"Is this what Confucian master mean? He wants you to stay by your side and guide you on how to deal with the next test?" Li Ling was slightly stunned, then understood a little and asked.

Xu Cang nodded: "This is only one aspect, and the other point is that I am worried that there will be a lot of trouble when I go back to Jiangcheng this time, which will make me unable to study and prepare for the exam with peace of mind."

"Trouble?" Li Ling was a little puzzled. We have become juren. Does anyone dare to come to ask for trouble?

Xu Cang smiled bitterly: "It's my relatives who are changing their minds. When I was a scholar before, they came to ask me to help them avoid voting taxes, and I'm not very disturbing. But this time I became a juren, I'm afraid that more people will come, and they have some relationship with me, so it's really hard to say no to me."

Only then did Li Ling realize that the other party was worried that he would be reluctant to return home, and then he would have a big show.

The so-called contribution refers to those farmers who originally own land who place their land in the name of people who have fame or official positions in order to evade agricultural taxes and do not need to pay taxes to the government. Of course, this is just a method. In fact, the other party also owns the right to use the land, which is just to symbolically give the affiliated person some money and grain benefits every year.

The farmers naturally got the advantage because they no longer had to worry about heavy taxes, and they might even exempt all corvee labor. And the nobles also had great benefits, not only gained a good reputation for helping others, but also gained tangible benefits. More importantly, perhaps after a few years, they could just take the land they had given to their names for themselves. The only thing that suffered was the imperial government, because in this way, the government would collect less taxes.

The reason why Juren can be rich and prosperous for a lifetime is because of this bad policy that has been popular for many years. After all, the amount of land that can be reduced and exempted in their names is quite considerable. However, Xu Cang, as an upright scholar, has many opinions on this. He may not be able to object, but he does not want to become a beneficiary of this bad policy. Therefore, he did not want to accept such arrangements when he became a scholar before or now.

But those aunts and aunts who had no contact with his family before didn't care about this, and they were very disturbed that day. Now that he knows that he has not been here all day since he became a juren, he has broken the threshold?

Li Ling couldn't help but admire Xu Cang, so he was a poor gentleman. But then frowned and said, "But even if you don't go back, your mother and family will be disturbed by them. After all, the news has been sent back now, and everyone knows that you have passed the imperial examination this time."

"So I plan to bring it to my mother and the others, and the teacher also supports me in doing so, saying that I can help me find a small courtyard to settle down."

"Since you have made up your mind, I naturally support you." Li Ling nodded: "Then I will arrange for my aunt and the others to come to Xuzhou after I go back, and there are still..." As he said that, he took out two more ingots of silver and handed them to Xu Cang, "If you take this little silver, you will always have to have some money to accompany you when you go out."

This time, Xu Cang did not refuse Li Ling's silver. He nodded seriously with the warm silver, "thank you, Wen Zhong, we will see you in the capital."

"Yes, see you in the capital then!" Li Ling also said with a smile.

The matter was over, and Xu Cang did not plan to return to Jiangcheng together, so Li Ling no longer stayed in Xuzhou for more. He only went to Zhang Hefeng's place, said goodbye to the old man, and hired a carriage from the government station and set off home.

After becoming a juren, with that silver medal, Li Ling's treatment at the official station was different from before. Not only could he be exempted from food and accommodation within three days, but he could also hire good horses and vehicles at the lowest price, which would facilitate the use of cars and horses to various prefectures and counties in Huaibei, which is much more convenient than before.

On August 30, Li Ling bid farewell to Xu Cang and officially left Xuzhou. Except for Li Moyun, the only ones who came with him were only a few gifts he bought for his family and more than ten books that Zhang Hefeng gave him.

Compared with the size of dozens of cars when he came, he seems too deserted when he goes back. But strangely, even the guys who have been following him secretly and wanting to be unfavorable to him are gone!

...

Xuzhou Governor Liu Gui looked at the subordinates in front of him with a gloomy expression: "It's been more than ten days, are you still just giving me an explanation? Five lives and such a big case, but there is no clue yet?"

"Grandpas, please forgive me. The young people have carefully investigated the whereabouts of these people after entering the city, but they have never made any grudges with others, let alone caused a murder."

"What about before coming to my Xuzhou?"

"The strangest thing is here. We have also investigated the identities of the few of them. They said they were the people of Pei County under my Xuzhou rule, but the local government said that there had never been these people... Even their identities and identities were all faked by people, so even now they can't even find out who they are..."

