166 Climbing

(Today's first chapter is delivered)

[***] tone suddenly calmed down, and said: "The surname is Zhou, I understand what you mean, aren't you just for money?" Clever name, planted blame, and defrauded my Zhang family's money, and then started to fight other people's ideas again?"

Zhou Xingbo didn't feel ashamed of being exposed, he smiled: "Lao Zhang, you are really a smart person!" Yes, that's right, since you've guessed it, let's open the skylight and say something, as long as you bite out of the three big households, this matter has nothing to do with you. I'll let you go home right away! ”

After that, he took out a confession from his arms, shook his head in front of [***], and said with a smile: "Is it a drawing, or is it a handprint?" ”

[***] glanced at the confession, his face immediately became extremely difficult to look at, and he scolded angrily: "Zhou Xingbo, you have such a big appetite, and you are not afraid of dying?" ”

Zhou Xingbo raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry, Lao Zhang, even the rich households in your four counties have been completely shaved by this official, and this official will definitely not be able to hold on." ”

It turned out that the confession that Zhou Xingbo asked him to draw a pledge actually listed several wealthy households in the other three counties as his subordinates - there is no doubt that once he drew a pledge and took this evidence, Zhou Xingbo could immediately knock out those rich households!

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, in a word, to sign or not to sign?" Zhou Xingbo's patience has almost been exhausted, he has been here for a long time, a layer of cold sweat has oozed densely on his forehead, and he sneered with a hideous face: "Your wife is in her forties, hey, I can't see it!" The maintenance is so good, the young woman's charm, the official still likes this tune! and your daughter, Cardamom is still a little immature, but it is enough to withstand the wind and rain, and the old man does not dislike it. ”

"You beast!" [***] his face turned red and he scolded.

"To sign or not to sign?" Zhou Xingbo said coldly, his chin was raised, and the thin man understood that he was already going to untie the iron rope of Mrs. [***].

"You!" The old tears were rampant, and finally he whispered in pain: "Give me paper and pen!" ”

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"Master, you just let them go?" The thin man watched the four members of the [***] family staggering out the back door, and he stared at a small figure among them, full of unwillingness.

Zhou Xingbo didn't pay attention to his expression, and smiled faintly: "Otherwise?" ”

"Or else?" The thin man chuckled, hunched his waist, and said with a smile: "The villain doesn't know, such a big thing, master, you have your own calculations, how dare the villain put his beak?" ”

"You kid, learn a little from your master! After being a housekeeper for so many years, why hasn't he grown a little? Zhou Xingbo scolded with a smile, and his eyes became fierce: "As long as the Zhang family is still in these four counties for a day, he is the fish on the chopping board of the official, slaughtered at will!" ”

"If you don't cut the grass and don't get rid of the roots, there will be endless troubles. The official heard that Zhang Geng, the son of the family, transported a batch of coarse cloth to the capital some time ago, which is a lot of silver! When that plough comes back, find a random leader to bring them into the house, it's just a matter of moving your mouth! ”

The thin man couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, and praised from the bottom of his heart: "The master has no last resort!" That Xinyang County is much more prosperous than Leling County, not to mention a big family, even if it is an ordinary family, it can scrape a lot of silver! By the way, you really forgot if you didn't mention the small one, and now you have a Youshi Yangxin who just received the horse tax silver for August, a full 10,000 taels! ”

It turned out that since Zhou Xingbo became the commander of the Ma Zheng Yamen, he took advantage of Ma Zheng's head to set up a clever name, and recruited ruffians and hooligans in each county to form a tax team to collect those taxes that were arbitrarily placed for him. He is an official of the fifth grade, and the prince of the fourth county is only the seventh grade, and there is a gap between him and him, where do you dare to care? Therefore, all those tax collectors are foxes, fake tigers, and dogs, taking advantage of people's power, running rampant and domineering in various places, and a large number of silver is released to the yamen every month.

Zhou Xingbo's Ma Zheng Yamen is simply the emperor of the land of the four counties.

Zhou Xingbo laughed, very happy, waved his hand, and said: "Zhou Cang, pass the order, order to go down, order fifty soldiers, and set off early in the morning to go to Yangxin County." ”

He shook the confession in his hand and laughed: "After a while, I will clean up the Zhang family, and go to Yangxin County first, the richest eunuch in Yangxin County, but it's a big fat sheep!" If I don't squeeze out 100,000 taels of silver from him, how can I be willing, master? ”

Dignified, high-sounding, dignified second-class jinshi background, five-grade official of the imperial court, no different from bandits.

The family returned home miserably, he has always treated his subordinates with kindness and kindness, plus these subordinates are basically from his family's tenants, and they are considered to be the children of the family, so their loyalty is very high, so although the family of four in charge of the Zhang family was arrested and sent to the yamen, but they did not disperse.

Seeing the old man's family come back, the people were overjoyed and hurriedly welcomed them in.

[***] is also a decisive, although he is very reluctant to sign that confession and leave others behind, but since he has already signed, there is no way, at this time he is in good spirits.

He changed into clean clothes, took a bath, ate a meal, and slept well.

"Now the cash and storefront at home have been embezzled by the dog called Pershingbo, and the people don't fight with the officials, so they should spend money to buy peace! But this breath can't just be swallowed, the next time he goes to the capital, the old man has to go in person, how much money he spends, and he has to go through the door to get this dog down. Aren't those imperial masters all poor jingles? Lao Tzu spent money to bribe them to impeach this Pershingbo to death! After all, he has also seen the world, and he is not reconciled in his heart, and after a while of hatred, he is worried: "Now, most of the family property is gone, but at least this thousand hectares of land is still there, and the caravan of the cultivator is now about to come back, how can I bring back tens of thousands of taels of silver this time, with this money, the business can be done again, and the family is not without hope." ”

Just thinking about it, a chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and a commotion came, [***] my heart was tightened, what happened?

With a bang, the flower halls were pushed open, and an old woman in her fifties pounced in, crying and shouting: "Master, master, something is wrong!" Miss, Miss she, hanged herself! ”

"Li'er is dead?" [***] only felt that his eyes were dark, his body was soft, and the whole person was almost spread out, he looked like this, but he scared the old mother a lot, and he couldn't control the humility, so he hurriedly came up, pinched the person again, and slapped again, [***] coughed, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and finally relieved himself.

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