Xuan Huai is a clerk in the government office. He has a strong presence in the yamen. His only advantage is that he is obedient and responsible.

Such people will not be flattered and have limited abilities. Naturally, those adults did not mean to take him as their confidant. Therefore, after ten years in the yamen, their positions were not improved. They were still just small clerks in households, doing small errands such as desk books.

Then one day last winter, because his colleague was unwell, he took over the other party's errands and rushed to Changping Warehouse to count the stored grain. This was not too difficult. After all, how much grain was stored in Changping Warehouse was registered. As long as he brought the account book there and then checked the accounts there, it would be like the errands to complete it.

But the problem is that Xuan Huai has a serious and responsible personality. Even if this is not his own job, he dare not be careless at all. When he arrived at Changping, he not only handed over the position with the other party, checked the accounts, but also proposed to go to the warehouse to check it.

Now, the person guarding the warehouse was a little reluctant and refused. However, he had made up his mind, and the more he refused, the more he felt suspicious he felt. In the end, he even brought it out to go to the yamen to report it. In desperation, the other party could only let him go to the warehouse to check.

Then, Xuan Huai saw a scene that surprised him. The warehouse that should have had at least 20,000 kilograms of grain was now empty. Yes, there should be 20,000 kilograms of grain on the book at this time. It was the wealth accumulated by Yingzhou City over the years, but now there is nothing left.

This shocked Xuan Huai, and shouted that he wanted to go back to the government office to report, and then he was dragged down by several officials in the warehouse. He had to tell him a "fact" - the food was actually still there, but it was temporarily borrowed by several adults. As for the whole story, I can't say. If you don't believe it, you can tell me about it secretly.

Xuan Huai, who was stubborn, actually asked, and the answer was the same. But he still had doubts in his heart, so he secretly lingered around Changping Cang, trying to find out the whole story. Then, he discovered a secret. The Jia family manor next to Changping Cang was secretly transporting food out one day and night. As far as he knew, there was no grain stored in the manor here before.

At this point, Xuan Huai naturally had speculation that the official grain in Changping's warehouse actually fell into the hands of the Jia family, which shocked and angry, and even had the idea of ​​exposing everything. But so far, he had no conclusive evidence, so he took the initiative to sneak into Changping's warehouse, and then he really found that there was a secret door to the Jia family behind the Jia character warehouse.

But it was this adventure that made him discover the warehousing people. After learning that he had found such a fatal matter, they did not dare to be careless. While holding the people, they quickly reported to the government office and decided by the adults above.

Finally, Hu Yi, who was skilled in the way of prison, gave a clever way to silence him. After forcibly getting the person drunk, he pushed Xuan Huai into the river. The next day, when his body was found, he was considered drunk and miserable.

The Xuan family had no power, and once the only pillar died, he was not suspected of being sad. Everyone thought that the matter had passed, and then Xuan Huai's body was placed in the morgue of the government office. After a procedure was completed, he could be buried.

But he was so desperate that Xuan Huai still had a friend in the yamen - Zhao Guang. It happened that he was the clerk of the torture room, so he naturally went to worship. In the morgue, when he was saying his last farewell to his friends, he found that Xuan Huai had several fresh scars on his body, which were obviously left behind after being tied up before his death.

This surprised and panicked Zhao Guangda, but for the sake of the truth about the murder of his good friend, he still boldly conducted a careful inspection. Then, a piece of cloth full of words on the bottom of the shoes he was wearing was turned out, and the scars on his palm were also recognized by him as several words - Changping Cang and Jiazi Library.

Through the silk book he obtained, Zhao Guang finally learned the truth about Xuan Huai's murder, which shocked him because he really didn't hear any news about this. Like his friends, he was also a person with no backing or power in the government office, and he was very afraid that he would also encounter the same treatment.

However, compared to Xuan Huai, he was more afraid of death, so he didn't plan to expose these things, just wanted to ruin the matter in his heart. But he felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he drank with his friend Qian Hai and told everything after drinking. In this way, the two of them knew about this matter, and time came to the first month of this year.

Qian Hai didn't have the courage to expose everything, but compared to Zhao Guang, he was more greedy, so he wanted to find an opportunity to use this matter as a bargaining chip to seek some benefits from the adults in the government office.

