"Wronged?" The court lieutenant official led by him snorted coldly, "I, Cui Yan, don't have that habit!" ”

With a cold snort, this cold-faced young man, with a group of his subordinates, as well as several confidants of the confused official, left Liu Hong's mansion with a hula. Before leaving, he didn't forget to look back at Suning's claws a few times, it was the first time he had seen such a strange weapon.

On the way back, the guy who stood up to identify Zhuge Liang just now kept emphasizing to the young man that he had not admitted his mistake.

The young man walked forward, ignoring him, until he came to a corner, stopped impatiently, turned to him, and said, "I know you are probably not mistaken. ”

"Then why don't you arrest them?"

"Arrest? Are you asking me to interrogate a newborn child? I can't do that kind of thing. I'll find out about your lordship's affairs. No one wants to get away with me, but no one wants to confuse me. ”

The henchmen of the confused officials were left in place, looking at the young man's back in a daze, thinking that he didn't know where to reveal any flaws.

When they reported the crime, they didn't tell the story of Lord Taishou slandering others as bandits. Now it seems that the young man has sensed something.

These conversations took place far away from Suning, and he naturally didn't know it, but he and his friends knew very well that being able to escape this catastrophe today did not mean that this matter would end there, and the young man with a frosty face would definitely collect other evidence to find out about this matter.

They must now brainstorm to see if there is a better way to help Wei Qi and the Zhuge family avoid this unwarranted disaster.

First of all, Hu Zhao made a basic exposition on the justice of this operation: "The general process of the matter has been understood by all of you here. First, the messenger of Lord Liang, the assassin of Liangzhou, was slandered as a bandit by the confused official, and then Zhuge Jue and Yu Ban, who happened to pass by, were regarded as reinforcements for the bandits by the confused official. The whole process is the misconduct and self-blame of a mediocre, incompetent and self-righteous official. ”

Su Ning then explained the next tasks and thoughts: "The young official of the Tingwei Mansion who appeared just now did not find the evidence he wanted from us, but it can be seen from his facial expression that he is still unwilling to give up his attachment to the truth while he is afraid of the threat of our force. Then he's going to keep going, and the idea is to think about what he's going to think about, and then get things done before him. ”

Cao Cao clapped his hands and praised: "Brother Su Xian's words are good, I, Cao, have a plan." ”

Everyone didn't expect Cao Apu to have an idea so quickly, so they asked curiously: "Will Ji An come out?" ”

Lao Cao is not a guy who sells guan, he said bluntly: "If Cui Yan wants to investigate this case, he must go to Taishan County to find out the situation of Zhuge Jue, and there, there is a tough and people-loving Taishou named Zhou Cheng." We just need to get certain words to his ears as soon as possible......"

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"Ahh Who's talking about me! Zhou Cheng wiped his snot, looked up at the cloudless clear sky, and saw a few pigeons flying by tiredly, and he couldn't shake his wings anymore.

In this damn weather, don't say that birds don't have any energy, even people. Only those few complainers from Langya County are a small exception.

It turned out that the confidants of the confused officials did not only go to Luoyang City to complain, but some of them also came to Taishan County, where Zhuge Jue once worked.

Zhou Cheng knew that they had been haunting here for a while, but Taishou-sama had been worried about the ongoing drought and had no time to pay attention to them. Even if he learned of the misfortune of the foolish companion from their shouts, he had no interest in sending pursuers to arrest his deputy, Zhuge Jue.

It is better to stay in the county and defend the township if you have those troops. In such a year of great calamity, there are displaced people and bandits. These are very worrying things.

As for that damn case, let's leave it to Xuzhou to deal with. Their Taishan County is subordinate to Yanzhou.

Even if this matter goes to the imperial court, there will be commissioners to investigate, and the focus of the investigation is also Langya County, where the incident occurred, and it has nothing to do with him Zhou.

With such a plan in his heart, Zhou Cheng was once again ready to ignore the few people who came to complain from the neighboring counties.

However, at this time, a panic suddenly occurred, followed by a burst of chickens and dogs. Before Zhou Cheng could figure out what the situation was, he saw a group of people rushing over like a fly, surrounding the group of complaining guys, just punching and kicking.

Most of those individuals were county officials and soldiers, and they were all equipped with weapons and armor, and after being attacked by this group of ordinary people, they naturally habitually drew their blades and fought desperately.

This is a serious situation.

Zhou Cheng only saw a few people who were cut down to the ground by them on the spot, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead for a while. He couldn't help but be furious in his heart, even if you come to complain, you dare to use force on my territory and kill and injure the people under my rule, this is not to take me Zhou someone seriously.

He immediately ordered a group of his men to rush forward and separate the two groups, and put all the people who had complained into prison, and then sent people to summon the city to treat the wounded quickly.

However, the Lang Zhong arrived too late, and they did not have emergency awareness, coupled with the backward medicine and equipment, some of the wounded were too seriously injured, and in the end, two people were not saved.

All this happened under Zhou Cheng's nose, and the blood of the people under his rule made him no longer able to ignore those guys who came to complain.

He began interrogation that night, starting with several family members of the wounded crying out to him about their motives for beating them.

It turned out that when Zhuge Jue served as a county governor in the local area, he was also quite loved by the people, and even some of them received a lot of favors from him. So when these people came to complain, they were very dissatisfied with this group of people. But killing officials is a felony after all, and they don't dare to defend Eun Gong.

However, in the past few days, news came out from a caravan of Chen Liuwei's family, saying that they had witnessed the whole process at that time, and things were not as Langya County officials said. In the caravan members' descriptions, their Engong Zhuge was wronged. The foolish officer was killed solely because he wanted to slander others as bandits. The first victim was the messenger of the Liangzhou Assassin History, and then they were involved in their beloved Lord Juncheng.

