"What a void this should be, a dignified prefect actually hanged himself." Zhou Maogong sighed.

Zhou Maogong is a small merchant family, from the age of six began to study, read for more than ten years, even the county test can not pass, helpless can only follow the family to do a small business, after hearing about the Royal Business School admissions, he thought it is an excellent opportunity, so he persuaded his family to apply for the business school, just graduated this year and was taken south by the emperor with other graduates. Now he has been sent to Qingzhou to be responsible for the establishment of the Qingzhou Mansion Inspection Division. As a scholar, Zhou Maogong was a failure in the imperial examination, and now when he saw the successful person in the imperial examination hanging, he actually had an inexplicable sense of refreshment.

"Maybe I was frightened by the fate of the officials in Jinan City, and I chose to commit suicide knowing that I was not lucky." Ruan Shicong said with a smile. Ruan Shicong is also a graduate of the business school, but he was born in Gyeonggi farming, and this time he came to Qingzhou to take charge of the establishment of the Cheongjeon Branch.

"It's stupid, it's innocent!" Chang Wei pursed his lips, reached out and picked up Tong Bingdao's suicide note, and laughed after reading it, "This prefect is interesting, and he has to drag others into the water when he dies." ”

Zhou Maogong and Ruan Shi also laughed after reading the suicide note.

"The three adults, the officials of Qingzhou Mansion have all gathered." A soldier said.

"Go, proclaim it!" Chang Wei walked out of the room first.

On the square outside the hall of the mansion, the officials in Qingzhou City gathered together tremblingly, watching Chang Wei, who was wearing a flying fish suit, lead people to approach.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says...... After the death of the Qingzhou Mansion and the treasury, the documents and grain were burned, and Chang Wei, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, was specially ordered to go to Qingzhou Mansion to investigate the case, and all officials involved in this case could be arrested and interrogated......"

After Chang Wei finished reading it, he put away the edict and looked at the officials with an expressionless face: "All the adults have heard clearly, if there is a place for this official to live in the future, he will still look at Haihan." Where is the Qingzhou Mansion and the same knowledge of Yu Tingqi? ”

"The lower official is here." An official with a pale face and a cyan official robe shook his body and replied in a miserable voice.

"Yu Tongzhi, do you know about Tong Fuzun's hanging?" Chang Wei asked.

Yu Tingqi nodded: "I just learned." ”

"In the suicide note left by Tong Fuzun, he said that you were corrupt and perverted the law, colluded with the government officials, and were the masterminds behind the burning of the booklets, do you know this?" Chang Wei sneered.

"Wronged, Tong Fuzun is talking nonsense, the lower official is just a fellow knower, the affairs of Qingzhou Mansion are all decided by Tong Fuzun, if you don't believe it, you can ask other officials." Yu Tingqi shouted wrongly.

Chang Wei looked at the other officials, and a servant walked out and arched his hand: "Lord Qin, Yu Tongzhi is right, Tong Fuzun has always covered the sky with one hand in Qingzhou, and often privately asked people to obtain gold and silver materials from the treasury, and I and other subordinates dare not speak out." As far as the treasury is concerned, Tong Fuzun has transferred grain from the treasury six times, amounting to tens of thousands of stones, and the whereabouts of the grain are unknown, and some time ago, the treasury suddenly caught fire, and all the remaining materials were burned, which must be the evidence that Tong Fuzun sent people to set fire to destroy his corruption money and grain! ”

Chang Wei narrowed his eyes: "Who are you?" ”

"Gu Xiaopo, the ambassador of the subordinate treasury, the day of the fire in the treasury happened to be Xiu, giving the thief the opportunity to set fire, if you know, the subordinate will not rest if he dies, the grain of hundreds of thousands of stones is gone like this, and the subordinate is derelict in his duties!" Gu Xiaopo howled.

"In this way, the arson case was instigated by Tong Fuzun, but since Tong Fuzun has destroyed the evidence, why did he commit suicide?" Chang Wei asked with a sneer, it was really a good plan to push all the charges on the dead! Tong Bingdao must have thought of this as well, so he named all these people in his suicide note.

"I don't know about this." Gu Xiaopo looked a little flustered and concluded.

"Tong Fuzun said in his suicide note that you and other officials were complicit, and the internal and external parties jointly deceived him, and now you have put the charge on Tong Fuzun, who is right and wrong, it seems that you have to investigate carefully. Someone, detain all the officials present, and wait for me to inquire slowly. Chang Wei pointed to the officials in the field.

"Wronged, I wronged!"

"Lord Qin, I am the magistrate of Qingzhou Mansion, and I am only responsible for adjudicating the case, and I have nothing to do with the warehouse fire case!"

All the officials in the audience shouted and tried to prove their innocence.

"Rest assured, my Jinyiwei will never wronged a good person, nor will I let go of a bad person, you don't need to panic, as long as you find out that the matter has nothing to do with you, I will let you go immediately." Chang Wei promised.

Who believes? In the hands of Jin Yiwei, do you still want to be able to come out? Not to mention the hundreds of officials in Jinan Prefecture, a few officials have been reinstated, but they have nothing to do with the arson case, and Jinyiwei can also find out other crimes! At this moment, the officials who were really involved in the arson case also regretted a little, regretting that they should not have set fire to the evidence, but they led the demons of Jinyiwei to Qingzhou Mansion.

