Wan Yuzhi thought hard for a long time, and finally got a plan in his head. At this time, it was the next day, and he called two small officials, gave them a bag of silver, and sandwiched a letter, and without saying half a word of nonsense, he only pointed to these two objects and said: "I have first come to Xinyang, and I am not in a position to stand up, and I urgently need to borrow it to act, so I hereby order you to bribe the officials' room." The silver was all broken silver, twenty-five or six taels in total, and the letter was a word of commission, and he brought it with him. ”

When the two little officials saw it, they looked at each other, and only after a while did they reply hesitantly: "Why bribe such a small official, the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Wan Yuzhi's face sank: "What do you know?" These officials are in charge of the lifeline, and their responsibilities are not light, how can they be ignored! If you don't obey the order, you will be questioned as a blue party! ”

The two little officials only promised, and after retreating, they discussed privately and said: "It seems that this ten thousand feathers are not very peaceful. If his ambitions swell in the future, he will act recklessly, and even have the plot to seize power and profit, won't we become accomplices? The problem is that we are not Ye Dang yet, and when the time comes, we will not be able to make oil and water, and we will have to be substituted for the dead ghosts! ”

Another said: "I'm afraid of that, too. But now this bit of silver is not a big deal, you and I will do it for him first. ”

The two of them had made up their minds, so they didn't say much, but went straight to find the place where the clerk's room was, and when they went into the house, they saw the clerk's office, and after saluting, they gave the things together.

The clerk half lay on the chair, opened the letter, glanced at it a few times, and raised his head again: "This is the handwriting of the Lord of Ten Thousand Things?" ”

The two officials bent down and replied with a smile: "Yes." ”

When the secretary heard this, he immediately sat upright, smiled and said, "Don't worry, you two, I will arrange it well." Well, why don't you have some tea here? ”

Seeing that he was suddenly so enthusiastic, the two officials were a little overwhelmed, and wondered what was written in the letter to make them receive such a high courtesy. But the two of them still put the task first, thanked the secretary of the office for their kindness, hurriedly returned to the trial and judgment office, and reported to Wan Yuzhi. Yuzhi only used words to exhort, and still kept silent about the content of the letter, and the little official didn't dare to ask, so he had to disperse.

One day later, the two of them heard the rooster crowing, and came to see the office together, but before they waited for Yuzhi, they saw an old man holding two red stickers, striding to the bottom of the hall, bowing to each of them, and shouting: "The lord has a life!" ”

The two little officials were stunned for a while, and asked blankly: "You...... Are you saluting us? ”

The old man sneered: "There are only two of you in the hall, if I don't salute you, it will be a strange thing!" ”

One of them said: "But I haven't talked to the eldest master, what did he send someone to do?" ”

The old man shook his head helplessly: "Then I don't know, anyway, I was ordered to do something, and asked the two of you to go to perform your duties." ”

"Repeatedly...... Performing duties? ”

"What? The eldest lord has the right to refute one of you to go to the household and the other to the workshop. It's all written here, don't believe it yourself. He handed the red post to the two of them, and it was.

The two little officials couldn't get together, and they were shocked, and when they wanted to ask something, the old man had already retired first, leaving them to stand straight in place.

"Aren't you happy?"

When the two little officials heard Wan Yuzhi's voice, they seemed to be blown by a gust of wind, and they were so frightened that they turned around and knelt down, trembling on the ground.

Wan Yuzhi smiled: "Since you left Beijing with me, you have done your best, so this official will find you a good errand and enjoy the blessings." ”

One of them replied, "I'll wait...... I'm only a shallow learner, and I'm not your henchman, how can I ......"

"That's a mistake!" Wan Yuzhi interrupted sharply, "Why aren't you confidants?" Since he has been promoted by me and received my favor, in the eyes of outsiders, he is a voice and a voice! ”

Only then did the two officials understand his intention to bribe, and they regretted it. The one on the left still wanted to argue, but was forced by another person to pull his clothes and kowtow, and replied: "I am willing to sincerely do things for adults!" If you have something, just tell me! ”

Wan Yu's doubts in his heart were finally able to let go, he breathed a long sigh of relief, completely got rid of his nervousness, and then called the two of them to get up, and said to them: "Since you and I are now closely related, there are some things that can be said clearly. In fact, I went south this time not only to find out the treacherous, but also to inspect the field system and prepare for the new policy in the future. I thought that this place of Henan was close to Gyeonggi and it didn't matter much, so I didn't pay attention to it all the way. It wasn't until I saw Zhu Yangrui and listened to the words of everyone at the banquet that I felt that things here were not simple. ”

"We might be able to deal with him?" The clerk asked.

Wan Yuzhi paced: "The two of you are too anxious, everything must come step by step, this Xinyang has not been taken care of, how can you have the spare strength to treat the squire who is far away in Runing." At present, the first priority is to obtain the register of land registers and understand the situation, and if this is the case, it is necessary to establish good relations with the officials. That's what you have to do. ”

As he spoke, he walked to the wooden hanger and took out a few silver tickets from the hanging official uniform: "At any time, this thing is far more useful than tongue, you carry it in your pocket, find your way, and don't reveal my name and surname." In addition, remember that no one is allowed to swallow this money privately, if I find out, it will be a fellow party of Lan Yuan! ”

After all, the two of them have been officials for a long time, so this kind of thing is easy to understand, and after taking the money, they replied confidently: "Understood! ”

They went first to the chamber of the clerk, and found a way through the clerk there, and gave him two hundred taels of silver. Although the general judgment saw that they did not break it, he knew that this was Wan Yuzhi's idea, and he did not dare to disobey, so he accepted the ticket without any scruples and took them to meet the prefect. The prefect heard that the verdict said a lot of good things, and received five hundred taels of money, but he also nodded happily, and from then on turned a blind eye and let them enter and leave the government office.

Wan Yuzhi therefore read all over the book, learned about the field law system here, and often used the name of drinking to go to the village to inspect the situation of the fields, and came back to write down on the paper, brewing a plan for the new deal. After a few days of investigation, he knew that the merger here was very strong, especially Zhu Yangrui. Judging from the evidence turned out, nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land under this person's name are mostly caused by mergers, but these fields are inexplicably donated to study fields, which is suspicious. All this gave him an idea: he must first go to this guy!

This matter is easy to say, but it is not easy to plan, Wan Yuzhi thought about it for two days and did not come up with a suitable plan, so he thought about it: "Ye Cai and the two adults are much smarter than me, why don't you write these facts into a letter first and ask them for help?" Just as he was about to do this, the door of the house creaked softly, and when he looked closely, he saw that the man was panting and his face was familiar—it was Ye Yongjia's person who had arrived.