"How to improve the relationship?" Liu Dayuan looked at Gongsun Jian with some confusion.

Gongsun Jian smiled and said mysteriously: "Isn't what everyone is doing money?" Just give it to them. The other ones were destroyed by us, so what will happen to the business in the future? If you still want to continue to make a fortune, then you have to recognize us. ”

"That person doesn't necessarily have to look for us. There are more people willing to work with them. ”

". Unless he doesn't want to pass through our Linshui County in the future. Gongsun Jian glared at Liu Dayuan, and said in his heart, is this old boy a fool when he should be the magistrate of the county? No wonder it hasn't risen for so many years.

"This ......" Liu Dayuan looked at Gongsun Jian thoughtfully, and asked after a while: "Then today's Gongzi said that those words that set up their hearts for heaven and earth and set up their lives for the people are all lies." If we do this, wouldn't it be no different from those people? ”

Gongsun Jian looked at Liu Dayuan and shook his head helplessly, it seems that this person will be a county order at most. But then Liu Dayuan's other question made Gongsun Jian impress him.

"Now that the three families in the city are gone, how is the son going to deal with the Cao family outside the city? Don't forget that there are four major families in Linshui County, and the Cao family is the largest landlord in Linshui, and more than half of the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in the north of the city are his. Moreover, one of the sons of the head of the Cao family is an official in the court, another is a long history in the state, and another nephew is a partial general in the northwest border pass. This is an authentic head snake, even the Chen family did not dare to provoke it easily. ”

Gongsun Jian thought for a moment and said, "This time the Cao family didn't participate in dealing with us, so we should give him a little face." When I go back, I will personally go to Cao's house to explore the truth and make plans. ”

"Alright then, it's almost dawn. I'll go write a recital to report to the court, and I'll go back to the meeting to take a rest. There is still a lot to be done in the future. ”

"Hmm." Gongsun Jian nodded, but said to Liu Dayuan: "That's right, Liu Zhixian." My daughter will help in the county these days, don't look at her young age, but she is very good at accounting. But I have to trouble the adults to send someone to take care of her more. After all, he was still a child. ”

"Hehe, if you don't say this, I'll do it. Today, thanks to the daughter of the son's family, several old officials in the county government are not as fast as the daughter-in-law of your family. It was getting late, so I asked my daughter to take care of me and rest. Rest assured. If you can't get busy these days, you can put it here with me first. At least there are family members in the backyard who can help take care of it. ”

"That's good. It's annoying for you to take care of it. Gongsun Jian arched his hand towards Liu Dayuan.

Coming out of the back hall, Gongsun Jian saw that Zhao Changle was patrolling with people, and Wei Meng was still waiting for him outside the yamen.

"How many of them are there?" Gongsun Jian asked Wei Meng.

"Lao Qi is patrolling the city, and Lao Ma and Tian Kuan went to settle the people and veterans of the loess gang. As for Lao Ding, he and Xie Lao Wu took people out of the city and said that they were going to get money. ”

Gongsun Jian nodded when he heard this, and then said: "Brother Meng, you asked Zhao Sihai to bring some people to guard the county treasury. It's the most precious thing we've got right now. Zhao Changle, who shouted to pass by as he spoke.

"Changle, the patrol is handed over to Lao Qi, and you take someone to take care of the safety of the county government. In addition, the notice went down that whoever dared to make trouble in the county town in the past few days would be killed on the spot. ”

"Got it, sir." Zhao Changle hurriedly agreed, and then reported to Gongsun Jian in a low voice: "That's right, my lord." When Brother Qi led people to patrol the city before, he caught Li Sen, the former master bookkeeper. What do you think should be done? ”

Gongsun Jian was originally going to open his mouth and say that he would kill him directly, but then he thought about it and changed his mind.

"Let Lao Qi lock people up first, and when the morning dawns, the house will be raided and all the family property will be confiscated. I'll make arrangements later. ”

"Yes."

After arranging these things, Gongsun Jian walked around the streets of the county alone, thinking about the next things that needed to be dealt with, while summing up his experience for this operation. A lot of things are crucial to get yourself a good position and time to grow.

