The princess is beautiful and Ziye

Chapter 96
Wang Rongyue suddenly realized something, stopped, and said to Xie Tinglan nervously: "Sister, don't worry, I won't stay in the Qingzhou mansion forever, trouble Uncle Wei and Aunt Wei... wait until I get married next year , after getting back what belongs to my father, I will leave."

Xie Tinglan laughed softly, and replied: "I will only stay in Qingzhou for a month. When the affairs of the court are over and my uncle and aunt are safe, I will go back to Beijing. It is your uncle and aunt who allow you to stay. , Uncle and Lord Wang are close friends, and he will definitely not abandon his orphan daughter, so you can just stay here with peace of mind."

Wang Rongyue let out a long breath of relief.

The two walked in the garden for half an hour. Wang Rongyue and Xie Tinglan hit it off, and they chatted very speculatively. Wang Rongyue even asked her to go to Qingzhou for a trip another day.

It was almost noon before we left at the moon gate of the garden.

"Miss Wang is really a poor person." Yuxiu supported Xie Tinglan's arm and looked at the direction Wang Rongyue left with emotion.

Xie Tinglan's expression was dull, "Let's go."

Yuxiu followed Xie Tinglan through the hanging flower gate of the back house, and looked in the direction that Xie Tinglan was going to Wei Pingsheng's study.

Outside the door of the study, the butler happened to be here, and when he saw someone, he hurriedly greeted him, "Hello, Miss Cousin."

"Uncle Zhang." Xie Tinglan smiled at him and said, "I want to come to my uncle's study and pick some books to relieve my boredom. Is uncle there?"

"Hey, it's unfortunate that Miss Biao is here. The master will go out every day at this time." After the housekeeper finished speaking, the topic changed.

"Miss Biao, if you want to pick up books, just go in. When the master comes back, the old slave will tell the master."

Xie Tinglan was originally from his own family, and besides, it was just picking a few books, and the housekeeper wouldn't stop people from entering.

"Then trouble the housekeeper." Xie Tinglan lifted her skirt and walked up the stone steps to the porch. Before entering the door, she secretly gave Yuxiu a wink.

Yuxiu understood, after Xie Tinglan entered the room, she immediately made up a reason to lure the housekeeper away.

After confirming that there was no one outside the house from the window, Xie Tinglan headed straight for the back room of the study.

The back room is very simple, except for an arhat bed for people to rest on, there is only a small desk in the center, on which countless files are stacked.

Xie Tinglan went up to rummage, and only found the general process of the enclosure case, with Wei Pingsheng's own notes on it.

In addition, there was another ordinary-looking box, carefully placed in a corner under the case, Xie Tinglan only saw it when he half-kneeled on the ground.

When she pulled it out, she found that the box had a lock on it.

It was roughly the same as her guess. After all, the Qingzhou government just recruited thieves not long ago, and it is very likely that the mastermind behind the scenes destroyed the evidence. Wei Pingsheng must have hidden all the important clues about the enclosure case.

Xie Tinglan put the box back to its original place, picked up the papers that Wei Pingsheng had drawn and annotated on, and sat aside to read them carefully.

She knew very little about the land enclosure case. After all, she only knew in her previous life that the real culprit was finally found out to be General Zhen Guo, but she had great doubts about the truth.

From the few pieces of paper in front of him, Xie Tinglan knew the general history of the enclosure case, as well as the progress of the case so far.

Last August, the emperor learned from the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who secretly visited Qingzhou that there was civil unrest in Qingzhou.

The officials tried their best to investigate secretly, but they only knew that after Qingzhou experienced a major earthquake last year, the imperial court originally ordered tax cuts and asked the people to recuperate.

However, this decree transferred several officials to the highest official of Qingzhou Prefecture. In the hands of the prefect of Qingzhou, the tax reduction turned into a tax increase. In the prefect of Qingzhou, except for the people who are miserable, the rest of the people are living happily and making money.

The fields were occupied, more and more people were displaced, and starved to death on the streets. Unrest occurred frequently, but they were all secretly suppressed by local officials and generals.

This kind of evil continued for three full months. It wasn't until August that the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who left Beijing to secretly visit the emperor concealed their identities and came to Qingzhou. They didn't know that Qingzhou was in chaos.

The emperor Longyan was furious. This situation can no longer allow people to act in secret. The people in Qingzhou have been exploited and oppressed, and the emperor's popularity in Qingzhou has been greatly defeated. The prefect of Qingzhou colluded secretly, enclosing land for personal gain.

Immediately afterwards, the crown prince and imperial envoy Wang Jian went to Qingzhou to investigate the case. At that time, the former prefect of Qingzhou had been detained by the imperial court. The magistrate happened to be assassinated under the crown prince's nose.

At the same time, Wang Jian, the imperial envoy who investigated another line, found out that the military officer who suppressed the unrest together with the prefect of Qingzhou at that time was Ma Wenming, the commander of the Qingzhou capital, and this person was a member of the princeling party. Wang Jian immediately became suspicious. Prince.

Afterwards, Wang Jian was inexplicably killed, and Wei Pingsheng, the new prefect of Qingzhou, found his autographed blood book in a secret compartment in Wang Jian's room. He kept it secret and secretly sent it to the capital.

(End of this chapter)