Chapter 48: Fake Death

The Du Cai in front of him is the big villain who is criticized by the homeless people.

Bai Limo was extremely disgusted with him, but he stuffed himself at this juncture, and it was not the prince in this coffin, I am afraid there is a connection between the two.

At this time, Meng Huai also walked in slowly, and said with a sad expression: "Baili Dianjun, the unfortunate death of His Royal Highness King Ling is our responsibility for dereliction of duty, and I will personally write to Your Majesty later, asking Your Majesty to surrender." The body of His Royal Highness King Ling is placed here, what does the Baili Dian Army think? ”

Baili Mo looked at Meng Huai indifferently with slightly red eyes, and put the letterhead on his waist.

The coffin just blocked his slight movement, and no one except Du Cai noticed it.

"Okay, but the matter of guarding the corpse doesn't have to worry about Meng Tingshi. Come! ”

Baili Mo shouted, and the ten soldiers outside the Assassin's Mansion walked in together.

"You must take care of the body of the prince, and there must be no loss."

"Yes!"

Bailimo calmed down slightly, remembering that there was one more important matter to deal with.

"Meng Tingshi, there are still many homeless people outside, how do you think they should be settled?"

"It's better to place them in the Antang Temple in the city for the time being, and I believe the host will not shirk."

Afterwards, a group of men and horses escorted the displaced people in case someone tried to kill them in order to gagged them.

The rest of the men and horses temporarily lived in the Thorn Mansion with Bailimo.

After returning to the wing, Baili Mo opened the letterhead.

"Hundred miles of pro-enlightenment. This king was plotted against him, so he faked his death to hold Du Cai hostage. The Bozhou silverfish is called Zi Ghost and has been controlling Bozhou officials for many years. Baili must be connected with Du Cai to find out the ghost. Remember, beware of lurking spies, everything is about the big picture. ”

It turns out that the prince is really not dead!

Bailimo's hanging heart finally landed.

He pulled out a fire fold and burned the letterhead to ashes.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the door, and Bai Limo hurriedly wiped the ashes away with his foot, and then asked through the door, "Who?" ”

"The lower official meets the Baili Dian Army."

This voice is Du Cai's.

Baili Mo opened the door and pulled Du Cai in.

"Say! Where is His Royal Highness King Ling? ”

Before Du Cai's body could stand firmly, he was pointed at his neck by Baili Mo with the hilt of his sword.

He hurriedly explained: "Your Highness is serving delicious food and drink in the Xiaguan's mansion at this moment, but Your Highness has instructed that you are now a person standing on the bright side, and the ghost must be extremely wary of you, so you must be careful." ”

Hearing this, Baili Mo put away the hilt of his sword with his backhand, "Does Your Highness have any other orders?" ”

Du Cai cautiously approached Bailimo, and after whispering a few words in his ear, he hurriedly retreated, trying to keep a safe distance from Bailimo.

"In this way, I will do as His Highness instructs, and there is a long history of Laodu."

Although Baili Mo was polite on his lips, he still hated Du Cai in his heart.

If the prince hadn't told him to focus on the overall situation, he would have beaten this thing up.

Following.

Baili Mo ordered the doctors accompanying the team to treat the wounded and sick of the people injured by the natural disaster, and repaired the houses with the soldiers for the families of only the elderly, weak, women and children in the family.

In just one day, this disaster relief team became the savior in the eyes of the people of Bozhou.

After a busy day in the dark, Baili Mo and the soldiers did not return to the Assassin's Mansion until late at night.

The soldiers dragged their tired bodies back to their own chambers, and then fell asleep.

Bailimo still felt uneasy.

From childhood to adulthood, he has only left Fu Xuanlin twice.

Once because Cheng Xing's guy kept giving him laxatives, he had to move out of Lingwangfu for a period of time.

The second time was because of disaster relief.

Seriously, if he hadn't seen Fu Xuanlin's handwritten letterhead, he would never have believed a word Du Cai said.

