The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 492 Official Shake (1)

In the gazebo in the backyard of the yamen of the magistrate of Yangzhou, two middle-aged men in official robes were playing chess, and a servant next to him was holding a small shop fan, boiling a pot of tea, and the fragrance of the tea was overflowing.

The middle-aged man sitting at the top was stroking his beard and looking at the chessboard in front of him, looking calm and confident, smiling silently.The other person thought for a moment, then gently raised the white chess piece in his hand and placed it on the chessboard.

The middle-aged man stroking his beard smiled and was about to speak when a servant came over and reported the news he had received. After listening, the middle-aged man waved his hand and told all the servants to leave, leaving only him in the pavilion. and chess friends.

The chess player asked: "Master Gao, it seems that the Zhao family is completely finished, and the Supreme Emperor cannot protect him. What should we do next?"

That Master Gao was none other than Gao Liangyu, the magistrate of Yangzhou. He was stroking his beard with his hands, calm and composed. He raised his sunspot and took a step forward. He drank a cup of hot tea and said with a slight smile:

"Brother Kangda, are you trying to test me? Over there is the Yangzhou Salt Inspector's Office. They caught salt merchants doing illegal things in resisting taxes. They executed them and reported them afterwards. It was in full compliance with the procedures. Even if I went there, there was nothing I could do. !”

"What your lord said is true, but the immediate massacre is indeed a shocking event. We, the Yangzhou prefect, don't care about it, and it's hard for us to deal with it when someone asks about it afterwards."

It was Li Kangda, Tong Zhi of Yangzhou Prefecture, who spoke to Gao Liangyu.

As an assistant to the Gao Prefecture, Li Kangda was responsible for local affairs such as salt, grain, catching robbers, sorting out military status, and appeasing the people and barbarians. The local safety of Yangzhou City naturally fell under his control.

But what happened in Yangzhou today is a big deal.

The top two leaders of the Yangzhou government are all government officials who focus on the big and let go of the small. They must decide on a strategy before they can act.

"It doesn't matter," Gao Liangyu paused and sneered: "Given Lin Ruhai's courage, he wouldn't dare to massacre the people of Yangzhou. Their target is always the gang of salt merchants in Yangzhou. Those salt merchants are used to living comfortably. I can't stand his offensive at all. I'll just wait and see what happens, the salt merchants change every ten years, and changing a batch now is nothing more than picking peaches for future generations."

Li Kangda was slightly taken aback, then slowly nodded and said: "Your Excellency's words are true, but the lower officials are stupid! It's just that the lower officials are worried, the Zhao family will be so angry that they will bite at will."

Gao Liangyu looked in the direction of the Zhao family, and said with a look of surprise in his eyes: "It is the Zhao family's fault to raise dead soldiers and besiege the yamen! It's normal to bite at will. Don't worry, I have communicated with Lin Ruhai for a long time. People are also born with seven orifices and exquisite hearts, and they will not cross the boundary! His thug, Chen Zhao, is even more shrewd."

"With an adult in charge, I can rest assured."

……

With the final word from the Yangzhou magistrate, the Yangzhou magistrate's yamen, the Jiangdu county yamen under its jurisdiction, as well as the Huaiyang Road, Liang Road, Hegong Road, and the military officials' yamen at all levels are all very quiet, and no one is in his early years.

The Yangzhou officialdom looked on with cold eyes, but the salt merchants were frightened. The people with the surname Li and the surname Wang no longer had any wisdom at this moment, and they were arrogant and arrogant.
Everyone was in their own homes, listening to the frightening report, each of them collapsed on the chair weakly, with a look of fear in their eyes.Although each of them has a fox-like heart, they are all helpless in the face of the Xunyan Yushi Yamen who does not follow the routine and directly lifts the table and takes a knife.

"I only hope that the Zhao family will be destroyed. Lin Ruhai and Chen Zhao should calm down and stop!"

I don't know how many people are praying there.

When the Zhao family members were escorted to Xunyan Yushi Yamen, Lin Ruhai directly waved his hand and escorted these people to prison.

Chen Zhao arranged the matter to Sun Xiaodong.

"In one night, all the documents have been arranged, and I want to make this matter an iron case." Chen Zhao said.

"Yes!" Sun Xiaodong bowed his hands and hurried away.

It wasn't until this time that the entire Yanyan Yushi Yamen quieted down, and other government offices at all levels in Yangzhou City arranged for officials to come over to inquire about news.

In front of the corpses of hundreds of people, those guys, no matter how close they were to the Zhao family, became terrified.

What's more, Chen Zhao did a lot of tricks, killed the Jiangyang robbers captured during the siege of private salt, and put them in it, completely confirming the evil deeds of the salt merchants.

Especially when he came to the patrolling Yan Yushi's Yamen, he was so frightened that he couldn't straighten up when he saw the shining knives and guns one by one.

Naturally, Lin Ruhai would not meet these people, and Chen Zhao was too lazy to see them, so the governor Liu Xiangshan received the officials.

……

Gao Liangyu and Li Kangda were sitting in the backyard of Yangzhou magistrate's yamen, listening to the news that the officials under him got from patrolling Yan Yushi's yamen:

"I would like to report to the first and second lords that the people who patrolled the Salt Censor's Yamen left dozens of people to confiscate the Zhao family's property. The approximate amount has been counted. There are 500 million taels of gold and silver alone. The remaining properties, shops, and antiques are worth no less than a thousand dollars. Wan. At this moment, the patrolmen escorting the Zhao family have returned to patrol Yan Yushi's Yamen, and there seems to be no sign of leaving."

Hearing that the Zhao family had so much property, even Li Kangda, who was very knowledgeable, couldn't help but be surprised, and sighed: "No wonder Lin Ruhai dared to clean up the Zhao family, no wonder those Yan Ding are so fierce, the wealth really touches people's hearts! This family alone, It will make Lin Ruhai a heavy addition to the emperor's heart."

Why did the emperor ask Lin Ruhai to come to Yangzhou?
Of course it was money.

As long as Lin Ruhai can gain a firm foothold, provide the emperor with enough gold and silver, give the emperor room to flex his muscles, and allow the emperor to sit firmly on the throne, then he will be a great hero, and he will surely rise to the top and become an important minister of the court.

As for the killing of several salt merchants, they were criticized by the court ministers in various ways, and the memorial to impeach Lin Ruhai flooded the entire palace.The emperor doesn't care at all.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which Yangzhou patrol salt censor has not been impeached by the government and the opposition?

Seeing Gao Liangyu groaning silently, Li Kangda continued: "My lord is really good at predicting things. It seems that our Censor Lin has already established his prestige, and we are about to stop!"

Stroking his beard, Gao Liangyu said humbly, "Lin Ruhai is a little younger after all, and not old enough. If he can be ruthless and kill a few more salt merchants, then this old man will give him a high opinion! But listen to me today. According to people, this subordinate of Lin Ruhai, Chen Zhao, a ninth-rank petty official, has some tricks."

Li Kangda said: "In my opinion, although this Chen Zhao is ruthless, has strong martial arts skills, and can perform his duties as an inspection to the fullest, he is still young and it is not a good thing to show too much edge. It is unknown what will happen to him in the future."

Gao Liangyu nodded: "That's right, what brother Li said is very true. I heard that this Chen Zhao is the son of Chen Shiyan, a friend of Lin Yushi's same list. It's just that why did this Lin Ruhai stop? Could it be that he was afraid? Didn't dare to kill after all?"

Li Kangda's face froze when he heard the words, but he didn't agree with Gao Liangyu's judgment.

(End of this chapter)