Chapter 309: The Darkness of Qing Court Officialdom

In Xingyang County, Li Yanchang was full of anger and scolded Wang Kun, the commander of Xingyang County, on the street. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info unexpectedly, but was heard by the gangsters on the street, and quickly told the officer, and the official passed the word to the county commander Wang Kun himself.

Wang Kun hurriedly ordered the officials to find out Li Yanchang's origin. Soon, he learned from Li Yanchang's entourage that Li Yanchang was sent by the imperial court to inspect the disaster relief, and Wang Kun was shocked. was busy preparing generous gifts, found Li Yanchang in the middle of the night, and prepared to bribe Li Yanchang with a lot of money in accordance with the unspoken rules of the Qing Dynasty officialdom, but Li Yanchang was bookish and didn't eat him at all.

In a hurry, Xingyang County ordered Wang Kun to report the matter to Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng, and at the same time called his master to go to Li Yanchang's two entourages, preparing to let the entourage persuade Li Yanchang and relieve him.

But unexpectedly, Li Yanchang was so angry that he wanted to drive away the two entourage, and prepared to return to Beijing on his own to report the matter to the Criminal Department. Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng, learned that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly rushed to Xingyang County, and after discussing with Wang Kun, the commander of Xingyang County, he decided to buy Li Yanchang's two entourages and get rid of Li Yanchang.

So, that night, the two entourages pretended to admit their mistakes, served Li Yanchang in the inn, poisoned his tea, hanged him with a trouser belt, and hung a rope on the beam of the guest room to create the illusion that Li Yanchang hanged himself.

Then, as arranged, Li Yanchang's servant reported to the official: Li Yanchang hanged himself to death. Xingyang County ordered Wang Kun to rush to the scene, pretended to take a closer look, and determined that he had indeed died by hanging.

When the blind man conducted an autopsy and found that "the deceased had blood in his mouth, suspected that it was not a normal death", the county commander Wang Kun was furious and ordered the official to beat him with a cane until he changed his words and said: "The deceased died by hanging himself 100%." ”

Since Li Yanchang was a member of the five grades of the imperial court, Wang Kun quickly reported his death to Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng.

After the discussion, Jia Zhen, the prefect who rushed back to Kaifeng City overnight to avoid suspicion, as soon as he received the report, he understood that he was tired and rushed from Kaifeng to Xingyang, and "after careful investigation" it was determined that he was hanged himself.

Then, the prefect Jia Zhen reported the matter to the governor of Henan and the governor of Zhili, and informed Li Yanchang's family to transport Li Yanchang's body to his hometown for burial.

Yinggui, the governor of Henan, and Naerjing, the governor of Zhili, were busy besieging the long-haired bandits, as well as urging the holy order to extinguish the locust plague in various places, plus the prefect Jia Zhen paid a lot of filial piety every year. Naturally, it was forwarded according to Jia Zhenbao.

At that time, the weather was hot, Jia Zhen deliberately asked Yizhuang not to apply antiseptic powder, and soon, Li Yanchang's body was rotten and foul-smelling. By the time Li Yanchang's family, who were hundreds of miles away, arrived in Xingyang, it was already ten days later.

Li Yanchang's relatives who rushed to the scene were his uncle Li Shihuang, and when he was sorting out Li Yanchang's body, he found a few traces of blood on his shirt, and he suspected that Li Yanchang had been killed.

At the same time, Li Shihuang found Li Yanchang's two servants, and found that the servants were fragmented, and Li Shihuang was even more suspicious. But the next day, Li Shihuang was told that two of Li Yanchang's servants had both died because of a brawl with idlers on the street. Li Shihuang was even more sure that Li Yanchang was killed, and even the servants were killed.

Li Shihuang verbally pretended to admit that Li Shihuang hanged himself, pretended to be the county commander Wang Kun to thank him, took the gift of ten taels of entanglement, and left Xingyang to return to his hometown, and when no one followed him halfway, he parked Li Shihuang's body in Zhangde Mansion, and quickly rushed to the capital alone to find the Metropolitan Procuratorate to complain for Li Yanchangming.

