Ma Yun explained with a smile: "The so-called certificate reward, the key is this" certificate ", this thing is different from the nickname, it is for the living, for example, our annual festival embassy can be in the four states under its jurisdiction, more than ten counties in the county order, you can check the best performance of the year, give the 'first year of good luck Ma's best parent official' this certificate, a plaque counted, and then ride a horse with flowers around the Jiangling festival embassy to go around, in the future career will also be focused on, so not to give Baiguanmen an incentive? ”

But what about three or five years from now? I'm afraid there will still be a lot of people who have this plaque. Liu Zhaoyu said on the side, this idea of the five princes is one by one, but no matter how you hear it, it feels like a moth.

Ma Yun said nonchalantly: "Didn't I say it?" That thing is only for one year, and after this year, it will not be time-sensitive. ”

Zhao Pu thought for a while and said: "Since this is the case, then Lord Wang, this thing should not be evaluated once a year, our Jingnan place is small, so let's evaluate it once every three years, things are rare and expensive." As for the Loyal Filial Piety Ancestral Hall? Since the army is also built, and the merchants are also built, then the officials are even more indispensable. ”

Liu Zhaoyu saw that Zhao Pu agreed, smash it, smash it, and it was hard to say anything.

Ma Yun looked at everyone happily and said, "Then it's settled." ”

After explaining the matter, Ma Yun went south to Changsha, and along the way, he set up a position, and where there are many people, go slower, and where there are few people, go faster. Seeing that Changsha is coming.

In a town in Wangcheng County, Ma Yun is slowly moving forward with a force of 500 people. In the crowd of onlookers, someone suddenly shouted: "Lord Wang, the villain has a good report." ”

Ma Yun was chatting with his wives in this carriage, and suddenly heard such a voice, and he was still a little curious at the time, and said with a smile: "Ziying, Jing Niang sees that your husband is very attractive, and someone stopped the road and shouted grievances as soon as he went out." Today my husband is going to school.。。。 This Di Renjie Di Qingtian, be a master of Qingtian. ”

Then he said outside the car: "Li Ergou, call that person over and ask him if he has any grievances." ”

The team stopped, and the onlookers were probably the first time to see people blocking the road and complaining, and they stretched their necks curiously, tiptoed to watch, and were quiet for a while.

The person who came was a man about thirty-five years old, with a bronze complexion and a scholarly dress, Li Ergou asked, "The prince asked, what grievances do you have?" ”

This person walked to Ma Yun's car, knelt on the ground, held the paper, and said loudly: "Lord Wang, the villain has no grievances, the villain has a love report, I am a county official in Wangcheng, and I specially want to report the county order Zhou Tingyu, who is greedy for 300,000 taels of silver." ”

300,000 taels? That's a lot of money, huh? No, isn't Ma Chu forbidden the circulation of silver? Where did this small Wangcheng County Order get these 300,000 taels of silver?

Great Chu is forbidden to circulate silver, but it does not mean that there is no silver in Chu, otherwise the king of Chu would not have paid a tribute of 100,000 taels of silver to the imperial court without blinking his eyes. Moreover, after Ma Xifan ascended the throne, he did not strictly prohibit the circulation of silver, and when the army was in chaos, many rich families still secretly hid a lot of this hard currency. It's just that the common people don't have it. However, 300,000 taels is a considerable case of embezzlement. Could it be that his luck is so good, just after Nanping, a large-scale corruption case was cracked, hehe, is this the legendary king overlord's anger?

Ma Yun hesitated, so he ordered Li Ergou to take the paper and read it carefully. Since the king of Chu banned the circulation of silver, silver could not be circulated in the state of Chu, and he was extravagant in nature, and he was very fond of silver and white, and last year he actually set up a guard of honor with a scale of 1,000 people, called the "Silver Spear Battalion". Since it is called the silver gun battalion, the king of Chu is rich and rich, so he naturally can't do the kind of work of "deceiving the world and stealing his name", saying that it is a silver gun, it is really full of real silver, because there are many blacksmiths in Wangcheng County, he ordered the county to order Zhou Tingzhi to organize people to build it on the spot. But this week, Tingzhi actually cheated from it, and it was full of real silver, and it could be less than seventy percent, and it was silver-plated for a long time.

Ma Yun smiled slightly, what Zhou Tingxue, such a big corrupt official, bumped into my hands, you are unlucky, I have to interrogate you well.

At noon in autumn, there is still a hint of coolness. Zhou Tingyu, who was reading in the study in the backyard of the county government, kept his right eye jumping. Zhou Tingzhi is a scholar, and he is not very cold about the saying that "the left eye jumps wealth, and the right eye jumps disaster", but there is a ghost in his heart, so it is inevitable to think about the west.

He put down the book gently, rubbed his eyes again, woke up, and looked at the sky outside the window.

