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Everyone was taken aback by Mader's sudden change of face. Signed? When did you ever hear that those who are in power also have to sign and draw a pledge?

Shi Shilun finally breathed a sigh of relief! A penny of fire? Looking at Ma De's current performance, and then thinking about the speed at which Ma De turned his face, he suddenly felt that Xu Yue and Chang Hongzu's gang might not be so easy to collect!

Zhang Kai also secretly sighed! I finally got the wind right! As soon as this Ma De came in, he gave Shi Shilun a color, which was completely contrary to his guess, and he was really just acting. Xu Yue's gang thought that they could be fearless if they were too powerful. Hmph, they don't want to think about it, when will the sheep be able to suppress the tiger? However, this Ma De is also ruthless enough, and he keeps making trouble with Shi Shilun and his gang, so he has to provoke Xu Yue's gang to reveal their words. …… However, how could Xu Yue and these people be so confident? Obviously, Mader has already expressed his dissatisfaction with their previous tandem, why do they still care so much? Do you have to be the leader?

Lu Longqi was still shaking his head slightly, but the object of his shaking at this time was the magistrates who were being forced by the Hailiuyi gang to sign and draw the detainment. …… Xu Yue's Hai Liu, who had higher positions, ignored it for the time being, and was at a loss there! Although Ma De allowed them to charge a penny for fire, however, this momentum is obviously not right!

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"Lord Futai, it is the policy of the imperial court to collect fire consumption, and the lower officials think that there is something wrong with your lord's move!" Xuetai Wang Xinlan couldn't stop glancing at herself after seeing Xu Yue come to her senses, and finally spoke again.

"What's wrong? It's not that you don't want to let you take ...... This is what everyone said themselves, only one penny! People can't talk and don't count! Lord Wang, do you say? Ma De smiled and asked Wang Xinlan.

"Master Ma, you have set a trap for everyone to drill! If you do this, aren't you afraid that some people will be unconvinced? Zhao Hengsheng stared at Ma De and asked.

"Mr. Zhao, I can hear what you said just now, but this sentence is not good! …… Snare? What trap? This money is set by everyone! Why not? Who is not convinced and stands up for me to take a look,...... No? Could it be that you are not convinced by Mr. Zhao? It's not like you want to collect fire consumption too, right? It doesn't matter, if you really think so, Mr. Zhao, Ben Fu can consider asking the imperial court to change the county order for you! Ma Deyin said with a smile.

"......" Zhao Hengsheng stopped talking. He suddenly remembered one of the legendary things, that is, Mader had a very bad temper. Even the governor is a person who says kill and kills, he is a general soldier, isn't it a piece of cake to put it down? What's more, he still belongs to Ma De's current management!

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"Master, it's almost!" In the dreary atmosphere, Hailiu walked up to Ma De with a tray.

"Hmmm! Tell the big guy about this guarantee! Lest someone does not read or does not read carefully, and mistakes some words. Mader added.

"Wow!" Hai Liu turned around, handed the tray to a personal soldier next to him, picked up one of the bundles of guarantees and raised it, glanced at the more than seventy officials proudly, and then used his voice, and then took a full posture and began to say:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this guarantee says this: Your Excellency sighs that Anhui has suffered a catastrophe and people's livelihood is difficult. Although there is the emperor's grace and the preferential pension, we are all old men, and we can't always rely on the court's relief, right? Therefore, you are willing to set an example, and in this year and next year, that is, in the 36th year of Kangxi and the 37th year of Kangxi, you will decide to charge at most only one penny of silver for fire consumption, and never increase it! And set up this guarantee as evidence, if there is a violation, you will ask for it...... Dismissal! ”

"Coax!"

"What? Not only this year, but even next year, you can only charge one penny? Chang Hongzu shouted.

"Futai-sama, what do you mean by that?" Xu Yue couldn't hold his breath and couldn't help but question Ma Delai.

"What do you mean? Do you dare to ask me what I mean? Yes! ......" Ma De shouted loudly, and all the noise was silenced.

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"Lao Tzu hasn't arrived yet, the three of you are going to connect everywhere, what do you want to do? Yes? …… What do you mean by me? I'll tell you, that's what Lao Tzu meant! …… If you connect in tandem once, the provincial officials will drink porridge for two years! ......" Ma De roared, and all the officials were stunned by his direct words.

"Don't think that Lao Tzu can't clean you up! That's your luck, and it didn't mess around in the end! …… Otherwise, today's governor's yamen would be the execution ground for the three of you bastards! ”

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"Big ...... My lord, we are only, just dissatisfied with Lord Shi......" Li Wenmin was frightened by Ma De's words to kill someone, and he didn't know what to say.

