It was night, the insects chirping outside the window, Xu Jin and Xiao Huai were discussing in a low voice across the coffee table in the house. As for the eunuch Huang Jin, this afternoon he rushed to Yuncheng County with 200 brocade guards to check the granary.

After the incident in Fan County, Xiao Huai suspected that the regular liquidation of other counties also had a deficit, so he decided to spot check the granaries of nearby counties with lightning speed. Huang Jin obviously wanted to make up for his mistakes, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to be responsible for checking the granaries of each county, and said ruthlessly that this time he would not miss even a grain of mouse feces in the granary.

Xiao Huai didn't want to use Huang Jin's, but there was really no manpower around him, and Xu Jin, his right-hand man, felt cold, so it was obviously inappropriate to travel again at this time, so he could only agree to let Huang Jin be in charge of checking the granary.

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Xu Jin sneezed loudly, he had a cold last night, and when he got up in the morning, he only felt an itchy throat, and at this time his throat was even more faintly painful, and he also had some headaches and nasal congestion, which was quite uncomfortable!

Xiao Huai said with concern: "Ziqian, your wind and cold seem to be getting more and more serious. ”

"It's okay, just go back and fry a few pills!" Xu Jin said lightly.

Xiao Huai said solemnly: "Although Ziqian is young, he can't be sloppy, hurry up and go back and rest, have a good rest these days, and the old man will handle official affairs." ”

Xu Jin was feeling uncomfortable, and he couldn't ask for anything when he heard the words, and was about to get up to say goodbye and leave, when Lu Xing, a thousand households in Jinyiwei, walked in and reported: "My lord, the brothers below have investigated the situation in Zou Zhubo's family clearly, there is only one old wife, and there are six idiots who can't take care of themselves, and the family is indeed very hard. And he didn't eat the public dinner last night, so he took it home and gave it to his wife and children. ”

Xu Jin was stunned and asked, "Six idiots? What's going on? ”

Lu Xing explained: "Zou Zhubo and his wife Fan have a total of two sons, strange to say, Zou Zhubo and Fan are normal people, but both sons are idiots, and later the two couples adopted four abandoned idiots. ”

Xu Jin's heart suddenly seemed to be blocked by something, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were originally low, such as the county order of the seventh grade, the monthly salary was only 7.5 stones, and the main thin of the ninth grade was only 5.5 stones, if you were not greedy at all, it would be difficult to maintain life at all, especially some county orders also supported the staff master.

Zou Qian actually raised six idiots who couldn't take care of themselves in one go, and he was not greedy, no wonder he lived so poorly, an official robe was sewn and mended for more than ten years, and he was reluctant to eat, so he took it all home to feed his wife and children.

Xiao Huai sighed and said: "Let the Zou master be buried thinly, and the bereavement pension will be given according to the official duty." ”

Lu Xing was ordered to retreat, and Xu Jin also said goodbye sullenly and left, and he lived in the courtyard next door.

After Xu Jin left, Xiao Huai immediately went to the study, opened a blank notebook and began to write the secret fold.

Due to Xu Jin's reminder, Xiao Huai deliberately did not expand the case when he tried the case today, and in the end, Gou Zhixian and Lai Xiancheng also took the initiative to take all the blame and did not bite out others.

However, it can be seen from the fact that Yanzhou Wei commanded the envoy to smuggle grain to replenish the warehouse, and the case of Fan Dao's grain deficit was not so simple, at least the commander Ji Fengchun and Shouzhang County ordered Ma Debing to be unclean, because the grain that replenished the warehouse was transported from Shouzhang County.

Why did Ma Debing, the commander of Shouzhang County, help Fan County replenish his position? This is even more intriguing, if the two counties can be coordinated in series, plus the Yanzhou Wei command envoy is mobilized, I am afraid that only Song Chi, the prefect of Yanzhou, will there be a bigger umbrella above Song Chi?

Obviously, the deficit of the granary in Fan County is only the tip of the iceberg, and it is estimated that the granaries of other counties are also in deficit, which may be a major case involving the entire Yanzhou Prefecture and even the entire Shandong Province.

Therefore, Xiao Huai did not dare to act rashly, he had to write a secret letter and report it urgently, asking the emperor to give him more power, at least the power to mobilize the troops of neighboring provinces.

In fact, Xiao Huai put forward a request to transfer Henan to Dewei on the secret fold. Of course, Xiao Huai didn't think that these magistrates would dare to poison Qincha, but it was always good to be prepared, after all, it was involved in the local guards, and it was really unpredictable that these soldiers would be ruthless.

Xiao Huai finished writing the notebook and blew dry the ink, then sealed it with fire paint, and then covered it with Qincha Guanfang, and ordered Jinyiwei to send it to the post station for 800 miles and send it to Beijing urgently.

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"The cold evil has entered the body, the situation is more serious, these days the good life will be raised, don't move around anymore!" Li Shizhen solemnly warned Xu Jin after taking the pulse.

In this era when there are no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, a small cold and flu may kill people, Xu Jin naturally did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly nodded and agreed, even if the sky fell in the next few days, he would not care anymore.

Li Shizhen told Xu Jin some taboo food like a little adult, and then went to the kitchen to decoct the medicine, he is now Xu Jin's servant and personal doctor.

Xu Jin drank two bowls of boiled water with a grunt, and then asked Erniu to call Jin Biao, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, in.

Soon, Jin Baihu came in, his legs were like a slingshot, and he looked smiling proudly, probably making a lot of benefits from today's raid.

