Chapter 510 Ask for help

Seeing Xiong Hui's muddy body and his face full of haggard face, Tang Feng felt very strange. He didn't know why he was so anxious about it, so he nodded and said, "If you have anything to do, go in first." Xiong Hui also felt that he was a little rude in this way, but he didn't care about so much at this time. After hearing Tang Feng's words, he followed him in behind him.

Zhang Tai had already heard the sound and smiled bitterly when he saw this. As the leader of these people, he had a good relationship with everyone. He had told him about the matter when Xiong Hui came just now. He had advised Xiong Hui to clean up himself first and then come to see Lord Tang to talk about it, but Xiong Hui still did not listen to his instructions. However, Zhang Tai could still understand Xiong Hui's mood, so he decided that once the Lord blamed Xiong Hui, he must plead for it.

However, Tang Feng obviously had no intention of blaming Xiong Hui. As soon as he sat down in the hall, he smiled and said, "Tell me, what happened to make you so embarrassed?"

"I'd like to save my brother's life!" Xiong Hui saw Tang Feng asking, immediately knelt in front of him and said loudly.

"What is this? Who is your brother? Where is it? What happened? Let me tell you all in detail so that I can make the decision for your brother." Tang Feng felt even more strange when he saw a man who had actually become like this, so he asked hurriedly.

"Yes, sir, let me listen to me. Because I was able to rest for a few days with my understanding, I thought of my brother as an official in Jiande, so I went to find him..." Xiong Hui said everything: "... In the end, I saw something strange about this, but I didn't know who was trying to harm my brother, so I came to ask for help from sir!"

"That's right. I just learned about the Jiande flood in the prefecture, but I don't know that the Jiande magistrate is your brother." Tang Feng nodded and said, "The Jiande flood this time, hundreds of people died, and the entire county town was flooded. Your brother will inevitably be criticized by the superiors' yamen. But if it is true as you said, someone is making trouble behind the scenes, his crime will be much less. However, what you said is just a one-sided statement, and it is difficult for people to believe it completely." Speaking of this, Tang Feng's face also showed a look of embarrassment.

"Sir, I will never dare to deceive you. This is true. Many people saw the five hundred soldiers that day..." Seeing that Tang Feng refused to believe his words, Xiong Hui hurriedly defended. But his words were interrupted by Tang Feng: "I can believe your narrative, but I believe you may not be useful. After all, this is an internal matter in Zhejiang. No matter how long my hands are, my Jinyiwei can't control this matter. Moreover, if the five hundred officers and soldiers were buried under the water, that would be another matter."

"Sir, on the night of the accident, the young man searched carefully, but even a surviving officer and soldier could not find him. If they had not left earlier, how could such a situation have happened?"

"This is a suspicious point..." Tang Feng nodded: "But I was asking me to intervene in investigating this matter, but I was still a little embarrassed. After all, I was just recuperating in Zhejiang, and I was not here to do things..." At this point, Tang Feng suddenly thought of the imperial edict given to him by the emperor when he left the capital. After he came to his hometown, he forgot about the matter. Now he could use this as a basis for intervening in Jiande's affairs. Just looking at the figures of officers and soldiers here, he could guess that this matter was inseparable from the government. Now hundreds of innocent people have died. If someone really did this for the purpose of ulterior motives, he would not be able to spare him.

Seeing that Tang Fengfa was vague, Xiong Hui was shocked. When he wanted to look up and say something, he found that Tang Feng was thinking about it. For a moment, he did not dare to disturb the adult's thoughts. After a while, Tang Feng said: "There is something strange. As an official of the court, I have the responsibility to seek justice for the dead people. I will check it."

"Thank you, sir!" Xiong Hui was so happy that he kowtowed his head.

Tang Feng said: "Get up, I'm not busy thanking me yet. The truth of the matter cannot be determined by just saying a few words. If the problem really lies with your brother, then I will not show mercy. Of course, if someone does something behind the scenes, I will not only save your brother, but also make that person pay his own price."

"Yes, I understand!" Xiong Hui said hurriedly: "As long as the adults are willing to check it, no matter what the result is, I will not complain."

"But you can't investigate this matter anymore. From today on, you are here and you are not allowed to go anywhere." Tang Feng said to the front: "You and your brother are close relatives, and I don't want to be honest." Although Xiong Hui was unwilling to do this, he had to obey. Seeing that he agreed, Tang Feng ordered again: "Okay, let's leave the rest to your brothers. Take a good bath, take a rest, and wait for the news."

