Chapter 416 Big Bear and Two Bears
When Chen Yun received the letter from Zhang Xiangyang, she couldn't help laughing when she saw that it was all legendary stories of the old naughty boy letting himself go. Her worries also got better a lot, and she continued to go to the government office to take care of official business, but the seed of resignation was still planted in her mind.
In Jiankang Prefecture, Meng Gong came to the government office. After meeting the prefect, he felt that this man had a smiling face, was warm and generous, and he could not be associated with the devil at all.
It was not until the next night that Hu Yidao's King Kong led his men to secretly control the Japanese monk who was performing a ritual for the prefect in the government office. After searching his house for a large number of strange and exquisite sex toys, they found a prescription for steaming a baby to treat heart disease. Only then did they discover clues that the prefect had steamed the baby.
Chu Yuxuan and his companions had already joined Jiankang Shunfeng Division and immediately interrogated the Japanese monk. Unexpectedly, he was killed in the middle of the night. This pointed the finger at the Jiankang prefect.
During the interrogation, Chu Yuxuan discovered that there were many Japanese working in Jiankang Prefecture, and they must have been related to this Japanese monk. Since they were transferred from the military, they were actually completely in the dark about the situation in Jiankang Prefecture, and it was very dangerous to do so.
Meng Gong was amazed at the complexity of the situation and felt helpless. It was not like two armies were fighting against each other on a battlefield. The enemy was right in front of him and he could just pick up his sword and chop him.
Da Jin Gang said angrily that who else in the prison could have easily killed the foreign monk, and it was clearly the prefect who ordered his men to do it.
Meng Gong said that this was an acceptable line of reasoning, but it had no basis and one could not arrest anyone casually.
Chu Yuxuan gave Meng Gong a suggestion. He said: According to the Third Young Master's method, as long as we find any one of crimes, we can arrest him. We must capture the prefect in order to get rid of the evil people who are clinging to him.
He saw three famous paintings and calligraphy hanging in the prefect's teahouse, each of which was priceless, especially the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" hanging in the center of the back hall, which was a priceless treasure.
Meng Gong fell into deep thought, what should he do?
At this time, the Seven Vajras who were in charge of surveillance and investigation came back to report an astonishing news: three horse-drawn carriages came out of the back door of the prefect's house, all of which seemed heavy, and were heading towards the riverside dock.
What should I do?
Stop and search?
Meng Gong was an expert in fighting, daring to fight, but he was a weakling in this matter. He was worried that there was nothing in the carriage, and it would be embarrassing if he couldn't find anything, and it would be difficult for him to gain a foothold in Jiankang Prefecture in the future.
Chu Yuxuan said that we should go all out, so we launched a two-pronged search on the grounds that the magistrate's family had a huge amount of wealth of unknown origin. We stopped his carriage and carefully interrogated him along the way, and directly searched his house.
Meng Gong felt that doing this would make things worse. What would happen if nothing was found?
King Kong became anxious and angrily said that this was not allowed and that was not allowed, so what case was there to investigate?
If that's the case, why did Lord Meng come to Jiankang Prefecture?
What a rascal he is. He actually yelled at Meng Gong.
Seeing that Meng Gong was stunned, Chu Yuxuan quickly said that the opportunity was not to be missed, and suggested that he take action under the pretext of interrogating and verifying the magistrate's valuable calligraphy and paintings. Even if the suspect explained the whole story, we could let him go because we were investigating and verifying it anyway.
Meng Gong then made up his mind and divided his troops into two groups to raid the prefect's house directly.
At the dock, King Kong and his bodyguards stopped the carriage and found that only the magistrate's old mother and maid were in the carriage. Several antiques and paintings were taken away. The reason why the carriage was heavy was that it was carrying an exquisite wooden horse trough. The so-called huge amount of property was still difficult to estimate.
The prefect was still blocking the door from allowing the house to be searched. He cursed Meng Gong for killing his colleagues after he defected to the New Song Dynasty, and brought people to search his house.
