Princess Consort Is No Pushover

Chu Xuanchen glanced at them and said, "Please come in, everyone, let's talk in the room."

Afterwards, several people followed him into the room.

As soon as they entered the room and closed the door, several people suddenly changed their listless expressions and became serious.

Yang Shixun took the lead and said, "My lord, Zhang Shifan, Su Cheng and others are covering the sky with their hands in Jiangzhou, spoiling the common people, and damaging the lord's reputation. Does the lord want to bring him down?"

"You stopped stuttering?" Chu Xuanchen asked.

Yang Shixun smiled awkwardly, "My lord, in fact, this official is not stuttering. To be honest, this official stuttering is just pretending."

"Fake it? Why are you doing this?"

"My lord, this Jiangzhou is the territory of Zhang Shifan and Su Cheng. They are so powerful that they run rampant in Jiangzhou and do their best. The officials are dissatisfied with their fish and meat people, and they don't want to join forces with them, so they have to pretend to be crazy and stupid. In this way, they will only enjoy making fun of the officials all day long, and relax their vigilance against the officials. The black hat of the officials can be preserved until today." Yang Shixun said helplessly.

Yu Wenxian also stood up. At this time, he didn't smell of alcohol, but he was clean and honest.

He said angrily, "My lord, the same goes for the lower officials. As the warden, the lower officials are in charge of prison affairs, and they are often coerced and lured by them to do things for them. Sometimes when Zhang Shifan wants to protect someone, he will force the lower officials and let the lower officials make random sentences. In order to enforce the law impartially and avenge the wrongs of the people, the lower officials have to pretend to be drunk, pretend to forget his orders, and do business directly, and the lower officials have offended them because of this."

"The same goes for the lower officials. The lower officials don't like Zhang Shifan's arrogance and rampage in the countryside just because he is Su Ming's disciple. The lower officials don't want to be with him, but they can't fight him. They are afraid of being persecuted by him, so they have to keep a low profile and be cautious as an official." Several other officials echoed angrily.

Yang Shixun said, "My lord, we have a lot of evidence of Zhang Shifan, Su Cheng and others taking bribes and committing crimes. We are going to hand it over to the lord, and let the lord deal with him and eliminate harm for Jiangzhou!"

"Oh? Then why didn't you give it to me before, but now?" Chu Xuanchen said.

"To be honest, my lord, we didn't know you before, and we were afraid that you would be no different from him. We didn't know that you were a good official until we saw that you worked hard for the common people and couldn't get used to Zhang Shifan's style of work. These evidences are too important and must not be handed over to their people, otherwise we will lose our heads, and we can only rest assured if we hand them over to the lord." Yang Shixun said.

"So that's it. I didn't expect this Shifan to be so domineering. You can present any evidence to me, and I will definitely punish him severely!" Chu Xuanchen shouted angrily.

"Yes, my lord." After Yang Shixun and others finished speaking, they hurriedly handed over all the evidence they had collected earlier to Chu Xuanchen.

They didn't trust Chu Xuanchen at first, and they didn't dare to hand over the evidence to him until they observed that Chu Xuanchen was a good official for the country and the people and was hostile to Zhang Shifan.

People in Jiangzhou have suffered from Zhang Shifan for a long time, and they all hope that Chu Xuanchen can do justice for the heavens and deal with him.

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Finally, Yang Shixun also told Chu Xuanchen a secret about the upright official Chen Xi.

As soon as Chu Xuanchen heard the secret, he prepared to make an example of others and cut off Zhang Shifan's most important arm.

He immediately brought a hundred Xuan Ce troops, and went straight to the door of Chen Xi's house.