Lin Xin's worries were not groundless, the explosion in Nanjing City sounded the alarm for her, with the fall of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the submission of the Timurid Empire, Gu Chen was no longer able to provoke the frontier war of the Ming Dynasty, so he would definitely target Li Yuntian.

According to the information Lin Xin obtained, because Gu Chen's health was not good all the year round, this meant that he had little time to plan a conspiracy against Li Yuntian, so he would definitely seize Li Yuntian's trip to Jiangnan to make a fuss.

In fact, Lin Xin hoped that Gu Chen would launch an attack in today's public trial, under the protection of so many soldiers, Gu Chen's people could not rush to the nearest to harm Li Yuntian even if they used explosives, she could just take the opportunity to kill them all.

In Lin Xin's opinion, if Gu Chen wanted to assassinate Li Yuntian, he would definitely tie explosives to the bodies of those subordinates, which was often called "human bombs" in later generations, otherwise it would be impossible to bring in explosives under the noses of the soldiers and servants on the scene.

Unless Gu Chen has a way to fire those explosives remotely, but this is impossible, now Da Ming only has the artillery of the Shenji Battalion and the Xiaowu Army Firearms Battalion can do this, it is obvious that Gu Chen does not have artillery, and it is impossible to transport the artillery to Linyun County unknowingly.

Lin Xin guessed correctly, if Gu Chen hadn't met Chen Guangzong, he would definitely use the human bomb, but since there were many soldiers protecting Li Yuntian, he was not sure that he would be able to successfully assassinate Li Yuntian, and those assassins would definitely be killed by soldiers equipped with crossbows and bows and arrows halfway through.

Chen Guangzong's appearance can be said to have solved a problem for Gu Chen, so that he can use explosives on the blade, as long as the city gate of Lin'an County is blown open, then the Japanese soldiers and Japanese soldiers transferred by Chen Guangzong will swarm in and go straight to Li Yuntian's residence, so there will be a great chance to kill Li Yuntian.

At this moment, Gu Chen was watching the trial coldly among the lively people, and Wang Lu successively summoned the personnel involved in Zhao Dezhang's case, as well as witnesses and evidence, so that the context of the case was clearly displayed in front of everyone.

It is a bit unbelievable to say that the silver allocated by the imperial court to Linyun County for the construction of the river embankment was allocated from the treasury of the capital household department to the Nanjing household department.

According to the regulations, the Nanjing household department should distribute the money to the Songjiang Prefecture as soon as possible, and the Songjiang Prefecture will give it to the Linyun County Government.

However, only seventy percent of the original silver for repairing the river was sent to Songjiang Mansion by the Nanjing Household Department, and thirty percent of the silver was privately withheld by the Nanjing Household Department.

After receiving the silver taels from Xiuhe, the household houses of Songjiang Prefecture withheld 30 percent, and only 40 percent of the silver was allocated from the household warehouse.

This is not too late, after the forty percent of the silver was turned around in the hands of the officials of the government office, only one percent was allocated to the county government of Linyun County, and the other thirty percent was greedy by officials of all sizes.

Zhao Dezhang is helpless about this, he has been an official for many years, and knows the sinister nature of officialdom, so he can only take away the silver taels of repairing the river, after all, the repair of the river embankment is urgent, he has no spare time to argue with the people of the government there.

However, Zhao Dezhang also kept a hand, and was only willing to sign and get a receipt of one percent of silver, which made the people of the government and the household very unhappy, thinking that they did not know the current affairs, and you must know that the appropriations and allocations obtained by Linyun County in the future were all allocated by the households of Songjiang Mansion, and the people of the households did not have any good fruits to eat.

But the Songjiang Prefecture Yahufang also had a way to deal with it, and the people who colluded with the Linyun County Yahufang forged a receipt from Linyun County, proving that the Linyun County Yahu had received all the silver taels for repairing the embankment intact, so that both parties were happy.

As for what the Linyun County Government will build the river embankment, the people of the Songjiang Prefecture Government don't care at all, anyway, the officials who came to inspect it have already taken the benefits, and everyone will definitely not stir up trouble in the same boat, after all, no one wants to cause trouble.

Originally, things were very satisfactory, the people of Songjiang Prefecture and Nanjing Sixth Department successfully accepted the river embankment built in Linyun County, but it was not as good as the sky, and the continuous rainfall made the river embankment that Linyun County could not repair burst, and suffered heavy losses.

