Jiangnan Road and waterways are developed, and Wudong Qianyu reads in all directions. The reason why Song Zheng and others took the boat was because whether they went to Linchuan, Jianchang (Nancheng) and Chongren, they were all waterfront cities. Out of Poyang Lake in the south, along the Rushui River, you can reach Linchuan. Rushui divides into two forks here, one is Xushui in the south (some people call Xushui and Rushui Fuhe, or Xujiang), which can reach the southern city; The second is the southwest Linchuan water, which can reach Chongren.

Liu Mao went out on patrol in the name of the Criminal Department, so he naturally had to have a business-like shelf. Although Li Fengchang ran away, the Jiangnan Road Criminal Division was still there. After Liu Mao informed the Criminal Division, the Criminal Division specially appointed Du Changtong to sentence Yan Guangwei and accompany Liu Mao and others to Fuzhou.

The Daqi Criminal Department has such a rule, that is, every year, Langzhong of the headquarters is appointed to go to various roads to randomly inspect the case files in various places, as an evaluation index for local officials. This policy was set up during the Taizu period to prevent local officials**. Over the years, however, this policy has become a mere formality. As long as Beijing officials go out to patrol various places, the local government will inevitably pay filial piety, and many officials of the criminal department regard this as a benefit. Don't look at a criminal department Langzhong is nothing in Jiangning City, but when it comes to the place, it is very majestic.

This time, since Song Zheng had already determined the destination, Liu Mao would naturally use Fuzhou as the target of spot checks. Since he was a Beijing official, the shelf should be upright, Liu Mao immediately called two medium-sized official ships in Duchang and traveled south along the water with Song Zheng and others. The Jiangnan Road Criminal Division also sent a messenger to Fuzhou by land in advance to deliver the letter.

Lin Han, the governor of Fuzhou, has a literary name, and has been in the Hanlin Academy for two years. Because he has poems from time to time that have been circulated in the world, he is known as "Zhizhou Lin Han, Han Lin Zhizhou." Of course, he also has a little-known relationship: the son-in-law of the Xu family in Jiangnan. His father-in-law is Xu Yinshun, the current household servant. Calculated carefully, he is still Xu Mingxuan's cousin.

Lin Hanwen is not small. Along the way, even Du Changtong sentenced Yan Guangwei to praise it several times, and even recited a few poems. Song Zheng secretly sneered, but he knew that this Hanlin Zhizhou was not small, embezzled the treasury silver, resold the official warehouse, and made a windfall with the help of the Xu family's huge trade network.

Li Denian knew the purpose of Song Zheng's trip, so he asked Yan Guangwei to accompany Song Zheng and others. Yan Guangwei is Li Fengchang's real descendant, and with him, he will not reveal Song Zheng's identity. This time he went to Fuzhou, and Song Zheng followed in the name of Liu Mao's scribe. In order to stand up at a critical time and make a final decision. Otherwise, with Lu Bingxuan's lesson, which governor is not on the right side now.

From the early morning of the first day, they came out of Duchang, and in the evening of the second day, the official ship came to Linchuan. As soon as the boat approached the pier, a middle-aged man in his forties approached him. The man had a thin face and looked like a scribe.

"Brother Guangwei!" The scribe was full of spring breeze, and first hugged Yan Guangwei, "I haven't seen you for a few months, Brother Guangwei is getting stronger and stronger." ”

In terms of level, Yan Guangwei was half a chip lower than Lin Han, so he hurriedly returned the salute, "Lord Lin's demeanor is still the same, envy me and others." ”

Lin Han smiled heartily, "You and my brother will talk later." I'll board the boat to meet Lord Liu. With that, he headed head-on to the boat, and Yan Guangwei had no choice but to follow and board the boat again.

At this time, Liu Mao stepped out of the cabin, and Yan Guangwei hurriedly introduced. Lin and Liu saluted each other, and after saying that they looked up for a long time, they got off the boat together. Song Zheng followed suit, followed Liu Mao, and carried a big book on his back, and all the guards turned into officials of the Criminal Department and went to the post house together.

