After the fourth master and I wear each other [Qing wear]

When Zheng Kunhuang arrested the dismemberment suspect and brought him to justice, he vaguely felt that the case might not end here.

There are doubts in the case, and Huang Luzhuang has never pleaded guilty, but after he was arrested, he did not reveal what He Yijian said that "the melon field does not accept Lu, and those who rebel will perish...".

When I heard that someone came to the door to complain for Huang Luzhuang, I was not too surprised.

Huang Luzhuang is a scholar and can make a mechanical dog. Regardless of whether this thing is a clever skill or not, an extraordinary person can make it.This kind of person, maybe someone will come to rescue him.

However, Zheng Kunhuang made a pre-emptive strike.

"Master Jiu, I have never thought of creating an unjust prison. I have carefully investigated the fingerprints of the murder tools, checked the time of the crime, and so on.

If Huang Luzhuang was put into death row, he must bear certain responsibility for this matter. He concealed key clues and did not report them.If you hadn't come to the door today, I still don't know the one-line phrase written by He Yijian, who would have guessed the existence of the treasure out of thin air. "

Yinzhen was not deceived by this paragraph of rhetoric, but wanted to ask Huang Luzhuang why he didn't report it?

It may be disheartened to realize that you have been framed by a friend;

Or he figured out that the phrase written by He Yijian was related to treasures, and he was more vigilant when he was in deep trouble, for fear that the prefect of Changde Prefecture would simply kill him when he saw the money.

Don't talk nonsense at this time.

Not to mention, he was executed a year later after the Ministry of Criminal Justice reviewed the case.If you say the wrong thing, you may be assassinated immediately.

Unless you find someone you can trust.

The inspection team brought a letter of recommendation from Mei Wending.

In death row, perhaps because of this letter, Huang Luzhuang finally decided to say the suspicious phrase that He Yijian secretly covered up.

"Master Zheng, right now it's not about who is more responsible."

Yinzhen hit the nail on the head, "The most important thing is to organize people to enter Wuling Mountain immediately to arrest the murderer."

Zheng Kunhuang knew very well that a person in an official position would do more and make more mistakes, but the Zhen Jiu in front of him had no choice but to overturn the case based on the background of the ninth elder brother.

"Wuling Mountain is so big, how can you say that you can enter the mountain when you enter the mountain. Now can you point out which direction to go, east, west, north, south?"

"Who is the official parent?!"

Yinzhen really wanted to throw it on Zheng Kunhuang's forehead.If others have to find clues for everything, Zheng Kunhuang, the magistrate, might as well stop doing it.

At this moment, he held back.

Changde Mansion is not the capital, even if it is not in the name of Zhen Jiu, but really reveals its identity, it has to worry about Qianglong not being able to suppress the local snake.

The prefect of Zheng doesn't need to do other bad things, as long as he uses a procrastination formula, it won't do any good for arresting the murderer.

"Master Zheng is right. We must clarify where to search for the mountain."

Yinzhen retreated to advance, "I'll look for clues immediately. Once there are clues, with the character of an adult who is diligent in government and serving the people, I will definitely follow up immediately after all difficulties, right?"

Zheng Kunhuang couldn't say no.He was beating a drum in his heart, chasing down a group of common people who were crazy about money, wouldn't he be involved in big trouble?

Yinzhen left quickly, confident in finding clues to He Yijian and others.

Somewhat blindly trusting, I always feel that if the fourth brother goes out, he will definitely gain something within a day.

At night, gather at the inn.

Wu Fuyi really came with a clue.

Leaving Liangshan Village at noon, deal with Chen Dazhuang's sale of his daughter as soon as possible, and went straight to the city to look for Wang Mazi, a dentist.

So he pretended to be a good-hearted person who wanted to buy it, and said that he couldn't bear to separate the Chen sisters after hearing Zhang Qiaoya's tragic experience.Anyway, if you want to buy a new batch of slaves, it's better to buy all of Chen Dazhuang's daughters together.

Wu Fuyi almost put the slogan "Stupid people, rich money, come quickly" directly on his forehead, and asked Wang Mazi to set a price at will.

When Wang Mazi saw him, he first apologized that Master Zhen was late.

Chen Daniu has already been bought by others, and she got into the carriage six days ago, while the other three sisters are still in Changde Prefecture.

