Zhang Chu urgently ordered Ma Zizhou and his full set of men and horses to be brought to Zhongyang.

Ma Zizhou ran all the way and was sleepy and tired, and when he arrived in Zhongyang, he immediately went to see Zhang Chu, but Zhang Chu didn't let him rest for a day.

Ma Zizhou was very uneasy when he saw Zhang Chu, he was always self-hypnotizing before, he was not working for thieves, he tried cases according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and managed the people of the Ming Dynasty, so he should still be regarded as working for the Ming court. This time Zhang Chu hurriedly found him, it seems that this case can't be tried, and he hasn't thought about whether he wants to work for Zhang Chu yet.

Zhang Chu saw him coming over and greeted: "Mazhi County has worked hard all the way. ”

"I don't dare to call the county anymore, I just hope to do something practical for the people." Ma Zizhou was still thinking that it would be best for Zhang Chu to let him continue to try the case.

"I really can't call you the magistrate anymore, I have decided to expand the scope of your jurisdiction to manage all cases in the areas controlled by the security forces. I'm anxious to bring you here, and there are some urgent cases to be heard. This time, we have carried out an armed parade in the Luliang area, but many of the guilty have not been punished, and you will be responsible for the centralized trial of the cases in the Luliang area. We will send the Fa to the countryside, and you and your people will form a circuit court, and I will send another 500 elite members to accompany you. Other departments will also cooperate, and they must establish a fair image of the security forces, and as long as you are not greedy for money, do not bend the law for personal gain, and no one interferes with your trial of cases, everything is subject to the law. After speaking, Zhang Chu walked to the bookcase, took a written banner from there and handed it to Ma Zizhou, and then said: "This is my request to you, I hope you and I will abide by it." ”

Ma Zizhou took it and saw that it was written: "Based on the facts, take the law as the criterion." Seeing that he was still in charge of the trial of the case, and made it clear that the trial would not be interfered with by others, the pressure in Ma Zizhou's heart was gone, and he said to Zhang Chu seriously: "I will do these things well, the people are too bitter now, and I have no choice about natural disasters, but I will find a way to reduce man-made disasters." ”

After sending Ma Zizhou away, Guo Xiyuan was called in. Although Guo Xiucai has been busy these days, he has lived a very fulfilling life, and he was very excited to see Zhang Chu, knowing that there was a specific task to be handed over to them.

"How's your bureau preparing?" Zhang Chu first asked him about the progress of his work.

"The main thing is that qualified people are not easy to find, but please rest assured, with the current manpower, we can carry out the work." Guo Xiyuan can't wait to get to work.

"Okay, this time you send someone to the Luliang area to investigate the local situation, to find out the strength of the local forces and the relationship between them, as well as the attitude towards the security army, and those who have a hostile attitude towards the security army must collect some evidence and hand it over to Mazizhou for trial. There are not too many rich people who are not evil. I was particularly stubborn and didn't report me for the evil evidence, and then decided how to deal with it. Zhang Chu arranged the work, and Guo Xiyuan took the order and left.

After the armed march of the security forces, there was a new thing in the Luliang area: the circuit court of the security army sent the law to the countryside. The official man did not wait in the yamen to hear the case and ran to the countryside, not only the official master but also 500 heavily armed security guards. Therefore, no one dares to underestimate this official master, and the magistrates of various counties only say to the sky for this kind of blatant business robbery: "I can't see it, I can't see it." ”

The circuit court chose to settle down in a relatively large township and waited for the people to come to complain, but at first the people still held a wait-and-see attitude and did not dare to go, the statistics bureau provided some clues, and several bully landlords were caught in court by the accompanying security forces, and after a public trial, their heads were cut off in public. The people understood that this was a great opportunity for revenge, so some people came to complain, and Mazizhou, in line with the principle proposed by Zhang Chu, conducted an open and fair trial of the case, and also openly dealt with the perpetrators. The prestige of the circuit courts has increased greatly, and the number of people who have filed complaints has increased.

When it came to the prisoners detained by the county government in the city, Mazi Prefecture unceremoniously wrote an official letter to the magistrate and asked them to hand over the criminals. The magistrate didn't dare to offend the security army, so he could only quietly hand over the criminals, and the magistrate's work became easier.

The circuit courts worked efficiently, many wicked people who had harmed the township were punished, land confiscation and confiscation of property, and the number of crime cases in the Luliang area was greatly reduced.

