Shang Zhi avoided Gong Xingchen, took the horse out of the backyard, turned over the horse, and galloped away.

Gong Xingchen's expression changed, and Shang Zhi's condition was so worried that she would leave alone.

He quickly chased after him, untied the reins tied to the tree, and chased after him with a whip.

One by one, one by one, one behind, rush out of the city gate.

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Anyang Prefecture City.

The prefect Chen did evil things, but the prefect's wife was afraid of things. She ate vegetarian food every day and chanted Buddha's name to bless the prefect Chen with safety.

The prefect Chen brought memorials and 30,000 taels of silver to the capital. The prefect's wife did not sleep well and was plagued by nightmares. She woke up and knelt in the Buddhist temple to recite scriptures, begging the Bodhisattva to bless the prefect Chen to get what she wished. After a disaster, she donated incense and oil money to the temple to gilt the Bodhisattva.

Suddenly, the maid next to her ran in, and the dim candlelight could not hide the paleness on her face, "Madam, it's not good! Something happened! Mr. Gu came to inform him that the master was arrested and the emperor sent the censor to search for evidence and asked you to destroy the things under the bed!"

The prefect's wife shook her hand, the rope of the rosary in her hand broke, and the Buddhist beads rolled all over the ground. "You... did you say the master was arrested?"

"The book of the Lord sent to the capital city, and the flaws were discovered. A servant hired by Lord Xue went to the capital to sue the emperor. The emperor was furious and thoroughly investigated. As long as there was no evidence, the emperor could not punish him!" The maid explained to the prefect's wife anxiously, "Madam, go quickly, Lord Censor will arrive tomorrow morning!"

The maid no longer cared about her superiors and urged the maid to the prefect. She was searched for evidence, but she was about to lose her head!

The prefect's wife was pulled out of the Buddhist temple. When the cold wind blew, she woke up like a dream. She was shocked, broke away from her maid's hand and walked quickly to the main courtyard.

When he opened the door, the maid lit the candlelight, and the dizzy light filled the room.

The maid entered the inner room with a candlestick, and the floor of the inner room was covered with a thick layer of velvet blanket.

The prefect's wife hurriedly knelt beside the bed and struggled to move the pedal away. There was no velvet blanket under the pedal, revealing the smooth blue bricks and stones. She took out a dagger from under the pillow, inserted it into the gap, and pried the blue bricks and stones open.

"Go and bring the brazier over." The prefect's wife suppressed the panic in her heart, pried open five or six blue brick stone slabs, revealing a box half a meter square. She lifted the box out, and the soil on the box fell.

She opened the box, which was full of books, and registered the bribes she had received over the years.

The maid came in with a brazier, and the prefect threw the account book into the brazier, and the flames instantly swallowed it.

At this time, outside the mansion, there was a team of people quietly surrounding the prefect's mansion.

A tall figure came down from the carriage, and the soldiers stood on both sides, giving him a way.

Gu Mian informed the magistrate's wife, and learned that she was destroying the evidence of crime, she breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to inform Fan Bi.

After stepping out of the gate of the mansion, it was as bright as daylight. He was shocked and raised his head suddenly. Seeing the person standing in the head, his eyes wide open and his eyes almost glared out, looking like he was a ghost.

"Xue, Xue, Xue Shenzhi? You... aren't you dead?"

Gu Mian's face turned pale.

Xue Shenzhi waved his hand and "take it."

The soldier stepped forward and pulled Gu Mian off.

Gu Mian struggled and said, "Let go! Why do you arrest me? Xue Shenzhi, so what if you are an imperial envoy? Can you arrest people at will?"

"Take it down!" Xue Shenzhi ignored Gu Mian and walked towards the mansion.

Following the soldiers.

Gu Mian's eyes were so angry that she stared at Xue Shenzhi's back sinisterly, wishing she could make several holes in his back with her eyes.

Xue Shenzhi seemed to have not realized it and walked directly to the main courtyard.

From afar, I smelled the burnt smell.

Xue Shenzhi speeded up and saw the maid carrying the box and pouring it into the basin. The account book was burning with flames and thick smoke.

The soldiers hurriedly rescued several books of account books in the brazier.

