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The author has something to say: There are many names in this chapter, they are all tool people, don’t need to memorize them, just know what they are about~

In the office room of the Ministry of War, after everyone had left, Chen Zhizhi came to Yuanwailang Song Xin's desk and stopped him.

Song Xin looked at him suspiciously, "What do you want me to do?"

Since the relationship with Deng Zhi became better, the relationship between Chen Zhi and many people in the Ministry of War has improved, including Song Xin who was close to Deng Zhi.He was close to Deng Zhi, so he and Lin Zhuhui were naturally in the same group, and he couldn't understand Ouyang Qing's proposition.

To contact people in Jiangzhou, other than going there himself, that's the only way he knew.

Chen Zhizhi asked: "Your family is from Jiangzhou. Do you know the local magistrates? I want you to do me a favor and send them a message."

"Well..." Song Xinsi thought, "I know the magistrate of my county, and further up, the prefect of Haining is a student of Lu Shu, so I definitely don't have any contact with them. What do you want them for?"

In fact, one county magistrate is enough. You can try it in the county first, and then expand the scope if it works.

"You know about the tax reduction in Jiangzhou. I'm afraid that those people will be slack, so I want to try to inform the local people directly, so that they won't dare to delay."

Song Xin frowned and thought about it, but it was not impossible, but he didn't want to be exposed to others, and then he would clean up for Ouyang Dang.So he said: "I can write him a letter, but what you want him to do, you still have to write to him yourself."

Hearing the words of the statement, he smiled, "Then I wrote it and brought it tomorrow, thank you very much."

In the Jiangzhou yamen, Jiang Jiang, the magistrate of the state, asked Hu He, the governor of the state in charge of money and food: "There has been no movement on the tax issue, is it on you?"

Hu He also had a troubled expression on his face, "The boss dragged it as long as possible, but I can't help it..."

He knew early on that tax cuts were against Ouyang Qing's intentions, so Huang Hu asked him to delay, and he was able to figure it out.If things are delayed for a long time, it will not be beautiful. If it is not beautiful, after the tax reduction in Jiangzhou is over, there will be no next state.

Hearing this, Jiang Jiang frowned, thought for a long time, and said: "It's not like this. I put it all in your hands. When the time comes to ask, what excuse can I find? If you insist on procrastinating, then you have to procrastinate." On the road, dragged in the hands of others. I know that the superiors control you severely, but you can't drag me to suffer together."

His state prefect had nothing to do with the tax cuts, and Hu He did all the work, but as a principal, he should bear a lot of responsibilities.Jiang Jiang didn't know the Ouyang Party, he didn't dare to offend them and he was afraid of implicating himself, so he didn't do anything.

"Alright then, I'll call those prefects over tomorrow." Hu He sighed.

Five days later, more than a dozen prefects in Jiangzhou gathered.Hu He sent them the tax reduction materials, briefly explained the specific methods, and finally added: "This time, we must take our time. After the autumn harvest, the tax will be collected at the end of the year. Don't be in a hurry."

Someone raised a question: "What kind of slow method does 'take your time'?"

Hu He eloquently said: "You stay here today, and you go back tomorrow. How many days will it take on the way? How many days will it take to distribute things in the mansion? How many days will it take to call the county magistrates? The county magistrate has made it clear that it will take another two or three days. It will take a few days for the county magistrate to go back, a few days for preparations in the county, and a few days for the order to be delivered... Isn't this slowing down?"

Everyone is surprised.

Speaking of this, Han Hai, the prefect of Haining, stood up and asked, "Can we announce the tax reduction first?"

"What kind of list are you making? Don't you have nothing to do?" Hu He put his hands behind his back and said contemptuously, "Let the people know, won't they come to urge us every day?"

"Yes, I understand." Han Hai agreed.

Liu Chuan, the magistrate of Jiangbei County, was a little surprised when he received Song Xin's letter. When he became the county magistrate, Song Xin had already been an official in the capital, and only had contact with him occasionally when he returned to his hometown.

