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"To sue the officials in person?" Zhao Baiyu got up, with a smile on his face: "Our imperial envoy is really interesting. He really wants to investigate the case, and he is really eclectic. No wonder he was able to hide in the border for five or six years."

Yan Bing: "Goro knows the details of the imperial envoy?"

In order to prevent Yan Bing from revealing his identity as an imperial envoy, Zhao Baiyu only said that he was an imperial envoy but did not reveal his real identity. Even so, he had to train for a long time before changing the courage to go to ordinary people to be afraid of officials.

"Probably guessed." Zhao Baiyu passed by vaguely, and said to the hidden guard: "You disguised yourself and went to the quarry to inform, and said that a corpse was found nearby, and you have already sued the government. The tooth dealer dared to bury people there to make trouble for Shuidong." Citing, I guess the quarry is not clean, no matter whether the corpse has anything to do with them, they will feel guilty."

The dark guard nodded: "I'll do it now."

Watching the hidden guard leave, Zhao Baiyu was about to turn around and go back to the hall when he caught a glimpse of a figure behind the pillar watching him quietly, so he walked over there.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the figure turned and ran, but was caught by Wei Bo, who had quick eyes and quick hands.

"Let me go!" The seven-year-old child struggled with his hands and feet, but remained motionless.

"So you can talk." Zhao Baiyu was a little surprised, and raised his hand with a smile, asking Wei Bo to put him down. "what's your name?"

As soon as the child landed on the ground, he went around and hid behind the half-person-high vase, and it took a while before he turned his head to look directly at him.

He is small, with a skinny face, big and black eyes, and looks quite gloomy when he does not move.

Yan Bing couldn't help asking: "What's the matter for you? Do you want to see Mrs. Yang? Are you hungry? I have osmanthus candy here, do you want it?"

The child ignored him and kept staring at Zhao Baiyu. When they were helpless, he suddenly said, "I know you."

Zhao Baiyu raised his eyebrows: "I heard from the supervisor in the saltworks, or did your Aunt Yang mention it?"

Child: "They said that you are a good official who pleaded for the people. Aunt Yang prayed day and night that Qingtian would come to Liangjiang, and she also mentioned you later." He stared at Zhao Baiyu and walked out from behind the vase: "You really know how to kill Corrupt officials?"

Zhao Baiyu: "Whether to kill or not is determined by the law of the country, not something that I can decide by opening my mouth and raising my hand."

Child: "If corrupt officials break the law, do you dare to kill them?"

Zhao Baiyu: "If the national law sentences him to death, I dare."

The child took three steps forward, still staring at Zhao Baiyu: "The princess breaks the law, do you dare to kill her?"

The expressions of Wei Bo and Yan Bing changed dramatically, and the smile in Zhao Baiyu's eyes gradually faded away, and he turned to answer seriously: "The emperor commits the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law."

The child stopped three steps away from Zhao Baiyu, and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed, the sound of bones hitting the ground was particularly loud, the movement was caught off guard and fast, and there was no time to stop it.

"Master Zhao, the grass-roots Kuang Fuwei wants to sue Li Deshou, the eunuch close to Princess Changping, for killing and murdering, forcibly seizing three quarries under the name of Kuang Shishang in Hongzhou, falsely accusing Kuang Shishang of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, and imprisoning his whole family. 16 years old The men were copied and beheaded, the women were sold by their family members, and even the stone merchants surnamed Kuang were ruined. Then tell Princess Changping’s close female official to have close contacts with the dental merchants in private, to help the dental merchants who abducted their husbands and the government to match up, and to improve the abducted people. For cheap, and then sold all over the world."

Zhao Baiyu's eyelids twitched violently, and his expression was cold. He thought it was a tooth dealer who sold people, and the government pretended to be deaf and dumb because of the benefits. So Princess Changping was also involved?

He thought that Princess Changping still had a bottom line. After all, she was the eldest princess supported by the people. Even if she couldn't care about the world like Emperor Yuanshou, he didn't expect her to love the people like a child, at least she wouldn't sell the people as pigs and dogs.

Could it be that the money earned from water and sea smuggling was not enough to satisfy her appetite?

