Chapter 29: Arrest

"Be nice to her!" smiled and patted Bei Mingchen's shoulder, Bei Mingyan turned away, and the moment he turned around, the smile on his face was no longer there, replaced by a thick melancholy hanging on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

Dali Temple acted quickly, after getting the emperor's order, Liu Wenzhi, the secretary of Dali Temple, personally led people to Los Angeles to investigate, and Los Angeles was washed by the flood, at this time it was already a bleak and bleak.

Zheng Zerun, the prefect of Los Angeles, is more than half a hundred years old, in order to keep the city, he braved the strong wind overnight with the officers and soldiers to repair the river dam, and his body has already been wet by the sea, and the north wind swept away, hitting the bone-chilling cold.

His knee didn't feel a pain, Zheng Zerun almost couldn't stand firmly, but fortunately, the pawn next to him quickly helped him, "My lord, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine!" Looking at the flood that was finally blocked after a day and a night of hard work, Zheng Zerun smiled knowingly, and all the soldiers present finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It coincides with the rainy season, when the tide rises, and the monstrous waves, wave after wave, fiercely and mercilessly lap the freshly repaired embankment.

Zheng Zerun's brows, which had just been stretched, were unconsciously furrowed again.

"I don't know how long our temporarily repaired river dam can last, look at this momentum, it won't be able to recede for a while, I'm afraid I'm going to have to work hard tonight brothers to stay here!"

"For the safety of the people in the city, we are duty-bound!" The soldiers shouted in unison, and the momentum was so magnificent that it completely overshadowed the rumbling waves.

"Good! We're going to defend our home together tonight! Zheng Zerun took over with satisfaction.

What kind of superior, what kind of subordinates will be brought out, Zheng Zerun is an honest official, and he does everything himself, yes, most of the soldiers in the government admire him, no matter what difficulties they encounter, everyone will work together to tide over the difficulties.

As soon as he catches a cold, his knees will hurt badly, this has been Zheng Zerun's old problem for many years, and the guards around him saw that his face was not very good, so he hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, you go back first, it's enough for the brothers to guard here!" ”

"Yes, my lord, go back, don't worry, you will never let this flood rush over the embankment!" Another guard took over.

"The official is fine, the official is here, with the brothers!" With a refusal, Zheng Zerun said firmly

It's not that he is not worried about his subordinates, it's just that after so many years, he has been used to leading by example, and at the critical time of life and death, how can he leave everyone behind and go back alone.

Knowing Zheng Runze's character, the guards were not easy to persuade again.

Everyone didn't dare to relax for a moment, staring closely at the rising seawater, but suddenly heard a sound of footsteps behind them.

"Take Zheng Zerun away for me!" The person who came didn't say a word, and directly gave an order to his subordinates.

Before everyone could react to what was happening, they saw that several guards with knives had stepped forward and held Zheng Zerun in custody.

"Who are you, and why are you arresting us?"

Zheng Zerun didn't say anything yet, but his subordinates took the lead in opening their mouths, and as they spoke, they had already raised the shovels and shovels in their hands, obviously wanting to fight each other.

I didn't want to talk nonsense with them more, and the person who had just given the order directly showed the token in his hand.

"Dali Temple?" Recognizing the token in the man's hand at a glance, Zheng Zerun said with a surprised face: "This is Dali Siqing, Liu Wenzhi Lord Liu?" ”

"It's this official!" Responding coldly, Liu Wenzhi waved his hand to his subordinates and ordered: "Take it away!" ”

"Wait!" Zheng Runze looked at Liu Wenzhi in confusion and asked, "As soon as Lord Liu came, he let the lower officials detain him, I don't know what crime the lower officials committed?" ”

"You are interested in making money, corrupting the law, and embezzling the money allocated by the imperial court for repairing the river, causing the river dam to burst, and the people are not able to make a living, why do you ask about the official now?" Liu Wenzhi asked impatiently.

"The lower officials are conscientious and conscientious and dedicated to the people, and the money that should not be touched has never been taken by the lower officials, so how can they say that they have privately swallowed the money for repairing the river?"

Yesterday, Zheng Zerun rushed 800 miles and presented a concert to explain the breaking of the Luocheng River Dam, hoping that the imperial court could allocate funds as soon as possible for repairs.

But he didn't expect that he didn't wait for the money to repair the river, but he had one more trumped-up crime of embezzlement, and Zheng Zerun was really caught off guard by this sudden change.

"Our adults have always had a clean breeze on their sleeves, this time in order to repair the river dam in time, the adult took out all his belongings, how can he embezzle any money for repairing the river, don't spray people with blood!"

Zheng Zerun's subordinates obviously did not agree with the charges Liu Wenzhi said, and only listened to someone in the crowd who was upset for him.

"That is, when the dam was repaired, we were all present, and all the payments were clearly remembered, if you don't believe it, you can go and check!" Someone else picked up and continued.

"Don't you know that accounts can be falsified? Your Lord Zheng, as the prefect of Los Angeles, the entire Los Angeles belongs to him the largest, what is the difficulty in fooling you ignorant pawns with fake accounts? His eyes were cold, and Liu Wenzhi said disdainfully.

"Impossible, it's impossible for us adults to do that kind of thing, you say that Lord Zheng embezzled the money for repairing the river, is there any evidence?" Someone questioned.

"Evidence?" The corners of his lips hooked, Liu Wenzhi snorted coldly and said: "The stolen money official has just led someone to search for it!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Wenzhi stretched out his hand to the guard behind him, and immediately someone handed him a wooden box, opened the box, and then saw a stack of banknotes.

Pinching the banknotes in his hand, Liu Wenzhi raised his eyebrows and said: "These are exactly what you Zheng's mansion was found, an eight-grade prefect, if it is a clean breeze with two sleeves, you won't have so much money for ten lifetimes!" ”

"If you want to add sin, why should you do it?" Zheng Zerun sneered.

Although he is upright by nature, he has lived for most of his life, and at this time, he also understood, no wonder he couldn't wait for the appropriation from the imperial court, it turned out that the folds he handed out had already sunk into the sea.

"Take it away!" With a cold face, Liu Wenzhi ordered in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency!" Seeing Zheng Zerun being pulled away, the guards of the Luocheng Mansion were anxious, and the guy in his hand unconsciously raised it.

"What? Are you going to rebel? Whoever dares to resist will be taken away with this official! Seeing this, Liu Wenzhi's voice was angry and he yelled loudly.

Seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Zheng Zerun knew that his own people and Dali Temple were tantamount to eggs hitting stones, and he would not be able to escape after all, how could he let his brothers suffer innocently.

"Stop!" Zheng Zerun suddenly shouted angrily, everyone looked at him in unison, and the movements in his hands naturally stopped.