Chapter 40
Qiu Darui was hiding in the crowd in the distance, carefully guarding against being recognized by acquaintances. He stared at Yuan Xingzong, surrounded by the troubled workers and disciples. He said intimately: "Raising troops for a thousand days is used for a while, this dog should bite people." He went to urge goods from Guandong to urge goods to return in advance. As soon as he passed Hangu Pass, he heard something happened in the workshop. Qiu Darui said it was not good and immediately sneaked back to the vicinity of the workshop. After the workshop was in chaos, Qiu Darui was the first to worry that the relief department intervened in and found many old cases hidden in the workshop. Therefore, he took advantage of the chaos to send people to the secret stakes in the workshop. As long as the officials came to recruit these troubled workers and disciples, the secret stakes would be hidden among the secret stakes, and they would have to cut off the life of these workers and disciples.
This stump was a dead soldier he raised. Qiu Darui helped him pay off his gambling debts and kept his family in Hangzhou. This person was arranged in the Guanzhong workshop. Qiu Darui originally intended to use him to monitor Luo Jiangui and others who were in charge of the workshop.
After that, the situation developed step by step, which was no different from Qiu Darui's initial concern about the worst. The relief agency, standing on the side of the workers and disciples, not only intervened, but also took full control of the matter. Therefore, Qiu Darui could only place all his hopes on the stake. "This Guandong yamen is really more troublesome than the Southeast." Qiu Darui said angrily. If it weren't for the officials in the southeast of the Song Dynasty who were too plundering, he wouldn't be willing to rashly go to Guanzhong to open up the situation.
Among the scattered workers and disciples, before Fu Zhiren and other subordinates could catch up, Chen and Yi stood beside Yuan Xingzong, and the two were surrounded. The thin and pale faces were wide open, as if the two people in front of them had all their hopes.
"We started working before dawn. We had been working for five years every day," a worker with a skeleton-like face spread her thin five fingers in front of Chen and Yi. "The fifteen people who crossed the river together poured out five of them, and they dragged them out in a roll of rotten mats. I don't know where they were buried. After finally five years, the workshop actually deducted the wages as soon as they say they were deducted. The master wants to be fair for Caomin and others!"
"If the work done is not enough every day, they will not give food. If it is summer, they will stand under the hot sun. If it is winter, they will stand in the snow with barefoot." "In this workshop, the shopkeeper and the foreman have both skins on their mouths. Both the right and the other are reasonable. On the contrary, if we have any confrontation, we will be beaten and kicked immediately."
A worker opened his mouth to show Chen Yuyi: "This was smashed with a stone a year ago. They said they were specializing in treating stubborn donkeys." Two or three of his upper and lower door teeth fell off, and there seemed to be a dark hole in the middle of his mouth. Other worker untied his ragged clothes, and his skinny bodies were covered with shocking wounds. "This is when he was dozing off, the foreman used fire tongs to scallops with charcoal." A man pointed to a big scar on his arm and said, "The villain was lucky, and the wound healed by himself. Some people's wounds were rotten, and their entire arm was rotten, becoming useless people. In the end, they didn't know where they went."
Workers and disciples rushed one by one, and Chen Yuyi and Yuan Xingzong were overwhelmed. Not far away, a man with a vicious face gradually squeezed in front. He was holding a short crossbow in his hand. I don’t know if it was snatched from the foreman. He looked pale and squeezed closer and closer until he was only two or three steps away from the leading court official, and five or six people stopped. The man seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally made up his mind. While everyone was looking forward and did not pay attention to the moment beside him, he raised the short steel crossbow in his hand and aimed it at the face of the court official.
"No matter how many injustices there are, the Lord will make the decision for you." Chen Yuyi tried his best to suppress the sorrow and anger in his heart, and smiled and looked up to comfort the worker beside him. Suddenly his smile froze on his face, his eyes widened, and he saw the most incredible scene. A worker beside him pointed the crossbow at Lord Yuan.
