Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 212
Jia Rui looked at this confession and felt heavy in his heart. Fortunately, he discovered it early. Fortunately, Gansu had just gone through war and had a large army stationed there, so these people did not dare to make too much trouble.

If in another year or two, Gansu is completely calm, who knows how courageous these officials will be?

At the same time, he became more wary of the emperor, who would sneak in whenever there was an opportunity.

No wonder he has been able to compete with the Supreme Emperor for so many years. He is really capable and capable, and he can even recruit his own people from the Supreme Emperor's subordinates.

Next, Jia Rui imprisoned these people one by one.

However, a province as big as Gansu would probably fall into chaos without these officials. Therefore, Jia Rui had to mobilize chief clerks and other documents from the army and let them temporarily act as officials to maintain the operation of Gansu.

In addition, Jia Rui also sent a large army to arrest officials in one state or county. All officials involved in corruption this time were all sent to prison.

After that, Jia Rui began to promote new people on a large scale. Those deputies in various states and counties or unsuccessful petty officials, as long as they were not involved in this major corruption case, were all promoted by Jia Rui.

This allowed Gansu to stabilize and prevent it from falling into chaos due to the arrest of all officials in the province.

Of course, most of the people promoted this time were those who were close to Jia Rui, and many lower-level officials were replaced by civilian personnel from Jia Rui's army.

After seven or eight days like this, Jia Rui finally reluctantly asked Gansu to change officials.

At this point, the entire Gansu, whether military or government affairs, was under Jia Rui's control.

Only now did Jia Rui have time to go to the military camp and meet Qian Cheng, the governor of Gansu, again.

Qian Cheng's life has been very bad these days. Although he was not cut off from food and drink in the military camp, his spirit was tortured every moment. The psychological pressure made Qian Cheng's hair turn white. Half done.

He also thought about committing suicide several times, but there were soldiers watching around him at all times, so he had no chance to commit suicide.

In the midst of this suffering, Qian Cheng thought he was going crazy. Suddenly the tent curtain was lifted, and then a person walked in.

Qian Cheng looked through the sunlight coming in from the outside and found out that it was no one else but his enemy Jia Rui.

Seeing Jia Rui come in, Qian Cheng's heart sank. Jia Rui had not seen him these days. He should be arranging external matters. Now that he is here, it should be matters in Gansu Province. He has arranged everything properly, so he can take it easy. Come in.

"How are you doing these days, Mr. Qian?"

Qian Cheng sighed, lowered his head and said nothing more.

Jia Rui walked over, and a soldier behind him immediately placed a mazaar and lit a candle in the tent.

Jia Rui sat on the maza and looked at Qian Cheng sitting cross-legged in the haystack.

"What do you think? Expose your boss behind the scenes? I'll give you a good word in front of the Supreme Emperor and protect your life. What do you think?"

Qian Cheng glanced at Jia Rui and smiled coldly, "It's just death, why should I be afraid?"

Jia Rui seemed to have expected Qian Cheng's appearance, so he was not disappointed and just said lightly:
"You are not afraid of death, but where are your family, where are your wife and children? Where are your parents and elders?"

Qian Cheng still replied in his cold voice: "Even I have reached this point, who can care about them? They are also unlucky!"

Qian Cheng in front of him was like a ruthless white-eyed wolf, as if he didn't care at all about the life and death of his family.

At this moment, Zhou Lang walked in hurriedly, "Sir, everything you want is here."

As he said that, he handed over an account book.

Jia Rui took over and flipped through the pages. The entire account fell into silence, except for the sound of Jia Rui flipping through the account books.

After half an hour, the entire account book was read by Jia Rui.

Jia Rui then raised his head and said to Qian Cheng: "Master Qian is very frugal. He has only spent more than 300 taels of silver in more than a year. In total, he is really thrifty and self-sufficient."

Then Jia Rui threw the account book to the ground, "Then I have to ask Mr. Qian a question, where did all the money you were greedy for go?"

Qian Cheng still sat in the hay with his head lowered and did not answer Jia Rui's words.

Jia Rui was a little annoyed when he saw Qian Cheng missing Youyan. Did this guy really think he was made of iron?

It turns out that the reason why Jia Rui came to see Qian Cheng so well prepared was because he wanted to break through Qian Cheng's psychological defense and get him to reveal the emperor behind the scenes.

Jia Rui and the emperor were already mortal enemies. At the same time, Jia Rui already knew that as long as the emperor died, the emperor would be the first to deal with him, so Jia Rui thought of taking action first and letting the emperor depose the emperor.

When the time comes, I will do my best to say something nice in front of the Supreme Emperor and make a young prince the emperor.

In this way, can he guarantee his wealth and glory for decades?

It's a pity that the Qian Cheng in front of him is like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard.

Since you don't know good from evil, don't blame me for using severe punishment.

"Drag him into the yard and give him a hundred lashes."

