Seeing that the woman was skilled, she stuck her waist at noon, looked at Du Nuhao's two or three, and winked at Du Wenhao habitually, and then twisted her waist and got out of the way, and then, a pot-bellied man walked out step by step. It is the Zhouzhi County of Lugao County.

"You're going to pawn the fields?" Zhou Zhixian asked in a long voice.

Du Wenhao and Master Shen stood aside with a cower, and said in a low voice: "Yes." He took out a few field deeds in his arms and presented them with both hands. These land deeds were bought by Du Wenhao at the expense of Dr. Xie when he came to report the matter to Du Wenhao, and they were the land that Dr. Xie's daughter-in-law's mother's family was going to pawn.

Zhou Zhixian didn't answer, and sat down on the chair: "You know the rules, right?" ”

Du Wenhao looked dazed: "Master, what rules?"

"The pawn period is eight months, five cents of interest, and it is not redeemed when it expires, and it is regarded as a sale!"

"Huh?" Du Wenhao was really a little surprised, and stammered: "No, isn't it a one-year period and four points of profit?"

Zhou Zhixian glared: When, that is the price before the autumn harvest, and now it is almost winter, do you know? In a few days, it will be the cold winter wax moon, and it will rise to half a year, six cents of profit! It's up to you! Hurry up! The old man still has something to do

Du Wenhao and Master Shen glanced at each other, shook their heads and said, "It's too cost-effective," "That's it," how can you live!" ”

Zhou Zhixian slapped the handrail and said sharply: "Two hillbillies." Said to be a pawn but not a pawn, is there nothing to entertain the county when you are full? Someone's coming! Fork them out! ”

Master Shen hurriedly said: "The eldest master is angry, we pawn, we pawn!" ”

"Humph!" Zhou Zhixian sat down again and instructed the scribe to write the deed and ceremony.

The deed is written, signed, and the pawn is paid. Zhou Zhixian turned the land deeds to the bewitching woman: "Oh, it's yours!" ”

The woman was pleasantly surprised. hurriedly gave a salute: "Thank you, sir!" Thank you, sir! "Hurriedly took the deed.

Du Wenhao was dumbfounded by the rogue bravado of Zhou Zhixian County: "Master" This, this small land has to be redeemed"

"Redeem? Hehe, five cents of profit, there is no harvest in the field, what do you redeem? If you can redeem it, you won't be here. Hahaha.

Just when Zhou Zhixian was unscrupulously looking up to the sky and laughing, the scribe of the torture room ran in in a panic: "Master, something happened"! Seeing that there were people in the flower hall, he hurriedly stopped.

Zhou Zhixian glared at him: "What are you doing in a panic?" ”

The scribe Qi went over and whispered in Zhou Zhixian's ear: "Two women came to sue the head arrester for forcing them to rape the people's daughter, and threw the people's girl to death!" He also said that the head catchers had already confessed their guilt, and they would not be willing to confess until you went, sir. ”

Zhou Zhixian was taken aback, brushed his sleeves up, didn't care about the matter here, and went out in a panic.

Du Wenhao and Master Shen ignored it, what they wanted on this trip was this deed of the people. The purpose has been achieved. The moment is also gone.

Zhou Zhixian came to the torture room in a panic, only to see a few scribes looking at a stack of manuscripts around the door, but there was no woman in sight, and asked urgently: "Hey! What about the two women? ”

Holding it in his hand: "Back to the lord, they are gone." This stack of confessions was left behind, supposedly the confessions of the headhunters, but they were no more than copies. ”

Zhou Zhixian grabbed the stack of manuscripts, and quickly read them at a glance, this manuscript not only has a black face and a long face how to force the grass to fail, throw it downstairs and fall to his death, but also many of the unspeakable shady scenes they did. Immediately, his face turned pale, and he said angrily: "Why don't you leave those two women?"

Few: "They are very powerful, especially the tall peasant woman, with a wave of our hand, we fall, and when we get up again, they are gone."

"Rice bucket". Zhou Zhixian said angrily, "What about the head catcher? ”

"It's gone, so we went to see the fast class.

No one. ”

Zhou Zhixian's face changed even more: "Immediately send someone to search the city for me!" Be sure to catch these two. Female".

