After waiting for a whole day, Bao Ke, the West Road of Jingxi, arrived. All the officials welcomed him into the inn and came to pay homage to Du Zhongxiao.

After the ceremony, the two of them took a seat separately. Bao Ke said, "There is no railway in Dengzhou, so it is very troublesome to take a bus in Xinye. After I got the news, I set off immediately and asked Zhongcheng to wait for two days. Don't blame me."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's okay. In one or two days, I'll check the news here, which is also a matter of duty."

Bao Ke said: "Thank you Zhongcheng for understanding. The Bai family's case was sued by him at that time, so I came to investigate and found no inappropriate. I heard that Zhongcheng sent someone to Ye County and found a key witness?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "He is the supervisor of the book shop, the person who replaced the IOU. The Censorate recommended Cheng Laiguang to be responsible for the case. He knows very well. He will contact him later and ask in detail. During the interrogation, Cheng Laiguang also needs to bring the official to the side."

Bao Ke bowed his hand to praise him.

In addition to being responsible for the criminal prison, the Criminal Department also has a supervisory function. Although it is not as clear as the Transportation Office, it has many other positions. In name, the Censorate is also his superior, and Bao Ke is very respectful.

After drinking tea for a while, after talking some gossip, Du Zhongxiao said: "There are many cases in Ye County, and the county government cannot investigate it. I don't know how to inspect every year? If there are too many suspected cases, the Criminal Department should find a way."

Bao Ke said: "When he returned to the Central Chief, the Criminal Department only investigated the cases and did not accept civil complaints. Every year, he came to Ye County to investigate. Although they handled many cases a little slower, there was no big mistake in the case file. Just like the case of the Bai family, the evidence was clear and there was no problem at that time."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "The yamen cannot control it. The officials and local tyrants colluded with local tyrants. How can they find out the case files? The local area has been like this. After a long time, how can they know the court? The Seizure came this time, and I happened to be here, so I collected more cases to see how many major cases there are! Ye County has accumulated a population in recent years and has collected too much money and grain, but the public security is really not good."

Bao Ke was a little embarrassed: "Zhongcheng, Jingxi Road is vast and there are too many things to do. After staying in Ye County for a long time, I am afraid that I will delay other places."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Even a county cannot manage it well, so how can you talk about the whole way! You can transfer more people from the Examination Department, and then draw some officials from the surrounding prefectures and counties. It takes 10 or 20 days to carefully check the place. The Censorate is outside and allows the people to sue themselves. If there is a case inside, it will be handed over to you."

Seeing that Du Zhongxiao's expression was not good, Bao Ke hurriedly claimed that he was. As the chief censor, Du Zhongxiao gave a memorial to sue himself for being incompetent, which was not a trivial matter. If he was not good, he was dismissed from his post and was very ordinary.

There were not many people in the Criminal Department itself, so Bao Ke came here to bring a few officials. Du Zhongxiao wanted to investigate the case, so he had to transfer from other prefectures and counties. He immediately asked Du Zhongxiao and issued his own order to transfer several magistrates from Ruzhou, Xuzhou and Tangzhou, which were adjacent to the railway.

The Censorate was reported and would not reveal the news. After Du Zhongxiao arrived, he received nearly a hundred complaints from the people in one or two days. Many of them were gossip, many of which were the opinions of local scholars on Ye County, but the most were cases. Cheng Laiguang led the officials to classify these complaints, and they needed to be re-examined or were not in charge of cases. Don't make a book and prepare to give them to the Criminal Department.

After everything was arranged, Du Zhongxiao calmed down and said, "Ti Xing is here to stay, I will welcome you tonight. I will stay in Ye County for more days in the next day and rectify the case here. I will stay here for two days and receive many complaints. I am afraid this place is not simple."

Bao Ke said: "I have heard that Ye County has a large population and most of them are customers, so I am afraid of hiding evil spirits. However, there are not many officials in Ye County and they are unable to investigate the local area strictly, so many cases are not reported at all."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "It is not a solution to continue like this. It is not good for the court and the people."

Bao Ke nodded silently and did not speak. No official on Jingxi Road did not know the complexity of Ye County, but everyone just didn't say it. In a few years, the sudden increase in so many people and no one organized them, so it was difficult to manage. In addition to industrial development, there were many senior officials, and there was a great influence in the local area. How could public security be good? Bao Ke was appointed as the punishment of Jingxi Road, and he was deliberately not to cause trouble here. The Bai family case was not intervened by the Censorate. In fact, it was just like that, and what kind of storm could it cause?

There was nothing to say all night. The next morning, Du Zhongxiao and Bao Ke brought people to the county government office to formally retrieve the Bai family case.

A convict and witness were taken to the hall. Li Qi looked at Bai Xian and said, "The descendants of the Bai family remember that there is only one daughter left. Isn't it you? How do you dress up as a man?"

Bai Xianluo was generous and bowed: "When I go back to the magistrate, the little woman dresses up as a man, and it is convenient to go on the road."

Li Qi nodded, not entangled on this, and bowed to Bao Ke: "All the criminals have been brought here. At that time, the supervisor of Zhang Family Bookstore secretly exchanged the loan notes, and the old loan notes were on the desk, and all of them have been investigated."