But what happened next really didn't disappoint him. Because something happened in the northern border, the court had to transfer grain from various places, but Yingzhou could not get the grain. Then, Li Ling, the imperial envoy, arrived in Yingzhou, which made Qian Hai feel that the opportunity had come, so he took Zhao Guang to confront his boss Hu Yi: If you don't give us benefits, we will report the truth to the imperial envoy.

At this point, what else can Hu Yi do? I'm afraid that he will be endless blackmailing in the future, and the handle is in the hands of others, so he will only become more passive, let alone how can he accept being extorted by his subordinates? So he pretended to agree, while arranging his subordinates' confidant and directly killed these two things that were ignorant in the government office.

And just so happened that the prefect wanted to destroy the evidence and set fire to the Gaige Library. So after a few people decided to throw two corpses into the fire, one destroyed the corpses, and the other happened to use the deaths of the two to drive Li Ling out of Yingzhou as soon as possible. After all, this person was in Yingzhou for one day, and the threat to them would be greater than that of a day.

However, the net of heaven was vast and unobstructed, whether it was Ma Bangwen, Hu Yi and the others, they did not expect that Li Ling was tenacious and able to make decisions, so they could actually see through all their conspiracies from this seemingly flawless fog; and what they did not expect was that the most inconspicuous Zhao Guang actually had a backup plan. As early as after he knew everything, he left the document, hid it in his home, and told his wife that something was wrong.

It was this omission that completely failed their overall plan. Today, they have become prisoners in the government office. Under Li Ling's interrogation, they can only confess everything truthfully.

After listening to Hu Yi’s explanation, Li Ling was stunned for a moment, then sighed. After a while, he slapped: “Get back aside, come and bring Ma Bangwen to me.”

At this time, Ma Bangwen had been stripped of his official uniform and his hat. He was extremely embarrassed to be put on the court, and then he knelt there with a thud. It turned out that the seat he was sitting in was replaced by Li Ling today, and he became a prisoner waiting for trial in the court. This change in identity made him still feel in a trance and only felt in a dream.

"Ma Bangwen, Hu Yi has explained everything. If you don't want to be tortured, if you still have a little conscience, honestly confess your crime!" Li Ling shouted in a deep voice, with great majesty.

Ma Bangwen smiled bitterly, and turned his head to look at Hu Yi who was huddling beside him. With his understanding of him, he knew that the other party was not false. After a little silence, he said, "Yes, those people were solved by the official. As for the food, I gave it to the Jia family through arrangements."

"Why do you do this?" Li Ling straightened his body and asked again.

"Haha... why? It's not because of the momentum, but because of the court and the noble people!" Ma Bangwen suddenly shouted: "There are those below, whether it's the servants or soldiers, if you don't do this, what will I do to support them and let them do things for me?" These words were really justified, and they all stunned many people around me.

After being stunned, Li Ling slapped the case hard and shouted: "Rareless! Now, you still dare to speak nonsense. I really think that this is all your selfish intentions. Do you want to use the government's property as private property?"

Facing the rebuke, Ma Bangwen was not panicked, but just smiled bitterly: "If you don't believe me, just send someone to Xiaguan's residence to search and see how much wealth I have... Now, Xiaguan dares not deceive him anymore. In the past few years, I have transported more than 300,000 kilograms of official grain through this method, but the silver I can really use for me is only ten thousand taels! And half of this has long been shared by me and fallen into the hands of the subordinates of the Manchu yamen..."

Li Ling listened and looked at him, and could almost be convinced that what he said was true, because of his expression, and because at this time, there was no need for him to make such excuses for himself. On the crime found now, he reported it to the court. Ma Bangwen was a dead person, no matter how much money he had received.

"Since that's the case, why do you still have to do this lawless act?" Li Ling leaned forward and continued to ask.

"Because I have no other choice. I just said that I am forced by the situation. If I am not like this, I cannot establish myself in the officialdom. If I am not like this, I cannot let my subordinates obey orders. Master, Yingzhou is poor and the land is poor. The subordinates want to do something, but everything is limited. I can only find a way to make everyone live a good life. Only by being united can the entire Yingzhou be managed well."
Chapter completed!