The Mancheng County Hetong Girls' School was officially opened in early October, and more than 100 students have enrolled in just two months.

Most of these students came from ordinary families in the city, and were attracted by the free policy of the school and the various skills taught.

There are also age restrictions, from six to thirteen, it is an opportunity to let their daughter read and write, learn a craft, and marry in the future.

After all, not everyone can afford to hire a tutor in these years, and as the country grows stronger, it is difficult for a woman who does not know a word to find a husband.

It is said that the women's school is opened by the government, a sacred place, and safety should be guaranteed, and there is no danger possible.

However, less than 20 days after the opening of the girls' school, one day at the end of October, the students got up early to go to the well to fetch water, and found a female corpse in the well.

When I picked it up, I found that it was an eleven-year-old girl in the school......

The county government judged that Wu Cuiwei accidentally fell into the water, and the school also paid for the funeral money, and the county government also gave some compensation. However, Cuiwei's mother, Feng, did not want to believe that her daughter had fallen into the water, saying that when Cuiwei came home the day before, she was very resistant to going to school, and had expressed a strong fear......"

Resistant to going to school, fearful?

Although Daiyu has no experience in investigating and adjudicating cases, her grasp of people's hearts is even stronger than Jia Cong's.

What is Wu Cuiwei resisting? What was it that made her afraid?

The soldiers told the inquired about the situation one by one, and roughly restored the whole incident.

Wu Cuiwei's father, Wu Tiejiang, had already recognized the county government's verdict, and even buried him in Wu Cuiwei according to the instructions of the county government.

But from beginning to end, Feng did not believe that his daughter accidentally fell into the water and died, and repeatedly asked the county government to re-investigate the case.

was nagged by his wife a lot, Wu Tiejiang also had a trace of suspicion, although he no longer went to the county government to complain, but the couple also began to inquire around the school and his daughter's classmates, wanting to find evidence and uncover the truth.

However, the women's school is a major project in Mancheng County this year, and it is one of the important achievements of the county officials.

Hearing that Princess Wen'an was about to restart his inspection, Fan Bi was worried that this matter would affect his future, and Feng had no definite evidence, so he repeatedly vetoed it, and asked Feng to escort him home, warning Wu Tiejiang to take good care of his wife and not to make trouble again.

After Daiyu arrived in Baoding Mansion, Feng heard about the princess's inspection out of nowhere, and planned to go to the city to complain.

Is this worth it? Fan Bi, the county commander of Mancheng County, sent someone to intercept Wu Tiejiang and his wife halfway, and after repeated warnings, he was still not at ease, and finally threw them into prison for temporary custody.

"Ridiculous! The case was hastily closed before it was clarified. As a parent official, he actually stopped the people from filing a lawsuit for justice, which is simply not taking "Taizu's Great Message" seriously! ”

On the first page of "Taizu Dahu", it is written that if the people are wronged, the local officials must not prevent the people from filing complaints, and must help the people to redress their grievances.

This Fan must feel that his head is too stable on his neck?

Regardless of whether this case really fell into the water, just Fan Bi blocked and stopped the people's complaints, which was enough for him to seize the official position and resign.

Daiyu, who was originally going to leave Mancheng County tomorrow, had doubts in her heart, and after scolding the absurdity of Mancheng County, she got up and came to the edge of the bed.

She took out a small wooden box and placed it on the table to open it.

There are three tokens in the wooden box, all of which are dragon pattern gold orders.

She is only a rank in the Ministry of Rites, and she has no power to meddle in local government affairs.

But she has three tokens in her hand that are enough to mobilize the entire Northern Zhili Division, the imperial decree given by the saint and the emperor, and the Donggong decree given by the prince, any one is enough to suppress Mancheng County to reiterate the case......

No, what Mancheng County did in this case is no longer enough to make Daiyu trust, and this case has to be tried in a different place, so it is best to find an official outside Baoding Mansion.

Daiyu was silent for a long time, pondering the connection.

Baoding Mansion can't believe too much, and now the best way is to go to the capital for help, and invite officials from the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate or Dali Temple, or invite Beizhili to supervise the imperial history.

She picked up the golden order of Panlong given by the emperor, and asked her soldiers to hurry to Hejian Mansion with the golden order and a handwritten letter, and invited Beizhili to supervise the imperial history and her cousin Lin Bai to come to the city.

For the Wu family and his wife, this case is half the sky. But for the Third Division, it is an extremely ordinary case.

Daiyu didn't want the people in Beijing to say that she had nothing to do, so it was better to find her own family.

In order not to startle the snake, Daiyu left Mancheng as planned on the second day and went to Ansu in Linxian County to continue his inspection.

However, she left a lot of people in Mancheng County, one is to secretly investigate the matter of the Mancheng County Women's School, and the other is to monitor the officials in Mancheng County.

