Early the next morning, someone found a sack tied up in a secluded alley in Lin'an County, and if you kick it, the sack will still squirm inside, as if it contains some living thing.

When people untied the sack, they found that it contained a man with a big tie and a ball of rags in his mouth.

Someone soon recognized that the person who was tied up like a dumpling turned out to be the son of the county magistrate, so he hurriedly reported to the official.

Bai Zhi didn't suffer much, but he was scared enough, he thought that he was going to be killed by those fierce kidnappers, and when he saw Mrs. Bai, he cried bitterly, crying and scolding the kidnappers who kidnapped people, and asked Mrs. Bai to send out all the soldiers in the county government to find those kidnappers to settle accounts.

Originally, after Bai Lan was kidnapped, he was extremely arrogant, and asked those kidnappers to put him back, otherwise when his father came back from Hangzhou City, he would send someone to destroy those kidnappers.

Seeing that the incandescent noise was non-stop, a kidnapper with five big and three thick went up and gave him a few mouths, which made his eyes glow and the corners of his mouth oozed blood.

At this moment, Bai Zhi finally became honest and realized that these fierce guys in front of him were not afraid of his father, and the reason why he usually ran rampant in Lin'an County was because of his father Bai Dezhang, and now that Bai Dezhang couldn't suppress those kidnappers, he didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, for fear that those kidnappers would kill him with a knife.

"Mother, you see what they beat me, I reported my father's name and they still beat me, where are they beating me, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, they make it clear that they want their father to look good, and they must be caught and repaired."

In the backyard of the county government in Lin'an County, the obese Bai Zhi pulled Mrs. Bai to let Mrs. Bai look at his red and swollen cheeks and cry, and said viciously, when did he suffer such a big loss since he was a child, so he wanted to take revenge on those kidnappers, completely unaware that he compared himself to a "dog".

This made Zhang Gu and other officials of the county government standing aside couldn't help frowning slightly, everyone knew that incandescent was not learned, and there was no ink in his stomach, so he repeatedly spoke outright, although everyone has become accustomed to it, but today's incandescent words are not a metaphor for the county magistrate is also a dog.

"Master Zhang, you went to meet those merchants from Nanzhili yesterday, and today Chi'er was put back, so Chi'er is tied up by them?" Madame Bai looked at the few slap marks on the incandescent white chubby face distressedly, and then asked Zhang Gu coldly.

"Madam, they don't know each other here, it is impossible for them to do it, it must be that the kidnappers heard the wind and were scared, so they let the son come back."

Zhang Gu suddenly felt bad in his heart when he heard this, as the saying goes, a loving mother is a corrupt child, and Incandescent is spoiled by Mrs. Bai, and it is just a matter of being flying in Lin'an County, after all, Bai Dezhang is the magistrate of the county who can clean up the mess for Incandescent, but the young couple who came back to Lin'an this time have a great background at a glance, otherwise they would not have tied Incandescent, so he rolled his eyes and said to Mrs. Bai with a smile, "Maybe it's just a coincidence." ”

"It's not a coincidence, it must have been those guys who did it, Young Master Ben saw with his own eyes that the kidnappers were polite to her, they must be in a group."

After finding out that the merchant in Mrs. Bai's mouth was Li Yuntian and his party, Bai Lan jumped up from the ground and shouted at Zhang Gu, "Kidnapping the family members of the imperial court officials is a big crime to kill the head, Master Zhang, you quickly send someone to arrest them, they will run away if it's too late!" ”

"Childe, there is no evidence to prove that they did it, so we can't act rashly." Zhang Gu said to Bai Zhi with a smile on his face, "It's better to do this, this official will send someone to follow them, if they really have an affair with those kidnappers, this official will definitely arrest them." ”

"They did it, as long as they are tortured, they will honestly confess." Bai Zhi sneered, but he knew that the county government had some criminal detention to extract confessions, and as long as it was used by Li Yuntian and others, he didn't believe that Li Yuntian and others would not honestly confess according to his wishes.

"Childe, there is one thing that the official is now verifying, the official suspects that this group of merchants is not as simple as ordinary people, and they must have a great background, if we act rashly, I am afraid that we will cause trouble for the county lord." Zhang Gu knew that Incandescent was a pure playboy, and until now he hadn't felt that Li Yuntian and his party had a deep background, so he groaned for a while and looked at Incandescent with a stern expression.

"Going to cause trouble for my dad?" Bai Zhi was stunned when he heard this, it was Bai Dezhang who relied on, if this matter couldn't even bear Bai Dezhang, it would be troublesome.

"Childe, Nanzhili is an important place in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many princes and magnates living there, so let's not provoke people from there lightly." Zhang Gu knew that the reason why Bai Incandescent was doing evil was because of Bai Dezhang's protection, if even Bai Dezhang himself could not be protected, then how could he protect him? Therefore, Zhang Gu said solemnly to the incandescent business.

"This ......" Bai Zhi immediately wilted when he heard this, in case Li Yuntian and the others were bigger than Bai Dezhang, then let alone revenge, maybe they would be repaired by the other party.

"Childe, according to this official, let's wait and see what happens, and then it's not too late to do it when we find out their details." Zhang Gu knew that Incandescent had flinched, so he found him a step under and spoke.

