Chapter 723 Fighting Skills
When Tang County Magistrate investigated the case, he told the county lieutenant and government servants that it was strictly forbidden to spread the cause of this matter to the outside world.
Anyway, they have portraits in their hands, so it is much easier to investigate. They can just find an excuse, such as stealing from a certain place, no matter whether they lost money or cattle, anyway, it was the two people in the portrait who did it. It's easy to catch them first and then find the rest.
Anyway, it can't be official robbery.
Robbery in the official way is a robber.
Yizhou has just settled down, but now a group of bandits are robbing passing merchants on the official road outside Yizhou City. Not only will it cause panic, but is he a county magistrate?
He just snatched a lot of land from the Ying family and others, most of them wanted to trample him down or drive him out of Yizhou City.
But he didn't expect the village under his jurisdiction to be so ignorant, and the people he sent out didn't even find out those two people.
County magistrate Tang carefully questioned Zhou Zhoulang to confirm that this was done by someone who is very familiar with officialdom.
One: Traveling merchants who often take this official road;
Two: refugees who often walk on this official road;
Three: The nearby villagers.
Even if traveling merchants are poor, they won’t think highly of Zhou Zhoulang’s load of wheat seeds. What’s more, poor traveling merchants are usually accompanied by two or three people. Small business is in the eye.
And if it was done by the refugees, they would not just rob the wheat seeds, but would take the horses and carts together.
Go down the official road, walk directly into the small path, or be more cruel, beat Zhou Zhoulang to death and throw it in the forest. Unlucky, the body was found in two or three days, and they didn't know where they went. went.
Sell the food and horses on the cart in another place, and after sharing the money, they mix with the refugees and follow them everywhere.
Even if Tang County Magistrate can finally find out where the carriages and horses are, and even draw portraits of most people and submit them to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and then issue arrest warrants, but in the vast crowd, especially so many refugees who have lost their books Finding more than a dozen people among them is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
Only those with a family and a family would have so many scruples, not daring to snatch the overly conspicuous carts and horses.
Therefore, Magistrate Tang can be sure that the perpetrators are the nearby villagers.
But the yamen servant who took the portrait went to the village, but found nothing.
Those two people couldn't have jumped out of the cracks in the rocks. Magistrate Tang knew that he had encountered the most difficult and annoying situation since he was handling the case.
His father used to be from the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He said that the cases he hates the most are cases committed by locals, a family, a family, a village, or even a foreigner from a village.
It is obviously a well-known matter, and they themselves will not shy away from discussing it in private, but when the officials go to investigate, from the head of the village to the children, they will keep silent and ask three questions.
It is because they are afraid of offending others.
Before he came, his father had told him, first, to be neither humble nor overbearing in the face of the powerful, to think about the people under his rule, and to handle a case, no matter who the victim is, he must give them the account they deserve;
Second, for those villagers, village chiefs and village chiefs who conceal the facts of the case, they must be soft and hard. It is best if he can understand the other party in a gentle manner.
No, and the sentence must not be excessive.
At that time, County Magistrate Tang didn't take it seriously, and didn't think that someone would obstruct the official's handling of the case for something completely irrelevant to him.
but now……
Still very angry.
So Magistrate Tang felt that since everyone made him unhappy, then he should make everyone unhappy.
County magistrate Tang asked the master to go back to rest with a sullen face, turned around and called the names of the three yamen servants, and asked his servants to quietly call them over overnight.
"My lord!" The yamen servants bowed and saluted.
Magistrate Tang nodded and asked, "I remember that you are all from Yanjiawan and Dahuaping?"
"Yes, my lord has a really good memory." The servants complimented me.
Magistrate Tang smiled slightly and asked, "Do you have any relatives in Dagong Ridge?"
The three yamen servants looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "My lord, Yanjiawan and Dahuaping are far away from Dagongling, and the few of us didn't get close there."
Magistrate Tang nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "That's just right, I have something to entrust to you."
Magistrate Tang asked them to change into plain clothes, and squatted on the hills around Dagongling to wait for arrest. Then he handed them the two portraits drawn by the artist.
The yamen servants quickly took it, and they all looked worried at each other.
They all know that Magistrate Tang is handling an important case recently.
After all, their county government is only that big, and there are only so many people.
This case is not easy to handle. In the past, when I went to the countryside to ask the head of the village, even if he didn't know anything, he would actively help to ask the villagers. As a result, the people who went to the countryside this time were not soft or hard.
The brother who took this case recently was very angry. It is said that even the county captain smashed a set of cups, obviously very angry.
A case that so many people can't handle, relying on these three newcomers who have not been in the county government for two years?
Yes, these three yamen servants are very young, not only young, but also young when they entered the county yamen.
They were recruited after the magistrate Tang came to recruit government servants.
After all, after the flood, the former government servants, who died, also ran away, and many disappeared.
The county government is short of people.
Although Magistrate Tang did not engage in factions, the three of them still considered themselves Magistrate Tang, so although they found it difficult, they nodded and agreed after hesitation.
Tang County Magistrate smiled slightly when he saw it, his face softened a lot, and he encouraged them to analyze: "Don't be afraid, you rarely appear in the Dagongling area, and you are unfamiliar faces."
Magistrate Tang said: "I don't want you to enter those two or three villages either. I'll ask someone to inquire about it. The villagers in the Dagongling area like to collect firewood in the Nanling and Dongling areas. Now the weather is getting worse. Every family needs a lot of firewood, and they are no exception."
"I'll ask Sun Da and the others to withdraw from Dagong Ridge and investigate other places. They will naturally appear as soon as they relax their vigilance. When you see one of them in the portrait, you will rush directly to arrest them."
Magistrate Tang said, "I don't want you both to be arrested, just one."
One of the yamen servants couldn't help asking, "My lord, what if they appear in groups? I'm afraid we will be beaten to death before we can be caught."
Judging from this case, these villagers are obviously very united. If they really arrested people on the spot, and they were wearing plain clothes, they would definitely be beaten to death as thieves.
They couldn't speak for themselves then.
Magistrate Tang cast a glance at them and said, "You won't wait for someone to place an order before arresting them?"
He said: "I don't care about the time, you can take three days, I also have five days, anyway, you have to squat people for me, just gag them and arrest them. As long as you can bring them back, I would like to give you great credit."
Next update around 6pm
