The new official took office with three fires, and Cao Xing's fire was also burning vigorously enough, directly burning almost all the county offices in Bianyun County, and now the people who work in the county government feel that everyone is in danger, and they only work hard every day in the county government.

If he can't complete the task of the day, or if he procrastinates during the office, Cao Xing doesn't need to take action in person now, the guard named Zhou Cang next to him carries an iron rod at all times, patrolling in the county office, and whoever doesn't do it well will directly pull it over with a stick.

This angered many officials, but in the face of Zhou Cang, they didn't dare to say anything, Zhou Cang is tall and big, and it looks dark from a distance, and if you look closer, it is definitely fierce and evil, not to mention that you are full of martial arts, it can be said that almost no one in the county government of the entire Bianyun County can win, so they only dare to swallow their anger.

Over time, Zhou Cang also had a new name, called Zhou Heizi, but in any case, it was precisely because of Zhou Cang's daily patrols that these officials were miserable, so the office efficiency of the officials was much higher.

The main book will hand over the daily public sentiment and statistical information to Cao Xing, and Bing Cao will often take officers and soldiers to patrol the streets to prevent safety accidents, and the public security in Bianyun County has improved a lot for a while.

Because of the effective governance, the people praised it again and again, but of course they didn't know what happened in the county government, so they could only attribute all this to the county magistrate Duan Ke, after all, they only knew that the county magistrate was Duan Ke, and the others didn't know.

And this kind of folk language was heard in Duan Ke's ears, and Duan Ke also felt a sense of comfort in his heart, so he encouraged Cao Xing and the others.

Although Duan Ke and Cao Xing were both in a good mood, some people were a little unhappy, and they were in a certain secret room, what did they start plotting?

Three days passed, Cao Xuan finished all the official business in hand, and Duan Ke also gave Cao Xuan a vacation, and Cao Xuan was finally able to go back.

However, Cao Xuan got a message after he went back, which can be said to be related to Cao Xing's entire industry, and Cao Xuan hurriedly held an internal meeting.

Feng Yun handed a ledger to Cao Xing's eyes, Cao Xuan glanced at it roughly, and he didn't need to see it too clearly, he had already put down the ledger in his hand, which could be regarded as the family's counterattack.

Feng Yun's account book remembers very clearly, the sales of Hantian Restaurant have dropped by more than half compared to the previous few months, and it can be seen from the handwriting on it that the people who buy Hantian Spirits are mostly ordinary people, they can't take out money to buy a big jar of wine at one time, they can only buy a little loose wine and drink it back, as for those who can afford high prices, they no longer patronize Hantian Restaurant.

"Big brother, I also hearsay, secretly observed, in fact, those who came to buy our cold day spirits at a high price are mostly some family magnates, but somehow, during this time, they are like a collective boycott of our cold day spirits, no longer come to buy, and I also learned from other restaurants that those restaurants also have spirits for sale one after another, although the taste is not as good as our cold day spirits, how to say it now, it is much better than those ordinary rice wines, and I also investigated, the background of those restaurants, Behind them are all as if there is no family support! ”

Feng Yun told everyone all the information he knew, Cao Xuan nodded secretly after listening, Feng Yun's investigation was very clear. At the same time, Bongyun's investigation also illustrates a problem, that is, the family began their counterattack.

These families will not use despicable means to destroy Cao Xing like Yu Yu, they only need to carry out an economic blockade of Cao Xing, and those family masters restrain their family disciples from going to Hantian Restaurant to buy wine and vegetables, so Hantian Restaurant is not only a decline in sales of alcohol, but even the stir-fry thing is not much to worry about. So today's profits have fallen by more than half.

"These families are demonstrating to me!" Cao Xuan drank the tea in the cup and said lightly.

Chen Huche Wu Ma Bo They didn't speak, after all, they couldn't interfere in these things. So Feng Yun glanced at Cao Xuan cautiously and said, "Big brother, the family's blockade of us is indeed a bit serious, do you want to loosen the control on the Yamen side a little!" ”

However, as soon as he heard this, Cao Xuan put down the teacup in his hand, looked at everyone with burning eyes and said: "Have you been bullied by those disciples of those families before, and now you actually want to compromise with those families, don't you feel a little ashamed!" ”

Feng Yun was silent as soon as he heard this, and the eyes of Chen Hu, Che Wu and others began to become warlike, as Cao Xuan said, they were bullied by the family a lot before, and now they can't bear it anymore, since Cao Xuan has spoken, then they will definitely fight with those families to the end.

"As for how we should deal with the family's counterattack, I also have a plan, those guys under our hands, first take out half of it, so that they don't have to make cold spirits anymore, I have other plans, as for everything else, even if the family attacks us, we should respond to all changes with the same!"

