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Chapter 55 Counterattack: Yi Shuihan
"I don't know what my lord is going to do?" the three assistants asked nervously.

"I'm planning a big event..." Wei Zhixian said in a deep voice.

"What's the big deal?" The three asked.

"The big thing is..." Wei Zhixian looked at the three of them, and the three of them also stared at him with bated breath, until they blushed, and then saw him grinning and said: "Secret!"

"..." The three of them fainted for a while, but they saw Wei Zhixian laughing, shaking the sleeves of his toga, his long hair fluttering away, leaving only a series of generous songs:

"The wind is rustling--the water is cold, the strong man is gone--he will never return;

Exploring the tiger's lair - entering the dragon palace, looking up to the sky and exhaling - becoming a white rainbow! "

Beside the lotus pond, the three assistants looked at each other.

"Okay, first Nie Zheng and then Jing Ke... Is this going to fight with the rich family of the country gentry?" Marginal characters have the advantages of marginal characters, and Ma Dianshi has no pressure at all when he speaks sarcastic remarks.

"Nonsense!" Master Diao was not so relaxed, he flicked his sleeves and said bitterly: "If you don't repent, if you insist on going your own way, you must kill everyone!"

"It's not that serious..." Jiang Xiancheng also had some headaches: "First ask, what is he going to do?"

"En." Master Diao nodded.Wei Zhixian has a long follower by his side, who was actually installed by him, and now he has entered the signing room. Although it is only serving tea and water, it is no problem to inquire about some news.

When he turned back, he asked someone to inform the long follower to pay close attention to Wei Zhixian's every word and deed.In the next few days, there will be a steady stream of news feedback...

First, I heard that the magistrate of Wei ordered the household registration room, and sent all the household registration files since Yongle to the signing room.I also heard that people who were looking for a workshop in Weizhi County ordered them to rush to carve an 80 yuan stone tablet.It is also heard that he wrote a memorial, but was stopped by Sima Qiu desperately.For this reason, a quarrel broke out between the two.

The chief follower was outside, and he heard Sima Qiu's voice clearly: "The master can't do this, once a big prison is set off, how many people will fall to the ground?"Sin! '

'Emperor Yongle is too merciful, those people will be unscrupulous!Emperor Taizu has only been in the sky for more than ten years, and the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty have already corrupted Ruosi! ’ I also heard the magistrate of Wei say indignantly: ‘The Yin Jian of Meng Yuan is not far away. If the collusion between the officials and the gentry continues like this, my country of Daming will be hollowed out by moths! He said that he would remake the case and said, "There must be another Guo Huan case!"Let the heads of those who embezzle the national tax fall, and I have hope in the Ming Dynasty! '

'Dong Weng, if you do this, will you still have a foothold in the future? Sima Qiu said in panic.

"Wei was deeply favored by the emperor and died for the country, a worthy death!" Wei Zhixian said decisively: "Sir, there is no need to persuade me any more. I have made up my mind. I must reveal the truth about the population reduction and tax reduction in Fuyang County!" '

"Master..." Sima Qiu said sadly, "The old man can only resign..."

'Even if everyone leaves, I will not be shaken! ' Then I heard Wei Zhixian say loudly.

"Wei Yuan really said that?" Master Diao was covered in white sweat after hearing this.

"It's absolutely true." His entourage said: "If the fifth man didn't hear it, could he still make it up? Besides, the stonemasons in this county are locked up in the county government office by him, and they are rattling each other from morning to night. Is there a vacation?"

"The fifth one didn't say what they engraved?" Master Diao asked.

"It's the yellow book..." said the attendant, taking out a few pieces of ink paper used for inscriptions from his pocket. "He brought it out while others were not paying attention."

Master Diao took it over and took a look. Some of them were the yellow book pages of the county's Hongwu for 30 years.There were also a few yellow pages from the eighth year of Yongle... He immediately understood what the other party was going to do!

The magistrate of Wei actually wants to engrave the yellow books from the Hongwu period and the latest yellow books into stone tablets and make them public!Let the people of Fuyang see how much more taxes they have paid over the years!
In this way, those food chiefs who cheated and sucked the fat and anointing of the people, as well as myself, the chief bookkeeper in charge of money and food, might be eaten alive by the furious people without waiting for the court to deal with it!
"This lunatic!" Master Diao sat down on the back of the chair, his hands and feet went limp, and said, "Crazy, crazy, completely crazy..."

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It took a long time to come to his senses, Master Diao couldn't sit still any longer, and went straight to the county magistrate's office.

After hearing his narration, Jiang Xiancheng was also shocked, "This Mr. Wei's temper is really fierce..."

"Oh, my brother, don't make sarcastic remarks." Mr. Diao wiped his sweat and said anxiously: "He is going to die! Why do you think we are so unlucky to have such a second-hand magistrate? "

"I didn't ask you to force me." Jiang Xiancheng said quietly: "It was a ruthless move to ask the students to sue, but it shouldn't be used when you meet a master who is soft but not hard. Otherwise, it will be like this , completely pissed him off..."

"The deal is done, what's the use of talking about it?" Master Diao interrupted impatiently: "Tell me, what should we do now?"

