"Who are you?" Li Yuntian looked at it and found that there was a group of old and young women and children kneeling there, his brows furrowed slightly, and he asked the fat woman kneeling in the front. Pro, eye & fast, a large number of novels to read for free.

"Lord Qiyu County, the concubine is Ma Cuilan, the insider of Zhao Hua, the inspector of the Baishui Town Inspection Division, and these are the family members of the two deputy inspectors of the Inspection Division." The fat woman kept kowtowing at Li Yuntian, "My lord, please raise your noble hand and spare our masters, although they are wrong, they will not die for their crimes!" ”

Under the leadership of Ma Cuilan, the old and young behind her kowtowed, crying and crying, begging Li Yuntian for mercy.

"If it weren't for Zhao Hua's greed for life and fear of death, how could Baishui Town suffer such a catastrophe?" Li Yuntian sneered when he heard this, and said loudly, "Are they worthy of the twenty-two unjust souls who died in this way?" Is it worthy of the fifteen women who were taken captive? ”

As he spoke, Li Yuntian waved his hand, and the officials at the scene separated Ma Cuilan and the others who were kneeling on the road and made a way.

"Lord County, our boss didn't mean to delay the fighter, he had a last resort." Ma Cuilan was immediately anxious when she saw it, and pushed away one of the officials who was blocking him, rushed forward and hugged Li Yuntian's thigh, and cried bitterly, "My lord, our family has to rely on him to feed, you can't let us be the scapegoats!" ”

"Quick, pull her away." Li Yuntian didn't expect Ma Cuilan to be so difficult, and hurriedly said to Luo Ming.

"Boss, if you leave, we won't live, I have long advised you not to do this errand anymore, this little Jiupin Sesame official does not say anything, and the credit is someone else's, and the sin is your own, but you don't listen, it's good now, you have lost your life."

Luo Ming hurriedly dragged Ma Cuilan away, and Ma Cuilan sat on the ground with her buttocks, crying and crying.

"Sir, let my grandfather go." At this time, a little boy of five or six years old with a chubby face came out of the crowd, knelt in front of Li Yuntian and cried, "My grandfather is a good man and has never done anything bad. ”

"Don't cry, remember, a man bleeds without tears." Li Yuntian leaned over and pulled up the little boy, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said.

"Okay, I'll listen to the big man, don't cry." The little boy wiped tears from his face and sobbed.

"Ma Cuilan, do you think this official wants to shirk responsibility?" Li Yuntian wiped the boy's head kindly, and then looked at Ma Cuilan, who was crying there, with a cold face, "To tell you the truth, this official is not as dirty as you think, and he will not pull others to back his back, Zhao Hua's behavior belongs to escaping from the battle, and he should be killed according to the law, and the official did not wronged him!" ”

"Sir, although the sins of our head are unforgivable, they are forgivable. Hearing this, Ma Cuilan looked up at Li Yuntian, stared at him and said loudly, "Master, do you know how much the monthly salary of the sergeant of the Inspection Division is?" Do you know how much pension there is after dying in battle? ”

"This official is busy with affairs, how can he know everything." Li Yuntian frowned and replied with a gloomy face.

"Lord, the concubine came to sue you, the sergeant of the Inspection Division can only receive half a bag of coarse grain a month, and it is difficult to even support himself, let alone support his family, and his family can only receive a bag of coarse grain after dying in battle. Dare to ask your lordship, how can the sergeants do their best to suppress the bandits in such a situation? ”

Ma Cuilan looked directly at Li Yuntian with both eyes and asked loudly.

"Eat the king's lu, bear the king's worries, do you want this official to sue you?" Li Yuntian didn't expect the treatment of the sergeant of the Inspection Division to be so low, and looked at Ma Cuilan expressionlessly.

"Master, people are not sages, if you can't even support your family, how can you talk about serving the country?" Ma Cuilan couldn't help but smile bitterly, and her smile looked extremely bitter.

Li Yuntian was slightly stunned when he heard this, stood there and pondered for a while, and then walked away without saying a word.

"Sister-in-law, can we save the head of the family by doing this?" After Li Yuntian walked away, a woman came to Ma Cuilan's side and asked tentatively, "Will you offend the eldest master?" ”

"It's up to people to make things happen, it's up to heaven to make things happen, and let's leave the rest to fate!" Ma Cuilan groaned for a moment and shook her head helplessly, she didn't know what this matter was.

After returning to the bedroom, Li Yuntian sat on a chair and leisurely sipped a glass of boiled water, he thought that Zhao Hua would ask Zhang Youde or Chen Bozhao to intercede with him, but he didn't expect that it was his wife Ma Cuilan who was the last to move.

Ma Cuilan looked like an illiterate family woman, but she was able to say such a clever excuse, first implying that he wanted to make Zhao Hua a scapegoat, and then secretly pointed the finger at the county government, euphemistically pointing out that the county government failed to solve the problem of the sergeant of the inspection department, which made the sergeants slack.

