Enduring his weakness and exhaustion, dragging his hollowed-out body, Jiang Shanfu came to the governor's yamen and saw Xiong Wencan.

"Brother Ziliang, you, why do you look like such a ghost?" Seeing Jiang Shanfu, Xiong Wencan was shocked.

Jiang Shanfu drove everyone else out of the hall, and only himself and Xiong Wencan were left, so he forcibly told the story of last night with shyness.

"Dong Weng, those two brocade guards must have been sent by Li Yanzhi, and they obviously want to warn you through my mouth." Jiang Shanfu finally said.

Xiong Wencan stroked his beard and looked Jiang Shanfu up and down: "They really didn't do anything but watch you and Concubine Ling do that?" ”

Jiang Shanfu nodded and said, "No, I didn't say anything else, and I didn't even take the silver I gave." ”

Xiong Wencan nodded, and asked again, "Brother Ziliang, did you really do it seven times last night?" ”

"......" Jiang Shanfu has black lines all over his forehead.

"My Lord Futai, can we stop talking about this, the point of the matter is not this!" Jiang Shanfu said helplessly.

"Okay."

Xiong Wencan stopped making fun of it, and said in a deep voice: "The matter is obvious, this is Li Yanzhi warning us!" ”

"A mere martial artist would dare to treat the governor of a province like this......" Jiang Shanfu said angrily, but his voice became lower and lower.

Xiong Wencan sighed: "Because he is not an ordinary chief soldier, he is the emperor's henchman." ”

Ordinary general soldiers, who saw the governor must not be respectful, for fear of upsetting the civil officials to wear small shoes. For the governor of a province, there is a way to clean up an ordinary general soldier!

However, the emperor's henchmen are different, because people can directly file a complaint against the emperor.

What's more, who knows that people have no other means?

"Shall we just give in?" Jiang Shanfu said angrily.

The humiliation was still there last night, how could he have suffered such an insult from the red man around him? Now he can't wait to cut down those two damn brocade guards.

Xiong Wencan sneered: "You want to use such inferior means to deal with me, do you want to be beautiful?" Brother Ziliang, you will move into the governor's yamen today, I want to see if they dare to enter the governor's yamen to do it? ”

"And then?" Jiang Shanfu asked with hope on his face, he didn't want to stay in the governor's yamen all day.

Xiong Wencan didn't say anything, and then sighed: "Let's allocate some money and food to Li Yanzhi another day, Xiucai met the soldiers, and he can't explain it reasonably, and besides, the Jinyi guard didn't do anything, and we have no evidence to impeach him for misconduct." ”

That's it, you just looked like you're still rising! Jiang Shanfu was suddenly a little disappointed.

"Brother Ziliang, don't worry." Xiong Wencan soothed, "It's not too late to avenge the gentleman for ten years, let's stabilize that Li Yanzhi first." With his retributive character, I don't know what he will do next, but it is inevitable that he will be besieged by a group. When the time comes, as long as we gently push it, it will definitely fall into a catastrophe! ”

Jiang Shanfu nodded and sighed: "That's all it can be." ”

"You allocate 10,000 taels of silver, plus 5,000 stone of rice, and let someone send it to that Li Yanzhi, stabilize him first." Xiong Wencan commanded.

Jiang Shanfu had just left, and suddenly someone came to report that Liu Mao, the Fujian inspector, had come.

Although the rank of the governor is low, he has the authority to impeach, specifically to check and balance the existence of the governor. Regarding Liu Mao's coming, Xiong Wencan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered people to come in.

After the two greeted each other, the guests sat down, and a servant brought tea.

Liu Mao didn't drink tea, but took out a fold from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Xiong Wencan.

"Governor Xiong, someone has told the lower official some things about you recently, and the lower official doesn't know whether to report it to His Majesty, Governor Xiong, you better take a look." Liu Mao said lightly.

Xiong Wencan was shocked, the secret path finally came, and he instinctively felt bad when he knew that Liu Mao was coming.

"That's not appropriate, right?" Xiong Wencan's mouth was polite, but he picked up the fold, opened it and looked at it, and his face suddenly turned blue.

In the excerpt, Xiong Wencan was listed on eight charges, including accepting bribes, allowing domestic slaves to oppress good people, and robbing shop property.

Grandma's, it's clearly a singer raised by the official with money, how can she rob it? That eye of yours saw that the official was prostituting himself in the daytime?

The more Xiong Wencan looked at it, the more angry he became, and he almost tore the fold and threw it in Liu Mao's face. And when it came to the last charge, he was stunned, like a basin of cold water poured on his head.

The last charge is that he raised pirates and smuggled goods to trade in Japan! In the excerpt, it is clearly written that the names and hometowns of the pirates he hired, as well as the situation of the ships, and even the names and quantities of the goods loaded are exactly the same!

Yes, this charge is true!

As the governor of Fujian, seeing that the local gentry earned countless silver by relying on sea trade, and were only willing to share some scraps for themselves, how could Xiong Wencan be willing?

These gentry all have backgrounds and intertwined forces, Xiong Wencan has no choice but to go along with them, and secretly sent someone to buy a sea ship, use the governor's authority to purchase goods, and then hire crews to trade in Japan. After one trip, I earned almost more than 100,000 taels of silver!

