It was late at night, and a snowstorm once again descended on Lingzhou Mansion, which had just undergone a drastic change, which made the city even darker and quieter, which no one went out late at night.

But to the surprise of many people, in the middle of the night, the city gate that should have been closed was secretly opened, and three important prisoners who should have been detained in the prison and strictly guarded by the Qingzhou army were sent out of the city at this time, and the one who sent them out of the city was Sun Tu, the Jingdong Road Governor who personally led people to arrest them.

These three felons are naturally the three brothers Zeng Tu, Zeng Suo and Zeng Sheng. At this time, they had already changed into a long-distance outfit, equipped with swords, guns, bows and arrows and weapons, and even led a horse by their side, which was considered a very high treatment in the Great Song Army.

Sun Tu, who was standing beside them, looked at them carefully for a while before he said, "Have you all memorized the road to the Jin Kingdom?" Also, how to win their trust when you get to the place, you all have to think clearly, if you make the slightest mistake, you will die without a place to bury. ”

Zeng Suo grinned: "Sun Dujian, don't worry, your life is our brother's own, so naturally I don't dare to be sloppy." Jin people and our brothers do not share the sky, as long as we are given a chance, it will definitely turn the world upside down, and it can be regarded as the last thing we will do for the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Then let's go, and I hope you all go well." Sun Tu nodded at them, and with a slight fist clench, the three of them had already flown on their horses, and without the slightest hesitation, they beat their horses and galloped towards the darkness ahead. During the period of time when he sent them out of the city, Sun Tu never questioned whether the three of them would regret or betray, as if the three of them were his cronies.

In this regard, he Sun Tu behaved very generously, but the people around him couldn't help but mutter. Especially Chu Mingsheng, the Lingzhou Metropolitan Eunuch, was even more apprehensive, and endured it for a while before he tentatively said: "Metropolitan Eunuch, is it too hasty to let them go like this?" After all, they are the descendants of the Jurchens, if they return to the mountains...... Moreover, their crimes are not light, and if some people know about them, they will inevitably have endless troubles. ”

"Since you want to use them, you don't have to be too suspicious, otherwise it will only make things more complicated. I believe that with the deep enmity they have with the Jurchens, as long as they are given the opportunity, they will definitely do some great things in the Jin Kingdom. Sun Tu said with a smile, his face was light: "As for you worrying about the spread of this matter, now the only people who know about this matter are you and me and my brothers in the Qingzhou Army, I believe that the brothers around me will not talk nonsense, unless they ......" As he spoke, he glanced up and down the other party meaningfully.

This made Chu Mingsheng shudder violently, and hurriedly shouted as if he was swearing: "Sun Dujian, you can rest assured, it is impossible to reveal today's events to anyone, if you dare to mention it to others, you will let me die with my intestines and stomach, and five horses will be divided into corpses!" ”

Seeing his nervous appearance, Sun Tu laughed unconsciously, and patted the other party's shoulder: "Chu Dujian doesn't have to be like this, this official naturally trusts you, otherwise he wouldn't have called you together to send them away." And the official can also see that you are a capable person, and you and I will cooperate well in the future to deal with the Liangshan thieves who have been causing trouble to me for a long time. Sun Tu's words came from the bottom of his heart, only Zhang Yunfeng said that he already had a certain understanding of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Eunuch, this time he came to Lingzhou, and had a further personal experience, and saw that this person does have real talent and learning, although he is far inferior to Dong Ping in terms of personal martial arts, but he is not under it, and naturally he has the intention of taking it for his own use.

As I said before, Sun Tu now has no shortage of vanguard generals who dare to fight, and what is missing is an excellent commander who can train and lead the troops, take charge of himself, and share some military affairs for him. This time, his luck was also quite good, and he actually found Chu Mingsheng, a veteran of a hundred battles, from Lingzhou.

Chu Mingsheng was only stunned and already understood the meaning of Sun Tu's solicitation, which made him suddenly happy, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Thanks to the capital eunuch, you can afford it, and the last general should obey the teachings and orders in the future, and dare not disobey it." ”

Nodding with satisfaction, Sun Tucai smiled and said: "That's good, I believe that as long as our generals are of the same heart, my Shandong will soon be able to truly take peace, and we can also clear the chaos for the court and the world." ”

"Yes, that's how the lowly office sees it." Chu Mingsheng also laughed, he was really happy, if Sun Tu could really be his backer, his waist in Lingzhou would be much harder in the future, and he would no longer have to worry about Weng Zhifu and others coming to embarrass him.

Thinking of this, he put his mind on the case of the foreign enemy in the Weng Governor's Mansion again, and couldn't help but whisper: "Metropolitan Prison, how should the charges against the Weng Governor's Mansion be handled?" Is it to report to the imperial court? Or ......" In his opinion, it is better to report this matter unclearly, and it is better to give him a suicide in prison, then it will be a hundred times. After all, Weng Lao is greedy and has a backer behind him, and he really reported to the court, but it is really hard to say what the result will be.