Bao Ke nodded, looked at the evidence on the desk, and did not speak for a moment.

Du Zhongxiao sat on the side to supervise the trial. He was an official from the Censorate. This was not an imperial prison, so it was difficult to intervene directly. The trial was still the trial by the Censorate Department, and the officials from the Censorate were supervising. Cheng Laiguang brought two officials and sat on the side to record.

Since the Censorate took the paper, it has been a long time since she was taken away. Bai Xian is not as haggard as before. She was originally a daughter, and she was seventeen years old and was not as dignified as a stunning beauty. She sued her daughter for half a year and went to the Censorate. Du Zhongxiao also admired her persistence.

After reading the paper, Bao Ke looked up and said to the outsider Jian in the hall: "You have secretly exchanged the loan notes in order to seize the land of the Bai family and forced someone to die. This is a very evil crime! What is the matter? Summon carefully and suffer less! If not, you will be punished!"

Jian Guanwai shouted for justice: "My husband, I am a first-class good citizen, how can I do that kind of thing? Bai Zhengran came to borrow money from my family. At that time, I thought of both fellow villagers, so I lent him. How could I think of what happened later? Everything has nothing to do with me!"

Bao Ke sneered: "The evidence and confession are here. Yili confession has been replaced with evidence, but you still dare to deny it!"

After saying that, he ignored Jian Ai and said to Zhang Ai on the side: "The book shop belongs to your family, why did you secretly exchange the loan notes? Summon it from the truth!"

Mr. Zhang said: "Reporting to my grandfather, half a year ago, Mr. Jian and Bai Zhengran went to the bookstore and agreed to write a loan note. A month later, Mr. Jian came to me and said that he would give me thirty taels of silver and exchange it for the loan note. The young man was greedy for his money and then exchanged it for a while."

Yi Li has confessed, and it is meaningless for Mr. Zhang to deny it again. He said as soon as he asked. He was just an accomplice in this case. No matter what, he should not be sentenced to death. Mr. Jian is different. He is the main culprit in this case, so of course he refuses to admit it.

Bao Ke said: "The secret exchange of loan notes is made of the deed paper issued by the county government. Where did the deed paper come from?"

Mr. Zhang said: "It was sent by Mr. Jian. He said that he had asked the Jian Ai Office of the county yamen to take it out of the yamen. It would definitely not be wrong."

Bao Ke nodded and asked Li Qi on the side: "Has Jian Guardian ever been detained? Bring it to the court!"

Li Qi said: "When I returned to the imperial examination, Jian Zhongming, the county ward corps, took out the county government to do this illegal thing, and had already been detained."

Not long after, Jian Zhongming was brought up and pressed into the hall.

Bao Ke was there and asked several criminals to explain the incident in detail. Du Zhongxiao watched coldly. The people from the Zhang family's book shop, including Zhang Yuanwai and Yi Li, cooperated and said that they did not hide it. The Jian family was not that easy to talk to. No matter what, as long as there was no certain witness, they would not know it. Obviously they had discussed it and just refused to confess. There was no way to admit some minor crimes and refuse to admit the murder. As long as the murder was not involved, the worst thing was to sentence it for a few years, and nothing happened.

After repeated interrogation, Jian Guanwai had to admit that he had given money to Zhang Guanwai and asked him to steal the IOU. However, he denied everything else. He only said that he used the new IOU to urge Bai Zhengran to pay back the money and there was no murder.

Unable to find out the result, Bao Ke ordered several criminals to be imprisoned and retried a day. Several officials sat together and discussed the results of the case just now.

Bao Ke said: "These people Jian Guanwai seem extremely difficult. As long as there is no one to prove the evidence, they will not plead guilty. Even the Bai family cannot explain the death of Bai Zhengran. The person who went for the autopsy at that time clearly wrote that he was hanging himself, which is difficult to deal with now."

Li Qi said: "There are few people in this county and many things. The one who took people to the autopsy at that time was Jian Zhongming who was in custody. Now I think there must be something wrong with it. It's just that time has passed and the body has been buried long ago, so I'm afraid it's difficult to find any evidence."

Bao Ke sighed: "No matter what, I have to lift the body out and re-examine it. No matter whether I can find evidence, things must be done, otherwise how can I explain to the Bai family?"

Several people discussed there and felt at a loss.

Du Zhongxiao did not participate. He was not the one who tried the case, but was just a supervisor. He didn't care about how several officials handled the case, as long as the case was clear and the trial was clear. Such cases were not good at, but of course they had to be tried by professional officials.

Bao Ke and Li Qi discussed there for a while, but there was no result, so they had to make an appointment to ask for it tomorrow and go to the coffin for an autopsy.

Du Zhongxiao said: "Jan Jian has already been arrested. What's the matter with the factory he opened on the ground that he snatched from the Bai family?"

Li Qi was stunned for a moment and said, "Return to the Central Chief, the lower official only arrested the criminal on the same day, and did not ask about the rest."

Du Zhongxiao said: "The factory has been opened, how can we not ask? The Jian family committed a crime. What should we do with this factory? We should be careful."

When Jian Man Wai commits a crime, there are always people in his family who do not commit a crime. In principle, his family's wealth should not be affected. But the factory involved in the case, and how to deal with it involves many things.
Chapter completed!