Henan Province and today's Henan Province are not the same thing, but only limited to the surrounding area of Luoyang, Henan Prefecture Government Office is located next to the West City in Fushanfang, covering an area of about 30 acres, and Luoyang County Ya into one, the chief official Henan Yin is the highest administrator of the entire Dugi region.

Henan Yin is also the official position that is most likely to offend people in the imperial court, and the previous Henan Yin will not be able to work for long, as short as a few months, or as long as two or three years, and will definitely be dismissed due to various pressures or compromises.

The current Henan Yin and Luoyang Ling Li Gang took office last year, Li Gang is about 60 years old, known for his honesty and integrity, he was the first to join the military of Yu Wenxian, the king of Northern Zhou Qi, when Yu Wenxian was killed by Emperor Xuan of Zhou, no one dared to collect Yu Wenxian's body, but Li Gang stepped forward and won the world's reputation.

In the era of Emperor Wen of Sui, he was the master of the crown prince Yang Yong, and Yang Guang ascended the throne, although Yang Guang did not like Li Gang had been Yang Yong's teacher, but also wanted to show his generosity, so he successively appointed Li Gang as the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Zuocheng, and last year he was transferred to Henan Yin and concurrently served as Luoyang Ling.

Although the capital is full of powerful people and the feet of the Son of Heaven, Henan Yin is really a tricky position, but fortunately, Li Gang can adhere to his principles and be upright, although there are many people who hate him, but they have nothing to do with him.

After a night of inquiry, Li Gang probably understood the ins and outs of the Tiansi Pavilion Restaurant bloody case, although Yuwen Thirteen Taibao was the victim, but they took the initiative to provoke the incident first, and then took the lead in pulling out a knife to commit murder, and Wang Qingfang was killed by a counterattack when he wanted to kill others first, there is no innocent victim in this.

However, the murderer does also have responsibility, and if he acts excessively, he can be defined as manslaughter, and according to the Sui law, he should be given 100 rods and 3,000 li to serve in the army.

Li Gang had a bit of a headache because Zhang Xuan and Luo Shixin both firmly believed that they were murderers, while the two Yuwen Taibao obviously saw it, but refused to testify against the real murderers, and it is estimated that they were waiting for Yuwenshu's decision.

Li Gang carefully read the confession again, and inferred from the confession that Zhang Xuanzheng was fighting with two Yuwen Taibao and had no time to kill Wang Qingfang, while Luo Shixin had no one to fight, and he was the most likely to kill Wang Qingfang.

At this time, Han Yi hurriedly walked in, bowed down and said, "Envoy Qi, I have already gone to the restaurant to investigate clearly." ”

Li Gang was overjoyed, "What is the result?" ”

Han Yi took out a roll of drawings and handed it over, "This is a fight diagram drawn by the lowly official at the scene, you can see it at a glance." ”

Li Gang hurriedly spread out the drawings on the table, and Han Yi pointed to a wooden pillar and said, "This is the place where Wang Qingfang's corpse is crossed, and Zhang Xuan was here at that time." ”

Han Yi pointed to the other side, "There is a wooden pillar between him and the deceased, one zhang and five feet apart, from his position, he can't hurt Wang Qingfang at all, but Luo Shixin and the deceased are one zhang apart, facing the deceased, and his knife and the deceased's knife have a crumble, which is completely consistent, so it can be concluded that it was Luo Shixin who killed Wang Qingfang, not Zhang Xuan." ”

Li Gang carefully looked at the drawings again, which was completely consistent with his speculation, and he nodded, "Go and bring Zhang Xuan!" ”

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There are two kinds of prisons in Henan Province, one is called the black prison, and the other is called the Ming prison, the black prison is built underground, the light is dim, the environment is bad, and it is generally used to hold death row prisoners and felons, while the Ming prison is on the ground, only to hold some people who have committed minor crimes, or temporary detention.

However, for the dozens of people who participated in the fight last night, they could not even be detained in a clear prison, they all had official positions, and their personal freedom could only be temporarily restricted.

