Chapter 58: Conscience Online
But Ling Xiao didn't feel that the other party's conscience was online.
In fact, many people who are officials will forget their original intentions after being officials for a long time.
And the common people who yearn for clean officials have always called the officials their parents.
I hope that those who are in power will have the love of parents when dealing with those people below.
In many cases, officials do say that they are the parents of those ordinary people, and their status is high.
But they are not parents who want to level the bowl of water, but parents who favor a very small number of children.
They squeezed hard for their sons and daughters they didn't like, eager to squeeze out the last drop of oil in their bodies.
And the flesh and blood that was pressed out were used to feed the officials and their beloved children, and they were ashamed to say that they did their best.
Just like this Jiao Shangshu, after hearing Ling Xiao's words, there was no conscience torment, and there was the kind of anger that was exposed.
Hehe! Ling Xiao could naturally feel that the other party didn't have any thoughts of repentance, and he was also thinking about how to erase the traces of sin, right?
Fortunately, Ling Xiao did not overestimate the other party's moral bottom line, in fact, the people of the Jiao family had already broken through the bottom line of the law, but they would be safe and sound.
Ling Xiao knew this for a long time, but she still tried Jiao Shangshu, and she was not disappointed after knowing the result, and she didn't have any hope at the beginning.
If there is no hope, there will naturally be no disappointment, and Jiao Shangshu has been proclaiming himself as an official from the people all these years, and he is definitely the kind of person who loves the people like a son.
As a result, today he was pointed out by Ling Xiao that he was not wrong at all about the Tao family, the Tao family is not guilty at all, the sin of breaking the embankment and causing the flood does not exist at all, and his revenge is simply unreasonable.
How could he possibly admit it? This is a complete subversion of his previous revenge cornerstone, that is to say, his so-called revenge is simply a sin, so the retribution that Ling Xiao just said makes him feel even more harsh and does not want to face it.
After refusing to admit it, Ling Xiao pointed out what the Jiao family had done, in order to covet the rich family's money, he actually killed the man in the family, and then he got both people and money, maybe one day someone will come to kill the Jiao family in the name of revenge, just like today.
"Haha! Let me see, how many family members died under the obscenity of the Jiao family? In addition to the Lu family, there was also a time when a convoy worth 10,000 gold was directly robbed by your Jiao family, and they gave a penny, which was not considered a robbery in vain, but a payment. ”
When he said this, Ling Xiao was surprised, flicked the stack of papers in his hand, and looked at Jiao Shangshu with slightly slanted eyes, with a bit of contempt in his expression, Jiao Shangshu, who is the master of the people, is nothing more than that.
During this time, Ling Xiao had been very nervous, for fear that the emperor would let Eighteen Niang marry immediately, so how could he have the opportunity to deal with the grievances and grievances between him and Jiao Shangshu?
Fortunately, the emperor said that he would wait for the weather to cool down before letting Su Yu get married, so Ling Xiao naturally seized the time to deal with the problem, especially to investigate the situation of the Jiao family in all aspects.
Jiao Shangshu calculated others at will because he didn't investigate clearly, which always led to the death of a lot of innocent people in that natural and man-made disaster.
Ling Xiao, who strongly opposed this kind of behavior, naturally did not make the same mistake, and she spent a lot of money and time to investigate the relevant situation.
And what Jiao Shangshu's reputation is, it belongs to the part of the key inquiry, and it is to investigate his situation from all aspects.
Soon, some of the most superficial information arrived first, and Ling Xiao found that Jiao Shangshu and his person suddenly looked good.
First of all, he is one of the more clean and self-conscious officials, and no one generally finds out that he has accepted any bribes.
The first feeling is that Jiao Shangshu is a clear stream in the mudslide, which makes ordinary people very moved after watching it.
But Ling Xiao does not belong to one of ordinary people, and there is a bitter grudge between the original owner and him.
It is impossible for her to let go so lightly because of a few reports that said that Jiao Shangshu was good.
As for the reputation of incorruptibility, Ling Xiao was also a little skeptical.
In many cases, you need to dig deep into the situation yourself.
Otherwise, how should I explain to the original owner in the future?
Next, Ling Xiao began to investigate the relevant situation of the Jiao family.
It was found that Jiao Shangshu may be innocent, but his family is different.
In order to make the Jiao family prosperous, the Jiao family did a lot of crazy things.
