The governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, ruled in Penglai, and the prefect Yamen of Zhang Daqi, the governor of Dengzhou Prefecture, was located in Laiyang City.

If Penglai is Dengzhou Mansion, one of the few cities that can be compared with a prosperous place like Jining, then Laiyang is definitely the second.

It can be said that Dengzhou spent the whole province with materials and manpower to feed the prosperous towns of these two impoverished places.

Eighty percent of the big people in Dengzhou Mansion are gathered in Penglai, and nine percent of the remaining two percent are in Laiyang.

Prefect's Yamen.

The notice has been withdrawn for some time, but Zhang Daqi is still restless all day.

It's no wonder that this kind of thing is to change the imperial court decree to fool the people, and this is the first time to "open up the world", and whoever does it will not be very indifferent.

"It's all over, why should the prince worry?" The civil official on the side looked at Lu Daqi, who was anxious, and frowned:

"This is the third tea you've drunk in half an hour..."

Hearing this, Lu Daqi was stunned for a moment, looked at the third tea he picked up unconsciously, sighed and put it down, in fact, he didn't want to be thirsty, but... The eyelids keep jumping...

No matter what, he always felt that something big was going to happen today.

Hearing this, Lu Daqi calmed down for a moment and asked:

"Have all the notices been burned, and have the people who issued the notices that day properly dispose of them?"

The officer nodded and said:

"The prince of the palace can put his heart back in his stomach, the three official officials who distributed the notice that day, two of them are no longer in the yamen, and the last person suddenly died of cold in the past few days."

"Even if someone from Dongchang comes to investigate, there is no proof of death."

"Well, that's very good..."

Lu Daqi nodded, only to feel a dry mouth for a while, picked up the tea cup and drank a few sips, suddenly remembered something, and put it down again, as if there was nowhere to put his hands.

"That being said, Wei Zhongxian's posture this time doesn't look like it's a joke. The last time Dongchang arrested people on such a large scale was when he dealt with Donglin in the first year of the Apocalypse. ”

When Lu Daqi said these words, he only felt a burst of regret in his heart.

The state and county notices everywhere were issued according to this, and the upper and lower levels of Shandong were all counting on selling salt to make a profit, which was originally a good plan to hide from the world, but it didn't work out or was chased by the dogs in Dongchang who smelled the fishy smell.

If it weren't for Dongchang, this matter wouldn't have been so big.

At that time, when the imperial court heard the news of the civil uprising, it really thought that the new salt law was wrong and missing, and would not implement the salt law again.

Speaking of which, the dogs in Dongchang are really annoying.

Thinking of this, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, Lu Daqi got up quickly, saw someone coming, and asked nervously:

"Is someone from Dongchang here?"

The scribe who came shook his head again and again, and said, "Master, it was the official document from the Salt Division mentioned by Ning Jin that arrived, and Ambassador Zhao asked you what to do." ”

"What to do, I'm also an ant on a hot pot now, I know what to do?!"

As soon as Lu Daqi heard this, he was angry, thinking that getting angry for no reason is not the solution, now the main thing is to stabilize people's hearts, and there are many powerful people above who have waded into this troubled water, they should have a way.

"You go to Ningjin Institute quickly and tell Ambassador Zhao—"

"Bang!"

Before he could finish speaking, there was a loud noise at the door.

Lu Daqi didn't think about it, he raised his head and roared: "Who? This is the Yamen of the Dengzhou Governor's Mansion, is there any etiquette? ”

No one answered, but a chaotic sound of footsteps approached, and in a short time three or five people dressed as officials stepped into the main hall.

The leader showed an arrest document, looked around, distinguished the government, and said coldly:

"After verification, the notice of the Dengzhou prefect this month is contrary to the new salt law of the imperial court, and there is a suspicion of deliberately guiding the direction of the wind.

Hearing this, I don't know if Lu Daqi was stunned, and even the rest of the scribes and subordinate officials were stupid.

