usatvline Chapter 265 Murdered
Chapter 265 Murdered
The queen's shrill scream broke through the eardrums and reached the ears of Xie Ci'an and Xie Qingzhi.
Xie Qingzhi wanted to cover her ears, but immediately realized that this was the Queen's inner voice, and covering her ears would be of no use.
[Not only did he trick people into becoming his concubines, he also forced women of good character into prostitution. How did Qingzhou Academy support such a person to the position of president?]
Liang Mo framed students at the academy for cheating on an exam and even threatened to expel them from Qiunan Academy. These students came from impoverished families, and for them, studying in the capital and earning a degree was their greatest opportunity. If they were expelled from the academy because of this incident, no other academy would accept them. Thus, they would lose even the chance to achieve a degree and change their lives.
In order to obtain a chance to pass the imperial examination, they had no choice but to ask Liang Mo for help. Liang Mo used this opportunity to ask them to give their sister to him as a concubine. As long as they agreed, they would become family and the matter would be written off.
[What the hell? They threw up all the snacks I just ate.]
[There are actually students who, for the sake of their own future, send their younger sisters to Liang Mo as concubines. They even try to pimp their younger sisters, saying that Liang Mo is a powerful figure and that marrying Liang Mo as a concubine is better than marrying a poor man as a wife. At least by following Liang Mo, they can enjoy the best food and drink.]
If you say Liang Mo is bad, he is indeed a scumbag, but the humanity of those students was also fully displayed at this moment. Now, for a place in school, he sold his sister. If he becomes an official in the future, will he also become a fence-sitter?
Compared to forcing someone into a concubine, the worst form of this is forcing a woman of good character into prostitution. Liang Mo and the Qingzhou County Magistrate opened a brothel together in Qingzhou, specifically forcing the daughters of poor families to go there. If they were forced to sell their daughters to such a place out of desperation, it would be fine, but they were driven into such desperation by these two scumbags, who even deliberately framed them. The poor people broke their valuables, and since they certainly couldn't afford to pay for it, they were forced to sell their daughters to the brothel.
"Actually, those things are fake, but they were all conspired by Liang Mo and the county magistrate. Even if we report it to the authorities, there's no one to take action. I really don't believe this matter can be resolved by just the county magistrate. For such a big thing, Qingzhou is still under the emperor's feet, not a small place like Lingnan."
[If the people above hadn't been protecting him, how could there not be any news at all?]
[As expected, as expected.]
Xie Ci'an clenched his fingers into fists under his sleeves, veins bulged on the back of his hands, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Generally speaking, the Queen's tone must be complicated.
Perhaps he will also have connections with officials in the capital.
Although Xie Qingzhi was a bit absurd in his daily life, he still hated evil. When he heard these words, he wanted to kill Liang Mo on the spot, but he forced himself not to do it.
These two were merely underlings. Behind them were their local officials, and above them was the Prime Minister's son-in-law, the highly praised Chief Censor in the capital. However, the Chief Censor was a very shrewd man. When the underlings approached him, he was tempted, but he didn't want to get involved. So, he simply accepted their money and served as their protection, ensuring they didn't cause too much trouble. He remained aloof from all other matters.
[In the final analysis, the former Qinghe County Magistrate did not die suddenly, but was murdered by these people.]
Even officials were murdered.
I knew it before from the incident of Lin Qi selling his sister that the Chief Censor was not a good person. I didn't expect him to be so useless.
Both times, Gu Jianchu got the melons about the Chief Censor through these evil people.
In the past, the character that the Chief Censor had created for himself was too perfect, so Gu Jianchu never thought of eating the melons about the Chief Censor.
Since I haven't seen the Chief Censor during this period, I naturally can't eat more melons. Even if I do eat them, they are all the melons that everyone knows.
Xie Ci'an frowned slightly, and doubts arose in his mind.
Although the Qinghe County Magistrate was not far from Qingzhou, he had no jurisdiction over Qingzhou's territory. Why was he killed by them?
Xie Ci'an's doubt was quickly answered by Gu Jianchu.
Liang Mo and the Qingzhou County Magistrate fell in love with a blacksmith's daughter. Their daughter was beautiful and charming, so they plotted a similar strategy. They ordered a batch of goods from the blacksmith, and after the blacksmith finished making them, they switched the goods and demanded compensation. They had originally given the blacksmith two hundred taels of silver, and now they were demanding ten times the amount—two thousand taels. The blacksmith didn't have much money, and he had a sick wife at home who needed money every day. Seeing that the blacksmith had no money, they simply kidnapped the daughter and sold her to the Red Courtyard.
After realizing he'd been ripped off, the blacksmith went to the government office to file a complaint, only to be beaten instead. Later, he learned from insiders that Hongyuan was a joint venture between the Qingzhou County Magistrate and Yousong Academy, and that complaining was pointless. Many daughters had been ensnared in this same trap. Unwilling to accept this, the blacksmith went to the neighboring Qinghe County to file a complaint. The Qinghe County Magistrate was a kindhearted man, and while he knew about the incident, he hated these corrupt officials. However, he and the Qingzhou County Magistrate were of the same rank, so even if he wanted to intervene, he couldn't reach the Qingzhou area.
The Qinghe County Magistrate and the blacksmith then agreed to write a memorial and send it to the Emperor, so that the Qingzhou County Magistrate's evil deeds would be made public.
The Qinghe County Magistrate, thinking the Qingzhou County Magistrate might have a protective umbrella above him, deliberately bypassed their superiors and sent the memorial directly to the capital. He then paid someone to slip the memorial to the Chief Censor, who then delivered it to him.
This Chief Censor also had one advantage: he was meticulous. Before submitting his memorial, he examined the memorials and stumbled upon the accusation made by the Qinghe County Magistrate. He secretly suppressed the magistrate's memorial and handed it to the Provincial Administration Commissioner to handle. If the Emperor learned of this, it would likely implicate many people. So, the Provincial Administration Commissioner had the magistrate executed, faking his sudden death. Because the magistrate knew so much, as long as he was still alive, he would likely try to leak information to the Emperor. Just because they could stop him once didn't mean they'd be so lucky next time. The most direct solution was to eliminate the root of the problem.
Later, the blacksmith learned of this incident. He felt that he had brought trouble upon the magistrate of Qinghe County, a good official. Furthermore, after his daughter was taken away by those people, his wife died of anger. The blacksmith felt that he had no purpose in life and simply set fire to everything in his home. He perished in the flames.
【What kind of evil people are these?】