Chapter 236: All Sent to Dig Coal

After returning to the inn, Lu Zhanxing and his daughter waited for Mu Qingli to come back.

It was not until the evening that Mu Qingli returned to the inn. She was not in a hurry to eat dinner, but talked about the rumor with Lu Zhanxing.

"I have already interrogated the people you asked Huaguo Huali to send. Someone gave them a sum of money and asked them to spread rumors that were unfavorable to you. As for who it was, they didn't know."

If the person behind this is not found out, it will always be disadvantageous to Xingdi.

Moreover, the person behind the scenes was very cunning. He found the person who gave the silver through the two scholars and discovered that the person who delivered the silver was also an ordinary person.

The two scholars were punished by being sent to dig coal for three years. Since they didn't have the brain power, they had to do hard labor.

Lu Zhanxing was not surprised, so he did not ask any more questions: "How was your inspection these past two days?"

"Although His Majesty has issued an order that reports can be made to higher-ups, there are still some who collude with each other. I have punished several corrupt officials in the past two days, but the others are not so bad."

Hearing this, Lu Zhanxing expressed his understanding. There are always people who think that the emperor is far away and the sky is high, so there are naturally some who collude with others to commit crimes, and there are even people who rely on the officials of the Heavenly Punishment Department to do bad things. However, the punishment for officials of the Heavenly Punishment Department who make mistakes is much more severe. The lightest punishment is confiscation of property, and the worst is beheading. Moreover, the supervisors are still the people of the world.

Anyone who dares to commit a crime against the law will be punished!

So her Department of Heavenly Punishment was relatively stable.

A few days later, Lu Zhanxing asked Mu Qingli to take Ling'er to inspect and let Ling'er learn more about judging cases.

Mu Qingli raised her eyebrows. Is this going to raise Ling'er as a boy?

However, he also felt that Ling'er was intelligent. It would be a waste if she just became a carefree princess. If she could enter the officialdom, that would be a real killer. It could be said that most officials in the court were not as good as Ling'er.

"You don't need to explain too much to her, just let her watch and learn more. If she has any questions, just tell her."

If after many years, women are still unable to serve as officials in the court, then let Ling'er inherit the Heavenly Punishment Department, which also has real power.

Brother loves Ling'er so much, he will definitely not refuse.

Mu Qingli agreed and went out with Ling'er.

It is now May and Ling'er's birthday has long passed. At that time, Ling'er was kidnapped and An'an was poisoned, which made everyone panic. Who would have the mood to celebrate the birthdays of these two little ones?

They could only hold a big celebration later. When Lu Zhanxing saw that his daughter had left, Huaguo and Huali had to take care of Ling'er, so they naturally followed her.

Bai Jing finally found his master and told Lu Zhanxing what his uncle had said.

Lu Zhanxing didn't say much. The poison had almost been solved. As for the poison in An An's body, as long as the mother Gu was in his body, An An would be safe.

I’m afraid that An An is too young now. If I force the poison to be removed, she might not be able to bear it. It’s better to wait until An An is older.

In the next few days, while Mu Qingli took Ling'er to inspect, Lu Zhanxing took Bai Jing to the mansions of various officials to check out the situation. In the middle of the night, she entered their study through space to find out what was going on.

For three consecutive days, Lu Zhanxing breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that these officials were relatively honest.

But just when she was about to stop, she unexpectedly found an account closure invoice in the study of the prefect of Liangdi, Yongzhou.

This prefect was none other than Nie Yong, the new prefect who succeeded his elder brother-in-law Gu Xuyao. He was a newly-appointed Jinshi who was sent out to serve as an official.

After Lu successfully rebelled, he investigated the background of many officials, but Nie Yong was retained.

Unexpectedly, this guy managed to gain a lot of money by using this method. No wonder we couldn't find any evidence against him.

It’s not Mu Qingli’s fault that he didn’t find anything wrong with the prefect. After all, his method of making money was indeed covert enough.

If I hadn't seen a familiar name on the list, I would probably not have known the secret behind it.

That’s right, Su Xianxin’s name is on the list of cancelled accounts, and her value is 900,000 taels, which is much higher than the names on other lists.

