In the early summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen, a strange thing happened in Hangzhou. According to rumors, the first person to find out about the situation was the family of Yu Pingfeng, the commander of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, because Lord Yu did not go home from work on time as in the past, and if there was any entertainment, he did not greet his family in advance. The housekeeper sent someone to the Yamen of the capital to ask, saying that Lord Yu left at noon and never returned. After inquiring carefully, it was said that the people who came to Jinyiwei at noon took Yu Pingfeng and left the Dusi Yamen.

The people of the Yu family also knew that Yu Pingfeng had a good relationship with Liao Xun of Jinyiwei, so they hurriedly went to Jinyiwei's yamen to inquire about the news, but the answer they got was that Liao Baihu did not appear in the yamen all day. However, many of the affairs that Jinyiwei is responsible for need to be handled in the field, and there are often situations where he does not go to the yamen for a day or two, so no one is surprised by this. Moreover, Liao Xun took more than a dozen people out of the city on a secret mission the night before, and he did not mention to the people in the yamen when he would come back.

Although they didn't find Liao Xun in the yamen, the people of the Yu family didn't give up, and turned around and went to Liao's mansion again, but no one responded to the door for a long time, it was like an empty house. The Yu family had no choice, and while continuing to guard Liao's house, they sent people to ask for help. Yu Pingfeng's wife and brother are a captain in the garrison in the city, and after hearing the news, they rushed over and made the decision to let people climb over the wall to enter Liao's house, but found that the house was empty, and there was really no one alive.

At this time, the people in the Yu family knew that the matter was big, and they hurriedly sent someone to report to the official. Yu Pingfeng's best friend Guo Zheng was sentenced to the prosecutor's office, so the Yu family also sent someone to Guo's mansion, wanting Guo Zheng to come forward so that he could send someone to investigate the disappearance of Yu Pingfeng and Liao Xun as soon as possible, but Guo Zheng who didn't expect was not in the house, but he usually socialized more, and his family thought he was doing things outside, and didn't notice anything wrong, until he heard that the other two had disappeared, so he quickly sent someone to the yamen to ask, and sure enough, Guo Zheng was also like Yu Pingfeng, who was picked up by Jinyiwei's people that afternoon, and he didn't explain his whereabouts to his colleagues when he left。

The final whereabouts of Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng seem to be inseparable from Liao Xun, but because Liao Xun's entire family has disappeared, it is impossible to find the person concerned to confirm this matter for a while. In one day, three officials of the imperial court disappeared for no reason, and disappeared in such a strange and inexplicable situation, which was a situation that had never happened in Hangzhou City. Of course, the most bizarre of them is Liao Xun's disappearance, because almost at the same time as him, there were more than ten people in his family, as well as more than a dozen subordinates who followed him out of the city.

When the situation was discovered, it was already night, and the gates of Hangzhou had been closed, so there was no need to apply for a lockdown ban. At present, the city defense army and the city's arresters have been mobilized, and they are searching everywhere in the city, hoping to find some clues. Of course, there was no real gain from this night's tossing, and the twenty-odd people disappeared into thin air as if they had left no trace.

After dawn, the scope of the search was extended to outside the city, and checkpoints began to be set up on the main roads in and out of Hangzhou, and even officials and soldiers began to appear on various rivers and lakes, and all water and land transportation arteries began to be controlled.

It has to be said that the Hangzhou government has responded relatively quickly, and the measures taken are also very right, if the missing person is still in the vicinity of Hangzhou, through these measures there will indeed be a relatively large chance to find his whereabouts. However, the missing people, including the three court officials, were all alive and dead, and the government mobilized thousands of people to search for several days within a radius of 30 miles from Hangzhou, but still no trace of them was found.

At the same time, a fire incident that occurred outside the Fengshan Gate in the south of the city caused much less concern. At midnight on the night of the disappearance of Liao Xun and others, a business inn outside the city suddenly caught fire, probably because there were too many flammable items stored in the business inn recently, and the fire quickly got out of control, burning the courtyard of the three entrances to the ground, and the people in the inn may have been asleep, and no one escaped from the fire. The next day, when people were cleaning up the rubble, nine corpses were found in it, judging by the location and appearance of the room where they were located, Wan Mou, the shopkeeper of the inn, should also be among them, and the rest of the people may be the guys of the inn and the guests who live here.

