Sui and Tang Dynasties: Beginning with Overlord Inheritance

Yu Shiji glanced at Li Siye, and said disdainfully: "If he is a corrupt official, it is even more impossible for him to use the money to repair the county government. Wouldn't it be better to use it for pleasure?"

Feeling contempt, Li Siye was furious. Considering that Yang Zhao was present, he glared at Yu Shiji and stopped talking.

The rest of the people remained silent. Yu Shiji was right. Corrupt officials would rather make the yamen tattered to look clean and clean to cover up their filth.

This point can only show that this Wang Chao is very good at attracting local gentry and repairing the yamen for him, which makes sense.

It turned out to be like this...Xu Maogong understood that if this was the case, Wang Chao would definitely welcome Yang Zhao when he revealed his unusual status.

But it doesn't explain the problem.

Seeing that everyone had finished digesting, Yang Zhao continued, "After going in, he came out in a hurry after a while. He was wearing an official uniform and had no extra accessories. He should be living in the backyard of the government office."

This sentence supports Yu Shiji's conjecture that corrupt officials have their own yards in order to enjoy life, and there is no need to continue to live in the county government.

Wang Chao didn't know that Yang Zhao would come, nor did he know his identity, which meant that this was normal.

Really a clean official?
Such speculations emerged in everyone's minds.

"For the purpose of making friends, I gave a jade pendant made of suet white jade, and he readily accepted it, with greed in his eyes."

It's inconsistent!
According to the previous analysis, there is nothing wrong with Wang Chao, even if he wins over the powerful and gentry, he is not a person who accepts gifts at will.

Repairing the county government office is just the kindness of the gentry, and Wang Chao's acceptance is understandable, which is a good thing.

But it was wrong to accept Yang Zhao's gift.

"He hides very deeply. Perhaps he has restrained himself after going through the gentry incident. Does living in the county government cover people's eyes?" Pei Ju frowned. He was involved in the gentry incident, and he knew that the ones who would be wiped out were at most those who were on the surface. Behind the scenes, there are still a lot of small tricks by the local government.

"It's possible, General Li, what's the situation at the government office?" Yu Shiji rarely agreed with Pei Ju's point of view, then thought of something, looked at Li Cunxiao and asked.

He asked about the external structure of the government office.

If the county magistrates were like this, as Wang Chao's superior sheriff, he would definitely not be a good guy.

Li Cunxiao made a memorandum, and said slowly: "In this way, the government office and the county office are generally the same."

Sure enough...Yu Shiji seemed to have grasped something, and his eyes lit up: "The case of the merchant, there is an explanation, the first guess may not be unfounded, the county guard is a fourth-rank, and the sixth-rank one, they are like dogs, Wang It might not be impossible for Chao to find Zhang Yong for help."

Then he looked at Yang Zhao and Xu Maogong. These two people were deeper than his city, and there might be other details that he didn't control.

"Master Yu is right." Xu Maogong nodded, and then changed the topic: "However, the relationship between the sixth rank of the court and the merchant is unknown, and the relationship between Wang Chao and Zhao Jian is also unknown."

"That's right, the court is only a sixth grade, so it may not be impossible to compete with a county guard." Pei Ju's words were very cryptic.

The aristocratic families are gradually declining, and the parties in the court have not disappeared. They can do things in the court without their backers.

In the final analysis, Zhang Yong was just a county guard, who stayed in Yuhang all the year round, and could not pose a threat to the officials in the court.

For example, Zhang Heng, the celebrity next to Yang Zhao, and the fourth-rank eunuch made Dai Zhou, who was in the second-rank official position, dare not offend.

Everyone present was at the top of the fourth rank per capita, and everyone knew it well, but with Yang Zhao around, Pei Ju dared not say it so blatantly.

Li Cunxiao and Mu Guiying are military generals, and they are directly under the control of Yang Zhao. They have no interest in the party struggle in the court, but it does not prevent them from hearing about it.

"This matter is on hold for the time being. Tomorrow, I have an appointment with Wang Chao to hold a banquet at Yueshun Tower. We will see his attitude then." Seeing that he couldn't make up his mind for a while, Yang Zhao asked everyone to go back to rest.

Before leaving, he stopped Li Cunxiao and Mu Guiying and said, "Go to the merchant's house tomorrow night to find out the general situation inside."

Back in the room, Yang Zhao sat at the table with deep eyes.

In the dark, Yang Zhao's intuition told him that there was a big problem in Yuhang.

Both the murder case and Wang Chao's performance made him feel strange, maybe the murder case is the key!
For no reason, this idea flashed in Yang Zhao's mind.

System prompt?
According to his past habits, everything he encountered was not a trivial matter, and the system would give targeted tasks and rewards.

Now the system is blocked by that force, yes, it is blocking, it was not intuition just now, it was a reminder from the system, but it has no way to show up directly.

That is to say, that force is not stronger than the system, it can only interfere.

Only after solving Li Shimin, the system can reappear, and then, use the system to find out the source of that power, and find a chance to completely eliminate it!

Yang Zhao expanded his thoughts and continued to analyze.

Now it is known that Li Shimin will rebel, and that force will affect the system. As a system, it will not allow that force to cause trouble. The two are mutually restraining.

It can be understood that that force is a local force, and I am a foreign invader. I broke the original rules of this world. Li Shimin is the protagonist, and I stole his luck.

That force tried its best to protect Li Shimin to explain why he couldn't catch him, and that force could slightly affect me.

The system and that force are vying for dominance. The key to the outcome lies with Li Shimin and me, and luck is what determines the outcome.

Some things that I didn't understand before are now gradually clear.

Yang Zhao's eyes lit up, and the system gave a prompt, which meant that Li Shimin had been here before, and he had to make every step to turn defeat into victory.

I am different, I am already the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, what I want to do is destroy his (it) chess pieces.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhao began to sort out the current problems.

Yuhang is the hub of Jiangnan's economy. The imperial court is not short of money, but Li Shimin is short of money. Even if Cui Jin takes away Cui's property, it is not enough to train the army.

If I were Li Shimin, if I collude with officials, the military salary will naturally be drawn from Yuhang, and the national treasury is sufficient, so the imperial court will not care about such a small amount of money.

So his first step was to snatch resources. After all, contacting foreigners was a helpless move. If Li Shimin wanted to become emperor, he had to have his own foundation.

The officials of the court had no choice but to start from the local area.

Thinking about it, Yang Zhao picked up a brush and wrote down the names of Zhang Yong, Wang Chao and Zhao Jian.

What roles do these three people play?

With a thought, Shen Lian appeared in the room after a while.

"Among the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, is there any news about these three people?"

Skipping the procedure of Shen Lian's meeting, Yang Zhao pointed to the three names on the note and asked.

Shen Lian thought for a while, and then replied: "Return to Your Majesty, these three people have nothing to do with the gentry."

What he said is that the gentry incident has nothing to do with it, that is to say, whether it is Zhang Yong or Wang Chao and Zhao Jian, have they not been corrupt during their tenure?
No, Yang Zhao immediately refuted this point of view. Others don't know that Wang Chao's performance today is by no means an upright official.