In addition, he offered to lead the way to the suburban yard to have a look. There were many men, women and children living there, and he could always find the right one for any kind of person he wanted to buy.

"Sleepy gave me a pillow. I was just about to find out whether Wang Mazi was secretly selling people. He brought the evidence to me."

Wu Fuyi immediately seized the opportunity to go to the suburban courtyard.You only need to see the trafficked people face to face, and you can find abnormalities.

Selling oneself and being trafficked, the mental outlook of these two groups of people must be different.

"When I raised my doubts, Wang Mazi personally admitted that some of the slaves came from unclean paths. But he was not afraid, but rather complacent, calling himself "there are people above". "

But Wu Fuyi didn't know if the image of the pure and good customer she played was too vivid and lifelike, so that Wang Mazi dared to directly admit that he was secretly doing human trafficking.

Or this guy has been running a dental clinic in Changde Mansion for ten years, and he claims to have opened up both black and white, and his speech and behavior are a little more frivolous.

"Wang Mazi even took out a snuff bottle to prove what he said was true."

Wu Fuyi could see it clearly, "It's an imperial gilt enamel snuff bottle. The craftsmanship and inscription are indeed from the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

In Changde Mansion, Hunan, a pack of zongzi candies from Gusu is rare, and an imperial snuff bottle from the capital is even rarer.This means that Wang Mazi does have support, he has a backer in the capital.

"Good guy!"

After hearing about Chen Dazhuang's shameless act of prostitution, and hearing about the middleman Wang Mazi's bullying, Yinzhen vaguely felt that he had touched a big fish.

"Fourth brother, who is behind Wang Mazi?"

Wu Fuyi shook his head lightly, no matter how much Wang Mazi regarded her as a foolish rich man, it was impossible for him to reveal such important news when they met for the first time.

"The top priority is to control all the gangs headed by Wang Mazi. The plan can't keep up with the changes. Originally, I didn't want to expose my whereabouts in Huguang, so I just asked you to go to Zheng Zhifu. But now I have to reveal my identity, because I have to contact Huguang Governor Shi Wensheng directly, and let He cooperates immediately."

The governor of Huguang is one of the most senior ministers of border control, and he is in charge of the military affairs and civil affairs of Hubei and Hunan.

This year, Shi Wensheng just took office.

He and the concubine's father Shi Wenbing are cousins, and his grandfather Shi Tingzhu was an important minister who had experienced the three dynasties of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Shunzhi.

Zheng Kunhuang, as the governor of a state, was able to send people to hunt down He Yijian and other gangsters who were seeking treasure, but he was unable to catch all the traffickers.What's more, judging from his attitude, he is not positive enough.

The reason why I contacted Shi Wensheng directly was also because Wang Mazi found out some news.

The eldest daughter of the Chen family has been sold and sent to Jiangnan, taking the route from Changde Mansion in Hunan to Jingzhou in Hubei.

In this way, the province is crossed, and the route of illegal trafficking often adopts such a fast cross-province operation, the purpose is to avoid the investigation of the local officials.

For example, if officials in Hunan want to crack down on trafficking, but the abductees have been transferred to Hubei, then the two provinces need to cooperate.

There are various difficulties in the cooperation between the two governments within the same province, not to mention the fact that the province has made the difficulty of cooperation and inspection soaring.

At this time, it is time to find someone, the governor of Huguang who manages Hubei and Hunan at the same time.

Of course, the imperial court will not allow the governor's family to dominate. The dispatch of governors in Hubei and Hunan is just a kind of check and balance of power.

For these trafficking gangs, Wang Mazi showed that there was someone above him, and that person was in the capital.

With the umbrella, he operated a compliant dental business in Xiangxi on the surface, but in fact he was engaged in illegal human trafficking.In order to deal with the investigation by local officials, even inter-provincial transfers were carried out.

If you can't do the thunderous thing and attack from both sides in Hunan and Hubei at the same time, I'm afraid the human traffickers will flee immediately after receiving the news.

According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, human trafficking is a felony.

If the abducted person is used as a slave, the criminal gang will be exiled for three thousand miles regardless of whether the master or slave has completed the transaction.

If the abducted person is sold as a wife or concubine or given as a child, the offender will be beaten with one hundred sticks and sentenced to three years in prison.

During the trafficking process, if the kidnapped resisted and was injured by criminals, these criminals would be sentenced to hanging and beheading.

