"My lord, a man who claimed to be surnamed Chen stood outside the yamen and said that he had official business." Li trotted in and said.

"What does it look like?" Lu Deguang's head turned, thinking about who the surname Chen could be, but the official post had told him that there was an official surnamed Chen who went to Runing to take office.

"Dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with a letter in his waist."

"Could it be that he is here to make up for Wang Boyi's class? Go to the second hall to meet him. ”

"Yes."

The man stood behind the threshold, and as soon as he entered, he bowed steadily, and then handed the letter over, glancing wickedly at him.

Lu Deguang opened the letter, only glanced at the beginning and end of the book a few times, and saw the eye-catching seal of the Governor's Office, and then glanced at him, and understood in his heart. Then he asked the man: "Yuan Weizong recommended you to fill the vacancy?" ”

"The governor heard that a bookstore had been removed from the house, so he specially recommended me to come over." The man laughed.

Lu Deguang raised his head and looked at Li Yong, and he had already grasped the eight or nine things correctly. He looked at the surnamed Chen again and said with a smile: "Since you are Brother Weizong's person, then arrange for you to go to the house." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Chen Shuzhi was full of joy, kowtowed, and walked out of the yamen proudly.

Lu Deguang let out a long breath.

"This Yuan Lun is really a wolf ambition." Li Yongdao.

"Yes, it's not enough to hold the military power, it's not good to send someone to stir up the affairs in my yamen. How can this Willow Party be so hateful! Lu Deguang said this, gritting his teeth angrily.

Scribe Chen came out of the hall and winked at the two servants at the bottom of the stone steps, and the two men greeted them happily.

"What? Did Governor Lu let you into the house? They stared at him with malicious eyes.

"Of course, he still dares to offend Yuan Lun?"

"We're worried about the people in the six rooms, you can be regarded as a great help, and the benefits will naturally let you share more."

Chen Shuyi pondered for a while, and patted the two on the back: "Brother, I am a newcomer, and my qualifications are very shallow, such as riding alone and fishing for a pen, I'm afraid that those old people will not be happy." It's better to call a few prison room clerks, and the three of us will make a big profit in the future. ”

The two men grinned and nodded their heads in agreement.

Chen Shuzhi called a few people in the torture room, and the two officials brought Uncle Wang to the room, and when he came up, he asked him how much silver he had hidden. Five taels? ”

"How many taels are there!" Scribe Chen asked viciously.

"Three-two...... Three or two......" Uncle Wang shrank back, and his voice trembled.

"I don't believe it," the clerk in the torture room was more kind, "Wang Shuban also had a few chatters with his brothers a few days ago, saying that in order to prevent the prefect from checking it, the money on hand was used up, but there was still a lot of hiding. Isn't it? ”

He smiled again and said, "If the secretary of the king conceals it, this crime will be punished severely." ”

"Yes, yes, yes," Uncle Wang's face became more and more pale, "...... twenty-one taels of silver. ”

"Fuck, you just tried to lie to Lao Tzu!" The official kicked him in the abdomen, and when Uncle Wang got up, he didn't dare to speak.

"Get out of here and get the silver!" The servant threw him out of the room.

A few people went to Uncle Wang's family to see the box containing silver, and the fruit in it was twenty-one taels. After discussing for a long time, the scribe Chen gave ten taels of silver to the people in the torture room, took six taels for himself, and gave the remaining five taels of silver to the two officials. The clerk's office of the torture room then went to the yamen, discussed with Lu Deguang, and convicted Uncle Wang of the crime, before he came out to weigh the ten taels of silver, and slowly disappeared when he went back.

The two officials were naturally not very happy when they were so little, but it was not easy to turn their faces in front of the two clerks, and they were still happy on the surface; When the men had dispersed, they were arguing over how to divide the money, but one of them understood and said to the man, "He deliberately gave unevenly, so that we could quarrel, so that we would be angry; We are not as resentful as the enemy, and the whole surname is Chen. So they did not care, but cut one of the pieces of silver into two pieces, and divided them as they pleased.

A few days later, the official took advantage of Lu Deguang's visit to the court to find out the matter, Lu Deguang was not angry, but sent Li Yong to summon Ye Yongjia to come over, and went to the second hall by himself.

"It's going to be difficult." Lu Deguang Road. "You may be seated." He motioned for Ye Yongjia to sit aside.

"Chen Shuzhi instigated people to commit extortion, although this official did what he usually did, but once he was caught, it would be disgraceful not to punish him. But if he is punished for this, Yuan Lun will definitely be furious, and he may tear his face with me. I know that Ye Tongju is smart, and he needs to give this government a trick, so that Yuan Lun can't explain his suffering. ”

Ye Yongjia pondered for a while, and said pretending to be mysterious: "Then it depends on whether the prefect is willing to make a big deal about it." ”

Lu Deguang smiled: "As long as you say it, I will agree." It doesn't hurt to turn the world upside down. ”

Ye Yongjia was quite surprised, the last time he met this kind of person who could move forward for his own purposes, it was the old slave in the mansion who became Congyuan.

"Lord Lu, these officials have never been under the jurisdiction of the government, and the money they take is also allocated by the prefect, but they are just the prefect's long-term followers. And the number of people in the six rooms is complicated, why not take the opportunity to cut the officials and make them serve in the government? Ye Yongjia talked eloquently, and Lu Deguang didn't know whether to praise him or not.

"Ye Tongju, Lu Yan's ship has already set off, and they have to enter the country from the Jialu River, and you, the salt supervisor, need to be more secure when the time comes." Ye Yongjia said 'yes' and withdrew.

According to Ye Yongjia's idea, Lu Deguang first compiled the name of Liufang into the company, so that he could serve in the official, and his own money would be saved a lot; Because he wanted to abolish the other rooms, he called the scribes and said, "This government wants to cut off all the officials in the other rooms, and keep the household room and the torture room alone. "Scribe Chen is a householder, so he extorted money, and he was eager to grow ten heads, and kowtowed to Lu Deguang a hundred times, of course, he agreed.

Lu Deguang called the secretary office of the torture room again, but it was still the same set of words, and the secretary office was also full of good words. He immediately withdrew the four rooms of workers, rites, officials, and soldiers, and although these four rooms did not stop complaining, it was not easy for people who still had households and torture rooms to start making noise.

Who knew that a day or two had passed, and Lu Deguang had called the household and the second room of the criminal house to be assigned by the same governor, and was not directly dispatched by the prefect; And the four rooms that were deposed were combined into a planning room, which was paid by the prefect alone. In this way, he first won the support of Yuan Lun's confidant Chen Shuzhi, and then made the Governor's Office's intervention in political affairs almost annihilated, such a wonderful move, but Ye Yongjia did not expect. Such a scheming expert is indeed something he cannot despise.

"Master, it's time for you to go outside and select the army." Kou Zhong reminded him.

"I understand."

He stared at the sword that Yuan Lun had given him, and the cold light that flashed from the scabbard gave him a silent feeling: this seemingly ordinary salt ship entry was by no means that simple.