Li Wei no longer paid attention to Zhang Cheng, but looked at the other officials, and asked lightly: "Who still has an opinion, just put it forward!" ”

Everyone: "......"

Wu Xing's lessons from the past are in front of him, and they are not as high as Zhang Cheng's grade, so how can anyone dare to put forward opinions now.

"My lord is wise, we agree!"

"Yes, yes, the imperial court should use geography to levy, and the lower officials support the lord!"

After Wu Xing was escorted down, these ordinary officials no longer looked at Zhang Cheng's eyes, and directly agreed.

Li Wei nodded with satisfaction, and then looked among the crowds, wanting to find a reliable official to cooperate with the land acquisition, but it is not difficult to see from the performance of these people just now that they are all on Zhang Cheng's side, if he finds these people to cooperate, I am afraid that things will definitely not go well.

Seeing Li Wei's hesitation, Tian Qing suddenly realized that this was an opportunity, and immediately stood up and arched his hand: "My lord can use the place of the lower officials, please just give orders!" ”

Li Wei glanced at him, and after what happened just now, he also understood that Tian Qing, the prefect, was just an ornament, and most of these officials acted according to Zhang Cheng's eyes, and Tian Qing didn't seem to have any opinion on this, and he looked like he didn't care about himself. Now that he can take the initiative to stand up, Li Wei is a little surprised.

After hesitating, Li Wei decided to let him try it, after all, he was the local leader, and he should still have some energy.

"Can you do the land acquisition?" Li Wei asked softly.

"If you can do it, rest assured, your lordship, the lower officials will do their best to do this well!"

Tian Qing nodded immediately, with a positive attitude, just like the two of them just now.

Zhang Cheng looked at his flattering appearance, and was very annoyed in his heart, but he was helpless for a while.

Seeing him like this, Li Wei also nodded in agreement, and said: "This time, this official is ordered by the emperor to expand Yangzhou City, and land acquisition is an official business of the imperial court. ”

"Yes, the subordinate obeys the order!"

Tian Qing bowed down and took over this glorious task. In order to avoid business trips, Li Wei also arranged for Jiang Quan to accompany him.

Jiangdu Zhixian was arrested and imprisoned on the spot, and Tian Qing took advantage of Li Wei's residual power to directly order a few reliable officials, and set off with the officials to Yue and Gu.

Seeing this, Zhang Cheng was anxious, and after leaving the mansion, he hurriedly returned to his mansion and found the Confucian gentleman Jingju.

"Mr. Jingju, something is wrong, that Li Juma has arrested Wu Xing......"

Zhang Cheng eagerly told him what happened in the palace.

Mr. Jingju's eyes flickered, and after a moment, he smiled and said softly:

"Just catch it, just catch it, as I said before, there is no illegal act on the part of the adult, and in the end, it is at most a loss of money, and the adult does not need to be anxious."

"This ......"

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly hesitated.

This Mr. Jingju's surname is Zhang, and he is from his own family, and he was only invited to the house recently, and there are some things that Zhang Jingju is not clear.

There is not only this incident between him and Wu Xing, they have had many illegal acts before, if this Wu Xing can't withstand the interrogation and shake out those things, then he will have to be finished.

"Mr. Jingju, there are some things that you may not know very well, in fact, Wu Xing has also helped me do some other things before, such as the assessment of acres ...... fields."

Zhang Cheng hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and picked out some things that he and Wu Xing had done before and told this Mr. Jingju.

When Zhang Jingju heard these things, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, he was not surprised by these things at all, and even he could see that this Zhang Cheng must have other more serious things that he didn't tell him, but it didn't matter whether he said it or not, the important thing was to let him do it according to his own strategy!

After pondering for a long time, Zhang Jingju said lightly: "In this case, then you can only shut up this Wu Zhixian." ”

Zhang Cheng's heart sank, and he looked at him in astonishment: "What do you mean?" ”

"Hehe, since you understand, why bother asking?"

Zhang Jingju said in a flat tone, as if it was as ordinary as letting a person shut up was like eating and drinking water.

"Murdering an official of the court is a great crime!" Zhang Cheng's heart was shocked, and he said in a low voice.

"Hehe, my lord is right, if you don't think about it again, see if there is any other way?" Zhang Jingju said softly without care.

When Zhang Cheng heard this, his eyebrows immediately frowned, and his face changed.

Zhang Jingju was not in a hurry when he saw this, but just looked at him quietly.

After struggling for a long time, Zhang Cheng finally sighed, and said with some guilt: "Hey, now, I can only be sorry for Wu Zhixian!" ”

Zhang Jingju couldn't help but feel a burst of disdain when he saw his coy appearance.

When Zhang Cheng gritted his teeth and made up his mind, Tian Qing had already led people to the Yue family's field.

As a big family in Yangzhou, the Yue family has a large number of acres, and they are all middle and high-class fertile land, of course, they will not plant these fields themselves, but find some landless people as tenants.

