Zheng Kuan looked straight at Li Chengqian and said: "Xiaguan... I really don't know what you mean..."
"Playing dumb?"
"Playing dumb, right?"
Li Chengqian came down from the stage with a smile and walked up to Zheng Kuan.
"Do you think, Your Highness, that I am the kind of person who throws dirty water on others when I am careless?"
"You, don't be too harsh. Since I can call you here today, it means that I have evidence."
He raised his hand and patted Zheng Kuan on the shoulder and said, "So, let's explain it. It will be good for you and me."
"Your Highness..."
"It's not that I don't want to explain, it's that I really don't know anything."
Zheng Kuan looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Why don't your highness give this official a heads-up? Let him know where he went wrong?"
"also."
"In that case, let's just say the same thing..."
Li Chengqian casually threw a stack of files to Zheng Kuandao: "The inspection history of Longyou Road is indeed a high official. His annual salary is about eighty guan of money, three thousand kilograms of grain, and five hundred feet of cloth."
"But you have thousands of acres of fertile land and more than ten properties in your name."
"As for Meijuan's wives and concubines, they are all in groups, and there are countless servants."
"If it depends on your salary, it shouldn't be enough, right?"
Li Chengqian looked at Zheng Kuan and said, "So, I would like to ask you, where do these things come from?"
"Your Highness."
"This...it's not easy to say."
Zheng Kuan looked at Li Chengqian, pretending to be embarrassed.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian narrowed his eyes and said, "Just say what you have to say."
"This is actually a violation of the law by the lower official."
"Xiaguan was taken into custody some time ago and fell into some bad gambling habits."
"This official is also very lucky. All the money was brought in from his bad gambling habit."
Zheng Kuan bowed directly to Li Chengqian and said: "Your Highness, I know that I have broken the law. If Your Highness wants to punish me, I will have no complaints."
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Gambling has been prohibited in all dynasties, not only for the common people but also for the officials in the court.
If ordinary people run private casinos, they will be severely punished, and the same goes for officials who know the law and break it.
According to the regulations, the minimum required is one hundred.
But even a hundred wars can be worth the crime Zheng Kuan committed?
This guy really makes excuses for himself.
Li Chengqian also laughed.
He was too lazy to talk nonsense to Zheng Kuan.
He said bluntly: "What about this? How do you explain it?"
Li Chengqian directly threw the letters between him and the bandit leader sent by Yuan Yuan in front of Zheng Kuan.
Seeing this, Zheng Kuan was also shocked.
{Received tension value +99 from Zheng Kuan...}
Although Zheng Kuan was nervous inside, he still pretended to be calm on his face.
He picked up the letter and opened it. After reading it once, he said directly: "This is slander, Your Highness, this is Chiguoguo's slander."
"slander?"
"You mean, this letter is fake?"
Li Chengqian looked straight at Zheng Kuan and said, "But I have checked all the notes on this. They are all written by you, Mr. Zheng."
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible."
"I have been an official for more than ten years. I have never said that I have been honest throughout my life, but I have never committed corruption, perverted the law, or harmed the people."
Zheng Kuan held his head high and said without the slightest embarrassment: "So this is definitely someone who deliberately framed the official."
OK.
You can really pretend.
But this was also within Li Chengqian's expectation.
So Li Chengqian slowly said: "Oh, so that's it."
"As I said, Mr. Zheng has always had a good reputation.
Well, how could you do such a thing to harm the people?"
"It turns out that these letters are all fake."
Li Chengqian raised his eyebrows and threw the letter back on his desk.
He deliberately pretended to be angry and said: "These bandits are indeed insidious and cunning. They actually want to sow discord between you and me."
"Fortunately, Mr. Zheng, you told me everything. Otherwise, I don't know how long I would have misunderstood you."
Hearing these words, Zheng Kuan also breathed a long sigh of relief.
He said: "It's okay to be dismissed from the official position, as long as the misunderstanding can be resolved."
"Um……"
"But this hateful bandit actually instigated a relationship between you and me. I really can't swallow this breath."
"I will sign the troop deployment order now. You go and get it from Zhechong Mansion and dispatch three thousand soldiers." ??
Li Chengqian looked at Zheng Kuan and said with a smile: "It will be up to you, Mr. Zheng, to personally lead the team to exterminate those bandits."
Upon hearing this, Zheng Kuan's eyes visibly froze.
His expression was stiff for at least two seconds, and then he said: "Your Highness, this... this is inappropriate, I am... I am a civil servant..."
"Civil official?"
"Master Zheng, please stop teasing me."
Li Chengqian looked at Zheng Kuan and said, "You also worked in Zhechong Mansion in the early years, so you know some military tactics."
"Furthermore, the soldiers of our Liangzhou Army are all warriors who are said to be invincible in the world."
"Let them deal with a few bandits. Isn't it easy to catch them?"
Li Chengqian raised his hand and patted Zheng Kuan on the shoulder and said: "So, Mr. Zheng, please don't refuse. I will leave this matter to you."
He said so.
What else could Zheng Kuan say?
Even if he had to bite the bullet, he still had to agree to this matter.
Wait until Zheng Kuan leaves. Yuan Yuan walked out from the back of the hall.
She said: "Didn't you say you wanted to arrest him directly?"
"Catch him?"
Li Chengqian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Stop making trouble, my girl."
Hearing this, Yuan Yuan frowned and said, "When you started, you didn't plan to slap him to death, right?"
"certainly."
"You know, he is different from those Yangzhou families who blatantly assassinated me."
"After all, he has an official status. If I touch him, I must get permission from the court."
Li Chengqian shook his head and sighed: "And how can an old fox like Zheng Kuan, who has been hanging around in the officialdom for decades, be so easy to deal with..."
"But you are the prince of the Tang Dynasty."
Yuan Yuan looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Could it be that you can't report it directly to your father?"
"So what if I'm a prince?"
"I will report it directly to my father, and there must be evidence."
"If there is no complete evidence, even if I am the current prince, it is still impossible to directly convict him."
"Maybe I won't hit the fox in the end, but I'll end up in a mess."
Li Chengqian walked slowly back to the table.
He lowered his head and looked at the letter on the desk, then slowly picked up the letter and held it in his palm.
He said: "So, if you want to move this guy, you must have a good plan in advance."
Yuan Yuan glanced at Li Chengqian and then asked: "Then what do you want to do?"
"Let him kill his own minions first."
"Then, we can slowly look for evidence of his crime."
Li Chengqian rubbed his chin, and a smirk appeared on his face.
Sometimes, there are some things that you can't rush.
If you are too anxious, you will definitely be the one who makes the mistake in the end.
Li Chengqian looked at the letter in his hand and said: "Anyway, we are not in a hurry this time, just play with him slowly..."