Wannian County.
Nestled adjacent to Jingji, the county seat.
As the saying goes, when evil deeds are full to the brim, they spill over into the suburbs of the capital.
With great effort, someone's ancestor's grave sent forth a plume of green smoke, and they passed the imperial examination, only to be appointed as the magistrate of Wannian County. Upon returning home for a closer look, it turned out that the ancestral grave was on fire!
At the foot of the emperor's throne, there are countless princes, nobles, and high-ranking officials in the capital, none of whom the Magistrate of Wannian County could afford to provoke.
Even if one were to shrink inside the county seat and do nothing, and not be greedy for wealth, calamity would still descend from heaven. For example, the case encountered by the previous magistrate involved the personal troops of the Marquis of Weiyuan, who rode on horseback and killed the page boy of an elderly statesman.
