Mystery Makes Me Strong

Soon Liu Tuiguan appeared again.

This can be said to be his first case since taking office in Beijing.

Apparently his colleagues wanted to see his jokes.

Because no one took him.

This is inconsistent with human nature and logic.

But it is consistent with reality.

Because he took refuge with the second prince, everyone isolated him and refused to play with him.

The people from the Second Prince's family are also waiting to see what he is capable of.

Only if you have the ability will you take him.

If you don't have the ability, just die.

This is the cold reality.

As for whether Liu Tuiguan will become a murderer and take revenge on them.

They are not worried.

After all, the other party is right under his nose.

It is difficult for such an exposed murderer to become a threat.

The really scary thing is the humble servants.

Let's put it this way, in Wen Rensheng's opinion, the death of this old gentleman just now was probably the work of a slave.

And it's possible that this slave just didn't like the old gentleman.

I am jealous that the other person can listen to music, eat, drink and have fun without having to do anything.

And he still has to work hard.

Liu Tuiguan still handled the case as usual.

Of course, when he saw Wen Rensheng, he immediately asked him to get busy.

Of course Wen Rensheng just created the illusion of being busy... but actually did nothing.

Referred to as advanced fishing.

One of the essential skills for modern social animals to avoid sudden death.

Official Liu quickly determined the identity of the deceased and the suspect.

"The deceased's name is Han Yuye. He was a fourth-grade imperial official who retired and enjoyed preferential treatment from the court."

"My family has several houses, several shops, and thousands of acres of land outside the city. I am truly a wealthy family."

"And the only person who has access to his teacups and teapots, apart from the waiter, is his slave Han Da, who was just sent to buy tobacco."

Then Liu Tuiguan called Han Da over.

After careful inspection, it was discovered that Han Da was the murderer!

This is the normal rhythm of handling cases...

Liu Tuiguan thought in his mind.

Most murderers are actually easier to catch as long as they don't run away.

Because they often don't have the means to deal with reconnaissance.

After all, this is ancient times, not modern times.

The knowledge that people can hear about solving crimes is obtained from dramas and picture books.

Both of these are not widely spread.

Besides, even in modern times, there are still many stupid murderers.

They completely underestimated the professionalism and strength of the investigators.

Let's put it this way, if you don't want others to know, you have to do it yourself.

It’s better not to do things that go against the bottom line in the modern world.

And this Han Da quickly confessed his crime.

"This damn master, I work hard every day running errands, but he leisurely eats, drinks and has fun, smokes and listens to music."

"I want him dead!"

"Anyway, I don't have any family anymore. My mother passed away last month."

"I have worked hard in their house for more than thirty years, and they are not even willing to match me with an ugly maid."

"This damn master, he deserves to die!"

"He just wanted to kick me out of the house and replace me with a hard-working one if I work for another five years!"

After hearing Han Da's words, instead of scolding him, everyone whispered in low voices.

"That's right, Mr. Han is too weird."

"That's right. Generally speaking, wealthy families who are more sophisticated will marry their servants, and then let them have children who will continue to be slaves. The harvest will be guaranteed during droughts and floods. It is also a family job."

"Yes, Mr. Han was so clever that he was fooled by his cleverness. He wanted to squeeze this servant dry, but he killed him instead!"

"Good kill!"

Then the case spread throughout the capital.

After all, this element is too full.

"A servant kills his master."

"The master is cruel and the servants are dissatisfied."

Although many gentlemen are very angry.

"This is asking for death!"

"He is a slave. His master gave him food and clothing, and gave him a place to show his talents. Instead of doing his job properly, he wanted to harm the master!"

"His nine clans should really be killed!"

As a result, the master who said this was slapped in the face.

Because what is very funny about Han Da is that he is one of the nine tribes who died Master Han.

Yes, it is common for people to use their distant relatives as slaves.

However, it is usually promotion, but this Mr. Han uses the name of his clan to exploit.

So I was unlucky.

Now, if we really want to sentence the nine Han clans to death.

Instead he was happy.

Because this means that the Yamen helped him destroy the entire family of his enemies...

As for killing the three tribes, is it okay?

Nope either.

Because it will also implicate the Han family.

So in the end we could only make a hasty judgment of beheading.

However, starting from this day, the servants' life was obviously much easier.

