In the face of Xiao Yang and others retracting their confessions in court, Li Weiguo was not afraid, he had already been mentally prepared, so he was able to deal with it calmly.

With Lu Jianying's cunning, he naturally knew that even if Xiao Yang retracted his confession, he could only punish Li Weiguo for abusing his private deeds and extorting confessions by torture, and he could not be put to death, and Xiao Yang's case had already aroused the anger of more than 100,000 people in Chongming County, and it was probably difficult to get rid of the crime.

Lu Jianying's thoughts Li Weiguo understood, but Xiao Yang, who had just seen the hope of survival, couldn't see it, he thought that Lu Jianying was really here to save him, so he slandered Li Weiguo with an iron heart and wanted to kill him.

"Regarding whether Xiao Yang sent someone to dig up the river embankment in Chongming County, and sent someone to set fire to the disaster relief grain, the old man should investigate in detail, but this case is too complicated and cannot be investigated clearly in a day or two, so the old man decided to hand it over to Taicang Zhili Prefecture to review the case."

"Thank you Lord Lu for upholding justice for the little officials, the little officials will not forget the kindness of Lord Jì, and they will be rewarded in the future." Hearing Lu Jianying say this, Xiao Yang suddenly burst into tears of gratitude, and hurriedly kowtowed in thanks.

Lu Jianying said with a smile on his face: "Master Xiao's words are wrong, the old man is an official of the imperial court and a governor of one party, and it is right to ask for the people's life." ”

Xiao Yang hurriedly nodded yes, very happy, turned his head and glanced at Li Weiguo, his face full of ridicule and ridicule, as if he wanted to see that Li Weiguo's end had arrived.

Looking at the ugly faces of these sanctimonious guys, Li Weiguo just snorted coldly and was not afraid.

At this time, Lu Jianying turned to Li Weiguo again and said: "The old man received a report from someone in Jiangning, saying that Chongming County ordered Li Weiguo to embezzle the public funds of the imperial court and embezzle two funds for disaster relief in Chongming County. ”

Sure enough, it came!

That's the point!

Lu Jianying's killer feature!

Li Weiguo snorted coldly, and replied with a smile: "What nonsense! Which old bastard came up with such a conspiracy and trickery, and even wanted to slander this county, and I hope Lord Lu will see it. ”

"Poof!"

Duoliang, the prefect of Taicang Zhili Prefecture, who was watching the bustle on the side, heard Li Weiguo scolding Lu Jianying's old bastard, and suddenly squirted out a mouthful of tea, and then coughed violently.

Lu Jianying was cunning and cunning, how could he not hear that Li Weiguo was directly scolding him, and his face turned pale, but he didn't dare to admit that he deliberately framed Li Weiguo, so he could only hold back his anger.

"Master Li doesn't have to be angry, you need to know that your feet are not afraid of crooked shoes, whether you are corrupt or not, the old man only needs to check it. If you are honest and honest, the old man will naturally not find out anything. ”

Li Weiguo suddenly smiled: "It is true that the feet are not afraid of crooked shoes, but if the crooked shoes are made of iron, even if the feet are straight, they will be flesh and blood, and sooner or later they will be deformed by the crooked iron shoes." ”

Lu Jianying smiled and said, "It turns out that Master Li doesn't know anything!" But it's a pity that if you had understood this truth earlier, you wouldn't have gotten to where you are today, it's too late to say anything, come on! ”

As soon as Lu Jianying gave the order, the soldiers who had already received the order took out the accounts of Chongming County and put them in the lobby, and then several bookkeepers quickly began to check the accounts.

Li Weiguo just quietly watched the bookkeepers check the accounts, his expression was very calm.

When Lu Jianying and Duo Liang saw Li Weiguo's state, they couldn't help but be suspicious, so they looked at Xiao Yang one after another.

Xiao Yang was also a little nervous at the moment, but he firmly believed that he would never be discovered by Li Weiguo if he had done a fake account, so he nodded firmly to Lu Jianying and Duo Liang to reassure them.

Those bookkeepers are worthy of being experts, and they quickly counted all the accounts of Chongming County, and then they all shook their heads with a ghostly expression.

Lu Jianying frowned suddenly, and couldn't help but ask out loud, "How is it?" Did you find out? Then Li Weiguo lost 320,000 taels of silver? ”

Seeing those accounts spitting and spitting, Duo Liang became impatient, and suddenly shouted: "Bastard, what do you want to say?" Is there a missing 320,000 taels of silver in the accounts? ”

A few account offices, you look at me, I look at you, and finally an older account clerk stiffened, shook his head and said: "Back to the governor and the prefect, I have checked it twice and confirmed that there is no problem with the accounts, and the expenses and income and expenditure on it are exactly the same, and there is no deficit." ”

"What?"

"Impossible!"

"You must have made a mistake!"

"There is a clear deficit of 320,000 taels of silver on it, how can it not be?"

Lu Jianying, Duo Liang, Xiao Yang and others shouted almost in unison, not believing the words of a few account offices at all.

