Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 633 To cut Fu Jing's party ([-])

When more than 60 Northern Navy cavalry arrived at the ruined temple, it was just after Sichu, that is, a little after nine o'clock in the morning.The deputy company commander who led the team found a mountain to hide the brigade first, and then sent a few soldiers to the ruined temple for reconnaissance.

In less than half an hour, a soldier ran back to report that those beggars were still there.The deputy company commander left a few people to watch the horses, and then set off with the others.When he arrived at the entrance of the ruined temple, he divided his men into two groups, and asked one platoon to guard the exits of the backyard, while he led the other platoon directly to the entrance of the backyard.After a while, when he heard from the walkie-talkie that everyone was in place, he raised his hand and fired a shot.

"boom!"

The gunshots echoed in the small courtyard, the snow on the branches was shaken and the beggars in the house were all startled, thinking that it was Chinese New Year, who ran into this dilapidated temple to set off firecrackers ?

"Listen everyone inside! You are surrounded! I will shoot dozens of times, and if I don't come out, I will shoot! Everyone walks out with their heads in their hands! Anyone who dares to resist will be shot!"

A few beggars rushed to the window base and looked out through the gaps in the straw curtains. Who would have thought that seeing this, they all turned pale with fright, trembling, and one guy even peed out of fear. A fishy smell began to waft in the room.

The face of the beggar head on the kang changed suddenly, and he also went to the window to look out. He saw at least 20 people in white cloaks standing or squatting in the yard, all of them holding "guns". There is actually a sharp "dagger" underneath.

The beggar's head was buzzing once, his ears were ringing, and he was completely unconscious.This is not an official servant, but a Beihai soldier who made the Qing court frightened!
It is said that the sudden departure of the troupe and the villagers of Chuiliu Village certainly aroused his vigilance, but after careful consideration, he did not take it too seriously.The reason why they think so is mainly because of the "New Year's Seal" system that has always been adopted by the clean government.

The seal system of the Qing Dynasty was inherited from the Ming Dynasty. The Qin Tianjian Committee determined the seal date of the next year in the previous year, and explained it in the "Shi Xian Shu" issued by the world.Almost from the early days of Kangxi, the time of sealing was determined on the 21th, [-]th, and [-]st of the twelfth lunar month, and the opening time for printing and office work would have to wait until the [-]th of the first lunar month of the next year.

Although during the sealing period, military affairs, disasters and homicide cases must be dealt with, and the magistrates are not allowed to delay, but for homicide cases, someone must first report to the official to provide evidence; We'll have to wait until after printing.

The beggar head thought that the previous case was done flawlessly, and he also thought that today is the New Year's Eve, even if the new government investigates the case, it will be the New Year if there is anything, and the official will not go out of the city for dozens of miles to run to this ruined temple Come on.After discussing with his subordinates, he decided to wait for the snow to stop before running away with the money he got from the robbery.

He didn't know the problem, because the land of the four counties had just been laid down for a few months, and the more Chinese New Year came, the more the military control committees in various places dared not take it lightly; moreover, Beihai Town's system was completely different from that of Dai Qing, and there had never been a rule of seals for Chinese New Year!

"Boss, what should we do?"

The beggar head rolled his eyes quickly, and whispered to his subordinates, "Howl!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of beggars in the house began to yell: "Officer, you are wronged! We are just a group of beggars, taking advantage of this ruined temple to hide from the wind and snow for a few days."

"My lord, please do me a favor! We have never done anything illegal!"

Taking advantage of this time, the beggar head quickly opened a corner of the kang, took a few bundles from his subordinates, stuffed them in all at once, then covered it with kang bricks, sprinkled some soil on it, and then covered it with a broken bag. After the mat was covered, he picked up a pile of hay to cover it, and finally pressed his own tattered bedding.Because the flue was blocked, the kang hadn't lighted a fire all the time, so it was suitable for hiding things.

"Bang!" The Bei Haijun outside didn't talk nonsense at all, and fired another shot into the sky, and then began to count: "Ten, nine, eight"

At this moment, the beggars in the room were all frightened and wilted, and those who begged for mercy did not dare to make a sound.The beggar's head is gone, there are dozens of "guns" outside, and there is no window on the west side of the west wing where they are, and it is useless to jump out of the window to escape.He rolled his eyes quickly, and whispered urgently to everyone in the room: "Be strict with your mouth! They have no evidence and dare not do anything to us. As long as we can endure it, we will be able to come out in a few days!"

All the beggars nodded their heads hastily.

Seeing this, the beggar head shouted in a hoarse voice: "Officer! Let's come out! Come out!"

Bei Haijun outside waited for a while, and saw that the straw curtain finally moved. The first thing that stretched out was a hand, followed by a guy in ragged clothes, pulling a pair of torn cotton shoes.

