The capital’s governor was drinking tea, and when he heard the words, he stood up with his tealight in his hand, and the tea in the tealight shook out and spilled on his shoes, but he couldn’t care less.
“Has the confession been drawn?”
Zhang wanted to say something but stopped.
“Say, say something!”
Sheriff Zhang took out the statement and presented it with both hands to the Governor of Beijing, “Master, take a look at it.”
The magistrate put down his tea and took the statement and read it quickly, his whole body was stunned.
The emperor had asked Liu Ying to release the smallpox patients out of the infection!
The Governor felt a cold chill on the back of his neck.
The same could not be said of Constable Zhang!
After hearing the confession of the Third Prince’s attendant, his whole body was dumbfounded, why would the Emperor do this? The people of the capital were all his people, what good would it do him if he allowed his own people to contract smallpox?
Sheriff Zhang did not understand, and so did the governor of the capital. He sat back in his chair and his first thought was to tear up the confession in his hand and destroy the man’s body.
The people of the capital were already in a state of panic, and this was the last straw that would overwhelm them.
“Old, old master!”
The capital’s governor looked up in a daze and met the gaze of Sheriff Zhang, his lips opened but no sound came out.
With such disregard for the people’s lives, the Emperor no longer deserved to sit on that dragon chair.
He gripped the statement in his hand and squeezed out a few words with difficulty, “Prepare the carriage, you will go out with this official.”
……
The capital’s governor went to the Ding Guo Gong’s residence.
The palace was now headed by Consort Xiao Xian. The fourth prince was the most suitable and only prince, and would be the crown prince without incident, and it was best for him to come to the Duke of Ding to get an idea.
When he got off the carriage, the Capital Minister took a deep breath and gestured to Sheriff Zhang to knock on the door.
Sheriff Zhang went forward and snapped the door ring three times, and a questioning voice came from inside, “Who is it?”
“Our lord is looking for the Duke for something, please also open the door.”
His Excellency?
The gatekeeper hurriedly opened the gate and, seeing the official uniform of the capital’s governor, had another man dash off to pass on the message while welcoming the man inside.
When the Duke of Ding, who had received the report, came out in person, he did not wait to greet each other, and the Governor of the Capital said, “Your Excellency, can you find a safe place where I can have a word with you?”
Seeing that he looked grave, Duke Ding took him to his study.
The butler and Sheriff Zhang were guarding the doorway on either side, left and right.
Without taking a seat either, the capital minister handed the statement directly to Duke Ding, “Your Highness, take a look at this.”
Duke Ding took it and opened it, and after reading it, his face also changed greatly.
With someone else to share the burden, the Governor breathed a little easier, for God knows how much cold sweat he had broken out on the carriage ride.
“What does the Duke of State think I should do?”
Lord Ding shoved the statement back into his hand and pushed him out the door, “Lord Prefect, you haven’t been here today, and I haven’t seen you.”
The Prefect of Jingzhao picked at a corner of the table, “Your Highness, if you don’t give me an idea, I’ll stay in your palace and not leave.”
“You ……”
Duke Ding’s forehead was green with veins.
The capital’s governor also knew that he had acted unethically. But he really had no choice, if the emperor woke up and knew about this, not to mention the black hat, even his life could not be saved.
He bowed to the Duke of Ding, “Your Highness, please help me, my whole family of over 300 people depends on you.”
“You ……”
Seeing that the Duke of Ding had relented, the capitalist Yin bowed even faster.
Duke Ding Guo could do nothing about it and took a deep breath, “You sit down first!”
The Capitalist Yin sat down nimbly.
The forehead veins of the Duke of Ding jumped again and he simply walked back and forth in the room, walking around a dozen times before stopping and looking at the Capital Minister, “This matter still needs to be further confirmed before we can take the next step.”
“Your Majesty’s meaning is ……”
“To capture Liu Ying first, if he confesses, you will gather the six ministers and the cabinet together and show them.”
The eyes of the capital minister lit up, yes, if everyone knew about it, even if the emperor woke up, he couldn’t chop off all their heads, right? And naturally his head was held.
Then he got frustrated again, “I’m not going to hide it from Your Highness, I have sent people to search for a day, but I have not seen Liu Ying, I suspect that he has left the city long ago.”
“No, if he had really left the city, he would not have left the Third Prince’s entourage in the city, he must still be hiding somewhere, Lord Prefect should have someone search carefully.”
“Where does Your Highness think he would be hiding?”
The prefect of the capital was full of hope.
Duke Ding stroked his beard, and after a long time said, “The more dangerous the place is, the safer it is, so Lord Prefect might as well go to the Liu family again and search the place.”
“Does Your Highness mean that he is hiding at home, or that he is hiding too tightly and my men have not found him?”
“It is possible.”
The capitalist Yin immediately stood up and bowed to the Duke of Ding to the end, “If I can really catch Liu Ying, the Duke of Guo is my ……”
“You and I don’t need to say those polite words, it’s more important to capture the man first.”
The capital minister went back to his office and asked constable Zhang to gather all the magistrates over, and he personally took them to the Liu family.
Commander Sun was also there.
He was surprised to see him, “What brings the Prefect himself here?”
He said, “The doors of every house are closed, and all the restaurants are closed, so Liu Ying has nowhere to go but to hide in his home. ”
Commander Sun sent two hundred more men over, and one hundred stayed outside to surround the house even more closely.
One hundred men went in with Sheriff Zhang to search for people.
Before he could go outside, the housekeeper ran to the door with a pale face to report, “Master, the men from the Capital Mansion have broken in!”
Liu Ying subconsciously went outside, but Madam Liu grabbed him and pointed under the bed, “Master, hide inside first, I’ll deal with it.”
Liu Ying took the sword from the bed and hid it under the bed.
Madam Liu wanted to pretend to be sleeping, but she thought it would be too obvious that she would be seen, so she sat down at the table and cried in a low voice.
When Sheriff Zhang and his men stepped through the gate of the main courtyard, they heard Madam Liu’s hoarse cries and paused for a moment before walking into the courtyard and raising their voices, “We have been ordered to search again.
The cries in the house stalled, then cried even louder.
Sheriff Zhang said it again, but Madam Liu did not listen at all.
Impatient, Sheriff Zhang barged straight in with his men.
Mrs. Liu screamed in terror and brought over the table as she got up, “You, you ……”
“Search!”
Madam Liu cried even louder, but her eyes moved with the movements of the magistrates, her heart lifting as she saw Sheriff Zhang searching the bed.