Turbulent Times Chapter 389: Supervising the death of the censor

Shen Guang jumped up and shouted: "Brothers, retreat and surround them, don't let anyone go."

Nearly a hundred ghost-eyed masters with strong crossbows heard the news and jumped down the courtyard wall. When Li's dead soldiers jumped onto the wall, they suddenly fired with strong crossbows and killed more than ten people. He jumped off the wall and stood outside the courtyard, waiting for them were more than 500 ghost-eyed fighters who surrounded them, still refusing to fight them in close quarters, and shot them with powerful crossbows.

You know, with the strength of these people, although they can kill all Li's soldiers in close combat, they will also suffer casualties, but long-range attacks with powerful crossbows are different.

There were screams one after another, and after several arrows rained down, only nine of the more than fifty people in the Li family were left, and all of them were injured. Only then did he sneer, and said calmly: "Don't shoot these nine people, shoot their legs and feet, and catch them alive."

When Li San heard this, he sighed and said: "Brothers, we will meet again in the next life." After speaking, he picked up an arrow from the ground, and with a loud roar, it pierced deep into his heart, and the other eight committed suicide immediately afterward.

The people from Tieqiangzhai did not participate in this battle, and the ghost-eyed men killed fifty-three people. There were no mission casualties, but none were left alive. Wang Junlin and Shen Guang couldn't help but sigh secretly. Sure enough, it was no small matter, and Wang Junlin had a vague feeling that these people were just the dead soldiers raised by Li himself, not the people behind the Dragon Palace.

After killing Li's family members, Wang Junlin had a secret conversation with Guo Tieqiang and Guo Jinming for more than an hour, and then more than 300 green forest heroes and more than 2,000 family members in Tieqiang Village packed up their things and left with Wang Junlin and his party At the foot of the Iron Spear Village, there are armors and military uniforms prepared by Wang Junlin in advance. More than 300 green forest heroes have transformed into Wang Junlin's personal soldiers, and these two thousand family members have come all the way from Jincheng County. refugee.

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Wang Junlin is the imperial envoy. Although the main purpose is to thoroughly investigate the prophecy, the main target is the Li family in Longxi, but the imperial envoy himself has the duty of patrolling on behalf of the emperor. He is more powerful than a state governor and general manager. It was important, so when Wang Junlin set off from Jincheng to the south, county and county officials panicked along the way.

There is never black and white in the officialdom, but more gray. No one is really clean and spotless. Even if some officials themselves are not greedy or profitable, their family members and relatives may not be willing to be poor. It's all a bit problematic. Under normal circumstances, officials from a powerful family with a background do not need to be too afraid of the imperial envoy, but who is Wang Junlin, and this time he is dealing with the top family in the world, the Longxi Li family, how can these officials not be afraid.

So, when the news came out that Wang Junlin, known as the 'family killer', was ordered to supervise, the officials of all counties and counties in Yongzhou were very nervous, but the tension was different. The ones that are a little darker in gray seem to be in imminent disaster. Some revise their books overnight, some negotiate bribes, some conspire to send beauty, and what's more, those who are close to the Longxi Li family start to pack up their things and prepare to throw them away. officer and fled. In fact, almost all the officials in Longxi County were ready to flee.

With the existence of the Li family in Longxi, the emperor Yang Jian is not a faint king, on the contrary he is a rare wise master. The officials he appointed to Longxi County naturally have nothing to do with the Li family in Longxi, otherwise the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Isn't power a country within a country?

But the vast majority of officials had nothing to do with the Longxi Li family at first. The so-called iron-clad Xiao Shi Liushui officials, the emperor can transfer people from the capital and other places to serve as officials of Longxi County, but the Xiao Shi used by the county government, county government and other yamen will always be local people, which is like a county standing committee is appointed by the above , but all the civil servants below are locals, and they are inextricably linked with the Longxi Li family. In many cases, the Longxi Li family's orders to them are more effective than their superiors. It makes sense, not to mention that it is a strong snake, and the local Longxi Li family is a real land dragon.

In this case, with the power of the Li family in Longxi, financial resources, manpower, material resources, and the means of thousands of families, it is easy to corrupt and win over local officials for several years. All sorts of accidents occurred, such as being dismissed from office or transferred away because of some evil things in the jurisdiction, and what's more, being confused and dying of illness, etc.

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During the Great Sui Dynasty, each county already had a special supervisory censor, and the system was very sound, especially the supervisory censor in a place where a powerful family was located was the emperor's confidant, but the problem is, When other links to maintain this supervisory system began to break down, the role that these supervisory censors could play was extremely limited.

There is a mansion covering an area of ​​four or five acres in the west city of Longxi City. This is the mansion of Zhang Dehong, the censor of Longxi County. Zhang Dehong is a close minister of Emperor Yang Jian. Therefore, he was loyal to Yang Jian and won the trust of Emperor Yang Jian.

