The Peerless Demon of Martial Arts

Chapter 646 Dress up as a pig and eat a tiger
The city gate official thought it was the real magistrate, but he didn't expect that he was buying an official, so he turned around and left.

"Stop, who told you to go?"

The other party spoke lightly, with a look of contempt: "I am the official seventh rank of the imperial court, what are you? Let me come here to ask you questions."

Li Tianxing snorted and said: "Zheng Qipin, what a great background. There are more bastards in Yongding River than you. You don't kneel when you see me, the magistrate. I don't think it's far from rebellion."

"Your official position was bought, so it doesn't matter."

"Hehe, didn't you buy this official with money?" Li Tianxing flipped through the roster: "In September of the previous year, you bought this city gate official from Zhao Zhifu for 9 taels of silver. Compared with others, we All you bought were temporary officials, but you bought long-term officials, am I right?"

"You—I don't want to talk nonsense with you here."

Li Tianxing patted the gavel: "Come here! Get it for me!"

He is the magistrate now, and everyone in the hall must listen to him. When he shouted, everyone went up and held down the city gate official. Even the mere seventh-rank can act wildly, which is against the sky.

This guy didn't admit defeat at all: "What are you?! How dare you arrest me, your grandfather! Let me go right away, and I won't let you go around without food!"

"Palm mouth."

Two people opened their bows on both sides, and one of them slapped him so that he vomited blood from the corner of his mouth.

After the beating, Li Tianxing was interested in playing with him: "If I ask you now, you have to tell the truth. If you lie, I will torture you until you die."

"You... who are you?"

"Idlers, I like to play this cat-and-mouse game, so I chose you." Li Tianxing took a deep breath: "You are in charge of city gate taxation, and there are four supervisors under your command. , how much silver is the daily income?"

"Humph!"

Oh, don't say it, you have a lot of backbone.

Li Tianxing greeted: "Since this hero is so resistant, everyone should greet him well, first whip thirty whips, by the way, use cowhide whips, soak them in water before whipping, this is very powerful."

Once - twice - three times...

"Ouch! Ouch!! Help! ——Master Zhifu, help!"

Li Tianxing drank tea leisurely: "I am the prefect, who are you calling for help?"

"I... I said it, I said it all."

People who have been beaten like this, even people who know martial arts can't stand it, let alone this guy with thin skin and tender flesh.The answer he got was shocking. The four city gates collected tens of thousands of taels of silver a day, and this was only from one prefecture in Yangzhou. If it was from the whole province, the money collected would be terrifying. The tax revenues are topped by other provinces for 20, 30 or even [-] years, but they pay less than one-tenth of the silver to the court. It was an exaggeration to say that three out of ten.

Someone notified the master, and it was transferred to Zhifu Zhao's ears.

"What did you say?!" Zhifu Zhao stroked his little beard: "This Li Yuanwai... what kind of person is he, how did he check my taxes properly, and even beat someone up. Isn't this a disease of idleness?"

The master said: "I saw something wrong with this guy early on, master, he is probably an imperial envoy sent by the emperor."

Zhao Zhifu said: "If it's an imperial envoy, it's easy to handle. You can get it by throwing tens of thousands of taels of silver. I'm afraid that the identity will be unknown. Is he still in the lobby?"

"exist."

"The government will go to meet him."

The official magistrate has a lot of airs, before the person arrives, the voice arrives first: "Lord Zhao is here!"

Li Tianxing didn't have to stand, drink tea and wait for someone to come.Zhao Zhifu entered the door and saw the city gate official who had been tortured lying on the ground: "Master Li, Li Yuanwai, I really didn't see it. You have means, hehe - there are means. People who buy officials in the world , if everyone is like you, it will be a poor world, how are you, come check my account book, who are you?"

"What do you say?"

Zhao Zhifu's eyes widened: "Don't do this with me, even if you are an imperial envoy sent by the emperor, I am not afraid of this house. This is a good saying, a strong dragon does not crush a local snake, sir, I am a local snake, you At best, it’s just a bug, what are you doing here, come and get me for real!”

Snapped! !

This gavel was shot, and Zhao Zhifu was taken aback.

"Idiot, why did the imperial court support a person like you, who has no ability, and will show off."

Zhao Zhifu replied: "You are really right, I am such a person, what a pity, you just met me. Come on! Take it down for you!"

The purple-winged bat and puppet rushed in: "Who dares to move!"

"Hey, hello? I even brought some helpers." Zhao Zhifu rolled up his sleeves: "You can do anything to me with just a few people like you. Today, I will set an example for those who make trouble out of nothing! Yamen servants! Grab it!"

Purple Winged Bat showed his waist card: "The emperor is here! Anyone who dares to move, kneel down!"

It's not that Zhao Zhifu has never seen the emperor, but now that he has changed his appearance, no one can recognize him.Not only was he not afraid, but he looked even more embarrassed: "What the hell is the emperor, what is it like to pretend that I have never seen the emperor. If nothing else, just because you dare to pretend to be the emperor, you should be cut into pieces! "

Li Tianxing tore off the human skin mask at once, revealing his true colors: "Prefect Zhao, do you still recognize me?"

"You—you...you are the emperor..."

Zhao's legs were weak, and he knelt down naturally without anyone saying: "I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I...don't kill me, don't kill me."

This hole is not difficult to tear open, Zhao Zhifu wants to survive, so naturally everything has been said, as long as he can guarantee that he will not die, as for the money, let's talk about it slowly.After winning the magistrate, there are many complicated things to rectify the local affairs. Taxation is only one aspect, and there are too many things about the accounts.

Although the magistrate was unlucky, but the master was fine, it happened that Li Tianxing was still in Yangzhou, the master rushed to the province, went directly to the governor's mansion, and revealed the news to him.

"Is it the emperor?!" The governor's forehead was sweating: "I knew that this bastard was not successful enough, but not successful! If you don't listen to me, this is the end!"

The governor said: "It's useless to say these things now, he has also recruited all of them, we are passive, losing the top is a trivial matter, and we don't know if the head can be saved, we have to think about the way forward. "

"The back road? What back road? Is it the king's land in the whole world, is it the king's city on the shore of the land, no matter how we go, we can't leave this land. Over the years, we have earned a million taels of silver, which is long enough to be beheaded." It's a sin, can the emperor bypass us?"

The guard came to report: "My lord, someone is asking to see you outside."

"Who?"

"I didn't say who it was, I just said it was from the capital."

The governor and the governor looked at each other and went out to greet him. The person who came was a man dressed in plain clothes, but judging from the way he walked, he was also a royal guard of the imperial court.The guests took their seats in the side hall, and he was responsible for delivering the news.

"Is Lord Hai safe in the palace?" the governor asked.

(End of this chapter)