"It's okay, master, it's dark at night, let's go back and rest."

Yuan Zhong persuaded.

Yuan Zhixin waved his hand, looked at the warehouse in front of him, and said:

"Just in front of this warehouse, let's go in and have a look."

When he opened the door of the storehouse, he went inside, and saw that there were many chests in the storehouse, and when he opened it, he saw that it was indeed full of silver.

The two of them opened several boxes in a row, and there was no problem, all of them were full.

Seeing this, Yuan Zhong said: "It seems that this place is not as unbearable as what I saw before, the money is there, and the treasury is quite sufficient." ”

Yuan Zhixin looked at the silver in front of him, but he was a little puzzled, and he didn't feel right, so he picked up two pieces of silver and knocked on them, and the silver made a crisp sound.

"No, this voice is not right, this is not official silver, it is inferior silver......"

Yuan Zhixin, who soon discovered the problem, sank.

When Yuan Zhong heard this, his expression was also a little unpleasant.

Later, the two of them tried the silver taels in the other boxes.

Without exception, all of them are inferior silver.

After seeing this, Yuan Zhixin said again:

"Let's go to the granary again."

The two of them set off immediately, and when they arrived at the granary, they opened it and saw that there were less than 1,000 stone of grain.

The huge warehouse is almost empty.

In the end, I went to the fabric warehouse to check, and there were only a few thousand pieces of cloth, which was pitiful.

Seeing this, Yuan Zhong scolded: "Dog officials, these dog officials! ”

Yuan Zhixin looked at the four directions:

"We searched three warehouses in one night, but they didn't find it, and the lax guards were really disappointing......

After checking these places, the two returned to the house.

Yuan Zhixin only rested for a while, and it was already dawn outside.

Early in the morning, I called the Fu Cheng and the Fu Wei to interrogate and talk about the warehouse.

But I heard Fu Cheng say:

"Adults don't know that the matter of the warehouse has nothing to do with us, but with evil things."

"Evil spirits?"

Yuan Zhixin glanced at the two of them and motioned for them to explain.

"My lord, there is really an evil thing, some time ago, the house encountered the Yin soldiers borrowing food, which hollowed out the foundation of the Pingbo Mansion."

"Yin soldiers borrow food?"

Yuan Zhixin's eyes were like electricity, staring at the two of them.

The two of them, who were originally fearless, looked at each other, and suddenly felt a little flustered.

But he still explained the reason, saying that he dreamed at night that there was a gold-armored god who said that he needed food and salary for the war, so he came here to borrow silver, grain, and cloth.

On the second day, everyone woke up and looked at the warehouse, and the official silver turned into inferior silver, the rice grain turned to dust, and the silk became leaves.

After the people had cleared the dust and leaves, the two warehouses were empty.

As for the inferior silver, whether it is still useful in the end, it has been retained.

Who knows, but the borrowed food is borrowed but not repaid.

Only then did everyone realize that it was a man of God who was disguised as an evil man.

Yuan Zhixin sneered at the two of them:

"Two, I'm afraid your argument is not convincing, right?"

The two hurriedly explained:

"My lord, this is true, if you don't believe it, you can ask anyone casually.

On the night when the Yin soldiers borrowed food, many people in the city heard the sound of soldiers and armor, as well as the shouts of the Yin soldiers, which was really not nonsense. ”

When the two of them were talking about this, their expressions were very real.

When Yuan Zhi saw this, he was also suspicious.

As for the so-called Yin soldiers borrowing grain and fire dragons burning warehouses, everyone will automatically classify them as excuses for local corruption.

Yuan Zhixin thought the same, but when he remembered his previous dream, he felt that there might be something wrong with it.

Just looking at the performance of Fu Cheng and Fu Wei, Yuan Zhi understands that even if there is a matter of Yin soldiers borrowing food, these two people will never be clean.

It's just that he has just come here, and he only has a hundred guards and Yuan Zhong available under his command, and his foundation is too shallow, and he is not sure that he will take these local land snakes in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, he smiled and said:

"Since the two of you said so, then the official should go and find out."