Judging from the actual situation, very few people can survive after being beaten with a hundred sticks.Even if he survived by chance, he would not be able to endure exile for a thousand miles or three years in prison.

In other words, as long as the kidnappers are caught and convicted, they are basically the death penalty in various senses.

Although the criminal law is harsh, it is inevitable that this evil practice will not stop repeatedly.The lack of efficient coordination among officials has made fighting crime more difficult.

Since Wu Fuyi saw this disadvantage, he would not allow Wang Mazi's gang to escape.

Shi Wensheng has a high position and authority, and as the saying goes, there are three fires for a new official.Whether he wanted to or not, he had to set off this fire to encircle and suppress illegal human trafficking.

In the world, cause and effect are intertwined, interlocking and influencing each other.

Only by stopping the human trafficker transporting Chen Daniu as soon as possible can we know the location of the murderers who went to the mountain to fetch the treasure, because she is very likely to know the key formula.

Wu Fuyi redeemed the other three girls from the Chen family first, and got a clue from them.

Zhang Qiaoya was killed, most likely killing two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, she used her murder to frame Huangluzhuang and turn the treasure map into a secret.In addition, it was also because she accidentally overheard the conversation between Yang Chunzi and He Yijian.

In Gua County, Yinzhen took Wen Xian and Mo Yaqi to pretend to be Taoist priests.

Under the banner of learning from his predecessor Yang Chunzi's experience in exorcising ghosts, he successfully entered the so-called haunted abandoned melon field while avoiding people's eyes and ears.

The reason why Gua County is called Gua County is because watermelons were once grown on a large scale here.

It is said that once, that piece of melon field was abandoned 60 years ago, and the reason was the fierce ghost.

One Jiazi ago, the gate of hell opened in July.

The ghosts ran out to cause harm to the world, the head of the melon grower was chopped off, and the head rolled into the melon field, full of resentment.

Since then, there have been rumors that all the watermelons in the field will turn into human heads.Whoever grows melons will be accompanied by his relatives and friends.

A terrible curse left the melon fields deserted.According to the word of mouth of people in Gua County, no one is close to that land any more.

Yang Chunzi came to Gua County under the banner of exorcising ghosts.

It is said that one Jiazi passed, and the resentful spirits were about to break out of the ground again, and they had to be suppressed immediately, so three days of rituals were done.

Yinzhen inspected the entire abandoned melon field and found that the loose soil in several places had been turned over.

Finally, a buried cave entrance was found in one of them.

The burrows are dug by hand, and each entry and exit can only be used by people alone.The soil hole below is not too big, and only 18 yuan of stone tablets are placed.Each stele is divided into nine small pieces, on which are maps in random order.

The situation became clear.

Haunted is false, 60 years ago someone intentionally murdered and spread rumors, but they did not want the people of Gua County to discover the hidden earth cave.

A pile of steles in the earth cave is like drawing a 160-piece jigsaw puzzle.Only a few of them are valid, and putting them together is the treasure map.

Which pieces are valid jigsaw puzzles?

The answer is hidden in the mechanism box deciphered by Huang Luzhuang, and the eight trigrams picture indicates which engraved pictures on the stone tablet should be selected.

King Li Chuang's treasure is easy to find, as long as he spells out the correct map.

Difficult to find and difficult to find, without other hints, it takes a long time to study the messy jigsaw puzzles that are true and false.

There is not much time to decipher the map. Once it is too late, He Yijian and others will run away.

This is why Da Niu Chen must be dealt with as soon as possible, she most likely knows the puzzle clues.

According to the recollections of the three younger sisters of the Chen family, there was something different about my mother before her death.

Zhang Qiaoya was very sure that the baby in her stomach could be a boy, and she was still chanting a series of mantras, "There is no wind in the southeast at Xunxia, ​​and the six waters in the north are full in Kanzhong..."

Only sister Chen Daniu learned the specific content from her mother's mouth, and she was told that it was a child-seeking song.

Combined with Yang Chunzi's sale of Zhuantai Pills, an outrageous pill, Zhang Qiaoya's abnormal behavior was the reason why she was dismembered.

Zhang Qiaoya failed to give birth to a son, and suffered persecution in the Chen family, which made her very upset about the child in her stomach.Desperately longing for a baby boy, she quietly asked for Zhuantai Wan.

