Wang Zhaoming said in surprise: "That's the straight bachelor of Longtu Pavilion. ”

"Merit is rewarded, fault is punishment, some time ago because of different political views, I and Zhongshu stalemate, which led to the arson case, the court deprived me of many official positions, the punishment is not excessive. But this time I was re-promoted, where is the merit? ”

"Solve the case."

"Where is the case solved? How many puppets did you catch? ”

However, Zheng Lang did not insist, he didn't want to accept the official position anymore, especially the official position given for balance. The real murderer is not eliminated, and the deceased has not really been wronged, and he deserves it. But who is behind the scenes, I don't want to ask, there are two people, one is Lu Yijian, one is Jia Changchao, one is a tiger, and the other is a soft-skinned snake with a very poisonous surname, Zhao Yuanyan will not make it, but no matter which one of the clan's children or relatives does it, he will not want to have a good life in the future.

"The king's servant, drink tea, I don't accept the official position, Your Majesty's mood is understood, don't talk about it."

"Then ask the ghost ......"

"You asked, just so I'll analyze the case from the beginning by the way."

"Okay."

"That night, there were all kinds of coincidences, one is that Bachelor Song and they happened to be talking and commanding in time, and the other is that many people rushed to rescue, so not many people died, but the murderer didn't want to die more people, so he deliberately chose it in the first half of the night, even so, how bold is it? Look at the three brothers of the He family, although they set fire to the heavy money, when they came up, they heard that only three people were missing, and they were still relieved. They are too evil to be evil. Moreover, the people of Taiping Prefecture. So I judged that the murderer behind the scenes was not the people of Taiping Prefecture, and he didn't have the guts. ”

"Yes."

"At that time, there was no handover of the victims, and there were still many patrol boats, although the night wind was strong, and there was a problem with the current, and I will talk about it later, if the fire did not ignite soon, the patrol boats could drag the two burning boats away, and it would not succeed. I came over and asked Mr. Song, who also replied that the fire burned quickly, so I guessed that there was sulfur and other substances. But this clue is not very easy to check, it may be brought from the capital, divided into dozens of batches to meet, and far away, each batch is very small, so this clue does not have much value, but it can be used. ”

"Yes."

"Then there is the water flow, Master Song and they only came to Taipingzhou, and they don't know the water flow clearly, but I have been in Taiping Prefecture for more than a year, and in order to build polders, I deliberately inspected the flow of various rivers, including the topography of the Yangtze River."

"Yes," Wang Zhaoming said. Not only the lake is encircled, but also tall river embankments are built in some places. The Yangtze River also has to be seen.

"If you want to set a fire and not let people know about it, you have to do two things: one is that the boat can quickly float to the victim's boat on its own, and the other is that the arsonist can escape safely. The most difficult thing is these two, the river water in the Taiping mouth of ordinary people's mentality is mainly divided into two, one is the river water that goes east, and the other is the river water blown by the northwest wind. The river that goes east flows eastward, and it is a whole, and it flows like this from top to bottom. The wind blows the river water, which is only the flow of the river above, but it affects the two ships enough. ”

"Yes."

"No, there is another current, that is, the water from Taipingkou, all the way to the opposite bank, this current affects the flow of the Yangtze River to the east, so that the river turns to the northeast, there is an example, whenever the boat reaches this current circle, although the boat goes east, in fact, the boat will drift northward by itself. It is the impulse of the river. However, when we reached the opposite bank, we encountered the embankment, and the water turned back again, that is, the outer part of the fan-shaped circle formed by the river, and the water turned back to the south. The three streams of the river, the wind and the river make the flow of water in this area very complicated. Since they have come to preside over this matter, there will always be wisdom, and they will look at it, from where they look, from the Yangtze River, and they will deliberately care about whether the boat will float to the disaster victims after it burns, and they must be very concerned about the current. There was a lot of time to prepare, from the time I rejected the letter to the official acceptance. But can they become familiar with the currents here? Can I really delay it for half a year before I can accept the victims? Can they afford to wait? So what will be done? ”

"Hire people from the local area."

