, how could the famous Guo Heng case of Taizu be unclear.

This old incident, one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, occurred in the eighteenth year of Hongwu [Note: 1385], and the cause was that Guo Huan, the head of the household department, and the officials of the six ministries colluded with each other to seize the local taxes and grains and not report them, and then altered the account books to occupy the public grain privately. Zhu Yuanzhang found that the amount of grain was wrong, and suspected that Li Yu, who served as the political envoy of Beiping Chengxuan, and Zhao Quande, the secretary of the criminal envoy, together with Guo Huan and others, committed fraud, so he ordered a thorough investigation. Yu Min and Ding Tingju, who were the imperial historians at the time, accused Guo Huan of using his power to collude with Li Yu, Zhao Quande and other corrupt officials.

In the end, it was found that Guo Huan and others had embezzled a total of more than 24 million stone of grain, which was almost worth the first year of the country. For this reason, the emperor was furious, and 'from the left and right attendants of the six divisions...... In the end, because the recovery of stolen goods was widely implicated, the place was boiling, and the chief official in charge of the case, Wu Yong, the trial and punishment department, had to kill the number, and this time the prison finally killed more than 30,000 people, and the number of people affected by the discussion alone was not slightly worse than Hu Weiyong's case. Moreover, this case also indirectly affected the business of many merchants such as the Wang family, and the capitalized numbers from 'one' to 'pick' in the four-pillar account book were implemented by Emperor Taizu one by one after the Guo Heng case, in order to make the accounts more difficult to alter, and this practice gradually spread to the people.

Although the crime in this case is exaggerated, and there have always been many doubts about the motives of Guo Heng and others, many people have understood a truth when they get to the bottom of it, that is, if the embezzlement of money and food is blown up, it will really kill people, and a lot of people will die. Therefore, the later people have learned wisely, especially since Sejong, the official atmosphere has become more and more corrupt, and more problems have been solved by arson.

In the forty years of Jiajing, the Wanshou Palace was fired, and the treasures in the palace were destroyed, and in the end, it was just a matter of killing an allegedly drunk cook, and no one knew how many of the treasures in the Wanshou Palace were burned and how many were lost.

In the fifth year of Longqing, the two warehouses of Guangji and Guanghui in Jingshi Nangong caught fire, and the grain in the warehouse was burned out, and no one knew how much was burned and how much was lost.

In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, the fire in the inner mansion burned from Shang Bao Si to the silver bureau, and this time I don't know how many things were lost in the palace and reported the damage.

Wang Xingping's lower limit on official fraud has always been very low, and it has not been a few years since the Changying Treasury of Taifu Temple came out to clamp iron and fake silver.

The above are just the warehouses in the palace and the officials, as for the tribute houses and examination sheds in the provinces, it happened that the present dynasty, which was burned down by a fire the day before the release of the list, has been more than once or twice since the Yongle period, and the matter can really be so coincidental, I won't believe it when I say it.

And the matter of using arson to cover up the truth, there was another person who once played a big one at the beginning of the country, a fire in the Forbidden City of Nanjing made that heir Tianzhang Dao Cheng Yi Yuan Gong Guan Wen Yang Wu Ke Ren Filial Piety so that the emperor is alive or dead has always become a legend, and let his one rely on' Jing Nan's uncle who waited for the throne has been buried in a heart disease, and the motivation of the Three Treasure Eunuchs to go to the West has at least a lot of reasons, which is indeed a way to hide people's eyes, and the folk legend about Taizu Tiekui has been spread at least when Xuanzong has spread this fire and has merit.

To get back to the point, since the fire was found on the thief's body, it all makes sense.

After spending so much money on Zhou Zhang, Wang Xingping's opponent can be said to have exhausted the organs, but since Zhang Changgeng has already explained everything, and he has guessed most of it, then it is not very difficult to deal with it, at least the crime of arson alone is not small, not to mention that now the grain in the warehouse has already been promised to Zhang Heming, so it should be counted as military food, which is a crime of adding a second degree.

When the weather is over, there will be no place to hold lights outside Guiyang City, except for the Guiyang Station in the east of the city and the Guiyang Station in the south of the city [Note: the boat station on the waterway], even if the granary of the Wang family is not at night, it will not be lit at will, not to mention that the entire north corner is so quiet that only the wind can be heard at night.

But the sound of muskets fired from the fight just now had already alarmed the residents of Lizhong, and the sound of the gong had already sounded, and the local Ding Zhuang and the patrol sergeants near the Rouyuan Gate must have heard it earlier, as long as the officials on duty confirmed that the guards were coming, it would only be a matter of time.

At this time, Yang Shunqing, Monk Xu and several libraries had already been dragged out.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Monk Xu was the first to shout, "This...... What's going on. ”

And Yang Shunqing, who was also not fully awake, was so shocked by the scene in front of him that his feet trembled, and he couldn't do anything if he wanted to stand firm.