Opening the letter, he found that Song Xin was passing another person's message to him, and he was even more confused.However, after reading what the statement wrote, he became very excited.

In fact, Jiangbei County can be considered affluent, but the people here are very stingy, and it takes a lot of effort to collect taxes every year.A [-]% tax reduction is great news for Jiangbei people who count every grain of rice.

When Liu Chuan saw the end, he knew the purpose of the letter he wrote to him: to let him release the news, so that those responsible for tax cuts would not dare to delay.

Even if he didn't specifically emphasize it, Liu Chuan would tell others about this good thing.So he called a group of officials in the county government, including the county magistrate, county lieutenant, and chief bookkeeper, and asked them to go out and spread the word: Jiangbei is going to cut taxes.

What Chen Zhi told him was that the entire Jiangzhou would cut taxes, but what he spread was only Jiangbei County.

On this day, Niu Dashui, a farmer in Jiangbei County, accompanied his daughter-in-law back to his natal home. When he entered the county town, he found that the people on the road were very excited.He curiously caught a passer-by to ask, and the person replied: "Our Jiangbei County will reduce taxes this year, and the tax will be reduced by [-]%!"

"Who said that?"

"Words from the yamen can't be false."

Niu Dashui's daughter-in-law quickly asked, "Is there only one county in Jiangbei? Are there any nearby counties?"

"I haven't heard that there are also other counties."

Niu Dashui's daughter-in-law's natal family is in Yanjiang County, which is adjacent to Jiangbei County.At the dinner table, Niu Dashui told his father-in-law and mother-in-law what he heard from the streets of Jiangbei, and the two elders were very angry.

"The people in Jiangbei are so rich, and people along the river are so poor. Why should they only cut taxes and we don't?"

After Niu Dashui and his wife left, the old man and the old lady started running around the village to tell Jiangbei County about the tax reduction.

The village sent people to Jiangbei County to inquire, and they only heard the news of their tax cuts, and did not say that other counties would also reduce their taxes.

So the villagers gathered together to discuss the reason, and naturally someone thought: "Could it be because of that bastard Jiang Weimin?"

"Yes, it might be him! It must be that the higher-ups said that taxes will be cut, and Jiang Weimin didn't tell us, so that he can swallow the bad part himself!"

"It makes sense, it must be so!"

"Shameless Jiang Weimin, another bad thing! We have endured it for so long, and it's okay to bully men and women on weekdays, but we have embezzled the entire county's money and food. We can't bear it!"

"I can't bear it anymore, let's go! Find him to settle the score!"

At the time of You, Yanjiang County Yamen was about to call it a day, when the clerk opened the gate, but was startled by the situation outside.

Hundreds of men, women and children gathered at the door, their expressions were indignant, most of them were holding shovels, hoes, or a wooden stick if there was no sharp weapon.

Seeing the gate of the county government office opened, these people rushed into the yard immediately, shouting: "Jiang Weimin come out!" "Give us an explanation!"

Jiang Weimin had already hid in the hall and closed the door tightly.However, the current county magistrate was shut out by him, so he could only ask everyone: "What happened?"

Some people said: "Jiangbei County has already said that it will reduce taxes this year, why don't we in Yanjiang County?"

The county magistrate was sweating profusely and said, "I haven't heard of this either. No one said tax cuts..."

"That bastard Jiang Weimin must be hiding it from us!"

"No, it's not... I really haven't heard of it..."

"Jiang Weimin is inside! Go in—"

Everyone began to squeeze into the lobby, and the county magistrate hurriedly led a few people to stop at the door.There was a stalemate for a while, when someone suddenly raised a shovel and threw it on the head of the county magistrate, knocking him to the ground with a cut in his scalp and bleeding all over the floor.