"Exactly. In order to verify this, I deliberately did three tests with two boats, and the boat did not control it, and then jumped a few people down, one to the south and the other to the north. But it only succeeded once, once the boat floated in the wrong position, once a person swam too slowly, and if he swam slowly, he would be in danger of being discovered. You say they don't hire local people who are familiar with the shape of the water, okay? ”

"Not bad."

"But who will be hired?"

"I don't know."

"This is also easy to check, I have been checking, but it can be hidden in the dark, so that Mr. Song and them can attract the attention of the other party in the light. But it is impossible to check all the people of Taiping Prefecture. Therefore, I made an analysis, Mr. Song and they checked Cao Zhang and them, why do they need to investigate, once something happens, the two of them will definitely become important targets, if it were me, would they invite them? Speaking of other big households, some of them hide too much land, but they have built houses and bought land in the county town. They don't want me to have an accident and cause the trap to fail. How many households are left in this exclusion? Yes, there are two other households, which are also the focus of Mr. Song's attention. There is a lot of land to hide, and there is little capital invested in the city. They are all wealthy people, and they may resent me, but will they do such a thing, and what will they do if they find out? So I won't choose. That is, all first- and second-class households are excluded. ”

"Yes."

"The rest are the people below the third, fourth, and fifth grades, and this group is more numerous. But it can be ruled out that no matter what you do, there must be two ships, and you must observe for a few days, so these two ships must be your own. Otherwise, if the wind doesn't come, or if other conditions can't be met, how can you carry these ships full of burning materials back? It must be a few days before there is any doubt that they do have a ship. Although the boat is not big, it is ultimately a boat of the Yangtze River, not a small basin of the inland river, and what can be owned is not a third-class household but also a fourth-class household. The number of households below the fifth grade is excluded. However, there are still many. ”

"Yes."

"I start with the profiteers, and then veto, even if it is a third or fourth class household, how much land can it own? One hundred acres, two hundred acres, three hundred acres, will they be worth five hundred gold? No matter how expensive the polder land is, this is Jiangnan, not Hebei, and five taels of money per acre of land is enough. There are 500 gold, which will make all the third, fourth, and fifth class households tempted. However, the case is big, and you must ensure that you are optimistic about people at once, and you can't let people report it, or you have to kill people in advance. So there must be a boat in hand, or a greedy and brutal people. How many households can meet this condition? ”

"I see."

"Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. It's not that the case can't be solved, but whether the person who solves the case is useful, otherwise no matter how difficult the case is, as long as it is done, it will inevitably be solved. But I still didn't move, without him, the real host will also observe. At that time, the disaster victims, the merchants who came and went, the officials of the various states who checked, Taiping Prefecture was full of lakes and grass, and a few outsiders came, and it was difficult to find them. Moreover, there is another premise, if you want people not to doubt, arsonists will inevitably often appear on the Yangtze River to fish, if you kill people on the Yangtze River, is it easy? Even if I arrest them, it is only a suspicion, and it is more than a dozen families, and in the end I have to release them, and once they are released, they will be silenced, and the case will eventually become unsolved. So it didn't move until a long time passed. ”

"In case they have to kill ......"

"No, the object they have selected will make me not pay attention, such as the three brothers of the He family, they have hundreds of acres of fertile land in Jingminwei, if I fall into a misunderstanding, I will never doubt them. Secondly, it is not easy to kill people, and they will not make such a decision until they have no choice but to do so. In the end, it was Mr. Song who had some misunderstandings about me, and they were not very harmonious, and they fell into a misunderstanding when they solved the case. I don't have a relationship, there are so many things waiting for me to deal with, I can't solve the case, it has little to do with me. Besides, a long time has passed, and some traces have been erased by them one by one, so don't worry. ”

"Yes, it's the human heart."