"Okay, just do what you want." Hearing this, Incandescent nodded again and again, it was his usual habit of bullying people, so he was afraid that people with a deeper background than him would bully him, and he would not even have a place to cry at that time.

Yang Wen, the county magistrate of Lin'an County, watched the scene in front of him coldly, originally after Bai Dezhang left Lin'an County to go to Hangzhou City, he was in charge of the affairs of the Lin'an County Ya, but Zhang Gu relied on Bai Dezhang to set it up, so that the current person in charge of the Lin'an County Ya is not him, the county man, but the chief bookkeeper Zhang Gu.

It can also be seen from the kidnapping of Incandescent that Mrs. Bai trusts Zhang Gu the most, and Zhang Gu is also busy running outside and running back and forth, after all, he is a native of Lin'an County and has been a secretary for many years, and he is familiar with the three sects and nine streams in the county, and soon targeted Li Yuntian and his party who had just arrived.

Although Yang Wen was quite dissatisfied with the incandescent overstepping of power, Bai Dezhang stood behind Yang Wen, and he could only secretly endure it, wanting to see what kind of fate Zhang Gu, who did a lot of dirty things on weekdays, would end up after Bai Dezhang was transferred.

Li Yuntian was not worried about the trouble that Incandescent came to him, because Zhang Gu was a smart person and would definitely stop Incandescent from doing such a stupid thing, so he met with the cloth merchants in the county seat of Lin'an County under the guidance of Li Zixi, and also visited merchants in other industries by the way, and expressed his intention to do business with these merchants.

Originally, Zhang Gu was still a little wary of Li Yuntian, after all, this is an extraordinary period, and the case of Liu Qing and the Liu family has not yet been decided, and God knows what Li Yuntian and these outsiders are doing in Lin'an County.

However, when he learned that Li Yuntian was very familiar with the things in the business field, and Li Yuntian also brought Lei Ting by his side, Zhang Gu dispelled the vigilance in his heart, in his opinion, Li Yuntian was just a businessman's child.

Through Guò's contact with the merchants of Lin'an County, Li Yuntian learned a lot about the past of Lin'an County, and had a deeper understanding of the grievances and entanglements between Zhang Gu and Liu Qing.

For example, Baimi Town in Lin'an County is a place where rice is concentrated, and there are many bad rules when the people finish their grain: there is fire consumption when handing over silver, and there is a discount on grain and rice, and when measuring rice, they have to kick three times to make the rice fall from the bucket to reduce the weight, and the grain farmers are not allowed to clean up the grain and rice that falls on the ground.

Since the big grain households all had private dealings with Zhang Gu, it was those small and medium-sized grain households who were oppressed, making them severely exploited and miserable.

Obviously, Zhang Gu spent a lot of money in order to get the position of the chief bookkeeper, and he naturally had to get it back after he took office now, otherwise he would not have lost his capital, and the officials in the sixth room of the county government were all his old subordinates before, so they were naturally handy to use, and quietly seized the power of the county government, and very smoothly set up the county Cheng Yang Wen.

Liu Qing's wealthy family hated Zhang Gu's approach, so he handed over grain and rice on behalf of those poor grain households, and wrote a complaint on their behalf to the county government to sue the grain Xu Ke to deduct the floating income, asking the government to eliminate the disadvantages of money and grain accumulation and reduce the additional burden on grain households.

However, under Zhang Gu's instructions, the grain collector of Baimi Town slandered Liu Qing for instigating grain farmers not to pay, and when handing over the rice, he profited from it.

Bai Dezhang, the magistrate of the county, tried the case, and finally determined that there was nothing wrong with the behavior of the grain collector in Baimi Town, and what Liu Qing said in his complaint was purely out of thin air, and those grain farmers were afraid of Zhang Gu's obscenity in the court and did not dare to testify, which finally made Bai Dezhang expel Liu Qing, who was arguing with reason, on the grounds of roaring in court.

If it weren't for Liu Qing's fame, he would inevitably suffer a meal, Zhang Gu was quite ridiculed for Liu Qing, and the disadvantages of Baimi Town's money and food were still the same.

Liu Qing was angry, so he took advantage of the night to paste a pair on the wall of the county office: "The law of the two kings of the Ming Dynasty, the two feudal platforms of Zhejiang Province." ”

Emperor Xuande implemented the national policy of resting with the people, and explicitly forbade the use of kicks when measuring rice, and the political envoys in various places also issued notices, and the overflowing rice was allowed to be swept by grain households, but in fact, just like Lin'an County, the bad habits of the servants in the Ming Dynasty were still bad when collecting rice grain.

There is no other reason, one is that those errand soldiers want to make a profit from it, and the other is that their salaries are paid by the county government, and the county government usually does not have this fund, so they have to find their own way.

This pair quickly spread in Hangzhou Mansion, and Han Liang, the prefect of Hangzhou at the time, secretly sent someone to investigate thoroughly after learning about it, and as a result, the illegal collection of grain in Baimi Town was exposed, and the grain official in charge of collecting grain was severely punished.

Zhang Gu was also implicated, if it weren't for Bai Dezhang's intercession, I am afraid he would have been removed from the post of editor-in-chief by Han Liang, which also made Zhang Gu hate Liu Qing even more.