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Due to the fact that the expansion of the Pingyuan County was extremely fast and there were newly established legions, the guards of the Mayor Palace did not recognize all the captains. However, seeing how Cheng Jin spoke with such confidence and imposing manner, as if there were no one around, the guards were probably not lying.

Cheng Jin did not care about anything else as he grabbed the Domestic Servant and rushed straight to Wang Meng's bedroom.

Just as he reached the door, the door opened and a fat, short middle-aged man walked out. His eyes were not big and he walked around randomly, and when he came out, he had a look of anger on his face as he shouted, "Why are you in such a mess? "What happened …" He had not finished speaking when he saw Cheng Jin walking towards him.

Others might not know Cheng Jin, but Wang Meng knew him, he had met him in the capital before, but he did not know his name, nor did he know his rank, he only knew that he was a person close to Tang Yin. Suddenly seeing Cheng Jin, Wang Meng was startled, and asked suspiciously: "You …"

He had just said "you" and Cheng Jin had already strode over to him. Without saying a word, he grabbed onto his neck and coldly said: "What an audacious dog official.

Wang Meng was completely stunned by Cheng Jin's scolding. He opened his eyes blankly and muttered: "You … "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Cheng Jin used a bit of force with his palm and pushed Wang Meng, who had just left the room, back into the bedroom, then he closed the door and said: "Let's not talk about the random things inside your Silver Bank for now, tell me, what's with the millions of silver in the secret room?"

Ah? Hearing this, Wang Meng's head buzzed for a moment, as he subconsciously sucked in a breath of cold air. How did he know about the Silver Bank's secret room, and how did he know that there was silver in there? Other than him and his two trusted aides, no one else knew about this. His expression changed greatly as he stood in place without uttering a single word for a long time.

"Humph!" Cheng Jin coldly snorted, he dragged Wang Meng to the table, picked up the pen and paper, and brought it closer to him, saying: "Write down all the details on how you stole the money and stole the wealth, write it right now!"

Wang Meng recovered from his shock, he did not laugh but squeezed out a laugh and said with a trembling voice: "This … This general, you … "You misunderstand, this silver belongs to my friend, he has temporarily left it with me!" After finishing his sentence, he nodded his big round head, indicating that what he said was not false.

How could Cheng Jin believe his lies, he sneered: "Looks like without using some strong method, you won't be honest!" Right after he finished speaking, he fiercely punched and heavily struck Wang Meng's lower abdomen.

Wang Meng was a civil servant, he did not know how to use the spirit martial arts, and was usually well-behaved. How could he have received such a painful punch, causing him to scream in pain, like a deflated ball, his body slid down the table and sat on the floor.

Cheng Jin opened his fist, and the black mist was released from his palm. In the blink of an eye, the Black Fog had congealed and formed a layer of shiny black spirit armor on his hand.

He only retracted his five fingers, and following a cracking sound, Wang Meng's wrist bones started to crack. However, on the surface, Wang Meng's wrist looked completely fine, but his entire hand had already unnaturally pulled down, and was swaying back and forth in the air.

It was bone-deep pain. Wang Meng had never felt such pain in his life before, he cried out miserably like a pig being butchered, then his eyes rolled up and he fainted from the pain.

At the same time, a scream came from the other end of the bedroom. Cheng Jin turned his head to look, and saw a young married woman sitting on the bed in the room. Her hands were holding a quilt covering her chest, her body was trembling violently, obviously frightened silly by the scene in front of her.

Since she was not a threat to him, Cheng Jin didn't care about the woman and turned his gaze back to the unconscious Wang Meng. He crouched down and used his nails to point at the middle of Wang Meng's body.

Cheng Jin threw the pen on the ground and shouted: "Write it! If you don't want to suffer, then obediently write it out for me, if not, "he waved his hand in front of Wang Meng's eyes and said:" Next up, I will crush your legs, dig out your eyes, button your nose, and break your neck!

Wang Meng moaned in pain. He didn't even dare to look at his shattered wrist bones. His white and fat face was covered with sweat as he shakily said, "I … I am a dignified Imperial Court Order-in-Chief, Mayor of the Heng City, you … "You're too audacious. Even as a ghost, I won't let you go …"

Still not writing?! Cheng Jin nodded, and said: "Since you want to be a ghost, I'll grant your wish!" As he spoke, he moved his palm downwards to grab onto Wang Meng's ankle, and leaned his body slightly forward, as if he was going to pinch Wang Meng.

Recalling the unbearable pain from a moment ago, Wang Meng shuddered and said repeatedly: "Wait! Wait a minute! General, as long as you let me go, I'll give you all the money in the Silver Bank. That's one million gold, think about it.

