Just when Li You thought that the first day of his appointment was calm and quiet, and he was slowly chatting with Lord Zhang, a soldier hurriedly rushed outside the hall and reported: "Dozens of scoundrels in the town are fighting with the people of the county. ”

Li You didn't understand for a while when he heard this, why did the people of Fucheng and the county town fight in this town? Zhang Shiying next to him said: "It must be because of the raw silk business." ”

Speaking of this, Li You immediately knew what was going on. It turned out that the year of Nanzhili in the past two years was not too good, and the output of mulberry leaves was much less, which affected the output of silk and raw silk, and caused a shortage of raw materials in the silk weaving industry in Suzhou.

As mentioned earlier, Xishui Town is a large bazaar, and large quantities of raw silk goods from the west and north shores of Taihu Lake are often trafficked here for sale. There are also a lot of silk loom households in Xujiang County, and they can take advantage of the geographical advantage of the same county to buy these raw silks, so the raw materials are not very short. But there are thousands of machine households and tens of thousands of machine workers in Nafu City, and there is a serious shortage of raw materials, so they are looking for raw silk everywhere. Seeing that there are often a large number of raw silk in and out of this Xishui Town, I went to buy it but couldn't rob the people of this county, it was very red-eyed.

A while ago, five or six powerful large machine owners in Fucheng hired dozens of scoundrels, and sent dozens of mechanics from various families to form a team of 100 people, and went to the market in Xishui Town to fight. Now eighty percent have tasted the sweetness, so the trick is repeated.

Li You said to Zhang Shiying: "I, the new official, have encountered something since I took office, and I will go and have a drink, and then I will drink with my brother at night." ”

Master Zhang didn't care much and said: "These people are fighting with each other just to grab some raw silk, and it's not a crime, so the virtuous brother doesn't have to make a big fuss." ”

Li You smiled and left. When a new official takes office, he should set up a name for himself. Is there a better target than an outsider with no local roots, a few scoundrels, even if they come from the city, how much of a really useful background can they have. By the way, everyone in Xishui also knew that Master Ben had taken office.

Today, in order to welcome the representative inspector Mr. Li to take office, the fifteen teams of the inspection department did not go out to patrol. The bamboo whistle was blown at the moment, and when all the soldiers were assembled, Li You assigned the errands of each team. After all, he is from this town and is very familiar with the geography of Xishui Town. Two squads were instructed to block the wharf, two squads blocked the land exit of the town, and four squads blocked the two streets and alleys where the silk industry and the inn were concentrated.

When Li You led the remaining seven teams to the alley of Siye Yahang in the town, he saw a few groups of fighting people from a distance, and the shopkeeper of Yaxing next to him was still watching the excitement, but when the officers and soldiers came, everyone dispersed in a hurry.

Li Daidai ordered seven squads to divide their troops into several roads and search from house to house in and around these two streets. Those who have an accent in the city of Yefu are escorted to the land temple at the entrance of the alley for inspection. Resistors are allowed to use bows and arrows, and armed robbers live or die.

Suddenly, the two streets and alleys were full of chickens and dogs. Even his brother Li Zuo, who opened the inn, was also killed, and ran over to see that it was his younger brother who was in charge, and stood far away and shouted to Li You: "Little Er, you are crazy!" Own inn is also tossed! Li You only pretended not to hear.

More than 100 people have come in scattered places. All serious businessmen and sellers who have road guides or tax stamps as evidence, Li You personally came forward, apologized with kind words, and sent them back. Those people saw that this official was so kind, and he didn't extort indiscriminately, and he didn't think much of himself when he was flattered, and he still felt that Li You was honest and fair. This is exactly what Li You intended.

As for the rest of the real fucheng scoundrels, they all thought that they had dealt with the local government's mansion, and they estimated that they would be fine in the end, and they did not resist in this mentality, and they were arrested dozens casually. Later, some clever people realized that something was wrong, so they hid and ran away.

In this way, fifty-six people were finally captured, which is rarely seen in Fucheng. The so-called fighting is that some professional thugs produced in Suzhou over the years, often take people's money to gather people's affairs, and the government will disperse as soon as it comes, relying on the familiar terrain and streets to escape from the pursuit. They were hired to Xishui Town this time, and they were told by their employers that they had already taken care of the local government, and in addition, they were not familiar with the local area, so it was difficult to escape, otherwise how could Li You easily arrest so much.

