I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 371: Fire Dragon Burning Warehouse
While many high-ranking officials in the capital were still busy with the upcoming [-]-day banquet and couldn't stop for a moment, Hai Rui, who was in Kaifeng, Henan, did not have this trouble.

Not long after he returned to the inn where he lived from Shiqiao Village, he received an invitation from Pan Xian, governor of Henan Province, inviting him to attend a banquet at his residence at night.

After Hai Rui took the extremely exquisite invitation card decorated with gilt from the hand of the guard, he turned his gaze to the visitor, pondered for a moment, and said slowly.

"Please go back and inform your lord that I will attend the appointment on time!"

Seeing that the purpose of his trip had been achieved, the person sent by Pan Xian to send the invitation was also relieved, and then respectfully agreed.

"Yes, Mr. Imperial Envoy, I will relay your words to my lord exactly!"

After saying this sentence, the visitor didn't stay too long, and left the station without stopping.

After the visitor left, he saw Hai Rui sitting at the head, carefully playing with the invitation card in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Xiao Er on the side immediately stepped forward and asked Hai Rui.

"My lord, are you worried about something?"

Hearing this, Hai Rui came back to his senses, casually threw the invitation card in his hand on the table beside him, and said.

"I'm worried that it's a lie that they invited me to the banquet this time. It's true that they secretly manipulated and destroyed the evidence!"

When Hai Rui said this, he paused for a moment, as if he remembered something, and began to sort out the current situation in his mind.

"Now I have the confession of the former official responsible for collecting grain, and I have also found three rice companies with deep backgrounds, Huitong, Guanghui, and Ju'an."

"Finally, and most importantly, it is confirmed that the officials here are forcibly expropriating the grain from the common people. There are indeed a lot of tricks in the granary!"

Hai Rui continued to think along this line of thought, and soon, a bold conjecture gradually emerged in his mind.

"For a long time, local officials in Henan have been tampering with the grain stored in the official warehouse!"

"By secretly transporting the grain stored in the official warehouse, and then transporting the transported grain to the rice store run by his own white gloves for sale."

"And part of the money obtained from selling grain was used to bribe those high-ranking officials in the capital, so that they would turn a blind eye to it."

"With those senior officials in the capital as the background, their actions have become more and more bold."

"And this can just explain why the officials here dared to disregard the imperial court's order and expropriate a large amount of grain from the common people. This is clearly to fill the holes they have made with the rations that the common people have worked so hard for!"

After thinking about all this, Hai Rui couldn't hold back the anger in his heart. He slammed the table and cursed, "These damned insects!"

Xiao Er on the side was taken aback by Hai Rui's sudden action, but he didn't dare to make any movement, for fear of disturbing Hai Rui's thinking.

After trying to understand all this, Hai Rui brought himself into the perspective of the other party, and began to think about what strategy he should adopt if he encountered such a situation.

After a long time, Hai Rui came back to his senses, his whole body was full of energy, and he said silently with a confident look.

"This officer should have thought of it a long time ago. The simplest and most direct way is to destroy the evidence!"

Afterwards, Hai Rui came back to his senses, solemnly took out the envelope from his pocket, handed it to Xiao Er, and then ordered.

"Go and hand this letter over to Fang Qian, commander of the capital here, and he will know what to do!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Xiao Er took the envelope, and after bowing his hands to Hai Rui, he turned and left the station without stopping.

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Henan, Kaifeng government office.

After Pan Xian learned from his subordinates that Hai Rui would attend the banquet tonight as scheduled, he called Yang Yinglin and began to discuss the next countermeasures.

Pan Xian was sitting at the head, took a sip of tea from his teacup, and then turned his gaze to Yang Yinglin.

Immediately afterwards, the events of the past few days kept reappearing in Pan Xian's mind like a slide show.

Thinking of this, Pan Xian was no longer in the mood to continue discussing countermeasures, but he looked away and reprimanded him head and face.

"Look at the people you use, it's only been a few days, and people have already seen their flaws!"

"The grain in the granary has not decreased but increased, and he even made an excuse that it was taken from the mouth of the mouse. He is trying to coax the imperial envoy into a fool!"

"Besides, before the imperial envoy arrives, I will remind you to pay more attention to your actions!"

"But you, knowing that the imperial envoy has already arrived in Henan, why don't you let those officials under you restrain themselves?"

When Pan Xian said this, he didn't know whether it was because he was too excited, or for some other reason, he began to cough unceasingly, his chest heaved violently, and he looked quite embarrassed.

After taking a short break and taking a breath, Pan Xian looked at Yang Yinglin in front of him and was out of breath, and then continued.

"It's good for you. You took my official's words as a deaf ear, and you dared to commit crimes against the wind. You asked your officials to go to Shiqiao Village to forcefully collect food, and it happened to be caught by the imperial envoy. How do you want me to talk to the imperial envoy? Sir, explain?"

"Isn't this all revealing?"

Being reprimanded by this, Yang Yinglin didn't show any anger on his face, because he knew in his heart that he had an inescapable responsibility for this situation.

But despite this, Yang Yinglin still wanted to defend himself, but he organized his words in his mind and carefully explained: "My lord governor, I have explained everything you just said, but... "

Pan Xian glanced at Yang Yinglin, sneered, and interrupted impatiently: "It's just that no one cares about it, right?"

"I don't even know how you became the chief envoy. If I knew it, I would have..."

Seeing that Pan Xian still had a tendency to continue, Yang Yinglin hastily interrupted.

"Governor, no matter how much you regret it now, it won't help. Let's think about it carefully, how to get over this matter!"

Seeing this situation, Pan Xian sighed helplessly, and then said.

"Forget it, the officer has already prepared a countermeasure. If Hai Rui is still obsessed with his obsession and wants to continue the investigation, tonight, we will give him a "fire dragon burning warehouse"."

"The fire dragon burns the warehouse!"

Yang Yinglin who was on the side heard this, and suddenly got up from his seat, with an unconcealable shock on his face, he couldn't help but speak.

Pan Xian had a panoramic view of the expression on Yang Yinglin's face, a fierce expression appeared on his face, he immediately clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"Well, that's right, all the evidence was burned away with a fire, I see how this Hai Rui can continue to investigate!"

"When the time comes, all we need to do is insist that there really is a fire dragon in the sky. How can this Hai Rui do anything to us?"

After listening to Pan Xian's idea, Yang Yinglin hesitated with distressed expression on his face.

"But my lord, if this fire goes on, we will suffer heavy losses!"

After hearing Yang Yinglin's words, Pan Xian raised his eyebrows and said with disdain.

"If the money is gone, you can still earn it, but if you lose your life, what's the use of asking for so much money? Are you saving it to spend in the underworld?"

(End of this chapter)