Chapter 39 Corruption
Everyone walked around the city, and then found an inn to sit down, drinking wine and chatting about what they saw and heard in Xu County today. After the half-way of drinking, there was a noise in the upstairs guest room, only to hear a woman's voice shouting: "Don't touch my things, I won't leave, you let me see Master Tian." My father was framed, and he was wronged. ”
Another man's voice said: "What is wronged, your father, as a county minister, knows the law and violates the law, and the crime is added to one degree, the county magistrate did not pursue his family, and he is already magnanimous to you, and you still don't know whether you want to see Master Tian alive or dead." What kind of character is Master Tian, that is the younger brother of Lord Taiwei, how can he have time to see you, if you don't leave, don't blame me for being polite. ”
The quarrel upstairs was getting louder and louder, Xiao Yan frowned, and was about to let Liu Hanfeng go up to see what the situation was. Shi Luosheng stopped him and said: "Your Highness, this matter seems to be related to Mrs. Tian's family, let's not come forward rashly, otherwise it will be bad for Mrs. Tian to know that you are coming to Xu County, and after they are separated, I will go to that girl again to see what is going on." ”
Xiao Yan said: "That's okay, let's continue to drink first." ”
There was an intermittent quarrel upstairs for a cup of tea, and I saw a woman running down from the upstairs with her face hidden, crying and running out of the inn, and then two big men came down scolding. Shi Luosheng glanced at Xiao Yan, then walked out of the inn and looked for the woman.
The woman ran all the way to the open space outside the city, and couldn't hold back crying anymore: "Dad, my daughter is really useless, there is no way to save you." ”
Shi Luosheng didn't come forward to comfort him, and sat down next to him to look at the woman. The woman cried for a while, as if she noticed that someone was looking at her, and stopped crying.
Seeing this, Shi Luosheng hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Don't misunderstand, I didn't intend to offend the girl, but I heard the girl arguing with someone in the inn just now, and then I saw the girl crying and ran out, and I was worried that something would happen to the girl, so I kept following behind." ”
The woman said: "The slave family is fine, thank you for your concern and farewell." The woman turned around and was about to leave.
Shi Luosheng said: "Wait, can the girl tell me what makes you so sad?" Say it and maybe I can help you. ”
The woman hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Thank you for your kindness, but Childe can't help me in this matter." ”
Shi Luosheng said again: "Girl, don't worry, I just heard in the inn that this matter is related to the local county order and the second hometown of the Tian family, since you have no other way now, why don't you try to tell Zaixia?" ”
The woman seemed to be moved, turned to look at Shi Luosheng, saw that he had a sincere face, his expression was not like a joke, he hesitated again and again, but decided to say it.
It turned out that the woman's name was Shen Qianyi, her father Shen Rihua was originally a county minister in a neighboring county, and he was transferred to Xu County half a year ago to be a county minister, although they are all county ministers, but they can come to Xu County, a more developed place, and have the opportunity to rely on the Ueda family, Shen Rihua is still very excited. The county minister is the second-in-command in the county, second only to the county order, and his usual work is mainly responsible for clerical and warehouse management.
Two months after taking office, Shen Rihua gradually found a lot of problems, when checking the previous documents, it was found that a few years ago because of the war, the warehouse should have hoarded a lot of grain according to the regulations, but the warehouse documents did not record any grain, and then with the three years of peace, the grain in the warehouse came back, and there was much more than the regulations, and finally in the first month of Shen Rihua's appointment, these grains were gone.
Shen Rihua began to suspect that someone was making personal gains here, originally this matter was not a big deal, and there were similar situations in many places, but it was not as exaggerated as Xu County. But Shen Rihua wanted to make some achievements and make further progress in his career, so he privately investigated this matter.
This investigation doesn't matter, it was actually found that the county order Jin Ziyuan was related to this matter. In the past, the Great Song Dynasty was in the war period, and grain as a strategic material was controlled by the government, which led to a tight supply of grain in the market and high grain prices. In the past three years, it has been peaceful, and Jin Ziyuan has bought all the grain back at a very low price. No one would have said anything in peacetime, but in times of war, it's a capital offense. In addition, if Jin Ziyuan uses his own grain, it is nothing, and there are many merchants who make war money, but he uses the state's grain reserves, and all the money he earns in the end goes into his private pocket, which is a bit of a big problem.
After checking this, Shen Rihua hesitated, this matter can be big or small, if it was just a warehouse official, Shen Rihua would deal with him without hesitation. But now that I found out that it was the county magistrate who did it, I had to put myself in if this one was not good. But at the same time, this is also a good opportunity, if you can take this opportunity to bring down the Jin County Order, then won't you have a chance to be the County Order?
After hesitating for a few days, Shen Rihua was finally reluctant to give up this opportunity, he thought of a compromise solution, that is, to go to the Tian family, tell Tian Yulong's younger brother Tian Yufeng about this matter, and see what Tian Yufeng's attitude is, if the Tian family supports him, then he has the courage to expose Jin Ziyuan, so that he can also pull in the relationship with the Tian family, and then Jin Ziyuan falls, and the Tian family can still help himself in the fight for the position of county order. If the Tian family doesn't support themselves, then the big things will turn into small things.