Li You set off the fireworks signal and gathered the team to collect the troops and return to the camp. He also tied more than 50 people into several strings to swagger through the city, and the onlookers in this county gave warm applause and high praise to Li You's practice of only arresting people from Fucheng.

When he returned to the official office, regardless of whether there was enough space in the prison, under the deterrence of spears and strong bows, he stuffed these 56 people into the prison in one go, and opened a few more openings, so as not to have the tragedy of suffocating the prisoners. It was so crowded that these scoundrels rubbed shoulders and couldn't move their chests and backs, and one of them was a rabbit who was crooked.

After that, Inspector Li sat firmly in the side hall and chatted with a scribe surnamed Guan over tea and asked some questions about the company. He knew that these scoundrels would dare to go to other places to make trouble if they didn't rely on it, so he waited here for the people behind the scenes to show up, whether they sold favors or not, and it depended on the situation.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a doorman to report that a person claiming to be a patrol officer of the government asked to see him, and Li You called him in.

Not long after, a middle-aged man wearing a long robe with arrow sleeves, a yellow complexion, and a few whiskers walked into the house in a hurry, and shouted at Li You: "You little official is so ignorant, who will arrest you, and you won't let go!" ”

It turned out that after all, the official appointment of the imperial court was not yet under the order, and Li You could not wear the official robe of the ninth grade, so he could only continue to wear the clothes of the officials, and it was not surprising that those who did not know him were regarded as small officials.

Li You saw that this person was so angry, so he asked, "Who is coming?" ”

The man said proudly: "I am the official of the government office, Hong someone. "This identity should be similar to the role of the chief catcher in the government office, and he dares to be called an official in colloquial language, and he is indeed qualified to despise the small officials in the small places below.

"Since you are called an official, how many products are you?" Li You asked curiously.

"Even if there is no grade. So what? Hong Xun said coldly: "You dare to interrogate me, a small official? ”

Li You smiled very kindly and continued to ask: "This official, can you have relatives and friends who are officials in the government office, the feudal domain, the court, the procuratorate, and the military department?" ”

Hong Xunzhu said impatiently: "No, no, why are you so verbose!" If you don't release people quickly, you can't afford it! ”

"Then I'll be relieved." After Li You nodded lightly, he suddenly waved his hand and threw the teacup on the ground, shouting outside the door: "Soldiers from outside come in!" Take down this madman for me! ”

"Dare to take me, you are so bold! I'm going to talk to your house inspector! Hong Patrol was pressed to the ground and roared to himself.

The soldiers searched for a pair of woodcarved waist cards from Hong Xun's body, and Li You took it and looked at it and said, "Ouch, it's not fake." ”

No matter how stupid Hong Patrol was to arrest, he could see that this Li You was not an ordinary official, and couldn't help asking, "Who are you?" ”

Li You said more proudly than Inspector Hong: "This official is Li, the deputy inspector of the West Water Inspection Department, and the temporary acting deputy of the West Water Inspection Department. ”

A string of celebrities who didn't read much were puzzled, and the scribe next to him came up to explain understandingly: "This means that at the moment, our company is the official." ”

Hong Xunzhu immediately lay on the ground and shouted, "The water washed the Dragon King Temple, it turned out to be a family." ”

"Thieves are presumptuous! Who's a family with you, this! Li You scolded.

"I know Lord Liu, and Lord Liu knows all these things!" Hong Xunzhu was afraid that Li You would not believe it, so he defended. He knew the rules of succession from generation to generation in the martial arts, and quickly guessed that the Li in front of him and Inspector Liu must have a great relationship, so he raised the name of Inspector Liu.

Li You was very surprised when he heard this, could it be that his father-in-law deliberately connived at this matter after he was beaten? It's no wonder that this Hong Mou came in and let himself go without fear, and he didn't know how much his father-in-law had received in private before he sold his personal favor and ignored it.

Guan Shuguan whispered in Li You's ear: "The old inspector did say, don't care about this kind of thing. ”

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From tomorrow, strive for the second watch.