Although His Royal Highness King Zhou's cruel words have been released, before the emperor has made a clear statement, these cruel words are only of some effect on the officials who still have a wait-and-see attitude in the four provinces of Jiangnan, so that they will not completely turn the rudder to the Linzi Wang Party, and there is still some fear of blatant disobedience to the decree, so that the tax collection and payment of taxes in the four provinces of Jiangnan has not been out of control.

However, of course, those officials who belonged to the Yuan Party could not be so quiet.

There are those who have written to impeach, but these people don't have to deal with it at this time, and even more are still using the decree of the official grain chief as a means of profit, completely ignoring the cruel words of the king of Zhou, and still sending the grain chief to the officials of the middle and even lower households.

One of the most ridiculous is the Taiping Mansion, under the jurisdiction of the county order of Fanchang County, the grain chief has only ten acres of fertile land and six houses, even the tenant farmers can not feed, in addition to their own family work in the busy season, they must also hire temporary helpers, the result is apportioned to the grain chief, even if the head of the household sells the land and bankrupts the family is afraid that they will not be able to complete the mission, what awaits them is the severe punishment of the law, and there is no other way to survive except fleeing.

Before the future supervision of King Zhou, the officials of the Taiping Mansion were not so frenzied, and the selection of grain chiefs was at least considered to be middle and upper households, and those who chose the latter in the huge bribes and endured a year of heavy losses every year had a certain amount of commitment, and they did not become the grain chief to the point of bankruptcy and family ruin.

This time, he chose a peasant household that he could not afford at all, and of course he was openly provoking the decree.

What is even more absurd is that the local governor of Taiping Mansion also "photographed" a stack of evidence to the Wu Palace, and the grain chief selected by the Fanchang County Order turned out to be a solid household with nearly 100 tenant farmers sitting on thousands of acres of fertile land.

If it weren't for the good work in the early stage, and he had not relaxed his examination of the specific facts in various places, just looking at the stack of "evidence", King Zhou would almost believe that this grain chief really has the capital to act as a grain chief.

The prefect of Taiping Prefecture tried his best to protect the French officials, and the superiors and subordinates were also taken off their black gauze hats.

The deputy will temporarily take over the duties of the governor.

At the same time, the investigation of illegal acts also achieved initial results, and part of the bribes that were greedy for ink were successfully pursued, and a group of people such as Lou Zang, who were the first to respond to the decree with a stroke of the pen, did not conceal their family property and refused to pay bribes, and were willing to take the initiative to ask the rich and large families who sent grain chiefs to use the stolen money as funds to compensate for the escort and taxation.

This also made the businessmen of the four provinces feel like they have eaten a peace of mind pill.

Actually, after all, he

They are not very afraid of being apportioned to the post of grain chief, they are afraid that if they do not pay bribes, they will anger those corrupt officials and even wealthy families, so that they will not be able to perform their duties of levying and detaining, and they will end up in prison, and even lose their heads.

They gradually woke up to the fact that if the king of Zhou could resist the counterattack of the local officials in Jiangnan and many high-ranking clans, and completely eliminate the corrupt officialdom in the four provinces, it would not be an unacceptable decree to be assigned to the post of grain chief in turn.

King Zhou is now battling with officials, and there is no need for the businessmen to be involved in this melee.

As for the general public, they will not panic, because the rumors in the early stage have been self-defeating, and the four provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have not announced an increase in the levy, and only a few regional officials are still committing crimes against the wind, which is manifested in the fact that those officials who have developed the habit of bullying verbally spread the news of the imposing of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, in order to coerce the people into "bright-eyed" bribery, but these officials were either punished by the superior officials, or even the superior officials were ordered to suspend their posts. The people's aspirations are very simple, as long as they can live and work in peace and contentment, they will not listen to demagoguery, let alone participate in any competition for storage, even if there are some good people after tea and dinner to discuss the final ownership of the storage position, most of them are sitting on the wall and watching, and the present world is stable and prosperous.