After a short rest, Lin Han invited Liu Mao to the restaurant for a banquet, but Liu Mao refused in the name of tiring travel. Lin Han didn't care, but asked the restaurant to fry some light dishes and send them to the post house. After accompanying Liu Mao to drink a few cups, he hugged his fists and said goodbye. The whole process is not rude, but it is not too welcome, quite a scribe.

Following Liu Mao's instructions, Yan Guangwei immediately sent Lin Han to the door of the museum. Song Zheng followed quietly not far away, originally wanting to find out if Lin Han would inquire about Yan Guangwei's news, but to his disappointment, the two of them were all officialdom entertainment words, and they didn't involve official business at all, and they didn't even whisper, which made Song Zheng quite admire Lin Han's calmness.

The next morning, Liu Mao and others arrived at the Zhizhou Mansion. Lin Han was really unambiguous, and had already listed a directory of various cases in Linchuan City in the past two years for Liu Mao to choose. After Liu Mao turned it over, he directly told the other party that he wanted to go down to the county to take a look, and chose Jianchang County. Lin Han did not allow it, and immediately sent Judge Fuzhou to accompany Liu Mao.

"Xiang Zhixian, what's going on with the case between the clan and the Zhang clan fighting for land here? Bring up the file and I'll take a look. Liu Mao sat in the lobby of Jianchang County, looked at the catalog in his hand, pointed his finger casually, and said lightly.

"Quick, go get the file!" Xiang Liqiang, the commander of Jianchang County, who was fat, wiped beads of sweat while instructing the main book. It's no wonder that he was nervous, and the official of the Criminal Department came to Jianchang, almost scaring his courage. From the moment he saw Liu Mao, his body trembled and never stopped. Not only him, but also the officials of Hexian County were silent.

Soon, the master bookkeeper brought the case file. Liu Mao flipped through it, compared to the dossier he saw in Duchang City, it was only much more detailed, but the main content was the same as his own pink apartment. After all, what the pacification envoy kept was nothing more than something similar to a summary.

Xiang Liqiang lowered his head slightly, and kept looking at Liu Mao with his eyes, trying to see some clues from it, but unfortunately Liu Mao's face was sinking like water, making this Xiang Zhixian unable to figure out the situation.

"Bian's family killed people and was only fined twenty taels of silver. The Zhang family died a person, but they wanted to allocate ten acres of fertile land to the Bian family. Xiang Zhixian, you have a basis for judging the case like this? ”

"This ......" Xiang Liqiang squeaked, "The Zhang family steals the grave and digs the grave, according to the law of Daqi, it should be killed." Now that Zhang's family is dead, although it cannot be investigated, it should also be compensated, so ten acres of fertile land belong to the Bian family. The son of the Bian family caused death by negligence, but the circumstances were excusable, so he was punished lightly. ”

Liu Mao hummed lightly, but didn't say anything. Xiang Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief, and his body seemed to be a little straighter.

At this moment, a person dressed as a servant came in at the yamen and whispered a few words beside Song Zheng. Song Zheng nodded, and whispered a few words in Liu Mao's ear.

Liu Mao took a deep breath and immediately sneered, "Xiang Zhixian, what a 'kill'." Let me ask you, have you been there to check it out? Have you seen the title deeds? ”

"Xiaguan...... Been there. Title deed...... I don't see it. Xiang Liqiang's body stiffened up and replied slightly.

"Zhang's wife sued Qitian for rejecting the ancestral grave for more than ten zhang, but is there such a thing?"

"No...... Nope! Zhang's quibble! ”

"Zhang's quibble? I think it's you who quibble! Liu Mao patted the shocked wood and shouted outside the county yamen, "Bring it up!" ”

Song Zheng waved his hand to the outside, and soon, a middle-aged peasant woman and two men, an old man and a young man, were brought up.

The official who sent the message to Song Zheng was none other than Cai Yong. It turned out that before Liu Mao and others set off from Duchang, Song Zheng ordered Cai Yong to rush to the place where the case occurred with ten soldiers. After a little investigation, the facts became very clear: the Bian family wanted to occupy the Zhang family's fertile land, and took advantage of the Zhang family's spring ploughing, and ploughed off the ancestral grave by himself to pollute the Zhang family.

