People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 386: Internal strife among a group of self-interested people!!
Everyone became anxious when they heard the Left Censor-in-Chief say this.

One official even smiled and pretended to be indifferent: "General Secretary, are you worrying too much? We are doing this very secretly. They are celebrating with great enthusiasm over there. How can they notice anything?"

There was also a hint of luck on the face of the Shuntian prefect.

"General, he's right. We didn't cause any big noise, so there shouldn't be any big problems."

If it were an ordinary time, the Left Censor-in-Chief would also think that this might be just a very small matter and not worth mentioning.

He might even be like other officials, always thinking that his people are doing things very carefully and it is impossible for them to be discovered.

Even smart women like Guo Feixue and Sophia.

In a short period of time, they will also be overwhelmed by the huge joy.

So they won’t even notice what they are doing now.

And the most important point is that only experienced people can see through the tricks they do.

After all, even an official like Zuodu Yushi, who had been in officialdom for so long and had actually done some shameful things, could not recognize the so-called rotten water.

If Shuntian Prefecture Governor had not been a local official and directly intervened in many local criminal cases, he would not have known about the existence of such a person as Lin Laosan.

I didn't even know that Lin Laosan could actually make these things.

But even so, they dare not take it lightly.

Maybe it was my sixth sense, or maybe I just felt that this matter was going too smoothly.

The Left Censor-in-Chief often had nightmares, and now he had just woken up from one of them.

The Left Censor-in-Chief felt that this matter was definitely not something that could be easily gotten away with.

So he called everyone over.

I expressed my doubts to them.

But I didn't expect that these officials always think the best of things.

I always feel that this matter will not be discovered so easily.

Because it is too secretive.

The Left Censor-in-Chief thought for a long time and waved his hand, "Under normal circumstances, I would never summon all of you in the middle of the night for such a small matter, but this matter is not simple.

Do you think that stone bridge is just a stone bridge?

That was the face of the Left Censor-in-Chief, and that was the stone bridge that Chen Han built for the first time in the name of the Left Censor-in-Chief.

That was the stone bridge that His Majesty personally decided to build.

The collapse not only damaged Chen Han's face, not only the face of the Left Censor-in-Chief, but also the face of His Majesty the Emperor.

With such a big honor coming, do you think this matter won't be investigated thoroughly?
Could it be possible that this investigation doesn't lead back to us?
You have to know that we have just been humiliated by those two women, Guo Feixue and Sophia.

If they follow this line and find us, I want to ask you, who among you can stand the interrogation in the Jinyiwei prison?"

When talking about the interrogation of the Embroidered Uniform Guards, everyone couldn't help but shudder.

Although the current Jinyiwei is superior to the East Factory and the West Factory.

However, their interrogation methods have been constantly updated over the past hundred years.

No matter how tough a person is, it's hard to keep their mouth shut once they become members of the Imperial Guard.

So when they thought of this, their faces turned pale.

He immediately looked at the Left Censor-in-Chief and asked, "It's impossible that this is true. We have done everything very carefully."

Especially the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, he was the one who found Lin Lao San.

That person is said to be famous in the underworld, and even his name is made up at random. Where can they check it?

"I'm afraid they'll arrest people and take away stolen goods." said the Left Censor-in-Chief.

At this moment everyone shut up.

If it was taken away on the spot, it would not be so easy to argue.

At this moment, someone immediately said involuntarily, "That's why I said early on that this matter cannot be decided so arbitrarily.

All of our lives and fortunes are tied to this man called Lin Lao San, this is really inappropriate."

"That's right. You, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, promised that using his water would make you immortal. Now it's all right, right? Even the chief governor thinks that there must be something wrong with this matter. What should we do?"

The sudden noise from this group of people confused the Left Censor-in-Chief and the Governor of Shuntian Prefecture.

Because I didn't expect that these people would turn against each other so easily.

We agreed at the time that we should all work together for this matter and not find fault with others.

But I didn't expect that once they felt something might go wrong, they would immediately start infighting.

The Left Censor-in-Chief slammed the table and shouted, "Is this the time for internal strife? Regardless of whether the person chosen by the Shuntian Prefecture Governor is qualified or not, it was decided by all of us, and no one can escape responsibility."

But some officials waved their sleeves and said, "No, I didn't agree at the time. I was originally dissatisfied with you as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture.

