A year ago, Guan Zhizhou received a secret letter from the capital, and immediately burned the letter after reading it, and then called Master Hu and instructed: "You go and arrange it, and make Zhao Ganyun's family in Ping'an County." ”

Master Hu was taken aback when he heard this, and reminded: "My lord, this Zhao Ganyun is not an ordinary person, he is the descendant of Taizu, and it is a great risk to kill his whole family." ”

"Zhao Ganyun's identity is very clear, you don't have any concerns. Remember, be careful, don't let Wang Xianling grab the handle! ”

Master Hu thought to himself: "Zhao Ganyun has lived in Chengdu for more than 20 years, why is he only doing it now?" He saw the remnants of the burned letters and asked, "Today, is it that Master Xiang has come to give instructions?" ”

"What Xiang Taishi thinks about is just cutting off dissidents and expanding his power, how can he do such a risky thing for the sake of the country's society?!"

Master Hu didn't dare to ask again, and said secretly: "After Lord Guan received the letter from the capital, he was going to kill Zhao Ganyun and burn the letter, who would be the person who gave instructions to Lord Guan?" Could it be that in addition to Xiang Taishi, Guan Daren has other backers in the capital? As a master, I have to remind Lord Guan that although Zhao Ganyun is a descendant of Taizu, he is low-key and has never offended Lord Guan, so why bother with his whole family's life?! Thinking of this, Master Hu said carefully: "My lord, Zhao Ganyun has always kept to herself, and she can't see any rebellion. ”

"Nonsense! If he had any objections, Ben Zhizhou would have reported to the imperial court a long time ago. This has to be done quickly, as soon as possible. Remember, do it cleanly and don't leave any trails. ”

"Yes, yes, the student will arrange it." Master Hu replied no-no.

Soon Zhao Ganyun's family was killed, because the location of the crime was in Ping'an County, so Wang County ordered to start investigating the case. Unexpectedly, Guan Zhizhou asked for the case from Wang Xianling, on the grounds that Zhao Ganyun is a descendant of Taizu, and the matter is very important, and it must be tried by the Yamen of the Prefecture Government. Subsequently, Guan Zhizhou arrested a few outsiders who had no relatives in Chengzhou and beat them into tricks, and in the end, some of these people "died of illness in prison", and some "committed suicide in fear of crime", and they all died before the autumn decision.

Guan Zhizhou's hasty handling of the Zhao family tragedy caused strong dissatisfaction with Wang County's order, and he decided to secretly find out the truth. After investigation, Wang Xianling found that the case was related to Guan Zhizhou, so he began to collect evidence of Guan Zhizhou's crime and prepared to report it to the imperial court. Guan Zhizhou learned that Wang Xianling was secretly investigating him, and immediately ordered Master Hu to get rid of Wang Xianling's entire family.

After Master Hu received the order, he found Wang Bao and said, "This time, I will hand you a big deal, and it is still the old price." ”

"Who?"

Master Hu knelt in Wang Leopard's ear and whispered a few words.

"Kill the whole family of the county order? That price has to be increased tenfold! ”

"You lion open your mouth, and you are too greedy! Up to twice as much. ”

"If you kill the whole family of the county commander, the court will definitely investigate to the end. At that time, I had to hide in Tibet, and there was no way to take on other transactions, so I was counting on this money for the rest of my life. Absolutely ten times more, not a penny less! Besides, the county commander lives in the backyard of the Yamen, and there are still many catchers living in it, and if you want to kill these catchers, you have to hire a group of helpers. ”

"Please don't ask for help, it's your own business, I can only pay so much."

"I made it very clear, not a penny less."

"Don't think you're the only one in the world who can do this, I'll go find someone else. You are not allowed to mention this to anyone, otherwise watch your head! ”

"Don't send it!"

