After Gong Zijun resigned, he moved to the provincial capital with Xia Jingxi, first helping his uncle's Huijin Bank, and after accumulating some experience, he planned to study in Waseda, Japan, to study financial economics.

Xia Jingxi said that although his father was guilty, after all, his flesh and blood were heart-to-heart, leaving him in Nantai sooner or later, it was better to take the provincial capital to live, and take care of it sooner or later, so the two took a passenger boat back to Nantai.

When she got off the boat, Xia Jingxi felt restless, her right eyelid was jumping, Gong Zijun also joked that she had only been away from home for a month, and she was timid, so she hired a mule cart all the way to the south gate of the county, only to see thousands of people in a big circle, and I didn't know what kind of drama was being played.

"Let's go, let's see." Gong Zijun pulled Xia Jingxi and squeezed over, and someone who knew him greeted him warmly: "Young Master Gong, look at the excitement." And spontaneously made way for the two of them, Gong Zijun was wondering why these people were so polite, and walked over to take a look, startled.

It was Xia Dalong who knelt in the clearing.

There was a burly man standing next to him, holding a ghost-headed broadsword in one hand and a bowl of liquor in the other.

Xia Dalong's face was like ashes, and he was killed.

looked at Xia Jingxi beside him, his face was pale, and he bit his lip tightly and didn't say a word.

Gong Zijun was anxious: "I begged the envoy of the protector, don't kill the Xia family, how can this be, no, I'll go to him!" ”

Xia Jingxi grabbed him and said in a low voice, "It's useless." ”

Zeng Jiao muttered silently: "Father, mother, your spirit in the sky should also be able to look away, my son is stabbing the enemy today to avenge you." ”

After saying that, he raised the ghost head knife high, shouted, and the long knife slashed down, and the crowd let out a burst of exclamation, and Qi Brush took two steps back, as if an invisible hand had drawn a circle.

This knife was not chopped accurately, and it was slashed on Xia Dalong's shoulder, and the blood was gushing out, but the person did not die.

Liu Youjin, who was in charge of the beheading, frowned, waved his hand and said, "Be sharp, don't toss people." ”

Zeng Jiao was not unskilled in swordsmanship, but deliberately failed to cut accurately, so that Xia Dalong suffered more, he slashed twice, but still did not cut his neck.

Xia Dalong is a tough guy in the end, he is seriously injured and stunned, and he does not struggle when he is crooked on the ground, and he lets the blood spray out.

A person came down from the prison platform, and without saying a word, he pulled out a pistol and shot Xia Dalong in the back of the head.

Xia Dalong's great head suddenly turned into a blood gourd, and the person was planted on the ground and died.

Zeng Jiao glared angrily, the one who knew that Xia Dalong was the head of the regiment, Chen Shou, who also had a grudge against Xia Dalong.

Chen Shou put away the pistol and walked away.

Zeng Jiao swung the knife again and chopped off Xia Dalong's head, this time it was very neat, and he solved the problem with one knife.

The onlookers let out bursts of exclamations, they hadn't seen the beheading for a long time, and they were thrilled and excited to see it, as if they had drunk two taels of liquor.

Xia Jingxi had already fainted, Gong Zijun was in a hurry, carried her out, put her on a mule cart and went home to settle down, and came to the Protector Embassy Office angrily to question Chen Zikun.

Chen Zikun asked the orderly soldiers to take out a stack of pieces to show Gong Zijun, all of which were bloody and tearful accusations against Xia Dalong for bullying men and women, one by one, which was shocking.

"Zijun, I said to take proper care of him, that's to see your face and give him a fairness, not to let him go unpunished, do you understand?" Chan said.

Gong Zijun nodded and sighed: "It's me who is impulsive." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Xia Dalong is dead, the grievances are over, the Xia family has forcibly seized a lot of property over the years, the real estate must be confiscated and auctioned, compensate the bitter owner, and the house will be kept by the Xia family, but there is no part of Miss Xia, there is a will, which was collected from the Xia family, you take it." ”

Gong Zijun took the will, which stated that all the Xia family's property and acres belonged to his adopted son Xia Jingqi, and Xia Jingxi only had some jewelry and silk as a dowry.

"Also, Xia Dalong confessed that Miss Xia's biological mother actually did not die of illness, but was lynched to death by Xia Dalong because she had an affair with a merchant, you go back and tell Miss Xia, send off the guest." Chen Zikun finished speaking, got up and left.

Gong Zijun returned home with heavy steps, and told Xia Jingxi all this, Miss Xia is Xia Dalong's biological daughter, without a single tear, and said calmly, I have long known that my mother was killed by my father, but no matter what, he is my father, and I have to collect his body.

Xia Dalong's body was pulled back, pretended to be buried, and buried in the ancestral tomb of the Xia family, all matters were handled by his son-in-law Gong Zijun, and Xia Jingqi, the step-son who inherited the Xia family's family business, did not even show his face, of course he would not come forward, as long as he appeared in Nantai, he would be immediately arrested and shot by Chen Zikun.

Poor Xia Dalong was majestic for half his life, and in the end he didn't even have a son who died, and on a cold morning, he quietly went out of the funeral, and on the morning of the same day, the general meeting of auctioning Xia Jialiang's acres of land was also held outside the county office.