The worker smiled strangely, as if he was about to start. Chen Yuyi's mind was blank and he stood up, "Be careful, sir!" Before he could shout this sentence, he fitted in front of Yuan Xingzong. At that time, he was about to say that, an iron crossbow arrow shot heavily on Chen Yuyi's shoulder blade, and the powerful momentum led him backwards on Yuan Xingzong.
The workers and disciples around were stunned. After a while, someone shouted loudly: "There are assassins!" Seven or eight workers rushed to the ground with bare hands. Thousands of workers and disciples next to Yuan Xingzong were in chaos.
"No, there is an assassin!" Fu Zhiren was shocked when he was walking towards Lord Yuan. He hesitated for a moment and rushed over. The court officials behind him also saw this scene. The Chang'an Order Cui Ganqing's face sternly, and the captain Lu Dejing ordered loudly: "The whole camp formed a formation!" The soldiers sitting on the ground stood up together, and the iron armor sounded clanging, and the Modao was pulled out of the fish-skin sheath. The cold light shone, like a moving knife wall slowly pushing towards the busy workers and disciples.
"What a dog!" Qiu Darui slapped his right fist, suppressing his inner excitement. As long as the conflict between the official army and the worker and the disciples broke out, this matter would be easy. In no time, he could appear openly without leaving behind the great business in Guanzhong.
"Master Yuan!" Fu Zhiren rushed closer and suddenly stood up from the group of workers. It was Yuan Xingzong. His face was as cold as Wanzai Hanbing. He shouted loudly: "I am fine, please don't be impatient. Don't fall into the trap of the evil people!" Fu Zhiren couldn't believe his eyes. Seeing that he was hesitant, Yuan Xingzong shouted violently: "I'm not going quickly!"
"Yes! Sir!" Fu Zhiren turned around hurriedly and ran towards the Iron Bone Army soldier who was slowly pushing over like a wall of knifes. He waved his hands and shouted loudly: "Mr. Yuan is fine, please don't need to come here for now!" "Person Lu, Lord Yuan is fine, this is the gangster's plan to disagree!"
"His grandma!" Qiu Darui cursed. He didn't care about regret and sneaked away from the crowd while others were not paying attention. It was impossible to return to Guandong from Hangu Pass. He had to take a detour and sneak back to Guandong while the Xia court didn't know that he was already in Guanzhong.
Two days later, Pan Shaowei sat in the romance room of the Chang'an Prefecture Prison. The prison officer outside the door whispered: "I have met Han Gong." He stood up first and bowed: "Pan Shaowei, the official relief agency, has met Han Gong." Cui Zhengji, the clerk of the Military Intelligence Department, and Zang Jun, the head of the Chang'an Prefecture Constable, also stood up and bowed: "I have met Han Gong."
Korean Duke Li Chan is one of the civil guards of Chang'an Prefecture. He looked at the prisoner tied to an iron stool and frowned and asked, "Are you wrong?" Pan Shaowei said respectfully: "That's right, this person is Luo Fusheng, the shopkeeper of Qiu's workshop."
Li Chan nodded and asked routinely: "Are you really Luo Fusheng?"
"It's a villain." A trace of gratitude flashed in the eyes of the shopkeeper Luo. Unexpectedly, the relief office used the punishment or in accordance with the rules of the court, and invited the civilian officials to supervise the punishment. In this way, as long as you are meticulous enough and answer questions correctly, you will suffer less.
After Li Chan sat down, he looked at the shopkeeper Luo and said in a deep voice: "I heard from the hall. According to the laws and regulations of the Zhuguo Mansion, any suspects involved in serious cases who are incorrect in their feelings will be punished by the officials. If you have a guardian, you can punish them in a minor manner. As long as your sentence is true, even if this torture instrument is severe, it will not hurt you. Have you heard it clearly?"
Manager Luo raised his head and said in a weak voice: "I heard clearly."
Li Chan nodded, Cui Zhengji whispered, "Do you start asking?" Li Chan nodded, Cui Zhengji waved his hand, and the yamen runners of Chang'an Mansion tied the shopkeeper Luo to the tiger bench. Pan Shaowei and Cui Zhengji, Zang Jun exchanged their eyes and asked in a deep voice: "Luo Fusheng, I ask you, what did you do before the incident of the worker-study accident, and say carefully one by one."