The next morning, Cao Xing came to the county office early to see Duan Ke.

And Duan Ke was a little surprised at first when he saw Cao Xuan coming, but soon a smile appeared on his face: "Lord Cao, I came back to work so soon today, I really have a heart!" ”

"It's still the county magistrate who works hard and has a lot of work, and I have to stay in this county office every day, so I'm ashamed!"

After Cao He and Duan Ke complimented each other a few words, Cao Xing was ready to get to the point, and he handed a list into Duan Ke's hands.

"Lord County Commander, there is still a piece of wasteland in the west of the city, I think it's a pity to abandon it, it's better to let the people reclaim the wasteland to farm!"

Duan Ke glanced at Cao Xing, then took the list, glanced at it, he looked at Cao Xuan with a smile and said, "Lord Cao's handwriting is a bit big!" ”

When Cao Xing heard this, he thought that Duan Ke had something else, so he took out a box from his body and carefully pushed it in front of Duan Ke's eyes.

"There are 10,000 yuan here, please laugh!"

However, Duan Ke looked at the box, just glanced at it, then pushed the box back, and then smiled at Cao Xing: "Lord Cao, do your duty, serve the people and the public, what reason do I have to refuse, haha, let's do it, Lord Cao will go back to the office first, and when it is in the afternoon, you will come to me to get the letter!" ”

Cao Xuan glanced at Duan Ke, didn't say anything, and retreated directly from the door, until the afternoon, Cao He and Zhou Cang finally came to Duan Ke's door, but Duan Ke's door was closed, and the little official at the door informed him that Duan Xian Ling was busy with official business for a day and needed to rest as soon as possible, so it was inconvenient to be disturbed by anyone, but Duan Ke still handed over a letter to the little official before closing the door and asked him to pass it on to Cao Xing.

Cao Xuan opened the letter, his pupils began to gradually dilate, and finally he sifted the letter into his arms, on the way back, Zhou Cang kept asking Cao Xuan what was written in it, and Cao Xuan did not shy away from directly telling Zhou Cang about the things on it.

Anyway, the vacant land around Cao Xing's house is large, so Cao Xing applied to the government to approve another 300 acres of land for him, but these things need to be agreed by Duan Ke, so Cao Xing told Duan Ke about this matter in court today, but he never expected that when Cao Xing completely took the approval document in his hands, he found that Duan Ke only approved 200 acres.

As for why Duan Ke behaved like this, Cao Xuan couldn't help but think of yesterday's events, that night Che Wu slowly walked into his room, handed a letter to Cao Xing's hand, and then withdrew, Cao Xuan opened the letter, and it was written that Duan Ke, from a family, Jizhou Julu people's family.

Cao Xuan just asked Che Wu to collect information about Duan Ke, but about Duan Ke's information, Cao Xuan saw this, and felt that he didn't need to look any further.

"Hey, I didn't expect to be very lucky to be Duan Ke, I turned out to be from the same hometown as that person!"

Duan Ke is from a family, Cao Xing has heard of this for a long time, Duan Ke's accent is not from the state, but more like Jizhou, and he is more or less contradictory with the local family, so Cao Xing asked Che Wu to investigate Duan Ke's background as early as possible.

Duan Ke was born in Jizhou, a rich place during the Three Kingdoms period of Ji Zhou, just look at Yuan Shao in the history of the Three Kingdoms, whether it is land and grain, or talents, that place in Jizhou is very rich, so Yuan Shao's strength can be so big at the beginning.

However, this Duan Ke is a little sad, his family is in Julu County, Bingzhou, if you ask what major events happened in Julu County during the Three Kingdoms period, it can only be said that Julu County has produced a remarkable figure, that is, Zhang Jiao, who claimed to be the general of Tiangong a few years ago.

Zhang Jiao is in Jizhou, and the army of the imperial court is going to exterminate it, and it must also be sent to Jizhou, and as a result, Jizhou is in flames, especially Zhang Jiao's homeland Julu, which is said to have died of illness at that time.

The two armies fought and Julu became the main battlefield, it must be needless to say that it must be a ruin, if Cao Xuan did not guess wrong, Duan Ke was born in a family that was not too big, and he had some background, but in that war, the people of their family were estimated to have been killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

At that time, Duan Ke was working as an official in a certain area of Jizhou, so he escaped this catastrophe, but since then, without the support of his family, Duan Ke's career has also plummeted.

The intelligence also shows that Duan Ke seemed to be squeezed by others on the road to becoming an official, and was finally driven out of the rich land of Jizhou and came to the bitter cold land of Bingzhou. Eventually, he became a county magistrate in a remote county.