Because the long-awaited Gu Taiguang case has finally made progress, and because he knows the long-buried relationship between himself and Lan Zhao, Tang Fei's mood has been very beautiful in the next few days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

One case is difficult to handle, but when two cases are folded together, it seems that the difficulty has also decreased geometrically.

Not to mention that Lan Zhao's elder brother Lan Mo had already remembered the incident at the time of the incident, and he also knew a lot about the details of the case back then, so he invisibly provided a lot of help for the emperor to understand the entire case, which was different from the case file.

In order to understand the case of that year, the emperor once consulted the file, and the record of this case in the file was very simple and clear, and there was nothing special about it.

It turned out that Lan Ruhai was promoted from Hunan County to Shengjing City by the imperial court because of his meritorious service in governing the local area and his outstanding political achievements.

It was only a few months after he took office in Shengjing City, and Hunan County broke out with the largest locust plague during the reign of the first emperor.

In ancient times, science and technology were not developed, and the yield of crops was not high, as long as the average peasant could eat enough, he was already living a good life, so where would there be any surplus grain?

In ancient China, once a locust plague occurred, it was a fatal disaster.

The crops were not harvested, the people were hungry, and the roads were starved to death, and such things as starvation and death abounded, which can be called a tragedy in the world.

So at this time, the help of the imperial court became particularly valuable.

Because Lan Ruhai was originally born in Hunan County, he also has a good understanding of the local living habits and material output, and he has always been a decent person, selfless, and deeply trusted by the emperor.

And he allocated a hundred thousand taels of silver to him, and taught him only to buy grain for the people who were afflicted by the disaster.

It can be said that the first emperor did trust this very talented upstart of the imperial court, and this disaster relief mission can be regarded as an experience, if he can complete this task well, then the future will be limitless.

However, Lan Ruhai's accident was precisely on this task, or it should be said that the accident was on the 100,000 taels of disaster relief silver.

According to the case file, this Lan Ruhai is really a heinous crime and has lost his conscience.

After he got 100,000 taels of disaster relief silver, he became greedy, so he colluded with Tang Fei's grandfather Gu Taiguang, a well-known businessman in Shengjing City back then, to take advantage of his position to accept bribes and buy inferior grain from Gu Taiguang at a price several times higher than the market price.

What is low-quality rice? To put it simply, the food we usually eat is rice and wheat, but the inferior grain is mixed with some bran.

What is Bran? It's the husk of rice.

In the countryside, that kind of thing is fed to pigs for pigs.

To put it simply, if our normal grain is one or two silver, then the inferior grain mixed with chaff is 1 silver dollar.

Originally, 100,000 taels of silver could buy 100,000 quintals of grain, but now only 100,000 taels of inferior grain mixed with chaff can be bought.

But Lan Ruhai and Gu Taiguang reached a deal privately, and the remaining 90,000 taels of silver were divided equally between Lan Ruhai and Gu Taiguang.

Embezzlement of disaster relief money, if this thing is true, it is really a loss of conscience.

When the first emperor received the report, he was furious at the moment.

Although the first emperor indulged in wine in the later period, he was still a good emperor in essence.

In the end, it is the heir chosen by Emperor Wuchang, a generation of virtuous monarchs, how can it really be a wine bag and rice bag?

The locust plague in Hunan County was extremely harmful, and according to later statistics, the disaster that year starved tens of thousands of poor people to death in Hunan County.

Although the ancient Dayun Kingdom did not pay attention to any human rights, and even the Mengli Kingdom continued the slavery system, the productivity in ancient times was already low, the infant mortality rate was high, and the population was an extremely important resource.

Losing so much of a population at once, for Hunan County, no, it should be a big blow to the entire Dayun Country.

Under such circumstances, the first emperor was also very sad every day, and even his hair turned white.

It is not incomprehensible that he suddenly heard that Lan Ruhai had embezzled the silver taels used for disaster relief, and the first emperor was furious and angry.

The first emperor had great trust in Lan Ruhai's character, but he didn't expect him to live up to his trust so much, so after Lan Ruhai was reported for corruption, the first emperor only felt that the evidence was conclusive, and even without in-depth investigation, he punished Lan Ruhai and Gu Taiguang.

I have to say that Lan Ruhai is also unlucky.

In a way, he also fell victim to the locust plague.

There was such a big disaster in Hunan County, and so many people died, but the imperial court has not come up with any practical and effective plan to prevent the disaster, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people and cause the people to distrust the imperial court.

Someone has to be held accountable.

The emperor must be wise and martial, otherwise how can he be called the true dragon son of heaven?

Lan Ruhai was unlucky to become the person in charge.

Killing him will not only serve as a deterrent to other officials in the court who want to embezzle, but also give the people a breakthrough to complain and resent.

People will say, "I see!" It turned out that it was not because of the inaction of the imperial court, nor because of the emperor's mediocrity, but because of Lan Ruhai, a corrupt official! Good kill! Kill wonderfully! Kill him, the culprit, and our Great Cloud Kingdom will be innocent! ”

Lan Ruhai became a victim in this way, and Tang Fei's maternal grandfather Gu Taiguang was a gift.

No way, this is politics!

Politics is always black and white, politics is only gray.

Of course, the case file recorded Lan Ruhai and Gu Taiguang as big villains who were enough to leave a stench for 10,000 years, but the story had a different development in the mouth of Lan Ruhai's only son, Lan Mo.

In Lan Mo's mouth, his father Lan Ruhai has always been a good official who worries about the country and the people and loves the people like a son.

During his previous tenure in Hunan County, he did his best to work hard for the people, and it was precisely because of this that he was able to govern a barren and decadent place like Hunan County into an oasis full of businessmen.

Ju Lanmo said that on the way to Shengjing City, Lan Ruhai left his post and went to Shengjing City, I don't know how many people said goodbye. If he is not a good official who treats the people with true affection, how can he be truly loved by the people?

It is said that at that time, Lan Ruhai had an accident and was beheaded by the emperor, and the people under the rule of Hunan County spontaneously gathered to guarantee with their lives that Lord Lan was definitely killed by traitors.

It's just that the 'Book of All People', which the people wrote with enthusiasm at that time, was not sent to the hands of the emperor, but was blocked by a high-level courtier.

At the time of the case, Lan Mo was not very old, and he was only a young boy in his early tens.

It's just that Lan Ruhai has always been extremely strict with his children's education, and he was ordering Lan Mo to learn to handle official affairs with him at that time, so Lan Mo also had a little more understanding of the case.

The emperor was noncommittal about what Lan Mo said about Lan Ruhai's fair and honest deeds and winning the hearts of the people, but he sensitively discovered a key person in the case: Qi Zhentian.