The fierce stepmother of the farm family, brought her cubs to get rich

Chapter 546 Arrest
Jiang Yichen didn't say anything else, but the momentum made them dare not look up.

In the end, they knelt for a long time and found that Jiang Yichen didn't respond at all. Then someone boldly asked, "I don't know who you are?"

"I'm just a small fourth-rank official, and now I'm just following His Majesty's order to go to the south of the Yangtze River for disaster relief, but I don't want to go back. On the way back, I met the wife and younger brother of County Magistrate Wang, who said that there was Magistrate Wang covering him, I am not afraid of anyone, and I also said a lot of interesting things, I wonder if you want to listen to it?"

How could they want to hear it, fearing that they would be involved in this matter and eventually be implicated, they hurriedly shook their heads, expressing that they didn't know about it, and hoped that Jiang Yichen would be lenient and not involve everyone in it.

But Jiang Yichen is always different from what they think.

Jiang Yichen didn't intend to wake them up, and by the way, he also asked someone to bring Wang County Magistrate and the two of them over.

Seeing the people in this room, County Magistrate Wang was stunned for a moment, and then quickly knelt down to intercede, "Master Jiang, it's because I don't know Mount Tai. How much money do you need to accommodate this matter?"

Jiang Yichen had never been short of money before, of course it was because of Gu Manxiu's presence, now it is a bit strange to hear that they bribed him with money.

"You have harmed so many people and taken so much money before, and now you still want to plead for yourself. Do you really think that I am just talking to the law?"

They naturally don't think so, but now everyone has acquiesced in this matter, so they don't understand some things very well.

For example, why did Jiang Yichen go to war so much this time, didn't he know that it was a good thing for them to earn money for him?
County magistrate Wang asked tentatively, "Do you think it's better for us to respect you in the future, and then give you the money first?"

Jiang Yichen patted the table, obviously annoyed by this sentence, "You guys also said that when you faced those business travelers before?"

"Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are the last ones. Everyone knows that, so why make such a fuss over a molehill."

If Shang had really waited for the last, then the country's economy would not have developed. I don't know where they learned these prejudices, but now they are on the fullest.

But it was precisely because of this that Jiang Yichen decided to eliminate these people.

He sent a letter back last night, and now it's up to the emperor to see what he thinks.

There is another point that Jiang Yichen has always been puzzled, "You robbed so many people back then, why didn't you expose any of them."

County magistrate Wang is quite good at this matter, and he said it quite proudly, "It's all because of my discerning eyes. If it really looks expensive, we naturally dare not stop it casually, but these small merchants It's still possible."

Under normal circumstances, these small merchants would not dare to report to the officials. They also took advantage of this loophole to classify these people. Occasionally, they would do something to some middle-class merchants, but they were never discovered.

It has to be said that they were quite capable, but Jiang Yichen's expression became colder the more he listened, and in the end he just asked someone to imprison them all, and just listened to the emperor's instructions.

At this time, Gu Manxiu was asking the people on the street about the nearby business travellers.

"I can see that you are just here, so hurry up and run before you are robbed, otherwise you will be robbed at that time, and your work this year will be in vain."

"That's right, the bandits around here are not so rampant. Even if you want to survive, it's an extravagant hope."

It seems that not only the business travelers here know about this, but also the common people, but they are powerless and dare not confront the officials.

They must have suffered a lot.

Gu Manxiu thanked them, and investigated the tax situation here. If you don't check, you don't know, but after checking, you are really shocked.

Immediately ran back and told Jiang Yichen about this, "The officials in Fancheng are really not simple, it's not just as simple as the collusion between officials and bandits, they definitely have their own influence in the capital."

"How to say?"

Jiang Yichen poured Gu Manxiu a glass of water and motioned Gu Manxiu to speak slowly.

Gu Manxiu was indeed thirsty now, and she calmed down after drinking a large cup, "I just investigated the tax situation in Fancheng, and they actually collected [-]% more tax than what His Majesty said before."

One person is already [-]% successful, if the people of the whole city pay this [-]% together, one can imagine what a huge amount it will be, so the officials of Fancheng are rotten from the bottom of their bones.

Jiang Yichen didn't seem to have imagined that the officials of Fancheng would do such tricks on taxes, and they could still go undiscovered for so many years.

"I reckon it has something to do with what happened to Liu Shangshu before. He seems to have some connection with Fancheng."

Of course, this is just Gu Manxiu's guess, whether it really depends on the other party's intentions.

Soon Jiang Yichen found Magistrate Wang and asked him if he knew Liu Shangshu before.

At this time, the county magistrate Wang had already broken the can, and was stunned when he heard Liu Shangshu's name.

"Have you checked all of this?"

It turned out that they were indeed working under Liu Shangshu before, and they were just a little greedy at first, but afterward, as Liu Shangshu's instructions became bolder, their actions became even more arrogant.

In addition, because of the cover of Liu Shangshu, no one dared to attack them. This time, Liu Shangshu was arrested. It may be that the new Shangshu did not carefully investigate their case, so he followed the old practice before. So that they save a lot of trouble.

After Jiang Yichen heard this, he couldn't help frowning. It seems that the newly appointed Minister of the Household Department is not capable.

But he already understood everything that should be understood, and Jiang Yichen didn't have anything else he wanted to communicate with County Magistrate Wang.

But just as he was about to leave, County Magistrate Wang stopped him.

"They all say Master Jiang is stern and selfless. I don't know if this is true?"

Jiang Yichen responded lightly, "En."

The county magistrate Wang seemed to have thought of something, and couldn't help but smile, "Then I'm looking forward to your sternness."

What happened this time was not as simple as Jiang Yichen thought.

In fact, Jiang Yichen didn't think about things too simply, but he just didn't expect these people to be so rampant.

Even Gu Manxiu has been annoyed by County Magistrate Wang's subordinates during this period. These people don't know where they came from. They are really difficult to deal with, so that Gu Manxiu wants to clean them up every time. up.

(End of this chapter)