At this time, the soldier closest to the door took two steps to the right, pointed to the open space behind him and shouted, "Hold your head in your hands! Squat there!"

As soon as the beggar walked over tremblingly and squatted down, two Beihai sailors rushed over, carried one arm back from his ribs, and wrapped the other arm around the back of his neck, and then covered him with black plastic The handcuffs were put on both wrists, and there was a "Su Qin back sword pose".The beggar cried out in pain, and fell to the ground.Afterwards, other beggars followed suit, all in the same posture as the first one, and were handcuffed.

All the beggars were horrified at the moment, you must know that this method of binding people is usually used by the old police in the yamen, and it is specially used to lock up those big thieves and repeat offenders.After ordinary prisoners are tied up like this, as long as the rope is firmly tied, it is difficult for the prisoner to break free; and there is another advantage of using this method of tying people up, the arms are controlled, and even if they escape, they will not be able to run fast.

"Go and bring those two arresters in." The deputy company commander who led the team waited for all the beggars to be tied up, and then asked his men to go outside to call for help.

Not long after, two guys in casual short padded jackets, felt hats, and iron rulers on their waists walked into the yard.When he saw the crooked beggars all over the place, a smile appeared on one of them.Needless to say, this method of binding people was his idea!
The words show that the group of "capturing fast" in the Qing Dynasty was actually two types of people, which were called "capturing slaves" and "quick hands".Catchers specialize in arresting thieves, similar to the criminal police of later generations. There are chief arresters, head arresters, arresters, and free arrests. Among them, free arrests are temporary workers; although Kuaishou sometimes assists in arresting robbers, their main responsibility is grain requisition.Although the two are often collectively referred to as the catcher, they are by no means the same thing.

Since there is no one in the Ninghai Prefecture Military Management Committee who is good at catching robbers and solving crimes, after receiving the report from the checkpoint last night, they temporarily recruited two former policemen from the city.The older of the two is called Cao Guifu, in his early thirties, and used to be a police officer; the other is Guo Yu, who is only nineteen this year, and used to be a police officer.

Cao Guifu is very famous in Ninghai Prefecture. He is good at arresting thieves. By observing people's movements, he can often find flaws that are difficult for ordinary people to find.Guo Yu is a stunned youth, but he inherited his father's position and used money, so he became a prisoner at a young age.

Regardless of the low social status of the policemen in the Qing Dynasty, the salary for a year of work, food and silver was only six taels, but it was a rare occupation; and many leaders of secret sects were from the policeman group, such as Lin Shuangwen, and the former The first passage of Baguajiao, which was examined by Xu Shounan.

In a place like Terengganu with a well-developed sea trade, not to mention the indecent activities of stealing furniture and distributing fat to thieves, just the monthly fees and bad rules charged by default, a catcher can get hundreds of taels a year For silver, the headhunter and chief headhunter can get thousands of taels.

Cao Guifu and Guo Yu have fairly good reputations among the police. Of course, they take the money they deserve, but they don't do things with a bad conscience;

The two have been hiding at home since the Northern Navy captured Ninghai Prefecture, for fear that the adults of the new dynasty would use them as rafts and end up ransacking their homes.When the people from the military control committee came to the door last night, the two of them answered in half panic and half joy.

Although Cao Guifu has earned a lot of money these years, he is used to being nodded and bowed by others on weekdays, and he is not used to being a commoner; Guo Yu is young, he has just taken his father's seat, and has not earned much money, and has no errands. up.

Although it is very hard to run in the wind and snow on New Year's Eve, both of them feel that it is a blessing in misfortune that they can be selected by the master of the military control committee, and they can eat public meals and wear official clothes again. up.As for whether the imperial court would call back, the two of them were not worried about it; it had already been spread among the sea merchants who traveled to and from Ninghai Prefecture in the past, how the Beihai Navy rubbed the imperial court's army on the ground.

At this moment, the deputy company commander said to the two: "I will leave it to you to search for evidence and interrogate criminals."

"The villain will definitely do his errands with all his heart, please rest assured, my lord."

Cao Guifu and Guo Yu knew that Bei Haijun did not have the custom of kneeling, so they made a bow, and then looked at the group of beggars on the ground.Guo Yu is young and has no knowledge of the criminal group of "old melon thieves", so he just stares at them.Cao Guifu was different, he squinted his eagle-like eyes and looked at these people one by one, and finally set his eyes on the beggar's head.

He stared at the other person from head to toe twice, then leaned closer, squatted down, stared at the other person's face carefully for a while, and suddenly grinned.

"Yang Kui, I've been looking for Nen for so many years, I didn't expect to meet him here today!"

Because of the tied posture of the beggar's head, it was very difficult to lift his head up. When Cao Guifu looked at him just now, he kept his head down and didn't dare to look up.At this moment, when he heard the other party call his name, he was shocked.He glanced sideways, lowered his head and pretended to be pitiful, and said, "This official, did you recognize the wrong person? My surname is not Yang, but Li. Everyone I know is called Li Erling."

