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Chapter 21 - Liu County Order's Nightmare
The Liu County Order, his real name was Liu Tan, but the people of Yi County liked to call him by his nickname, Liu Sanbian. Liu Sanbian was a classic Chinese scholar, but he did not learn how to be gentle like Wen Tianxiang and Lin Zexu, who were not afraid at all. Instead, he inherited the weakness of Chinese scholars.
A gentleman doesn't stand on the other side of the wall. He can protect himself if he wants to. He has the dark thoughts of not taking advantage of a bastard. You said he was a magistrate? That's right, a person who could take three points of a county's fire consumption was considered an official in the official level of Qing Dynasty.
However, this official paid no attention to all that Second Master Lian had done, so he didn't dare to interfere. In addition, after the plaintiff had eaten the defendant's food, he would privately accept bribes from merchants and even partner to do some business. He had done nothing short of that. Even the number of people in the county administration had been reduced to less than a hundred.
This was a typical grey official. He felt that being a official was hard, but he was still afraid of being greedy. In the end, he could only be a grey official that made his life a bit more comfortable. The crime of beheading was not enough, there was no hope for Qing Shi and Qing Shi to live on for a day or two. In any case, there were more and more fields at home, and concubines also married three wives.
Actually, people like Liu Sanbian were completely mainstream amongst the officials of the Great Qing Dynasty. Second Master Lian and the others loved to interact with local officials like this, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were exceptionally assured about these officials. They were the kind of officials that could be used with absolute ease. Thus, in these past few years, Liu Sanbian's life had truly flourished and flourished within her heart.
However, everything changed today. After hearing Xiao Letian's aggressive words, it was as if he had seen a ghost.
”Liu Sanbian, I really did not expect this to happen, you brat! And the one who was having an affair was the hair on the head of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Look, isn't this a private letter from Long-hair to you? ”It's really not easy for me to find it in your study.” Xiao Letian held the dryad's pink bowl and smelled the top-grade Dragon Well's fragrance. Looking at Liu Sanbian's stupefied face, he laughed complacently and laughed complacently.
”Seeds... ”This is framing …” Liu Sanbian's hands started to tremble, but before he could even yell, Xiao Hexin's left hand flashed with a cold light and a light blue knife with the edge of a blade was pressed tightly against his neck, ”Prefecture Lord, this is fully fed with snake venom! If you dare to shout even half a word, I'll send you back to the West …”
Just then, Xiao Letian's other personal guard, Wang Huaiyuan also took action. His Eagle Claw Technique was as fast as lightning as he locked onto Wang Hu's shoulder blades, ”Don't cause any trouble for your master, sit tight for me …”
The letter he gave Liu County Order was personally written by Shi Dakai. The person in charge of supporting the cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had expressed her gratitude towards him, and had even sealed Shi Dakai's private seal in the end. Not only that, but the scribe at the stronghold had also professionally made some old papers, and the letters he had written were exactly the same as those he had written three or four years ago.
Xiao Letian sneered as he looked at Liu Sanbian. He had long figured out this fellow's personality, cowards would only hide under the skin of feudal officials to scare people for thousands of years.
”Xiao... Shaw... Mr. Xiao! ”What do you mean? When have I ever written such a letter …” Liu Sanbian was close to tears. There were only five people in the inner hall right now, Xiao Letian and his two experts, as well as Wang Hu, who was also under control. Furthermore, he saw Xiao Letian fiddling with his Colt revolver, as if it was going to land on his head in the next second.
Xiao Letian laughed wickedly as he looked at Liu Sanbian, ”What is the county magistrate trying to do? Didn't you hide this letter in your study? Why are you so forgetful when you're in your Song version of the discourse? I know that the magistrate won't admit it, so you will try your best to defend yourself. But think about it, if I send this letter to the capital and entrust it to that prince … Do you think they would believe it? ”
”Even if you don't believe me, it doesn't matter. In any case, with such a festive occasion, it's enough to bore the emperor and the empress dowager with it. Who knows, perhaps the His Majesty might even eat less than a bowl of rice …”
Just as Xiao Letian was speaking, the tea table in front of him had already started to shake violently. The bowl tea cup in front of Liu Sanbian was currently shaking as if its life depended on it.
Suddenly, Liu Sanbian seemed to have understood something and said with tears in her eyes, ”Mr. Xiao, you are able to destroy Second Master Lian, you are already someone I dare not offend. What exactly do you want? ”I'm just a seventh grade county magistrate. There aren't many things I can help you with. Please be magnanimous and leave me in your place. I submit, I really submit …”
Xiao Letian looked at Xiao Hexin and finally took away the dagger ”Why do you say that, Master Liu? Today, I came here to give you a set of wealth. Why do you think that I would do you harm? ” Xiao Letian smiled as he adjusted the lid of the tea.
That's right, really, that's right. Don't look at how Xiao Letian looked like he was going to eat on the surface, he had actually been drumming in his heart from the very beginning. This time around, the plan to deal with Liu Sanbian was not out of the blue. This was the first starting point of Xiao Letian's enormous plan.
Thank you He Heshen, thank you to the developed movie and television media in my previous life, it was precisely their inspiration that caused Xiao Letian to think of a path that couldn't be any more evil. In one famous movie and TV series, a greedy official once told a Qing official, ”In history, officials were as rare as phoenix feathers or qilin horns, while corrupt officials were as numerous as the Yellow River sand. Who would I use if not corrupt officials?”
Many of the problems that Shi Dakai and the village brothers had not been able to solve were actually nothing in the eyes of those people who were familiar with Chinese government culture, or in other words those who were familiar with the culture of the feudal officials.
As long as you have a way, you can say whatever you want them to say. In this era where there were no video recordings or phone bugs, the words that officials could use to trick the imperial court into telling the people that they were the media of that time.