The conflict between Feng Bangning and Fan Jin did not heat up after the fire in Youlan Pavilion as people imagined. Although Fan Jin interrogated the arrested Feng Bangning's henchmen as usual, and even if the arson was not caught, there were one after another incidents, but this kind of revenge was always controlled within a range, that is, only against the person who set the fire that night. Occasionally, there were a few more wounded, but it was other people who wanted to take this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to ambush Feng Bangning, and they were subdued and thrown out by martial arts masters who were unwilling to take the blame, which also showed the thoughts of these operators. Only those who set fires or do other bad things in the course of their actions have nothing to do with anyone else.

Even Feng Bangning, the mastermind of this fire, was not attacked in any form, and the few cronies he protected around him were also unharmed. Feng Bangning did not go to the county yamen with people to smash them or simply go to the prison to snatch people away, as ordinary people thought. Jiang Ning's Jinyi Wei Yamen went to ask for someone several times, but without success, Feng Bangning seemed to give up this plan, and found a middleman to talk about the item on his behalf, asking about the bail procedures.

At this point, some discerning people can see that they seem to have shown strong restraint in both of them, and they don't want to fight to the death, so the next step is naturally the stage of mutual compromise. The people in prison became bargaining chips, waiting for a negotiated release.

This is actually not surprising at all, except for those coolies who can't read big characters, or the angry Guozijian students, everyone knows very well that no matter how angry Fan Jin is, he can't do anything to those who are caught.

There will be no evidence that they set the fires, let alone that the lives were related to them. They didn't treat Ma Xianglan as such, so they couldn't convict them at all. As for the previous words, as long as they do not form facts, they are not sinful. Fan Jin can use his authority to find various reasons to hold people down, but if he wants to deal with them, he will not approve them from Ying Tianfu. Moreover, after Fan Jin took office, he let out the wind and used the law as a rope to restrain the people, and if his words counted, he could not convict these people casually.

Judging from the current situation, Fan Jin has a slight upper hand. After all, it was Feng Bangning's subordinates who were knocked out, and Fan Jin's side had no loss, and they took the lead in terms of manpower. Not to mention that through this conflict, Fan Jin gained a lot of fame, and also made the Mingfeng Dart Bureau have a good business. Originally, the business of the dart store was difficult, but now there are large families in Jiangning who have come to the door and asked the dart store to send people to protect the hospital.

Since there is a need to negotiate, it is necessary to save face. Singles only play ninety-nine and don't fight plus one, Fan Jin should let people go, even if everyone doesn't shake hands and make peace, they can act as if nothing happened. It was a request for compensation from the county yamen, and the hereditary brocade commander who served as a Zhongren was a little unimpressed, thinking that Fan Jin's request was too harsh and a bit difficult.

Feng Taisui's temperament, which is so easy to bow his head, if he doesn't speak well, he may be burned. Taking advantage of Feng Bangning's good mood, when he took a lot of time to make this request tactfully, he was also ready to be scolded.

Unexpectedly, Feng Bangning agreed very happily, and patted him on the shoulder as encouragement. "Brother has worked hard, it seems that it is a lot of effort to convince Fan Jin, the southern barbarian, and he will set up a table and invite the brother to drink. If he only needed silver, things would be easy to do, and spending a few dollars would not be a big deal. I put the fire, and I should give him a few dollars, so I should buy him burning paper with four thousand taels of silver, and let him quickly release the person to me! ”

At first, the man thought that he had misheard, and then thought that Feng Bangning was talking the opposite, until Feng Ren took him to fetch the silver, and he knew that he was not mistaken.

No matter how much commemorative significance the Youlan Pavilion has for Ma Xianglan, on the issue of compensation, it is just a clear building. Even if you add the furnishings and calligraphy and paintings inside, it is not worth two thousand taels. These four thousand taels of silver are simply a lion's mouth, Feng Bangning agreed so remarkably, which made this person a little suspicious in his heart, and he didn't know what thoughts he had. Since this matter is handled by myself, I have to find out.

Feng Ren is an old family member, and his mouth is very strict, and he can't ask anything from his mouth. However, after a handsome boy brought by Feng Bangning won a silver reward, he spit out the truth.

