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If Daoguo said that the behavior of the local wealthy and enemy merchants in Nai An Province to raise the price of salt was a little troublesome, then the rectification action in Lorraine was a storm. A strong storm of magnitude twelve!

Especially after Lorraine's slogan of "multi-angle, all-round, three-dimensional, deep-level" was issued. Officials in Quannai'an, especially civil servants at the grassroots level, rushed to the front line with a scream as if they had smoked stimulants.

If you want to be promoted, if you want the officials to see your hard work, not only must the report be beautifully written, but also dare to fight, if you can get a little injured, of course it is the best.

Don't you know that the Governor of Lorraine's desk is indispensable for this kind of injury in the line of duty every day, but no matter how much everyone tries to persuade him, he will not be in the line of fire.

The official in the report shouted "For the Empire" while continuing to cover the wounds that were still bleeding blood, and continued to fight side by side with his colleagues, this behavior is comparable to the style of those heroes when resisting the demon invasion.

But if you want to dig deeper, most of them get out of the car and rub their feet, and get in the car and hit their heads. Stomach bleeding from drinking, and my sister strained the fork psoas muscle during exercise, etc.,

Lorraine naturally knows the virtues of this group of ruffians.

But as a governor, this group of people was his subordinates. is doing things for him again, and Lorraine naturally won't spend any energy on this kind of festival, chilling the hearts of these younger brothers. Therefore, with a stroke of the pen, they all signed a commendation order, calling on the officials of the whole province to learn from these heroic fighters seriously.

In fact, in this round of rectification and governance, grassroots civil servants have all earned a lot of money.

Lorraine stipulates that fines are paid at a ratio of six to four, and it appears as if the finance of Nyan is the one who gets the most money.

In fact, there are many kinds of means of collecting money below, and some of them are even Lorraine, who claims to "understand the history of 5,000 years of civilization." of outstanding people can't even think of it.

Gu said: It's like some acquaintance has made a 20% discount.

When a fine is issued, no ticket is issued, or the ticket is issued less.

The ride is charged, and the late fee is charged. Storage costs, hard work costs, tea costs, heatstroke prevention and cooling costs, and so on.

This is still the reason why the officials below see that Lorraine, the governor, is relatively strong, can lead everyone's wealth, and gives him face, so they don't dare to let go of their hands and feet to mess around.

Under these means, the guys named by Lorraine to clean up, of course, are all like coffee tables, full of cups

Their shops were not able to operate, the production of various industries was at a standstill, and even their daily lives were in complete chaos.

The Nai'an magnates who are mixed with the price of salt, although they are said to be powerful, are actually divided into people.

Some people are in contradiction with the centralized rule of the governor, the number of these people is not large, just a few, they all have big families, and their families have been operating in Nai An for hundreds of years, and they are famous families in Nai'an.

There are countless branch families. The children of the family are active in every corner of Nai'an, and they can be said to be deeply rooted. The tentacles extend into various areas of Nai On province.

These families have a huge estate, and these families alone occupy nearly 10% of the arable land in the province of Naider. There were more than 100,000 tenant farmers who cultivated their land alone.

In addition, there were various factories, caravanserais.

The strength of these wealthy families is all over Nai'an, and their families are extremely wealthy, especially after hundreds of years of operation, those invisible strengths are even stronger.

If you have capital and strength, you will naturally pursue power, but the Ruman Empire is not the kind of empire that looks powerful when the decree does not come out of Ruman City.

The Ruman Empire's control over the localities has always been strong, as can be seen from the system of governors.

In the first 200 years of the establishment of the Ruman Empire, the counterinsurgency war was fought for 160 years, and the local wealthy clans repeatedly rebelled against a province, and each time the empire suffered a great difficulty.

Therefore, the law after that has been clearly stipulated. The governor and lord of the city, as well as the high-ranking officers of the local legions, had to serve in different places.

These local wealthy families can also come out and become officials. It's good to go to other places, the personnel of the empire is in charge of the minister, those gangs are all human spirits, and even the neighboring provinces will not arrange for him, and they are generally transferred between the north and the south or the east and west.

Even if the emperor was stunned by the pillow wind, or opened the door to the Xiang, there was still the Imperial Heraldic Academy there to watch.

Such an appointment would be declared invalid immediately in the heraldic court. Lorraine's original appointment was also passed through the heraldic court, because Catherine's ability to do the dotting was very smooth.

Don't look at the old men in the heraldic courtyard who usually don't have any, they can only play goalball and sing the opposite tune. Add to the blockage of the big men in Ruman City, and take difficulty as the foundation of happiness.

But on these issues that could threaten the stability of the Empire, these old rascals have never been without

They knew that only when the empire was stable could they keep the power in their hands and continue to play hooligans everywhere.

Therefore, for those things that are heavy, these experienced old guys are all staring at it with wide eyes, that is, inside the egg. It's also about picking out the bones.

Actually, it's just that these old men in the heraldic courtyard are bored. At the end of the year, they can't do two formal jobs, and of course they have to play to their heart's content.