Ling Xiao had to wonder if Jiao Shangshu should know something about what the Jiao family had done.
But because he has always been mostly in the official office, it can also be said that he has not noticed the loopholes.
But no matter what, he still has the responsibility of negligence, and he can only reluctantly say that being an official is so-so.
The reason why his family would do so many bad things so boldly is because he is an official with real power.
Even Ling Xiao suspected that his family was listening to him and unscrupulously oppressing others for money and selfish gain.
He didn't have many bad deeds, not because he was noble, but more likely because he didn't have the opportunity to make a move.
Ling Xiao glanced at Jiao Shangshu with a somewhat inquiring gaze, judging from the Tao family's affairs, she didn't believe that he was an innocent person from the bottom of her heart.
A person who wants to be a good official, even if he encounters a situation, will carefully investigate and prove that the other party is indeed guilty with various evidence.
Instead of taking it for granted the guilt of others, not to mention that he did not hesitate to hurt other people for the sake of his so-called own hatred, and he did not regret it.
Until now, he still keeps saying: The innocents who are involved are simply their own lives, this kind of double standard GOU is really eye-opening.
Jiao Shangshu still doesn't give up at the moment, and the secret hand left behind has no effect, which shows that no one can save him, so will he just be arrested?
No! I can't imagine that this Tao family is so cunning, no wonder it was the old god who was there all the time just now, and when he heard himself shouting loudly, he pretended not to hear it, hateful! He underestimated the Tao family.
Just now, he thought that he would be able to teach this immature Tao family a lesson, but now he naturally saw that the other party had secretly dealt with those slaves and bodyguards who might come, and he was happy in vain.
He never thought that he would meet a person from Yunwen Yunwu in his own family, and he was very thoughtful, and he checked the affairs of the Jiao family clearly, what did the other party want to do?
Ling Xiao had been prepared before the action, she wanted to let the magnates in the capital know that sometimes they didn't think that with money and power, they could do whatever they wanted.
Before coming this time, she specially prepared some good things for the people in the capital, and she has been thinking about how to retaliate for this time.
Of course, Ling Xiao knew that it was impossible to kill all those powerful people who disregarded human life, how many people would have to be killed? I'm afraid that there will be a long river of blood in the capital.
If the original owner came back and knew that Ling Xiao dared to do this, he was afraid that the whole person would be stupid, and he would not dare to contact Ling Xiao for the so-called handover.
Ling Xiao thought about the original owner's temperament for a while, that kind of decisiveness in killing is not something that the original owner can do, will it frighten the original owner?
She doesn't have the strength of a big move to go down to the second person, this body still belongs to the mortal body, and she will also have a mental breakdown.
Ling Xiao felt that if he did this, he was afraid that the original owner would not feel good in the years to come, and he would live very self-reproachful.
Then after thinking about it carefully, she was ready to give a super gift to those powerful people.
This is thanks to the last time I knocked down a lot of recipes in the Xianxia world, and the raw materials are very abundant.
She refined a lot of strange things, and there was a medicine called mirage.
It has a unique function: it allows people who smell the fragrance to start dreaming after falling asleep.
If this person belongs to the kind of person who is very honest, he is not afraid.
It's just a more ordinary and joyful dream.
If you are a person who likes to do evil, what happens in your sleep is the opposite.
will become a person who is bullied, which definitely makes many people afraid to sleep after going to bed at night.
Of course, this is also to cover up one thing: she plans to have a good talk with Jiao Shangshu.
Seeing Jiao Shangshu's repeated denials and shaking her head constantly, she said, "Then you still have the face to say the Tao family?" ”
There was a thick mockery in her tone, and she looked at Jiao Shangshu, who was unconvinced, and laughed lightly.
"For hundreds of years, the Tao family has been paying out of their own pockets to build river embankments during dry seasons, so that every time the flood peak arrives, it is not washed away."
"It can be said that the Tao family cannot all be good people, but the Tao family has indeed done nothing wrong in this regard."
"It can even be said that there is great merit, if there is a Yama Hall underground, you can see how many sins you have done? And will the sins you have done touch your ancestors? ”
After hearing Ling Xiao's words, Jiao Shangshu's face changed several times, he wanted to say something, he wanted to say that he didn't believe Ling Xiao's words at all, but in the end he couldn't say anything.