Zhang Xuan sat side by side with Qin Qiong by the wall, chatting and laughing, and it was rare to have this opportunity, he chatted with Qin Qiong for half the night.

"According to Brother Qin's meaning, the rebellion of the bandits in Qi County was deliberately indulged, right?"

Qin Qiong nodded and sighed: "It should be like this, the chaos and bandits in Qi County are caught endlessly, and they are resurrected after extinction, the fundamental reason is that there are ill-intentioned people making waves behind them, to take the simplest example, Liu Badao was originally a hero of Bohai County, with a huge family capital, he raised troops to rebel not because he was ambitious, or he couldn't survive, but because there were people behind him who were instigated, and Wang Bo, who was the first to lead the people to rebel, we originally thought that he was just a scholar, but later we learned that there were also people behind him, and Liu Badao was exactly the same. ”

"Who's at who's instigating?" Jang Hyun asked.

"Brother, have you heard of the four most mysterious civil forces in the world?"

Zhang Xuan groaned slightly, and blurted out, "Wuchuan Mansion!" ”

Qin Qiong nodded, "Xiwuchuan, Northeast Qi, North Jinshan, and Nanjiangzuo, these are the four major civil forces of the Great Sui, Wuchuan Mansion is the Guanlong aristocratic force, the Northern Qi Society refers to the Northern Qi Remnant Forces, the Jiangzuo Society is the Southern Dynasty Legacy Forces, and the Jinshan Palace refers to the Turkic forces." ”

Zhang Xuan is very clear about the situation in Wuchuan Mansion, Jiang Zuohui can understand, after all, it has only been more than 20 years since the Great Sui unified the north and the south, but the division has been divided for hundreds of years, how can the gap between the north and the south be eliminated so easily, so the rebellion in the south has never stopped.

"Brother Qin just said that Wang Bo and Liu Badao rebelled, is the Northern Qi Dynasty behind it?"

Qin Qiong sighed, "After the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty and unified the north, the remnants of the various factions of the Northern Qi Dynasty were not appeased, but further severely suppressed, which seriously damaged the interests of the Northern Qi nobles and the Shandong scholars.

The first emperor with the prestige of the founding emperor can still suppress the backlash of the various factions in Shandong, once the first emperor died, the rebellion in Shandong will naturally arise, the Northern Qi Society was established in the first year of the Great Cause, including the old nobles of the Northern Qi and the main families of Shandong.

As far as I know, the Northern Qi Society even colluded with Goguryeo, and the current Shengshang's conquest of Goguryeo is more or less related to the situation in Shandong, so the first time the Great Sui attacked Goguryeo, the Northern Qi Society immediately ordered Wang Bo to organize a rebellion in Qi County, just to contain the Great Sui's attack on Goguryeo. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded silently, he had never heard of the counterattack of the Shandong forces against the Guanlong forces at the end of the Sui Dynasty, although it sounded a little unbelievable now, but if you think about it carefully, it is reasonable.

Today, I learned from Qin Qiong's mouth that there were such profound historical reasons for the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

At this time, one of the practitioners walked up to the gate and said in a loud voice: "The envoy invites Zhang Xuan to talk." ”

Han Xin suddenly said angrily: "Straight lady thief, when will you let us go?" ”

Where do you dare to provoke these guards, and hurriedly laughed: "My family is going through the formalities, and I will let you out immediately when it's over." ”

"Hurry up, Lao Tzu still has dinner at noon, if you delay, see how I wring off your head!"

"Definitely, please wait with peace of mind."