The words are divided into two ends, and for the time being, I will not talk about the matter of Gongsun Jian in Linshui County. Written by Liu Dayuan, Gongsun Jian's name was sent to Shangjing, the capital of the Zhou State. Gongsun Jian was very smart, and he kept an eye on it, and did not hand over the collected evidence to the imperial court, but sent the clever Zhao Changle to go directly to Beijing with the evidence and hand it over to his grandfather, Zhou Guoxiang's grandfather Mohan.

Sure enough, as soon as Linshui County's recital came to the imperial court, it immediately caused an uproar. The various factions in the DPRK and China immediately became mobilized. In particular, a group of royalists led by Chen Cheng, the secretary of the ministry, and the meritorious nobles led by Gong Mohan were all ready to take advantage of this incident to give the other party a blow.

In the Qiankun Hall of the Zhou Palace, Emperor Qian Hong of Yue looked at the civil and military faces of the Manchu Dynasty sinking like water, and did not say a word. And the whole hall was unusually quiet. Everyone knew very well in their hearts that the emperor sitting high above was in a very bad mood at the moment.

In fact, Qian Hong was really angry in his heart, but the target was not aimed at the public family and Gongsun Jian, who made such a big move. On the contrary, he was angry with his brother-in-law, Chen Cheng, the secretary of the ministry. Unexpectedly, a small Chen family side branch in Linshui County was able to control the county seat and make the county order elevated, and dared to collude with Wu Guo and the two yamen to smuggle. The most hateful thing is that Gongsun Jian, who has only been there for more than a month, grabbed the handle, killed the whole family, and shocked the entire court. So that his next plan to deal with those nobles had to be postponed.

Thinking of the awkward quarrel between the queen and herself last night and asking herself to avenge her people, Qian Hong was even more upset. At this time, if Gongsun Jian is punished, wouldn't it be tantamount to saying that he will directly start a war with the nobles led by the Gongjia? Not only could he not deal with Gongsun Jian, but on the contrary, he had to give him superficial credit. Otherwise, the entire court still doesn't know how to make a fuss. How could that old thing of Gong Mohan give up this good opportunity and not take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Qian Hong asked the ministers below in a deep voice: "Let's talk about it, how to deal with the affairs of Linshui County?" ”

"Your Majesty." Chen Cheng took the lead in standing up and said: "This matter is just the words of Liu Dayuan, the county magistrate of Linshui County, and Sun Jian, the county lieutenant, and there is no real evidence. Moreover, the two of them did it without interrogation to destroy the three families of Chen, Chu and Shen, and the two must be held accountable for this matter. Otherwise, do we still have a king law in Da Zhou? And where did he place the laws of the imperial court? ”

"Lord Chen's words are wrong." At this time, Shang Shuluo of the Criminal Department stood up. First to the throne of the Yue Emperor Qian Hong salute, and then to Chen Cheng said: "The matter of Linshui County is not without evidence, Linshui County Lieutenant Sun Jian has already transferred all the evidence to the Criminal Department through the old Xiangguo, not only there are several written evidence of communicating Wu Guo's smuggling, but also there are witnesses such as Li Sen, the former chief bookkeeper of Linshui County. As for what you just said, Lord Chen, about exterminating several families without interrogation, there is a reason for it. Because of the exposure of smuggling, several families colluded with the Inspection Department and the Yamen of the Water Transport Department to capture the county seat and kill Liu County Ling and the county lieutenant. Therefore, they had no choice but to lead the people of the city to rise up in revolt. May I ask Mr. Chen, in that case, is it difficult to go through the normal procedures to arrest the criminal first and then slowly interrogate and convict him? If that is the case, it is estimated that it is not Liu Dayuan and Gongsun Jian's recitals that are now sent to the imperial court, but their heads. ”

Luo Dayong's words directly scolded Chen Cheng speechless for a while. But someone on the side stood up to speak for Chen Cheng.

