Li Yanwen couldn't wait, and on the evening of the 29th day of the winter month, that is, the night he returned from Daqingshan, he said goodbye to Xu Jin, and he wanted to rush back to his hometown Hubei to reunite with his family before the Chinese New Year. Xu Jin understands Li Yanwen's mood very well, he himself is like an arrow, remembering his wife and maid in Beijing, but unfortunately the affairs at hand are not yet finished, it is estimated that he will have to spend half a month in Shandong, and it is still unknown whether he can return to Beijing for the New Year.

Therefore, Xu Jin did not keep Li Yanwen's father and son, handed over the compiled modern medical knowledge booklet to Li Yanwen, and hired a passenger boat to send their father and son back to Hubei, and also gave him 300 taels of silver for travel expenses and a boatload of local Shandong specialties for him to take home and send to relatives, friends and neighbors.

As the so-called hospitality is difficult to refuse, Li Yanwen did not refuse, just for the credit of risking up to Daqingshan to assist the officers and soldiers in "suppressing thieves", he can afford this gift.

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the winter month, Xu Jin personally sent Li Yanwen and his son to the Yellow River ferry to board the boat, and the courtesy was so high that the governor Hu Shining also looked sideways.

"Sail the boat!" With a long-pitched shout from the captain, the passenger ship left the dock and rowed slowly upstream. At that time, the passenger ship will enter the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal upstream, then go south to the Yangtze River, and then return to Hubei in the reverse current, which is estimated to be enough time for a month.

"Thank you, please go back!"

"Take care, see you next year!"

Li Yanwen and his son stood on the aft deck and waved goodbye to Xu Jin on the dock. It is said that Li Yanwen has already agreed to enter the Tai Hospital, with his medical skills, coupled with the credit of fighting the plague, as long as Xu Jin recommends it, it will be easy to enter the Tai Hospital.

"You tell Xu Jin that if he doesn't become a good official in the future, this girl will definitely come back to take someone else's head!"

This sentence was told to Xu Jin by Li Yanwen before he got on the boat, Xu Jin only smiled bitterly after hearing it, after what happened the night before, that Bing Niu'er probably hated it so much that she wanted to raise her sword and kill it back.

Originally, the remnants of the dozens of Xue Bingxin's subordinates could no longer become a climate, and it was no longer important whether they were exterminated or not, but Xu Jin couldn't blatantly release the water, so he would undoubtedly put himself in, not to mention that he had to give an explanation to the officers and soldiers who braved the cold to surround the mountain, right?

So Xu Jin used a trick to leave all of Xue Bingxin's horses, and finally got two broken boats that had moved their hands and feet, drowning nearly half of the horse thieves. Although this is a bit ruthless, the whole operation of suppressing the mountain seems more real, and the officers and soldiers of the suppression of the mountain have also received a share of the credit, as for the drowned horse thieves, from Xu Jin's official standpoint, they should have died.

Of course, if you look at it from an official standpoint, Xue Bingxin, as the leader of the anti-thieves, deserves to die, but from a private standpoint, Xue Bingxin is now his own woman, Xu Jin naturally can't watch her die, and he has to protect her, which is the responsibility of a man. As for the idea of serving the country with loyalty to the monarch in this era, there is no binding force on Xu Jin, a traverser.

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In a blink of an eye, it is the eighth day of the lunar month, and with the in-depth investigation of the case, more and more officials are implicated in the case of the loss of the granary, and the prefect alone has arrested three, and the prison cells in Jinan City have been overcrowded.

Although Xu Jin wants to take Shandong as a typical example and kill the unhealthy trend of stealing and selling official grain all over the country, he also does not want to overdo it, so that it will eventually get out of control and expand, so on the one hand, he will severely punish those who are greedy, and for those who are less responsible, he will "punish three glasses of wine", after all, if the officials do not take any benefits, it is estimated that the whole family will have to drink the northwest wind, and Bo Zou Qian, the county lord of Fan County, who has proven his innocence by autopsy, is an example.

On the evening of the twelfth day of the lunar month, the heavy snow was approaching the early hours of the morning, but there were still three candles burning in the study of the judge's office, which was as bright as day, and the blazing charcoal fire made the whole room warm.

Xu Jin was sitting behind the bookcase and writing hard, with two stacks of case files nearly half a meter high next to him. Until today, the granary deficit case has been fully ascertained, and the case can be closed and convicted, and Xu Jin is writing a notebook to report to the emperor at this moment.

It is said that there are six prefectures under the rule of Shandong Province, and the granaries all have varying degrees of deficits, and the number of shortfalls identified has reached 500,000 stones, which is shocking. Provincial military and political officials, such as political envoys from the left and right sides of Shandong Province, envoys to be prosecuted and prosecuted, and commanders of Shandong Province, all participated in the distribution of the spoils, and all of them were confiscated and imprisoned.