"Yes!" The scribe agreed, and hurried to herald.

Zhou Zhixian immediately called several of his masters and showed them the copy.

Several masters looked at each other, and the master who was in charge of drafting the fold bowed down and said: "Dong Weng, I'm afraid this matter is not so simple, in the confession of the head catcher, many of them involve Lord Liao, the government office, and the relationship is very important, and it has to be reported to Lord Liao."

The rest of the masters also nodded frequently.

Zhou Zhixian stomped his feet after turning around the house several times like a headless snail: "Prepare the car!" Ah no, prepare the horses! Master, I will rush to the government office immediately and report to the prefect in person! ”

Jingjiang Prefecture Office.

Liao Guibing sat on the chair of the middle master with a gloomy face, and on the chairs on both sides sat respectfully the yamen adjutant and the county magistrates.

Liao Guibing said slowly: "How do you feel after listening to what Zhou Zhixian of Lugao County said just now?"

For a while, all the officials did not speak.

Liao Guibing looked at Zhang Tianning.

Zhang Tianning hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "I don't know what the other party is about this matter, why did you show us the copies of the confessions of the two arrests, and the purpose is not clear." However, be careful to hold up the ship for 10,000 years. According to what you see, take precautions, you have to deal with things in advance, and what should be done and dealt with must be dealt with in a timely manner. For example, if there are so many seeds in the granary, if it doesn't work, all the seeds will be destroyed first, and all the ledgers will be ,,。 Fourth.

Zhang Tong knew: "What Zhang Zhixian said about taking precautions is right. But if you burn all the seeds, what will you sell to the following in the coming year? Can't you sell real seeds? The imperial court's disaster relief money valley is only afraid that it will be greatly discounted. There must be successive natural disasters for this disaster relief to be sufficient. Our plan will be successfully completed

The other magistrates and county officials also nodded in agreement with Zhang Tongzhi's point of view.

Liao Guibing said: "Yes, the stall is so big, it is impossible to destroy them all." You can't let the troubles of two unknown women give up on your efforts. However, Zhang Zhixian's cautious handling is also right, and it is not wrong to be cautious. Zhou Zhixian, you must intensify the search and arrest, and you must arrest these two women and find out what is going on. Before the matter is clarified, the small account books of each county will be handed over to the official for unified safekeeping, and you will personally send them! All the seeds were also packed into Changping and mixed in the relief grain allocated by the imperial court. But mark it well and don't get confused when the time comes. All the troublemakers in the government jail were transferred to the barracks and locked up. At the same time, during this period, all localities should strengthen vigilance and strictly check strange and suspicious persons

Commander-in-Chief Zuo agreed in unison.

A few days later.

Liao Guibing called his staff member Zhang Tongzhi and asked, "Why haven't a single small account book from the counties below been delivered?" No one is nowhere to be seen? ”

Zhang Tongzhi was also suspicious: "Yes, why don't you go down and check it out?" ”

"No need".

This sentence was not said by Liao Guibing, but came from behind them, the two were taken aback, looked back, and at some point, there was already a man in black in the room. A short silver blade in his hand pointed at them.

The two were about to shout, when the money dart in the man's hand shot out, and the two of them snorted and collapsed to the ground.

When Liao Zhifu and Zhang Tongzhi woke up, they were stunned, not only because they were tied up like a zongzi, but also because there were several people in the house who were also tied up by Wuhua Dahua, but they were the county magistrates who had no trace. They all sat on the ground with their heads bowed.

There was a row of sword-wielding guards standing against the wall around, looking familiar, as if they had seen it somewhere, and then looking at the Taishi chair in the middle, Liao Guibing shuddered, and suddenly everything understood.

The person in the middle is none other than Du Wenhao, the criminal officer! Sitting next to him was his master and two concubines.

On the square coffee table next to Du Wenhao, there was a stack of account books, which Liao Guibing was very familiar with. It is a small ledger of each county, and the records are the internal accounts of each county. There is another copy of it, but it belongs to their government, and it remembers that once something is known by the imperial court, Liao Guibing can figure out what the result will be with his toes.

Liao Guibing sighed: "Lord Du, your trick to lure the snake out of the hole is so poisonous."

