I, Kiriko, the Cheater

After Tongzi and the tax official got out of everyone's sight, the villagers started discussing it.

"The lady who saved Tazmi and the others just now, she really helped us out."

"Yeah, did you see the expression of that dog official? He was so arrogant before, but now he is cowardly like a child. Hahahaha, I laughed so hard."

"It's really cool."

The villagers were very happy because of Tongzi's previous behavior, only the village chief was not happy.

"Have you all said enough!"

The village chief's loud shout stunned the villagers who were still talking about it.

They all looked at the village chief. It is clear that the village chief is usually a very kind person and never loses his temper. Why did he suddenly...

Looking at the puzzled faces of the villagers, the village chief thought that these people were still too young, so he finally sighed.

……

Inside the village chief's house.

After dragging the tax official into the village chief's house, Tongzi let him go and sat down on a chair in the living room.

The tax official really did as he said, did not escape - of course, it is also possible, because he felt that he had no chance of winning if he wanted to escape.

He looked around, frowned in disgust, then walked to the chair opposite Tongzi, took a breath, probably felt that it was not clean, wiped it with his sleeve, and then sat down.

But before his butt touched the stool, Tongzi looked at him coldly and said, "Did I let you sit down?"

The tax officer quickly stood up, but the chair was brought down because of too much movement, and he quickly straightened the chair.

"Okay, what you wanted to say before, say it now."

"Yes."

Then the tax official explained the matter:

Chapter 253 What Do You Know?

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It turned out that the cause of the incident was that a civil official of the conscience faction in the court risked his life to admonish the little emperor, saying that the world is in chaos, bandits are rampant, and the people are in dire straits.

Although the conscientious civil servant was dragged down by Minister Ornest after risking his death to make admonishment, and the minister vowed to assure the little emperor that the empire is absolutely as stable as Mount Tai, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with him. question.

But the little emperor felt that since the conscientious civil servant said something was wrong, he should take it as a warning and take precautions before it happens, so he asked Minister Ornest to notify the prefects to pay attention to it at all times, and to eliminate bandits immediately if there was any banditry.

When the little emperor said this, Minister Ernest also mentioned it, and then explained it like this.

The prefects all over the country have received orders from the imperial capital, but most of them don't take it seriously.

Since the corruption of the empire, the world is full of bandits, who doesn't know?

But the problem is to suppress the bandits. If you win, it's fine, but what if you lose?

The majestic imperial army can't even defeat the mere bandits. I don't want to be the prefect, right?

The eunuchs from all over the empire, of course, wanted to stay in the position of eunuch, so they turned a blind eye to this order.

But the prefect of Heishan City is different.

I don't know whether to say that he is smart or stupid, but he really listened to the minister's order and really planned to implement it.

It's just that he didn't really want to exterminate those bandits and robbers, but set his mind on the village near Heishan City.

"So, what you mean is that he first deliberately sent troops to rob the nearby villages of food. Then he sent you over to collect taxes on the premise that he knew that the nearby villages could not pay taxes. The purpose was to arouse public anger, and then He wants to send troops to 'suppress the bandits'?"

"Yes, as you said."

The tax official stood timidly in front of Tongzi, nodding and bowing.

"Let's not talk about the killing of the good and taking the meritorious service, aren't these villages his property? Even if I can try my best to understand his desire to curry favor with Minister Ernest, but just to curry favor, he killed so many people Villagers, isn’t this killing the chicken and taking the eggs?”

"This……"

"Why, what else do you want to hide?"

"No, it's not concealment, it's just..." the tax official looked up at Tongzi cautiously, "it's just common sense."

"common sense?"

"Of course you didn't serve as an official in the empire. It's normal if you don't know. To put it simply, prefects serving in the empire are not life-long. No matter how good or bad they are, they will move to the right or left several times in their lifetime."

"Go on."

"If this Heishan City is compared with the barren and bitter cold land in the northwest, it can be regarded as good, but compared with the rich and prosperous southeast water town, Heishan City is far worse..."

"The soil in the southeast is fertile, the rain is smooth and the wind is good, and the population is dense. It is not only the food production area of ​​the empire, but also the most prosperous area of ​​the empire besides the imperial capital. In addition, the maritime trade with Western countries passes through several major ports in the southeast... …If you go there, you can just be a mayor, and you will be much better than the prefect of Heishan City."

"Everyone in the world knows that the minister has the final say on the affairs of this country, so as long as the minister is satisfied and the minister is happy, if the minister says it casually, isn't there a chance to change the fate?"

"As for this Black Mountain City...it's not my hometown anyway, after I move to the right, I don't care about the floods here."

After the tax officer finished speaking in one breath, he closed his mouth and looked at Tongzi anxiously.

But Tongzi didn't care about the little thoughts of the tax official.

Even the prefect of one party thinks this way...