Seeing Zhao Baiyu's ugly face, Kuang Fuwei's uneasy heart finally settled down. He believed that the official who would be angry because of Princess Changping's actions was a good person.

"Get up, talk to me carefully."

Kuang Fuwei stood up after hesitating for a while, and told his story in detail.

About ten years ago, a stone merchant surnamed Kuang in Hongzhou discovered a stone mine with a natural texture, and bought it at a high price as a quarry. Guan Wenbin, the magistrate of Hongzhou.

Guan Wenbin borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and sent them to the princess mansion.

Princess Changping was delighted to see it, and asked about the source. On a whim, she went to see the quarry owned by the stone merchant named Kuang.

Discord occurred during the refusal period, and later expanded to pushing and shoving, and bloodshed occurred.

When Emperor Yuanshou came down from Beijing to reprimand him mercilessly, Princess Changping lost all face.

After a year of dormancy, when the Kuang surnamed stone merchant was trading with a Daxia merchant, Princess Changping suddenly mobilized and collected a large number of letters from the Kuang surnamed stone merchant's house, accusing the Kuang surnamed stone merchant under the pretense of selling strange stones, but actually sending them to Daxia all year round. Grain and ironware.

The evidence of the crime was convincing, and Shi Shang, surnamed Kuang, could not quibble and was sentenced to death.

The once-prominent Hongzhou stone merchants fell instantly.

Zhao Baiyu: "How old are you?"

Kuang Fuwei: "Eleven."

He was four years old when his home was ransacked, and he could already remember things.

He was imprisoned for two years, and was sent to work in his own quarry for three years. Because the quarry was going to release a group of laborers, he was rowed in by accident and wandered to the Jizhou Salt Field, where he was blessed by the Yang family. , and depended on her for life until she met Zhao Baiyu.

"Collusion with the dentist, what's going on?"

"Ya merchants, or buy abducted lovers from human traffickers, or buy people from other places that have suffered natural and man-made disasters at a low price by cheating and abducting, and then transport them to Liangjiang, or buy people from offended officials' children and female relatives. Stealing and changing posts. Women are carefully trained and sold or given away to serve others as selves, while men are first sent to quarries, salt fields and other places to work as coolies, sold after two or three years, and then exchanged for a new batch... Kuang Fuwei suddenly asked: "My lord, do you know why people are sent to places like quarries?"

Zhao Baiyu: "Take strict care, and work day and night to wear down their bones?"

Kuang Fuwei nodded slowly: "There is another reason. The number of benevolent people who changed their low status should not be too large, and they should not appear in the affluent Liangjiang. Places such as quarries and salt fields can accommodate them and are also convenient for Tibetans."

Ordinary people would sell themselves unless they could no longer survive. Changing from being good to being cheap will cause disaster for nine generations. If there are a large number of records of good and cheap in Liangjiang, which is rich and prosperous, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of the court.

Kuang Fuwei looked at him steadily, and asked softly, "Your Excellency will handle it impartially, right?"

Zhao Baiyu noticed that the child's hand hanging by his side had been tightly clenched into a fist, and the palm was bleeding from the pinch, but he didn't realize it, and was focused on his answer.

For him, and for Yang, Zhao Baiyu seems to be the only life-saving straw.

They are hopeless.

Not everyone has the potential to become a legendary knight who kills one person in a thousand miles in the history books. They can't even get out of a small quarry.

Let alone revenge?

Not to mention redress of injustice?

So when the rumored Qingtian arrived in Liangjiang, their physical bodies walking in the world were rejuvenated, and the dead souls who wailed day and night deep in their hearts could weep with joy.

Zhao Baiyu patted the child's shoulder lightly, and suddenly felt that his misfortune in the first half of his life was already a great blessing for others.

"The law is not expensive, and the punishment has no grades."

Kuang Fuwei didn't understand.

Zhao Baiyu smiled, and replied softly: "The law of the country should be cut, so I dare to cut it!"

***

The three black boxes were dug out, and after opening, the stench came out. Guan Wenbin covered his nose and took a look, then hurriedly backed away: "Take them all back!"