Du Wenhao sneered: "To deal with poisonous snakes like you, you can only rely on this trick." Tell you a little background first, and it might help you make a decision. It was our people who secretly arrested the black-faced and long-faced heads of Lugao County, and gave you the confession, just to make you move, because I heard that you are suspicious in nature, and you convened a meeting of the county magistrates to discuss countermeasures, and you didn't know at the time, my concubine's room is on the roof of the hall where you are meeting, and we all know your secrets and your arrangements and deployments, so I invited these magistrates who sent you account books here one by one. They were very cooperative and explained everything. What exactly you have done, the official has a clear idea, now I need to see your attitude, say it or not. There is one. A good attitude may not mean much to you, but it may help your family to reduce or even exempt yourself from responsibility

Liao Guibing glanced at the dejected magistrates, knew that what Du Wenhao said was the truth, and sighed again: "Okay, I said." In the past ten years, I have forced farmers in my prefecture and county to buy seeds only from the government office, and what we sold them was fake seeds. At the same time, the people have no harvest in the land, so they can only sell the land, and I also stipulate that private individuals are not allowed to annex the land, but can only give it to the yamen. The conditions set are very harsh, and basically those that cannot be redeemed at maturity will be embezzled by these lands under various names. At the same time, we have opened a large number of embroidery workshops and other workshops in Jingjiang Province and various counties to recruit these farmers who have sold their land to work

Du Wenhao sneered: "Your idea is quite high, on the one hand, you can deliciously embezzle the imperial court's disaster relief money valley, and you can annex a large amount of fertile land at a low price, so that a large number of farmers lose their land, and then provide your industrial workshop with the cheap labor needed." This is even more vicious than the "enclosure movement".

Liao Guibing didn't know what the enclosure movement was, and looked at Du Wenhao blankly.

Du Wenhao didn't bother to explain, picked up the account book and flipped through it: "You black accounts, the officials have taken a closer look, it can really be said that the sedan chair is carried by everyone, from you down, all people have benefits, even the officials, the people and even the pieces have the sweetness of dividends, no wonder these people are desperate to follow you." The people have no place to avenge their grievances, and they don't know what grievances to be done, because although they guessed that you were doing ghosts inside, they didn't know what they were doing. However, if you walk too much at night, you will eventually encounter ghosts, isn't this just encountered? ”。

As soon as he said this, Du Wenhao suddenly remembered that his words were not equivalent to saying that he was a ghost, Liao Guibing and others also heard it, but no one laughed, no one dared to laugh. I'm not in the mood to laugh either.

Du Wenhao coughed and said, "Do you know where this is?" This is Hengzhou, and the official knows that you are in Jingjiang Mansion, :, for a long time, after secretly arresting you, you will be anesthetized with medicine. "Bian Guan has ordered the prefect of Hengzhou to temporarily serve as the prefect of Jingjiang, and sent Hengzhou to arrest Kuai, and with the assistance of the Hengzhou Xiang Army, he took control of the main adjutants of your Jingjiang Mansion, and released the so-called Diao people you arrested, took their testimony, and sent them to the imperial court. ”

When Liao Guibing and the others heard this, they were all paralyzed, and they couldn't imagine that this criminal officer was so deep. It's so well calculated. It's a pity that the plan that has been in operation for many years has come to an end.

"The world is full of April flowers,

The peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom.

Long hatred of spring is nowhere to be found,

I don't know how to turn into this

Du Wenhao took Pang Yuqin and other women, as well as Master Shen, surrounded by Li Pu and other guards. Standing between the beautiful peaks of Lushan Mountain, seeing the peach blossoms blooming everywhere, I couldn't help but recite the famous poem of Bai Juyi

Du Wenhao detected a big case of Liao Guibing and other fishy people, and after reporting to the imperial court, Song Shenzong hated this kind of corrupt officials the most. It was decreed that all the land that was forced to be pawned was returned to the original owner, and special funds were allocated for disaster relief, and green seedlings were loaned without interest. The increase in the number and duration of loans has enabled the local people to survive the cold winter and the moon safely. The emperor also allocated a special fund to compensate Cao'er's family, who were arrested and were about to die. The local people were grateful for the emperor's grace, and knew that this was the credit of the criminal officer Du Wenhao, and they were also very grateful to him. Cao'er's mother and other kind-hearted people set up incense cases at home to worship Du Wenhao as a bodhisattva, burning incense and praying every day.

