The reason why Wang Zhizhou lost his temper was because he knew very well that once an arrogant official like Li You lost his restraints, he would be terrible to do whatever he wanted. Now looking at Sizhou City, if he is illegally detained by Li You, who else can restrain Li You?

The state and the judges, these two officers? If you don't have the guts to mention it, it's good not to look at the jokes. Guarding the tomb eunuch Hai Gonggong? It's not more than a hundred years ago, the eunuchs don't have this power anymore, and besides, Gonggong Hai still has problems himself.

Wang Zhizhou deeply regretted in his heart why he didn't have Li You's courage and dared to strike first. Even if you don't dare to detain Li You, you can't be beaten to death like this.

This is the gap in experience, when people like Li You encounter bad things, they will immediately find excuses to push out the responsibility, which has become a subconscious instinctive behavior. And Wang Zhizhou still needs to think in his mind, after all, it is a slow move.

Looking at Wang Zhizhou, who was restrained by his subordinates, Li You glanced twice and was not interested in looking at it again, he didn't regard officials of this grade as opponents from the bottom of his heart. Out of caution, he would not enter Sizhou City, and he had to detain Wang Zhizhou in Yujia Village when he turned around.

But in this way, Li You himself forced himself onto the road of no return. One six-pin dares to imprison another six-pin without asking for an order, which is decisive enough, but it is also a big crime and violates the red line of officialdom. Even if the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi went to get people, at least he had to make a driving sticker.

If there is no strong enough statement in the end, the court will not let Li You go. But compared with the major event of the collapse of the ancestral tomb, Li You believes that it is worth taking this risk, and such a choice must be made. Once Wang Zhizhou has a chance to turn around, the responsibility may fall on his head.

Again, even if the embankment burst is not man-made, Li You must create man-made facts. In any case, it is not that the flood is too big to overflow the levee, but that the levee is bursting, and someone has to bear the responsibility, as long as it is not him.

When Li You was thinking about his next move, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the eunuch Hai Gonggong who was guarding the tomb turning around, and was about to leave quietly while others were not paying attention. He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Haigong from behind and said: "As a eunuch guarding the tomb, the matter of the embankment collapse is also related to you, so you have to leave and walk with this official." ”

Gonggong Hai really doesn't want to be with Li You, a dangerous element, who is so crazy that he openly relies on force to arrest officials of the same rank as himself without authorization, what else can't he do?

Although their eunuchs are the emperor's domestic slaves, and there seems to be no precedent for ministers to take the initiative to arrest the eunuchs in charge in this dynasty, who knows if Li You will be the first to open the trend? It is safer to return to the ancestral tomb early, not only is there a mausoleum guard to protect him, but Li You definitely does not dare to rush into the ancestral tomb to arrest people.

"Hehe, everything is up to Master Li, I..." Before Gonggong Hai, who was as weak as Zhizhou, finished speaking, two strong men caught him on the left and right, and he couldn't help but follow Li You. At the critical moment, Li Youcai didn't talk nonsense with him.

The onlookers only felt that Master Li had captured Zhizhou and kidnapped the eunuch in a short period of time, which was unparalleled in domineering and admirable.

If a knowledgeable officialdom saw this scene, they would definitely exclaim that Li You was crazy! However, it is understandable that he is crazy, and the collapse of the ancestral tomb embankment, which is related to the fortunes of the dragon vein, has given him enough crazy excuses. It's not your own death or someone else's death, the real you live and die, it's not normal if you're not crazy.

What should I do? Li You calmly calculated in his heart, according to historical experience, it is estimated that the inner embankment of the ancestral tomb can last for about two days, and there is still relatively ample time. Therefore, the top priority is not to retreat the people of Sizhou in a panic, but to seize the time to arrest all the relevant personnel who broke the embankment, otherwise there will be many dreams at night, and it will be difficult to mess up in the future.

Immediately, Master Li called all the nearby river workers over and asked, "Do you know who is guarding the section of the embankment?" ”

An informed person replied: "That section was assigned to Ximen Wai Ma Zhuang, and it is not clear who it is." ”

Horse Village... Li You read it twice in his heart, didn't Wang Zhizhou's extremely favored concubine come from Mazhuang? Speaking of another coincidence, can it still be considered a coincidence? Speaking of which, if there is something to be done to kill the head, anyone must find the closest person to do it, preferably a relative.

When the flood situation was urgent, the civilian servants were all on duty on the embankment, and those people in Mazhuang should be there, so Li You immediately sent people to the other side to get people. However, a quarter of an hour later, he got a report from his subordinates: "The civil servant of Namazhuang said that the place where the embankment broke was the responsibility of the Ma Dalang Ma Erlang brothers and their sons in their village, a total of five people, and Nama Dalang did have a daughter who married Wang Zhizhou." However, at this time, there was no trace of them, probably after the embankment was breached. ”

Hearing that it was the father and brother of Wang Zhizhou's concubine Ma, Li You, who guessed correctly, excitedly felt that the truth was about to come out. But as soon as I heard that I was gone, I became anxious, these people were very important and could not be let go. If it was really a man-made accident, these people would definitely not be able to get out of it, and the embankment was guarded very strictly, how could others hide what they were doing.

