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Chapter 459 Fear

When Magistrate Li saw Ning Yu and General Xie, he immediately stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Your humble servant greets Lord Ning and General Xie."

As early as when he returned to Ru'an, General Xie told Prefect Lin about what happened in Pingyu Town and asked him to ask his subordinates to pay more attention to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

Prefect Lin took this very seriously and immediately issued an order for all county magistrates to arrange for people to patrol regularly.

General Xie went to see Magistrate Li again and asked him to send someone to the military camp to inform him immediately if he found anything unusual.

Magistrate Li didn't think too much and agreed immediately.

The reason is very simple. Yuzhang County is located on the northwest border, and what if an unexplained riot really occurs?

In addition to reporting the situation to his superiors, County Magistrate Li naturally also had to inform General Xie.

Originally, Daliang and Chen had always lived in peace, but everything changed since the old emperor of Chen passed away and the regent supported the young emperor to ascend the throne.

After several rounds of coups, the Chen State was no longer as powerful as before.

Although it has not reached the point of collapse, it still takes time to recover.

In recent years, as the State of Chen slowly recovered its vitality, it had been eyeing the increasingly prosperous Daliang.

The overall national strength of the State of Chen is not as good as that of Daliang, and with the Northwest Army stationed here, there will be no trouble under normal circumstances.

But that's only under normal circumstances.

It would be unimaginable if the border suddenly became chaotic.

By then, there is no guarantee that the State of Chen will not take advantage of the situation.

County Magistrate Li would arrange for people to patrol at fixed times and locations every day, and also have them work in shifts to ensure that there were people on every street and in every alley.

Today, when the government officers were on patrol, they suddenly found a young man assaulting another young man in an alley.

They immediately stepped forward to stop him and took a lot of effort to subdue the man.

When Magistrate Li heard the report from his subordinates, he immediately told someone to inform Prefect Lin and General Xie.

General Xie was relatively close by, and when he heard the news brought by Magistrate Li, he rushed over immediately.

Ning Yu happened to be with him, so General Xie took him to the county government office.

General Xie: "No need to be so polite, just take us to understand the specific situation first."

Ning Yu also said: "Master Li, please take us to see the injured young man first."

Although the yamen runners who rushed to the alley stopped the attack and saved the young man, they were also witnesses to the violence.

But they arrived later after all.

Only the victim knows the whole story.

They had to meet the young man first and find out what was going on.

Magistrate Li responded hastily: "I will ask my subordinates to bring the person over right away."

As he spoke, he winked at his subordinate beside him.

The subordinates followed the order and left.

Magistrate Li said respectfully, "Please take a seat, my lords. The man is in the county office right now and will be here soon."

When General Xie and Ning Yu arrived at the county government office, he learned that the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple had also come to Yuzhang County from the capital.

For a moment, Magistrate Li was terrified and cold sweat broke out on his back.

The Dali Temple Minister came to Yuzhang County to investigate the case under the order of Your Majesty.

But even Prefect Lin did not get the news, which means that the Dali Temple's investigation process was conducted in secret.

This case must be no simple one as it has attracted so much attention from the imperial court.

When Magistrate Li heard the yamen runners describe what they saw at the time, he immediately thought of the strange things that happened in Pingyu Town. He couldn't help but feel fortunate that the perpetrators were caught in time, and also fortunate that he took the matter seriously enough.

If he didn't take this matter seriously enough and didn't arrange for regular patrols.

Or maybe, if the bailiffs had not arrived in time, the young man in the alley would have probably died at that time.

After all, that place was remote and no one else was passing by at that time.

Even if the young man's body was found later, it would be difficult to find the murderer.

Catching the person is equivalent to catching the main clue.

If something serious happened later due to his momentary negligence, the consequences would be disastrous.