In Qingzhou Mansion City, a team of hundreds of people quickly approached the city gate, and the front of the team was waving the flag of the Praetorian Guard.

"Close the gates!" In the city, a hundred household officers shouted.

"What's the matter, looking at the flag and dressing up, it should be an official army." Someone said.

"It is the officials and soldiers who must close the city gates, otherwise the people in the city will suffer." The hundred households shouted.

Soldiers are like grates, and it has always been the bandits who have harmed the people the most, but the officials and soldiers, and many people understand this truth. Therefore, many cities are forbidden to pass by the army to enter the city, even if it is the same official army.

The soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly pushed the city gate, and at the same time drove the people who entered and left the city, and there was a great chaos at the city gate. Finally, before the distant team arrived, the gates were successfully sealed.

"I am Chang Wei of the Jinyi Guard, I came to Qingzhou Mansion to handle the case on the order of the emperor, and the defenders of the city should open the city gate quickly, otherwise they will be punished according to the violation of the holy decree!" At the front of the team, Chang Wei shouted at the city.

The defenders on the city wall looked at each other, and they naturally knew the prestige of the Jinyi Guard, but they had never dealt with the Jinyi Guard.

"Go and tell the Mansion!" Someone said in a hurry.

Outside is the brocade-clothed pro-army who handled the case by the emperor's holy decree, where can they afford to provoke these local guards?

Some people hurried down the city to report to the government office, and the other defenders talked about it. Because of the lack of news in this era, these ordinary guards didn't know what happened in Jinan City, and they instinctively thought that Jinyi Wei was here to investigate the case of the fire in the treasury a few days ago, and they didn't know what the arrival of these people would bring to Qingzhou City.

Qingzhou Mansion, Qingzhou Governor Tong Bingdao is sitting in the study full of worries.

Tong Bingdao was born in the third list of the 34th year of Wanli, and he worked in the officialdom for more than 20 years before he got into the prefect's position. Although Qingzhou Mansion is not very rich, it is much stronger than remote places, and it is quite refreshing to be the prefect in Qingzhou, but I didn't expect that the prefect has only been a year, and it has encountered a great crisis, so that Tong Bingdao does not know what to do.

As a prefect, the news is naturally much better than ordinary people, and what happened in Jinan City has already reached Tong Bingdao's ears. After the emperor came to Jinan, he opened the killing ring, not only disposed of a vassal king, but also arrested all the officials in Jinan City, and after a little interrogation, he was pulled to the vegetable market to ask for beheading, and the news reached Qingzhou, Tong Bingdao listened to it in horror.

Local officials such as dignified political envoys and procurators were arrested and killed because of some trivial matters, which made Tong Bingdao suddenly feel that he had no sense of security as an official.

As an official, there is no one who is not greedy, Tong Bingdao is naturally the same, he has been an official for more than 20 years, bought nearly 10,000 acres of land in his hometown, built a manor, and accepted seven or eight concubines alone, and gave birth to more than ten children, so that slaves and maids are called, these are naturally corrupt. The emperor killed the Jinan officialdom because of corruption, will he do anything to other government officials in Shandong next? If the emperor sends someone to Qingzhou, what will happen to him? It's heart-wrenching to think about.

These days, Tong Bingdao can't eat well and can't sleep, and the whole person is a lot haggard. He wanted to hang up the seal like other officials, and he was reluctant to get the position of prefect easily, after all, the emperor was in Jinan, and he might not come to Qingzhou, and Tong Bingdao was still lucky.

However, to Tong Bingdao's despair, a few days ago, several treasury in Qingzhou City suddenly caught fire, and the grain and various materials in the treasury were burned out, and at the same time, the houses were also suddenly on fire, and the yellow books of the fields were also burned......

If such a big thing happens, even if you don't want to alarm the emperor of Jinan, you can't do it!

It must be those damn officials who did it, they hid a lot of things from their prefect, and they almost emptied the food material in the treasury, and now they are burning to the point of trying to destroy the evidence, Tong Bingdao knows this.

As an old bureaucrat who has been in the state and county for more than 20 years, Tong Bingdao naturally understands how to be an official. Therefore, generally speaking, we never touch these officials who have been officials for generations.

The officials are very greedy, Tong Bingdao naturally knows and understands this, after all, some officials who have no way to enter the body can only use their energy to be greedy for silver. So as long as he doesn't go too far, Tong Bingdao turns a blind eye to these officials, and now, he can't wait to kill these people!

Some stupid bastards thought that they would be fine if they burned the account books and warehouses, but they didn't know that they just gave the emperor an excuse to arrest and take people! Originally, the emperor may not have paid attention to Qingzhou, and it is impossible not to be noticed now.

If it was before the warehouse fire, Tong Bingdao could still abandon the official and go, but now it is impossible, if he abandons the official now, he will abscond with the crime, and those officials will definitely put all the charges on themselves, and Jinyiwei will even arrest people in his hometown, and then it will be a disaster for his wife and children.

After thinking about the consequences, Tong Bingdao knew that he could only continue to stay in Qingzhou, but he sent his family concubine in Qingzhou back to his hometown and completely became a naked official.

Then Tong Bingdao prepared arsenic, dagger, and hemp rope, and was ready to commit suicide, as long as he died, the matter would end with him, and the emperor should not involve his family.

But it can't be cheaper, those bastards! As the prefect, Tong Bingdao could directly take down those officials, but after the incident, these people hid, they were all snakes, and Tong Bingdao couldn't find them for a while.

However, if he can't find it, it doesn't mean that Jinyiwei can't find it, Tong Bingdao wrote a suicide note, directly pushed the fire to Ambassador Ku and other officials, listed the names of those disobedient officials in the government on it, and then stayed in the government safely, waiting for the court envoy to come to the door.

"Fuzun, Jinyiwei is here, hundreds of people have arrived outside Qingzhou City!" Some soldiers defending the city rushed over and said to Tong Bingdao.

"Open the city gates and ask the emperor to enter the city with his own army." Tong Bingdao smiled miserably and commanded, he knew that his last moment had come.

"Fuzun, there are hundreds of troops here, at least five or six hundred people, do you want to let them into the city?" The soldier asked.

"The emperor is pro-army, who dares to stop it? Put it all in. Tong Bingdao said.

The soldier went, Tong Bingdao opened the drawer, took out the dagger, arsenic and hemp rope in the same way, and looked at it blankly, not knowing how to choose.

The dagger committed suicide and couldn't do it to himself, and it was too painful to drink arsenic, so he chose to hang himself......

"What? The prefect of Qingzhou hanged himself? Chang Wei exclaimed.

"Yes, my lord, it's what just happened, and the person is still hanging from the beam." The subordinate said.

"Let him hang there first."

Chang Wei couldn't cry or laugh, a prefect, he was so frightened that he committed suicide when he heard that he had entered the city, could it be that his prestige had spread all over Shandong?

However, this prefect probably does not know that the power to try the case has been transferred by His Majesty to the Inspectorate, and even if he is arrested, he will be transferred to Cao Yubian for interrogation. According to the Inspectorate's usual practice of adjudicating cases, corrupt officials are rarely killed......