"I'm not convinced."

When Zhou Mian, who was still in the dark, was summoned to the hall and wanted to be the matchmaker between the county guard and Tian Huan, he was stunned to find that there was no staggered happiness here, only the Tian clan sect master who was pressed to the ground.

In addition to being stunned, he was also tied up by Cao Shen and escorted to Heifu.

Now everything is understood, Zhou Min, this former veteran has a kind of anger at being deceived, he stubbornly raised his head and repeated the sentence: "I don't accept it!" ”

Heifu sat behind the case and said: "You are corrupt and bribery, violating the law, the evidence is conclusive, even you admit it, the law has words, those who accept bribes are dismissed, the master guards and steals, and those worth ten gold abandon the market, and the official detains you, why are you dissatisfied?" ”

Zhou Min said: "The county guard takes the law to talk about things, that day, what kind of official words do you and I have, and accepting bribes is also a kind of flexibility, so it sounds like the county guard also has a deep meaning!" I also heard that the county guard was young and his family was already rich, so I didn't believe it, didn't you have been greedy for ink? You and I are both good people, and the county guard wants to punish me, so why don't you kill yourself first? ”

"Bold!" Cao Shen on the side was furious and wanted to cut off this guy's tongue so that he wouldn't bite indiscriminately.

Heifu stopped Cao Shen, stopped the pen in his hand, paced to Zhou Min's side, and said with a smile: "What you said is right, I am a young man and a wealthy family, and I am ashamed to say it, I really took advantage of the loophole of the law, opened an industry in the name of my mother, and asked my relatives to run it for me." In the past few years, from His Majesty to the common people, everyone knows that the so-called sugar family is the Wei family. Because of my status and reputation, Guan Shi did not dare to make things difficult, and the officials did not dare to offend, so they were allowed all the way, and brown sugar was able to become popular in the world, which was also a bit of a bully. “

Speaking of this, Heifu became serious: "But I dare to say that the money my family earns, every business, is willing to buy and sell, a little bit of accumulated profits, neither greedy for ink and people's ointment, nor self-theft." Moreover, in addition to settling down, I have not forgotten the government, and the sugar mills in Nanjun and Yuzhang have provided a livelihood for many local people, and increased the tax revenue of the local government, which is beneficial and harmless to the world. In my career in the past ten years, I have lived up to the king, and I have not deceived the people! Walk upright and sit up straight! ”

"There is a saying for the way of officials, honesty is not greedy, and officials are good. The officials are good at taking, the lowly and the expensive shells, the family and forget the official house, and the officials are also lost. I have the goodness of a servant, and thou hast the fault of a servant, and of course I am qualified to bring thee to justice by law. In addition to the great harm of Jiaodong! ”

Zhou Mian opened his mouth and stammered, and finally could only hang his head and said in a low voice: "I have nothing to say, but the county guard, just like you told me that day, stay away from Guanzhong, and still want to govern the place according to the law, it is absolutely impossible!" ”

"It's true that I accept money from Tian Huan's father and son, but even if I don't take it, can the salt farm run by the government be profitable? It will also be deserted under the infestation of pirates, and I have no manpower to destroy the smuggled salt, nor can I help those fishermen who come and go like the wind in boats. Even, if I didn't cooperate with the Tian family, the officials I sent to the township would not even be able to measure the size of the fields, and the taxes would not be collected! ”

"Even if I'm like the county keeper said, honest and not greedy, and live up to the king, then what? Will the people below, those Qi people, regard me as a parent official? As long as the imperial court's taxes are not reduced for a day, and the military service is not relaxed, they will always regard the Qin officials as rats, and they will want to expel us day and night! ”

Zhou Min was very aggrieved in his heart, and the county was urging him tightly, if he didn't pay enough, he would be reprimanded and lose his position.

It's better to cooperate with the local powerful clans and rely on them to rule the county, at least they can cope with the plan, as for what is next, as long as there is no rebellion, wait for it to pat their butts and leave, and leave it to the next county commander to worry about it!

This is the "way of being an official" that countless Qin officials learned after parachuting into the Kanto region!

The embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, and once the compromise began, it could not be stopped, so what Heifu faced was not one or two rats, but Qin Fa and Qin officials who were abandoned and degraded because of the unadaptation of water and soil.

"Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei. The leaves are similar, but the taste is different. So what? The water and soil are also ......"

Heifu couldn't help but think of this passage in "Yan Zi Makes Chu", how to solve it is really a big problem.

Zhou Min also understood that no matter what he said, he was dead, so he raised his head and said:

"Don't forget, in Xiami, in Jiaodong, I'm not the only one who is greedy for ink, can the county guard catch them all?"

Heifu made a straight face: "Those who have been bribed by the Yitian clan will naturally be severely punished." ”

Along the way, he also understood that the officials of Yeyi and Xiami had been completely corroded in five years, like a tree whose roots were rotten, and it was useless to only remove the branches and leaves of the insects, and they must all be pulled out!

Zhou Min laughed: "The county guard also said that if the officials of Jiaodong are swept away, who will you use to govern the people, and what will happen to those palaces, roads, and gold mines that have been half-built, when Your Majesty comes on his eastern tour, I am afraid that it will be a mess!" The county guard can't please him, but he will be blamed! ”

Heifu laughed and said: "You are an official, anyway, you are all deceived by the lower-level local officials, the government decree does not reach the place, there is no difference between you and you, as for Your Majesty's eastern tour......"

