The official pavilion outside the city of Huai'an Mansion has set up a guard of honor in the color shed, the three-grade red robe Lu Lianxian, the fourth-grade red robe Huai'an prefect, and the four-grade big red robe Huaiyang Daotai Wuzhou, standing side by side on the side of the road outside the pavilion, under a good step, are the people of Huai'an, as well as refugees.

"What about Li Zhixian?" Lu Lianxian asked suspiciously, Li Yuchang is the lowest official who should come, why did he come later than them? This consciousness is too low, isn't it?

"This, this mansion has destroyed him." The prefect of Huai'an had to stand up and speak.

Lu Lianxian was dissatisfied: "The supervision of the imperial history has arrived, and he is the one who should arrange the honor guard. ”

Although the governor of the river nominally could not control him, the prefect, and assisted in the management of the river, he always had to listen to him, which was also the reason for stipulating that he was two levels higher than him.

"Is Gonggong Liu still in the mansion? It's better if these two don't meet. Lu Lianxian muttered in a low voice about the betel nut king, and the three officials began to ridicule it, Liu Zhiyuan's crime was really absurd, and this matter became a laughing stock in the officialdom.

They were talking about it, Jia Cong wrote a letter to Liu Zhiyuan to intercede for the betel nut king, and they didn't know how to get the result, but they didn't expect the money Liu Zhiyuan received.

About two quarters of an hour, Jia Cong's sedan chair arrived, the sedan chair was purchased in Shanyang, it was not very elegant in a hurry, but the curtains, hanging curtains, cushions and the like, the three sisters of the You family had already prepared them for him, some of them invited tailors, and some of them made their own, so Jia Cong did it quite comfortably.

The guards who opened the road left and right before and after included Sun Fu, Long Aotian, Wu Zhuangyuan, Yu Lu, Bao Er, Liu Xianglian, and Jia Yun.

Third Brother Wu helped Miaoyu send the master's coffin back, and Miaoyu also followed Jia Cong.

On both sides of the road are the officials of the Yamen of Huai'an Mansion, and this momentum is really majestic in the eyes of the people.

It is said that the patrol press is no more than seven products, at first the imperial court stipulated that the patrol press and the magistrate, the etiquette is just a trick, and it is not allowed to go out to greet the minister like the minister, but as the patrol press power is getting bigger and bigger, some magistrates even kneel directly to the imperial history.

The prefect of Huai'an and Wu Zhou took a step back, let Lu Lianxian go first, and Lu Lianxian did not push, asked people to prepare wine, and asked the Lord Yushi to speak on stage later, encouraging people's hearts, and talking about the ideals of national peace and security, repairing Qi and governing peace, news broadcast, always have to publicize it.

However, a few high-ranking officials had only walked a few steps, and on the road ahead, a woman suddenly ran out, dressed as a seven-rank woman, stopped Jia Cong's sedan chair, and knelt down with her legs bent: "Lord Yushi stays, and the concubine is a person in the house of Shanyang Zhixian County......"

The prefect of Huai'an, Lu Lianxian, and Wu Zhou stopped and looked at each other, Wu Zhou's eyes flashed, and the people crowded forward, not knowing what was going on.

As soon as the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, a young man with jade-faced soap boots suddenly walked out. This is the common aspiration of the officials and the people present!

"What do you have to do with it? Why don't you wait for the official to sit in the yamen and then come to avenge his grievances? Jia Cong looked at this woman, although it is said that the roadblock complaint is also an official statement, but many imperial historians hate it, and they have the right to directly ask someone to hit the board, and then drive it away, if everyone comes to block the road and complain, can the imperial historians still do something? Can't pay it anymore?

"Cheap concubine Du Shi, today I received the news of her husband's suicide, go to General Han Temple, the death of the people's wife and husband is unknown, please follow the lord to decide!" Du Shi cried as if no one was around, she was the wife of an official family, she was a little calm, and she was bold enough.

Wow!

The onlookers in Shanyang were in an uproar! Qingtian Lord Li Zhixian is actually dead!

The faces of the three officials also changed greatly, and one of the court officials died, can this be ended casually? It's hard to set yourself on fire!