"Count people's hearts," Zheng Lang smiled, and said: "Therefore, I didn't startle the snake, until a long time passed, this person had to go back to the capital, Master Song asked me, I said kitchen knife ......"

Wang Zhaoming was happy, he had heard of this metaphor.

"So Master Song and they took out a thousand yuan as a reward, which should belong to me, forget it, the three of them were very dissatisfied with me, and I didn't ask them for it."

Wang Zhaoming was happy again.

"The main messenger knows in his heart that he will not get clues if he gives 10,000 yuan, but the perpetrator may not be clear, and he will not say, how good, just like this time, catch the murderer, and His Majesty intends to cover up for the main messenger, so I can't know who is behind the scenes."

Wang Zhaoming didn't dare to laugh this time.

"There is an opportunity, the perpetrator will not know the identity of the main messenger, I will invite a few clever and strange faces from him, and try them with some plausible words, let them escape, give them money, or let them do other things, and so on. It's not a murderer, it's inexplicable, it's a murderer, and you'll definitely be worried about this Qianyi, and when you hear such words again, you will react. With a deception, the murderer will come out. didn't expect things to go wrong, and there was a story in the middle. The He brothers went from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the shore and happened to be seen by Ding Laosan. Although the He brothers are fierce, Ding Laosan is physically strong, and he is not afraid much, so he is tempted. It can't prove anything, the three of us brothers swam in the Yangtze River, it's an interest, what does it have to do with the arson case? Moreover, we also have to thank Zheng Zhizhou for compensating so many fields. However, I was afraid that he would talk everywhere, so I used more than 20 taels of money to plug his mouth. could have made a clue, but just came out with a thousand yuan, and he came to the door again to blackmail, attracting the killing of the He brothers. After Wang County Ling accepted the report, it was not clear that Ding Laosan was strong and had the surname of Tongshui, who could kill Ding Laosan quietly on the water, and there was no trace on his body. Ding's wife was not convinced, and came to the state government to report the case, and I immediately thought of the He brothers, which was not very far. And I have secretly investigated, and they have two unexplained sources of property, which is why I recognized them at a glance and said that they also had the origin of unjust cases before. ”

"I see."

"yes, you really believe in ghosts and gods?"

"Then ask the ghost ......"

"Asking ghosts is something I came up with on the fly, and going to the repeated autopsy and then interrogating them is actually to buy time for the hauntings to prepare. Ask Qingxu Daoist to assist again, otherwise these three people know that they are guilty and refuse to confess, will they use torture to extract confessions? I was going to reveal the truth after the case was solved, but I saw that Mr. Song, Jia Shuoshu and Cai Zhizhi all thought that I was really asking ghosts. So he changed his mind and didn't say anything. ”

"Why?"

"Think about it, the three of them are not talented people who are full of poetry and books, Sanyuan, Your Majesty's storytelling, calligraphy and Confucianism, young talents, actually look at some false images, and think that there are ghosts, not to mention others. If someone is more skilled than me and uses some methods to tempt His Majesty, that is, His Majesty will not be tempted, what will happen in the future? Take a look at the ghosts and gods, what did Qin Shi Huang, Tang Ming Emperor, Han Wu Emperor and other people become? I don't say it, there will be a lot of rumors. The controversy is even greater, but it is also a reflection. But this is my law, my method of pretending to be a god and playing tricks, Your Majesty wants to balance, in the mouth of the minister, why do you need to balance, I am Your Majesty's courtier, it is the minister's duty to do things for Your Majesty, and it is the responsibility of the minister to be loyal to Your Majesty. ”

"Zheng Zhizhou is really a good minister."

"I'm not a good minister, I just want to be a minister who is not bad, but if Your Majesty feels guilty, can you pass on a private life, see who can have the ability, let the ministers expose these small methods, and give some heavy rewards, which should also be a good warning for future generations."

It's not to challenge the people of the world, it's to challenge the gods of the world who pretend to be gods!