Foshan Town, known as "the four towns in the world, Foshan is the only rich", has many local businessmen and shops. In the same way, if there are more businessmen, there will be more tooth people, and if there are more shops, there will be more earth sticks, and the tooth people and the earth sticks will collude in one place, and it will not be possible to think about many criminal cases.

Originally, Foshan Town was under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County, but rich businessmen and tycoons from the south to the north abounded in this place, and the local squires even sat on the ground and practiced boxing. Ren is the business gang in the north and south, running the dock to sell the solution, to the ground, first to worship the dock, if you start a business in the local area, the monthly filial piety is indispensable, it is really black is not black, white is not white.

With these "village sages" taking the lead, the thieves, liars, porcelain, flowers, and immortals in Foshan Town are endless, and they can make a small Liangshan out of a small Liangshan if they have another human flesh steamed bun. A seven-grade Nanhai County, on this dragon and snake mixed Foshan Town, there is nowhere to take care of it, and finally it is the Yongzheng period to add the post of Foshan Tongzhi of Guangzhou Prefecture, resident here, it is a little quieter.

Now in office, the Foshan Tongzhi surnamed Li Ruilin, a serious second-class jinshi background, his grandfather let go of a waiter in the Yongzheng Dynasty, and also married a son and daughter with Zhu Shi, a veteran of the Three Dynasties and a "emperor" of Qianlong.

It is said that such a family background is from the right path of the imperial examination, and Li Datong knows that he should be prosperous in official luck. According to the pre-Ming Dynasty, Li Ruilin, who was born in the second class Jinshi, was first a speech official, and then went through the Huaxuan, all the way down from the status of an official in the Qing Dynasty. However, in the Qing Dynasty, except for Yongzheng, an outlier from the Aixinjue Luo family who has the temperament of the Han family in his bones, everyone has the ambition to uphold the precepts of the Manchu and Han Dynasty to prevent these Hanchens who have money rat tails on their heads and in their hearts like thieves.

Among them, Aixinjue Luo Hongli, who was named Qianlong, was particularly suspicious of Hanchen, but he was worthy of his reputation as the founder of the first literary prison throughout the ages. In the Qianlong Dynasty, whether it was the central military department or the local governor, the key positions were all held by Manchurian nobles, and as for the little Hanchen forces left by the Yongzheng Dynasty, they were almost swept away by Qianlong over the years. And Li Ruilin, who happened to belong to the remnants of such a small group of Hanchen in Qianlong's eyes, was put into a separate book early, allowing him to be a hundred miles marquis in the rich land of Guangdong, which was already for the sake of the face of the dead teacher Zhu Shi, and the emperor's grace was extraordinarily great.

Li Datong knew that since Qianlong was released to the magistrate of Nanhai County in 29 years, he also used to be a famous minister of the former dynasty to compare himself, and he did his best, and his performance appraisal was all in the middle and upper grades, and if he had to change to another magistrate, he should have been promoted to open a real vacancy, but Li Datong knew that he had stayed in Nanhai County for four terms, and even the governor of Liangguang felt that he could not look past it, so he was promoted to be reappointed as Foshan Tongzhi -- Zheng Qipin was promoted to Zheng Wupin, but the place was close enough, out of Nanhai County, he could not go a few miles, and it was the jurisdiction of Foshan Tongzhi.

At this point, Li Datong knew that he was a little more open, and the rich land of Foshan Town did not bother to make money, but he received soft hands on the usual money such as New Year's holidays and family birthdays. With the enthusiasm of the squires in Foshan, Li Datongzhi ignored the old practice of the local officials not repairing the yamen, and repaired the Foshan Tongzhi Bureau, not to mention, but also opened up an excellent garden for the back office, and held a few poetry meetings.

As for the criminal name, defense, grain, and other general affairs that Foshan Tongzhi can handle, Li Datong knew that he had hired ten old masters from Shaoxing under the curtain for the first time, and he left them all alone, but he had the style of an ancient follower who was simple in government and clean in punishment.

