Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 110 The Heaviest Power

Zhang Yi was secretly locked up in a private house near the county school. He didn't sleep all night last night, his eyes were red and his heart was full of despair.

Lu Yougen questioned him until midnight last night. Apart from admitting that he would charge students during the holidays, he denied any other accusations.

He firmly denied what magistrate Gao wanted, and now he was counting on the magistrate Yang Han to save him.

At this time, the door 'crashed! With a sound, Lu Yougen, the head of the capital, walked in.

He glanced at Zhang Yi with a half-smile, "Did Professor Zhang sleep well last night?"

Zhang Yi snorted and ignored him.

Lu Yougen sat down and said calmly: "Magistrate Gao visited your county school dormitory today, the scenery behind the bookshelves in your room is pretty good!"

Zhang Yi's face changed drastically, his voice changed, and he shouted: "You can't just enter my room, I'm not a criminal?"

"Then explain to me, what happened to your box of gold?"

Zhang Yi screamed and rushed forward. Lu Yougen lifted his foot, and the foot pressed against his small chest. With a slight push, Zhang Yi staggered, took a few steps back, and sat down on the ground.

He was anxious and hated, not knowing what to do, so he simply lay on the ground and began to cry, his legs kicking wildly in the air.

"You kill me! I'm not alive!"

Lu Yougen squatted in front of him and said coldly: "So far, there have been 150 letters accusing you, and we have found gold again, with all the witnesses and material evidence. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, your crime must be punished with one hundred rods, and you will be exiled to Qiongzhou." , but County Magistrate Gao thinks you are a scholar, and if he wants to give you a chance, it depends on whether you can win it yourself."

Zhang Yi sat up and shouted loudly, "Give me back the gold, I'll say anything!"

"You are really stupid. The gold is stolen money. How could I return it to you? Let me tell you the truth, I found three letters under your box. In fact, the county magistrate Gao doesn't need your statement anymore, but he pity you , give you a chance."

Lu Yougen said coldly again: "You are a smart person. As long as the county magistrate and the county magistrate reach a compromise, you will be responsible for all the blame. Only by writing a letter of exposure can the county magistrate have a reason to punish you lightly."

Zhang Yi was completely terrified. He thought that Yang Han believed that he had killed his nephew, and he would definitely let him take the blame, and he would never forgive himself lightly.

He simply went all out, "Okay! I'll write it, I'll just write it!"

Lu Yougen was overjoyed and ordered someone to bring a pen and paper. Zhang Yi immediately wrote a letter of indictment exposing the county magistrate Yang Han for accepting bribes from him, and signed it.

This indictment, combined with the three letters from Yang Han, formed a complete chain of evidence, and it was difficult for Yang Han to stand up.

Lu Yougen looked at the indictment, gave Zhang Yi a strange look, shook his head and said, "You are generous in giving gifts. You only made eight thousand coins, but you gave ten thousand coins in gifts."

"What did you say?" Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment.

"We only found fifty catties of gold in your room, isn't that eight thousand coins?"

Zhang Yi was stunned like a lightning strike, Lu Yougen ignored him, and hurried to the county government office to deal with business.

The door slammed shut, and the outside was locked with chains.

Zhang Yi suddenly rushed forward, grabbed the wooden fence on the window and shook it desperately, and shouted in the direction of the county government, "Gao Fei, you are the most greedy and unscrupulous person in the world."

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Gao Fei, the magistrate of the county, intervened in the affairs of the county school, and Yang Han, the magistrate of the county, only got the news yesterday afternoon.

At that time, Zhang Yi had already been transferred away, so he was secretly detained.

Yang Han couldn't care about his nephew at this time, and Gao Fei's sneak attack caught him off guard. On the one hand, he searched everywhere for Zhang Yi's whereabouts, and on the other hand, he sent someone to inform Zhang Yi's elder brother.

Zhang Yi's elder brother is the teacher of the government school. Yang Han hopes to use his hand to put pressure on Gao Fei to release Zhang Yi. Unexpectedly, from yesterday to now, Zhang Yi's elder brother has remained silent.

Yang Han went to visit Captain Ma last night. Unexpectedly, his wife told him that the captain had gone to Taihu Lake for business, and he couldn't come back for two days. Obviously, he avoided it deliberately.

