Wang Kunjun can say "let him go" without care, but the others present can't really "let him go". After reporting to Zhang Xiaofei, Liang Ziyue immediately contacted Zheng Zhiwei in Beiping and agreed on a new jihua for various departments of the Ministry of Intelligence and sub-stations in various prefectures and counties to step up the arrest of Zhang Yan and his henchmen. Zhang Weixin, through the Later Zhou court, once again sent documents to the officials at all levels in the area controlled by the Later Zhou Dynasty, asking them to strengthen their investigation and not miss any suspicious clues. After discussing with Zhang Weixin and his eldest brother Li Junwu, who was later invited, Xu Shaoan decided to issue instructions in the name of the committee to Wang Feng, who is currently the actual person in charge of the security department, and ordered him to send more manpower to effectively ensure the personal safety of the brothers in the crossing team, especially Wang Kunjun -- although he was reluctant to follow dozens of guards every time he traveled, the security work related to the travel of the crossing team members has always been only subject to the decision of the committee and not under the command of the protected personnel. Therefore, even if Wang Kunjun felt that this was completely unnecessary, he could only accept such an arrangement in the face of the overwhelming three-to-one advantage of the other three members of the committee.

The matter about Zhang Yan and the Zhou family siblings came to an end, and Liang Ziyue remembered another thing that Zheng Zhiwei mentioned in the telegram to him. Although it was just a small matter that was neither important nor urgent, since Zheng Zhiwei mentioned it in the telegram, and it was fundamentally related to "Feiyantang", Liang Ziyue still decided to say it in passing. So, he took advantage of the fact that the other brothers did not mention new topics for the time being, and said: "Fifth brother, in addition to the matter of the Zhou family's sisters and brothers, Brother Zheng also talked about another small matter that has something to do with 'Feiyantang' in the telegram. ”

"Oh, what else did Brother Zheng say in the telegram?" Wang Kunjun asked with some curiosity.

"Brother Zheng said that a few days ago, the detectives in charge of supervising the work of the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion reported that He Ping, the former head of the Huairou branch of the 'Feiyan Hall' who was serving a prison sentence there, was stoned to death due to a mine accident. The tenth brother of Beiping Mansion also received a report from the steward of the hard labor camp, confirming that this was indeed the case. Liang Ziyue replied in a flat tone.

"That He Ping was stoned to death? Hum! A person like him should be locked up for ten or eight years, and let him suffer some hardships, and he will be stoned to death all of a sudden, wouldn't it be too cheap for him. Xu Shaoan said with some puzzlement when he heard this.

"I didn't die so happily." Liang Ziyue said, "Brother Zheng said in the telegram that although there was a situation in the pit at that time, there was still time to escape. At that time, there were dozens of people in the mine, and everyone else either escaped or dodged, without even a skin injury, and he ran in time and was hit by a big rock. Moreover, because he was only pressed down by the stone on his waist and legs, this guy didn't die for a while, and he carried it for almost a day before he died. When he was first suppressed, this guy couldn't stop wailing and begging for help, which made those hard labor prisoners, miners, mine supervisors, forced labor camp stewards, and intelligence agents who went down to the mine to rescue him, and the mine supervisors, forced labor camp managers, and intelligence agents who were responsible for on-site command were tired of it, but they were confined to the regulations of the labor camp that they could not give him a knife and let him die a happy death. It wasn't until three or four hours later that this guy couldn't shout anymore because of his physical exhaustion, and everyone was able to concentrate on the rescue and rescue more than a dozen hard labor prisoners and miners who were blocked by the collapse area. ”

"Retribution, retribution, this kind of guy deserves it." Xu Shaoan said with relief.