As if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, Cheng Jin couldn't help but smile, and said slowly: "If it was just for money, I wouldn't be joining the army. With my cultivation, I can only be a bandit for a few years and my family would be rich, but this isn't what I want. "You are a wicked person, yet you still want to struggle in death before a great calamity befalls you. How can I be your guide?!" Before he finished speaking, Cheng Jin's wrist, which was grabbing onto Wang Meng's ankle, started to slowly tighten.

This time, he didn't crush his ankle, but used his strength slowly and evenly. Of course, he also made Wang Meng's pain worse and heavier.

"Ah — —" Wang Meng let out another scream. He could even hear his own bones cracking.

"Don't pinch me anymore. I'll write, I'll write …" He was tortured to the point of collapse by Cheng Jin who refused to give up. He howled like a madman, at the same time, his tears and mucus flowed down together, mixed with the perspiration on his cheeks, his entire face had become a blur.

"Very good!" Listening to him writing, Cheng Jin nodded his head in satisfaction. Then, he let go of Wang Meng's ankle and pushed the pen and paper towards him.

Being forced into a corner, Wang Meng started to write about how he was greedy for money, and how he collected the taxes of all the merchants in the city. In fact, in just a few years of time, he was able to amass wealth of more than a million silvers in his impoverished Heng City, and that was not all he had done. However, Cheng Jin did not care about all that much.

After Wang Meng finished writing, he took the paper and looked at it. After confirming the contents, he cut open Wang Meng's finger with the steel blade and used his own blood to draw a bet on the confession.

After finishing all this, Cheng Jin secretly heaved a sigh of relief, he knew that a strong confession from Wang Meng carried a risk, if the latter was strong enough and refused to admit it no matter what, he wouldn't be able to explain it to Tang Yin, no matter what, Wang Meng was still a dignified Mayor, so using lynchings was not something that could be justified, it was a good thing that Wang Meng was weak.

Just then, there was a huge disturbance outside the Mayor Palace, following that, the mansion door was pushed open by someone, and a large number of soldiers rushed in.

The guards of the Mayor Mansion were all frightened to death, they all retreated one by one, and no one came forward to help.

As the large amount of soldiers rushed in, Tang Yin also walked in quickly, beside him were Ao Qing who had just received the news, and Shangguan Yuanji who had also heard the news.

Under Ao Qing's guidance, Tang Yin and Shangguan Yuanji first went to the Silver Bank Palace, and then saw the treasures that Wang Meng had hoarded.

Putting aside the silver first, just the value of the antique and brocade outside the secret room were already quite high. When they entered the room and saw the mountain of silver ingots inside, Tang Yin and Shangguan Yuanji were a little dazed.

Tang Yin had never seen so much silver in his life. For a mere Mayor to amass so much wealth, it could be said to be shocking.

At the same time, Shangguan Yuanji was also astonished, and his face flushed red. He was the one who focused on internal affairs, so of course he wouldn't be able to escape responsibility if such a greedy official appeared within his range of responsibility.

Actually, Shangguan Yuanji had already changed a number of officials since he took office, but those were all officials directly under the county, so for the time being, he did not have much energy to focus on the various towns in the county. Back then, it was all thanks to him not having enough energy to pay attention to the towns and change the officials of the towns, otherwise, it would be hard to say whether or not he could catch Wang Meng, a greedy official.

Even so, Shangguan Yuanji still felt a flush on his face. After Tang Yin and his group left the secret room, he bowed deeply and said apologetically: "Master, this is this subordinate's fault. This subordinate was careless!"

At this time, Tang Yin was actually very open-minded. He did not blame Shangguan Yuanji, but instead consoled him: "Yuanji, this is not your fault, the greedy person is Wang Meng, and not you.

Hearing his words, not only did Shangguan Yuanji not relax, he felt even more ashamed.

He shook his head with a wry smile. Tang Yin's reasoning, would only make him put in more effort, and the burden on his shoulders would only become heavier.

Tang Yin asked Jia Xi who was guarding the Silver Bank: "Where is Cheng Jin?"

Master, the captain went to look for Wang Meng!

"Oh!" Tang Yin replied, then called for a guard from the Mayor Palace, and with his guidance, they headed towards Wang Meng's bedroom.

When Tang Yin and the rest arrived at Wang Meng's bedroom, the latter was already on the brink of death due to Cheng Jin's torture.

Cheng Jin rushed forward and greeted, then said softly: "Master!" With that, he respectfully handed over the confession that Wang Meng had written.

Tang Yin raised his head, indicating that Cheng Jin did not need to be so courteous, and accepted the confession, taking a careful look at it. After roughly looking through it, he flung the confession onto the ground, stared at Wang Meng, and said coldly: "In order for the Pingyuan County to prosper quickly and allow the citizens to live and work merrily, the county has specially formulated a policy of tax reduction and exemption, yet as a Mayor, you have gone against your will.