Before Qin Cha arrived in Ruyang City, Liu Qichang had already lost a point. On the way from Xiping to Ruyang City, Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping stopped the sedan chair several times and questioned dozens of farmers successively, and the news they got was the same, that is, the local government called for a boycott of farming and protest, while the survey camp was-for-tat and issued a spring ploughing order, strictly prohibiting the occurrence of abandonment of farming.

In the spring ploughing order, Su Hao, as an experienced member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, required all landlords and ordinary farmers to plow the fields and prepare for planting, and violators were punished for sabotaging production. There were more than 2,000 people in the surveying camp, and Su Hao was divided into hundreds of groups and scattered to all prefectures and counties in the province to supervise the implementation of the spring ploughing order. Squires like Jia Zhenggui who sabotaged spring ploughing were beaten or hung up for public display, and they abounded.

At the beginning, the local governments also planned to break hands with the survey camp and send officials to support the squires. Helplessly, Su Hao was a bold and reckless person, and the team he brought out was also unruly, and the officials in the county government clashed with the sergeants of the survey camp several times, and each time they were met with merciless counterattack from the other party. How can the combat effectiveness of the government serve be compared with this kind of field troops, after a few battles, they admit it, and they can only run back one by one with a blue nose and swollen face.

The lawsuit went to Liu Qichang, and Liu Qichang had no choice. Since the two sides each submitted letters to the imperial court, Liu Qichang and Su Hao have entered a state of hostility and no longer interact with each other. Like the conflict between the Kanyu camp and various states and counties, Liu Qichang had a fire in his belly, but he knew that even if he came forward to protest to Su Hao, the result would only be a nose of ashes. Since the two sides have torn their faces, Su Hao is not afraid of offending Liu Qichang more, anyway, who wins and who loses in the end, he doesn't care about these two more crimes.

"How can this really be reasonable, how can the people of this military department manage local government affairs?" Wu Boxing muttered and grumbled. But he didn't dare to say too much. The boycott of farming is purely self-defeating, and now Wang Jiaping has a sudden bad feeling for Liu Qichang, and Wu Boxing's words will not work.

"Wu Shilang, Xia Guan thinks that what he has seen along the way is not enough to explain anything. This Su Hao has the power of the army, and he can bully the weak and force the peasants to say good things about him. The farmers we met along the way. Maybe it was all arranged by Su Hao, the purpose was to confuse the public and deceive the two elders. Cheng Dong told Wu Boxing his opinion, he was a paranoid person, and he decided that Su Hao was not a good person. Everything that is seen in the eyes has also been interpreted in different ways.

Wu Boxing nodded and said: "What Bang Zhi said is reasonable, this kind of deception and concealment, the officials have seen a lot. However, what tricks does Bangji have to break this game? ”

Cheng Dong said: "The lower officials think that they should implore the two cabinet elders to give an order. Su Hao was asked to withdraw all the officers and soldiers under him, so that the local people could speak freely and freely. Otherwise. Under the sword and gun, who dares to tell the truth? ”

Wu Boxing said: "It should indeed be so, the official went to tell Ge Lao Chen about it when he turned around." ”

"Also, the lower officials think. If you want to understand the real public opinion, you should send someone to make a private interview. The lower officials asked to take on this position, and also asked Wu Shilang to ask the two elders for Cheng Dong's life. Cheng Dong said.

Wu Boxing said: "Bangzhi has this will, very good, the official is willing to go to the elder of the pavilion to ask for your life." By the way, Bangzhi, in the past two days, I have watched you talk with the villagers, and the answers are quite fluent, could it be that you have been to Runing before? ”

Cheng Dong shook his head and said, "Speaking of this, the lower officials were also quite surprised. Xia Guan has never been to Runing, but he has an indescribable familiarity with this Runing's hometown, could it be that there is some providence in the dark? ”

Cheng Dong's confusion was sincere, he didn't know that when he was still ignorant, he actually lived in Runing. His father was once the general judge of Runing Mansion, because the investigation touched the criminal network of Runing Mansion, he was forced to abandon his official position and go home, and on the way, he was killed by a strongman hired by a powerful landlord. His sister Cheng Yi escaped with him and hid in Jiangxi to avoid trouble. At that time, Cheng Dong was only a year old, although he could remember some scenes at that time, but he couldn't remember whether this scene was in Hefu and Hezhou.

Cheng Yi was afraid that his younger brother would go back for revenge when he grew up, so he never dared to tell him about Runing Mansion. To this day, Cheng Dong only remembers that he had such a family feud, but he doesn't know that this incident happened in Runing. In the past few days, when he was talking to the peasants of Runing, he was surprised to find that he could understand Runing's dialect, and even speak some of it, which he attributed to his own genius and intelligence.

Wu Boxing naturally didn't know Cheng Dong's origin, he just regarded Cheng Dong as a gun that could be taken out and used, as long as Cheng Dong was willing to listen to his command, it was enough, as for other things, the root was not something he was interested in knowing.

From Xiping to Ruyang City, it is less than 100 miles. The camp of the Qin mission investigated while walking, and it took two days to come to the city of Ruyang. Liu Qichang and Su Hao have already been informed and know that the Qin mission has arrived. The two sides each brought their own teams to the outside of Ruyang City to greet the Qincha.

