Xinyang's case is very simple to deal with, Lu Peng did not exercise his arbitrary power, as written, without passing the trial of the legal department, he sat in the position that should be someone else, and tried to kill Guo Quan and the county lieutenant on the spot as quickly as possible.

Lu Peng believes that in this way, he will return to the old road of rule by man and continue to set a bad example for some people.

So Lu Peng handed over all the criminals to Yousi, and according to the newly signed law in Youzhou, they were gradually sentenced.

After dealing with these officials, Lu Peng specially called the smuggling merchants and boat owners to interrogate.

Only then did these businessmen know that this was the first person in Youzhou, and Lu Peng and Lu Laohu, who had always been known for his decisiveness. At that time, I was scared and silent.

Lu Peng didn't let them kneel, and brought them chairs, and everyone sat down to talk.

This kind of treatment makes everyone feel relaxed, so they are looking for reasons for themselves, but they are also constantly reflecting the current situation.

Lu Peng's sudden trade war against Cao Cao's material embargo made Cao Cao miserable, but the trade war was originally a double-edged sword, hacking the other party to death, but also cutting himself.

Judging from the situation described by these businessmen now, this double-edged sword cuts themselves, and the wound is still very deep.

The reason for this is that there are many workshops under the rule of Lu Peng, and the development is too fast, and there is a surplus of goods.

Originally, the products produced by these workshops had their own internal digestion, but at the same time, they also had a vast market in Cao Cao's states and counties. Due to the unequal commercial conditions signed between himself and Cao Cao, a large number of products produced in his factories and workshops were dumped into Cao Cao's sphere of influence, which further stimulated the production scale and capacity of those workshops and factories under Lu Peng.

And suddenly lost Cao Cao's vast dumping market, and these bubbles burst in an instant.

Now, all the factories under Lu Peng's rule, from steel to cloth, shoes and hats, have all appeared in a large area of backlog, which not only crushed the massive amount of funds in factories and workshops around the country, but also caused the capital of factory owners everywhere to be broken, and made it more difficult for factory owners to repay loans in money banks or private loans, and they have accumulated high debts.

There is another thing that is even more terrible, that is, when Lu Peng was engaged in the development of the western part of Youzhou, in order to resettle and transfer the population to the west, Lu Peng launched the policy of subsidizing workers, and that policy required the workers to sign a five-year labor contract, so that the policy that made the businessmen rejoice at that time has become a huge burden this time, and these workers cannot be dismissed without expiration, so they can only continue to support them.

As a result, these factory owners and businessmen had no choice but to go against Lü Peng's policy of imposing economic sanctions on Cao Cao, and instead resort to buying off the smuggling methods of officials along the way, hoping to exchange their family's mountains of goods for cash, not to mention continuing production, at least to pay back the money with interest, and save a terrible expense.

Now Lu Peng began to regret the rush when he made this decision, it seems that although he has the experience of later generations, he still does not have the experimental ability of later generations, and made the mistake of patting his head and taking it for granted.

After sincerely apologizing to these businessmen, Lu Peng was still embarrassed and said to everyone: "Although the policy is wrong, I will do my best to give everyone a solution to make up for everyone's losses." However, the policy is the policy, and it cannot be changed overnight, and it must not be accommodating, so I am very sorry, this time everyone has violated the law, and I still have to pursue everyone's legal responsibility, however, I will plead with the Criminal Department to implement the minimum standard for everyone's punishment. Then Lu Peng stood up and gave these merchants and workshop owners a deep salute with a guilty face.

Lu Peng's actions have far exceeded the attitude of officials to the people in this era.

In this era, the officials are all high, they are these people like grass mustard, not to mention unintentional mistakes, even if they really make you bankrupt, they definitely take it for granted, where will you sincerely apologize to everyone like you?

Just this move was immediately spread all over the world by these businessmen, and all the people who originally resented Lu Peng were once again moved, and the people's hearts were once again united, ready to carry this difficult period with the lord.

After dealing with the officials and these smugglers, the next thing is the problem of Jinyiwei.

Jin Yiwei is considered an outlier, so this commander was not handed over to the Criminal Department for adjudication, but directly handed over to Xu Jie, and asked him to be punished according to the internal regulations of his family.

At the same time, he explained that because of this emergency, he showed his own internal problems, which were not small problems, but urgent and must be solved, so Xu Jie could no longer follow Lu Peng to the south to meet Liu Bei, and let him rush back to Youzhou urgently and hurry up to rectify Jinyiwei.

At the same time, he also wrote a letter to Tian Chou of the trial and the cabinet, emphasizing the shortcomings that have emerged in the officialdom through this incident.

The first drawback is that the officers and men who have retired from the army can no longer be arranged casually, and they must be carefully verified, and the most important thing is to verify whether these people used to have a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and if there is a situation in which the relationship between superiors and subordinates is retired at the same time, it is necessary to completely separate them and sever the relationship between them and their upper and lower levels.

The second is that the cabinet began to directly accept the work report of officials above the ninth grade, and set this rule as a rule, every official, every month must write a report on work, handed to the cabinet, although this increased the burden of the cabinet, but to avoid the situation that lower-level officials were suppressed by higher-level officials and deliberately concealed.

While writing these letters, Lu Peng said to Liu: "Corruption is inevitable, there has been in the past, and there will be in the future, no matter what method is used, it is impossible to stop the greed of human beings, then we can only continue to plug this loophole in the system, make up for the shortcomings here, and try to reduce the opportunities for corruption." ”

Liu Chu could only sigh, which could be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

The second letter is actually a warrant.

This warrant was given to Mi Zhu of the Ministry of Households, Su Shuang of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the content of the Cabinet for discussion.

Now that we have perceived the huge blow to the entire industry and commerce of Youzhou in this trade war, this matter must be resolved, of course, there is urgency and delay in solving the matter.