I have to say that after Ma Cuilan's remarks, Zhao Hua's guilt has been greatly reduced, especially the sentence "people are not sages", which is full of helplessness and gloom.

"Who is it?" Li Yuntian believed that it was impossible for Ma Cuilan to do such a thing, and there must be someone behind the scenes who was guiding her behind the scenes, otherwise Ma Cuilan alone would not be able to do it so ingeniously and thoughtfully.

Then, Li Yuntian drank all the boiled water in the teacup, got up and walked out the door.

"Master, it's getting dark at night, where are you going?" The green calyx was sitting on the ** head embroidering a handkerchief, and hurriedly asked when he saw this.

"You go to sleep first, my lord will go to the inspection department." Li Yuntian smiled at her and walked quickly.

Looking at Li Yuntian's back, the green calyx bit her lip, and her face was full of worry.

She knew that Li Yuntian had been under a lot of pressure in the past two days, who would have thought that the gang of water bandits would make such a big incident, and Li Yuntian would definitely be held accountable by the imperial court.

The station of the Whitewater Town Inspection Division is a rather large courtyard, surrounded by several rows of bungalows, and in the middle is a large school field.

Knowing that Li Yuntian was coming, the sleeping sergeants hurriedly got up and lined up in the school yard to greet each other, including teenagers, old men with white hair, and some people walked with a limp, and there seemed to be problems with their legs and feet.

Li Yuntian glanced at it and was surprised to find that half of the team were old, young, sick and disabled, even young and middle-aged people, many of them were all dishes, and they looked a little nutritious.

"I don't know if the adults have arrived, and the humble duty is far away, and the crime deserves death." Zhao Hua didn't expect Li Yuntian to come here late at night, and after getting dressed neatly, he led the two deputy inspectors to ask him for guilt, looking a little panicked.

"How old are you today?" Li Yuntian ignored Zhao Hua, but came to a thin young man and asked in a deep voice.

"Big man, the little one is fifteen years old this year." The emaciated boy puffed out his chest and replied in a loud voice.

"What about you?" Li Yuntian frowned, and asked again to an old man with a gray beard next to the emaciated young man.

"Adult, two out of fifty." The old man grinned, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.

"How many people are in the family?" Li Yuntian sighed secretly in his heart when he heard this, and asked.

"Lord Qiyu, the younger family has two sons and two daughters, both of whom are married to each other." At the mention of his family, the old man's face showed a look of happiness.

"Stand down." Li Yuntian suddenly didn't know what to say to this old man who was enough to be his father, and after a deep groan, he waved his hand to the sergeants in the school yard, got up and walked to Zhao Hua's public house on the side.

The people at the scene immediately dispersed in a hurry, and returned to the dormitory in groups of three or five, talking to each other, whispering, and secretly guessing Li Yuntian's intentions.

"You can sit down too." After entering the public room, Li Yuntian sat down on the first seat and waved his hand to Zhao Hua, who was standing respectfully in front of him.

"Master Xie." Zhao Hua didn't know what Li Yuntian meant, so he sat on the chair next to him nervously, leaning sideways to face Li Yuntian.

"Tomorrow you go and do something, let people under the age of eighteen, over forty years old, and those with illness and disability go home, and the official will give them one or two severance pay." Li Yuntian groaned and looked up at Zhao Hua.

Zhao Hua was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't react for a while, and he didn't know why Li Yuntian wanted to do this.

"What? Can't do it? Li Yuntian saw that Zhao Hua was staying there, so he raised his voice.

"Yes, yes, I will do it tomorrow." Zhao Hua came back to his senses and nodded hurriedly.

"Inspector Zhao, you are honest with the officer, have you deducted the salaries of the sergeants?" Li Yuntian stared at him and asked coldly.

"Humble ...... Humble ......" Zhao Hua's forehead suddenly oozed cold sweat, and he stammered for a long time without speaking.

"Tell me the truth." Li Yuntian's face sank, and his voice was much more severe.

"Lord Qiqi, there are many people in the lowly family, and I have eaten more than a dozen empty salaries, but I have never deducted the salaries of my subordinates." Zhao Hua knelt on the ground with a plop and replied sweatingly.

He was already guilty, and if Li Yuntian found out that he was eating empty salaries again, then it would be a crime on top of a crime.

"A dozen empty salaries?" Li Yuntian sneered, his eyes flashed cold, and he said sharply, "This official sees that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, and you still want to deceive this official, as far as this official knows, there are thousands of taels of 'bandit tax' collected in the county every year, you don't want to sue this official, you have sent this money truthfully!" ”

"My lord doesn't know that the lowly official receives only three hundred taels of silver from the county government every year." Zhao Hua wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a pale face, "In addition, the county subsidizes fifty taels of lowly positions every year. ”

"Three hundred taels? What about the rest of the money? The corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a hint of imperceptible smile, staring at Zhao Hua with a cold expression, he was waiting for Zhao Hua's words, it was obvious that those "bandit taxes" were greedy by the people of the county government, so that they could provoke the contradiction between the people of the county government and Zhao Hua.