As soon as Zhang Xuan stood up, Luo Shixin also hurriedly got up, "I'll go with you." ”

Zhang Xuan sat him down again, and said with a smile: "You don't have to be so nervous, this Henan Yin is shrewd, it is estimated that it is difficult for me to take the blame for you, I will go and see the situation first." ”

Roth had already made up his mind in his confidence, so he didn't insist any longer, "Go ahead!" ”

Zhang Xuan walked out of the room and followed the catcher away, Qin Qiong complained to Luo Shixin in a low voice: "I shouldn't have brought you to the capital, your temper of the impatient man will not change, and you will get into trouble wherever you go, and this time it will also affect Zhang Gongzi." ”

Luo Shixin shook his head, "I will never affect him!" ”

"What about you? What should you do, commit murder at a young age, even if you don't put it to death, you will be exiled, and your future will be over! ”

"Future?"

Luo Shixin sneered, "This rotten court refuses to even give a small captain, what kind of future do you talk about, I have already thought about it, if I am found guilty, unless they kill me, otherwise I will go to Wagang, damn it, Lao Tzu will also rebel." ”

Qin Qiong kicked him, and gave him a look urgently, Luo Shixin turned his head with hatred, and after a while, he sighed in a low voice: "Zhang Gongzi and I don't know each other, but they can be so kind to me, I Luo Shixin has always had clear grievances, no matter whether he can save me in the end, I will remember his kindness." ”

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Zhang Xuan walked quickly into the inner hall of the official office, he had already come once last night, and told the cause and effect of the restaurant brawl, this time, he was already familiar with it, and walked into the room and bowed to Li Gang who was sitting in the hall, "See Li Fujun!" ”

"Guard Zhang doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat!"

Although Zhang Xuan was named the crown prince Qianniu and Xuanhui Lieutenant by Empress Xiao, the official appointment of the military department has not yet come down, and he is currently the eighth rank of Yan Wangfu Yiwei, which belongs to the low-grade petty officials, and is not qualified to sit with the third-grade Henan Yin.

It's just that Li Gang is very polite, not caring about this kind of etiquette, Zhang Xuan sat down with a bow, Li Gang looked at his statement last night and said: "We went to the restaurant today to conduct an on-site investigation, and it is almost certain that Wang Qingfang's death has nothing to do with you, and you don't have to take the blame on yourself." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled and shook his head, "Murder is a big crime after all, no one will take this kind of responsibility on themselves, I already said it last night, Luo Shixin just kicked him over, it was me who really killed with a knife, it was I who injured Wang Zhifang by mistake, I don't know how the envoy investigated the scene, after all, the situation at that time cannot be restored, the investigation may not be accurate, please Li Fujun to investigate." ”

Li Gang didn't expect Zhang Xuan to go his own way like this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Does Guard Zhang know what the crime will be?" ”

"I can accept any crime other than capital crimes."

"It won't be a capital crime, after all, the other party is negligent first, if it is dealt with impartially, I will sentence you to 100 canes and exile you for 10,000 miles to serve in the army for ten years, can you accept it?"

Of course, Zhang Xuan can't accept it, after ten years of exile, the daylily is cold, if this is the case, he would rather go to Wagang, but this is the worst plan.

Intuition told Zhang Xuan that things would not be so simple, Yu Wenshu would not let himself go easily, and King Yan would not let Yu Wenshu bully his subordinates.

If he Zhang Xuan insists on taking the blame, it may turn into a big thing in the end, but if Luo Shixin is convicted, then Luo Shixin will become a victim of the court struggle, which is more important, Zhang Xuan is like Ming Spiegel in his heart.

Zhang Xuan didn't answer Li Gang directly, he asked again, "What time is it?" ”

"It's just dawn, it's the right time!"

It was eight o'clock in the morning, and Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said, "If I guessed correctly, Yuwenshu will come to Fujun soon, and he will definitely think that I killed the person." ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan's words fell, a servant rushed in and said in a panic: "Qiyu Mansion Jun, General Yuwen is here." ”

Li Gang was stunned, and looked at Zhang Xuan speechless for a long time, Zhang Xuan smiled, got up and said, "Fujun listens to General Yuwen's meaning and then makes a decision!" ”

He saluted Li Gang, turned around and walked away, Li Gang reacted after a while, and hurriedly said; "Quickly invite General Yuwen in!"