Cheng Liangjue looked at Liu Ziguang without fear and sneered: "Lord Qincha doesn't know anything. It's just that in the ninth year of the Apocalypse, there was a decree in the Holy Heavens, and all officials with foreign affairs such as Honglu Temple, Rites, and City Ships could serve pythons, so as to show the grandeur of my Heavenly Dynasty, Lord Qincha, or go back to read the relevant laws, and then come to arrest people, it is not too late. Liu Ziguang frowned slightly, looking at Cheng Liangjue's appearance, it didn't look like he was talking nonsense, is there really such a law?

After all, Nanchang is a grass platform team with soldiers and ruffians in the capital as the main body, and there are not many talents who are familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the various systems of the imperial court, and it is inevitable that there will be some omissions when planning.

"What about being able to take a python? Do I have such a species as a white silver python? Besides, the ninth year of the Apocalypse is when the eunuch party is in power, this kind of chaotic life has not been approved by the emperor at all, and it is impossible to do it. ”

"In!" The guards on both sides crossed their waists and shouted in unison.

"Shanghai Bo Si raised Chen Ziang to over-uniform python Nian is indeed a law, so he will not be investigated, but the crime of privately changing the court costume is indeed taken off my robe and uniform in the court, and I will be beaten on the 20th board." After Liu Ziguang finished speaking, he took out a random skewer from the skewer on the table and threw it out.

"My lord......" Cheng Liangjue still wanted to speak, but Liu Ziguang didn't give him a chance to speak, and walked down from the public seat and said: "Everything must be witnessed by the official with his own eyes, so he can believe that he was almost deceived by Cao Yin's old thief in Jiangnan the day before yesterday, and the same mistake cannot be made twice, so I also asked Governor Cheng to take me to the city to see what happened." ”

"Obey the order" Cheng Liangjue held back his anger and squinted at his brother-in-law Chen Ziang, who had been dragged to the hall, was stripped off of his python robe, revealing snow-white silk underwear, lying on the ground and being beaten, the bamboo board hit his pink buttocks, as if hitting the tip of Governor Cheng's heart, every scream caused his brows to jump wildly.

Liu Ziguang saw it in his eyes, and in his heart, it seemed that the Dongchang spy who was ambushed in the Governor's Mansion did not lie, and this brother-in-law's status in Cheng Liangjue's mind was higher than that of those concubines.

The lesson of Suzhou Mansion is that Shanghai Road naturally absorbs it all, Liu Ziguang did not have a small stall on the way from the Governor's Mansion to the City Bosi, and even the passers-by were very rare, and every dozen zhang there was a patrol officer in a dark green robe, and the messenger was standing guard, and when he saw the apricot yellow flag of the Qin Cha coming, he knelt down and saluted, looking very troublesome.

When I arrived at the gate of the city, I saw more than a dozen businessmen with red faces lining up in an orderly manner, and the errand officers who did things were also smiling and doing things neatly.

Liu Ziguang knew that these were all arranged actors, so he didn't care about these businessmen at all, and went straight to the place where he was raised and sat in the hall, and Lord Qincha sat in the public hall, picked up the roster of the city and took a closer look, Cheng Liangjue and a cadre of officials sat in the hall to serve tea, although the fragrant tea on the coffee table and the cigars in their hands were all good things to calm their minds, but the officials couldn't do it at all, and this Lord Qincha was too unreasonable to play cards, and he didn't know if the illusions of the arrangement could deceive him.

Sure enough, after looking at the roster for a while, Lord Qincha began to find faults: "Send Zhang Sixi, the official who is responsible for inspecting the goods and putting them on public certificate. After a while, Zhang Sixi brought him to him, wearing a low-level civil official's cyan robe, and gave a courtesy to Lord Qincha in a regular manner, looking at it as an ordinary little official.

Liu Ziguang didn't ask him any official questions, but asked some short things about his parents.

"Zhang Sixi, how many people do you have in your family?"

"There are a total of fifteen people in the family of the lower officials."

"Do you make a living out of peace?"

"Lord Hui, in addition to the lower officials' income, the family also has ten acres of cotton fields in Songjiang Mansion, which can supplement some household expenses every year. This all depends on the emperor's grace, and ...... "Zhang Sixi was a little strange, why did Lord Qincha suddenly care about his family life, a lot of import and export trade data that he had memorized by rote was useless, and he didn't have to work so hard to memorize it for several nights, and he didn't even have time to love the newly married eighth concubine.

"You are not a stream-leading official, your annual income is only 100 taels of silver, plus the income of ten acres of cotton fields will not exceed 200 taels of silver, and in the Jiangjing house you built last year, it is said that a beam of wood imported from Nanyang costs 1,000 taels of silver, and the whole house costs more than 50,000 taels of silver, where did you get this silver?" Although Lord Qincha's voice was soft, every word pierced Zhang Sixi's heart like a sharp knife, and a big sweat came out of his forehead, and before he could defend himself, Lord Qincha's second question was thrown again.

"It seems that the population of your family is more than fifteen, I heard that your concubine alone married eight sons and daughters, and gave birth to nine of them, and these people add up to seventeen, don't tell me that your father and mother are not human." Zhang Sixi's back was wet, he didn't expect Lord Qincha to even feel the details of his little official so clearly, it can be seen that people are prepared, no matter how much he explains, it will be useless, he looked at the governor who bowed his head and drank tea next to him with his eyes asking for help.