Sun Tu shook his head and said, "We are doing the right thing in this matter, so naturally we want to report all his crimes to the court fairly and openly." This official has already had a plan before, starting tomorrow, he will send someone to raid Zengtou City, and then let the wronged people in the city go to the government to complain, as long as the crime is conclusive, are you still afraid that he will be able to turn the sky upside down? ”

Seeing that Sun Tu's mind was established, Chu Mingsheng didn't say anything more, he could only say yes.

In fact, he really looked up to Sun Tu a little too highly, thinking that this young general could really be unscrupulous to the point of lawlessness, and he could kill the court officials like slaughtering pigs and dogs, and he would not be attacked when it was over. But in fact, Sun Tu himself knew that the previous few killings of officials were all helpless actions by mistake, and the consequences were also quite dangerous, and he was a person who gritted his teeth and killed him when he was ready to be an enemy of the Great Song Dynasty.

But today's Lingzhou prefect didn't really have a mortal enmity with him, so naturally there was no need to risk killing him. Anyway, none of these officials are clean, as long as they investigate, they can dig up many crimes, and then hand them to the imperial court, and they will naturally be solved by the hands of others.

Sun Tu's plan was most fully implemented the next day, first he sent people to Zengtou City to search for relevant criminal evidence, and then the government also turned out a large number of letters, invitations and other items exchanged between the Weng Governor and Zengtou City, which was enough to confirm the crime of close contacts between the Lingzhou Governor and the Jurchen spies.

Subsequently, when the messenger in the yamen preached to the people that Sun Dujian wanted to be the master of the people and asked everyone to sue the prefect Weng, soon the people who were deeply wronged ran over with the mentality of giving it a try.

It was only at this time that Sun Tu didn't know how many immoral things this prefect had done in Lingzhou City. In order to befriend the rich businessmen and tyrants in the city, he often refers to the deer as a horse on weekdays, reversing black and white. Not only that, but later he personally started it, for some money and land, the women's house could always come up with various crimes and force them on the heads of some innocent people, so that many people were wronged and their families were ruined......

If these things had not been exposed, I am afraid that no one would have dared to believe that this prefect, who usually does not smile and looks like a decent gentleman, would commit so many shameless crimes. But now, because of Sun Tu's strong move, the other side of Governor Weng's mansion was all exposed to the sun, which made people feel cold and couldn't calm down for a long time.

Even Chu Mingsheng, who had a great conflict with the Weng Governor's Mansion, was also incredulous after learning the relevant details: "He ...... He has done so many evil things behind his back, and I don't even know it......"

Of course, ninety percent of these things were secretly done by the people under the Weng Governor's Mansion, and at this time, those who worked for the tiger were naturally unable to escape the law, and in three days, thirty or forty prisoners were imprisoned in the prison, most of whom were helping the Weng Governor's Mansion to bring disaster to Lingzhou.

After everyone was almost arrested and the crimes were all understood, Sun Tu asked people to bring Governor Weng, who was in prison, to the front. At this time, this person has long lost his previous calmness, and he almost knelt down when he saw Sun Tu. And when Sun Tu listed his crimes one by one, he was even more pale, his knees were weak, and he finally knelt down in front of Sun Tu: "Sun ...... Sun Dujian, the lower officials really don't know that Zengtou City is actually a descendant of the Jurchens, so he will have some contact with them......"

"The official naturally knows about this, but how should you explain it?"

"I ...... The lower officials are also forced to be helpless, it is really the officialdom that ushers in the send-off, and the cost of going up and down is too much, and it is difficult to support it with only that little money, so it has to be looted from the people. Governor Weng explained in a low voice with a bitter face.

"Hmph, I have always been generous to officials, and even my own officials have never been worried about this, you actually use this as an excuse, are you really a fool in the world?" Sun Tu sneered disdainfully.

Governor Weng looked at Sun Tu, and finally said honestly: "The capital prison doesn't know anything, if it is an ordinary official, naturally there is no need to do these things, but the lower officials are a little different." Because I need to pay a large amount of money to a certain governor in the court, otherwise I would not have been able to become the governor of a state in just five years after I joined the government. ”

These words made Sun Tu stunned: "Oh? Who is the ruling of the DPRK that you need to curry favor with? ”

He ...... is the current prime minister, Taishi Cai. At the same time as reporting his backer, Governor Weng's originally bent waist suddenly straightened, and the panic in his eyes quickly dissipated, as if as long as this backer was revealed, it would be enough to solve all problems.

And this statement really made Sun Tu's face froze, and even the hands of the two scribes who heard the trial records next to him did not feel a shake, and painted a clean booklet with an ink mark.

Who would have thought that there would be such a big backer behind this seemingly inconspicuous Lingzhou prefect!