Following Jia Rui's words, two soldiers came in from outside the tent, dragged Qian Cheng out, and tied him to a wooden stake on the teaching ground.

Jia Rui led Zhou Lang to Qing Qing: "How do you say it or not?" Qian Cheng raised his head slightly and glanced at Jia Rui, then lowered his head again.

Jia Rui shook his head and stepped aside.

At this time, Zhou Lang reached out to the side, and a soldier immediately put a horse whip into Zhou Lang's hand.

Then, Zhou Lang began to use all his strength to beat Qian Cheng.

Zhou Lang was very strong. With just two or three strokes of his strength, Qian Cheng's skin was torn apart. At first, he could hold on, but after three or four strokes, he couldn't hold on any longer and started shouting loudly.

Although Qian Cheng's screams reached the sky, no one in the military camp looked at him.

By the time the hundred whips were used, Qian Cheng was almost out of breath.

However, Jia Rui was not worried about this. He took out a pill from his arms and threw it to Zhou Lang in the distance.

"Give him the medicine."

Zhou Lang didn't dare to neglect and immediately stuffed the pill into Qian Cheng's mouth.

The pill turned into a stream of heat as soon as it entered his mouth, fell from his throat into Qian Cheng's dantian, and then turned into a stream of heat from his dantian and traveled up and down his body.

Qian Cheng, who was about to die, was stimulated by the heat and immediately recovered.

Jia Rui stood up and walked to Qian Cheng's side again, grabbing his hair with his hands and raising his head a little.

"How's it going? This is just an appetizer. You'll suffer from it later. It's not too late to recruit now."

Qian Cheng looked at Jia Rui with hidden eyes, and a smile appeared on his lips: "I'll wait for you in hell."

After he said this, he bit the base of his tongue hard, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth.

Jia Rui was startled by him, but he quickly reacted and pinched his mouth with his hands.

But it was too late, blood kept pouring out.

Jia Rui frowned. He didn't expect that this guy was so courageous that he dared to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

However, Jia Rui didn't care at all about the suicide method of biting his tongue.

I don’t know who said in ancient times that biting the tongue can commit suicide. You must know that Jia Rui came from modern civilization. Modern civilization has already demonstrated this method of suicide, and it is simply impossible for people to die.

The truth is that the tongue is densely covered with nerves and a small number of capillaries, and is quite sensitive, so even the slightest pain will make people feel excruciating.However, there are no large blood vessels on the tongue, so even if the entire tongue is cut off or bitten off, the blood loss will be the same as cutting off a finger at most, and it will not lead to death.

The real cause of death was suffocation.The severe pain when biting the tongue will cause the remaining tongue to pull back as much as possible, which will block the entire trachea and prevent normal breathing, leading to death.

In ancient times, some prisoners in prison did not know the reason for biting their tongues and tried to commit suicide.When the guards found out, they simply pulled out the prisoners' tongues, and the prisoners came back to life.Therefore, the prisoners lose their tongues and get pain in vain by doing this, and the gain outweighs the loss.

At this time, Jia Rui also stretched out his hand and directly entered the other person's mouth. With his little finger, he pulled out half of Qian Cheng's tongue.

Then Jia Rui looked at Qian Cheng who was still bleeding with a smile on his face, "You want to die? It's not that easy. If you don't recruit the people behind the scenes, I will let you try all kinds of torture."

At this time, Qian Cheng was also desperate, because he felt that the heat on his Dantian had not disappeared, and the half of his tongue that had been bleeding just now was pouring into his mouth. The bleeding seemed to have stopped now.

"Go to the Yamen and find a torture expert. It seems we have to have some fun with Master Qian. Zhou Lang, you can keep an eye on him until he does it."

After saying that, Jia Rui waved his sleeves and left.

In the next two or three days, Jia Rui did not pay attention to Qian Cheng's affairs. His attention was now focused on the money of these corrupt officials.

There will be almost no official in Gansu Province who is not corrupt. Although he has just been in office for a short time, so there are not many, but there are so many people!

This is an astronomical figure if calculated.

However, no matter how much money there is, it will not fall into Jia Rui's pocket.

Because the imperial court had rules for officials who searched their homes, everything they copied would be recorded in detail.

Jia Rui was able to do some tricks, but the gains outweighed the losses.

So how does Jia Rui make money?
In fact, Jia Rui didn't need to think about it. The family members of those officials were like flies seeing carrion, and they kept coming to Jia Rui's side.

From day to night, Jia Rui had to meet with more than 20 waves of family members of officials who came to give gifts.

For these people, Jia Rui would not refuse anyone who came. If he gave more money, Jia Rui would be merciful and let them go, but he could no longer be an official.

If the money sent is less, Jia Rui will also reduce his crime in the memorial.

If he didn't give money to Jia Rui, he wouldn't be jealous and would just report it truthfully.

(End of this chapter)