As the court tried cases all the way, Mazizhou's prestige continued to improve, and the people's grievances were willing to find him, Ma Qingtian, and Mazizhou's enthusiasm was greater.

On this day, the court stopped in Mafang Town, Fangshan County, and the rich family in the town came to the court in a hurry, and Mazizhou called someone to bring him in.

"Help, sir." When the horseman entered the door, he lay on the ground and kowtowed and shouted.

Ma Zizhou carefully inquired and found out that although Ma Yuanwai was the richest man in the town, his family was not prosperous, and he gave birth to a son from a concubine in his fifties, and now he is only six years old, but the child was not found early this morning, and he sent his family to look for him everywhere and found no trace. Ma Zizhou remembered that Zhang Chu said that the quality of a person is not based on the amount of property, so he decided to immediately help Ma Yuan to find his son, and all the court personnel and soldiers were sent out, and the soldiers investigated and questioned from house to house, and the information was summarized to Ma Zizhou. The scope is getting smaller and smaller, and finally limited to a small area in the east of the village, Ma Zizhou personally went to the east of the village to check, and the soldiers searched everywhere, when he walked to a big manure pond outside the village, Ma Zizhou stopped, two deep footprints on the damp land by the pond attracted him, Ma Zizhou stepped on the side with his feet, and immediately asked someone to salvage in the manure tank, and asked someone to bring gypsum powder to mix with water, and pour it on the two footprints. The team members exclaimed, and sure enough, something was in the manure tank, and it was salvaged and cleaned, and it was indeed the son of the horseman. The horsemen rushed out to cry and died, and they didn't expect to fall into the manure tank and drown, so they ordered someone to come over and prepare to carry them home to decorate the burial, at which time Ma Zizhou called him aside and said: "It is possible that Ling Lang was not drowned." ”

The horseman stopped crying in surprise. Ma Zizhou continued: "If you want to know the truth, you have to ask the doctors of the security army to check it, and there are doctors from Zhang Chu Hospital who come with the army, and they have excellent medical skills. Now I've sent someone to ask for it. ”

After a while, the doctor came over, carefully examined the child's body and reported to Mazizhou that it was unlikely that the child had drowned, but an autopsy was needed to determine it.

After hearing this, the horse crew was also ruthless, and he must understand how the child died, and if there is a murderer, the murderer must not be allowed to escape, and he ruthlessly agreed to the doctor's autopsy.

The doctor came to report that there was no dirt in the child's lungs and trachea, that he had been thrown into the septic tank after he had died, and that the child's laryngeal bone fracture should have been strangled to death.

Ma Yuanwai loudly lamented, begging Ma Zizhou to avenge him. Mazizhou immediately sent people to the village to look for clues.

Finally, it was reported that there was a poor man named Wang San, who lived alone in a thatched house in the east of the village, and someone saw him appear near the manure tank.

Wang San was brought, Ma Zizhou didn't speak but looked at him with straight eyes, Wang San was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and shouted, "My lord, I didn't do anything." ”

"Have you ever been near the manure pit?" At this time, Ma Zizhou asked loudly.

"I haven't been, I haven't been out at home," Wang San denied.

"Take his shoes off." Mazi State Order. Wang San's straw sandals were taken off, and at this time the plaster by the manure tank had been hardened, and the soldiers rinsed the plaster with water, and put it together with Wang San's shoes, and the texture was the same. Wang San collapsed all of a sudden.

"Say where you killed the child, and then brought it here, the footprints you left by the cesspool are much deeper than ordinary people, are they left when you carried the corpse?" Ma Zizhou said to Wang San sharply.

Wang San saw that he denied it, but he recruited them all. It turned out that Wang San wanted to kidnap the child when he saw the child coming out to play alone, and then extorted money from the horseman, but he didn't expect the child to cry, Wang San grabbed the child's neck and strangled the child to death. Afraid of being discovered, he threw the child's body into the manure pit.

The soldiers searched Wang San's home and found the child's purse and belongings.

The court held a public trial of Wang San in the town, which attracted many onlookers, and finally Wang San was sentenced to death for homicide, and was dragged by soldiers to the woods outside the village and beheaded.

As a result, the story of the circuit court solving the case also spread, and more people, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, came to the court to file a lawsuit in the hope that Mazi Prefecture would avenge them.

As the courts went from trial to court, the tax collectors of the security forces also collected taxes smoothly behind them, and the security forces controlled more land.

With the money in his hands, Zhang Chu can finally prepare for the opening of the bank.