Of course, a large part of the reason why the emperor can deal with it like this is that Master Shen wrote a wonderful pen like a flower, so that Song Shenzong fully understood the ins and outs of this matter, Song Shenzong praised Du Wenhao's talent, and the empress dowager lost no time in helping to speak, and finally made Song Shenzong abandon some of his doubts about Du Wenhao, and ordered Du Wenhao's level to be promoted to the fourth grade. Although it is still one level short of the arraignment officers of various criminal prisons, it is already at the same level as the arraignment officers of various fields. However, he was still not equipped with an adjutant under the criminal officer. Only an order was issued to appoint Li Pu as the lieutenant of Zhengliupin Zhaowu. Li Pu has also gained something.

After that, Du Wenhao continued to patrol the doctor and remind all kinds of prisons.

months later.

The wax moon has passed, the spring flowers are blooming, Du Wenhao patrolled all the way, and came to Luzhou at the foot of Lushan Mountain on this day.

Du Wenhao is playing in the mountains and rivers along the way, and he will never miss a famous mountain like Lushan. After finishing the business, I took my family to visit the famous mountains and rivers as usual. Of course, as in the past, such tours are not accompanied by local officials, and they are not even allowed to reveal their whereabouts, but to one. Play as a civilian, so that it can be more fun.

They went all the way up. After Xiufeng, come to the famous Kaixian Waterfall, here is when Li Bai wrote the famous sentence "Flying down 3,000 feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling for nine days." place.

After Du Wenhao sighed, he walked up the stairs again.

Not long after walking, suddenly, Lin Qingdai exclaimed, stood still, and stared blankly at a scene.

Du Wenhao was a little strange, walked up to her and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lin Qingdai pointed to the mountain peak in the distance and said in a low voice: "Wen Hao, look at that mountain, why is it so familiar"

Du Wenhao tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, unconsciously familiar, and said, "Have you been to Lushan before?" ”

"No, but I've really seen this view somewhere." Lin Qingdai frowned and thought.

"Is it the same view you've seen somewhere before?"

"It's not!" Lin Qingdai shook her head and said, "I always feel that I have seen such a scene somewhere, but I can't remember where I have seen it."

"Did you see it on a painting?" Du Wenhao said with a smile. In ancient times, there were no movies and television, and I had never been here, and it was not the same as the scenery I had seen before, so I only saw it in pictures.

Lin Qingdai's eyes lit up: "That's right!" I've seen it in paintings! A painting in a parchment scroll".

"Parchment rolls?. Du Wenhao didn't react for a while;

"It's the silk painting in the mezzanine of the holy relics of the White Clothes Society! I always felt that there must be a purpose for hiding this painting so preciously, and I studied this painting repeatedly before putting it in, so I remembered this view. Absolutely, that's the view from that painting! It's a pity that I've already sewn the silk painting, otherwise I would have taken it out and compared it. ”

"No comparison, I'm sure your eyes are right." Du Wenhao clasped his hands and looked at the scenery, "When you say that, I also have some impressions, well, this is it." However, the scenery here is good, but it is not too different from other places, so there is no need to draw it into the painting and hide it in the parchment mezzanine, right? ”

Lin Qingdai nodded and said: "That's right, this parchment scroll is the handwriting of Master Huiyuan, and the things in it should also be hidden by him, by the way, I heard from the Zhizhou of Luzhou that Master Huiyuan had practiced on Mount Lu for thirty years, and this painting is the scenery of Mount Lu, and it is so hidden, there must be something strange in it."

Du Wenhao teased: "Stumped that this painting is a treasure map? Hey hey"

Lin Qingdai didn't smile: "It's completely possible!" Otherwise, what would he be doing with his paintings hidden in such a hidden place?

"Makes sense. Good. Let's have nothing to do, let's come and find out, what treasure is hidden in this mountain peak by this ** master of the Eastern Jin Dynasty! ”