After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, Xing Zhutou and the others suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and nodded one after another: "Gao County Lieutenant is really thoughtful, why didn't we think of going to the Goolan brothel to investigate?" Damn it! Today, when Young Master Gao said this, it woke us up! ”

"County Lieutenant Gao, I'll take my brothers to investigate, if this guy has such a habit, he will definitely leave some clues! Damn! My elm head! Why didn't I think of that? Xing Zhutou patted his head and said to Gao Huaiyuan.

"You brothers don't have to underestimate yourself so much, in fact, you have done a lot of things, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to see some eyebrows in these case files, not to mention whether it is what I think now, it is not yet decided, everyone don't pat my ass! But everyone should be careful, this matter should be investigated secretly, don't startle the snake! In case something is discovered, we should first focus on the suspicious people and find out their identities secretly, and then we will find a way to do it! To deal with such a murderer, you can't rely on personal bravery! Be careful, everyone, and report back to me as soon as you have any news! Gao Huaiyuan instructed everyone.

After Gao Huaiyuan arranged this matter, Xing Zhutou immediately scattered a group of trappers under him, and began to secretly visit the brothels in various Goolan brothels in Daye County.

Investigating such a case, Gao Huaiyuan naturally didn't have to bow down to the brothel, he began to arrange other things on the other side, that is, to find Guo Liang and start to reorganize the archers of Daye County, according to the Song system, each county can have a certain number of standing archers, that is, the so-called township soldiers, the general county quota is about 20 to 50 people, and the county lieutenant will lead the drills, as the armed force of the county government, to deal with some arrest of bandits, and it is also a supplement to the capture room.

When necessary, these people are still the defensive force of the county, and they are regarded as a standing army under the control of the county government, and the archers selected are also selected by the grain population of each township in the county for a period of one year, and they will be rotated when the time comes.

It turned out that when Wang County Lieutenant was in power, Daye County originally had fifty archers, and the archer team at that time was Zhang Qing, but unfortunately the year before last, Gao Huaiyuan led the team to serve in front of the army, and most of the fifty archers also followed the front of the army, and most of them died in the battle of Laohukou, and then Wang County Lieutenant himself also rushed to Xiangyang, and brought the remaining archers to the front of the army, and now he has not returned, and the result is that there is no township army in the county now.

After the Chinese New Year, Guo Liang just came back from the army, and Liu Zhixian left Guo Liang in the county office, and planned to re-form the archer team at that time, but soon Gao Huaiyuan took over the post of county lieutenant, Liu Zhixian simply ignored the matter and handed Guo Liang over to Gao Huaiyuan.

There is a huge Daye County, and now there are only a few people to maintain law and order, which is conceivable as a drop in the bucket, so Gao Huaiyuan can't just rely on Xing Zhutou's gang to do these things, he was not in his position before, so he naturally didn't seek politics, but now that he has done this, he has to take care of this matter.

Guo Liang was naturally very happy to be able to follow Gao Huaiyuan to do things, and patted his chest and promised that he would select qualified townsmen for Gao Huaiyuan and train them to become archers.

Gao Huaiyuan found Liu Zhixian to discuss this matter, and Liu Zhixian was also deeply worried about the messy situation on the boundary of Daye County during this time, so he immediately ordered Zhang County to take two priests in charge of household registration to count the local population of Daye, and help Gao Huaiyuan select a suitable villager to act as an archer.

Gao Huaiyuan himself also personally took people to the countryside to supervise the matter, and so the census has been carried out, and a lot of problems have been found out, the original registered household registration and the actual situation are very different, not to mention, many farmers who originally had land and property, now the land has long been occupied by some large households in the township, and now people have long gone away to find another way to make a living, the household registration book is not the right number at all, and it is also found out that the situation of concealing Dingkou is known, in short, only to know after this investigation, The original household registration has long since ceased to be in the current situation, which will have a great impact on the future selection of Ding Ding into service.

And this incident shook Liu Zhixian a lot, he, the parent official of Daye County, had such a chaotic situation in the household registration management, and he, the county magistrate who had been in office in Daye for many years, naturally couldn't escape the blame, so he immediately ordered the county Cheng and the lord Bo to go into battle together and began to survey the situation of Ding households in each township and village.

This incident lasted for nearly several months, and it can be regarded as sorting out the household registration of Daye County from the new, laying a good foundation for the next step of the county government of Daye County, at least through this census, Gao Huaiyuan learned that Daye County is such a medium-sized county, the population has reached tens of thousands, and the huge population of the Southern Song Dynasty can also be seen from this side.

And Gao Huaiyuan also learned from Ji Xiancheng that the Southern Song Dynasty had done a census during the Guangzong period, and the total population of the Southern Song Dynasty should be roughly more than 80 million people, Gao Huaiyuan was in the mood for a while, he recalled a piece of information about the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty that he had seen before, saying that after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, a large-scale census was also done, but the national population was only more than 10 million, which also included the population of the current Jin State and Western Xia. At least killed more than 70 million Han people, it can be said that there is no one in ten, a huge Han nationality, was almost exterminated by the Mongols, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but feel a chill!

