"Let him go!" Just when Li Ling felt a moment of despair and powerlessness, Lin Lie suddenly spoke after his expression changed.

This made the constables stunned: "Boss, it is a serious crime for him to set fire to the county government..."

"Do you believe this? I thought you could fool someone by knocking him out? The ropes on his hands and feet are still there, who is who is, isn't it clear at a glance? I can't do such a black and white thing." Lin Lie said in a deep voice with a gloomy face.

"But this was ordered by the Fourth Master..." Someone said a little uneasy, but was interrupted by Lin Lie immediately: "I will take care of something and let the person go!" The latter sentence was an attitude of not being able to distinguish it from it at all, and the momentum immediately suppressed it.

The subordinate didn't dare to go against the captain, so he immediately let go of Li Ling's hand and pushed him forward: "You guy is a cheap guy, why don't you thank us Lin Tzu?"

Li Ling smiled bitterly, but still fisted at Lin Lie: "Thank you, Captain Lin, speaks for justice, but this matter..."

"What's the matter? Isn't it just that a madman suddenly ran into the county government to set fire, but was caught by us? Don't be too troublesome, go back and sleep and everything will pass." Lin Lie didn't give him a good look, and directly interrupted his words, and waved his hand again: "Take the person back to guard it. It's midnight, and everyone is tired."

All the detectives agreed lazily, and then carried Xu Fei, who was unconscious, and went out. However, Lin Lie stayed at the end and turned to look at Li Ling: "Li Ling, right? You have some skills, but that's all. Don't think about making trouble again, otherwise it will only bring greater trouble to yourself and your family. Egg hits a stone, as long as you are a sensible person, you won't do it."

After pausing, he slowed down again and said, "As long as you don't talk nonsense, at least I can keep you safe in the county government. Do you remember?" He said that, stared at Li Ling like a warning, and then walked away.

Li Ling stood there in a steady state, speechless for a long time. A gust of night wind blew, which made him feel a bit cold. He quickly turned around and entered the room and closed the door again.

Without lighting the candle, he stood quietly in the dark room, recalling the helplessness deep in Lin Lie's eyes when he warned him. Obviously, he did not agree with what the Zhuang brothers did, but because Zhuang Hong was his immediate boss and was unable to resist, the only thing he could do was to protect himself for the time being, and he could only protect himself in the county yamen. It was hard to say if he left the yamen.

Is it sad? At least in Li Ling's opinion, he is sad, a kind of sadness that everyone is drunk and awake, but he lacks the courage and strength to change everything in this darkness!

I don’t know how long it took for Li Ling’s mouth to slowly rise up, and a smile appeared: “Does an egg touch a stone? Maybe in your opinion, I want to resist the persecution of the dealer is that an egg hits a stone, and a croaker shakes a big tree. But sometimes eggs may really crush the stone!”

The last sentence was that he was cheering himself up and encouraged him, and he couldn't lose the courage to resist because of this change. Because Li Ling knew very well that he was the one whom the brothers of the banker must be eliminated, and they had already achieved this and could not give up halfway.

In this case, it is better to fight and start a first move than to be prepared for all the time, or to take your sister to escape and live a life of stagnation!

But what should I do? I could have used this incident to bring Xu Fei to make things worse. But now the other party took the person away earlier. I am afraid that Xu Fei would not be able to appear again in a short period of time, so I can only find another countermeasure. What is the countermeasure?

Li Ling took a deep breath, his fists tightened and loosened, but his mind quickly turned. He knew very well that this would be the biggest crisis in his two lives. Once he failed, he and his sister would end miserably, which was something he would not want to see anyway.

"So I have to find out the flaws of the Zhuang brothers, especially Zhuang Hong. As long as he can hold him, Zhuang Qiang, a guy who pretends to be a tiger, will no longer be a threat. But what flaws do he have? Corruption and bribery..." Li Ling's eyes suddenly swept around. Although it was in the dark, he could clearly "see" the rows of bookshelfs and the neatly stacked account books and files on the shelves.

"I have no other skills. What I am best at is checking accounts! Maybe others can't find out his problem, but I can definitely do it! Just start with money! Although embezzlement of public funds is not a big deal now, once the amount is too large, it will be different!"

With the last fist loosened, Li Ling had made up his mind! Without delaying the rest, enduring the faint pain still coming from his waist and abdomen, Li Ling stepped forward and lit the candle, which added a circle of dim light to the room in the dark. Then he took the oil lamp to a row of shelves, and his eyes quickly swept the account book above.

