The distance from Yangzhou to Huating County is more than 500 miles, and ordinary people have to spend seventy or eighty days on the road. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but under the leadership of Yang Zhen, it only took less than three days for Jinyiwei's Tiqi to come to the county seat of Huating County.

Looking at the low and dilapidated city walls and gates of this small county town, Yang Zhen unconsciously felt a little strange in his heart. In a few hundred years, it will be one of the largest megacities in the world, and who would have thought that the predecessor of the metropolis that everyone looked at would be so shabby?

Even today's Huating County enjoys a great reputation in Jiangnan, but that is only because there is a Xu step here, and there is a Xu family with influence all over Jiangnan. This small county town is impossible to be noticed after all, just as it has behaved for thousands of years before.

It was not yet the end of the day, and the autumn day, which was not too hot, was gradually turning westward, projecting on the mottled city walls, reflecting a little dazzling light. And Yang Zhen stopped at the gate of the city for a while, then shook the reins of the horse, nodded at the brother behind him, and said, "Let's go, enter the city!" ”

Cai Yingyang and the others saw that he suddenly stopped in a daze, only saying that he had some scruples about the Xu family in his heart, so they also became uneasy. It wasn't until they saw Yang Zhen regain his usual serious and energetic look that they put their minds at ease, clamped their legs between the horse's belly, followed him closely, and galloped into the gate of Huating County, which was not too spacious.

The reason why these brocade guards dare to come and go in the south of the Yangtze River, where people and land are born, and make enemies of anyone, is because they have great respect and trust for Yang Zhen, the leader, as long as he never flinchs or hesitates, they will ignore any difficulties and strong enemies.

When they saw such a group of men dressed in bright red robes and who did not look like ordinary people rushing into the city like the wind, the people at the city gate and the soldiers guarding the gate all changed their faces, and not only did not dare to block their way, but quickly avoided the side, so as not to be injured by the hooves of the sprinting horses.

It wasn't until these dozens of knights left in the dust, and the dust that they rushed through and brought up fell to the ground, that everyone's faces showed surprise: "Who is this?" What a strong momentum? ”

A veteran who had guarded the city gate for half his life touched his gray beard and said, "Looking at their dress, it should be the ...... of the Jinyi Guard."

"Jinyi Wei...... Why did these evil gods come to our Huating County? Many people had naturally heard of Jinyiwei's murderous name, and their faces suddenly changed. Then they thought of it uneasily: "It can't be such a coincidence, could it be that our county magistrate is really going to suffer this time?" Our county finally came up with a county order that was not afraid of the Xu family, wouldn't it be taken down by Jinyiwei's people like this? ”

When everyone turned to this thought, they all became worried, and their eyes naturally turned to the direction of the Yamen of Chengzhong County. Because they know that a big drama is going on there today......

Turning the time back a little bit back to half a day, just this morning, when Yang Zhen and the others were still rushing to Huating County, a burst of drums suddenly sounded in the small county town of Huating, which had always been quiet, shaking everyone.

Soon, everyone was surprised to find that someone had sounded the drum of grievances erected outside the county yamen -- someone had actually gone to the county yamen early in the morning to file a complaint! This is a major event that has not appeared in recent years, and suddenly the people rushed to the county office to see what was going on, and soon the entrance of the county office, which was not large, was crowded.

At the same time, the county magistrate, who was doing nothing in his makeshift office, suddenly perked up his spirit after hearing the drum, and immediately ordered loudly: "Come on, change the clothes of the official, and the official will be promoted to the court to ask about the case!" ”

Since he came to Huating to serve as the county magistrate, especially when the conflict between him and the Xu family intensified, he, the county magistrate, has become the most idle person in the county government. All official affairs were divided into clean duties by the officials below, and they were responsible for all matters such as prisons, taxes, persuasion, and farming, and they did not report to him, who was the county magistrate.

But even so, the county magistrate is still trying every means to deal with the Xu family, inquiring about their evil deeds through various channels, and then going to the court to impeach. It's a pity that there are a lot of such bullets, but they are like mud cows entering the sea, and there is not even a single echo.

He felt that this might be because his impeachment of the Xu family was not clear enough and the evidence was not detailed enough, so he thought of starting with the past records and files in the yamen. But the Xu family's reaction was indeed fast, but it turned out to be a fire, which made his investigation difficult again.

And just when he was troubled by this, and didn't know how to open the situation next, he heard this drum beating from the door of the ya. In an instant, the spirit of the magistrate was lifting, and he knew that the only opportunity he had had finally arrived these days.