At this moment, Fu Xuanlin, who was in the Changshi Mansion, was talking to Du Cai.

"His Royal Highness King Ling, this tea has a mellow aftertaste, you can taste it."

Since Du Cai hugged Fu Xuanlin's thigh, he often took some good things to pay homage, and now Fu Xuanlin is a lifesaver in Du Cai's eyes.

After scalding the tea pot with the boiled tea, he poured the tea water and poured it again.

Fu Xuanlin could see his flattery, but he didn't say anything, and picked up the teapot and touched his lips lightly.

"It's really good tea."

Hearing Fu Xuanlin praise himself, Du Cai smiled with wrinkles on his face.

"Your Highness likes it."

Fu Xuanlin put down the tea pot and said: "Du Changshi, about Bozhou, this king has heard a thing or two before he came. Ten years ago, Bozhou Cen Changshi suddenly died of a vicious illness in Fuzhong, and later took office in a row, and the two Changshi were demoted one after another, and it was not until four years ago that Du Changshi took office that this position did not change again. ”

"What His Royal Highness said is good, in fact, Cen Changshi and the first two Changshi all ended up like this because they offended the ghost. The sub-ghost has a violent temperament, but if others disobey his will in the slightest, they will be subjected to extraordinary torture. It is said that Cen Changshi was stripped off his face because he insulted the ghost. ”

Fu Xuanlin listened to Du Cai's narration, and his hand unconsciously clenched the tea pot.

"He dared to slaughter the officials of the imperial court."

"Not only that, although the first two Changshi did not disobey the ghost, but one of them was guilty of perverting the law because they secretly swallowed the silver that was greedy for ink, and in the end they were not only dismissed, but all the fields and family businesses they had purchased were confiscated. The other was because he was involved with the little lady next to the ghost, so he was cut off by the roots of his children and grandchildren, and then he was slandered and raped the lady of a good family, and was not only demoted but also imprisoned. ”

"In addition to human and physical evidence, officials also need superior documents to commit crimes. Since eight years ago, the position of assassin has always been Meng Huai's reign, could it be that Meng Huai is also involved? ”

On the first day Fu Xuanlin came to Bozhou, he felt that Meng Huai was suspicious, but later Meng Huai's various behaviors were very normal.

So much so that he couldn't figure out Meng Huai, but now that he thinks about it, the ghost controls the entire Bozhou, and it is reasonable for Meng Huai to be his puppet.

But Du Cai shook his head, "Meng Huai is an old stubborn, he was nearly forty years old before he became famous, and later he heard that Bozhou was bitter cold, so he invited himself to be an official here." At the beginning, he joined the army as a Si Gong, and it was not until he exposed Lin Tingshi's greed for ink that he was promoted to Assassin Shi. Zigui once told his subordinates that although Meng Huai has always refused to be a puppet, he is an honest man and has been commended by the imperial court. With people like Meng Huai, the imperial court will not keep an eye on Bozhou too closely. ”

"In this way, Meng Huai is not a ghost."

"Yes and no. Although Meng Huai is not controlled by the sub-ghost, the real power in Meng Huai's hands has long been hollowed out. ”

"I see. So now Liucao's joining the army is also controlled by the ghost? ”

"Yes, Liucao's rank in the army is low, and there is no way to survive except to be attached to the sub-ghost."

The tea gradually cooled, and Du Cai added hot tea to Fu Xuanlin.

The fragrance of tea in the dark room is overflowing, and the smell is pleasant, Fu Xuanlin took a sip, and the aftertaste between his lips and tongue was faint.

Fu Xuanlin's Adam's apple moved slowly, savoring the unbridled fragrance of the tea.

Seeing that Fu Xuanlin didn't speak for a long time, Du Cai also closed his mouth and didn't dare to disturb.

In a few acres, the tea pot is empty.

After drinking all the tea, Fu Xuanlin's heart also had a plan.

If you talk about when Bozhou began to become dark, it seems to have started with the mysterious death of Cen Changshi ten years ago.