Looking back at Huo Zhaowen, Guan Wenbin said: "Ordinary people are afraid of being suspected when they see a dead person, so they don't care if they can. Businessmen value profits, especially if they are. On the contrary, you sue the officials with great fanfare. You are indeed a bit chivalrous. You are not in vain. Fame is in the body."

Huo Zhaowen smiled and did not respond.

Guan Wenbin just meant it, and didn't really want the other party's response. He happily rode on the big horse, and was satisfied with the good means of checking and balancing the criminal commissioner and the imperial envoy at the same time.

***

At this time in the quarry, a man dressed as a mountaineer hurried to the gate, but was stopped by the gate guard: "This is not a place for you to chop firewood, get out of here."

The mountain husband was startled, turned around and ran away, the abnormal reaction attracted the attention of the guards, who immediately caught him.

"Why are you sneaking around? What's your name? Where do you live?"

The mountain man was so frightened that he uttered like beans: "No, no, no... I saw the officers and soldiers digging up several large boxes by the river, and there were corpses in the boxes. I was so scared that I almost lost my mind. Yes! The official has mercy on me, the little one is useless, the official has mercy on—"

"Wait a minute, what corpse?"

The mountain man turned upside down and the officers and soldiers dug up several corpses. It seemed that he was really frightened. The guards drove him away and sent someone to the front to find out the news.

After a while, he came back and returned, saying the same as Shanfu.

The guard's heart sank. There was no one in the area for ten miles, and accidents happened in the quarry from time to time. It's not surprising that people died. Maybe the dug up corpses were thrown in the quarry. If the government investigates to the end, nothing bad will happen?

He hurriedly reported this matter to his superiors, and the news was quickly sent back to the Princess Mansion.

Guan Wenbin only dug up the body in the morning, posted a notice to arrest the real murderer in the afternoon, and Li Deshou quietly appeared in his study at night, ordering him to hastily end the murder.

Guan Wenbin was stunned and asked why.

Li Deshou's deliberately lowered voice was still very sharp: "Do you know that there is a quarry above that river? Do you know whose name the quarry is in?"

Guan Wenbin: "...is it Your Highness?" He shuddered violently, swallowed in fear, and stammered, "I understand, Your Highness, please rest assured, the case will be closed immediately tomorrow morning."

Li Deshou's eyes were gloomy and cold, and he was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something: "How do you know that there are three corpses buried there?"

Guan Wenbin wiped off his cold sweat: "A foreign businessman saw the process of burying the corpse and came here to report to the officials—" He suddenly paused, looked up at Li Deshou, and found that his face was full of murderous intent, and immediately reacted: "Don't worry Li Duzhi, humble job It will not give the foreign businessman a chance to speak to the outside world."

Li Deshou: "It's an eventful time, and the imperial envoy is still in the mansion."

Guan Wenbin: "The death of a businessman in the mansion may be troublesome to deal with, but it is different for a businessman in the north who is far away from the sky. The death of a guest in a foreign land is ordinary, and there are many ways to kill him in this mansion."

Li Deshou: "The imperial envoy to Liangjiang is a bad thing for you, but it is an opportunity for His Royal Highness to return to Beijing. Your Highness will remember the care of Mr. Guan over the years. When he returns to Beijing one day, he will tell Mr. Guan and say no to the Queen Mother and His Majesty." There must be a chance of being transferred to Beijing."

Guan Wenbin's eyes lit up in an instant: "His Royal Highness has done a lot of convenience, and it's my responsibility, how can I take care of it?"

Hearing this, Li Deshou left with satisfaction.

After sending Li Deshou away, Guan Wenbin immediately lost his face and spat viciously: "A dog fights people! An old dog is also worthy to show off his power in front of me, my master? Go back to Beijing... Tell me about the year of the monkey and treat me like a fool ?”

The master came over: "My lord, is the case still under investigation?"

"Check the fart!"

Guan Wenbin was so angry that he finally came across an unsolved case that could be used to fool the imperial envoy. It happened that he died in Princess Changping's territory, and he was a Buddha who could not be offended. All his calculations were in vain. headache.

"Go and take down the notice outside, and say the case is closed."

The master was stunned: "The case is closed? Who is the murderer?"

Guan Wenbin: "As for the Beishang who came to sue the officials, directed and acted by himself, murdered his own money, and despised the court, let him be arrested."

