At the Ministry of Justice's yamen, Zhang Chen found Li You and went straight to the point,""Lord Li, I suspect that someone has embezzled the stolen goods found in the Ning residence. I hope you can gather all the constables to cooperate with the investigation.”
Li You's heart tightened when he heard this. He quickly asked,"What happened? Why do you suspect that someone embezzled the stolen goods found in the Ning residence?”
Before Zhang Chen could say anything, Ye Qingxian, who was with him, said,""Lord Li, this isn't something you should ask. You just have to cooperate with the case inspector. It won't do you any good to ask so many questions.”
Li You was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, but he did not dare to continue pestering her. He nodded and said,"Alright, I'll gather all the constables in the yamen now.”
Zhang Chen said to Ye Qing Xian," We can't use anyone from the Ministry of Justice to deal with the bailiffs this time. Go find the Princess and help me get some reliable people."”
" That's easy," Ye Qingxian said with a smile." Give me your gold medal, and I'll go to the Vermilion Bird Army to get some men."”
"My gold medal?" Zhang Chen asked. Which piece?"
He now had two gold medals in his hands. One was a death exemption medal, and the other was a fourth-grade inspector's authority medal.
Every official in Great Xia had three credentials: a seal, two official documents, and three talismans. Without one of the three, they could not take up the post.
In other words, officials could not have official robes, but they had to have three types of authority certificates.
Different officials had different ranks, and the materials used to make the talismans were different as well.
The official token had to be engraved with official position, name, authority, and other information. Those who understood would know the identity of the owner of the gold medal at a glance.
The silver, gold, and titled constables of the Six Fan School had the same token as the officials.
This setting was also to improve the status of the masters of the Six Fan School. It was a means to win the hearts of the people, but it did not mean that their authority was equal to that of the officials with the same talisman.
A fourth-grade official's talisman was supposed to be made of silver, but Zhang Chen's official position was specially set up by the emperor, so the talisman naturally had to be specially made, so he made an exception and used gold.
"It's your authority!" Ye Qingxian said. Don't you know that you can mobilize no more than 500 troops to assist in the case with the gold medal? Isn't it written in the official document?"
Zhang Chen was speechless. The document was too long and he had only read half of it.
……
Ye Qingxian moved quickly. Zhang Chen waited at the Ministry of Justice for less than an hour before she brought an elite troop of 500 men.
After Li You issued the order, the constables under his command also gathered in twos and threes.
This bunch of worms who lived in their positions were full of complaints. Each of them complained discontentedly, not knowing what they were going to face next.
"What the hell? I'm taking a break. What does the minister want to do?”
"Hey! This matter has nothing to do with the minister. I heard that it was our former colleague who did it.”
"Zhang Chen? What was he trying to do? Did he think that after becoming an official, the Ministry of Justice would become his?”
"Haha! He had made a fortune, so of course, he had to put on airs in front of his old colleagues. Otherwise, wouldn't he be dressed in brocade clothes at night?”
"Just wait and see! Let's see how the officials torture us."
……
Zhang Chen did not wait for all the constables to arrive. Seeing that most of them had arrived, he immediately beat the drum and went to the hall.
The two sergeants came to the constables and pointed at one of them. They said coldly,"You, go in."
The constable's heart trembled and he said,""What are you doing?"
The two soldiers did not waste any time and directly carried the bailiff into the hall.
The expressions of the other constables changed, and a bad feeling rose in their hearts.
A moment later, the constables saw the colleague who had been dragged into the hall being stripped of his robe and knife. He was escorted to the cell by the soldiers.
"What…what's going on?"
"It seems like they're going to attack us!"
"That Zhang guy, how dare he attack us? Without us, will the yamen still have anyone to use?”
"What should we do? What should we do?"
……
In the lobby.
Zhang Chengao sat in the hall and kept asking the soldiers to bring in constables to interrogate them one by one.
Ye Qingxian took notes and finished interrogating all the constables in six hours.
The truth was as Zhang Chen had expected. The constables who had colluded with the supervisors during the raid on the Ning residence had indeed uncovered many small details.
Although those small items were not big, they were priceless.
The bailiffs who had pocketed the stolen goods were not stupid. They knew that they would pawn them after the news had passed, so they had not taken out the stolen goods yet. Otherwise, it would be even more troublesome to find them.
Zhang Chen ordered people to retrieve the stolen goods according to the confession. Among the stolen goods, they found something suspicious.
It was a jade plate with the word 'Two' carved on the back.
The carvings on the jade plate were not exquisite, and the quality of the jade was not very good. No matter how one looked at it, it was not worthy of being collected by a prince.
However, this jade token came from Prince Ning's study.
Other than this jade token, Zhang Chen didn't find anything else suspicious.
"Could it be that there is really no one behind Prince Ning?”
With this thought in mind, Zhang Chen decided to skip this section for the time being and focus on other cases first.
To him, finding out the truth was secondary. The most important thing was to improve his martial arts.
When a case reached a dead end, he would go to other cases. After all, no one forced him to find out the truth.
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