In ancient times, Lizheng's duty was to help the superiors, that is, the county superintendent and collect taxes, and to put it bluntly, it was to oppress the people, squeeze money, and oppress the villagers. They are not officials, not even officials, but these landlords are even more formidable than officials.

Jiang Lizheng is not from Fengshan's prestigious family, but he is quite sophisticated, and his personality is also very stable. Except for his illiteracy, his other abilities are first-class. The largest restaurant in Fengshan is the pavilion under his family.

The biggest regret in his life is that he is illiterate, and he thinks that he is not inferior to others in any ability, and he can only sigh alone in the matter of reading. So in terms of children's education, he also spared no effort, inviting the most famous talents in Fengshan to teach his children, and even his daughter didn't want to be left behind.

The ancients often said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and if she understands more, she will be wild, and she even smeared that handful of black ash on his face.

is not only ugly, after Meng Liangchen arrived at the Jiang family, he was also responsible for handling many chores in Fengshan Township, to put it bluntly, this job is a bit similar to that of a township scrivener, but Meng Liangchen refused to do it anyway.

What does the township scrivener do, specifically he is also the official of the county government, assisting Li Zheng in handling the paperwork and being responsible for the bookkeeping of various books and accounts related to tax collection in the township.

There is an unwritten rule in the Great Song Dynasty, if a small official is born, it is impossible to go to the scientific examination again in this life, Meng Liangchen is determined to be on the gold list, how can he be willing to cut off his future?

It's also good, he Jiang Li is also in the accounts of some affairs in the township, and he doesn't want others to know, just let him Meng Liangchen do it!

But Meng Liangchen is a smart man after all, but his emotional intelligence is terrifyingly low, and after doing it for a long time, he found many problems in money, food, and forced labor. He also thought that Jiang Lizheng was illiterate and was fooled by the following documents, and he also 'enthusiastically' reported to Jiang Lizheng many times about these problems, and even dared to say that he would go to the county to report it.

Jiang Lizheng was silent on the surface, but his heart was actually shaken, on the one hand, he pacified Meng Liangchen, and on the other hand, he wanted to leave a way back for himself!

Unknowingly, this stupid scholar has become a thorn in the side of Master Lizheng!

Jiang Li was in charge of collecting taxes, and after collecting taxes, he deducted the taxes that should have been paid to the county. But the money deducted from the gram was not put into Jiang Lizheng's own pocket, he took out the money to repair the bridge and pave the road, don't look at the tax money I deduct every year, but the accumulation of decades is enough to make Fengshan a place that has a different appearance.

Between a township, there are few people who can read and write, and county officials circulate frequently, rarely go to the countryside, and even if they come down, they are still pretentious, and rarely really go deep into the rural townships to take care of all kinds of trivial things. Therefore, this kind of chores are spread on the heads of the village scribes. The amount of tax and silver that each household has to pay and how much tax and silver it has paid depends on the figures written down by the village scrivener in the book.

Where will the villagers know whether the Lizheng Township Clerk remembers in the book whether it is consistent or a text, they only know that the Leezheng and the Township Clerk have written down what they have paid is right, as for whose pocket the money has gone into, it is not for them to consider, what they have to consider is whether they can eat enough for the next meal.

Jiang Lizheng and his old account office are like this, and the two of them have created a Fengshan from the taxes they originally had to pay to their superiors.

It's just that after the old account room he reused was gone, Jiang Li really admired Meng Liangchen, a literate outsider. It is precisely because this outsider has no local background that it should be easy to control, so he was given an errand. Who knew that this Meng Liangchen was completely brainwashed by the way of Confucius and Mencius! This kid even wants to go to the county to report! In his opinion, it is simply a big rebellion!

Seeing that his routine was known to Meng Liangchen, and he encountered the scandal of his daughter eloping, in desperation, Jiang Lizheng took advantage of this opportunity to take Meng Liangchen into the trap of killing his daughter.

Liang Chuan had the opportunity to teach this young man a lesson in the Xinghua prison.

Jiang Lizheng just wanted to send this nerd who didn't know the height of the sky to a place where he couldn't talk nonsense, so that he could wake up and learn a lesson from being a man, and Xinghua's prison was the best place. During this period, Jiang Lizheng also went to Xinghua to deal with He Laogui in the prison, and asked Meng Liangchen if he had said anything that should not be said, to his surprise, this nerd only talked to himself from beginning to end, and the other prisoners did not even make eye contact.

Where would the self-respecting Meng Liangchen look down on these prisoners, he was only afraid that these scum would pollute his soul full of sages and elegant collections.