It is said that a total of more than 30,000 taels of silver, more than 2,000 taels of gold, and a large number of jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings were copied out in the Zhixian Gou Fang's home. And Lai County's family also copied out more than 10,000 taels of silver.

It can be seen that "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", this sentence is not an exaggeration at all, a seven-grade county order can accumulate such a large amount of wealth, not to mention the five-grade prefect.

Jin Baihu walked to Xu Jin and saluted: "Mark down to see your lord!" ”

"Got a lot of benefits today, right?" Xu Jin glanced at the goods and said lightly.

Jin Baihu scratched his head and sneered: "My lord Mingjian, the brothers took a few hard-earned money!" ”

"What are you nervous about, the official is not for you to spit it out, when the water is clear, there is no fish, it is understandable for the brothers to do things and get some benefits, but it can't be too much, otherwise don't blame the official for not thinking about it."

Xu Jin's eyes stared sharply at Jin Baihu, when the eunuchs Zhang Zhong and Xu Tai were in Nanchang in the name of arresting Ning Wang Yu's party, they wantonly extorted money, causing many people to die, Xu Jin's identity could not be controlled at that time, but now he has the ability to restrain his Jinyi Guard, so he naturally has to say something to beat it, lest these guys do something hurtful.

Jin Baihu's palms were sweating, he did take a beautiful little girl in Gou Zhixian County as his own today, he wanted to be cool tonight, but now he was stared at by Xu Jin like this, and his heart was so weak that he couldn't do it, and secretly decided to let go of the person later, and said: "Yes, yes, I will pay attention to it after the mark!" ”

Xu Jin didn't know that he knocked casually, but he actually saved the innocence of a young girl, and ordered Er Niu to take fifty taels of silver and hand it to Jin Biao, and instructed: "You personally send these silver taels to Zou Zhubo's house, if there are any difficulties in his house, you can help solve them." ”

Jin Biao couldn't help but smack his tongue secretly, and at the same time was a little ashamed, took the silver two and said solemnly: "Don't worry, my lord, if you dare to be greedy for half a tael under these silver marks, the sky will thunder!" ”

Xu Jin said calmly: "Don't say half a tael, dare to move half a penny, the official will collapse you with his own hands!" ”

"Mark that dare!" Jin Biao shrunk his neck and sneered, he only watched Xu Jin collapse with his own eyes today.

After sending Jin Baihu away, Xu Jin drank the medicine of Xiao Lizi decoction and fell into a deep sleep, which obviously contained a medicine to calm the nerves.

Xu Jin slept peacefully, but tonight someone was destined to have no sleep, at this moment the prefect Song Chi and the same acquaintance Zhang Wensheng were so anxious that they couldn't sleep, and they were secretly discussing countermeasures.

Although Gou Zhi County did not confess to them today, Xiao Huai had already sent people to inspect the granaries of other counties, so sooner or later the incident would still occur, and if no measures were taken to remedy it, then he could only sit and wait.

Also sleepless tonight was Zhao Quan of the White Lotus Sect, who was walking around the hall anxiously at this time, while the thin man Qiu Fu was sharpening his knife in the courtyard, and there was a two-stone bow next to him.

"Quanzi, Uncle Shi just calculated, that Xu Jin is destined to clash with you!" A guy dressed as a Taoist priest sitting at the coffee table pinched his fingers and sighed pretendingly.

After the failure of King Ning's rebellion, Li naturally fled back to Shanxi and took refuge in Lu Mingzhen, the head of the White Lotus Sect, renamed Li Zixin, and made a household registration through the relationship, and now he has come out again after the rumors.

Zhao Quan said lightly: "Uncle Shi's little ability is better to fool others, don't be embarrassed here, everyone knows the roots, it's just a joke." ”

Li Zixin was suddenly choked with red faces, and snorted coldly: "Zhao Quan, how can you speak, I am your uncle." ”

Li Zixin and the head of the White Lotus Sect, Lu Mingzhen, are brothers, the two used to be at odds, Li Zixin went south to Jiangxi alone to join King Ning, instigating King Ning to rebel, but King Ning's rebellion failed, and he had to flee back to Shanxi to join his brother Lu Mingzhen. Therefore, the descendants and disciples of the sect leader like Qiu Fu looked down on Li Zixin in their hearts, and they rarely gave him respect as an uncle.

Zhao Quan is better, he is very deep in the city, and he still respects Li Zixin on the surface, but he is in a bad mood now, so he speaks more impulsively.

"Uncle Li, I'm sorry, my nephew doesn't choose to say anything for a while, don't worry about it!" Zhao Quan said apologetically, but there was disdain hidden in his eyes.

Li Zixin snorted coldly and said: "Quanzi, don't believe it, this Xu Jin has a strange face, King Ning wanted to take him for his own use, but in the end he missed the opportunity, and as a result, this son later led his troops to Nanchang." Therefore, don't underestimate this Xu Jin, if you can kill him, you should kill him as soon as possible, otherwise he will become your fierce rival in the future. ”

Zhao Quan's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said that as soon as Xu Jin came, he ruined his own major events one after another, and today he even captured Qiu Er alive, as well as several new disciples. For Qiu Er, Zhao Quan is still relieved, but it is difficult to say about those new entrants, if they confess completely, then I am afraid that they will immediately die in the world.

Therefore, Zhao Quan must save people before being exposed, or extinguish his mouth!

"Damn, is this surnamed Xu really in conflict with Lao Tzu!" Zhao Quan secretly clenched his fists, and really regretted that he didn't kill Xu Jin in the broken temple back then.