Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 426: If you make trouble, it will be up to Mr. Xia

After entering the pass, Xia Lin is no longer as useful as Dugu Han. This girl has businesses wherever she goes. The road from Huangya Pass to Xuzhou is Dugu Han's way of showing off.

"Are you qualified to receive me at your level?"

Dugu Han threw his sleeves in front of Xia Lin, and then the two of them laughed. The reason was that when they passed by a county town today, the county magistrate wanted to entertain the angel and the head of the Dugu family, but was ridiculed by Dugu Han, and ended up being neither a human nor a human.

It's not that they are putting on airs, but the county magistrate is quite bad. On the way here, Xia Lin found many people walking in groups beside the official road. They were wearing tattered clothes and staggering, and they looked just like refugees.

Logically speaking, this shouldn't happen. The harvests in the past two years have been quite good, with good news of bumper harvests everywhere. It is almost impossible for famine to occur.

So Xia Lin stopped the car and went to ask. He found out that the county in front had been plagued by banditry in recent years, and this year was particularly severe. The county magistrate had said several times that the bandits could not be completely wiped out, causing the people in the county to be resentful but helpless. The bandits always took advantage of the harvest day to plunder, causing the people to have nothing to harvest and unable to pay the taxes. They could only give their land to the rich families in the county, and they had to become homeless after losing their land. The better-off ones went to other places to seek refuge with relatives, while the worse-off ones could only sell their children.

"The people who have lost their land are now refugees and untouchables. Isn't he forcing them to death?"

At that time, Dugu Han raised his eyebrows and said, "This method is not new. It has been so long and you are still using such a crude method."

"Alright, Douya." Xia Lin pinched her neck and dragged her back into the car: "Watch me take care of him."

So there was the scene where Dugu Han turned his face away from the county magistrate. Although they still stayed in the county, they only stayed at the post station and did not go deeper.

While the group was eating, Dugu Han asked curiously, "How are you going to deal with him? I'm afraid this is not part of your job description, right?"

"Is it not easy to deal with him?" Xia Lin chuckled: "Little county magistrate, I have nine ways to deal with him, nine ways!"

"This place is under the jurisdiction of Jizhou. Why don't we go find the governor of Jizhou tomorrow? I remember he was called a warrior...what was that?"

"Warrior wok." Xia Lin replied, but shook his head and said, "It's no use looking for him. If we deal with this one, the next one will be even worse. They have all taken away this land. If we don't solve the root cause, it will only be a short-term pleasure."

"So what's your idea?"

"No hurry." Xia Lin shook his finger: "Fifteen days, I will give you a complete solution in fifteen days."

"Really? You can cure this chronic disease in 15 days?"

"Of course it's true."

Xiao Douya obviously didn't believe it: "What if you can't solve it?"

"What if I can solve it?"

Dugu Han raised his chin and glanced at Xia Lin for a long time, then smiled disdainfully and whispered something in his ear.

"really?"

"Of course it's true. I've seen Sanniang do this before. Can she do it but I can't?"

Xia Lin snapped his fingers: "Just because of your words, Dugu Han. I issue a military order. I will solve this matter in ten days!"

"There is no joking in the military. If you can't do it, don't blame me for making you suffer."

"it is good."

After making the bet, Xia Lin did nothing on the first day. He just walked around the county with the eunuchs wearing special flying fish costumes with his hands behind his back. He also had a meal and ordered two girls playing the pipa to entertain him.

The next day, he still did not take any action, neither moving forward nor doing anything. He just went to the homes of farmers around the county town to talk to them about this year's harvest, and also briefly asked about the banditry in the surrounding areas.

On the third day, he did not go out. He stayed in the inn to catch up on sleep and rest, and also studied how to make a guitar with existing materials.

Dugu Han saw him fiddling with those broken pieces of wood and was full of curiosity: "What's wrong? Do you think you can't do it anymore? Are you giving up?"

"Let the bullet fly for a while."

As expected, his actions in the past three days made the county officials from top to bottom unable to sleep or eat. The county magistrate, whose surname was Zhou, was so anxious that he couldn't even sleep well at night.

On the third day, when Xia Lin was tinkering with his guitar in the post station, he gathered all the wealthy families in the county and discussed countermeasures very urgently.

Someone suggested that since this was the case, it would be better to strike first and kill him once and for all, saying that he was killed by bandits here.

But this proposal was obviously rejected, because he was an imperial envoy and the head of the Procuratorate. Although the rank of a county chief was not high, he was not so ignorant of what the Procuratorate was.

Not to mention how many people would be needed to defeat the more than one hundred monsters in flying fish suits behind him. Even if he was really killed here, then in their county, starting with him, even an egg would have its yolk shaken apart.

