537 Chang Chunfeng reports to the police
It was already dusk when Chang Chunfeng and his men entered the city. He asked Dazhuang to take Wan Changsheng and the others to the inn first, as more people would not be helpful. He then took the young man, Erqiang, Tong Lin, Xu Song and a few of his own men and went straight to the government office.
When they arrived at the government office, there were only a few people on duty. The prefect and other officials had already been ordered to return home.
Chang Chunfeng took out his official ID and said, "I am Chang Chunfeng from the Ministry of Personnel in the capital. I have something to ask you, sir. There is no time to waste."
Several yamen runners checked Guan Die and found that he was indeed a fifth-rank official in the capital. They immediately returned Guan Die with both hands and said, "Sir, please sit here for a while. I will go and invite the prefect to come over immediately."
Duan Chang, the prefect of Jinzhou City, had just finished washing up and preparing for dinner. When he heard the yamen runners coming to look for him, he immediately got up and went to the front yard. Unless there was something special, they would not come to his house to look for him.
"What is it?"
"Sir, an official from the capital has come to the yamen. I checked his official ID and found that he is indeed a fifth-rank doctor in the Ministry of Personnel. His name is Chang Chunfeng. He said he has something important to discuss with you and we cannot delay for a moment."
"Chang Chunfeng?" He knew this person.
In just over ten years, he climbed from a seventh-rank county magistrate to today's fifth-rank position, and is still in the Ministry of Personnel. It has to be said that this man is capable and quite lucky.
Of course, I am not bad either. I am only in my early forties, but I am already the prefect of Jinzhou.
But as a prefect, besides striving to do his best in everything, his ability as a prefect is also inseparable from the financial and manpower support of his family. Chang Chunfeng is just a student from a poor family, and he is much luckier than himself, with the help of not only his father-in-law but also his son.
Duan Chang hurriedly put on his clothes and said, "Go find the other adults and ask them to go to the government office immediately."
After he finished speaking, he mounted his horse with his guards.
Chang Chunfeng was so upset that he felt like he had lost his mind. How could he allow his son to stay and investigate the case? And he only brought three people with him?
"Sir Chang, I am the prefect Duan Chang. We have met before in the capital." Duan Chang strode over with a smile on his face. "I would also like to congratulate Sir Chang. Your son has won the first place in the imperial examination, which is rare in decades."
Chang Chunfeng had no time to say these things: "Master Duan, I am indeed returning to my hometown with my son to worship our ancestors, but I encountered something on the way. Is it convenient to talk here?"
Duan Chang immediately asked all the guards to go out and guard the door.
"Master Chang, can you tell me now, what happened?"
Chang Chunfeng recounted the incident in detail: "The child is outside, I am guarding him. My son Ping An is taking a few people to investigate the village. Lord Duan, these people may still be Qiang people. They seem to be investigating someone. In addition, we are buying a large number of young men and women with good conditions from our Great Zhou to go to their tribe. This is a big deal."
Duan Chang's every pore was screaming. This Chang Chunfeng was indeed a blessed man. He was discovered by his son when he was passing by. If this matter was resolved well, it would undoubtedly be of great benefit to him. If they didn't find it, and something happened in his jurisdiction in the future, he would be afraid that he would not end up well and might even lose his job.
"Sir Chang, my people have already gone to find other officials. We still need to discuss this matter. We need to look at the blueprint to find out which farms are there and who owns them. Then let Governor Lu bring the government soldiers."
Chang Chunfeng nodded.
This matter cannot be taken lightly.
"Master Duan, do you think this is feasible? If my son and his men find out something, they might send someone to report it overnight. Can you send two people to guard the city gate so that we don't have to take a detour?"
"Master Chang, what you said makes sense. I will send people to guard the place. Before they arrive, can I have someone arrange some food? To be honest, I haven't eaten yet, and my stomach is making a scene."
Chang Chunfeng nodded: "Please, Lord Duan, prepare some dinner for those people outside."
Poor Ping'an, he is still taking risks and has no idea what food and drink will enter his mouth. I just hope he is safe.
Ping An found out everything he could about the situation from the simple-minded man, and then gave him a pill to make him fall asleep.
"Master, these two people won't wake up at night. Do you want me to go find Uncle Ming and the others?"
"Let's go together. We have set up a formation here so passers-by can't see us. Besides, it's getting dark soon."
"What about the children?"
"Well, let's go pick up the kids first. If Uncle Ming and the others haven't come back yet, we'll go find them. It'd be best if we could rush to the city overnight, otherwise my dad and the others would be so anxious."
According to what the simple-minded man said, the farm is not big, but it is at least ten acres in size. It is not easy to set up such a large formation. It is not that he cannot set up small traps and then connect them into a large formation, but it is inconvenient. They might be discovered. No matter how capable the four of them are, they cannot fight against dozens of people. It is easy to escape, but they will alert the enemy.
Lin Feng drove his carriage out and safely sealed the gate of the formation. Just in case, even though he had great confidence in his drug, he still found some rattan sticks and tied up the two men.
As the sky grew darker, they finally found three men and four women in the dry ditch that the man had mentioned. All of them were unconscious, and most of them looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old. It was heartbreaking to see them.
The two men carried several people into the car.
"Let's go quickly. We don't know what happened to Uncle Ming and the others." Ping An sat directly in the driver's seat. When Lin Feng sat next to him, he whipped the carriage lightly and it started moving.
Half an hour later, Lin Feng raised the Qisifeng Lantern in his hand and said, "Master, we are in the forest."
He looked at the position where the Tibetans were, and sure enough, he could not see anything. The young master was truly a very capable person.
"Lin Feng."
"Master, this is Xiao Wu's voice."
The two jumped out of the car, and Wanli and Xiaowu walked out of the woods.
Wanli said, "We took a lot of detours in the afternoon and finally found the manor at dusk. We sneaked in and checked. We estimated that there were 20 to 30 people, and there were more than a hundred children. It was not completely dark at that time, so it was not convenient to take action. Otherwise, we could have used more drugs and it might have worked."
"Uncle Ming, Lin Feng and I met the two people that Da Lin mentioned this afternoon. We fed them drugs and trapped them in the formation. Lin Feng was also cut by a dagger and was poisoned, but he recovered. We just went to rescue the children. They fed them drugs and hid them in the dry ditch.
Uncle Ming, there are two options now. One is that the four of us take them and hurry to the city. If we can't enter the city, we will guard the city gate. My father will definitely report to the authorities, but it's not convenient at night. I guess they will set out before dawn.
Another way is for Xiao Wu and I to sneak into the village and find a way to drug these people. When the soldiers arrive tomorrow, we can just take them away. There is no chance that someone will run away. Which one do you think you should choose?"
"Master Ping An, let's go with the first option. Safety is the most important thing. Xiao Wu and I can bring people here tomorrow and we can still catch them all in one fell swoop. If they run away, it means we have done our best."
"Okay, Uncle Ming, I'll listen to you. I'll drive one car with you, Xiao Wu and Lin Feng will drive another. The nine people in the car are all dizzy. The sooner we leave, the better. I'll go and break the formation."
Ping'an walked over and quickly drove the carriage over in a few seconds.
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