Liang Mao said: "If you don't know others, don't do it yourself. I have a friend who is a county magistrate and is very talented, but unfortunately he has never been promoted. I just heard that Chen Qun accepted bribes and told me about this when he was talking about it. I was furious and wrote this letter and sent someone to Chen Qun's mansion."

"If you do this, aren't you afraid of implicating your friends?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liang Mao said: "When a hero is a hero, how could I give out my friend's name?"

Zhang Yan said: "I didn't see that you are quite loyal. Whose name is your friend and where is the official? Come and listen to me. If this person is really a talented person, I will definitely promote him to my side."

Liang Mao asked skeptically: "Sir, are you cheating me?"

"It seems that you still don't believe me enough. In fact, Chen Qun did these things after I was instructed to do it, and he wanted to..."

Zhang Yan immediately said Chen Qun's intention. After hearing this, Liang Mao felt ashamed and regretted the letter that angrily scolded Chen Qun.

"If this is true, Lord Chen is doing practical things. It is really not worthy of scolding him like this!" Liang Mao said in shame.

Zhang Yan said: "You don't need to sigh. I recently set up a new Censorate. I just need someone like you who are fearless and very upright to monitor me and report some illegal and disorderly affairs of officials. Once it is found out that it is true, I will report it and I will deal with it according to law."

Liang Mao was a little overjoyed, but he didn't expect that a letter of insult would bring him a huge honor.

For this reason, Liang Mao immediately remembered his friend who was not promoted, and respectfully clasped his fists to Zhang Yan and said, "Sir, there is one person who is far more capable than me. If he can transfer this person to the adult side to become an official, I believe that this person will definitely bring a lot of pertinent advice to the adult."

"The person you are talking about is your county magistrate's friend?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liang Mao nodded and said, "That's right. This person's surname is Liang and his name is Xi. He is from Zhecheng, Chenguo. He is now the county magistrate of Fengxian County, Peiguo. I heard that King Chen, Liang and Peiguo have sent envoys to rely on the Lord, Chenguo, Liangguo, and Peiguo, which are actually the territory of the Lord. Now the Lord is working on people. If Liang Xi can be transferred to the Lord and entrusted with important tasks, I believe that the Lord will gain unexpected results."

Liang Xi, whose courtesy name was Ziyu, was the governor of Bingzhou in Cao Wei. He served for more than 20 years. He was in power and threatened the Xianbei and killed and rebelled Hu, allowing the people in Bingzhou to live and work in peace and contentment. He was considered a person with all-round civil and military talents.

After hearing this, Zhang Yan did not hesitate at all and wrote a letter directly, sending someone to Chen Gui, asking Chen Gui to send someone to escort Liang Xi to Pengcheng.

Three days later, Liang Xi arrived in Pengcheng and received intimate reception from Zhang Yan. Liang Mao was also accompanied by Liang Xi. When Liang Xi saw Liang Mao, he was surprised and asked hurriedly: "Brother Bo Fang, why are you here too?"

Liang Mao said: "Brother Ziyu, don't be surprised. Now I am the supervisor of the Censorate of the lord's account."

Liang Xi is burly and strong, but he is about the same age as Liang Mao, and he looks only twenty-three or four years old.

So, Zhang Yan said to Liang Xi: "Ziyu, thanks to Bo Fang's recommendation, I transferred you to my side. I want you to command my troops. I don't know what you think?"

Liang Xidao: "I will never refuse to die!"

Zhang Yan then divided three thousand soldiers and appointed Liang Xi as the captain of Zhaoxin, and asked him to lead him to temporarily return to Pei State and stationed in Longkang area to defend against Yuan Shu in Huainan.

Liang Xi received the order and brought the seal, armor and weapons given by Zhang Yan, and went directly to the schoolyard. On the schoolyard, Taishi Ci had gathered three thousand infantry together in the morning and handed them all to Liang Xi. Liang Xi took the three thousand soldiers without stopping and went directly to Long Kang in Pei State.

Later, based on the information provided by Chen Qun, Zhang Yan asked Liang Mao to take the initiative to investigate the people who gave gifts to Chen Qun, and prepare to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Xuzhou has the most officials involved in this matter, including Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Yuzhou. Because they do not understand the actual situation, they dare not move around. Only Xuzhou officials know more than others and try their best to curry favor with Chen Qun.

Mi Zhu is Zhang Yan's left arm, and Chen Qun is Zhang Yan's right arm. Mi Zhu is already the richest man in Xuzhou and does not lack money at all. Even if those officials want to bribe, they can't afford to bribe Mi Zhu, so they unanimously targeted Chen Qun.

In addition to this, when Chen Qun received the gifts from these officials, Jiang Qi turned them away, but the gift-givers tried their best to ask Chen Qun to accept bribes and even stuffed money to Chen Qun's housekeeper.

Chen Qun, who discovered this situation, came up with a way to make a plan. Since you gave it to me, I will accept it, but I did not touch every penny of yours and hid it all. I saw how many people gave him gifts, and then followed the clues and checked them out.

