Three masters!

I only heard Shen Xingsu smile, and his voice seemed to be full of mockery and helplessness, "I have recently gone to the rest of the states for a walk, and we can't sit back and eat empty, the people of this Hezhou have already feared us, according to me, we have to look into the distance!" ”

This is clearly Shen Xingsu's voice.

Joan took a deep breath and left in a hurry, how could it be? The man with a pair of spotless ink eyes, Shen Xingsu, was actually the third master here, and it turned out that Shen Xingsu traveled far away just to find a suitable target for the crime.

Joan smeared the stable, took out the topographic map, and urged the horse to leave from the back mountain, her memory was originally good, but at this moment, she only took a brief look at the scroll, and immediately remembered the path.

The back mountain is the same as the front mountain, there are people guarding everywhere, but compared to the front, the guards are more sparse, Shen Qiaoan identified the path, walked all the way, and before the time came, people had fled.

After Qiao An went down the mountain, she took off her red wedding dress and asked Li Zhongxuan when she was looking for someone. Soon, Qiao An arrived at the county office, and Li Zhongxuan waited all day to see Shen Xingsu come back, a little anxious.

Everyone got up early in the morning and surrounded Li Zhongxuan, and they suggested that Li Zhongxuan lead them to the mountain again to have a look.

Just when he was at a loss, Qiao An came back, and Li Zhongxuan couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that Shen Qiao An was still wearing a bright red dress.

"Joan, you're back?" Li Zhongxuan's eyes had a light of surprise, Shen Qiaoan nodded, and everyone surrounded Qiao An to ask about various things on Black Wind Mountain.

Shen Qiaoan told you about the situation on the mountain, and told you that there were three bandit leaders, and one of them was Shen Xingsu, and everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this.

Shen Qiaoan told you again that he had entrusted a girl named Zhang Heinu to take care of that group of girls, and when the old horse spoon heard this, he clenched his fists excitedly - "That Zhang Heinu is my wife, is my wife okay?" ”

"Don't worry, she's fine, but if I escape alone, they won't give up, so now our top priority is to go to Black Wind Mountain immediately." The crowd was already impatient.

At this moment, Shen Qiaoan saw that the topographic map was taken out, and after everyone circulated it, he gave it back to Li Zhongxuan.

"We can't act like Meng Lang, a fly on the grass and a second master are already very powerful, and now they have a resourceful Shen Xingsu, we are attacking them now, but I am afraid that the chance of winning is still very small."

"So husband, what should I do?"

Their current army is only 200 people, according to Shen Qiao'an's report, on the Black Wind Mountain, the thieves have gathered at least 500 people, and in terms of strength, the disparity is too great.

And depending on the combat effectiveness, these bandits often hunt and rob, and they are much more powerful than this group of small soldiers and people in the county government, so Li Zhongxuan did not think about it for a long time and made a bold decision.

"Old Ma Lao, listen to my orders and find the county master to come over."

"Yes!"

After a while, the county magistrate arrived, ready to ask Qiao An about the treasure map, but he found that Li Zhongxuan's eyes were unfriendly to the extreme, and he was about to flee, Li Zhongxuan said coldly: "Zhang He, let me tell you the truth, I am the prime minister of the dynasty, in the past three months, I have visited the areas of Jiangnan and Hexi, and the rest of the places are fine, but the people here are in dire straits!" ”

"Now the Prime Minister orders you to summon the officers and soldiers of the three prefectures of Huizhou, Tongzhou and Huangzhou in the name of the Prime Minister, and you must come here within two hours, and write the documents quickly! This is what you want to do. ”

"What a bold and unashamed Diao Min, you can't be brave enough to eat an ambitious leopard, and Xiangye is also something you can pretend to be?" The county master of Hezhou County widened his eyes and sneered inwardly.

"There is my emperor's holy decree from Beijing, I expect you to be a mouse-eyed person, and I am afraid that I will not be able to see what my emperor's holy decree looks like for the rest of my life, and look at this." Li Zhongxuan said as he took out his money bag.

Handed over to Joan.

Qiao An took out a seal with nine stacks of seals from it and gently put it in the palm of his hand, and the county lord was immediately shocked when he saw it, and the seal was an elephant.

"Adults should pick it up and look at it again." Joan chuckled.

Everyone looked at the county master, Zhang He trembled and picked up the seal, and after this look, the three souls and seven spirits were frightened to go out of the clouds.

The nine-fold seal text on the seal is "Jackie Chan Shoufu." ”

"Xiaguan, Xiaguan has eyes and doesn't know Taishan, Xiaguan is here, this is for you to gather them." With the prime minister's seal, but around an hour, everyone arrived.

Li Zhongxuan was still the vanguard, and in order to atone for the crime, Zhang He also put on his clothes, and followed the team with his weapons, but in half an hour, a group of people bypassed the trap and ambush and entered the Black Wind Mountain.

But the bandit leader and the second boss have long since disappeared.

Shen Qiaoan approached the stove and reached out to test the temperature on the coals.

"They left before noon, and they left when we moved." They searched everywhere, but they did not find a single thief.

"Let's go to the back mountain." Qiao An took a group of people to the back, it was really a blessing in misfortune, in the cave in the back mountain, that group of girls were all there, Zhang Heinu saw Shen Qiaoan coming, and hurriedly took the group of girls out.

When the girls saw their husbands coming, they cried and laughed.

Coming down from the Black Wind Mountain, Li Zhongxuan ordered the army of five hundred people to stay in place and wait for half of them, and the other half to track the grass and fly and so on.

As for this group of girls, let their husbands take them away, and the girls thanked them and kowtowed to Li Zhongxuan and Shen Qiaoan.