In addition, headed by the eunuch Luo Xiang, the political envoys left and right, and the commanders and others were also involved in thieves and thieves, which is equivalent to a felony of rebellion, and it is estimated that the clan will be punished, but in the end, how to sentence it must be decided by the Criminal Department.

As for the eunuch Luo Xiang, this eunuch not only participated in the theft and sale of official grain, collaborated with thieves, but also instructed people to dig up the embankment and plot to kill Qincha, these charges are estimated to be enough to kill the three clans, of course, how to sentence in the end has to be tried by the three law divisions.

After writing hard for nearly half an hour, Xu Jin put down his pen, rubbed his right hand, which was already numb, took out his pocket watch and took a look, and found that it was close to two o'clock in the morning.

Xu Jin yawned, dried the ink of the notebook, and then closed it and sealed it with a special box, and sent someone to the post station early tomorrow morning, and the post station would naturally send a fast horse to the capital to send it to the political envoy in the capital.

In fact, Xu Jin began to write a recital this afternoon, and wrote a total of five letters, the first is a summary of disaster relief, the second is a summary of the murder of Qincha, the third is a summary of the suppression of anti-thieves (for the generals), and the fourth is a summary of the granary deficit case.

The fifth letter is an impeachment note, impeaching the Yansheng Mansion for encroaching on a large number of people's land, causing the displacement of the people near Qufu, and finally being taken advantage of by the thieves, and easily gathering a large number of displaced people to rebel. In order to confirm that what he said was true, Xu Jin also attached a copy of the text posted when the anti-thieves attacked Qufu in the transcript.

Here, Xu Jin also took this opportunity to point out that the problem of the accumulation of displaced people in various parts of Shandong was so severe that it was urgent to advocate that the imperial court curb the annexation of land by local nobles and wealthy families, and return all the embezzled land to the people for cultivation.

Land annexation was a long-standing problem in the Ming Dynasty, and it has become more and more serious, to the point of endangering the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the officials are all those with vested interests, and they are naturally unwilling to harm their own interests, and on the other hand, they do not dare, because this involves the interests of too many people, including the Son of Heaven, so no one dares to risk the disapproval of the world, including Yang Tinghe, the first assistant to the cabinet.

The reason why Xu Jin dared to be so bold was not because of his hot head, but because he had some support. First of all, Xu Jin's proposal is reasonable and well-founded, and the fact that Shandong's anti-thieves were able to pull up a large number of people in a short period of time is indeed because most of the displaced people who have no place to live.

Secondly, Xu Jin has just made a great contribution to this shield, and it is normal for meritorious people to be "arrogant", not to mention that Xu Jin's proposal is indeed beneficial to the country and the people, like Yang Ting and these knowledgeable ministers not only will not embarrass him, but may appreciate his "brave loyalty". As for the little emperor Zhu Houxi, Xu Jin doesn't have to worry at all, as far as the current face is concerned, their relationship is very iron, and this kid will definitely support Xu Jin's initiative.

In addition, the reason why Xu Jin played the book before returning to Beijing was originally to ask for a trick, just like someone threw a big stone into a waterhole, and then stood on the shore to watch the excitement.

It is conceivable that as soon as Xu Jin's recital is presented, it will definitely cause an uproar, and Xu Jin is not in the capital, and it is none of his business for those ministers and nobles to quarrel, he just needs to wait for the result.

Although Xu Jin really wanted to do something practical for Daming, he would not do this kind of thing if he let him fight shirtless and put himself in. Xu Jin asked himself if he was not great and selfless to that extent, his primary goal in life was to let himself and his family live a safe and happy life, as for the rest, he would do what he could, and he would not do it if he couldn't do it.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, there were thousands of empty alleys in the city of Jinan, because Lord Qincha was about to leave for Beijing today to reply to the decree, almost all the people in the city came to see them off, of course, there were also some people who came to see the excitement.

It's really lively, because all the prisoners, including the eunuch Luo Xiang, the political envoys on the left and right, the probationary envoys, and the commanders, were all loaded into the prisoner car and escorted out of the city.

Outside the north gate of Jinan City, Xu Jin was dressed in an official robe from the sixth grade, standing high on horseback, five hundred cavalry opened the way, surrounded by three hundred brocade guards, waving flags, and behind him was a long convoy of prisoners.

"Let's go!" As soon as Xu Jin gave the order, the team set off and went straight to the Yellow River wharf, watching the team go away, and the local officials who stood at the gate of the city to see them off breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally sent this fateful Buddha away, Amitabha!

Xu Jin returned to Beijing this time and took more than 100 major prisoners into custody, while the others continued to be held in the Jinan prison, waiting for the final verdict of the Criminal Department.

The most striking thing about Xu Jin's team entering Beijing was naturally the more than 100 prisoners in the prisoner car, followed by the chests full of gold, silver and jewelry, which were all confiscated from the prisoners, and filled thousands of boxes, with a total estimated price of more than 3 million taels, but these were to be handed over to the state treasury.