The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

When Guo Pinchao wrote down more than a dozen confessions, Song Xiang finally realized how naive he was. During the day, he thought that the case was watertight, but unexpectedly he caught fish with a broken bag, and Xiao Xiami caught a few. , the real big fish all ran away.update the fastest

Su Jin flipped through the confession, pretending to check the stack of non-existent civilian complaints carefully, flicked the confession and asked, "Master Guo, are you sure you have confessed everything?"

Guo Pinchao kowtowed and said: "One is dead, and ten are dead. I have nothing to hide. I just ask my lord and Fu Zun to remember that I have done something for the people of Yangzhou. Forgive me." My family is small, and they don't know anything about what I do."

Su Jin said: "It's easy to say, you have love, we have righteousness, your family has nothing to do with it, the disaster is worse than women and children, and your business is naturally up to you. It's just that the property and property of your bribed family will be confiscated. You don’t want to keep the ill-gotten wealth for your descendants to enjoy.”

Guo Pinchao said dejectedly: "That's natural, how can I have such delusions, the wife and children in the family can survive a little bit, it is the emperor's grace."

Su Jin said: "If you had realized this earlier, how could you have come to where you are today? According to the confession, you issued two opposite orders that day. One moment you ordered Lu Mang to take over the garrison, and the other moment you ordered Lu Mang to take over the garrison. Was Feng Jingyao instigated by Feng Jingyao to lead the troops to the southern city to take up the defense? You said that Feng Jingyao only told you that the situation was not good, so he first transferred the family property out of the city to the manor, didn't you suspect it at that time?"

Guo Pinchao said: "I do... have some guesses. But it's just speculation, there is no evidence, so I can't state it in the confession."

Su Jin said: "What is your guess?"

Guo Pinchao said: "I don't think Feng Jingyao simply sent his family's small belongings out of the city. If so, why would he need to go out of the city in the middle of the night? I troubled him about this matter, and this matter is... to collect grain. In order not to be caught as evidence, I privately guessed that I must use the road in Beicheng to transport the grain away and hide it."

Su Jin said: "Since you guessed this, why are you still willing to help him?"

Guo Pinchao grieved and said: "My heart is covered by lard, and I hold it in my hands, so naturally I dare not take care of his affairs."

Su Jin nodded and said, "I'm asking too much. You are the pawn controlled by him. Do you know where his food is going?"

Guo Pinchao shook his head repeatedly and said: "How do I know this, Mr. Special Envoy is right, once he falls into his trap, he will be a puppet controlled by him, the longer it takes, the less he will be able to resist; and this person It is really difficult to resist; we don't have many contacts on weekdays, but as long as he gives orders, if we don't follow them, we will be ruined situation."

Su Jin snorted and said, "Can't get rid of it? I'm afraid you don't want to get rid of it."

Guo Pinchao sighed: "It's not like no one has tried it. Two years ago, Song Miao, the governor of the government office, also fell into the trap, but Song Miao was unwilling to do so. She hired someone to steal her confession, but the confession was not stolen. Go Song Miao was arrested and confessed to Song Miao; so Feng Jingyao ordered the officials to impeach Song Miao and dismiss him from office. He was strangled to death in prison, and finally ended up committing suicide in fear of crime. After this incident, who would dare to make a move?"

Su Jin frowned and looked at Song Xiang, and asked, "Two years ago? Isn't the Lord Fu Zun already in office?"

Song Xiang was surprised and said, "Didn't Song Miao commit suicide in fear of crime?"

Guo Pinchao said: "Your Majesty, how can this matter? It was Mr. Shen who put Feng Jingyao's minions into the prison and strangled him to death. At that time, you ordered me to have full authority to try Song Miao's case. He said Of course, you don't know which section reveals the truth, and the inquiry files were subsequently destroyed."

Song Xiang said angrily: "You...you are really lawless. At that time, my government just came to Yangzhou to take up the post. I didn't know the situation very well, so I could only rely on you old subordinates. I didn't expect that you would dare to deceive Shangguan like this and ignore human life."

Guo Pinchao bowed his head and said nothing, Su Jin said in his heart: I blame others for being confused, and I don't care about the crime committed by important officials under my command, and I have the nerve to blame others.

Su Jin flipped through the confession and said, "But you suppressed these murders and bloody cases? Feng Jingyao's men killed more than a dozen people in the city, and it was you who suppressed them with insufficient evidence and became unsolved cases when they sued the government. Is it? There are also several cases of burglary and intimidation, and you helped Feng Jingyao settle them, right?"

Feng Jingyao kowtowed and said, "Sinners deserve to die..."

Su Jin threw the confession in front of Song Xiang, and said: "Master Zhifu, please check and sort them out one by one. I don't want to care about these things. Except for this person, I suggest that you put everyone in court for a new trial. I guarantee you There will be big discoveries."