"What else can I do? Either lower your head, or kill him." Jiang Xiancheng sighed.

"How to kill him?" Master Diao asked.

"Slashing with a knife, chopping with an axe, twisting a rope with poison, whatever it is." Jiang Xiancheng was expressionless.

"Are you kidding? If the magistrate of a majestic county dies inexplicably, the cold-faced Tiehan will definitely investigate to the end." Master Diao shook his head and said: "Try to drive him away."

"It's too late." Jiang Xiancheng shook his head and said, "Before you finish working, he would have erected the stele long ago."

"You..." Master Diao now understood Jiang Xiancheng's meaning, stared at him and said, "If you want me to bow my head, just say it, what a circle!"

"Otherwise, can you know that you have no choice?" Jiang Xiancheng said with a wry smile: "Brother Ren'an, you are afraid of being stunned, and you are afraid of dying. You are arrogant, but he is both stunned and desperate. He is still the same. This is the result of fighting with the county's parents and officials."

"What's the use of talking about it now?" Master Diao frowned.

"Of course it's useful. It's not too late to make up for it." Jiang Xiancheng was eager to calm things down. Although he didn't participate deeply, he couldn't escape if there was a big trouble. "Who would want to make a fuss to this point? Isn't it all because of you? He lost face, you can get him back, he wants to charge [-]% more tax, you can also discuss it, it's nothing more than earning less." As he spoke, he looked at Master Diao and said, "I'm not talking about you, Lao Diao. You only have three years in Fuyang, so why do you have to be so deep?"

"Oh, it's too late to get out now." Director Diao said bitterly, "I edited the Yellow Book of Yongle Eight Years. Do you think I can stay out of it?"

"Go through this hurdle first, and then slowly figure out a solution in the future." Jiang Xiancheng also sighed: "Go and persuade them to stop making trouble. Sit down with Wei Zhixian and have a good talk."

"Oh..." Master Diao said depressedly: "You also help to talk to the surname Wei, don't let him send out the memorial."

"Yeah." Jiang Xiancheng nodded and said, "Let's split up."

Unexpectedly, both of them hit a wall...

On the side of Jiang Xiancheng, Wei Zhixian didn't listen to persuasion at all, and looked like a turtle eating weights-a determined posture, and wanted to fight the big households to the end.

Master Diao's side, the squires also think that Wei Zhixian is bluffing. If he bows to him like this, will Fuyang County become his world in the future? !They don't believe that there are such desperate officials in the world...

In fact, in the final analysis, even if something happened, it would be unlucky for the five grain chiefs, and it had nothing to do with most of the gentry.So they can't feel that kind of personal fear, so they can naturally assure the five food chiefs that nothing will happen if we are here!Well, don't worry, nothing will happen...

The food chiefs were naturally panicked, but they didn't dare to make public outrage, so they could only hang on...until they heard the news that the cold-faced and iron-cold Zhou Gaotai might have visited the county privately in undercover!
Many people have seen a middle-aged man in a foreign country wearing a green sergeant robe, accompanied by two companions, walking up the Fuchun River, visiting every village and town, looking for grievances, exactly like the legendary Zhou Jietai. It fits well... The news spread well, and it is said that Weizhi County also got the news and ordered the masons to rush to work day and night, preparing to erect those steles before Zhou Nengtai arrived in the county!
Mr. Diao and the others became ants on the hot pot. It is said that there was a Liang Chang who knelt in front of Grandpa Li Yu and begged him to let him live.There was also the head of grain who hung himself from the beam in fright. Fortunately, he was discovered early and saved his old life.

Master Diao even said harshly that if a few of them go in, they will find out all the old accounts of the squires' concealing of land, sending their names to exorcism, extortion, and reselling grain, and everyone will be finished together!
Seeing that the enemy hadn't made a move yet, the backyard was already on fire, and the gentry had to discuss what to do.

After noon that day, more than a dozen distinguished gentry and landowners gathered at Li's house in Huanshan Township.The two sons of the old man of the Li family are both Jinshi and rank. The eldest son is a political envoy in Sichuan and the second son is a servant of the court.The glory of one subject and two Jinshi is extremely rare even in a province like Zhejiang with a large imperial examination. The squires in this county naturally elected Mr. Li as the leader.

Mr. Li is over 70 years old. He wears a Dongpo scarf and a maroon bat-covered cloak.He twisted his beard and said slowly: "Unexpectedly, this elder has a really bad temper..."

"Actually, I'm not afraid of him making trouble. The key is that the cold-faced Tiehan is here. This person is too scary. I heard that the children in the capital are crying at night, and the common people often call 'Lengmian Tiehan is here', and they can scare the children to silence immediately. Sitting on his right is the old man of the Wang family, because his son is Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so he is the second-ranked squire in the county, "If something happens at this juncture, it may not end well."

"But it's come to this point," Mr. Yu, who was sitting in the third position, asked on behalf of everyone, "Where is our face going?"

"Let him apologize." Old Master Wang said, "Let someone spread the word, as long as Wei Yuan comes to apologize to Old Brother Li, everything is negotiable..."

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