The subordinate officer stood up, frowned, and said:

"Whose command are you on? Anyway, this is also the prefect's yamen of Dengzhou, where the government of a government is located, how can you allow Er and others to arrest the court officials! ”

He glanced at the official rank on the other party, and knew that he couldn't afford to provoke him, but he didn't give a good face, there was no expression on his face, and there were not even emotional fluctuations in his words.

"We are on the orders of Wen Tiren, the minister of the Qin Mission, who is the head of the household department and the minister of salt administration, to arrest Lu Daqi, the prefect of Dengzhou, who is an official and lawless!"

"If you have anything to say, go to the Salt Inspection Bureau and talk to the Minister in charge!"

"Take away—"

At the sound of an order, two officers from the Salt Inspection Bureau, one left and one right, went up and escorted Lu Daqi out, which caused the prefect's yamen to hear the wind and move.

Many people huddled on either side, pointing at this side.

When he walked to the door, he was blocked by a subordinate officer, who looked at a reasonable silver ingot of ten taels of silver on the ground, and whispered:

"All the poor masters of the Salt Inspection Bureau, there must be no evidence in your hands, right?"

"It's not good to forcibly arrest people like this, it's better to let go of the mansion, and after you go back, the official will have a big gift..."

After he said this, Lu Daqi was also shouting.

"This official is not guilty!"

"I, Lu Daqi, have been an official for many years, and I have never done anything wrong! You, you are colluding with the East Factory and falsely accusing the official! ”

Lu Daqi struggled frantically, but he sat still for many years, and he didn't exercise much at all, and he was still pinched by two servants of the Salt Bureau.

Narrowly checked the silver in his hand, this year, ten taels of silver as a meeting gift is really a lot, more than he can get in a year.

After thinking for a moment, he threw back the silver and sneered:

"We don't care what sounds good or not, a word of advice, this is the top to arrest people, not us to arrest people, you have to figure out the difference."

"Our Salt Inspection Department is ordered to do things, and if he is released, I will have no way to live."

"Take it away!"

Money and life, these people who do the errand of licking blood with knives have always been very clear.

Seeing Lu Daqi being arrested, this subordinate official's face darkened, he didn't expect that the people in the Salt Inspection Department were so ignorant and unreasonable.

Without evidence, even if you get it back, what can you do?

The people on the street soon found out about this side of the matter, and there was a lot of discussion.

"What is this for?"

"It seems to be the prefect, what the hell is going on!"

"You haven't heard that a while ago, the prefect's yamen notice was fake, and he didn't tell us the truth about the new salt law of the imperial court, and I heard that Qingzhou also had a civil rebellion because of this!"

"Wow! The world is getting more and more chaotic..."

"It seems that the civil rebellion in Qingzhou Mansion has attracted the attention of the imperial court, and now it has been traced down and found on the head of the Dengzhou prefect."

"I saw the skin that the captor was wearing, I have to recognize it in the future, this is the new salt inspection bureau of the imperial court, which is in charge of salt administration!"

The surrounding people spread ten, ten, hundreds, and soon spread.

......

Dengzhou Governor Lu Daqi was unlucky and was the first magistrate to be arrested.

But think about it in another direction, this product is destined to go down in history...

The local civil and military officers who were still thinking that the imperial court could not blame the people, heard the news that Lu Daqi was ordered to be arrested by Wen Tiren, so there was no one who did not panic.

But it's this time now, and it's useless to panic.

People who have done the same thing as Lu Daqi have tried their best to beg their grandfather and grandmother, and use all the connections they can contact in order to stay out of the matter and save their lives.

As for those who haven't done it, some are fanning the flames, wishing that the chaos would be bigger.

The rest are sitting in the house and watching a good show, for them, as long as this period of time is settled, the basic promotion is a sure thing.

Once the imperial court runs a large-scale salt administration, there will definitely be one death and one injury in the local government.

Either the new salt law is terminated, or the entire Shandong officialdom is screened and reshuffled, and these people are credit.