The next day it was cold, and Qin Tian and Tang Rong did not sleep very comfortably in the county office.

First, the place is unfamiliar, and second, it is still too cold at night.

Longkou County is already very far north, although it is early winter, but at night, the temperature is also very low.

Qin Tian felt that it was necessary to improve the heating equipment in the room.

But at the moment, he doesn't have that time.

Not long after getting up, Lu Jiu and Liu Yong were already waiting with a group of officials.

Qin Tian saw that they had come early, and he knew that he had succeeded in establishing power yesterday, and he was happy in his heart.

However, although he was happy in his heart, he was very calm on the surface, and said: "This official first came to Longkou County, and he didn't know much about the county government or even the entire county, and I am afraid that many things will bother Lu County Cheng and Lord Liu. ”

Speaking of this, Qin Tian paused and said, "Let's start with the county government, Lu County Cheng will tell Lord Ben about the finances of the county government, the prison case and everything." ”

Lu Jiu didn't fight with Qin Tian, after Qin Tian's order, he hurriedly stood up and said: "Back to my lord, the situation in Longkou County is complicated, there are many forces, and there are even people who collect taxes from those people on behalf of the county government, so the county government's finances are very pitiful, and there is not much left, and then there are people here who like to be thieves at every turn, so there are many prisoners detained in the prison......"

Lu Jiu's words, seven points are true, three points are false, and seven points are true and three points are false, it is very convincing to say it, after Qin Tian heard it, his expression was already solemn, and his brows were tightly locked.

The situation in Longkou County is much more serious than he thought.

"Someone collects taxes from the people on behalf of the county government, who is it?" Qin Tian frowned, only the imperial court can have taxes, and others dare to collect them, they simply don't take the imperial court seriously.

"Back to the words of adults, it is the golden dragon of Lane 78, known as Lord Long, he controls the seven or eight alleys of Longkou County, and has more than 500 subordinates, because of the huge power, so he often collects protection fees from the people, sometimes even in the name of paying taxes, the county government only has more than 20 officials, and he really fights him, so he is allowed to do it, but in order to sympathize with the people, sometimes if they accept it, our county government will not be able to collect it again."

Lu Jiu said that they were still very kind, but Qin Tian laughed secretly in his heart when he heard it, the county government was short of finances, and it was unknown whether someone had done something or not.

When he found a time, he had to check the ledger.

Thinking like this in his heart, Qin Tian didn't have any angry expression, as if he just wanted to know the situation in Longkou County.

Then he asked, "Is there a man named Zhou Zhou in Longkou County?" ”

Hearing Qin Tian ask Zhou Zhou, Lu Jiu was shocked in his heart, because Qin Tian had just been here for a day, how could he know about Zhou Zhou?

"Back to adults, there is indeed one."

"How's the boat going this week?"

"Zhou Zhou is the richest man in Longkou County, his family is very rich, and he also has three or four hundred thugs in captivity."

Qin Tian saw that Lu Jiu's description of Zhou Zhou was not exhaustive, so he had another heart, but he didn't ask any questions, nodded and said, "Bring all the files of Longkou County in the past two years, and the official will take the time to take a look." ”

"Whoa!"

Qin Tian bowed his head and asked again: "I heard that there are thieves outside the city, who knows this better?" ”

At this time, Liu Yong stood up: "My lord, the lower officials know one or two. ”

"Okay, let's talk about it."

"There are five or six groups of thieves outside the city, but there are two groups of thieves who are the most serious, they are Chen Yingying of Xiying Mountain, and Song Fei of Qingliubo, these two have more than 1,000 subordinates, Chen Ying's Xiying Mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, only two mountain roads can go up the mountain, but these two mountain roads, one is strictly guarded by Chen Ying's people, and the other is a natural danger, and it is difficult for manpower to do."

"As for Seinfeld's Qingliubo, it is a water park that stretches for three hundred miles, they live on the island in the center of the water pool, if you want to capture them, human and financial resources are a great test, these two groups of people, the market is robbed along the way, and sometimes even directly rushed to the county seat to plunder, it is extremely hateful."

Liu Yong told him about the situation, and when he said it, he still felt very jealous and hateful, Qin Tian's expression was slightly condensed after hearing this, he had already heard of these two groups of people before.

But he didn't know much, but now after listening to Liu Yong, he realized that it was not easy to exterminate these two gangs of bandits.

"These two groups of robbers, the previous county order didn't think about exterminating them?"

"My lord said and laughed, just our county government, that can be done, the previous county order also borrowed troops from Binzhou, but unfortunately the soldiers came, and they couldn't attack it, but it aroused the murderous intent of these thieves, and the intrusion of the people was even more powerful, and over time, they were rarely exterminated."

Longkou County belongs to Binzhou, and Binzhou Jiedu has 3,000 soldiers and horses from the Tang Dynasty, which can be borrowed.

However, it is not easy to borrow soldiers, first of all, these soldiers and horses must be free, there is no other task, and then there is the degree of unification of adults, and there is the borrowing of soldiers, all of these soldiers should be managed, and they must be managed by the county government, and they must give some money for a trip, and some casualties must be less.

This is a lot of pressure for a small county government.

But the county government is very poor, who can often afford to borrow these soldiers and horses?

"Okay, the official already knows about the situation in Longkou County, if there is anything that needs you, the official will speak, let's stop here today, everyone will go and get busy."

Lu Jiu and Liu Yong glanced at each other, both a little puzzled by Qin Tian's reaction.

It stands to reason that Qin Tian should be very angry when he heard so many questions in Longkou County, and then he was eager to try, but this young man was too calm, right?

Did he not even think about solving these things, or was the city government very deep and had his own calculations?

Although the two were puzzled, they didn't ask much, turned around and retreated.

Soon after these people left, someone sent Qin Tian the files of Longkou County over the years, Qin Tian didn't do anything next, just read these files in the study, Tang Rong occasionally came over to bring him some hot water, add some charcoal to the stove or something.

When dusk came, snowflakes suddenly fell in Longkou County, and Tang Rong ran in happily.

"Xianggong, it's snowing."

Qin Tian looked at the snowflakes outside through the window, and suddenly sighed: "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, Xianggong, I don't want the snow to fall so early." ”

Tang Rong was stunned for a moment, and secretly thought that there were frozen bones on the stinky road of Zhumen's wine and meat, and his father-in-law was really a good official who thought about the people, but he was himself, and he only cared about his own joy and feelings.

"Xianggong, do you see anything in these files, are there many unjust cases?"

(End of chapter)