However, some people saw this policy as a good opportunity to dig into the corners of the country, and they secretly built private mints in various places, minted large quantities of iron coins, and exchanged them for new copper, silver, and gold coins in the banks opened by the imperial court.

For this kind of behavior, Ye Tianlong is naturally under pressure, before he set off to inspect various places, he issued the latest instructions, so that the yamen in various places can make every effort to ban this kind of private minting iron coins, if you can raid a mint that can mint tens of thousands of iron coins every day, then the county magistrate's performance in that year can be directly assessed as excellent, and after three years of work, at least you can be promoted to a first-level official position. As for the other officials below, according to the size of their meritorious service, they will also have their own rewards.

The name of the catcher who led the team to raid this private mint is Ye Chen, who is the last batch of survivors who escaped from the real world to Ye Tianlong's rule, and it is precisely because of the hard days of being displaced and chased by demons that Ye Chen cherishes the current stable life very much, and he is very hateful to those local tyrants and gentry who dare to dig into the corners of the country, so even if there are no rewards, after learning this information, he will come to raid this private mint, and after having a reward, It made him more motivated. After hundreds of miles of rugged mountain roads, he led his catchers to finish in a day, and before the boss behind the private mint could react, he reached the door.

Facing the sudden killing of a group of fast catchers, although a steward in the mint was a little surprised, but he did not panic, he took advantage of the short time that the few family members at the door blocked the fast catchers, and asked his subordinates to quickly lock the door of the mint, and at the same time went to take dozens of silver dollars, and greeted the head catcher Ye Chen with a smile.

And Ye Chen didn't care about this guy, and he quickened his pace and wanted to bypass the other party and rush to the mint as soon as possible, so as not to have time for the other party to destroy the incriminating evidence.

However, seeing this, the steward also sped up his pace, and rushed to Ye Chen in three or two steps, stopping the other party and stuffing the dozens of silver dollars into Ye Chen's hand.

"This head catcher, you have worked really hard to inspect various places, take this money to invite everyone to tea!"

When Ye Chen heard this, he replied with a sneer: "What do you mean by this, bribing court officials?" Bold enough! It's all evidence, I'm going to have to put it away! ”

While speaking, Ye Chen also called a catcher behind him, took out an oiled paper bag specially used to hold evidence, and put the dozens of silver dollars into it.

When the steward saw that Ye Chen refused to accept his bribe, he immediately felt bad, so he wanted to continue to block the other party and give the subordinates in the factory a chance to destroy the evidence of the crime.

But how could Ye Chen let it succeed, he directly raised his right foot and kicked it in the abdomen, kicking it seven or eight meters away, and then quickly rushed to the mint with the catchers behind him.

After the steward was kicked down by Ye Chen, he clutched his stomach in pain, and he couldn't struggle to get up for a while. After all, Ye Chen is a master with dark energy cultivation, although he is considered to be the bottom existence among many players from the real world, but he is also a small master in this remote small county, after all, even the head of the military attache in this county county is only a county lieutenant who can only transform his strength into cultivation.

It is said that Ye Chen, who has this kind of strength, can completely join the army and make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, but Ye Chen is not very able to adapt to the environment on the battlefield, plus he is also old, he will be almost fifty years old in a few years, and he does not have the fighting heart of a young man, so he came to this remote county to be a head catcher to enjoy his old age.

As a result, I didn't expect that this temple is a small demon, and there are many people in Chiqian, but there are many entanglements of interests in such a remote and small county, Ye Chen has basically been so busy this year that his feet do not touch the ground, and he has dealt with several big cases. Today, it is even more necessary to crack such a big case of private coinage.

After hurrying to the gate of the mint with a group of men, Ye Chen directly raised his right foot and kicked the locked door open.

After the door was kicked open by Ye Chen, the guys in the factory who were destroying the evidence were like rats who suddenly saw the light, and they hid in panic towards the corners where they could hide.

Seeing this, Ye Chen pulled out a flintlock pistol from his waist and shot it at the top, and shouted: "Who dares to run again!" Lawfully kill on sight! The sound of a loud gunshot echoed through the factory, and it immediately frightened the mint employees who were still trying to hide, and made them dare not move.

And the other catchers also took the opportunity to quickly step forward, torture these guys, and then collect and preserve the evidence of the crime one by one.

At this time, the steward finally felt that he had regained some strength, struggled to get up from the ground, and staggered into the factory, and said to Ye Chen with a cold expression: "You have to think clearly, doing this will completely offend our Su family!" My uncle is a county official in the county government, and my second brother is a warden, and their relationship with the county magistrate is very good. ”

When Ye Chen heard this, he couldn't help but turn around and gave the steward a slap, and then replied without fear: "Threaten me? As an official of the imperial court, how can this official be threatened by you, you just said that the county and the warden are all from your Su family, right? Then it seems that this case belongs to the collusion of officials and businessmen! After I went back, I directly told the inspector of the county and asked him to send someone to investigate! ”

The steward covered his swollen cheeks, looking at Ye Chen's arrogant performance with a look of disbelief, it is estimated that he didn't think that why this little head catcher would not be afraid at all in the face of such a big force of their Su family, and even wanted to let the inspector thoroughly investigate the two pillars of their Su family in the officialdom, if this really implicated these two pillars in this case, causing these two to fall, their Su family would really be finished!

