"Uncle Mancang is injured?" Immediately the crying girl appeared, the lively courtyard immediately quieted down, people looked at her in surprise, Zhao Dahai, who was sitting on a stone and talking and laughing with several young people, changed his face, stood up suddenly, and asked with a concerned expression.

Li Yuntian glanced at Zhao Dahai, who was excited, he had the impression of the crying girl, it was Zhao Dahai's fiancée Xiaolan, who had been helping to clean up things in the yard just now.

"No matter how big King Zhongwu's belly is, he can't eat so many fish, does he want to kill King Zhongwu to death?" Then, Li Yuntian put down the wine glass with a heavy snap, looked at Zhao Dahai coldly and asked, "Who is this Zhou Peel?" ”

"Mr. Li, Zhou Papi is the rich man in our town, I heard that half of the land in the town belongs to his family, and the eldest daughter is married to Liu Si, who is a household in the county, and he bullies the people with the power of his family, and everyone dares to be angry with him." Hearing this, Zhao Dahai hurriedly bowed to Li Yuntian and said hatefully.

"The daughter of the old Zhang Tou in the tofu workshop in the town is only thirteen years old, and at the same age, she was robbed and ruined by Zhou Papi, and she became a madman when she returned home.

"As long as anyone has good land, Zhou Papi will definitely take it for himself, and even our military households will not let go of the military land, I don't know how many people's land has been forcibly snatched by him over the years."

"The three boys of the old Zhao family in the neighboring village went to the Zhou family to deliver food, and accidentally broke a bowl in the kitchen of the Zhou family, and as a result, he was beaten so that he couldn't get out of bed for half a year.

"I heard that Zhou Papi's son-in-law, Liu Si, cheated on taxes, which made the Zhou family pay a lot less taxes to the yamen every year."

"He paid less, and the county spread all those harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the heads of the households in order to receive enough taxes, and simply did not let the people live."

……

Hearing Li Yuntian ask about Zhou Papi, the people at the scene suddenly became indignant and complained about Zhou Papi's evil deeds.

Li Yi'an, Yang Ming and Zhejiang according to the inspection envoy Wang Shuang's face became more and more ugly, the more crimes Zhou Papi committed, the greater the responsibility of the three of them, and he was secretly annoyed in his heart, Zhou Papi didn't know how to restrain himself, and he was still so arrogant when Li Yuntian inspected Dinghai County, it was simply hitting the muzzle of the gun, purely looking for death.

Zheng Liang, Fang Youdao and the others sat there quietly, the affairs of Dinghai County had nothing to do with Nanzhili, so they were just listening to guests now.

"Who are you and why are you here?" Just when the villagers of Zhaojiatun at the scene were excited, a strange voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.

"We are passing merchants." Then, another voice came, as if it was a guard guarding the outside.

"Merchant?" The yin and yang voice then said gloomily, "This is an extraordinary period when the Japanese are rampant, and it is really suspicious that so many of you are gathered here, so let's go to the yamen with this official." ”

"We have a road guide from Yangzhou government." The guard explained in a deep voice.

"Yangzhou Mansion belongs to Nanzhili, but this is Zhejiang, God knows if your guide is true or false." The yin and yang weird voice snorted disdainfully, and said meaningfully, "The Japanese often pretend to be merchants to spy on news, don't you feel empty-hearted!" ”

"Let them in!" Li Yuntian heard that a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, he had already guessed the intention of the yin and yang strange voice outside, it seemed that he wanted to blackmail, so he nodded to Keiko Yamaguchi on the side.

Li Yi'an, Yang Ming, and Wang Shuang couldn't help but ooze cold sweat on their foreheads, how could they not know the virtues of the people below, they must have found out that Zhaojiatun had come to foreign merchants and wanted to make a fortune.

Soon, a middle-aged errand with a full face swaggered in under the guidance of Keiko Yamaguchi, followed by a dozen or so errand servants.

The arrival of the middle-aged errand made the scene silent, and many people's faces showed fear, as if they were very afraid of it.

"Good wine!" As soon as the middle-aged errand officer entered the courtyard door, his nose twitched, he smelled a refreshing aroma of wine, and involuntarily looked at the wine glass on the wine table, he never expected that there was such a good wine in this small broken village, I am afraid that even the prefect has never drunk it.

"Where are you merchants?" Then, the middle-aged officer's eyes fell on Li Yuntian, and he asked in an official tone, he could be sure that Li Yuntian, who was sitting at the top of the wine table, was the leader of this group of merchants.

"Yangzhou Mansion." Li Yuntian replied quietly, and nodded to Lei Ting, "Lead the road opened by Yangzhou Mansion to this poor master." ”

"This thing is useless with this official." Lei Ting took the guide from a guard and was about to hand it to the middle-aged messenger, but the middle-aged messenger did not reach out to take it after glancing at it, but said to Li Yuntian seriously, "I guess you also know that King Zhongwu has come to Dinghai County, in order to protect the safety of the prince, you foreign merchants must go to the yamen to verify your identity, so as not to mix in." ”

"You're here, now it's up to you where you're going." At this time, a tall and thin officer standing next to the middle-aged errand saw Chen Youliang who was staying with Zhao Dahai, and led several errand officers over with a sneer.

"What are you going to do?" Seeing this, Zhao Dahai immediately confronted Chen Youliang with several young people.

