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He said that the emperor had already given him a secret order, and thanked General Du for the notice. He was very grateful and owed him a big favor.

When your boss takes the initiative to say that he owes you a favor, this is also a signal that he wants to make friends with you.

General Du was very pleased after receiving the reply.

He is smart and his boss is not stupid either, and they both like each other very well, which means they can maintain a long-term friendship. In the officialdom, one cannot fight alone, and only by working together can one get a better chance of promotion and wealth.

The sky gradually darkened.

As night fell, the streets, which were bustling at the beginning, gradually became quiet, and in the end only the night watchmen were walking back and forth on the streets.

General Du, with several hundred men and Chen Changji in disguise, headed towards the county government office under the cover of night.

"Don't move, put your hands up."

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the front and back gates of the county government office.

A group of soldiers armed with long swords rushed straight into the back house through the back door.

All the gatekeepers were dumbfounded. They had just been groggy and wanted to sleep, but now they were not sleepy at all.

"Tell me quickly, where is your Magistrate Li?" General Du put a knife on the neck of a yamen runner.

The person being questioned was Xiaojia. He knew that this was just a show, so he pretended to be very convincing.

"Reply, reply to your Excellency's question, our master is in the study right now."

He looked frightened and trembling.

"Come on, take us there."

General Du took Chen Changji and his party to the study, and sent another party to the county government warehouse to see if there were dozens of boxes of gold, silver and jewelry hidden inside.

After a while, the person who went to the warehouse came back and reported that it was full of various gold, silver and jewelry, roughly estimated to be hundreds of thousands of taels.

Hundreds of thousands of taels!

Besides silver, there was also a great deal of gold.

This figure obviously surprised Chen Changji. This was a fortune that could not be spent in ten or even twenty lifetimes.

"So much, it's beyond my expectation. I don't know how much Magistrate Li has embezzled. How can he be worthy of the people of Gu County?"

He pretended to be angry, but in fact he was very happy. All these will be his from now on!

"Your Excellency the Governor is right. I think so too."

General Du echoed him, but in fact he secretly despised him in his heart. He thought that Governor Chen probably didn't know that he was about to face a disaster and was still thinking about embezzling money.

Money can tempt people, but it can also kill people. When he is dead, we will see if he will regret it.

In the study, Li Chengjin, who was reading a book, was blocked by a group of people.

As soon as Chen Changji entered the door, he shouted loudly and pretended to be righteous.

"Li Magistrate, you are so bold. You have taken bribes and perverted the law, plundering the people's wealth and storing hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, silver and jewelry in the county government's warehouse. Do you know your crime?"

Li Chengjin was not at all flustered by this situation, on the contrary he was very calm.

"My Lord Governor, you brought people to break into my Gu County government office in the middle of the night and put a trumped-up charge on me. How can this be justified?"

"The evidence is there. Don't try to quibble. I have wasted my trust in you. You used fake paintings to fool me. But you didn't report the treasure when you found it, and you even tried to embezzle it. You are not worthy of the court. You have gone too far. Even God can't stand it!"

Chen Changji had the look of a villain who had succeeded in his career, making himself look like the embodiment of justice.

"General Du, tie him up and send him to jail first. I will write a memorial tomorrow and report this matter to His Majesty."

In fact, he had already made up his mind to embezzle the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so he would never report it to the court.

If he reported it, he would only get a small portion of the money, and he didn't want to be a good person for nothing. He wanted everything.

As long as the person is locked up in jail, he can be crushed and twisted into a ball. Just strangle him to death with a hemp rope and then make it look like he committed suicide by hanging.

All of this is just a dead end. He gets the lion's share of the money, so just giving General Du a few tens of thousands of taels of silver would be enough to make him grateful.

Chen Changji had all his badness and thoughts written on his face.

Li Chengjin only needs to look at him once to guess what he is thinking.

"Your Excellency the Governor speaks so confidently, but you are just trying to covet the gold, silver and jewels in my storehouse. Reporting this to the court is just an excuse."

"You teamed up with General Du to attack the county government office in the middle of the night, just to control everyone and make me unable to resist."

"If you throw me into jail, I won't survive this night. Committing suicide out of fear of punishment is a good excuse. I'm right, Your Excellency."

He looked at the man standing in the middle with an indifferent expression.

"Li Zhixian is really smart, but it's a pity that your cleverness backfired. You are just a small county magistrate, and you want to take all the treasure for yourself. Can you do it? Your current fate is nothing but your own fault."

"Even if you guessed it, what can you do? I have the Chen family and the current queen behind me. These things don't belong to you."

Now that victory was assured, Chen Changji simply stopped pretending. His words were not only for Li Chengjin to hear, but also for General Du to hear.

He is powerful and has the support of the Queen, so it is reasonable for him to take the lion's share of these gold, silver and jewelry.

"Are you so confident, Lord Governor? You think you can hold these things safely, so you are not afraid. This is also your death warrant."

After hearing this, Chen Changji threw his head back and laughed out loud, looking extremely arrogant.

"Afraid? What are you afraid of? If I were afraid, I wouldn't have made this choice. You are just a small county magistrate. Killing you is as easy as killing an ant."

General Du wanted to roll his eyes when he was standing aside. It was true that villains die because they talk too much.

I don't know why Governor Chen is so cocky. Doesn't he know that the more you say, the faster you die?

"You are so arrogant! Crushing an official appointed by me is like crushing an ant. Who gave you the courage?"

A majestic voice sounded from behind.

A middle-aged man in a yellow brocade robe swaggered out from the back room.

He looked intimidating without even getting angry, and there was a sense of oppression just standing there, making people unable to look directly at his face.

At first, Chen Changji only felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before. When the person walked out completely and he saw the face, he was completely stunned and even forgot to breathe.

God!

What did he see? In the study of Gu County in the middle of the night, he actually saw the emperor.

No, not possible!

He must be dazzled. Why would the emperor appear here in the middle of the night?

"Why? You have only been the governor for a few short months. Have you forgotten me?"