"Yes, Qiu Hong was the nest of a bandit in the county, and after this bandit was exterminated by us, this property became cheaper than Qiu Hong."

"Chen Minggang knows about this."

"Of course I know, but I now know a little bit about their rules of the rivers and lakes," Zhou Botao reported, "This kind of thing, as usual, has a share of the fast class and the strong class, Chen Minggang has to take out at least a part of it to give the two classes 'incense', so directly swallowed, they call it 'hurtful way', and it is a very serious matter to say it." ”

"I won't take this out for the time being, and I'll do it when I need a dog-eat-dog between the six rooms." Ran Yao said, "But if there is any small material, let it out first, let them quarrel." ”

Zhou Botao understood and immediately instructed his subordinates to transfer out all the black materials of the three classes and six rooms collected in the past year - these materials had already accumulated a lot, and since Gou Er's account book was partially deciphered, a lot of old past materials were added, and it became more credible to disseminate. At the moment, I found a suitable part, and the supporting Jackie Chan was scattered one by one.

A wind of suspicion suddenly began to blow in the Yali of Lingao County, Lingao is a small place, and the rumors can spread from Dongmen City to the county seat in less than a day, and the people in the county who "do business" can't help but mumble -- the people who eat the official meals of the Yamen have a lot of hearts and eyes, and many old things are not mentioned.

In addition to such rumors, the news that Chen Minggang was preparing to let Australians contract this year's taxes also spread, and the news was that Chen Minggang asked his apprentices to release them. It is done, needless to say; Even if the Australian is not prepared to wade into this troubled water, he plans to use this big brand to go out and scare people - anyway, no one dares to ask the Australians if there is such a thing, and he will pay some money and food to the Australians afterwards.

Wang Zhaomin was not interested in these rumors, but he was so anxious that Chen Minggang was going to pull Australians to contract taxes. This matter has now been spread by nose and eye, and it probably won't come out of nowhere. He hurriedly summoned Chen Minggang and asked him if there was such a thing?

"That's exactly what happened." Chen Minggang replied generously. Although he was obedient in front of Master Wang, his demeanor was extremely arrogant - this kind of official in a remote place, because the local administration was extremely dependent on him, even the county magistrate did not look at him, let alone a master like Wang Zhaomin.

"You're so daring!" Wang Zhaomin was so angry that his beard spread out, "What is the origin of the thief?" If you dare to collude with them, when the heavenly soldiers of the court come in the future, I see how you can drag it out! ”

"If you go back to Master Wang, if you can't drag it out at that time, you will naturally have someone who looks better than the smaller." Chen Minggang had a scoundrel face.

Wang Zhaomin suddenly became angry, speaking of which, there is still anyone in the Lingao County Ya who can say that he is clean and self-conscious, and he has not hooked up with the thief, I am afraid that it is impossible to count. Like the little officials, it is easy to say, Zuo just received a few circulation coupons, and he is afraid that he will not be able to explain clearly to Jing.

Wang Zhaomin is a person who has been curtaining for a long time, he is very calm, and said in a deep voice: "Old eight, I advise you to be more understanding!" These thieves are not good. If you provoke them, I'm afraid that Zuihou will only suffer by yourself! ”

"Suffer or not suffer, this is an afterword. In front of him, Master Wang has to find a way to come out. Chen Minggang showed no weakness. Of course, he knows that Australians are not easy to handle, but relying on his familiarity with the county's money and grain, even if you Australians have the ability to reach the sky, without your own help, you can't collect food - "reasonable burden"? This thing is indeed clever, but the food that can be collected is also extremely limited, and it can only be regarded as a "happy donation" of the government, and it is impossible to maintain it for a long time.

The matter in front of him naturally refers to the autumn grain that is about to be levied, not only the grain, but also the additional salary, as well as the miscellaneous taxes and money in the county. Taken together, these things are the top priority in the county. Wang Zhaomin has also been struggling with this recently.

The food endowment itself is okay to say, Wang Zhaomin knows that as long as he works hard to urge, he can generally finish the class. What's more, after the Australians exterminated the bandits this year, the local powerful landlords who colluded with the bandits have reined in a lot, and they probably won't do anything to openly confront the government, but now they have a more Haode choice -- Australians.

If they openly backed up the Australians, which was not impossible, as they had been in the past with bandits, it would have been difficult to requisition food.

It seems that no matter what, if you don't cooperate with the Australians, I'm afraid that this autumn grain will be in great trouble. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly hate Chen Minggang for his own selfish interests, he went to the Australians to talk about autumn grain, and now that he wants to talk about cooperation with the Australians, I am afraid that the price is not too big and he will ignore himself.

Xiong Buyou came back to report the results of the meeting with Chen Minggang to Wu De, and heard that Chen Minggang also wanted to use the crossing group, which made Wu De a little surprised - it seems that there are people who make money in the oil pot everywhere.

