Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 140: Just a Bandit

It only takes a word for the officials to decide who to arrest and what crime to charge.

What other documents do you need?

Whether someone is guilty or not depends entirely on what the other person says, and whether to arrest him or not also depends on his mood.

Once you are brought to the government office, there are plenty of ways to make you obedient, including your relatives and friends.

Once you enter that government office, you will be badly hurt even if you don't die. In the best case, you will lose everything, and in the worst case, your family will be destroyed.

So when ordinary people see these people in official uniforms, they are like mice seeing a cat.

Of course, even so, the people of Jiang'an County still have a fairly good opinion of the county magistrate.

Because generally speaking, County Magistrate Zhang would not make a fuss about ordinary people.

Moreover, he handled many cases very fairly as long as they did not involve his own interests.

But as long as it is related to his fame and career, such as the carbonite mine incident, the case of the Liao and Qi families...

This shows how corrupt the officialdom is.

This also shows how much Magistrate He of Ximin County loves his people like his own children, and how rare he is.

Let's get back to the point. Under Jiang Yizhou's relentless questioning, these bailiffs could not produce any evidence.

But the momentum was still arrogant. Under Huo Liang's command, they pointed their swords at Jiang Yizhou and scolded him, "You bold and shrewd woman, you dare to hinder the police from investigating the case. You must be in cahoots with the criminal. Come on, take this shrew down for me. Catch her and interrogate her thoroughly!"

Jiang Yizhou confirmed that these people had no documents on them, so he shouted: "There are bandits pretending to be officials, breaking into people's homes in broad daylight. Everyone, watch out, don't let any of them go, arrest these thieves and send them to the authorities for investigation."

Originally, these servants and guards were a little nervous. After all, the other party was a government official, and they were just ordinary people. What if...

However, when he heard Master Jiang say that these were bandits and disguised officials, he became more confident.

That’s right, as long as they are not police officers, they are acting in self-defense.

Combined with the training over the past few months, they all held their sticks tightly and stood still without backing down.

Jiang Yizhou felt that the quality of this group of guards was okay. In addition to Shu Tong, several of them were brought from Yunshan and served as team leaders of each team.

At least he didn't get scared and turn around and run away when facing the opponent's sword. That's okay.

These yamen runners all have evil auras about them, and it's obvious that their hands are stained with the blood of many people.

The mentality of those who have killed people and those who have not killed people is completely different. If they were to confront each other, ordinary people would suffer a great loss.

Of course Jiang Yizhou wouldn't let these ordinary people fight against other people's swords with sticks.

So, she immediately dodged and raised her hand to grab the captain's neck.

Huo Liang only felt a flash before his eyes, and before he could react, he felt a suffocating feeling in his neck.

Then a voice sounded in my ears: "Tell them to put down the knives in their hands."

Huo Liang was horrified, but this was an order from his superiors. Just like what happened to the Liao and Qi families a few years ago, he had to bring the person back to the county government office.

Furthermore, since the other party was just holding him and threatening him, it meant that the other party would not really kill him, or that the other party did not dare to kill him at all.

So, although he was terrified, he still said stubbornly: "Jiang, Jiang Yizhou, I tell you, you attacked the imperial officials, which is a capital crime. I tell you, now as long as you hand over those criminals, I can tell the adults that I will forgive you for what happened."

Jiang Yizhou twitched his lips and sneered: "I asked you to tell them to put down the knife for your personal safety. Since you are so stubborn, I will grant your wish."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yizhou had already made his move.

It was like a hurricane blowing through the yard in front of the workshop.

As the big knives fell to the ground with clang, they were followed by a series of screams.

Everyone saw that the arm of the yamen runner that was originally holding the knife was hanging down as if it had no bones.

A closer look revealed that their right arms were all broken.

It wasn't a dislocated break, but the forearm was simply broken and hanging down.

Some of the bones had pierced through the flesh and were exposed.

The guards present felt that everything they saw was unreal.

Their patriarch... is so fast and so strong.

Jiang Yizhou listened to the screams and frowned slightly, "Someone, shut up these bandits."

People finally reacted and grabbed a few handfuls of glutinous rice balls from the waste cement packaging bags and stuffed them into the mouths of these people one by one.

Their bodies were shaking, and their eyes were all looking at Jiang Yizhou - they knew very well that these people were officials.

Now, they can't get away from it.

So, what next?

When these people return, given the way they have acted, they and their families will have no chance of survival.

Jiang Yizhou ordered again, "To prevent these bandits from escaping, break their legs!"

Now that we have decided to take action, we must not give these people the opportunity to counterattack.

However, it is not easy to just kill them all in broad daylight.

She also needs to give an explanation to the people of the world, and...

Since Zhang Tao is now determined to attack her, she can't keep him.

Just give these people to him as a great gift.

…The crowd tied up all the twelve yamen runners, gagged them, broke their legs as ordered by the master of the house, and locked them all up in an empty room.

After finishing these things, everyone felt a wave of fear and their bodies couldn't stop shaking.

Although the head of the family and the captain of the guards said that these were thieves pretending to be officials, they knew in their hearts that they were yamen runners. This was their usual style.

But now that it has been done, we can only follow the master to the end.

However, the head of the family only asked them to keep an eye on these people and not let any of them escape, let alone leak the news.

Although they broke into Zhuangzi with great fanfare and were seen by many people, Zhuangzi and the outside world are relatively independent worlds.

The nearest town is about twenty miles away, and everyone lives on the farm, so all we have to do is prevent anyone from leaving during this period.

…………It is said that Zhang Tao received a secret order from his superiors to take action against Tianshui Tianzhuang immediately, but he still hesitated.

After all, the most important thing to him is his official career.

He had been in business for so long and should have been promoted after the carbon stone incident a few years ago, but unexpectedly, someone else temporarily took his place.

In recent years, he has become the umbrella for the carbonite mine. Judging from the expressions of those people, it seems that they intend to let him stay here to provide them with local protection.

But he didn't want to stop at being a small county magistrate.

Since those people don't want to be promoted, then you can only make some political achievements to make yourself "outstanding".

Therefore, when he first welcomed Jiang Yizhou, the head of the Jiang family, he was at least 70% sincere in wanting to keep her in Jiang'an County.

However, the order came from above, and if he did not take action, even his position as county magistrate would be over.

What's more crucial is that if I don't follow their instructions, once I'm no longer useful, not only will I lose my official hat, but I might even lose my head in this project.