Shu Tuan took the storage bracelet with both hands, bowed down and said, "It's still the city lord who is thoughtful, then the subordinates will be ashamed! ”

After saying that, Shu Tuan's subordinates took the two people to the prison to take care of them, and he accompanied Liang Cheng to take a short turn in this ruined Tongju Mansion to see if there was nothing, and the two returned to the destroyed banquet hall.

At this time, Tong Hai also brought people to the Tong Judgment Mansion, and after seeing Liang Cheng at a glance, Tong Hai stepped forward to give a salute, and then asked: "It turns out that the City Lord and Master Shu have already arrived, what happened here?

Liang Cheng said: "General Tonghai, Master Shu and I have just arrived, and we were discussing the matter of the official rule before, when we suddenly saw the smoke and dust in the Tongju Mansion, and found that something was wrong, so we rushed here with someone. It's a pity that it's a step too late, Duan Tongju has already been killed, and the murderer is suspected to have fled, and we didn't see the murderer. ”

"Duan Tong was killed! This is a big deal!" Tong Hai said, but there was no surprise in his tone.

Liang Cheng knew very well in his heart that this Duan Weicheng often excluded Tong Hai and was always looking for trouble for him, and now that Duan Wei Cheng was dead, Tong Hai regarded it as kind, and it was more real to gloat from a reasonable point of view.

Liang Cheng said: "Yes, this is an amazing event, Lord Tonghai, you are now guarding the Chengtian Tower, you can't have any negligence, you don't have to worry about this matter." Shu Tuan, from now on you start investigating this matter, you must make this matter clear, whether you can catch the murderer or not, at least you must be able to give an explanation to the imperial court. ”

Shu Tuan commanded: "Yes, the subordinates must carefully investigate this matter." ”

Tonghai listened to Liang Cheng's words, and also felt tacit, with the tone of the city lord, it was clear that Shu Tuan could find a suitable reason to explain to the court, as long as the explanation was passed, the case could be closed, so this case was still very easy to handle.

Of course, Tonghai doesn't care about how Duan Weicheng's case goes, anyway, others are dead, and they don't do their own business, they handle the case in a daze, anyway, Duan Weicheng has never dealt with him, and he can't meddle in his own affairs.

Thinking of this, Tong Hai said: "City Lord, since there is Master Shu here, it must be foolproof, then the last general will retire." ”

Liang Cheng nodded: "The matter of guarding the Chengtian Tower will be entrusted to the general, I estimate that the Sea Clan may still covet that place, speaking of which, the pressure on you to garrison there is still very great, and it is hard to work for General Tonghai." ”

Tong Hai bowed and said: "This is the duty of the last general, and it should be." Thank you for the city lord!"

After Tonghai left, Liang Cheng asked Shu Tuan: "Master Shu, how is the situation in the Fu Demon Cave?"

Shu Tuan said: "Back to the city lord, everything is normal on the side of the Demon Cave, although the subordinates have withdrawn some manpower, but there are still fifty people left there to guard in shifts to monitor the movements of the Sea Clan, so that once they find something abnormal, they will immediately send a signal to warn, so far, everything is still normal." ”

Liang Cheng nodded: "That's good! The place in the Demon Cave must be monitored, and you must not be slack." ”

Next, according to Liang Cheng's wishes, Shu Tuan sent people to secretly escort the two assassins, Zhuo Jingtian and Feng Liu, back to Yong'an City and handed them over to the fifth prince, Huyan Ruochen.

As Liang Cheng expected, the five princes were very satisfied with his disposition, and the two of them disappeared immediately, and even the Heavenly Demon Chain that Liang Cheng placed on them was dissolved by the master, so Liang Cheng couldn't sense the whereabouts of these two people.

However, Liang Cheng guessed that the fifth prince Hu Yan Ruochen hid these two people somewhere, after all, these two people were a handle that could be used as a bargaining chip to contain the third prince Hu Yancan.

Because after that, Wanghai City began to calm down, and no one dared to deal with Liang Cheng for a long time, and it is estimated that the third prince was pinched and did not dare to act rashly.

As for Mi Tiancheng's family's killed Yuanying monk Mi Xingguo, Liang Cheng didn't mention it to anyone at all, as if this person had never existed in the world, and judging from the results, the Mi family had no follow-up.

In this case, Liang Cheng guessed that either the Mi family temporarily died down after suffering a big loss, or that this assassination was Mi Xingguo's personal action, not planned by the Mi family.

As for the case of Duan Weicheng's murder, in the end, Shu Tuan sent someone to review and crack it, thinking that there was a lot of evidence pointing to murder for money, and he also interrogated those guards and subordinates one by one in the general judgment mansion, and got a lot of confessions.

Finally, according to the confessions of these people, two Taoist couples suspected of being murderers were listed, and everyone said that these two people were guests invited by Duan Tongju, but they didn't expect to end up seeing money and doing such evil deeds.

Of course, people couldn't tell the ins and outs of these two people, so Shu Tuan reported the appearance and situation of the two suspected murderers to the imperial court.

As Liang Cheng expected, after receiving the report, the imperial court sent personnel to Wanghai City to supervise the case, and an official letter was sent to reprimand all the officials in Wanghai City, but there was no actual punishment.

As a result, there was a few rounds of thunder and rain, and the case was never seen again, and then no one mentioned the matter again, as if Duan Weicheng had never existed in Wanghai City.

When the limelight of this matter passed a little, Liang Cheng took the opportunity to recommend Shu Tuan to serve as the general judge of Wanghai City, and soon the imperial court replied, first encouraged a pass, and then proposed that Shu Tuan was not qualified enough, and it was not suitable to take over the general judgment of Wanghai City for the time being.

