Magistrate Hu has been charged with numerous crimes, and what awaits him will naturally not be as simple as dismissal from office and removal from office.

After he handed over his official seal and documents, the imperial envoy immediately ordered all the Hu family members to be imprisoned, and sentenced Hu Chenglin and his family members to be exiled to Gusu for three years of hard labor three days later.

Gusu is located in a bitter cold land in the Northeast and borders the foreign country of Goryeo. There are frequent wars and a difficult environment. Magistrate Hu and his family stayed there for three years. It was a fluke that they managed to save their lives. It was absolutely impossible to make a comeback or wait for an opportunity to seek revenge.

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Song Xi also spent a lot of effort to have Magistrate Hu exiled to the border area without giving him any chance to retaliate against the Yu family.

In the teahouse near the county government office, Yu Yalan looked out the window at Magistrate Hu who was in chains, with a defeated and embarrassed look on his face, and felt sad in his heart.

She had considered working with the county magistrate to promote new farm tools and high-yielding grain varieties, but Hu Chenglin was too greedy and corrupt and did not care about farming and people's livelihood. Disappointed, she had no choice but to give up this plan.

I wonder what the character of the new county magistrate who is about to take over will be like? If there is another one like this...

Song Xi saw Yu Yalan frowning in thought, and immediately asked her what was bothering her. When he learned that she was worried about the new county magistrate's morality, he directly told her some relevant news.

"The new county magistrate Li Qian is from second place in the rankings. He previously served as a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. Because of his upright nature and unwillingness to form cliques, he was isolated and ostracized by his colleagues and was even almost framed and lost his official position. I saw that he has a good character.

He had outstanding talent, so he secretly helped him.

Later, I heard that he was looking for an opportunity to be transferred to a lower level to avoid the intrigues in the capital, and there was a vacancy in Xianping County Government, so he was introduced here.

If you want to promote any livelihood tools in the future, you can feel free to cooperate with him."

Yu Yalan breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that the new county magistrate was of good moral character.

When you meet him in the future, use the soul-discerning bracelet to make a judgment and make sure there is no problem with his character. It will not be too late to seek cooperation with him to promote new agricultural tools and high-yielding grain varieties.

"Prefect Hong, do you have a way to deal with it? If there is anything I can do to help, just say it, but you can't handle it alone."

Yu Yalan thought of the prefect of Bianliang who was eyeing him with eager eyes, and her heart that had just been relieved became raised again.

If you think about it carefully, the administration of Bianliang Mansion seems to be very dark from top to bottom.

From the first Chief Chen, Lieutenant of Xu County, to the current Magistrate Hu, and even the higher-up Magistrate Hong, they are all greedy and shameless officials who do all kinds of evil.

I don’t know if it’s because the siblings were so unlucky that they traveled to this land of tigers and wolves, or... this is actually the tip of the iceberg of the decline and collapse of the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Yu Yalan quietly glanced at Song Xi, who was sitting opposite, and thinking of the other person's Qianlong fate, she felt that the latter was very likely.

If troubled times are coming, where should they go?

When Song Xi saw Yu Yalan peeking at him, his already good mood became even more cheerful. A bright smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he gently comforted: "Hong Yunjie is different from other corrupt officials. In addition to arrogantly pampering his youngest son, he also pays more attention to

He has a good reputation and keeps his official reputation well hidden, no matter what he does in private, he does not dare to do evil blatantly. After all, there are many opponents who are eyeing his position, and he will naturally not let others take advantage of him easily.

But it is precisely because of this that he is easier to deal with than Xu Xianwei and others. Just telling the eldest prince about his private money-making is enough to make him lose power and lose his throne, leaving no one to help him.

However, Hong Yunjie is very cunning and has many escape routes. If we want to completely defeat him, we need to collect more evidence and make more thorough preparations. I have already sent people to deal with this matter, and now is not the best time to take action.

Don’t worry, I won’t let anyone hurt you siblings!”

Hearing this, Yu Yalan's heart beat inexplicably faster, but she just thought she was moved by Song Xi's protection and didn't think much about him.

In the dusk, the two people walking side by side walked home slowly in the afterglow of the setting sun. With the people beside them by their side, even if the night was approaching, the unknown road ahead no longer seemed scary.

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Bianliang Fucheng, the inner residence of the Hong family.

Upon receiving the news that Magistrate Hu had been dismissed from office, Magistrate Hong sneered twice with gloating, feeling contempt for this complacent idiot.

If you want to have a bright future, in addition to actively working hard, it is more important not to allow others to pinch your weaknesses.

Hu Chenglin doesn't even understand such a simple truth, and still wants to use his strength to climb up to the eldest prince. It's simply a wishful thinking!

However, idiots also have three points of value, it depends on how the chess player uses them.

Thinking of the letters and information Hu Chenglin sent him a few days ago, Magistrate Hong couldn't help but lower his eyes and think.

New agricultural tools and shuttleless looms are indeed tools for improving people's livelihood, but what he is more interested in is Le Nong Commercial Bank's high-yielding grain seeds and ecological fertilizers. If it is as Yu family said, it can produce a thousand catties per mu, then

This is a truly earth-shaking miracle!

If the eldest prince can get this kind of food, why worry about the failure of great things? Even he can take advantage of the situation to get a share of the pie, and even becoming a feudal official is no longer a fantasy!

It's a pity that the grain seeds have only been planted for a month or so, and it is not yet known how the harvest will be. However, I can order people to pay more attention to it. When it reaches the ear-bearing period, it will be observed that its growth is indeed good, and it will not be too late to inform the eldest prince in a letter.

By then, not only will he be able to monopolize all high-yielding grains in the name of the eldest prince in advance, but he will also be able to secretly keep a batch for his own use. How wonderful!

Hong Yunjie was contemplating his future plans and imagining a bright future, when his servant suddenly came to report that his youngest son was losing his temper and wanted to see him. In desperation, he had no choice but to go and see his son's condition first.

Since Hong Lei was deposed, he has been resting in bed at home, but no matter how much treatment and rest he took, he could not regain his strength, so he could only lie paralyzed in bed and be fed, drank and cared for.

As a result, his character gradually became twisted and morbid. He often went on hunger strikes and refused to take medicine, and he especially liked to torment his servants. During the days when he came back, he had several maids and servants killed by him, and Magistrate Hong buried their bodies for him.

I was too busy trying to hide it.

Now that he saw his father coming to visit him, he couldn't help but make a willful request: "Dad, it's really uncomfortable for the child to lie here. When I think that the culprit is still at large, my heart is on fire! Dad, go and get that Yu

I captured my daughter as my concubine and made her a slave to serve me for the rest of my life!"

Although his father always said that he could not find the real culprit who killed him, his intuition was that it was the Yu siblings who were responsible. He did not think that he ended up like this because of his ridiculous nonsense. It was not like he had never used sex-stimulating drugs.

It could have such terrible effects.

The Yu siblings dare to do such a cruel thing to him, and he will not stop until he takes revenge!

Seeing the pain and ferocious expression on his youngest son's face, Magistrate Hong quickly coaxed him with distress: "Okay, okay, when dad finds the opportunity, he will definitely capture the Yu girl and let you deal with it. Drink the medicine first, don't get angry and hurt your body."

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Hong Lei received his father's assurance and felt much more at ease. After reluctantly taking the decoction, he leaned down and fell into a deep sleep.
Chapter completed!