Once a famous general of the empire once famously said: I would rather go to hell, but. Please, don't let me go to the heraldic courtyard again. Those old bastards are so tough

Facts have proved that the heraldic system established by Ru'an II has saved the empire countless times, and the Jipinyan Empire has lasted for thousands of years."

In the final analysis, the main function of this complete system is to prevent any local forces from gaining ground.

When Lorraine achieved the position of governor, he naturally had to oppose Naian, a wealthy family who had always claimed that "Naian is Nai'an".

This time the salt price hike incident. It is also dominated by these large families, and this is just a common event when the governor and the local forces are in charge.

Before the Marquis of Marleton left office, Zhuo wrote a letter to Lorraine, introducing these wealthy families that Lorraine needed to guard against one by one.

Lorraine positioned these wealthy families as: Replica "level, powerful firepower, and high damage output. There are many subordinates, and the most important thing is that it is difficult to do

But high risk also represents high income.

Once it is exploded, the amount of top-notch equipment that is exploded is staggering.

But at the same time, Lorraine also knew. Don't look at the current rectification and governance momentum, but for those local wealthy families, it is just a little troublesome.

Although they lost a lot of money and cut off their salt factory business, it was only a drop in the bucket compared to their family business.

And most of the others involved in frying salt went to make money, except for these big families. Naian also has a large number of medium-sized families, which are relatively wealthy. But it is far worse than those wealthy families, especially those who have salt works, almost all of them participated in this incident.

They were cleaned up by Lorraine this time. Not only did the money invested in it be lost, but the industry was also closed by Lorraine.

These people are the ones who support their families from these industries.

Now the doors of each house are blocked by all kinds of office personnel, and they will be fined when they open the door, and these people are all complaining.

They didn't have the heart to confront Lorraine in the first place. He is more familiar with the grassroots officials in the Naian government, and now they are anxiously looking for a way out.

Some people have already turned their minds to the governor of Lorraine, hoping that Lorraine will let them go.

People like this who have a little money, but are not very rich. When it comes to making money, it's not their turn. When losing money, they are the first to get moldy.

There are a lot of such families, and their ability to gather together is not only in fact, but they are like people who have come together specifically to give people less oil and water than doubles. But fortunately, there are a large number of people, and after exploding, it is also possible to accumulate a lot of money, and it can also increase the experience points by the way.

As for the rich people who fish in troubled waters. Or even fake rich people, no one takes them seriously, they just follow the trend and are greedy, and want to take advantage of the opportunity to make some benefits, whether it is Lorraine or those wealthy families, they can crush them with their hands and feet.

The wealthy knew that Lorraine had been poked in the lung tube this time, and they were holding back their strength to find their own trouble. Everyone can't afford to hide, so they take their families to the countryside to hide.

Lorraine soon got the news that the locals wanted to beg him for mercy.

Once again, the tax collector Graytan acted as an intermediary, interacting for Lorraine among the families.

Lorraine's conditions are very simple, since he is playing surrender. If you want me to let you go, then come up with conditions that can satisfy me, or else, everyone should prepare an iron rice bowl as soon as possible, and wait to beg on the street.

Gretan didn't know exactly what Lorraine's conditions were, so he could only keep scaring those people. Those families didn't know what Lorraine would be satisfied with, and they were all about Lorraine's mouth. even moved the Lady route and followed Catherine and Adele's doorway. Everyone knows in Nai An that our governor is very afraid of his wife.

In the study of the Doge's Palace, the tax collector, Gretan, reported to Lorraine the results of the past few days.

Gretan looked at Lorraine and pouted, knowing that the young governor was not happy with the terms they had proposed.

These guys don't have brains, and the means they can come up with are inseparable from real money, either paying money and bribes, or some kind of diamond and jade handicrafts, vulgar, too vulgar.

Lorraine was not short of money, and the officials of Nedel City had just known that Lorraine had spent a full 100,000 gold coins to renovate his Doge's Palace.

100,000 gold coins! Don't look at Gretan's position is quite high, or he is still fat, he has to work for ten years to save up so much money, and people are just renovating the house.

In fact, I don't blame these people, because one of the most important and effective means of bribery and compensation is not useful to Haolin.

Compared with real money in front of people, a charming and moving beauty is much more effective. And there is also that sentence, a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is better than stealing.

If you have the ability to build a foreign house that the leader is satisfied with, you will definitely become a close confidant of the leader in an instant, and the future is immeasurable.

But when I got to Nell, I didn't dare to be unlucky and didn't dare to send a woman to Lorraine, speaking of which Lorraine is young and vigorous, and sending a beautiful woman is the best way to please her, but who made the two tigresses in Lorraine's house are at the level of the Tiger King.

Our Lord of Lorraine is a traverser. In terms of power and wealth, it is qualified, but it seems that it is difficult to establish this palace.

These Naian families also have tricks that they can't do. Only these simple conditions can be mentioned.

Lorraine shook her head and said, "They look insincere. ”

Gretan wouldn't say nice things for them in front of Lorraine, and he still had that IQ, although he also collected a lot of money.

