The people in the hall originally listened to the trial and seemed to understand a little, but now they finally understand it completely after hearing Guo Zhiyuan's words, they have been wronged for so many years, and they have paid taxes for others for many years, and suddenly roared angrily: "We agree!" The scale book must be revised! ……”

It is a bit scary for so many ordinary people to roar in unison, completely suppressing the shouting of those landlords and squires and their subordinates, if it were not for the fact that there were still government officials and regimental training villagers outside to maintain order, I am afraid that the angry people would rush in and beat these landlords and squires who exploited them for the rich and unkind!

Guo Zhiyuan pointed to the angry people in the hall and turned his head to Chen Huaili and the others and sneered: "You have seen it, this is the will of the people!" The will of the people cannot be violated, you can go to the prefect's yamen to sue me, and I will accompany someone Guo to the end! ……”

Chen Huaili was also a little frightened by the roars of the angry people under the hall at this time, he didn't expect that these untouchables, who were usually lowly and docile like livestock in his eyes, would be so terrible when they were angry, but Guo Zhiyuan's desire to revise the fish scale book had touched the fundamental interests of these landlords and squires, and he couldn't give in, trembling and pointing at Guo Zhiyuan and saying inwardly: "You... You're a county magistrate, but... But instigated the people to make trouble, Jane... It's lawless! The old man will never agree to revise the fish scale book, the old man wants to see who dares to come to my Chen family to measure the fields! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan could no longer control the anger in his heart, pointed at Chen Huaili and reprimanded angrily: "As a squire, in order to evade the taxes of the imperial court, you are lawless!" This official is not afraid of bandits, and is not afraid of local tyrants and inferior gentry, this official conforms to the will of the people to revise the fish scale book, and those who dare to obstruct it, this official will not show mercy! Don't say that this official is unpredictable! ……”

Chen Huaili then remembered that Guo Zhiyuan was not as good as those Gutian Zhixian before, there were soldiers under his hands, and they were soldiers of tigers and wolves, who had killed bandits and cut off people's heads, and his previous tricks against such people were completely useless, and he couldn't help but be upset for a while, and snorted coldly with a hard face: "Then we'll see!" ......" said that, he stood up and hurried away with the squire's family members who came with him, but they were not as majestic as when they came, and the angry people pointed at them all the way and scolded them, and some of them spat and threw stones at them, if it were not for the protection of the family, they would almost not be able to get out, and finally fled in embarrassment in the angry scolding of the people!

Chen Huaili left, Chen Donghai was completely wilted, and confessed to the crime of bribing the officials, the lieutenant and others to force Liu Changfu to sign a loan contract and forcibly take away the ten acres of paddy fields he had mortgaged, but he still had a trace of illusion, hoping that Chen Huaili could rescue him, so he did not confess that Chen Huaili was the boss behind the Chenghe pawn shop, Guo Zhiyuan ordered the seizure of the Chenghe pawn shop, and sent Chen Donghai to prison for the crime.

After the trial of the case, Guo Zhiyuan gathered all the officials and servants of the county government, announced the crimes of embezzlement and bribery by Zhao Zijing, the secretary of the household office, Chen Chaohui of the Dianshi, and others, and sent them to prison after each beating 50 boards, and announced the implementation of the "incorruptible silver" system in the county government.

There are lessons from Zhao Zijing, Chen Chaohui and others, and I saw Guo Zhiyuan tearing up Chen Huaili, the first squire in Gutian, these county officials and officials have already been frightened in their hearts, and now they are overjoyed when they hear that there is "raising incorruptible silver", thinking about following Guo Zhiyuan, the county commander, is not bad, and he usually treats his subordinates very kindly, as long as you are honest and don't move your brains, you still have a head, and you have all stopped thinking in your heart, and shouted in unison: "The old man is wise!" ”

There is only one exception, that is Liu Qidong, the chief bookkeeper, in his opinion, Guo Zhiyuan is purely nonsense, and he has offended the landlords and squires, can you still deserve this county order? It's strange that Gutian doesn't mess around?! However, from his point of view, of course he would not stop Guo Zhiyuan from "messing around" like this, but was secretly happy, because he had received a secret letter from Huang Yihua, saying that the imperial court was going to send Liu Guang, the imperial historian, to Gutian to investigate Guo Zhiyuan first, and asked him to secretly collect Guo Zhiyuan's criminal evidence.

After such a trouble, Guo Zhiyuan and the landlords and squires were equivalent to completely tearing their faces, and the contradictions were completely made public, first more than a dozen lieutenants in the jurisdiction of Gutian went on strike collectively, refusing to cooperate with the work of the county government, Guo Zhiyuan was not polite, and selected a few typical examples of the most powerful oppression of the people and arrested them directly, anyway, it is easy to find evidence of their crimes, and a handful of them were grabbed, and the people re-elected the lieutenant chief, and replaced all the lieutenant chiefs of these strikes!

Then there was a violent anti-French incident in which Guo Zhiyuan sent out to measure the land was attacked by the squire and landlord's family, because the scene was chaotic at that time, and the beaten officials could not identify whose family attacked them, Guo Zhiyuan had no choice but to send a regiment to train the village soldiers to escort them when he sent the officials to measure the land, so that no one dared to attack the officials anymore, but the conflict between the squires and landlords and ordinary people broke out again, and there were many armed fights.

Speaking of which, this is also because Guo Zhiyuan's way of dealing with the relationship with the local squire and landlord is too simple and rude, so conflicts are inevitable, but Guo Zhiyuan also has Guo Zhiyuan's difficulties, although he can use a more gentle way to slowly integrate the relationship with the local squire and landlord, but that takes time, and Guo Zhiyuan's most lacking is time, he can't always nest in the small place of Gutian, the Ming Dynasty is gradually declining, the fate of the Chinese nation has reached a critical turning point, and there is not much time left for him, I had to adopt this simple and brutal way of breaking the law by force.

Now Guo Zhiyuan can only send out the regimental training township soldiers and the new army to act as a firefighting team, where the conflict breaks out, it will be suppressed strongly, and the county jail is full of troublemakers, and it is almost impossible to close, but fortunately, after Guo Zhiyuan put on such a strong posture, the landlords and squires are also a little afraid, the situation has been controlled, and it has not continued to deteriorate, but the progress of re-measuring the land is still full of resistance, and the progress is very slow.