"Come on, let's all come and kowtow to Xiangye and Mrs., come on." The old horse spoon motioned for everyone to come over and thank them, and after kneeling in front of the two of them, they left with their families.

The turmoil gradually passed, Li Zhongxuan was promoted, and someone escorted Zhang He over, Zhang He had already seen Li Zhongxuan's power, and knelt on the ground and trembled.

"Xiangye, Xiangye, please open up the net." Zhang He's voice was trembling.

Li Zhongxuan's voice was fierce, "Zhang He, the prefect of Hezhou, actually colluded with bandits to murder the people, acting for the tiger, and helping to abuse!" If you don't send you to the tiger's head today, it will be difficult to taste the anger of the people! ”

But when Li Zhongxuan said this, Qiao An next to him shook his head slightly, Li Zhongxuan knew what Shen Qiao An meant, the two of them have been in love for a long time now, and they can understand each other's thoughts with a small look from each other.

Li Zhongxuan's voice was fierce, "You heartless prefect, can you be guilty?" ”

"The lower official is guilty, and the lower official can't die well, but he also asked the prime minister to open up and forgive the wife and children of the lower official."

"I see that your family is pitiful, so I won't hurt their lives, come on, Zhang He's top is wearing a flower feather, and the house will be raided! And he gave all his money to the poor people of the land. As soon as this order was given, Zhang He's hands and feet were weak, and he was paralyzed on the ground.

After a while, the person who raided the house came to report, saying that Zhang He's basement had 3,000 taels of silver, you know, he Li Zhongxuan's annual income was only 400 taels, hearing this, Li Zhongxuan was furious, and went to the money village to exchange the silver for copper.

It was distributed according to the number of people in Hezhou, and after a small half was allocated, the rest was used to build the streets and roads here, and everyone was in full swing.

"Now, Ben Xiang has forgiven your family, as for what will happen to them in the future, that's not what Ben Xiang can control, Zhang He, will you Ling Chi be executed, or will you tell this matter? You are a seven-grade sesame official, there are no two people in the court, it is absolutely impossible to be so corrupt! ”

"Xiangye, Xiangye, ask Xiangye to give the villain's family a way to live, and leave a whole corpse for the villain, and the villain you want to know will tell you."

Then, Zhang He confessed to the Ministry of Industry in the imperial court, and every year the Ministry of Industry issued more than half of the silver taels, and then the Ministry of Industry deducted more than half, and then the appropriation layer by layer, and when Hezhou came, Zhang He, the prefect of Hezhou, took care of all of them, and all of them filled his pockets.

The common people didn't even know that the imperial court still allocated funds every year.

Li Zhongxuan repaired a letter and sent the pleadings to the imperial court, and the little emperor was furious when he saw Long Yan, and immediately copied and checked the book of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhang He's embezzled silver is incredible, but compared with the Ministry of Industry, it is a small thing.

After the inspection was completed, the little emperor asked the five horses of the Ministry of Industry to be divided at the entrance of the vegetable market, and hung his head on the Dingyuan Gate for people to see.

Li Zhongxuan continued to examine here, it turned out that the Hezhou prefect had many backers, and there was more than one protective umbrella, and after the investigation, there were a total of six third-grade officials, five fourth-grade officials, and one second-grade senior officer.

This is the largest corruption case in the court in history, the emperor raided these people's homes one after another, and after accounting for the silver, he found that there were more than those in the treasury.

Li Zhongxuan learned from this Zhang He that over the years, everyone in the imperial court seemed to have a clean sleeve, but in fact, the sheep were ruthless and greedy, and 10,000 taels of silver were distributed from Zhongjing, and when they went to the localities, there were often less than half.

And those honest and honest Beijing officials are all in the imperial capital, they have never had the opportunity to act, and the common people dare not report to the prefect, etc., so there are these things.

Li Zhongxuan wrote a letter to tell the emperor that he should appoint a person in the court who was old and virtuous and had a clean sleeve to be the inspector of the imperial history, visit back and forth, and deal with these things as soon as there are them.

The emperor immediately arranged.

Then, Li Zhongxuan knew from Zhang He's mouth that with Hezhou as the center, every surrounding government was basically blatantly corrupt, and everyone was protecting each other and tacitly.

Li Zhongxuan asked Zhang He to make a list, and immediately investigated those lists, and worked with Qiao An to investigate many officials, and Shen Qiaoan was not merciful, and even though this group of officials complained for days, he still executed them.

The most pitiful thing is the prefect of Hezhou, who was supposed to be executed at three o'clock in the afternoon, and originally said that it was good to go to the gallows to kill and leave a whole corpse, but as soon as the prisoner car came out of the county office, it was surrounded by the excited people.

The officers and soldiers tried their best to maintain law and order, but the common people approached the prisoner car and forcibly pulled out the Zhang He, you punched me and kicked me, and finally turned the corrupt official into meat sauce.

This earth-shattering case was investigated by Li Zhongxuan, and the little emperor waved his pen and issued two holy decrees in a row.

The little prince gave Li Zhongxuan the right to cut first and then play, and also extended the date of Li Zhongxuan and Shen Qiaoan's travels.

Today, the little emperor summoned General Cheng, "I don't want to say that you know about the affairs of Hezhou, I have appointed you to assist Li Zhongxuan in investigating these things, and I will arrest the thieves who are flying on the grass and other thieves!" Let's go! ”

The little prince gave an order, and General Cheng immediately went to Xingyuan, counted his generals and the two hundred strong generals of the military department, and came towards Hezhou.

However, in three or five days, the two armies met, and Li Zhongxuan was quite relieved to see General Cheng coming from afar, knowing that this had alarmed the emperor.

"Didn't you come from a fight? And what about flying on the grass? Where is it? You have the ability to go head-to-head with me. ”

As soon as General Cheng mentioned fighting, his spirit was extremely strong.

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