"I know what you mean! …… Hailiu, please let these three adults out! My governor's yamen is too small to accommodate these three big Buddhas! Ma De looked at Xu Yue and the three of them coldly, and ordered Hailiu.

"Wow!" Hai Liu answered, walked in front of Xu Yue and the three of them, stretched out his hand, and said, "Please, three adults!" ”

"......" Xu Yue and the others were very angry, but under Ma De's gloomy gaze, even people like Chang Hongzu did not dare to talk nonsense, for fear that Ma De would be caught and beheaded on the spot under an excuse. Therefore, the three of them could only be driven out by Hailiu in full view of everyone.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have some resentment towards this official? …… Just smiled at each other, and then turned his face and didn't recognize anyone! After Xu Yue and the three left, Ma De said to the other officials gently, his face changed quickly, comparable to the face-changing grandmaster of Shuzhong.

"I don't dare to ...... the inferior rank," the remaining four prefects said together with ten prefects and fifty-one county commanders.

"Don't blame me, everyone! …… That's how I am! I can't stand it. When you're angry, you have to vent! Otherwise, it will be uncomfortable in my heart! …… You can think about it from my standpoint, if you were me, and someone had a large group of sub-officials in tandem with you when you first took office, and wanted to give you a blow and put pressure on the public, would you feel good? …… I think everyone will be as angry as me! Ma De said "I" one by one, as if he was chatting with these officials.

"Yes yes yes ......"

"What your lord says is very true!" The right to be Ma De is teaching, and the officials are only talking.

"When I used to lead the troops, I paid attention to a 'punishment if you have a mistake'! I don't know if any of you are following these three people, so I have to punish them all! For two years, you are only allowed to collect one penny of silver, and those who dare to violate will be dismissed! This is my punishment for you! If I do this and cause officials who have nothing to do with this matter to suffer, don't blame me! Anyway, we have set this rule, I don't care what you think in your hearts, as long as one of you dares to break it, I will stop one; If you have a pair, I'll give you a pair! All are welcome! …… Anyway, in last year's and this year's big exams, there are people in the ministry to fill the vacancies...... I'm not afraid that someone will engage in any more tandem and come up with some collective resignation tricks. In fact, it's useless, it's either a ten-year cold window or an official position donated by thousands of taels of silver, and no one will throw it away casually. …… I hope you will remember that if the official position is really lost, it will not be so easy to pick it up again! And maybe it's not just the official position that will be lost! Mader added.

"Everything is up to you. The lower officials will never dare to commit it! Someone said. Mader's apparently murderous warning left some people speechless.

"If only everyone could say yes! …… Xu Yue and the three of them can't be the prefects! In fact, I didn't want to kill people as soon as I took office, so before I entered Anqing, I had already written to the imperial court and asked the emperor to remove them from their official positions by a holy decree, and I also specially asked the emperor to add four words to this holy decree: never use it! Everyone will find out when the time comes! …… People, since they have done something, they have to pay the price, don't you say? ”

"......" everyone nodded. Mader's successive warnings have made them understand a lot.

"Actually, I'm very lucky that everyone didn't really come to the joint sign when I took office, so that I wouldn't be unable to get off the stage! …… Everyone is also very lucky, because this matter is over now, except for Xu Yue and the three of them, all the other people who are connected with them, regardless of their official positions, will never be pursued again! …… I swear in the name of my ancestor of the Niu Co Lu clan: as long as I am still in the officialdom for a day, I will not mention this matter again for a day! ……”

"Your Excellency!" Most of the officials breathed a sigh of relief, including Xuezheng Wang Xinlan and the general soldier Zhao Hengsheng! Since Ma De, the direct owner, no longer mentions this matter, then even the imperial court will not ask for trouble and have to settle this matter! …… Of course, these people are just relieved. In officialdom, you can only believe three points. What's more, Ma De just performed a "face-changing" stunt.

"If you have a mistake, you will be punished, and we will be rewarded if we have merit!" Ma De then said: "People say that the new official has three fires, but I have just arrived, and I don't know where to burn!" …… However, while on the way, I came up with a plan and was about to discuss it with you......"

"Please teach Master Futai!" Zhang Kai took the lead in holding fists against Ma De. He knew that this was the next thing to do.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all officials on the side of the priest, I would like to ask you, do you know what the average annual income of the people under your rule is?" Mader asked.

"This, my lord, the lower officials and others have not been counted...... At most, I can only give you a rough idea! Zhang Kai thought for a moment and replied on behalf of the officials. In fact, he is already good, and many officials can't even say a general idea.

"It's okay! Just estimate it! …… Hailiu, bring pen and paper and let you write it down! Mader ordered again. As a result, his order made several magistrates slide directly under the table! ……

Shouldn't this Governor of Ma be going to play some kind of signing and drawing? …… Everybody thought so.