Chapter 39 Prison beheading Zheng Daji
"It's, in fact, it's not too much, Xu Yunliang and Song can do it, you can rest first......" Before he finished speaking, Duan Lang had already turned around and ran away.
Lu turned around in confusion, and Shangguan Ling Fang walked out of the room and stood still not far in front of her.
"You have contributed to the disaster relief this time, so you don't have to go with them to count it, and you can rest at home."
Lu Li frowned slightly, and couldn't help complaining in his heart.
Everyone knows that this count of stolen money is the most oily and watery item in all the trips, and she has insisted on it until now, and finally counted and didn't let her go?
This Shangguan Yinling is also stingy, how much gold and silver is in Zheng Daji's mansion, and what if she quietly takes such a piece and a half? She also risked her life to sneak into the prison to save his life.
"Yes, sir." Lu Li bowed and saluted, and turned his head back to the room sullenly.
Shangguan Yingling looked at her back puzzled, could it be that she was unhappy to let her rest? Hasn't she always been the laziest?
They stayed in Baozhou for another two days, and the total amount of gold, silver and jewelry collected from the warehouses and cellars in Zheng Daji's mansion, as well as the various rooms, amounted to more than one million.
It's terrible, corrupt officials are really rich these days.
Shangguan Yinling took the record book and flipped through it roughly, and they had seen more than they had seen when they sneaked into the Zheng Mansion before, it seemed that Zheng Daji had really not been the prefect of Baozhou in vain for so many years.
A nameless fire burned in his heart, and Lu Li came up curiously to take a look, and was immediately dumbfounded.
She knew that this was a lot of oil and water, so much gold and silver, a few hundred two thousand taels less is completely a dime, okay?
"My lord, this Zheng Daji is really greedy." Lu Li couldn't help but give him a thumbs up, thinking that she had been a master by Duan Lang's side for a few years before, and there were also a lot of bribes, although Duan Lang was stubborn by nature, he would not accept bribes, even if he really accepted it, it would not be possible to reach such a huge amount in ten years, I have to say that Zheng Daji still has some ability in terms of collecting money.
"Let's go, go to the prison."
Shangguan Yinling clenched the booklet, got up and rushed to the county jail, and Lu Li, out of curiosity about Zheng Daji's methods of collecting money, also followed.
In the dim prison without daylight, because Old Man Zhou sprinkled some antidote powder on Zheng Daji, Zheng Daji's wound did not further fester, but slowly healed and improved, and he finally slept peacefully.
Although his body no longer had much strength, seeing Shangguan Yuling's unique cloud pattern boots, Zheng Daji still struggled to crawl to the door of the cell.
"My lord, my lord, spare my life......"
Shangguan Yinling took a step back in disgust, and behind his hand, Lu Li saw that his fingers holding the booklet were white, as if he had endured great anger.
"A good Zheng Daji, a good prefect of Yingzhou." Shangguan Yuling sneered, his face was like a quenched ice, "Ten years as an official, the amount of wealth collected is so huge, there are nearly five million taels in your mansion alone, if this official guesses correctly, this is only a part of it, most of the money you scavenged is dedicated to the person called Hongyan." ”
"My lord's eyes are like a torch, I can't hide anything from my lord......" Zheng Daji collapsed to the ground, he had lost everything, and his life was completely ruined, "I have been an official for ten years, and I have looted nearly 150 million taels of silver, of which 10,000 taels have been sent to Hongyan one after another, so I have been able to spend so many years in Baozhou, and I have been fooled by me several times when the Holy Lord has sent Qincha, I thought it would be the same ......this time."
150,000,000 taels of silver, what kind of concept is this, she can't earn a tenth of it in ten lifetimes!
"Who the hell is Red Flame?" Shangguan Yuling bent his knees, half-squatting on the ground, looking at Zheng Daji with lowered eyes, with a very faint urgency in his expression, "How can he have so much power?" ”
"I don't know who he is, he has always used the code name of Red Flame to communicate with me, and he has never appeared, I have never seen him in ten years......" Zheng Daji just shook his head, he has been like a chess piece that has been manipulated and arranged at will for the past ten years, thinking that he has freedom on this chessboard, but in fact he doesn't even know who the person playing chess is.
The two of them left the prison, the street was already brightly lit, it had been nearly half a month since they had just arrived in Baozhou, from the beginning of the mess, to now the place has regained prosperity, all of this is the credit of Shangguan Yuling, but looking at him at this moment, Lu Li felt that he had an indescribable sorrow in his heart.
"My lord, do you think Zheng Daji really doesn't know anything?"
"If he is not willing to be completely controlled, he can't really know everything." Shangguan Yinling's eyes darkened, and he put the booklet in his hand into his arms, "It's just that the person called Red Flame definitely won't let him find any clues." ”
Zheng Daji was afraid that the family would be affected, so he simply pretended not to know.
Therefore, even if he is tortured, he can't find anything to torture, so just let him go.
"I have written to the Holy Lord the day before yesterday to explain all the situation in Baozhou, and I think there will be a reply tomorrow."
The next day, the urgent letter was sent back by the fast horse, and the letter contained only two sentences.
"Aiqing worked hard this time, and worked hard to supervise the criminal minister Zheng Daji on the spot, and returned all the stolen money to the people."
Shangguan drank Ling Rin's eyebrows, expecting that because of Zheng Daji's incident, a lot of turmoil had been set off in the court.
At noon the next day, the weather was fine, and Shangguan Yinling served as the prison officer and beheaded Zheng Daji in public at the execution ground.
Zheng Daji was dragged by a cage to parade around the street, and when he arrived outside the execution ground, he was already covered with oily vegetable leaves.
It can be seen that the people have been dissatisfied with him for so many years, especially when his crimes were revealed, the people who may not have known why also hated him.
"Corrupt official Zheng Daji, he has lost his conscience, and the sky has eyes to let Lord Qincha help us eradicate corrupt officials and return us to a peaceful and prosperous era in Baozhou!"
"Execute Lord Chincha!"
"Zheng Daji is innocent!"
The sun was getting stronger at noon, Lu Li followed the crowd to appear under the execution table, and the prison officer Shangguan Ling was sitting in a precarious position, facing the scorching sun, his expression did not change, and finally, three o'clock in the afternoon had arrived, he took out the order note in his hand, raised his hand and threw it on the ground.
"It's three o'clock in the afternoon, execution!"
The executioner raised the knife, picked up the flask and took a sip, aimed at the blade and squirted out a mouthful of liquor, raised the knife, aimed it at Zheng Daji's neck, and slashed it with all his might.
At the end of the execution, everyone sighed and was happy, but the enthusiasm of the onlookers quickly dissipated, and the crowd under the execution table slowly dispersed.
"I really don't know who will come to our Baozhou as an official next?"
"I hope he's a good official."
"Now that Baozhou City is in ruins, who is willing to come to this remote place?"
In the crowd, there were gradually many sighs.