And the worst mood is Jia Cong, he is responsible for this matter, why did he have an accident just after arriving at the first stop of the patrol? This fire is too hot, isn't it?

Jia Cong quickly hid his ugly face, and thought about it, if it was a slippery approach, he could push it off as soon as he came, and let Huai'an Mansion and Jiangsu investigate the case first according to the judges, after all, it was a homicide case, or an official of the imperial court, and in the end, it was decided by the three law divisions, and it had nothing to do with him......

His task in the local judiciary is only to brush up the case, and if he does it well, he is not deeply involved.

But as I saw along the way, Li Yuchang was still doing things very well, and his official reputation was also good, and the balance in Jia Cong's heart swayed uncertainly: "How far is the crime scene?" What's going on at this point? ”

"Go back to my lord, but it's just a tea time, and the concubine has been blocked." Du Shi still knelt and refused to get up, this was not her only hope, if Jia Cong ignored it, she could also go to Beijing to sue the emperor.

Feudal society allowed commoners to sue for the royal court, but whether they won or not, they had to be exiled, and the gains outweighed the losses. And Du is different, she is a life wife, and she has a letter stamped by the imperial court.

"My husband died unjustly, he was fine, he was busy treating the victims, how could he hang himself when he spoke......" Du Shi burst into tears, and looked back at the three senior officials, who were very calm.

Jia Cong secretly praised her for being smart and said, "Where is the mansion?" The official personally accepted the case, and sent the government to write a letter of punishment and a copy of the case. ”

"My lord, this government didn't know in advance that such a thing happened under the rule, and this official pavilion ......"

"The ceremony is unnecessary......" Jia Cong thinks that this news network is useless at all, just like the president of the United States is going to pretend to be forced when he takes office, it is better to do it quickly, and in front of the public, if he really resigns, it will be too unpopular with the people.

"Then the official is waiting to greet your lord at the Qingjiangpu Tower......" Lu Lianxian's eyes rolled, and his gift had not yet been given.

Wu Zhou didn't say a word, although he had a ghost in his heart and a little weak-hearted, but Li Yuchang violated the interests of the entire Jiangsu officialdom, and even if Jia Cong's imperial history of the three provinces was famous, it could not shake the officialdom of the entire province.

It is not uncommon for the court officials to kill the court officials, this kind of thing is not uncommon, the Qing Dynasty Zhang Jixin's "Daoxian Chronicles" recorded a real case, and there were sensational Futai killing Daotai during the Qianlong period, for the common good, even if the court officials are officials, what is it?

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Near the Hanxin Temple in the city market, when Jia Cong came in a hurry, the group saw Li Yuchang hanging under the beam, and the stool under his feet kicked over.

"I obviously struggled before I died...... "I replied hesitantly: "According to my face, I hanged myself and died......

Jia Cong touched Li Yuchang's neck, and his eyes were cold: "Is this what the hanging strangulation marks look like?" Get out of the way! ”

The man stepped back in embarrassment and fear, Jia Cong asked Li Yuchang about today's situation, Du Shi suppressed his grief, but his eyes were blank: "He said that he was going to come out to socialize, just to greet the adult, the husband admires the direct name of the lord of the imperial history, and he is still a jinshi in the same department as the adult......"

"It's the same year, what about the cronies?"

"The cheap concubine is also weird, he originally brought out more than a dozen people, but except for Li Xiang, the others went to the gambling house inexplicably."

"Where's Li Xiang?"

"I heard that my husband died, and I was going to find another master's house."

Jia Cong ordered: "Sun Fu, pass on my warrant and ask the Huai'an prefect to launch a yamen mission to find out this Li Xiang!" ”

At the same time, the people of Huai'an are full of wind and rain, and at the same time suffering from floods, there is a rumor that Jia Yushi is a disaster star, and he will accept bribes as soon as he comes, and it is said that tens of thousands of taels are packed in Shandong, which is the same disaster star as Liu Gonggong, and the reason why Li Yuchang committed suicide is that he can't afford to give gifts.

The next day, rumors flew all over the sky, and the people of Huai'an were not familiar with Jia Cong, and with the help of well-intentioned people, the people almost confirmed this statement.

The fire burned and burned to Jia Cong's buttocks.