The Sentencing Judge, Jinyiwei, and the Hangzhou and Qiantang County yamen all sent people to carefully check and examine the remains of the deceased to determine whether there were any officials among the victims that the government was looking for. However, they were disappointed by the results of the joint examination of the corpses, which did not contain the target they were looking for, and there was nothing suspicious about the bodies themselves, and the autopsy results confirmed that the people had indeed died in the fire, and there were no signs of trauma other than burning. The hunters did not find any obvious traces of arson in the fire, and everything indicates that it seemed to be just an accident.

Since the government's main focus was on finding the three missing officials, the fire did not attract much attention, although several people died. Although there is uncertain information that Liao Xun appeared to have been near the site of the fire on the day of his disappearance, investigators have difficulty associating the two events due to a lack of empirical evidence. Because, at about the same time, several of the missing officials seemed to have appeared elsewhere in the sightings received by the government, and every such message had to be followed up and verified, so the investigation here was quickly completed, and the rest of the cleaning up was left to the neighbors.

Of course, Wan Fa was not burned to death in Chengfengxing, and when Chengfengxing was in flames that night, he was already on the boat to Zhoushan Island. At this time, Zhoushan who went to Zhoushan with him was also captured by three Ming officials. According to the instructions sent by Zhoushan Island, Gong Qiqi did not execute them on the spot, but used Liao Xun's subordinates as scapegoats, and burned all the possible loopholes in Chengfeng Bank and burned them clean.

Gong XVII did not return to Zhoushan with the ship, he stayed in Hangzhou City to continue his activities, taking advantage of his own location in the shadows, and constantly released all kinds of false news in various parts of Hangzhou City, disrupting the government's investigation of the disappearance of officials. Since the missing persons are currently under the control of Haihan, it is not difficult for Gong 17 to fabricate some decent fake news, and it is easy for the investigators of the government to be in a state of exhaustion.

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In the early summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen, a strange thing happened in Hangzhou. According to rumors, the first person to find out about the situation was the family of Yu Pingfeng, the commander of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, because Lord Yu did not go home from work on time as in the past, and if there was any entertainment, he did not greet his family in advance. The housekeeper sent someone to the Yamen of the capital to ask, saying that Lord Yu left at noon and never returned. After inquiring carefully, it was said that the people who came to Jinyiwei at noon took Yu Pingfeng and left the Dusi Yamen.

The people of the Yu family also knew that Yu Pingfeng had a good relationship with Liao Xun of Jinyiwei, so they hurriedly went to Jinyiwei's yamen to inquire about the news, but the answer they got was that Liao Baihu did not appear in the yamen all day. However, many of the affairs that Jinyiwei is responsible for need to be handled in the field, and there are often situations where he does not go to the yamen for a day or two, so no one is surprised by this. Moreover, Liao Xun took more than a dozen people out of the city on a secret mission the night before, and he did not mention to the people in the yamen when he would come back.

Although they didn't find Liao Xun in the yamen, the people of the Yu family didn't give up, and turned around and went to Liao's mansion again, but no one responded to the door for a long time, it was like an empty house. The Yu family had no choice, and while continuing to guard Liao's house, they sent people to ask for help. Yu Pingfeng's wife and brother are a captain in the garrison in the city, and after hearing the news, they rushed over and made the decision to let people climb over the wall to enter Liao's house, but found that the house was empty, and there was really no one alive.