As the magistrate of Linyun County, Zhao Dezhang naturally became the best scapegoat, if he didn't carry the black cauldron, a large group of people would be unlucky, so his greed for ink and silver quickly became a sure fact, if it wasn't for Diewu meeting Li Yuntian by chance, then Diewu would not be able to overturn the case for him even if he gave up his life.

Chen Guangzong was also mixed in the crowd, but unlike the people around him, his attention was focused on Li Yuntian's body, his eyes looked coldly at Li Yuntian who was leisurely sipping tea there, and he wanted to fly over and slash Li Yuntian's head, only in this way could he eliminate the hatred that had accumulated in his heart for a long time.

"Wait and see, I'm going to get your head tonight!" After a long time, Chen Guangzong slowly clenched his right fist, in his opinion, Li Yuntian was the culprit who caused his family to die, and in order to get the salt tax power of the Lianghuai Salt Road, he caused the Lianghuai Salt Road corruption case.

The reason why Chen Guangzong thought that Li Yuntian wanted to conduct a thorough investigation of the Lianghuai Salt Road with great fanfare, and that he coveted the huge profits generated by the Lianghuai Salt Road every year, was that the Lianghuai Salt Road was controlled by the tax officials of the Salt Bureau who were born in Jiangwutang, and turned a blind eye to the fact that the price of Daming salt had been kept low in recent years.

At the same time, Zijuan, a woman disguised as a man, was anxiously looking for traces of Chen Guangzong in the crowd of onlookers at the scene, and she had to stop Chen Guangzong's crazy behavior, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Due to the large number of people who came to see the excitement this time, coupled with Chen Guangzong's deliberate concealment of his whereabouts, Zijuan couldn't find Chen Guangzong's trace after looking for a morning, which made her secretly anxious.

As time passed, Zijuan's mood became more and more impatient, and the only hope was pinned on the thick-eyed man, and from the current situation, the thick-eyed man would be easier to see Chen Guangzong than Zijuan.

But if Chen Guangzong didn't want to meet Zijuan, then Zijuan would have to break into Li Yuntian's residence to warn Li Yuntian, 3,000 Japanese soldiers and 2,000 Japanese soldiers were a lot of armed forces, and Li Yuntian had to prepare in advance.

Although there were 2,000 soldiers of Songjiangwei in Linyun County, it was okay to train those soldiers to scare the common people, and it was difficult for them to fight against the vicious Japanese soldiers and Japanese soldiers, so only the 3,000 sailors and soldiers would fight against the Japanese soldiers and Japanese invaders.

Li Yuntian's mobilization of the 3,000 sailors was used to deal with Gu Chen, and these 3,000 brave men were enough to break the trap set by Gu Chen, but he never imagined that Chen Guangzong would appear at this time and collude with Gu Chen, so that the 3,000 sailors would face almost twice as many fierce enemy troops, and the situation would become extremely critical.

Obviously, Chen Guangzong came prepared this time, in order to seize the opportunity to assassinate Li Yuntian, he would definitely transfer elite Japanese soldiers, and those Japanese soldiers were also murderous, which would bring huge pressure to the soldiers of the water division.

Wang Lu's interrogation went very smoothly, and the people involved in the case did not make the slightest resistance in the face of conclusive evidence, poured beans into bamboo tubes, and truthfully confessed one after another their culpability in the case of the embankment burst in Linyun County.

Because Li Yuntian's attitude was to severely punish the people involved in the case in order to set an example, Wang Lu dealt a heavy hand to those unlucky people who participated in the case this time.

This made the onlookers at the scene very happy, looking at the bloodless criminals who were escorted down all applauded, and the most hated by the people were those corrupt officials who took the court's money and at the same time acted as a prestige.

As a result of the smooth trial of the case, the causes and consequences of the case of the embankment burst in Linyun County had already been thoroughly investigated before three o'clock in the afternoon, and as many as 100 officials of all sizes were involved in the case, from the household department and the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing to the household houses and workshops in Linyun County.

Wu Shan was the most depressed about this, almost half of the officials of the Songjiang Prefecture were involved, the most serious crime was sentenced to be executed, and the least serious crime was sentenced to 30 boards, causing the operation of the Songjiang Mansion to fall into a dilemma.

Among them, the former prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, who had been transferred to the Zhejiang Political Envoy Department to serve as the right senator, won the jackpot and was sentenced by Wang Lu to be hanged.

