Under Zhang Shilang's order, the guards surrounded the mansions of officials such as the magistrate, the chief bookkeeper, and the head catcher, and the two Zhu Houzhao brothers divided 30 soldiers from the land and water battalion to surround the county Cheng's family.

Zhang Shilang sent people to the county government to find out the account books of the government treasury and began to check the accounts, while sending people to the government treasury to check the money and grain. Look at the thick ledger. Zhu Houzhao proposed to Zhang Shilang that he send someone to check the accounts, and under Zhang Shilang's suspicious eyes, two soldiers of the water and land battalion who had studied accounting before began to check the accounts.

After a while, the Jinyi guard came to report that a guard had been found in the treasury, still unconscious, still holding a torch in his hand. The three of them were a little scared when they heard it, this was obviously to set up blame. Once the treasury is really burned down, it can be pushed to this guard, so it has nothing to do with Huairen County. In this way, there is no excuse to thoroughly investigate officials, and it is really a ring after a ring, which makes people unable to guard against it.

When the guard woke up, Zhang Shilang summoned him and asked him, and the answer he got was similar to what the three of them had guessed. At about 9 o'clock, I came out to go to the toilet, was knocked unconscious, lost consciousness, and woke up, I was scared.

By the time the sky was slightly bright, most of the account books had been checked, and the treasury had been counted. With the deficit that has now been discovered, Zhang Shilang ordered the arrest of a group of officials, the raid of their homes, and then escorted to the government office.

After a while, the officials were escorted to the magistrate's hall, Yan Zhixian and Dong Xiancheng had gloomy faces, but Master Li was trembling and panicking. It turned out that the officials who had ascended to the hall became guards. Zhang Shilang knocked on the wood in shock, and said coldly: "You still haven't recruited from the truth." Yan Ying, you say it first. ”

Yan Ying glanced at Zhang Shilang calmly and said nothing. Zhang Shilang didn't care, and said to the county Cheng, "What about you, don't you plan to say it?" The corners of the county's mouth moved, but he didn't say anything in the end. Zhang Shilang looked at the main book, and the master bookkeeper immediately knelt down and said, "My lord, my lord, no, the guilty minister pleaded guilty, and asked my lord to open the net." ”

The main book of the Ming Dynasty was mainly in charge of documents and archives, although it was the nominal third-in-command, in fact, it did not have much power. Huairen's chief bookkeeper is a local, and he is also a small influence in Huairen, and he has been an anchor for almost 10 years, and he gets a few hundred taels of silver every year. Although there was Zhu Yuanzhang's peeling and filling of grass in the early Ming Dynasty, it was basically not so strict in the Hongzhi Dynasty. The crime of taking the main book is to lose the official, and no matter how much it is to be distributed, or it is not allowed to be an official within three generations, and the life can still be guaranteed. Now he felt that Zhang Shilang had mastered the evidence of his crime, so he directly confessed the crime.

After hearing this, Zhang Shilang just nodded, and said to the guards, "Beat the magistrate and the county to the twenty boards." With that, he picked up a wooden token from the table, threw it to the ground, and the two guards set up one of them and began the execution. Although the faces of the two kept twitching, they still gritted their teeth and did not let go.

Before the execution was completed, a guard came in from outside the door, and said a few words in Zhang Shilang's ear, Zhang Shilang's eyes flashed with cold light, half-squinted, looked at the two, and said, "The two adults are really capable officials, they have only been officials for a few years, and their family assets are no less than 200,000 taels, amazing, amazing." It sounds like appreciation, but everyone can understand what Zhang Shilang really means.