After Master Hu left, Wang Bao thought to himself, "Who will he go to?" Could it be that there is a killer in Chengzhou again? I'll have to go and see. ”

So, Wang Bao quietly followed behind Master Hu, and when he saw him enter the Caifa Inn, Wang Bao immediately understood: Master Hu planned to let the bandits from Bagou Mountain in the suburbs come to kill people. Because the Caifa Inn was the contact point for the bandits, when Wang Bao was short of manpower, he sometimes came here to ask them for help.

Seeing this scene, Wang Bao smiled secretly: "There is no master among the bandits, and the thieves who kill so many county officials are fast, and the bandits have to use sixty or seventy people." How did such a large group of people get into town? And how to get out of town? Hmph, surnamed Hu, when you figure this out, you have to come to me! ”

Unexpectedly, two days later, Zhao Shou was sentenced to transfer all the defenders of Ping'an County on the grounds of suppressing bandits, and also seconded ten masters in the county government to help find the bandits' nest. That night, the bandits rushed into the city, killed Wang Xianling's family, and burned the county government before leaving.

After listening to Master Hu's report, Guan Zhizhou nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "This fire burns well!" In this way, no evidence will be left. By the way, has the closing statement submitted to the court been written? ”

"It's written, please take a look at it." As he spoke, Master Hu handed over the draft of the closing report.

After reading it, Guan Zhizhou asked with some puzzlement: "Why do you write the murderer and arsonist as Wang Bao's gang?" Isn't it okay to write it as a bandit in Bagou Mountain? ”

"My lord, if the imperial court wants to arrest the murderer within a time limit, we must have an explanation. If it is written as a bandit in Bagou Mountain, then you have to suppress the bandits, the mountain is so big, it is not easy to suppress the bandits; It would be different if it was written as Wang Bao, Wang Bao is now in Chengzhou, and it is not too difficult for us to send more people to catch him. Even if he leaves Chengzhou, he can also send sea fishing papers. ”

"Well, that makes sense, just write it like that!"

After a while, the imperial court sent Lord Shang as a messenger to Chengzhou to re-investigate the case of Wang County's order, Guan Zhizhou was not worried, because Lord Shang was also a person of Xiang Taishi. After the two met, Guan Zhizhou invited Master Shang into the study and asked carefully, "I don't know what instructions Master Xiang has?" ”

"Xiang Taishi said that Wang Xianling is Prime Minister Li's sworn friend, and after his death, Prime Minister Li will not forgive and make a lot of trouble, and Xiang Taishi can't hold it down, so he can only temporarily back down."

"That little brother has to hurry up, catch the murderer Wang Leopard, and escort him to the capital."

"That's a small person, Prime Minister Li won't be satisfied, this time he can only give up his car to protect his handsomeness."

"Xiang Taishi means ......"

"Hand over Zhao Tong."

"The things that the little brother did, Zhao Tong's judgment is clear, if he bites me out......"

Lord Shang smiled mysteriously and said, "Dead people don't bite. ”

When Guan Zhizhou heard this, he smiled knowingly: "Little brother understands, it's still Master Xiang who is smart!" ”

Within a few days, Zhao Tong was sentenced to a bunch of charges and put in prison. In prison, the jailer followed Guan Zhizhou's secret order, killed Zhao Tongju, and then committed suicide disguised as fearful of crime.

After returning to Beijing, the Emperor submitted a report to the imperial court that had already been prepared to close the case, and the case was ostensibly temporarily closed, but Li Zai was very dissatisfied with this result.

Xiang Taishi and Prime Minister Li each recommended their students to serve as the general judge of Chengzhou, and the emperor was in a dilemma, and finally, Liu Maoli recommended by Yin Baozheng of Kaifeng Prefecture. After the arrival of Liu Maoli in the new sentence, although Guan Zhizhou set him up, after all, Liu Tongju was an official recommended by Bao Zheng, Guan Zhizhou did not dare to be as bold as before, he knew in his heart that it would be difficult to squeeze out Liu Tong's sentence in a short period of time.