I am the county magistrate in Daming

Zhang Fu glanced at the weeds with tiny spikes, his expression remained unchanged, and he slapped Nian Shun on the back, causing him to stagger forward.

"I didn't see Mr. Mu liked this wood, so why not ask someone to chop it up and send it to Mr. Mu's mansion!"

"Yes, yes." Nian Shun didn't even bother to brush off the loess on the hem of his clothes, and trotted to pull out a few people.

As Nian Shun walked, he yelled at the accompanying servants in a low voice, and one of them accidentally walked too fast, and was kicked to the ground by Nian Shun.The young man who was kicked down did not dare to speak, got up and knelt on the ground, kowtowed Nian Shun twice and begged for mercy in a low voice.

"Let's go! I have neglected my lord, a few heads are not enough for you!"

Mu Qingtian frowned, does he have such great power as an official, he can kill anyone he wants?

Cuizhu's face was solemn, and she leaned towards Mu Qingtian without any trace.Mu's residence is a wealthy local family, and there are many servants and maids in the house, but Master Mu treats them all very well, and the young master has never made things difficult for her.I'm afraid it's not a good thing for Mr. Zhang to treat the people in his house like this.

This group of people approached the weeds, grabbed the roots of the weeds with their bare hands and pulled them up, uprooting the dead grass, and opened a road to Mu Qingtian's hiding place bit by bit.

When the weeds were removed, these people's hands were dripping with blood. The blood and blisters on the palms were intertwined, and the blood on the wounds mixed with grass clippings and dust and melted into mud. It looked terrible and distressed.

They went back to the original place, picked up piles of weeds and spread them on the loess bit by bit, and then stomped them firmly with their feet.A road was cut out so abruptly.

Zhang Fu nodded in satisfaction, and walked towards Mu Qingtian.

"This texture, thickness, is indeed a good wood, my lord has sharp eyes." Zhang Fu patted the trunk vigorously, laughed twice and bowed to Mu Qingtian.

Mu Qingtian, who lives in a modern legal society, has never seen such torture methods, and his face turned blue.

Seeing Mu Qingtian's performance, Zhang Fu felt even more disdainful, and told the servants waiting not far away: "It's getting late, hurry up and find a stone to chop up this tree and move it back!"

Those people shook their bodies and immediately spread out in all directions, looking for the sharpest possible stones in the grass and beside the road.If they can't finish the work before dark, they will not only have no food to eat, but they will not even be able to go back. When will the tree be cut down, when will they be able to return to Zimingli.

"No matter how good something is, it's not good if it's stained with blood." Mu Qingtian squatted down and picked up a stone that was just discarded, not sharp enough, and stained with human blood, and scratched it on the tree, looking at it coldly. Zhang Fu, and then threw the stone far away.

"Look at my brain, what you said is right."

"Master Zhang has his own difficulties, so I don't care too much about it. The sun has already set, so let's lead the way." Mu Qingtian gave Zhang Fu a step down, dispelled Fu Bao's previous accusations against him, and released him signaled a truce.

"My lord, please." Zhang Fu bent down slightly, and stretched out his hand to invite Mu Qingtian to go first.

"Master Mu loves you so much, please thank you sir!" When Mu Qingtian walked out of the grass, Zhang Fu yelled again, and those people knelt down in front of Mu Qingtian in unison, shouting "Thank you sir".

Mu Qingtian didn't let them stand up, instead he squatted down, being as tall as them.

"My surname is Mu, not Xie."

The people kneeling on the ground hadn't reacted for a while, one of them raised his head in astonishment, and then quickly lowered his head, afraid of Mu Qingtian's crime.

"Get up."

Zhang Fu warmly invited Mu Qingtian to sit in the carriage together. I don't know if he did it on purpose. The space in this carriage is small, and it is already the limit to fit him in. Now that Mu Qingtian sat in, he felt like he was wrapped in fat. airtight.

Mu Qingtian shrank towards the window on the right, breathing in the fresh air outside through a small gap under the curtain.

Seeing the convoy walking away, the man in the tree fired a squib into the sky.Soon, a man in white appeared under the tree.

"Master, we have found traces of Li Canshi."

The man jumped off the tree, glanced at the man's white clothes, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, I didn't wear night clothes this time."

Then he put away his indecency, and said seriously: "Keep watching, don't kill people, I will personally interrogate you."

"Yes."

Mu Qingtian really couldn't stand the smell of incense in Zhang Fu's carriage, so he had no choice but to lift the curtain and look out.Zhang Fu chattered endlessly with his stomach full, but he didn't have a few useful words. Most of them were praises to Mu Qingtian and regrets to his predecessor, Li Zheng.

"The former Li Zheng's surname is Li Mingshi?" Mu Qingtian searched his memory, but he was very unfamiliar with this name.

"Lord Li is really a good official who wholeheartedly serves the people." Zhang Fu sighed, his eyes were full of nostalgia for Li Lizheng.But then he put on a smiling face and flattered Mu Qingtian: "Your Excellency must be better than Li Canshi."

"Since Mr. Li is so good, why didn't you quit?" Mu Qingtian asked sideways, "I heard that he resigned by himself."

Zhang Fu rolled his eyes a few times, and Mu Qingtian saw several micro-expressions on his face.Anger, regret, nostalgia, the relationship between these two people is interesting.