The county magistrate and the magistrate seemed to be ready not to say anything. Zhang Shilang struck the shocking wood again, and said angrily, "You are really bold, you dare to issue household registration to the Tartars, guide them, let them go to Beijing, Shandong is reckless, don't you think that the court doesn't know anything, and you still don't admit your guilt, do you think you can get by?" ”

The main bookkeeper's face changed when he heard this, and he sat down on the ground in a distraction, and then his face slowly became crazy, and then he pounced on Yan Zhixian, and used all his strength to punch and kick Yan Zhixian, and yelled in his mouth, "The dog thief hurt me, the dog thief hurt me, the dog thief hurt me." The sound was more and more poignant, and the guard was about to step forward and grab the main book, but he was stopped by Zhang Shilang with a look.

The issuance of household registration and road guidance is under the management of the main book, and now that this kind of thing happens, the master book cannot escape the involvement. The master book is not a person with strong martial arts, and after a few strokes, the whole person fell to the ground without strength, and his mouth was still scolding.

Zhang Shilang looked at Yan Zhixian, whose face was covered with blood, with a blue nose and swollen face, and said lightly to the main book, "Do you know it, I have no way of knowing, if you can help solve this case, it is not impossible to open the net." ”

When the master bookkeeper heard this, his eyes rejuvenated, and he no longer had the madness he had before, and knelt down and said, "The criminal must do his best, do his best." Zhang Shilang nodded, "Say it."

The master bookkeeper thought for a while and said, "The criminal minister is in charge of Huairen's household registration and files, since 3 years ago, every year the dog thief, ah, Yan Ying will let his master instruct the criminal minister, and issue household registration and road guidance to several people, the criminal minister thought that the matter was not big, so he agreed, but he didn't know that it was a tartar, but the criminal minister just signed and sealed, and no one had ever seen it, and the adult was aware of it." ”

Zhang Shilang asked, "Where is the master?" The guard stepped forward and replied, "My lord, there are only a few women in the master's family, but there are no men. ”

The master bookkeeper suddenly raised his head and said excitedly, "Lord Zhang, the criminal knows where the master is." Zhang Shilang glanced at him and said, "If you catch it, you will be counted." The master bowed his head and thanked him, "Lord Xie, the master should be in the Li Mansion at the intersection of the north of the city, and the owner of this courtyard is a wealthy merchant who specializes in Tatar business." The eyes of the magistrate and the county magistrate, who did not change their faces, flashed with panic, and when they were seen by Zhang Shilang, they frowned, and immediately ordered the guards to go and arrest them.

The two brothers Zhu Houzhao, who were hiding in the back hall to hear the trial, glanced at each other, and took 20 soldiers from the land and water battalion to follow 50 guards and rushed to this Li Mansion together.

The case in the magistrate's hall was still being tried, but the Zhu Houzhao brothers and a group of people rushed to the Li Mansion. The gates of Huairen County have been closed, and they are guarded by guards, and no one is allowed to enter or leave.

The guards stepped forward and knocked on the gate of the Li Mansion, but no one responded. I had to start banging on the door with the rough wood I had brought. Previously, Zhu Houzhao asked the 30 soldiers of the land and water battalion guarding the county's Cheng family to come over and guard the back door of the Li Mansion. The men of the county Cheng family were all taken to prison, and there were only women in the family, and four brocade guards could guard them.

The door of the Li Mansion was blocked from the inside, and it was not possible to open it in a short time. Suddenly, about 30 people were exposed on the walls on both sides of the gate, and they should have stepped on something, otherwise it would be impossible to show half of their bodies on the courtyard wall of nearly 3 meters. The guards who stepped forward to bang on the door, Zhu Houzhao's brothers and the water and land battalion were 50 meters away, which was ordered by Zhu Houwei.

The 30 or so people who exposed the courtyard wall between them, each with a bow in their hands, bent their bows and arrows, and quickly shot at the guards at the gate. When I came to the Li Mansion this time, the guards were all carrying knives, no spears and bows and arrows. The enemy shot a rain of arrows, more than 50 guards suddenly fell more than 10 people, several people were stuck with a few arrows, because the distance was less than 20 meters, 7 or 8 people who were hit by the arrows were out of breath.