When Gao Huaiyuan was busy checking the population and understanding the number of villagers, Xing Zhutou's investigation also began to have news, and when they went to visit the Goolan brothel, they soon learned such a news from several prostitutes in the city, saying that they had met such a perverted person, who liked to torture women in different ways, and the person who did his business was afraid.

And Xing Zhutou also kept an eye on it, straightened out these people who were said, went down separately to investigate, and finally found three people who had behaved like this.

Two of them clearly did not match the characteristics of the person they were tracking, one of them was a dry old man in his fifties, probably some kind of dysfunctional that would cause psychopaths, while the other was a cripple in his thirties, with money in his family, and did not fit the person they were looking for.

In the end, Xing Zhutou locked their eyes on a person from Huahu Town in the north of Daye County, and after a secret visit, they learned a clear picture of this person's situation through the neighbors, this person is about thirty years old, is a widower, named Zhang Cheng, is a famous local prank, only a few acres of thin fields at home, no relatives, idle all day long, either drinking and fighting, or like to hook up with some improper women, and has a lot of notoriety in the local township.

This Zhang Cheng's early family was from the north, his father was a soldier, but he died early in the army, this Zhang Cheng followed his father to learn some kung fu before his death, and later after his father's death, his mother couldn't control this guy, so he married a daughter-in-law, but within a year, his daughter-in-law hanged herself inexplicably, and his wife was also angry with this guy a few years ago, he also became a widower, and he didn't know how to run the house thriftily, and soon the family was poor and poor.

And this guy also made friends with a group of idlers like him, who had never done a lot of business stealing chickens and dogs, after injuring his neighbors in the first two years, he ran out for a while, and just came back from outside last year, and this year, it seems that suddenly he has become rich, and he has not seen any business, and suddenly it has become so developed.

After Gao Huaiyuan heard the news that Xing Zhutou and others had returned from their visit, he immediately said: "You sent someone to secretly keep an eye on this guy, this person is quite suspicious, it is estimated that we have found the main owner this time!" Now don't startle the snake, let's see who this guy is dealing with, and if this guy is one of them, we must wipe them out! ”

"Subordinates obey!" Xing Zhutou and the others also suddenly came to their senses.

Gao Huaiyuan is still not at ease, because Xing Zhutou and others are more eye-catching in the market, walking around the countryside all day long, many people know them, so after thinking about it for a while, Guo Liang was called, and Zhou Hao and others were transferred from his own Crouching Tiger Village Six or seven, these people rarely walk around the market, so few people know them, Gao Huaiyuan handed them over to Xing Zhutou, this time as Xing Zhutou's auxiliary force, to help them investigate the case.

Xing Zhutou knew that Gao Huaiyuan's young men had a lot of skills, and he didn't dare to underestimate them, and Guo Liang followed Gao Huaiyuan to serve in front of the army, they were all capable people, so he was very polite to them.

This time Zhou Hao saw Guo Liang, naturally he was also happy, and he was able to kill the enemy together on the battlefield, which was also a fateful friendship, and the two were very happy.

Soon, these people pretended to sneak into the vicinity of Zhuangzi, where Zhang Cheng was located in Huahu Town, and lurked down, and monitored Zhang Cheng to death.

For many days, there was no movement on Zhang Cheng's side, this guy was hanging all day long, drinking in the small wine shop at the head of the village, and then looking for some idle people in the village to gamble and gamble, and the life was very comfortable, and he didn't find that he had any dealings with anyone.

Xing Zhutou couldn't help but start to be a little anxious, so he asked Gao Huaiyuan to ask if he would find the wrong person, this guy didn't seem to have moved!

Gao Huaiyuan is not very sure, but vaguely always feels that this Zhang Cheng does not seem to be so simple, even if he has nothing to do with these cases, it is estimated that he is not a good bird, for such a person, he will not give him a presumption of innocence like later generations, the way of handling cases in this era is a standard presumption of guilt, even if you don't commit a crime, you can beat you up if you catch the wrong person.

"Don't be busy jumping to conclusions, sometimes this kind of thing is to be patient, we don't have any other clues about this matter at the moment, let's keep an eye on this guy for a few more days, anyway, according to what you said, this guy is not a good bird, and staying in the world is also a scourge, it's good to see how this guy got rich!" Gao Huaiyuan put down what he was doing and said to Xing Zhutou.

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, Xing Zhutou nodded helplessly and agreed, collapsed again, and continued to monitor this Zhang Cheng.

After staring at Zhang Cheng for many days, Zhou Hao and Guo Liang finally sent back a message, saying that Zhang Cheng had started to act a little abnormally in the past two days, and he no longer had nothing to hang out, but ran to the area of Aojiazhuang in the east of Daye.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately took the case, took off the green official uniform on his body, changed into civilian clothes, secretly carried weapons, took Xing Zhutou and others, and went out of the city towards Zhang Cheng's house.

