After the banquet was over, Lin Yuan left Beishan Mo and handed over the task of purchasing grain to him.

"Don't worry, my lord, I have a countermeasure to this matter." Beishan Mo nodded, confident.

"By the way, what's going on with Cao Ru in office, why can't the administrative efficiency be improved?" Lin Yuan asked suddenly.

Beishan Mo chuckled inwardly and paused, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes.

Seeing this situation, Lin Yuan said directly: "It's okay for you to talk about it!" ”

Seeing this, Beishan Mo replied: "After the development of Malan City, Cao Ru's mind has also changed, he has always regarded himself as a father, and declared to the outside world that the lord is rising, and he and Yuwen Chengdu have the greatest credit, even if it is Wang Anshi and Zhuge Liang, they are not comparable to him at all." ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, his expression did not change much.

Beishan Mo continued: "I have heard in private that Cao Ru is very dissatisfied with the lord's knighthood, and he feels that he is the first batch of heroes to assist the lord in taking care of Malan City, and he should also be awarded a title......"

"The knighthood makes him dissatisfied, what else?" Lin Yuan's expression remained the same.

Beishan Mo could only bite the bullet and continued: "The lord didn't reward him with the title, he felt that he was very faceless, and began to cover the sky with one hand as a father in Malan City, and take it by force. Many merchant groups who want to settle in must first pay him a filial piety fee, and if he takes a fancy to any girl in Malan City, he will forcibly marry him. ”

"If the lord doesn't believe it, you can send someone to the city to inquire, many people are afraid that he is the lord of the father, and he dares to be angry and dare not speak, even the household officials who came to Malan City for assessment are also swallowing their anger, Wang Anshi knows this situation, and he just suppresses the matter and does not let the lord know."

"yes, I see." Lin Yuan nodded, "You have worked hard, you have to pay attention to the next matter of purchasing grain." ”

"Yes!" Beishan Mo saw that Lin Yuan was not angry at all, and he was also a little apprehensive in his heart, so he had to leave carefully.

After Beishan Mo left, Lin Yuan sent a few personal guards to investigate in the city.

It didn't take long for the guards to return.

"My lord, Beishan Mo's news is true, Cao Ru has indeed discussed the lord behind his back, and besides, he forcibly married as many as 8 concubines, and openly accepted bribes from the settled merchant groups."

Lin Yuan was silent, and a trace of murderous intent suddenly appeared in his whole eyes.

As soon as the development of the territory was on the right track, there were people below who were corrupt and bent the law, arguing against the lord and acting as a low-level moth, and he could not bear it.

If this matter is not resolved, and other low-level officials follow suit in the future, then the order that has just been established in his territory may collapse in an instant.

Wang Anshi and others watched this matter, and they must be severely punished.

That night, Cao Ru was forcibly taken away by the sergeant who suddenly broke into the mansion, and was placed under house arrest in the prison of the lord's mansion.

Of course, Cao Ru knew why, and as soon as the sergeant arrested him, his face turned pale.

Lin Yuan didn't rest all night.

Instead, he sat in the study, thinking about what to do with Cao Ru.

Although Cao Ru did something to bend the law, he was his father after all.

All the officials in the territory watched this matter.

The punishment is light, and there may be a second Cao Ru.

But if the punishment is heavy, it will inevitably chill some heroes.

This degree is very difficult to grasp.

After a night of thinking, Lin Yuan finally decided to let Cao Ru go.

Merit is merit, and transgression is excess.

Cao Ru's fault was to remove him from his position, confiscate his family property, and send back all the concubines he forcibly married.

As for his merits, the Emperor Cao Ru was meritorious, and he was awarded the title of second-class baron, with 300 households.

After this matter was completed, he was directly dispatched to Yingzhou and placed under Zhuge Liang to serve his life.

After the order was issued, Cao Ru was in tears, crying to see Lin Yuan, but was stopped by the guards and sent directly to Yingzhou.

And the news of Cao Ru's demotion soon spread throughout the territory, making all the officials up and down tight.

Those officials who had just bred bad thoughts were so frightened that they hurriedly extinguished their thoughts.

Cao Ru's incident also made Lin Yuan notice his omission.

That is, he only added the title of military general, but did not add the title of civil official, which has made many civil officials feel unjust.

Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng and others did their best to govern the territory, and their merits were no less than the merits of the generals in expanding their territory.

"It seems that after I go back, this matter must be resolved quickly."

In addition, Lin Yuan also realized that there were all types of officials in his territory, but there was only one type of official missing, and that was the cool officials.

This reminded Lin Yuan of a story.

After catching sardines, the Norwegians took the sardines back to the fishing port, but most of the sardines were suffocated to death, but after they put in a few catfish, the sardines they brought back were alive every time.

Catfish effect!

The principle in officialdom is the same as this principle, tepid, everyone is polite, and it is good to be peaceful and peaceful, but after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be official corruption.

At this time, it is necessary to put a few cool officials in the officialdom to create pressure on all the officials, so that they dare not have crooked thoughts.

As for the key to this method, it is how to use the cool officials.

If the monarch can't control the cool officials, or is deceived by the cool officials, the officialdom may be even more chaotic.

But once the monarch masters the cool officials, it is a big killer weapon that can deter hundreds of officials.

Zhidu and Ningcheng in the Han Dynasty and Yang Xian in the Ming Dynasty were all catfish put in by the monarch.

The lord of Malan City has been removed from his post and must be filled with a new person.

Beishan Mo is proficient in commerce and trade, although he was a lord before, however, after observing for such a long time, Lin Yuan felt that he was not double-minded.

So, he directly appointed Beishan Mo as the new city lord.

But in order to prevent one person from having too much power, Lin Yuan directly separated the military and government of Malan City.

The city lord no longer has the right to dispatch the defenders of Malan City, and the defenders of Malan City only obey Lin Yuan's orders.

This is also done just in case.

If Beishan Mo really has two hearts, as long as the army is in Lin Yuan's hands, he will not be able to make waves.

On the fourth day of Malan City, Lin Yuan learned a big news.

Huaidong is lost!

Haozhou City was lost, and Yang Yizhong was defeated and fled back to Lin'an City.

And Zhao Gou ordered Yue Fei's troops, who were already in Huaixi, to return directly to Xiangyang City.

What is surprising is that on the way back, Yue Fei was angry, and directly resigned from all military positions and went to Lushan to guard the tomb alone.

After Lin Yuan inquired, he knew the ins and outs of the matter.

Zhao Gou sent Yue Fei to reinforce Haozhou, his original intention was good, he wanted to reuse Yue Fei and hand over the defense of the Huai River to Yue Fei.

If the defense of the Huaihe River is also handed over to Yue Fei, it is equivalent to Yue Fei alone, who will have to shoulder the defense line of thousands of kilometers in the two major war zones of Jinghu North Road and Huaihe River.

After the defeat of Zhao Zhen, the king of Pingjiang, he fled back to Lin'an City.

Zhao Gou originally wanted to cure his crimes, but at this time, Zhao Zhen was in Zhao Gou's ear, advocating Yue Fei's threat theory.

Of the four major theaters in the country, if Yue Fei controlled two theaters, it was equivalent to him alone mastering more than half of the troops of the Southern Song Dynasty, which made Zhao Gou very worried.

So, after the loss of Haozhou, Zhao Gou did not let Yue Fei attack and take Haozhou, but let Yue Fei retreat to Xiangyang.

Such repeated actions completely annoyed Yue Fei.

On the way back, Yue Fei directly left the army and went to Lushan, Jiangzhou, alone to guard the tomb of his mother.