Chapter 19: Immortals fight, little ghosts suffer

Chen Guanlou really had understood the ins and outs of this lawsuit.

A landlord surnamed Liu outside the city spent money and effort to organize manpower to reclaim wasteland. It took three years to turn the wasteland into mature land, with a total reclaimed area of about five thousand mu.

At this time, a landlord surnamed Wu ran out and said the wasteland was his family's, and he now wanted to take back the five thousand mu of land that had already been cultivated, and he produced the land deed.

The landlord surnamed Liu certainly did not agree. He spent effort and energy to reclaim five thousand mu of wasteland, the land had just matured, and it looked like there would be a harvest, but suddenly someone ran out to pick the fruit without giving any compensation. He was in the right everywhere with this matter.

Both sides went back and forth, fought several times, neither would let the other, and the anger was getting bigger and bigger. In the end, it went directly from literary fighting to martial fighting.

In a world where martial arts are respected, showing martial force is the only way to solve problems.

The landlord surnamed Liu's family had manor guards, and their martial force value was high.

The landlord surnamed Wu's family also had manor guards.

Once both sides started the war, the scene was called explosive.

After fighting back and forth, the martial force value of the landlord surnamed Wu's family was clearly not as good as the landlord surnamed Liu's family. In a rage, the landlord surnamed Wu simply invited gang members to help and have a decisive battle.

The result was that both sides used weapons and caused deaths on the spot. The lawsuit first went to the county government; it was thought to be a very simple case, but who knew it also involved powerful people in the capital.

The backer behind the landlord surnamed Liu was the Marquis Pingjiang's mansion; the landlord surnamed Liu was similar to a white glove, coming forward for the Marquis mansion to enclose land and make money.

The backer behind the landlord surnamed Wu was a new noble in the court, Jiang Tu, then serving as the Copper Minister of the Imperial Treasury, City Gate Inspector, specifically making money for the Emperor, and was extremely favored by the Emperor.

Someone in the court had a poisonous mouth and gave Jiang Tu a nickname, known as Imperial Consort Jiang.

It can be seen how favored this person was in front of the Emperor. The Emperor could be said to be unable to leave Jiang Tu for a day; whenever Jiang Tu made a suggestion, seven or eight out of ten would be adopted.

Not to mention that no one among the courtiers could compare to Jiang Tu's status in the Emperor's heart, even the Crown Prince and the various Imperial Princes had to please this new noble in the court.

The landlord surnamed Wu was originally just a fallen family, and Jiang Tu also came from a humble background. When Jiang Tu became successful, the landlord surnamed Wu relied on the distant relative relationship with the Jiang family to set up a large family business in just a few years, and his actions became more and more arrogant. Others were afraid of Jiang Tu's prestige and avoided everything, making the landlord surnamed Wu more and more arrogant, and now he even dared to calculate the Marquis mansion.

But he didn't expect that the landlord surnamed Liu relied on the Marquis mansion's support and didn't put the landlord surnamed Wu in his eyes. Plus, he was in the right, so both sides made a scene.

The local county government didn't know that the water in this case was so deep at first, and subconsciously wanted to favor the landlord surnamed Wu. Fortunately, the private secretary was capable and secretly reminded him, and the County Magistrate was scared into a cold sweat on the spot. He couldn't afford to offend either side, so he simply reported the case.

Jingzhao Yin:...

Damn it, can I afford to offend them?

The case continued to be reported, and finally fell into the hands of the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice had nothing to report, and the whole Ministry of Justice had a headache for a while. A smart person came up with an idea to lock people in first. The intention was to put people under their noses to avoid accidents.

But everyone knows that the place where accidents are most likely to happen is the Heavenly Prison.

If the courage of the prison clerks in the local prison is 5, the courage of the prison clerks in the Heavenly Prison is 10.

Understanding the full picture of the whole case, Chen Guanlou subconsciously shook twice. Two immortals fighting, he, a small prison clerk, how could he be pulled into the game, they really looked up to him too much.