Just when there was a commotion outside, Li Ruilin was wearing a green coat and a small hat, like an ordinary villager, and was talking with the most useful master for fun, and a big dragon was caught in the siege when he rushed left and right, and listened to the porter to report that there was a Taoist asking to see, but he smiled: "Huangguan plume, there is also silver to feed you door packs?" I think it's also a wonderful person, okay, Brother Gu, you go to see him on behalf of the official, if the conversation is interesting, it is not impossible to have a good fate, if the face is hateful, there are not so many good fortunes given to the Buddha!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he messed up the chess game.

Old Master Gu didn't care either, and went to the front room to see the man in person. Li Datong knew that he was sitting in the pavilion and hummed lightly.

However, not long after the old master Gu went, he retreated with a solemn expression, holding a gift note in his hand.

Li Datong didn't know what it meant, so he took it and looked at it, but said: "Although this word is neat, but the pen is ordinary, I don't know what that person wrote nonsense on it." ”

He glanced at it casually, but saw that there was not even a sentence of auspicious words of "Wanfu Jin'an" from the countrymen, only one line of words came into his eyes: "The cult in Foshan Town is a disaster, and the people are in turmoil. ”

In the Qianlong Dynasty, what he was most afraid of was that someone would plot rebellion in the name of religion, and Yongzheng still had a bit of a literati who talked about Zen and Taoism, but Qianlong had an excessive sensitivity and defense from the bones. In addition to those tantric lamas who were extravagant and far away in Mongolia and Qinghai, Qianlong always had a distrustful attitude towards the Taoist monks and monks in the Han land, probably in the eyes of this emperor, the Mongolian and Tibetan lamas were still his own people, but the Taoist monks were mostly Han Chinese, and the Manchurian relatives and nobles would touch the most sensitive cordon in his heart whether they sang peace with the scribes or interacted with the monks and Taoists.

If someone gathers the people under the pretense of gods and Buddhas, regardless of whether they have the intention of rebellion or not, just the words "gather the people", it should be the sin of raiding the family and destroying the clan.

In the 33rd year of Qianlong, there were some rumors among the people of Zhejiang, saying that some wandering monks and beggars would cut off the braids of passers-by to hook their souls and shoot flowers, causing some small cases. Originally, there must have been several such rumors spread by fools and foolish women in any year? The magistrate issued a notice, and then flailed a few rumor-mongering parties with no mouth, and in the blink of an eye, they could be dispelled invisibly. However, when the matter came to Qianlong, there was always the spirit of making a fuss, especially the matter of "cutting braids" itself touched the sensitive nerve in Qianlong's heart called "Manchu and Han Great Defense", so he ordered the governors of the thirteen provinces to strictly supervise the case. As a result, the rumors that were originally just spread in the countryside of Zhejiang, as the governors of various places were ordered to handle major cases, they suddenly caused a panic in the north and south of the country, and there were rumors everywhere that there were demons hooking the souls, and I don't know how many things happened.

As a result, a year has passed, and the monks and beggars in Youfang have caught a lot, but the demon party that is said to be harmful to people has not been caught, and the final conclusion of the trial of the scholars of the Military Aircraft Department is that the so-called demon party is just a fictional story made up by the monks and beggars who were tortured. In the end, Qianlong himself covered his face and issued an order to stop investigating the demon party case, and by the way, all the magistrates and prefects who were ineffective in handling the case were demoted and removed from their posts on the charge of "ineffective investigation of cases", so as to save a little face for Lafayette.

As soon as he thought of this ridiculous demon party case, as well as how many tops were removed after this demon party case, Li Ruilin could no longer put on a free and easy appearance of being hidden in the official, but only urged Old Master Gu: "Brother Gu, this kind of matter is not trivial, you must find out clearly! Brother Gu, you go and ask the Taoist who came out, what else do you know, get the details, send someone to report to me, this official personally ordered the local military horses to suppress this group of bandits! You must do it quickly, so it can be seen that there is no fault, one step slower, I am afraid that I will have to bear a lot of responsibility!"