Outside the door, thousands of people knelt on the ground in the place where they could see with the naked eye, and when they saw Zhang Zhao come out, they all shouted that they had been wronged.

An elderly man crawled over on his knees, and said in a choked voice: "Marshal, the city lord of Xiao is for the country and the people, and he has no two hearts, if it weren't for him all these years, we would have starved to death." Now, if you want to kill him, then even the old decay will be killed as well. ”

"Let's kill us together. ”

Seeing that so many people were willing to live and die with the young city lord, Zhang Zhao felt the seriousness of this problem.

If one or two people intercede for that city lord, there may be something strange, but now that thousands of people are asking to die with the city lord, they are wrong to blame the family.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, I will investigate this matter to the end, I will never wronged anyone, and I will give everyone justice. ”

After a while, City Lord Xiao was brought into the City Lord's Mansion, but the people in the city were still kneeling at the door and did not leave.

"I probably already know about you, the imperial court does not issue disaster relief funds, do you have to start with the soldiers' salaries? The people in the city are human beings, but the families of those soldiers who died in battle are not human beings? Do you know how many soldiers' families have been displaced and live a precarious life because of this?"

Although the starting point of Lord Xiao is good, judging from the results, the most is to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, otherwise Zhang Yingchun's wife would not have lived such a miserable life. And this is still a family that has the ability to open a restaurant, if it is put on other people, it is estimated that it should be reduced to begging.

City Lord Xiao looked guilty and said: "I know this thing is wrong, but I can't watch the people in front of me starve to death, and it is also a helpless move to deduct the imperial court's military salary. ”

"The disaster relief money applied for was not sent to you, do you have any explanation?"

"I said, I did dial it, but after deducting it layer by layer, there wasn't much left in my hands. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Zhao sat on the stool helplessly.

Today, what he found was not just a matter of a certain person embezzling finances, but a system, a system that had rotted to the point of worms.

It's right to apply for disaster relief, but the fault is that he asks for very little every time, so the deduction layer by layer will be deducted before it reaches him.

"I really didn't expect that in just a few years, there would already be so many moths inside us. ”

Knowing that this was the case, Zhu Linxiao also sighed that the world was hot and cold now, and he didn't understand whether this was human or deliberate.

At this time, Zhang Zhao suddenly looked up at City Lord Xiao and asked, "What's the matter with the soldiers in that city? Don't tell me that there are no troops sent to you from above." ”

"That's the soldiers I gathered privately, the purpose is to transform the moon city into a prefecture-level city, only when the city is high, can it drive more economy and people's lives better. But before that, a lot of money is needed, and the soldiers have not received a penny of military pay for several years. ”

After thinking for a long, long time, Zhang Zhao stood up and said, "Embezzling military salaries is a capital crime, and there is no reason for this. I'm here today, seeing that you are a first-time offender, and your intentions are not bad, I can spare you. You just said that you want to upgrade this city to the prefecture level, and I support you. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zhao took out some large boxes one meter high from the storage spirit ring, and after opening them, all of them contained golden gold ingots.

"This money should be enough for all the money you paid before, and it should be almost enough to upgrade the city. With this money, first return the soldiers' salaries, and then work hard to transform the city, and the sister-in-law city will also be handed over to you, if you can upgrade these two cities to another level, and increase the number of officials and knights, it will not be a problem. ”

Seeing so many gold ingots, City Lord Xiao turned grim and said solemnly: "Please rest assured, as long as the money is enough, I will definitely be able to lead the people of the two cities to live the best life." ”

"By the way, two more things"

When Zhang Zhao was about to leave, he suddenly said: "I will pay Zhang Yingchun's military salary to others myself, and you must make up all the arrears within ten days, and then the imperial court will have a special team to strictly enforce this kind of thing." ”

After dealing with the affairs of Yuecheng, Zhang Zhao and Zhu Linxiao were ready to part ways.

Before leaving, Zhang Zhao specially instructed Zhu Linxiao to tell Bai Xing after he went back, and let Bai Xing personally lead someone to strictly investigate the matter. From important members of the imperial court and heaven-level cities to towns and villages, all of them must be strictly investigated. It is also necessary to send two cultivators to accompany them, and once they find that they are mostly greedy for money, they will immediately kill and give justice to the local people.

Before returning, Zhang Zhao also specially bought a money bag, and after he put the 397,000 taels of silver belonging to Zhang Yingchun into it, he returned to Wanjian Mountain.

In Manjian Mountain, there are relatively few people at present, so there is never a need to worry about where to stay.

Sister Hua invited by Zhang Zhao specially arranged a courtyard house, which was located not far behind the main hall of Wanjian Mountain.

At this time, it was already evening, and Zhang Zhao saw Sister Hua's two children practicing with her disciples in the Martial Arts Square. Since both of them are small and cute, everyone feels sorry for these two little ones.

As for cooking, after Sister Hua and Sister Liu discussed, each of them was responsible for the next day, and today happened to be Sister Liu, and Sister Hua was resting in the courtyard.

After coming to the courtyard where Sister Hua was, Zhang Zhao weighed the money bag twice and walked over.

"Sister Hua, this is your husband's military salary, it's all in it. ”

took the money bag and saw that there were nearly 400,000 taels in it, Sister Hua couldn't help but be stunned, looked at Zhang Zhao in a daze, and asked, "With so much money, how did you get it back?"

Zhang Zhao naturally wouldn't tell her about Yuecheng, and then made up a pretense and said: "The money has already arrived in the Xuan-level City, but there are too many things over there and I will forget it for a while, and I will still give it if I ask for it in the past, this time I just reminded them, presumably in a few days, the families of other soldiers in Guzi City can also get their own money." ”

"Haha, that's really thank you, you not only found me a good job, but also let my two children join the Xiuzhen sect, you say, how can I thank you. ”

Although Sister Hua looks mediocre, she looks very good when she smiles.

Facing such a smile, Zhang Zhao smiled faintly and said, "Don't thank anything, aren't you doing a good job, then prepare a table of good dishes, tell me what ingredients you need, and I can go down the mountain to buy them." ”