The stream flows out from the depths of the ridges. After winter, the water is thin. The blue-brown stones on the riverbed are exposed, and the gurgling streams flow happily among the stones. More than a hundred houses are arranged in a staggered and arranged in the valleys downstream of the stream, and on both sides are slowly rising hills.

In the early morning, the earth was shrouded in mist, the distant mountains became blurred, and the sparse forests were faintly visible, as if they were covered with a layer of veil, with a unique charm.

The scattered sound of horse hooves breaks through the tranquility of the morning.

The villagers who were getting up early in the field were frightened by the hundreds of horse infantry that were galloping out of the mist. They watched the cavalry heading towards Lujiaao in shock, not knowing what had happened.

The horse and infantry rushed to the gate of Lujiaao, and did not break into the village in the valley directly. They divided two teams of cavalry. One team rushed to the left side of Lujiaao, and the other team flowed across the river and rushed to the right side of the slope.

A small team of people rushed to the fields, summoning more than a dozen villagers who were still getting up early after winter to work in the fields to ask for their names, and took out a list to compare them.

"Xichuan County Magistrate Liu Wugong is here. He is ordered by the Criminal Prison Office of Jingxiang Road to arrest the criminals. He quickly opens the gate of the village without delay!" Liu Wugong rushed to the gate of the village that was closed in a hurry, took off his waist sign and threw it on the wall of the village.

When the police heard that the police rushed to the east gate, they looked around and confirmed that it was the county magistrate Liu Wugong, and hurriedly ordered the opening of the gate of the village. They came forward quickly and shouted in surprise:

"Did the county magistrate make a mistake? How could Lujiaao hide the criminal? But he didn't know who the criminal was going to arrest in Jingjuesi?"

Lu Ji was extremely surprised and secretly felt that even if anyone in the village committed a serious crime, he would not have caused such a big disturbance.

Is this the hell arresting the criminal, or the slaughtering the village?

At this time, Chen Songze's horse slowly approached.

Unlike Liu Wugong, who was wearing iron armor and scarlet cloak, Chen Songze was also wearing a patched jacket. His face was thin and still looked cold in the fog. He stared at him with a gloomy eyes, as if he wanted to dig out the human internal organs.

When Lu Ji saw Chen Songze, he felt an ominous premonition and said with a forced smile: "His Mr. Chen also works as an employee in the Criminal Prison Office?"

"Lu Junwai, long time no see you." Chen Songze leaned his elbow on the saddle bridge, looking at Lu Ji and smiling.

Liu Wugong has only been in office for more than a month since he took office in Xichuan. He is not very familiar with the well-known elders and gentry in Xichuan. He has seen Lu Ji once before, but he has not left a deep impression. At this time, he is less than 50 years old, with a purple and broad face, a little swollen cheek, and a broken left eyebrow.

"If you cooperate with the Criminal Prison Department, where can you get so much nonsense?"

After confirming that there was no ambush in the village, Liu Wugong signaled his subordinates to advance to the village first, and ordered Ding Minyong to withdraw from the wall of the village to return home and standby. The troops from the Criminal Office and the County Weishi Office took over the East and West Village Gate. At this time, the cavalry who surrounded Lujiaao from the left and right wings were collected.

Lu Ji general Liu Wugong, Chen Songze and his group led the Lu family mansion, and once again couldn't help but ask: "I wonder who the Liu County Magistrate was to capture the criminal? Lu Jiaao really needs to have a criminal offender. Liu County Magistrate greeted him and Lu Ji would tie him to the county government to ask for crimes. Why bother Liu County Magistrate? Thank you for your hard work?"

"No matter how hard he worked, he couldn't expect Mr. Lu to tie his hands and feet to run to the county government to surrender." Chen Songze smiled.

"What does this mean?" Lu Ji asked in panic. "Lu Ji is dedicated to doing good deeds and never passes with evil people. He also asked himself that he has never done anything to be traitorous and abused. He had a banquet with the county master the day before yesterday. Why are he going to be a prisoner today?"

"This case is supervised by the Criminal Prison Department. Someone reported that Mr. Lu had an affair with the bandits." Liu Wugong said.

"It's definitely someone who framed and slandered me. I, Lu Ji, have a pure life experience and are incompatible with the bandits. How could I collude with the bandits? Liu County Magistrate, I, Lu Ji, are wronged!" Lu Ji shouted.

"Is it wrong? The Constitutional Department will review it. Liu is also on order. He also asked Mr. Lu to cooperate. Don't let Liu do it..." Liu Wugong said coldly.

The county magistrate's command was in charge of three yamen runners, the station troupe and the arrest troupe had a relatively high status. The prefectures and counties no longer used corvee labor to pay, but were distributed as exemption money; the strong squad archers guarding the city gates, warehouses, and county prisons have always been mainly recruited from the township soldiers to pay for corvee labor.

Xichuan was in Xiping, Jingxiang. Xu Huai not only personally ordered Liu Wugong to serve as a county magistrate in Xichuan, but after the county archer expanded the two battalions, he also changed the previous recruitment of corvee service and fully implemented the recruitment system, and accepted the dual jurisdiction of the Office of the Military and Horse Commission, commander, and even the team leader of the military officers were all dispatched by the Office of the Office of the Military and Horse Commission. The county government and the county magistrate had no right to recommend and appoint.

This basically ensures that the local soldiers and horses of prefectures and counties are directly controlled by the Control Department.