Yang Han almost didn't sleep last night, he was so overwhelmed by this incident, he couldn't figure it out, Gao Fei, who had been doing nothing all this time, suddenly became powerful?
Of course, Yang Han didn't think that this was the result of Fan Ning and other three young county students watching the case.

They may be child prodigies, smarter, precocious, and knowledgeable than children of the same age.

But if it is said that a county magistrate needs a few young children to guide even the power struggle, he would not believe it if he killed Yang Han.

Yang Han felt that something happened to his nephew, which made Gao Fei, who had been keeping quiet all this time, seize the opportunity. Just like Gao Fei himself said, he had already received a letter of complaint from his parents.

After much deliberation, there is only this reason.

Gao Fei lay aside like a poisonous snake, pretending to be inactive to paralyze himself, but he waited for the opportunity to move, and when the opportunity came, he pierced his heart with a sword.

Yang Han lamented that Gao Fei was much stronger than the former county magistrate Li Yun. Li Yun was only relying on his strong backer.

At this time, Yang Han was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, walking around the official room with his hands behind his back.

"Have you searched all over?"

Yang Han shouted at several of his subordinates: "Could it be that he can fly into the sky?"

Several of the subordinates looked distressed, "Qi Xiancheng, Wu County is too big, we only have a few people, we can't find them at all."

It is true that Yang Han had very few subordinates. Gao Fei pulled Lu Yougen over, and most of the yamen servants were controlled by Gao Fei. There were only three or four yamen servants left in the county government office, and the other yamen servants were sent out by Lu Yougen for various reasons.

Yang Han sighed, if he knew that he shouldn't be afraid of offending County Captain Ma, it would be nice to win Lu Yougen into his confidant first.

At this moment, a heavy cough came from outside, and then came the voice of the county magistrate Gao Fei, "Is Yang Xiancheng free?"

Yang Han was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile, "Why is Magistrate Gao here?"

Gao Fei chuckled, "I just have nothing to do, so I came to talk to the county magistrate!"

Of course, Yang Han knew that the high-flying visitor was not kind, and he was clearly showing his cards against him, where he was idle and having nothing to do.

Yang Han suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. It is very likely that Gao Fei already has evidence against him.

At this moment, he had no choice but to laugh dryly, "The county lord seldom comes to my side, rare visitor! Please come here!"

Yang Han invited Gao Fei to sit down in the living room, and ordered someone to serve tea.

"How is nephew Ling?" Gao Fei asked with concern.

"Thank you for the county lord's concern. I am asking for a famous doctor. I heard that there is a doctor named Fan in Mudu Town who is famous for his bone healing. I have already sent someone to invite him."

"Does the murderer have clues?" Gao Fei asked again.

Yang Han shook his head and said with a wry smile: "But seeing that the Pingjiang Mansion only focused on Wu County to conduct investigations, but did not investigate Changzhou County at all, I knew that their investigation was just a formality, and sooner or later they would have to be handed over to us, but I have already vaguely guessed Who did it."

"Who is it?" Gao Fei asked quickly.

"It's a person that the county lord can't think of, and it's my nephew's teacher Zhang Yi."

Gao Fei was taken aback, "How could it be him?"

Yang Han said coldly: "This person is despicable and vicious, and he will do anything for his superiors. He wanted to be an instructor, so he injured my nephew and blamed Zhao Xiuwen."

"Does the county magistrate have evidence?"

Yang Han shook his head, "If there is evidence, I would have never let him go."

Gao Fei didn't think so, Yang Han was deliberately disassociated from Zhang Yi!
It is too naive to think that a few bad words about Zhang Yi can make his subordinates show mercy.

Gao Fei took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "In the past two days, I have been investigating some parents of students in the county school complaining about Zhang Yifeng selling the county school places.

The results of the investigation can be described as shocking. Gufeng Academy has become a place of dirty dealings. Eighty or ninety students who can't even recite "The Analects" and "Mencius" spend their days in the county school openly, giving Zhang Yi ten times a year. For five pennies, he will become his disciple.

There are also many audit students who bribed Zhang Yi ranging from tens to hundreds of bribes in order to get a place in the county school, which has become an open fact.

