Chapter 947: Looting the Corrupt Officials’ Treasury

The two continued to walk towards the north gate, with a group of people lying on the ground wailing behind them.

Outside the city gate, the sheep dealer had not yet driven the sheep over. The two men looked at each other and led their horses into the woods together.

Not long after, the two men changed their clothes and put on human skin masks. The two young men, who were completely different from before, followed the crowd queuing to enter the city and re-entered the north gate.

In the lobby of Qingyang City County Government Office.

The county magistrate, wearing a tall hat and a goatee, was furious.

"Useless! You are all a bunch of useless! So many people can't stop two young boys. Are you just raising them for nothing?"

A group of yamen runners and servants with bruised faces, broken arms and legs knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.

In the center of the hall, on a wooden board covered with a brocade quilt, lay the third son of the county magistrate, who had just woken up.

The old doctor from Renxin Hall, who has the best medical skills in the county, is examining the Third Young Master’s injuries.

The third young master covered his swollen head and screamed "Ouch, ouch" in pain.

"It hurts, it hurts... It hurts so much! Dad, you must stand up for your son! Those two brats from other places actually dared to hit me! If they hit me, wouldn't it be a slap on your face? Dad, you must not let those two guys go, hurry up and have them arrested. I must ruthlessly vent my anger and not let them have a single piece of good flesh!"

The county magistrate felt very distressed when he looked at the precious son born to his most beloved concubine.

"Don't worry, San'er. Dad will definitely have those two people arrested and handed over to you for punishment. After all, they are two strangers. No one will know if they are killed."

After saying this, he immediately drew out his token and gave the order:

"Captain Chen, you must immediately gather all the constables, yamen runners, and hangers-on, and lead them all out of the north city gate. You must bring those two daring bastards back to me. If you can't capture them alive, beat them to death with sticks and bring their bodies back for San'er to whip!"

There was a cold light in the county magistrate's eyes.

The Third Young Master's face was also very ferocious, and then he thought of the young servant who looked prettier than a woman, and a lustful look appeared on his face again.

"Captain Chen, if you can't catch the tall guy, you can kill him on the spot. The short guy is just a servant, so he's not that bad. Try not to hurt him. Capture him alive and bring him back to me."

I originally wanted to take that boy as my personal servant and pamper him for a while.

Who would have thought that the boy would be so ungrateful? Then don't blame Chen San for not being gentle with women.

He would definitely give that kid a good beating for a few days before letting him go with his master.

The county magistrate and his son were anxious to send someone to capture the two outsiders who had beaten the third young master.

At this moment, in the Qingyang County Treasury, the person they wanted to arrest openly pried open the lock and walked into the treasury.

There is no need to wonder why they could break into the county government treasury in broad daylight.

The manpower of a county government is actually very limited, especially in a small county like Qingyang City.

More than twenty yamen runners and a dozen constables; these were the number of people County Magistrate Chen could send out to arrest people.

There are also some people who are not on the government payroll and do not need to be on duty at ordinary times. They are just hangers-on who are asked to help when the government needs them.

Now all the constables and yamen runners were called to the lobby of the county government office. The only one guarding the storehouse was an old yamen runner who was so old that his teeth were missing, his eyes were blurry, and his legs and feet were disabled. Naturally, the two men knocked him down without any effort and then came in.

However, although she came in, Qiao Ran did not start to collect her things.

Because at this moment, she was staring at the warehouse, which was not big but seemed very empty:

"Hey, Qingyang City isn't that poor, is it? I see the people outside are dressed decently, and the shops are doing pretty well! How come there's nothing in the treasury?"

It's not that there is nothing. There are still a few silver bars, but the amount of silver in them is pitifully small.

There wasn't much food. There were only a few dozen sacks piled in the corner, with holes bitten by hungry rats, and some husked rice leaking out.

It's a county treasury after all, how could it be so shabby?

Since there was no one outside, Mo Beihan didn't need to keep an eye out and just followed in.

Hearing this, he narrowed his eyes and said:

"Let's go to the county magistrate's storehouse first."

Qiao Ran came back to her senses:

"Yes, yes, we can't waste time, hurry up and empty the county magistrate's private vault. I don't believe that the county magistrate will be a good and honest official if he raises a useless son like that who bullies men and women."

The mansion where the county magistrate lived was not far from the government office. Standing on the street and looking around, it was the most luxurious and tallest mansion in the entire county.

Since the county magistrate's favorite third son was beaten, almost all the servants in the mansion were sent out to capture the culprit.

Therefore, only some female relatives and maids were left in the huge mansion.

After easily entering the county magistrate's warehouse, Qiao Ran finally understood why the county government's warehouse was so empty.

"Oh! It seems that all the money in the government office has been embezzled by this bastard official!"

Look, this warehouse is bigger than the county government warehouse, and it is filled with big boxes and sacks.

What about gold, silver, pearls, jade, agate, amber, coral, landscape screens, brocade, silk, etc.

What are Panax notoginseng, Poria cocos, deer antlers and bear paws, bird's nest and donkey-hide gelatin, Ganoderma lucidum, wild ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum...

There are also porcelain vases, celebrity paintings and calligraphy, exquisite ornaments...

Although it was not as lavish as the private treasuries of the prefect and Prince Ping that had been looted in the past, it was really eye-opening compared to the shabby county government treasury.

"This damn official! He is indeed a corrupt official who only enriches himself!"

Qiao Ran cursed angrily, and then took it back without any courtesy.

Anyway, they don't have the extra time to deal with this greedy and corrupt county magistrate. The money he has extorted will not reach the hands of ordinary people. So why not take the money he has plundered from the people to support the soldiers in the northern border!

After collecting the things in the full warehouse, they went to the county magistrate's study and bedroom and looted all the valuables there.

Nothing in the study, including the tables, chairs, bookshelves, etc., was left behind.

When you have time, search carefully and find evidence that the county magistrate embezzled money and condoned his family's evil deeds, and then punish him later.

After collecting their things, the two men immediately rushed to the north city gate and paid the balance of the purchase price to the sheep dealer. After the people left, they put the hundreds of live sheep into the space and continued on their way.

As they rushed towards the northern border, the situation in the northern border became increasingly serious.

In the Shui Mansion, Shui Gaoyang, the new head of the Shui family, sat on a tiger-skin chair. His originally handsome scholar face was now untidy and he wore a snow wolf fur cloak with fierce eyes and eyebrows, like a bandit leader.

This Shuifu mansion had already been confiscated, but he was still able to return here unscrupulously.

It turned out that after burying the old patriarch, the head of the Shui family quickly gathered his connections and poisoned the old prince as soon as he returned to the Northern Frontier, causing him to fall into a coma.

Then they spread rumors that the emperor was afraid of the Dingbei Army. First, he found an excuse to dismiss the old prince's capable veteran general, General Shui, and confiscated the money. Then he cast a spell on the old prince in an attempt to seize military power and eliminate the Dingbei Army, which was a major threat to him.