Lin Fan said that he wasted several catties of saliva before he finally pulled Wang Ziliang into his chariot.

There are still many affairs in the camp, all waiting for him to arrange and deal with them, so after getting the statement of Lord Zhizhou, he did not stay longer, and after the two discussed some specific matters on how this matter should be resolved, Lin Fan said goodbye and left.

And when he came out of the Zhizhou Office, Lin Fan, who persuaded Wang Ziliang, did not show how happy he looked, but looked a little lonely when he was alone.

Lin Fan rarely had this kind of mood, and the reason why this situation happened was because he understood that this matter was actually a transaction.

This is a deal between him and Wang Ziliang, or rather with everyone in the entire Shenzhou officialdom, and it is a deal that is not so open.

On the surface, the words he used to persuade Wang Ziliang were very clear, and they did not leave much room for officials at all levels in Shenzhou to stretch their hands.

In fact, otherwise, intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Fan still left a lot of loopholes for those people to exploit.

Take the phrase "lose some" as an example, there is quite a bit of self-evident meaning in it.

In the final analysis, the specific amount of "loss" is still up to the local officials who handle it. Even if they deduct 28,000 stones from 20,000 stones, saying that they are all "broken", what can the people above say?

In addition, there are many places to make money, for example, how much grain the big families owe to the court over the years is a confused account that is not clear, and the big families will inevitably go up and down in order to give less money and grain.

And those officials at all levels who are responsible for investigating this matter will have a lot of money in their accounts with a stroke of the pen. How many people can resist such a temptation?

And according to Wang Ziliang's request, after all the fields are cleared, Lin Fan must also transfer those people he arrested to the state government prison in exchange for his support for Lin Fan.

Everyone knows that if the big families want to get people, they will get a large sum of silver, and the participating officials will have a full meal.

In short, Wang Ziliang means that Lin Fan can't earn all the money, and he must give some money to other yamen.

Each of these loopholes left above is a good opportunity for officials at all levels to make money.

And after this transaction is over, Lin Fan and Wang Ziliang, as well as those officials large and small in the Shenzhou officialdom, can get what they want.

Lin Fan not only recovered the acres of military tun fields that had been occupied by the big families for many years, but also gained complete control of the battalions in Shenzhou with the tacit consent of Wang Ziliang; The same is true for Wang Ziliang, who, in addition to a considerable sum of money, has also received the official reputation and fame he most desired; Officials at all levels can also take this opportunity to make a big profit, and the sum of their lives may not necessarily be as much as this time.

And the next thing, just as Lin Fan expected, the big families wanted to encourage the people to make trouble, because no one participated, they could only declare bankruptcy.

It's just that these big families are accustomed to being powerful and blessed in the local area, and they have always been the only ones who bully others, where can they be willing to be bullied like this, and they must find a way to bully back.

So they didn't want to give up, and they pulled up some of their own people to make up the numbers. Although the number of people is still small, it is also a little like this, and they took such a group of people to the state government to cry.

But let these people cry hoarsely outside the yamen, Wang Ziliang, who had been persuaded by Lin Fan, just hid in the back yamen and did not show up.

Officials at all levels who have been instructed by Wang Ziliang can also hide and hide, and try not to appear in front of them, which is equivalent to making trouble for them.

Unexpectedly, these people still did not give up, and they planned to attack the state government, and the result of this was naturally that they were scattered and fled by the officials who had long been unbearable.

After being beaten, the big families finally figured it out completely, and those officials had already eaten them.

At this time, they have become fat cooked in the pot, and everyone sitting around the pot is waiting to put down their chopsticks, and it is impossible for anyone to stand on their side.

At this point, the big families who have understood it are also honest, and they also know that if things continue to make trouble, it will only become more and more unfavorable to them.

In fact, don't look at those big families who are making a lot of trouble on the face, in fact, the bottom of your heart is also very empty.

There is a good saying, officials protect each other. And they broke the law before, and in the case of being caught with evidence, they can still toss it in Shenzhou, but if they really want to make trouble, it will not do them any good.

So the big families can only honestly admit it and obediently take the money to ransom people.

Officials at all levels have also reached a tacit understanding, even if they have received the benefits of those big families before, they don't have any affection at this time, and they are not soft at all when it is time to start.

Anyway, I have already offended these big families, and it will be difficult to get benefits from them in the future.

Thinking of this, the officials also let go, regardless of whether they killed chickens and eggs, and it was a serious matter to let the big families have more blood now. The money is in your pocket, and if you miss the opportunity, you will be gone.

So the officials, big and small, did everything they could to extort money from the big households, and they wanted to suck those people dry and squeeze them clean before they stopped.