You have been the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture for all these years, but you have not achieved any political achievements. Instead, you have been causing trouble for us all day long.

Tell me, how many times did you ask us to go out in order to protect Lin Laosan?
Fortunately, the late emperor was only concerned about anti-pollution issues in the southeast at the time and did not take this trivial matter seriously. Otherwise, do you think the deaths of more than one hundred people could be covered up so easily?

You still keep Lin Laosan hidden away like a treasure.

Now you are using the same old trick again. Don't you know that Lin Laosan has a criminal record in the Ministry of Justice?

So what if he changed his name?
Whenever something similar is discovered, everyone will think of that big case.

That was a major event that happened only three hundred miles away from the capital. Do you think people in the world would forget it so easily?
If we check his criminal records, won't this person's whereabouts be exposed?"

When Shuntian Prefecture Governor heard the other party pointing at him, he was so angry that he slammed the table and said, "What's the point of saying this nonsense now?

When I brought it up, you didn't say a word. Did you object?

You also think that this is a very secretive thing to do.

You also know Lin Laosan's abilities.

What was the reason for the deaths of more than a hundred people back then?
Who would have thought that the Dragon Boat Festival happened to be held on that day? It hadn't been held on the river for seven or eight years, and with so many people it was easy for people to be trampled.

If there weren't so many people, it would have taken at least half a month for the stone bridge to rot according to the plan. That was a man-made problem, not a technical issue.

I explained it to you clearly, and at that time you all believed that this was possible and thought that Anyi Bridge was a coincidence.

Those who are now blaming me are no good. What were they doing before?

I told you, we are all in the same boat now, if I sink you won’t survive for long.”

By saying this, they actually solved a cold case.

It turned out that the Anyi Bridge was destroyed by Lin Laosan, who was sent by the Shuntian prefect.

He was the local prefect at that time.

However, during his tenure, a huge gap was left due to the extravagance and embezzlement of the previous prefect.

At that time, the previous emperor had just ascended the throne and trusted pragmatists like Gao Gong and Xu Jie, so he checked the accounts of the whole country.

He is not as easy to fool as Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing was devoted to practicing Taoism. He didn't care how many vacancies there were below him, as long as he had money to make elixirs.

However, after the late emperor ascended the throne, in order to demonstrate his ability in governing the country and his talent, and to show his determination to understand the people's sentiments, he ordered a thorough investigation throughout the country.

At that time, Shuntian Prefecture Yin was the local prefect. Seeing the lack of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he knew that once it was discovered, no one would care whether it was the mess left by the predecessor, but would only put the bad debt on his head.

So he came up with a bad idea. He set his eyes on a stone bridge called Anyi Bridge within the prefecture.

The stone bridge spans the Grand Canal. If it collapses, money will have to be allocated from the river channel to rebuild it.

However, building such a huge stone bridge would take at least two years and at most three or four years.

But the money allocated from the river channel can be used to fill the gap temporarily.

As for the remaining money, he would scrape it together and once he had completed this performance target, he would just walk away and leave the business to the next person.

But how to make the bridge collapse?
This is a problem.

So he found Lin Laosan through some of his staff.

Since this guy was a lazy person before, he learned this weird method by chance in a casino.

This method is mainly due to the existence of corrupt officials, which has given rise to this type of people who specialize in serving these corrupt officials.

The potion they prepared could quickly rot the stone as long as it was poured on the stone bridge of the stone building.

Although it won't collapse in an instant, the stone bridge definitely won't be able to withstand it for long.

It will collapse in half a month to a month.

So the governor of Shuntian Prefecture used this method at that time, causing the stone bridge to be corroded.

But what happened was that the surrounding villages had not held a dragon boat race for a long time.

The reason for that event was that a wealthy businessman built a villa not far away. In order to attract customers, he invested more than one thousand taels of silver.

He also offered five hundred taels of silver as a prize, attracting many people from the surrounding areas to participate in the dragon boat race.

It attracted tens of thousands of people to watch.

As a result, too many people were on the stone bridge and it collapsed instantly.

The collapse directly killed and injured more than one hundred people.

Fortunately, when we checked, we found no trace of those potions.

I guess it's all corroded and rotted into the stone.

And there are not many traces left after being washed away by rain.

Another thing that few people can think of is so weird.