Only Li Weiguo was sneering, looking at the ugly faces of several people, he was ruthless in his heart, you are really hooking up together, you want to harm Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu remembers you, and will clean you up ten times and a hundred times in the future.

Xiao Yang didn't believe in evil, and he made the fake account book, so he went up to correct it in person. It's just that when he saw the account, he couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately exclaimed: "This is not the account of Chongming County!" ”

"What? Not the accounts of Chongming County? Lu Jianying exclaimed, relieved in his heart, it turned out that it was not the accounts of Chongming County, no wonder several bookkeepers couldn't find the "problem".

Duo Liang was suddenly furious, stood up with a lap on the coffee table, pointed at Li Weiguo and shouted: "Bold Li Weiguo, you dare to use false accounts to deceive us, are you guilty?" ”

Li Weiguo laughed a few times, glared at Duo Liang with sharp eyes, and asked rhetorically, "Are you blind?" Which eye saw that I was taking a false account? ”

"You dare to scold me?" Duo Liang was dozens of years old, and was scolded by Li Weiguo for being blind, he was suddenly angry, and he rolled up his sleeves to fight.

Lu Jianying looked at Li Weiguo's calm expression, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Lord Duo, don't be impatient, ask things clearly." ”

Seeing that Lu Jianying had spoken, Duo Liang had to temporarily resist the urge to beat Li Weiguo, and reprimanded angrily: "Xiao Yang is the master of your Chongming County Yamen, and the accounts naturally have to pass through his hands, since he said that your accounts are fake, they must be fake!" How? What else do you have to say? ”

"Stupidity is innate, and even if you become a prefect, you can't change it." Li Weiguo glanced at Duoliang with disdain, and said with a sneer: "Since the day the county came to Chongming County to take office, Xiao Yang has already been sick at home, and the county simply dismissed him from his position, so Xiao Yang is not the county's chief bookkeeper, since he is not the county's chief book, how can he look at the county's accounts?" Besides, Xiao Yang is a criminal, Lord Duo actually heard a criminal say that a fake account is a fake account, and he believed it to be true, hey, this IQ is really speechless! ”

"You-you-" Duo Liang was pointed at his nose by Li Weiguo and scolded the idiot, and suddenly blushed with anger, but he didn't know how to refute the other party, he was ashamed and angry for a while, and threw an old face on Mars.

Lu Jianying was also suddenly shocked, he finally understood what the problem was, and immediately looked at Xiao Yang viciously.

Xiao Yang was also dumbfounded at this time, he never expected that Li Weiguo would seize this excuse to make a big fuss, and he was suddenly a little caught off guard, but he still tried his best to refute: "Even if I am no longer the main bookkeeper, but the accounts of this county still remember clearly, these are not these, it must be you who hid the original accounts for fear that the two adults would find out that you were misappropriating public funds." ”

"Bold! You're just a guilty body, and there's no place for you to speak here!" Li Weiguo scolded Xiao Yang loudly, and immediately sneered: "Since you are not the chief bookkeeper of this county, you naturally will not remember the accounts of this county during your tenure. But you are the chief bookkeeper of the previous prefectural orders of this county, so you remember the accounts of the previous prefectural orders. ”

Xiao Yang was stunned for a moment, secretly screaming badly, and was about to deny it, but Li Weiguo didn't give him a chance to deny it.

Li Weiguo turned to Lu Jianying and said: "Lord Lu clearly checks that there is indeed an account with a deficit of 320,000 taels of silver in this county, but it is a deficit of public funds from the previous county order, and the account problem was found out on the first day of his arrival, so he sealed the account and sent it directly to the Su Song Taidao Mansion for safekeeping. The adults saw that the accounts in front of them were indeed the accounts of the county, but they were only the accounts of the lower officials after they took office, and if they wanted to check the accounts of the previous county orders, they only needed to go to the Susong Taidao Mansion to check. ”

What a cunning little fox!

Lu Jianying glared at Li Weiguo, and scolded secretly in his heart, at this moment he was already like a mirror, he was blinded by the geese pecking at the geese all the year round, he never thought that Li Weiguo would come with him such a trick. Now Xiao Yang's fake accounts not only failed to frame Li Weiguo, but caused a commotion, Li Weiguo has handed over the fake accounts to Su Song Taidao Liu Jianzhang, then Liu Jianzhang is Lu Jianying's sworn enemy, if the account problem is found, it will inevitably implicate the previous county commanders, and even he directly found Lu Jianying, the mastermind behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, Lu Jianying said with a bitter face: "If the matter is really as Lord Li said, the old man should investigate it strictly to the end!" ”

"That's right! It is indeed necessary to investigate to the end! ”

The sudden voice made Lu Jianying frown suddenly, but Li Weiguo was in good spirits.

That's right, it was Su Song Taidao Liu Jianzhang who came in time.

Su Song Taidao, directly under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, Songjiang, Taicang three prefectures of military and political power, Jiangxi customs power, is the status and strength of the second only to the Liangjiang Governor Lu Jianying of the real power of the official position.