She found Yang Chunzi, a well-known child-seeking master, and in the process, she overheard a secret language of gossip and directions.

Yang Chunzi fools Zhang Qiaoya by saying that the gossip formula that spells out the correct treasure map is a child-seeking song.

In fact, he was ready to kill, and he quickly agreed on a time.On the pretext of giving Zhang Qiaoya further spells, in fact, he brutally dismembered her body.

Taking the action of dismembering the corpse can even blame Huang Luzhuang, who likes to create and invent, because nowadays people mostly think that mechanical art is a skill that is almost like a demon.

In this way, those who should not know the secret of the treasure will either die or be sentenced to death.

It is not difficult to speculate that Yang Chunzi must have told Zhang Qiaoya that he must never disclose such things as Qiuzhuantaiwan and Qiuzige to the outside world. He wanted to deceive people, mostly because of reasons to fool Zhang Qiaoya. No spirituality anymore.

As for why Zhang Qiaoya relayed it to her eldest daughter?

Maybe it's because I can't bear that my eldest daughter will make the same mistakes again.Chen Daniu is nine years old, and she will get married in a few years. I hope she can get a boy in one fell swoop.

This kind of thinking is very sad, but Zhang Qiaoya cannot be blamed, it is the fault of this world.

Wu Fuyi lamented his misfortune, and he didn't just send Chen Dazhuang to prison.

Although it is impossible to change the ideological ills of thousands of years by one's own power, you can do something within your power.

Starting from the addition and modification of the "Great Qing Law", the definition of slightly selling was expanded.

It's not just strangers who rob or entice people to be trafficked, biological parents can't traffic their own children either.

Today, people's average life expectancy is not high, but it is higher than the war-torn era in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

Since the age of ten is generally used as the limit to define whether children should be severely punished for committing crimes, corresponding guarantees should also be given to children.

The Tang Dynasty once enacted this regulation. Children before the age of ten lack sufficient independent judgment, and even voluntary prostitution is considered illegal trafficking.Now, it is necessary to take the essence of the law and apply it to the Qing law.

Theoretically, both boys and girls are trafficked by their parents, but in reality, more girls are sold.

This decree at least clarifies its attitude from the legal point of view, ordering unscrupulous fathers like Chen Dazhuang not to sell their daughters, otherwise they will be imprisoned.

In addition, further clarification of the law prohibiting abuse of wives and daughters.

Even if many times in the execution process, the people do not raise officials and do not investigate, but it is better than seeking legal protection without even a clear provision.

Setting a half-life penalty is enough to frighten some unscrupulous parents, which is a kind of progress.

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On the ninth day of September, the palace is filled with the atmosphere of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival.

Kangxi ate the Double Ninth Cake and looked at the two urgent documents on the desk.

One is from Shi Wensheng, governor of Huguang, and the other is from the fourth child.

After thinking about it, I should have read the former first to see if there was an emergency in the Huguang area, but I still opened the latter's letter first.

Calculating the time, the fourth child should have left Hunan and entered Yunnan and Guizhou.This time going south, when the fourth child left Jiangnan, he sent a letter back to the capital, and then there was no news.

Kangxi saw that the thickness of the envelope was almost as thick as a book, did he entrust the fourth brother's very strong yearning for Khan Ama?

This took out a thick stack of letters.

Then, as he read the letter from home, Kangxi's face seemed to overturn the palette, and his heart was hung up and down and made many high-altitude falling movements.

The fourth child begins by expressing his miss for his father.

He said that the farther he was from the capital, the more he knew that Khan Ama took good care of his children. He was indeed a role model for fathers in the world, and he really hoped that everyone would follow suit.

Unfortunately, there are always uneducated people in the world.

For example, Chen Dazhuang sold his four daughters together without any kindness to his father, and the man he was looking for was an illegal trafficker who abducted and trafficked people.

This has become a case of local concern.

After Zheng Zhifu's trial, it was judged that Chen Dazhuang had never raised his daughter, and even violated the laws of the Qing Dynasty on the need to be reasonable when selling children.

Although Chen Dazhuang tried his best to deny collusion with Wang Mazi, after a group of human traffickers were arrested, it was pointed out that Chen Dazhuang had long been aware of the dental firm's illegal business.

