"If you don't deduct the money, you have to die? The adult's words are really unique, and they really make the lower officials unheard of. ”

Li Yun asked puzzledly, if you don't deduct money, you have to die, what is the reason? Even if Li Yun has two heads, he doesn't understand the truth.

Tao Yuan didn't want to say anything, but who let him talk to Li Yun? Otherwise, he would not have been left to drink.

"Since you asked, then I'll tell you the truth, anyway, it's not a secret." Tao Yuan said.

"Listen up."

It turned out that every year from the imperial court, the local officials would deduct a part of the silver taels, and after layers of exploitation, the money finally used on the people was really small.

For example, this year, Li Yun's disaster relief money is 40,000 taels, which is already a lot in recent years, and in previous years, Linzi County was 30,000 taels.

A small part of the disaster relief funds that were deducted were used to build the yamen, for example: the old sedan chair of the yamen needs to be replaced, and the façade of the yamen needs to be replaced when it is broken.

In a word, it can be described in four words: renovate the façade. You can't pay for all of this from officials, right? Therefore, they will find a way to deduct silver taels from the imperial court.

This is nothing, in addition to these, the money that officials in various places bribe each other also profits from, to put it simply, it is embezzlement.

However, even if they are bold, they don't dare to be greedy for all, just talking about the remaining 350,000 taels in the disaster relief funds in Lincheng, everyone adds up to a lot of 150,000 taels, but what about the remaining 200,000 taels?

It was not stored in the treasury, and it was not spent on the people, could it have disappeared so magically?

Seeing Li Yun's question, Tao Yuan explained with a smile: "This is what I just told you, if you don't deduct the money, you will die, if we don't deduct the money, we will die." ”

"Your Excellency is the Taishou of the city, the prefect of a city, who dares to kill you?"

Tao Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "Taishou is a fart, I still have a festival envoy above, and there are princes and nobles above the festival envoy, in front of them, I can't wait for even ants, I want to kill a Taishou, but it's just a snap of my fingers." ”

At this point, Li Shuan understood, and the remaining 200,000 taels were all honored to the princes and nobles of the imperial court.

"It's really ironic that the money that the court used to help the people returned to the court in the end?" Li Yun sneered.

No wonder those princes and nobles in the court are rich and flowing, Li Yun still wonders where they get so much money? The co-authors are all exploiting the common people, and they are really a bunch of beast bastards.

"It's been like this since ancient times, Lord Lin doesn't need to be angry, I was as indignant as you when I first entered the officialdom, but what in the end? After all, the arms can't reach the thighs. One of the prefectural commanders said.

There are many people here, and that person has never been young? Hasn't that man ever been hot-blooded? But what happens in the end? In the face of bottomless officialdom, in addition to being in the same stream, it is a different place.

If they don't do what the big man told them to do, then they will die.

Thinking of the original bold words, the mood of petitioning for the people has long been dominated by the fear of death, and in order to live, I can only do it.

This is officialdom, this is reality, and this is the way of being an official.

"My lord, the lower official has another question, could you please answer the question?" Li Yun asked again.

"But you want to ask, whose pocket does this money go to?"

Tao Yuanzhi said that it was precisely the problem between him and his boss back then, and at this point, people's curiosity is always inevitably aroused, and it is human nature to break the casserole and ask in the end.

Li Yun nodded heavily.

"Don't speak!"

Tao Yuan directly didn't tell Li Yun the answer, just telling Li Yun so much was already his biggest limit, after all, Li Yun was not their person yet, at least not yet.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Li Yun didn't ask too much, after all, this kind of thing is indeed not allowed to be said to others at will, but there is one thing that Li Yun still has to ask them.

"My lord, have you ever heard of the Fang family and the Lejia thirteen years ago?" Li Yun asked casually.

As soon as these words came out, Tao Yuan was so frightened that he didn't hold it steady, and spilled all the water in the cup, only to feel that there was an inexplicable coolness behind him.

Li Yun was a little flustered when he saw him, and he became more and more curious in his heart, he just mentioned it, he was so nervous, there must be a secret greasy in it, even more terrible than the ink corruption case.

Tao Yuan looked at Li Yun, his eyes revealed a strange look, and he asked very vigilantly, "Are you...... Why did you suddenly ask about thirteen years ago? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that there is a case in the jurisdiction that involves a case from thirteen years ago, and my lord is too guarded, and I want to hear about it, so I came to ask for advice." Li Yun casually found a reason to fool the past, he couldn't say that he was investigating the killing of Le Yao.

"I advise you, this case should be sealed as soon as possible, and don't pursue it any further."

"Why?"

"That's all I have to say."

Tao Yuan didn't dare to say more about some things, he was afraid that if he said that he would not only lose his life, but even the entire Tao family would be buried with him, which was definitely an unspeakable secret of the empire.

As for why Tao Yuan knew? The reason is simple, because thirteen years ago, Tao Yuan was one of the only few people who survived that massacre.

After dividing the disaster relief funds, Tao Yuan let them all leave, and today he was not in a very good mood, especially when he heard Li Yun talk about the massacre thirteen years ago, he thought that he had forgotten, but he didn't expect the scenes of that year to come to mind one by one.

The two families that were once prosperous, in the end, the white bones were built into a mountain, the blood of countless people flowed into a river, and the eyes that were not blind looked at themselves with their eyes open in the dark.

Those people are demons, the cruel butcher knives in their hands do not even let go of babies and children who have fallen to the ground, drinking human blood, eating human flesh, gnawing human bones, the tragedy thirteen years ago is still the most terrifying nightmare in Lincheng.

That night, the whole city of Lincheng turned into hell, and that night was as long as it had gone through countless spring and autumn.

After coming out of the Taishou Mansion, Li Yun did not leave in a hurry, but randomly found an open-air teahouse near the Taishou Mansion and sat down.

I wanted to sneak into the Taishou Mansion at night to investigate, but something unexpected happened.

At dusk, Li Yun, who was staying nearby, suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from the Taishou Mansion, only to hear someone shouting: "It's a big deal, Lord Taishou has been assassinated." ”

"Assassinated?!"

Li Yun secretly screamed badly, and finally found a breakthrough, so he died, thinking about it, he didn't care about anything, and rushed directly to the Taishou Mansion.

Seeing Tao Yuan's body nailed to the pillar with a spear, he couldn't die anymore.

And on the side of the pillar are written five words: "Murderer, King Yun." ”