In mid-June, Guide Mansion.

The originally sensational corruption case of the government has gradually come to an end.

In the government office signing room.

Lin Yanchao was writing hard on the desk while listening to Qiu Mingshan’s comments.

Qiu Mingshan said: "The second son of Zhao family, Zhao Mengchang, tried to commit suicide in prison in the government office yesterday, but has now been rescued. Judging from the letters he left behind, Zhao Mengchang said that in the case of the government's corruption trial, he did things one by one, so that we should not implicate the Zhao family."

Lin Yanchao pointed ink with his pen and said, "What do you think?"

Qiu Mingshan said: "Reporting to Dongweng, in my opinion, this is useless. The Zhao family has now been destroyed. He took the matter alone, but it does not mean that he can deal with it alone. His actions are in vain and he is extremely stupid."

Lin Yanchao said: "It's reasonable, but send someone to take care of him. You can't let him make any mistakes again. How much does the Zhao family spend this time?"

Qiu Mingshan said: "After ordering for two days, the wealth of gold, silver, fine and soft is about 50,000 taels, and the rest are land and houses. The house in the Zhao family in Kaifeng can be worth 20,000 taels, and antiques, etc., are all converted into the price, and finally around 176,000 taels."

Lin Yanchao stopped writing and said, "176,000 taels, which is similar to the Zhao family's family's wealth reported to the people below. It seems that the Zhao family is really much inferior to the Mei family."

After saying that, Lin Yanchao continued to write official documents.

Qiu Mingshan smiled and said, "The Zhao family has only produced a fifth-rank official, how can it be compared with the Mei family? No one in the Mei family is an official, but in terms of ten Zhao families, they are not as good as the Mei family. I just dare to ask the mansion that the Zhao family has not raised enough money. Should I continue to wait? Or is it straightforward?"

Lin Yanchao had finished his work, put the pen aside and said casually: "I don't mean to let the Zhao family get these 200,000 taels."

Qiu Mingshan said: "Yes, Dongweng, I understand what to do."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "This time these Shandong horse thieves made great efforts and found evidence of the Zhao family's crime of communicating with Japanese troops. The Mei family also had the merit of informing them. How do you think we should reward them?"

Qiu Mingshan said, "Those horse thieves in Shandong are originally Dongweng's subordinates. The master gave them an errand and supporting them was already a grace. If they rewarded them, those who did things in the future would be difficult to mobilize them."

"As for the Mei family, it's even less necessary. What they want is Dongweng's favor."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "You are right, but I ask you that the Mei family is so familiar with the 'Teacher of Japan'. Didn't they do this smuggling and selling?"

Qiu Mingshan said: "Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhejiang's big merchants are basically connected with the sea, either smuggling or private trafficking. The Mei family has at least a little bit of it, and I don't know how much it is. But I know that they have been asking the court to give them the quota in Yuegang recently."

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "With such a great skill in the Mei family, it should not be difficult to get a little quota."

Qiu Mingshan said: "The quota for Yuegang is set by the imperial court every year. The Chen family of the master's friend Chen Xinggui is a big merchant in Fujian, but he has not obtained the quota for Yuegang so far. The Mei family is so capable, so they can only wait for others to give up the quota, or the imperial court expands the quota."

Lin Yanchao nodded in his heart after hearing this, saying, "I understand. I'll sell the big mansion of the Zhao family in Kaifeng Prefecture to the Mei family. He should be able to pay a good price."

"As for the Zhao family matters, I will think about it again. Mr. Qiu has worked hard this time, so I will take a break early."

Qiu Mingshan immediately said that.

A day in a few days.

Although the summer was hot this day, dozens of respectable officials and gentry in the mansion and the elders in the village had arrived.

These local officials and gentry had certain conflicts with the government because of the prohibition of land certificates.

This contradiction has been around since last year. Last year, nearly a thousand hectares of silt fields were opened by Lin Yanchao last year, and more than 300,000 silt fields were silted by the Jialu River this time.

They all have very few benefits from it.

In the previous silting of fields in the dike, Lin Yanchao made a purchase restriction, and a household could not buy more than ten acres at most.

If the silted fields were cheaper than the common people in their hometown, these powerful people would recognize them. But later there were hundreds of silted fields, and Lin Yanchao sold them privately to an unknown merchant in Susong in one breath, which made them very dissatisfied.

It has reached the current silt fields of the Jialu River.

Lin Yanchao took nearly 100,000 taels from the yamen of the governor. The government office used the surplus of selling silted fields last year and borrowed money from various money houses. In the end, a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver were used to carry out the major project.

This time they always have to pay more benefits.

But Lin Yanchao prohibited the sale of land deeds, and he agreed with you who owned the more than 300,000 acres by the Jialu River before the dam was built, and who owned it after the silt.

How can this work?

So when the last time the Zhao family tried a cheating case, they were mostly gloating when the Zhao family started.

Later, they also delayed the collection of summer grain, transportation of canals, and river drainage, expressing their disagreement.

Not only do the two things about the canal transportation and the river drainage, but only the summer grain.

In the past two years, Guide Mansion suffered floods and almost no harvest. Last year, Lin Yanchao relied on the income from selling silt fields, so he was not panicked if he had grain in the pot, so he did not seriously collect summer and autumn grain.

If the people like to pay, they will pay. If they don’t pay, our government will not force you.

At that time, in order to repair the palace for Lu Wang, the people in Henan were urged by the government to conduct responsibilities. Even the young seedlings in their families came out to pay taxes, and countless people starved to death.

However, Guide Mansion did not even starve to death, and this move was praised by the people of Guide as a virtue policy.

But there must be a limit on moral governance. Okay, now we have to pay summer grain this year. As a result, we have received less than 70% of the autumn grain so far last year.

At that time, some officials joked about Lin Yanchao's move as a way to treat his subordinates too leniently and make the people ignorant of their majesty. They violated the taboo in the officialdom of fighting against Mien and raising grudges.

What’s worse now is that when the summer grain collection is collected this year, officials and gentry took the lead in refusing to pay it.

You should know that the summer grain production in Guide Prefecture this year is high, and even Kaifeng Prefecture next door has heard of this. Because the Yangtze River flooded a month ago, the Huguang grain ship arrived in Kaifeng without the newly repaired Jialu River.

As a result, the price of grain in Kaifeng did not drop much. Henan Governor Zang Wei asked Guide Mansion to transfer 100,000 shi of summer grain into Kaifeng to solve the urgent problem.

But as a result, the summer grain in Guide Prefecture has been in full swing for half a month, and he still cannot collect 20% of it. This move has caused the officials in Guide Prefecture to be disgraced.

Today, Wu Tongzong, who has always had a good relationship with local officials and gentry, came forward and said that the National Taichung Master had always had the intention to communicate with local officials and gentry.

So on this day when the weather is bright and the sun is scorching, please invite local officials and gentry to the government office to talk.

Lin Yanchao, the governor of Guide, set up a banquet and a small wine to entertain.

After seeing Lin Yanchao's invitation, the local officials and gentry were very happy.

Lin Sanyuan has been the prefect for so long, and it seems that he finally knows the importance of establishing good relations with local officials and gentry.

So at the warm invitation of Prefect Lin and Parliament Wu Tong, they came to Guide Prefecture for a banquet.
Chapter completed!