I just thought that the stone bridge might not be able to bear so many people, and the sudden trampling caused the accident.

Although the Shuntian prefect was also arrested and taken to the Ministry of Justice in the capital for interrogation in this matter.

However, at that time the funding for the river was split 70% and 30% of the time, that is to say, of the one million chariots of silver allocated for the river, the governor of the river actually took 300,000 chariots for himself, and the remaining 700,000 chariots were allocated to the governor of Shuntian Prefecture.

Because He Dao himself also benefited from this bonus, he made arrangements to help the Shuntian prefect to conceal the matter.

Now the governor of Shuntian Prefecture started to be mysterious again, but he didn't expect that the people of the White Lotus Sect were just gangsters.

They often deal with all kinds of people. If an ordinary person used the method used by Lin Laosan, they might think that it was just a few old farmers digging things there and would just let it go.

But they didn't expect that it was the White Lotus Sect that was hiding there, and they were caught red-handed.

Zuo Du Yushi asked everyone to calm down, "Now is not the time to quarrel, I just have a feeling that this matter is not normal.

Lin Laosan should have replied to us at least at midnight. It's almost dawn now and there's still no news. This is too abnormal."

This is what they agreed upon.

Because Lin Laosan has to come back to get the remaining silver.

I gave you a part of the deposit before, but he doesn’t want the rest of the money?

That's five hundred taels of silver.

For ordinary people, five hundred taels of silver are enough to last a lifetime.

Such a huge sum of money, Lin Laosan is just a gangster, especially one who does such crooked things, how could he not come and take the money?
But if you don't come to get it after such a long time, there will be a problem.

So the Left Censor-in-Chief said that we should send someone to check out the situation. If Lin Laosan and the others are still there, or if we meet them on the way, then everyone will be happy and we can just wait for news.

But if not, or if the person has disappeared, we have to make plans carefully."

If a person disappears, there are two explanations.

The first possibility is that you will be caught.

It might be that Guo Feixue and Sophia were so happy that they had not forgotten to guard against them causing trouble, so they sent people to wait there and not allow anyone to cause trouble.

The second possibility is that even if Lin Laosan and his gang took the deposit, they still wanted to make donations and run away, so we would have to arrest their families.

After all, when doing something like this, they knew exactly where the people brought by Lin Laosan lived and how many people were in their family.

With the means these high-ranking officials have, it is easy to capture those people's families.

So they also felt that it couldn't be the second one.

Those people don't have that much courage.

Even Lin Laosan didn't have such courage.

All the officials finally calmed down at this time.

Then send someone out.

A total of four people were sent out.

They were all loyal servants who had followed the Left Censor-in-Chief for several years.

The Left Censor-in-Chief felt very relieved to send them there.

These four men were carrying the badges given by the Left Censor-in-Chief. Even when they encountered soldiers on curfew patrol, after they took out the badges, the soldiers did not dare to stop them when they saw that it was the badge of the Left Censor-in-Chief.

When these four men arrived at the city gate, they were quite smart and told the soldiers guarding the city directly that the Left Censor-in-Chief had sent them out of the city for urgent matters.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city did not dare to stop them and opened the door to let them out.

These people ran all the way west, carefully watching out for pedestrians along the way, but they did not see any trace of Lin Laosan and his group.

Soon we arrived at the stone bridge. We looked left and right in the moonlight but did not find any signs of damage.

Even the governor of Shuntian Prefecture warned them to smell the area to see if there was any strong pungent smell, but they didn't smell any.

Although in the first half of the night, Lin Laosan and the others opened the lid and released the smell from there.

But after a few hours of being washed by the air, it was gone.

This made the four men feel something was wrong. Just as they were about to climb onto their horses, they suddenly felt a sound of breaking wind coming from behind them.

When I turned around to see what it was, it was caught in the fishing net.

The four men were immediately caught from their horses like fish in a net.

Just as a few people were about to struggle, more than 20 people ran out from the darkness on all sides, pressed on them like toads, and then tied them up like a horse jumping upside down.

After the four men were tied up, they thought they were doomed.

Who would have thought that there was someone waiting here in the middle of the night.

And he even ran over to check the situation under the bridge on purpose. His sneaky look would make anyone think there was something wrong. Now he would be buried with those officials...

(End of this chapter)