Chapter 27 What is talent? This is talent!

County government office.

The inner hall was empty. Fu Yuanlong sat in the main seat , and Xu Chong stood at the bottom of the hall with his hands hanging down.

"That's probably what happened."

Fu Yuanlong rubbed his temple and said, "Tell me, how should we end this now?"

He has completely calmed down.

Now that Sun Yourong is gone, it is an indisputable fact that the Blood-Clothed Guards have lost the important bargaining chip that they instinctively held in their hands.

With such a heavy responsibility, the minimum punishment is dismissal and investigation.

The most urgent task is to find a solution to the problem; everything else is unimportant.

"Are you worried about the court's accountability?"

Xu Chong's eyes were steady, and his voice was neither humble nor arrogant. "This matter is all due to my negligence. I am willing to write a letter to explain my faults and will not implicate you."

"Don't say useless things."

Fu Yuanlong sneered: "This is not something you can take on just because you want to."

"That water ghost, his name is Zhou something, Zhou Ze, right."

Fu Yuanlong knocked on the table, "How much do you know about him?"

"I have checked the files."

Xu Chong answered. "Zhou Ze passed the selection of the Ministry of Personnel thirteen years ago and was appointed to Canglong, where he has been serving as the chief clerk until now."

"During the thirteen years, Zhou Ze had neither any major offenses nor any political achievements."

"Thirteen years ago..."

Fu Yuanlong's mood became depressed. "It seems that he was coerced and is not a traitor."

If this is the case, in addition to the fault of letting Sun Yourong go, he would also be charged with the crime of not investigating and cowardly fighting.

The situation is not optimistic.

"No, I think quite the opposite."

Xu Chong said, "It is this thirteen-year term that shows that there is something wrong with Zhou Ze."

"Um?"

Fu Yuanlong perked up, "Tell me in detail."

"yes."

Xu Chong bowed and talked freely.

"In the past nine years, Zhou Zeli passed the exam three times and was rated as competent every time."

"No matter what means he used, the ninth year's exam should have been average at best."

"But Zhou Ze's comments on the general examination were incompetent."

“And by the twelfth year, his pass rate had become competent again.”

Before he finished speaking, Fu Yuanlong's brows were tightly furrowed.

Local officials in Daqing are examined every three years and are rated into three levels: competent, average, and incompetent.

Those who are incompetent will be dismissed and demoted to civilians, those who are mediocre will be demoted but retained, and those who are competent will remain in their original positions.

Every nine years there is a general examination in the provincial capital. Those who pass the three examinations will be promoted if they perform well, transferred if they perform normally, and retained if they do not.

Generally speaking, those who have obtained three competent scores should at best get an average score in the general examination and be transferred to another position at the same level to continue taking the next round of exams.

But Zhou Ze got an incompetent job.

It seems that Zhou Ze's performance as the chief clerk was getting worse and worse, but after passing the comprehensive examination, he was once again given a competent position.

There's something fishy going on no matter how you look at it.

Fu Yuanlong's eyes lit up, "Go on."

"Zhou Ze's fate is entirely in the hands of the county magistrate Wu Wenjing. If Zhou Ze is a water ghost..."

"Coercion!"

Fu Yuanlong stood up suddenly, "Wu Wenjing was coerced by him and had to give a competent evaluation!"

"That's the only way it makes sense."

Xu Chong nodded.

"So... he was planning to start from the position of Chief Clerk and work his way up to the imperial court? And the reason why he failed the exam was because he couldn't coerce the officials in the prefecture..."

Fu Yuanlong continued along this line of thought, and soon frowned again, "But if that's the case, why did he continue to stay in Canglong after passing the exam? He has already wasted nine years, and he is going to gamble another nine years?"

"What if Zhou Ze's incompetence in the general examination was not due to impossibility, but was intentional?"

Xu Chong asked back.

"Uh...what do you mean?"

Fu Yuanlong couldn't understand.

"In other words, is it possible that Zhou Ze's goal from the beginning was to stay in Canglong?"

Xu Chong felt a little tired, thinking that this guy's reaction time was really damn long.

"You mean..."

Fu Yuanlong was shocked and finally reacted, "Canglong County has what Taiping Dao needs!"

"unconfirmed."

Xu Chong shook his head. "This is all just my inference. It is possible that Zhou Ze is not a traitor, but just an ordinary clerk."

"Not a traitor?"

Fu Yuanlong hesitated for a moment and said firmly: "No! He must be a traitor."

Are you kidding?

Not a traitor?

If he wasn't a traitor, wouldn't he have to take the blame?

in turn.

If Xu Chong's inference is the truth, he has no merits but no faults!

Can a new generation of Taiping Daoist disciples be compared with a conspiracy that lasted for more than ten years?

Obviously not.

There is always light at the end of the tunnel!

Thinking of this, Fu Yuanlong immediately waved his hand and said, "Go, search Zhou Ze's residence. Don't leave anything out. Report immediately if you find anything."

Now everything is ready, except for one piece of evidence that can prove Zhou Ze is a traitor.

"yes."

Xu Chong bowed and accepted the order.

Fu Yuanlong watched Xu Chong leave, and was glad that he had resisted the urge to kill.

What is talent?

This is fucking talent!

He is serious about his work and has a sharp mind.

"Well... we have to find a way to completely subdue him."

Fu Yuanlong pondered.

…

Mountain path.

Zhou Ze's face was tense and he walked very slowly, not daring to walk faster or slower.

The reason why he dared not relax at all even though he was extremely tired was the woman in a white dress ten steps away.

Time goes back half a day.

Wu Wenjing and Zhou Ze were playing chess in the backyard of the county government office, discussing how to get rid of Fu Yuanlong.

As it was raining, a person suddenly appeared behind Wu Wenjing and slapped him silently.

Wu Wenjing died just like that.

Before Zhou Ze could react, he heard a voice without any emotion.

"Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

joke.

Do you think Zhou Ze was brought up by fear?

Zhou Ze: "I want to live."

He could not think of any other possibility that someone would dare to kill a seventh-rank official without any reason except a traitor.

So he cooperated very well when being held hostage, and even changed into strange clothes.

At that time, Zhou Ze felt that although this female traitor had some quirks, at least he was luckier than Wu Wenjing, and at least he still had the opportunity to choose.

Wu Wenjing died before he could say a word.

However, this mentality of taking chances only lasted until Fu Yuanlong appeared and then collapsed.

Hasn't Fu Yuanlong been hunting down this traitor for a long time? He must be stronger than the traitor, right? Why doesn't he take action?

Zhou Ze didn't understand at all.

Finally, I understood it after looking at the line of blood words.

He was used as a gun.

The water ghost in that line of blood words should be dressed in a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat.

A real water ghost is probably more powerful than Fu Yuanlong.

Otherwise, Fu Yuanlong would never back down.

I am being treated as a traitor!

Zhou Ze's heart was churning, filled with extreme unwillingness and resentment.

If he was not inferior to the other person in strength, he would have wanted to use all the most cruel methods in the world on this female traitor.