The Governor was still blowing the heat on the teacup, ignoring Zhang Sixi's request for help, in fact, Cheng Liangjue's heart was also churning at this moment, Nanchang really lived up to its name, and in front of these spies, ordinary people were transparent existences.

At present, people regard Zhang Sixi as a breakthrough, if it can be proved that Zhang Sixi is corrupt, then they have a reason to inquire about all the officials of the city and the city, and turn out their details, the so-called pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, which city department officials can't find out a few lines and index them to the officials at all levels of Shanghai Province, so if they continue to investigate, sooner or later, all the officials in Shanghai will be implicated.

Cheng Liangjue didn't speak, his brain was running fast, thinking about countermeasures. Next to him, a deputy of the city department stood up to help Zhang Sixi speak: "Qi Bingqincha Lord Zhang Sixi has a younger brother named Zhang Wuxi, who is a small boss in the export cotton cloth business, this person has a lot of income, and it is a matter of course to be an elder brother. ”

"Zhang Wuxi, since Zhang Sixi entered the city, he began to do the export cotton cloth business, in just four or five years, he has a huge fortune, and he began to do cotton cloth exports at the same time, among the businessmen who can do the family fortune of 10,000 taels, it is good, to help my brother, hum, I think it is my brother who uses his power to help my younger brother." Liu Ziguang had already obtained the evidence of Zhang Sixi's embezzlement, as well as the specific situation of his family, and the mention of Zhang Wuxi was clearly hitting the blade.

Deputy Tiju also realized which pot he was, and he didn't dare to speak anymore, so he wanted to retreat to the back, but Liu Ziguang didn't want to let him go, squinted at this person and said: "Your Excellency is Lord Hu Ming, the deputy of the City Division, I have heard for a long time that Lord Hu is a horse idiot, and everyone else uses a sedan chair to travel, you just like to ride horses, and the big food god horse in the stable of the Yamen of the City Bo Division is your car, right?" I don't think I can buy that horse without 10,000 silver, don't you know, there is also a brother with a lot of money to buy it for you. ”

"This ......," the deputy raised his head, and the same cold sweat broke out on his head, and he was speechless to Lord Qincha's question.

Liu Ziguang was very satisfied with this effect, and turned to Cheng Liangjue and said: "Lord Cheng, the official sees that there are many problems in this city, and ordinary officials can have such a huge amount of wealth, just relying on their money and not eating or drinking, and saving for a hundred years, there is not so much, the emperor ordered me to inspect Jiangnan, and it is this kind of corrupt and perverted the law to damage the public and private interests, I think everyone in the city must be carefully examined, as long as corruption and bribery are investigated and punished, and will not be tolerated, what does Lord Cheng think?" ”

"It's all up to Lord Chincha." Cheng Liangjue said with a cold face. The city is different from Jiangnan weaving, although Jiangnan weaving is **, but there are always a few clean people, and the lower-level workers are not involved, so as long as the organization is proper, it does not affect production, but the city is rotten from top to bottom, every official, every errand is involved, and the people who refuse to go with the flow have long been purged out, so the resistance encountered in the review is quite large.

First of all, the officials of the city department resisted collectively, although this is a five-grade yamen, but there are more personnel than ordinary government offices, just relying on the more than 100 guards brought by Liu Ziguang and the accounts of three or four household departments, they cannot carry out the work in any case, and the files to be found cannot find the people they want to investigate, and the officials of the Shanghai Provincial Department of Justice also try their best not to cooperate, and what is more serious is that the examination work has been strongly protested by the vast number of import and export businessmen.

This kind of protest was not organized by Cheng Liangjue, but the businessmen organized themselves, the city shipping division was investigated, which was a good thing, but it affected their livelihood, and it became a bad thing, the goods outside could not get in, the goods inside could not get out, the station dock accumulated a large number of goods, thousands of coolies did not have jobs, and although they were cut by the city shipping division, but there was finally a set of rules in operation, everyone endured and passed, but Lord Qincha checked like this, everyone even cut off their way of life, and everyone had no choice but to rush to the outside of the pavilion to make trouble, wanting Lord Qincha to exert pressure.

The soldiers sent by the Governor's Mansion did not contribute to the work, and let the merchants storm the gate, these people just petitioned peacefully, they did not ask for anything else, but to restore the operation of the city as soon as possible, so that their goods and funds could be turned over as soon as possible, for this unexpected problem, Liu Ziguang was also a little panicked, but soon he had a countermeasure, which was still the idea given by Hu Yimin.

The representatives of the merchants were invited into the pavilion and interviewed the Lord for half an hour before they came out.

This is a middle-aged businessman who is more than half a hundred years old, his gray head is meticulously combed, his face is flushed, as if he can't hold back the excitement in his heart, as soon as he walks out of the door, he shouts loudly: "Guys, there is a great order, and all taxes are exempted before the case of Siyi is not successful, and you can load and unload goods without official certificates!" The merchants could hardly believe their ears, and only after confirming it again and again did they thunder with joy, and everyone knelt down together in front of the pavilion, chanting the great kindness of Lord Qincha, and refused to disperse for a long time.