After he came to work in Longxi County two years ago, like other Longxi County officials, he has experienced all-round corruption, wooing, and buying by the Li family in Longxi. Naturally, Zhang Dehong will not be bought by the Li family in Longxi, but his wife But in a daze, he bought a 30-jin golden Buddha from a shop at a very low price.

Soon Zhang Dehong knew that the store belonged to the Li family, and he realized that he had been fooled. Fortunately, Yang Jian still trusted him, and Zhang Dehong did not disappoint Yang Jian's trust, and sent all his family back to his home in Kyoto. Only he and a small number of servants were left in Longxi County. Two months ago, Yang Jian issued a secret decree to him, ordering him to secretly investigate the relationship between officials of Longxi County and the Li family of Longxi.

In the past two months, Zhang Dehong has been very low-key, leaving early and returning late. He has made many amazing discoveries, and found that officials in the entire Longxi County have more or less received, taken or accepted Li's property and mansion. , property, woman or business care, etc.

Under the protection of officials such as Liu Fangyang, the prefect of Longxi County, the Longxi Li family has developed more rapidly in recent years, using their power to crowd out other merchants, nobles and big landlords, monopolizing many profitable industries, and stealing too much land.

Under the lamp, Zhang Dehong is writing hard. He has already written three thick memorials, tens of thousands of words, all of which are his detailed investigations over the past two months. He already knows that Wang Junlin will definitely come to Longxi County. Yang Jian He ordered him to hand over the investigation report to Wang Junlin, and Wang Junlin would attack the Jiangnan officialdom and the Li family in Longxi according to the situation.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Zhang Dehong stopped writing and asked, "Who is it?"

"Master, it's me!" This was the voice of Zhang Wangshan, his servant.

"What's the matter?"

"I brought the brazier to the master."

It is late February, and although the weather in Longxi is not as cold as in Jincheng, it is still a bit cold. Zhang Dehong rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "Send it in!"

The door opened, and Zhang Wangshan struggled to come in carrying a large brazier. Zhang Dehong hurried forward to help, and the two carried the brazier into the house. Zhang Wangshan glanced at the ground and said, "Master, what you wrote has fallen .”

When Zhang Dehong turned his head, he saw a memorial on the ground. He was stunned for a moment. Why did the notebook fall on the ground? , he rushed forward to cover Zhang Dehong's mouth, pulled out the dagger and stabbed him hard in the back of the heart, Zhang Dehong screamed, blood spurted out, Zhang Wangshan wiped his neck with the dagger, cut his throat, and Zhang Dehong was killed in the room.

Zhang Wangshan moved quickly. He took out a memorial from his arms, carefully placed it on the table, opened two more pages, and carefully put the pen on it. Regarding the matter of Junlin receiving 200,000 taels of silver from the Longxi Li family and a stunning beauty named Chen Danying, Zhang Wangshan flipped through the memorials that Zhang Dehong was writing, thought for a while, and immediately put a few secret investigation reports into his arms , put the brazier upright again, dropped something, and retreated quickly.

An hour later, Zhang Wangshan yelled in fear, "Come on! The master has been killed, come on!"

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A quarter of an hour later, the prefect Liu Fangyang led a large group of yamen servants into Zhang's residence.

"Don't let everyone in the mansion go, and don't let go of every room!"

Liu Fangyang yelled angrily and directed the servants to search Zhang's mansion. Zhang Wangshan was brought up. He knelt in front of Liu Fangyang and tremblingly said: "The villain went to add carbon to the master, and found the master lying in a pool of blood. The master died so badly! Please the prefect must catch the thief and avenge our master."

Liu Fangyang narrowed his eyes, and there was an imperceptible bright color in his eyes, "Then did you notice any movement?"

"My lord seems to have a visitor. It's too dark. I didn't see clearly. There seems to be some voices. I hid in the house to keep warm, so I didn't pay attention!"

Liu Fangyang snorted heavily, "Take it down and interrogate carefully."

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After Wang Junlin left Jincheng at that time, he quietly left the imperial envoy and relied on a large team, pretending to be a caravan to act secretly, but in Wushan County, he successfully framed the Longxi Li family, and firmly grasped the weight of Tieqiangzhai After getting it in hand, Shen Guang asked Shen Guang to arrange ghost-eyed capable generals to deal with it in detail. He and Shen Guang led a small group of people to pretend to be fast, and after the imperial guard of honor entered Longxi County, they chased after them.

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Early the next morning, Wang Junlin's imperial guard of honor arrived in Longxi City. A group of important officials including Longxi Governor Liu Fangyang, Longxi County Ying Yanglang General Yuan Feng and others went out of the city to welcome the imperial envoy.

Looking at Wang Junlin's guard of honor approaching from a distance, Liu Fangyang thought to himself that the memorial to impeach Wang Junlin in the name of the censor Zhang Dehong has been sent out, and the handwriting is exactly the same as Zhang Dehong's handwriting, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely agree with him Compared with Zhang Dehong's handwriting in the past, Yang Jian must have believed in Zhang Dehong more than Wang Junlin, and if adding that the impeachment of Zhang Dehong was true, Zhang Dehong was assassinated again.

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