The peasant girl strikes: Mr., you have to be good

Chapter 456

"She must have been scared, so she brought the jewelry to us."

"Probably not jewelry."

"Either jewels or gold."

The thoughts of the others were the same as Luo Wenbin's. Seeing them staring at the big box, Jinxuan sneered in her heart: You are crazy about money, I will bribe you, you are so funny.

"Why don't you kneel down when you see the Empress Dowager?" Yu Hua was very annoyed when she saw that everyone was standing stupidly without any intention of saluting.

"Ministers must think that I'm too young, and I don't deserve them to salute me." Although Jinxuan didn't care about kneeling and paying respects, these people were too defiant, and they wanted to show her off.

"His Majesty the Empress Dowager, forgive me. I was caught up in your grace and aura, so I forgot to salute you for a while." Luo Wenbin took the lead and immediately knelt down to greet Jinxuan.

As soon as he knelt, the others also knelt down.

"Ji Yong, the magistrate of Baishu County, Zeng Fafa, the magistrate of Hequan County, Nie Fugui, the magistrate of Yujiang County, and Gu Cong, the magistrate of Shiyong County." Jinxuan called out the four disciples of old thief Shen.

The others were terrified by her, they were glad they were not from the Shen family, otherwise it would have been miserable.

Jinxuan looked at the man in front and said, "You are Jing Shenyu, the magistrate of Heyi County, right?"

"Reporting to Your Royal Highness, the next official is Jing Shenyu."

"Why does Heyi County under your jurisdiction continue to collect poll tax? You'd better have a reasonable explanation." As Jinxuan said, she flicked her sleeves and walked over to sit on the main seat.

The collection of poll tax was made by Luo County Sheriff, and they are only responsible for carrying it out.

Now that's all right, he was the first person to be pulled out to question him, what should he do?

Jing Shenyu's heart was disturbed, he didn't know what would happen next?
He turned around and prostrated himself on the ground, not daring to breathe.

"Magistrate Jing, weren't you pretty good at talking just now? Now you are dumb." Jinxuan snorted coldly and stared sharply at Jing Shenyu, who was so frightened that he was at a loss.

He faltered and said: "Return, report to Your Highness, this matter, I can explain it."

"Okay, I will listen to your explanation slowly."

Jinxuan's beautiful lips curled into a cold smile: "Your Highness has been notified of the abolition of poll tax, please don't tell me, you don't know the news yet."

Luo Wenbin, who was also kneeling on the ground, was also very worried. He deliberately concealed this matter. Everyone present knew that the edict had been issued. They did this in order to collect a few more months of poll tax and make a fortune.

"Reporting to Your Highness, this matter is indeed like this. We haven't received any news yet." Jing Shenyu was very clever. He mentioned us and wanted to remind Jinxuan that they and Yi County are not the only counties that collect poll tax, but other counties. This is also the case.

"Luo Wenbin, you have failed too much as a sheriff. You don't know about such a big thing. It seems that I should change people." Jinxuan knew that the culprit was Luo Wenbin, if he hadn't taken the lead in doing this. No, others dare not follow him.

"Reporting to Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, we did not collect poll tax. The poll tax we paid was actually our own money." The few people who were called out before tried to defend themselves.

As soon as the news of the Shen family's downfall came, they started to stop.

Luo Wenbin asked them to collect poll tax, but they didn't implement it after they went back. They delayed and delayed again and again, so they had no choice but to pay out of pocket tax to perfunctory.

They know that someone from above will come, and once they do this, they will only die.

"I called you out to praise you, four of you, get up." They didn't collect poll taxes, but they did other bad things.

Jinxuan asked people to give them seats, because she wanted to tell others that if they did something bad, they would not be able to escape the punishment of the law.

"Yuqin, open your boxes. I have gifts for all the ministers." After Zeng Fafa and the others were seated, Jinxuan asked Yuqin to open the box, and asked them to distribute to them the account books and evidence of everyone's embezzlement.

When she saw these evidences, she was very disappointed. In the entire fourteen counties of Beichuan, except for Mei Tianci, the county magistrate who did not go to Hetai County, everyone else was suspected of corruption. This is very, very bad.

"My lords, take a good look and look carefully." After the evidence was distributed, everyone turned pale with fright.

These evidences were collected by Luo Wenbin to restrain the county magistrates. He did not expect the evidences to fall into Jinxuan's hands.

"Mr. Luo, do you still like my present?" Jinxuan stood up and walked to Luo Wenbin. Luo Wenbin was so frightened that his whole body went limp, and his voice trembled: "Wei-my minister is wronged."

"Are you really wronged?"

"Your Highness, the Luo Junshou ordered us to do all this. He said that if we don't listen to him, I will kill us." Someone came forward to testify against Luo Wenbin, and Luo Wenbin was so angry that he cursed: "Shang Dong, I ask myself You are not thin, why did you frame me."

That person named Shang Dong is the magistrate of Beige County, and he has the best relationship with Luo Wenbin.

The two of them are the most greedy.

"The entire city of Beichuan has [-] counties in total. It's really chilling that [-] of your county magistrates are involved."

As soon as Jinxuan finished speaking, someone begged for mercy. They told Jinxuan that they would never dare again, and begged Jinxuan to give them a chance to redeem their sins.

"Your Highness, we are willing to make up the money. Please give us another chance." Jing Shenyu was the first person who proposed to make up the hole. Although the others begged for mercy, they were still reluctant to part with the money.

The money they got from embezzlement has been stored at home and they dare not use it. Even if they want to use it, it is done secretly.

"Your Highness, we are also willing to make up the money, please forgive me."

"Luo Wenbin, don't you have anything to say?" Jinxuan was a little annoyed when she saw Luo Wenbin kept silent. This old man is the most greedy person, and he still wants to keep his money, it's really disgusting.

"Reporting to Your Highness, this minister is not wrong, you are slandering." Luo Wenbin is a well-known miser. Over the years, he has embezzled at least one million yuan. If he is asked to return the money, he would rather choose to die.

"Everyone, Luo Wenbin said he was right. If you can prove that he is guilty, I will consider letting you go." The evidence is solid, Luo Wenbin still wants to play tricks, does he think she is a fool?

As soon as Jinxuan's words came out, the others were tempted. This was a great opportunity for them.

As long as they cooperate with Jinxuan to bring down Luo Wenbin, they will have a chance of survival.

"Your Highness, the ministers are ashamed of the imperial court's cultivation. The records in this account book are absolutely correct. We did collude with Luo County Sheriff and did a lot of bad things together."

"Your Highness, we have no complaints about punishing us, but the chief culprit is Sheriff Luo, we cannot let him get away with it."

Everyone stood up to testify against Luo Wenbin, Luo Wenbin couldn't bear it anymore.

He yelled sadly: "You despicable villains, how dare you slander the sheriff."

Seeing that Luo Wenbin didn't shed tears when he saw the coffin, Jinxuan ordered sternly, "Come here, drag this lawless guy out and kill him."

"No!" As soon as Jinxuan finished giving the order, two soldiers came outside the door and held Luo Wenbin down. Luo Wenbin didn't want to die, so he struggled and shouted: "Your Highness, the guilty minister knows his mistake. The guilty minister should not be with you." Talk back, let alone take bribes."

(End of this chapter)