For so many years, he has been unscrupulously collecting money to sell his school, severely disrupting the order of the county school, but he has never been investigated and dealt with, which is heartbreaking and puzzling. "

Yang Han couldn't hold back anymore, "The lower officials are responsible for this matter. The lower officials were deceived by his false appearance, which caused the county school to lose order. The lower officials will definitely reflect on this matter."

Gao Fei took out Zhang Yi's statement and handed it to Yang Han, "Maybe Yang Xiancheng might as well take a look."

Yang Han took it and looked it over in a hurry, his face suddenly turned into a liver color, and he slapped the confession on the table hard.

"It's nonsense. When did I accept his money? He just agreed to help my nephew enter the government school, that's all. The county lord won't really believe this mad dog that bites people!"

Gao Fei glanced at Yang Han with a half-smile, and said calmly: "When I searched Zhang Yi's room, I found three letters, which were actually written by the county magistrate, and the contents of the letters are unbelievable.

However, I suspect that Zhang Yi forged the letter, pretending to be the handwriting of the county magistrate. I don’t know if the magistrate has any impression. Two letters were written five years ago, and one was written last year? "

Yang Han suddenly poured down his head like a basin of ice water, and his whole body was piercingly cold. He remembered that when he was away on business, he wrote several letters to Zhang Yi, asking him to give him at least half of the quota money.

And the letter I wrote last year was to introduce five students to Zhang Yi and ask him to arrange to enter the county school. Although this letter did not involve money, as long as I checked it, my old background would be exposed. Of these five students, he The benefit of receiving five hundred guan.

Yang Han was flustered and flustered, and said in a trembling voice: "It must be a fake, I have never written such a letter."

Gao Fei feigned a long sigh of relief. It would be great if this is the case, and I can safely report it to the court and ask the censor to come down to investigate.

Yang Han was stunned.

After a while, he let out a long sigh in his heart, it seemed that he would die if he didn't pay the price.

"Actually, I very much support County Magistrate Gao's coming to Wu County to preside over government affairs. Originally, some important duties in the county government needed to be adjusted, but County Magistrate Gao has been very busy. Why don't we use this time today to communicate."

Now that Yang Han has given in, Gao Fei is no longer polite.

He chuckled, "The specific government affairs are the county magistrate's business, how can I just intervene casually, how about this! I will recommend a prefect who is in charge of household registration and housing later, and I will not ask about other matters."

Yang Han was stunned, Gao Fei actually wanted to be in charge of the security guard of the household registration house?
Generally, there are three escorts in the county government. They hold real power and are the highest-ranking civil servants in the county government, equivalent to assistants to the county magistrate.

One of the three prefects is in charge of civil litigation cases, and this is the county magistrate's assistant.

One person is in charge of land tax registration, this is the assistant of the county magistrate, responsible for supervising taxation.

Since the land rent and taxes are directly handed over to the various transshipment envoys, the county is not allowed to act rashly, no matter how much tax is collected, it has nothing to do with the county, and then the imperial court allocates operating funds and personnel salaries to the counties according to the budget.

The monopoly income of all kinds of wine, tea, salt, sugar and spices has nothing to do with the county, and is collected by specialized agencies set up by the imperial court in various places.

The No. 3 Yasi has become extremely important and has important practical interests. It is responsible for managing household registration houses and other miscellaneous affairs.

We must know that each county has a large number of official land and public housing, and the rent obtained from the lease of this piece of land and housing is the largest additional income in each county.

It can also be regarded as the tacit consent of the imperial court to supplement office funds for the local government.

It is the small treasury of the Wuxian county government.

Gao Fei asked for this position by name, in fact, he took the financial power of the county government in his own hands, and in addition, he had already mastered the 'military power' controlled by the capital.

In this way, Gao Fei controlled the two most important real powers of the county government in his own hands.

Gao Fei saw that Yang Han didn't answer for a long time, so he said lightly: "If the county magistrate feels embarrassed, forget it."

Yang Han didn't have any choice, he held the handle in Gao Fei's hands!
In desperation, he had no choice but to nod, "Okay! I will wait for the candidate recommended by the magistrate Gao."

Yang Han finally compromised, Gao Fei picked up Zhang Yi's statement from the table, and tore it up.

He smiled slightly: "I believe I will have a happy cooperation with Yang Xiancheng!"

(End of this chapter)