"So what you want to tell me is that in the past half month, there has been no progress at all. Let me resign from these words to report to the governor Yu?" Liu Gui's face turned pale and stared at the subordinates in front of him, scaring them to kneel down: "I am humble and incompetent, so I'll ask for punishment!"

"Punishment? If you can find out the case, I will punish you severely!" Liu Gui slapped the table with a cold voice, "I am not afraid of making the statement clear. It is because this case is extremely difficult to investigate that the governor will hand it over to me! If the murderer is not found tomorrow, I will naturally be defeated, but you should not think about it. It is inevitable to be dismissed one by one, so you should think about how to find a murderer to come out!" As he said that, he waved his hand, "Go down and think about it."

Several people withdrew from the hall with a bitter look on their faces. In fact, as the confidants of governor Liu, they knew very well how difficult the situation of their boss was. The governor should have been a local official and held great power, but in the end, his presence was minimized because he was in the same city as the governor of the Huai River. All his power was taken away by the governor with higher official positions.

In order to be transferred from this awkward position, governor Liu had no choice but to cooperate with some people, and then Zhang Hefeng's incident happened. However, the matter was destroyed by a candidate. Zhang Hefeng's reputation was not damaged, but he found out that he was the commander behind him... Then the Luo family left the city miserably. When such a headless case occurred in Xuzhou City, the governor sent such a major matter to him.

Not to mention that governor Liu and his subordinates are not good at investigating cases, even if they are really good at this, it is difficult to find the real murderer with the cautious and neat method of the murderer in this case. What's even more troublesome is that the identities of these deceased are very strange, and in the end they can't even find out who they are.

"What should I do? Liang Touer, you have handled some cases and you have to show your brothers a clear way."

"Minglu? I'm also confused now. I only know that the dead are not serious. In fact, there is no one who even has a miserable lord. The government can not do a deep investigation, but it still puts the trouble on us. Who told us to offend people?"

"So can we only be dismissed from office and questioned?"

Liang Touer smiled bitterly and shook his head, and suddenly felt a little moved in his heart: "That may not be."

"Liang Touer, what clue are you thinking about?" Everyone was also excited to see this and asked quickly.

Liang Touer's eyes flashed: "There is no clue, the murderer is just going to kill people. We have been on the scene many times, but we have found nothing."

"That……"

"But that doesn't mean we can't find the murderer. The lord said, let's hand over the murderer, but he didn't say that it must be the real murderer! In my opinion, the butcher next to the scene looked quite suspicious. He had been killing pigs for many years, and he might not be weak in his skills in knife skills."

The few people looked at each other for a while, then nodded vigorously: "What Liang Touer said is that this butcher is indeed a problem! Let's take the people here and torture them severely. We will definitely be exported to the public before tomorrow!"

When people are forced to do anything, they can do everything. In order to save their jobs, these jobs have no choice but to impose trouble on others.

...

Hengzhou Prefecture, Pingjiang County, Ji Family Mansion.

Late at night, in Zhao Chenghuang's study, he stared at someone's face with a burning look: "Are you saying that He Xin and the others died in Xuzhou City?"

The man's eyes drooped, but he didn't dare to look at him. He said softly: "Yes...yes, this happened half a month ago. The five of them were killed in their residence..."

"Impossible, they are all good players in my tutor. Even if the government wants to take them, it is not that easy for the government to take them. How could it be easily killed?" Even at this time, Zhao Chenghuang still looked unacceptable, but the person in front of him still said: "The body has been inspected by the local government for many times, and the throat was cut off by a knife..."

"All five people were cut off by a knife?" Zhao Chenghuang was even more shocked when he saw the other party nodding, "Is it him? He can do it, but do you know where he is during this period?"

"He...he has been in Jiangnan for the past six months and has not returned to Lianghuai."

"Are you sure?"

"Our people keep staring at him..."

"That's strange. Who else in the world can kill He Xin and the other two so easily? Even if there are such people, it's impossible to do this. They just went to Xuzhou for a little bit of trivial matter." At this point, his body was shocked again. Li Ling, did he really underestimate this young man?

On the surface, he looked just an ordinary scholar, but in fact he was just like himself, and he was still a man in the martial arts world. He discovered the purpose of He Xin and others early, so he came to take action first?
Chapter completed!