The reason is also very simple.

It is impossible for a master to leave his slaves.

Without the servants, it can be said that the masters can't even wear the official uniforms of the court.

Just wait to be impeached by the censor.

Since we can't live without him, we can only improve the salary and replace him.

But with a new person, can you guarantee that he will be loyal?

Hard to say.

It may even bring more harm.

It's better to win over.

So new methods emerged:

If there is a slave who needs to be punished, he must be killed immediately to avoid future troubles.

Otherwise there will be no punishment but reward.

You can't kill him, but you have to send him out of the capital to a place where he can't come back.

This is also the method used by Cixi in later generations.

These masters also learned it.

In fact, they also understood it before, but this time Han Da's incident made them more impressed.

Then Liu Tuiguan rushed to various strange cases in Beijing.

Beijing has a large population of more than 1.5 million.

Some even say that it may exceed 3 million.

After all, no one counts the people in those straw huts outside the city.

Because food is particularly abundant in this world, the population concentration effect is particularly obvious.

As for Wu Sanwen's death, it is suspended indefinitely.

Because there is no way to investigate further, no one cooperates.

People die, and they die.

The housekeeper under the second prince arranged another person to replace Wu Sanwen.

It's just that the place of appointment was changed from the border to a county in the interior, and he was just a small head of the police.

And Wu Sanwen's death was like a bubble, and no one remembered it anymore.

Then that night.

Liu Tuiguan was working overtime.

The strong man came to find him.

"The higher-ups have given you a task. If there are any more vicious murderers, especially those who are naturally cold-blooded and ruthless, the reporters will stay."

"We will replace them with beggars and train them into death squads."

"We don't need a lot of people. Five hundred people will be enough."

"Five hundred people? Where are you hiding?" Liu Tuiguan was shocked.

This is obviously a plan to rebel at a critical moment.

It is said that the emperor is 73 years old this year.

83, 74, the King of Hell will not invite you to go.

In the eyes of the ancients, this is one of the most dangerous ages.

It is said that the emperor is lucky to live to such an old age.

Generally, it is rare for an emperor to live beyond 60 years old.

The emperor can live so long because of fear.

Because of the frequent cases, he is extra careful.

He dare not be too indulgent. He is extra careful when eating, sleeping, and going out.

Only in this way can he live so long.

Emperors who are too indulgent will not live long.

Those emperors who are restrained, pay a little attention, and as long as they don't work hard, they are likely to live beyond sixty.

And now is the critical moment.

The strong man then said: "You don't have to worry about this, just hide in the coal dug outside the city."

"Pretend to be a coal transport team into the city every day, and train back and forth."

The strong man said a lot, but Liu Tuiguan knew that the other party's words must be false.

This is used to fool the monitor.

He must be monitored.

After all, his identity is a bit eye-catching.

He was dispatched from outside to the city, and he was the chief officer investigating the Wu Sanwen case.

These conditions determined that he was very eye-catching.

So he also became a bait on the table.

This is really a reincarnation.

Even including the matter of raising dead soldiers, he also has to bear it.

Liu Tuiguan sighed.

Then he said: "Okay, I know."

In the following time, he used homeless people and beggars to replace the crimes that should be sentenced to death.

It seems troublesome to do this, but it is not difficult for insiders.

Grasp a few details.

One is when sent to prison.

The second is when describing the appearance.

The third is to find the prison guard.

He asked Wen Rensheng to watch the last thing.

Wen Rensheng then had an idea and asked another detective to do it.

He also wanted to see how this detective drama would end.

And in a world where cases happen frequently, the struggle is obviously different.

…………

On this day, as the emperor's health became worse and worse.

The struggle between the two princes became more and more intense.

Each of them kept assassins.

And each of them began to make trouble for each other.

Today you incited my housekeeper, saying that the housekeeper's father was killed by the master.

Tomorrow I will incite your concubine, saying that the broken family was caused by the master.

In short, they just want to win without fighting, hoping that the other party's family will rise up, make a case, and deal with the opponent.

This is not their wishful thinking.

In fact, in recent years, there have been many ministers, princes, and nobles who have been killed by their servants.

In the case files that Liu Tuiguan saw alone, at least one-third of the families of the powerful and wealthy have had cases.

The target is often the head of the family.