The Praetorian Guard soldiers swarmed up, arrested all these officials, and beat them down if they dared to resist with sticks.

The prefecture and county prisons have also been emptied, the criminals of minor crimes have been released, and these officials have been put into prisons.

In the following days, Chang Wei led the brocade guards to torture the officials, trying to force the evidence of the crime. And Zhou Maogong, Ruan Shicong and others began to take over the yamen of Qingzhou Mansion. The clans that had passed the examination and training were placed as officials in each yamen.

In addition to the prefect and the same knowledge, these officials above the seventh rank need to be selected by the Ministry of Officials, and the experience of the Division, the Zhaomo Office, the Prison Division, and the rites, households, officials, soldiers, criminals, and workers are all only eight and nine grades of petty officials or officials, all of whom are graduates of business schools, as well as the clans in the examination and the poor scholars who have been recruited and trained.

This is equivalent to directly taking over the various departments of the government and county, even if there is no prefect and other court officials, the government can still operate, and even if the new prefect and the governor arrives in the future, it will be easy to override them. The daily activities of these officials are supervised by the Inspectorate of Inspection, which can directly arrest and interrogate criminal officials.

The interrogations continued day after day, and every day new people were arrested and put in prison, including officials who did not gather at the government office that day, and gentry who were dragged into the water by the officials. Chang Wei was not merciless to these Qingzhou gentry, and as long as the evidence was conclusive after the interrogation, the house was immediately confiscated, the silver and grain were confiscated, and the fields were handed over to Ruan Shicong's Qingtian Division, and in the future, these fields and the hired farmers and tenants on the fields were managed by the Qingtian Division.

At the beginning, the people in Qingzhou City were panicked, and the merchants and people were afraid of implicating themselves. However, they gradually discovered that the new imperial envoys did not harass the residents of the city, except for arresting a large number of officials.

After those officials were arrested, the order in Qingzhou City was much better than before, and there were no more government officials on the streets, and there were no more officials who wantonly extorted money. Every day, Praetorian Guard soldiers patrolled the city, and when they found that there were ruffians who had insulted the people, they were arrested and executed on the spot in the streets after a little interrogation.

The original officials were all in prison, and I heard that the big ones would be executed, and the minor ones would also be sent to the Liaodong Army, and the prefecture and county yamen had a new batch of officials, and I heard that they all had the identity of the clan, and they were all royal blood. But in the eyes of the people of Qingzhou, these clan masters are quite amiable, and their behavior is no different from that of the common people.

Some merchants tried to give gifts and bribes to the officials of the clan, but they were directly arrested, fined ten times the bribe, and then posted a notice in front of the government office, and from now on, anyone who dared to give bribes to officials would be punished according to the same crime as the bribe-taker. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, bribes of more than 80 taels will be executed, and bribes of more than 80 taels will be directly executed!

It is really a strange thing that officials do not accept bribes, but for the people of Qingzhou, it is a great thing, they will no longer have to worry about the extortion of officials, and their lives will naturally be much lighter.

In half a month, more than a dozen gentry were implicated around the Qingzhou capital city, and more than 100,000 acres of land were copied out after the house was raided, and the Qingtian Division was busy all of a sudden. More than 100,000 acres of land, there are nearly 10,000 tenants alone, Qingtian Division wants to reorganize these tenants to protect the armor, but also to appoint the chief of the armor, fortunately, the emperor has recruited a group of poor scholars in Jinan Mansion, so that there are enough candidates for the head of the chief of the Bao, these scholars will start from the head of the chief in the future, and will be promoted after a few years of doing well, and after a few years, Zhu Youzhen will definitely change the law, will really declare war on the gentry class, and will completely subvert the current official system. At that time, these grassroots officials, who have been working for several years, can be sent to serve as officials all over the country.

The salaries of these low-level officials were temporarily maintained by the money and grain obtained from the raids, and after the summer grain was collected, there was enough money and grain, and the land rent paid from the fields controlled by the Qingtian Division alone was enough to maintain the salaries of the officials after it was handed over to the imperial court. Moreover, after the restructuring of the Shandong clan, at least several million Shilu rice were left every year, and these Lu rice used to go into the pockets of King De, King Lu and local officials, and these were saved in the future, and the financial revenue of the imperial court and local officials will be greatly increased.

With the experience of Jinan Prefecture, Qingzhou City quickly stabilized, and various things were carried out in an orderly manner. After Chang Wei interrogated the officials of the Qingzhou Prefecture, he sent people to escort the interrogation confessions and officials above the eighth rank to Jinan and handed them over to the inspectorate of Cao Yubian's representative. Chang Wei took people to the prefecture and county to which Qingzhou Mansion belonged, and continued to arrest and interrogate. Qingzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over three prefectures and sixteen counties, only the Qingzhou Mansion City has been cleaned up, and then each county must be cleaned up, and the county officials should be arrested and killed, and then business graduates and clans should be appointed as officials, so that the entire Qingzhou Mansion can be completely controlled.

And Chang Wei's next stop starts with Linzi City, which is the closest to Qingzhou City.