Whoever is the ruler of the world can determine the future of the people of the world. A single decision made by a person in charge often changes the fate of many people.

Zong Ze, who was on the sickbed, was persuaded by Liu Xing and signed a "merger order" with Liu Xing. From Liaobei and Liaodong in the north, to the border of Liangguang in the south, from the coast of the Bohai Sea in the east, to Qinghai in Ningxia in the west, a scene was staged in the next few days in the Great Song Dynasty, which made the world feel another surprising scene.

Countless county magistrates of thousands of small counties rushed to the higher-level yamen to plead with the prefect and strive for them to be appointed as the prefect of the new county seat after the retrenchment and merger.

There are even some county magistrates in the middle of the county, as soon as they receive the decree issued by the Heavenly Council, they dismiss their servants on the same night, and let the women in the family cry loudly and pack their bags in a gloomy manner.

Of course, if there is reluctance to accept the reality and wait for the resignation of the official after the implementation of the decree, there will naturally be people who are unwilling to come up with many tricks to either resist the new policy or change their ways to compete for the post of magistrate of the new county after the future reduction and merger.

But those who are unwilling and have ulterior motives did not think of it. In fact, when Liu Xing made this decision, he had already dug a big hole for them.

What pit? That pit is called "punishing corrupt officials", but in fact, it is to let the prefects and prefectures everywhere engage in fishing and law enforcement.

How is fishing law enforcement? Liu Xing asked the officials to send another secret order to the chief officials of the state capitals and the governors of the provinces along with the Tianshu Order, in which Liu Xing made it clear that there were seven products and one county, worth 10,000 yuan. Five products and one state, need to take 50,000 yuan. If someone wants to be a prefect, don't agree if there is less than 100,000......

What happened to Liu Xing, who has always been greedy and jealous? All the prefects and governors were dumbfounded when they received the secret order, they didn't know what kind of medicine Liu Xing was selling in this gourd.

However, for the governors of the provinces, the habits of Liu Xing, the "first pit god in the world", are very clear. As soon as he received the order, not only Liang Xing and Wan Yafei, but even some political envoys, patrol envoys and inspection envoys in the governor's yamen guessed the true intention of Liu Xing's secret order.

Who doesn't know that Mrs. Liu, who dominates today, is an evil boy, and who doesn't know that Liu Xing is the best at digging pits and waiting for people to jump into it by themselves. Then no matter how talented and capable he is, he is destined to be born at the wrong time and is not suitable for mixing in the court of the Great Song Dynasty today.

Because people who don't know how to really clean themselves may be dug a pit by Liu Xing at any time. Because he is not a really honest and honest person, once he is caught by Liu Xing, there are only two endings.

Some of the better ones are dismissed from office, and from then on they can only learn from Tao Yuanming, who sells his reputation and reputation, and live the life of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence".

The worse ones will be miserable, not only will they lose their official positions, but they will also be taken to a harsh trial by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, and finally the whole family will be reduced to a criminal clan because of their corruption. At least his children and grandchildren will not want to be officials for three generations, and they will be directly moved to a desolate place to sleep, and the three generations will not be allowed to return to the Central Plains......

So what kind of pit did Liu Xing dig this time? Will anyone jump down?

This pit is the method of fishing, as for whether someone will jump down by themselves, Liu Xing's secret order was issued only a few days later, and the effect began to be seen.

The first person to fall into this pit was a county magistrate in Laizhou, Shandong. He was originally in charge of the county magistrate of Laizhou, a small county town near the Ning Navy, and in the process of the large-scale migration of the Ning Navy to the coastal areas and the transfer of large tracts of land to neighboring prefectures and counties, his county was the county that received the most land.

Hou Shengchen, the county commander, took advantage of the "great opportunity" of the Ning Navy to return farmland to production and go all out to train the army, and did not distribute the land to the local people from house to house in accordance with the decree of the Heavenly Council, nor did he use the land for recruiting displaced people.

Hou Shengchen got so much land, he didn't divide it, could it be that he wanted to be an official landlord himself? That's not it, no matter how greedy Hou Shengchen is, he still knows very well how powerful the secret agents of the Ministry of Military Intelligence are.

So how did he use the newfound land to satisfy his personal greed?

It is very surprising that the practice of Jean is to take advantage of the loopholes of the new law: the county government subcontracts and transfers the newly acquired land to all townships and villages, and then each township and village posts notices and subcontracts those lands in the name of leasing township and village properties.

It stands to reason that as long as there are real people to plant and can make the land feed the people, it is not too much. But that Hou Shengchen played a moth in the process of subcontracting.

How does he play tricks? In villages that want to get the right to subcontract, half of the 20 percent of the rent collected each year for one mu of land must be handed over to the county government. Moreover, when the land was contracted for 70 years at a time, he asked each village to pay a one-time "contract pledge" of seven dragon yuan per mu.

Pledge money, the land of the court is distributed to the people to plant, whoever contracts it will be expensive and who will protect it themselves, when will the pledge money come?

Those villages couldn't figure it out at first, and no one wanted to pay. Some squires directly sued him to the governor's yamen, saying that he was "cleverly setting up a name and taking advantage of it".

At that time, Liang Xingcai took over as the governor of Shandong, and he still led troops to guard the banks of the Surabaya River. Even the yamen of the governor of Shandong was moved from Jinan to the county seat of Surabaya by him.

was only busy dealing with the big Pixiu, and as soon as his political envoy reported, Liang Xing immediately replied with an order very impatiently: order Zhilai Prefecture to have full authority to investigate, and if it is really a violation of the law, the official will be dismissed and severely punished......

Liang Xing was a new official and did not know enough about the local situation in Shandong. He thought that his old strategy was hanging high in the sky, and the people below didn't dare to do anything illegal just when they heard his reputation, so they dared to let Zhizhou investigate and handle it with such a casual sentence.

It's a pity that Liang Xing didn't expect it. Everyone is afraid of the heavens, but everyone dares to take risks for their own interests.

The Governor of Laizhou is the one who dares to take risks for his own selfish interests, the guy who first became the magistrate of Jingou County, then the governor of the Southern Dynasty, and finally took advantage of the lack of officials under Wu Lan to drill the camp and mix into the governor of Laizhou.

After receiving Liang Xing's order, he directly threw a sentence to Hou Shengchen, who was sitting in front of him: Half of the income from your county government will be handed over to my state government, and I will help you carry this matter.

A governor and a magistrate are so colluded? Are they not afraid of death, don't know how ruthless Liu Xing is to corrupt officials, don't know whether Liang Xing has left the Ministry of Military Intelligence or there are still many secret agents who will report some Shandong matters to him?

They are afraid of death, so they do it really well! How? Neither of them stuffed the pledge money directly into their pockets, but put it in a local private bank account to deposit the principal and earn interest.

The two of them also made a fool of themselves with the head of the silver number, so that the public money was not interest-free, so that they fattened themselves by eating interest.

As soon as Hou Shengchen, who had fattened himself, heard that he was going to merge the county, and heard that Liu Xing had set the price of official positions at all levels, he immediately ran directly to the bank of the Surabaya River with a deposit receipt of 100,000 dragon yuan, and said to Liang Xing unashamedly: I will give you 100,000 yuan, and I will be a prefect.

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