"Morning, Yang Shangshu." Wang Yuan greeted with a smile.

Yang Shenjin frowned and said, "Deputy Envoy Wang, what time is this?" How did you arrive at this time? ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "Oh, I got up late in the morning, and I had breakfast on the way, so I'm late, sorry, sorry." ”

Yang Shenjin said coldly: "Deputy Envoy Wang, I remind you that we are here to handle the case, not to eat and drink in the mountains and waters, are you so lazy and procrastinating in the capital?" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Yes, if there is no early dynasty in the capital, my Hanlin Academy will start working at three o'clock in the morning, and today is still early." Isn't this the case with your Yang Shangshu's criminal department? ”

Yang Shenjin was speechless for a while, the atmosphere of the officials in the capital is like this, don't say that it is the Hanlin Academy, and even the yamen of his criminal department is only officially handled after more than half of the hour. It seems that he was too anxious and forgot that it was still early.

"That's it, that's it, let's discuss how to try this case. You said yesterday that you should divide the labor, and I have drawn up a list here, so you can take a look, and if there is no objection, you will separately interrogate the relevant people and other questions. ”

Yang Shenjin took a roster from the lobby case and handed it to Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan took it and took a closer look, and immediately understood why Yang Shenjin was so happy to agree to ask the officials of Beihai County with his own division of labor. The people listed on the roster in his hand are indeed all officials of Beihai County, but the long roster is full of people, whose positions and identities are obviously people who have nothing to do with the case, or have little to do with them, they are all low-level officials, and they are not involved in the financial affairs of Beihai County at all.

This is not entirely correct, there is also a person in the list who can be called a member of the Beihai County team, that is Liu Dehai, who joined the army. Si Bing joined the army as one of the six local prefectures and counties, and was in charge of local military defense, access control, field hunting, and other affairs, which was equivalent to the leader of the local armed forces. In fact, these people are not even paid by the local government, and nominally belong to the Taishou dispatch, but in fact, the Taishou dispatch of soldiers and horses still needs to be reported to the Ministry of War for approval.

Wang Yuan quickly understood Yang Shenjin's sinister intentions, and the point was not that the soldiers joining the army had nothing to do with the local finances, but that he asked himself to ask these unruly leaders of the troops, and made it clear that he would suffer hardships himself. A few of the generals who served as soldiers were reasonable, and they were rarely controlled by the local authorities, so it would inevitably cause friction if they were to ask them this time, and this was to ask Wang Yuan to poke the beecomb.

"How, can the allocation of personnel be agreed? If you think there are too many people, you can also assign some people to me for questioning, I am not afraid of being tired. Yang Shenjin stared at Wang Yuan's face, afraid that he would see his little Jiujiu.

Wang Yuan still had a smile on his face, nodded and said: "That's it, it's all about handling cases, what are you more and I less, I am the deputy envoy, and I should share more for Yang Shangshu." ”

Yang Shenjin breathed a sigh of relief and finally smiled and said, "Okay, let's start separately, strive to go through the motions in one day, and identify the relevant personnel for careful interrogation." Tomorrow morning, we will have a preliminary judgment on the facts of the case. ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, just do what Yang Shangshu said." ”

Yang Shen stroked his beard and said: "I will now order to summon the relevant officials to gather here, I will ask in the lobby, there is a side hall next to it, you can ask in the side hall." The relevant transcript personnel have prepared it for you, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Wang Yuan arched his hand and smiled: "Yang Shangshu bothered, so lowly to go." ”

Yang Shenjin watched Wang Yuan go to the small hall on the side, with a smile on his face, and turned around to order the relevant people to be summoned, except for Li Yong himself, the main team members of Beihai County were all in his big list. Don't drive Sima Chang, the history of the army, the household, the judicial department and other military officers are all listed. The officials under the key departments are also on his list.

Thinking of Wang Yuan sitting in the side hall and asking nonsense about irrelevant people and others, or the appearance of the soldiers joining the army and the local military leaders about to blow their beards at Wang Yuan and glaring at the table, Yang Shenjin couldn't help but want to laugh. This kid doesn't seem to be very good, and he is not the material to be played with by himself.

Yang Shenjin began to inquire about the relevant personnel attentively, and he asked very carefully and attentively, so much so that he forgot the passage of time. It wasn't until someone next to him reminded him that it was noon and it was time to rest, that he realized that the sun had reached the top of his head, and his mouth was dry and his throat was on fire.

"The meal is ready, it's in the back yard." Someone informed.

Yang Shenjin stretched his waist and ordered: "Let the officials waiting for questioning go back first, and remind them to rush back after eating, I don't have their meals prepared here." By the way, go and invite the deputy envoy of the king to come and have a meal. ”

"Deputy Envoy Wang? He had already left the yamen. ”

"What? Have you left the yamen a long time ago? When did you leave? Yang Shen said in surprise.

"I left the yamen side door after half the hour."

