Liao Weizhang was already angry, and he became even more angry when he saw Li Dan. He looked like a sharp-mouthed man with a monkey cheek, and was not serious at all. Thinking that this county town was governed by such an inhumane person, he wanted to behead Li Dan immediately.

Half of the responsibility for the disaster in Luojia Village and several other villages lies with this parent official. Liao Weizhang guessed that he must have been bribed by the Fan brothers. He should have received a lot of benefits before he let the villagers fend for themselves, or even blocked the news.

If Li Dan had used medicine to save people from the beginning, how could those villages become living and dead villages like they are now? Such people, let alone their parents, would not be worthy of living at all.

According to Liao Weizhang's temper, he really wanted to pull Li Dan out and kill him immediately, but he thought that he was the only one who proved Fan Tie and Fan Qing, so he had to bear the anger.

Li Dan wanted to delay Liao Weizhang for a few days, so he could send someone to deal with the affairs of those villages, but Liao Weizhang's stern voice just now clearly told him that it was impossible.

He was very scared. Such a big official could not afford to be a small magistrate. If he was not careful, he would have to move.

Li Dan knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move. The only thing he thought was that it was against him was those villages. Apart from that, his daily affairs were not worth a trip to Jingzhao Yin himself.

However, this matter seemed troublesome, but he had already ruined it. Except for those half-dead people, there was no unfavorable factor for him.

Thinking of this, Li Dan felt relieved again. He quickly passed the words he had already imagined in his mind, and then spoke in a panic: "The officials are not well-mannered, and they are negligent."

Liao Weizhang laughed furiously and pretended to be stupid in front of him. Li Dan really didn't know that his evil deeds had been exposed. He didn't like to beat around the bush. After laughing, his eyes became even colder. He knocked the auspicious wood suddenly and said angrily: "Sinner Li Dan, you have colluded with the Fan brothers to harm the people. You are unforgivable to take care of people's lives. Do you know that you are guilty?"

Li Dan was silently reciting his words in his heart. At first glance, his whole body became stiff, his face turned pale as if dead, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

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Liao Weizhang sneered: "I will not shed tears when I see you before seeing the coffin. Come on, I will give me thirty boards first, and beat me until he says."

The yamen runners on both sides were stunned and didn't know how to react for a while. The change came too quickly. They were the master the moment before, but they were going to become prisoners the next moment?

Qubing Cheng Zhizhang was not Liao Weizhang's style of dealing with things, but today he was so angry that when he thought of those villagers who were struggling to death, his heart hurt.

Anyway, Li Dan will definitely not be so easy to deal with, so he just took this opportunity to beat him up to vent his anger.

"Have you not explained my words yet?" he scolded again.

The yamen runners were shocked and quickly stepped forward and pressed Li Dan to the ground without saying a word. Two more people carried the stool. The four of them pressed Li Dan on the stool and lay down. Then two more yamen runners walked over with the boards.

Everything was ready, and they looked at Liao Weizhang and waited for instructions. Liao Weizhang shouted "beat" loudly, and the board fell on Li Dan's butt.

Li Dan was in a hurry, with only a pair of thin inner pants under his outer pants. In addition, it is winter again, and every board falls, it hurts so much that he feels like he is about to lose half of his life.

He was so angry that Emperor Tian shouted for justice and mercy, but Liao Weizhang couldn't feel angry. He only had the tragic appearance of the villagers who were surviving. Compared with dozens of lives, Li Dan was not as guilty as one ten thousand.

After finishing the thirty-year-old board, Li Dan was dragged off the stool and lay on the ground. It seemed that there was only incoming air but not out of air. But he could also bear it. He had not fainted even after being beaten like this. He could only feel the severe pain in a clear way, and he was also a human being at the moment of being tortured.

Haha~ It's just a thirty board, Liao Weizhang was so moved that he didn't give Li Dan a chance to breathe. He continued to interrogate: "Criminal Li Dan, can you admit your guilt?"

Li Dan lost his strength to cry, and his face pressed against the ground and choked, "Sir, I don't know what the crime is. Please make sure that the lower official is wronged."

"I didn't even admit my guilt. It seems that the thirty-large thrones just now are too light. Come on, give me another thirty-large thrones." Liao Weizhang was cruel and wanted to torture Li Dan. If such a person was directly beheaded, it would be too cheap for him.

When Li Dan heard this, he turned his head in fear, stared at the "Qingzheng and honest" in front of him, and cried, "Sir, please spare me. Even if the lower official is about to die, I would like to ask the upper official to understand and let the lower official be a clear ghost."

He refused to admit it, right? It seems that he is really confident. By this time, Li Dan could not guess his purpose, but he continued to pretend to be confused, afraid that all the evidence had been destroyed. The villagers were also on the verge of death, let alone testifying in the church, and they didn't know how many days they could live.

Li Dan thought he could escape the disaster as long as he didn't speak, but who was Liao Weizhang? When he was a county magistrate, he was famous for jealousy. If he became cruel, even a fierce man would not be able to bear it, let alone Li Dan, who was usually pampered and lived a favorable life.

"Okay, if you don't admit it, I will say for you:

The unscrupulous merchant Fan used inferior rice as good ones and sold them to Luojia Village as good rice. In Lijia Village and more than a dozen villages around him, the villagers ate inferior rice, and the toxins accumulated in their bodies and finally became ill one after another.

Seeing that the matter was about to be revealed, the Fan brothers promised you countless gold and silver, so that you could block all the sick villages, and not provide medicine, so that the villagers could fend for themselves.

You were fascinated by money, and you forgot that you were your parents and did something worse than animals. You used the excuse of plague to block the villagers in the village, and now, hundreds of people have died in more than a dozen villages.

Li Dan, you collude with a profiteer to murder the people and kill them. How dare you say you are innocent?"

If he had only half his life, after hearing Liao Weizhang's words, Li Dan was so scared that he almost lost half his life. Because what Liao Weizhang said was exactly the same.

He was not aware of this at first, and even thought it was really a plague. After the illness in Lijia Village broke out, a businessman suddenly came to the yamen. He promised his countless gold, silver and treasures, and the merchant also gave him an idea - to close the village.

The merchant did not tell him the truth, but analyzed for him what consequences would be if he had an plague in the area under his jurisdiction, and no matter what Li Dan thought, it would be a bad result.

Li Dan was not a good person at all. The merchant gave him so much gold, silver and treasures. He could control the epidemic as the merchant told him, and he didn't even have to alarm the prefect. He only thought about this method of three-way victory in one fell swoop, and then made a decision, which was to seal the village as the merchant said.

As for the truth, Li Dan only looked it up for a moment and then figured it out. However, this was even better for him.
Chapter completed!