In other words, Chen Dazhuang took the initiative to be Wang Mazi's accomplice. Even though he sold his own daughter, he also participated in the illegal sale.

In this case, of course, there must be a sentence.

Human trafficking gangs such as Wang Mazi must be sentenced to death.

Chen Dazhuang, who was punished with a staff of eighty, was imprisoned for three years.

Because Chen Dazhuang's parents not only knew about it, but also supported their son's actions, and they were also accomplices.Fifty rods and one year in prison.

As for the four sisters of the Chen family, since the transaction was illegal, the deal they were sold to was naturally void.

When they returned to Chen's house, they received the unfortunate news that shortly after Chen Dazhuang and his parents were tortured, their wounds were infected and died of high fever.

The four sisters have been dependent on each other ever since.

Is this news "unfortunate"?

In the letter, the fourth child made no more subjective statements.

He only said that because the Chen family sisters provided key clues and contributed to the arrest of the murderers He Yijian, Yang Chunzi and others, they were given a reward.

After the end of the filial piety period, if the four sisters of the Chen family were able to set up their own businesses if they wanted to, they might as well leave sadly and go to the Dongting Lake pearl farm to find a job.

When Kangxi read this, he didn't think that the fourth brother played tricks on the punishment of Chen Dazhuang and the other three.

The rod is fifty or one hundred. As long as the water is not released and the beating is serious, it is not uncommon to die from high fever after the skin is ripped apart.

Next, the letter came with additional comments on the law on trafficking, such as emphasizing that parents cannot sell their children before they are ten years old.

As expected of the fourth child, he had been to the Ministry of Punishment and wrote a lot in eloquence.The addition of each decree was written in detail, which made Kangxi dizzy.

However, Kangxi suddenly woke up, and a line of words came into view.

"With the full cooperation of Governor Shi, the murderer of the dismemberment case who sneaked into the Wulinyuan Mountain was successfully captured, and all the treasures he stole and dug from Li Zicheng were intercepted."

Wait a minute, where did the Li Zicheng treasure come from?

Didn’t you just talk about the case of abduction and trafficking, and the need to add a law that can’t sell children.

OK!

After Kangxi read the following text at a glance, he knew that the fourth child had adopted a flashback method.

Let me first say that Hubei and Hunan have cracked down on the trafficking gangs with both hands, taking down all the people led by Wang Mazi.

Then I talked about why I paid attention to this matter, because the Chen sisters who were sold were the daughters of Zhang Qiaoya, the victim of the dismemberment case.

Then Zhang Qiaoya led to He Yijian, Yang Chunzi and their two coolie helpers who murdered and divided their bodies.

Finally, it is mentioned that the investigation of Huangluzhuang being framed is the beginning of the crackdown on crimes in Huguang.

This is a campaign of "combating trafficking and illegal human trafficking" that is destined to be recorded in the annals of history.

It all started when the four of them asked for money to dig Li Zicheng's treasure, so they framed and murdered Li Zicheng.

At the end of the letter, the fourth child said that he was in a foreign country, and he didn't know what to send to Han Ama to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival.

The customs of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival are collected and written into several interesting collections of stories for reading and entertainment.

In addition to written gifts, be practical as well.Agreeing with the suggestion of the ninth younger brother Yinzhen, it is to transport all of Li Zicheng's treasures back to the capital and dedicate them to Khan Ama.

Kangxi put down a thick stack of letters, stood up, took a deep breath, and walked around the Qianqing Palace to calm down.

At this moment, his usually sober mind was a little dizzy.

Fourth child, fourth child, what should I say about this child?Now, I don't worry that this person will let go if he leaves the capital, because he can be shocked to hear the big commotion made by the fourth child even thousands of mountains away.

But another fear turned out to be true.

The fourth child really demolished the house!Not only Li Zicheng's treasure house was dismantled, but also the illegal gang of human trafficking was dismantled.

Is this bad?

Kangxi touched his heart, in fact, he should support it.

It should also be fortunate that the fourth child was released in time to tear apart what should be dismantled, but he was afraid that the fourth child would be retaliated by the thieves when he went out.

The letter mentioned that Wang Mazi dared to engage in illegal human trafficking because he relied on someone above him.

Kangxi stared at this sentence, his eyes gradually turned cold.

He also really wanted to know how Wang Mazi obtained the imperial artifacts, and who was on top of them?