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"Why are you panic? The sky hasn't collapsed yet?"

After Fan Yong finished speaking, he couldn't help but sneer. In his opinion, this county magistrate was really reckless and so panicked that he could not have the majesty of a chief official. If it fell into the eyes of outsiders, wouldn't he lose the face of the county temple?

"Mr. County Lord, the sky has not collapsed, but the sky in Jiangyi is about to collapse!"

After hearing the county lieutenant's words, Fan Yong stopped sneering. He also noticed that the county lieutenant's words were mixed with unusual panic, so he asked quickly:

"What does it mean, please make it clear!"

"As these days, some people have been secretly investigating the county and temple officials and the length of the big surnames in the city!"

"Bang!"

When Fan Yong heard this, he was shocked and suddenly lost his composure to hit the desk in front of him. After feeling the severe pain from his palm, he quickly asked:

"Who is it?"

As he asked, Fan Yong thought in his heart that he thought that everything in Jiangyi was under his control. Even the arrogant and domineering Xiliang soldiers were bribed by him with money. Who else could go against him?

Is the supervisor sent by Hedong County Government?

impossible!

Fan Yong instantly overturned this idea. Jiangyi has now become a city ahead to resist the Baibo bandits. The northern supervisor in the county government will definitely not be in danger and will come to privately investigate his own strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, the money he secretly sent to Hedong County Government has never been interrupted. Hedong County Government decided that it would not be possible to send people to Jiangyi at this time.

Could it be the Western Liang soldiers outside the city?

The county lieutenant who solved Fan Yong's doubts was still the county lieutenant who brought him doubts.

"I didn't know who was secretly investigating, because it was reported that people were secretly investigating the length of our city and outside the city. Although I didn't believe it very much, I still sent someone to search for traces. As a result, I really caught two people who were secretly investigating the length of the county temple."

"How, where is the person, and who instructed him?"

Facing Fan Yong's hurried inquiry, the county magistrate looked helpless. He shook his head and said:

"Although I caught the man, a team of Xiliang soldiers came from behind, and snatched the man away in the name of seeking the spy who arrested the Baibo thief!"

"Are you sure it was Xiliang soldiers who snatched the man away?"

"The people I sent saw with my own eyes that the soldiers were armed with soldiers and looked fierce. Apart from the Xiliang soldiers, Jiangyi could not find another such army!"

"That's what happened!"

Hearing the county magistrate's affirmative answer, Fan Yong only said this. His face was covered with a thick layer of haze. He pursed his lips and could no longer speak with a calm face.

After a long silence, Fan Yong started to speak again and said:

"Select someone to gather the big surnames in the city and let their parents discuss this matter at the county temple. Remember to instruct each family to act secretly."

After receiving the order, the county magistrate ran out again. Fan Yong looked at the county magistrate running back, and felt uneasy. He quickly ordered the county magistrate, chief clerk, Gongcao and other county officials in the county temple to come to the lobby and prepare to speak out with them first.

The most urgent task is to figure out what is the purpose of the Xiliang army acting like this?

Is it to take the handle of the county temple and the big surname, and then ask for more money from themselves and others? Or is it that at the beginning, they were confusing themselves and others, but in the field, they were thinking of capturing all their people in one place?

Fan Yong shook his head anxiously. After hearing the news, he could not make any distinction. At this time, his mood was already in chaos.

Soon, the county magistrate, Gongcao, chief clerk and other county officials in the county temple came to the hall one after another, and later parents of the city's big surnames rushed to the county temple.

After hearing what the county magistrate said, everyone in the hall was panicked, and they were also confused. Didn’t the Xiliang soldiers’ interactions with their own side more and more in the past few days? They suddenly sent someone to investigate their guilt. What exactly did they want to do?

The siege of the defensive corpses was specially set up to fight against the thieves. They did not have the power to manage civil affairs, nor did they have the power to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of county temple officials and big surnames in the city. Even if the Xiliang soldiers successfully obtained the evidence of crime and were given to the Hedong County Government, they might not believe it. What's more, there were also people in the County Government. The Xiliang soldiers who were involved in the affairs of the county government were already considered as good as not to cause any fishy consequences on their own. How could they even get them?

Just when everyone in the hall was confused and puzzled, a county official suddenly stumbled and ran in from outside. Fan Yong suddenly heard the bad news today and was already anxious. Now seeing the county official so panic, he suddenly felt even more uneasy.

"No - no, there are a group of Xiliang soldiers coming from outside the county temple!"

"Ah!! This - this!!"

The words of the county officials who ran in were like thunder on the ground, which instantly caused panic among the people in the hall. Some people fought with each other, their eyes were erratic, and they were very likely to run away when they saw that the situation was not good.

"What a panic? Since you are here, let's see, what exactly do they want?"

Fan Yong also saw the embarrassment of everyone in the hall. He simply stood up from the top of the chief seat, walked out of the hall, glaring at the panicked people. He could only use words to make people calm down, giving everyone an illusion of fearlessness, and thus barely calming everyone's emotions.

The Xiliang soldiers outside came very quickly and almost broke in all the way.

Ma Lin and Meng Tu first rushed into the county temple with a group of soldiers, and then rushed into the lobby without any scruples. They all showed their fierce appearance and stared at the people in the hall, as if they had seen prey.

Afterwards, Yan Xing brought Xi Zhicai, Zhou Liang, Zheng Duo and other civil servants and personal guards to the hall.

