After Lu Sizhen got Li Xin's promise, he was ready to turn this case into a beautiful and bright iron case, and he was both excited and stressed at this time. In the final analysis, Lu Sizhen made an irreversible choice between Li Xin and the local forces in Shanxi.

Lu Mansion in Shanxi, especially Taiyuan Mansion, did have the ability to cover the sky before being plagued by plague and thieves, and for many years took silver money as a pioneer to win over and support a large number of officials, not only that, but his family also had an inextricable relationship with dignitaries. Li Xin didn't know this, and Tian Fuzhen probably didn't know either, but he knew it clearly.

Wang Chonggu, a famous general of the Jiajing Wanli Dynasty, is the uncle of Lu Jinji's father, and the Wang family is a wealthy businessman in Shanxi. Moreover, Lu Sizhen also knows a secret relationship that others don't know, Lu Jinji's wife and sister are married to a son of Zhang Sizhi, a scholar of the dynasty.

The Taiyuan Lu clan formed a huge network of intertwined relationships in Shanxi by means of marriage, and there was a strong Austrian aid in Beijing, and at its peak, it could even decide the promotion and demotion of local officials in various prefectures and counties. However, this is not the case, after the plague and the bandits, this network has been severely and almost degraded.

The scourge of thieves is especially severe in Pingyang and other prefectures in southern Shanxi, and the Puzhou Wang family is among them, and the entire family has almost been uprooted. And the disaster is not a one-way street, officials from all over Shanxi have been killed and wounded, and two of the troika have been broken.

After the Taiyuan War, Li Xin and the Three Guards Army were stationed in Taiyuan, and officials from all over the surrounding prefectures and counties were selected by Li Xinzhi. After returning to Taiyuan, the three families of Lu Zhou had a great feeling of being marginalized, so they used Zhang Fangyan as an excuse to re-establish their family's status in Shanxi.

In the final analysis, the scope of this case is no longer right or wrong, but whose strength is stronger, compared with the two, Lu Sizhen is more optimistic about Li Xin, who has a heavy army in charge of the military and government of Taiyuan Mansion. He used to be the envoy of Shanxi, and he also prostrated in front of this huge family, and now he has the opportunity to destroy this decaying edifice, and he can't help but feel excited.

Based on the above cognition, Lu Sizhen sent the most capable officials of the Inspectorate Department, repeatedly ordered and reaffirmed that he should deal with the lawlessness impartially, and repeatedly emphasized that Zhang Ge Lao is a veteran minister of Zhishi, and he must not chill the hearts of Zhishi officials in the world. Having said that, how can you capable officials not understand the mind of the envoy. After a brief understanding of what happened, he immediately dispatched Soap Li to arrest the scoundrel who beat people, but he didn't know that the other party had received the news in advance and hid.

Lu Sizhen was furious, and immediately ordered Niu Dan to assist in coordinating the military police, blocking the gate of Taiyuan City, and wantonly hunting down the scoundrel in the whole city. As a result, several arrests were carried out, and he was like an unpredictable prophet, and he finally realized that there was someone in the yamen of the inspection department.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Sizhen's retaliation caught Lu Sizhen a little off guard, and the merchants in Taiyuan went on strike, and his family began to run out of food and vegetables. However, such matters as the merchant's strike were not within the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Office, so he could only stare dryly and be anxious. The cousin of Tian Fuzhen, the prefect of Taiyuan, surprised him greatly, this mansion that has always been strong and not good at compromise was inexplicably weak, and even sent soap to persuade him from door to door. In his opinion, there are a hundred thunder methods that are hundreds or thousands of times better than such painless coping methods.

The city-wide strike for three consecutive days made Lu Sizhen see what it means to be a hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen, and then the news came, and even the county lord in the general soldier's mansion could no longer buy rice, flour, grain and oil. The Lu Mansion was resolute, which made Lu Sizhen's intuitive back feel a cool breeze, but there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and he decided to use a killer move to start with the case of the Lu family's demolition of the Zhang family's house.

Sure enough, after a good half a day's effort, Lu Sizhen found out the clues, the house has not been entered into the official register since it was built, and the so-called house deed and title deed are indeed forged, and then the scribe who manages the register is bought and stuffed in.

The scribe was a soft bone, and he didn't wait for the torture to pour beans into the bamboo tube. With this clue, Lu Sizhen can justifiably go to Lu Mansion to arrest and take people first. Whether it is forging contracts, bribing scribes, or destroying other people's property, these crimes are enough for the Lu family to drink a pot.

But now is not the best time to make a move, he is waiting, waiting for public opinion to turn.

A few days ago, the Taiyuan Afternoon News suddenly made a big report on the conflict between Zhang Fangyan and Lu Jinji, and as it progressed in an orderly manner over the past few days, it bitterly expounded the filthy nature of the Lu clan's bullying of others. This aroused widespread resonance among people in the market, and even the bookstore around Lu Sizhen paid attention to the serialization of this case every day.

Just when the time was gradually ripe, the accident happened suddenly, and Master Guo came to Lu Sizhen to complain.