Because Li Yanchang was an official of the Criminal Department, and Wang Maoyin was a servant of the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department killed two high-level officials in a row, which was a little strange, the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not dare to be disdainful, and hurriedly sent officials to Zhangde Mansion to prepare for a re-examination of Li Yanchang's body.

But how can things be so smooth?

After receiving the news from those old men in the capital, Wang Kun, who was a thief, pulled Jia Zhen up, in order to cover up his crimes, the wicked man started first, and after some dredging, he directly changed the beam and changed the pillar before the Metropolitan Procuratorate re-examined Li Yanchang's body, and dropped the body. As a result, no traces were found from the corpse.

Li Shihuang not only failed to overturn the case for his nephew Li Yanchang, but he was also imprisoned, because of false accusations, he was sent to prison, not long after, and I don't know why, within a few days in prison, he "died of illness" as he wished.

At this time, the other relatives of the Li family were silent, and no one dared to avenge Li Yanchang anymore. Only Li Yanchang's wife, a woman from a Taoist family, came to Zhangde Mansion alone and wanted to transport Li Yanchang's body back to his hometown for burial.

Li Yanchang's hometown is Huangzhou Mansion in Mubei.

Li's wife trekked all the way into the territory of Mubei, took a boat from Nanyang Mansion along the Han River, and when she entered the territory of Wuchang Mansion, she was robbed and entangled by the water gangsters on the Han River, and she couldn't return to her hometown at all, so she cried by the Han River.

At this time, it happened that a member of the captive army was passing by, and when he saw the woman crying sadly, he couldn't bear it, and stepped forward to inquire about the reason, and when he learned the whole thing, he couldn't help but suspect that Li Yanchang's death was strange. Because he admired Li Yanchang's personality and admired Li's wife's thousand-mile husband's righteous deeds, he took the initiative to help Zhang Luo and help transport Li Yanchang's body back to Huangzhou Mansion.

At the time of burial, Li's wife sorted out the body of Li Yanchang, who was completely decomposed. Unexpectedly, the throat bones were found to be black, and Li's wife invited the county to do an examination, and concluded that Li Yanchang was poisoned first, and then strangled by his neck and suffocated to death.

At this time, Li's wife completely understood that Li Yanchang was killed by someone.

Li's wife wanted to go to the capital to file a complaint, but the person who asked for the captive army persuaded her to find someone, otherwise, she would have no power and no way to sue, and she was afraid that she would still be killed by the people who killed her husband.

Where was Li's wife willing to listen, thanked the fine man for his kindness, settled the children in the family, and went to the capital alone, indomitable, and accused the case again to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Where is the Metropolitan Procuratorate willing to take it? It's no wonder that if they go next, they will be guilty of admitting that their last inspection was wrong. However, it was not easy for them to drive people away directly, so they revealed some rumors and let Jia Zhen, the prefect of Kaifeng, know.

As a result, the sad wife Li was arrested by the Kaifeng government officials across the province, accused of seducing a married woman, and there was really a second-rate son of Kaifeng City who came forward to testify, pointing out that Li's wife went to his house to seduce him and let him abandon his wife and children.

So, poor Mrs. Li, under the judgment of the upright prefect Jia Zhen, was immersed in the pig cage, and within a few days, she contracted the wind and cold, and died.

However, the meticulous work of the captive army, who had been paying attention to this matter, investigated the cause and effect of the incident clearly, and reported the incident as a strange thing to Fan Ruzeng, the brigade commander of the Xizuo battalion and the deputy director of the police department of the Shengwang Palace.

On this day, Fan Ruzeng and Li Wenmao worked together to report on the expansion of the fine work camp and recruit a group of people in the pear orchard to do fine work. By the way, he took this matter as a joke under the dark rule of the Qing Demon and told it to the Holy King Feng Yunshan. (To be continued.) )