Thinking of this, Shen Rihua knocked on the door of Tian Mansion, Tian Yufeng was furious on the spot after listening to Shen Rihua's complaint, saying that there are still people in Xu County who are so bold and dare to do this kind of thing, this is a slap in the face of their Tian family, Tian Yufeng also strongly supported Shen Rihua to find out the source of gold, so that he does not have to be afraid, what is the Tian family to back him up.
Shen Rihua, who received Tian Yufeng's reply, was naturally overjoyed, and after he went back, he began to prepare to attack the county commander Jin Ziyuan. Who knew that as soon as the materials were prepared, Shen Rihua himself was taken away by the people of the Jin Ziyuan faction, saying that someone reported that during his tenure as the county magistrate of Xu County, he used his power as a county magistrate to forcibly sell the grain in the granary to local merchants at a high price for his own personal gain.
Shen Rihua was first imprisoned by Jin Ziyuan before he had time to make a move, and later after Jin Ziyuan's investigation and evidence collection, the evidence in all aspects was conclusive, and now when the final verdict is down, Shen Rihua will be beheaded for public display.
After Shen Qianyi knew that her father had an accident, she hurriedly went to Tian Yufeng, she thought that Tian Yufeng knew that his father was wronged, and only he could save his father. As a result, when she rushed to Tian's house, Tian Yufeng not only didn't see her, but also asked people to drive her out.
Shen Qianyi didn't give up, and later went to Tian's house several times to block Tian Yufeng, Tian Yufeng was so annoyed that he finally asked people to drive her out of Xu County.
Listening to Shen Qianyi say all this, Shi Luosheng roughly understood in his heart that reselling grain was definitely not done by Jin Ziyuan, the county order, and Tian Yufeng must have been involved behind it, this Shen Rihua was new to the city, greedy for merit, and the powerful relationship in it was not straightened out and went to Tian Yufeng to expose it, Tian Yufeng himself must have been very surprised, there were two stunned people who dared to engage in local county orders in their own land, so they appeased Shen Rihua on the surface, turned around and told Jin Ziyuan about this matter, and let Jin Ziyuan deal with it himself.
Jin Ziyuan was furious after receiving Tian Yufeng's news, and immediately colluded with several businessmen, and in turn framed Shen Rihua, so Shen Rihua was imprisoned before he could do anything, and Shen Qianyi was still in the dark about all this, and even regarded Tian Yufeng as the last straw.
Shi Luosheng figured it all out, although he felt that Shen Rihua's matter was his own doing, but this matter was also an opportunity for himself, if it was handled well, it would be a big blow to the Tian family. So Shi Luosheng said to Shen Qianyi: "Girl, I already know about you, don't worry, I am in charge of this matter, you can go back to the inn with me now, our son-in-law is still waiting in the inn." ”
Shen Qianyi hesitated a little and said, "Back to the inn?" But Master Tian didn't allow me to go back to Xu County, otherwise I would have to make my father suffer more in prison. ”
Shi Luo said angrily: "The younger brother of the dignified imperial lieutenant actually threatened a weak woman, you don't have to be afraid, whether you go back or not, what should he do to your father or how to treat your father, and he will not change the punishment of your father just because you can't go back to Xu County." ”
As soon as Shen Qianyi heard it, she felt that it made sense, so she followed Shi Luo back to the inn. But Shi Luosheng was afraid that Shen Qianyi would be too conspicuous, so he took her directly to see Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan's whereabouts would be exposed, so he arranged it in an inn next door.
Shi Luosheng settled Shen Qianyi, and went back to report the situation to Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan was also bent on suppressing the Tian family, and also felt that this was an opportunity, so he discussed with everyone to see how to deal with this matter.
Yuan Chengce first poured a basin of cold water: "It is indeed an opportunity for us to deal with this matter, but it is also very difficult to deal with. First of all, Xu County is the sphere of influence of the Tian family, Jin Ziyuan is the nominal supreme governor of Xu County, and if you want to check Jin Ziyuan, you can only find a higher status than him, Xu County is Yingchuan County, and the county is too shou Tian Wenxiang is the son and nephew of the Tian family, so he naturally won't care. And although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can manage it, his identity cannot be exposed, even if His Royal Highness exposes his identity and personally investigates the matter thoroughly, the final result can be guessed, that is, Jin Ziyuan is guilty alone, he will never confess to anyone in the Tian family, and in the end, like the Zhang Mancheng incident, the Tian family is also a tongue that does not know anyone, and in the end not only has no actual harm to the Tian family, but also reveals that His Royal Highness the Prince's purpose in Xu County is to deliberately target Tian Yulong, and it will be even more difficult to start in the future. ”
Everyone listened to Yuan Chengce's analysis and fell into deep thought, and Shi Luosheng also felt that he had thought about this matter from the beginning, and it would not be easy to take Tian Yulong's younger brother in the Tian family's base camp.
Xiao Yan was a little frustrated: "Such a good opportunity, did we just let it go in vain?" ”
Shi Luosheng said suddenly: "It's not impossible, but it's still a little short of us just a few of us, so we have to find a foreign help." ”
Xiao Yan's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked, "Looking for foreign aid, who are you looking for?" ”