At the beginning of April, Tongzhi and the governor came to the governor's mansion, and he also talked about this matter with Zhizhou, hoping that Zhizhou could take the lead.

Although Yan Zhizhou is a scholar from a professional class, he is not a wood who does not understand the world, and naturally knows that these people under him want him to be a leading bird, so he simply said slowly:

"Before Yan came to Jiaozhou, this place was known as bandits everywhere, although there was no civil unrest, but the place was not quiet, but after Yan arrived, the place was very peaceful, and I don't know whose credit it is!"

After saying this, the officials of the Zhizhou Yamen who had opinions were immediately silent, everyone knew what the reason for the current prosperity of business in Jiaozhou and the peace of the ground, without the consent of the inspection yamen, it was impossible to even steal things on the street, in the second month after Li Meng entered the city to take office.

There are people from the countryside who went to the city to buy medicine were stolen money, and went to the yamen to sue the officials, these officials because they did not have filial piety silver, so they were too lazy to care, and some people confessed the truth, even if they gave the silver, we couldn't catch the thief, we couldn't afford to offend, the lock was taken back, the thief was lazy and did not admit his guilt, and he was beaten and thrown into the prison, and he came out in a few days.

The medicine is to buy medicine for my parents to see a doctor, life-saving urgency, for a while anxious, sitting on the street crying, happened to be seen by Chen Liuzi passing by, Chen Liu empathized with the money for this medicine, and immediately agreed to look for it, his method was also straightforward, and directly paid the money to the other party first.

Returning to the inspection yamen and Li Mengyi, Li Meng sent someone to the nearby Jinzhou warehouse to find the shopkeeper Li, and asked the shopkeeper Li to find a familiar officer, these officials are one thing whether they are caught or not, but who is the thief. Where they are staying, but they are all very clear.

The next thing was very simple, Chen Liu led forty salt rods led by the official and walked around the market in Jiaozhou City. The small Jiaozhou City is fifteen or sixteen thieves, that is, all of them were arrested in one hour. Li Meng was also not sent to the yamen for interrogation.

Send people to escort these thieves out of the city, and throw them directly to the salt works, and let them go to work as coolies, saying that they will be released after two years, and they will not starve to death.

The day after this incident, Jiaozhou City was suddenly a scene of Haiyan River clear, extremely peaceful, everyone was harmonious and angry, and did not dare to be a traitor. It stands to reason that it was too peaceful. It's a good thing for the people in the yamen, but the people in Jiaozhou City know who speaks effectively, and they go to the salt administration for inspection if they have anything, but Li Meng's side is tireless, and in the end, these trivial things are all pushed to the yamen.

But the more Yan Ding grows, and such a god is placed there, no one dares to rush over. The affairs of Jiaozhou can only be done by asking Li Patrol about the meaning of the inspection.

Although the former Mu inspection was arrogant. But after all, he was just a local bully, and this Li Meng was grabbing money and power, which really made the officials of the Zhizhou Yamen angry.

Of course, anger is anger, and the only thing these people can do is to complain on the Zhizhou side. This conversation. Yan Zhizhou looked at the people below who were still angry, and asked again:

"Everyone. How many people are there in the guards and servants of our Jiaozhou city gate? ”

The governor and the acquaintance glanced at each other, quickly calculated the number, and said:

"Eighty-six."

Yan Zhizhou said slowly:

"This official heard that there are nearly 1,000 people under the Li Patrol Inspection, and I would like to ask you again, has the usual silver on the salt side ever been short?"

Having said that, there is no need to say more, you are not as good as a fraction of the other party, the silver that the other party should give has already been given, and the face is already enough, what else should you do, do you want to tear your face, although it has been more than half a year since Li Meng took office.

But when these officials thought about the dozens of corpses on the official road, they had nothing to say, and they silently clenched their fists and said goodbye at the moment, presumably they would not complain about this matter for a long time in the future.

Yan Zhizhou has been practicing calligraphy slowly during the period of speaking, Yan Zhizhou is from Zhejiang, and his family also has some industries, but he doesn't take money seriously.

After all, with the existence of Li Meng, his place is prosperous and peaceful, and there must be good comments on the performance appraisal of the officials, and after three years, it is obviously not a problem to move upward, for Yan Zhizhou, this is enough.

While thinking and writing, Yan Zhizhou felt very satisfied, and when it was time for lunch, Mrs. Houtangdi should have sent someone to call for dinner.