Unlike Lingnan and Fujian, especially the former, there are turbulent "people's feelings" who are fighting for the king of Linzi and others.

In the four provinces south of the Yangtze River, there are still many people who still talk about the relationship between King Zhou and Mu Mo, which is normal and ordinary, because the romance of princes and nobles and women has always had a "market", and if public opinion is beyond the ordinary, there is an inexplicable potential of floods and beasts, such as Lingnan, who is currently "distressed" King Linzi...... Then someone must be guiding public opinion.

King Zhou and Lan Ting have always known that although one of them is a chief envoy and the other is a deputy envoy, they have decisive power over the government affairs of the four provinces south of the Yangtze River during their duties, but the imperial court will still have factory guards to supervise the overall situation, and it is not a wise plan to use public opinion to build momentum for themselves, and it is a good policy to maintain ordinary normality.

What they need to purge is officialdom, not buying people's hearts and minds in the local area to expand their momentum, as if if they can't save their positions, the people of the four provinces will immediately uncover the uprising, rebel and force the palace.

King Zhou and Lan Ting are not flustered, steady and steady, and the spring return is no longer groundless and worried

Worried, she quickly discussed with the Yin family, and the Yin family took her daughter to Mengfu that day.

Lin changed his previous attitude towards Yin's as a general friend, and this time he didn't let her daughter lead Miss Yuan to another place to talk about the boudoir, and held Miss Yuan in her arms to appease her, only to hear Yin say that she hoped to spend a period of time in Meng's Mansion, Lin Shi was stunned, and asked carefully: "Isn't the lady settled in the palace of King Wu, is there any inconvenience?" ”

"Don't hide it from the eldest grandmother, the original concubine was also grateful to His Royal Highness King Zhou and Deputy Envoy Zhao, how did she know the public trial...... The concubine realized that the case of her grandson had such a complicated hidden situation, the concubine was a woman, and she suddenly encountered such a catastrophe, and the family lost the backbone, how can she have the ability to penetrate the sinister hearts of people? The concubine is really not sure whether Qian Baipo is behind the scenes, or His Royal Highness King Zhou...... But the concubine can only trust Meng Gong, Shang Shu Gong is the head of the grandson, and he will never harm the grandson, so the concubine thinks about it, so she can only ask your mansion to contain it for a while, and let the concubine stay in Nanjing to wait for the emperor's holy ruling. Yin kept in mind the advice of Chun Gui, and when he said this, he had a more tentative attitude, especially when he said a short sentence of "I can only trust Meng Gong", even his eyes were a little fluttering.

Lin sneered secretly in his heart, and when he looked at Miss Yuan again, he saw that this girl was not as close to her daughter as she was in the past, her head was hung and her eyes were red, and her silent appearance was more like a state of resistance.

She didn't rush to reply, she still said comforting words, but she borrowed an excuse to "miss the company" for a while, and turned around to report Yin's intention to Meng Zhi's father and son, who were waiting for news.

"The Yin family doesn't trust us at all, and she doesn't even pretend to be like her, not to mention the girl in her family, Yuan Hai must have told the Yin family that before she died, she had bad intentions when she came to the door this time." The Lin family is very categorical, she has such self-confidence, and she will never be deceived by Yin's pretense.

Therefore, Lin thinks: "If she wants to borrow it, let her borrow it, just she is a woman's family, plus a little girl, are you afraid that she can really create rumors and slander out of nothing!" ”

This made Meng Zhidu's face red, it was really a bit strange Lin family's "high-sounding", the Lin family obviously knew that Yuan Shijing's death was related to the Meng family, and he also knew that the Meng family was not so innocent, how could he still say something out of nothing to spread rumors and slander?

But Meng Zhi didn't seem to be able to correct Lin's attitude at this time, and he could only hold back his frustration and embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter what the attitude of Shi Jing's widow is, but now the key is the attitude of His Royal Highness and Ji Bei." Meng Zhi was not as confident as Lin's, and he felt that he was flustered and couldn't stand the pressure.