At this time, the people in the Yu family knew that the matter was big, and they hurriedly sent someone to report to the official. Yu Pingfeng's best friend Guo Zheng was sentenced to the prosecutor's office, so the Yu family also sent someone to Guo's mansion, wanting Guo Zheng to come forward so that he could send someone to investigate the disappearance of Yu Pingfeng and Liao Xun as soon as possible, but Guo Zheng who didn't expect was not in the house, but he usually socialized more, and his family thought he was doing things outside, and didn't notice anything wrong, until he heard that the other two had disappeared, so he quickly sent someone to the yamen to ask, and sure enough, Guo Zheng was also like Yu Pingfeng, who was picked up by Jinyiwei's people that afternoon, and he didn't explain his whereabouts to his colleagues when he left。

The final whereabouts of Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng seem to be inseparable from Liao Xun, but because Liao Xun's entire family has disappeared, it is impossible to find the person concerned to confirm this matter for a while. In one day, three officials of the imperial court disappeared for no reason, and disappeared in such a strange and inexplicable situation, which was a situation that had never happened in Hangzhou City. Of course, the most bizarre of them is Liao Xun's disappearance, because almost at the same time as him, there were more than ten people in his family, as well as more than a dozen subordinates who followed him out of the city.

When the situation was discovered, it was already night, and the gates of Hangzhou had been closed, so there was no need to apply for a lockdown ban. At present, the city defense army and the city's arresters have been mobilized, and they are searching everywhere in the city, hoping to find some clues. Of course, there was no real gain from this night's tossing, and the twenty-odd people disappeared into thin air as if they had left no trace.

After dawn, the scope of the search was extended to outside the city, and checkpoints began to be set up on the main roads in and out of Hangzhou, and even officials and soldiers began to appear on various rivers and lakes, and all water and land transportation arteries began to be controlled.

It has to be said that the Hangzhou government has responded relatively quickly, and the measures taken are also very right, if the missing person is still in the vicinity of Hangzhou, through these measures there will indeed be a relatively large chance to find his whereabouts. However, the missing people, including the three court officials, were all alive and dead, and the government mobilized thousands of people to search for several days within a radius of 30 miles from Hangzhou, but still no trace of them was found.

At the same time, a fire incident that occurred outside the Fengshan Gate in the south of the city caused much less concern. At midnight on the night of the disappearance of Liao Xun and others, a business inn outside the city suddenly caught fire, probably because there were too many flammable items stored in the business inn recently, and the fire quickly got out of control, burning the courtyard of the three entrances to the ground, and the people in the inn may have been asleep, and no one escaped from the fire. The next day, when people were cleaning up the rubble, nine corpses were found in it, judging by the location and appearance of the room where they were located, Wan Mou, the shopkeeper of the inn, should also be among them, and the rest of the people may be the guys of the inn and the guests who live here.

The Sentencing Judge, Jinyiwei, and the Hangzhou and Qiantang County yamen all sent people to carefully check and examine the remains of the deceased to determine whether there were any officials among the victims that the government was looking for. However, they were disappointed by the results of the joint examination of the corpses, which did not contain the target they were looking for, and there was nothing suspicious about the bodies themselves, and the autopsy results confirmed that the people had indeed died in the fire, and there were no signs of trauma other than burning. The hunters did not find any obvious traces of arson in the fire, and everything indicates that it seemed to be just an accident.

Since the government's main focus was on finding the three missing officials, the fire did not attract much attention, although several people died. Although there is uncertain information that Liao Xun appeared to have been near the site of the fire on the day of his disappearance, investigators have difficulty associating the two events due to a lack of empirical evidence. Because, at about the same time, several of the missing officials seemed to have appeared elsewhere in the sightings received by the government, and every such message had to be followed up and verified, so the investigation here was quickly completed, and the rest of the cleaning up was left to the neighbors.

Of course, Wan Fa was not burned to death in Chengfengxing, and when Chengfengxing was in flames that night, he was already on the boat to Zhoushan Island. At this time, Zhoushan who went to Zhoushan with him was also captured by three Ming officials. According to the instructions sent by Zhoushan Island, Gong Qiqi did not execute them on the spot, but used Liao Xun's subordinates as scapegoats, and burned all the possible loopholes in Chengfeng Bank and burned them clean.

Gong XVII did not return to Zhoushan with the ship, he stayed in Hangzhou City to continue his activities, taking advantage of his own location in the shadows, and constantly released all kinds of false news in various parts of Hangzhou City, disrupting the government's investigation of the disappearance of officials. Since the missing persons are currently under the control of Haihan, it is not difficult for Gong 17 to fabricate some decent fake news, and it is easy for the investigators of the government to be in a state of exhaustion.