"Is there an underground river in the river?"
Zhang Mingtu was surprised by what he saw.
I didn't expect that it was just an ordinary act of chivalry, but there was such a big secret hidden in the river.
Even the slightest negligence along the way may lead to big problems.
If you are not careful, you may die immediately.
The fact that so many people were united in their hatred of the enemy and took joint action must have involved extremely terrifying interests.
Zhang Mingtu secretly suppressed the violent emotional fluctuations in his heart and continued reading.
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A fog is just a fog after all. I just found some scattered feces in the river. After analysis by my colleagues, they determined that they were the feces of monsters.
Well, it’s what the monster digests after eating humans.
Combined with some of the information I knew before, the monsters in the river should be fed by someone.
Some people have reached some kind of agreement with them, and regularly people who are seriously ill or fall into the water will die and be fed nearby.
This is just my guess. Without evidence, there is no way to convict anyone.
I went deep into the underground river that day, leaving behind only an incomplete map of the underground river. I have no memory of the deeper places.
Most things in the world may not have an outcome.
No one cared about this matter, and Jianyi continued to live in peace and prosperity.
Meanwhile, through official channels, another incident caused a sensation in the entire Jiangnan West Road, or rather, it caused a huge shock in the Longxing Prefecture area.
The most iron-hearted man in Daxia whom I knew submitted a memorial.
The memorial contained a complete account of the situation of all the wealthy and powerful people in Xingguo County.
In a certain year and month, someone turned five good people into long-term laborers.
In a certain year and month, local grain merchants colluded with the people who managed the grain warehouse in the county government to take out the grain in the warehouse when the grain price was high and sold it at a high price.
When grain prices fell, they purchased grain at low prices and refilled the granaries with some inferior grain.
Well, when do food prices go up?
When the floods hit!
Logically, the government should have opened the granaries to release grain, but the local authorities reported the major disaster as a minor one, and minor disasters are usually not reported.
As a result, the higher authorities had no idea of the situation. When food prices soared, many good people in the area were forced to sell their ancestral property, and poor families even sold their children.
The local tycoons and wealthy families were not affected at all, but instead made a fortune.
And when are food prices low?
Well, it’s the time of harvest.
Many wealthy people joined forces to lower prices, making food cheap.
This situation was prevalent throughout Jiangnan, and Ruihai actually dared to write all of this down in a memorial and report it to the emperor.
But what Ruihai did before this was astonishing.
After sufficient evidence has been collected.
Ruihai got the military transfer order from somewhere and directly transferred a group of elite troops from Longxing.
After publicly announcing various crimes locally, the main perpetrators of these incidents were arrested one by one.
The trial was conducted in full accordance with the laws of the time.
There were so many people cheering that Xingguo County was cleared.
The entire Jiangnan West Road was shocked, and impeachment memorials flew to Kyoto like raindrops.
Rumors are circulating everywhere that Ruihai is unsympathetic, inflexible, conservative, and kills good people indiscriminately.
All the wealthy local people were caught in one fell swoop, their properties were confiscated and their families were exterminated.
I know the specific situation is not like this, but in Jianyi, in the area outside Xingguo County.
Everyone in the restaurant was discussing that the county magistrate was too scary, bloodthirsty and murderous, and could only satisfy his bloodthirsty desire by consuming the blood of one person every day.
There were no tabloids or public propaganda in this era. The official did have one, but it was not very popular in Jiangnan. Moreover, the official reports were too official and out of touch with reality.
Rumors that can spread widely often come from the mouths of wealthy people.
To them, the Xingguo County Magistrate Rui Hai was not a good person.
Therefore, there are not many good things in the rumors everywhere.
Are the people stupid?
No, they have read very little and lack foresight in many things, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want foresight.
Like the old man selling charcoal, he wanted to have foresight, but if his income was less, he might die of hunger and cold that day. Just seeking food and clothing every day would consume all his energy, so how could he have time to pursue further goals and greater rewards?
Not long after, an investigation document came down through the Jinyiwei's private channels, asking the Jinyiwei in various places to investigate the specific situation in Jianyi.
There is such a task every year. No one cares too much about it, only I feel a little moved.
The tasks are all over the place and seem to have no focus.
However, the many people and their identities that I mentioned in the report who were good citizens but became tenants or farmhands need to be investigated and verified, and their current identities need to be known.
There are also some people who died that year and some murders.
The tasks in different places were divided into very detailed and complicated parts. I asked around and consulted some colleagues before I was able to piece together the full picture.
I acted properly in this matter and provided the report as required.
I know that there is a big shot who has secretly paid attention to the situation in Jianyi.
One month after Thunder Strike, the action pattern was not much different from that of Xingguo County. A team of troops was mobilized to directly suppress the Wang and Li families and the local garrisons.
Various account book cases were declared public one by one.
The family that had been entrenched in Jianyi for hundreds of years fell apart overnight, and all kinds of land were uniformly planned and recorded, and then redistributed.
The entire Jianyi was cheering, and the person in charge publicly declared that all this originated from the memorial from Ruihai of Xingguo County, which was his investigation report.
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