Unlike Xu Shaoan, who felt very relieved, Wang Kunjun was moved in his heart after listening to Liang Ziyue's speech, and felt that this matter seemed to be a bit too coincidental. Although at the current Jishu level, it is normal for an accident to occur in the mine, but there is a collapse in the small mine, and dozens of other people have not even broken their skins, but they hit He Ping, who has no problems with his legs and feet, and Wang Kunjun can't help but think about it more. So, he thought for a moment and asked, "Who is the manager and deputy manager of the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion?" Who were the supervisors who were responsible for supervising the underground at that time? ”

"The battalion manager is called Ren Changsheng, and there are two deputy managers, one is called Sun Youtian, and the other is Qi An. There are three supervisors in the mine, namely Liu Yongfu, Liu Yonglu, and Zhao Tiesuo. Among them, Liu Yongfu and Liu Yonglu are brothers. Although Wang Kunjun's question was very sudden and special, Liang Ziyue still replied very neatly. It's just that while he answered, he couldn't help but secretly thank himself in his heart, thanking Zheng Zhiwei and Brother Zheng for being serious and meticulous, and sending him a list of relevant personnel. Otherwise, I will show my cowardice in front of my brothers today.

"Qi An? Could it be that Qi An who was cut off a hand because of a discord with He Ping, so he defected to us in anger? Wang Kunjun asked.

"It's him." Liang Ziyue replied.

"Dozens of people went down the well and encountered a landslide, but only He Ping was hit, and the others were unharmed. And the deputy manager of this coal mine is Qi An, who has a bitter hatred with He Ping, which is too coincidental. Moreover, I remember that in order to avoid unnecessary troubles caused by conflicts between the two sides, the Ministry of Intelligence specially arranged Qi An to serve his sentence in the Xishan No. 1 Iron Mine Forced Labor Battalion, and He Pingfa was assigned to the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion to serve his sentence. Why has Qi An now become the deputy steward of the Third Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion? How did the Peiping Mansion and the Ministry of Intelligence do things? Wang Kunjun asked with some displeasure.

This time, Liang Ziyue was really asked. First, even if Zheng Zhiwei was meticulous in his work, it would have been a bit redundant to attach a list of the responsible persons of the coal mine to the telegram, and it was impossible for him to spend a lot of effort on an accident in the underground of the coal mine in which only one person died without the committee's request, to investigate what was behind the appearance. Second, the transfer of personnel at the level of deputy steward of a small, unpopular hard labor battalion is enough to be decided by the relevant departments of the Beiping Mansion's Officials' Room, the Torture Room, and the Beiping Station of the Ministry of Intelligence, and there is no need for high-level officials like Liang Ziyue or Zhao Dawei to participate in it. Therefore, in the face of Wang Kunjun's question, Liang Ziyue was stunned at first, and then could only shake his head embarrassedly, indicating that he knew nothing.

"Could it be that Fifth Brother thinks He Ping's death has something to do with that Qi An?" Zhang Weixin, who was next to him, felt something unusual from his fifth brother's words, and hurriedly asked.

Now it seems that He Ping's death was not an accident. In this matter, Qi An is absolutely inseparable. Wang Kunjun nodded slightly.

"It's just a hard servant prisoner, he did so many immoral things before, and he died, even if he really has something to do with that Qi An, it's not a big deal, why bother with him." Xu Shaoan said disapprehantly.

"That's a bad thing." Zhang Weixin, who had already captured Wang Kunjun's thoughts, waved his hand and said, "I think the reason why the fifth brother values this matter is not for that He Ping, but because he doesn't want to see someone ignore the rules and announce personal vendetta under the rule of the Beiping Army." ”

"Lao Qi is right." Wang Kunjun nodded and said, "As the saying goes, 'the state has national laws, and the family has family rules', the Beiping Army formulated a series of rules and regulations to restrain and manage the behavior of everyone under its rule at the beginning of its establishment, including our brothers, everyone must abide by it." Although He Ping is said to be a bad person, greedy for life and afraid of death, and a traitor for glory, since the Beiping Army has punished him for his crimes in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, then no matter who it is, even if it is a member of the crossing team, including me, must respect this punishment decision before the Beiping Army or a higher-level authority makes a new judgment, and must not disobey it because of dissatisfaction with this punishment decision, let alone allow anyone to destroy it or despise it.

