When Magistrate Tang was investigating the case, he told the county lieutenants and government officials that the cause of the matter was strictly prohibited from spreading to outsiders.

Anyway, they have the portraits in their hands, so it is much easier to investigate. They can just find any excuse, such as stealing in a certain place, no matter whether they lost money or cattle, it was the two people in the portrait who did it anyway.

It will be easier to capture them first and then find the remaining ones.

Anyway, it can't be official robbery.

Robbery on official roads is considered a robber.

Yizhou has just settled down, but now there is a group of bandits robbing passing merchants on the official road outside Yizhou City. Not only will it cause panic, but is he a county magistrate?

He just grabbed a lot of land from the Ying family and others, and there were so many people who wanted to trample him or drive him out of Yizhou City.

But he didn't expect that the village under his jurisdiction was so ignorant that the people he sent out didn't find those two people.

County Magistrate Tang carefully questioned Zhou Lang and determined that this was done by someone who was very familiar with officialdom.

1: Traveling merchants who often take this official road;

Two: the refugees who often wander on this official road;

Three: The nearby villagers.

Even if a traveling merchant is poor, he will not value Zhou Lang's cart of wheat. What's more, poor traveling merchants usually work in groups of two or three people, and can make up a dozen people, let alone Zhou Lang's.

Small businesses are taken seriously.

And if it was done by refugees, they would not just rob the wheat seeds, but they would also rob the horses and carts.

Go down the official road and go directly into the path, or if you are more cruel, beat Zhou Lang to death and throw it into the woods. Unlucky, the body was found in two or three days, and they don't know where they went.

went.

He would sell the food and horses in the cart at another place, and after dividing the money, he would mix with the refugees and follow them wherever they went.

Even if Magistrate Tang could finally find out where the carriages and horses were, he could even draw portraits of most of the people and submit them to the Ministry of Justice, and then issue a wanted notice, but he still wanted to survive in the vast sea of ​​people, especially with so many refugees who had lost their books.

Finding a dozen people is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Only people with a family would be so scrupulous about grabbing cars and horses that are too conspicuous.

Therefore, Magistrate Tang County can be sure that the person who committed the crime was a nearby villager.

But when the government officials who took the portrait went to the village, they found nothing.

It was impossible for those two people to jump out of the cracks in the rocks. Magistrate Tang knew that he had encountered the most difficult and annoying situation he had ever encountered in handling the case.

His father used to work in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He said that the cases he hated to handle the most were cases committed by local people, a family, a clan, a village, or even a township against outsiders.

It is obviously a matter that is well known to everyone, and they themselves will not shy away from discussing it in private. However, when officials go to investigate, everyone from the head of the village to the child will remain silent and have no idea what is going on.

It's just that I'm afraid of offending people.

Before he came, his father had warned him, first, to be neither humble nor arrogant when dealing with powerful people, and to think about the people under his rule. If he was handling a case, no matter who the victim was, he must give them the justice they deserve;

Second, for those villagers, village chiefs, village chiefs, etc. who conceal the facts of the case, they must be moderately soft and hard. It is best if they can understand the other party in a gentle and gentle manner.

The sentence cannot and must not be excessive.

At that time, the Tang County Magistrate did not take it seriously and did not think that someone would obstruct the official from handling the case for something completely unrelated to him.

but now……

Still so angry.

Therefore, Magistrate Tang felt that since everyone made him unhappy, he should make everyone unhappy.

Magistrate Tang calmly told the master to go back and rest, then turned around and called the names of three government servants and asked his servants to quietly call them overnight.

"Sir!" The officials bowed and saluted.

Magistrate Tang nodded and asked, "I remember that you are all from the Yanjiawan and Dahuaping areas?"

"Yes, you have a very good memory, sir." The officials complimented him.

Magistrate Tang smiled slightly and asked, "Do you have any relatives in the Dagong Ridge area?"

The three yamen officials looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "Sir, Yanjiawan and Dahuaping are far away from Dakongling. We are not close to each other there."

Magistrate Tang nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "That's just right, I have something to entrust to you."

Magistrate Tang asked them to put on civilian clothes and squat on the mountains near Dagong Ridge to wait for arrest. Then he handed them two portraits drawn by the artist.

The government officials quickly took it, looking at each other with some worry on their faces.

They all knew that Magistrate Tang County was handling an important case recently.

After all, their county government is just that big and has so many people.

This case is not easy to handle. In the past, when I went to the countryside to ask the village chief, even if he didn't know anything, he would actively help and ask the villagers. As a result, the people who went to the countryside this time were not soft or hard and hit a snag.

The brother who recently took on this case was very angry. It is said that even the county captain broke a set of cups and cups. He was obviously very angry.

How can we rely on these three newcomers who have only been in the county government for less than two years to handle a case that so many people cannot handle?

Yes, these three government officials are all very young. Not only are they young, they have been in the county government for a relatively young time.

They were recruited after the Tang County magistrate came and recruited government officials.

After all, after the flood, the former government officials died, ran away, and many disappeared.

The county government is very short of people.

Although Magistrate Tang did not engage in factions, the three of them still considered themselves to be members of Magistrate Tang, so although they found it difficult, they nodded in agreement after hesitation.

Magistrate Tang smiled slightly when he saw it, his face softened a lot, and he encouraged them and analyzed: "Don't be afraid, you rarely appear in the Dagongling area, you are new faces."

County Magistrate Tang said: "I don't want you to enter those two or three villages. I have asked people to inquire. Villagers in several villages in the Dagong Ridge area like to collect firewood in the Nanling and Dongling areas. Now the weather is getting worse."

When it's cold, every household needs a lot of firewood, and they are no exception."

"I will ask Sun Da and others to withdraw from Dagong Ridge later and check other places. As soon as they relax their vigilance, they will naturally appear. When the time comes, as long as you see one of them in the portrait, you can directly rush to get him."

Magistrate Tang said: "I don't want you to catch both of you, I just want to catch one of you."

One of the government officials couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what if they show up in groups? I'm afraid we will be beaten to death by them before we can catch them."

Judging from this case, these villagers were obviously very united. If they really arrested someone on the spot, and they were wearing civilian clothes, they would definitely be beaten to death as thieves.

They couldn't speak for themselves at that time.

Magistrate Tang glanced at them and said, "You won't wait until someone is alone before arresting them?"

He said: "I don't stick to time. You can give me three days, and I can give you five days. Anyway, you have to squat the person for me, gag him and capture him. As long as you can capture him,
Chapter completed!