"It seems that we have become fragrant and sweet, and Wang Zhaomin and Chen Minggang both want to borrow our brand." Wen Deji smiled when he heard this.

"This is a good way to negotiate the price." Wu De said, "Wang Zhaomin originally didn't plan to cooperate with us, he just wanted us to make a gesture, but now as soon as Chen Ming comes to stir up the situation, he has to come." It saves us a lot of effort. ”

"It seems that Chen Minggang will open a comparative price."

"Shall we work with him?"

"I don't think that's necessary." Wu De did not hesitate, "We didn't come to Lingao to be officials, we came to control the county government, there is no need to make so many twists and turns." Another point, with our understanding of this society, if we want to fight with them professionally, I am afraid that we are not the opponent of this gang of officials. ”

The various official affairs in the county government are not clear even to the county officials themselves, let alone outsiders like them? As an outsider, you have to compete with local athletes who are familiar with the rules, and no matter how good your ability is, you will always lose if you commit a foul.

The only way to deal with this situation is to break it with force, destroy the old order, establish new rules, and force everyone to operate under the new order they have prescribed.

"Of course, in terms of information, we still need to borrow their expertise for the time being." Wu De said, "Let's not break face with him for the time being, let's see how sincere this guy is, and we are ready to take over ourselves." ”

"Do you want to cooperate with Wang Zhaomin?" Xiong Buyou doesn't like this master very much, but he still thinks that Chen Minggang is like this, and it is straightforward and refreshing to negotiate the price and conditions.

"Of course! This is the right way. Wu De said with certainty, "Xu officials are pariahs, we have to establish our own image, how can we mix with them?" Wang Zhaomin and Wu Mingjin are upright officials, and their status in the eyes of the people is different. ”

The leader is always haode, and it is the crooked-mouthed monk below who recites the scriptures. This theory is not new. This has been the case since ancient times. It doesn't happen overnight for the traverser to turn around.

Because the autumn grain collection was imminent, a joint meeting was held at which it was decided with Chinese characteristics to set up a special working group for the leadership of the county government, which would be directly controlled by Wu De's civil affairs committee.

"Manpower and material resources are deployed at your disposal." Wen Desi said to Wu De, "You can also control the intelligence department, and you can also mobilize the special investigation team when necessary - I have greeted Bei Wei, and I am on call." This time, focus on liliang to take down the county government! ”

"It's a big responsibility." "But I'll do my best." Also, you'll have to find me a couple of ruthless guys. ”

"Okay." Wen Deji said, "You can ask anyone." ”

So Wu De transferred Zhou Dongtian. Zhou Dongtian has been engaged in printing recently, and his face is full of ink, because he still needs shiyan lead characters, he came directly to Wu De's office.

"Old Zhou," Wu De said, "I know you've done odd jobs for Ran Yao, and you're probably going to have to do this side hustle on a large scale recently." ”

Zhou Dongtian grinned and showed out his white teeth.

On this day, Zhang Youfu came to Xiong Buyou and said that Master Wang wanted to secretly meet with the big leader of the crossing group in Shexia, and Xiong Buyou guessed that it was probably for the purpose of collecting autumn grain.

The next night, in Zhang Youfu's Zhuangzi, the two sides held a secret meeting: Wang Zhaomin saw that not only Xiong Buyou had come, but also a big boss -- he knew Wu De and knew that this person had a lot of power among Australians and belonged to the rank of "Juqu".

After a few polite words between the two sides, Wang Zhaomin went straight to the point and asked: Is it true that Chen Minggang, who has been rumored recently, is it true that he wants to ask you to contract the tax of autumn grain?

"You can say yes, you can say no." Xiong Buyou said vaguely.

Wang Zhaomin secretly scolded this thief for being really cunning, so he had to ask patiently: "What does it mean to have it and not to have it?" ”

"Chen Minggang did come to mention this matter to us, but we are still discussing it and have not yet reached a conclusion."

"Inconclusive" shows that there is still room for redemption, and Wang Zhaomin knows that this is a bargain. I had to cheer up 120,000 points of spirit.

"What are you going to do?"

"Chen Minggang made a few conditions." Xiong Buyou said, "It's very generous. ”

"Chen Minggang is just a despicable villain, can the nobles trust him?"

Xiong Buyou smiled: "Trust, forgive him and don't have the courage to lie to us." ”

Wang Zhaomin bitterly pointed out that the so-called fraud does not refer to the discrepancy in the amount of money and food, but that he will use the crossing crowd to extort money everywhere.

“…… You are new to this place, and you don't know much about Daming and the county situation in this place. Thinking of such untouchables, it is not a day to control the county government, and they are very familiar with it. If you take advantage of your power to do something to harm the people, it will be very harmful to your reputation! ”

Wang Zhaomin knew that Australians took their prestige more seriously, so he had to impress them from this aspect. (！ )

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