The Criminal Prison Department and the Military Information Department have limited personnel in Xichuan. For such a large-scale operation, Liu Wugong led the county archers to act as the main force. At the same time, he seconded 100 cavalrymen from the Xixiadu Inspection Department and the Jingzidu Inspection Department to blockade the outside world, ensuring that the core criminals could not escape.

In addition to detaining Lu Ji on the spot, the county magistrates, who were controlling Lujiaao, cooperated with the investigative and military officers of the Criminal Prison Department to follow the list provided by Chen Songze to arrest the managers who were likely to sell official grain, the accounting office and others one by one. At the same time, they also blocked Lu Ji's mansion and searched for all suspicious evidence.

Such things also happened in the Lu family's other industries such as grain shops, goods warehouses, and farms...

…………

…………

"What crime did Lu Ji commit? Why did he directly arrest and imprison more than a dozen people from the Lu family without going through the prefectures and counties? Where is the system of the court?"

Lv Ji, a grain shop, a farm manager, an account, and more than a dozen of direct confidants were arrested by Liu Wugong, and the county archer was moved to the county magistrate together with a dozen boxes of evidence including the account book. Seven industries including the Lu family mansion and the warehouse were temporarily sealed off, and people were banned from entering and leaving, which naturally caused an uproar in Xichuan County.

However, Liu Wugong handled the case in the name of the Criminal Prison Department. In addition to the Criminal Prison Department having constitutional officials participated in the interrogation, Fan Yong once rushed to Xichuan to take charge, and Yu Lian, Zhou Li and others were inconvenient for a moment.

However, three days later, Fan Yong quietly left Xichuan, and Lu Ji and others were still detained in the county lieutenant and could not escape. Yu Lian dragged it for two days and could no longer sit still. He took Zhou Li, Lu Fang and others into the county lieutenant compound, questioning Liu Wugong what he wanted to do, and wanted to take Lu Ji and others away from the county lieutenant.

"The crimes involved in Lu Ji are very important. The Criminal Prison Department directly interrogated the trial. If there is anything wrong, please ask the county master to submit a memorial to the court to correct it. Liu is a martial artist who only knows how to act according to the orders. He also asks the county master to accept it..." Although Liu Wugong was from a border army and had made military achievements, he had worked as a military official in the Tangzhou and Nanyang Prefecture Military and Madu Supervisor for more than ten years. At this time, the General Secretary was behind the scenes, so he would not be unable to deal with Yu Lian.

Seeing that Liu Wugong was not eating oil and salt, Yu Lian was angry and reluctant to take Zhou Li. Lu Fang returned to the front hall of the inner house. He felt that something was wrong, but he had no choice but to do anything.

Although there is something happening in normal times, Yu Lian, as the magistrate, naturally has the right to mobilize three yamen runners, but three yamen runners are directly under the jurisdiction of Liu Wugong and the county magistrate.

Moreover, after Liu Wugong took office, he carried out some rectification of the three yamen runners and stuffed many military officers from the direct lineage of Chushan into the office.

This also means that in the entire county government, except for Yu Lian and his privately hired staff and the guest, Liu Wugong was all attracted by Liu Wugong.

Even if the court’s impeachment system memorials have many practices that are not in compliance with regulations, even if the memorial is not intercepted, how long will it take to be handed over to the court?

Not to mention that the court may not necessarily pay attention to the fact that it seems to be a serious violation of the rules.

"Fan Yong, the military officer of the General Office, came to Xichuan again. There was also a magistrate Zhou Yunze and Zhou Langjun on this trip. They had already entered the city and were coming to the county government..."

A confidant came to the back hall to report.

Nanyang, Xiangyang and Jingzhou were merged into Chushan to establish Jingxiang Road. Ru, Caishen and Shen were all recommended by the Ministry of Justice, Cai and Shen as war zones. Military and political officials were recommended by the Ministry of Personnel. In addition to the three official seal officials of Nanyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture, the Military and Horse Supervisor and some other assistant officials were recommended by the Ministry of Justice, other officials were promoted and transferred by the Ministry of Personnel in accordance with the old rules.

The former governor of Nanyang, Ning Ci, had been transferred to the center to serve as the chief minister, but officials such as the Tongzong Zhou Yunze remained, and even had the power to monitor, impeachment system department, Nanyang government office and other officials.

Fan Yong left and returned, and Zhou Yunze also came to Xichuan this time. Yu Lian didn't think that Zhou Yunze realized that the General Office abused his power in Xichuan and rushed over to support them.

Before Yu Lian and Zhou Li, Lu Fang and others discussed any countermeasures, Liu Wugong led people to the front hall of the Houzhai and said to Yu Lian and others: "Mr. County Master, Zhou County Magistrate, Lu Jingcheng is here. The Chief Secretary Fan Jun and the Office of the Government Zhou Tongzong have arrived at the Office of the Front Office, and the County Master, Zhou County Magistrate and the Court of the Money and Grain Lu Jingcheng went there together, saying that the Criminal Prison Office will be the general and the Nanyang Office and Xichuan County Office will jointly investigate the case of Lu Ji's stolen and sold official grain..."

After hearing what Liu Wugong said, let alone Zhou Li and Lu Fang, Yu Lian's legs were weak.

The amount of stealing and selling official grain was astonishing. It was a serious crime for the whole family to be executed. How could Lu Ji not give them up?

Seeing Chen Songze standing behind Liu Wugong with a relaxed look on his face, Zhou Li finally understood:
Chapter completed!