Chapter 165 Murderous Case
While Zhang Chong was arranging his army, a military report from Guan Yu in Ying County was delivered to the Fenggao Office. However, it was indeed not a military report, but a criminal report about killing people. This matter is obviously very important, otherwise Guan Yu would not have sent military reports as a haste.
The thing is, Guan Yu has stayed in the agency since he captured Ying County in the middle of last year. On the one hand, he maintained order, and on the other hand, he divided the fields and established collective farms on both sides of the Yingwen River. Guan Yu's handling of this matter was the same as Zhang Chong's usual style of doing things, which was to pilot it first and then roll it out.
But this time something went wrong as soon as things started, and the cause of the matter was the death of Guo Si, the Huo family's bili household.
Guo's wall is located in a small wall on the west side of Yingwen River, only ten miles away from Ying County. There are fifty households and a population of 436. This Wu is a Wubi composed of four families with the surnames Guo, Wang, Zhang and Meng. Among them, the Guo family and the Wang family have lived in this wall for a long time, while the Zhang and Meng families are immigrants. Although Guo and Wang are from the local Tu tribe, the biggest tycoon here is the Meng family. Their family deals in medicinal materials in Ying County and has some connections with the Taishan Shanliao. They started their family by selling some medicines from the mountains.
This time, Guan Yu's field allocation came to Guo's wall. The county sent a field allocation team here. They were organizing the field allocation, but they reached a deadlock because of the death of a man named Guo Si on this wall.
This was a report prepared by Guan Yu after a preliminary investigation. It said that the Guo clan tycoon colluded with the leader of the field division and killed Guo Si, the leader of Guizhou. It was the rich man of the Meng family who colluded with Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group, in a beauty trap, and stoned Guo Si to death when he was determined to report the Meng family.
As soon as the murder occurred, Guan Yu said Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu went to Guo's wall to investigate.
Wen Yu belonged to the Fenggao Wen family, one of the four families that followed Hu's mother's family at that time. Cai Yong, who later became the governor of Fenggao, promoted Wen Yu, a member of the Wen clan, to Ying County to assist Guan Yu's herdsmen.
Wen Yu went to the local area to understand the situation of all parties. He believed that Zhang Qing, the leader of the field allocation group, had caught the evil in Qianshouzhong and there was nothing improper in handling it. He only sent Zhang Qing back to the county office and left the field allocation group. .
Wen Yu was easily criticized for what he did, because this Zhang Qing was from the Zhang family in Dasangli. Although he was not the brother of Zhang Chong, the leader of the Ququ, he was still a relative, so Wen Yu was very protective of Zhang. Clear suspicion.
Then Guan Yu sent military officials to investigate. The results of the investigation were completely opposite to Wen Yu's conclusion, so he arrested Meng Qi, a powerful man in Guo's wall, and his vassal Zhang brothers at that time. However, Zhang Qing, the head of the field division team, did not take action immediately, but sent it to the county to see how the chief officer would handle it.
At that time, Wen Yu had approached Guan Yu privately, to the effect that he was dead now and the matter was over. Moreover, Guo Si, an idle and evil young man, would be dead if he died, so why miss a good official.
This good official is naturally Zhang Qing.
Guan Yu didn't say anything at that time, but continued to let people investigate the case, and then more and more details of the case were sent to Guan Yu.
Guo Si is the head of the Guo family in Bi Guizhou. He has a family of three, a six-hole underground cave, and 25 acres of land, which he cultivates by himself.
In the winter of the fourth year of Guanghe's reign, Yingxian County pressed for grain tax. Guo Si could not pay it, so he was hung up and beaten severely, forcing him to sell ten acres of good land along the river to the powerful Meng family. In the fifth year of Guanghe's reign, the Taishan army left Mount Tai in the west and prepared troops in Ying County. Meng Qi sent Guo Si to join the army and became a civilian husband. After that, Ying County fought several times with the Taishan Army under the banner. Guo Si defected to the Taishan Army before the battle and became a horse servant under the Fei Army under the banner. Later, the Taishan Army Guan Yu's Zuo Xiaowei captured Ying County. Guo Si returned to his hometown with the army, and redressed his grievances against Tian Xiong, the then commander of the army, claiming that Meng Qi had occupied his land.
Tian Xiong is Tian Jun's second brother. When Tian Jun surrendered to the army at Xue's wall, he brought his two younger brothers with him. Tian Xiaoyong had not yet grown up and joined the baggage team. Although Tian Xiong was thin, he was still a bit tall, so he joined the sudden cavalry with his brother Tian Jun. However, Tian Xiong was only a horseman at that time.
After four years in the army, Tian Xiong has grown into a majestic man, and has been promoted step by step from a groom to a general on the cavalry. However, his jealous temper is just like his brother's. He has never forgotten how his father died. They are those powerful men who do evil. These people deserve to die.
So as soon as he heard the complaint of his horseman, Tian Jun urged his horse to capture Meng Qi, a local tycoon from Guo's wall, into the army, tortured him and returned the occupied fields to each family. How could Meng Qi bear this? Not only did he hand over the land he had occupied, but also his own land.
After that, Guo Si left the Taishan Army and returned to his hometown to work in farming. After that, the field division team came to Guo's wall, and Guo Si took the lead in responding to clean up Meng Qi's various crimes. Meng Qi, as a powerful person in his own family, naturally had prestige and power. At that time, he was divided into Guo's family. Only the Meng family had a big house, so they all lived in the Meng family.
Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group at that time, hooked up with Meng Qi's sister-in-law Meng. Among them, Meng Qi's companion Zhang Zhong also used his surname Zhang Lai to treat Zhang Qing politely. They became relatives. Under the instigation of this distant relative and the beauties around him, a meeting that was supposed to be a public trial for Meng Qi became a public trial for Guo Si, and Guo Si was designated as the evil in the wall.
At that time, someone in the team advised Zhang Qing, saying that Guo Si had been in the army and should not be killed like this. Zhang Qingzheng said solemnly:
"This is a good thing to make decisions for the people. Even if it brings trouble to my clan uncle, he will support me in doing this."
The clan uncle he spoke of was naturally Zhang Chong, the leader of the Taishan Canal.
After that, with the participation of many Guo people, Zhang Qing took the lead, and the others added sticks, and beat Guo Si to death with sticks and rocks on the Yingmo River beach. After killing the people, Zhang Qing was so angry that he said to the residents of Guo's wall:
"Those who are fierce and stubborn will be punished with the same crime."
When Xin saw this, Zhang Chong was already furious. He was furious that his clan members dared to use power for personal gain in such a blatant manner and at the expense of human life. Er Nu won the county magistrate and officials to protect Zhang Qing. However, although he was angry, he knew who Guan Yu was. Since the investigation was so clear, there must be a follow-up.
Sure enough, he looked down and saw the aftermath of this matter.
After Guan Yu learned the whole story, he immediately called County Magistrate Wen Yu, reprimanded him for harboring illegal activities, and ordered him to go to Guo Si's burial day to put mourning on Guo Si, and represent the county office. The temple apologized to Guo Si's widow, paid for the coffin from the county office, and gave Su Baishi as a gift. His son entered the county temple and was raised by the county temple, and was later sent to the Liebao camp for training.
The Liebao camp is a teaching camp for the children of officials and officials who died in the Taishan Army, where they learn and live in a unified way.
As for Zhang Qing, he committed adultery and harmed good people. Although he was a member of Qu Kui's clan and was an elite member of the Dashangli clan, he was still sent to prison to await his punishment.
However, during this process, Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu once again spoke out. On the one hand, he emphasized several times that the problem with Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division team, was not a violation of the law, but a matter of specific private ethics. When dealing with Guo Si, he was deliberately deceived by the powerful, and his handling process was completely in line with the normal farm allocation regulations of the field allocation team.
In the past, stubborn fools were often beaten to death when dividing fields, so the field dividing team had specific law enforcement powers.
Later, when Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, came to put mourning on Guo Si on the day of his burial, he asked everyone in the passing crowd for their opinions on the treatment of Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group. At that time, the households in Qianshou unanimously agreed that Zhang Qing was a good person. Yes, Guo Si himself is idle, evil to others, and good at killing.
Then Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, issued a judgment on Zhang Qing's issue using the seal of Ying County, once again stating that this was a matter of personal morality and vouching for it. According to Guan Yu, this person was called in court:
"I will dismiss Zhang Qing from his post as a warning to others. This is how we will close the case. If there is a problem, he will be responsible."
After that, Wen Yu ordered the prison chief of Ying County Temple not to treat Zhang Qing as a prisoner, and visited the prison temple several times.
Guan Yu later learned that the so-called civil trial meeting was actually a show. Those who participated at that time were the original group of accomplices who agreed to label Guo Si as a vicious accomplice. Among them were not only Zhang Zhong's five brothers, but also the husband of the woman who had committed adultery with Zhang Qing, the younger brother of local tycoon Meng Qi, who also participated. , and agreed that Zhang Qing is a good person.
Guan Yu naturally understood that the reason why Wen Yu defended Zhang Qing to death was because he was a member of Qu Kui's clan, and the reason why he dared to do this must be someone who guaranteed him something. They were nothing more than those people from the Zhang family in Dasangli. .
But Guan Yu knew that this was definitely not what Qu Kui meant, so he couldn't let these people use Zhang Chong's name to cover up the guilty everywhere, especially for such things that harmed the people.
So Guan Yu wrote a letter in Li, reporting the whole incident to Zhang Chong, who was in high office. He sent his troops to the temple prison to personally take Zhang Qing, and sent him to Guo's wall, in front of all the households in the village. Later, Zhang Qing was hanged. Also hanged were Meng Qi, a local tycoon of the Guo family, and his five brothers, the Zhang family.
In this way, Guo Si's one life was worth seven lives, and one of them was a member of the Zhang family in Dashangli. In addition, Guan Yu also confessed his crime in the letter. Because he also sent troops to surround the Ying County Office and arrested the county magistrate Wen Yu. According to the system, although Guan Yu was a local official, he was more responsible for the military. Unless Wen Yu really rebelled against the enemy, he could not send troops to capture a civil affairs official elected by the Taishan County Sheriff.
Seeing this, Zhang Chong finally let go of the anger that had been blocked in his chest. Sure enough, Guan Yu is still the same Guan Yu. If this gentleman also becomes a person who is afraid of power, he will really feel sad.
As for whoever takes the lead for Zhang Chong and delivers the message to Ying County Magistrate, Zhang Chong will naturally dig him out. If this kind of cancer is not removed, it will be fatal later.
But just when Zhang Chong felt that the matter had become clear and could even be concluded, Cai Yong, the prefect of Taishan County, went out to seek an audience.
Just when Zhang Chong thought that two of Mr. Cai's students had arrived at Fenggao to introduce them, Cai Yong came in with a solemn face and handed Zhang Chong a letter.
The letter he brought turned out to be written by Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, who had been detained by Guan Yu, and it also wrote about the death of Guo Si of Guo family. But his statement surprised Zhang Chong.
(End of chapter)