Liu Yi and others made some preparations in the county, and set off to return to Zhuo County with the 200 cavalry that the county guard gave to Liu Yi before leaving.

Before Cui Si left, he also staged a "father-son emotion" drama with Lu Duyou, and the two hugged each other and cried together, as for how much of it was true and sincere, only the two of them knew it in their hearts.

Liu Yi and his entourage just walked out of the county town not far from when they ran into Sun Fei and others who came to congratulate their birthdays.

"Oops! Liu Gongzi is really timid! You have to be accompanied by so many people when you go out of the city! It seems that Liu Gongzi has a lot of enemies! "This place is not far from the county seat, although Sun Fei and the others did not dare to make a mistake, they still humiliated Liu Yi and others with words.

"Do you think my lord is as greedy for life and afraid of death as you are!? He also called his lieutenant to go to the battlefield instead of himself! Zhang Fei scoffed.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Pifu, who was flying and domineering on weekdays, has now become someone else's dog, Liu Gongzi is really a good means! But Liu Gongzi has to be careful when raising a dog, otherwise this dog may come up and bite you one day."

"Bold! Liu Gongzi is also called by you! Don't hurry up and meet the county magistrate! Cui Si shouted on the side.

When Sun Fei heard Cui Si call Liu Yi the county magistrate, he looked at Liu Yi viciously and didn't say anything for a long time.

"Let's go!" Liu Yi ignored him lazily, and ordered everyone to move on.

Sun Fei saw that Liu Yi ignored him at all, and said loudly, "Sure enough, it's the same as Yu Er, alas~ It's a pity to think about Yu Er's sister at that time, that skin is slippery, tsk~"

"You're looking for death!" When Zhang Fei heard that Sun Fei deliberately insulted the second brother and sister in front of everyone, he was furious, and he was about to rush forward when he lifted the Zhangba snake spear.

Liu Yi grabbed Zhang Fei, glared at Sun Fei, who was sneering and looking at him on the side, gritted his teeth and said to Zhang Fei and the others, "Go!" ”

Liu Yi knew that Sun Fei's move was to provoke everyone, and Liu Yi's new official was about to take office, if he had a conflict with Sun Fei in front of the county town at this time, no matter who was right or wrong at that time, I was afraid that he, the county magistrate, would not be able to do it, so he could only hold back the killing intent in his heart and drag Zhang Fei and the others away.

Looking at Liu Yi and the others who were gradually moving away, Sun Fei was resentful in his heart, turned around and looked at the county town not far away, and said to the housekeeper, "Now we don't have to go to celebrate our birthday!" ”

"My lord, I didn't expect that the old fool of the county guard would hand over the position of county magistrate to Liu Yi! My lord, where do we go from here? ”

"Now Zhuojun can't stay, fortunately, before leaving, I brought out all the property in the house, and there are still two thousand soldiers from my side who are supporting the rebellion, so let's take these belongings to Gongsun Zhan, and when I am full-fledged, I will definitely come back to slaughter Zhuoxian!" After speaking, Sun Fei led everyone to the north and went to Gongsun Zhan.

"Lord, why didn't you let me kill Sun Fei's kid just now!" Zhang Fei had been dissatisfied when he was stopped by Liu Yi just now, and finally couldn't help but ask.

Liu Yi told everyone the benefits of the matter, and then comforted Zhang Fei and said, "Don't worry, sooner or later, I will let you chop him with your own hands!" ”

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Liu Yi and others finally returned to Zhuo County after a two-day long journey, at this time Liu Yi entered the city and no longer had to be checked by the soldiers guarding the door, everyone swaggered into the city with the support of the soldiers guarding the city, after entering the city, Liu Yi sent Cui Si to arrange 200 soldiers to rest in the yamen first, and then took Zhang Fei and others to Zhang Fei's house, along the way the people around knelt and bowed, Liu Yi persuaded the people for a long time before getting up, Liu Yi announced on the spot a county official travel people do not need to kneel and worship, provoked the surrounding people to applaud!

When Liu Yi and the others came to Zhang Fei's house, looking at the ruins in front of them were covered, Liu Yi quickly found a few neighbors to inquire, and everyone who learned the truth of the matter was very angry, Zhang Fei stood on the ruins while looking for the red sandalwood box containing ancestral jewelry while greeting Sun Fei's ancestors for the eighteenth generation, fortunately it was finally found, because Zhang Fei buried the box before leaving, so it was not found by those people in Sun Mansion, because it was buried deeper, so it was not burned by fire.

Zhang Fei stood in the ruins with the red sandalwood box and scolded for more than half an hour, but then he was really dry and couldn't scold, and was dragged away by everyone.

Zhang's Mansion has been burned down, and there is no place left, so Liu Yi and the others can only go to Sun's Mansion.

After arriving at the Sun Mansion, Liu Yi grabbed a few servants in the Mansion, and after asking about it, he dismissed all the maids and servants of the Sun Mansion, and then everyone began to look around in the Sun Mansion, and after looking for most of the day, they didn't find anything, and everyone was helpless, knowing that Sun Fei had taken all the belongings away.

"Sun Fei, this kid is really not a thing! We didn't even have a single hair left! Although Zhang Fei's voice was starting to be a little hoarse, he couldn't help but scold.

Liu Yi also began to have a headache now, originally thinking that after coming back, he would copy Sun Mansion first for everyone's expenses, but he didn't expect that Sun Fei not only took away all the belongings of Sun Mansion but also copied Zhang Fei's mansion, and everyone now only has the jewelry in Zhang Fei's hand, for these jewelry, Liu Yi also made it clear that it was handed down by Zhang Feizu that day, and it could not be sold anyway. Everyone was really poor and white at this time, fortunately Sun Fei didn't take the food away, otherwise these more than 200 people would really be hungry.