Song Xiang said: "The government will definitely re-trial, but won't Special Envoy Su come to help me?"

Su Jin said lightly: "This envoy is the special envoy for food affairs. Now the whereabouts of the food is unknown, and I am very anxious. How can I manage these things for you? But the methods have been entrusted to you, and the lord of the government will not think that these methods are not fair enough. No need; but this envoy reminds the lord of the government that such a big case has occurred, and the court will definitely review it. If it is done carelessly, you and I will not only have no credit but will be accused of being stupid, so if we don’t try it clearly, we are looking for ourselves Uncomfortable; I didn’t sign the case file just now, just because I didn’t want to be scolded as a foolish official by the superiors, my lord cherishes feathers more than this emissary, and I’m sure he’s even more unwilling.”

Song Xiang was speechless, looked at the croton bucket in the corner and the blank stack of pleadings on the table, gritted his teeth and said: This time we must be ruthless, don't worry about your reputation, these people are really hard to deal with, don't worry about it Su Zhuan made these tricky tactics seem absolutely difficult to deal with.

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Chao Mahan followed Wang Wu and Li Hu slowly to the north on the dark country road; in the year of severe drought, even a heavy snowfall last month did not relieve much; Walking is quite beneficial. Even if you step on the ground and guess between the ridges and ridges, your shoes and socks will not be completely wet. It's just that the frozen soil is hard and the potholes are difficult to walk, which caused a lot of trouble for several people.

About half an hour later, the four of them got on the official road, and walked another mile or two to the north, only to see a knee-high avenue of wild grass diverging from the official road, extending eastward to a dark unknown place.

Li Hu stopped walking and said: "Master, this is the road leading to Lanruo Temple. No one walks it all year round, and it is already full of weeds."

Wang Chao said: "If you two violate taboos, you can wait here, and my two brothers will go and check on their own."

Li Hu said: "There is nothing to taboo. I went there with those chariots and horses last time, and nothing happened. But it is said that it is really haunted there. It is better for me to lead the way. There are many people with courage, and we can work together if we encounter any monsters." Work together to resist."

Chao Mahan was terrified by what they said, so he couldn't help pulling out the simple knife and holding it in his hand. Li Hu and Wang Wu also took out the hatchet and held it in their hands. The avenue to touch forward.

After walking for less than a stick of incense, a dark building in the distance stands alone in the wilderness, surrounded by dozens of big trees standing there bare, and the wind blows and hums, which is a bit weird.

The four of them were sweating on their backs, and walked forward bravely. When they touched the courtyard gate of the ruined temple, they saw that the gate was half open. The gate was full of dead branches and yellow leaves.

The four of them held their breaths to listen to the movement in the temple, and there was no sound in the surroundings. Obviously, the people who gathered to unload the goods and drive the car that Li Hu described must be gone.

Wang Chao made a gesture, stepped forward, stretched out his hand and gently pushed the temple door, and heard a harsh "squeak" sound, the door opened, and suddenly a series of crackling sounds came from inside the door, a black shadow Suddenly rushed towards him.

Chao Chao was frightened and heartbroken, he swung his knife and slashed upwards, and with a pounce, he slashed straight at the same time, and at the same time, black flakes were scattered all over the sky, falling straight on Chao Chao's head and face; Chao Chao jumped back and shouted: "Evil door! Go back."

Zhao Hu Wang Wu took the lead and ran backwards, but Ma Han rushed forward to help, Wang Chao grabbed Ma Han, and the two ran away.

After running about ten steps, he heard a flapping sound behind him, which seemed to be the flapping sound of dying chickens and ducks. Wang Chao looked back in his busy schedule, and saw a black shadow rolling around on the ground, and soon stopped moving. .

Chao Chao stopped and looked around. Apart from the heartbeats of himself and Ma Han, there was only the humming of treetops, and there were no scary ghosts and strange noises around him, so he said softly to Ma Han: "It seems... Hacked."

Ma Han blushed with sweat and said, "What did you hack to death?"

Wang Chao said: "It doesn't seem to be a ghost. That thing can fly, and I cut it in the air. If it is a ghost, how can I cut it so easily."

Ma Han said boldly: "Go, have a look."

The two picked up the wind lamp left by Wang Wu and Li Hu, ignited it tremblingly, and timidly looked forward. When they arrived at the place where the shadow was, they saw a black monster lying in a pool of blood. With round eyes and a vulture nose, it looks really scary.

"What is this?" Mahan poked at the dead unknown bird with a knife, and there was a large pool of steaming blood and black feathers on the ground.

Wang Wu and Li Hu approached carefully to have a look, and then held their chests and let out a long sigh of relief: "It turns out that they are night owls, but they scared us to death."

A night owl is an owl, with a vicious and ugly appearance, and because it comes out at night, most people can't see it during the day. Chao Mahan has never seen this thing before, so naturally he doesn't know it.

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