"The Venerable One must hold a broom, do not clean the house in Jiaodong inside and out, and kill the silverfish of you and others, is it still up to you and others to continue to harm the place, erode official property, and only cover it with a layer of cloth, pretending that Jiaodong is bright and clean, so as to deceive Your Majesty?"

Heifu thought very clearly, instead of being afraid of his hands and feet and throwing rat bogey, it was better to fight the danger of breaking the utensils and drive the rats away.

After that, he waved his hand impatiently and asked Cao Shen to escort this person down and interrogate him properly. We must get to the bottom of it and complete a big and iron case! Sweep away the secret officialdom, so that you can install people you can trust, and firmly control this treasure house of salt that produces canal exhibitions......

"Again, clean the house and then have a treat!"

……

Subsequently, Heifu asked Tian Huan to be escorted up and announced his crimes: bribing the government, colluding with the party, attracting pirates, invading the salt works, looting official property, and privately boiling salt for sale.

In short, they have committed crimes such as bribery, group robbery, rebellion, and rebellion, and one of the three clans will not be able to escape.

As if he had heard a big joke, Tian Xun grabbed the ground with his head and laughed:

"Bandits? Thieves? The county keeper is really good at laughing, this night is my family's fiefdom obtained because of the restoration of the country, three generations have been in operation for more than 50 years, which is equivalent to the house that bears the name of my family. ”

"The people under the eaves are also the subjects of my family, I remember the words of my father, respect and love, and give them lightly, so that they can multiply and prosper, so that Yeyi is prosperous, no less than Jimo. And the Xiami Salt Farm is also an industry that the King of Qi allowed my family to operate, just like the brown sugar in the sugar cane field of the Jun family. ”

"But now, when the Qin officials came here, they couldn't help but say that they took my house's house for themselves, took away my family's salt farm and turned it into an official camp, and imposed heavy taxes and forced labor on the people! Dare to ask the county guard, you and the other Qin officials and my Tian clan, who is the real thief! The old man has been planning hard in the past five years, but he is just taking back the property that belongs to my family little by little! Do you want to condemn me by Qin Law? Bah! I've always been a Qi person, I only know the law of the pipe, and I don't know what bullshit Qin Law is! ”

Tian Xun accidentally told the truth, and Heifu shook his head with some pity:

"You can see it clearly, that's right, entering people's gardens, stealing peaches and plums, snatching people's dogs, pigs, chickens and dolphins, entering people's stables, taking people's horses and cattle, seizing people's houses, and taking people's wives and daughters' property, all are thieves, but they are only petty thieves."

"And the country of stealing people, the territory of the mausoleum, and the seizure of people's livelihood, this is a big thief!"

"The ancients, the one who steals the hook is punished, the one who steals the country is Hou, Zhuangzi's sentence is about your Tian family stealing Jiang Qi as a prince, right? This is a true insight, no matter what the Tian family has done, since he has stolen the country as a king, he has power in his hands, so no one can bring him to justice. ”

"But feng shui takes turns, and now, it is Qin's turn to seize the land of Qi, and the descendants of the former princes have also become the dead country, and the power is in the hands of the Qin officials."

"Since you have lost your privileges, Hugh said that if you want to restore the country, even if it is a thief, it has become a sin, and you and these thieves will naturally be punished by our thieves."

Tian Xun asked confidently, but was scolded by Heifu, and said with a dumb smile: "The county guard is really a courtier, and he is not ashamed to admit that he is a thief." ”

"There is a way to steal."

Heifu never thought that he was a partner of justice, he stood in front of Tian Huan, looked at his desperate eyes and said: "Becoming a king or defeating a villain, I can't complain about anyone, but Tian Huan, do you know that it is not these things that kill your whole family in the end, nor are they bribery and other things." I'm not an inflexible person, and if you were to approach me in the beginning, it would be impossible to cooperate. ”

He seized Yuzhang and called Wu Rui, the head snake, a brother and sister. Governing the north, he also fought with the forces of the Rong people, the Wu clan, and the Liangjiazi factions, and tried to make the wool cake bigger, so that everyone could get rich together.

Only against the Yeyi Tian clan, he did not hesitate to be ruthless!

"Because you did a big mistake because of your thoughts."

Heifu approached Tian Wei and said coldly: "When you kill me and send someone to stab me in Weishui, the fate of your family's destruction is doomed!" At this moment, the county soldiers of Huangxian County should have surrounded Yeyi, but it is a pity that the heroes of Anpingjun's generation will be left behind! ”

Tian Xun was furious, and his face was fierce: "Heifu, do you really think that the county soldiers of Huang County are reliable?" ”

Cao Shen was shocked when he heard this, but Heifu looked back indifferently, as if all this was also expected by him:

"That's right, Huang County is adjacent to Yeyi, but the lieutenant of Jiaodong County is indifferent to what you and Zhou Min have done, and the trouble of Haikou is better every year. Thinking about it this way, I am afraid that he will not be reliable, but he will not be an enemy of your family and the court, but will take the lead, trying to kill the Ru family before I arrive, so as not to be implicated. ”

"But I didn't dare to put my own safety on the county soldiers, so this time, I also invited foreign help......"

As he spoke, Gong Ao, who had disappeared for almost ten days, strode into the hall and bowed to Heifu:

"The county guard, Gong Ao is fortunate not to be dishonored, the two thousand soldiers and horses invited from Linzi have reached Pingdu!"