When the two of them heard this, they both laughed and said:

"Please listen in detail to prove our innocence."

Seeing that these two people were so swearing, Yuan Zhixin knew that the so-called Yin soldiers borrowing food might be true, but he was also sure that there must be a problem with these two people.

Immediately took Yuan Zhong and a team of guards out of the palace and went to the city to visit.

Since it was a visit, the group naturally had to dress up a little.

After a while, he pretended to be the old man who took the servants out to relax.

The city of Pingbo is quite prosperous, there are people from all walks of life, and the peddlers and pawns are all making a living.

At first glance, it gives a sense of prosperity.

Yuan Zhixin did not delay, and asked a few people around him to find someone to ask about the Yin soldiers borrowing food, and he himself took Yuan Zhong and found an old man who was leaning against the wall to bask in the sun.

After some inquiry, I found that there was really a matter of Yin soldiers borrowing food.

It is said that on the night of the incident, people in several streets of the city heard the sound of an army carrying things through the sky.

Some brave people have gone out to check, but they can only hear the sound of the air, but they can't see the people in the air.

After continuously inquiring with different people, I found that although everyone had different statements, the general content was almost the same.

"Master, in this way, there is really a matter of Yin soldiers borrowing food."

Yuan Zhong was a little puzzled, and he always felt that something was wrong.

Yuan Zhixin also frowned, and after thinking for a while, he said:

"For now, we still have to solve the problem of our control of Pingbo Mansion first.

These local officials are all in the same place, and they must fully implement the power of my prefect, and the follow-up matters can be handled. ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw a beautiful young man walking in front of him.

At first glance, one might even mistake the young man for a man of God.

When several people saw it, they were all stunned.

The young man smiled and walked up to Yuan Zhixin and said:

"Presumably this is the new prefect, right? In the next good fate, this is polite. ”

"The son of good fate is polite."

After Yuan Zhixin returned the salute, he looked at the young man in front of him with some curiosity and said,

"I don't know how the son of good fate recognizes this official, and what do you have to do?"

This son of good fate is naturally all the way from the 100,000 mountains to the night light of Pingbo Mansion, the great mansion of Linhai.

Regarding Yuan Zhixin's question, Ye Ming smiled:

"It's not a secret, I am a hot-blooded young man in the next place, who has the ambition to serve the country and save the people from fire and water, but the officialdom is dark and disgusting, and he is unwilling to stoop to the powerful.

This time I am looking for an adult, because I heard that the adult is high and bright, and there is the style of an ancient gentleman, so I came to run to save the people! ”

Hearing that this person was here to defect to himself, Yuan Zhixin naturally welcomed it.

What he lacks now is a team of people, and it is impossible to refuse this kind of defection of people who have an extraordinary bearing at first glance.

Moreover, after communicating with this good son for a while, Yuan Zhixin attached great importance to him.

This man is quite insightful about everything, and it is only a few words that he can know that this is a learned man, and he is by no means the kind of embroidered pillow.

While the two were chatting happily, a man rushed out on the road.

The man was carrying a stack of books in his arms, and he was walking in a hurry, and accidentally bumped into a stall next to him.

The stall was fine, but this man fell, and the book in his arms fell to the ground.

The man hurriedly picked it up, looking very anxious.

A book fell at Yuan's feet and was picked up by him.

If you look closely, it's not a book, it's an account book.

If you look at the other books, they are all ledgers and the like.

Yuan Zhixin picked up the account book in his hand and flipped through it casually.

Seeing this, the man who picked up the book immediately snatched the book back, and said in a loud voice:

"This is the account book of the yamen, you can't read it."

Seeing that this person was in such a hurry, Yuan Zhixin asked:

"You're a government clerk, aren't you? Why the rush? ”

For the prefect who only arrived yesterday, the scribe naturally didn't know him, but when he saw the obvious appearance of the other party's eldest man, and he also brought a domestic servant, he didn't dare to make a mistake, but said:

"This lord, the villain is going to the mansion, please get out of the way, if you miss the hour, it will be miserable!"

