When the two returned to Jinling City, the disaster had been initially brought under control, and the rain had gradually stopped.

The sun was setting on the west mountain, the clouds on the horizon showed gaps, and a golden sunset shone through the clouds, illuminating the river surface.

The two of them rushed all the way to the government office.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zhifu was already waiting outside the government office. When Jun Huailang got off the bus, he saw Shen Zhifu standing in front of Xue Yan who got off the bus first, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"My lord, it's not that the lower officials want to interfere in what you do... It's just that most of the officials in the government office have been sent to disaster relief. You can't take care of so many people you have imprisoned at once."

Xue Yan said lightly: "I don't need your people, I have someone to use myself."

The look on Shen Zhifu's face was even worse.

"It's just that these people...I don't know if they are refugees or bandits. It's going to be criticized if you want to imprison them all!"

Without waiting for Xue Yan to speak, he hurriedly continued: "Suddenly the city suffered such a catastrophe, and many refugees were displaced and fled everywhere. Now there are rumors in the city... It is said that you detained innocent refugees for no reason and beat them up as The bandits, now everyone in the city is panicking!"

Jun Huailang heard that it was Xue Yan's decision today, which caused rumors.

Now the city is already suffering from disasters, and the most taboo is the uncertainty of people's hearts. I don't know if someone deliberately spread the rumors, or if there are too many arrests today, it is eye-catching, or...

Or are those people really mixed with ordinary people?

At the moment of the catastrophe, a little incitement to the surrounding people can make others join their ranks. As long as ordinary people are mixed in with their people, and all of them are detained in the name of bandits, it will cause riots.

Jun Huailang realized that the person behind him must have been prepared for a long time.

When Xue Yan heard this, he frowned and didn't take it seriously: "As long as we don't make trouble, what effect will it have?"

He has listened to the misunderstandings of others a lot, and it has long since become a habit, and he is also used to being arbitrary, and he does not pay attention to the words of others at all.

He was too lazy to explain to Shen Zhifu.

Shen Zhifu hesitated to speak, but still blocked him from letting go.

Jun Huailang hurried forward.

"Your Majesty," he said. "The reason why the lord doesn't let people go is that someone in the academy is indeed plotting things."

Shen Zhifu hurriedly asked, "Where did the prince know?"

Jun Huailang handed the blueprint in his hand to Shen Zhifu.

"Let's look at the prefect, this is the state of the dam collapse today. The place where it collapsed is clearly not the erosion of the river, but someone deliberately excavated from the city and damaged the dam."

Shen Zhifu was shocked: "How can this be!"

Jun Huailang continued: "The place where the dam was destroyed was where the official road was repaired a few days ago. And that day, when I returned from the academy, I happened to meet a group of road-repairing migrant workers. The one who took the lead in making trouble in the academy."

Shen Zhifu froze in place.

Jun Huailang continued: "Lord Prefect, all of this can never be a coincidence. Someone will destroy the dam and go to the academy to try to hurt the students. Such a person can actually do things for the government... Sir, you should know that the lord will take them all Why are you imprisoned?"

Shen Zhifu said slowly: "You mean...the people in the government...?"

Jun Huailang nodded.

"This matter can only be handled by the lord," he said. "Otherwise, it will always alarm other people."

After a moment, Shen Zhifu nodded.

In this way, Xue Yan's notoriety has become an umbrella. Xue Yan was ruthless and arrested all the people for no apparent reason. Instead, he would reassure the people behind the scenes that he didn't show his fault.

"So these things must not be known to others." Jun Huailang said. "Please let the prefect of the prefect come out and say that this group of people hurt the students in the academy, and the situation is extremely tragic. It was only when the King of Guangling came across that he would arrest everyone, just to vent his anger on the students."

Shen Zhifu pondered: "Instead of washing away the prince's notoriety, expanding the notoriety of those bandits will not only appease the hearts of the people, but also have a deterrent effect, and at the same time, can also let the mother and queen relax their vigilance?"

Jun Huailang nodded.

For a moment, Shen Zhifu sighed: "Yongning Gong really taught you very well."

Jun Huailang knew that this was Shen Zhifu agreeing to his proposal.

He continued: "Then, please also promise me that you must not tell anyone...not even my father."

Because he knew that those who interfered with it would most likely be under his father's command.

Shen Zhifu nodded in agreement, and then said after a moment: "If there are such people in the government...then Jinling suffered such a great disaster, it's all my fault that the officials don't know who they are."

Jun Huailang shook his head.

"Your Majesty is right," he said. "It's the people who set this up behind the scenes."

Shen Zhifu responded. At this moment, an official came and asked Shen Zhifu about the resettlement of the refugees.

Shen Zhifu couldn't stay any longer, so he said goodbye first.

Jun Huailang sent Shen Zhifu away.

He turned around and was about to talk to Xue Yan, only to realize that Xue Yan was staring down at him for an unknown time.

With blazing eyes and a lazy smile, Jun Huailang's heart tightened.

"...What are you looking at?" He lowered his voice involuntarily.

Hearing Xue Yan smile lightly.

Then, Xue Yan raised his hand and gently scraped his knuckles on his cheek.