Seeing that there were not only a group of officials from the county temple, but also some parents of the big surnames who had met at the banquet that night, Yan Xing smiled and said:

"You guys, I didn't expect that you would gather here again today. Are you safe?"

Faced with Yan Xing's greetings, the county officials and surnames in the hall looked at each other, but no one dared to speak. Fan Yong made a quick decision, smiled and said tentatively:

"The lieutenant is so idle. Why did he suddenly come to the county temple today? I won't let anyone report it? We are discussing the recruitment of Ding Zhuang and grain and prepare for military supplies. Since the lieutenant has also come, it just so happens that all the big surnames in the city want to reward the royal army, but the number of money and grain is enough, we have to discuss with the lieutenant!"

Seeing that Fan Yong wanted to use bribes from money, grain and cloth to stabilize himself, Yan Xing smiled and did not care about anyone in the hall. He directly raised his head and walked to the top of the hall with a group of civil servants. After taking the seat with a big sword, he said:

"Since you all have important matters to discuss, that's fine. This lieutenant also has major issues to announce in front of everyone. Since everyone is almost here, let's do everything together."

Fan Yong looked at Yan Xing sitting in his position without any hesitation, and a bit of sternness flashed in his eyes. However, after he caught a glimpse of the fierce soldiers in the hall, he slowly calmed down the sternness in his eyes.

"What's the matter that the lieutenant said?"

At this time, the people in the hall also noticed the danger of swords and weapons. Not only were these Xiliang soldiers bad visitors, but their tone was obviously coming for themselves and others.

The county magistrate looked at the soldiers standing on both sides of the hall and became a little dry for a moment, and couldn't help asking questions quickly.

"Yuanshan, let's talk about it!"

Yan Xing stood high in the hall, looking around at the county officials and the big surnames who were sitting or standing in the hall, ignoring the county magistrate. He turned his head and asked Zhou Liang on the side to mobilize and read out the crimes of the big surnames who had visited these days.

"promise!"

Zhou Liang held the file in his hand. After hearing Yan Xing's order, he quickly agreed, then expanded the file in his hand and began to recite:

"Fan Yong, the chief of the county magistrate of the temple, and the chief officials of the county magistrate of the county magistrate, the county magistrate and other officials, the county magistrates were derelict in the territory, and they charged more money. They collected more money and collected more money from the mouth and paid more than 2 million yuan in the grass. They were also imprisoned and abused the law. They received nearly one million yuan in wealth in the city, and watched the powerful family killing the thief, forcibly marrying wives, and taking away other people's property and other illegal activities."

"In addition, we colluded with the Jin Jin in the Temple and the Cao Caoshen to guard the thieves, and the greedy men needed money, grain and supplies, totaling more than 36,000 yuan. We also colluded with the Qian family of the city to make profits by borrowing money, and earning tens of millions of yuan. We condoned the thieves of the salt and iron and white waves to connect with the bandits. We assigned county soldiers to set up checkpoints along the way, exploited, and robbed the wealth of the fugitives, killed refugees without reason, and weaved the crimes for no reason, and put the people in the city and tortured them until they died..."

After Zhou Liang and others secretly investigated and collected and sorted them into files, Yan Xing and others who saw the files were shocked. Fan Yong, the head of Jiang County, was rampant and unscrupulous. Taking advantage of the turmoil in Hedong and the uneasy local situation, in order to obtain heavy capital for their own family, the degree of wealth had reached a crazy attitude.

Not only did he use the name of preparing military supplies in the front, he forced himself to collect money, collect more money, accept bribes from the big surnames in the city, kill people from their thieves, hide their family fortunes, and sit idly by crimes such as crimes. He also took advantage of Jiangyi's current geographical location on the front line, lending for profit, smuggling salt and iron, and using various charges to imprison and flee refugees and residents in the city to replenish their family fortunes into the government and take the opportunity to seize wealth.

This is why when Yan Xing, Zhou Liang and others first came to Jiangyi, the fugitives were watching, and the residents in the city went out in a hurry.

For them, although the White Bo thief is like a wolf or a tiger, the harsh government is more fierce than the tiger. The officials in Jiangyi City are even more dangerous than the White Bo thief. Therefore, they are afraid that they can't avoid it and can only escape in a hurry.

Now that they heard someone proclaiming their crimes one by one, Fan Yong, county magistrate, county magistrate, Gongcao, chief clerk, etc., all of them changed their color. They were both frightened that Yan Xing and others were able to investigate so many crimes on their own, and they were also afraid of the methods that Yan Xing showed, who had been lurking for many days and finally found out.

"Shou Jiangyi Chief, can you confess your guilt?"

After Zhou Liang finished reciting a lot of crimes from the county temple officials, Yan Xing looked at Fan Yong and others in the hall with a change in expression and added this sentence at the end.

There was a silence in the hall for a while, and suddenly someone sneered.

"It's ridiculous, it's all nonsense. According to the court's laws, the lieutenant has no right to inquire about local counties and counties. Even if the county and temple are guilty, the county government should send the supervisor and the decree department to investigate in detail."

"The army of the lieutenant came to Jiangyi, but did not want to march to fight against the bandits, but instead overcame the affairs. The prisoner was the lieutenant. Although the county magistrate tried to guard Jiangyi, the imperial court and the county government were majestic, how could he allow the slander of the lieutenant? How could he allow the small soldiers to be rampant in this dignified county and temple area!"
Chapter completed!