Chapter 118
When Zhu Magistrate Zhu saw Yi Xingchen extremely intimate, Yi Xingchen and the others saved his life. After hearing Zhu Magistrate Zhu's introduction, Liu Magistrate smiled at Yi Xingchen. After all, Yi Xingchen was the Jinyiwei. Although he was a dignified prefect, he still had to be polite when he saw the Jinyiwei.
At that moment, Yi Xingchen told them about the incident, saying that after he received the tip, he pretended to be a disciple of the Tianjie Sect and rushed into Yunshan Temple to spy on the information. He was accidentally discovered. After being caught, he threw it into the corpse-hiding cave under Dengxian Cave. Fortunately, he found an iron chain in the cave. By chance, he discovered the hidden cave again, and then climbed out.
The whole story he told was not adulterated, but he omitted Tang Xiaoqi because Tang Xiaoqi could not be promoted. If he and Tang Xiaoqi were alone in the cave, they would be afraid that there would be rumors, which would be detrimental to her, so he would just hide them all and repay her well in the future.
The whole thing was obtained by telling fortunes, and Yi Xingchen did not mention this. Of course, this kind of thing should not be known to others, otherwise it would cause unexpected trouble.
The three of them were stunned when they heard Yi Xingchen telling the whole story, and they even gave a thumbs up, praising Yi Xingchen as a lone hero who went deep into the tiger's den and died for a lifetime. Finally, they solved the shocking case and made great contributions.
At this time, more than a dozen stonemasons who were sent by Zhang Bazhang to find from the countryside in the mountains had arrived. Under the guidance of Yi Xingchen, they entered the Dingxian Cave. They directly chiseled the wall of the closed hole, and finally exposed the hidden cave below. They also saw the artificial stone gate mechanism on the mountain wall. They were sure that this place was indeed a hidden stone gate with the mechanism. The hole below was closed.
Because it was involved in a murder case, of course, the local officials took over. Prefect Zhang ordered the coroner and the constable of the prefect's office to take torches and follow the chain to the bottom of the cave for inspection.
After the investigation, the corpses below were taken out with ropes, filling the entire hillside. Some were bones, some were highly decayed corpses, and some were just thrown down.
At this time, the families of ordinary people who entered the immortal cave last time rushed to the back mountain after the official army notified them. After listening to the explanations of the yamen coroners and the constable, they didn't believe it at first, but they saw the bodies of their relatives being taken out of the cave, and the bones and tendons were broken. They couldn't help but caress the corpse and cried.
The news spread quickly, and the villagers who had previously ascended to the immortals rushed to recognize the corpses one after another. Of course, most of them could not be recognized because the corpses were stripped naked, and most of them had already rotted, and a considerable number had become bones and had no idea who was.
However, after the twenty or thirty people who had just ascended to the immortal world recognized that they were indeed their relatives, most of the others began to believe that there must be their relatives in these corpses. They couldn't help but burst into tears. Of course, many of them still firmly believe that their relatives had gone ascended to the immortal world. The corpses found were not their relatives, and they didn't know who buried them in the back mountain, and it might not be done by the people from Yunshanguan.
Although these corpses cannot be identified, they cannot be attributed to the Taoist priests of the Tianjie Sect in Yunshanguan, the twenty or thirty corpses that had just been thrown down the cave were indeed the corpses of the so-called immortals a few days ago. These people were Taoist priests from Yunshanguan who were brought into the immortal cave and disappeared, deceiving their families to say that they had ascended to immortals. However, they were waiting for their bodies to be found in the hidden corpse cave under the immortal cave, and Yunshanguan naturally could not escape the guilt. Therefore, the prefect Liu ordered all the Taoist priests to be brought back to the yamen and sent to death. At the same time, he issued a document to arrest the fleeing Yunshanguan host Kong Quanzi, as well as the Taoist priests Kong Xuanzi and the monk Kong Ming.
After the body was inspected, recorded and evidence was collected, it was handed over to the family for processing. The bones that no one claimed were dug a hole in the back mountain to bury them. Then the prefect Liu and the others returned to Tunzhou, and Tang Xiaoqi went home by himself, but Yi Xingchen was still busy.
The case was taken over by the local officials, but the Jinyiwei was exposed. Therefore, after dealing with these, Liu Magistrate and Zhu County took Yi Xingchen to the Jinyiwei Yamen to report to Ruan Baihu.
Ruan Baihu was stunned when he heard this, and asked Yi Xingchen again. Only then did he realize that the captain of his spy team had discovered such a shocking case under his nose. He couldn't help but feel very happy and praised him repeatedly, asking his master to write a memorial to report to the Qianhu to Yi Xingchen for his memorial.
This time, because Yi Xingchen was Liu's prefecture, Zhu County directly reported to Ruan Baihu, so the general flags, Xiaoqi, could not blame him. When he saw him, he smiled and praised him. Especially Yi Xingchen's immediate boss Liu Xiaoqi even patted Yi Xingchen's shoulders and praised him intimately. Because he knew that after such great contributions were made, Yi Xingchen was afraid that his official position would be covered by his head one day. He was not pleased at this time, but he was afraid that Yi Xingchen would not give him a good face in the future.
A few days later, the prefect Liu set up a banquet in the prefect's office, and called his subordinates and other assistants to accompany him to invite the Jinyiwei School Captain Yi Xingchen. Of course, the prefect Zhu was also invited to accompany him.