After Lin Bai received Daiyu's letter, Lin Bai immediately saw the abnormality of this case from what he said in the letter.

There are problems in the process of investigating and adjudicating cases, as well as in the procedures for adjudication.

And it's definitely not because Daiyu is in a hurry to close the case when he inspects the place, and Mancheng County is covering up something.

He is different from Daiyu, after the dismissal of the official from the Hanlin Academy, the official was promoted to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to serve as the Northern Zhili to supervise the imperial history.

In the past six months or so, he has been inspecting the local area, and he has redressed the grievances of the people, and it can be said that he is very handy in trying cases.

There are already as many as six officials who have been pulled off by him, ranging from the eighth-grade county magistrate to the second-grade political envoy, and the small Mancheng county commander dares to play tricks in front of him, heh!

Don't look at this supervising imperial history is just a civil official of the seventh grade, but this is the nobleness of the nobles.

Taizu founded the country, changed the imperial history platform to the Metropolitan Inspectorate, set up thirteen ways to supervise the imperial history, and was seven products.

He was in charge of inspecting hundreds of bureaucrats, patrolling prefectures and counties, prison lawsuits, military battles, sacrifices, camps, and cashiers of Taifu; The left and right compartments of the Zhichao Hall and the Hundred Divisions Compendium.

The Imperial History Professional Correction of the Hundred Divisions, the Identification of Wrongs, the Commanders of the Provinces, and the Division of Discipline for the Son of Heaven.

All ministers who are treacherous and evil, villains who form a party, and who are powerful and disruptive will be impeached.

Anyone who is obscene and corrupt in official discipline shall be impeached.

Those who are not academically correct, and who write and say that they become chaotic and become constitutional, and those who hope to use them will be impeached.

In the event of a period of pilgrimage, investigation, and the deposition of the same officials and the Ministry of Justice. The heavy prisoners of the big prison will be in the outer court, and the criminal department and Dali will be peaceful. They serve the hinterland, follow the outside world, and act in their own way.

The position is inferior and powerful, and often the princes of one side have to give three points of face to the supervision of the imperial history of the patrol place.

Lin Bai can serve as the supervisor of the imperial history of Beizhili, in addition to his own outstanding talent, his eldest Bolin Ruhai and the future father-in-law Jia Zheng have contributed a lot.

As long as he does not make mistakes in supervising the imperial history, he will be promoted at least one level after three years. And there is a wonderful feature of this supervising imperial history, there is the word Qincha in front of the official position.

That is to say, the imperial history out of Beijing is the official eight classics, you can face the king directly, and go to the front of the emperor.

This means that supervising the promotion of the imperial history does not need to look at seniority, as long as the merit is made, the emperor looks at it, and it is not uncommon for the seventh grade to be promoted to the third grade.

Lin Bai's lobby Bolin Ruhai was originally promoted from the Nanzhili of the Seven Grades to the Governor of the Five Grades, and later from the prefect to the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Imperial History. In just ten years, from the seventh-grade official to the second-grade household book, this is the advantage of the imperial history of the Qing Dynasty.

After the Hanlin Academy was disbanded in mid-June, Lin Bai actually had the opportunity to serve in the Six Ministries and Five Temples, but he still chose the Metropolitan Procuratorate with a lower grade, just to follow the path of his cousin.

There are people in the DPRK, wouldn't it be a pity not to break through such a good resource......

……

"Girl, the third son is here......"

As he spoke, Lin Bai walked in in his usual clothes, and the room was full of his own family, so there was no need to shy away from it.

Daiyu said happily: "Third brother, you can be regarded as here." ”

Lin Bai stopped Daiyu and saluted, met Tanchun's eyes, smiled and replied: "I received the letter from the seventh sister, so I rushed here, I didn't want it to snow heavily on the road, and I was delayed for two days. Fortunately, I arrived in time and didn't delay you. ”

Daiyu shook her head and handed over a stack of information on the table: "The third brother came just in time, I have asked people to secretly investigate the affairs of Mancheng County in the past few days, and I have really found some strange things." ”

Lin Bai didn't care about talking to his cousin, and even Tanchun poured tea for him, just bowing his head to say hello, and put his mind on the information in his hand.

Sure enough, there are ghosts in this case!

According to what was said on this paper, not only did a female student die in Mancheng County and the same girls' school, but several students dropped out after only one month.

Moreover, these dropout female students soon moved out of Mancheng County and their families moved out of the county seat of Mancheng County, and as for where they moved, the soldiers have not yet found out the specific situation.

Moreover, the donors of the Mancheng County Women's School are not only the rich gentry in the county, but the biggest source of funds is not the people of Mancheng County, or even the people of Baoding Mansion.

Lin Bai couldn't see the specific information from the intelligence, and raised his head and asked, "Where is this Yan Qingxiang from?" ”

"I don't know for the time being, I only know that this person is a leather seller, his family is quite rich, and he is extremely generous, and he donated three thousand taels of silver to Mancheng County alone."