Someone outside the door shouted respectfully:

"Sir, madam, please go to the back hall."

Listening to this tone, it seemed that there was something else, and it was still a while before lunch, Yan Zhizhou walked out of the study in some surprise, but saw the housekeeper standing by the door, and said with a smile:

"Master, Inspector Li just sent someone to send some gifts to our house, Madame, please come over and take a look?"

"Inspector Lee?" Yan Zhizhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, thinking that his subordinate colleagues were looking for him in the morning to inspect the salt administration, and he was saying that he actually gave gifts here, and this day is not a New Year's Festival, the only closest one is the Dragon Boat Festival, if it is a request for someone, I really can't see that Li Meng has anything else to ask for himself.

In Yan Zhizhou's impression, this Li Meng is a person who does not pay attention to the rules of officialdom, and the gift-giving is too direct, and he doesn't even talk about the face of the process, of course he doesn't know, Li Meng doesn't talk about it, but he doesn't know it at all, so Ning Qiangui just taught him to open the door, and he can take care of these details.

When he came to the living room of the back hall, Yan Zhizhou saw his wife and a mother-in-law who was in charge of the back hall looking at the gifts in the living room, and Mrs. Yan saw Yan Zhizhou outside the door, and greeted with a smile:

"Husband, come and see, I can't imagine that there are so many exquisite porcelains in this small place in Jiaozhou City, you look at this pattern, this color."

Rich people have some insight into this kind of thing, Yan Zhizhou is unwilling to refute the interest of his family, and he also walked into the living room, there are really a lot of things, from daily dishes, to porcelain pillows, pen holders, playthings, etc., Yan Zhizhou carefully looked at a few pieces. Said with a smile:

"It should be all high-grade goods in Jiangxi, but they are all fired in the big kiln, which is also a good thing here in Shandong."

Then he turned his head and said to the mother-in-law next to him:

"Go and invite Miss to come over, if you like these things, it's a pity that many of our boutiques are in Jiaxing......"

Yan Zhizhou seemed to be very willing to enjoy this family time, where he played with porcelain with his wife unhurriedly, while saying a few words, after a while, Yan Zhizhou pointed to a porcelain and laughed, shook his head and said to his wife:

"This Li Meng really doesn't have any rules for doing things, how can there be gifts for the Bodhisattva, it's all up to invite him back."

When Mrs. Yan heard this, she also looked over and laughed, but then she took a few steps closer, touched the Buddha statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva and said:

"Oh, this Guanyin is a good celadon, it must be made by a special person."

Turning his head here, Yan Zhizhou noticed that his daughter was already standing by the door, she should have been standing there for a while, staring at those porcelain, Zhizhou knew that his daughter liked porcelain, and thought to himself, but after a closer look, something was wrong, and then asked:

"If so, why is your face so red, madam, come and see, isn't our child burning!?"

In May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Shandong was dry and rainless, although it was not to be harvested, but the harvest was not to be counted on, the junction of Qingzhou and Yanzhou had already calmed down the civil unrest, and it began to be lively again, Yanzhou and Qingzhou were mobilizing local garrisons to attack, and Shandong was in a tense atmosphere.

Of course, if he said that those porcelains were for Miss Yan, no matter how calm Yan Zhizhou was, he had to fight with him, and it was not convenient to ask, and he didn't know the other party's mind, and he didn't even know his own mind, and Li Meng was really confused.

In modern times, Li Meng has never been in love at all, all the relevant knowledge is learned in books and films, Li Meng's impression is that the pursuit of the other party should be to hold flowers to confess loudly, but in this dynasty is definitely not good.

In the middle of May, Yamen's mansion reported this month, in addition to the news of the government posted at the gate of the city, there was also a person with a high-ranking official body in the whole state to circulate, Li Meng also received a copy, and after all the officials read it, they did not take it to heart.

However, those who served Li Meng in the Li family manor said that Li Meng was in a very bad mood that day, and several military households were angrily scolded by him for trivial matters.

The news in the Di newspaper is not complicated, saying that Chongzhen took a boat to the sea in the sixth year of Dengzhou rebel general Kong Youde has already had news, he defected to the East Tartars, and his more than 10,000 soldiers will be divided into a banner alone, known as Wuzhenha, Kong Youde was named the capital division by Huang Taiji, Zhongming Chief Military Officer, equivalent to the Eight Banners of Heshuo Beile, the status is respected.