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Chapter 335 The truth about the ink corruption case
The people sent by Li Chong fell far behind Li Shihong and his party. Seeing Li Shihong and others entered Chen's house, they looked at the leader.

The leader glanced at the Chen family, and waved his hand, "Leave one person to keep watching, and the others will go to the inn to freshen up and have something to eat, and then come back for a rotation later."

Li Shihong was welcomed in by the Chen family, and couldn't help asking, "Where is your old master Chen?"

The person who received Li Shihong was Mr. Chen Er. He explained with a smile, "Brother is not in the mansion at this time, but he has sent me a message. According to the schedule, he will probably be back tomorrow. Mr. Li will rest in the mansion first, and wait for me. After the eldest brother comes back, he will personally welcome you again."

Li Shihong nodded slightly, "Then it's time to work."

After a night, in the middle of the afternoon the next day, Li Shihong was drinking tea with the company of Mr. Chen Er, when he saw a group of people walking in from the yard, the leader was wearing a cap.

After entering the room, the man took off his cap, and Master Chen Er stood up and called out respectfully, "Brother, you are back."

Li Shihong was a little surprised. Looking at Chen Zhengxin's furtive attire, he became even more curious about what Li Yang told him to get from Chen Zhengxin.

Master Chen Er introduced to Chen Zhengxin, "Brother, this is Mr. Li from the capital."

Li Shihong bowed his hands politely to Chen Zhengxin, "I have met Mr. Chen."

Chen Zhengxin said with a cheerful smile, "Mr. Li, you are being polite. The countryside is poor and the hospitality is poor. I hope Mr. Li will not dislike you."

Li Shihong shook his head and said with a smile, "Shihong received the hospitality of the second master. He eats well and lives well. It's Shihong who came here to bother him."

The two were polite to each other. Chen Zhengxin sat on the first seat and couldn't help asking with concern, "I don't know how your Highness is doing recently? Some time ago, I heard that His Highness was assassinated by someone, and he fell off his horse. His muscles and bones were injured. It is not good to visit His Highness, I am worried."

Li Shihong sneered in his heart, if Li Yang fell directly to his death, he would still be so happy that he would not stop getting drunk, the sky really has no eyes.

On the bright side, Li Shihong said with emotion, "Your Highness is blessed and fateful, and the body of a thousand gold is no longer hindered. Master Chen's concern for His Highness will be conveyed to His Highness when Shihong returns to the capital."

Chen Zhengxin is very satisfied with Li Shihong's wit and interest. He has done so many things just to cling to the eldest prince, otherwise he would not have taken the risk back then. It's just not doing anything, not doing anything, and even the money for disaster relief is ignorant.

He looked at Li Shihong, who was young and had no official position, but made him, a fourth-rank magistrate, have to be careful to please him, and he felt aggrieved.

If he has such a good background, why does he need blood on his hands?

He was born in a farming family. Back then, the whole family lived frugally for him to study alone. He was talented and hard-working, and the sky paid off. Finally, he was admitted as a Jinshi. From then on, he enjoyed happiness, but the reality soon gave him a blow to the head.

He has no background, and he doesn't get close to big shots. Even if he is talented, he can only watch those who are not as talented as him. After three years of disbanding, he entered six departments successively, and he was sent to a remote place as a county magistrate. , I did this for six years.

Even though he wholeheartedly serves the people, and his administration of officials and people's livelihood is excellent, without the support of nobles, he can only continue to waste time in the official rank of Qipin county magistrate.

Seeing that his classmates were promoted to sixth-rank and fifth-rank officials one by one, he finally couldn't sit still.If Qingfeng can't go straight to the sky with his two sleeves dedicated to serving the people, then he will do the opposite!
He began to be greedy for ink, accepting bribes, saved a large amount of money, and secretly recruited a fourth-rank doctor in the official department. In the sixth year's big exam, he was finally transferred from the seventh-rank county magistrate to Anlu Mansion as a sixth-rank man. judgment.

He tasted how easy it is for someone in the court to handle affairs, and spent another three years, saving a large sum of money, dredging up again, after three years of big exams, this time, he was promoted to be the fifth-rank co-prefect of Ruyinfu.

But he knew very well that if he wanted to climb up again, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials could not help him much. He needed to dredge up the Minister of the Ministry of Officials or the Minister to have a chance to be a prefect or be transferred back to Beijing.

At that time, he learned from the imperial palace newspaper that the princes had all started to govern.

He felt that his eyes suddenly became clear, and he only felt that a road to the sky appeared in front of him, so why did he bother to please the officials, he went to please the princes, and with the princes to support him, wouldn't it be once and for all.

Among the four princes, he felt that no matter whether he was the first prince or the eldest prince, the position of the crown prince had to be the eldest prince, and behind the eldest prince was the Duke of Lu, so he was very optimistic about the eldest prince.

Since he can use money to clear up the officials, he can also use money to win the favor of the eldest prince. At that time, prefect Lin wrote to the court, asking the court to allocate a sum of money for the construction of embankments.

The imperial court allocated 1 taels of silver for the construction of the embankment. He volunteered to help the prefect Lin relieve his worries, and took the initiative to build the embankment.

He was very experienced in doing this kind of thing. At that time, the prefect Lin also trusted him very much. A total of 1 taels of silver was used to build the embankment, which was less than 800 taels of silver.

He collected 800 taels of silver himself, added it to the ignorant 200 taels of silver, and made up 1 taels, and sent someone to send it to the eldest prince. Excited.

He finally registered in front of the First Prince!
Just when he was smug, thinking that he would be promoted to an official rank if he gave the eldest prince a sum of money in the year of the big exam. Unexpectedly, Ruyin Mansion encountered a flood that had never happened in 20 years.

The dam only withstood the flood for less than ten breaths before it was washed away by the flood, and immediately after that, a tragedy happened on earth.

Chen Zhengxin still shudders when he thinks back to the scene of the mourning.

The Ruyin Mansion was hit by a disaster, and Zhifu Lin and others rushed to treat it, but he only had an incomprehensible panic in his heart. After the flood, Zhifu Lin and the others would definitely check the embankment, and then he would not be able to hide his tampering.

So many people died, so much fertile land was washed away, even the next year's harvest was gone, and it was devastated. If it was found out that he hadn't repaired the embankment, it would have caused this tragedy, not to mention the black hat on his head, even He couldn't keep his head off.

Just when he was in panic all day long, the court allocated 20 taels of relief money in time. At the same time, he also received news of his mother's death.

At that moment, he only felt that there is no unparalleled road!

In order to save himself, he did not stop doing anything, directly ignoring the disaster relief money, took the money and left Ruyin Mansion under the pretext of attending a funeral, then turned around and gave the disaster relief money to the First Prince, begging the First Prince to protect him.

In the end he succeeded. Thinking of this, Chen Zhengxin was very moved. Sure enough, with the blessing of noble people, this Qingyun official career will be safe. Otherwise, he would have lost his life early on like Lin Zhifu and others, and even got involved. The whole family.

(End of this chapter)