Lord, your mask fell off

Chapter 245 How to make people not feel distressed

To Chu Qingyan, this month was like a century, but when she looked back, she felt that the time was rushing, and the things she had experienced were vivid in her memory.

The group of them came out of Yangxia County and entered Zhixian County. They happened to meet the son of the magistrate of Zhixian County who was bullying men and women on the street. Zhi County's political achievements in recent years have been dug up and looked at, and many incidents of inhumane officials have been found out. The magistrate of Zhi County was suspended for investigation that day.

They stayed in Zhixian County for two days, and the imperial envoy from Jingdu who came from Pingyang City came over overnight to take over the investigation of the Zhixian county magistrate.

After leaving Zhixian County, it is Zhize County.

The magistrate of Zhize County, I heard that he is a diligent official who loves the people and has a clean sleeve, but there is a well-known bully in the county. It is rumored that this bully has someone in Kyoto, and he is rampant on weekdays. Even the magistrate of Zhize County has nothing to do with him.Because every time it was communicated to higher officials, it would be suppressed with various reasons. Over time, the county magistrate could only turn a blind eye to him.

As soon as they arrived in Zhize County, Xiao Xu directly identified himself as the magistrate of Zhize County, sorted out all the cases committed by the bully, and then wrote a letter to the imperial envoy in Kyoto.

Within two days, the bully was arrested and brought to justice, and even the official who he claimed to be someone from the capital was followed along, and an old wrong case was uncovered, which once again implicated three or four court officials.

A group of people went out of Zhize and then entered Liuxiang City, which is a town rich in flowers, and people can already smell the fragrance when they are still outside the city.This place is also the main origin of spice supply in the palace.However, Chu Qingyan discovered that the gap between rich and poor is extremely obvious in towns that should have been rich due to the supply of spices.

In Liuxiang City, there is a family of spices, the Liu family. They mainly provide various precious spices to the harem, but the source of these spices is that they buy spices from the surrounding Shannon at a cheap price, and then process them and send them to the palace.They used to squeeze and make the poor poorer and they richer.

But the supply of spices in the palace is not fixed, it needs to be selected every year, and the person who wins the first place is qualified to supply. After all, the people who use spices are the most noble people in Xixuan Kingdom, such as the queen, concubine concubine, princess, etc.

So every year, the eunuchs in charge of purchasing in the palace would come down to Liu Xiangcheng to be in charge of the selection, but no matter how the competition process was, the Liu family would win the first prize.

It's just that in this year's selection, the judges are not only the purchasing eunuch in the palace, but also a woman who has never been seen before.

That person was Mu Ling's subordinate who was best at developing spices, but the purchasing eunuch said she was a female official sent by her superiors to be in charge of purchasing.

The result of the final selection was that a little-known Huang family that made a living by developing spices won the competition.

The Liu family refused to accept it, and colluded with the purchasing eunuch to frame the Huang family, but was caught on the spot. At the same time, it led out that the Liu family and the purchasing eunuch had been in collusion for many years, using power for personal gain and other illegal activities. After digging deeper, the result was even more astonishing.

So a small selection of spices was picked out, but it was a complete vine that was profiting for itself with the convenience of power. Hanging on it were not only the purchase of spices, but also the personnel involved in the purchase of services and ingredients.

The imperial envoys from Kyoto came after them, organized these things into a memorial and sent them to the capital. Emperor Xixuan was furious again, and the harem began to be cleaned up. I heard that many concubines' natal families were involved. Everyone is at risk.

And the imperial envoy sent by the capital was also complaining repeatedly. Before he could handle one case, other cases had already poured in. He was already devastated.

All the way to the north, all the way to punish corrupt officials, all the way to dig out the cancer buried deep under the people's livelihood.

This road has not been very smooth.

Chu Qingyan was sitting in the courtyard, looking at the brightly lit room, with a faint worry on her face. Just now, Huo Ling entered with a new letter. She knew that there would be another open and secret fight in the next town. And tonight, Big Ice will be busy until late at night.

In the past month, she has witnessed what it means to work day and night, the hardships and sweat that the big ice cube has put in to hit these eunuchs with one blow, even she, a bystander, can't help but feel tired for him .

But she couldn't speak out to dissuade them, because the big ice cube was doing practical things for the people, and these officials involved were really too bold, using all kinds of methods, sometimes outrageous, when they were hidden under the gorgeous coat When the shocking truth was unearthed, she couldn't help being shocked, wishing to beat up these sinners, and seek some justice for those people who died in vain and were bullied.

The big ice cube said that if it could be done faster, the people could be rescued from the dire straits.

Because he felt that he was not fast enough.

But in the eyes of outsiders, for two consecutive months, with thunderous means, iron and blood, unexpectedly, digging out moths hidden in the foundation of a century, this is simply the largest event in the history of Xixuan to eliminate corrupt officials, and it is also the most thorough The most rapid anti-corruption action.

The nightmare of all the officials shocked the whole country, and the whole people celebrated.

But when Chu Qingyan looked at the hero who was praised by the people, his eyes were full of water.

The big ice cube has become thinner and thinner over the past few days, and his eyes that are as bright as stars are like the coldest night in winter, deep and bottomless, no one knows what he is thinking at this time.

With such a single-minded focus and forgetting to eat and drink every day, she worried that sooner or later, the big ice would break her body.

She didn't understand why Big Ice Cube was in such a hurry to finish these things when there was still so much time.

She hugged her arms tightly, and suddenly felt that the night seemed to be getting colder and colder.

She was about to turn around when she heard footsteps behind her. When she looked up, she saw it was ethereal.

Kong Ling was holding a bowl of steaming medicinal soup in his hand. He walked up to Chu Qingyan with a solemn tone, "Young master, this is the medicine for master's internal injury."

Chu Qingyan was a little surprised, "Didn't His Highness no longer need to take medicine for his internal injuries, just take care of it slowly?"

Kong Ling shook his head, "According to the effect of the previous medicine, the master would be able to recover within this month, but because the master was busy with state affairs and forgot to eat and sleep, the internal injury recurred, and his breathing has been unstable in recent days, so the subordinate will immediately go down to brew the medicine."

Chu Qingyan's heart twitched, "Then after drinking this medicine, will His Highness be well?"

"As long as His Highness cooperates, you won't be so tired and rest reasonably, you can recover in just half a month." Kong Ling replied after thinking carefully.

But both of them knew in their hearts that this was impossible.

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