"Does Master Zhen really think I'm an idiot? How much money have you made from holding the salt government for so many years? But I always want me to carry the black pot for you, I don't want to be your scapegoat like this, so Master Zhen had better think about it seriously, how to deal with this matter! Leave! After speaking, Master He left the Zhen family.

Zhen Yingjia stared at the back of Lord He leaving with cold eyes like poisonous snakes, his hands clenched into fists, he couldn't judge the truth of what Lord He said, but he didn't dare to risk killing him like this. Zhen Yingjia thinks that he is resourceful and cautious, but he never thought that he would let a small person who is usually inconspicuous put on a table.

"Someone! Go and inform the second master of the Xue family, I want to see him! ”

Lord He hurriedly left the Zhen family and went straight to the dock in Jinling, and it was not until the boat he was on left Jinling far away that He slowly exhaled. Master He felt that he had really picked up a life in his life, he spread out his palms and looked at the blood marks on it that were pinched out by his fingernails, and sneered self-deprecatingly. He is not afraid, nor is he fearless, he wants to fight for his own life.

Lord He had confessed to his son before coming to Jinling, and if there was no news of him after tomorrow, he would ask his son to hand over the "evidence" prepared in advance to Lin Ruhai. Originally, he planned that if Zhen Yingjia wanted him to take the blame, it was not impossible, as long as Zhen Yingjia was willing to let his family leave Yangzhou safely and return to his hometown in Shandong, he could "apologize with death". But he also guarded against Zhen Yingjia wanting to kill people, so he handed over those "evidences" to his son, if he was killed by Zhen Yingjia, after Lin Ruhai got those "evidence", according to Lin Ruhai's character, he would definitely protect his family, and he would definitely not let Zhen Yingjia go. Master He calculated very well, but he didn't expect Zhen Yingjia to really kill people, and he could see from Zhen Yingjia's eyes that Zhen Yingjia would not only kill him but also his family.

Lord He didn't want to die for such a sinister villain, and at that moment, his heart was completely biased towards Lin Ruhai. If he realized that he was in the same boat as Zhen Yingjia because he also got benefits before, then now he would rather "wear guilt and make meritorious contributions", even if it is inevitable to die in the future, he will pull Zhen Yingjia into the water.

Lord He's idea is very good, but he is as cunning as Zhen Yingjia, how could he not think of what he wants to do? Therefore, Lord He "woke up" too late, which is destined to become Zhen Yingjia's scapegoat!

The next day, when Lord He was still struggling with how to hand over the "evidence" in his hands to Lin Ruhai, the officers and soldiers had already rushed into his home, and arrested their whole family in prison when he was still confused and didn't know what to do, and the "evidence" that was originally to prove Zhen Yingjia's embezzlement of salt taxes in his study became evidence of his crime.

Lord He shivered in the cold and almost frozen cell, his brain seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't understand why he had become that heinous corrupt official overnight.

"Ho, my lord! Isn't it very angry and puzzled? Lin Ruhai appeared in front of Lord He's cell door and looked at the old man who was cowering in the corner of the cell.

"Lord Lin! Lord Lin! You're finally willing to see me, Lord Lin! The lower officials are wronged, the lower officials are wronged! Those account books were secretly recorded by the lower officials in the past few years, and they were all evidence of Zhen Yingjia's embezzlement of salt taxes! When Lord He saw Lin Ruhai, he wanted to see a life-saving straw, crawled to the door of the cell with his hands and feet, knelt there, and clutched the door of the cell with both hands and shouted loudly.

"Really?" However, we found a large amount of gold and silver in the secret room of Lord He's courtyard, although it is still a lot short of the amount of tax silver that has been missing over the years, but it is definitely not the amount that you, a fourth-rank official, can have! ”

"It can't be! There are only some antique calligraphy and paintings in the secret room of my courtyard, and there is no gold or silver at all! ”

"Yesterday, before we went to your house to arrest you, we received a report from the Xue family and the Liu family, salt merchants, saying that you had embezzled a large amount of salt tax silver during your tenure, and also told you where you hid the silver. We first went to your house's courtyard and found 1,670,000 taels of silver and 190,000 taels of gold in the secret room. Then I found a few books of accounts in your study, on which every money you embezzled was clearly recorded. So, you see that the evidence is conclusive, and you can't start if you want to confess! ”

"Nope! No! No! How so! How so! Those silver that are obviously embezzled by Zhen Yingjia, I just drank a little soup with it, why! Why! Why! He couldn't accept such a cruel truth for a while, he had been avoiding becoming a scapegoat, but why didn't he escape such an ending in the end?

"Because you're stupid! I come to your door every day and give you countless opportunities, but you want to be left and right, which is doomed to become an outcast! Lin Ruhai's emotionless words sounded in the ears of Lord He, and Lin Ruhai was also very annoyed, the first battle after arriving in Yangzhou was defeated at the hands of this stupid Lord He.

Master He's body trembled even more, he finally realized at this time that he was smart but was mistaken by being smart, thinking that if he grabbed Zhen Yingjia's handle in his hand, he could hold Zhen Yingjia and negotiate conditions with Lin Ruhai. However, he forgot that he was the salt messenger, and those account books could only prove that the tax money flowed out of his hands, but could not prove whose hands the tax money ended up in.

Therefore, Zhen Yingjia is indeed a very powerful character, and he has thought about every step from the beginning.

After Lord He left that day, he hurriedly found Second Master Xue, asked him to raise a large sum of gold and silver in the shortest possible time, and wrote a letter to his in-law Liu Jinbao and asked Second Master Xue to take him to Yangzhou to find Liu's family for help. So, when Lord He was asleep, Second Master Xue and Liu Jinbao had already raised 1.67 million taels of silver and 190,000 taels of gold, which were quietly transported to the He family's courtyard.

"Hahaha...... Hahaha...... I calculated and calculated, but I still became someone else's scapegoat! Hahaha...... Hahaha......"