A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 503 Shameless

When Liu Jing saw Cang Shou Ling, Cang Shou Ling had been dead for a long time. His face was distorted, and it was obvious that he was in pain when he died.

"What about Wu Zuo?"

"I've sent someone to invite him. I believe he will be here soon."

"What did he eat today?"

"The normal meals are all delivered by the jailers. We have checked them just now and there is no poison in the meals. In addition, all the jailers have been summoned and are being held in separate rooms next to each other."

"Send someone to interrogate." Liu Jing said. At this time, Wu Zuo also hurried over and began to examine the body.

Liu Jing waited for about half an hour before Wu Zuo finally completed the inspection and came to report.

"Shangguan, this person died of poisoning. There were no injuries on his body before his death. There were no signs of struggle. It was not forced. He might have been poisoned secretly, or he might have committed suicide."

"In addition, the time of death of this person was two hours."

"Two hours!" Liu Jing was stunned for a moment, thought of something for a moment, and then said quickly: "Come, come and see how Cang Shouling's family is doing?"

Two hours were before Liu Jing interrogated Zhao Pei. Someone killed Shoucang Ling when he wanted to interrogate the whereabouts of the food.

Soon after about a quarter of an hour, the guard hurriedly came back and reported: "Shangguan, Cang Shou ordered the whole family to disappear!"

"Okay, okay!" Liu Jing said with an angry smile, "These people are so bold!"

Liu Jing originally thought that Handan ordered Zhao Pei to join forces with the powerful or noble people in Handan City. Now that Zhao Pei has been arrested, those people want to cut off all clues. As for the Kuramori order, there was a high probability that he committed suicide, and the condition for his suicide should be that those people promised to protect the safety of his family.

After seeing this situation, Liu Jing immediately sent people to find Cang Shouling's family, and at the same time began to investigate the nobles and powerful people in the city. It's just that as a capital official, he has limited power in Handan City. These local snakes did not openly contradict him, but began to secretly arrange various obstacles.

Liu Jing thought that there was a shortage of food in the city, and then personally went to the homes of these powerful and distinguished people to ask them to donate food.

The powerful, distinguished, and official families in the city warmly received him.

There are all kinds of delicacies on the table. Around the hall, more than a dozen musicians are playing beautiful instruments. In the center of the living room, there is a row of beautiful dancers dancing. Liu Jing is wearing plain clothes, with two guards and a child behind him.

That kid was none other than Zhang Goudan whom he saved on the road. The child had no parents, and the disaster was serious. Leaving here would be a dead end, so Liu Jing kept him by his side and became a book boy.

Zhang Goudan also has a formal name, his name is Zhang Ji.

The sound of silk and bamboo in the living room was melodious, and everyone was dressed in rich clothes. Only Liu Jing and a few people were dressed simply, even a little shabby, and looked out of place.

Liu Jing didn't pay attention to this. He asked to borrow some grain to help the victims. These people suddenly became silent, but in the end they donated several hundred shi of grain.

Then he continued to talk about the meaning of the scriptures, saying that the great sage had recently commented on the Spring and Autumn Annals, and that the great sage was giving a sermon at the forum, or talking about some Confucian and Taoist classics. Seeing those people from aristocratic families wearing silk and satin, with fair and rosy skin talking loudly, Zhang Ji felt very inferior. Looking at himself, his hands and feet were covered with calluses, cracked in many places, and his skin was dark and red. Even those people were speaking. I can't even understand the meaning.

At this moment, a burst of fragrance came, and a group of beautiful maids walked in and placed various foods in front of everyone.

Smelling the sweet smell, Zhang Ji took a sip curiously, then froze, then quickly finished the bowl of porridge, then tasted the meat soup next to it, and ate the meat soup in a few times.

After the banquet, Zhang Ji pulled Liu Jing's sleeve: "Master, Master, this porridge is delicious."

"It's sweet and glutinous, and has a milky taste. Is this sugar!?"

"So this is the candy daddy was talking about?"

"And the meat soup is really delicious. This is my first time eating it."

"If my father had taken one bite, he would have died."

"My mother would be happy if she knew that I ate sweets and meat soup. It's a pity that my brother is gone, otherwise I could have tasted it."

Liu Jing, who had just borrowed 20,000 shi of food from many nobles and powerful men, suddenly fell silent. He looked back at the tall vermilion gate. There were four lanterns hanging on the gate. There seemed to be a vague message in the closed gate. There was a burst of laughter.

Liu Jing reached out and touched Zhang Ji's little head and said with a smile: "Yes, everyone in the world will have something to eat in the future!"

After speaking, he took Zhang Ji and left with the guards. When he left, there was only a hint of determination in his eyes.

Liu Jing came from an ordinary background, just a small landowner. He relied on the support of other family members to pass the academy, and then step by step he got to where he is today. He originally wanted to rely on his strength to lead his family to become a family of officials or a noble family, so he had a good relationship with noble officials.

At the same time, he also strictly followed the procedures and never made any mistakes. But what he saw today made him feel angry and made him unhappy.

During this period, he saw too much suffering among the people and too many struggles for survival. He thought he could accept it calmly, but today he found that he still couldn't do it!

Since you can't do it, just follow your heart!

Liu Jing returned to the government office, first wrote down the situation in Handan, and then called an attendant to send the memorial back to Luoyang. After completing this, Liu Jing directly ordered the embroidered clothes envoy to invite all the nobles, powerful and official families in the city to the government office the next day, and then ordered the recruitment of county soldiers to cooperate with the three hundred feather forest guards in his hands to attack The homes of all noble, powerful and official families were searched.

Liu Jing imprisoned all the heads of noble, powerful, and official families in the government offices, and then the Yulin Guards and the Xiuyi Envoys led the Handan County soldiers into those high-ranking families and rushed directly to the granary.

At the same time, searches were conducted on the families of these distinguished, powerful, and official families. The number of victims is still increasing, and three-quarters of the 300,000 shi of food have been used. He has no time to play any more investigation games now. So we directly used this table-turning method to send troops to search these noble and powerful families.

How many of these noble and powerful families are clean? The people outside the city are starving to death, but in the city there is still singing and dancing, and wealthy families dance on the pavilions and sing on the stage every night.

The leftovers of wine and food thrown away every day can feed the poor people several times. Although there is no evidence, he knows that these people are related to the case in Handan Granary. How bold are ordinary petty officials who dare to touch the food in Changping Granary? Only they dare.

Since it's shameless, don't blame him for taking action himself.

(End of this chapter)