Chapter Eleven: Execution of Officials and Exemption from Superintendents (3)
"What's there to say about this?" Secretary Chen's face became more natural again, "Master Lu and I only have one thing to say: I have never killed anyone!"
Lu Deguang shook his head: "But I think what those two people said is reasonable."
Secretary Chen turned to look at the two government officials. One of them came out and faced him and said, "I have evidence." After saying that, he walked to the master's table and took out a complaint, "This is Wang Boyi's
The complaint accusing you of embezzling family property stopped halfway through writing."
"This is what I accidentally saw in the corner when I was doing the autopsy." Lu Deguang added.
"If I really killed him, why would I leave this evidence?"
"Maybe I didn't see it." Li Yong said.
"The autopsy revealed how he died?" Secretary Chen ignored him and continued to ask.
"Strangle to death." Lu Deguang took out the petition written by a widower and said.
"It's most likely that you did it," the officer said, "There's no other possibility. Since you ransacked his house, you must have been afraid that Uncle Wang would report the matter to the government, so you took the rope and went to the cell to strangle Uncle Wang to death.
, kill people to silence them..."
"Do you have any evidence for this!" Secretary Chen shouted, "How do you know the rope is mine? You said it in such detail, couldn't it be that you two killed him?"
Lu Deguang was shaken. He felt that something was not right. He glanced at Li Yong, who understood and nodded towards him.
"Yes, there is no conclusive evidence now, but the matter of Secretary Chen's unauthorized copying of family property has been confirmed. If the clerk is temporarily imprisoned in the cell, no one should protest, right?" Lu Deguang looked around, and even Secretary Chen was bored, right?
Speechless.
Because Magistrate Lu was concerned about the face of the Governor's Office at this time, he did not issue the order and sent a Yamen servant to take Secretary Chen away.
"I didn't expect that the evidence would be lost here. I didn't consider it carefully. Please forgive me, Master."
At this time, Lu Deguang had moved to the study room, and Li Yong kowtowed deeply in front of him.
"Nothing. As long as you can trick him into stealing Wang Boyi's property, the rest will be easy to handle."
Li Yong then stood up and said, "I only follow the master's idea, just like Ye Yongjia's decision to stay or go was decided by you."
Upon hearing this, Lu Deguang recalled what happened back then and couldn't help but sigh: "If you had not let me choose at the beginning and just advised me to protect the Ye family, I am afraid that today's situation would not be so difficult to deal with."
"I think everything is the same. Ye Yongjia is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He will become a disaster sooner or later."
Lu Deguang also nodded.
"Let's get back to the topic first. What does the master want to do?"
Lu Deguang was silent for a while, looking out the window with deep eyes: "I want to use this matter to write a submission to the province, and I will take advantage of the situation to get rid of Yuan Lun. I want to take full control of Chenzhou's military and political affairs."
"Then what?"
"Then he privately forges war, raises dead soldiers, relies on the self-respect of the army, and returns to the head of Guizhou. Then he raises his troops and marches eastward to the capital in the name of eliminating the Liu Party. He has no intention of government affairs. He is only called the overlord. He casts a seal and ribbon to advance and retreat.
Hundreds of officials, together with Liu Zhennian, Wan Huizhi, and Lu Langqing, balance the world." His eyes were sharp and his voice was high-pitched. These words did not sound like he was speaking with loyalty. Li Yong didn't know that he had such thoughts in his heart.
Such a huge ambition, but he didn't want it to be so. He was already planning his way out in his mind.
"Okay," Li Yong praised, "In that case, I will come up with a clever plan for Mr. Lu..."
The moonlight shone brightest in the cell. Secretary Chen was sitting in the cell, carrying a wooden shackle, trying to hide his panic and looking at the two people in front of him. But the bright clear light had already revealed his heart flatly.
Come and show it before Li Yong's eyes.
"I asked Secretary Chen to write a letter and go to the province to read Yuan Lun's letter." As soon as Li Yong looked at the prison guard beside him, the prison guard knew that he was going to repeat his old trick.
"Oh," Secretary Chen suddenly had an idea and figured it out immediately: "I'm afraid you forced Wang Boyi to write that letter."
"That's right. It's good if you know." Li Yong made no secret.
"You can't strangle me with a rope, can you?"
"Of course. If two people die in the room, it would be too suspicious."
"Then what if I don't write it!" Secretary Chen had the courage and shouted loudly.
"We can fabricate evidence." Li Yong smiled calmly, "It's not like you haven't seen it before."
"Then..." Secretary Chen's momentum was suddenly extinguished, and he looked at the two of them timidly.
"So...are you going to write or not?" the prison boss asked.
"In order to survive...I will write! Bring it here!" Clerk Chen wiped his sweat and stepped forward to ask the prison boss for paper and pen.
"Open the yoke."
The prison head pulled out the latch holding his hand, then handed over the paper and pen and asked Secretary Chen to write.
Although my hands were more flexible, I still had a shackle on my head, so I struggled to write. I managed to write a few sentences and then stopped writing.
The prison head was handed over to Li Yong for inspection. Li Yong nodded and said to Secretary Chen, "That's enough. You have a good rest."
The two of them stopped talking, turned around and left the cell. The cell leader locked the door and handed the key to the jailer next to him.
"Send someone here to write another letter to sue Yuan Lun and deliver it to the province overnight." Li Yong ordered him.
"Where is this letter from Secretary Chen?"
Li Yong smiled secretly and said, "Let the soldiers from the Governor's Office deliver it."
"What does this mean?" The prison head was puzzled.
"Let Yuan Lun lose trust in Secretary Chen and dare not come to rescue him; when the province sends an envoy to come, we can ask Secretary Chen to come out as a witness. Yuan Lun can be said to be sitting back and waiting for death."
Li Yong laughed a few times and walked out.
He handed the letter from Secretary Chen to Lu Deguang, and the magistrate immediately mobilized the soldiers from the Governor's Office and ordered him to go to the province with the letter. The prison head also sent people along the way to carry the letter and get on their horses to prevent the Governor's Office from seeing it.
, then took a long detour to Kaifeng.
The soldiers from the Governor's Office accepted the prefect's arrangement. As soon as they left the government office, they found a remote alley. Seeing no one around, they hurriedly opened the letter and read it. They were horrified and speechless. He hurriedly pulled over the horse and hurried there.
Governor's Hall.
"The person named Chen is so shameless!" Yuan Lun was furious, crumpling the letter into a ball and throwing it aside.
"I originally wanted to intercede with him, or simply kidnap him, but I didn't expect..." He hit the table with his fist, almost breaking it.
"Such ungrateful people must be dealt with!" the soldier said angrily.
"I think so. Otherwise... I will send someone to kill him in the prison!" Yuan Lun paid attention and looked at the soldier, "When is it?"
"It's dusk."
"Okay! When I send someone to the room at night, Secretary Chen's life will be gone!"
Sure enough, until nightfall, Yuan Lun called an assassin who was staying in the house. Because he thought his sword blade was too blunt, he gave him a dagger he had brought with him as a gift. The assassin saw Yuan Lun's name on the dagger.
For fear of being discovered by others, Yuan Lun said: "If you don't throw it in the prison, just kill the person and then leave, what are you afraid of!"
The assassin Fang took the dagger with him in relief, covered himself with stars and moon, and rushed to the prison. This chapter has been completed!