When Lu Jianying saw that Liu Jianzhang was coming, he suddenly became angry in his heart. Originally, he and Liu Jianzhang were people who belonged to the Imperial Party and the Sixth Master Party respectively, and the two sides were bitter rivals who never got along. However, after Xianfeng ascended the throne, although he severely cracked down on the forces of the Six Masters Party, as the emperor, he needed to understand the art of checks and balances, so although Lu Jianying was released as the governor of Liangjiang, Xianfeng deliberately demoted Liu Jianzhang to Su Song Taidao in order to check and balance Lu Jianying and prevent him from getting out of control, as the purpose of containing Lu Jianying.

Lu Jianying knew that this was the emperor's mental trick, but he didn't dare to complain, he only thought about secretly killing Liu Jianzhang, and Liu Jianzhang also secretly wanted to kill Lu Jianying, so as soon as the two met, the lobby was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder.

"Hey, how could Lord Lu be here?" Liu Jianzhang asked with a smile.

This kind of knowingly asked Lu Jianying very unhappy, but he couldn't get angry, but he said angrily: "As the governor of Liangjiang, the old man inspects the place on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and on the boundary of these two rivers and three provinces, the old man can come whenever he wants." But you, Lord Liu, don't stay in Shanghai County, what are you doing in Chongming County? ”

Liu Jianzhang also countered in an unkind tone: "You inspect your two rivers and three provinces, and this official inspects Su Songtaidao of this official, and this Chongming County is the scope of this official's inspection." After many days of detailed investigation, the official has now found out that the former county commander Yan Jing and the chief secretary have indeed lost a huge amount of public funds, and the official has gone to the court to arrest Yan Jing, and today he came to Chongming County to take away the criminal Xiao Yang. ”

"Your Excellency!"

As soon as he heard Liu Jianzhang's words, Xiao Yang was suddenly so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he hurriedly asked Lu Jianying for help.

Lu Jianying was so angry in his heart that he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, he had missed Li Weiguo's shrewdness before, and now he had missed Liu Jianzhang, a sworn enemy, who suddenly intervened.

Now Lu Jianying is in a dilemma, not only can he not save Xiao Yang, but he must try his best to clear up his relationship with Xiao Yang, otherwise it will be bad once he is caught by Liu Jianzhang. However, Lu Jianying was still worried about Xiao Yang's shortfall of 320,000 taels of silver, and he couldn't do without this money, so he had to keep Xiao Yang for the time being.

If Lu Jianying knew that the 320,000 taels of silver had also been taken away by Li Weiguo at this time, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood on the spot.

"The old man in Xiao Yang's case has decided to interrogate him personally, since Lord Liu also has evidence of Xiao Yang's crimes, it will be handed over to the old man at the same time, and it will definitely help the old man to try the case as soon as possible."

Shameless!

Shameless!

Li Weiguo and Liu Jianzhang are scolding Lu Jianying for being cunning in their hearts, but now the evidence is ironclad, even if Lu Jianying has the heart to save Xiao Yang, it is impossible.

So Liu Jianzhang was not afraid that Lu Jianying would come out of the moth, anyway, he came to prevent Lu Jianying and Xiao Yang from partnering to frame Li Weiguo, and now that the goal has been achieved, he nodded in agreement.

"Lord Li, since you have found out that Xiao Yang and the previous county commander have lost 320,000 taels of silver, then as evidence of the crime, please also hand over this batch of silver to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion for safekeeping."

Seeing that Lu Jianying finally showed his fox tail, Li Weiguo smiled secretly in his heart and replied: "Back to the governor's words, although the lower officials found out that Xiao Yang had lost this huge amount of money, but did not find this stolen money, there are signs that this stolen money has been transferred by Xiao Yang to the real mastermind behind the scenes, since the governor has completely taken over the case, then please also track down the whereabouts of this stolen money, it is best to find out the real bastard behind the scenes." ”

"You-"

Lu Jianying pointed at Li Weiguo angrily, his expression was like eating a fly.

At this time, no matter how stupid Lu Jianying was, he understood that this qiē was deliberately made by Li Weiguo, and he was waiting for him to get on the set. The 320,000 taels of silver had obviously been privately swallowed by Li Weiguo, but Lu Jianying did not have any evidence to ask Li Weiguo for it, and he had to find another way to investigate this batch of stolen money, which was equivalent to a dumb loss.

Li Weiguo asked with a harmless face: "My lord, what do you want to say?" ”

"Y-you-you're good!"

Lu Jianying almost gritted his teeth and said word by word, at this moment he wanted to strangle Li Weiguo.

"Let's go!"

Lu Jianying didn't want to be embarrassed here anymore, so he immediately called everyone to leave, not wanting to stay longer for a moment.

"Slow down, adults!"

"The next official won't send it!"

"Come often when you have time!"

Li Weiguo followed behind, shouting vigorously at the top of his voice, for fear that Lu Jianying would not hear it, and ordered his subordinates to shout in unison, deliberately angry with Lu Jianying.

Lu Jianying's face turned pale and he stepped into his sedan chair, hearing the shouts of Li Weiguo and his subordinates outside, he was angry in his heart, as if he had been forced to eat flies, he was furious, and suddenly a mouthful of old blood spurted out.

"Poof!"