Chapter 1,445

He seemed to see Anzhe's confusion.

Master Lin said patiently: "The Lord of Cao County captured Xingyang and Guangwu, and more people came to defect to him!"

"County Lord Cao has an upright character and does not allow his subordinates to oppress the people. But one of his subordinates, Liu Jun, fought with Lord Cao to capture Xingyang and robbed the women of the people. However, Lord Cao beat him and drove him away!"

"Liu Jun was not convinced, so he led a team to rob the county seat. There was also Shao Mingjie, who was also dissatisfied with County Lord Cao's governance policy, and also led a team to riot!"

An Zhe understood that these two people were using Cao Qiang's reputation to recruit talents and develop themselves.

It is normal for things like this to happen to a mob like this, with a mixed bag of good and bad.

An Zhe didn't take it to heart, thinking that it would be easy to deal with them after surrendering Master Lin and Cao Qiang.

Master Lin saw that An Zhe had not aroused alarm and said, "Mr. An, there is another important reason for our surrender! I heard that the emperor has sent a large force to encircle and suppress us!"

"Sir Zhang even accused us of killing the Zhengzhou magistrate and you, Mr. An! He will never tolerate us again this time!"

"Mr. An, I already know that you were attacked by bandits! I dare to guarantee you with the head on my neck that it was definitely not our people!"

When An Zhe was assassinated, he discovered that the strength of those who were chasing him was not what a bandit should be, and he already had doubts in his heart.

Hearing this, he said: "It's not you, could it be Liu Jun and Shao Mingjie's people?"

Master Lin shook his head: "It can't be them! They are brave and ruthless, but they don't have the courage and strength to assassinate the imperial minister!"

"I have already asked people to investigate. The group of bandits who were chasing you disappeared without a trace. The last person who saw them was in Shiqiu."

"Mr. An, the garrison of Mr. Zhang, the governor of both sides of the Taiwan Strait, is in Shiqiu."

"I suspect that the so-called gangsters who assassinated you were not our team at all, but were disguised as soldiers from the garrison of Lord Zhang, the governor of both sides of the Taiwan Strait!"

Anzhe was dumbfounded when he heard this.

Mr. Zhang is so bold. He will be executed if he assassinates the imperial envoy.

But An Zhe's face darkened when he thought of Xiao Lintian's words when he came out.

He and Xiao Lintian had suspected before that things in Zhengzhou were not simple and that there must be something hidden inside.

Mr. Zhang asked the soldiers to pretend to be rogues to assassinate him. He must not have wanted to interfere with the rogue riots in Zhengzhou.

Thinking of the murder of the spies he sent out, An Zhe also suspected that it was not the work of rogue bandits, but the murder of Mr. Zhang's people.

But why did Mr. Zhang kill the spies and assassinate himself!

What did he want to hide at the risk of being beheaded?

Cao Qiang and Master Lin are both local gangsters. They may know the inside story that the spies cannot find out.

Anzhe asked his question directly.

After listening to An Zhe's question, Master Lin sneered and said, "The reason why the riots in these towns have reached this stage is all caused by Mr. Zhang."

"In order to build rivers in recent years, Lord Zhang has asked several county magistrates to recruit strong men. They have been paid very little, and the huge amount of money allocated by the court every year to build rivers has been divided up by Lord Zhang and his magistrates.

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"This layer-by-layer division resulted in perfunctory construction of river channels. When the rainy season came, the hastily constructed river channels could not withstand the impact of floods and collapsed for more than ten miles. The floods destroyed two villages and killed nearly 200 people.

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Anzhe opened his eyes in shock. This was a huge disaster, but why had they never heard of it?


Chapter completed!