After a while, a large group of people had gathered around Qiu Ming, and they were complaining. It turned out that everyone in the world knew that Qiu City was a goose that could lay golden eggs, and Liu Bei couldn't collect taxes, so he naturally set his sights on here. But he is not a stupid person, he knows that this is Qiuming's heart, and he will definitely fight to the death with him, which makes Liu Bei hesitate a little. At this moment, Cui Jie, the county lieutenant who had been trapped at home and was like a waste, seemed to have suddenly returned to his soul and sued Wang Hu in court with a piece of paper in his hand.

Wang Hu was appointed by the city of Tyuming, and the autumn market has been able to flourish in recent years, and Wang Hu has contributed a lot. However, before Tyuming was in Dengzhou, Wang Hu originally opened a black market in Wuli Tomb, and he had done countless bad things, and it was conceivable that there were black materials in Cui Jie's hands, but I didn't expect Cui Jie to make trouble at this time.

Wang Hu has always been arrogant, and he relied on himself to be a person from Qiuming, so he ignored Liu Bei's questioning, and denied all of Cui Jie's accusations. But Cui Jie has collected all these years, and the evidence is already conclusive, and Liu Bei didn't bother to talk nonsense with Wang Hu, so he directly asked Guan Yu to kill him in the court, which also made many of the tricks prepared by Guo Jia come to naught.

After Liu Bei beheaded Wang Hu, he immediately announced his many crimes, and at the same time appointed Jian Yong as the new city cao to take over all Wang Hu's duties.

Jian Shicao was an orthodox scholar, and from the bottom of his bones, he believed that heavy agriculture and suppressing commerce was the king, so he greatly increased the entry tax and market tax, and abolished the use of the autumn flag and replaced it with a new reserve flag. As soon as this order came out, it only took a few days to make the market wither, but Jian Yong was still complacent, thinking that he could finally persuade the people to return to the right path of talking about mulberry and hemp, as for the reduction of taxes, it was not something he needed to consider.

The merchants in Dengzhou City fled one after another, and the follow-up merchants naturally refused to come to the door again when they heard this situation, so the flow of people in Nieyang Town dropped sharply, and those townspeople who provided services for the merchants to make a living naturally complained, and they had no good impression of Liu Bei.

If these people were just complaining, Qiu Ming could be said to be angry at this time, he couldn't have imagined that Liu Bei would dare to kill his people, and also ruined his autumn market in a mess. Under his urging, the convoy completed the rest of the journey at an unusual speed, and in less than an hour and a half, the city tower of Dengzhou had already appeared in view.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Qiu Ming beat the horse Rufei and went straight to the county office, Cheng Yu was afraid that he would lose, so he hurriedly arranged for Zhou Tai and Dian Wei to follow, but he asked Guoyuan to lead the way to find Guo Jia, and by the way, he sent Ying'er and his party to Qiufu first. Zhang Fei looked left and right, and finally gritted his teeth and followed the direction of the Qiu Ming County Office.

I have to say that Liu Bei is still a responsible county magistrate, although the sun has set westward, but he is still carefully checking the official documents in the county office. Several scribes brought piles of scrolls from the treasury in a trotting position, most of them were already covered with ashes, and many of them were already broken, but Liu Bei buried almost his entire head in the scrolls, reciting and studying them word by word, and from time to time he discussed with Guan Yu and Cui Jie, who were standing aside.

Qiu Ming Dong ran into the public hall in a few steps, and said loudly: "Liu Xuande, why did you kill my people?" ”

Liu Bei raised his head from the case and said with a smile: "Zecheng is back?" Sit down, sit down. ”

Qiu Ming waved his hand angrily: "Don't make those false ones, you say, why do you want to kill Wang Hu?" ”

Seeing Qiuming's aggressive attitude, Guan Yu was furious, raised his silkworm eyebrows, opened Danfeng's eyes, and pulled out a single knife from his waist to kill Qiuming. When Liu Bei saw it, he hurriedly shook his head, and Dian Wei behind Qiu Ming also raised his halberd to greet him. Seeing Liu Bei like this, Guan Yu had no choice but to withdraw his sword again, but his gaze intersected with Dian Wei's gaze in the air, and almost burst out of sparks.

Liu Bei saw Zhang Fei follow Qiu Ming in, put down a big stone in his heart, and his attitude became more and more calm: "Since Qiu Xiancheng asked about this, Wang Hu did evil and caused trouble to the people, and it is really not enough for the people to be angry if he doesn't kill him." You see, this is a paper of paper from the people. ”

Qiu Ming took the stack of papers handed over by Liu Bei, and threw them into the sky without looking at them, and in an instant, countless papers were like flying in the sky, slowly spilling on the ground between the two, and through the chaotic falling papers, Qiu Ming vaguely saw Liu Bei's knife-like smile.

Liu Bei stopped the impulse of Guan and Zhang with gestures, and continued to laugh: "What, Qiuxian Cheng is trying to destroy the evidence?" ”

Qiu Ming said with a straight face: "Wang Hu is my person, how can you kill him if you say this, besides, he is also an official of the imperial court, and the case will naturally be handed over to Yousi for trial, how can he be so careless of people's lives?" ”

Liu Bei's face also stiffened: "Since you are an official of the imperial court, why does the county minister say that it is your person?" Could it be that you colluded with each other and bent the law for bribes? Qiuming was suddenly asked by him, and he couldn't think of how to refute it in a hurry, but Liu Bei continued: "As for the trial, I heard that Cao Guoyuan, the law of this county, was taken to Luoyang by you and has never returned, and the backlog of cases in the county is piling up, I don't know what explanation you have for Qiuming?" ”

Qiu Ming was dumbfounded by his series of arrow-like questions, and was thinking hard about countermeasures, Liu Bei said again: "As far as this official knows, the county of a county should have assisted the county order to grasp the people's feelings, channel the people's grievances, and improve the people's livelihood, why has the official been in the county for more than half a month, and has never seen Qiu Xiancheng once?" ”

Qiu Ming faintly felt that something was wrong, but at this time, he had to bow his head under the low eaves, he only hugged his fists and said: "Xiaguan was ordered by the Huangfu chariot to ride the army, and went to Luoyang to help the army, and ...... before."

Liu Bei interrupted him and said, "There was an order from Luoyang to come here before, and the official also received it, so I can't blame you for this matter." But now that you've returned to Dengzhou, you should always meet with the official. ”

Qiu Ming's heart was shocked, it turned out that Liu Bei had talked so much about it for this purpose. Although it is reasonable, it seems that there is no problem in meeting Shangguan, but since Liu Bei has played an official tone, there must be a trap behind him, and this time he can't let him lead the way anymore. But it's only been a few months, how did the big-eared thief become so powerful? There must be a master behind to guide you.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Qiu Ming's face: "It stands to reason that I should indeed meet the county magistrate, but Qiu Ming has something to do, so I really can't be courteous." ”

Seeing Qiu Ming's smile, Liu Bei secretly screamed in his heart, he didn't deal with Qiu Ming once or twice, once Qiu Ming showed such a smile, he was generally holding back the bad water. Zhang Fei also saw that something was wrong, and was about to step forward with a loud shout, but Qiu Ming took out a gold medal from his arms and put it on top of his head: "You all kneel down for me." ”