"It's really crazy to get home, the Lu family can make the heat all over the city dare not buy newspapers, who can do anything!"

Now that the Lu Mansion has done something crazy, Lu Sizhen doesn't feel strange, he can't think that the Lu family is not only a hundred-legged insect that is dead but not stiff, but also has considerable energy in Taiyuan City. However, he is also keenly aware that this method of coercing public opinion seems to have been tried and tested, but this is like a full bowstring, the tighter it is tightened, the greater the rebound force. If you don't want to bounce back, if you don't want to let go, then there is a high chance that the bowstring will be broken.

He decided to wait for Lu Jinji to break the bowstring, but at this time, the merchant self-immolation incident was suddenly exposed, Lu Sizhen knew that the rebound had begun, and the news came from Tian Fuzhen, Li Xin was ready to intervene in the matter personally.

That night, an uninvited guest visited the Lu Mansion and left three chests full of silver.

Lu Sizhen looked at the three major boxes full of silver, sighed in his heart, and was full of feelings for a while, saying that money can make ghosts grind, in the face of such a bright temptation, how many people can resist it? I'm afraid it's not impossible to make grinding ghosts. As soon as he thought of this, his complicated expression swept his eyes again, and he boarded the chest full of silver.

The boycott and the self-immolation of the merchants had a very bad impact in the city of Taiyuan, and Li Xin personally handled the case, first inquiring about the self-immolation merchants, and when the self-immolating merchants learned that the person in front of them was the general in the city, they immediately jumped from the sickbed to the ground, wept bitterly and cried on the ground to cry out for injustice.

"The villain was originally a merchant in Zhili, and I heard that Shanxi was good to our merchants, so he moved his family too far, but I didn't expect the bully to run rampant, and the villain was going bankrupt in a blink of an eye, and self-immolation was also a last resort! Ask the general to redress the villain's grievances, and then cure the villain's crime of arson, and the villain will be willing to accept the punishment."

Li Xin asked him not to shout injustice in a hurry, and told the cause and effect of the matter one by one, the merchant was puzzled, and a scribe next to him reminded: "I still hesitate, the general wants to punish the lawless, and he must understand the cause and effect!" ”

The merchant immediately burst into tears. This person is that Gu Anlin, after the creditor left yesterday, he thought about it and didn't find a solution, and he didn't sleep all night. When the creditor came to collect the debt, he felt desperate, sad and angry, and planned to burn the jade under the excitement.

When Li Xin heard him talk about how desperate he was, he interrupted him and told him what was the matter with the creditor's forced debt, and where this grievance came from. If it's just a simple matter of repaying debts, do you still need him to mobilize the crowd to interrogate?

Gu Anlin was also embarrassed by the intersection of grief and excitement, and he didn't return to the topic until he was reminded.

"The villain was notified a few days ago, saying that he would respond to the strike from the day before yesterday, although there was a ban on sales, it was only for individuals, and it was not hindered in business. But this time the strike is the villain can not bear it anyway, the villain pan shop to watch the store, borrowed a large amount of money, and has to pay a sum of interest money every day, if it is not open for a day....... alas...... The villain had a fluke mentality, didn't listen to them, opened for a whole day, made a lot of money, and the villain was really happy. Le Ji is sad that it may be that the villain came to the door and asked the villain to either repay the money or collect the shop......"

Li Xin was also helpless when he heard him rambling again, so he picked up the key points and asked two questions.

"Who ordered the strike? Is there a direct reason for creditors to collect debts and strike the market? ”

Gu Anlin wiped the sweat from his forehead, rubbed his hands and said: "The creditor's debt collection is forced by the person who ordered the boycott of the market, saying that if he doesn't come to collect debts, he will not be able to gain a foothold like a villain...... Alas...... I knew that such a villain would be greedy for the cheap of that day, and the market would be boycotted......"

Li Xin's face turned cold, Gu Anlin realized that he was verbose again, and immediately added: "According to the creditor, the person behind the main envoy is a person surnamed Lu in Taiyuan City, I don't know if the general has heard of it?" ”

Li Xin was noncommittal, but asked: "What you said has been recorded by the scribe, can you dare to testify and confront you in front of the court in the coming day?" ”

Gu Anlin saw that Li Xin's face was stern, not perfunctory, but really wanted to enforce the law impartially and uphold justice, and immediately expressed his attitude excitedly.

"As long as the general avenges the people, the villain will risk his life to bring down these bullies who bully and dominate the market!"

Next, Li Xin ordered Niu Dan to take Gu Anlin to capture the creditor, but found that the creditor's family was actually holding a funeral, and the creditor hanged himself after returning home. Where is Niu Dan willing to believe, until Gu Anlin has checked his body and confirmed that he is undoubtedly the creditor, he accepted this fact.

The creditor's suicide by hanging himself made the whole thing cast a layer of confusion, and the matter was too strange for Niu Dan to dare to call the shots, so he hurried back to the barracks to report the creditor's increase in detail.

Li Xin was shocked when he heard this, how big of a thing is worth killing a person? Could it be that there is another hidden story behind the self-immolation?