Yi Xingchen didn't expect that the dignified prefect would invite him a soldier to dinner, and he was a little surprised now. When his master Gongsun He heard the news, he was so excited that his white beard was trembling. The prefect, the high-ranking official he had never met before, actually invited his disciples to dinner. This was enough to glorify the ancestors.
Of course, the prefect Liu wanted to invite Yi Xingchen because Yi Xingchen helped him solve this shocking case. Such a case may be a bad thing for local officials or may cause good things. If the case cannot be solved, it will seriously affect political achievements. If it can be successfully solved, it will be a brilliant political achievements.
The prefect Liu ordered the sea capture of Kong Quanzi and others. Because the goal was clear and the progress was relatively smooth, Kong Xuanzi and monk Kong Ming were arrested soon. Only Yunshan Pass presided over Kong Quanzi was missing.
After Kong Xuanzi and Kong Ming confessed that they would escape, they disperse and did not know where Kong Quanzi was going.
After interrogation, Kong Xuanzi and Kunming both confessed that they used the pretext of the Immortality to sell the Immortality scroll to deceive the church money. After they entered the cave, they took the so-called Immortality Water, and the Immortality Water was actually a pill. Before the Immortality drug attacked, they were asked to take off their clothes and pants. After these people fell asleep, they opened the mechanism and threw them into the corpse cave, deceiving their families, saying that these people had already ascended to the Immortality, but in fact, they had been murdered by them.
At this point, the case was successfully solved. Except for the main culprit who escaped, all other figures were brought to justice, leaving only the national sea arrest Kong Quanzi. Because this case involves a wide range and has a great influence, the court attached great importance to it and gave Zhang a commendation of merit.
When drinking water, he did not forget the well digging man. Of course, the prefect Liu would not forget his subordinates. He rewarded him according to his merits, and of course, the first merit was Yi Xingchen, the Jinyiwei.
Therefore, the prefect Liu held a banquet to entertain Yi Xingchen and expressed his gratitude. At the same time, he also expected that Yi Xingchen would definitely be promoted because of this matter. Before the appointment was completed, he should quickly establish a good relationship and get along with him in the future.
At the banquet, officials such as Liu Magistrate Liu and Zhu Magistrate Zhu took turns to toasting Yi Xingchen, and at the same time kept praising Yi Xingchen for his promising youth and his future was limitless.
After three rounds of dishes and five flavors, Yi Xingchen felt a little drunk and said to the prefect Liu through the wine agitation: "Master, will the court order the ban on the Tianjie Sect?"
Yi Xingchen really has no good feelings for the Tianjie Sect. Previously, the Tianjie Sect robbed the beautiful girl to refine and other immortal medicines for the leader. Now he has cheated hundreds of believers of money, but he also threw people into a cave to kill him, which almost killed him. Therefore, Yi Xingchen hated the Tianjie Sect so much that he was itchy, hoping to wipe them out as soon as possible.
However, the prefect Liu changed the topic and said: "We won't talk about business today, let's talk about it another day, come and drink."
While speaking, he gave Yi Xingchen a wink. Yi Xingchen knew that there might be some variables in this matter and it was not appropriate to talk about it at the dinner table, so he stopped talking about this topic.
After the banquet, Liu Gongfu invited Yi Xingchen to his study to have tea.
The two of them sat down at the study room, closed the door after serving tea, and then the prefect Liu said apologetically to Yi Xingchen: "Brother Yi, the question you asked at the table was not convenient for answering at that time because there were too many people and it was not convenient to answer at that time. I hope you can forgive me."
Yi Xingchen hurriedly said, "Where is the case, Master Liu is polite. It's my young man who is young. I don't know the severity of the conversation, which makes you embarrassed. I guess there is something strange about this matter, so Master Liu is not good to say it in public, right?"
"Yes, brothers really expect things like gods." Liu Zhifu nodded with a smile, "The news I heard was that the court had two opinions on how to deal with this matter. One believed that the entire Tianjie Sect should be banned, and the other believed that this was just a matter of a few scholars in Yunshan Temple who secretly hid it from the leader of the sect. Therefore, the entire Tianjie Sect cannot be affected. It is only necessary to punish these people in Yunshan Temple according to the law."
Yi Xingchen was stunned when he heard this. He could not have thought that the people of the Tianjie Sect could come up with this way to escape the crime by throwing the soldiers and protecting the general. However, after careful consideration, many officials in the court were disciples of the Tianjie Sect, and the national teachers around the emperor also had Tianjie Sect members. If the entire Tianjie Sect was banned, they would probably be unlucky, and of course they would not want to have such a situation, so they joined forces to resist the entire Tianjie Sect investigation.
Yi Xingchen hurriedly said, "What does the emperor mean?"
The prefect Liu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I am just a mere magistrate, so how can I know what the emperor means? I dare not speculate on it. However, with my years of experience as an official, I guess this matter will not affect the entire Tianjie Sect. After all, the power of the Tianjie Sect is too large. Although it is a recent rise, it has expanded rapidly. Many imperial officials have become their believers. Of course, they are willing to attribute this matter to the few sects in Yunshanguan."
"But, the Tianjie Cult sells the Immortal Certificate, I'm afraid it's not Yunshanguan's family?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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