"Xiaguan Liu Qichang, waiting for Scholar Wang, Scholar Wang ......"

The two elders are both surnamed Wang, and they are both scholars, so Liu Qichang had to say that Wang was a scholar twice.

"No courtesy, Governor Liu has worked hard." The two Wang scholars walked out of the sedan chair respectively and said to Liu Qichang at the same time.

After meeting with the officials of the Runing Mansion, Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping turned to the other side, and Su Hao and a cadre of officials from the Kanyu Camp were standing there waiting to meet them.

"Xiaguan Su Hao, wait for the two elders, Wu Shilang......" Su Hao also did the etiquette enough.

"It's hard work." Wang Xijue returned the salute to Su Hao, and then looked at the people around Su Hao seriously, with a trace of imperceptible surprise on his face. He had a mystery in his mind, but he also knew that this was not the time to solve it. He asked Su Hao: "Change, the day before yesterday, we gave you the will in the name of the Qin Mission, can you receive it?" ”

"Returning to the king, the will of the two elders, the lower officials have already received it. Xia Guanye has sent people to Pegasus to various states and counties to recall the soldiers, and he will never dare to block the mouth of public opinion. Su Hao replied. Wang Xijue's intention was that Cheng Dong gave Wu Bo a trick to ask Su Hao to withdraw all the survey camps, and Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping also agreed with this.

After a brief welcome ceremony, Liu Qichang led the way in front, and Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping entered Ruyang City in a majestic manner. Su Hao took his team to the side, Wang Xijue didn't say too much to Su Hao in order to avoid suspicion, everyone just chatted a few gossips such as weather and body.

In order to welcome Qincha, Liu Qichang arranged a banquet in Runing Mansion, although he was 10,000 unhappy in his heart, he still asked Su Hao to participate together. When arranging the seats, Su Hao was also arranged at the table where Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping were sitting, and sat face-to-face with Liu Qichang. Liu Qichang had a dark face, deliberately not looking at Su Hao's face. Su Hao was smiling, like a nobody.

At the beginning of the banquet, there is no need to talk about the various complicated entertainments. After everyone had toasted, Wang Jiaping put down the wine glass and asked Liu Qichang: "Governor Liu, the old man and Scholar Wang have come all the way, and I heard a strange thing in your Runing Mansion, may Governor Liu explain it to the two of me?" ”

"Elder Wang Ge, please speak." Liu Qichang knew what Wang Jiaping wanted to ask, but he had to pretend to be stupid first.

Wang Jiaping said: "I heard that the county officials and the squires agreed to stop ploughing, and even did not hesitate to harm the ploughing cattle for this, can Governor Liu know about this?" ”

"There is such a thing!" Liu Qichang had a look of surprise on his face, "Boycott ploughing, and hurt ploughing cattle, how can such a thing that hurts heaven and reason be in the house?" Have you ever heard of this? ”

Du Weiming, who was sitting at the bottom, shook his head and said: "The lower officials have never heard of it, these days, Master Su has sent troops to block the passages everywhere, the officials of the government can't get out of the city, and the news from the states and counties can't reach the Runing Mansion, and the lower officials haven't heard the news below for some days." ”

"Blocking the passage? How could there be such a thing? Wu Boxing pretended to be puzzled, turned his head to Su Hao and asked, "Master Su, Du Tong knows what he said, do you know?" ”

The three of them, you ask me, I ask you, the trick is as if it is real, how can Su Hao not see it. In response to Wu Boxing's questioning, Su Hao just smiled slightly and said, "How can Xia Guan have the courage to dare to block local traffic?" It is true that the lower officials sent soldiers to various places, but the purpose was not to block the passage, but to persuade farmers to spring ploughing. ”

"Persuade farmers to spring ploughing? I'm afraid it's just to bluff and deceive Qincha, right? Du Weiming sneered, "Although there are many natural disasters in Runing Mansion, this abandonment has never happened. It has only been a few months since Mr. Su arrived in Runing, and Runing went out to stop farming, how can this be explained? ”

Su Hao said: "The clear ones are self-purifying, the turbid ones are self-turbid, and the lower officials have a clear conscience, and they don't need to bother to talk here." The two elders are wise people, who is true and who is false, I believe that the elder can find out clearly. ”

Wang Xijue said: "Everyone is a minister of the same dynasty, why make such a fuss? Governor Liu, Master Su, what are you that you can't discuss? ”

Liu Qichang said: "Elder Wang Ge, it's not that the lower officials are unwilling to discuss with Master Su, but it's really that Master Su relies on himself to be a member of the imperial court and acts arrogantly, and doesn't take us and other local officials in his eyes." In the case of a Xinglong gambling house, Xia Guan is the prefect, and he has not seen the suspect until now. ”

"Master Su, is this serious?" Wang Xijue asked Su Hao with a straight face.

Su Hao was already ready to accept the questioning from Qin Cha, he nodded and said: "This matter is serious, but this is not because the lower officials don't take Governor Liu seriously, but because ...... Governor Liu is the person involved in the case, how can there be a reason to let the criminal judge himself? ”

"You're spewing blood!" Liu Qichang slapped the table, and the wine glasses and other things on the table jumped wildly, "Su Hao, in front of the two elders, if you can't come up with evidence today, you are making false accusations!" The official spells out the black gauze hat, and he must also fight this lawsuit in front of the saint! ”