"Send men after the people." Li Xuan said.

"Yui!" One of the guards beside him turned and left.

Although there was nothing wrong with the IOU just now, Li Xuan didn't believe it. Although he knew that there were indeed some treacherous people, there were not many who dared to come to the county to guard the yamen.

Just now, all those people borrowed Qingmiao loans, which was also beyond his expectations, and the attitude of the Si Nong officials also made him a little suspicious. It is not a big deal for the people to check the IOU documents, and why should he stop it.

There were still a few rich families in the village who didn't need to borrow, but they did the same, which was a bit unconscionable.

However, Li Xuan had no way to continue the investigation for the time being, but asked the guards to protect his safety, so that these people would not fall into the water or die of serious illness.

Next, Li Xuan and the county guard had a pleasant greeting, and then participated in the reception banquet, a banquet can be described as the guests and hosts, it seems that nothing has happened, but Li Xuan and Gao Qi are very clear that today's scene is just the beginning.

In the following days, Li Xuan did not check Qingmiao Loan again, but began to check the regular liquidation and Tancheng's taxes over the years.

Over the years, the imperial court has sent inspectors to inspect the imperial history, and one of the important reasons is to prevent the local government from acting arbitrarily and collecting exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. These exorbitant taxes are basically used by the local government for their own use, and they are almost never handed over to the imperial court, but these official governments collect them in the name of the imperial court.

This kind of operation is to let the court carry the black pot, and the benefits belong to themselves. As long as the court finds out, it will kill the whole family and exile the three clans. The highest punishment in the imperial court is the three tribes, but this decree is rarely used.

The explanation of the three tribes is that the father, the mother, and the wife. The paternal clan is the father's father, brothers, and sisters, and the maternal clan is the mother's father, brothers, and sisters, and the same is true for the wife's clan. It can be said that it is the most serious criminal law, and the punishment of the nine tribes is not so serious.

Zhu Jiu Clan does not mean that all the nine clans are killed, but the nine clans of Zhulian, except for the main prisoner to be killed, the other Zhulian is exiled, confiscated as slaves or taught by the priest. Of course, the Zhu Nine Clans are no better than the Yi Three Clans.

Because the imperial court has always wanted to emigrate outward, cases like the Yi three clans rarely appear, after all, if these people are killed, the imperial court wants to drive them to the border fortress as consumables.

Tancheng did not charge harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which Li Xuan had already checked, but it did not mean that there was no problem with this tax, the people of the world would cultivate acres of land, the population and fields would increase, and the same would be true for merchants' taxes, but the taxes paid by local governments would not be much different from the past.

Is it because they didn't collect the taxes of the merchants and the new farmland? No, it's just that all these taxes go into the hands of the officials. Moreover, this kind of tax is difficult to verify, unless it takes great efforts to measure the acres of land, otherwise it is not clear at all.

In addition to checking taxes, Li Xuan also conducted an inventory of those nobles, heroes, and eunuchs, for these people, the imperial court has always been strict in investigation, and once a problem is found, it will be dealt with severely.

As a result, what surprised Li Xuan was that these nobles, heroes, and eunuchs did not have the problem of encroaching on land, and at the same time, there was no problem with paying taxes. It can be said that it is a model under the rule of the great cadres, but the question arises again, if the nobles, the powerful, and the official eunuchs are so disciplined, how can they have the money to squander it so much.

Every year, the people in the city put grain, this is not a small amount, the people in the city are tens of thousands, even if it is a liter per family, it also needs thousands of stone of grain, plus those lanterns and other consumption, these nobles, eunuchs, heroes and a lot of family members and servants to support.

A year's worth of money is not a small amount.

Li Xuan thought about it for a while, and immediately asked people to check these noble, heroic, and official families. This aspect is easy to check, and it is not easy to hide it.

Li Xuan asked people to check, and soon found out that many nobles, heroes, and eunuchs were putting money in print. And these seals are not so easy to borrow, nine out of thirteen, that is just the foundation, relying on these, nobles, heroes, and eunuchs can easily earn a lot of money.

Although Li Xuan looked down on these people for printing money, it was not illegal. It is impossible to punish sin in this way. However, although there is no way to punish the crime, Li Xuan will not let them pass easily.

Under the large-scale investigation, there are always some problems, anyway, they have already torn their faces, so they naturally will not let go, and for a while, the entire Tancheng was stirred by Li Xuan, and officials at all levels were also tired and busy, and even the county guards were entangled in various affairs.

After pestering these people, Li Xuan also began to secretly send people to the villages in the countryside to find more evidence. Li Xuan didn't believe that those people would do it seamlessly.

After a few days of investigation and covert visits, the embroiderers soon discovered a lot of problems, according to these people, they did not sign the loan of green seedlings, but in the past three years when they paid the tax, the tax collectors asked them to sign the mortgage after paying the tax.

This would have been a normal thing, but now that they think about it, when they first drew it, they pressed their handprints three times, one more than before.

After the completion of tax collection, the head of a certain village in a certain place will be written to pay the tax of that year. Keep one for yourself and hand over one to the government. Now they said they had pressed it three times, and the clerk said that the extra one was to be handed over to the state capital.

Li Xuan, as an inspector of the imperial history, knew very well that the imperial court did not have this regulation, and even the signature and drawing after the tax were not mandatory, but handed over to the local governor for a unified list.

After hearing the news, Li Xuan still didn't understand what was going on? When these officials then paid the taxes, they deceived the people into signing and signing the pledges. The people were illiterate, and they didn't know what was written on it.

Even more ruthlessly, directly let the people press their handprints on the white paper, and then the rest of them write wantonly. As an official, Li Xuan knows too well the discipline of some officials, although the vast majority of officials are law-abiding, but some of them have no so-called bottom line at all.

At this time, the embroidery envoy brought another piece of information, and a few days ago it was discovered that one of the people who had borrowed from Qingmiao had been dead for two years.

"Two years ago, the person was gone, but last year I was able to borrow a green seedling loan, hehe, I didn't expect this Tancheng Sinong official to be so powerful, he can communicate with the underworld and borrow money from the dead!" Li Xuan sneered, and immediately did not be polite, and directly wrote an official document, asking the imperial court to send people and horses to prepare for a thorough investigation.

(End of chapter)