When the prefect saw the soldier, his legs were so scared that he was weak and he knelt on the ground.

Xue Shenzhi's eyes swept over the brazier on the ground, and the soldier handed it to him with the account book.

Xue Shenzhi stretched out two fingers, slowly opened the account book, looked at the records inside, and suddenly closed the account book. He raised his foot and stepped on the soft blanket, and his eyes fell on the pried blue brick stone slab.

"Release the soft blanket and pry open the blue brick and stone slab." Xue Shenzhi gave the order.

The soldier stepped forward and lifted up the soft blanket that was lifted by the magistrate's wife.

The prefect's wife fell to the ground and stopped the soldiers' movements. She cried: "Who are you? You are trespassing into the official house like a robber! Do you have a handwritten letter to search the official house? You are breaking the law!"

Two soldiers set the prefect's wife open, and the rest of them neatly lifted the soft blanket, pried open all the blue bricks and stone slabs, revealing a mouthful of boxes, and lifted them all out to open them. Inside were golden and silver bars of gold and silver.

There are eighteen boxes in total, and each box contains 10,000 taels of silver, of which sixteen boxes are silver, and the remaining two boxes are gold.

Three years of Qing Dynasty prefect, there were 100,000 silver silver.

This sentence is deeply reflected in Prefect Chen.

The lady of the prefect saw that all the boxes were opened, and she knelt on the ground in a daze, feeling despair.

Even if the account book is burned, so much money will become a proof of corruption and bribery!

It's over!

All these two words remained in her mind.

"Take it all away!"

Xue Shenyi waved his hand and asked the soldiers to arrest all the people in the palace. All the money was sealed in the prefect's warehouse, sealed and sent someone to guard it.

The prefect is in charge of all government affairs such as the government orders of each county, governing the people, deliberating lawsuits, prosecuting traitors, assessing subordinate officials, collecting taxes and other government affairs, and has too great power.

Xue Shenzhi was just a young official. Although he was enthroned as an imperial envoy, it was not easy to try to move a prefect with a deep foundation. What's more, it was difficult for a strong dragon to defeat the local snake. The main reason was that the evidence could not be searched, so he was waiting for the opportunity to get the evidence of the prefect Chen and take him down in one fell swoop.

And this opportunity is the arrival of Li Mingli.

Li Mingli was born in a poor family. When he was a classmate with him in Qinghe Town, he did not leave Qinghe County until he went to Beijing to become an official. He just wrote a letter to congratulate him and told him that he had studied in Danzhou Prefecture and had no chance to return to Beijing.

This time he suddenly came to Anyang Prefecture City. Xue Shenzhi thought it was a coincidence. Until Li Mingli said that he would do his job for his mother, he took a detour to Anyang Prefecture City and then returned to Beijing from Anyang Prefecture City, he realized that something was wrong.

Li Mingli's mother was a private prostitute before. He hated his mother's actions. There was a deep gap between mother and son. He still refused to use Jiang Ji as a concubine. Even if Jiang Ji married Fu Jia as a concubine, the mother and son did not let go of his past grudges. Li Mingli would not come to Anyang Prefecture for Jiang Ji. This is one of them. Jiang Ji endured humiliation and hoped that Li Mingli would pass the imperial examination and be granted the title of marquis and prime minister. Now she married Fu Jia, and got the favor of Fu Jia. The money and manpower were sent by her, so why did she have less than one person to do the job and delay Li Mingli's study? This is the second. When she was a classmate, Li Mingli said that his mother was from the capital, and only the mother and son were left, and there were no relatives and friends. Jiang Ji had never left Qinghe County, so why did she explain to Li Mingli to Anyang Prefecture? This is the third.

The biggest flaw is that Li Mingli revealed the news that Mrs. Qin died of illness.

Anyang Prefecture City, not far from the capital, has never received any news. How can Li Mingli, who came from Danzhou Prefecture, know?

Mrs. Qin was not an important official in the court. She would post obituaries across the country when she died of illness.

Li Mingli invited him to take a boat back to Beijing. He was very clear about the route and knew that land was half a day faster than water.

These flaws and suspicious points are all linked, so Xue Shenzhi got a piece of news from it that Li Mingli had already entered Beijing, and this time he came to Anyang Prefecture City, with the purpose of bringing him back to the capital.