The two sides have been in a stalemate.
When the guy saw his old mother and the three carriages coming back, he became furious and scolded Meng Gong for being disrespectful and unfilial, and for actually stopping his mother from returning home to visit her relatives, which was forcing him to rebel.
Da Jin Gang ordered the guards to carry down the horse trough and a large number of antiques, and pointed at the gilded horse trough carved with a flying dragon and said that it was the personal horse trough of Emperor Wu of Han. This fellow was either extremely corrupt or dreamed of wearing the imperial robe and rebelling.
Meng Gong and the officials around him moved closer to take a look, and sure enough, there was an inscription by Emperor Wu of Han, and the lifelike soaring golden dragon was irrefutable evidence.
He yelled, "Catch him and confiscate my property."
The guards then started to take real action. They caught the prefect and pinned him to the ground, then rushed into the yard to search the house. The guards and servants inside immediately started fighting with Meng Gong's men.
Just as he was panicking, two arrows whizzed in from outside the house and hit the two guards on the left and right who were arresting the prefect. Meng Gong looked and saw two strong men dressed as constables, one tall and one short, outside the gate, drawing their bows and arrows and aiming at him.
The man dodged quickly, but an arrow still shot into his abdomen.
Meng Gonggong was furious and shouted, "Capture them all, capture them all for me."
There had already been a melee in the courtyard. The prefect was overjoyed to see the newcomers, and he shouted, "Big Bear, Second Bear, you've come just in time. Kill these rebels for me, and leave no one alive."
Big Bear and Two Bear saw that many government troops had surrounded the government office and knew that it was difficult to escape. They hacked and killed while shouting, "Master, run away! We can't serve you anymore."
The prefect was able to see all directions and naturally knew that the thief had already fled and was heading towards the small gate on the west side. Chu Yuxuan was afraid that he would escape and be difficult to catch, so he snatched a killing stick from the yamen runner and knocked the prefect to the ground, then hit his legs with the stick.
The prefect rolled on the ground in pain, screaming and wailing. After Chu Yuxuan hit him with another blow with the stick, the thief could not even move and could only wail.
Gradually, the guards brought by Meng Gong took control of the situation, and only Daxiong, Erxiong and a few stubborn bandits were left in the courtyard still resisting.
Seeing the bandits falling one by one, until only Daxiong was left, the prefect screamed at Daxiong to run away and he would avenge him another day.
King Kong got angry when he saw Xiao Qi was injured, and roared: "Want to run? No way. Prepare to die." While shouting, he stabbed the big bear with his sword.
Meng Gong was still shouting, "Leave someone alive."
King Kong's sword had already pierced through the big bear's chest.
This guy was in a murderous mood and wanted revenge. He couldn't stop and took Daxiong's life with just one sword.
The prefect refused to arrest because the crime was already set in stone, so Meng Gong arrested him on the spot and put him in jail. As the trial unfolded, officials from the transport, water transport, and inspection departments were increasingly involved in the case, and the people of Jiankang Prefecture, located in the ancient capital of Jinling, became increasingly panicked...
Zhao Yulin learned that the case of the Jiankang prefect eating a baby had been solved. When Meng Gong was injured, a day had passed since the incident. He was worried about chaos in the city, so he urgently sent a message to Yu Jie, ordering Jiang Hai to lead an army of 10,000 to station in Jiankang Prefecture.
Yu Jie received an urgent military report. Seeing that Meng Gong was injured, he dared not delay and immediately ordered Jiang Hai to lead the troops to set off.
After Zhao Yulin finished his business, he immediately went to Jiankang Prefecture. When he met Meng Gong, Jiang Hai had already led the vanguard into the city.
Lao Meng lamented that the world is no longer the same as it used to be and is changing too fast.
He never imagined that this imperially appointed prefect of Jiankang and top scholar of the previous dynasty would have fallen to such a level by believing the slander of an evil monk.
