The host is a slime [Quick Transmigration]

When Tu Zongye first took office, although he drastically rectified the county government, disbanded the original leadership team, and welcomed many people to wait and see, he did not leave a deep impression on them.

Without him, the county magistrates generally change every three years. Since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the county magistrates of Qingshui Town have never been re-elected, and these county magistrates who came here without exception, no matter how full of ambition they were at the beginning, will eventually be replaced by Qingshui Township. The richest Chen family was assimilated—those who were not assimilated usually stayed for less than three years.

Therefore, for the people here, who the county magistrate is is not important to them, and it will not affect their daily life. Anyway, it is exploitation. They only hope that this county magistrate will not be worse than the previous one.

Some people also recognized Ohm—after all, Ohm’s first whale building was opened in Qingshui Town, and it has been open until now, but even so, the common people are very numb.

It is true that the appearance of Jinglou has made their lives better, and the strange-shaped seafood caught in the sea has also been sold. They can also follow the simple cooking methods given by Jinglou to make their lives that they thought were inedible or bad. The cooking method of the food they eat fills their stomachs, but this change does not improve the living standards of their entire group.

They were even more afraid that if Tu Zongye became an official and Ohm was in business, powerful and rich, he would become another Chen family, or... collude with that Chen family.

The Chen family also thought so. Unlike those poor people, the Chen family firmly believed that Tu Zongye and Ohm would cooperate with them. After all, they all came from the prosperous place in the capital. They also have contacts. When they got married, the Chen family gave a box of round and big pearls!

Although there is only one box, the value is at least tens of thousands.

Therefore, the Chen family behaved very reserved, waiting for Tu Zongye to express his "sincerity".

What is there to say?

The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake.

Compared to the county magistrate who was escorted to Beijing, the Chen family is the local emperor of Qingshui Town.

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The Chen family has been standing still, thinking that if Tu Zongye wants to secure the county magistrate's position in Qingshui Town, he must join them, but he doesn't want Tu Zongye to be a werewolf, and he doesn't make false claims with them at all, so he is ready to fight.

The Chen family has always been domineering in Qingshui Town, and even the common people believe that the main source of the Chen family's money is the embezzlement of pearls from the imperial court. In the Qing Dynasty, pearls, like salt and iron, were controlled by the imperial court. Salt and pearls were smuggled It is a felony that will implicate the whole family.

But so far, no one has found relevant evidence, and the Chen family has always been heavily guarded, and it is absolutely impossible to force their way in.

So, Ohm, who was already the king of the mountain, performed a play with his Mr. Yazhai.

On a dark and stormy night, the Chen family was ransacked by bandits on a nearby hill—although no casualties were caused because of the timely response, the gates and walls of the Chen family were all destroyed, and they could walk from there without even going out. You can see the outside of the street from the yard!

It can be seen how insane these gangsters are!

If it was in the past, those in the Shuizhai village would not dare to attack the Chen family no matter how arrogant they were, but the strong people in Qingshui Town were all recruited by Ohm—the obedient ones would be accepted as younger brothers, and the disobedient ones would be taken in as younger brothers. Just beat him up and throw him into the valley to chop red camphor trees, saw wood, and do coolies!

If someone's life is on their hands, they will be locked up in the dark by those of Tu Zongye.

It is worth mentioning that Ohm and Tu Zongye teased each other privately about the king of the mountain and the king of the village, but in fact these things that Ohm did were not publicized—after all, Ohm still had to take into account Tu Zongye's status as a court official.

Therefore, the Chen family didn't understand how those gangsters would be so bold as to dare to attack!

When he was caught off guard, although no one was killed, the commotion at night could not be concealed at all, so early in the morning, Tu Zongye sent all the police officers to investigate the scene of the crime, even to show that he attached great importance to the Chen family. , Tu Zongye also brought Ohm along!

The Chen family: ... (╬◣д◢).

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The Chen family has indeed made huge profits by smuggling pearls.

Although Qingshui Town is small and remote, most of the ordinary people are living poorly with their belts tightened, but the wealth of the Chen family can be regarded as moderate even in the capital city. The main reason is that they keep a group of pearl divers in private.

Pearl divers, as the name suggests, are those who specialize in picking pearls.

As the local emperor, the Chen family had ancestors who were also pearl divers.

The coastal areas are generally poor, and there is no land for planting. When fishing cannot fill their stomachs, they can only support their families by collecting pearls.

This method is called "cultivating the sea to collect pearls, and using pearls to exchange rice".

However, limited by the times and technology, the only way to collect pearls is to rely on pearl divers to dive hundreds of meters while holding their breath, and the harvest rate is extremely low.

At the same time, because of this, the rarer the item, the more precious it becomes.

It can be said that pearls were a recognized symbol of power and luxury during the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people were not allowed to collect pearls privately, so there was a special organization to manage these people.

Once these pearl divers joined, they could not quit for life. If anyone escaped privately, they would be executed immediately after being caught.

But there are policies and there are countermeasures. It is precisely because of this industry that the Chen family is well versed in the unspoken rules. When the noble ladies in the capital are proud to be able to wear a pearl the size of a little finger, the wife of the Chen family Ladies, the pearls on hairpins, earrings, and necklaces are all the smallest, the size of a little finger.Even their personal maids have pearl jewelry the size of a grain of rice.

But apart from these pearls on the bright side, the Chen family didn't reveal much.

They hid the pearls they collected privately very well, and only the previous heads of the family knew where they hid them, as the saying goes.

They happened to meet Ohm.

With the help of lady, Ohm scanned the whole house to a depth of [-] meters when sneaking into Chen's house the first day, so when the Chen's house was dealing with Tu Zongye, who they couldn't understand, he wandered around beautifully. There were exclamations one after another from the policemen who called them "searching for clues".