"My son-in-law is not stupid. He felt that the limelight had not been right recently, those imperial historians were usually like mad dogs, and this time they were so honest, the situation was not quite right. Old Butler Feng persuaded him next to him, saying that he shouldn't have set fire in the first place, it would be too disgraceful, and people would be poked in the backbone when they said it. At the moment, we can't be wrong, and some people in the city are looking forward to the fight between Gongzi and Fan Jin. Although Childe is not afraid of fighting with Fan Jin, he doesn't want to be led by the nose, what others want him to do, he doesn't like it, this time it is our Childe's style of acting. Since those people all wanted to see Gongzi and the barbarian surnamed Fan fight, Gongzi didn't let them get their wish. ”

After the man heard this, he realized that it was actually Feng Bangning's spirit of twisting the bar, and he secretly felt funny in his heart. Na Juntong said again: "Besides, Childe also needs manpower recently. Some people took advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters, and made several assassins. Childe couldn't find anyone from Jiangning, so he still used his companion as a reassurance. So as long as you are willing to let people go, silver is nothing, anyway, is such a big Jiang Ning afraid that there will be no silver to earn? This time he gave the surname Fan a face, and he will have to give us face in the future, which will also save a lot of effort. ”

The commander can not only come forward to mediate this matter, but his own experience is not bad, from the analysis of the words in this handsome fairy tale, a thought came to his heart: Feng Bangning is a very timid person, and he used to be fierce and vicious in Jiangning, and the main reason is that he has not met an opponent. Fan Jin was too tough, and Feng Bangning began to cowardice.

Not all the prisoners locked up in the Shangyuan Yamen were released, and Feng Bangning didn't think about it all. As long as he brought his own entourage from Beijing, he didn't care about the ploppy tigers recruited locally. Moreover, many of these people were recruited by his subordinates themselves, and he didn't know at all, and he didn't care if he let them go or not. Fan Jin deducted those splashes and buttoned them down, Feng Bangning didn't care at all.

Those crimes may not be as serious as those entourage from Jingshi, but they are usually rampant and domineering on the streets, and after colluding with Feng Bangning, they are even more unscrupulous. For example, Feng Bangning and his subordinates engage in women, it is these splashes who serve as the eyes and ears, otherwise Feng Bangning will not be able to determine which family has a beauty, and whether the family background and social relations of that family should start.

These pimpies even used this as a means of collecting money to blackmail the people at the bottom, and those who paid the money could keep their daughters, otherwise they might be sacrificed to Feng Bangning or his subordinates. In Jiangning, the people are very angry and are cooperating as the target of disposal.

Outside the eight-character wall of the Yamen of Shangyuan County, four wooden cages were erected on each side, and in each wooden cage stood a splash skin, and the fish scales and iron leaf flail used by death row prisoners were worn around their necks to show the public. This kind of cruel punishment belongs to the immortal peeling skin, and dying during the flail is not the fault of the pro-people officials. This kind of splashing skin with no fame and no power, no one speaks for them at all, and they die and die.

More than a dozen horn tigers died in shackles outside the yamen of Shangyuan County, which was a great deterrent for the entire city fox society rats in Jiangning. On weekdays, he had a lot of face on the street, and began to flee to Jiangning County. Some small groups either packed up and ran away, or contacted Feng Mingqi to discuss the matter of being recruited.

For Fan Jin, the biggest benefit of this matter is not that he has dealt with many small gangs and turned those social forces into government minions, but that through this conflict with Feng Bangning, he has completely drawn the gentry class in Shangyuan County to his side. Feng Bangning, who is hated by ten thousand people, has suffered twice under Fan Jin, and for the gentry of Jiangning, Fan Jin is like their hope and Jiangning's savior. While this savior is only useful when demons are present, it is also the best partner for the moment.

Considering Feng Bao's attitude, he may not have the courage to publicly stand up and help Feng Bao fight against Feng Bangning, but there is no problem in cooperating with Fan Jin when he is in power. As the basic force of the imperial system, the gentry had even greater influence in the countryside than the government. It is not surprising that the common people did not believe in the government and in the affairs of the gentry.

The credibility of the Ming Dynasty has always been a big problem, and the yamen is not as convincing as the bandit cottage in many cases. The rigidity of the administrative orders and the simplicity and brutality of the means of execution have made the relationship between the yamen and the people tense, alienated, and possibly hostile. The common people are full of distrust of the government, and they do not hesitate to interpret the orders of the government with the greatest malice, and if the government wants to do something, it often has to rely on the squires to do it. Behind the principle of not going to the countryside, there are actually practical considerations.