Thinking so in his heart, this housekeeper didn't dare to continue to threaten Ye Chen, but instead lowered his posture and pleaded with Ye Chen: "Lord Headcatcher forgives me!" The villain knows that he is wrong, as long as the adult lets our Su family go, the villain will immediately send a letter to the county and the warden, asking them to help you more in the officialdom, so that you can prosper in the officialdom! ”

"Huh! If you don't make a threat, you'll start sending me sugar-coated shells, right? Why do I need the help of your Su family if I want to be promoted! As long as this case is handled well, I will still be able to be promoted! As Ye Chen spoke, he put a pair of handcuffs on the steward's hand.

The steward looked at Ye Chen, who was not in the oil and salt, he was completely out of line, and now he could only pray that the friendship between the two pillars of their Su family and the county magistrate with money was deep enough, and the county magistrate would help them cover up a thing or two, otherwise, their Su family would really be finished this time! After all, now the country attaches great importance to this kind of private coinage case, that is, if it is found, it will be dealt with together, and it will be punished heavily, not the death penalty and exile.

Soon, Ye Chen collected all the incriminating evidence, and then returned to the county seat with the collected evidence and the arrested stewards and staff.

The county magistrate actually knew what this Ye Zhutou was going to do, but he didn't dare to stop it, after all, the whole country was cracking down on this private coinage trend! If he stopped Ye Chen, it would be easy for him to be impeached by the inspector. It is a matter of his career, and this county magistrate will not mess up because of the friendship of a local tyrant family in such a small place as the Su family.

What makes this county commander dare not fool around is also the special identity of Ye Chen, although this Ye Chen is just a mere eight-grade catcher, he is only responsible for managing hundreds of catchers in the entire county, but he is a player himself, as long as he wants to, he can even make a small report directly to His Majesty the emperor, this belongs to the heavens! There was a county commander who didn't believe in evil before, and he worked against a county lieutenant who was born as a player, but the other party directly gave Ye Tianlong, the emperor, a fold, and then the county commander was removed from his official position and exiled to Hainan, and he didn't know if he had a chance to return to his hometown in this life!

With this precedent there, where does this county magistrate dare to mess around! This case can only be handled impartially, what the county magistrate didn't expect was that the people of the Su family would be so wasteful, and they had no precautions at all, and they were arrested by Ye Chen and seized all the stolen goods.

The head of the Su family and the two high-ranking officials of the Su family, who were county officials and wardens in the county government, were sentenced to behead for public display, and other people involved in the private minting of coins were also sentenced to different crimes such as beheading and exile according to the severity of the crime. Among them, there are not many people who have been sentenced to beheading, but there are many people who have been exiled, and there are thousands of people, which can be said to have uprooted the Su family directly.

After all, the Qinglong Empire has expanded too fast, and many newly conquered territories and the recovered northern regions of the Central Plains are very lacking in population because of the war, so Ye Tianlong suggested that all local governments should be exiled to those sparsely populated places to increase the population of the Han people, as long as the circumstances are more serious, but they are not sentenced to death.

This is why so many people in the Su family were sentenced to exile, in addition to some main criminals and accomplices, there are also many people who are connected, which is also a kind of so-called torture specially retained by Ye Tianlong, because he feels that if only one or two people are punished for the crime, the deterrent is not big enough, just like this Su family, if only those few leaders are dealt with, then all the other clansmen can continue to live in the local area in peace, and then rely on their power to continue to break the law and commit crimes. If it happens again, just push out a few more so-called culprits. Others can still enjoy the glory and wealth with the money they make.

In view of this, Ye Tianlong retained the Zhulian system, although it is not as exaggerated as the Zhujiu clan, but there are still many Zhulian three clans, and now this is the case of private illegal coinage that should be cracked down, and there are often cases of Zhulian, which is very effective in deterring many guys who also want to dig the corners of the country.

And because Ye Chen cracked such a big case, coupled with the previous achievements, he was directly promoted to the county lieutenant from the seventh rank in one go, and became the number one military attache in the county government, but it was only one level lower than the county order.

However, although Ye Chen's case is a big case for this remote county where he is located, it is actually just a small matter compared to the whole country, and the big cases nationwide are the corruption cases in Hangzhou that Ye Tianlong personally handled.

Because of the huge amount of embezzlement and the very bad plot, most of these guys were sentenced to beheading by Ye Tianlong, and only six were sentenced to exile because of the minor circumstances.

There are so many officials who have fallen all of a sudden, it is really a bombshell dropped in the officialdom of the Blue Dragon Empire, most of the officials are frightened by the results of this case, and they usually act a lot more restrained, for fear that they will also fall into the hands of His Majesty the Emperor and end up with a head move.

And this is exactly the effect that Ye Tianlong hopes to achieve, otherwise, he would not have killed so many officials at one time, but it is easy for the gentry class to scold him as a tyrant behind his back!

After spending more than two months patrolling around the country, Ye Tianlong returned to Tokyo City, and then happened to receive the latest battle report from Huang Zhong and them, Ye Tianlong opened it and took a look, and was relieved to learn that the expeditionary force led by Huang Zhong and them had now reached the European region, and was at war with the crusade formed by European countries at this time.

However, perhaps because the Qinglong Empire has used a large number of firearms along the way, so that other countries have felt the power of firearms, so by the time Huang Zhong and them hit Europe, many countries there have already made some primary firearms to confront the expeditionary force under the guidance of the demons, and the expeditionary force has been in a serious shortage of supplies because the supply line is too long and the road conditions are too poor, and in the process of battle, they can often only use hot and cold weapons together to reduce ammunition consumption. So for a while, they had a lot of dealings with European countries, and Huang Zhong also urged Ye Tianlong to send them more ammunition in the battle report, otherwise if you want to completely capture Europe, I'm afraid it will take more than a year!