The Xia family had a lot of fertile land, and no one in the county could eat it all, even those big families were powerless, and the auction was abruptly dead, so these lands had to be used as official property and rented to tenants to collect land endowments.

Chen Zikun didn't expect this result, he overturned the Xia family and still didn't find the money, seeing that the wind was getting tighter and tighter, and the war was about to break out, he was in a hurry.

Suddenly, someone came to report that it was the county magistrate Liu who came to the back house with a few workers and went down the well with a rope.

Chen Zikun hurried to the back house, only to see several workers standing next to the well, lifting buckets of mud and bricks from below, Liu Youjin looked down with a flashlight on his face.

"Protector, I finally have an eyebrow, I have been studying for many days and determined that the thing is underground." Liu Youjin saw Chen Zikun come in and happily told him.

"Okay, dig up." Chan was also overjoyed.

After a while, a report came from the well, saying that a mechanism had been found in the wall of the well, and a large hole had been dug in it, and many things were buried in it.

Continued to excavate, the treasure that had been buried for many years was finally revealed, and a basket of heavy black metal objects was hung up, with different shapes, there were horseshoe, there were cakes, there were squares and ingots, and the stamps and imprints on them were also different, there were private silver numbers, there were government treasury, and there were landlords and wealthy owners.

In addition to various types of silver ingots and silver bars, there are also a large number of silver coins wrapped in oiled paper, such as the British Standing Ocean, the Mexican Eagle Ocean, the Spanish Double Column, and the Japanese Dragon Ocean, because they have been underground for a long time, and the condition is not very good-looking, but it is indeed genuine silver.

"It's gone!" Liu Youjin rubbed his hands, he came to Nantai to be the county magistrate, just for this treasure, and now he has finally achieved great success, how can he not be excited.

On the scale, there are 20,000 catties, and 320,000 taels of silver are synthesized.

"Let's add five to one and divide it!" Liu Youjin said.

Chen Zikun said: "Points? Why? ”

Liu Youjin was shocked: "You can't go back on your word, let's say okay, dig out the treasure and divide it in five." ”

Chen Zikun sneered: "Yes, I said so, but you deceived first, and I should regret it." ”

"Conscience of heaven and earth, how can I deceive you?" Liu Youjin trembled angrily.

Chen Zikun reprimanded the workers and said in a low voice: "You said that you are the son of Zeng County, called Zeng Jiao, but I know another person named Zeng Jiao, and he also said that he is the son of the county commander. ”

"No way, no way, he must be a liar." Liu Youjin was a little panicked.

"Hmph, of course there's one liar, but it's not him, it's you!" Chen Zikun stared at Liu Youjin's eyes and said, "Are you really the county magistrate?" ”

Liu Youjin avoided his gaze and said, "I am the county magistrate appointed by the provincial government, so is there anything wrong?" ”

"Hmph, I sent someone to the province to check, really Liu Youjin is a forty-year-old middle-aged man, with big teeth, not like you at all, say, what kind of person are you!"

Liu Youjin was dumbfounded, and said in silence for a long time: "It doesn't matter who I am, this county magistrate is indeed deceived by me, what do you want to do with me?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "You are a person, in addition to being greedy for money, you still have a lot of advantages, if you want, continue to be the county magistrate, if you don't want to, I won't be difficult for you, you can go wherever you want." ”

Liu Youjin looked at the mountains of silver nuggets piled up on the ground, and smiled sadly: "In the end, when you make wedding clothes for others, how will you use these money to protect the army?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Zeng Jiao said that his father has a clean sleeve and will definitely not be corrupt and bribe-taking, so this silver should be left by the previous county commander, and it is all the hard-earned money of the people of Nantai, of course I will not swallow it, this money will be filled into the official treasury and used for the people." ”

Liu Youjin smiled, his words were high-sounding, but he could only deceive ordinary people, but the situation was stronger than people, and he had no right to speak now.

"Protector, since you don't care about your past suspicions, I will continue to be this county magistrate and serve you." Liu Youjin arched his hand.

"That's right, do a good job, I won't treat you badly, when you enter the provincial capital, I will make you the governor." Chen Zikun patted Liu Youjin on the shoulder and said confidently.

Liu Youjin smiled helplessly.

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The appearance of 320,000 taels of silver greatly relieved Chen Zikun's economic pressure, although the domestic circulation is now based on Yuan Datou's silver dollars, silver ingots and foreign silver coins have withdrawn from the circulation field, but in international trade is still settled in silver taels, so there is no need to worry that the money can not be spent.

With the experience of the past, the silver did not dare to be transported to Shanghai again, but was transported to Beijing by land, first purchasing a batch of flour, rice, medical cloth and other urgently needed materials, and the rest was stored in the account of the Bank of Communications and could be used at any time.

The atmosphere of the war is getting stronger and stronger, in August, Luoyang Wu Peifu telegraphed Henan, Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces to help the Jiangsu overseer Qi Xieyuan to use troops against Zhejiang, the overseers have sent a telegram to the Zhejiang overseer Lu Yongxiang to criticize the written attack, in mid-August, Qi Xieyuan held a secret military meeting in Nanjing, Chen Zikun as a direct force in Jiangdong Province, also participated in the meeting.

This is the first time he has participated in a conference of giants as a hegemon.