Brothers may think that even if He Ping is really harmed by Qi An, it is just a personal grudge, and there is no need to go online, thinking that I am making a big fuss, brother. Not really. First, according to the rules and regulations of the Beiping Army, although the deputy manager of the hard labor battalion is only the lowest-level official, his appointment, dismissal and transfer can only be realized after the approval of the two departments of the Beiping Mansion's official room and the torture room. If the chiefs of these two departments did not benefit from this, how could they bother to transfer a position for an unrelated defector? In this way, it involves corruption and bribery, malpractice for personal gain, and deception of superiors and subordinates. What's more, because the members of the 'Feiyan Tang' are held in this forced labor camp, the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Beiping Station have agents stationed to supervise them. It is impossible for them not to know about Qi An's transfer, but as a result, no one reported the situation, and the reason for it is not known.

Second, if He Ping's death was not an accident, it was a well-planned and prepared conspiracy. At that time, the overseers and dozens of slave laborers and miners who were underground at the time witnessed the whole process, if not involved, but none of them came forward to report it. Those hard labor prisoners may be dissatisfied with He Ping's original actions, or they may not want or dare to offend Qi An, and they are willing not to stand up and speak. The miners had nothing to do with the forced labor camps, and Qi An had no right to manage them, let alone blackmail them, but they were also silent about the matter. This can only show that either they themselves have received the benefits of Qi An, or their superior officials have received the benefits of Qi An and ordered them to remain silent. In either case, corruption and bribery, malpractice for personal gain, and deception are indispensable.

Thinking that Qi An is just a small, unpopular deputy manager of the hard labor camp, but he can make many officials with official positions and grades greater than him do things for him, and even let the internal affairs department of the Ministry of Intelligence and the agents of the Beiping station contribute to him, how powerful and terrifying it is. Just imagine, if there are higher-level officials in the Beiping army or people in the court who also act like this, I am afraid that it will not only be hard labor prisoners like He Ping who will be calculated, but our brothers. When the time comes, we will be overtaken by others and become puppets. If it is serious, he will lose the life of the Beiping Army and even his own family. Therefore, brother, I think that this matter must not be taken lightly, it must be prevented, and a comprehensive investigation must be carried out, and it must be investigated to the end. ”

Wang Kunjun's words raised the death of He Ping to the level of the stability of the Beiping Army, and the attitudes of the other brothers present on this matter naturally changed, and they all took it seriously as an important case, and formed a committee resolution.

In the afternoon of the same day, the committee's resolution on the thorough investigation of He Ping's death was sent to Zheng Zhiwei and Zhao Dawei by telegram. After receiving the telegram, Zheng and Zhao did not dare to slack off, and immediately mobilized elite soldiers to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the matter. As a large number of agents from the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence and capable officials transferred from the nearby Lulong Mansion and the Criminal Chambers were stationed in the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine and the Beiping Prefecture Prison and the Prison Chambers of the Beiping Mansion, the truth and details of the incident soon surfaced.

As Wang Kunjun expected, He Ping's death was indeed not an accident, but a premeditated revenge murder jointly planned and carried out by Qi An and his good brother Tong Ming.

Because he was dissatisfied with the fact that the Beiping Army only sentenced He Ping to ten years of hard labor, and Qi An was not on an errand in the hard labor camp where He Ping was located, he could not take advantage of his position to retaliate against him. Therefore, after some discussion and planning, Qi and Tong first transferred Qi An to the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion where He Ping was located, so as to gain the opportunity to contact the enemy. Then, Qi An took action, on the one hand, he bought off the stewards and supervisors of the hard labor camp, and even the agents of the Intelligence Department who were responsible for supervision, so that the other party could open one eye and close one eye. On the other hand, it was to make things difficult and humiliate He Ping, who was serving a sentence under him, in order to vent his anger.