Zhuge Jue couldn't get angry with the other party's foolish behavior, and then quarreled with him, and the confused official was so angry that he wanted to kill Lord Juncheng. Yu Ban, a local who was traveling with Lord Juncheng, saw that the confused official's eyes were not good, and immediately decided to strike first, so that he could have a chance to save his life, but from then on he was about to embark on the road to the end of the world.

Speaking of the great heavens, their beloved Lord Juncheng has suffered an unwarranted disaster. Such an innocent person, the county official of their Langya County, even came to complain, of course, it is unacceptable.

So there was a physical conflict between the two sides, but I didn't expect the other party to carry a blade, which injured several villagers.

After Zhou Cheng learned of this situation, he immediately raided and interrogated the officials of Langya County who had been taken into custody. Their description of today's events is basically the same as that of the local villagers. But there are certain discrepancies about the killing of the confused official.

"That group of people is clearly bandits, but it's not that my family is too guarded and wronged them."

This is the confession of a small boss.

"That's right, more than 800 men and women are roaring past under the rule of my family, and whoever they are replaced will probably have to stop and investigate."

Zhou Cheng pouted, whether it was Yanzhou or Qingzhou, including Xuzhou in the south, they were all densely populated places. 800 men and women is just the size of a small family. What's more, nominally it is an investigation, but in fact it is framed as bandits, which is boring, he Zhou has also been in the officialdom for many years, how can he not know?

In order to be able to extort money smoothly, this confused colleague is also hard enough. When they came up, they buckled a big hat to each other, and for a family that was on the move, such a level was the most terrifying for them. If you can't go to the village and can't go to the store, you can only accept your fate and be slaughtered under normal circumstances.

Maybe that's what the foolish colleague thought, but he accidentally touched a hard bone, and as a result, he not only broke his own tooth, but also lost his own life.

He broke the tricks in it in front of the officials of Langya County, one by one. In the end, the county officials only smiled wryly, and explained with an embarrassed face: "Isn't everyone like this? ”

In response to such a statement, Zhou Cheng gave him 20 lashes each.

After turning these people into a blur of flesh and blood, Zhou Cheng was able to return to them in a good time. He asked in a stern and cruel tone: "Let me ask you, whether this kind of shady robbery has become a serious crime for you after the other party revealed the identity of Taishan Juncheng. ”

Several county officials from Langya County didn't dare to hide anything anymore, and they said hesitantly: "Of course, Lord Taishou is afraid that Zhuge Jue will poke this matter out, so he secretly gestured to us. ”

"It's a murderous gesture, right?"

Zhou Cheng's question did not get a positive answer, but the other party lowered his head in shame, which was already the best answer to him.

It turned out that the confused colleague was actually not confused, he was very decisive.

It is very decisive to save a sum of money before the disaster comes, one is to make up for the holes in the past, and the other is to prepare for the disaster. When this plan was broken by the officials of the neighboring county, he made a decisive decision again, but unfortunately his murderous operation had not yet begun, and Yu Ban, who was more decisive than him, had already taken his life.

This matter finally came to light.

Zhou Cheng told the families of the dead and injured the results of these interrogations, which could be regarded as an explanation to them.

Early the next morning, a large flock of pigeons flapped their wings and scrambled to fly west in the still arid airspace of Taishan County.

Zhou Cheng looked at them suspiciously, thinking that there were really a lot of pigeons in the past few days.

The Wei family always had a large number of pigeons, and in order to maintain contact with the various caravans, they trained a large number of carrier pigeons. The group that took off from Taishan County was only a small part of it, and after they arrived in Chenliu, the letters they were carrying were urgently taken down, tied to the legs of another group of colleagues, and then forwarded to Luoyang City.

Weiz received the news shortly after. Previously, Cao Cao decided to use public opinion to guide Zhou Taishou of Taishan County to investigate the whole incident. But I encountered a big problem, how to tell the situation here to Taishan County?

If you can't control public opinion in time, you may have a lot of dreams at night.

At that time, it was he who took the initiative to stand up and propose to use his own carrier pigeons to contact the caravan there, and then spread the word in his favor through the caravan.

Suning readily agreed to his idea. So there were pigeons that swept over Zhou Taishou's head, and there were villagers who were upset for Zhuge County. Originally, they planned to let this kind of folk remarks gradually spread to Zhou Taishou's ears, but unexpectedly, it accidentally caused a brawl, causing Zhou Taishou to solve the case overnight.

In this way, the progress of things will be very beneficial to your side. The young official of the Tingwei Mansion, as long as he started to investigate, would quickly notice Zhou Taishou's conclusion.

This has achieved Suning's strategic goal of "doing things ahead".

However, the biggest hero during this period was not him who completed the strategic concept, nor Wei Zi, who provided technical means, but Cao Cao, who completed the tactical plan.

Suning couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother Meng De, how do you know that Zhou Cheng can help us." ”

Cao Cao laughed: "Brother Su Xian, you don't think that I have been in Luoyang all these years, and I have just spent my days doing nothing." In fact, I have been paying attention to the situation in the world, including the ability of various local officials. This Taishou Lord seems to be a little sloppy, but in fact, he is familiar with the various pros and cons of officialdom, and he can often quickly grasp the handle of the other party, so many people are afraid of him. Speaking of which, that's the real reason why he seems lazy and has nothing to do. ”

"I see." Suning slapped his thigh, and said in his heart that a person who is an official, and the prestige he can accumulate by his own means makes his subordinates dare not block him, and what this official has done has also reached a certain level.

And the Cao Cao in front of him was able to see through this keenly, and it was obviously not a fuel-efficient lamp.

None of the great figures who have been able to rise in history have relied solely on luck.