Just when many high-ranking officials in the capital were still busy for the upcoming 100-day banquet and could not stop for a moment, Hai Rui, who was in Kaifeng, Henan, did not have this trouble.

Soon after he returned from Shiqiao Village to the post station where he lived, he received an invitation from Pan Xian, the governor of Henan, inviting him to go to the mansion in the evening to attend a banquet.

After Hai Rui received the extremely beautiful and gilded invitation from the guard's hand, he turned his gaze to the visitor, and after a moment of silence, he said slowly.

"I'm tired of going back and informing your family, and I'll say that the official will go to the appointment on time when the time comes!"

Seeing that the purpose of his trip had been achieved, the person who was sent by Pan Xian to deliver the invitation was also immediately relieved, and then respectfully responded and said.

"Yes, Lord Chincha, the little one will relay your words to my lord as they are!"

After saying this, the visitor did not stay too long, and left the post station without stopping.

After the visitor left, I saw Hai Rui sitting on the top, carefully playing with the invitation in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Xiao Er, who was on the side, immediately stepped forward and asked Hai Rui.

"My lord, are you worried about something?"

Hearing this, Hai Rui came back to his senses, threw the invitation card in his hand to the table on the side, and spoke.

"The official is worried that their invitation to the official to go to the banquet this time is fake, and they secretly do their hands and feet, and the destruction of the evidence is true!"

When Hai Rui said this, he paused for a moment, as if he remembered something, and began to sort out the current situation in his mind.

"Now this official has the confession of the previous official in charge of collecting grain, and he has also found three rice shops with deep backgrounds in Huitong, Guanghui, and Ju'an."

"Finally, and most importantly, it is confirmed that the officials here are forcibly expropriating the grain in the hands of the people, and there are indeed a lot of cats in the granary!"

Hai Rui continued to think along this line of thought, and soon, a bold conjecture gradually emerged in his mind.

"For a long time, local officials in Henan have been doing something to the grain stored in the official warehouse!"

"By smuggling out the grain stored in the official warehouse, and then transporting the grain out to the rice shop run by his white gloves for sale."

"And a part of the money obtained from the sale of grain was used to bribe the high-ranking officials in the capital, so that they would turn a blind eye to it."

"With those high-ranking officials in the capital as backstage, their actions have become more and more bold."

"And this can just explain why the officials here dare to ignore the orders of the imperial court and collect a large amount of grain from the common people, which is obviously to use the rations obtained by the people's hard work to fill the holes they have created!"

After thinking about all this, Hai Rui couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, slammed the table, and scolded angrily: "These damn insects! ”

Xiao Er on the side was taken aback by Hai Rui's sudden move, but he didn't dare to make any movement, for fear of disturbing Hai Rui's thinking.

After thinking about all this, Hai Rui put himself in the other person's perspective and began to think about what strategy he should adopt if he encountered such a situation.

After a long time, I saw Hai Rui come back to his senses, the whole person was in good spirits, and he looked confident, and said to himself silently.

"The simplest and most direct way that this official should have thought of a long time ago is to destroy the evidence!"

Then, I saw Hai Rui come back to his senses, take out the envelope from his arms quite solemnly, hand it over to Xiao Er's hands, and then ordered.

"You go and hand over this letter to Fang Qian, the commander here, he will know what to do!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Xiao Er took the envelope, and after arching his hand to Hai Rui, he didn't stop at all, turned around and left the post station.

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Henan, Kaifeng Prefecture.

After Pan Xian learned from his subordinates that Hai Rui would attend the banquet as scheduled tonight, he summoned Yang Yinglin and began to discuss the next countermeasures.

I saw Pan Xian sitting at the top, and after taking a sip of tea from the teacup, he turned his gaze to Yang Yinglin.

Then, what had happened in the past few days kept coming to Pan Xian's mind like a slideshow.

Thinking of this, Pan Xian was no longer in the mood to continue to discuss countermeasures, only to see him retract his gaze, and he was reprimanded with his head and face.

"Look at the people you use, it's only been a few days, and people can see the flaws!"

"The grain in the granary is not decreasing, but increasing, and he makes an excuse that it was taken from the mouth of a rat, and he is coaxing Lord Qincha as a fool!"

"Also, before Lord Qincha arrived, I told me to pay more attention to my actions!"

"But what about you, knowing that Lord Qincha has already arrived in Henan, why don't you let those officials under your command restrain a little?"

When Pan Xian said this, he didn't know if it was because he was too excited, or for some other reason, he began to cough incessantly, his chest rose and fell violently, and he looked quite embarrassed.

After resting for a moment and taking a breath, Pan Xian looked at Yang Yinglin in front of him and became angry, and then continued.

"It's good for you to take the words of this official as a deaf ear, and you still dare to commit a crime against the wind, let the officials under your command go to Shiqiao Village to forcibly collect food, and just let Lord Qincha arrest him, how can you let me explain to Lord Qincha?"

"Isn't it all exposed?"

Faced with this reprimand, Yang Yinglin's face did not show any annoyance, because he knew that he had an unshirkable responsibility for the situation that had fallen to the current field.

But despite this, Yang Yinglin still wanted to defend himself, but he organized the language in his mind and carefully explained: "Lord Governor, the words you just said have been explained by the officials, but they are just ......."

Pan Xian glanced at Yang Yinglin, sneered, and interrupted impatiently: "It's just that no one cares about it, right?" ”

"I don't even know how you became a political envoy, I knew I was ...... in the first place."

Seeing that Pan Xian still had a tendency to continue, Yang Yinglin hurriedly interrupted.

"Lord Governor, no matter how much you regret it now, it's useless, let's think about how to fool this matter!"

Seeing this, Pan Xian sighed helplessly, and then spoke.

"Anyway, the official has already prepared a countermeasure, if he Hai Rui is still obsessed and wants to continue to investigate, tonight, we will give him a "fire dragon burning warehouse". ”

"Fire Dragon Burn Warehouse!"

When Yang Yinglin on the side heard this, he suddenly got up from the seat, his face was shocked that he couldn't hide, and he couldn't help but speak.

Pan Xian took in the expression on Yang Yinglin's face, a fierce look appeared on his face, and he immediately clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"Well, that's right, a fire burned all the evidence clean, I see how this Hai Rui can continue to investigate!"

"When the time comes, you only need to bite the bullet, there is really a fire dragon in the sky, can this Hai Rui still do anything to us?"

After listening to Pan Xian's concept, Yang Yinglin's face showed distress at the right time, and he hesitated.

"But my lord, if this fire continues, we will also suffer heavy losses!"

After listening to Yang Yinglin's words, Pan Xian raised his eyebrows and said with disdain.

"If the silver is gone, you can earn it again, but if you don't even have your life, what's the use of asking for so much silver, keep it for the flowers in the underworld?"

(End of chapter)