"Master Jiu, please think of a solution. I have been getting more and more frightened these past few days. It is really scary that he is so calm." The man called Master Jiu by the county magistrate was just a middle-aged man in his forties. His appearance was not very stereotyped, but he was smart and cunning. He once had a reputation, but was implicated in a fraud case and had his reputation stripped away and returned to his hometown. Then he joined forces with the county magistrate to create so many things. The lives of people under his hands were countless, and if he was released, he would be regarded as a local tyrant.

"Master Zhou, don't panic. This matter is indeed difficult, but even if he is an imperial envoy, he can't control your local officials. Otherwise, I will go to meet him today."

"Then everything depends on Master Jiu."

That afternoon, Mr. Jiu actually sent an invitation to Xia Lin to go to the county restaurant, saying that he had important matters to report.

Xia Lin took the invitation and fiddled with it in his hand, glancing at Xiao Douya: "Did you see that? Someone can't sit still anymore."

"There are still seven days left. I'll see who can't sit still."

Xia Lin laughed loudly, then stood up and changed into a scholar's suit, then said to Xiao Douya, "Come on, come with me to take a look tonight."

In the evening, the two of them were really invited to the restaurant. At this moment, the gloomy Jiu Ye was in high spirits and entertained Xia Lin warmly, with flattery written all over his face.

"Master Xia's name is well-known. It is a great honor for me to be invited to come to my humble place."

"You're welcome." Xia Lin followed him into the house with a smile on his face. After sitting down, he asked with a smile, "What's your name?"

"My surname is Feng, my given name is Feng Meng, and I was once a juren."

"Well, that's a good name." Xia Lin waved his folding fan gently. "I wonder why Mr. Feng asked me to come here today?"

Jiu Ye waved his hand and said with a smile: "Because I was implicated in the fraud case a few years ago, I have lost my fame and reputation. You can just call me Xingma. I invited you here today because I want to talk to you about the bandit suppression."

"Oh?" Xia Lin smiled immediately: "Then I must listen carefully, please go ahead."

Jiu Ye spoke with a face full of hatred as he talked about how he had suffered from banditry many times over the years, and how he had tried his best to eradicate these bandits for the county. Anyway, what he said was so convincing and sincere.

Finally, he took a deep breath and said, "I can't count on the county magistrate. If Lord Xia can help me, I will offer him 100,000 silver coins and 1,000 taels of gold."

"Okay, okay." Xia Lin nodded with a smile on his face.

But before we could talk about the details of the bandit suppression, someone brought a wooden box and two wooden boxes over. After opening the wooden boxes, there were small gold ingots arranged in a row, one weighing ten taels, a total of 100 ingots. The other two wooden boxes contained the promissory notes of the Jiangbei Yuwen family's silver shop, a total of 100,000 taels.

"Please accept it, sir, to ease my worries."

What nice words! To put it bluntly, everyone knows what the money is for. It's just throwing meat buns at a dog. After receiving the money, Xia Lin can of course go to suppress the bandits, but at that time, there was no bandit money to be collected. The bandits had long been assimilated into the people.

If Xia Lin really went to suppress the bandits, he would certainly come up empty-handed. But as long as he went, it would restore peace to the world. He was just a passing official, and since he had already received the money, he naturally would not cause any more trouble.

"Then I will respectfully obey your command." Xia Lin took the silver and took a sip of wine with a smile: "It's getting late today, so I will leave first."

Watching Xia Lin's leaving back, Jiu Ye just smiled and shook his head, singing a passage from an opera: "All crows in the world are black... "

When Xia Lin returned, Dugu Han pointed his fan at him angrily, "Don't I have money? Are you so short of money? For this little profit, you don't even care about your dignity. You keep saying you work for the country and the people, but you still tell me to think about future generations. You... I misjudged you."

"I find that you are really a sparrow. You are small in stature, but you have a big temper." Xia Lin sat down and drank water, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "If you don't agree, just hold it in. I will show you how to do it."

"Humph!"

It was already the fourth day, and there were only six days left before Xia Lin's ten-day appointment.

When Xia Lin woke up early, he leisurely held a meeting with several men from the Investigation Department. After the meeting, these people melted into the city like ghosts.

At night, rumors were rife throughout the county, all kinds of reliable and unreliable rumors came out, such as someone bribed the officials in Beijing and planned to replace the county magistrate. There were also rumors that the surrounding mountain bandits learned that the county was going to encircle and suppress them, and were gathering to attack the county.

Anyway, the whole county was in a panic for a while, and many people had even begun to prepare to go outside to avoid the limelight. The public security in the county became chaotic overnight, and everything was in a mess.

The county magistrate found Master Jiu again. He was even more anxious today: "Master Jiu, what should we do? It's a mess... It's all a mess... Have you fixed it?"

Jiu Ye frowned, put his hands on his knees and tightly grasped his pants: "This is strange, why are there so many rumors overnight? Could it be that Xia is behind this?"

"Don't worry about who's behind this. If this continues, there will be a big mess."

"Don't panic. He will probably leave in the next two days. When he leaves, we will punish these poor devils."

(End of this chapter)