Apparently, he was used to being arrogant in the local area, and thought that since his family had a middle or high-level prefectural official, he could do whatever he wanted in a county. However, he did not know that the situation in the imperial court had already changed.
The surrounding guards quickly took control of all the members of the Wang family.
County Magistrate Shi's face turned pale and he was shaking with anger. He never expected that the Imperial City Bureau would be so arrogant now and even dared to arrest people at will when they arrived at the local area.
So why does the other party dare to do this?
Because the other side has troops.
After all, County Magistrate Shi only had a few dozen yamen runners and constables under his command, which was completely not on the same level as the other side's regular army of hundreds of people.
So he didn't act rashly, but forced a smile and said, "Okay, you've arrested the man, so the interrogation should be handed over to this county."
"What are you thinking about?"
Zhao Jun glanced at him and said, "Didn't you understand just now? The Imperial City Bureau has the power to arrest and interrogate. If they find out about you, you won't be able to escape."
The county magistrate's face suddenly turned dark.
Zhao Jun waved his hand and said, "Bring all the people involved back to the ship."
At that moment, the guards captured more than a hundred people, including servants of the Wang family and people from the Zhou family. They tied them all up with ropes and took them away. They kept wailing and begging for mercy along the way, but the soldiers remained unmoved.
These people were two battalions of soldiers sent by Zhao Zhen to protect him. Zhao Jun had already met up with them in Yingtian Prefecture.
Since Bozhou is just south of Yingtian Prefecture, not far away, even though Zhao Jun took the water route and they took the land route, they were still able to follow behind him. The distance between them was less than twenty miles, so they were able to catch up quickly.
After capturing the man, Zhao Jun ordered Jiang Dalang to interrogate him, and then personally led a team to rush to the county seat of Ling County overnight to raid the home of the landlord Wang.
Firstly, they need to find evidence of guilt, and secondly, they cannot abandon the tradition of the Imperial City Bureau of confiscating property.
From now on, these are all ancestral skills and must be carried forward.
At the same time, County Magistrate Shi was no longer in the mood to care about the canal blockage. Zhao Jun arrested the landlord Wang, and the matter was too serious for him to handle.
However, he did not dare to report to the Huainan Road Transport Commissioner and the Ministry of Justice, so he could only immediately order his subordinates to prepare the carriage and rush to Qiao County overnight.
Ling County is the area around Lingcheng Town in Yongcheng City, Anhui Province in later generations, which is less than 40 kilometers away from Qiao County.
The carriage trotted all the way, and County Magistrate Shi arrived at Qiao County within two hours. Because the Northern Song Dynasty relaxed the curfew and allowed the emergence of night markets, the gates of inland counties and cities were not closed at night, but public security was tightened.
For example, Zeng Bu recorded: "When Lü Jiawen learned about Jingnan, he left the city gates open at night, went to his home for a banquet, sat with his maid, and composed poems and lyrics."
From this example, we can see that people at that time were able to enter and exit freely at night without any hindrance, and even the government did not strictly manage this phenomenon.
So County Magistrate Shi's carriage entered the city smoothly.
It is not even twelve o'clock in the evening. Qiao County is the capital of Bozhou and is also known as the capital of medicinal materials. The night market is naturally prosperous. Although it cannot compare with Kaifeng Prefecture, it has its own unique flavor.
However, County Magistrate Shi did not care about these things, and the carriage drove all the way to the Bozhou prefectural government office.
What is Bozhou magistrate Guo Chengyou doing now?
At the banquet.
This person always liked luxury. Historical records show that "wherever Chengyou went, he often carried out troublesome things, and the people suffered from it."
The reason why he dared to do this was that he was the grandson of Guo Congyi, a general in the early Song Dynasty, and his wife was the daughter of Shu Wang Zhao Yuanqiao. He was also an official in the Eastern Palace when Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was the crown prince, and was one of Zhao Zhen's early Eastern Palace team.
Therefore, although this person had stolen gold from the palace in history and committed crimes in the local area, and the censors impeached him for not sorting out the grain, and for retaining the grain without authorization, approving the proclamation, not sending soldiers back to garrison, violating the law to punish minor crimes, and killing civilians, and borrowing the Hanlin equipment, and carrying flags and guns when going out, and using the imperial guards to fight against the Zhou and Wei, and being arrogant and presumptuous, and lacking the etiquette of a subject, he still remained standing.
In the final analysis, it was the protection and sheltering of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
Guo Chengyou was sitting in the lobby at the back of the government office. Attendees at the banquet were several of his good friends, all of whom were big businessmen in Bozhou. They traded profits with each other and often held such banquets to entertain each other all night long.
At this moment, a servant came in secretly and whispered in his ear that the magistrate of Ling County wanted to see him for an urgent matter.
"Emergency?"
Guo Chengyou frowned, thought for a moment, and then asked his friends to continue drinking and he went to the back room under the pretext of going to the restroom.
County Magistrate Shi came in through the back door. When Guo Chengyou entered the room, he saw the anxious Magistrate and couldn't help but wonder, "Shi Zhiqi, what are you doing in Qiao County in the middle of the night?"
Generally speaking, unless they are on a business trip to the state capital, local officials cannot leave the county without orders from their superiors.
However, this regulation is not strict to begin with, so you can just find any excuse to get around it.
County Magistrate Shi said in a deep voice, "Sir, something has happened."
Taishou was an elegant title for the prefect in the Song Dynasty. Guo Chengyou frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Wang Qian's son died, and he had always wanted to find someone to match his daughter's bones. So he set his sights on a widow from Dingliu Village. He claimed that she had committed adultery and was not a virtuous woman. He planned to drown her in a pig cage and then use her body for a ghost marriage."
Magistrate Shi said, "Just when they were about to drown him, a yamen official who had been transferred to Yingzhou happened to pass by and ordered the imperial guards to rescue him and capture the Wang family."
"Yanei?"
Guo Chengyou was surprised and asked, "Whose family's son?"
"Liu Yanrang's family, his name is Liu Bin."
"This person? I know him, but he's a junior, and I'm not familiar with him."
"The governor still needs to think of a solution. Now that he has taken over the Wang family, I heard that he has sent people to Ling County to confiscate the Wang family's property."
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