Either he was misled or was secretly dealt with, and it was impossible for him to receive any useful information.
Even though he secretly sent many people to search for the lost and stolen gold and silver treasures, as well as several doctors who knew the inside story and were rescued, they found nothing.
So half a month later.
News came from a county below that people were sick with the plague and were cured by a prescription jointly developed by the imperial physician from the capital and several famous doctors from Nanyang Prefecture.
The people who were suffering from the epidemic were excited when they heard the news.
They learned that it was the female official An Xin who not only distributed relief grain to them to help them through the difficult times, but also brought the imperial doctors and physicians who cured the plague.
They all made longevity tablets for her at home, hoping that the Buddha would bless such a good official to live a few more years.
The herbs that An Xin and his companions brought were limited, so the medicinal materials were certainly not enough.
She began to use the small treasury of Prefect Fang and the 300,000 silver coins for disaster relief to purchase medicinal materials that could treat the plague at a fair price.
All the people in Nanyang who are sick with the epidemic can go to the gate of their county town.
There, the imperial physician sent by An Xin or Doctor Su, as well as several other doctors from Nanyang, personally led people to prepare medicinal soups that could treat the epidemic and provided them for free.
Within a month, the epidemic situation in all parts of Nanyang was under control and treated.
Those clinics and drug stores that sold or donated medicinal materials at prices below the market price all hung a green sign issued by the government, proudly hanging on the door of their stores.
When the people saw this, they knew that this company did not lose its conscience and take advantage of the epidemic by raising the prices of medicinal materials.
And those merchants who once bribed the prefects to suppress and close down those who were unwilling to go along with them, monopolized the medicinal materials business, and arbitrarily increased the prices of medicinal materials by ten or a hundred times.
I am afraid that the officialdom in Nanyang will change soon, and these businessmen who took advantage of the epidemic to raise prices will also be liquidated.
As for the stolen disaster relief silver from Prefect Fang, An Xin had Liu Boxing and a group of people block the door of the prefect's mansion on the third day after he left, when Prefect Fang had not made any move yet.
Prefect Fang knew that if he didn't hand over the disaster relief money, An Xin would really let these people in to raid his house on the pretext of searching for disaster relief money, and he wouldn't know where to go to seek justice then.
So he secretly sold his property at a low price and forced the officials who had participated in corruption with him to hand over the money they had embezzled over the years.
Finally, before An Xin couldn't help but get angry at him, he managed to collect the 300,000 taels of disaster relief silver.
Before he could figure out how to get the money back, Li Ziyu came on the scene.
He brought along several adjutants who were accompanying him on the inspection tour. They were so warm and friendly that they would not refuse to follow him and distribute disaster relief money to the people.
Facing an official of higher rank than himself and with the support of An Xin who led troops, Prefect Fang finally realized how difficult this young governor, whom he had originally looked down upon, was.
Every day, he followed him tirelessly and carefully asked someone to record the number of people in each village and how much silver was distributed.
This made Prefect Fang, who wanted to embezzle the money he had paid, try several times to stop him from going, but was cleverly resolved by the cold and indifferent Li Ziyu.
Under the nose of Li Ziyu, a sycophantic and sinister person, Prefect Fang did not embezzle even a tael of silver until the 300,000 taels of silver were distributed.
He was so angry that he returned home and broke a set of expensive porcelain, which made him feel sad for a long time.
His family's financial situation was already thin, and if he fell any lower he would have to live off his money to support a group of concubines in the backyard.
When Prefect Fang sent people to investigate again, he found that among the Nanyang doctors who had cooperated with the three imperial doctors to develop the plague formula, there were those doctors who had been imprisoned by him.
Only then did Magistrate Fang realize that he had been trying to be clever by hosting a banquet to trick others, but in fact he was tricked by others instead.
When An Xin, Li Ziyu and others watched the people slowly recover from the epidemic, they began to rebuild their homes with the disaster relief money.
Whenever they visited a village, the people would put down their work and kneel down in gratitude.
An Xin didn't want to disturb them. During his inspection, he learned that they were short of grain seeds, so he reported the matter to the court.
He then returned to Nanyang City, ready to cooperate with Li Ziyu to sort out the affairs of the Nanyang government office.
However, as soon as they returned to their house that night, they were surrounded by the Nanyang City Defense Soldiers led by Prefect Fang, which surprised Doctor Su and the three imperial doctors.
An Xin raised her eyebrows and looked at Li Ziyu who still had no expression on his face.
"He really can't wait!" An Xin stroked his chin and said, "We haven't even bothered him yet, but he's already rushing to our door."
At this time, footsteps were heard at the door.
When An Xin and the others looked up, they saw Prefect Fang, a group of Nanyang officials, and a city defense commander dressed in military uniform walking in.
"Humph!" Prefect Fang looked at An Xin and sneered, "Sure enough, someone who can enter the court as a woman is not ordinary."
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"Not bad." An Xin said.
Prefect Fang's expression changed. "..." Did he sound like he was praising someone?
"Hand over the silver you stole from my house, and perhaps I will be able to leave your bodies intact."
An Xin played dumb: "What are you saying that I don't understand?"
She took back the disaster relief money and the small treasury that Magistrate Fang had embezzled, but other people didn't know about it, so she couldn't take off her vest.
"Don't play dumb." Prefect Fang stared at An Xin with a sinister look in his eyes. "You didn't take the silver. Where did you get the money to buy the medicinal materials to treat the people's diseases?"
"Even if you don't have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy it at a fair price, it's impossible. Don't tell me that it was donated. I don't believe it.
In Nanyang Prefecture, except for the herbal medicine shops owned by me and a few big merchants, which stockpiled a large amount of herbs when the epidemic broke out, other herbal medicine shops simply don’t have that many herbs to sell or donate to you.”
"You're right." An Xin nodded in agreement: "The herbs donated by the owner of the affordable and kind-hearted pharmacy are not enough for all the people in Nanyang Prefecture who are sick with the disease.
Even if there were 300,000 taels of silver, it would not be enough to buy medicinal herbs.
Aren't you curious about where I got all those herbs to cure all the people in Nanyang who were sick with the plague?"
Prefect Fang narrowed his eyes and finally asked, "Where did you get so many medicinal herbs?"
Following the position of An Xin's hand, he saw the dragon pattern carved on the jade dragon whip that was coiled around An Xin's waist and used as decoration.
Prefect Fang took a deep breath. Who had he offended? Someone actually wore the gift from the emperor as an ornament around his waist.
An Xin said quietly: "Since you are so curious, it's okay for me to tell you now."
(End of this chapter)