Chapter 72 [Evidence of Profiteers' Crimes]

Gu Qingyuan, who was excited, motioned to his subordinates to get the note, at this moment, the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei held his mouth and secretly rejoiced, and after a while, the subordinate came up with the note, and the quick-eyed commander of the Mingtong Guanwei immediately slipped out of his sleeve with a dagger, quickly took it and rushed over to strangle Gu Qingyuan's neck and smiled, "You are finally fooled?" Ben will put up with you for a long time, as long as I kill you and push everything on you, and get rid of you by the hand of the Overseer, then I, the commander of the guard, will be able to sit justifiably in the future, and no one will be able to threaten me, hehehe! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he asked his subordinates to hand over the note, and the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei who got the note was very happy, and he tore up the note without hesitation, and Gu Qingyuan, who was holding his neck with a dagger, suddenly laughed and said, "I can't imagine that the dignified commander of the guard is so careless?" ”

Faced with this sentence that sounds particularly strange? The commander of the Mingtong Guanwei couldn't help but ask, "What did I fall for?" Gu Qingyuan, who hid the knife in his smile, said, "The note I gave you just now is fake, I have long expected that you will kill people and destroy your mouth, so the real note is hidden by me in the mansion, how can I take it out and give it to you so easily?" "I learned that Gu Qingyuan was cheating? It couldn't help but make the commander of the Mingtong Guan Guard suddenly nervous, but he still raised his courage and shouted, "So what? Anyway, if you don't take me to find the real document, I can kill you right now," but it seemed that Gu Qingyuan was not afraid, but there was still a hint of joy?

At this time, all the housekeepers in the mansion rushed in under the leadership of the housekeeper, and the housekeeper pointed to the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard and scolded, "You, the dog officer, have just drunk our 'Nine Turns Ecstasy Incense', see how long you can last?" Why don't you let go of my family members quickly? Maybe I can spare your life, or I'll hand you over to the Overseer? What do you think will happen? ”

As soon as the words fell, the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei lost consciousness, and as soon as his hand was soft (swaying), the dagger fell to the ground, Gu Qingyuan hurriedly pushed him away, and let the family surround him, beat him a few hard, knocked him to the ground, and ordered his subordinates to carry it to meet Inspector Sun to explain the matter of embezzling military food, and also asked the housekeeper to lead the family to rush out of the house to collect all the food sent into the house, and contact the rich merchants and squires in the city to receive food.

Then everyone gathered at the gate of the Tongguan Acropolis, and the Ming army guarding the city worked hard to maintain the order of the wealthy merchants, and Gu Qingyuan, who took the lead, carried up the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard, and shouted to the city, "The defenders of the Tongguan Guard, please listen to me, your guard commander is corrupt and perverts the law, and now I have been caught by me and will be dedicated to the Governor, and please tell the soldiers." "Mingtong Guan Wei Zhenfu, who was patrolling the city, looked at the rich merchants under the city, and hurriedly asked the soldiers to run to the guard command post to report the situation to Inspector Sun. But as soon as the soldiers mentioned that they also brought the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei, this made Inspector Sun think that there was a good show, so he immediately led the generals to welcome the rich merchants.

Because the noise was too loud to disturb the Ming Dynasty Yi Xiaoqi and Wu Junzhen and other Ming troops on the street, they mistakenly thought that there was a disturbance of the people and turned to the city gate to see, when they came to the city gate, Ma Wei hurriedly pushed away the soldiers to make way for a way, Ming Dynasty Yi Xiaoqi and Wu Junzhen came over but found that Zhang Eryou was tied up in front of the five flowers.

Wu Junzhen said happily, "It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!" Immediately afterwards, Inspector Sun and the generals also rushed to the gate of the city, and when Gu Qingyuan saw him come out, he immediately greeted him and greeted: "Oh, Master Inspector, I haven't seen you for a long time, disrespectful, disrespectful!" Today, the old man came to report something to the Inspector? The curious Inspector Sun asked, "Oh, I don't know what to say?" I saw Gu Qingyuan touch his beard and say, "Master Inspector, do you still remember the fact that the Zhang family was infected with the epidemic and died in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen?" In fact, it is not so simple, but Zhang Eryou privately bought two epidemic patients from the military doctor Langzhong, and when the Zhang family went to buy medicine to avoid the epidemic, Zhang Eryou knocked people out and took them to the patients infected by the epidemic, which made the Zhang family die tragically by the epidemic! Zhang Eryou deliberately hid in Shangluo Mountain to create the illusion that he was not in the city to confuse the envoy, and after learning about the case, he successfully became the commander of the guard. ”

When he learned the ins and outs of the matter, Inspector Sun was angry, and quickly pulled out his knife to kill Zhang Eryou, Ma Wei saw this and hurriedly asked the general soldier of the Mingtong Pass Guard to step forward and stop, "Master Inspector, slow down, the last general thinks that he may have something to do with the military rations case that disappeared before?" Please spare him for the time being, we can do this...? ”

After the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard whispered in Inspector Sun's ear, Inspector Sun put away his knife and waved his hand, "That's it, for the sake of the Zhang clan guarding the Tong Pass Guard for generations, there is no merit and hard work, and the Governor will open the net to remove you from the post of commander of the guard and drive out the Tongguan guard." ”