"This person fornicated with the Japanese cowards, and the official wants to take him back to the yamen for questioning." The thin and tall officer glanced at Zhao Dahai up and down, and said coldly, "This official looks like you are his comrade, if you don't get out of the way, I will even arrest you back to the yamen." ”

"You are spewing blood, I just sent a few complaints about the tax suppression, and you slandered me for fornicating with the Japanese and wanted to arrest me in prison." Chen Youliang stood up with the tree on the side, and said to the tall and thin officer with an angry face.

"Hmph, if you don't have fornication, what do you run, you must be a thief." The thin and tall messenger suddenly sneered when he heard this, "Sue you, the suppression of the Japanese tax is levied by the Zhongwu King, and this money will be used to prepare for the Japanese affairs, you openly take the lead in resisting the donation, what is your intention?" ”

"Who doesn't know that the county prison is a Yama Palace, if I don't run away and be taken into prison by you, there is still a way to live?" Chen Youliang suddenly became excited when he heard the romance, and couldn't help but retort.

"How dare you slander the yamen in public, and you still say that you didn't fornicate with the Japanese people? Hmph, this official sees that you are a widow at all, come and take it down. The thin and tall messenger's face sank, and he pointed at Chen Youliang and shouted to the messenger behind him.

"Wait!" Without waiting for those servants to make a move, Li Yuntian opened his mouth to stop them, and then frowned and looked at the thin and tall officer, "You just said that the suppression of the Japanese tax was levied by the Zhongwu King?" ”

"Of course!" Hearing this, the thin and tall errand officer glanced at Li Yuntian, and said expressionlessly, "The suppression of taxes is a matter of importance, and anyone who resists taxes will be punished with a general punishment!" ”

"These bastards!" Li Yuntian shook his head helplessly, and muttered in a small voice, he didn't expect that he would become a cash cow for some people, trying every means to collect money under his own banner, and pushing the responsibility to himself.

"This poor master, we have important things to do in the afternoon, you can see if you can make it convenient." At this time, Lei Ting walked in front of the middle-aged errand officer and stuffed a silver ticket of one hundred taels into his hand, "Brothers have worked hard, go drink a few glasses of water and wine." ”

"Well...... middle-aged officer couldn't help but be happy when he saw Lei Ting's gesture so generous, knowing that he had met a big fish this time, so he looked at Lei Ting in embarrassment, "It is the duty of the official to protect the Zhongwu King, and if there is any omission, the official can not afford it." ”

Li Yuntian suddenly sneered in his heart when he heard this, he knew that the middle-aged errand officer was afraid that Lei Ting gave little money, and besides, it was too arrogant for a small errand leader to dare to call himself his own official, even the top official among the county officials was just a servant, and he was still 108,000 miles away from the "official".

"Be accommodating." Lei Ting naturally knew the intention of the middle-aged errand officer, so she stuffed two silver tickets of one hundred taels and whispered.

"Lu Yin brings it." The middle-aged messenger took the opportunity to stuff the three silver tickets into his sleeve, then stretched out his hand to Lei Ting, and said seriously, "This official looks at you like a serious businessman, if the road guide is correct, this official will let you go." ”

Li Yuntian's guide was naturally no problem, it was covered with the big seal of the Yangzhou Mansion, and the middle-aged errand officer returned it to Lei Ting after checking it, and then looked at the thin and tall errand officer.

Since he has already gained benefits, the middle-aged errand will naturally not embarrass Li Yuntian and the others, after all, it is definitely not easy to make the businessman of Yangzhou Mansion open the way, he is not stupid enough to ask for trouble, besides, he just accompanied the thin and tall errand to catch Chen Youliang this time, and it is already an extra joy to have three hundred taels of silver in the account.

The thin and tall errand is the head of the horse catcher in the county where Chen Youliang is located, Chen Youliang had a conflict with them and was shot in the leg, and tracked all the way here.

Because Ma Zhutou couldn't arrest people in Dinghai County, he notified the middle-aged officer, who was Hu Zhutou of the county government of Dinghai County, and found Zhaojiatun all the way according to the clues.

"Poor master, I think this is a misunderstanding, they are all good citizens of the Ming Dynasty, how can they have an affair with the Japanese Kou." Lei Ting immediately came to Ma Zhutou and stuffed him with two silver tickets with a denomination of one hundred taels.

"Count your kid lucky, and be honest in the future." Ma Zhutou also felt that Li Yuntian and the others had a lot of backgrounds, and since Hu Zhutou had settled down, he didn't want to make any more waves, so after warning Chen Youliang, he was satisfied and swaggered away with Hu Zhutou and others under the gaze of everyone.

"Mr. Xie's life-saving grace." After those errand servants left, Chen Youliang limped to Li Yuntian and knelt down to thank him.

"It's hard to do it." Li Yuntian smiled and got up to help Chen Youliang, and then quietly glanced at Li Yi'an, Yang Ming and others, everyone saw that Chen Youliang's incident happened completely because of the corruption of the officials, and as the chief officials of the Zhejiang Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Envoy Division, they had an unshirkable responsibility.

Li Yi'an, Yang Ming and others hurriedly lowered their heads, and some people subconsciously wiped the sweat on their foreheads, those errand soldiers actually blackmailed the head of King Zhongwu in front of them just now, which is simply incredible, and it also means that they are not strictly governed.

"Let's go, let's go get to know that Zhou Peel and see if he is as good as the rumors say." Li Yuntian ignored Li Yi'an and the others, smiled at the people in the courtyard and walked out.

Zheng Liang and Fang Youdao couldn't help but glance at each other as the four officials from Nanjing, it seemed that Li Yuntian was going to take that Zhou Peel this time, which made the faces of Li Yi'an and Yang Ming and other officials of the Third Division of Zhejiang very ugly. R1148