Generally speaking, the gentry and the government had a limited cooperative relationship, and in some matters they would cooperate or be embarrassed. Sometimes, however, when the interests of the gentry were harmed, they would use their influence and prestige to mobilize the people against the government, and the government could only negotiate, compromise, and make concessions to each other. If a county order is resisted by the majority of the squires, it proves that it has failed too much, and it can only lose its official position, and if it is not done well, it will lose its life.

Now that the entire Shangyuan gentry are on Fan Jin's side, Shangyuan County's official affairs are easy to handle, and people have appeared one after another to apply for loans from the government outside the green seedling houses specially opened up in the yamen. Considering the cultural level and comprehension of the people, Fan Jin deliberately found two of Ma Xianglan's subordinates and stood there as commentators.

In fact, these two girls are not very outstanding, they can only be regarded as medium under Ma Xianglan, but they are better in writing and ink. But scarcity is precious, two delicate women wearing official uniforms, sitting there to answer the people's questions seriously, and by the way, they can also help people look at the information. This is a scene in itself at the moment, and the men surrounded the two women in three layers and three layers outside, asking gossips.

The two women ate this bowl of rice, they didn't have stage fright at all, and in addition to answering questions, they could also flirt with others, and they were very comfortable with it.

"What's your name, girl?"

"What my name is has nothing to do with you borrowing money. You walk away without borrowing money, don't get in the way of other people. I won't tell you that my name is white agarwood. ”

"Agarwood girl, I'm borrowing money, I'm really borrowing money. You see, I have 20 acres of land in Dujie Township, how much can I borrow from it? ”

"Tian Gu is still Tian Pi, I don't know how to borrow it. As for how much you can borrow, ask the Zhou Shuban inside, and he will be responsible for giving you an estimate. ”

"Girl, girl, I have thirty acres of land, and the borrowed silver is going to open a shop in the city, I have calculated that there are still one or two or three dollars of silver left, can I invite you to a meal?"

"Nonsense, I, Liu Ruyi, am a woman from a good family, how can I go to dinner with a big man casually. This is the yamen, not the courtyard, you talk nonsense, believe it or not, I will arrest you into the yamen? Besides, do I have to wear this dress when I eat with you? The deposit alone costs five taels of silver, in case you tear it up during the meal, wouldn't the old lady have to pay two packs of silver? ”

"Five taels? I have five taels, girl, you accompany me, I promise not to tear your clothes, I am a very gentle ......"

The official money-lending public housing is not as lively as the consultation office, and Fan Zhigao, who quietly came to see the excitement, looked at this side and couldn't help laughing, until someone hit him on the shoulder, and then he saw Fan Jin standing behind him for some time. He was just about to call someone, Fan Jin made a gesture, motioned for him to whisper, and then asked, "How much is the quarrel?" ”

"The fight must be noisy, everyone wants to borrow more, but the valuation card in the yamen is strict. But fortunately, it didn't make too much trouble. These people are like this, they are afraid to die when they meet the grain chief, and they dare to talk about the people of the government when they meet them. I think Uncle Nine is too good to them, so that these people think that you are a bully, otherwise how dare you talk about it, and no one forces them to borrow money. I have the ability to borrow those loan sharks, and I won't kill them when I see it. ”

Fan Jin shook his head and said: "You can't say that, the yamen is to serve the people, and it should be to let the people love, not to make the people afraid." We call parents officials, parents, if you let your children be scared at the mention of their names, it will be a failure. It should be loved from the bottom of people's hearts. The people are not afraid of me, and it is a good thing that they dare to quarrel with my people, and it is also a good thing to dare to quarrel with the officials. It is rare to have the impression that everyone believes that the yamen is not a robber. What do you kid see, which girl are you tempted by? ”

Fan Zhigao scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, "Guan Qing and that Sister Gui are probably going to get along, and I saw Sister Gui secretly making cakes for him." That kid is stuffy, who knows that he still has this hand. The little nephew is Uncle Jiu's own person, so he can't lose to an outsider, right? ”

"You're big, do your job!" Fan Jin gestured with his hand to his eyes and made a gesture: I look at you. Then he said: "You prepare, my mother's ship will arrive in Jiangning in two days, and the news from Xu Weizhi is very accurate." Your wife and children are on the boat, if she is okay, I will help you find a woman. ”

Fan Zhigao thought about it, shook his head with a smile and said: "Uncle Jiu, our family is better than anything else, no matter how good these women are, they are not as good as their own wives, I am very single-minded, I don't want to do that." But the third sister and the eldest sister Hu also came, so ...... Is it for Siniang to avoid them? ”

Fan Jin smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about my business, not only don't avoid it, but you also want them to meet!" ”