The master didn't understand why he suddenly changed his mind, but he did what he was told, so there was no more nonsense.

***

Huo Zhaowen thought that Guan Wenbin would use the tide merchant's case to delay the Yanjing murder case in Jizhou, but he didn't expect that the notice posted just yesterday would be taken down directly, and he quickly grabbed the yamen servant to ask what happened.

Yamen servant: "The real culprit has been caught, and the case has been solved."

Huo Zhaowen: "Who is the murderer?"

Yamen servant: "The murderer is—— no, who are you? Why do you ask so many questions?"

Huo Zhaowen: "I'm the one who discovered the body, and I'm the one who sued. It's nothing strange to ask."

"It's you..." The yamen servant suddenly realized, raised his hand suddenly and shouted: "The real culprit is here, catch him!"

Huo Zhaowen's pupils constricted, and he was soon surrounded by dozens of yamen servants, and the people who had been watching were scattered in an instant.The squad leader pointed at Huo Zhaowen and scolded him for the murder and murder that had been exposed, he had better be caught obediently, otherwise his relatives would be affected, and it would be useless to regret at that time.

Huo Zhaowen sneered: "It's clearly the corpse I found. I personally came to sue the officials. Guan Wenbin did not investigate but decided that I was the murderer. Is there still Wang Fa?"

The team leader was said to have a guilty conscience: "How dare you argue when you are about to die? If you didn't kill the person, why did you sue the government? Why are you so concerned about this case? How do you know that those people are tide merchants? It is clear that you are looking for money Make up your mind, kill people and steal money!"

Huo Zhaowen laughed back angrily, "It's really confusing black and white, pointing a deer into a horse, from top to bottom, there is no one official who is clean and bright. Under the governance of you bunch of dog officials, I don't know how much trouble is hidden under the surface of the prosperity and peace of the two rivers Dirty dirty things!"

"Tricky mouth." The team leader scolded: "Catch him!"

The yamen servants all rushed up, but they were all embroidered pillows. They were kicked to the ground by Huo Zhaowen in two or three times, and he also snatched the knife, and went straight to the door of the team leader. Share war war, almost fainted.

Suddenly someone yelled from behind, causing Huo Zhaowen to turn his head, and sprinkled white powder on his face. Huo Zhaowen couldn't avoid it, and sucked in a big mouthful. Suddenly, he became dizzy, his eyes were blurred, the back of his head suddenly hurt, and he was immediately invaded by darkness. .

The team leader who knocked out Huo Zhaowen sternly snorted, and kicked him hard on the leg bone: "Mother, fuck me! Keep messing with me!"

Huo Zhaowen, who had inhaled the sweat medicine, did not pass out completely, but was still a little conscious. He could feel that he was being dragged into the Hongzhou magistrate's yamen, and Guan Wenbin was very angry when he listened to the team leader's embellished description of what he had just said outside.

"A lowly businessman dares to scold the officials? Anyone can bully the government without being taught a lesson!" Guan Wenbin pointed to Huo Zhaowen and said, "Set up the shackles and put them in the sun for two hours. buried."

***

"Is the imperial envoy imprisoned?" Zhao Baiyu scratched his nose with his fingernails, and held back his smile: "Guan Wenbin is very courageous."

Guan Wenbin scored crazily, and he was overwhelmed with joy.

"If he knew that the person who was imprisoned was an imperial envoy—hey, I can't imagine it." Yan Bing: "Why is Guan Wenbin so courageous? Even if he didn't know that it was an imperial envoy, the imperial envoy is still in Hongzhou, so he is not afraid of being questioned? "

Zhao Baiyu: "The imperial envoy will leave at any time. Shangui's term of office has not yet arrived, and the return date of Changping is uncertain. He is still on duty. Besides, the imperial envoy may not know about the case of Chaozhou merchants being murdered. Guan Wenbin claims to be smart, and he is still a good speculator. , of course I know how to do it."

Wei Bo: "It's summer now, and the sun is so hot that I can't bear it. What's more, I'm still in a shackle where I can't lie down or lie down. Anyone who is unconscious and fails to stand still will suffocate to death within half an hour."