And the tragic destruction of the Zhou Mansion was also ten years ago, and there must be some kind of connection between this.

"Du Changshi, this king limits you to find out the details of all Bozhou officials since Cen Changshi took office within three days, no matter how big or small, there must be no omission."

"Huh? Three days? ”

Du Cai also thought that he had heard it wrong, from Cen Changshi to the present, there have been at least a dozen officials in Bozhou.

It was an impossible task to find out the details of all of them in just three days.

"Objections?"

Fu Xuanlin's deep voice seemed to have penetrating power, and Du Cai wiped the sweat from the back of his neck and quickly shook his head.

"As for Baili, there should be no slack in disaster relief."

"Yes, Xia Guan understands."

Although Du Cai is a bullying dog, he does have some ability.

Three days later, he really investigated the details of more than a dozen officials.

can get such a miraculous effect, in fact, it also depends on the connections and prestige he has accumulated in Bozhou over the years.

Fu Xuanlin carefully looked at the dossier that Du Cai had arranged.

Cen Changshi became an official in the sixteenth year of Yuan Zhao, and Bozhou was still a rich land at that time.

A year later, Lin Thorn took office, replacing the elderly Thorn History, and since then he has started the road of being an official for more than ten years.

Lin Shushi and Cen Changshi did do a lot of good things for Bozhou in the first few years after taking office.

It is also to lead the people to open up acres of land, and it is to build roads and warehouses for the people.

Later, however, these two men gradually became greedy for profit, and encouraged the people to cut down trees and plant fields, so as to make a profit from them, and sold grain to the surrounding state towns at high prices that were not enough to pay taxes.

Fu Xuanlin remembered what Zhan Xinglan said in Lanxing Tower on New Year's Eve.

"Excessive felling of trees can lead to natural disasters."

Looking at it this way, the reason why Bozhou has become what it is now is the main culprits are Lin Cen and the others.

These two people have received a lot of benefits from the grain fields, and the days have become more and more nourishing.

Later, he ordered all the people to farm, and the grain production was high, so that their wealth could prosper.

However, the Han Kingdom has always attached great importance to scholars and merchants.

Those scholarly families and merchant families must not be willing to obey such a ridiculous prohibition.

However, the most important thing that is not lacking in a business family is money, and it is easy to dredge up the relationship.

At that time, many merchants colluded with Lin Cen and the others, and they were in cahoots.

Among them, the most money was produced by the Zhou Mansion in Bozhou, which was famous for its good deeds.

However, most of the scholars were clear, and they did not have the money to bribe the officials and did not want to abandon the literature and enter the peasantry, so they could only unite to protest the injustice in front of the Assassin's Mansion.

At that time, Lin Cen and the others were already dazed by the yellow and white objects, and when they saw that someone was openly resisting, they ordered someone to beat the protesters led by them.

In the eyes of Lin Cen and the others, human life is not worth mentioning in front of Qian Quan at all.

Scholars have no strength to tie chickens, how can they beat a martial artist with a stick.

It is said that the scene on that day was extremely tragic, and more than a dozen scholars were beaten beyond recognition.

There were even three who were beaten to death with sticks.

Lin Cen and the others knew that killing chickens and making an example of monkeys was the most effective method, and no one came to make trouble again in the next few days.

But what people who can read most is integrity.

They studied hard in order to become officials and benefit the people.

How can you easily bow to corrupt officials now?

So they wrote a complaint together and prepared to go to Beijing to sue the emperor. The paper is probably a complaint against Lin Tingshi and Cen Changshi for greed for money and food, and in the fish and meat township, forcing the people to make huge profits from farming.

Who knew that it was because of this piece of paper that it indirectly slaughtered the entire Bozhou readers.

......

Fu Xuanlin spent a whole day reading all the dossiers, and listed several key figures.

He frowned and picked up the rice paper with the word "sub-ghost" written on the table, and suddenly understood who this legendary sub-ghost was!