As they were gradually setting westward, hundreds of people were kneeling on the school grounds of Chongming County Yamen. They were all civil servants in Chongming County Yamen. Around them were guards brought by Li Weiguo, who were carrying guns and were eyeing them covetously.

Li Weiguo originally planned to lead his fortune to Xiao Liuzi and his guards to arrest these people all over the county town, but unexpectedly, the chief clerk Xiao Yang and county magistrate Liu Jing took these people back to the county government without taking action.

"Chief Librarian Xiao Yang, do you know the crime?" Li Weiguo shouted sternly, staring at the middle-aged scholarly man in front of him, who had already had murderous intentions.

"Mr. Li, please be careful. I don't know what the heirs are guilty of?" Xiao Yang looked at Li Weiguo quietly, feeling confident and more surprised. He has been in charge of Chongming County for many years and cannot escape his plan. However, an accident happened today. A twelve-year-old young county magistrate actually saw through his conspiracy and destroyed his plan that he thought was seamless.

"You instruct your subordinates to instigate refugees to yell at the yamen, intending to burn the county government accounts and granaries, attempt to cover up and destroy your evidence of your corruption in the court's disaster relief food and salary, and even intend to assassinate my official. What else do you have to say?" Li Weiguo sneered, ready to sentence Xiao Yang to death and cut off this enemy.

"What's wrong with the crime?" Xiao Yang laughed loudly, looked at Li Weiguo provocatively, and continued, "Do you think being a county magistrate plays like a family? Everything needs to be proven."

"Damn it, you're stubborn!" Li Weiguo snorted coldly and shouted: "Come here, bring the criminal!"

After a while, Zhang Xiaoliu came to Li Weiguo with a panic expression and said, "Young Master, something is wrong, the three prisoners in the prison cell are gone."

"What?" Li Weiguo was shocked and almost stood up. He immediately calmed down and cursed: "A bunch of waste can't even look down on me."

Zhang Xiaoliu was depressed, but he did not dare to refute, but just looked at Xiao Yang viciously. He understood that it must be the other party who sent someone to secretly rescue the person.

"Zhengzhu Xiao is good at scheming and means, no wonder you are fearless." Li Weiguo looked at Xiao Yang and sneered. He understood everything, but unfortunately, he could not convict Xiao Yang without evidence.

"Mr. Li has been wrongly resigned!" Xiao Yang said with a proud look: "I have been worried and sighed for the past few days. The river broke down and the people were suffering from disasters. So I worked with County Chief Liu and the public officials of the county government to help the people rebuild the dam. Therefore, I failed to welcome the adults in time. I think it is natural for the adults to become dissatisfied with the office because of this.

"Are you misunderstood? Where did the less disaster relief food go? Don't tell me that you have distributed it to the refugees?" Li Weiguo said with a smile. He had already cheered up Xiao Yang and knew that this guy was a powerful enemy, so he should not be careless.

"The amount of disaster relief food is huge, so the granary in our county yamen naturally cannot be put down. Therefore, the subordinates transferred the disaster relief food to another place, waiting for you to come and distribute disaster relief food in person!" Xiao Yang also did not dare to underestimate Li Weiguo. Since the original plan failed, the other party guessed that the batch of disaster relief food was again, so he had to give up the plan to greedy for the batch of food and take the initiative to hand it over.

"I lost my car and protected the coach. I thought Master Xiao would swallow this batch of disaster relief food, but I didn't expect you to have the courage, which really disappointed me!" Li Weiguo sneered and deliberately ridiculed the other party.

"Mr. Li is really good at joking. How dare you be corrupt and abuse your power in your post! It's really admirable that Lord Li took the position of county magistrate as a young man, like Gan Luo in the Qin Dynasty. However, Gan Luo was split into pieces by a car at the age of 12 and thirteen. I hope Lord Li remembers that he should not repeat the same mistake." Xiao Yang gritted his teeth and forced himself to strangle Li Weiguo to death. He had originally planned to swallow the disaster relief food, but now he was forced to hand it over by Li Weiguo. Not only did he suffer heavy losses, but this was an insult to Xiao Yang.

"Thank you, Master Xiao, for reminding me that Gan Luo is not my official, and I am not Gan Luo. You have reminded me that since the county government's accounts have not been burned, I will check the account details later. I hope Master Xiao will cooperate more!" Li Weiguo looked at Xiao Yang coldly, deliberately stimulating him, trying to force him to reveal his true colors and capture him in one go.

"You are not afraid of being slanted by the shadows. Just check it!" Xiao Yang replied with a pale face. He was confident that no one could find out the accounts he had done personally, but for some reason, he always felt uneasy when he met Li Weiguo's gaze.

Li Weiguo sighed. Xiao Yang was a cunning and cruel fox. He was disappointed that he was unable to convict him on the spot. However, fortunately, the other party took the initiative to spit out the disaster relief food in order to protect himself, which helped Li Weiguo a lot of help, because he urgently needed this batch of disaster relief food to calm the hearts of the people.

