Chapter 71: The Case is Held in Court
The hundred or so people of Yier suddenly found themselves under pressure, and Blackfoot had already sensed that the bandits out of more than a hundred were reduced to only twenty or thirty people in the blink of an eye.

Yizier was a flexible man. When he saw that the situation was hopeless, he immediately dropped the knife in his hand and fell to his knees with a thud.

"My dear officers and soldiers, I have been blinded by greed and dared to have evil thoughts towards you. I know I deserve to die, but if you can spare my life, I will pay you a large sum of money!"

Chen Huaian shook off the blood on the knife, rode his horse to Yizier, and said with a silly smile: "How heavy can a large sum of money be?"

Yi Er gritted his teeth and said, "Three thousand taels?"

Xu Huang walked over and kicked the ear to the ground. Then he swung his knife and chopped off the head of a bandit beside him. He said viciously, "Master Chen, why waste your time talking to these bandits? Just take them back to their lair. All the silver will be ours!"

Yi Er was shocked and angry when he heard this, and he howled in his heart: Who is the bandit and who is the soldier?

When Xu Huang and Chen Huaian each escorted the grain carts and a large group of men, women and children back to Baicheng, Wang An happened to be standing on the top of the city wall watching Gao Ruyue directing the construction of the city wall, and he saw this large group of people from afar.

Wang An showed a smile on his face and stood quietly on the top of the city wall.

At this time, Xu Huang and Chen Huaian also saw Wang An on the top of the city wall. Some of them were galloping on their horses or striding forward. They all came to the foot of the city. Cao Wen'an bowed and said, "Fortunately, this general did not suffer such a fate!"

Wang An smiled slightly, then looked at Xu Huang and asked, "Did you have a safe journey?"

Xu Huang cupped his hands and said, "Thanks to the prince's advance notice, Mo Jiang had already made preparations, so everything went smoothly."

"It's good that you're safe!" Wang An praised, and then looked at Chen Ping'an and said, "These people behind you are the bandits from the White Tiger Mountain Bandit Camp, right?"

Chen Pingan clasped his fists and replied: "Your Highness, these people are the families of the White Tiger Mountain bandits. As for the bandits, except for 20 or 30 survivors, the rest have been killed by us."

Wang An didn't take it seriously and just said calmly, "Put the grain into the warehouse, and then settle the families of these bandits among the returned people. Let everyone cheer up and keep a close eye on them, so that these people won't get distracted when they first arrive in Baicheng and cause trouble."

Upon hearing this, Xu Huang immediately ordered his men to transport grain into Baicheng.

Chen Huaian then signaled to bring up the Yizi'er from Baihu Mountain and informed Wang An of the identities of these people.

Wang An nodded and said nonchalantly, "Send them all to the government office. Lu Guangcheng has been locked up for so long, it's time to bring him to court for questioning."

"mighty!"

As the water and fire sticks made a loud knocking sound on the ground, Lu Guancheng, who had been detained for more than ten days, was carried to the lobby by the yamen runners, looking emaciated.

When Lu Guancheng saw Wang An sitting in the lobby, he wanted to rush up like crazy. However, before he took a few steps, he was hit hard on the knee by a water and fire stick, and the sound of a broken bone could be faintly heard.

Lu Guancheng let out a scream and fell to the ground with a thump.

Then, Wang An slammed the gavel and shouted, "Lu Guancheng, do you admit your guilt?"

Lu Guancheng raised his face as much as he could, and shouted with a distorted expression: "Know your guilt? What law have I broken that you want to wrongly accuse me of?"

"You still don't repent even when you are about to die!" Wang An shook his head, pointed at the others kneeling in the hall, and asked, "Lu Guancheng, do you recognize them?"

Lu Guancheng followed Wang An's gaze and discovered that there were many people kneeling in the hall besides him.

His eyes swept over the faces of these people, and his expression suddenly changed, "One...one ear, Zhang Ergou, how did you get caught!"

Yi Er had a bitter face and choked up as he said, "Lu Guancheng, I've been in your immortal family for a long time, but you've done me a disservice this time!" Zhang Er Gou just pretended to be desperate and advised, "Master, just confess. The prince already knows everything. It's better to go away quickly than to suffer the physical pain!"

This sentence immediately angered Lu Guancheng, who spit at Zhang Ergou and cursed, "Idiot, shut your mouth!"

Then he looked up at Wang An and said fearlessly: "My brother-in-law is Fangshan, let's talk about the governor of Qingzhou! Wang An, although you are the Prince of Xin, I believe you know the situation in Jizhou better than I do. If the foreign race invades, you can only retreat to Qingzhou for refuge if you want to survive!"

"If you don't want to be turned away, I advise you to let me go and pretend nothing happened!"

Wang An burst into laughter upon hearing this, but the laughter became colder and colder. Suddenly, without warning, he slammed the gavel and shouted angrily, "What a fearless and unruly commoner! How dare you threaten me!"

As he said this, he pulled out a command arrow from the command stick tube and threw it on the ground, shouting, "Someone come, give me a hundred lashes first!"

After a pause, Wang An said jokingly, "Be careful, don't kill him!"

Immediately, the bailiffs came up and dragged Lu Guancheng out.

Immediately afterwards, the sounds of "bang bang bang" and Lu Guancheng's screams were heard outside the lobby.

Hearing the screams outside, the bandits led by Yizier were immediately frightened.

When Lu Guancheng was dragged in by the yamen runners, he left a trail of blood on the ground, and his entire buttocks was a bloody mess.

Yi Er couldn't stand it anymore, he trembled and fell to the ground, saying: "Please spare me, my lord. I confess everything!"

Lu Guancheng had been beaten to the point of being on the verge of death. Upon hearing this, he just moved his fingers with difficulty, but he couldn't say anything.

Wang An nodded, and then Yizi'er and Zhang Ergou told Jiangdu Guancheng how he wrote a letter to Yizi'er and conspired to rob the grain transport team when they returned to Qingzhou.

In addition, Wang An had an unexpected gain.

According to Yizhi'er's confession, he and Lu Guancheng had been colluding for many years.

Lu Guancheng would often inform Yizier of the planning routes and times of other grain merchants, and then Yizier would come forward to rob them.

The intercepted grain would be resold to Lu Guancheng at half the market price.

After a few years, no one knows how much wealth was obtained through robbery.

Wang An was overjoyed. What Yizier had told him was exactly what Wang An urgently needed.

He was originally worried that simply eliminating Lu Guancheng would at most make other grain merchants in the city fear him, but they would not be convinced in their hearts.

Now that we have the evidence of Lu Guancheng's crime, we can divide these grain merchants very well.

At that time, Wang An will have a lot of room for maneuver whether it is winning over or coercing.

At this time, Yizi'er and Zhang Ergou had both confessed, and Wang An had a handwritten secret letter from Lu Guancheng.

(End of this chapter)