"But it's not what you think it should be."

Li Hu's idea of ​​"coordination between inside and outside" was that they found the salary hidden by the prefect inside, and Chu Zhaoci brought people outside to arrest him.

And actually...

Shao Jingheng whispered the plan in a low voice.

They already know that the prefect has only two large boxes of salary money, which means that the prefect is just a tributary of the salary case.

He's not really behind the scenes at all.

Then all they can do is to catch the prefect and try to ask him about the real behind-the-scenes situation.

But think about it.

Would the person who could hide private military pay be a small rural county magistrate like the prefect? ​​He must be a high-ranking and powerful person in the court.

Therefore, even if they catch the prefect, they may not get the answer.

The remaining salary money is still not found.

In this case, it is better to solve the current problem first.

If there is a shortage of military pay in the army, then they will send payment silver to the army, but only the two large boxes are not enough, so they have to take it from the pocket of the prefect.

The prefect's crime of secretly hiding military pay is not a small crime.

This is enough to punish him with confiscation of his home, exile, or even execution of his entire family.

But even if he is convicted and his house is confiscated...

The money in his family cannot be used as military pay, but will be transported to Kyoto City, recorded in Dali Temple, and entered into the national treasury.

The soldiers in the army got nothing.

What Shao Jingheng wanted was to use the money from the prefect's family directly as military pay.

He asked the little nun to use poison to stun all the officers and soldiers in the government office, and then asked Li Hu and others to sneak into the Tibetan army pay warehouse and transport the pay money out.

But not all are shipped.

Leave some for them.

The salary left behind was not just to pacify the prefect, but...

In the court hall.

When Shao Jingheng asked the little nuns to use the drug, he only used an amount that would stun them for two quarters of an hour. Within these two quarters of an hour, Li Hu and others had already changed their positions.

Moreover, he also emptied the two large boxes of salary, added stones, and placed a layer of salary on top.

Two quarters of an hour later.

Chu Zhaoci brought Xie Qingbai and other officers and soldiers from the county government to arrest him, and found two large boxes of salary money from the prefect's warehouse.

In order to prevent the prefect from rebelling, they surrounded the government office in advance and stunned the officers and soldiers of the government office again.

Among everyone present, although Chu Zhaoci had the highest rank, this was a county town after all, and the trial officer was Xie Qingbai.

Xie Qingbai took pictures of the gavel and asked the prefect.

"This is all salary collected from your government office. What else do you want to say?"

The prefect is a high-ranking county magistrate. Before he is convicted, he does not have to kneel in court, but Chu Zhaoci is still here.

He had to kneel down and argue.

"This is the salary I just seized from the bandits yesterday. I am preparing to report it to the court today and send it to the army."

Listen, you are just an old fool!

Xie Qingbai was not a vegetarian, so he immediately asked in a cold voice, "You said you just seized it from bandits a few days ago?"

"But I am working with you in the county seat, so why have I never heard of your recent involvement in suppressing bandits?"

The county government office and the government office are not in the same place.

But the suppression of bandits is a major matter. If the government government suppresses bandits, it is impossible for the county government not to know about it.

Furthermore, there are no bandits in the county. The government government must go out of the city to suppress the bandits, and the city gate is guarded by their county government officers and soldiers.

How come he, the county magistrate, has never heard of reports from officers and soldiers?

The prefect continued to say, "I did not set out from the county seat, but directly from the prefectural city. This was a specially used tactic to catch those bandits."

This horse riding is nonsense!

If the rent of the county seat and the prefecture city can be determined in terms of north and south, then the county seat belongs to the south and the prefecture city belongs to the north.

Opposite to the north are other counties, among which there are indeed forest areas such as Guandao, as well as bandits.

But that's not the area they govern.

It is an area under the jurisdiction of another county government.

You said that you take care of bandits in other people's areas. Do you think everyone is a fool?

Tianqi State has expressly prohibited it, and Hefu City only manages the affairs of its own city. If necessary, it will intervene in the affairs of other cities...

That must be approved by the prefects of other prefectures.

Don't tell me that it was approved by others?

If you pass by, the prefect of the other city will come to your place to discuss with your prefect and county magistrate.

Xie Qingbai, the county magistrate, still didn’t see anything!

The prefect said, "I, I took a detour and secretly left the city to suppress the bandits!"

Xie Qingbai was really angry at him and laughed.

"You set out from Fucheng to suppress bandits. You said it was for strategic reasons. Where are the bandits that can be caught? Besides, why didn't you enter from the county seat?"

"Is it some kind of strategy? We must return from Fucheng, or..."

Speaking of this, Xie Qingbai paused slightly.

His deep eyes then became sharp, his voice became much colder, and he continued.

"Or is it that suppressing bandits is simply a lie, and that you hiding military pay is the real thing?"

Without waiting for the prefect to quibble, Xie Qingbai clapped the gavel again and angrily said, "Tell me, where do you get these military salaries?"

The prefect was thinking about what to say next, but when Xie Qingbai slapped him like this, his thoughts suddenly became confused.

I hesitated for a long time and was speechless!

It was Xie Qingbai who asked, "Why don't you hurry up and recruit them truthfully!"

The prefect finally said, "I, I don't have Tibetan military pay, I don't have it, it's not me, it's not me!"

Xie Qingbai asked someone to open the two large boxes of "salaries" and show them to him, "The evidence is conclusive, what else do you have to say?"

The prefect was already a little flustered, but he became even more flustered when he saw the salary.

Just about to quibble...

The officer and soldier next to him suddenly seemed to have discovered something. He frowned and walked to the pay bank and took away a few pieces of silver.

There are stones underneath the silver.

Everyone present seemed to have no idea that there would be rocks underneath the box, and they all let out a burst of sighs.

The prefect also looked surprised.

Xie Qingbai took the opportunity to slap the gavel tree and quickly struck while the iron was hot, "What's going on? Do you want to send the stone to the army?"

"Okay, I'll tell you why you don't admit it."

"It turned out that he wanted to hide a large amount of salary and silver, and then pretended to transport some stones to the army!"

"In this way, you can get rid of the crime of secretly hiding military pay, and you can also throw the blame to the military and reap the benefits!"

This shit basin is buckled...

The prefect almost lost his temper because of him!

For a moment, he didn't say anything.

When Xie Qingbai saw that he was silent, he immediately wanted to convict him.

The prefect suddenly came to his senses and said, "No, I didn't exchange the salary money into stones. This is not salary money, no!"

Xie Qingbai pretended to be surprised, "Huh?"

The prefect quickly looked at Chu Zhaoci next to him, "Your Highness, I really want to send my salary to the army, but I didn't exchange it for stones."

Chu Zhaoci asked, "Then why is the money inside gone?"

The prefect didn't understand the deep meaning of his words. He just wanted to get rid of the crime quickly and answered without thinking.

"I don't know. I checked the money when I got it. It was all money. I didn't do this."

Then throw the blame away.

"Your Highness, I know it. It must be Xie Qingbai's people who secretly exchanged the money for stones when they moved the money. It was them!"

"Your Highness, they are the ones who really want to get paid!"

When the prefect encountered a problem, he only remembered to blame it. He never thought about whether this was a trap dug for him by Chu Zhaoci and Shao Jingheng.

Chu Zhaoci sneered coldly, "Don't I know if the wages that I and Magistrate Xie checked together were exchanged for stones?"

"Or are you suspecting that His Highness has changed the stone?"

The voice of the last sentence was extremely cold.
Chapter completed!