After the sky was dark, Gao Huaiyuan arrived outside the Zhuangzi where Zhang Cheng was, and a young man from Crouching Tiger Village ran out from the side of the road and caught Gao Huaiyuan.

"Is that guy back now?" Gao Huaiyuan immediately asked.

"It's back! The guy came back from Aojiazhuang in the afternoon, and as soon as he came back, he went into his yard and didn't come out again, I don't know what this guy is doing! The boy replied immediately.

"It seems that these cases may really be inseparable from this guy, if my guess is right, this guy should be waiting for his accomplices to determine the next murder person! Everyone keep an eye on it tonight, don't let the news go! Gao Huaiyuan can basically determine now that this Zhang Cheng is one of the people who committed several major crimes, and it seems that it is time to take action against such a murderer.

After Gao Huaiyuan arrived at Zhang Cheng's village, he went to check near Zhang Cheng's house at night, and saw the lights in Zhang Cheng's house from a distance, and the guy didn't know what he was doing in the house.

In order not to startle the snakes, Gao Huaiyuan did not let everyone enter the village, but scattered his people near the village and hid, not only monitoring Zhang Cheng's house, but also controlling the entire periphery of the village.

This time let Gao Huaiyuan give the material again, the experience of handling cases for many years in his previous life helped him a lot, after coming down that night, after there was no trace of people in the village, four strong men came from outside the village, they acted very carefully, and after wandering around the village for a while, they flashed into the village, and soon got into Zhang Cheng's house.

Xing Zhutou stood beside Gao Huaiyuan, stretched his neck to look at Zhang Cheng's house, and whispered to Gao Huaiyuan: "It seems that Gao County Lieutenant is really a master, I guess this guy is not a good thing, and now his accomplices have come over, shall we do it?" ”

Gao Huaiyuan stood in the grove at the entrance of the village, shook his head slightly, and said: "Don't be busy first, you stay here, don't act rashly, wait for me to sneak into the courtyard of Zhang Cheng's house first, listen to what they all say, these people are all good, don't scare them away!" ”

"Is County Lieutenant Gao going alone? Otherwise, the little one will come with you! Zhang Liang, the captor under Xing Zhutou, was also a relatively capable person, and said to Gao Huaiyuan.

"No, these guys are very alert, I'll go there alone! Gather up, listen to the news here, and if I inform you, I will immediately surround Zhang Cheng's house to death, and I won't let anyone go! Wait! Gao Huaiyuan shook his head and said, then lowered his head to check the clothes on his body, tucked the placket at his waist, and put the waist knife on his back, after making sure that there was no bandage, he dodged out of the woods and quietly entered the village.

After this time in the village, there was no human voice, it seemed very quiet, only a dog of a large family in the east of the village would bark twice from time to time, Gao Huaiyuan stood on tiptoe, and entered the village like a raccoon cat, without alarming anyone, and first touched the place where Zhou Hao was hiding.

"Big brother is here! They had already gone in, but now it was inconvenient for us to go in, and they were very vigilant, and they actually left a person in front of the front yard to guard the door! Zhou Hao whispered to Gao Huaiyuan, pointing to the gate of the front yard of Zhang Cheng's house.

Gao Huaiyuan really saw a figure shaking at the front door of Zhang Cheng's house, and said in his heart that fortunately he came to see Zhou Hao first, otherwise, he would jump directly into the yard, and it would be a big deal!

"Might as well be! This yard is not too small, I will pass from the back wall, you greet our Zhuangzi people, by the way, call Guo Liang, get ready, maybe you will do it tonight! Be careful, don't hurt your own people! Gao Huaiyuan nodded and instructed Zhou Hao.

"It's big brother! It's been a long time since I've been active! It's time to practice! Zhou Hao began to be a little more flamboyant now, and after stretching his waist, he replied with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Gao Huaiyuan sweated, what kind of people have he cultivated! Now Zhou Hao has also become a violent maniac, and if he doesn't find someone to do it every few days, he will be itchy all over!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded to Zhou Hao, did not say more, compared with Xing Zhutou's gang of trappers, he still trusted the tacit understanding between Zhou Hao's gang and himself, turned around and went around to the backyard of Zhang Cheng's house, jumped up with a long body and legs, stretched out one arm to buckle the wall, turned his body slightly, and quietly climbed the wall.

Looking from the wall, there was nothing in the yard, it was empty, Gao Huaiyuan slid down the wall like a raccoon cat, fell into the backyard of Zhang Cheng's house, and then lightly toes, flew to the back of the house, and hid his body in the dark shadow under the eaves, looking like a stone from a distance, unable to attract anyone's attention.

At this time, the sound of several people talking came from inside the room, and Gao Huaiyuan leaned his ear on the window paper and listened carefully.

"You guys know that you're thinking about women, and I've never seen you treat women like this! Let me tell you Zhang Cheng, in the future, you will give Lao Tzu some restraint, if it goes on like this, sooner or later everyone will be harmed by you! You are not allowed to torture and kill women again this time! Work for Lao Tzu simply! A man's scolding rang out.