"I don't see it," he said. "It's a lot of crazy ideas."

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It wasn't until Jun Huailang sat down in the cell that the heat on his face dissipated.

Jin Yiwei brought him a Taishi chair with thick cushions. Jun Huailang sat down there, and hot tea was delivered to him.

He looked up, and in front of him was the foreman tied up.

Because of Jun Huailang's previous orders, the foreman didn't suffer much. At this time, he was tied to the frame, with only Xue Yan's injuries all over his body.

The rest of the place can't be seen, but the bridge of the nose is bruised.

"I don't like torture." Jun Huailang took a sip of tea and said. "However, I have all the information related to you now."

The foreman raised his head slowly.

Then Jun Huailang continued: "You supervise the road construction project, and all the workers obey your orders. Except for the officials, no one can enter or leave the construction site, and there are traces of your excavation on the dam. It's a big disaster, so many people died, even if you don't say anything, all the workers who build the road, the whole family, we can directly ask the beheading."

The foreman looked fixedly at him.

Jun Huailang met his gaze: "So, I am giving you a chance today, not a chance to live for you and your subordinates, but a chance to save the rest of your family."

Saying that, he slowly put down the teacup.

"The whole door is copied... I don't like it very much myself."

"I have a wife and children at home, you know that?" The foreman laughed hoarsely and said.

Jun Huailang looked at him quietly.

The man was silent for a long time.

"But I can't save them either," he said. "I know what you want to ask. Who am I being driven by, what orders have they given, and how many people in all have conspired with me, right?"

Jun Huailang did not speak, which was regarded as acquiescence.

The man laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Even if you ask me, I don't know at all."

Jun Huailang frowned.

Just listen to him.

"I'm a native of Jinling, and I don't know who gave me the order. I only know that if I don't do things for them, my wife and children will suffer, but if they do, they will be given a lot of money. into my hands.

What they want me to do is what you see now. Destroy the dykes and cause disasters in Jinling, and then rush to the academy, kill and injure as many scholars as they can. As for those people under my command... I can only order them when I do things, but they and I don't know the details of each other. Someone is looking at us, and we can never reveal it to Hu Xiang. "

Jun Huailang's eyes sank.

Although the words this man said did not have the slightest bit of effective information, they were consistent with the information he had found before.

He doesn't seem to be lying.

But... how could someone make such an arrangement under Xue Yan's eyes in the orderly Jinling City?

"...When did those people find you?" Jun Huailang asked after being silent for a moment.

"Three years ago," the man said.

Jun Huailang was startled: "Three years ago?"

"tell him. "It's just at that time, they didn't tell me what they wanted me to do. I was originally from the rivers and lakes, and settled in Jinling after getting married. At that time, I fought with people and seriously injured them, which made my family debts and desperate. They paid for me. One family solved the crisis, and after that, they let me take orders from them."

It was only then that Jun Huailang suddenly realized what was the reason for the tragedy of Jinling City and Jun's family in the past life, the unpredictable situation in this life, and the hard-to-find minions among the officials.

It was because the people behind it had already made arrangements, and before they came, they had already compiled a tight net.

Whoever steps in will die without a place to be buried.

Jiangnan is already rich in rain, and it is not uncommon for rivers to be diverted and dams to burst.

And the people behind it were already prepared. They buried their own people in Jinling City, leaving no traces on weekdays, but as long as there are officials dispatched in Beijing, they can use the original layout to pull the other party into the quagmire.

First, the sudden disaster, and then the violence of the refugees, caused a large number of casualties among the Jiangnan students who gathered in Jinling to prepare for the exam. After that, he used the chaos to greed for gold and silver, and framed it for the officials who came.

In this way, they not only achieved the purpose of harming others, but also made a lot of profit from it.

Even if the people who came were not the ones they wanted to harm, but their own subordinates, then this arrangement would not fail. As long as these arranged people make some riots, and then let them solve it, direct and perform a play, the political achievements will naturally be achieved.

Jun Huailang's back felt cold.

Those people took the rest of the officials and the people of Dayong as pawns for their interests.

His heart can be punished.

He slowly stood up from the seat, waved his hand, and signaled the Jin Yiwei around him not to follow, and walked out of the cell alone.

It's ridiculous, he can see through every move the opponent makes now, but because the opponent made his move too early and hid too deeply, even if he knew about the situation in the DPRK and China in his previous life and had a general direction in his heart, he couldn't be sure of what to do. Who is the matter.

Besides... even if he knew it, how could he, a Bai Ding with no official position, take advantage of his strength to fight against them.

He slowly walked out of the cell, immersed in his own thoughts.

Just then, he suddenly hit a chest.

Hard and sturdy, filled with a distant and depressing sandalwood.

"What's wrong?" Xue Yan asked with his head lowered.

Jun Huailang didn't know that when he raised his head, bloodshot eyes flashed in his eyes.

The water is looming, and it looks very pitiful.

Xue Yan took him into his arms with one hand.

"Okay, it's alright." He raised his other hand, put it on the back of Jun Huailang's head, and forcibly pressed his face into his neck.

"Isn't it out? It's okay, I have everything."