"Lord Luo, may I ask why we, the ministers of the DPRK and China, only knew that there were twists and turns but did not know that there was evidence? Where are the documentary and human evidence? "The one who asked was Zhao Zhongda, the head of the household. This person, like Chen Cheng, was the most trusted minister of the Yue Emperor, and naturally he was in a hostile camp with Gong Mohan and Luo Dayong and others.

"Huh." Luo Dayong sneered a few times, glanced at Zhao Zhongda and Chen Cheng's yin and yang weird answers: "Because I was afraid that someone in the court would collude with several families in Linshui County to destroy the evidence, I didn't show it before the court meeting." As for the witnesses, they did not dare to be locked up in the prison of the criminal department. Some of us have very long hands. When the time comes, kill people and destroy evidence, and finally die without evidence, and then detain all the charges on Liu Dayuan and Gongsun Jian. ”

"Luo Shangshu, what do you mean by that?" Chen Cheng suppressed the anger in his heart and asked.

"It's boring, I just want to remind Lord Chen that one of the destroyed families is a relative of your own family. According to the laws of the imperial court, it is necessary to avoid the matter involving one's own body, and he is not qualified to discuss the conviction here. You haven't looked at your father-in-law and have been consciously silent? ”

Luo Dayong slammed Chen Cheng again, and the other party who directly scolded him had nothing to say. Chen Cheng scolded in his heart, Gong Mohan, that old dog, didn't need to speak, but let you, the mad dog, say it. Obviously, Gong Mohan's faction was fully prepared and wanted to take advantage of this matter to give him a painful blow.

Seeing that Chen Cheng was not an opponent, Zhao Zhongda was about to speak, but at this time, Yue Huang Qian Hong spoke.

"Since the Criminal Department has already obtained evidence of several crimes, and several of them are gone, in my opinion, let's stop here. However, the two divisions still had to send people to investigate and deal with it, which was originally the yamen responsible for anti-smuggling in the imperial court, but it turned out to collude with others to commit illegal things. In addition, Linshui County now has no county secretary and master book, and the officials also need to send people to fill the vacancy. There is also the Linshui County Order Liu Dayuan and the county lieutenant Gongsun Jian to appease, although the two of them have merit this time, but the means of dealing with it are too manipulative. Go back to the ministry and see how to reward and punish these two people? ”

"Yes, your ministers obey."

Everyone saw that Emperor Yue had personally opened his mouth to draw conclusions, and naturally no one dared to stand up against it. And a discerning person can know at a glance that Emperor Yue is protecting Chen Cheng, and there will even be some other means behind him. When did the chief secretary and the county secretary of a county need to be personally arranged by the officials? Who's to say there's nothing greasy here? In addition, for Liu Dayuan and Gongsun Jian, they did not give a specific reward, but asked the officials to go back and discuss it themselves.

After retiring from the court, Luo Dayong, Gong Zhen and others all gathered in Gong Mohan's public room to discuss the next countermeasures.

"Father, Yue'er is too bold. This time there was such a big commotion. The third prince of the public family on the side said with some displeasure.

Gong Mohan didn't speak, but glared at Gong Zhen fiercely. knew that the third child had not forgotten that Gongsun Jian had beaten his son after he came back. And Luo Dayong on the side shook his head secretly, saying that the public family was afraid that it would be difficult to have talents after the old man passed away. However, now this Gongsun Jian, who is far away in Linshui County, is somewhat interesting, and it seems that he needs to pay more attention in the future. In the past, a stupid boy who could only study to death came back from a trip to the border, not only was his poetry outstanding, but his methods also became powerful.

After a while, Gong Mohan looked at Luo Dayong and said: "Boqi (Luo Dayong's character), now the charges of those families are confirmed, but there are troubles next." Today's last few words in the court are obviously excusing Chen Cheng, and he still has a back hand. It's time for our people to move, and Chen Cheng can't be allowed to have the final say in the assignment of the two assistant officials in Linshui County. In addition, Yue'er's seat should not be moved, it is best to keep even that Liu Dayuan, and let them stay in Linshui County. The old man wanted to see what accidents would happen in the small county town next. ”