In the Ming Dynasty, hanging was a more severe punishment than beheading, and it was the privilege of the eunuchs, and ordinary people were not entitled to such treatment.

Wu Shan was not worried about the case of the embankment burst in Linyun County, after all, it was what happened before he came to Songjiang Mansion, and what made him feel uneasy was that when Wang Lu was investigating the case, the officials involved in the case confessed to other crimes of corruption and perversion of the law, in case Li Yuntian ordered Wang Lu to investigate those crimes, then he would be planted.

At this moment, even if Wu Shan wanted to let people set fire to the account office of the Songjiang Mansion, it was impossible, because since the fire in the county government of Linyun County, the Songjiang Mansion had been taken over by the soldiers of the sailor division, and it was so heavily guarded that not even a fly could enter, let alone go in and set it on fire.

Wu Shan now regrets coming to Songjiang Mansion very much, but he encountered such a bad thing as Zhao Dezhang, and he doesn't know what he will be implicated in, judging from the current posture of Wang Lu's investigation of the case, it seems impossible to get out of the whole body, as the prefect of Songjiang Mansion, he is to blame for the corruption and perversion of the law in Songjiang Mansion and Linyun County over the years.

"Zhao Dezhang, after a thorough investigation by this official, you did not corrupt ink and repair the embankment in the Linyun County embankment case, and this official will report to the Criminal Department according to the truth and restore your reputation." After sentencing those involved in the case, Wang Lu looked up at Zhao Dezhang, who was kneeling on the ground, and said to him in a deep voice, "Before the verdict of the Criminal Department comes down, you and your family will stay in Songjiang City, and this official will arrange your life." ”

"Thank you, Lord Patrol." Zhao Dezhang couldn't help but cry when he heard this, he never imagined that he would have a day to wash away his grievances, so he hurriedly kowtowed to Wang Lu, and as soon as the official documents from the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Officials arrived, he could officially clear his name and regain his official status.

"Thank you, Lord Xun." Diewu, who knelt behind Zhao Dezhang, and the Zhao family's family followed and kowtowed to Wang Lu, looking excited, they had been looking forward to finally regaining their freedom after so many years.

"What you want to thank is not this patrol, but the loyal prince, it is the loyal prince who took this situation and washed away your grievances." Wang Lu naturally would not take credit in this case, and said to Zhao Dezhang in a deep voice after bowing his hand to Li Yuntian.

If Li Yuntian was not in charge, Wang Lu would not have been able to investigate the case at all, and he would definitely be affected by many obstacles from the Nanjing Sixth Department, the Songjiang Mansion and the Linyun County Government, and then fall into a stalemate, and his time in Nanzhili was limited, and once he stepped down from the post of inspector, he would not be able to continue to investigate the case.

Moreover, the incriminating evidence in Wang Lu's hands was all collected by Li Yuntian's subordinates, and it was impossible for Wang Lu alone to collect so much evidence in such a short period of time.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Zhao Dezhang suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, and hurriedly led his family to kowtow to Li Yuntian, full of gratitude to Li Yuntian in his heart.

"Zhao Zhixian doesn't need to make this big gift, this king, as the imperial history of the left capital, just did what he should do." Seeing this, Li Yuntian put down the teacup in his hand and stood up, and said to Zhao Dezhang in a loud voice, "This king asks you, do you still want to continue to be an official after this catastrophe?" ”

"Back to the prince, the villain has been studying hard for more than ten years, just to serve the court and benefit the people one day, although he was victimized by traitors, he did not change his original intention." Zhao Dezhang hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Yuntian solemnly and said.

"What a good original intention!" Li Yuntian couldn't help but praise when he heard this, as if he was very satisfied with Zhao Dezhang's answer.

Then, he glanced at Zhao Dezhang and walked away from the pergola, surrounded by Wang Lu and others and the cheers of the people, and returned to Linyun County by car: Zhao Dezhang has suffered so much over the years and will naturally be compensated accordingly, and it is a natural thing to be promoted to an official rank, and a good official must not be allowed to suffer in vain.

On the way back to the city, Li Yuntian sat in the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate, at this moment, no one would have thought that this public trial in Linyun County was a prelude to the storm, and Li Yuntian wanted to set off a vigorous storm in Jiangnan officialdom to clean the filth of Jiangnan officialdom.