The crew members who run the ocean all the year round are no different from pirates, and it is not wrong to say that Xiong Wencan raises pirates. The question is such a secret matter, how long has Liu Mao only been in Fujian, how can he be so clear?

It's just another crime, just this crime can make him dismiss his official and rob his house!

Xiong Wencan looked up and saw Liu Mao sitting expressionlessly, quietly drinking tea with a tea cup.

At this moment, Xiong Wencan had a killing intent in his mind, and he wanted to directly slaughter this Liu Mao and destroy the corpse! Just thinking about it, of course.

Not to mention whether Liu Mao has other means, whether anyone else has seen the excerpt, just because he was killed by the dignified inspector according to the imperial history, no matter what the reason, he, the governor of Fujian, has done it.

"Lord Liu......" Xiong Wencan called in a trembling voice.

Liu Mao didn't speak, and looked at Xiong Wencan quietly, his eyes were so clear, but Xiong Wencan's heart was cold, like entering an ice cave.

Xiong Wencan's face turned pale, waved his hand to drive the others out of the room, closed the door in person, walked back, and knelt in front of Liu Mao with a "poof".

"Lord Liu, please give my brother a way to live......"

A man has gold under his knees, but his career, reputation, net worth, and life are all more expensive than gold!

"So, what the excerpt says is true?" Liu Mao said lightly.

Xiong Wencan's lips squirmed, and he wanted to say that most of them were fake, especially prostitution during the day, and there was no point in justifying it after thinking about it.

"It's true," Xiong Wencan sighed, "but it's true that Xia Guan bought ships to go to sea to trade, and he did hire some seamen, but he didn't know that they were pirates......

"Let's talk to the court and Your Majesty." Liu Mao stood up and made a gesture to leave.

"Lord Liu," Xiong Wencan hugged his leg, "Since you showed me the fold, it shouldn't be to put me to death, so if you have any requirements, just give orders." ”

Seeing Xiong Wencan say this, Liu Mao finally smiled and sat down again.

......

"Xiong Wencan has already taken it, and from now on, let him go east, he will not dare to go west, and he will not set up any obstacles."

At night, Liu Mao appeared in the barracks again and said straight to Li Yan.

"It's really a toast and no penalty wine!" Li Yan sighed, "Yesterday I had a good agreement with him, but I had to make it so ugly." ”

Liu Mao was speechless. The dignified governor of the people, the feudal officials, what do you think of others? If you hadn't been taken the handle, you wanted to make people succumb with just a few words?

"Xiong Wencan promised that he would allocate money, food, and materials from the whole province for you to train your troops." Liu Mao continued, "But he also said that although he is the governor, the prefects of various prefectures and the commanders of thousands of households in various guard posts may not listen to him for everything, and there must be some excuse to mobilize money, food and materials. ”

Li Yan smiled: "It's not easy for him to make an excuse, just make an excuse for him." ”

"How?" Liu Mao asked subconsciously.

Li Yanzhi didn't want to say it, but after thinking about it, Liu Mao was his own person after all, plus he was the Fujian Inspector Imperial History, and many things would have to rely on him in the future, so he put his mouth in Liu Mao's ear and whispered.

"What?" Liu Mao was shocked, "We are officials of the imperial court, deeply trusted by His Majesty, and bear His Majesty's expectations?" How can such a thing be done? ”

Li Yan smiled and said, "It is precisely because of the high hopes of His Majesty that I have to do this!" The situation in Fujian is complicated, and if we want to quickly open up the situation, we can only adopt some last resort means. ”

Liu Mao frowned and said, "Isn't there any other way to be bright and bright?" ”

Li Yanzhi sneered: "Yes, of course there is." Lord Liu, you can go and tell those maritime merchants and gentry to let them sell the goods to us, or let them pay commercial taxes, and we don't want more, all the ships that go to sea, a sea ship can pay two or three thousand silver taxes. ”

"How is this possible?" Liu Mao said speechlessly.

Those gentry don't even want to pay the field tax on weekdays, and they want them to pay the business tax, but it's still so much silver, how is it possible!

"You know it's impossible?" Li Yanzhi sneered, "In front of the silver, who still cares about the court and who cares about the country's righteousness?" When we people came to Fujian, we were robbing them for business and silver, and the two sides have long been in a life-and-death relationship! Don't look at them now, Lord Liu, believe it or not, if there is a chance, those people dare to hire pirates to kill you and me? ”

Liu Mao shook his head and nodded, not knowing what to say. He is also a civil official and a member of the gentry, how can he not know the temperament of these people?

These gentry, because of their hard work to study and gain fame, think that everything is what they deserve, and they are even more single-handedly covering the sky in the locality, and whoever touches their interests is their mortal enemy! Maybe you don't dare to do it to yourself openly, but no one knows what kind of means will be used in secret.

"We're just going to strike first." Li Yanzhi said lightly, "First muddy the water in Fujian, let those hidden guys jump out, so that we can take advantage of the situation to catch it all and open up the situation for the Royal Maritime Trade Company!" ”