The return of the son-in-law

The next step is to slap the soldier's face fiercely: "How courageous! It is clear that you have neglected your duties, but you have pushed the responsibility on me. Hehe, do you know what crime should be for slandering the imperial court? People, pull him down and slap his mouth for thirty times! Then pull out his tongue and see if he dares to talk nonsense!"

Naturally, Guo Zhanan would not allow Shi Guogan to fulfill his wish, and immediately stretched out his hand to signal the servants to calm down: "Master Shi, don't you forget that I have given full power to take charge of this matter? Before I give an order, no one is allowed to move." These people. Come here, take them to the side, Hao Yun, go and record the names of these people."

During the dispute between the two, the superior and the inferior came to a verdict, Hao Yun naturally turned to Guo Zhanan, so he took a pen and paper and wrote down the names of these people in turn.

Guo Zhan'an turned to Shi Guogan, and said: "Your Excellency has been involved in this matter, please forgive me for being rude. Please put aside all your official duties during this time, and just take a good rest in the yard. When the truth comes out, if Your Excellency If you are really innocent, then I must take the blame."

Shi Guogan was furious: "How courageous! I am your upper peak, yet you dare to take away my power! I will definitely submit a copy to you!"

Guo Zhanan said sincerely: "Now that person testifies against Your Excellency, if Your Excellency insists on not cooperating, how can you convince the public? Isn't Your Excellency afraid of being stabbed in the back in the future?"

Shi Guogan only thought his threat was effective, and said nonchalantly: "Only the people in this room know about this matter, if you don't tell me, I don't tell you, will anyone else say it?"

Guo Zhanan laughed helplessly: "Your Excellency, you are really joking. Since we are officials of Xuzhou, we must do our best to do our duty. If we hide this matter, don't we fail the trust of the people of Xuzhou? Investigation of this matter Once it is clear, we must let everyone in Xuzhou know, and it can be regarded as a wake-up call for everyone, and we must never succumb to the power of certain people in the future."

Shi Guogan understood now that Guo Zhanan didn't want to let him go at all, and was even planning to use this opportunity to suppress him severely, so that he would lose the hearts of the people in Xuzhou, and he would take advantage of the opportunity.

I really underestimated this young man!

But no matter how much Shi Guogan regretted it, Guo Zhan'an took the right and right now, so he could only back down temporarily.Fortunately, he is still the magistrate, and Guo Zhan'an hasn't gone mad enough to put him in jail, so he still has a chance.

When Wang Jiusan was not there, Shi Guogan called another confidant of his, telling him to hurry up and go to the capital to find someone from the fourth prince, and let the fourth prince come forward to mediate.For the sake of his own private soldiers, the fourth prince will definitely solve this matter for him. By then, it will be Guo Zhanan's unlucky day!

This is not enough, it will take ten days to go from Xuzhou to the capital, and even if this confidant travels day and night, working fast and without sleep, it will take six or seven days.Therefore, Shi Guogan called another confidant and asked him to send a letter to the private soldiers of the fourth prince Li Shaojin. If Guo Zhan'an hadn't let him go after five days, then don't blame him for being cruel!

Now, Shi Guogan couldn't help but rejoice that he was on Li Shaojin's boat.Although he, Shi Guogan, could not command all the private soldiers yet, he took advantage of the opportunity of giving military salaries to have good personal relationships with several generals in the private soldiers.

Five days later, they don't need to mobilize a large number of troops, they just need to send a small team into Xuzhou. At night, without anyone noticing, they will kill Guo Zhan'an and other people who knew about it, and the initiative will fall into his hands again.

At that time, neither the people of Xuzhou nor the capital knew about it, so he just had to find an excuse—it would be best to blame Tatar for Guo Zhanan’s death—then he would be the magistrate of Xuzhou who monopolized power again.

Yes, at that time, it will be said that Guo Zhan'an took a fancy to the beauty of the Tatar woman and forcibly snatched her into the mansion, but unexpectedly, the Tatar woman was violent in nature, and cut off the roots of Guo Zhan'an's descendants, lost too much blood, and died on the bed. Didn't he give himself a bad breath?

happy!

Thinking of this, Shi Guogan couldn't help but raised his head and laughed.

He has been cornered by Guo Zhan'an, so don't blame this young man for Shi Guogan's cruel attack.

Guo Zhanan still didn't know that Shi Guogan had come up with such a poisonous plan, but the people Jiang Yannian sent to guard the various entrances and exits hadn't withdrawn, so he naturally found Shi Guogan's two confidantes.

Some of them followed, while others rushed back to the restaurant to report back to Jiang Yannian. At this time, Guo Zhanan was still in the government office, Jiang Yannian made a decisive decision and asked them to chase his companion and follow them together.

At this time, the people who had been following Wang Jiusan came back: "Young master, Wang Jiusan entered an antique shop. We were worried that our identities would be exposed, so we didn't dare to go in. But after guarding for a while, Wang Jiusan came out first. One of our people left behind. Keep watching, and after half a stick of incense, several young people who are in a good mood come out of the antique shop."

"Antique shop? Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times, this Xuzhou is not a famous city through the ages, and there are not many rich and noble families. What is the purpose of opening such an antique shop?" Jiang Yannian played with peanuts and said with a smile, "This stone is really brave. I don't know what to say about him. Say he has brains, but he has made so many mistakes in the past few days; say he has no brains, he has been domineering in Xuzhou for five years. Tsk tsk, he really found a good master .”

