The person responsible for the investigation arrived very quickly, and the whole Jianyi city was in a state of trembling.
I thought everything could be calmed down. After all, I submitted the investigation data through the official system, and I no longer had to rush around alone like before.
Daxia can be a country for more than 800 years, but I don't believe it will deteriorate to this extent.
The county magistrate was arrested and brought to justice by the patrolling envoys, which went smoothly without any major obstacles.
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but I didn't relax completely. I still sent people to keep an eye on the Wang family and Li family members.
I have not forgotten the lesson from before. Once someone comes to investigate, the Wang family and the Li family will urgently transfer grain from their respective granaries to fill the official war preparation granary to cope with the inspection.
But this time, I did not publicly announce the investigation information in advance. There was not enough time in a short period of time, and the Wang and Li families had no time to adjust their food supply.
As long as the inspection team goes to the grain depot and takes a look, they will naturally be able to verify the relevant evidence.
When the county magistrate confesses, everything will be solved.
The inspection envoy was also quite decisive. After quietly taking down the county magistrate, he immediately went to the granary.
Then, the granary caught fire.
It is true that Daxia was not irredeemably corrupted, but Jianyi had been corrupted to an unimaginable extent.
I can't imagine such a shocking event happening.
And the event that shocked me even more was yet to come.
The magistrate of Jianyi County hanged himself in the county prison. The official report was that he committed suicide out of fear of crime.
Jianyi garrisoned troops at the proposed location, and the ordnance officer also drank poison and committed suicide soon after.
The inspector angrily investigated the relevant situation. All the evidence was not completely destroyed, but all the remaining evidence and ledgers pointed the blame at the county magistrate Han Qiong.
Well, it makes sense that all the sins are on a dead man.
Anyway, it was impossible for Han Qiong to stand up and speak.
Soon after, the results of the investigation came out.
Han Qiong, the magistrate of Jianyi County, deceived his superiors and deceived his subordinates, preying on the common people and engaging in corruption.
All the money used by the court to build river embankments every year was embezzled, causing the river embankments to fall into disrepair.
Poor management of the grain depot resulted in a fire in the grain depot.
His son Han Lide oppressed the people, set up horses in the street to hurt people, colluded with local rogues, and took pleasure in killing people in Moshan. He was sentenced to be executed at the entrance of the vegetable market in the autumn.
The report on the investigation of the river embankment was written in great detail, including how the corresponding person in charge was ordered to handle it and how the embezzled money was used to build large-scale construction projects and build mansions and courtyards.
As for the county magistrate Han Qiong who had more than ten concubines, these little things are all recorded one by one.
But there was no real report on the situation of the grain depot, and everything was lost in the fire.
The flames were extremely violent, and it was someone with the flame aura related to spiritual practice who set the fire secretly, and also added special igniting materials.
The huge granary was burned clean, leaving only white ash on the floor.
I took a look and it was white and quite clean.
Things just changed like this: the county magistrate died and the quartermaster died.
Jianyi seems to have changed, but it has not changed at all.
The two small merits I received as rewards above were exchanged for the first three levels of "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra".
My practice of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra went very smoothly. When I walked in Jianyi, I often absorbed inexplicable Yin Qi, which seemed to be the legendary ghost.
To ordinary people, it may be a terrifying ghost, but to me, who practices Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra, it is actually a special spiritual elixir.
After the county magistrate "committed suicide out of fear of crime" in prison, all the yin energy that poured into my body faintly turned into a special kind of heat flow, and the speed of cutting my veins and cleansing my marrow was greatly accelerated.
Let me combine it with the sages’ annotations in the scriptures.
The great wish made by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is to cleanse hell, eliminate all the resentments of the wronged souls, and allow them to reincarnate again.
I don't know if there is really reincarnation in the world, but the many ghosts and resentments that were sucked into my body seem to have really disappeared.
Being able to see the legendary "Master Qingtian" die, many wronged souls are already satisfied.
But I'm not satisfied!
I know who the real culprits are. The county magistrate is one of them, and the Wang family and Li family are also important figures among them.
There were also the Jianyi garrison who had besieged and suppressed the Weiyuan Escort Bureau many times. These characters were all involved in this incident.
The result of the matter is that only the county magistrate dies, and the ecology of Jianyi will not change much.
In the previous attempts, Jianyi had also changed its county magistrate, but Jianyi was still the original Jianyi, and the situation of the charcoal seller would not change.
The living conditions of more characters will not change.
The charcoal seller is satisfied, but I am not!
But before I could feel dissatisfied, the revenge of the Wang family and the Li family came.
I was attacked in the dark of night, and three people who were cleaning marrow and exchanging blood teamed up to besiege me.
For me, who had not completed my first marrow wash and blood transfusion, this was a dead end.
Well, they're dead.
I have never found that standing behind Xue Cheng, the bannerman of Jinyiwei, can be so comfortable.
This bannerman of the Imperial Guard, a seventh-grade figure, was very fierce with his swordsmanship. With just two swords, he killed all three people who were washing their marrow and exchanging their blood.
Their identities are not difficult to distinguish, and Xue Cheng can easily tell them apart.
The three of them are all well-known murderers in the world. They were wanted in various places at that time, but they have never been arrested and brought to justice.
And with a little bit of identification, I can guess that this is probably a killer sent by the Wang and Li families.
It's just that I am a secret guard of the Jinyi Guards, and my identity will not be exposed normally.
The corresponding investigation information was also submitted through Xue Cheng, the general banner of Jinyiwei.
If Xue Cheng had contact with the Wang and Li families, he could have suppressed this information and killed me.
Guarantee that things will happen silently, and no one will know until death.
But Xue Cheng didn't, and my identity was exposed.
Xue Cheng saw my confusion and explained it to me softly.
"I thought you already knew it, but I didn't expect you to be a headless fly."
"The land south of the Yangtze River is filled with unparalleled wealth. Rich households from all over the country have endless supplies of silks and satins. There are countless fine wines and delicacies. The enjoyment of the top local gentry is even more extravagant than the palace..."
"Then the court doesn't know?"
I asked a silly question, and Xue Cheng didn't even need to answer. I just laughed out loud.
Xue Cheng shook his head.
"Of course the imperial court knew about this, so it specially imposed heavy taxes here. As a result, the tax money received here was even less than the bitter cold land in the northwest."
"How could this happen?"
"Isn't it very clear to you now? The land of Jiangnan is famous for its wealth. At the same time, along with the wealth, the wealthy and wealthy families, or clans, of Jiangnan are also famous."
"You have also seen their methods."
There were three corpses lying at Xue Cheng's feet, but his eyes were looking further away, at the garrison in Jianyi, at the county prison, and at the residential area in the center of Jianyi.
Zhang Mingtu remained silent.
If the local gentry only resorted to violent methods, then it would be okay, but they still know how to use it for profit and move it with emotion.
Married to the county magistrate, let the county magistrate take the lead, and when faced with the investigation, he did not hesitate to get rid of the person who was apparently responsible for the matter, and asked them to "commit suicide out of fear of crime" without leaving any trace behind.
Even the local garrison was flirting with them. This group of wealthy gentry from aristocratic families was like a turtle, leaving no one to say anything.
"This is just a place. You haven't seen the truly powerful place yet..."
When Xue Cheng said this, he couldn't help but sigh.