He is not good at the moment, because he doesn't know what to say, what originally seemed to him to be a righteous thing, but it turned out to be his own fault!
No, no, no, it's not his fault, of course Jiao Shangshu doesn't want to admit that it was his fault to drown the Tao family, he can't do anything wrong.
But he knew very well in his heart that it might be really wrong, Jiao Shangshu's body was a little shaky, how could things develop to this point?
She has always advertised herself as a moral person, even if she does something against her heart, she is forced to do it.
It was the surrounding environment that forced him to make a choice, he has always lived a straightforward and strong life, and it was never him who was wrong.
In fact, with the passage of time, he has changed a lot, and he is no longer the person from a small village.
He completed the feat of carp jumping over the dragon gate and turned the small Jiao family into an official eunuch family.
After marrying a wife and taking concubines, he gave birth to many children, and later gave birth to the next generation.
In his opinion, the entire Jiao family is about to prosper.
In his opinion, this is an achievement, but it is all lost.
At this moment, Jiao Shangshu didn't want to be known about what happened tonight.
His palm moved quietly, and now he had a new plan.
He even felt that as long as Ling Xiao died, then everything would return to its original trajectory.
Since he didn't want to expose the target, Jiao Shangshu now had only one thought in his heart: that is, to kill Ling Xiao.
And Ling Xiao felt the killing intent of the other party, the other party was that kind of high-ranking official, so naturally he didn't have the ability to control his murderous aura.
Ling Xiao felt the killing intent, she was also a person who had experienced a lot of killing scenes, how could she not feel this killing intent?
She is now waiting for Jiao Shangshu's movements, although it is very subtle, but she has not stopped moving, she should be thinking about how to move her body.
Seeing Jiao Shangshu's body stumble suddenly, the whole person fell in one direction, and Ling Xiao, who had been standing with his arms crossed, just watched and didn't want to move forward.
The corners of her mouth turned up slightly, with a bit of unspeakable jokes, do you want to compare her mobility? All right! She wanted to see what the other person could do. Look at his final struggle.
Seeing that he had fallen to the ground, as soon as he rolled on the ground, he heard a sword roar and drew out a sword, which should have been specially placed here by Lord Shangshu, who had actually had a lot of grievances and had suffered many assassinations.
This gave him the experience of how to prevent assassinations, and in the kind of experience that quickly increased himself, he hid several swords in this study in case of assassination at any time.
And this time Ling Xiao's arrival was the most powerful one he had ever seen, Jiao Shangshu had a feeling that either you died or I died, so he naturally thought about how to kill Ling Xiao.
It's just that he didn't have a chance to see Ling Xiao's expression, if he really saw it, his first thought was not to attack, but to think about how to retreat and escape from the study.
I saw him get up quickly, and then roared angrily, and slashed down with a swing of his sword, and it could be seen that he had practiced, and he was quicker than ordinary people.
There was no hesitation when the sword slashed down, he didn't have any thoughts about letting Ling Xiao go, this sword just wanted her to die quickly.
And I saw her standing there without moving, and I don't know if I was surprised that she couldn't move? Or is it something else? Something is not right!
At this moment, Jiao Shangshu was a little hesitant about Ling Xiao, but he quickly abandoned this somewhat weak idea.
Her arrival is in danger of destroying the Jiao family, and in his eyes, the Jiao family is the most important existence.
The other party can master so many things, and he simply wants the Jiao family to die.
In the dead scorching family? Or die on the simple multiple-choice question.
He had no choice but to keep his family.
There are very few people who can kill their relatives in righteousness.
He's certainly not the kind of person who is very noble.
If you choose to let Ling Xiao die, you can save the entire Jiao family.
To save his reputation, this choice is inevitable.
As for whether the Tao family should die? There was nothing wrong with it in his eyes.
It's normal to kill the wrong one, and not all of his subordinates are clean after he becomes an official.
Originally, there were a few unjust souls, and if they wanted to move forward in their careers, they would inevitably do dirty things.
If you want to rise faster than others, in addition to your knowledge, you rely more on your own political skills.
He ran out to work alone, and he didn't have many connections, even if he married a wife who had some connections in the family.
But his father-in-law's family also has their own children, so he naturally wants to take care of his own family, so he can get to Jiao Shangshu, his son-in-law.
Jiao Shangshu was really not very happy about this, because after a lot of fighting in the officialdom, he knew that what he lacked the most was connections.