Manager Luo thought for a moment and began to slowly narrate. He admitted that he had decided to withhold wages, but avoided the instructor to kill the couple of workers and disciples named Sun. Pan Shaowei looked like a smile, and continued to ask with a cat playing with a mouse, "Did you say to Du Wu and others that 'As usual, you will handle the good things you do,'"
Manager Luo was panicked, but he denied it, "No, there is no such thing!" Zang Jun, the troupe of Chang'an Prefecture, smiled slightly, picked up the confession of Du Wu, Qiu Liu and others, presented it to Li Chan, and said respectfully, "Mr. Li, he is lying." Li Chan looked at it and nodded slightly. Zang Jun showed joy on his face, waved his hand and ordered the yamen runner to add a thick brick under Manager Luo's legs, which immediately made his face pale.
Cui Zhengji continued to ask: "At noon that day of the bloody incident in front of Zheng Xiangtang in November, where are you and the boss Qiu Darui?"
Luo Fusheng's face changed slightly, his heart shrank, and he even forgot the pain in his knees. He hesitated: "The villain and his boss ordered goods at the warehouse."
Cui Zhengji did not talk to him. He opened the file and presented the testimony that Taibailou's fellow testimony that Qiu Darui and Manager Luo had been in the store all day and did not pay the bill until noon the next day to Li Chan. Cui Zhengji said in a deep voice: "Sir, he said he was panicked again." Li Chan frowned and looked at it. There were testimony signed by the three friends Taibailou, as well as the seal of the shopkeeper Luo and others who had left. He nodded again.
A yamen runner walked up again, lifted the calves of Manager Luo hard, and added a thick brick underneath again. The pain made him sweat beads as big as soybeans drip, and shouted loudly: "The villain remembered wrongly, I remembered wrongly, I had dinner with Dong Qiu's family at Taibailou at noon."
"How many people are eating? Who is sitting on your left? Who is sitting on your right? Who is sitting on your right? Did you meet? Did you say anything?" Cui Zhengji asked, looking at the shopkeeper Luo, whose face was getting paler, and said meaningfully, "This time you have to remember it clearly. If you add two more pieces of brick, your legs will be broken. If your legs are broken, as long as you don't tell the truth, we have other ways."
Manager Luo had completely fallen into the hands of these clerks with rich experience. Not long after, he completely collapsed. Without any question, he would confess everything about Qiu Darui. The truth of the bloody case at the door of Zheng Xiangtang was revealed. Cui Zhengji and Pan Shaowei were both very excited and hurriedly asked the civilian official Li Chan to cover the confession to prove that the confession was obtained strictly in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Zhuguo Mansion, and was not caused by random torture.
After all the interrogation was clear, the Military Information Department, Chang'an Prefecture and the Relief Department jointly wrote to the joint office of Kuaima to send the cause of the Qiu Workshop's accident, the old cases in the workshop, and the most important case of Zheng Xiangtang's bloody case to the five palaces. Even Yu Zangyun was regretful when he saw these cases. In addition to Qiu Darui, the confession of the shopkeeper Luo also implicated more than a dozen officials. In front of the mountain, the Zhuguo Mansion quickly passed the "workers and disciples' laws", and the Relief Department was given the power to cooperate with civil servants to protect workers and disciples. The huge Qiu Workshop was bought by more than a dozen merchants, and the silver money obtained was 350,000 yuan. The Guardian Mansion generously handed over to the Relief Department.
"The only regret is that Qiu Darui, the culprit of the main evil, went to Guandong to urge goods before the workshop accident. This man was cunning and had many eyes and ears. He heard the news that the news was wrong. Not only did he never return to Guanzhong, but he also disappeared in Guandong." Zhao Xingde said regretfully. He closed the file distributed to the lieutenant by the Guardian Mansion and opened another letter, which was sent by Chunyu Zhen.
Chapter completed!