After receiving the telegram, Zhang Tie hurried to the Jingfa Temple barracks of the Yangzhou New Army, where Zhang Xi's body was already swollen in a coffin, and at this time it was emitting a foul smell. In order to avoid the smell www.biquge.info of corpses, Wang Yongan ordered the coffin to be covered and only waited for the coffin to be nailed.

Zhang Tie insisted on opening the museum to verify the corpse, he refused to believe that his younger brother was gone, after the coffin was opened, he was stunned for a long time, and then touched his brother's face regardless of the smell of the corpse, and roared loudly with tears in his eyes: "Who killed my brother?" Who is it! Who the hell did it? ”

Wang Yongan didn't say anything, but Fan Wentai told the truth directly, especially Zhang Xi betrayed everyone and saved Huang Bo, but Huang Bo killed and killed him.

Zhang Tie was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe it at first, but after the investigation, he got the evidence, and he couldn't help but not believe this fact that he couldn't hold his head up, his younger brother actually did something to betray the owner for glory, and the son of the Zhang family betrayed the owner. Several generations of the old Zhang family have been loyal and righteous, and their father would rather bend than bend all his life, but in his own generation, although the three elder brothers are not good at martial arts, they are square. The eldest brother used to be a fast catcher in Songjiang County, and later restructured into a police inspector, the second brother was the head of the nursing home in Yaofu, Jinshan County, and the third brother was a dart master in the Huating County Dart Bureau......

Zhang Tietong knelt down in front of Wang Yongan and said, "Dongjia, when my younger brother begged me to take him out to see the world, I relented for a while and took him to you. But I didn't expect him to betray you and let your enemy go, I'm sorry for you, I want to kill or chop, I have nothing to say. ”

"Get up." Wang Yongan shook his head and smiled bitterly and helped Zhang Tie up, and said: "I don't blame you, everything has nothing to do with you, and I don't blame Zhang Xi, he is too young and has experienced too little suffering, so he is easy to be fooled." That Huang Bo is so cunning, even I was deceived by him, let alone Zhang Wulang. As for Zhang Wulang's coffin...... Are you going to take it back to your hometown in Songjiang for burial, or do you want to bury it on the spot? ”

Zhang Tie said: "The habit in our hometown is that the body is not buried in a foreign country, so I want to ask the owner for a leave of absence and take his body back for burial." ”

"You'll be granted a month's vacation." Wang Yongan took out another thousand taels of silver as funeral expenses, Zhang Tie resolutely refused, saying that my brother betrayed you, I already feel guilty, if I collect your money again, I will not be human.

After snoking it for a long time, Wang Yongan said toughly: "This thousand taels is Zhang Wulang's salary at the end of this year. He has helped me a lot, and I can't completely deny him the credit for what he has done because he has done something wrong. ”

How can you earn a thousand taels of silver as a bodyguard for half a year, Zhang Tie knew that Wang Yongan had seen his face, he didn't know how to thank the fourth young master, his younger brother betrayed the fourth young master, but the fourth young master still believed in himself. Zhang Xi knelt on the ground and kowtowed, then had the coffin resealed, and then hired someone to transport the coffin back to Songjiang County.

Wang Yongan sighed with emotion, everything in life is impermanent.

Ten days later, Wei Wenkang held the letter and shouted: "Jingyun! Jingyun! Big things happen, big things happen! ”

"Why are you so flustered?" Wang Yongan asked.

"Our department and the small stream beach of the vortex river in northern Anhui defeated the eighteen bandits in northern Anhui, broke 100,000 enemies, and killed 50,000 enemies!" Wei Wenkang shouted.

Wang Yongan frowned and said: "Where did the fake news come from, to be honest." ”

Wei Wenkang grinned and said: "It was reported to the imperial court just now, and the real situation is that more than 10,000 enemies were killed, 30,000 enemies were broken, the blood stained the vortex river, and the corpses were full of Huai River." ”

Wang Yongan laughed, but his smile was full of complicated emotions, of course he hoped that Wang Yongtai would win, but this victory would surprise him too much, so far in the first battle, Wang Yongtai's position in the 24th Mixed Association was irreplaceable in the imperial court. All the efforts made by Wang Yongan before were useless because of this big victory.

And this incident also made Wang Yongan thoroughly realize that only real strength is the foundation of the world, no matter how much he calculates and buys people's hearts, it is not as good as Wang Yongtai's achievements in a big victory.

The hero of Wang Yongtai's victory, the first person is the little man Wei Daofeng.

Since Wang Yongtai ordered Wei Daofeng to investigate the bandits in Mengcheng County, although Wei Daofeng was conscientious but the effect was not obvious, the people of Mengcheng had a very bad impression of the Beiyang Army, as if they were devils who entered the village, and even the Mengcheng County Order was also hindered everywhere. That Wei Daofeng is definitely a genius, he proposed to Wang Yongtai to emulate the Ming Dynasty's reporting system, keep the identity of the whistleblower confidential, and set up a reward, in addition to the silver tattoo, you can also secretly get half of the reported person's property.

As soon as this reporting system was introduced, no one dared to go at first, but Wei Daofeng arrested several innocent families with no background very immorally, and the whole family was executed after being tortured by the Yan family. Later, Wei Daofeng threatened that almost half of the family's property would be used for military expenses, and the other half would be awarded to the whistleblower—in fact, there was no such person at all.

The Chinese people do not lack the most is to take revenge for their own interests, and trivial matters between neighbors sometimes turn into fights between two families, and the huge Mengcheng County naturally has many bad grievances, so there are greedy people who secretly report it. Wei Daofeng immediately arrested and tortured the Yan family, regardless of whether the other party was a bandit or not, in short, he would reward the whistleblower first. Although it is said that the whistleblower is kept secret, it is naturally obvious at a glance who has a grudge against whom.

In this way, Mengcheng will be in chaos, there is a grudge in the past, there is a grudge today, there is no grudge and no grudge, and those who look at others unpleasantly, all report each other. Not only were the bandits' insiders reported, but more innocent people were affected. Wei Daofeng found really useful information from the chaotic intelligence, arrested many spies of the bandits, and interrogated them strictly.

Wei Daofeng's interrogation was not complicated, he tied several bandit spies to a tree stump, and then skinned one of them, and threatened that only one would survive, and the rest would all be skinned and painfully killed. The bandit spies were not all hard-boned, and immediately begged for mercy and relented, and secretly reported the news of the eighteen bandits.

After getting useful information, Wang Yongtai asked Wei Daofeng to stop the arrest.

More than 100 people were wrongfully killed and unjustly killed in Mengcheng, and it was really bloodied. The Mengcheng County Commander no longer dared to say anything, let alone make a small report to the imperial court, because there were ten bloody corpses of bandit spies hanging at the gate of the north gate of Mengcheng County, which almost made no household near the north gate, and even more frightened people from the north fell off their horses. The shocking effect of peeling skin stimulated the people of northern Anhui, even though everyone did not support them in their hearts, but they had to cooperate with them, and even the grain and salary transported from the counties were more timely.

It's just that the soldiers gradually found that the people of northern Anhui looked at them with hatred in their eyes, and many soldiers couldn't stand this attitude of "non-violence and non-cooperation", and they wanted to leave northern Anhui and return to Yangzhou. (To be continued.) )