The shopkeeper said with an apologetic smile, "What the young master said is true, but what should we do now?"

"Keep looking at those people, they are useful." Jiang Yannian lowered his eyelids, and said lightly, "Shi Guogan is a dog raised by Li Shaojin, and this dog gave the third prince and me a blow at the beginning. Beat the dog in the water, heh, this dog Next time, let him know who he can't offend!"

On the other side, the soldiers saw that Shi Guogan had given up on them, so they stopped keeping secrets for him and explained everything completely.

However, they only knew that Shi Guogan asked them to let him out of the city last night, and the other party had Shi Guogan's handwritten letter, and they only let him out after checking that it was correct.As for who those people are, who are the people in the carriage, and where this group of people went, they don't know.

This was all within Guo Zhanan's expectation, so he was not disappointed. He just invited Shi Guogan to show him what the guarding soldiers had told him.

Of course Shi Guogan didn't recognize it, he glanced at it briefly, put on a dignified look, and said, "Master Guo, I have never done what is written on it. When I was an official, I ate more salt than you in your entire life." There is more rice to eat, and the detours of extorting confessions are entangled with you. Do you think I don’t know? Come on, what are you trying to do here, even at the expense of extorting confessions?”

Guo Zhan'an seemed to have heard one of the funniest jokes in the world, and looked at Shi Guogan dumbfoundedly: "Master Shi is serious. Indeed, I have only been an official for a few years, and I don't know how to extract confessions. These testimonies are all those The soldiers said it themselves, and I have never used any means. If you don’t believe me, I will accompany you to meet them, so that you can rest assured.”

Shi Guogan was so angry that his teeth were itchy. This Guo Zhanan was really good at talking. He taunted Guo Zhanan that his qualifications were low and his seniority was low. He even called himself selfless!

Shi Guogan finally had some reason. He knew that if he confronted those soldiers face to face, as Guo Zhanan said, he would be exposed to more lies.So, he frowned, and said, "So what if we confront each other? Now I'm nothing more than a magistrate with no power and no reputation. You can choose black or white according to your preferences. Forget it, I've been doing this for Xuzhou all these years. I have offended others a lot, I just want to have a clear conscience. These days, don't come to me anymore, it doesn't matter if it's black or white, there will always be a day when the truth comes to light."

He made up his mind that Guo Zhan'an must be held back these days, and it is enough not to let him close the case. After this difficult period, he will be the one to call the shots!

It's a pity that Shi Guogan pretended to be calm in his own room, but he didn't know that not long after he left, Jiang Yannian told Guo Zhanan that Wang Jiusan met a group of gangsters in the antique shop, most likely the group that smashed Xu Laowu's stall people.

Guo Zhan'an made a decisive decision and immediately sent someone to "invite" the shopkeeper of the antique shop to the government office, and then asked the government servants to follow Jiang Yannian's men to arrest the gangsters.Those gangsters were drinking around, and suddenly saw a group of yamen servants rushing in, wanting to arrest them indiscriminately, so they yelled, "What are you doing! My lord's confidants, you don't respect me!"

Guo Zhan'an had inquired about these yamen servants, and Shi Guogan seldom ordered them around, so they were obviously not Shi Guogan's confidantes.As soon as they heard this, they knew that Shi Guogan was going to be killed this time, so they didn't pay attention to these gangsters even more, rushed forward and tied them all up.

In the end, the shopkeeper of the antique shop couldn't take it anymore, and honestly confessed that he owed a huge debt back then, but fortunately, You Shi Guo came to the rescue.But it didn't take long for him to relax before he discovered that all those debts were in Shi Guogan's hands.His wealth and life depended entirely on Shi Guogan, so he had no choice but to open an antique shop as a place where Wang Jiusan and those gangsters met.

Opening an antique shop, firstly, because there are few people interested in antiques in Xuzhou, so there are not many customers at ordinary times, so that Wang Jiusan will try not to be discovered when meeting people; secondly, these gangsters are ignorant, They don't have a serious business on weekdays. If they are found going in and out of antique shops, it can also be said that they want to come to the antique shop with fakes to exchange for some money.

It was the gangsters who confessed next.These gangsters are used to being domineering, especially after they were brought under Shi Guogan's command, they became even more unscrupulous in Xuzhou.It's just that it's hard to go from extravagance to frugality. After these gangsters have lived for a long time, they can't stand the methods of the yamen servants.

They not only talked about how they were instructed by Shi Guogan to smash Xu Laowu's stall, and how Shi Guogan explained to them after they were pushed by the people of Xuzhou to file a lawsuit, but also how Shi Guogan used to be. All those shady deeds were spoken out.

Guo Zhan'an asked Hao Yun to write down all these things, and these gangsters, shopkeepers, and soldiers were all locked in the prison in Xuzhou, and he hurriedly wrote an urgent note, went to the yamen to find the messenger, and asked him to take the messenger without stopping. Go to the capital to report to the emperor and the prime minister.

Guo Zhan'an has always been vigorous and resolute when he made a move. Not only did he force Shi Guogan to stay in his own room, but he also controlled Shi Guogan's confidantes, and promoted a group of yamen servants and officials who had been suppressed by Shi Guogan's confidants. , taking Xuzhou's government office into the palm of his hand.

Therefore, until the capital received Guo Zhanan's urgent performance and the emperor Li Chonghao was furious, Shi Guogan still didn't know that he was going to be in trouble.

On the other side, in a remote place a hundred miles away from Xuzhou, there is a group of people ready to go.