Chapter 330 Insidious Instigation
Yin Taibei also understood at this time, and immediately followed, looked at the barbarians and said, "You said that someone in our county government refused to accept your advice and drove you away. Where is that person?" At this time, he didn't care about the majesty of the official family, so he turned his head again, "Come on, call out everyone in our yamen, let them distinguish carefully and confront them in front of you!"
With the order from the county magistrate, his subordinates hurriedly ran back. After a while, more clerks, even servants, and even errands were taken out and stood in front of everyone, with a number of as many as forty or fifty. It can be seen that the Jinning County Government still has some influence in the local area.
But after the barbarians carefully observed, they shook their heads: "That man is not among them, but he did come out of the yamen to talk to us that day, and they had tried to drive people away!" But they recognized a few yamen runners.
When the magistrate Yin's eyes fell on these people, the four or five yamen runners suddenly panicked and instantly knelt down: "Big... sir, the young ones were just on orders at that time."
"Who is the order of the person?"
"It's Chen Jian and Chen Dianli." At this time, how could they dare to hide it, and they immediately told the truth.
Yin Taibei immediately turned around and looked at the subordinates behind him. He just glanced around but disappeared, and frowned: "Where is someone else?"
"Sir, Chen Dianli took a leave yesterday and said he had something to do and went out for a few days..." Those who knew the situation quickly reported it.
At this point, the truth is already very obvious. This is someone who is fanning the flames and instigating the Han and the Manchus to fight. But what are the intentions of those people and why do they cause such a thing?
Everyone has these questions, but for a moment, they couldn't think of the reason. Sun Bi was also pondering at this moment and didn't say anything further. However, the scene was a little frozen. Although the problem was found, how should it end?
Seeing that everyone was looking at each other and speechless for a long time, Li Ling took a step forward, coughed low, and then said: "Mr. Yin, the breakthrough in this matter is on that person, so it's better to find the person first as soon as possible."
This reminded Yin Taibei, and he immediately said, "Yes, come, come and go to Chen Jian's house and bring him back to me. If you dare not follow me, lock me up and take it directly!"
Several constables immediately took the order and ran out of the county government to take the people with great momentum. However, another problem arose. What are the identities of the other two guys who instigated both sides to fight here and where are they now?
Li Ling had long been calculating about this and said, "Then the two must have not revealed their identities, right?" Zhang Hang and the leader of the barbarian nodded. They were both angry at that time, so how could they be so careful about asking each other's name?
"How much do you remember when they look?" Li Ling was not discouraged and asked again quickly.
These people were stunned again, but they still had some impressions. They slowly revealed some of the morphological characteristics of the two. Among them, the Han people looked more distinctive. There were two black moles on their left cheeks and the person was a little taller and thin. As for the barbarians, they were very ordinary and had no characteristics when they said it.
But this is enough, because just as the characteristics of the Han people appeared, Zhang Hang and others were already exclaiming their identities: "It's Hou San!"
"Hmm? Do you recognize him, but your companion?" Li Ling asked quickly.
Zhang Hang immediately shook his head like a rattle: "Of course not! That was a dilapidated house that was idle all day long, and he was the most unsuccessful. How could we have any friendship with him!"
"Do you know where he lives?"
"I know this. It's in Guzi Lane on the west side of the city, and the most broken family is. Since his parents died, he has lived there alone!"
After Li Ling asked this, he didn't need to say anything. County Magistrate Yin immediately ordered: "Go some more people and bring me this Hou San!"
Another group of officers left in a hurry, but the scene fell into silence again. Although everyone knew at this time that they had been deceived and exploited, the hatred between the Han and the Manchus was not resolved, and they were now surrounded by the official army, which made them extremely uneasy.
However, the Dingxi Army, with swords and guns drawn out from the sheath, and bows and crossbows in hand, put great pressure on them, making them afraid to act rashly and could only wait obediently.
Fortunately, the people from the county government were very efficient this time. In just over half an hour, the people who had gone to get Chen Jian all the way back. Seeing this, County Magistrate Yin was a little happy, but when they came in, they found that they were returning empty-handed and did not bring the suspect back at all. This made him look dark and he asked, "Where is the person?"