If the people use normal ways to fight lawsuits, they all follow the path of the torture room, then the county will not be able to interfere in this matter. However, it is different for some people to beat the drum to voice grievances, the Ming Dynasty has clear regulations, once the people beat the drum to voice grievances, the chief official of the yamen must personally ascend to the court to ask the case, and there must be no delay.

So when he gave the order and asked people to change his clothes, although the people around him looked different, none of them dared to stop him. Soon, changing into a cyan seven-rank official uniform, the neatly dressed county magistrate walked to the lobby with some eager steps, and behind him, those subordinate officials had different faces, I don't know which guy ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dared not follow the usual procedures, but beat the drum and shouted grievances.

Although everyone was dissatisfied, the rules were rules after all, and the people in the yamen immediately mobilized, lined up in the lobby on the left and right, and when the county magistrate took his seat, he slapped the shocked wood, and when the complainant was brought up, they also shouted powerlessly.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a haggard look and a shrunken gaze was escorted in by several yacha. Looking at this guy who made trouble, Liu Cai, who was the first to hear the trial, frowned, and immediately ordered: "Come on, beat him with thirty boards before questioning." Dare to beat the drum in front of the yamen at will, is this really a child's play? ”

The officials on the left and right were also accustomed to listening to Liu Dianshi's command, and immediately agreed, and someone stepped forward to take down the middle-aged man. And just as they stepped forward to make a move, a voice came from above the hall: "Slow, let the official step back first!" "But it was the county order that spoke.

In this court, he is the one who really asks the case, and now as soon as he speaks, those officials naturally dare not disobey, so they have to retreat stupidly. But Liu Cai's face was dark, he forgot that there was such a person, this is good, he lost face.

And after the middle-aged man saw this battle, his face showed even more panic. It wasn't until he saw the officials retreat that he breathed a sigh of relief, but his body was weak and he knelt down at the door.

"Who is the kneeling person, and what grievances do you have to appeal to this officer?" The county magistrate didn't want to be preempted to speak first, so he hurriedly asked.

"Xiaomin Deng Bo is a native of Huating County. It's only because my family's land property has been occupied, that I came to complain to the eldest master! As he spoke, he kowtowed frequently.

"Is there such a thing? Who is the one who has taken over your field? ”

"Yes...... It's the Xu family in the west of the city! After a little hesitation, Deng Bo still told the terrible defendant: "Do you still hope that the eldest master will be the master of the small people...... The seven people in the Xiaomin family, old and young, all pointed to the dozens of acres of land for a living, but the Xu family did not refer to the field left by Xiaomin's grandfather as theirs, and forcibly drove Xiaomin away, Xiaomin had no choice but to find the eldest master to call the shots......"

"Uh-huh......" As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the hall became a little strange. The county magistrate was surprised, and Liu Cai's face was full of disbelief.

Neither of them could believe that in this Huating County, there were still people who dared to oppose the Xu family. And this benevolent brother doesn't seem to have any background, at most he is just a small landlord who has read books for a few years, where did he dare to come to the county government to complain?

I really told them to show it right, this Dumbo is really a well-read person. It's just that the talent is not high, and after many years of cold windows, he didn't even get into the show, and he also read people out.

Originally, relying on the dozens of acres of land left by the ancestors of the family, he could not worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life, but this time he met the Xu family who fell in love with his family's field, and after some entanglement, he found that this field really did not belong to him.

At this time, Deng Bo couldn't stand it anymore, and some villagers on the side who didn't think it was a big deal to instigate him, so he came to the county government to beat the drum and voice his grievances. If he wasn't a nerd, he didn't know much about people and the world, and he didn't understand how powerful the Xu family was in the local area, it would be impossible for him to go to the county government to complain because of this matter.

If it weren't for the upright county magistrate he encountered this time, a county magistrate who was called a madman, no matter how bold and reasonable he was, this complaint would only end in tragedy.

But this time, when such a nerd sued the madman county magistrate, the situation was out of control.

At the moment when Liu Caizheng was feeling a headache, the county magistrate had already spoken in shock: "How can this be reasonable, in broad daylight, someone dares to do such a clever and robbing thing, this official is the county magistrate of Huating, since he knows it, he must not ignore it." Someone ...... "Speaking of this, the county magistrate who was about to find an unlucky guy to summon the Xu family suddenly turned his eyes and fell on Liu Cai, so he changed the conversation: "Come a few people, follow Liu Dianshi to Xu's house, and bring me the defendant related to this case!" ”