Knowing that Tang Feng was asking him to avoid suspicion, Xiong Hui kowtowed again and took the order and retreated. After seeing him leaving, Tang Feng looked outside and said, "Zhang Tai, what do you think about this?" He knew that Zhang Tai must be waiting outside at this time.

Zhang Tai walked in after hearing the sound and said respectfully: "Reply to the words of the adults, after hearing Xiong Hui's words, I felt that this matter was a bit strange, but it was not as detailed as the adults thought. However, based on what I have seen for many years, this matter must be not simple."

"It's not just that it's not simple?" Tang Feng said something in front of Zhang Tai: "Five hundred officers and soldiers are not a small number, how can a small person be able to adjust it? If we really want to interfere in this matter, there will be many people who will offend. Maybe it will be another recurrence of the case in Shandong, but this time I don't have so many people to use, and Zhejiang is not as chaotic as Shandong." Tang Feng sighed.

"What will the adults do?" Zhang Tai didn't think so much about it just now. Now, when he heard Tang Feng say this, he began to worry and asked, "Do you should ask Tan Qianhu and the others for help?"

"We can't look for them for the time being. Who knows if they have anything to do with this matter? We can only investigate this matter secretly, and then seek support through other means after the matter is revealed."

"What do you plan to do?" Zhang Tai asked hurriedly. For his own brother, he would not be afraid of doing things.

Nodding in praise, Tang Feng said: "I ordered those people everywhere to come back now, and sent a few clever brothers to disguise themselves at Jiande to find out what happened that day, and see if the matter was as Xiong Hui said."

"Sir, do you doubt Xiong Hui's words?" Zhang Tai asked in confusion.

"It's up to his brother, I'm not sure what he said must be the truth. If you want to help them, you must first make sure they are worth helping. Then you can find a way to help them."

"Yes, Bei Zhi ordered people to go to Jiande to investigate the news."

"Not only Jiande, but also Hangzhou will send someone to watch. I think the Xiong County Magistrate should have been taken and sent to Hangzhou for guilt. If they have a ghost in their hearts, Xiong County Magistrate will probably die for a lifetime, so our people have to find ways to save his life. After all, he is the key to this matter, and there can be no mistakes in public or private." Tang Feng continued to order.

"Okay, I will do as I told you." Zhang Tai bowed and walked out quickly.

Tang Feng was stunned for a moment, and finally smiled self-deprecatingly: "It seems that I am also a Conan-like figure. Some things will happen wherever I go. It turns out that I can get off the ground with the White Lotus teaching me, but I didn't expect such a big thing to happen."

Hangzhou, the governor's yamen. Xiong Can was in disheveled and looked unhappy. After the accident in Jiande, he was exhausted physically and mentally. Now he was escorted to Hangzhou. After a bumpy period, he was no longer energetic. He was half-pulled and half-carried into the second hall of the yamen. Hearing his name on it, Xiong Can barely cheered up and answered.

"Xiong Can, do you know your crime?" Yan Boda looked at him with a serious face and asked loudly. Under him were a group of officials from Zhejiang. Everyone looked serious, but they didn't know what they were thinking.

"... The subordinates met the governor..." It was not until this time that Xiong Can found that the person who asked him was the governor, not the prefect whom he guessed on the road. You must know that Jiande was under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture. Generally speaking, things were always caused by the boss at the immediate post. But he did not expect that he would jump several levels this time, which shocked Xiong Can, and he didn't even know what the person above was saying to him.

"Bang!" The auspicious slapped heavily, and then woke Xiong Can, who was ecstatic: "Bold Xiong Can, I ask you how dare you pretend to be deaf and dumb. Do you dare not touch you if you are the official?"

"The officials dare not..." Xiong Can hurriedly bowed again.

"I ask you, are you guilty?"

"The official is not sure what crime he committed!" Xiong Can had already thought about dealing with it on the way here, so he opened his mouth and said.

"I don't know what crime you have committed? I asked you, Jiande was flooded by the flood, countless people died, and your home was not protected. Do you, the official of the county's parents, have no responsibility?" Yan Boda was angry and said in a cold voice when he saw that he actually spoke like this.

"The officials in this matter are indeed responsible, but the real sin is not with me..."

"The crime is not yours? Where did you take the money you used to repair the dike in Jiande County to make the river bank? It was not yours, so who would have the crime?"

"Sir, the thousands of taels of silver you allocated are only enough for me to repair two of the embankments in Jiande, but there are three rivers in our county, which really cannot be taken into account."
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