"Sir, I'm sorry, the gate of Chen Dianli's house was locked, and there was no one inside. I heard that their family had already left the city at noon yesterday."
This report made Li Ling frown. This time, the guy who planned everything behind his back was really cautious and thoughtful. Did he solve this potential hidden danger in time?
At the moment when everyone was shocked and puzzled, the second group of people also came back. This time they really brought Hou San, but it was not a living person, but his body. There was a shocking wound on the vital point of this guy's chest, and the blood dyed his upper body red, but he was so dead that he could not die again.
Yin Taibei's face was so dark that it could drip into water: "What's going on?"
"When I go back to the adults, the door of the young people was closed when they arrived at his house. They asked the neighbors around them that he had not shown up one day. So we climbed over the wall and found out that he had died in our house long ago..."
Important clues were cut one after another, which made Yin Taibei and others feel in a daze, but what was even more heartbreaking was the sudden murder. Even in the southwestern border, murder cases were not often found, especially such murders that were obviously not ordinary fights, which were even more frightening and uneasy.
Now even the barbarians have changed their color. Although they didn't take the government seriously, they really caused a life. After all, they were not what they wanted to see.
At this time, Li Ling came to Xiao Chengzhi again and whispered: "Little Marquis, let's call the soldiers outside the city in quickly and cooperate with the guard of the county town." There were about 500 soldiers on both sides this time, so of course it was impossible to bring them all into the county town. Except for the thirty or fifty entourages here, everyone else was stationed outside the county town.
"Hmm?" Xiao Chengzhi, who was already confused, was stunned when he heard this, "What do you mean? Are you afraid that these barbarians will do anything again?"
"Of course they can't mess around anymore. I'm just worried that the person behind the scenes will take the opportunity to provoke a bigger dispute. If I expected it, it would be more than Hou Sanyi who died this time, the barbarian who didn't know his exact identity, and Chen Jian, who escaped from the county town early in the morning, would probably have become a part of the other party's conspiracy."
After he said this, Xiao Chengzhi also understood: "Yes, things are so big, of course they won't just make the two sides fight! But what is their purpose?"
"It should have come to the government." Sun Bi said this. "You can see a little bit by looking at the fighting location they deliberately selected. If the county government does not respond this time, it will greatly damage the prestige of the government. If you really intervene and stop it and have to investigate it, you will find these people in a short time and find their deaths."
"A Hou San is not a problem, but if a barbarian dies, it will be completely different." Yin Taibei also expressed his worries. As soon as he said this, everyone's face changed except Li Ling.
These barbarians are a very special group in the southwest. They have powerful forces to compete with the government, and what they rely on is cooperation between the villages. On the individual side, this is also true, that is, they are far more united than ordinary Han people. Often, when one person is in trouble, countless tribes will help each other, and they will be provoked by a group of people.
In fact, today's chaos is the best annotation of this idea. The reason why Zhang Hang and the others can't resist the opponent's attack is because they are more people and more united.
And this is just a small matter of jealousy between men and women. Once a person dies and is incited by someone with a heart, who knows what these guys will do?
Xiao Chengzhi, who understood, was naturally good at following the rules. He immediately turned to Sun Bi and said, "Cousin, hurry out of the city and bring everyone else into the city. Jinning can't be in chaos."
Sun Bi nodded quickly: "I'll make arrangements now, County Magistrate Yin..." He was obviously more thoughtful than Xiao Chengzhi, and asked Yin Taibei for his opinions.
County Magistrate Yin was already panicked at this time, afraid that something really caused a big mess and how could he dare to stop it. He immediately said, "It is safest to do this and the most safest to do it."
Sun Bi left now. It was not long before those hundreds of elite soldiers could enter the city and defend it, ensuring that the city was foolproof.
At this point, Yin Taibei had no more worries. With another order, he asked someone to take down all the fighters and then put them in prison for disposal. This time, the yamen was a real hero. Not only the Han people were surrendered, but even the barbarians who were unscrupulous of the king did not dare to resist this time. They were tied up obediently and took them to the prison for guarding. After all, there were still officials around them at this time, which was not something that ordinary barbarians could deal with.
Chapter completed!