Yan Bing: "He is an imperial envoy, he has many eyes and ears around him, and he will definitely help others."

"Exposing your identity now is to scare the snake away. The hand that was stretched out will be retracted." Zhao Baiyu: "We still have to find a way to save people. Anyway, after this encounter, what we have seen and experienced with our own eyes, our imperial envoy can empathize with the two rivers." the suffering people."

***

On the other side, Yan Duwei, Zhao Chongjin and others all knew that Huo Zhaowen had been arrested and locked up in the yamen. The former couldn't hold back and was about to rush to the yamen to reveal his identity, but was stopped by Zhao Chongjin.

Zhao Chongjin: "If you reveal your identity now, all the schemes of the Sixth Prince will be in vain. Don't forget your Majesty's words, if the Sixth Prince returns without success, don't go back. There are still princelings in the capital, waiting for the opportunity at any time." Adding insult to injury. The news of the Sixth Prince’s appointment as an imperial envoy will not be kept secret for long. Once the East Palace notices something strange, it will be even more difficult for us to move forward. Don’t let your highness be full of schemes because of impulsiveness!”

Yan Duwei: "It's a fart without people!"

Zhao Chongjin's face was not good-looking, and his brows were tightly frowned. The reason why he didn't like talking to generals was because of this: "Small intolerance will lead to chaos and big plans. Wait a little longer, if it really doesn't work, I will come forward."

Yan Duwei: "You?" He has a brain this time, "No one knows that you, Erlang Zhao, have taken refuge in the Sixth Prince, and thought you were from the East Palace, so you won't be exposed if you show up directly?"

Zhao Chongjin: "I can't control that much."

Yan Duwei: "You and Guan Wenbin are considered to be at the same level, will he give you face?"

"I also have a father who is in charge of the court." Zhao Chongjin frowned and said, "Go to the Yamen first to see the situation."

***

"Yes!" Zhao Baiyu slapped the table and said, "When I came to Liangjiang, King Kang specifically told me that he was the one who ordered Guan Wenbin to be on the list back then, and he can be regarded as his mentor." He turned his head and asked Yan. Bing: "When I donated Ten Thousand Years of Blood Amber before, King Kang gave me a piece of Huanglong Yujue as a thank you. Did you bring it?"

Yan Bing thought carefully and said, "I'll look for it in the luggage I brought."

Zhao Baiyu found Yan Bing quickly, "Guan Wenbin hasn't seen you, has he?"

Yan Bing shook his head: "It's true that I've never seen it before."

Wei Bo: "Even if I saw it, I probably wouldn't recognize it."

No one will deliberately remember what a school boy looks like, let alone Yan Bing combed his hair up and changed into a new style, like a scholar preparing for an exam, his temperament and image have changed drastically, and it is even more impossible to recognize him as Zhao Bai The inconspicuous little book boy next to Yu.

"You take this piece of Huanglong Yujue to see Guan Wenbin, and I will teach you how to say..." After telling what should be said, Zhao Baiyu rubbed his fingers and thought for a while, then said: "Ask an imperial envoy at the right time He said that he can't make the officials obedient by acting recklessly like that, and he needs a carrot hanging in front of him, so that these officials with their own ideas can charge forward for him."

Yan Bing seemed to understand, but took Huanglong Yujue to the Hongzhou magistrate's yamen, knocked on the door, and was led to Guan Wenbin.

Guan Wenbin looked at Yan Bing: "I don't know how the teacher is doing recently?"

Yan Bing shook Huanglong Yujue: "My lord is a noble man, he eats and drinks well, and he is in good health."

Guan Wenbin heard his authentic Kyoto accent, and most of the doubts in his heart disappeared. After thinking about it, no one would dare to risk the crime of beheading and pretend to be Kang Wang's acquaintance.

"May I ask what is the relationship between Mr. Xiaolang and his mentor?"

Yan Bing: "You guess."

Guan Wenbin had a terrified expression on his face.

Yan Bing smiled immediately and said: "Just kidding, this is the Huanglong jade that the late emperor gave to King Kang. It is rare and priceless. Now that it is in my hands, what do you think is the relationship between me and King Kang?"

When he said this, cold sweat broke out in his palms, and he racked his brains to recall what expression and tone he would have if it was Goro.

