Chapter 97 Dealing with Corrupt Officials
I was about to open it, but he raised his hand to stop me, and his white chin was raised to the side: "It's safer for you to watch such a confidential matter in the carriage." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" I followed his movements and saw a carriage with the word "Qi" hanging at the door of the Fuliu Pavilion.
From his words, I have probably guessed the identity of the drunken man. After opening the parchment roll, my guess was even more confirmed: Zuiwu was Han Yan's cousin Tian Ruoyun.
Drunken Wu is Tian Ruoyun, and nine times out of ten the fire slaves are Tian Lie who slipped out of the net in the last encirclement and suppression.
He used to be an official in charge of cultivating medicinal herbs, so he was naturally familiar with the pathology and taboos of dragons. Under the cover of the identity of the shovel officer's subordinates as rough people who don't know anything, he was able to successfully poison the dragons.
It all seemed to fall into place, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong. You even know exactly what is wrong.
The parchment scroll was written about Tian Ruoyun's tragic and tumultuous experience, and every line was embarrassing, but there was no mention of when Tian Lie met Zui Wu and recognized her, or whether they had always been in contact.
I closed the parchment roll, Wei Jingyuan came behind me at some point, he raised his hand and inserted it into my hair without saying a word, so frightened that I ducked to the side, and then slammed my nose into the wall of the car sadly......
"Wei Jingyuan, what are you doing?" was originally an angry question, but he looked aggrieved because of his crying voice.
"Fix your hair. He simply grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me back, "Could it be that your dignified city lord is going to go to see his courtiers with his hair in a cloak and hair?" he said with a sense of integrity and no guilt, as if the little lady's hair had nothing to do with him in the slightest.
I sniffed, wiped away the tears that had been knocked out, and said unconvinced: "Isn't it thanks to you?"
"If the minister is guilty, the minister will pay you for your hair bun and hairpin. As he spoke, he took out a woodcarved dragon-patterned hairpin and inserted it for me. After doing all this, he seriously turned my body and looked at me for a while, "Yes, that's it." ā
I looked at his face like no one, and my heart was filled with a small wave, even these are ready, Wei Fox is deliberately bad for my plan!
In order to stop the strange thoughts that turned around a thousand times, I looked away and asked, "You suddenly caught the drunk, no, it should be Tian Ruoyun." What do you mean you caught her?" I asked in a direct tone, unlike my averted gaze.
Wei Jingyuan leaned lazily against the wall of the car, looking innocent. "Once the poisoning matter is clear, it will naturally arrest people. Wasn't it Tian Lie who was rescued by his own daughter after the failure of the rebellion, and then deliberately took revenge? Who can compare with him in terms of motive and strength?"
"You're not wrong to say that. As soon as the fox was powerful, I felt that I was about to be defeated, and I couldn't help but tell him well: "But Wei Qing, don't you doubt that there are still people who support them?"
After listening to my words, he just glanced at me lightly: "I don't think so." As he spoke, he looked away, "The minister has checked carefully, and the person named Jing Niang does not exist at all." It was just someone Tian Ruoyun deliberately made up for the sake of confusing the audio-visual. ā
I stared intently at the look on his face, and after a moment I finally chose to believe him.
After arraignment, the situation was not much different from what Wei Jingyuan said. I sent Tian Ruoyun, who was on the verge of collapse, to Han Yan's side, hoping that the warmth after the meeting of her relatives would calm the pain in her heart, and as for Tian Lie and the rest of his companions, they were also sentenced to a felony for poisoning the dragons.
The rest is Zhang Sheng, an official who is kneeling in the center of the council hall.
"Zhang Qing, now is your chance to atone for your sins. How many bribes have you hidden? You might as well have you brought them for the truth!" I waved my hand violently and threw the charges on the table to the ground: "Seventy-three counts, which one is not enough for you to live or die?"
"Lord, you have really wronged Weichen!" he cried with a handful of snot and tears, "You can't just listen to Wei Jingyuan's words and kill the minister! Wei Jingyuan's surname is Wei, his ambition is obvious, he wants to frame Weichen and then stick his own eyeliner in this gap, Lord Chen!"
"Really?" I hid my anger, looked at Wei Jingyuan who was standing proudly on the side, and said, "Wei Qing, what do you have to justify?"
Wei Jingyuan Shi Ran smiled, he leaned over and picked up the crime on the ground and laid it in front of Zhang Sheng: "Back to the city lord, the minister only found out that Lord Zhang buried a lot of silver coins in the shallow water area by the lake, not to mention tens of thousands of taels, right?"
He said it to me, but his cold gaze was fixed on Zhang Sheng. Seeing that Zhang Sheng's face turned from red to white, Wei Jingyuan's finger on the charge moved again: "The day before yesterday, this official found a well-disguised cellar on a small island in the middle of the lake, and the jewels in it are worth a lot of money? Lord Zhang, aren't you afraid that one day you will be sniffed out by the dragons and then made public to the world?"
As he spoke, he slowly stood up and looked down at Zhang Sheng coldly.
"No! It's not like this! Weichen just, just ......" Zhang Sheng's pale face suddenly turned blue, he wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead in a panic, and his eyes drifted left and right, but he didn't dare to look at the crime in front of him.
"Cut him!" Qi Wu on the side finally couldn't help but burst into a rage, "City Lord, Lord Gongqing! What is there to judge such a scum who will only sow discord, do not want to forge ahead, and harm people to the invisible?"
"The minister seconded the proposal!" Qi Xia also stood up and locked Zhang Sheng with eyes that were eager to tear apart the bones and flesh.
Immediately afterwards, other generals and the chief secretary of the Dragon Training, Wenchen, also stood up and seconded the proposal to execute Zhang Sheng immediately, and even Miao Yan gritted his silver teeth with a cluck.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Sheng immediately shrank his neck and hugged Wei Jingyuan's feet and shouted in a trembling voice: "Lord Gongqing! The lower official knows that you have the best relationship with the city lord, you can say a few words for the lower official, the lower official is willing to hand over half of his income and give half of it to you!"
"Get out of here!" Wei Jingyuan kicked him away violently, and said to me with a gloomy face: "City Lord, the minister also seconded it!"
Zhang Sheng finally collapsed to the ground weakly, and I tried my best to control my urge to go up and strangle him, and said word by word: "Which of those stolen goods in your hand is yours?
I closed my eyes tightly and took a deep breath, then opened my eyes sharply and stared at him: "If it weren't for your insatiable greed, how could those people have the opportunity to sneak into the dragon training house and kill this poisonous hand! More than 2,000 dragons were all poisoned, do you really think you don't take any responsibility? Don't you take this opportunity to confess all the places where the stolen goods are hidden, waiting to enjoy the capital punishment!"
"How about tying you to a pillar in the dragon training arena and then cutting off pieces of meat alive and feeding them to the carnivorous dragons?"