"Officials are good officials, but I don't know if my lord has heard the saying, 'Troublemakers come out of poor villages'."

Hearing this sentence twice in one day, Mu Qingtian found that such a concept seemed to be deeply rooted in the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty.Ming □□Zhu Yuanzhang was born recklessly, he acted boldly, and even the imperial decree was easy to understand.Back then, he rose up and overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. To put it bluntly, he was also a "trickster".

Since we can't change the "unscrupulous people", we can change the "poor village", and the local people will become richer, and the unscrupulous people will no longer be unscrupulous people.

"Could it be the fault of the people in Zimingli?" Mu Qingtian continued to probe.

"No!"

"These people in Zimingli are all selfish. On weekdays, there are constant frictions between neighbors, and Mr. Li came forward to coordinate. These people are not happy, and they always arrange Mr. Li behind their backs."

"An official should have a bigger heart." Mu Qingtian didn't think that Mr. Li was scared away by rumors.

"That's right. At first, my lord didn't care, he still thought of the people in Zimingli. But later, I don't know who had a vicious mind and said that lord Li was greedy for money!"

The important ministers in the court were most afraid of a bad reputation. If it accidentally spread to the emperor's ears, not only the black gauze hat would be lost, but the neck under the hat would also have to try the sharpness of Jinyiwei's sword.Compared with officials in the capital, officials from other places are much more casual.But both types of officials fear one thing - corruption.

The first thing that Emperor Hongzhi did after he succeeded to the throne was to punish corrupt officials and eliminate treacherous ministers. He also sent King Qing to investigate officials from all over the country, so that everyone in the court and even the whole country was in danger, for fear that King Qing would catch his tail and drag him into prison .

Mr. Li should be nervous if he is really slandered for stealing money.

"Master Li just wanted to find out the person who spread the rumors at first, but when other people saw him so nervous, they started to follow suit and spread the rumors vividly. Be deceived by this tiger."

"It's a pity." Mu Qingtian echoed with hypocrisy.

Chatting and chatting, the carriage finally drove into Zimingli.Zhang Fu saw that he was slightly tired, so he wisely didn't take him to his house for dinner, and led Mu Qingtian to Zimingli Yamen before taking him away.

Waiting for Fu Bao Fu Yuan Cui Zhu to tidy up the room and courtyard, the moon is already on the top of the tree.

Mu Qingtian was lying in the bedroom with his hands under his head.

"Corrupt official system?" He said suddenly.Only his voice echoed in the empty room.

"exist."

"I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person." The implication is, can you find someone else, at least find a corrupt official.

"Sorry, no."

After the negotiation failed, Mu Qingtian could only turn over and get up from the bed, threatening: "Then I don't have to listen to you."

"If the mission fails, your sense of taste will be deprived."

"Forever?" Mu Qingtian's voice trembled.

"Seven days."

Seven days is enough for Mu Qingtian, he likes to eat, and he also likes to eat delicious food.Eating without tasting is a blasphemy against food!

"You keep saying 'task' and 'task', what exactly is the task?" Mu Qingtian asked.

"The novice task will be released in three days, and these three days are reserved for you to familiarize yourself with the environment."

"Please work hard to embezzle and complete the task." After finishing speaking, the system fell into hibernation.

Early the next morning, before the thick fog in the mountains cleared, a looming figure appeared on the path outside Ziming.His long hair was tied up high with a brocade belt, and he was wearing a plain short jacket, the material of which didn't seem to be a good one.The man's face is upright, with a Chinese character face exuding righteousness from the inside out.

The only thing worth noting is the black stick hanging from his waist.

"My lord! My lord! My lord Mu!"

Mu Qingtian was still swimming in Xiaoheye Village in his dream, feeding his Xiaohong.Suddenly Xiaohong started talking in human language and called him Master Mu.Mu Qingtian was startled, looked up, and found that Xiaohong's face had turned into Zhang Fu!

"Ha!" Mu Qingtian was startled awake, and rubbed the sweat on his head.Zhang Fu's shout was still ringing in his ears, it turned out that this was not a dream.

There was anxiety in Zhang Fu's voice, as a newcomer in Zimingli, Mu Qingtian thought for a moment between returning to the cage and going out, and decided to get up to see what Zhang Fu was up to.

Walking to the gate of the yamen, Mu Qingtian immediately saw Zhang Fu, who was still so rich, and the middle-aged man standing beside him.

"My lord, this person came to our Zimingli early in the morning, so he must be your guard." Zhang Fu said before the man.

Guard?Speaking of which, he did see the word "protection" in Ren Shu, and he probably was sent here like him.Mu Qingtian sized up the man's figure, his eyes sparkled.

Zhang Fu originally thought that the weak Mu Qingtian was the only one who took office, but he didn't expect that another guard came this morning, injured several of his thugs and rushed into Zimingli.Thinking of this, Zhang Fu became even more anxious.

"Strong man, please come in quickly!" Mu Qingtian jumped down from the steps in two steps in three steps, and directly grabbed the man's hand.

The man looked at the person in front of him with some surprise, then turned his head to look at their clenched hands, and very coldly pulled his hand out of Mu Qingtian's white and soft hand.