Liu Yuan has already admitted that he is the mastermind of this matter, but everyone knows that he is definitely not the only one behind the secret salt. However, when asked about this, he remained silent and used silence to resist.

"As an adult, you don't need to ask any more questions. I did this all by myself. It's up to you how to judge you." Liu Yuan closed his eyes as he said this, looking like he refused to cooperate.

Si Ning frowned and looked at Liu Yuan who was kneeling in the hall. Liu Yuan had already made clear the other charges. According to the laws of the Great Expedition, he had to die, so why did he bite him to death without explaining clearly.

Unless that person is more terrifying than death to Liu Yuan.

Li Su had interrogated him earlier and had seen him like this.

"Liu Yuan, look back at the people behind you who came to plead for your life." Li Su looked at Liu Yuan coldly.

Liu Yuan froze when he heard this, and he didn't look back.

"As soon as I entered Yinchuan, I heard about your good reputation of loving the people like a son. After you were arrested, the people spontaneously came to the Yamen to cry out for you, complaining, and asked the court to let you go, let you go - —A good official."

Liu Yuan raised his head and looked at Li Su. There was sarcasm and regret in Li Su's eyes. Liu Yuan's heart trembled when he saw it, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Stop talking."

"Liu Yuan, I have investigated you. You are the number one scholar in the twenty-eighth year of the Great Expedition. When you first entered the court, you vowed to be a man who would serve the country and the people like Yan Zi.

The irony is that a good official who wanted to love and protect the people has now turned into a corrupt official who harms and harms the people."

Li Su's voice was cold, and there was no sarcasm in it, but every word penetrated Liu Yuan's heart.

He looked at Liu Yuan with red eyes, "Shut up!"

He looked around at the ministers in the hall, Jiang Ge, and Lin Gong frowned and looked at Li Su. They were already annoyed because of Lin Jingdan's matter, but when they saw a prisoner looking at them with such irritation, they moved away in disgust. sight.

It was a look of disgust, like a drop of water dripping into a seemingly calm but already scalding pan of oil.

He sneered, first knelt down on one knee, and then stood up in chains, "What is a good official? What is a corrupt official?

The fact that you can sit in the hall and accuse me so righteously today is just because you have a good background."

Liu Yuan staggered back a step, with a sarcastic smile on his face, "No. 1 Scholar? What kind of bullshit No. 1 Scholar? One comes only every three years. What's so strange about being the No. 1 Scholar?

You think I don’t want to be a good official, but this worldly thing likes to force a good official into a corrupt official.

A good official is like grease in water. Without a strong background, he can only be squeezed out of the officialdom."

Emperor Jianzhang behind the screen had an ugly expression on his face, and Su Yumao behind him was also sweating coldly at this moment. Liu Yuan really didn't want to live anymore.

To talk about being a traitor to the world, isn't this just a roundabout way of scolding His Majesty for his poor governance?

Li Su was not led astray by Liu Yuan's sophistry, "I cannot agree with what you said. The only one who can determine your own future is you.

It’s not what the world forces you to become, it’s what you change by obeying the world.”

After hearing Li Su's words, Liu Yuan slumped down on the ground. It was obvious that these words had entered his heart.

Looking at Liu Yuan who was slumped on the ground in despair, no one present had any sympathy for him. The people who were waiting at the Yamen to hear the trial looked at Liu Yuan at this moment and felt very strange.

They didn't even feel the anger of being deceived, they just felt unbelievable and empty.

Liu Yuan's case is actually over now.

In this case, Liu Yuan is a "double-faced official" who is good at concealing himself. He pretends to be cool in front of others, has a good appearance, loves and protects the people, but behind his back is indeed full of evil and evil.

The kind-hearted and simple common people could only see his disguise, but they had no idea how many evil and shameful deeds he had done behind the scenes.

After Liu Yuan was arrested, Mao Liu, who was imprisoned by him, naturally fell into Li Su's hands.

The moment he saw the officers and soldiers, Mao Liu knew that the situation was over, so he quickly explained everything he knew.

It turns out that two years ago, the second year after Liu Yuan came here to serve as governor, the Wujia Village at the foot of Helan Mountain was barren, with exposed rocks and few plants.

Wujiacun has lived here for generations and lives in poverty. No one even wants to go to Wujiacun to marry their daughter.

But later, there was a young man named Wu Guangxu in Wujia Village who was courageous and quick-witted. He had worked on salt wells before.

Later, he was injured and returned to the village. After recovering from his injury, he led the young adults in the village to dig a salt well deep in the Helan Mountains.

There were only a few people at the beginning, and they didn’t plan to make it big, so they just thought of getting some salt to eat themselves. If there was more, they would take it to the city and sell it quietly. They didn’t think they wouldn’t be able to sell it, after all, they had bought it before.

Private salt.

The price of private salt is higher than that of official salt, so people are eager to buy private salt.

Unexpectedly, the quality of the salt wells they dug was very good, and the output was higher than that of the imperial salt well that Wu Guangxu worked before.

At first, they only dared to sell small amounts of salt. Later, they gradually became dissatisfied. Seeing that no one noticed the sale for a long time, they became bolder and began to sell private salt in large quantities.

Little did they know that it was precisely because of this that they were being targeted. Wu Guangxu was smart, but he was limited. There was a sudden surge of private interests in Yinzhou. How could Liu Yuan, as the governor, not notice it.

He specially sent people to pretend to buy private salt, and then secretly followed and investigated who they were and where the private salt came from.

Afraid of disturbing the situation by photographing the officers and soldiers, Liu Yuan handed over the matter to his confidant butler. His butler was already very old, so naturally it was impossible for him to go there in person. He also found someone, who was none other than Mao Zedong.

six.

Mao Liu is his nickname, and his name is Mao Zhuzhu. He grew up in Yinchuan City and is very knowledgeable about the family. This is why the housekeeper found him.

Mao Liu lived up to expectations. He first pretended to be a buyer, and after the salt seller left, he followed him quietly. Just like that, Mao Liu discovered Wujiacun and the salt wells in Helan Mountain.

He didn't have any frivolous feelings at that time, and after completing the investigation, he directly told the news to the housekeeper.

After the housekeeper told Liu Yuan the news, Liu Yuan wanted to arrest the people in Wujia Village immediately, but he slowly sat back down as soon as he stood up.

After sending away the housekeeper, he sat alone in the study all night.

The next day, he took a group of his cronies and quietly went to Wujia Village. Wujia Village was not big at all, and the people in it were all ordinary people. He faced the soldier with a knife, Liu Yuan in official clothes,
Chapter completed!