Traveling through the ancient times

Wu Ming was escorted to the yamen, and the secret guard kicked Wu Ming on the knee, causing him to kneel on the ground in pain.

Wu Ming raised his head angrily, but saw a strange young man sitting in the hall, and the county magistrate standing aside with his head bowed.

Lu Mingqian looked at Wu Ming, who was kneeling on the ground with his head held high in defiance, and signaled the secret guard to take the handkerchief out of his mouth.

Wu Ming was able to speak, and immediately started cursing, "Who are you? Do you know who I am? How dare you be so rude to me? I will make sure you suffer the consequences."

After hearing this, Lu Mingqian asked him in a good-tempered manner, "Oh? Who are you?"

"I am the cousin of the current Imperial Concubine. Believe it or not, I will let the Imperial Concubine kill all your clans."

Lu Mingqian sneered, "I don't believe it, but I can kill all nine of your clans."

Wu Ming was dumbfounded. This man was not afraid and even threatened to kill all his clans. "Who are you?"

The county magistrate began to reprimand, "How dare you, Wu Ming! This person is the current Third Prince, please don't be rude."

Wu Ming was completely stunned. This person was actually the Third Prince?

"Wu Ming, do you know the identities of those people who went to your house yesterday?"

"I know that those people yesterday were the daughter of Qu Nanjiang's family and her friends..."

"Wu Ming, you said you are the cousin of the Imperial Concubine. Then, I want to ask you, why did you send people to assassinate the Imperial Concubine's son, the current Second Prince?" Lu Mingqian questioned Wu Ming as his expression changed several times.

"I didn't, I didn't..." Wu Ming was already panicking at this time. He did not assassinate the prince.

"No? On that boat at the dock is not only Miss Jiang, but also the current Second Prince. Wu Ming, you are really brave."

"Third Prince, please judge for yourself. I am innocent. I really did not assassinate the prince."

"Do you dare to say that those men in black at the dock today were not sent by you?"

"No, Third Prince. I am just a commoner. How would I know any man in black?" Wu Ming refused to admit it. The servant who came to report said that all their people were dead. They had no evidence and it was impossible for them to convict him.

Lu Mingqian came in a hurry and indeed had no time to check on those people. Just when the situation was in a state of panic, "Your Highness, there is a woman outside the government office who wants to see you. She said that there is evidence that Wu Ming colluded with officials to harm one party."

Lu Mingqian was just worrying about not having evidence, when the person delivering the evidence came over and said, "Bring it in!"

The concubine was brought into the court by the bailiff. Wu Ming looked at the concubine who knelt beside him with a look that seemed to want to kill her. "Bitch, why are you sitting here instead of staying at home?"

The concubine was not afraid of him at this time, and smiled at him charmingly, "Of course, I came here to give you a death warrant."

"Bitch!" Wu Ming looked at the concubine with bloodshot eyes and wanted to kick her. However, before he could stand up, he was kicked by the secret guard and fell to his knees again.

Lu Mingqian looked at the woman kneeling in the hall, "Who are you?"

The concubine kowtowed and said, "Sir, my name is Qin Wanniang, and I live in the neighboring village. I was married, but Wu Ming coveted my beauty and killed my husband. He then took me to his house as a concubine. I beg you to help me."

"Bitch, it's obviously you who seduced me because of my wealth and splendor..."

"Bah... You are such a jerk." Qin Wanniang spat at Wu Ming and turned to Lu Mingqian and said, "Sir, those men in black at the dock today were sent by Wu Ming to assassinate those young masters and ladies. They are Wu Ming's own assassins."

Lu Mingqian became interested. Could a civilian from a remote corner afford to support a group of assassins?

"Bitch... Ouch..." Wu Ming wanted to curse again, but was kicked before he could finish his words. "Behave yourself!"

"Where are all his assassins kept?"

"It's in the Wu family's backyard. There's a gate through the garden that looks shabby, but there's a lot of secrets inside."

Qin Wanniang discovered this by chance when she was strolling in the garden when she was bored. When she walked to that courtyard, she wondered why the entire Wu family's courtyard was so dilapidated when it was renovated so luxuriously. However, there were people guarding the door and no one was allowed to approach.

Later, she often went to the garden. One day, when the gatekeeper was changing shifts, she looked inside through the crack in the door and saw many people in black practicing martial arts.

Lu Mingqian asked Xing Yi to lead a group of people to investigate...

Wu Ming was not worried at all, because most of the people in the yard had died on the boat that he had drawn at the beginning of the year, and another twenty people had been sent out by him to do other things. At this time, the yard was empty.

"Sir, that's just a house for ordinary servants. It's not like what she said. This bitch wanted to be the mistress of my Wu family. I thought she was of low status and unworthy of the position, so I refused. So she became resentful and wanted to frame me."

Qin Wanniang knew how shameless Wu Ming was. "I want to be the head of your Wu family, why would I frame you? What good would it be for me if your Wu family fell?"

Wu Ming snorted coldly, "You are the best at seducing men with your seductive skills, but you want to bring down my Wu family so that you can seduce other men."

"Bah...you shameless bastard!" Qin Wanniang was too lazy to argue with him anymore.

Lu Mingqian then asked, "You said you have evidence that he colluded with officials?"

"Yes, sir." Qin Wanniang took out all the letters she had taken from the secret compartment. "Sir, these are them."

Xingyi took the stack of letters handed over by Qin Wanniang and gave them to Lu Mingqian. Lu Mingqian opened one at random and quickly read the contents of the letter.

This letter was written by the prefect of Huai'an to Wu Ming, about a month ago. The letter said that Wu Ming asked the prefect of Huai'an to send him some silver, but the prefect of Huai'an could not afford so much, so he asked Wu Ming to give him a few days' grace, and also asked him to say a few good words for him in front of the imperial concubine, etc...

Lu Mingqian threw the letter in front of Wu Ming and said, "You are quite capable. You are just a commoner, but even the prefect of Huai'an obeys your orders."

"Sir, the prefect of Huai'an just wants to curry favor with the imperial concubine through the common people. As the saying goes, the people should not fight against the officials. As a common people, I dare not refuse directly..."

"You dare not refuse him, but you dare to ask him to give you one thousand taels of silver. Tell me, what do you plan to do with the one thousand taels of silver?"

"This..." Wu Ming didn't know how to answer for a moment...

Lu Mingqian ignored him and opened another letter. In this letter, the prefect of Huai'an said that the woman Wu Ming liked was already married and she did not want to divorce and remarry.

When Lu Mingqian saw this, he glanced at Qin Wanniang who was kneeling in the hall, wondering if the woman mentioned in the letter was her.

Lu Mingqian opened another letter. The prefect of Huai'an said that all the tax revenue of Qidong County last year was pocketed by Wu Ming. He was unable to make up for the deficit, so he begged Wu Ming to show mercy and leave him some.

Wu Ming was just a commoner, but he actually dared to embezzle local taxes. He was truly so bold.