The most vicious ones are also the most likely to be envied.

So most officials are kind and well behaved.

They even help their servants get medical treatment, marry, and take care of their old age.

Of course, some ministers were frightened.

They are determined to use only the people closest to them.

For example, they let their sons and nephews be servants. In name, they are housekeepers, but in fact, they do the work of servants.

Some families are big, so this is okay.

Some people come from humble backgrounds and their clans are not prosperous, so that's troublesome.

Some people simply don't hire any servants and handle everything by themselves.

In this case, it has to be said that the facts prove that single people live longer than married people.

Of course, in the modern world, it's the other way around. In fact, it's because singles have no constraints and are easy to indulge, not that being single is bad.

Again, you have to be able to control your own work and rest. Being single will be stress-free and long-lived.

Some old people have killed a lot of people by themselves.

Always single.

And on this day, Liu Tuiguan suddenly saw a case that he found very interesting.

"The Jingcheng Cave Serial Murder Case?"

Wen Rensheng also noticed this case.

It means that there must be a huge cave under the Jingcheng.

Actually, this is because there was a large cave under the capital city.

The ancients did not know it at first, and did not investigate carefully, so they built the capital city here.

As time went on, someone dug a well too deep, more than a hundred meters, and found a deep cave underground.

These caves are connected to each other.

Wen Rensheng also knew that there was such a terrain, and there was such a community.

The community was built on a cave.

This is obviously not safe.

But since it has been built, people can only endure it.

Fortunately, this cave is very solid, and there is no need to worry about landslides.

The cave in the capital city now is completely different.

It is connected in all directions and was later used by people.

In fact, when the cave was first discovered, the emperor originally wanted to move to another capital city.

But later he heard someone say that this cave could be transformed into an escape route and a place to hide soldiers.

The emperor was immediately moved.

It has always been common for emperors to be trapped in the capital city and finally killed by thieves.

One of the reasons is that there is no good way out.

It is generally said that the royal family has a secret passage that leads to the outside of the city, and the secret passage has been dug since the beginning of its rise.

But in fact, there must be a secret passage, but it will not be too long.

This is because the amount of work is too large, and if the excavation takes a long time, it will be easily exposed.

After all, there are many people in the capital listening to the big vat.

Once this secret passage is exposed, what use is it.

In history, many emperors who were besieged had to break out of the city gate in the end, and they died because they could not get out.

In fact, this is because they felt that it was not necessary to dig during the prosperous times, and when it came to the end of the times, there was no money and no one to dig.

Speaking of these emperors, they are also ridiculous. They have money to build a mausoleum for the dead emperor, but they don’t have money to prepare a secret escape passage for themselves in advance.

One third of the manpower and material resources for building the mausoleum is enough to dig an escape passage.

In fact, they are still worried about hidden dangers, fearing that someone will come in from the escape passage and assassinate.

But it is different now. There is a ready-made secret passage.

As long as a little excavation is done, the cave can be used as a secret passage.

And the emperor can let very few people know about this secret passage.

Now, the case that Liu Tuiguan saw was related to the secret passage of the cave in the capital.

Corpses appeared continuously in the secret passage of the cave.

Originally, such places were unattended.

The problem was that several sons of dignitaries died.

They were thrown into the cave, and then the dignitaries found folk masters to find out.

This matter became a big deal.

So with their joint efforts, this serial murder case about the secret passage of the cave became a big deal.

So much so that the three judicial departments had to make a big fanfare and began to order the various departments under their command to start investigating the secret passage of the cave.

This investigation was incredible.

It turned out that there were many missing people, kidnapped people, and murdered people in previous years.

The entire secret passage of the cave is more like a corpse cave than an underground passage.

Liu Tuiguan led people down a secret passage of the cave.

Less than 500 meters away, six skeletons were seen.

And there were obvious traces of knife and axe chopping on the bones.

Some had broken arms, some had broken sternums, and some had broken spines.

You can tell at a glance.

They were all killed, not natural deaths.

And what he had to do was to find out where the murderer was hiding.

In fact, in Wen Rensheng's opinion, this case was another unsolved case.

It was so big down there that it was difficult for even modern people to use advanced technology to investigate it clearly.

Not to mention a group of ancient people.

At most, they could find a group of refugees and beggars hiding in the secret passages of the cave to take the blame.