This time, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Yan appointed Liang Mao and asked Liang Mao to thoroughly investigate the matter as the censor.

Once the news came out, those who had given gifts to Chen Qun were very regretful. Now everyone can only be in danger, so they have started to think about it again, giving Liang Mao gold, silver and beauty.

However, Liang Mao did not take this trick. After receiving the gift, he immediately turned against him and regarded the gift as a kind of evidence. He also arrested the person as witness and then thoroughly investigated the matter.

The first county magistrate to give gifts to Liangmao was undoubtedly the most unlucky person. He was simply a loser of rice without stealing the chicken, and even made himself more guilty.

Since then, officials from all over the country have been worried. Some officials are afraid of being punished and decisively fled to other places with their little sisters. Some officials with poor psychological qualities actually committed suicide fearing guilt.

In just half a month, there were as many as seven county magistrates in Xuzhou who committed suicide alone, and twenty-three people fled for fear of crime. Three county magistrates wanted to rebel, but were reported and exposed by the county magistrates and killed with the yamen runners.

There are five counties and sixty-two cities in Xuzhou. As a result, there are as many as thirty-three county magistrates who gave gifts to Chen Qun. What does this mean? More than half of the county magistrates in Xuzhou actually do evil on their territory, but he has no idea. When he thinks of this, Zhang Yan feels cold back and sweating profusely.

Unexpectedly, under my nose, there is still someone who dares to do so many things.

Liang Mao's trip was quite rewarding. He thoroughly investigated the thirty-three county magistrates. Except for the seven people who committed suicide, the other twenty-six county magistrates were all arrested and sent to Pengcheng, and handed over to Dali Temple Minister Zhang Zhao for review, and the Censorate was asked to jury.

According to Liang Mao's thorough investigation, these 33 county magistrates all violated laws and disciplines, either occupying other people's land, abused their power, or forcibly robbing women. Anyway, there are countless types of crimes, and facts are better than words.

So after some trial, Zhang Zhao gave such a conclusion. According to the new laws formulated by Zhang Yan, the remaining twenty-six people were all sentenced to beheading.

On the day of the execution, Zhang Yan went to the prison for execution in person. Twenty-six live heads instantly left their necks and rolled to the ground. The blood that kept gushing out of the cavity dyed the entire venue red.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan asked someone to put the twenty-six heads in wooden boxes and then sent them to each county to let the county magistrates take it as a warning!

However, a problem arises, who should fill the vacancy of these twenty-six county magistrates?

Now that Zhang Yan's subordinates are no longer available, Zhang Yan came up with a solution at such a critical moment. He is preparing to promote a group of county officials to county magistrates and give them a year to see how their political achievements are. If they can pass, they will continue to serve as county magistrates. If they are not qualified enough, they can only change others.

In addition, Zhang Yan clarified the functions and power of the Censorate and Dali Temple, and through this incident, it sounded the alarm bells of many county magistrates, making them dare not violate the law and discipline again in the future.

Zhang Yan killed 33 county magistrates in one fell swoop, twenty-six of whom were appointed by Tao Qian when he was alive. Therefore, some people were also doubting Zhang Yan's intention, whether he wanted to completely eliminate the remnants of Tao Qian's remaining forces?

In Zhang Yan's opinion, this was a major blood change. After the blood change, the county magistrates worked more diligently and did not dare to have any worries anymore, for fear of ending like this.

The administration of Xuzhou was rectified, and the smog that had been shrouded in the officialdom finally dissipated.

The weather is getting colder day by day. As the New Year is approaching, Zhang Yan has specially prepared many gifts and sent people to the soldiers who have worked hard for a year, as well as officials at all levels, and hope that their careers will flourish in the new year and their days will be prosperous.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, after Zhang Yan finished his work, he carried his tired body back to the room. There was coal fire in the room, and the temperature was much warmer than outside.

Zhang Yan walked straight to his wife Mi Zhen. As soon as he sat down, he hugged Mi Zhen's waist and kissed her directly on the face.

"Madam, you miss me to death..."

As he said that, Zhang Yan wanted to pick Mi Zhen up, but this time, Mi Zhen pushed Zhang Yan for a while and hurriedly said, "Husband, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it now, I'm a little uncomfortable..."

Zhang Yan said excitedly: "Discomfort? How is this possible? Didn't you just feel unwell five days ago? Why are you here again now?"

"Husband, what I said about physical discomfort is not that physical discomfort, but the real physical discomfort..."

"I've been confused by you, what's wrong with you?"

Mi Zhen wanted to speak and said, "I have it..."

"What's there?" Zhang Yan asked.

Mi Zhen glared at Zhang Yan, thinking that Zhang Yan was so stupid, and she couldn't understand it. So she touched her stomach and said, "I have my husband's flesh and blood..."

When Zhang Yan heard this, he was overjoyed and asked hurriedly: "Really?"

"Well, I just asked Dr. Fan to come and I was really happy. So, I can't have sex with my husband."

"I haven't heard that I can't have sex if I'm pregnant..."

Mi Zhen said: "My husband is good or bad. What I said about having sex is that..."
Chapter completed!