The thought just now flashed through Wang Hao's mind and has been lingering in his mind.
Such an idea is too bold, but it is not groundless.
In the view of Wang Hao, the imperial censor who had no party affiliation, no selfish interests, and no siding with others, one hundred thousand taels of silver was already a huge amount.
Ye Guangming received one hundred thousand taels of silver before he arranged for Liu Datong to be the county magistrate in this ghost place of Pingliang County. Can Liu Datong not hold a grudge against him?
In this way, it is not impossible that Liu Datong wants to poison Ye Guangming as revenge.
But what Wang Hao didn't know was that the one hundred thousand taels of silver, not to mention the dog officials of Yan Song's party, even Wen Boyue and Taishi's group claimed to be a group of high-ranking officials who had embezzled far more than this amount.
Although Grand Master Wen Boyue and his group of officials claimed to be Qingliu, they were only in comparison.
Those so-called Qingliu are just not as greedy and ruthless as Yan Song and his party.
It's just a joke at fifty steps but a hundred steps at a time. Now the Chen Kingdom's court has long been in decay.
There are very few people who are as incorruptible as Wang Hao.
Although Wang Hao felt that Liu Datong's death was not a pity, after all, he still held the title of a court official.
And now, in order to replenish the national treasury, the imperial court has also acquiesced in this behavior of spending money to donate official positions and fame, but in the past, the donations were all in vain.
Regarding Liu Datong's death, Wang Hao actually speculated whether it was because he wasted the emperor's order and said that one year of tax exemption was replaced by three years of tax increase, which made the people's resentment boil. This led Zhou Yi to kill Liu Datong on the pretext of killing him, and then framed him. Put the blame on the so-called gangsters.
"Old man, take this jade pendant. Hurry up and get these grains to redeem your daughter. If you are late, it will be too late."
Zhou Yi's actions directly interrupted the conjecture of Wang Hao, the imperial emissary.
"Master Clerk, isn't this your family's jade pendant? You absolutely must not use it!" Qian Captou, who had already rehearsed the script, said with a look of surprise on his face.
Zhou Yi said solemnly: "If you go to redeem someone this time, the person will definitely raise the price. This jade pendant is a dead thing after all, how can it separate your family from each other! Father, don't delay, go quickly!" "
The old man who came to pay taxes kowtowed to Zhou Yi a few times and then limped toward a deep alley.
Zhou Yi pretended to be displeased and scolded Mr. Qian again: "Didn't you tell the people in the county not to pay taxes? Why are there still twenty or thirty people here today?"
"Isn't this setting the late Magistrate Liu up for being unkind, unjust, loyal and unfilial!"
Chief Qian said innocently: "We did go door-to-door to notify, but some people had to go to work, so they didn't receive the news in time!"
Wang Hao was even more moved when he saw this, not only did Zhou Tanhua. He took out his family heirloom jade pendant to help the old man redeem his granddaughter, and even tried his best to restore Liu Datong's reputation without letting the thief Liu Datong fall into infamy after his death.
At this moment, Wang Hao felt that Zhou Yi's whole body was emitting an inexplicable light.
The people on the road are like jade, and the gentlemen are like no other in the world.
Wang Hao felt that his malicious speculation about Zhou Yi just now was a bit too villainous.
"How could such a sincere gentleman bother to kill people by framing bandits?"
"Even if the dog official Liu Datong was really killed by Zhou Yi and Zhou Xingjian for the people of Pingliang County, I'm afraid he would admit it openly!"
However, in order to investigate the case in detail, Wang Hao still followed the usual practice and inquired from top to bottom of the Pingliang County Yamen.
Wang Hao even sent people to various parts of the county to randomly question people in Pingliang County.
The ones Wang Hao sent to investigate were not just one or two people, but random checks throughout the city. He didn't even let go of children as young as seven or eight. In Wang Hao's opinion, such young children should not be able to lie.
Unexpectedly, all I got was the same reply - in order to collect taxes, the county magistrate Liu Datong personally led his troops out of the city to measure the fields. As a result, they were robbed and killed by bandits carrying a bloody "Li" flag.
In order to find out about this group of thieves with the bloody Li Ziqi, Wang Hao even sent people to the surrounding counties to find out if there were any such arrogant thieves.
Not to mention, the men sent by Wang Hao actually found out about such an extremely arrogant bandit team in Pingjiang County next door. The leader of this group of thieves was named Li Feiyu.
Not long ago, Li Feiyu led his men to destroy the Heifeng Village with more than 300 bandits on Heifeng Mountain.
Moreover, during the time when Liu Datong's accident occurred, several wealthy and unkind villages such as Yejiazhuang, Lijiazhuang, and Wangjiazhuang in Pingjiang County were robbed and patronized by Li Feiyu and his party.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
The news that Pingliang County Magistrate Liu Datong was killed by bandits headed by Li Feiyu soon spread to Pingjiang County.
The Ye family, the Li family, the Wang family in Pingjiang County, etc., who had been patronized by Li Feiyu, all of Zhuangzi now began to feel lucky that they did not resist in the first place.
Li Feiyu and this group of desperate thieves dared to kill even the imperial officials, let alone ordinary people like them?
In addition, they were also fortunate that people like Li Feiyu were still capable thieves. After they Zhuangzi implemented the non-resistance strategy, Li Feiyu and his group of thieves took away some money and animals, but they didn't even hurt anyone, and they didn't even harm the girls in the Zhuangzi.
I don’t know if it was because of the comparison with Liu Datong’s experience that several Zhuangzi family heads in Pingjiang County who were robbed by “Li Feiyu” suffered from Stockholm Syndrome.
Regarding Liu Datong's death, the heads of Zhuangzi's families, including the Ye family of Pingliang County, even felt that it was definitely not the fault of Master Li.
Mr. Li is such an easy person to talk to. He just brought his brothers to the village and said "open the door" and "look at it". If Yejiazhuang wants to give him 10,000 kilograms of grain, he will give him 10,000 kilograms. In terms of food, Lijiazhuang will give him three thousand chickens and ducks if he wants. The most arrogant one is Wangjiazhuang, who will give him a dozen cows if he wants.
The key is that the person in charge of the family is not too small at all!
Faced with such a talkative boss, Liu Datong, the magistrate of Pingliang County next door, would lose his head, probably because he didn't want it anymore!
When the people sent by Wang Hao asked the Ye family, Wang family, and Li family how many people Li Feiyu had, they didn't know what these families thought, and everyone exaggerated.
The Ye family said that Li Feiyu had 800 troops, and the Wang family said that Li Feiyu had a thousand soldiers. When they arrived at the Li family, Li Feiyu turned into 3,000 fine armors.
Censor Wang Hao didn't believe it at first when he learned that Li Feiyu had such a powerful force.
But considering that Li Feiyu's team can run amok in the two counties, it is very likely that the number of people seen by several villages in Pingjiang County is real, and even Li Feiyu's real power may be far more than that.
Zhou Yi also didn't expect that he only brought about 200 people to fight the autumn wind, but he was actually promoted to a bandit leader with thousands of men by the owners of several villages in the next county.
"I really didn't expect that such a banditry would breed in this place on the border of Yongzhou. If we let it go unchecked, it may endanger our country."
"I must inform your Majesty to send troops to attack this group of daring thieves like Li Feiyu."
At this moment, Wang Hao has firmly believed that Liu Datong's death was caused by a group of thieves headed by Li Feiyu.
Now, the case of killing an official in Pingliang County has been solved. However, Wang Hao still has no clue about the murder case of Ye Guangming and more than ten senior Yongzhou officials.