However, in view of his sufficient ability, he can act as an agent for the general judgment for the time being, and after he has accumulated some experience, the imperial court will consider actually granting the post of general judge.

So Shu Tuan became the rightful candidate of Wanghai City, and he is also a well-known No. 2 person here, given that many specific affairs are actually handled by him, so Shu Tuan's prestige among officials is also very high.

Since then, Liang Cheng has become very cautious in his actions in Wanghai City, no longer swaggering and traveling at will, even if he has anything to do with a private visit, he has to change his face before going out.

The situation in Wanghai City has become calm, the Sea Clan's side has disappeared for the time being, and the harassment activities of the low-level Kraken on the shore have also decreased, and it can be said that it is almost none.

Under the power of the two races, the Terran monks began to expand, often daring to go deep into the Nebula Sea in groups to hunt the sea monsters of the Sea Clan, looking for all kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures, and one by one they also made a lot of profits.

So a large number of monks slowly gathered on the shore of the Nebula Sea, and often formed teams to go out to sea to hunt low-level krakens and search for natural treasures, as if this matter had become a big industry, and many low-level monks also came from the inland after hearing the news and participated in this prosperous cause in full swing.

Liang Cheng was quite happy after seeing this situation, and guessed that the reason why the Sea Clan died down and retreated from the forces was probably due to the fact that the Liujia Fu invited the divine general, and the divine general who descended that time broke out after killing Mi Xingguo, and then broke out again, almost killing a sea clan power, I am afraid that the shock to them is not small, no matter what they were planning, it seems that it has stopped now.

Since the Quartet was peaceful, Liang Cheng issued a new decree to drastically eliminate redundant personnel, punish corruption, and make the officialdom more efficient and clean, and the government decree could be unimpeded.

Liang Cheng also introduced various decrees to encourage agriculture and give preferential treatment to merchants under the careful discussion of a group of subordinate officials and staff, so in the past two years, Wanghai City was able to be governed.

The weather in this area has also changed, it is no longer the backward style of the remote town before, and the entire Wanghai City area seems to be politically harmonious and prosperous.

The flow of people on the street has also begun to become more and more numerous, and many foreign businessmen have come to Wanghai City to do business, trafficking some of the special seafood from this place to various inland places.

Although Liang Cheng implemented a policy of light taxation here, it could not withstand the rapid growth of the whole, and after the trade boom, Wanghai City's tax revenue also increased.

With more money, things will be easier to handle, and not only will officials be more dedicated to their work due to the improved salary, but they will also benefit ordinary people.

Three years have gradually passed, and Wanghai City has not only been strengthened and heightened, but also laid out a strong defensive protection prohibition, and the streets and houses in the city have also been renovated, and there is a thriving scene everywhere, and the people are living and working in peace and contentment.

Although Liang Cheng was not diligent in government affairs in the past three years, he was diligent in cultivation, and with the support of the small world, he was not affected by the difficulty of cultivating here in Wanghai City, and successfully promoted his cultivation to the middle stage of Jiedan, which can be regarded as a steady progress.

As for the Tiangang Academy, Liang Cheng heard that several disciples in the gold list ranking had successfully married the Dan, including Huyan Ruochen, so that the fifth prince also successfully graduated from the Tiangang Academy, and was immediately named the king of Liaohe County, and his position became more and more stable.

The people of Wanghai City were grateful for Liang Cheng's kindness, and began to plan to build Liang Cheng's ancestral hall by the sea under the sponsorship of the local gentry.

As a local official, it is good to be supported by the local people, but the construction of a shrine is too ostentatious, and it is easy to provoke the court officials to attack him.

Seeing himself so swaggering, he was afraid that he would not be happy, this result was really not able to eat mutton and provoked a commotion, so it was necessary to stop this behavior of the people, and it was good to build anyone's ancestral hall, but he was not allowed to build his Liang Cheng's ancestral hall.

Liang Cheng thought, is the lord of this city the kind of person who is in danger of fame and dealing with real trouble? These gentry don't know what kind of heart they have, and it seems that the taxes are not heavy enough, so that these guys are too rich and bored, so they come up with such a bad idea.

Liang Cheng frowned, thinking about it, he felt that even if he went to dissuade and painstakingly taught these people not to build such a meaningless thing, I am afraid that he would be regarded as modest and insisted on building this ancestral hall.

When it comes to the solution, it is actually very simple, you can solve it directly in two words, these two magic words are "tax increase"!

So Liang Cheng personally went to the city lord's yamen the next day to work, and also brought a new construction plan for the construction plan of Wanghai City, that is, from now on, he began to increase taxes, and the tax was increased by more than three percent, the reason was that it was necessary to increase the material reserves in the treasury of Wanghai City, improve the treatment of the defenders of Wanghai City, and replace and upgrade the armament materials to deal with the possible invasion of the Hai Clan in the future.

As soon as this decree was promulgated, it immediately caused a huge controversy in Wanghai City, which can almost be described as the anger of heaven and the resentment of people.

The gentry, the common people, and even the merchants began to curse this black-hearted city lord, saying that he only cared about accumulating wealth and ignored the hardships of the people's livelihood, and used the invasion of the Sea Clan as a reason.

In the end, everyone agreed that this city lord was clearly a corrupt official, and the taxes were much heavier than those of his predecessors, which was really a big disappointment, and as a result, half of the city lord's ancestral hall was immediately stopped, and finally it was rebuilt and built into a land temple.