Increasingly slanting westward, there are hundreds of people kneeling densely on the school field in the Chongming County Ya, and they are all public servants in the Chongming County Ya. Around them were the guards brought by Li Weiguo, who were loaded with guns and ammunition, eyeing them fiercely.

Li Weiguo originally planned to order Xiao Liuzi to take the guards all over the county to arrest these people, but unexpectedly, there was no action, and the chief bookkeeper Xiao Yang and the county Cheng Liu Jing took these people back to the county government on their own initiative.

"Master Xiao Yang, are you guilty?" Li Weiguo shouted loudly, staring fiercely at the middle-aged scholar-looking man in front of him, who had already moved to kill.

"Lord Li, please be cautious, I don't know what kind of crime there is?" Xiao Yang looked at Li Weiguo quietly, with a kind of confidence, and a kind of surprise, he has been in charge of Chongming County for many years, and nothing can escape his calculations, but today there was an accident, a mere twelve-year-old boy county magistrate actually saw through his conspiracy and destroyed his plan that he thought was seamless.

"You instructed your subordinates to instigate refugees to shout in the yamen, intending to burn down the county government accounts and granaries, trying to cover up and destroy the evidence of your corruption of the Mo court's disaster relief food, and even planning to assassinate your own officials, what else do you have to say?" Li Weiguo sneered, he was already ready to sentence Xiao Yang to death and cut off this enemy.

"What's the trouble of wanting to add sin?" Xiao Yang laughed, looked at Li Weiguo defiantly, and continued: "Do you think that being a county magistrate is the same as playing with you?" Evidence should be sought in everything. ”

"Dead duck has a hard mouth!" Li Weiguo snorted coldly and shouted: "Come on, bring someone to commit it!" ”

After a while, Zhang Xiaoliu came to Li Weiguo with a panicked expression and said, "Young Master, the big thing is not good, the three prisoners in the cell are gone." ”

"What?" Li Weiguo was shocked, almost stood up, and then regained his composure and scolded: "A group of waste, even a person can't look at it." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu was depressed, but he didn't dare to refute, he just looked at Xiao Yang viciously, he understood that the other party must have sent someone to secretly rescue him.

"Master Xiao is so scheming and scheming, no wonder you have no fear." Li Weiguo looked at Xiao Yang and sneered, he understood, but unfortunately without evidence, he couldn't convict Xiao Yang.

"Master Li, this is a wrongful dereliction of duty!" Xiao Yang said proudly: "I have been lamenting all night these days, the river bursts, and the people are affected by the disaster, and the suffering is unspeakable, so I will work with Liu County Cheng and the public officials of the county to help the people rebuild the embankment, so I failed to welcome the arrival of the adult in time, and it is natural for the adult to be dissatisfied with the post, and then there is a misunderstanding." ”

"Misunderstanding? Where is the missing relief food? Don't tell me that the officials have been handed out to the refugees by you? Li Weiguo said with a smile, he had already cheered up Xiao Yang, knowing that this guy was a powerful enemy, and he should not be careless.

"The amount of disaster relief food is huge, and the granary in our county government naturally can't fit it, so the subordinate has transferred the disaster relief food to another place, just waiting for you to personally distribute the disaster relief food!" Xiao Yang also didn't dare to despise Li Weiguo, since the original plan failed, the other party guessed the batch of relief food, so he had to give up the plan to be greedy for this batch of grain and take the initiative to hand it over.

"Lost the car to protect the handsome, the official thought that Master Xiao would swallow this batch of disaster relief food, but I didn't expect you to have the courage, which really disappointed the official!" Li Weiguo sneered and deliberately ridiculed the other party.

"Master Li is really good at laughing, how can he have the courage to be corrupt and pervert the law! However, Lord Li sat on the position of the county prince as a young man, which is really admirable, just like Ganluo in Qin, but that Ganluo was split by five horses at the age of twelve and thirteen years old. Xiao Yang gritted his teeth and forced a laugh, eager to strangle Li Weiguo in his heart, the original plan to swallow the batch of disaster relief food, but now Li Weiguo was forced to take the initiative to hand it over, not only suffered heavy losses, but also an insult to him Xiao Yang.

"Thank you Master Xiao for reminding me, Gan Luo is not the official, and the official is not Ganluo, but you reminded the official, since the accounts of the county government have not been burned, then the official will check the details of the accounts in detail later, and I hope that the master Xiao will cooperate more!" Li Weiguo looked at Xiao Yang coldly, deliberately stimulated him, and wanted to force him to show his original form and be captured.

"The body is not afraid of the shadow, just check it!" Xiao Yang replied with a pale face, he was confident that no one would be able to find out the accounts he had personally made, but for some reason, he was always uneasy about Li Weiguo's gaze.

Li Weiguo sighed, this Xiao Yang is a cunning and ruthless fox, and he was really disappointed that he failed to convict him on the spot, but fortunately, the other party took the initiative to spit out the disaster relief food for self-protection, which helped Li Weiguo a lot, because he urgently needed this batch of disaster relief food to calm the people's hearts.

In addition to Xiao Yang, Li Weiguo looked at Liu Xiancheng and other officials and officials, knowing that they were all breathing out of one nostril, and they were angry when they looked at them, but he knew in his heart that he had to stabilize them for the time being, and find someone who could replace them in the future and then slowly clean them up.

It is also difficult for Li Weiguo to know that in addition to the seven-grade county decree that oversees the affairs of the whole county, there are also eight-grade county officials and master bookkeepers who assist in the work of county ordinances, as well as the nine rank sesame officials such as the nine-grade sesame officials who are in charge of the county's grain and horses, taxation, household registration, patrol and arrest, salt industry, water conservancy and other matters, as well as a large number of non-grade civil servants who work together in the six rooms of households, criminals, soldiers, ceremonies, workers, and officials. All together, it would take about 200 to 500 people to run a county office.

The counties of the Qing Empire were divided into upper, middle and lower counties, with more than 30,000 households being upper counties, about 20,000 households being medium counties, and 10,000 households being inferior counties.

Chongming County has 33,000 households, a registered population of 230,000, and a floating population of nearly 30,000, totaling more than 260,000 people.

Over the years, the number of civil servants in Chongming County has been maintained at about 500 people, but now there is only one commander Li Weiguo, and the 100 guards he brought do not understand the county governance, so they cannot operate the county government at all.

Considering this factor, Li Weiguo could only suppress his anger for the time being, and ordered these officials and officials to immediately return to their posts, and prepare to open warehouses to release grain and provide relief to the victims.

Under the surveillance of Li Weiguo's escort team, Xiao Zhushu and Liu Xiancheng had a bitter face and ordered someone to open the granary and distribute disaster relief food to the Chongming refugees with their household registration.

"I don't understand, a duck in its mouth can still fly?" Liu Xiancheng said very unhappily, watching the bags of grain being carried out and distributed to the refugees, he looked painful, you must know that this batch of disaster relief food is worth 200,000 taels of silver, he and Xiao Yang have spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to get their hands on it, and now it hurts to spit out, not to mention that it hurts his flesh, even the eggs hurt terribly.

"Do you want me to? If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan! If it weren't for my cleverness today, I'm afraid you and I would have fallen to the ground by now, and we would have no money to spend! Xiao Yang said with a calm face.

Liu Xiancheng frowned and said, "Is it so strict?" But a twelve-year-old boy hasn't grown his hair! ”

"You know!" Master Xiao scolded in his heart, paused, and continued: "We all underestimated that little bastard, I thought that it would be easy to solve him, and the Governor of Liangjiang would be able to reward him generously, who would have thought that this kid not only saw through my strategy vigilantly, but also knew that he had the intention to kill him, you didn't see that his eyes were full of murderous intent when he looked at me, even if he was caught by this little bastard today, you and I would not want to live." ”

"So what are we going to do?" Liu Xiancheng thought of the hundred armed guards beside Li Weiguo, and suddenly shuddered.

"Afraid of something! You and I have eaten officialdom for decades, and can still be suppressed by a mere cub? Let him be happy for a few days, and then I will have a way to kill him. Master Xiao glanced at Liu Xiancheng angrily, and persuaded with confidence.

Liu Xiancheng glanced at Master Xiao deeply, and had no doubt about his strategy, but he was faintly worried when he saw Li Weiguo's methods today.

Just when Master Xiao and Liu Xiancheng were planning Li Weiguo behind their backs, Li Weiguo was not idle, since he knew that Xiao Yang was his enemy, he naturally would not sit idly by. While presiding over disaster relief and relocating victims, he also launched an investigation of everyone in the county office, focusing on the batch of accounts that Xiao Yang planned to burn.

The Qing Dynasty people were very clumsy in account management and records, the accounts were chaotic, and it was easy to give people tricks, which was far inferior to the modern purchase, sale and inventory management system, with clear entry and exit account details, which made people understand at a glance.

The accounts of the county government are all in the hands of Master Xiao, and he thinks that he has done it seamlessly, and it is difficult to find out if he changes others, but in front of Li Weiguo, it is full of loopholes.

"The previous term actually lost more than 300,000 taels of silver! If this account is not clear, I'm afraid I will have to pay for it! Li Weiguo was shocked, fortunately he found out, otherwise he would have been kept in the dark, and he didn't know how he would have died at that time.

Xiao Yang was very cunning, pointing all the accounts to the Chongming county order, and deliberately making the person in charge and the date obscured and difficult to investigate, that is, no matter who was the county order, once checked, these accounts would become evidence of the crime.

"Me and that Xiao Yang have torn their faces, and we both know that each other is mortal enemies, maybe he will make a fuss about this, how can I crack this game?" Li Weiguo banged on the table, closed his eyes, and fell into deep thought.

At this moment, a servant ran in in a panic.

"My lord, it's not good, thousands of chaotic people have rushed into the county town to make trouble!"