Detective Di Renjie (3) plot

***There are two cases

"The Liangzhou Case (Black Clothes Society)"

During the first anniversary of Tang Wu, there were frequent border incidents and successive battles. The state funds of the Great Zhou Dynasty were exhausted, and the soldiers guarding the border were restless. At this time, Di Renjie was leading Li Yuanfang and the four military leaders on the mountain road to Liangzhou.

After Di Gong solved a series of major cases in Youzhou, Chongzhou, Sheling, and Jiangzhou, he finally got permission from Emperor Wu to return to his hometown of Bingzhou to cultivate. On his way home, he wanted to take a detour to visit Zeng Tai, the governor of Liangzhou, and bid farewell to him. Thinking of his students, drinking and poetry, laughing and talking about merits and demerits, returning to his hometown to stay away from the troubled court affairs, and concentrating on farming and fishing in the Fen River, Judge Dee felt quite comforted. But Li Yuanfang pointed out to him straightforwardly that he did not have such a happy life.

Zeng Tai, the governor of Liangzhou, was a disciple of Duke Dee. He received an urgent report from the court that a major earthquake was about to occur in the northwest, and he was asked to pay attention to earthquake prevention. Zeng Tai immediately organized disaster prevention and earthquake relief work and evacuated the people in the city in time. But when the earthquake struck, buildings still collapsed, resulting in heavy losses. Zeng Tai was worried when he thought of the 3,000 armored troops escorting the money in the desert. If anything happens to them, the sky will collapse. But when the reinforcements were sent to find this team, all the people in the army were possessed by the evil spirit. They danced and sang in circles for several times. Anyone who stopped would die immediately. The 5 million taels of silver they escorted seemed to have disappeared without a trace, just like the sand dunes swept by a sandstorm. This shocking turn of events left Zeng Tai stunned and trembling. When the case happened, Zeng Tai took emergency measures. On the one hand, he blocked the state border and interrogated businessmen and tourists. They were not allowed to leave without permission. If anyone found suspicious, he would immediately detain him. On the one hand, he reported to the imperial court and then dealt with it. At this time, there were rumors in the city's military and government offices that the case was committed by the Black Clothes Society. In view of the people's superstition of the Black King, Zeng Tai asked the officials to pay attention to public opinion and control the situation to prevent a civil uprising.

Judge Dee arrived in time. He criticized Zeng Tai for being indifferent to the Black Clothes Society and immediately made an accurate inference about the case. A thrilling battle of detection and counter-detection, control and counter-control, a wonderful battle to crack the "God of Death" and "Operation Hell" begins and tumbles to a climax. Finally, the real King in Black appears, she is Xiao Tao, and Wei'er is the Holy Knight (there are 9 Paladins in the Black Club) (Reason for modification: When watching the ending of the third part of this case, Wei'er + next to 6 (excluding Tianwang) + earthquake location arrested in Cuihongyuan + Wang Qiang arrested in Dark Mountain = 9)

"Caoqu Phantom (Hangou Case)"

Thunder and lightning, and heavy rain. The water surface of Hangou, where the Yangtze River from the Grand Canal leads to the Huai River, is turbulent and the sky is cloudy with white waves. In the violent storm, the official ship carrying salt and iron from Jianghuai River was unfortunately destroyed in Hangou. But this was no accident. Because such ship capsizing incidents have occurred fifteen times in a row in this special water section. As a result, millions of rocks of salt were lost, ships were destroyed, and people died! The imperial court sent batches of officials from the Ministry of Industry to Yangzhou to investigate the matter, but they all returned without success, but the strange incident of the ship capsizing in Hangou happened again and again. What's more, Li Han, a doctor from the Ministry of Water who went out to investigate this time, actually hanged himself in office. Due to the obstruction of salt transportation, the salt used by military and civilians in the northwest has become tense. Now, the Hangou channel has become a dead end, the transportation to the north has stopped, and the salt shortage has occurred! Wu Zetian urgently summoned Di Renjie, who had returned to Beijing from Liangzhou, to the palace, and appointed him as the deposed ambassador of Jiangnan Province. He was ordered to rectify the official system and investigate the ship capsizing case in Hangou. Judge Di led Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai to Yangzhou. After arduous investigation and deduction, the truth of the entire case was finally revealed. The so-called ship capsizing case in Hangou is a huge conspiracy planned by the evil Iron Hands, which gathered the government and various green forest roads. First, the Iron Hands sent killers to capsize the salt transport fleet in Hangou to divert the Jianghuai River; and then, The water ghosts were dispatched to fish out the official salt thieves that had sunk into the water. Immediately afterwards, a large barge was sent to transport the salt out of the country. Yang Jiuzheng, the water transport envoy, provided all conveniences for the private salt transport, and the official led the way to avoid the inspection of the river patrol officer. After that, Cui Liang, the governor of Yangzhou, and Wu Wendeng, the chief governor, took the stage and used their authority to force and lure local officials in Huaibei to prevent official salt from entering Huaihe, artificially causing a salt shortage in Huaibei. In this way, they dominated the salt market in Huaibei and blatantly sold the official salt that fell into the water in Hangou to the salt waste counties at high prices to make huge profits. What a huge web of collusion between officials and bandits, it’s really shocking!

The salt shortage in Xuyi has been solved. Duke Di ordered that from now on, the Hejia Salt Store will be closed. People in the city can buy salt from the other three salt stores in the city. The price of salt is twenty cents per dou! As soon as the government's salt order was issued, the whole city was shaken. People came from all directions to three salt shops to buy salt. The scene was really lively, which could be said to benefit one party and relieve the people's worries. Someone set off firecrackers on the street. In a blink of an eye, the sound of firecrackers resounded throughout the city, and the lifeless Xuyi finally came to life.

Judge Di was not immersed in the temporary victory. He took advantage of the victory and organized the Battle of Crouching Tiger Village. Yang Jiucheng also revealed his appearance publicly. Judge Dee thought that there were more than just the three of them, and sure enough, the leader of the Iron Hands strode into the door and looked at Judge Dee coldly. He was the mastermind behind the shipwreck in Hangou, and he was also the master of Hongtong Cabinet - King Ying and Yuanqi.

The final battle was thrilling. Yuan Qi, who was extremely skilled in martial arts, was killed by Li Yuanfang and Yun Gu, the killer of the Iron Hands. All members of the Iron Hands surrendered except for those who were killed. Lin Yang, the most hidden undercover of the Iron Hand Regiment, also fell into the French Open. He was Lu Jiying, the magistrate of Shanyang County who had been following Judge Di. Although Ge Tianba committed a serious crime, he assisted the army in breaking through Wohu Village at the critical moment. He also took the initiative to donate the official salt that was missing after the boat was capsized in Hangou and loaded it on the barge, which showed his sincerity. According to Duke Di's preface, he was exempted from the death penalty and allowed to live in Xuyi City.

The disaster-ridden Hangou is finally open to navigation! The Grand Canal, which had been silent for two years, is noisy again. Huaibei can finally eat the official salt from the imperial court. Judge Dee looked at the broad river, feeling unable to calm down for a long time. The news of the successful detection of the case reached Luoyang. After reading the memorial, Wu Zetian stood up slowly, glanced at the officials standing down and said: It has been more than two years since the ship capsized in Hangou, and all the officials sent by the ministries were unable to solve the problem. Only Di Huaiying was meticulous in his investigation and pitching. If things go wrong, it will be accomplished in ten months. It is really miraculous. Di Huaiying's compromises were all approved.