Gray said: "It's just a bunch of ordinary landlords, and adults don't have to care. Let them fend for themselves. ”

Lorraine smiled and shook his head. "Otherwise, Gretan, this person is the stable seat of the empire, and I can't wipe them all out at once, otherwise, you will be in charge of who collects taxes next year." ”

Gretan secretly said in his heart: This uncle, you also understand, you have been tossing so much recently. The fine income is high, but my tax revenue is less than two percent.

Ge Yitan bent down to Lorraine and said, "Thank you, Lord for your understanding." Then please tell me what I should do about this. ”

Lorraine shrugged and said, "You're going to scare them until I figure out a solution." ”

"Yes. Gray said: "One more thing, my lord, there is a person in those families who really wants to see you, and he has asked me several times, and he said that there is very important information, you see"

"Then let's meet, go to the front office. Lorraine said.

When Lorraine walked into the office, a middle-aged man in his mid-fifties was standing respectfully waiting here, and he saw Lorraine come in. One of the ninety degrees bowed, revealing the top of his bare head, and said, "Below, Honorary Knight, meet the Governor." ”

Lorraine waved her hand, sat down in her chair with Gretan, and said, "Sit down." I've heard that you have important information, so let's hear about it. ”

Liede lowered his head and said, "Yes, Lord Governor, some time ago, because I was bewitched. I have offended the Governor, and I have always been sincerely afraid of it, and I have been striving to make meritorious service to the guilt, and as soon as I received this news, I was very eager to see the Governor and tell your Excellency face to face. ”

Lorraine pursed her lips and said, "Talking about the point." ”

"Yes, yes, Your Excellency, I have received accurate information that there are people who are still smuggling slaves against your orders. ”

"What!" Lorraine tapped the armrest. He sat up straight, but quickly leaned back in his chair and said, "Knight Liede, you should report this kind of news to Serrian, the chief of the guard, there is no need to sue me." ”

"Your Excellency," he said, hesitated. Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Because of the fact that your officials are also involved in this incident, I don't know who to believe, so I don't dare to report it to the guard." ”

Lorraine frowned, crossed his fingers, and said, "Liede, do you know what the crime of falsely accusing an imperial official is?"

"I know very well, Your Majesty, that I can vouch for this news with my life. ”

"Okay," Lorraine pointed to the seat across the table and said, "You sit, now tell me in detail." ”

Lorraine has always known that her subordinates are inside. There were definitely people who were in collusion with the slave traders, and the middle and lower level officials were even more involved, but Lorraine had no available people to investigate these cases, and there was no time to deal with them.

Now this column has to pick up the inside information to Lorraine at once, which is really just right, and he dozes off and sends a pillow.

After listening to Led's account, Lorraine pondered for a while and asked, "Knight Led, if this qiē is true, how do you want me to reward you for your merits?" ”

Led said: "I should do it as a Naian, and I did it to atone for my sins by offending you." ”

Lorraine stretched out his index finger and shook it, and said, "I have clear rewards and punishments, and you are doing a great job." I'll let people know, I'm the Governor. It's not a heart's eye. Say, what more could you ask for?"

Leed hesitated for a moment and said, "Then, I am offended, can the Governor be gracious in arranging a position for my eldest son?" ”

Lorraine immediately looked up to this middle-aged honorary knight who was not good-looking, and said secretly in his heart: It is worthy of being an old fox who dares to betray his fellow villagers first, he is old and spicy enough to be a man.

Arrange for the eldest son of his family to be arranged by Lorraine, which is undoubtedly to say, I have taken refuge in you. Moreover, he was the first to repay, and Lorraine would not treat their family poorly.

Betrayal of fellow countrymen like this. Only the first one to do this can get the benefits, and then follow suit. There will be no reward.

Lorraine stood up, pushed open the door, and said to Graytan, who was waiting outside, "My Lord Tax Collector. Please come in, I need your assistance. ”

Gretan was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "After listening to your dispatch." My lord. Although his face was impassive, Gretan spoke excitedly.

If Gretan still wants to be motivated, this promising young governor must hold his thighs, he has a relationship, and knows more things than Ney'an's gang of old men.

Lorraine pointed at Liede and said, "Knight." Think about what you just said again, Mistress Greytan. ”

After a long time, Gretan raised his head with a solemn expression and said, "My lord, what do you need me to do?"

Lorraine said: "This kind of thing, the Praetorian Guard is not familiar with the local area, can't do it, the city guards and the guards, there must be their people, only your tax system is relatively independent, and the staff of the tax department is stronger than the general army, I need you to secretly transfer three hundred armed tax collectors as the main force of this operation." I'll send another 300 Praetorian Guards as reinforcements. Do you have a way to gather so many people without being noticed?"

Gretan smiled, "Don't worry, my lord. The autumn overhaul of the tax system is just around the corner. ”

Lorraine nodded and said, "Knight Liede." You should know that if the news leaks, your family will be the first to die. ”

Led swallowed and nodded with a bitter face. "I know, Your Excellency, I don't know anything about this except me. ”