Eighth Ye's Savage Concubine

Chapter 431 Collusion between officials and bandits
The man chuckled, his words were perfunctory.

Yuan Hua narrowed her eyes slightly, and a cold light bloomed from them: "If you don't tell the truth, I will kill you!"

With that said, Yuan Hua held the dagger in his hand and moved closer to the man's throat again.

The dagger was extremely sharp, and just touching the man's skin lightly, it immediately cut a shallow gash of blood.

The man frowned in pain, and his face turned pale with fright: "I'll tell you the truth. Girl, swords don't have eyes, so quickly hold the dagger away."

Hearing that the man was willing to tell the truth, Yuan Hua moved the dagger away a bit.

The man breathed a sigh of relief, and then said truthfully: "Girl, you don't know something, we are full of bandits here. Just a few days ago, the bandits took advantage of the heavy rain and robbed all the rice in the granary. Grain. Seeing this great opportunity, the rice merchants have monopolized the rice grain in several towns, and are waiting to raise prices.”

"No, no matter how courageous this bandit is, he wouldn't dare to rob the official's rice granary!"

"Ordinary robbers certainly don't have the guts, but the bandits here..."

Halfway through the speech, the man suddenly stopped.

He turned his head and looked outside the door, and after making sure that there was no one else, he lowered his voice: "The bandits here are in collusion with the government, this is different."

"Those people called you just now, sir, you must be the magistrate here."

"Eh."

Slightly nodding his head, a smug look appeared on the man's face.

The corner of Yuan Hua's mouth twitched, and then said: "So you are the one who colluded with the bandits?"

"No, no, no, I'm just a small county magistrate, how could I have the guts to collude with the bandits?" The man was afraid of being misunderstood, so he waved his hands hastily: "I'm not afraid to tell you that the people who collude with the bandits are The magistrate. Above him, there are even more powerful people!"

As the man's voice fell, Yuan Hua turned to look at Bai Jinchu.

Bai Jinchu frowned and thought for a moment, then walked forward slowly.

"This place has been flooded for days, why didn't you report it to the imperial court?"

"I dare not. The memorial to report the disaster has to be submitted layer by layer. If I write it, I will be detained by the magistrate."

"Why?"

Bai Jinchu frowned slightly, looking at the man with doubts in his eyes.

The man lowered his voice when he heard his inquiry.

"If the imperial court knew that this place was flooded, it would definitely send an imperial envoy to help the disaster. Once the imperial envoy came, the collusion between officials and bandits would be hidden. Although the magistrate had killed several high officials from the imperial city before, he I'm also afraid that if there are too many times, it will attract the attention of the imperial court and send troops to encircle and suppress them."

"Sure enough."

After listening to what the man said, Bai Jinchu was not surprised at all.

He had heard before that his father had sent more than one or two ministers here for disaster relief, but none of them returned.

The memorial submitted by the magistrate here stated that the minister was killed by bandits on the mountain on the way here, and he concealed the fact that he had killed himself.

He didn't know that his father didn't send people to investigate thoroughly because he knew that this place was very chaotic and it was the border of the Three Kingdoms.

Or because the father knew that even if he sent someone to thoroughly investigate the matter, there would be no results, so he simply let the matter go.

(End of this chapter)