At first, He Ping could still consider himself unlucky and swallow his anger, but as Qi An's difficulties and humiliations became more and more severe and frequent, He Ping couldn't bear it anymore, and he didn't plan to endure it anymore - although He Ping's character was poor, his cultural level was not bad. He was still very familiar with the rules and regulations of the hard labor camp, and knew that what Qi An did was contrary to these rules and regulations. Therefore, after complaining to the director of the forced labor camp and the agents of the intelligence department in charge of supervision to no avail, He Ping prepared to take advantage of the opportunity of the Mid-Autumn Festival Beiping Army to send people to the coal mine to comfort ordinary miners, and through a miner he was familiar with, he cried out for himself and exposed Qi An's abuse and revenge against him.

I don't want to, the matter is not secret, and Qi An heard the rumors. realized that once the matter was exposed, even if he would not lose his official position, he would at least be transferred out of the Third Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion, and there would be no chance to retaliate against He Ping, and it might also affect his image in the eyes of the adults of the Beiping Army, and then hinder his way to be promoted and make a fortune in the future. Therefore, after careful discussion with Tong Ming, Qi An decided not to do anything, and to kill He Ping before August 15, and solve this enemy once and for all. So, after bribing the steward of the forced labor camp, another deputy steward, the supervision agent of the Ministry of Intelligence, the supervisor, and the ordinary miners who went down the mine on duty, and sternly warned other hard labor prisoners not to talk too much, Qi An instructed his cronies, Liu Yongfu and Liu Yonglu, the two brothers on duty, to first knock He Ping unconscious, and then use the gunpowder from the mine to artificially create a small-scale landslide, intending to bury He Ping, who they had placed next to him in advance, under the collapsed rubble, to achieve the purpose of killing people and extinguishing the mouth. Although He Ping was only crushed by the boulder due to the explosion control problem, under Qi An's deliberate obstruction, the rescue operation progressed slowly, and in the end not only killed the other party, but also caused him to suffer more pain, which was more in line with Qi An's satisfaction.

However, although they had previously received the benefits of Qi An, and turned a blind eye to his revenge and the elimination of He Ping, neither the manager of the forced labor camp nor the agents of the Intelligence Department in charge of supervision dared to conceal or fail to report the death of the forced labor prisoner -- the accident was a natural disaster, and it had nothing to do with the management of the forced labor camp and the agents of the Intelligence Department who were in charge of supervision. can conceal it and not report it, once it is found out in the future, then they will "walk around without eating". In addition, they felt that Qi An had arranged this matter seamlessly, and there would be no flaws in the report.

In fact, whether it was Qi An or those who helped him and provided convenience for him, their ideas were not wrong, and it was very likely that this matter would develop as they expected. It's a pity that they first caught up with the time when Zheng Zhiwei was very sensitive to anything related to "Feiyantang" due to the departure of the Zhou family's siblings, so the other party did not let go of the inconspicuous news that He Ping died in an accident and reported it to Kaifeng; Subsequently, they met Wang Kunjun, who was thoughtful and liked to think more when encountering problems. The other party not only saw some unusual phenomena from a few simple words of the report, but also decided to conduct a comprehensive investigation into this strange matter. In addition, they also met a serious and meticulous Zheng Zhiwei, who added the situation that people usually don't pay attention to, and he himself thought should be reflected in the report materials to the telegram, which made Wang Kunjun, who was already a little suspicious of this incident, suspicious and even more determined to carry out an investigation. Of course, the most important of the various factors is that Wang Kunjun saw the disturbing situation from this incident and realized that the Beiping Army had not done enough in terms of self-supervision, and it was absolutely necessary to carry out a major rectification to ensure the stability of the rear and not affect the smooth development of the work of the crossing team in Kaifeng City. Therefore, with the murder of He Ping, the committee began to clean up its own backyard.