The person who bought Su Xianxin was an old acquaintance, her former third brother-in-law Feng Chengyu.

Wasn't Su Xianxin exiled to Yanzhou District to dig coal by myself?

How come the list appeared here with the prefect of Yongzhou?

Is it true that the heroine can be rescued no matter what adversity she is in?

Lu Zhanxing took the bill and returned to the inn, then asked Bai Jing: "Didn't I personally ask you to send Su Xianxin to Yanzhou to dig coal? Are you sure you did?"

"Your Highness, I did send her to Yanzhou. To confirm, I personally sent Su Xianxin to the coal yard and also contacted the manager there."

Bai Jing answered with certainty.

Lu Zhanxing didn't ask any more questions, because she knew Bai Jing would not lie about such things.

However, after meeting Mu Qingli the next day, he showed him the account book and said, "In this account book, prisoners from all over the country have had their accounts cancelled here. Especially Su Xianxin, I personally asked Bai Jing to send her to Yanzhou, but she ended up showing up here. You should check how this works."

Mu Qingli looked solemn and without further delay, he immediately took the runners from the Heavenly Punishment Division to interrogate the officials.

Later it was learned that the new prefect of Yanzhou and the prefect of Liangdi, Yongzhou were close friends. After Feng Chengyu learned that Su Xianxin was exiled to Yanzhou, he asked Prefect Nie to help bring Su Xianxin back. He took 990,000 taels and gave half of it to the prefect of Yanzhou.

So, Su Xianxin was brought back, and both parties concealed the truth and earned so much silver.

After interrogation, we learned that they did not dare to be so blatant before, and they would only take action after they were sure that the prisoner had no chance of turning the tables.

Some good-looking female prisoners would be bought by wealthy businessmen.

This also implements the account cancellation.

Lu's rebellion was successful, and Su Xianxin was once the fourth prince's consort, so she was even more hated by Prime Minister Su. After a while, he confirmed that no one could protect Su Xianxin, so he sent her to Yongzhou with confidence.

They were a little worried about using this method at first, but later they found that no one had thoroughly investigated it, so they used it with confidence.

They were a little worried when they cancelled Su Xianxin's account before, but who asked General Feng to give so much?

They had no choice but to take a risk and let an ordinary woman pretend to be Su Xianxin to dig coal, and then create the illusion of her death. Eventually Su Xianxin escaped from the Yanzhou Coal Mine.

If Lu Zhanxing did not have the ability to travel through space, he would not have been able to detect this problem.

"Have the two prefects been dealt with?"

Lu Zhanxing was still a little annoyed. Is this the girl of luck?

He was able to escape like this, and Feng Chengyu was so bold that he even dared to buy and sell prisoners. We let him go before because they were from the Lu family army, but who would have thought that Feng Chengyu would dare to do this for Bai Yueguang.

He even had the nerve to go back and beg his third sister to get back together. What a two-faced person.

Fortunately, the third sister is no longer in love, otherwise if she got back together with him, facing such a person, it would be really disgusting.

"I have stripped them of their official positions and sent them to work in the mines. I have also submitted a memorial to the capital, and the court will soon send new officials. However, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the prisoners who were bought."

In particular, most of them were bought by wealthy businessmen, and their accounts were cancelled, and some even changed their names.

Mu Qingli didn't know how Lu Zhanxing managed to get the account book, but she still admired Lu Zhanxing.

He investigated these officials thoroughly for several days but found no clues.

"Forget about the rest, but I had someone send Su Xianxin here. How dare someone fool me? Damn it. In the name of the Heavenly Punishment Department, Feng Chengyu took the criminal away privately and disregarded the law. I will deprive Feng Chengyu of all his military merits, send Feng Chengyu and Su Xianxin to mine together, and assign more people to watch over them."

Working in coal mines is hard and tiring, the mortality rate is high, and there is even a huge shortage of workers.

He also told Mu Qingli that after sending the person to the coal mine, he should find a way to kill Su Xianxin!

The reason why Lu Zhanxing didn't take Su Xianxin's life before was that he wanted to try and see if the heroine could still be considered the heroine without the hero.

Facts have proved that it does count, otherwise how could he have escaped?