"My lord, what should we do now? Or we would have collected taxes too!? Yao Lie suggested.

Without waiting for Liu Yi to refute, Zhang Fei on the side shouted hoarsely, "What kind of tax is collected?" On the way back, I heard that Sun Fei's kid received the tax before he left, and now where do the people outside still have money to give us! ”

"This kid is so fucking damned!" Yao Lie, who has always been steady, couldn't help but scold when he heard this.

Liu Yi thought for a while and said to everyone, "If you collect taxes now, it will easily cause riots among the people, and we can't always think about deducting money from the people."

"Hey~ Lord, it's really not good, let's mint money privately!" Zhang Fei said excitedly.

"Yide, you're crazy! Mint money privately, and if others know about it, you have a few heads that are enough to cut off! ”

"Lord, what do you say?"

Liu Yi thought about it, came up with a solution, looked up and said to Zhang Fei, "We can't loot the people's money, but we can do it with the money of those big families!" When my new officials take office, shouldn't they also express it! ”

"My lord is right! Those big families usually rely on the protection of Sun Yu's father and son to squeeze their tenants, so I will go door to door to collect money."

"Yide! Let's come to the door to collect the money! Aren't we the same as Sun Yu's father and son? Don't worry, let's count the big households in the county first, let's take a long-term view of this matter! ”

After speaking, Liu Yi asked one of Yao Lie's team to call the county Cheng of Zhuo County (assisting the county magistrate in charge of civil affairs, documents, and warehouses), the county Cheng is an old gentleman in his fifties who is a horse and is mentioned by Sun Yu as a county Cheng because he is familiar with poetry and books, and he usually does not ask about the world except for doing some clerical work, and Sun Yu's father and son have never participated in the bad things, so Liu Yi did not remove this person.

In less than a cup of tea, Ma Xiancheng came to Sun's Mansion to meet Liu Yi.

"Ma Xiancheng, please help me check how many big households there are in our county?"

"Your Excellency is polite, the lower officials will check it immediately" After speaking, Ma Xiancheng took out the household book in his hand and began to check.

Liu Yi saw several thick stacks of households in front of Ma Xiancheng, and knew that he would not be able to finish the investigation for a while and a half, so he instructed Wang Sanhao to serve Ma Xiancheng and then took Zhang Fei and Yao Lie out of Sun's mansion.

Youzhou is a poor state, and it needs Qingdao and Hebei to subsidize official expenses, and the geniuses have occurred frequently in the past two years, and the people of Youzhou are already hungry and Sun Fei has collected taxes for two years before leaving, and the people of Zhuo County are now even more struggling with the people, Liu Yi knows the importance of the people's hearts, so after everything is arranged, he hurriedly took Zhang Fei and Yao Lie out to inspect the people's situation.

Liu Yi and the three of them walked dozens of households in a row, and found that most of them did not have enough food now, and some families had even begun to eat bark, which was the case in the county, not to mention the people in the towns below. Liu Yi has been thinking about countermeasures.

The three of them walked and walked unconsciously to the shop of the blacksmith Li before, the three of them looked at the shop in front of them, and recalled the previous things are embarrassed, Liu Yi and the three walked into the shop, and found that the shop was not as lively as it used to be, only a few young apprentices were building farm tools by the stove, and a few apprentices saw Liu Yi and the three of them arrived, and they hurriedly stopped their work and knelt aside.

As soon as the sound of several apprentices striking iron fell, an old man's voice came from the back room of the shop.

"You little ~cough~ cubs! Who told you ~cough~ to stop! ”

Liu Yi and the three of them were very surprised when they heard this familiar voice, and Liu Yi asked tentatively, "It's Master Li inside?" ”

When the people inside heard Liu Yi's question, they were silent for a while, and then they heard the continuous coughing sound and the sound of pots and pans being knocked over, and they didn't see a haggard old man walking out of it, this person was the old Li Tou who was kicked by Zhang Fei and vomited blood that day!

Lao Li Tou looked at Liu Yi and the three of them in front of him, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Little Lao'er doesn't know that the county magistrate is coming, and he will miss the welcome, and I also ask the county magistrate not to blame the little old man!" ”

Liu Yi looked at the old Li Tou in front of him, who seemed to be dozens of years older at this time compared to some time ago, and the resentment of the day disappeared all at once, Liu Yi stepped forward and hurriedly helped him up, "Elder Li, please get up!" ”

"I didn't expect you old boy to die!" Zhang Fei said in surprise.

"Thanks to the mercy of the uncle's subordinates that day, he spared the life of the old child!" Lao Li bent over to kneel down for Zhang Fei and let Liu Yi hold him up.

Liu Yi asked Lao Li Tou, and learned that Lao Li Tou was kicked by Zhang Fei that day and lay at home for nearly a month before he could barely get up, and the apprentices around him saw Lao Li Tou like this, and they were scattered, leaving only the five in front of him because they were worried about Lao Li Tou's body to stay, Liu Yi praised the five people after hearing it.

Lao Litou's shop is not as good as before, since he heard that he framed Liu Yi and others, almost no one has come to him to build weapons anymore, and he can only make a living by making some farm tools.

After Liu Yi heard what happened to Lao Li Tou, he suddenly had a thought.

"Elder Li can still be a disciple now!?"

"Yes! Absolutely! ”