"What's so urgent?"

"It's not very urgent, it's just that the government has a rule that you can't miss the time when you deliver documents, accounts, etc., otherwise you will be whipped!

This lord, please let the villain pass! ”

The scribe was impatient, and even had the urge to squeeze through here.

Yuan Zhixin heard this, and said:

"Isn't it an urgent paperwork, and if you miss the hour, you will be whipped? There should be no such rule in the Codex, right? ”

"There is no one in the "Codex", but there is one set by the master of the house, who dares to disobey it!"

The scribe said, begging Yuan Zhixin again to give way.

Yuan Zhixin said, "Really? Go, this official will go back to the government with you. ”

"Official...... Who are you? ”

"The new prefect of this official Pingbo Mansion, Yuan Zhixin."

"You're Yuan-sama?"

When the scribe heard this, he was very surprised, and then immediately said:

"Lord Yuan, the villain has heard of your name, you are a great talent, a big celebrity, listen to the villain's advice, get out of here!

This is not your territory, you can't hold down the snake here. ”

"Before the official came here, someone had already persuaded him, but since the official came, he would not leave easily.

It's you, I don't know why you say that this official can't fight the snake here? ”

"Adult ......"

The scribe glanced sideways around, pulled Yuan Zhixin to the side, and whispered,

"Who doesn't know, Pingbo Mansion is the result of the four families and three merchants, from the governors, the governors to the officials at all levels, all of them are their people.

Unless Lord Fu personally brings the troops, no one can stop it.

The villain admired the adult when you took off your hat and resigned, so he persuaded him.

You, listen to the villain's advice, and leave quickly. ”

Yuan Zhixin automatically ignored the scribe's words of persuasion, and just asked:

"What are these four three merchants?"

"The so-called four and three merchants refer to the four chambers of commerce of Yan, Jia, Lin and Lou in Pingbo Province, as well as the three chambers of commerce of maritime merchants, ship merchants and land merchants.

The entire Pingbo Mansion was controlled by these people, and the prefects of successive dynasties could either only be in the same stream or were set up in the air.

Or ......"

"Or what?"

"No, nothing."

In the face of Yuan Zhixin's questioning, the scribe obviously looked a little frightened and didn't dare to say any more.

Subsequently, Yuan Zhixin directly took the scribe back to the office.

As soon as I returned to the office, I saw that Fu Cheng was working.

When Fu Cheng saw Yuan Zhixin, he first politely said hello, and then immediately changed his face and said to the scribe:

"It took so long to bring the account books, are you guilty?"

When the scribe heard this, he trembled with fright and fell to his knees.

Fu Cheng didn't care what Yuan Zhixin's face was, so he had to let the scribe drag him down and give him twenty lashes first.

Seeing this, Yuan Zhixin's face was slightly gloomy, and he said:

"Lord Lou, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to punish the government officials so arbitrarily, right?"

"The prefect laughed, Pingbo Mansion has always been like this, this is the rule."

"There is no such rule in the Codex."

"But this is Pingbo Mansion, and that's the rule."

"Then if the official says that there will be no more such rules in the future, is it feasible?"

"Well, I'm afraid not, after all, this is an old rule for many years, and not everyone can easily break it.

It is understandable that the prefect has taken office as a new official, but it is also necessary to know that there are some things that cannot be solved at the level of the official. ”

"Then the official is going to give it a try."

"The prefect is so ambitious, please forgive the official for saying bluntly, although you have ambition, but this kind of thing, I'm afraid it is not easy to do.

However, for the sake of your face, the lower official can spare him once. ”

Fu Cheng said, sneered, and turned to the back room, looking fearless.

Seeing this, Ye Ming laughed and said to Yuan Zhixin:

"My lord, there is still a lot of things to say between us."

Yuan Zhixin was not angry because of Lou Fucheng's attitude, and said with a smile:

"Let's go, let's go inside."

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