Chapter 571: Song Jing
"People from Chang'an? What is your name? What for? Song Jinghu looked at the two people suspiciously. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The boy in white still looked indifferent: "Please forgive the county magistrate, due to special reasons, our identity cannot be told!" ”
"Can't tell? Then you can't get rid of the suspicion of murder, so I have to detain you back to the county government first! Song Jing shouted.
"Listen to it!"
"Come on, bring these two back to the county office, and I will ask him to interrogate them later!" Song Jing ordered.
Several officials came and escorted the two away.
Looking at the appearance of the man in white who was neither humble nor arrogant, Song Jing couldn't help muttering in his heart: The identities of these two people must not be simple.
Song Jing searched the body carefully, but found nothing. Two corpses, nothing but raged clothes. Others searched around the body, but found nothing. Except for two corpses, nothing of value was left at the scene.
Song Jing couldn't help but look solemn. "The killer killed them, then beheaded them and took all the things from them. Obviously, the killers didn't want us to know who they were. Song Jing inferred.
"I think so, sir." The master nodded and said, "Otherwise, they won't cut off the head of the deceased."
Song Jing instructed the officials to carry the body back to the county office, and then prepared to go down the mountain. At this moment, his keen eyes suddenly noticed something bright green under a small pine tree two feet away from the corpse. Song Jing hurriedly walked over, picked up the thing, and looked at it carefully for a while, it turned out to be an eagle carved out of jade. The eagle was stained with blood, one foot had been broken, and the rest was still intact. Song Jing collected the jade eagle and led his subordinates back to the county office.
After returning to the county office, the murder was heavier than Mount Tai, Song Jing did not dare to slack off, and together with Qi Zuo, he conducted a detailed examination of the two headless corpses overnight. Both of the dead were delicate-skinned and dressed in burlap. Based on this, experienced servants deduced that the two may have been young people before their deaths, in their twenties, and they were from ordinary families. The attentive Song Jing also found ink marks on the index finger of the right hand of one of the deceased. Based on this, he deduced that the deceased may have been a scholar before his death, and he had been dancing and writing for many years, leaving ink on his right index finger. However, apart from this, they could no longer extract any valid information from the deceased. Who is the deceased? Why did they fall into such a poisonous hand? Who killed them so cruelly and viciously? Is it a vendetta? These questions, like a mess, are always entangled in Song Jing's heart, making him have a lot of thoughts and not think about tea and dinner.
At this time, Song Jing remembered the boy in white and ordered the official to take the two to the lobby.
"You haven't explained your identity yet, then don't blame me for being rude!" Song Jing shouted in a deep voice.
The white-clothed boy sighed and said, "If the county magistrate really wants to know, I can only tell you quietly!" ”
Although Song Jing was surprised, he did not object.
The man in white walked up to Song Jing and whispered a few words in his ear. When Song Jing heard this, his face suddenly changed......
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In the inner house of the Lantian County Ya, Song Jing saluted the white-clothed son: "I don't know if Lord Zhang is coming, I have offended a lot, I hope to forgive me." ”
Zhang Baoer said with a smile: "What Song County ordered to do is not wrong, but there are important things to do next, and you can't disclose your identity, which caused a misunderstanding." ”
"What Master Zhang did, the lower officials have heard a lot of things, and they admire it very much!" Song Jing said sincerely.
Zhang Baoer diverted the topic and said: "How many years has the Song County Order been in this Zhang Daren County?" ”
"It's been less than a year!"
"Where was it before?"
"Make a county order in Yin County!"
"Yin County? Yin County is a middle county, and Lantian County is a big county! How did the Song County Order get from Yin County to Lantian County? ”
Song Jing smiled bitterly: "I am also a blessing in disguise!" ”
Zhang Baoer seemed to be very interested in Song Jing: "Can Song County Order come and hear about it?" ”
"If Lord Zhang is willing to listen, why not? The year before last......"
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The year before last, it was rainy in Hangzhou, and when it was time to harvest crops in August and September, there was no grain in the fields. The price of rice is one price a day, and by October, the price of rice has soared from the original 400 wen per stone to 1,500 wen per stone. In order to stop the price of rice from rising, the imperial court issued official documents one after another, demanding that the price of rice per stone be controlled at about 500 wen, and violators were beheaded on the spot.
In order to implement the imperial court policy and restrict the increase in the price of rice and grain in the markets of Hangzhou's subordinate counties, Xiang Gao, the assassin of Hangzhou, sent several henchmen to inspect the counties.
The henchmen came back one after another to report: "My lord, it's terrible, the streets are full of victims who have died of starvation, please find a way quickly, and ask the court for help......
Since the price of rice was not allowed, rice merchants in Hangzhou were reluctant to sell rice, resulting in no rice supply in the market, and the hungry people moved out one after another, and the streets of Hangzhou were full of starvation. Wang Xianggao had already asked the imperial court for help three times, but the imperial court wrote that the Shaanxi and Gansu regions had been in drought for many years, and the imperial treasury was empty, so they could not take care of the disaster in the Jiangnan area, and let them find their own way.
Wang Xianggao sighed helplessly, and at this time, the henchmen he sent to Yinxian also returned.
As soon as this henchman came back, he fell to his knees and shouted, "My lord, something big has happened in Yinxian." ”
At the urging of Wang Xianggao, the henchman took out a notice from his waist covered with the seal of Yinxian County, saying that Yinxian County had ordered Song Jing to disobey the holy decree, not only ignoring the imperial court's stipulation of 500 wen per stone of rice, but also publicly issuing a notice to allow the price of rice to rise, and the price of rice in Yinxian County had risen to 3,000 wen per stone.
As a county order, Song Jing not only did not suppress the rise in rice prices, but also added fuel to the fire, causing the price of rice to rise sixfold, which is a crime of murder. After Wang Xianggao read the notice, he was surprised. He thought to himself, this Song Jing has some ink in his stomach, and he has some fame in Jiangnan, so he dares to ignore the holy orders of the imperial court, so he has to settle accounts with him.
Early the next morning, Wang Xianggao took his master and a group of henchmen to Yinxian County. Song Jing had already led his men to wait for him at the gate of the city.
As soon as Wang Xianggao saw Song Jing, he scolded angrily: "Song Jing, are you guilty? In the year of the catastrophe, if you disobey the holy order and do not actively suppress the price of rice, I will personally send you a face. ”
After saying that, he beckoned his subordinates to tie up Song Jing.
At this time, I saw Song Jing's master come to his side and whisper in his ear, and Wang Xianggao on the side saw this and shouted to the master: "Your lord is about to become a death row prisoner in the imperial court, what don't you dare to say out loud for me to hear?" ”
The master was so frightened that he fell to his knees, and Song Jing said, "You just tell the truth." ”
The master nodded, and said to Wang Xianggao: "Lord Wang, this is the case, since my lord issued a notice to allow the price of rice to rise, rice merchants from all over the country have poured into Yin County, and they have continued to send money to my lord in order to thank my lord. A few days ago, a rice merchant from another place did not send money to my lord, so he sent me to ask the rice merchant for it. ”