Because of this, Cai Yong directly escorted Zhang's wife and Bian's father and son to the county yamen.

Next, without Liu Mao's retrial, Bian Shi said that he had bribed the county magistrate with fifty taels of silver. Xiang Liqiang hastily interrogated, but did not send anyone to check the scene at all, so a gourd monk came to judge the gourd case. For fifty taels of silver grass to save a life, Xiang Liqiang can be described as bold.

As soon as the facts were clarified, Liu Mao detained Xiang Liqiang and sent Fuzhou to report back to Lin Han. Of course, if you only talk about things with 50 taels of silver, although Xiang Liqiang can be dismissed, he will not die. However, two days later, when Lin Han arrived in Jianchang, Liu Mao had already made a breakthrough in another, more significant case. The case of the water dispute between Dafang Village and Gangshang Village has also come to light. Song Zheng personally took action, led all the soldiers, and captured the five leading armed villagers of Dafang Village.

Liu Mao and others spent three days in Jianchang. In the past three days, Liu Mao followed Song Zheng's advice and did not investigate other things about Xiang Liqiang. Instead, he acquiesced to Xiang Liqiang's suicide, and discussed with Lin Han how to report Jianchang's matter. Soon, everyone came up with materials that deviated from the facts: Zhizhou Lin Han discovered Xiang Liqiang's fraud and was secretly investigating. As soon as Liu Mao and others arrived in Fuzhou, Lin Han reported it, and then joined hands with the officials of the Criminal Department to investigate Xiang Liqiang, and finally Xiang Liqiang committed suicide in fear of crime.

In this way, Lin Han, the governor of the state, not only did not have the crime of negligence, but had merit. Lin Han was naturally very grateful to Liu Mao, and the original scribe style had long been lost to Java.

Of course, the process was tortuous. Whether it is Xiang Liqiang's neck, or the raid of Xiang's family, and the subsequent division of Xiang's property, there is a very good story. On the "collusion" between Lin Han and Liu Mao alone, they have experienced several temptations.

At first, it was Lin Han who listened to Liu Mao's tone, then revealed his backer by drinking, and then took out two thousand taels of silver tickets to bribe, and finally discussed the relevant details. Liu Mao also went from being selfless at the beginning, and slowly moved closer to corruption and degeneration, so that he was "embarrassed and traitorous". In the meantime, it is naturally full of edges, which is eye-opening.

However, what Lin Han didn't know was that everything about Liu Mao was directed by Song Zheng, with only one purpose: to paralyze Lin Han.

After the incident in Nancheng, Liu Mao said that he would go to Chongren, and said that he was tired and unwell. Lin Han took the opportunity to propose that Liu Mao return to Linchuan to recuperate. After Liu Mao "considered" it, he agreed to return to Linchuan to recuperate for five days. In fact, he acquiesced to Lin Han to inform Chongren to get ready, and five days was enough time for Chongren to eliminate some obvious traces of the dossier.

This is naturally another means of confusion, this move is only to prove to Lin Han that Lord Liu Mao of the Criminal Department has completely "gone to the Tao". In fact, Cai Yong and the others had already left Jianchang and returned to Linchuan City, taking over the personnel of the original Dark Eagle (now the Right Division) in Fuzhou.

Song Zheng's knowledge of Lin Han's misappropriation of treasury silver and reselling of official warehouses were all reported by the right division commander of Fuzhou, and the data was quite detailed. This can also prove that Fuzhou Right Division did not collude with Lin Han. Therefore, Song Zheng also used them with confidence.

It can be said that whether it is the Dark Eagle or the former Imperial City Division, the organization in various places is still good, and there is rarely a situation of collusion with Zhizhou like Taiping Prefecture. Otherwise, the Right Division would not have mastered so many illegal materials from various places, and of course there would be no last time when Song Zheng used the materials to escort Lu Bingxuan for himself.