In addition to Xiao Yang, Li Weiguo looked at Liu County Chief and other officials and yamen runners, knowing that they were all venting their anger, and they were angry when they saw it, but he knew in his heart that he had to stabilize them for the time being and find someone who could replace them in the future and then slowly deal with them.

This is also difficult for Li Weiguo. It is important to know that a complete county magistrate, in addition to the seventh-rank county magistrate who is in charge of the affairs of the whole county, there are eighth-rank county magistrates and chief clerks who assist the county magistrates in the work of the county, as well as the history, inspection, taxation ambassadors, river office ambassadors, post chief officials, etc., and a large number of non-rank yamen runners and civil servants working in the six rooms of the six rooms. All of them all need about 200 to 500 people to run a county magistrate.

The counties in the Qing Empire were divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower grades. More than 30,000 households were upper grades, about 20,000 households were middle grades, and ten thousand households were lower grades.

Chongming County has 33,000 households, 230,000 registered population, nearly 30,000 migrant population, totaling more than 260,000, belonging to the upper county.

Over the years, the civil servants in Chongming County Government have been maintained at about 500, but now there is only Li Weiguo, the commander who is barely responsible. The 100 guards he brought do not understand the county government and cannot operate the county government at all.

Taking this into consideration, Li Weiguo could only temporarily suppress his anger and ordered these officials and yamen runners to return to their posts immediately, preparing to open warehouses and release grain to provide relief to the victims.

Under the surveillance of Li Weiguo's guards, Xiao Zhubu and Liu County Chief, both had a bitter face and ordered people to open the granary and distribute disaster relief grain to Chongming refugees with their household registration.

"I don't understand. The ducks that come into my mouth can fly?" County Magistrate Liu said with great displeasure. Seeing the bags of grain being carried out to distribute to the refugees, he looked sore. You must know that this batch of disaster relief grain is worth 200,000 taels of silver. He and Xiao Yang have spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to get it. Now that he vomits it, let alone makes him feel sore, even the balls are in great pain.

"Do you think I am willing? A little bit of helplessness will cause trouble! If I hadn't been smart today, I'm afraid you and I will have already landed now, and you will have money and spend your life!" Xiao Yang said with a calm face.

County Magistrate Liu frowned and said, "Is it that serious? But a twelve-year-old boy has not even grown all his hair!"

"You know what's the matter!" Xiao Zhubu cursed in his heart, paused, and continued: "We all underestimated that little bastard. I thought that he would be able to get a generous reward from Governor Liangjiang. I never thought that this kid not only alertly realized my plan, but also knew that we were willing to kill him. You didn't see him looking at me with murderous intent. Even if this little bastard caught such a little handle today, you can't even survive."

"What should we do?" County Chief Liu shivered when he thought of the 100 guards with guns and live ammunition beside Li Weiguo.

"What are you afraid of! You and I have been eating official meals for decades and can you be suppressed by a mere little boy? Let him be happy for a few days first, and I have a way to kill him at that time." Xiao Zhubu gave County Chief Liu a angrily glance and persuaded with confidence.

County Chief Liu looked at Xiao Zhuan with a deep look, without doubting his strategy, but he was just a little worried when he saw Li Weiguo's methods today.

Just when the two master Xiao and Liu County Chief Liu were plotting against Li Weiguo behind their backs, Li Weiguo was not idle either. Since he knew that Xiao Yang was his enemy, he naturally would not sit still and wait for death. While presiding over the disaster relief and resettlement of the victims, he launched an investigation into the people in the county dynasty, focusing on thorough investigation of the accounts that Xiao Yang planned to burn.

The Qing Dynasty people were very clumsy in account management and records, and their accounts were chaotic, which was easy to tamper with others. They were far inferior to the modern inventory management system. They had clear details of entry and exit, and they could understand them at a glance.

The accounts of the county government were all handled by Xiao Zhuan. He thought he was doing it perfectly, and it was difficult to find out if someone else had changed it, but in front of Li Weiguo, there were many loopholes.

"The last term actually lost more than 300,000 taels of silver! If the account is not explained clearly, I will probably have to pay the bill!" Li Weiguo was shocked. Fortunately, he discovered it, otherwise he would have been kept in the dark and would not know how he died at that time.

Xiao Yang was very cunning and pointed all accounts at the Chongming County Magistrate, deliberately making the person in charge and the date difficult to investigate. In other words, no matter who is the county magistrate, once investigated, these accounts will become evidence of guilt.

"I and Xiao Yang have broken up. Both of them know that the other party is a mortal enemy. He might be making a fuss about it. How should I break this situation?" Li Weiguo knocked on the table, closed his eyes, and fell into deep thought.

At this moment, a clerk ran in panic.
Chapter completed!