However, the people of Yanjiang County were not frightened by the blood flow, but were aroused by the shovel to fight.They used all kinds of tools to knock down the officials at the door, and those who rushed in front crowded into the hall.

Someone brought out Jiang Weimin who was hiding behind a chair, and seeing him trembling, everyone laughed and asked, "You bastard Jiang Weimin, I'll ask you again, why doesn't Yanjiang County reduce taxes?!"

Seeing this posture, Jiang Weimin quickly said: "Reduce, reduce tax! I will post the money myself, and I will give you a reduction!"

Someone else taunted: "What do you mean you post the money yourself? If you don't embezzle our money, you post the money yourself?"

"It's true that I haven't heard of tax cuts. I can contribute money to help you pay taxes..."

Just as they were entangled, a middle-aged woman suddenly squeezed in from the crowd, holding a dung fork high in both hands.She got to the front and shouted: "Beasts are not as good as Jiang Weimin, give back my daughter's life!"

While saying this, she used all her strength to throw the dung fork at Jiang Weimin.

The four-toothed iron dung fork passed through his chest, and blood gushed out in all directions. Jiang Weimin fell in a pool of blood, his official uniform was bright red.

The residents of Yanjiang County, who were jealous of killing people, still felt that it was not enough, and someone shouted: "The county government is full of Jiang Weimin's dog legs, kill them all!"

The crowd was furious, and rushed into the guard rooms on both sides, and waved their agricultural tools at the small officials who were hiding inside.

Soon, the people of Yanjiang County shouted loudly in the courtyard of the county government, celebrating the killing of the bully Jiang Weimin.After half an hour, they dispersed in a rush, leaving only the dead silent county government.

In April, the Yang Qi warms up and everything wakes up.

Zhu Xing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, took a case file from Langzhong Shen Heng and asked, "What's the matter?"

Shen Heng replied respectfully: "More than a hundred mobs in Jiangzhou slaughtered the county government, 36 died and [-] were injured."

"Even if there are many people, it's not a big deal." Zhu Xing frowned at him, "You handle your case yourself, just report the result."

The doctor paused and said, "It's up to you to decide when it comes to court officials."

"Officials in court?" Zhu Xing opened the file.

"The people in Jiangzhou have already taken it. More than 100 mobs are locked up in the prison, and several local officials are all detained in Beijing. It's just that the people in the capital haven't moved yet. Look, if you want Don't catch it first?"

Zhu Xing skimmed through the case file, nodded and said: "There are three people in total. They should be arrested and tried. There is nothing suspicious about the case, right? Get the confession as soon as possible, and this matter has to be reported."

"Yes, the next officer will arrest people immediately."

That night, it was as warm outside as it was during the day.Hubu Shangshu Xu Bian hurried to Weiyang Palace, a thin layer of sweat broke out on his body.

Liang Huan met him in the living room, accepted a piece of paper he handed over, and asked casually, "What good thing is worth coming here in the middle of the night to give it to me?"

Xu Bian wiped the sweat off his brow without showing any trace, "An accident happened in Jiangzhou, several people were arrested, and Huang Hu, who was in charge of the matter from the household department, was also implicated. The case is still under trial. I'm thinking of replacing these people first, otherwise I'm afraid this year's tax cut will be delayed."

After hearing what he said, Liang Huan didn't look at the paper, but asked curiously, "What happened in Jiangzhou to implicate these people?"

Xu Bian replied: "It seems to be related to tax cuts. The specific punishment department has not come out yet, and I don't know much about it."

Liang Huan looked down, there was a candidate's resume written on the paper, and he quickly returned it to him, "I don't know you very well, as long as you can be trusted."

Sending Xu Bian away, Liang Huan felt that he had to ask the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice what happened to Jiangzhou tomorrow.

It was Haishi now, Liang Huan planned to wash up and go to bed.He looked into the empty room and called Lu Yin: "Why hasn't Chen Xingli come back yet? You send someone to look for it."