County Magistrate Tang immediately sold out Manbao, saying, "At first, I thought someone was trying to sow discord. After all, as I was settling the displaced people, you started competing with me for labor. But upon closer investigation, it was she who spread rumors among the displaced people, cough cough, you know, at that time everyone was competing for labor. So I figured, why not just send the people to you? At least with you, they remain civilians. If those people take them, they become slaves or undocumented residents, and then it's no longer up to the displaced people to decide."
Manbao really was capable of such things, but County Magistrate Yang still snorted in response.
County Magistrate Tang continued, "The incident with Counsellor Chang was also accidental. Zhou SiLang's robbery hadn't even come to light at that time. These events just piled up one after another."
"So you took the opportunity to stab someone in the back?"
