After Hai Rui finished speaking, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became stagnant.
Most of the people in the room saw the scene where Hai Rui spilled the wine in his glass on the ground.
"This is obviously a toast to the dead!"
"Or is it that the Imperial Envoy has already sentenced the Governor to death in his heart?"
Soon, someone reacted and looked at Hai Rui with fear in their eyes.
Some people even want to find an excuse to go to the toilet and stay away from this place of right and wrong!
However, their plan was destined to fail. Hai Rui seemed to have seen through their minds. After looking around, he said in a deep voice.
"If anyone dares to take a step out of this room today, then I will not blame you for being rude!"
Everyone present was shocked by the aura exuded by Hai Rui. They all gave up their thoughts and had no choice but to stay in the room with Hai Rui and continue to wait for the news.
Pan Xian on the side seemed quite unconvinced by this. He looked away from Hai Rui and said slowly.
"My Lord Imperial Envoy, have you forgotten whose territory this is?"
Upon hearing this, Hai Rui picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured himself another glass of wine.
"Of course, I know it very well, but despite this, what can you do to me?"
"Don't forget, I am an imperial envoy sent by His Majesty!"
After Hai Rui finished speaking, he smiled, raised his glass, and toasted in the direction of Pan Xian.
Yang Yinglin on the side saw this situation and quickly stepped forward to smooth things over.
"We all work for the imperial court. In the final analysis, we are all colleagues. If there is anything we cannot sit down and talk about, come on, let's have a drink!"
After Yang Yinglin finished speaking, he laughed sarcastically and then raised his glass to himself.
However, no one at the scene responded to his words, everyone was watching the events unfold with cold eyes.
Time passed like this minute by minute. I don't know how long it took, but I heard a "squeak" and the door of the room was pushed open.
A servant hurried in, his face full of anxiety.
"My lord, I'm sorry, the granary in the suburbs is on fire!"
Hearing this, Hai Rui looked like he had expected it. Then he slowly stood up from his seat, turned his eyes to Pan Xian, and said.
"It seems that my guess is correct, the granary is really on fire!"
When Hai Rui said this, he paused for a moment and then continued.
"Master Pan, now the granary is on fire. As the governor of Henan, don't you need to go to the scene to check the situation?"
When Pan Xian heard this, his expression suddenly turned ugly. After giving Hai Rui a hard look, he snorted coldly and immediately left the room with the others without saying a word.
Seeing this, Hai Rui slowly poured a full glass of wine into his own glass, then scattered it on the ground, looked at Pan Xian's leaving back, and muttered silently to himself.
"Hmph, this glass of wine is given to you by my officer. After drinking this glass, you should be on your way!"
After Hai Rui finished speaking, he immediately walked out of the room with his hands behind his back.
…
On the way to the granary in a hurry, Yang Yinglin had a premonition that a disaster was coming, and quickly asked Pan Xian about how to deal with it.
"Sir, what should we do next!"
"That Hai Rui seemed to have fully anticipated what we were going to do next!
"You know, the people who carried out this mission are all our cronies. If they can't handle it, then we are all doomed!"
Hearing this, Pan Xian suppressed the impatience in his heart and spoke comforting words.
"Don't worry, I have already made a complete plan before this. I have already set up an informant at the door of the inn where Hai Rui lives. If there is any trouble, I will be informed of it as soon as possible!"
"Not long ago, I received news that the guards at the inn showed no sign of being dispatched in large numbers. It must have been too late by the time they got the news and rushed to the granary."
"When the time comes, all the evidence will be burned up in a fire. So what if Hai Rui is the Imperial Envoy? In the end, he still can't do anything to us."
"Besides, all the money we have spent in the past few years has not been wasted. Don't we still have high-ranking officials in the capital to protect us?"
After hearing Pan Xian's words of comfort, Yang Yinglin felt a little relieved and moved faster.
"Drive!"
…
And when everyone hurried to the location of the granary, they suddenly discovered that the expected situation did not happen. The entire granary seemed quite calm, as usual.
Seeing this situation, the string called reason in Pan Xian's mind completely collapsed.
Then, he got off his horse, ignored the dissuasion of the people around him, ran to the door of the granary, tightly grabbed the collar of a guard who was guarding the granary, and asked with red eyes.
"Where's the fire? I'm asking you where the fire is!"
"Didn't you just say that the granary was on fire?"
When the officer saw this situation, he didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only stay there. Then, he heard a voice behind Pan Xian.
"Sir Governor, if you are looking for fire, I am afraid you have come to the wrong place."
"Don't forget, this is a granary and there is no fire!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the commander-in-chief Fang Qian led a large number of soldiers to surround Yang Yinglin and others.
Seeing this situation, Pan Xian looked desperate and kept murmuring.
"I see, that's it, I finally understand!"
Immediately, Pan Xian came to his senses, looked away from the commander of the capital, Fang Qian, and threatened in a deep voice.
"Fang Qian, do you think your butt is clean?"
"In recent years, you have received a lot of money from me. If I have any shortcomings, can you get out of it?"
"How about we just pretend this never happened?"
After hearing this, Fang Qian shook his head and said slowly.
"In recent years, every amount of money you have given to me has been recorded in detail by me, and I have kept the money properly!"
"As early as when the imperial envoy sent someone to visit me, I told you the whole story."
"In addition, all the money, as well as the corresponding account books, etc., were handed over to the Imperial Envoy."
Hearing this, Pan Xian's heart was filled with despair, and he no longer had the will to resist.
Seeing this, Fang Qian nodded and continued.
"As long as you are arrested and brought to justice, I will be able to offset the blame, and even go one step further. It is not impossible!"
"Come here, get him for me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Qian waved his hand violently, and his soldiers immediately stepped forward and controlled Pan Xian.
I woke up early in the morning and my mind was groggy. I forced myself to type this out. I don’t know what I was writing. I’m sorry.
(End of chapter)
