Guo Jia's own position is a lieutenant, in charge of the military, in charge of military law, but he also receives Shangshu, so he is also responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, but after he investigates, he needs to submit it to Shangshutai for resolution, such a serious case as death and injury involves a large number of middle and high-level officials, and after the resolution of Shangshutai, it must also be reviewed by Wang Xu personally.

As expected, Guo Jia, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu really secretly worked together, and the three governments secretly ordered a joint investigation.

Yan Wei Yi, who was in charge of the prison, was ordered to personally supervise the case, and Liu Tao, the son of the original thief Cao Peng Liu Yi and the current Yanwei Left Prisoner, had full authority to investigate and seek the assistance of the spy department.

However, on the 10th, the case has made initial progress.

Liu Tao took the order, led seven elite arresters, rushed to the Hanzhong plank road, because the matter was secret, only a few people knew, so the attack was safe, but just arrived near the plank road a few days, it was discovered in the process of investigation, causing a big crisis.

The arresters led by Liu Tao were fiercely besieged and killed, and it was difficult to move forward, but fortunately, Luo An sent the Butterfly Shadow Department to secretly help, and finally fled to the Hanzhong County Government, so that he was able to escape.

Subsequently, a letter of his blood was sent back to Xiangyang by the spy department.

Wang Xu was the first to see the blood book, and the blood stains were soaked on the silk silk, which was hideous and terrifying.

"King Mingjian of Chu, the minister died nine times, was ordered to investigate, although there is no ironclad evidence, but only the initial calculation of casualties, the normal loss of the three plank roads is only more than 1,000 people, but because of cutting corners, the dead and wounded have been more than 15,000 people, more than 7,000 people have been imprisoned, the people are crying blood, miserable, the minister asked the king of Chu, immediately ordered the detention of relevant people, rescued the people, and the minister is willing to guarantee his life. Evidence will be presented! ”

The moment I saw the blood book. Wrapping around is Wang Xu. Still his hands trembled, and he almost didn't hold the light silk silk.

"Bang!"

He was so furious that he smashed his desk with a punch, and the scrolls flew and shook the floor.

"Call me Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Yi Yuan, and Zhang Song!"

The spy shadow department who reported the news left silently, and after a short time, several important ministers came to the Qinzheng Palace.

When they saw the scrolls scattered all over the temple, they were shocked. Zhang Song was even more puzzled.

After saluting, Wang Xu's eyes swept over, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak, so he crumpled the blood book into a ball and smashed it on the kneeling Zhang Song's face.

"Zhang Song! This king entrusted the people to you, and you just wanted this king to see this blood letter? ”

With an angry reprimand, Zhang Song's heart trembled, and he hurriedly picked up the blood book to check, and after a while, he was filled with anger: "King Chu." This is impossible, and it will be my brother who will be a general. knows his courage very well, even if he gives him a leopard gall to eat, he will never dare to do this, and he has always done things in a proper manner, so he will not be like this! ”

"Really?" Wang Xu gritted his teeth and took a deep breath: "The size of the guts, this king doesn't know, but you have to give me an explanation for this matter, building three plank roads along the mountains and rivers that are just a few hundred miles long, killing and injuring more than 15,000 people, is this king asking you to build the Great Wall?" ”

Zhang Song didn't react just now, but now he suddenly understood that the weight of this matter had completely involved him, so he immediately didn't dare to argue anymore, and replied urgently: "King Chu, the minister is completely unaware of this matter, and he has never participated, and he still hopes that King Chu will be clear." ”

"Humph!" Wang Xu suddenly waved his sleeves and took a deep breath, but let himself calm down first. "I'm sure you weren't involved, but in the end, it depends on the evidence! But no matter what, if there is such a big accident under your command, you, as one of the Jiuqing, are in charge of civil construction, and the responsibility for dereliction of duty is always inevitable, and you will be suspended first and wait for the results. ”

"Thank you, King Chu Mingjian!"

Zhang Song breathed a long sigh of relief, but his face was ugly, although he was not broad-minded, but he was still very loyal to the people who were loyal, and he also cherished his reputation.

Guo Jia, Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, and Yi Ji did not speak, and listened silently.

"Machine! If you go to Hanzhong in person, this matter must be cleared up! Saying that, Wang Xu paused, and then continued: "Also, after you pass, the left colonel will order Yin Pu, and the right colonel will order Zhang Mu to be temporarily detained, they should now have nearly 2,000 requisitioned county soldiers in their hands, you and Fengxiao will hand over and transfer 1,000 iron cavalry from my guard legion." ”

"No!" Yi Lang responded to the order, in fact, he was an upright person, he pitied the people the most, and he hated this matter to the core.

"Yuan Hao!"

"The minister is here!"

"Zongzheng Temple is under the jurisdiction of your Situ Mansion, and if such a serious thing happens, you are more or less responsible, so I won't punish you for the time being, but I never want there to be a next time!" Wang Xu looked at Tian Feng lightly and said.

Tian Feng is an old minister who has followed him for many years, and although he didn't know about this kind of thing beforehand, he was always responsible for poor supervision and disgrace.

At the moment, kowtow and ask for play: "The minister's supervision is not effective, please demote yourself by three levels and be fined for half a year!" ”

"Don't worry, wait until this matter is thoroughly investigated!" Wang Xu waved his hand, rejected his request, and then looked at Fu Zhu and said: "Gonghe, will be the general Zhang Su and the officials associated with it to investigate, and you will personally lead the Shangshutai to supervise it, in order to avoid suspicion, Yuan Hao will also avoid the investigation of this matter for the time being!" ”

"No!"