Speaking of this, Daiyu also frowned, the personal soldiers under her not only included the elite of Rongguo Mansion sent by Jia Cong, but also the good hands transferred from the three guards in front of the palace.

With such a strong soldier, it is really strange that Yan Qingxiang's specific identity cannot be found.

"Is the leather business so profitable?"

Lin Bai muttered to himself: "When you run a leather business, you are often close to the local people of the nine sides. Liaodong, Xuanda, and then there is the Shaanxi-Gansu area......"

"Shanxi!"

"Probably Shanxi!"

Tanchun and Baochai spoke almost at the same time, Lin Bai and Daiyu turned their heads to look at each other and smiled.

In the end, it was Baochai who motioned to Tanchun to say first, only to see Tanchun blushing and saying: "I didn't expect it before, but after being reminded by Third Brother Lin, I thought that the Yan family in Taiyuan is not just running a leather business?" The largest leather shop in the capital is the Yan family's industry. Brother Zhen has dealt with the Yan family, and if Uncle Jing hadn't suddenly returned to Beijing, Brother Zhen would have almost done business with the Yan family. ”

Baochai on the side nodded and added: "My family has also dealt with the Yan family, and originally wanted to join hands with his family to sell leather goods to the south, but his family was suspected of smuggling and had a wrong mind, so the matter was shelved." ”

Lin Bai is not very familiar with the family in the Northland, but fortunately, there are two female Zhuge to remind him.

He wrote a secret letter and asked Daiyu's personal soldiers to send them back to the capital quickly, asking Jia Lian to help investigate and find out the true identity of this Yan Qingxiang.

Although Baoding Mansion is not far from the capital, it has been snowing heavily in the past two days, and it is estimated that it will take several days to go back and forth.

In order not to startle the snake, the brother and sister still planned to stand still after discussion, and wait for the news from the capital to come.

It's a pity that the two of them don't know that Jia Lian is not in the capital at all. After waiting for several days, the news of the capital has not yet come back.

This is not a solution, Daiyu had to let Tanchun and Baochai stay in Ansu County to attract the attention of Baoding officials, and she hid her identity with Lin Bai and returned to Mancheng County in the name of visiting relatives to investigate secretly.

Princess Feng has been stationed in Ansu County for half a month, and it is about to reach the end of the month, and there is no sign of returning to Beijing so far.

Fan Bi and others, the county magistrate of Mancheng County, who had already put their minds at ease, had already sensed that something was wrong.

A dignified princess of a country, with a noble status, it is absolutely impossible to stay in a place for the New Year.

Fan Bi, who couldn't feel at ease after thinking about it, called his henchmen and sent a letter outside the city.

At night, a man wearing a black cloak and a hood walked in through the back door of the county office.

After entering the back study, the hooded man took off his cloak, revealing a seemingly elegant face about forty years old.

"Brother Ji Cheng, what's wrong with calling me so urgently?"

Fan Bi asked his henchmen to guard the door, and then closed the doors and windows himself, and then invited him to sit down and said: "I have been unsettled for the past few days, and I always feel that something is going to happen. That matter was handled a little roughly, the Lin daughter has been calm, and she has not returned to Beijing at the end of the month, I wonder if she has found something. ”

"Lin girl? That Princess Wen'an? ”

The hooded man also lowered his face and snorted coldly: "It's just a woman who doesn't understand the world, is Brother Ji Cheng too worried?" ”

"You don't understand!"

Fan Bi was a little dissatisfied with the hooded man's contemptuous attitude, he was different from the hooded man, he had really met and dealt with Daiyu.

"Although this Princess Wen'an is a woman, she can make the Son of Heaven break the rules of the millennium, and the imperial court official presides over a government affairs, how can she be a simple person? Not to mention that she also has a father who is the head of the household department, and that is the Gusulin clan......"

Gusu Lin's family, which generation does not have a stunning and glamorous character? Maybe this generation should be on the Lin family girl.

The hooded man still scoffed, but he reluctantly responded to Fan Bi's worries: "In that case, those two lowly people should be dealt with early." ”

It's okay not to say this, but as soon as Fan Bi mentioned this, he was upset and vetoed: "What are you kidding? At this time, if Wu Tiejiang and his wife died, wouldn't there be three hundred taels of silver here? I told you not to go too far, but you just won't listen. I knew that I wouldn't make this deal with you, but now that someone has died, if it is found out, not to mention me, even you and the people behind you will ......."

Boom!

The hooded man slapped on the table, and a loud noise interrupted Fan Bi's complaint.

I saw the hooded man staring coldly at Fan Bi's eyes, overflowing with murderous intent: "Lord Fan, pay attention to your words!" It's just a pariah, and if she dies, she will die, so do you want me to pay for her life? ”

Recommended commuter passes

(End of chapter)