Empress Jiangshan: The doctor's hand covers the sky

Chapter 108 Handling
"I don't know Taishan with my eyes! Madam Ling, don't care about me like a villain..." Zhizhou burst into tears.

Ling Tianyue looked at her with disgust: "Since this is the case, I will give you a chance to correct it."

"Say it, say it." Zhizhou pretended to be listening attentively.

Ling Tianyue played with the rusty knife in her hand, her eyes narrowed dangerously: "Give me all the money you are greedy for, no."

Zhizhou hesitated for a while, and Ling Tianyue's blunt knife slashed on her leg unceremoniously, causing her to cry out in pain, "Give it, I'll give it all!"

"That's right." Ling Tianyue said with a smile, putting on an expression of "a child can be taught", and then said in a very ordinary way, "If you don't hand in the money in full, you will keep the money privately. Two silvers, I will chop you once, and if you die, I will pay for your children's parents, and then your husband..."

"The villain must give all the money to Ling Zhengfu." Zhizhou immediately expressed his loyalty. Anyway, she secretly dug a cellar, where the wealth she searched for was stored, and only she knew about it.

Seeing her flashing cunning, Ling Tianyue said casually: "Don't lie to me, or you will regret it."

"Sure, sure." Zhizhou nodded again and again, "Can Ling Zhengfu let me down now? I'll go and get you all the money."

"Don't worry," Ling Tianyue looked at the hanging corrupt official, and said leisurely, "I heard that several men have disappeared here recently. As the parent officer here, have you caught the flower picker?"

"The villain is investigating." Zhizhou now feels in a trance that these two people have a higher status. Thinking of this, he trembled even more.

"So, there is still no clue?" Ling Tianyue's voice was flat.

Zhizhou was too frightened to say a word.

Ling Tianyue stood up lazily: "Forget it, let's do this first." He took out a pill and motioned his men to pour it down: "Take this, and I'll give you the antidote when you get the money. If you don't take the antidote within a day If you don't," she paused deliberately, "the seven orifices are bleeding, the internal organs are rotten, and the death is quite painful."

Ling Tianyue still had a smile on her face, but it was frightening.

Zhizhou watched desperately as the strong woman poured the medicine into her mouth.

Ling Tianyue saw that Gouzhizhou seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping, and his eyes were misty, so he knew that the drug had worked: "The natural disaster in Pingchuan, the tax increase in Dujiangyan, whose idea was it? How did you collect money in the name of the court? How do you record it?"

"My idea. We collect tolls from merchants, roughly estimate how much money they can earn, and collect about half of the tax. For local shops, we also gradually test their bottom line and increase them a little bit to make them profitable. Figure, able to support the family. I will record all the money collected.”

Ling Tianyue signaled his servants to bring pens and paper, and asked Zhizhou to write down all the stolen money. Looking at the densely packed numbers on the paper, he sighed and asked, "Don't the court know that you are so corrupt and perverting the law?"

"I will transport one-fifth of the money to the disaster area to confuse the public. The rest will be hidden in a secret cellar. No one will know. When the imperial court will send someone to investigate, I will inquire in advance who will come. If a corrupt official , directly send beautiful women gold and silver, if you are an upright official, you can go to the inn where he is staying to arrange it. And with the support of the five emperors, no one will give some face."

Ling Tianyue's frown became tighter and tighter. Unexpectedly, this little Zhizhou was also related to the fifth emperor's daughter: "The missing man, don't you have any clues at all?" Originally, he changed into a man's clothes to attract the flower pickers. Mistake.

Zhizhou's body trembled: "No, I don't know, I just followed orders, suppressed the matter and ignored it..."

"Whose order?" Ling Tianyue pointed to the crux of the problem, and she also had some guesses in her heart.

"I don't know, I really don't know..." Gou Zhizhou repeatedly emphasized.

Ling Tianyue thought to herself, it seems that someone is better than her!It can make people feel instinctively afraid under this kind of drug, and wave their hands: "Give her the antidote, and go and bring me all the money she was greedy for."

The subordinate led the order to leave.

Gu Cheng watched her deal with a corrupt official so easily, and couldn't help but sigh, his Tianyue was guarded against by the king who looked down on the world, and he had the benevolence of the common people...

"What's the matter, Cheng'er, do you think I look good in men's clothes?" Ling Tianyue saw that he was staring at her obsessively, and couldn't help flirting with her, regardless of whether there were other people around.

Gu Cheng also completely ignored the subordinates who wished to turn himself into air, and said affectionately: "I'm glad I'm your man."

"..." Ling Tianyue had nothing to say, but let him hug her tightly.

At this time, she will feel that she is a little woman, and she has strong arms to rely on.

Besides, the people who followed Zhizhou to her house to sweep, saw that the money handed over by Zhizhou was seriously inconsistent, and immediately took out a piece of paper: "This is only the last two months, on the seventh day of September, Zhu Limo transported fifteen carts of grain to Pingchuan, Pay 700 taels..."

After reading several names in succession and pointing out that she hid money in the cellar, Zhizhou lost her soul and took them to the cellar, watched them take away all the treasures they had collected for many years, and finally threw her into the cellar Inside, locked the door: "Madam said, if you are not honest, I will let you reflect here."

Then no matter how Zhizhou cried and howled, they returned with a full load and returned to their orders.

Looking at the dazzling array of gold, silver and jewels, Ling Tianyue couldn't help saying: "The people of Pingchuan are desperate for food and clothing, and a small prefect is rich enough to spend a few lifetimes. Locking her in the cellar is really cheap for her."

Gu Cheng was also indignant in his heart, but seeing Ling Tianyue gritted his teeth, he calmed down a bit, they can't both focus on cleaning up the bad guys. "Officials of the sixth rank and above must report to the court when they kill them. You starved her to death. Although it is very satisfying, someone must make a fuss about it. Besides, remove her. During this time, Dujiangyan Who will govern?"

Ling Tianyue rubbed her forehead in annoyance, this is the difference between Jiang Hu and the imperial court.If she was a knight and killed a corrupt official, the people would probably set off firecrackers to celebrate, but now that she is a princess, there are many things to pay attention to.Why Chen Nuan is not around, he must have a perfect solution. "What good idea do you have?" Ling Tianyue threw the question to him.

Gu Cheng shook his head, he is good at leading troops to fight, and he is not very proficient in such things.

Ling Tianyue thought for a while, and said: "The magistrate of Dujiangyan falsely passed on the imperial court's order, increased taxes, and provoked people's grievances. Asking for money is the second crime; moreover, her molesting good men on the street is an insult to the prestige of the court. Each of them is a capital crime, or she should be sent to death row first, and then executed after reporting to the court."

(End of this chapter)