Just as he was changing his clothes and preparing to go out, the butler hurriedly ran in and shouted, "My lord, something is wrong." ”

Zhou Tingzhi chuckled, his heart was pounding, but his face was slightly dissatisfied and reprimanded: "What's the matter, so panicked? ”

"My lord, the bookkeeper of the foundry bureau, he ran... Run... Ran. ”

Zhou Tingxu's face sank, and he said angrily: "Then you don't chase it." ”

"Chasing... couldn't catch up, so he ran to the fifth prince. ”

"What?" Zhou Tingyu was a little distracted, and sat on the chair with his buttocks, and cold sweat flowed faintly on his forehead. The housekeeper peeked at it, and saw Zhou Tingyu stand up again in a bluff, and said, "You hurry up and go to the Chengxi Foundry Bureau and burn all the accounts." ”

The housekeeper answered, turned around and was about to go out, Zhou Tingyu said again: "Slow down, load the silver that has not been released immediately." You go to escort the car yourself, and when you go, you don't come back. ”

"Your Excellency..." The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but shout with tears in his eyes.

Zhou Tingyu stomped his feet and said hurriedly: "Don't go soon... Then he seemed to think of something, and was about to find something on his desk.

"He can't go."

An unusually cold voice came from outside the door, accompanied by a rush of footsteps, listening to the footsteps, the sound was the same, it seemed to be a well-trained sergeant.

Then someone opened the door of the study, and six sergeants with swords came first, followed by a ten-year-old young man in brocade clothes and long robes, and behind this man was a burly man with a sword.

Zhou Tingzhi withdrew his hands, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "What kind of person is Your Excellency, who dares to trespass on the county government." ”

The big man behind the young man shouted: "Be bold, you won't be polite when you see the prince." ”

Zhou Tingxue's heart sank, and he hurriedly came over and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Wangcheng County ordered Zhou Tingxue to meet the five princes." ”

"Hehe, get up, this king can't afford to kneel down with you." Ma Yun said this, walked to the chair behind the desk, sat on it, and said, "Zhou Tingxue, what do you have to say when you see this king." ”

Zhou Tingyu lowered his head, bowed down and said: "Xiaguan congratulates the five princes on their victory, conquering Nanping, and achieving the biggest and biggest victory in the history of my Great Chu!" God bless me Dachu. ”

"Fart. Talk about your own business. Seeing that Zhou Tingyu was so lazy, Ma Yun couldn't help but say sharply. When Ma Yun was in modern times, he hated corrupt officials, traveled to ancient times, became a prince again, and slowly became a prince with a little idea, so there is even more reason to be a corrupt official.

Zhou Tingyu's body trembled, and after trembling slightly a few times, the whole person calmed down, raised his head and looked directly at Ma Yun, and snorted slightly: "In addition to congratulating the five princes on their victory, the lower officials don't know what to say?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Tingyu seemed to be out of the way, with a strong neck, Ma Yun smiled instead: "Don't say it." Presumably you don't know yet, I have already sent someone to seal the foundry bureau, and under the guidance of your bookkeeper, I am looking for the accounts, hehe, wait a while, I don't need you to recruit you. ”

"Fifth Prince," Zhou Tingyu said in a deep voice, "You can't do this. ”

"Hey, I can't do that yet?"

Seeing that Zhou Tingzhi did not admit it, but blamed himself, the fire in Ma Yun's heart rose slowly, he hated corrupt officials, and even more ruthlessly this kind of corrupt officials who took risks and carried them to the end.

Ma Yun kicked the desk to the ground with a "bang", and the books on the desk instantly scattered into a ball. I don't know if a piece of paper fell from that book, and it fell down in a fluttering manner.

Zhou Tingyu didn't know why, he suddenly pounced on the scattered paper, and then filled it into his mouth.

Ma Yun stood up in shock and said, "Hurry up and take him down and cut out the paper for me." ”

Li Ergou and a few sergeants next to him grabbed Zhou Tingyu's arm when they went up. But Zhou Tingyu was still struggling, his hands were grabbed and he couldn't move, and his mouth was still desperately swallowing into his stomach one by one.

"Knock his mouth open for me and cut out the paper for me."

When Li Ergou heard this, he pulled out the handle of his knife and knocked it at Zhou Tingxue's mouth, Zhou Tingzhi screamed "ah", his front teeth fell, and his mouth was full of blood. Li Ergou took advantage of this bento to take out the letter and handed it to Ma Yun.

Ma Yun frowned, unfolded the letter stained with saliva and mixed with blood, because Li Ergou started quickly, most of the words on the letter could be recognized, especially the inscription, which was extremely eye-catching: General Tiance Zuo - Ma Xiguang. Ma Yun looked at it carefully, it was really shocking: this letter was actually written by Ma Xiguang to tell Zhou Tingzhi how to deal with dirty silver.

Ma Yun's heart sank flickeringly. Zhou Tingxu spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and laughed: "Fifth prince, do you know it?" You're in big trouble. When the case was revealed, Da Chu didn't know how many people there were, and they were about to fall to the ground. I, Zhou Tingxue, am only the first. Hahahaha. ”