"At present, Jiang Tu is powerful, and the landlord surnamed Wu is clearly relying on Jiang Tu's power to do evil and forcibly seize good fields. Even if it is broken, this lawsuit is also the landlord surnamed Wu who is not in the right. However, the government has been slow to judge and even poked the case to the Ministry of Justice. In the end, everyone is afraid of Jiang Tu's power. They are not afraid of anything else, but they are afraid of Jiang Tu slandering. After all, Jiang Tu can see the Emperor every day. With such a situation, why does the Marquis mansion still choose to fight Jiang Tu hard? Will it lose big because of small?"

Chen Guanlou didn't want to get involved in this case; he just wanted to be a prison clerk who mixed food and waited for death every day.

Liu Guanshi refused to let him go, "Little Lou, what you said is very reasonable. If an ordinary person encounters this, he can only swallow his teeth and blood and accept his fate. But Jiang Tu is unlucky, daring to provoke the Marquis mansion, so this case cannot be ended so easily. If the Marquis mansion retreats, how can it stand among the nobles in the future?

Others are afraid of Jiang Tu, but the Marquis mansion is not afraid of him. Jiang Tu cannot cover the sky with one hand in the court. He is just a sycophant, a little toy for relief, and he dares to hit the idea of the nobles. Five thousand mu of land is not much; if he wants it, send someone to say it politely, and give it to him. But he insists on snatching it, so don't blame the Marquis mansion for hitting his face."

Liu Guanshi had a murderous attitude, and Chen Guanlou couldn't help but think more.

He asked cautiously, "Is this the Marquis mansion's intention?"

"This is not only the Marquis mansion's intention, but also the intention of all nobles. This case is not the Marquis mansion fighting alone. There are as many people in the court who hate Jiang Tu to death as there are crucian carp crossing the river. As long as the time comes, the censors will move."

Listening to Liu Guanshi's tone, the winning rate of this case was very high. The noble families and the ministers in the court seemed to have reached a tacit understanding to use this case to kill Jiang Tu's prestige. If they could kill Jiang Tu, it would be the best.

However, Chen Guanlou was not so optimistic.

Jiang Tu's name was known to everyone in the capital. Even a few-year-old child knew that the Emperor could not leave Jiang Tu.

"The Emperor is so favored by Jiang Tu, this case is not big, can it really bring down Jiang Tu?"

"I know what you are worried about. Even if you can't bring him down, you have to disgust him. You are still young. You don't understand the court situation. Things in the court are never done in one go, but a long struggle. Regardless of winning or losing, you must take action when it is time to take action, show your claws and teeth, and the people below will follow firmly."

Chen Guanlou nodded repeatedly, this makes sense.

Always shrinking and not coming out, everything is forbearance, no matter how strong the force is, it cannot withstand the suppression of morale again and again. In the long run, the people below lose the spirit of struggle, lose confidence, and the hearts of the people disperse. When it is time to charge, looking back, I found that the people have run away.

Regardless of whether you can win, since the war has started, you must fight hard. Even if you lose, you can boost the morale of the army, let the people below know that we have the power to fight, but we are temporarily at a disadvantage. When the time comes, it is not impossible to turn the tables. At the same time, this is also a great opportunity to clean up your own team, use this opportunity to clean up those wall-grasses whose hearts are not firm, and purify the team.

Moreover, if the Marquis mansion chooses to retreat and please Jiang Tu in this case, and it falls into the Emperor's ears, what will the Emperor think? Will he doubt the loyalty of the nobles?

Whether Jiang Tu will be suspected is uncertain. But the Marquis mansion will definitely be suspected by the Emperor.

Once suspected by the Emperor, the next step is to face suppression by the Emperor.

Conversely, the Marquis mansion fighting Jiang Tu may not be able to get benefits. What if the Emperor is happy to see it happen?

Chen Guanlou thought a lot and drank a lot of wine.

After drinking this wine, he knew that he could not avoid this matter. ===== CHAPTER 20 =====