Li You thought again, under the premise of a man-made accident, would they be stupid enough to wash themselves away after destroying the embankment? The next means, Li You, who is well versed in all kinds of local cats, can say it for Wang Zhizhou, it is nothing more than to report that these civil service embankments were destroyed and killed, and they cannot be investigated, and then make up some fake names, fake road guides or fake household registrations and send them to other places.

It can be seen from Wang Zhizhou that he was not mentally prepared for being arrested, and those people were probably the same at this time, so they probably just hid somewhere according to the plan, and it would not be too far.

No matter where they are hiding, since the other party is not prepared at this time, and the wife and children should still be at home, then go to their homes first and lure these five people to appear.

With a decision in his heart, Li You led 20 guards and 20 archers, escorted Wang Zhizhou, and took Gonggong Hai to Yujia Village and Mazhuang.

When they arrived at the entrance of Mazhuang Village, they arrested a person who led the way, and dozens of people killed them together at Ma Dalang Ma Erlang's house.

Contrary to Li You's expectations, Ma Dalang, Ma Erlang and others were all sleeping at home, and they were easily taken from the bed.

It turned out that these five people were tired all night last night and were sleepy, so they quietly sneaked home to sleep. Because of the protection of Zhizhou, he was paralyzed a little, and he only thought about recovering enough energy after this half day to make a plan for the future, but he was unexpectedly caught by the sudden Lord Li.

In this regard, Li You can only shout, God help me! Fortunately, these people were careless, and fortunately, he moved quickly and did not give the other party more time to react.

Things are developing smoothly step by step in the direction he envisioned, and seeing Wang Zhizhou's miserable white face again, Li You suddenly feels that Wang Zhizhou is a very good person.

Everyone likes to meet people who don't take credit for helping to take responsibility, I knew that Wang Zhizhou was so brave to create responsibility and take responsibility, what else was he entangled?

It's a pity that Wang Zhizhou's benefits after taking responsibility are going to be cut off by him. Li You imagined that in the future, the world would spread the news that Wang Zhizhou would break the embankment and flood the ancestral tomb, and that Lord Li had no choice but to release the flood in Sizhou to turn the tide, and how should the imperial court reward himself at that time?

Lord Li returned to Yujia Village, used the ancestral hall as a temporary hall again, interrogated the five members of the Ma family without waiting, and forced Gonggong Hai to observe.

Syllable! Li You patted the case and said: "Today, the matter of the collapse of the embankment of the ancestral tomb, the following five people are truthfully recruited!" This official already knows very well, you have to hide something with delusions! You must have seen that Lord Zhizhou has been taken into custody, so you don't have to count on him. ”

It turns out that Master Li is too smooth today, and he has completely solved the tangled mood, resulting in a too optimistic mentality.

I saw that Ma Dalang kowtowed and said, "Master Mingcha!" The little ones were really tired of guarding the embankment, so they went home to rest without permission. But I don't know what the levee has broken. ”

This kind of answer was also expected by Li You, who had judged so many cases, and some of the circumstances could be easily guessed in advance. As for not recruiting, the old way, fight!

Calling back and forth, Ma Dalang confessed again: "The little ones have been recruited!" Today, when the little ones were guarding the embankment, but unexpectedly the big embankment burst, and the little ones fled home for fear of being punished, and prepared to go to other places. But I don't want adults to see everything and be willing to accept the guilt! ”

Who's going to listen to you? Li You scolded: "Dog Diaocai! Why did the good end burst the embankment? It must be related to you, and you don't recruit it quickly, otherwise the official law will be ruthless! ”

But after trial, no matter how tortured they were, the five members of the Ma family gritted their teeth and just admitted that the embankment was washed away by the flood and had nothing to do with them.

Regarding the thoughts of these people, Li You understands very well that if they admit it, they will be punished by the clan, and they will even be Ling Chi, but if they don't admit it, they can at least keep Wang Zhizhou and the rest of the Ma family.

Torture like this is not a solution, but Li You can't come up with any evidence. There is not much time left, and I can't meet die-hard people who are stubborn and ineffective torture like in the county government, so I throw them into a dark prison to kill my will.

In other words, although the case is very flexible in these years, it does not necessarily require a confession, and the case can be closed if there is evidence. But now the problem is that there are indeed many coincidences in this case, and these coincidences led Master Li to arrest Wang Zhizhou and arrest the five members of the Ma family. But these coincidences are all from Master Li's free mind and subjective opinions, and they cannot form complete evidence, if the object is just a small people, it is easy to grasp. But when it comes to Wang Zhizhou, a sixth-grade official who has been illegally detained by Li You, how can he be fooled casually? If he is a little careless, he is afraid that Li You will be attacked by violating the rules, after all, he has committed a taboo first.

Not only did Wang Zhizhou have an official status, but also because of this fact it was appalling, people did not dare to imagine that the Ming Dynasty had courtiers who intended to flood the ancestral tomb. If there is no strong human and physical evidence, how can people be convinced? How to convince people when the case is taken out? I'm afraid that Lord Li will be regarded as indiscriminately creating an unjust prison in order to shirk the responsibility for the embankment collapse.

So Li You fell into a difficult situation, he found that although he seemed to be devastating with his strength, his biggest weakness was that he had no empirical evidence, like a giant with feet of clay.

Empirical evidence could not have been done without the trial of a case in the past, but it must be available today, and without empirical evidence, his actions cannot be legitimized.

(To be continued)