This Xukao is the clerk examination, which was conducted this year after it was separated from the two taxes.
In this way, local clerks will have salaries and channels for advancement, which will very likely encourage them to start studying and pursue advancement. It will also greatly prevent clerks from colluding with others and breaking the law.
Knowing that they could gain merit and have the opportunity to take the clerk examination, and if they were lucky enough to pass the examination, they could even become officials, all the yamen runners became excited.
"Please speak, Governor. I will do it even if it means going through fire and water."
"Please rest assured, Governor. I will kill these scoundrels one by one. I will not let them escape!"
"Give the order, Governor."
Everyone took out weapons from their backpacks or waists.
Liu Yong then made a plan, going along the lines of this and that. After everyone heard it, they immediately acted according to the plan.
The next group quickly began to follow.
Among them, Liu Yong and Jiang Qu followed behind Manager Wang, who suddenly stopped them and said he had something to discuss.
While the other party was paused, the yamen runners who had already retreated into the deep mountains and old forests suddenly rushed out from the woods. On the right side of the road was a small slope about one meter high. Several people shouted and raised their knives, saying that they were yamen runners from the provincial government.
This scene obviously scared Manager Wang and his men. After all, they were just village thugs and stewards. The most common people they encountered were county runners armed with water and fire sticks. How could they have ever seen anyone armed with a knife?
If Liu Yong had clashed with them at the beginning, who knows, given that the other party was already on guard, even if he revealed his identity, the other party might have gone all out and fought with them with sticks in their hands.
But now he suddenly attacked and put the knife on everyone's neck, leaving these people no time to react.
Liu Yong then quickly revealed his identity, and after a yamen runner chopped down a thug who was trying to escape with a knife, the situation was instantly under control.
The yamen runners tied up more than ten of them. Then Liu Yong released the young couple and told them that he was ready to arrest the landlord, but he was not familiar with the situation in the village and hoped they would help.
The young couple was still in a daze, but when they heard that Liu Yong was the prefect who was coming to arrest someone, they burst into tears of joy and expressed their willingness to lead the way.
However, Liu Yong was also worried that the landlord would resist, so he asked him to find the people in the village who were oppressed by the landlord, gather them together, and not tell them what was going on. He just said that they saw wild rabbits, pheasants and the like in the mountains, and asked them to bring sticks and weapons to come hunt.
Liu Yong specifically told him not to look for people who were in collusion with the landlords, but to look for people who were oppressed by the landlords and owed debts, and they must be young, brave and strong.
Upon hearing this, the man immediately ran to the village to look for someone.
With Liu Yong as his backer, he became bolder and soon gathered more than 30 young and strong people he knew from his village in Qingshan Township and two nearby villages.
After everyone arrived, Liu Yong stood on a high place and shouted, identifying himself. Then everyone rushed towards the landlord's house with sticks, hoes, and carrying poles.
In an instant, the landlord of Qingshan Township was outsmarted!
(End of this chapter)
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