"Master Zhang, you don't have to be like this. You are the governor, and I am just a prince without a title."
Su Cheng was a little surprised when he saw Zhang Yuanzheng's salute.
Although the governor is also from the second rank, he is a high-ranking official in a province and is in charge of one area. He is a truly powerful person.
Compared with second-level officials like Zhao Kangyu and Qin Ming who are responsible for a specific matter, Zhang Yuanzheng has much greater power.
"Master Hou is trying to hurt Zhang at this time. Today, Zhang will definitely give justice to Master Hou."
After Zhang Yuanzheng finished speaking, he turned to look at the people around him and said with a serious face: "Everyone, I can clearly see everything that happened here just now!"
"Don't worry, I will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor let a bad person go!"
"Today, I will handle this matter personally!"
After finishing speaking, another group of soldiers and horses rushed in from the street outside. They were wearing battle armor, holding spears, and exuding an aura of iron and blood. At a glance, it was clear that they were warriors capable of hundreds of battles!
Unlike the troops under Wu Yang and Liu Changfeng, these soldiers had been on the battlefield and were not county soldiers stationed in government offices.
When Zhao Kangyu saw these people coming, his face instantly turned extremely pale. He recognized that these soldiers and horses were soldiers stationed in Linjiang City, and they had been on the battlefield!
Zhang Yuanzheng brought these people here, so naturally he couldn't let this matter go easily.
"Master Zhao, don't you want to interrogate Mr. Su? Let's go to the county government hall!"
Zhang Yuanzheng gave Zhao Kangyu a cold look and took the lead to enter the county government office.
Qin Ming chuckled lightly and made a gesture to Zhao Kangyu to come in.
Zhao Kangyu rolled his eyes. Although he didn't want to face Zhang Yuanzheng at this time, but the other party came in person, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go in.
Immediately afterwards, Su Cheng also brought Shen Youwei and Yang Yushi in.
Finally, the ten county magistrates entered.
In the lobby of the county government office, Zhang Yuanzheng looked at the surrounding environment with satisfaction, nodded slightly and said: "Master Su, as the county magistrate here, is able to make this place look like this. Seeing it is better than hearing it a hundred times."
After Zhao Chengwang's case happened, Zhang Yuanzheng began to pay attention to this small Liuhe County.
In fact, Zhang Yuanzheng did not believe what others said at first. After all, no matter how developed a small Liuhe County was, it would not be able to develop to the scale rumored.
It wasn't until Qin Ming came to report to him, and he personally came to check it out for a day, that he believed that the rumors were indeed true, and that Liuhe County was developing better than Jiangzhou City.
This grand county government is no less generous than the government government!
The grain harvested continuously outside the city indeed yields much more grain per acre than that in other counties.
Su Cheng, who was standing below, chuckled: "As an official, you naturally want to benefit the people, but this Mr. Zhao has always wanted to cause trouble for me, and he also asked Mr. Zhang to uphold justice for me!"
Su Cheng has already seen that Zhang Yuanzheng's attitude towards Zhao Kangyu is definitely looking for trouble.
It seems that the above game has already begun, and the people Zhao Kangyu has taken refuge in are powerless, otherwise Zhang Yuanzheng would not come in person.
This time, there is a high probability that Zhang Yuanzheng will be captured!
"Don't worry, Lord Marquis, I will handle Mr. Zhao's problem now!"
Speaking of Zhao Kangyu, Zhang Yuanzheng's expression changed, he turned to look at Zhao Kangyu and snorted coldly: "Master Zhao, as the chief envoy, you allow your son to disregard human life, murder the imperial officials, and even want to take action against Lord Su.
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"In addition, the matter of you keeping dead soldiers in captivity has now been found out. For such an important matter, I have decided to escort you to Beijing and hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment for processing!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone at the scene was shocked. No one thought that Zhao Kangyu would be captured so easily!
This is a second-grade official!
But only Su Cheng narrowed his eyes and realized that this matter was unusual.