Asking for so much silver at once is also nerve-wracking for those big households. In order to let the government release people, there are no longer a few of them who sell houses and land. In the future, I am afraid that many people will have to tighten their belts to get by.

Of course, compared with ordinary people, they are still rich families that are difficult for ordinary people to reach.

No matter what Lin Fan's starting point was for doing all this, in the end it became a carnival in Shenzhou officialdom, and everyone from top to bottom ate their mouths full of oil.

This kind of thing is actually something that Lin Fan doesn't want to see, he prefers that these big families be punished by the law of the imperial court, rather than the so-called punishment of spending money to eliminate disasters.

But he was helpless, and from the moment he left the state office, things were out of his control.

When he was in the state office, he didn't even say a word to Wang Ziliang to bring them to justice.

Because he knew that it was useless to say it, the entire Shenzhou officialdom was staring at this piece of fat, waiting to share and eat it, and there was no room for him to interfere.

Until a long time later, Lin Fan still remembered the kind of eyes he inadvertently saw Wang Ziliang when he left, and what flashed in them was naked greed.

Wang Ziliang is different from others, he is not only greedy for profit, but also famous. In addition to money, he also wanted official reputation and fame to pave the way for his future.

Maybe he didn't pay attention, or maybe he regarded Lin Fan as his kind, even if Lin Fan hadn't left at that time, he didn't have the slightest intention of hiding it.

Fame and fortune are moving, and the unscrupulous greed in Wang Ziliang's eyes also made Lin Fan understand that if he dared to block the path of those people at this time, he would definitely be crushed into powder by those people.

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I just hope that these people can still retain some sanity and not put their hands in the barracks.

It doesn't matter if you take back the land or give away some of your interests. In addition to wanting to do something good for the people, Lin Fan did all this in order to improve and maintain the combat strength of the army.

Whoever can't even see this clearly, still wants to get an inch, and wants to get a little more out of him. That would be a violation of his bottom line, and he didn't mind cutting off a few hands that were too long to show his attitude.

But fortunately, what Lin Fan was worried about did not happen, Wang Ziliang obviously greeted the yamen at all levels, and those officials also knew that Lin Fan was not easy to mess with.

Therefore, even if some people's eyes were red to purple, no one dared to cross the line and put their chopsticks into Lin Fan's bowl.

Wang Ziliang used this way of killing fat pigs to minimize the impact of Lin Fan's recovery of the military land occupied by large households.

Because of the equal interests, it also made the officials at all levels who got the benefits feel a lot less bad for Lin Fan.

Maybe some of those people would secretly be grateful to Lin Fan for giving them the opportunity to make such a big windfall.

As for Lin Fan, he used this method to recover the fields that were encroached upon by big households, and he also paid the price for it.

On the face of it, this is the end of the matter, and it seems to be good for everyone.

Lin Fan got the land he wanted to take back, and the people were given the land and no longer had no land to cultivate; The imperial court could get an extra amount of money and grain from Shenzhou every year, and officials at all levels were also full in one go.

For the big families, they used their money to open the way, escaped the punishment of the law, and went on to live their good lives.

Although they paid a lot of money for it, this result was far from the worst.

But Lin Fan knew that after this thing that seemed to be good for everyone, there was something that was hurt, and this damage was irreversible, and that thing was called national law.

After today, the imperial court's "Dayun Statute", which was full of words but no different from white paper, was trampled on again.

In this way, you and I kicked each other, and everyone stepped on it together for hundreds of years, turning the laws that should have been high in the court like mud in the ground, and no one wanted to look at it again.

This matter came and went quickly, from the time Lin Fan arrested people to the last person who was released to return to his home, it was only a few days in total.

And Shenzhou has also returned to its former calm, everything is like returning to before the incident, and it seems that nothing happened.

The victorious hungry wolves were full, and they burped contentedly and wiped the corners of their mouths clean. One by one, they put on human skins and became Chéng Rén, and they became officials and masters who sat high in the Ming Hall.

Defeated in the battle, the jackals return to their dark dens, licking their wounds alone, waiting for the day when they will grow new fangs.

In everyone's opinion, this matter ended here, and everyone collectively chose to forget about this matter for the time being. Everyone is ostensibly back to that harmonious state.

But once the rift arises, it is difficult to make up for it, whether it is an official or a big family, it is difficult for each of them to let go of their guard against others in their hearts.

On the contrary, Lin Fan, who was the initiator, was the least concerned about these things, and he also wanted to withdraw from this the most.

With the arrival of the ruins of grain, grass and ordnance, Lin Fan didn't have the heart to care about these things, and he fell into a new round of busyness.