Now Meng Liangchen looks a little confused, looking at the light outside the window and the black-painted walls every day, he can only smirk at himself, and others communicate with him without speaking. He Laoguan's prison officers on several shifts only wanted to see if he would die, and there was nothing he could do about his state, if he was locked up for a long time, he would be a little stimulated.

Jiang Lizheng found his original account clerk, changed the fake account book, and took him to explain the situation to the county lieutenant of the county office, the county lieutenant is equivalent to the director of the public security bureau in this era, in charge of the prison, Li Chengfu is under his control, and he is responsible for the county magistrate above.

The iron-clad county lieutenant of the flowing water, this county lieutenant has been a county lieutenant for I don't know how many years, but the magistrate has changed several times. In this acre of three-point land, it has always been the county magistrate who speaks, and the county lieutenant may have the right in his hands, but he is never the one who makes the decision, which also makes the county lieutenant come to a conclusion, he will carry the black pot if he is tired and tired, and he will not make trouble for the magistrate, and it is better to have more than one thing, and he will live in peace.

There are still many people in the Xinghua prison, but they are all small cases that are not up or down, and it takes a long time to put them forward for trial, and they are afraid that the county will get bored, so they will not be brought up for trial and let them go, and the reporter will have opinions. came and went, and he, the Wuwei county lieutenant, had a lot of cases in his hands.

Fortunately, most of the facts are relatively clear, and the parties also know that they will not escape the blame, so they stay quietly in the prison and wait for the county to deal with it. A few people have grievances.

Jiang Lizheng brought a lot of local products to the county lieutenant, and as soon as he came, he went straight to the point, saying that his daughter died and could not be resurrected, although Meng Liangchen was suspicious, he could not be convicted, forgive him as a seedling of our Xinghua, wouldn't it be a pity to cut off the roots like this, he planned to withdraw the case!

The county lieutenant had long heard that Meng Liangchen was locked up in prison, and he had been locked up for too long, and his sanity was a little abnormal. These nerds have a very eccentric temperament, and if something happens to them and they die in prison for some reason, then they will have to get a lot of shit.

That Meng Liangchen's mother, now that she is full, she has nothing to do, so she walks around Xinghua every day. Blocked at the gate of the county government on time every day, a gray-haired old woman in the twilight, staggered from Fengshan to Xinghua every day, and began to cry when she arrived.

Now that the magistrate is old and doesn't like to move around, he hasn't gone out to meet Meng Liangchen's mother, and if he asks, several of them will definitely have to avoid twists and turns.

The county lieutenant is now a small number of villagers, and everyone who reported the case was like Jiang Lizheng, who came back and withdrew the complaint, settled the dispute, and the whole prison was clean, and no one bothered him.

After Jiang Lizheng explained the matter clearly, the county lieutenant did not pursue it again, and informed He Laogui to release him immediately.

When Meng Liangchen came out of the prison, he was intact, he had never been tortured in the hall, he just seemed to be a little crazy. A literate person, although he didn't suffer hardship, but he ended up like this, which is still a little embarrassing.

Everyone in the world has abandoned Meng Liangchen, but as a mother, she has not given up her son, and she is standing outside the county office. She is used to standing at the door of the county office, leaning on the red beams and pillars, and looking into the county office with stunned eyes, because she can't enter, and the government will not let her come and go at will. Unless the people can go in and watch on the day of the proclamation, she can only stand at the door on other days, looking forward to it stupidly.

She has always believed in her son, and she will never do anything to deceive his wife and daughter and steal people's money, but she also knows that this Jiang Lizheng has a reputation in Fengshan, she begged Jiang Lizheng bitterly, and wants his son to give him a horse. But Jiang Lizheng ignored her, he just said lightly, right and wrong have their own justice, and he doesn't count if he says it.

As before, she still comes to the county government gate to guard today, and things should always have a result, for better or worse. But today she wondered if her eyes were spent, and she saw a young man coming out of the county office, lost in spirit, dressed in white, and several strong officials led him out of the cell and towards the door, just like her son.

The official took the young man to the gate and left him, "Go, you are free!" ”

Meng Liangchen was able to see the light of day again, the young man stumbled, and Meng's mother was afraid that her eyes had deceived her, so she stepped forward to take a look. Tears burst out of her dry eyes in an instant, and she tried her best to cover her mouth to prevent her from crying, and the whimpering sound was moving.

Meng's mother hugged her son tightly, hugged his head, and the two of them sat slumped at the yamen.

"My son, what have these beasts done to you, how can such a good person become like this, God, how can you be so cruel to our mother and son! Son, what have they done to you, you answer Mother! ”

Meng Liangchen couldn't figure it out that he would come out so easily?