God!Who would have thought that there is a secret door about one meter wide on the side of the well in this yard that is three meters high from the water surface of the well. The secret door can still be opened, and there is a secret passage hidden inside!

The most surprising thing is that this secret passage is still connected to the underground palace. Inside the underground palace are round and shiny pearls, neatly piled up in boxes!

Just a cursory scan, there are at least a thousand of them!

When the secret door was discovered, the Patriarch of the Chen family thumped in his heart. He wanted to wink at his subordinates to divert him, but he didn't want to be bumped by Ohm who said he was curious, and he couldn't move.

Missing the best opportunity, the wealth that their family has worked so hard to conceal for generations was finally exposed in full view!

He still didn't know that his sudden inability to speak or move was because Ohm had used Slime's innate skill to anesthetize him when he bumped into him. He really thought it was because he was too frightened and unable to react for a while.

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The downfall of the Chen family caused the common people in Qingshui Town to rejoice, but it also made some people in Xiazhou panic.

However, after Tu Zongye got rid of the Tudi Emperor in Qingshui Town, he didn't go on the way of Lord Qingtian as they thought, but guarded his one-acre three-point land in Qingshui Town, which made Xia Some people in Zhouzhou who originally planned to "greech" Tu Zongye if he didn't know each other breathed a sigh of relief - after all, no one wanted to fight the officials unless it was absolutely necessary.

The common people in Qingshui Town don't care whether Tu Zongye wants to have a good time or not, as long as they know that Tu Zongye can make them live a good life.

Ohm and Tu Zongye didn't feel that they had recruited the gangsters around them, and they could rest easy after killing the Chen family. Tu Zongye didn't have any thoughts of loyal ministers who dedicated themselves to the country, but this didn't prevent him from wanting to make Qingshui Town Live better and let him and Ohm live more comfortably.

Given that the pearl fishing industry is controlled by the imperial court, but it is the only pillar industry in Qingshui Town, Tu Zongye could only find a way to develop the pearl fishing industry when there was no order to open the sea.

The best way to do that is to culture pearls.

In fact, there have been records of artificially cultured pearls in the Qing Dynasty, but the cost is too high. Compared with spending a lot of energy, financial resources and time to study how to grow pearls, it is better to raise several groups of pearl divers to collect natural pearls. ——In this era, the lives of poor people are so worthless.

But Ohm has a way to improve the success rate of cultured pearls.

Of course, in order not to disrupt the balance of this world, it is impossible for him to come up with mature research results all at once.

And compared to artificially cultured pearls, Ohm thinks that the opening of the sea and the economic activities of Qingshui Town can solve the problem better.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long.

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In the 29th year of Yonghe, a major event happened in the capital that shocked the government and the public.

The third prince and the fourth concubine got mixed up at her birthday banquet, and when they were at their most sexual, they were smashed by the fourth prince and other guests!

After the emperor heard the news, Lei Ting was furious, and directly sent the fourth prince and concubine to prison. The third prince was also whipped, and Lumi was fined for one year, and he was confined to the house.

From the perspective of this matter, it should stop here.

But don't forget that the third prince is not an ordinary noble family. The grown-up princes were secretly undercurrents, and finally the third prince who was the most vocal made such a big mess. Are you ashamed of their open and secret struggles for so many days?

As a result, several princes repeatedly made moves, which made the third prince, who had never expected to capsize in the gutter, overwhelmed. He had no time to cover up and was presented to the imperial case. The arrangements were clear.

The emperor was directly stunned!

He knew that his adult sons were not easy-going lamps, but he didn't expect that the third son who he thought had the mildest personality had hidden so many unsightly real faces in private!

Corruption, accepting bribes, wooing ministers, disregarding human life, raising private soldiers...

It can be said that he has committed almost all the things that the emperor taboos!

For a moment, the emperor was disheartened, and his originally strong body was visibly aged a bit after waking up.

However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The emperor was originally a person who "loves his life and hates his death". Directly asked Jin Wuwei to drag the third prince who was still confinement in the mansion to the clan mansion, and very coldly cut off his clan status after finding out his details, and demoted him to a commoner!

Not only that, his mother and concubine were also thrown into the cold palace, and the beloved eleventh princess was also implicated.

Not to mention the ancestral family of the third prince and the natal family of his wives and concubines... Basically, nearly one-third of the court officials were involved.

The emperor handled it unambiguously and without soft-heartedness at all.

The result of this decisive killing and the denial of the six relatives caused the third prince's line to fall directly to the bottom from the height that was about to reach the peak, and it also shocked the other princes who thought that after killing the third prince, it would be their turn to take the lead.

The emperor used his means to tell all the restless sons - your father will always be your father!

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Although Qingshui Town is too far away from the capital, because Tu Zongye and Ohm opened a whale tower in the capital, they also knew a lot about these "royal scandals". When all the dust settled, time had passed In almost two months, Ohm and the others have entered summer again.

It has been a year and a half since Tu Zongye became the county magistrate. The time seems to be very short, but the changes that have taken place in this small place of Qingshui Town can be said to be earth-shaking.

The most obvious thing is the mental state of people. Although there are still patches on the clothes of the people walking on the street, each of them is radiant with hope in their eyes.

When the two "imperial envoys" who came to Qingshui Town saw this scene, they were naturally looking forward to seeing magistrate Tu next.

However, in Tu Zongye's view, these two people were completely uninvited guests, but he couldn't really show his face: "Fourth Highness, Young Master Tomorrow?" If these two people don't stay in the capital, why are they running to this small remote county?