Fortunately, he has been very efficient in the past few days and has done a good job of sorting the subjects. It is naturally much more convenient to find relevant evidence. Li Ling only chose the account book for nearly two or three years this time, and then took all the account books to the table beside him, sat down and quickly scanned it.

Although the descriptions of these books are complicated and chaotic, and there is a gap between them and the regular books of later generations, and the most primitive recording plans of this era are used, but for Li Ling, who has a record certificate and several years of work experience, these things are not too difficult to understand.

However, in order to more clearly find out Zhuang Hong's corruption behavior over the past few years, Li Ling also took out paper and pen to record it simply, transforming all the Chinese characters and numbers into more familiar Arabic numerals, and replacing the complex and diverse accounting methods with the most commonly used four-pillar accounting method in later generations.

As the numbers flow from the pen to the paper, some dirty things hidden under the many accounting methods appear one by one. Perhaps some accounting masters in this era can hide many problems, but they just rely on the people's lack of understanding of the account books. However, in the face of more refined and scientific accounting methods in later generations, all these problems are exposed and there is nowhere to be hidden.

Zhuang Hong has been working in the county government for several years, and the means of harming public and private powers are now completely revealed as if they were exposed to the sun: "In the 24th year of Xianlong (year before yesterday), they swallowed up part of the tax silver and cleverly added the money to the people of the two towns; in the 25th year of Xianlong (year last year), they divided up thousands of taels of silver in the name of repairing the river embankment, but let the people pay and work to repair the river embankment..."

Li Ling gently recited the various corruption plots he found. He had already recorded more than ten account problems on a small piece of paper. Then he added them together. It was the corruption situation after Zhuang Hong had taken action in the past two years. It was really shocking to see this.

"In two years, Zhuang Hong took public funds and civilians into his hands with his position..." Li Ling glanced over and quickly calculated, "More than 2,300 taels of silver, but this is just traceable corruption. If you add bribes or something, I'm afraid the number will have to double."

Feeling that he had already caught Zhuang Hong's handle, Li Ling smiled at first, but then frowned again: "Is this evidence of guilt really enough? Five thousand taels of silver definitely not a small amount. Can it really arouse hatred from the people for him?"

Suddenly he remembered the experience when he came to report to the official position that day. Since he entered the yamen, those servants were asking for money from him. Obviously, this is not an individual phenomenon, but the atmosphere in the entire Dayue officialdom is like this, as the saying goes, the officials and people in the county government actually do a lot of corruption and abuse of power, and they and Zhuang Hong are obviously one.

Just like the situation reflected in these accounts, some taxes and other things were not swallowed by Zhuang Hong alone, and the county magistrate and the sixth house clerk started together - they were stamped with their seals, so there would be no injustice at all. So, this is a completely interest group. Once it is dragged out, more people will inevitably be brought out.

"If this is the case, things will be tricky. Even if it is as I thought before, that person will help me. I am afraid that it will not be possible to take all the people in the county government office to do it?" Thinking of this section, Li Ling shivered, knowing that things were much more difficult and complicated than what he wanted just now.

You can really catch the other party’s handle by just checking the account, but it is far from enough to kill him.

It is said that half of the fallen officials are due to work style and the other half is corruption, but in fact, it is not that simple. Many officials are just offended too many people, which makes the superiors have to take him down for the overall situation. As for work style and corruption, it is just a reason for the people below to show, at least that is not the real problem.

Li Ling, who became more and more calm through the account check, had already figured out this level at this time, but it also made him feel powerless. After all, he really had no better way other than that.

Just when he was a little depressed, a ray of sunlight shot through the side window and hit a book in front of him. It was not an account book, but a document from the superior's office that had not been sorted out before. Li Ling's eyes subconsciously fell on this document. In just one glance, his originally unsightly eyes suddenly changed. He quickly reached out and picked it up and read it carefully.

It took a full cup of tea to see Li Ling carefully looked at the last signature on his face, and a strange expression appeared on his face. After a moment, the person quickly bounced up, rushed to the bookshelf, and quickly searched for them. Finally, he took several related documents and account books, which were all old files from more than ten or twenty years ago. They looked a little crisp and might break at any time.

But Li Ling felt as if he had found a treasure at this moment, carefully put it on the desk, and then looked at it carefully.
Chapter completed!