Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Chapter 50
Fang Ping read out one by one the money that Xia Yan embezzled and accepted bribes when he served as the magistrate of Yongchuan County, as if to blame Xia Yan for his crimes.

Xia Yan did not deny this at all, just like he did not hesitate to admit the crimes listed by Zhao Bingliang and Qian Yiqian before.

"So."

Fang Ping closed the file, with an inexplicable smile on his face.

"That is to say, in the six years since you served as the magistrate of Yongchuan County, magistrate Xia, the income from accepting bribes and punishing wealthy families in various ways has been converted into money, a total of 15 taels. Is this correct?"

Hearing this, Zhao Bingliang and Hu Yan couldn't help chuckling.

Zhao Bingliang thought to himself: "This old man looks so upright, but he never thought he would be so ruthless. It's enough to kill people, but he wants to kill his heart! Such a ruthless heart!"

In his opinion, Fang Ping checked the stolen money with Xia Yan in public, it was like flogging the corpse, it could be called murder.

Not just the two of them, but most of the judicial officials present couldn't help but smile knowingly, obviously they had similar thoughts with Zhao Bingliang.

However, they didn't notice that when Fang Ping verified the stolen money one by one and accurately stated the total amount of stolen money, Qian Yiqian frowned inexplicably.

And Lu Chen's face below also changed slightly.

He inexplicably felt something was wrong, and the source of the anxiety caused by this was the total amount of stolen money that Fang Ping had stated.

"This number... why does it sound familiar..."

Yes.

15 and two strings... He always felt that this number had a subtle sense of déjà vu.

Xia Yan didn't think much about it, but thought for a while, carefully calculated several times in his heart, and then nodded slowly.

"That's right, not a penny."

Seeing him admitting, the smile on Fang Ping's face deepened.

But in Lu Chen's eyes, he was laughing even more abnormally.

The trace of ominousness in Lu Chen's heart that came out of Ping's words before the trial was inexplicably stronger at this moment.

"Not right!"

He stared at Fang Ping's old face full of blood for some reason, as if he wanted to see something from Fang Ping's expression.

After a while, it seemed to confirm his guess.

"In that case."

Fang Ping stood up suddenly.

"Magistrate Xia, I have a doubt, and I need to ask you for advice."

Hearing this, Xia Yan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Uh, ask me?

After reacting, his face couldn't help being a little weird.

He is just a county magistrate of the seventh rank, and he is also a criminal official, wearing the body of a crime, while Fang Ping is a high-ranking official of the second rank, a veteran of the three dynasties who is famous all over the world!

Such a person actually used the condescending word "ask for advice" to him?
Shaking his head, Xia Yan didn't think much, just cupped his hands towards Fang Ping, and said: "Master Fang is serious, I dare not take it for advice, if you have any questions, just ask, I will never hide anything."

Fang Ping smiled slightly.

"It's no wonder that even at the risk of giving up your future, Lu Keshi wants to fight for you to prove your innocence. County magistrate Xia is indeed a humble, respectful and sincere gentleman..."

Hearing this, Xia Yan couldn't help but gave Lu Chen a complicated look, and then shook his head.

"Master Fang praised you absurdly. I am sorry for Lu's trust in things, and I can't afford such a high evaluation from Mr. Fang."

"No, you deserve it!"

Fang Ping said firmly.

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his hand, and then waved it.

Following his movements, a light curtain of four or five square meters suddenly appeared in the open space among the crowd.

Everyone looked at the light curtain subconsciously, but saw some simple text information displayed on it——

On the seventh day of April in the first year of Shenghe...Chen Yuan, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, received 4000 taels of silver from Xia Yantan, magistrate of Yongchuan County, which is equivalent to [-] guan of silver...

On June 23rd of the first year of Shenghe... Lu Fang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, ordered Xia Yan, magistrate of Yongchuan County, to pay 5000 taels of silver, a pair of jade Ruyi, and a piece of spirit pill, which is equivalent to about [-] taels of silver...

The eighth day of the first month of the second year of Shenghe
……

"Huh? This is..."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted.

"The ledger found in the demon queen's bedroom?"

A censor opened his mouth and said with some uncertainty.

These words immediately reminded everyone.

Isn't the time, place, person, treasure, converted money and other information mentioned above the details of Xia Yan's bribery in the ledger found in the demon queen's bedroom?

Many of the people present had seen the account book that served as a reminder for many of the Queen Mother's henchmen, and Zhao Bingliang and Qian Yiqian, as ministers of the Dali Temple and ministers of the Ministry of Punishment, were naturally no strangers to that account book.

Lu Chen is the court official who supervised the handling of this case, and he has read the transcript of this ledger many times, and he is very familiar with the above record about Xia Yan.

These records also made Xia Yan the inmate of many of the Queen Mother's henchmen who were once proud of their careers but were thrown into the prison at this time.

Looking at the familiar messages above, Lu Chen didn't feel anything at first, but the more he looked down, the more he felt something was wrong.

At the same time, the uneasiness deep in my heart began to grow stronger.

At this time, Qian Yiqian's face suddenly changed.

"This... Could it be that..."

A look of disbelief gradually appeared on his face.

Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on the light curtain, Fang Ping walked slowly towards Xia Yan with his hands behind his back.

While pacing, he stimulated the spiritual power in his body.

"Magistrate Xia."

He stared at Xia Yan with piercing eyes, and said word by word: "Please explain, why the total amount of stolen money you bribed to the corrupt and greedy demon queen's henchmen, and the total amount of illegal income you received through bribery and plundering?" , will it be basically the same?"

The moment the voice fell, on the light curtain, at the bottom of all the stolen money details, a line of text suddenly appeared:
Total stolen money: 15 two guan!
It is actually almost the same as the total amount of stolen money checked by Xia Yan and Fang Ping just now, and it is even two hundred guan more than Xia Yan's embezzled income in the past few years!
Is this normal?

Obviously very abnormal!

Just as Fang Ping asked this question, except for Qian Yiqian and a few censor officials, everyone else looked confused almost at the same time.

"The stolen money from bribery and bribery is basically the same. Basically the same. Basically the same."

Lu Chen repeated it for a while, then his eyes widened suddenly.

"Fuck!!"

He is not stupid, and he has fully reacted at this time.

'Nimma!The money for taking bribes is less than the money for giving bribes, even a fool would not do such a loss-making business, right?What kind of corrupt official is the fucking official who can do this? ! '

Thinking of this, Lu Chen only felt that his extremely powerful heart was trampled by ten thousand grass mud horses in an instant.

My heart started to ache again.

'I'm backstabbed again? ! '

At the same time, Qian Yiqian looked at Lu Chen with an ugly expression, a haze flashed quietly in his eyes, while Zhao Bingliang clenched his fists violently.

The faces of both of them were not very good-looking.

Puff.
Only a soft sound was heard, but after Hu Yan realized it, his body became unsteady and he fell to the ground directly.

At this moment, how could he still have the confidence he had before?

His face was extremely pale, and there was an indescribable fear in his eyes looking at Xia Yan.

Finished!

(End of this chapter)