If we really want to capture Zhao Kangyu, there is no need to take him to the capital for interrogation!
It seems that this must be the effort of the people behind Zhao Kangyu, who want to protect Zhao Kangyu first.
The matter of the dead soldier may be more complicated than you think!
Just as Su Cheng was deep in thought, a cold look appeared on Zhao Kangyu's cold face.
"Hmph, since Mr. Zhang wants to take me down, I naturally have nothing to say, but today I want to interrogate Su Cheng about what he did in Liuhe County during this period!"
"Master Zhang took this officer down. Master Zhang should handle this matter, right?"
Zhao Kangyu was also willing to risk everything. Even if he had been captured, he still had to take Su Cheng with him to support him.
Zhao Kangyu knew very well that Zhang Yuanzheng's appearance here meant that the people above him could only go so far, and the rest could only be done by himself.
Taking advantage of the fact that so many officials were at the scene, he wanted to take out all the incriminating evidence he had collected.
"Oh? You want to interrogate Mr. Su?"
Zhang Yuanzheng sneered: "At this time, you have not forgotten to frame the Marquis. You are really evil-minded."
"Okay, then you can tell me, what exactly did the Marquis do in Liuhe County?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Kangyu took out a piece of evidence that had been prepared and handed it over: "Master Zhang, please take a look!"
"While Su Cheng was in Liuhe County, he allowed his wife Shen Youwei to assassinate the county magistrate Liu Guoan, and also used tricks to seize the fields and people of other counties. These are the confessions of ten other county magistrates!"
Zhang Yuanzheng took the confession, glanced at it from top to bottom, and threw the confession on the table without caring.
"My lords, are your confessions sincere?" Zhang Yuanzheng stared coldly at the ten county magistrates.
These county magistrates are not fools. After hearing this, they all stood up and denied: "My lord, I was forced to say this because I had no choice but to do so!"
"Yes, sir, all this was actually Mr. Zhao's idea. He wanted to frame Mr. Su Hou."
"Yes, yes, we all said this according to Mr. Zhao's instructions. In fact, we rented out those fields. Mr. Su Hou paid us a lot of money at that time."
"That's right, even those people came to Liuhe County because of the drought and their displacement. We also want to thank Lord Marquis for taking them in, otherwise we don't know how many people would have starved to death!"
With one word from everyone and one word from me, Zhao Kangyu was sold directly.
They are not fools. Everyone knows that Zhao Kangyu is dead. If they still help Zhao Kangyu speak at this time, they will be in the same group as Zhao Kangyu and will be recognized as an accomplice!
Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Kangyu was so angry that he was shaking all over. He pointed at the officials and cursed: "You bastards, it's obviously you..."
"enough!"
Zhang Yuanzheng clapped his hand and interrupted Zhao Kangyu's words, stared at him and said coldly: "This is all a trick you directed and performed yourself!"
"Come here, take off the flower feathers on his head, take off his official uniform, and take him to the Criminal Department of the capital!"
With an order, the soldiers outside rushed in like wolves and tigers and captured Zhao Kangyu directly.
Zhao Kangyu's expression changed, and his heart suddenly became fierce. He didn't want to be taken to Kyoto like this, which would only lead to death.
"I'm not guilty. You have no right to take me down. Come on, drive them out!"
Zhao Kangyu still thought that the people in the Fantai Yamen outside him could obey his orders.
But after the words fell, no one outside responded.
Instead, Qin Ming walked in from outside the hall and said calmly: "Master Zhao, I have dismissed the people from the Fantai Yamen just now. You should be taken to the capital honestly."
After speaking, Qin Ming motioned to the soldiers on the side to take action.
Zhao Kangyu was no match for these battle-hardened soldiers, and he was quickly kidnapped and taken away by Wu Huada.
Only then did Zhang Yuanzheng smile and say: "Okay, after dealing with Zhao Kangyu, it's time to talk about you, Mr. Su Hou."