This guy was so devotedly loyal to his Big Bear and Second Bear that they secretly captured babies for him and steamed and ate their hearts to cure his heart disease.
Once there is a first time, there will be a second time. This guy gradually became addicted to eating babies and even set standards for Big Bear: the baby must be a boy under two years old and the chubby height cannot exceed one and a half feet.
The city of Jiankang was haunted. After the rumor spread that someone was stealing babies, every household joined forces to protect the children. Daxiong and Erxiong failed several times, so they had to take a few caring constables to the countryside to steal babies. When they were discovered by the villagers, they were chased and beaten with hoes and poles, which exposed their identities as constables. The villagers sent the captured constables to the government, and the superiors of Jiankang Prefecture immediately closed the case and released the people.
It was not until King Kong came to Jiankang Prefecture for a secret visit that the clues were pointed to the prefect of Jiankang.
After Zhao Yulin learned the brief course of events, he told Lao Meng to take good care of his injuries. Lao Meng said that it was just a minor injury and it was not a big deal, but he felt sad that he did not expect that his parents, officials, would fall to such a level.
Zhao Yulin thought that Old Meng was injured and it was inconvenient to disturb him, so he said goodbye and went to the government office after comforting him.
The captain of the guard, Ke Zhenxie, told him that there was some chaos in the city. It turned out that the soldiers under the prefect were confronting the Shenwei Army that had entered the city. It was simply a rebellion.
He said that it was not a rebellion, but that this group of evil people who had brought harm to the country and the people were unwilling , and still wanted to enjoy the good life and ride on the heads of the people and act tyrannically.
He reminded Ke Zhenxie that this was Jiankang Prefecture, and although it had surrendered to the New Song Dynasty, those officials and soldiers had not yet been reformed.
At this time, Jiang Hai arrived.
Jiang Hai was originally a veteran general under Meng Gong. When the Shenwei Army entered Jingzhou, he defected to Zhao Yulin. So when Meng Gong was in trouble this time, he asked Jiang Hai to come over.
After the two sides exchanged greetings, Jiang Hai said that Jiankang Prefecture was in charge of military and political affairs in northern Jiangnan, and was known as the former emperor's palace and temporary secondary capital. It was the center of the Song Dynasty's resistance against the Mongols in Jiangdong, and there were so many officials that even a fifth-rank official could be seen in the toilet.
Zhao Yulin laughed when he heard his exaggerated statement and asked: General, are you scared?
Don’t you dare to deal with these fierce guys?
Jiang Hai laughed and said disdainfully, "Where did this powerful man come from? If we talk about powerful men, our third young master is not the best. There is no best in this world."
Zhao Yulin laughed and said that he was really good at flattering, and asked him what to do?
Jiang Hai reported to him that Commander Yu had given him 20,000 soldiers and ordered them to deploy along the Yangtze River. He planned to first transfer the soldiers in the city for training and to completely clean up Jiankang Prefecture.
Zhao Yulin nodded and told him to act quickly. The soldiers who were transferred out were not allowed to approach the dock to prevent them from mutiny and rebellion to Lin'an. Once the city was stabilized, training would be started immediately.
Jiang Hai said that when he transferred the team out, he sent out guards and training instructors to supervise them, and all the weapons were put away in storage.
Zhao Yulin thought it was okay and told him to be careful.
After seeing Jiang Hai off, he turned back and wrote a petition to Chengdu.
In Chengdu, the Central Court of the New Song Dynasty learned that the prefect of Jiankang Prefecture was a cannibalistic devil. Meng Gong was shocked when he was wounded by an arrow while arresting the criminal.
Upon hearing this, King Cao Youwen immediately summoned all the officials to discuss the personnel matters in Jiankang Prefecture.
The officials were stunned when Shunzhi Di read out the crime of eating infants committed by the prefect of Jiankang Prefecture. Meng Gong was injured, which was a great loss to the court.