Guan Wenbin understands that the relationship is either close or old.

He asked Yan Bing why he came, and Yan Bing said that he came for a friend who was detained in the Yamen.

"Which friend is it? But it's okay to say, if there is a misunderstanding, it's better to solve it as soon as possible."

"My friend is very good, but he has a problem of being chivalrous. He is a businessman and has traveled all over the world. Because of his chivalry, he heard that King Kang had been searching for a treasure for five years. It happened that this rare treasure was in the hands of my friend. My friend Apart from anything else, I offered treasures and saved King Kang's relatives, so I was honored as a guest..."

The more Guan Wenbin listened, the more flustered he became, his eyelids twitched, and he felt something was wrong.

"His surname is Zheng, a businessman from Dingzhou, who was arrested by you this morning, and is still locked up in the shackles!" Yan Bing suddenly snapped: "Master Guan, you are really a good student of King Kang! He can't wait to save his life If the benefactor confessed, you would be fine, if you beat him to prison without saying a word, you almost died!"

Guan Wenbin was terrified, stood up quickly and said: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding! Oh! Why didn't he tell me about his relationship with his teacher earlier? If I said it earlier, I wouldn't move him - come, come ! Go and let me go!"

The team leader took the order and quickly put the man down.

At this time, Huo Zhaowen's lips had been tanned, and he looked like he was suffering from heat stroke, so he helped him to sit in the shade, gave him some water to drink, regained his spirit after a while, and asked weakly what was going on.

Yan Bing said in a low voice: "My elder brother has something to do with a nobleman in the capital, and he used the name of a nobleman to save you... Hey, if I hadn't come here this morning to inquire, I would have learned that you were locked in the shackles and exposed to the sun, so I would rush to steal Yu Jue at home came to save you, you were already sunburned to death."

Huo Zhaowen recognized Huanglong Yujue in Yanbing's hand, thinking of the suffering he suffered today, his heart was full of hostility, and he wished to kill Guan Wenbin, a dog official, on the spot.

Yan Bing pressed Huo Zhaowen's arm: "Be patient." Pointing to Guan Wenbin who was running around in a hurry, he said: "I don't want to waste all my previous efforts."

Huo Zhaowen: "I didn't expect you to have such a relationship, the real person doesn't show his face."

Yan Bing: "Isn't the imperial envoy also surrounded by your people? It's easy to work with multiple relationships when traveling outside. Besides, this noble person is a relationship managed by my brother. I just used it secretly."

Hearing that Zhao Baiyu detoxified Huo Jingtang's Gu poison through King Kang's offering of ten thousand years of blood amber, which was exactly as Yan Bing said, and Huo Zhaowen's doubts that had been raised with difficulty dissipated.

Guan Wenbin came to the two of them and apologized repeatedly, saying it was a misunderstanding.

Huo Zhaowen managed to force a smile: "I believe that my lord's mistake was unintentional, and I didn't deliberately target it, but can you tell me that yesterday there was a notice to investigate the murder case, why did it take it down today?"

Guan Wenbin said that a big person came to make a point, "You shouldn't offend noble people."

"Could it be that the three corpses are related to the nobleman?"

"The corpse may not be related, but the place of burial is wrong. There is a quarry nearby, which belongs to the nobleman's property." Guan Wenbin waved his hands and tried to persuade: "You and I can't afford to offend the nobleman, don't do it again." hear a case."

Huo Zhaowen: "No matter how high the nobleman's status is, he is better than the imperial envoy? Murder cases have occurred in the mansion, and the grievance drum has been beaten one after another. Are you afraid that the imperial envoy will ask the case?"

Guan Wenbin's expression was slightly awkward, and he hesitated and said: "The time is short... Maybe the imperial envoy didn't know about it, and didn't bother to ask—cough, all in all, it was a misunderstanding this time, and I don't know that the flood rushed into the Dragon King Temple. Forget it I'm sorry, I'll apologize to you, but don't get involved in this case, lest you get burned."

The anger in Huo Zhaowen's heart was getting stronger and stronger, and he had to endure it forcefully, the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and the smile on his face deepened.

Who did the quarry belong to, how could he not know?