On the eighth day of the ninth lunar month of the ninth year of Xiande, the Beiping Military Festival Dufu announced the results of the handling of the people involved in the murder of He Ping:

Qi An, deputy manager of the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Battalion, and Tong Ming, director of the criminal housing of Beiping Mansion, bribed colleagues, took revenge for personal gain, and instructed others to murder He Ping, and beheaded him in accordance with the law;

Liu Yongfu and Liu Yonglu, the underground supervisors of the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine Forced Labor Camp, were instructed by Qi An to cause a mine collapse accident, which directly caused He Ping's death and beheaded him according to the law;

More than 20 people, including the officials of the Beiping Prefecture and some of the wardens of the torture room, the supervisor of the Xishan No. 3 Coal Mine, the steward, the deputy steward, the supervisor, the internal affairs department of the Ministry of Intelligence, and the relevant supervision agents of the Beiping Station, accepted bribes, dereliction of duty, bent the law for personal gain, and deceived superiors and subordinates, and all bore certain responsibility for He Ping's death.

He Ping's death caused more than 20 and nearly 30 people, including himself, to be beheaded, exiled, imprisoned, withdrawn, and punished, which I am afraid that Qi An and Tong Ming never expected when they planned this matter. Moreover, although the murder of He Ping has come to an end for the time being with the release of the relevant punishment results, a series of rectifications triggered by this incident have just begun.

On the tenth day of the ninth lunar month of the ninth lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, the Beiping Military Jiedu Mansion issued a Jun order, requiring all civil and military officials in all prefectures, prefectures, and counties under its jurisdiction to learn a lesson from the murder of He Ping, and must not follow in the footsteps of Qi An and Tong Ming and do that illegal thing. Once someone is found to have violated the law and discipline, he will be severely punished and will not be tolerated -- even if he has made outstanding achievements, even if he has a noble status. In the relevant resolution issued by the committee to all crossing team members, it was also emphasized that all crossing team members should also strictly abide by this jun order of the Beiping Military Festival Dufu. Violations are also subject to severe penalties by the Committee, the enlarged session of the Committee or the Plenary, without immunity.

On the twelfth day of the ninth lunar month of the ninth year of Xiande, the committee announced the establishment of the Department of Discipline Inspection. Wang Kunjun is also the supervisor, and Zhang Xiaofei is the deputy director, and is responsible for the daily work. Dozens of students from the government affairs department, military department, intelligence department and other related departments of the reserve liliang training class of the crossing team were divided into two groups. A group of them were appointed as visiting envoys (inspectors of the Discipline Inspection Department) of the Jiedu Prefecture and assigned to the prefectures and military towns under the jurisdiction of the Peiping Army, as well as the intelligence stations of the prefectures and prefectures under the Ministry of Intelligence. On the one hand, they carry out patrols and inspections in their respective areas of responsibility, and supervise officials, generals, and agents at all levels. On the other hand, it also receives reports and revelations from various parties, and conducts corresponding preliminary verification and investigation. The results of the investigation will be submitted directly to Zhang Xiaofei without interference from other departments; The other group was appointed as inspectors (investigators of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection) of the Jiedu Prefecture, which were directly under the unified dispatch of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection and were responsible for conducting a formal and comprehensive investigation of the materials submitted by the visiting envoys. The results of the investigation will be submitted directly to Wang Kunjun, who will deal with them accordingly. In other words, these dozens of newly graduated reserve Liliang training class students are the supervision of the Beiping Army and the discipline inspection cadres of the crossing team.

As for the departments below the intelligence stations of the prefectures and towns of the Ministry of Intelligence, the intelligence stations of the prefectures, military towns, and prefectures of the Ministry of Intelligence are responsible for supervising, investigating, and handling them, and reporting and filing them to the leading organ at the next higher level, and at the same time accepting the examination and review of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection.