The villager covered his face, and looked at the inspector in disbelief, he was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty all his life, worked diligently in the fields, and the harvest in exchange for sweat and hard work was always honestly paid the imperial grain and national taxes, and never dared to accumulate debts, in his mind, good people like himself, the government always had to be a little more sympathetic - but now, just to seek justice, the inspector interrupted all his illusions about the government with a slap, grievances, anger, unwillingness, and muddy tears flowed across his ravines and faces.

A few young people, standing in front of their shoulders, had fire in their eyes: "The third uncle is over seventy years old, and he was humiliated by the dog officer, let's fight with him!" ”

The inspector was so frightened that he took a few steps back, "It's the other way around, do you want to beat the officials and rebel?" ”

The archers were also frightened and looked at each other, if so many villagers and peasants made a civil unrest, it was not something that the local soldiers of their inspection department could suppress!

However, the villager farmer knew the general situation and stopped the young man who was about to move: "The offspring, you can't mess around!" The inspector is always an official of the emperor's family, and beating an official is a rebellion......"

Hearing the word rebellion, the noisy villagers all looked at each other and gradually retreated: they were the most simple farmers, and rebellion and rebellion were words that made them extremely afraid.

Seeing this, the old inspector shook his official authority again, and shouted at the local soldiers to come forward to arrest the criminals, and the villagers saw that the old uncle was aggrieved and helpless, and everyone was anxious.

At this moment, suddenly a person squeezed out of the crowd, grabbed the collar of the inspector without saying anything, closed his mouth and said nothing, just slapped his round and crackled fan.

All the archers were stunned, and a few people reacted and wanted to rescue their bosses, but they were pulled by the veteran: "Silly boy, don't you look at who they are!" ”

A few archers looked intently, only to see that the person who came was wearing a wingless black veil on his head, foundation soap boots under his feet, a belt around his waist, a boxwood waist card and a slender waist knife, wearing bright yellow clothes, and a dragon-shaped and winged pattern embroidered on his chest.

"This man is dressed as if he has seen it on the stage......"

The veteran slapped a few young native soldiers, looked at the man in brocade clothes, shrank in awe, and then whispered to them: "Stupid, the flying fish suit he is wearing, this is the brocade guard!" ”

How did the legendary Tiqi run to the small town of Fuchi? Several archers guessed in surprise, but they had no intention of rescuing their bosses, just kidding, from the inspection of Jiupin, they were not even ants among the riders!

Qin Lin slapped him quickly and powerfully, and slapped the inspection intently without saying a word, hitting him thirty or forty times in front and back, and then threw him to the ground.

The inspector was dizzy and didn't figure out what was going on, his face was swollen like a pig's head, and he closed his eyes and scratched his hands: "Who, who the beat me?" Beat the officials of the imperial court, you people rebelled and rebelled! ”

It turned out that his whole face was so swollen that he couldn't even open his eyes, so he didn't see Qin Lin clearly.

"Open your dog's eyes and see what this is?" Qin Lin sneered and brought something in front of the inspection.

The inspector opened his swollen eyelids with his fingers, jumped up from the ground after just looking at it, and then knelt down quickly and incoherently, kowtowing again and again: "The little one is damned, the little one is confused, he collided with the chief's tiger might, and the little one has eyes and no beads......"

What Qin Lin showed him was the boxwood waist card on his waist, which was engraved with seven words: Qin Lin of Jinyi Wei Hundred Households. These seven words are like some kind of magic spell, which instantly drains all the essence of the inspection, so that the guy who was arrogant just now immediately becomes a leper dog whose backbone is broken.

One hundred households are six products, and the inspection is from the ninth grade, and the grade is far behind, not to mention that one is the Son of Heaven's pro-army Jinyi Guard, and the other is the inspection department that does not enter the stream? Don't say that a few slaps, even if you kill him, it's not as much trouble as pinching an ant to death.

Where have those villagers seen this formation? They haven't even seen the governor and the county, and they feel trembling when they see the fast officials going to the countryside, and they think that the inspector is a big official, so the patrol just now called out the word "rebellion", even if the sky is angry, they don't dare to make a move.

But now this young official, he beat the inspector to the insincerity and benevolence, and the inspector has to kowtow to him, how big an official must he be?

"This, isn't this the Bafu Patrol sung in the play? It's an eyes......"

The fellow farmer bowed down to Qin Lin tremblingly, and exchanged tears in his eyes: "Lord Qingtian, I can look forward to your coming!" ”

The villagers knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qin Lin in unison.

"Old man, I can't help it!" While supporting the villager who was called the third uncle, Qin Lin sighed at the simplicity and kindness of the common people, as long as the officials were a little better to them, no matter how big the grievances were, they would not mention it, and only thought of your goodness.

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family watched from the side, the eldest brother Jiang Jing was a little disapproving, feeling that Qin Lin's behavior was too rude, and it would be unofficial to beat people with his own hands, and the third brother Jiang Mao was eager to try, and he couldn't wait to be called the master of Qingtian by the villagers on the steps.

Jiang Zihongyan's lips were tightly pursed, her long eyebrows that flew obliquely into her temples frowned slightly, and her eyes, which were as deep and clear as the night sky, were extremely confused under the firelight, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Qin Lin listened to the villagers' gossip about their grievances, and he pressed his hands down: "Everyone, let's talk together, and the official can't hear it clearly, let this third uncle say it to the official on your behalf, okay?" ”

All the villagers applauded in unison, and the third uncle told him about the matter: Recently, several prefectures in Huguang have been running a whip law, and the government said that the changes caused by the reclamation of new fields and the flooding of old fields by landslides in recent years can no longer be accurate, and it is necessary to clear the acres of land on a large scale, make up a new album of fish scales, and pay taxes in the future according to the new ones.

However, it was not fair when the scribes of this state counted the acres of land, for example, the fields of the big landlords were less measured, and 3,000 mu was only counted as 2,000 mu, and the good paddy fields were counted as desolate and inferior land; The land of ordinary rural farmers is measured more, obviously only ** points will be counted as one mu, just one mu is counted as one mu two, and even cemeteries and barren mountains are counted as acres of fields.

In the future, taxes will be levied according to this new album of fish scales, and the villagers will be overcounted by many fields out of thin air, how much tax will they have to pay in the future? Therefore, everyone was not convinced, and made an appointment to come to the yamen of the inspection department to reason with the scribe, but instead of wanting to blindly protect the inspection master, he framed them for rebellion.

Qin Lin was on fire when he heard this, but his face was not happy or angry, and he said to the villagers: "This official is a passing official, but Jinyiwei has the authority to visit and destroy evil spirits, and this official and your Wuchang Mansion Zhang Gongyu Zhang Fuzun are good friends, so I will handle this case on his behalf temporarily!" ”

Speaking of Qin Lin, he also felt funny, Zhang Gongyu is such a confused guy, every time Qin Ye and I handle difficult cases for him, I don't know what kind of shit luck this person has taken?

Qin Lin gave an order, Niu Dali and Han Feilian came up viciously, and tied up the inspection master without saying anything; Then he held up the boxwood waist card and ordered all the local soldiers: "This official is really awarded the Jinyi Guard Nanjing Thousand Households is six products and one hundred households, the scattered rank Zhaoxin Captain, and the special purpose is to reward the flying cavalry captain Qin Lin is also!" The inspection of this division has been taken, and you are all at the disposal of this officer! ”

The soldiers didn't understand Qin Lin's list of official titles, they only knew that he was much older than the inspection master, and they all knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute, indicating complete obedience to the command.

Qin Lin ordered the local soldiers to arrest a few secretaries who had cheated and bent the law for personal gain.

The two scribes of the Xingguo Prefecture household house, hiding in the inspection yamen, wanted to climb the wall from the backyard and slipped away when they saw that the situation was wrong, but before they could be caught by the local soldiers who were familiar with the terrain, they were brought to Qin Lin.

Both clerks were non-bureaucratic officials, dressed in the typical costume of officials—a black straight jacket, a silk tie around the waist, official boots, and a square hat with a high front and a low back on the top of their heads, and a pair of small wings on either side of the hat, but much smaller than the wings of the official's black gauze hat.

After being mixed in the public gate for a long time, both of them knew that they wanted to fight sloppy with Jinyiwei to find death, so when they saw Qin Lin, they knelt down and kowtowed: "The little one is blind, he shouldn't have received the money of the big family, so he will have a small amount of land, and ask the adults to raise their noble hands and show grace outside the law!" ”

Qin Lin asked with a straight face: "It's enough to have a small amount of land for the big households, why do you want to increase the amount of farmers in the township?" ”

The two scribes glanced at each other and kowtowed vigorously, but they didn't reply.

Qin Lin gestured towards Han Feilian.

Han Feilian rolled up his sleeves and walked forward, sneering in his mouth and saying, "Ridiculous! If you don't say it, you have to say it? The eighteen sets of punishments handed down by the Fusi of Beizhen are the eighteen layers of hell, Lao Tzu wants to see how many layers of bones you can survive? ”

The four words of Beizhen Fusi really have the power to stop children's night crying, and the two bookstores immediately shuddered involuntarily, helpless, so they had to cry and tell the truth:

"Don't fight, what do you say, it's really not a small deliberate trap for the villagers, just because the old master of Qiangu in Benzhou told him, the old man of Zhizhou wants to pass the 'test method', and if the tax is low, he will be demoted, and the total amount of taxes cannot be reduced compared with before, so we have to add the acres of land that have been reduced by the large households to the heads of the township farmers."

I see!

Qin Lin had already understood the ins and outs of this matter.

Suddenly, his heart jumped: Old Master Qiangu, isn't it Master Fang Tang Jinfang? The death of the chief of the floating corpse has an inexplicable connection with him, and the scribe's favoritism and fraud in the inventory of the fields are also at his behest...... Qin Lin called the third uncle into the yamen: "The secretary of the household house in the square of the square has been found out for favoritism, this matter has been investigated, this official and your Wuchang Zhang Governor will say it, and he will definitely give you justice." ”

The third uncle was overjoyed and kowtowed to thank him.

"Wait," Qin Lin helped him: "There is a lieutenant chief surnamed Qi in your Fuchi Town, who has been missing for more than half a month, do you know about this?" ”

(To be continued)