All of this coincidence is just artificial.

He submitted a memorial to the court, and the emperor approved it and ordered the prefect to fully cooperate with him in the land auction. Li Mingli appeared at this time, and he had to think about the profound meaning of it.

When he returned to the inn to clean up, he told Zhang Yiwen to leave behind three thousand acres of land deeds.

The prefect Chen and others became greedy. The food they picked out from their mouths now has a chance to grab it back and will never let it go.

Li Mingli came prepared, but he was afraid that he would set up an ambush on the way, so he was prepared. When he went on a boat with Li Mingli, he took out a small porcelain bottle containing turmeric powder, added alkaline water and stirred it evenly, and it would turn into a red liquid and put it close to his sleeves.

When he encountered assassination on the boat, he saw an archer on the shore. When he landed in the river, he pulled the cork of the porcelain bottle and the bright red liquid floated on the water surface, creating the illusion of his injury. The undercurrent was turbulent. He swam along the law of the undercurrent and was not swept into the deep pit, but was washed a few hundred meters away.

An undercurrent swept the man in and washed away, but it was just a matter of moment. The person who salvaged him did not dare to swim into the undercurrent. When he was searching for him along the river, he had already swam back to the shore and left.

Anyang Prefecture City and Jian'an Prefecture City are under the jurisdiction of a governor, and the governor's office is located in Jian'an Prefecture. He took out the letter of appointment of the imperial envoy and asked the governor to assassinate the imperial official and accept bribes for the crime of Chen's assassination of the imperial court and the acceptance of bribes. He asked the governor to send troops to investigate the prefect's residence.

As an imperial envoy sent by the court, he was assassinated on the territory of the Governor of Jian'an Prefecture. This matter can be either big or small. The more important reason is that the Governor and the Old General Qin are close friends, and he is also the grandson-in-law of the Old General Qin. When he learned that Xue Shenzhi had sent people to Beijing, sued the Prime Minister Chen, and revealed that the emperor intended to rectify the Anyang Prefecture City, he did not report the court. After receiving the emperor's review, he would send troops to the Anyang Prefecture City.

He secretly sneaked back to Anyang Prefecture City with his soldiers, and kept his troops waiting for the opportunity. Everything went according to his presupposition. When the prefect Chen entered the capital, Zhang Yiwen gave Yuan Jin an opportunity to rectify Anyang Prefecture City. Emperor Jin of Yuan brought Chen to prison. The news of the thirteen supervising censors coming to Anyang Prefecture City came first. These people were eager to destroy the evidence, and he attacked at this time, caught them off guard and could easily search the hidden evidence in his hands.

Xue Shenzhi looked at the unrecognizable inner room. Who would have thought that Prefect Chen buried Yinliang underground in the inner room?

If the Prime Minister Chen had not been imprisoned, he might not have been punished if he was guarding Anyang Prefecture City.

It is important to understand a situation thoroughly.

If you make a mistake, all previous efforts will be wasted.

If he doesn't die, Prefect Chen will not take it lightly.

Xue Shenzhi took the list in his hand and crossed out the name of Prison Chen.

All the rest were officials and rich gentry who divided the land of 7,000 acres.

"Mr. Xue, General Lin Shen has arranged for soldiers to capture the people on the list."

Xue Shenzhi nodded.

Anyang Prefecture City is destined to be a sleepless night.

The rich gentry in each prefecture was still in the gentle town, but they were arrested by soldiers who broke in.

The crying of women and children in the room was deafening.

When Fan Bi heard Xue Shenzhi lead his troops to encircle the magistrate's mansion, he felt that it was over. He quickly called a carriage, put boxes of gold and silver on the carriage, and left through the back door.

The fire shone. General Lin Shen, wearing soft armor, stood expressionlessly in the alley with his hands on the hilt of the knife. Behind him was a row of soldiers. He was so scared that he was peeing his pants. General Lin Shen ordered him to take the person away.

Except for the prefect and the county magistrate's family, all of whom were arrested and imprisoned, the other rich gentry were not as guilty as their relatives.

By dawn, Anyang Prefecture City had already changed.
To be continued...