Cao Guifu smiled, and said, "Don't pretend, Master Nen is called Zhu Shengwu, and there is another brother named Wu Sanmao. Seven years ago, three masters and apprentices of Nen came to Dengzhou Prefecture to commit crimes, and I brought a few brothers to Fengfu Zun. It was arrested by the order of the adults, and they were chased all the way to Laizhou, but it was a pity that Nen ran away. Three years ago, Zhu Shengwu and Wu Sanmao were arrested for committing a crime in Qingzhou, and they got all their stolen goods. Why did Nen run away?"

The more the beggar heard it, the more frightened he became, but his face still showed a pitiful look, and he said in his heart that as long as he denies it, no evidence can be found, let's see what you can do to me!

"My lord, I'm just a flower, and I brought a bunch of brothers around to beg for food. You can't wrong us!"

When the other beggars heard this, they also cried out their injustice.Several Bei Haijun nearby shouted angrily, gesturing to hit them with gun butts, and the beggars stopped talking.

Cao Guifu knew that if a person like Yang Kui was caught, he would never escape death; so as long as no evidence was found, he would not admit to death.So he turned around and entered the west wing, and Guo Yu followed.

As soon as the straw curtain was lifted, a smell of sweat, feet and smell came to the nose. Guo Yu hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, while Cao Guifu just wrinkled his nose, and casually removed the straw curtain hanging on the door. Ripped off.

As the air flowed, the smell in the room became much lighter. Cao and Guo took out the iron ruler on their waists and searched everywhere in the house.The two first spent a long time digging through the bedding and weeds on the ground, and even used an iron ruler to pry open the cracks between the bricks on the ground to carefully check whether the soil below had any traces of digging.

After searching all the houses in the south, the two came to the north house again.The firewood piles and haystacks were not spared, and the ground was searched, but unfortunately nothing was found, so Cao Guifu set his sights on the kang.

Guo Yu was already sweating from exhaustion. He jumped onto the kang and tapped the empty space with an iron ruler a few times. After tearing off the bedding, he used the iron ruler to pestle the dry grass a few times, but found nothing.He was about to get off the kang when Cao Guifu suddenly stopped him.

"Uncle Cao, what's the matter?"

"Xiao Guo, tenderly move that pile of grass away."

Guo Yu had no choice but to turn around and remove the grass, revealing the broken mat underneath.Cao Guifu's eyes lit up, he lifted his feet and got on the kang, tore away the mat, and pulled it a few times with an iron ruler.
The two Cao and Guo entered the house and twitched. Taking advantage of this time, the deputy company commander asked his men to escort all the beggars to the open space outside the temple gate.After waiting for quite a while, the deputy company commander and a group of soldiers became a little impatient, and were about to ask someone to come in for questioning, when suddenly there was a noise from the gap in the courtyard wall, with the sound of running, and only one person shouted out of breath. : "Found the stolen goods!"

The faces of all the beggars changed drastically when they heard this, and the head of the beggar also secretly groaned in his heart.At this time, Cao Guo and two soldiers who accompanied them came out carrying a few bulging bags, which looked quite heavy.After putting the things on the ground and opening them, in addition to some silver, there are more than a dozen hanging copper coins, jade pendants, rings and clothing belts, etc., a lot of miscellaneous piles.

Cao Guifu sneered and said, "Yang Kui! The stolen goods are here, and you still haven't pleaded guilty!"

Guo Yu also shouted: "Say it quickly! Where did Nen bury the corpse?"

Although Yang Kui, the head of the beggar, looked a bit depressed, he still put on a pitiful look and said, "I'm wronged! These things were picked up by villains, and the others don't know anything about it."

Cao Guifu said: "You said you picked up so much money? Where did you pick it up? Let's say the same thing."

Yang Kui lowered his head and rolled his eyes, and said in his mouth: "The villain and his brothers picked up these burdens on the road. After waiting for a day, no one came, so they lived in this temple. The villain makes people come every day." Go to the post road to see if there are any passers-by looking for it."

The deputy company commander was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said in his heart that he would not shed tears when he saw the coffin, and then said to his soldiers: "Take all these guys back!"

At sunset, more than 60 Beihai soldiers on horseback escorted more than a dozen people named Hanako into Ninghai Prefecture City.At this time, every family in the city began to set off firecrackers and cook New Year's Eve dinner. The air was filled with the smell of Chinese New Year, which made the soldiers immediately feel homesick.

　In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the holiday seals of official government offices were different from the seals on the lockers and drawers of later generations’ offices. All the staff kowtowed to salute, and then pasted the red paper seal with the written "Sealing Daji" on the printing box to complete the work.The seal order of officials at all levels is from high to low. After finishing their official business, everyone will go to the streets in groups to eat and drink.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)