The Long River 天下长河 Episode 23

Now that Jin Zhiyu's life or death is uncertain, Jin Fu is still devoting himself to caring for the people of Li, taking care of his official duties all night long. Originally, Jin Fu and Chen Huang were discussing something, but when Chen Huang brought fine wine to prepare for a candlelit night talk, he saw that Jin Fu had already fallen asleep exhaustedly on the chair, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Before going to court, Mingzhu reminds Gao Shiqi to play by ear, and today must be extremely dangerous. As Mingzhu said, Kangxi intends to protect Jin Zhiyu, but the officials put pressure on him. Yisang'a led several officials from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Officials to remonstrate. If Jin Zhiyu was not convicted, they would rather impeach him and resign.

Faced with Ethan's aggressiveness, Kangxi asked him what his intentions were. Unexpectedly, Ethan's attitude was firm, and it was obvious that Kangxi would make a decision today. Seeing that Kangxi's anger was raging, Suo'etu euphemistically proposed to follow Jin Fu's self-impeachment memorial and appoint an imperial envoy to find out the truth, so that Yoyo's mouth could be blocked.

Suo'etu's meaning is very clear, every sentence is well-founded and watertight. Naturally, Kangxi was not easy to refute, so he had to send an order to Yisang'a to investigate the Baihegou case as an imperial envoy. Yi Sang'a was very proud, but Kang Xi felt extremely angry, and specially appointed Gao Shiqi to investigate Qingtiaoshi secretly and thoroughly on the grounds of supervising the defense of the Yellow River's autumn flood.

Due to Wang Dengxuan's corruption of ink, the bank for building the dam was short of money, and it was hopeless to resist the autumn floods this year. Yu Zhenjia cared about the people, and reprimanded Jin Fu for why he suddenly dismissed the river workers and sat idly by. In Yu Zhenjia's view, if it wasn't for Jin Fu's mistaken belief in Wang Dengxuan, how could he have come to this point.

Chen Huang couldn't help but refute, let him recognize his prejudice against Jin Fu, Yu Zhenjia calmed down, and explained the sufferings of the people to Jin Fu, hoping that Jin Fu could try his best to come up with remedial measures. Not long after, Chen Huang brought Xiaohu to visit. Yu Zhenjia knew that his mother didn't like him and Chen Huang, and was about to close the door.

In the courtroom, Liu Xiucai arrogantly abused the farmer Lao Huang, demanding that he compensate for his long gown that was stained with feces. But the problem is that Liu Xiucai didn't know how to restrain himself when playing with the nine-section whip, and Lao Huang's legs became weak from fright. It was really unintentional to offend Liu Xiucai rashly. Liu Xiucai forced Lao Huang to kneel and kowtow because he couldn't get three taels of silver. Yu Zhenjia ordered Lao Huang to kowtow ten times, and then suddenly stopped after the seventh kowtow.

It turned out that the court law stipulated that Wen Xiucai gave ten kowtows and Wu Xiucai five times, so Liu Xiucai had to return the two extra kowtows that Lao Huang made. Liu Xiucai was furious and left the yamen clamoring. Chen Huang and Xiaohu stood outside the door and laughed. Immediately afterwards, another arrogant official came and escorted the man selling illegal salt to the court. Yu Zhenjia learned that the man selling salt was to treat his mother's illness, so he inevitably felt sympathetic, and then found an excuse to let him leave.

Chen Huang witnessed the trial process of the two cases with his own eyes, and he admired Zhenjia even more. He then explained his intentions and said that the River Governor's Office would allocate 20,000 yuan to hire people in Taoyuan County to plant willows and reeds. People can have money to buy food and eat. Yu Zhenjia was very grateful when he heard the words, and finally, at Chen Huang's insistence, he agreed to keep the silver for the River Governor's Mansion.

Gao Shiqi drove to the River Governor's Mansion in Ethan's car, and Jin Fu personally took care of him, but Ethan's whole process was full of yin and yang, and he ordered Jin Zhiyu to be executed before the investigation began. Fortunately, Gao Shiqi came forward to stop him and warned Ethan Ah that he closed the case without investigating it. If the emperor heard about it, I am afraid Ethan Ah would not be able to appease the Holy Wrath even if he had ten heads.

Sure enough, Ethan Ah didn't continue to insist, and immediately changed his attitude, accepting the steps that Gao Shiqi handed over. After the meal, Chen Huang asked Gao Shiqi about the emperor's attitude. Gao Shiqi thought that only when the facts of the case came to light would there be a turning point.

That night, Ethan'a taunted Gao Shiqi for protecting Jin Zhiyu, and his tone was obviously complaining. Gao Shiqi pretended to be thinking about Ethan, and suggested that he should investigate the case cleanly and beautifully, so that he could not only keep the black hat on his head, but also let everyone admire him.