As soon as a few coolies carrying tea entered the official hall, they knelt on the ground and shouted injustice: "Shangguan, we are all poor people in the surrounding counties, but we take advantage of the festival to enter the capital to work as coolies to earn a few buckets of rice, innocent and good people!" ”

Han Zong looked at a few people and said silently: "Don't worry, if the matter is found to have nothing to do with you, I will let you go back." The official law will not let go of the bad guys, nor will it wronged the good guys. ”

After speaking, Han Zong was about to order someone to record the confessions of these coolies, but when he turned his head, he found that he had come in a hurry, and he didn't bring a public official from the three divisions and yamen over. As for the officials in the goods service, where does Han Zong dare to use this kind of thing when this kind of thing happens? accidentally got involved in the document by them doing something with the pleadings.

After thinking about it, Han Zong wrote a notebook, but he was a little hesitant to pick it up, and finally sighed secretly, and called a soldier to come over and said, "You take my post and go and ask Zheng Jian of the Salt and Iron Gouyuan to come to the goods." Also, the chief of duty in the Yamen of the Salt and Iron Division also called three of them over. ”

The soldier took the order.

Han Zong instructed his subordinates to guard the goods, and the personnel took care of them and waited quietly.

It is impossible to interrogate a person, at least there must be a person next to him who has a record, otherwise it is easy to be busy in vain. The Xiang army brought in can't be counted on, even if someone is literate, he can't write a letter of inquiry, and this kind of thing has to be done by old officials. And the public officials in the goods service are now criminal suspects in Han Zong's eyes, and he doesn't dare to use them.

The three divisions are not Kaifeng Mansion, and it is not their work to solve the case and sentence them, Han Zong's main thing to do is to find out the matter, and then write a document and transfer it to Kaifeng Mansion with people.

If you want to find out what is going on, you have to check the accounts, so Han Zong called Zheng Jian. This is what Gouyuan does, and many accounts are only available to them.

The problem is Zheng Jian, Han Zong sighed helplessly.

Unlike Han Zong, who was born in a family of eunuchs, Zheng Jian was born in a lonely and poor family, his father died very early, and he studied hard in the second year of Tiansheng and ranked third in the first class. Zheng Jian acted decisively and boldly, and the most important thing was that he was generous to the poor in the lower classes, but he was jealous and hateful to the powerful and wealthy families. The matter is implicated, which has no background, which is tantamount to giving Zheng Jian a stimulant shot.

It's not that Han Zong is afraid that the powerful will not dare to investigate the case, the key is that at this point in time, the Shangyuan Festival, the Son of Heaven and the people are happy. And this is the first Shangyuan Festival after the emperor's pro-government, and it must be spent peacefully. No matter what happens, you have to wait until the festival to talk about it, as soon as Zheng Jian comes, whether he can suppress the matter first Han Zong is really uncertain.

The sun finally struggled out of the clouds, the fog began to slowly disperse, and Kaifeng City was like being washed by water, and the whole thing was bright.

In the five days since today, Kaifeng City is lit up every night, and people all over the city want to visit and see the lanterns. Even though the weather is so good today, there are still no pedestrians on the streets in the early morning, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of night.

As soon as the principals on duty in the Salt and Iron Division got Han Zong's order, they hurried to the goods service. Han Zong was in charge of the five cases in his hands, and it was closely related to everyone's interests, and no one in these public officials dared not take his orders seriously.

The three principals did not ride horses, but hurriedly walked on the edge of the Bianhe River in the early morning, and the sun in the eastern sky was like a big fireball, red and lovely.

They had just left the inner city, and they hadn't gone far when the three of them heard a loud noise behind them.

Looking back, I saw Zheng Jian, dressed in an official robe not far behind him, with more than a dozen officials in the salt and iron courtyard, striding forward. At this time, it was still the tail of winter, and Zheng Jian's forehead was full of beads of sweat in the morning.

The three officials hurriedly stood on the side of the road and waited for Zheng Jian to come up and bow together.

Zheng Jian recognized the three of them and shouted loudly: "You three, are you also going to the cargo business?" ”

The three of them replied, "Judge Han, Judge Han sent someone to summon us." ”

"Okay, I'm bringing someone with me, so you can go with me!"

After speaking, Zheng Jian turned around and hurriedly walked forward.

When he got Han Zong's post, Zheng Jian's horse just asked the servant to take it home, and he didn't wait for the horse to come back, so he ordered a small official in the courtyard to come straight away. Even the hook officer who was at home today, Zheng Jian also posted a post to call together.

In the only open interchange shop, the two supervisors on duty were still gossiping easily, but when they saw the team of people from the Salt and Iron Gou Courtyard entering the cargo service, their faces became solemn.

One said: "How did you attract Zheng Jugou to kill the star, things are a little difficult to do." ”

Another said: "This killer is jealous of us big families, and he will definitely not give up." I'm guarding here, you go and ask the master how to deal with it then. ”

In the shop, Mrs. Liu quietly listened to the head of the shop telling about Zheng Jian's arrival, and after he finished speaking, he said slowly: "Relax, let him have the ability to go through the sky, and the account books will not find anything wrong." You go back and guard the store together, don't panic, the people on the official face asked, and they bit to death because they were inspected yesterday, and they didn't have time to move the tea, and today they asked someone to move the tea out of the business, and there are no other drawbacks. ”

The supervisor said: "I'm afraid that Zheng Jugou won't believe it, that person is ruthless, and he may not release any means." ”

"What can be done? He's just checking the accounts, and he's not the Kaifeng Mansion to judge the case, so can he still torture you? As long as the words are bitten to death, it is nothing more than dealing with a few public officials in the goods business, and there is no big deal! ”

Seeing that Taishi Liu was so determined, the supervisor gradually relieved himself and left.

It wasn't until he couldn't see the figure of the supervisor that Taishi Liu's face sank. A fake account is a fake account, even if it is done seamlessly, there are loopholes, just see if there is determination, and there is no way to find out.

No one would doubt Zheng Jian's determination, but he had only been in Gou Courtyard for a month, and he had not yet figured out the doorway inside. And the subordinate officials, Liu Taishi himself is from the three officials, and he doesn't believe that Zheng Jian can grasp it.

To be able to get to this point today, Taishi Liu has his own people in various yamen in the capital, and there are also officials who listen to his command in the Yantiegou Courtyard. As long as Zheng Jian's means can't reach the level of an old official, and he does a little tricking, Zheng Jian will be helpless. Checking the accounts, this job is so easy to do?

However, Zheng Jian's reputation is outside, but Taishi Liu is still panicked in his heart, and he can't settle down.

After entering the goods business, Zheng Jian led people to the official hall and greeted Han Zong.

Han Zong said: "I didn't expect the day break to come so timely, I was about to send someone to check the warehouses of the people in the cargo service, but I was suffering from a shortage of manpower." You brought someone, but it was just right. ”

Zheng Jian said: "The physical objects and account books in the library must be checked, taking advantage of the change in the tea law, reselling tea and tea for profit, the crime is not small, and it can't be sloppy at all!" (To be continued.) )