"Alright, you guys stand down first!" Wang Xu shook his head with a headache: "However, this matter must be thoroughly investigated, no matter who it is, anyone involved in this matter will not be tolerated!" ”

A few people slowly retreated, and as soon as they came out of the Qinzheng Palace, Tian Feng was already looking at Zhang Song with a bitter face: "Ziqiao, such a big thing, why didn't you even notice it, this is a big disaster!" ”

Zhang Song's face was even more pale, blue and purple: "This matter has been handed over to the general to deal with, Zhang Su is my own brother, I have always thought that although he is timid, but he is in a decent manner, so he did not care, and asked about the situation over there many times, and my brother also said that he was fine, if this matter is true, it must be that he deceived me!" ”

Since Yi Yuan knew about this, he had never had a good impression of Zhang Song, snorted coldly, and left without saying a word.

Guo Jia stopped slightly, paused and said: "Ziqiao, your talent is extraordinary, but your temperament is not delicate enough, and you are debauched and disciplined, so you are implicated today!" ”

"Alas!" Zhang Song sighed: "If the matter is true, it is okay to be punished, but it is a pity that there is a great trust from the lord." Shame in my heart! ”

The crowd did not know what to say. Shake your head. They all left.

After Wang Xu summoned him today, the matter spread, and the civil and military forces were in an uproar and there were many discussions.

He was ordered to take Zhang Su into custody and began to investigate the high-ranking officials involved in the matter.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Su didn't admit it, and insisted that there were not so many people dead, and the craftsmen and people who died. All of them were unfortunately damaged during the normal construction process.

Three days later, Yi led a thousand guards and cavalry, still on the way to Hanzhong.

Far away in Hanzhong, the left school order Yin Pu, the right school order Zhang Mu was the first to present the recital, and dozens of officials jointly played, saying that someone was framed, and Zhang Su's confession was completely the same, saying that it was because of the process of repairing the plank road, there were often mountain collapses, so it caused huge casualties. No corners were cut at all.

As for the detention of the families of the craftsmen, it was explained that it was because these people were making trouble. They always believed that the huge casualties were caused by cutting corners, and in order to prevent these people from returning to their hometowns to spread the word and causing large-scale chaos, they temporarily controlled it and prepared to persuade hard.

This act suddenly made the whole incident even more entangled.

Liu Tao and others were besieged and killed, they also completely denied it, and the words had nothing to do with them at all, and in fact, Liu Tao and the spy did not catch any evidence, and they could not prove that those dead soldiers were sent by Yin Pu, Zhang Mu and others, and those dead soldiers who participated in the siege either died or disappeared.

The most important thing is that when Liu Tao went to investigate again, Yin Pu, Zhang Mu and other dozens of officials in charge were even more politely received, and the results were unexpected, there was no problem with the accounts at all, and the repaired plank road did not find any corners to cut corners.

Only the families of those who have died in the people and craftsmen cried and cried that there was really a problem, and some of the people and craftsmen did not die immediately, leaving evidence before the treatment was ineffective.

But in this way, it is not enough to explain anything at all, and the statements of Yin Pu, Zhang Mu and others stand still. "They were worried that these people would return to their hometowns and talk nonsense, so they controlled these people, persuaded them with good words and appeased them, and only after they calmed down did they give them bereavement benefits and send them home."

In fact, they did exactly that, as long as there was no longer a family member, they would give money and send him back according to the standard of bereavement compensation for the death of normal construction. During the period of control, in addition to restricting the freedom of these people, they were not tortured or mutilated.

This makes things confusing, and the Chinese Wudu of the DPRK began to question this matter, is it really wronged?

It's a pity that Liu Tao insisted that there was definitely something wrong with this matter, because he had heard with his own ears that those besiegers had revealed who sent them, but unfortunately after those people failed to besiege and kill, they had already committed suicide, how could they let the dead speak?

He himself was even bitten back by officials such as Yin Pu and Zhang Mu, saying that he was deliberately framed in order to seek meritorious service.

Dong Yun and Fei Yi also paid attention to this matter at all times, and after getting the news from Guo Jia, they asked to see Wang Xu again, saying that this was not the case at the beginning, and many living craftsmen and people said different things.

But even if Wang Xu already believed it in his heart, but without evidence, he had no way to punish him, otherwise it would be difficult to convince the ministers and idlers that he listened to slander and harmed Zhongliang. After all, more people don't know the cause and effect of these things, and without evidence, more people can't be convinced.

If it is really a traitor who brutalizes Zhongliang, then it is in this situation of insufficient evidence that he is killed on a trumped-up charge, who can say clearly?

As things became more and more complicated, Wang Xu was also anxious.

More than ten days later, the Iraqi led the army to Hanzhong, still to no avail, but the impeachment notes were one after another, not only the dozens of officials responsible for repairing the plank road jointly played, even many people in the court began to lean there, thinking that the evidence was insufficient, Liu Tao had the possibility of being greedy and framed, after all, it was not easy to investigate and deal with such a serious case, and the merit was not small.

The rhetoric of Dong Yun and Fei Yi, as well as the letter of the hundred people, were even more criticized, saying that the two of them did not know the importance at all, and talked nonsense.

The book of the hundred people became waste paper, because many craftsmen who had signed it denied it, saying that it was a misunderstanding at first, they just saw the poor families of those dead people, and wanted to fight for more compensation and compensation!

It's a pity that Wang Xu has his own judgment, but he still insists on his own opinion, and only says: "Check, check out, check to the end!" (To be continued......)