Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 107 Clues to the Ezhou Disaster Relief Case

A cold voice came from above the black-clothed man's head, and the arrogance that had just appeared was like a popped balloon, and it suddenly deflated.

He instinctively shrank back and looked at Jiang Yizhou, trying to see something in the other's calm eyes.

But he couldn't see anything, so he could only tentatively say: "I... Actually, they were going to send us there, but then it changed. But, but I know who was going to complete the operation..."

A name came out of Liao Qi's mouth, "Ling San..."

As soon as the simple syllables entered the man's ears, his body trembled instinctively and he blurted out, "How did you..."

But he quickly changed the topic: "I don't know what you are talking about. If you let me go, I will tell you everything I know..."

He just cooperated so actively just now, just to show that he is still useful to the other party. As long as he can leave here, the world will be great...

However, before he could finish his words, he felt his vision flicker and his neck cracked.

That's right, he heard the sound of his neck being broken in an instant.

He looked unwillingly in the direction of Jiang Yizhou. What a fast skill, what...what great strength.

Liao Qi and Wei Ke were both stunned for a moment. In fact, as long as Jiang Yizhou gave them a look, they would kill this guy to avoid dirtying the master's hands.

Jiang Yizhou threw it into the stone trough and poured corpse-dissolving water on it.

She said, "I originally planned to leave one behind to tell those people about this. But since we just heard about the Ezhou disaster relief case, I can't keep him here."

Liao Qi was a little surprised. What does this have to do with disaster relief in Ezhou?

He looked at Wei Ke, who was standing nearby on guard.

This is considered a blind spot in the village, but it's hard to say how someone could suddenly break in here so late at night.

Jiang Yizhou dealt with the last man in black, and then asked Liao Qi: "From your tone just now, it seems that you know more about the disaster relief in Ezhou?"

Liao Qi frowned slightly. "I don't know much about it. When we were escaping, we happened to meet a group of people who had fled from there. It was just because there was a lot of rain that year, so it wouldn't be a big problem as long as the drainage was cleared. But the problem happened to be that the river channel that was cleaned and repaired every year collapsed, and the dam upstream was also washed away at the same time, so the two counties they connected became a swamp, and half of the land was submerged in water."

"They fled to the county town, but the county magistrate closed the city gates and refused to distribute food, so many people died. Later, it was said that Kyoto sent an official named Mr. He to force open the city gates and set up porridge stalls. The water came and went quickly, and it would have taken a month to gradually settle all the refugees. But at that time, for some reason, some people gathered among the refugees to make trouble. A large group of people took the lead in attacking the county government office, saying that the porridge was mixed with stones and that the relief grain had been embezzled. They wanted to kill the corrupt officials and so on."

"It turned out that a group of officials in the county government pushed Lord He out to calm the public anger... Those people said that the situation was very chaotic at the time. They always felt that the group of people were strong and powerful, and their purpose was very clear, that they were going after Lord He. The chaos caused dozens of casualties, and Lord He, who was in charge of disaster relief, could not escape the blame, so officials from the capital were sent to investigate..."

Jiang Yizhou took over the conversation: "Then that official also died suddenly for unknown reasons?"

Liao Qi was a little surprised. "The head of the family knows?"

Jiang Yizhou shook his head and motioned for the other party to continue.

Liao Qi: "After the official from Beijing died, several officials were sent to investigate. Not long after they arrived in Ezhou, they convicted Lord He..."

Jiang Yizhou asked, "You said before that the flood was not that serious. If they can be resettled in a month, why did those people flee?"

Liao Qi: "On the one hand, one of them knew one of the people who caused trouble and stormed the county government office. He was a manager of the Sanyin Gang in the county. He usually did some immoral and insidious things and was not a refugee. That person recognized the manager, and the manager happened to see him...so he was afraid of retaliation from the other party and had to run for his life."

"On the other hand, right after the flood, the landlords and local tyrants forced the farmers to pay taxes and rents. To put it bluntly, they took advantage of the situation to force them to sell their children and then sell their land to them..."

Jiang Yizhou: "Take the opportunity to annex land."

Liao Qi: "Yes, that's right. So they couldn't fight at all and could only flee. We met by chance that time and we got along quite well, so we talked a lot."

Jiang Yizhou exclaimed, it seems that the water in Ezhou is very deep.

In any case, it is now basically certain that Mr. He's case was a false accusation caused by collusion between the imperial court and local officials.

The two chatted for a while and then hurried back to Jiang's house.

The next day, Jiang Yizhou sent someone to invite County Magistrate He and the two Beijing officials, Lord Zhang and Lord Fu, to have dinner at the Juxiang Restaurant in the county seat of Ximin County two days later.

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After sending those people away, Zhang Cong and Fu Xian began to eat the food and drinks at Juxiang Restaurant, while chatting that the purpose of this trip was half accomplished.

However, by the time they had finished drinking and eating, it was already four o'clock in the morning, but there was still no report from the person they had sent out.

His groggy head suddenly lost all sleepiness and he paced back and forth restlessly in the small hall.

After completing the dredging and consolidation of the river channel, County Magistrate He began to apply to the higher authorities for permission to repair the official road. Then, using this as an excuse, he replaced the roads from the county seat to various towns with cement roads.

Of course, these few short months are not enough to replace all the roads with cement roads, but because of Jiang Yizhou's Yunshan Farm, the priority is to build the road from the county seat to Fusong Town.

Now the road is flat and straight, and it only takes more than an hour to get there by horse.

According to the previous agreement, they must come back and report after they succeed.

Although the Viper Gang is ruthless and demands high prices, they are very trustworthy.

As long as I have a breath, I will do my best to get things done for the financial sponsor.

This is why they are basically their personal killers now, specializing in doing those shady things for them.

Besides, it's a simple matter.

Even if they had captured two, they should have arrived long ago.

The two men waited until noon, and the five people they sent out seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Their uneasiness grew stronger.

There are only two possibilities for why the five people didn't come back: either they died or they rebelled.

Dead? They thought this possibility was small.

After all, according to the information from previous investigations, there are no masters in the farm.

Besides, there were five of them and they could enter and exit freely even a place like the county government office, let alone a small farm.

Then there is only one possibility: rebellion.

If it were anything else, they would never have thought of betrayal, but this time the cement formula involved was too tempting and the interests involved were too great.

What if those people escape with this recipe?