On the morning of the same day, a long queue formed at the entrance of the yamen of Wu County and Changzhou County, where order had been restored.

Citizens brought copperware, silk cloth, incense powder, ham, toilets, books, leather whips, candles and other items that were looted by the fire, and turned themselves in and returned the stolen goods.

On the right side of the county government's eight-character wall, a row of tables was set up.

These days, the clerks who don't know where to hide are registering the returned stolen goods one by one.

After the registration is completed, the county will issue a receipt to the citizen who turned himself in. Members of the public put their fingerprints on their heads to ensure that all stolen goods have been returned. This can be used to exonerate them to ensure that they will not be prosecuted for taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Then they can go home.

On the left side of the eight-character wall, there are two or three hundred lawbreakers who were arrested last night and this morning.

These people were all stripped naked, their heads were shaved, and they wore wooden shackles weighing dozens or hundreds of pounds, and everyone cried together.

They are not crying for the light, not even because the shackles are too heavy, but they can't accept the reality of having no hair.

Parents who suffer from the hair and skin of the body, are they still human beings without hair?

From now on, you will see people like this with a light scoop......

Because no one has ever shaved their heads except for monks, these fools don't realize for a while that their hair will grow back.

The eight-character wall is one left and one right, and the contrast between width and severity is very obvious, which is a great shock to the public.

At this time, those who were greedy for money and didn't want to return the stolen goods were also frightened, and hurriedly took the looted things and ran to the gate of the county government to line up.

As a result, it was retreated for a whole day, and the stolen goods were piled up in the large flat in the county office......

~~

Although no one returned the stolen goods from Cai's prefect's house, he also gained a lot.

At noon that day, more than a dozen citizens who had participated in the arson turned themselves in.

Cai Guoxi was in the burnt open lobby, interrogating the damned arsonists.

Looking at the dark ruins and broken walls, as well as the face of her husband Zu who was darker than the wall, the arsonists were so frightened that their livers trembled, how could they dare to hide the slightest?

There is no need to serve the big punishment, so they all pour beans into the bamboo tube and explain everything.

These people are indeed accomplices who have been instigated, and the one who really takes the lead is the slave of the Xu family who came out of the Humble Administrator's Garden!

Although Xu Xu and the others have been deliberately hiding their identities, everyone is from Suzhou, and they don't look up and see each other on weekdays. After a few days of jumping up and down, someone will always recognize them, and then it quickly becomes a well-known secret......

Seeing the words of the people, they unanimously pointed to the Xu family, and Cai Zhifu hated it so much that his forehead was straight.

New hatred and old hatred came to his heart, and he had to take revenge!

Cai Guoxi asked Chen Tongzhi to take charge of the aftermath, and he hurried to the governor's office.

~~

Governor's Office, in the detention room.

Lin Zhongcheng had just returned from his inspection in the city, and was thinking about how to write a chapter to report the civil unrest, when Cai Guoxi came to ask for a meeting.

Tian Baiguang brought in the Cai Governor's Mansion, who was smoking, and Lin Run asked him to sit down and talk.

"Why are you so angry?" Lin Run asked with a slight frown.

He knew that Cai Guoxi was a famous minister of science, who paid attention to cultivating qi and was not angry and arrogant. It has never been so aggressive.

"Qi Yu Zhongcheng, the lower officials have found out that the arson of the government was originally instructed by the Xu family behind the scenes! This is the confession of the accomplices. ”

Cai Guoxi stood up as he spoke, and presented a confession full of handprints to Lin Run with both hands.

"Which Xu family?" Lin Run took it quietly and asked knowingly.

"Where else can there be, Songjiang Xu Ge's hometown!" Cai Guoxi said with a resentful face: "Only his family has this dog guts!" ”

Lin Run nodded and did not answer. After carefully reading the confession, he stood up with his hands behind his back and looked out the window and fell silent.

Lin Run was not surprised by this result at all. He had long guessed that the chaos in Suzhou was behind the Xu family's troublemakers.

Now Cai Guoxi's confession is just to support his speculation.

Before, he was worried that the Gu family and the Lu family would also be involved. But looking at the performance of the two families in the peace of the chaos, it is obvious that they have clearly drawn a clear line with the Xu family.

With only the Xu family, things will be easier.

~~

In Lin Run's view, the Xu family's move is nothing more than two reasons.

The first is to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, forcing himself to leave Songjiang and return to Suzhou.

Second, knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, warning him that if he continues to insist, if he is in Songjiang Qingzhang Tianmu, then there will be chaos, I am afraid it will not be Suzhou.

Once Jiangnan is messed up everywhere, he is afraid that he will not even be able to be the captain of the firefight, so he can only be transferred out of the city under repeated impeachments.

This is by no means alarmist.

Lin Run knew very well that he, the governor of Yingtian, did not have an advantage in front of a retired pavilion elder whose protégés were all over the world.

Even because he was promoted by Xu Gelao, he was still at a moral disadvantage.

As a result of the fight, it is likely that you will lose.

At this time, should you accept the warning, take a step back and open the sky, or be tough to the end and fight the Xu family completely?

Even Lin Run felt a heavy pressure, which made him silent for a long time.

Cai Guoxi stood aside breathlessly.

Can he understand Lin Run's inner struggle, he said in his heart that Cheng is only thirty-eight years old, and he still has an incomparably bright future, can he afford to fight the Xu family to the end and lose his career and reputation?

On the contrary, if Zhongcheng can take a step back, I believe that the Xu family will also repay the favor and give Zhongcheng a step.

Just when Cai Guoxi's heart was gloomy, and he felt that he really had no hope of taking revenge, he saw the governor turn around.

The afternoon sun shines through the window, and Lin Run's face is as clear as a sculpture, making his gaze more determined and unyielding.

He looked at Cai Guoxi fixedly, and said word by word: "I don't care who he is or what background he has, as long as he violates the royal law, he must be severely punished!" ”

"Yes, understood!" Cai Guoxi's blood surged, and he naturally understood what Zhongcheng meant to fight with the Xu family to the end!

I heard Lin Run's order: "Immediately seal up the Humble Administrator's Garden, arrest a suspect of arson, and report it after strict interrogation!" ”

"Yes!" Cai Guoxi puffed up his chest, responded in a loud voice, and then said with a touched face: "Zhongcheng rest assured, his subordinates will be measured, do something, and do nothing." ”

"You don't have to be afraid to get me in trouble." Lin Run didn't appreciate his affection, and waved his hand and said:

"What kind of place is the prefect's yamen? Represents the rule of the imperial court over the land of a government! The Xu family actually dared to burn it with fire, how rampant the arrogance was! ”

"Don't punish the former and the latter, and set an example, in the future, will this Suzhou be surnamed Zhu or Xu?!" As he spoke, he slammed his fist on the table, and ordered sharply:

"Give me a big fanfare, the louder the better! Let the people of Suzhou see who is behind the scenes. ”

"Zhongcheng is smart!" Cai Guoxi heard the song and knew that this was the prelude to the decisive battle with the Xu family, he hugged his fists fiercely towards Lin Run with both hands and said: "Xia Guan knows what to do, so let's do it!" ”

"Go ahead." Lin Run nodded, watched Cai Guoxi walk away quickly, and then sat back to the big case and picked up the pen to write the chapter.

ps. third more. It's not going to be tonight.