Princess Changping, his aunt who was demoted to Liangjiang, really flooded the Dragon King Temple and almost died at the hands of his own relatives.

After Huo Zhaowen regained his physical strength, he left in a hurry, left the prefect's yamen, thanked Yan Bing first, and then said goodbye.

Yan Bing stopped him: "It's a terrible crime, don't you think about it?"

Huo Zhaowen: "What?"

Yan Bing sighed: "I told you about the murders of a few tide merchants, hoping that you would use the hands of the imperial envoy to investigate. It turned out that you were lucky, and you went to sue the officials yourself, and half your life was lost. What do you think you got?"

Huo Zhaowen had an unhappy expression on his face, and managed to suppress his displeasure: "Brother Zhao is right, I didn't think carefully. But you said before that you could use the case of the Chaozhou merchant's murder to make these officials fight among themselves...but I take care of the text. Bin is used to obedience and disobedience, and he seems to listen to the words of the imperial envoys more than he is afraid of the imperial envoys."

Yan Bing spread his hands: "Because the imperial envoy didn't give any real benefits, the imperial envoy patted his ass and left after investigating the case, leaving Guan Wenbin to face stumbling blocks from his superiors and colleagues, and he might even go to jail .Do you think he will care about the imperial envoy, or will he listen to his colleagues and the envoy?"

Huo Zhaowen: "According to what you say, what kind of benefits should I give? Money?"

Yan Bing: "The officials in Liangjiang are not short of money."

Huo Zhaowen: "What's missing?"

Yan Bing: "Official chant. Guan Wenbin has been the magistrate of Hongzhou for five years, and his term is due this year, but his political performance is mediocre. Although he can buy a better job with money, better things like a criminal sentence Envoys, transshipment envoys, appeasement envoys, etc., have to be recommended by the ministers of the court, otherwise don't even think about it. Recommendations from the ministers of the court are not easy to get, if anyone can promise him a third- and fourth-rank official, let me tell you, Guan Wen Bin can become a dog that you can stand when you say it, and sit when you say it.”

Huo Zhaowen didn't quite believe it: "Is it so magical?"

Yan Bing: "Otherwise? Being an official is addictive."

Huo Zhaowen has gained insight, and there is anger in his heart that cannot be vented, and there is also a sense of absurdity that arises from seeing through the officialdom of Liangjiang.

He has been on the border for many years, always paying attention to the movements of the Eastern Palace and the imperial court, boasting that he is well versed in tactics, sees through the officialdom, and is able to do a job with ease.

He didn't suffer at the hands of the smart man, but fell hard at the inconspicuous stupid official silverfish.

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The author has something to say:

The sixth child was taught a lesson hahaha. He is actually quite smart, but he has no experience. He thinks of being a soldier. He used to be a bystander, but now the authorities are obsessed. Donggong knows better than him how to deal with corrupt officials, and what he sees It's the imperial court's political struggle, and he studied the conspiracy of the public. He has never experienced local conspiracy at all. The so-called "a strong dragon does not suppress a local snake" means that they have no yin.

But he is also a quick learner.

PS: Xiaoyu wants Lao Liu to see with his own eyes how rotten Liangjiang's officialdom really is. After all, he represents the emperor on hunting tours and is still the prince. What he sees and what he says is the truth.

No matter how Liangjiang's officialdom destroyed evidence like it did with Xiaoyu before, it was useless, because the imperial envoy had personally encountered and seen it with his own eyes.

The sack in the previous article: the punishment in the ancient prison, the chest was pressed with a heavy object, and he died quietly.

Rigid yoke: torture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a cage stuck around the neck of a person, standing day and night, and hanging in it if he couldn't bear it.

PS: It’s true that being an official is addictive... I recently saw a modern one, who fell from the horse and wanted to be an official for 20 years. Serving like a real parent, renting a house near the leader's house, it is convenient to serve, cleaning and cooking at the leader's house... The thing I think about every day is: Did you make the leader angry?Did you say something wrong?

He also lived a simple life, and suffered a lot in his heart: "I have already reached this position as an official, and I should be content with my ancestors."

However, looking back at the higher officials, I couldn't help but want to be bigger and want to enter the central government.