However, the general guard of Mingtong Guan and Inspector Sun also suspected that things were not so simple, so they asked Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei to follow him to see if they could lead to the accomplices behind the scenes? After they left, the wealthy merchants stepped forward one after another to curry favor with Inspector Sun, and said, "Master Inspector, you have worked this expedition, and we have already set up a banquet in the Huamanlou in the city, just wait for the Inspector to deign you to move." ”

The seemingly sincere invitation is actually suspicious in his heart, and Inspector Sun is conjecturing; Set up a Hongmen banquet and want the governor to turn in? But it was not good to refuse in person, so he nodded and agreed, Gu Qingyuan took advantage of the situation to take Inspector Sun's hand and lead the way, at this time there was a sound of gongs and drums behind him (bell, bell, bell) Everyone hurriedly turned around and looked, only to see a person wearing chain mail wearing a bowl with two white feathers on it, leading a team of Shaanxi Ming troops to walk quickly towards this side, and the soldiers came over and asked, "Who is the Inspector?" Inspector Sun, who was holding his hand, hurriedly saluted and said, "This Governor is, I don't know who this is?" ”

Before the words fell, the man dismounted and replied, "Meet the Governor, I am the deputy envoy of the supervision army sent by the governor of Shaanxi: move high, the governor has an order, you must go out quickly to meet the rogue, there must be no mistake!" Hearing this sudden news, Inspector Sun was a little frightened, but Gu Qingyuan next to him came up and said, "Ouch! Who should the old man drive? It turned out to be the deputy envoy of the prison army? Come on, come on, today the old man is the east to invite the two adults to come as guests, I don't know if it's okay? ”

This was exactly what Inspector Sun wanted, he had long wanted to explore the truth of the rich merchants, and with the presence of the deputy envoy of the prison army, even if he killed them, he didn't have to worry that the governor would blame him, so Inspector Sun took the generals to the appointment very happily.

At the same time, Wu Junzhen and his party were also quietly following, and Zhang Eryou, who was driven out of the city by the soldiers, turned to the north of the city in anger? On the way, he picked up a stick and hid it in his sleeve, as if he was going to take revenge? This made Wu Junzhen feel a little tired when he saw it? He asked, "Brother Ma, you said that this Zhang Eryou wouldn't go to the rich businessmen to seek revenge, right?" ”

Sure enough, Zhang Eryou came to the door of the Gu family's rich businessman's mansion, and without saying a word, he stepped forward and took out the wooden root to stun the guards, and broke in, Wu Junzhen followed, and Zhang Eryou, who entered the mansion, scolded loudly: "Gu Qingyuan, you old thief, get out of here!" Otherwise, I won't let you eat and walk around. The words attracted many onlookers, and the housekeeper immediately waved his hand to signal the family to go over and besiege him.

But where are these family members? Don't look at Zhang Eryou's wooden stick, but he is very agile, and he beat the family members to the ground with three strokes and five divisions, not only let Ma Wei, who was hiding next to the vase and watch the battle, ask, "Brother Wu, do we want to help?" Wu Junzhen waved his hand to signal not to act rashly.

Then the butler took out a note from his body and said, "Don't you just want this note?" I can give it to you now, but you have to help me get rid of our master in exchange? Hearing this, Zhang Eryou smiled, immediately agreed, and was about to step forward to take the note, when suddenly (bang), smoke filled in front of him, only to see the lead bullet through the butler's head, killed on the spot.

The panicked Zhang Eryou realized that he was being followed by the Ming army? turned around and hid while trying to escape in chaos, and Wu Junzhen also led the soldiers to get up and surround him, and walked over to pick up the note to watch and found that it was actually Zhang Eryou colluding with the rich businessmen to set up the note, and the lower right corner was also stamped with the seal of the Wei commander, which can be said to be full of harvest, Wu Junzhen immediately ordered the family to go down, and went with Ma Wei to seize the rest of the rich merchants one by one according to the list signed on the note, and tied them up and planned to dedicate them to Inspector Sun, in the face of the rich businessmen's pleas and heavy money temptation, Wu Junzhen was not moved at all, He hated this kind of person the most, after all, he was in the Song Empire, and he knew the hatefulness of profiteers, and he remembered the traitor Qin Hui's deeds, which made Wu Junzhen hurt the killer and discounted his legs for those who resisted stubbornly.

On the other side of the banquet, Inspector Sun and the deputy envoy of the Mingtong Pass Guard Supervision Army: housewarming Gao, and the four generals of the Qin family were still eating with Gu Qingyuan's big fish and meat, in order to make a good general, Gu Qingyuan specially raised a glass to everyone, and said, "Come on, come on, it's rare to invite all the officers and generals here, you must have a good drink, and I also wish the Inspector can pacify the Liukou and recover the lost territory as soon as possible." ”

After finishing speaking, he sat down and tasted the dishes, because Inspector Sun didn't know what the rich merchant's intentions were? Therefore, he never ignored him, let alone replied to him, which made Gu Qingyuan look very embarrassed, seeing that it was not easy to please himself, after all, he had not been rewarded by Inspector Sun for his sacrifice, and he was worried that Inspector Sun would be suspicious of him, so he took out the Zhengde period (three hundred treasure notes of the Ming Dynasty) worth three hundred taels of silver that he had collected for many years from his sleeve, handed it over and said, "This is a little bit of the old man's heart, and he should be paid to the soldiers of Tongguan Guard!" Please smile at the Overseer. ”