As soon as Lin Fangming heard Lu Qingyi's words, his face turned pale with fright, and he lowered his head, "Master Lu, how dare I not take the emperor in my eyes." ”

"If you snub me, it is equivalent to snubbing the emperor, I will call someone to inform you before I arrive in Huaiyang, as far as I know, you will travel from the prefect to this inn for a maximum of an hour, but when is it now? Why don't you come at night after the sun has set? Lu Qingyi stared at Lin Fangming with a cold face.

Lin Fangming was so frightened that he quickly knelt down, only to see him sweating profusely, and looking at Lu Qingyi timidly, "Master Lu, it's the fault of his subordinates, it's his subordinates who didn't do their duty, and I ask Lu Gongzi not to tell the emperor." ”

"Whether you tell the emperor or not depends on how you cooperate with me." Lu Qingyi glanced at Lin Fangming slightly, as the prefect of Huaiyang, he would naturally get acquainted with those merchants.

"The subordinates will definitely cooperate with Lu Gongzi to complete everything that should be done in Huaiyang." Lin Fangming's voice lowered a lot, in order to keep his official position, he could be said to be low to the dust, thinking that he was a prefect in the end, but he never expected that he would be reduced to the point of kowtowing to Lu Qingyi's businessman's family.

Thinking of this, Lin Fangming felt very ashamed.

Lu Qingyi and Shen Xi have to live in Lin Fangming's mansion during their time in Huaiyang, Lin Fangming is a prefect, and Huaiyang is rich, so his Lin Mansion looks almost comparable to Lu Qingyi's Lu Mansion.

Shen Xi looked at everything in the house, every place was carved exquisitely, although she couldn't understand those things, she didn't know how to appreciate them, but she also knew that they were valuable things.

"He's just a prefect, and it's too luxurious in the mansion." Shen Xi observed for a long time before he said softly.

"If he is simple, this Huaiyang will inevitably become a rich place." Lu Qingyi glanced at his eyes slightly, and smiled warmly at Shen Xi. If Lin Fangming was a simple person, it wouldn't be fun.

At Lu Qingyi's request, Shen Xi's room was only separated by a wall from his room.

After Lin Fangming settled Shen Xi and Lu Qingyi, he hurried to get busy again, he wanted to entertain those officials and some merchants, he felt like a spinning top, and he didn't stop.

Even if you are dissatisfied, you have to endure it.

He thought that after enduring this period of time, it would be over.

In the evening, officials from all sides and some merchants arrived, the merchants had heard of Lu Qingyi, and some minor officials didn't know who Lu Qingyi was, they only knew that Lu Qingyi came this time with the intention of looting their money, and this alone was enough to make those officials hate Lu Qingyi.

Lu Qingyi first looked at the people who came today, and then sat down with Shen Xi, after sitting down, he picked up a glass of wine, stood up and said in a cold voice, "I came today to collect a little tax for him on the order of the emperor, and then I may offend everyone, so Lu Mou will apologize here first." ”

Since everyone already knows what he is doing in Huaiyang, there is no need for him to go around the bend with everyone, today's banquet is just to explore the bottom.

After listening to Lu Qingyi's words, everyone was a little puzzled, only to see one of them stand up and say, "How much does our Huaiyang pay every year, why is it that this is almost the end of the year, and we have to collect taxes again?" ”

"Master Lu, you are not an official of the court, and you are a little unreasonable to say that you are here to collect taxes for the emperor, right?" Another said.

Lu Qingyi's face was very dark, he immediately put down the wine glass, took out the jade pendant that the emperor carried with him from his arms, and put it in front of everyone, "Is this thing enough to prove it?" ”

knew that seeing the emperor's belongings was as if the emperor was there in person, so everyone's faces turned pale in an instant, and they quickly knelt down.

Lu Qingyi glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, his expression was slightly cold, "The two people who objected just now stood up. "Let's read the book

After a long time, no one stood up.

Lu Qingyi picked up the wine glass again, drank it all, only to look at everyone with a smile, and then spoke, "Don't you stand up?" ”

There was a rare tenderness in his smile, but Shen Xi knew that when Lu Qingyi smiled like this, it was a precursor to disaster, she tried to hold Lu Qingyi, but Lu Qingyi signaled her to leave it alone.

"Let me ask you again, who said that?" Lu Qingyi smashed the wine glass in his hand as he spoke, his expression was fierce, "If no one tells me again, I will pick one of you at random and let him be the same as this cup." ”

Immediately, there was an uproar in the crowd, but there was still no one to recruit.

Lu Qing casually pointed to someone and asked, "Tell me, who said that just now."

The man looked at Lu Qingyi tremblingly, his body was trembling, and then he pointed to the person behind him, but he didn't dare to speak.

"Feng Sheng, cut out that person's tongue." Lu Qingyi's only one sentence frightened everyone, especially the person who was about to be cut off, he looked at Lu Qingyi in fear and kept pleading, but it was useless.

After listening to Lu Qingyi's words, Feng Sheng went directly to the crowd, brought the man out, and cut his tongue with a sword, his movements were extremely neat and cruel.

This move was full of surprise.

The crowd was terrified.

"You're threatening." Someone shouted again, and the voice trembled.

"Threat?" Lu Qingyi smiled, and then his face was gloomy, "I'm just carrying out the emperor's order, and besides, you should know how much tax and grain you have paid?" ”

"Who doesn't know Huaiyang's bumper harvest every year, and everyone knows how much public grain you are greedy for in private, and now the emperor has called me to investigate this matter thoroughly, if you are a rebel, you will be killed." Lu Qingyi looked extremely frightened, and his cold face made people feel really terrifying.

The man whose tongue was cut off was already covered in blood and was dragged out by Feng Sheng to find a doctor for treatment.

"If you don't think you have any objections, sign this note, so that I can get acquainted with you." Lu Qingyi smiled slightly, and then walked below, and he went to every table.

"100,000 taels is actually not much for you, most of you are officials in the court, you should know how much you have to pay for it, and you should know how you got this 100,000 taels, if you don't sign it, you think it's more than 100,000 taels, come to me, I'll tell you, how to solve it."

Lu Qingyi's voice was not loud, but it was a fine word, as if he could see through people's hearts, he said everything in their hearts.

The reason why these officials dare to be so bold is nothing more than that there are people in the capital who support them, and the people who support them are either Chang Wen or Prime Minister Luo Cheng.

This night, Shen Xi calculated, the amount of silver that she could get was about more than one million taels, thinking of this amount, Shen Xi was excited, she had never seen such a large sum of money.

Lu Qingyi glanced at Shen Xi slightly, "Can you have a little interest, don't say that the silver taels have not been received, even if they are received, they will be handed over to the treasury, and they have nothing to do with you." ”