Chapter 245: How to let a person's heart not hurt
It was just one month, but from Chu Qing-Yan's point of view, it was simply like a century had pa.s.sed. But if she was to look back, she felt that time pa.s.sed hurriedly and all the things she experienced were vivid in her mind.
Their group came out of Yang Xia county then entered Zhi county. They just so happened to encounter Zhi county magistrate's son oppressing the people on the street. Big Block of Ice captured him and everyone went to the county police to bring this case up. On the way, he flipped through the past ten years of records in Zhi county. He found many things the Zhi county officials did that were heartless. That same day Zhi county magistrate was suspended and investigated for criminal activities.
They stayed in Zhi county for two days, The imperial auditors from the capital rushed through the night from Ping Yang city to take over the investigation of Zhi county magistrate.
Exiting Zhi county, next was Zhi Ze county.
Rumor had it that the magistrate Zhi Ze county was a diligent and uncorrupt official that governed well. Only that in the county, there was a famous evil tyrant. Rumor had it that this evil tyrant had people in the capital, normally he ruled as a despot. Even the magistrate of Ze county had no ways to deal with him, because every time they reported it to higher officials, it would be suppressed with all kinds of excuses. As time pa.s.sed, this Ze county magistrate could only turn a blind eye to this evil tyrant.
Once they arrived at Zhi Ze county, Xiao Xu directly stated his ident.i.ty to the magistrate. He arranged all the cases of crime that the evil tyrant had committed, then he wrote a letter and conveyed it to the envoy of the imperial court of investigations in the capital.
In less than two days, that evil tyrant was captured and brought to justice. Even that official in the capital that he mentioned was investigated. They even ferreted out old cases that were miscarriages of justice that once again implicated three to four officials in the imperial court.
The group of people exited Zhi Ze then entered Liu Xiang city. This was a city that produced flowers and plants. From the time they were outside the city, they could already smell the fragrance. This place was the main source of supply to the palace for perfume materials. But Chu Qing-Yan discovered that in this city that ought to be rich from supply of perfume materials to the palace, the disparity between the rich and poor was extremely obvious.
Inside Liu Xiang city was an influential Liu family that dealt with perfume materials. They mostly provided various rare perfume materials to the harem in the imperial palace. But the source of these perfume materials were all purchased at a cheap price from the farmers and peasants in the surroundings. Afterwards, they processed it and then delivered it to the palace. Their habitually squeezing things from the peasants made the poor people even poorer and them even richer.