Yang Shen was stunned and said, "He finished his work in an hour?" ”

"The subordinate didn't know, only that he summoned a large number of people in, and came out after a few words."

"The soldiers have joined the army and the generals of the county government have been here?"

"I've been here."

"Didn't anything happen? Like, quarrels or something? ”

"This ...... It doesn't seem to be. Si Bing joined the army Liu Dehai seemed to be sent out with Deputy Envoy Wang on his shoulders and the two of them were smiling and there was nothing unpleasant Yang Shangshu was relieved. ”

"I'm relieved." Yang Shenjin scolded in his heart: "I can rest assured that they are quarreling and making trouble, what kind of reputation is this Wang Yuan doing, there is no reason to ask the list of fifty or sixty people in an hour, what the hell is this." ”

"Where's Master Ma? Tell him to come, and I will see the transcript of the interrogation of the king's deputy envoy. Yang Shenjin shouted.

A moment later, Master Ma, who followed the transcript of Wang Yuan's questioning, trotted in, holding a large stack of papers in his hand and bowing to Yang Shenjin. Yang Shenjin snatched the transcript from his hand, but saw that in addition to the name of the official being questioned, the position, the reason, the time and place of the question, and other items on each piece of paper, the content of the text of the inquiry only had four words in common: "It has nothing to do with the case!" ”

Yang Shenjin's face was pale, and he almost scolded angrily.

……

Wang Yuan had indeed completed all the inquiries in the middle of the hour, and he would not waste time grinding with these unrelated people. Calling a dozen people in one breath, everyone answered one question, and after a few questions, it was basically over. The question is not about the case, but about the customs and people, places of interest, and deeds of Beihai County.

After a few batches of people, fifty or sixty officials asked all of them, and the atmosphere was relaxed and pleasant.

The busiest is the master who records the documents, more than a dozen people, you say a word to me, Master Ma is busy sweating and can't record everyone's answers, and finally Wang Yuan instructed the master to write all the words 'nothing to do with the case' in the text as a summary. Wang Yuan thought about it, if Yang Shenjin accused him of being perfunctory, he would throw the list to him and ask him to question, I believe that Yang Shenjin himself would not waste time to ask again.

The only single exception was Liu Dehai, who joined the army and Wang Yuan gave him special treatment and met him alone. But Wang Yuan didn't mention a word about the case from beginning to end, and in the end, even Liu Dehai, who was nervous and ready to go crazy, didn't want to ask: "Why don't you ask me if I have anything to do with Li Yong's embezzlement of public money?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled and showed him the transcript of 'nothing to do with the case' written by himself, and said: "Before you came in, I wrote the conclusion, this is just a formality, and I also want to get to know Liu Shenjun." I have also heard a lot about Liu's deeds in the army, and I admire Liu when he joined the army last summer to exterminate the mountain bandits in Wuyang Mountain. Infiltrating the bandits' lair with 30 soldiers and destroying the bandits' lair in one fell swoop, annihilating more than 50 people, this is not something that anyone can do. ”

Liu Dehai was very surprised, this incident was the proud work of his life, but this deputy envoy Wang may have heard rumors, but in fact, he only arrested seven or eight mountain bandits. The master and his entourage on the side were all stunned, just now when I heard Wang Yuan chatting with the group of people in front of him, someone said about it, and they clearly said that it was eight bandits, but when it came to the mouth of Deputy Envoy Wang, it suddenly became fifty, and Deputy Envoy Wang's ears were probably not very good.

However, smart people also realized that Wang Yuan's previous chatter was not small talk, but a lot of news from the side, such as the matter of Liu Dehai's suppression of bandits, which was mentioned just now.

Of course, Liu Dehai will not correct Wang Yuan's mistakes, and the deputy envoy Wang from the capital not only concluded in advance that he had nothing to do with the case, which made Liu Dehai, who was reluctant to come to be questioned, have already subsided in his heart. In addition, the deputy envoy mentioned that he was proud, and said that he was more lofty and brave than he thought he was in his heart, and his heart was grateful. So when Wang Yuan said that the conversation was over, Liu Dehai was a little reluctant, although it was not a hook on his shoulders, but he was already like a confidant and friend. Liu Dehai even patted his chest and told Wang Yuan that although the place he used was open, Wang Yuan also smiled and agreed to send him away.

After doing these bad things, Wang Yuan immediately led people out of the side door and left the yamen, he wanted to do what he thought was important. I was worried that I wouldn't have time to do it, but now it's okay. Instead, there's a lot of time.

When he returned to the pavilion, he ordered Wang Dahei and his entourage to stay in the pavilion and not to go out at will, and Wang Yuan went out alone. Walking through the two alleys, Wang Yuan saw Gongsun Lan, dressed in a moon-white robe, walking towards him from the alley.

"Where?" Gongsun Lan asked.

"Go find Luo Yimen's people to connect." Wang Yuan returned in a low voice, Gongsun Lan nodded lightly, and followed Wang Yuan into the flow of people.