Although the people who have no land can also choose to open up the wasteland, the yield of the cultivated land is low, and even if the fields are matured after three or five years, because the water conservancy is occupied by the big families, they do not have enough water to irrigate, and they can only get a piece of inferior land, and the yield is not high.

Rather than spending so much effort, it is better to directly be a tenant farmer for the family.

Tian Qing and Jiang Quan came here with a large group of servants and began to shout loudly:

"Don't do it, this field has been expropriated by the imperial court, you all go quickly, don't interfere with the official affairs of the imperial court!"

"Go away, go away, all go!"

These officials are submissive in front of the officials, but when they are facing the people, they are powerful and arrogant.

When many tenant farmers heard this, they were immediately alarmed.

"My lord, the imperial court has expropriated all these fields, what should we do?" A sharecropper shouted boldly.

Immediately, many tenant farmers complained: "Yes, my lord, we are all living on this harvest, please be merciful and leave a way to live!" ”

"Your Excellency, be gracious......"

Some took the lead and knelt down, and others followed suit.

Tian Qing was immediately furious, he had made a ticket in front of Li Wei, this matter must be done well today, this is a good opportunity for him to turn over, and he must not let these small people stop him.

"Bold, you dare to obstruct the official affairs of the imperial court, and someone ...... come"

Saying that, he was going to order someone to arrest these people, anyway, Master Li had already said it, who dared to arrest them without saying a word!

However, Jiang Quan knew Li Wei's personality well, and knew that he was only referring to the people of the Yue family and the Gu family, and these tenants could not be caught casually.

"Slow down, adult!"

Jiang Quan spoke out in time to stop him, Tian Qing suddenly stopped the order, and looked at him suspiciously, Jiang Quan quickly explained to him in a low voice.

Tian Qing immediately came back to his senses after hearing this, but looking at these tenant farmers who knelt on the ground to stop him, he made a difficulty.

"Master Jiang, what about these people?" Tian Qing frowned.

Jiang Quan pondered for a moment, remembering what Li Wei said to Yang Laosan a few days ago, his heart suddenly moved, and he stepped forward and shouted to these tenants: "You don't have to panic, without these fields, you can go to open up the wasteland by yourself, where the new land is reclaimed, you can plant it yourself if you want to, and if you don't want to plant, we will pay for it. ”

Jiang Quan informed these tenant farmers about Li Wei's land repossession, and these people immediately whispered.

"My lord, are you telling the truth?"

Some people don't believe it, still Jiang Quan said this kind of price, if they go to open up wasteland, the income is much higher than that of being tenant farmers for the big clans, is there really such a good thing in the world? This official wouldn't have deliberately made it up to deceive them in order to drive them away, right?

Jiang Quan frowned slightly, and said: "Don't worry, this is what was said by Master Li Weili, the minister of the Ministry of Industry and the court, if you don't believe it, you can go to Yang Laosan and ask." ”

When everyone heard this, they were still a little hesitant, and finally discussed it and asked one of them to get up and find Yang Laosan.

Seeing this, Tian Qing was a little impatient, but with Jiang Quan watching, he didn't dare to come hard, so he could only wait patiently for the tenant farmers to find Yang Laosan.

After a long time, the tenant farmer finally brought Yang Laosan to the scene, Yang Laosan was very grateful to Li Wei and Jiang Quan and others because of the favor.

In fact, he used to be a tenant of these Yue families, but because he offended Yue Dapeng because of his gaffes, he was beaten and driven out, and he had to go to the wasteland by himself.

After some oaths from him, the tenant farmers finally believed a little, and with the urging of many officials, they finally accepted their fate, and began to leave in twos and threes.

Yang Laosan consciously made a meritorious service, and after being brought to Jiang Quan's side, he nodded to him for a while: "My lord, do you think it's okay for the little one to talk like this?" ”

Jiang Quan smiled and nodded: "Okay, you said it very well, follow us to the Gu family for another trip later, and I will give you some reward when it's over." ”

"Yes, Lord Xie!" Hearing that there was still a reward, Yang Laosan was even more overjoyed and agreed without hesitation.

Just as the tenant farmers were leaving together, Yue Dapeng, who got the news, rushed over with someone, and when he saw the tenant farmers leaving, he immediately shouted anxiously:

"What are you going to do? Give me all back! ”

When the tenant farmers heard the voice, they were a little puzzled for a moment, and they all stopped and watched.

Seeing this, Tian Qing asked Jiang Quan in a low voice, "Can this be caught?" ”

Jiang Quan smiled lightly and nodded.

Tian Qing received an affirmative reply, immediately put his mind at ease, straightened his waist, put on the posture of the prefect, raised his hand and shouted: "Bold, you dare to obstruct the official affairs of the imperial court, come here, arrest me!" ”

The officials hesitated a little when they heard this, after all, the Yue family was a local hero, and they were in collusion with their fellow acquaintance Zhang Cheng, so they also had some concerns. (End of chapter)