Outside the Tuisi Garden, Zheng Yue asked the rioters to nominate a few representatives to tell him their demands.

"Old parents, you have to take care of this matter. The Xu family is too wicked. They forced me to take over the land for them. If I don't agree, we will be in trouble. As a result, I, a poor and broke man, suddenly have thousands of acres of land under my name. If I am included in the tiger head register, I will not be able to pay the tax even if I sell all my property."

"Old parents, we have a grievance. That year my father was ill, and he borrowed fifty taels of money from the Xu family at interest. Who knew that the interest would be compounded, and he could not pay it back. As a result, the Xu family seized the land and forced me to sell myself into slavery. Woo woo woo, I am so miserable."

"My dear parents, the Xu family is not human. I sold the land to them, but I didn't receive a penny. Why can't they return the land to me?"

Zheng Yue coldly looked at these guys who usually relied on the Xu family to bully others. At this moment, they all changed their faces and accused the Xu family with deep hatred and bitterness, as if they had really suffered a great crime.

In fact, whether they surrendered or sent someone by deception, they were all willing. They just joined forces with the Xu family to harm the court and the poor people.

Magistrate Zheng was full of disdain in his heart, but he said with understanding on his face: "I understand the situation you are reporting. The new policy promulgated by the governor's office is to solve these problems. Everyone should have confidence in the government, and everything will be properly resolved."

"We trust our parents, but the Xu family is too tyrannical. Look how they beat us. My arm is broken..." A small landlord who was beaten yesterday cried, "Let our parents decide."

"Let our parents decide." The people started clamoring again.

"Beating someone is definitely against the law! Not to mention the servants of the Xu family, even if the son of the Xu family beats someone, he will be punished by law!" Zheng Yue waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I will punish him severely!"

As he spoke, he instructed Li Bantou who was standing beside him, "Send a team of people to maintain order here. Anyone who dares to beat anyone up will be arrested!"

Then, County Magistrate Zheng warned the crowd with a serious face: "You should also restrain yourself and not attack Mr. Yuan's house, otherwise I will arrest you too!"

The unruly people were stunned at first, but then they realized what was going on. The magistrate was implying that as long as they didn't take action, they could do whatever they wanted?

At this time, Zhong Zhenji's sedan chair came out of Tuisi Garden. Zheng Yue hurried forward and whispered a few words to him, then turned back and scolded him, "Did you hear me? Don't make trouble. Let's go away."

"Yes..." The crowd dispersed in twos and threes.

But as soon as their sedan chair went away, the gang of unruly people came back, becoming more and more confident, and cursing more and more unscrupulously towards the garden.

"Old killer, you want those fields to be buried with you."

"Get out here, old bastard. If you don't give up the land, I will never let you go."

"Old turtle, come out here!"

All kinds of dirty words came out.

Even though Lord Xu was very patient, he was still shaking with anger. He had never been humiliated like this in his life...

Etc. Before he retired last year, it seemed that the people in the capital had done something similar and even threw manure into his yard...

It turns out that unruly people are unruly people, regardless of north or south, they are all the same kind of people.

~~

The prefectural government office.

Zheng Yue accompanied Zhong Zhenji into the signing room. Magistrate Zhong pointed at the young magistrate Zheng and said with a smile: "You are playing with fire."

"I don't understand what you mean." Zheng Yue said with a smile.

"You are definitely behind this good show, aren't you?" Zhong Zhenji saw clearly that once Hai Rui's two new policies were released, the foundation of the Xu family would definitely be shaken. But it shouldn't be so quickly that they fell into the predicament of being abandoned by their friends and relatives. There must be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames, which accelerated the progress of the situation.

Zheng Yue was responsible for compiling the Huating County's Tiger Head and Rat Tail Book, and he had enough influence on this group of small landlords, so it was completely effortless for him to do this.

"Anyway, I won't admit it once I leave this door." Zheng Yue couldn't deny it anymore.

Zhong Zhengji cursed inwardly, thinking that rookies in officialdom were ignorant and only cared about getting themselves ashore, not caring about their superiors' life or death.

"Can you tell me who wants to embarrass the Xu family?" He had to swallow his pride and asked tentatively.

"No one instructed me to do this. I just wanted to draw a clear line between myself and the Xu family before Prime Minister Hai Zhongcheng arrived. I don't know if it will be useful." Zheng Yue said frankly.

"Really?" Zhong Zhengji looked at Zheng Yue, half believing and half doubting.

"Really." Zheng Yue nodded.

"It will definitely be useful." Zhong Zhenji sighed, "If we blow up the incident before the Zhongcheng arrives, we can at least get ourselves out of trouble. If we wait until he gets to Songjiang and blows up the incident, we will be suspected of being in the same gang as him."

As he spoke, he said with a serious face: "This matter is not something you, the new magistrate, can take responsibility for. You should put it on my account. In the future, you can say that you followed my orders. Do you understand?"

"Uh..." Zheng Yue felt disgusted. He had seen shameless people before, but he had never seen such a shameless person. However, he still had to say gratefully, "Thank you for your protection, Zhongcheng. I understand."

~~

Kunshan County, on the banks of the Xiaoshan River.

Mr. Zhao's four-wheeled carriage slowly moved towards Kunnan along the bumpy road along the river.

A figure suddenly appeared beside the carriage, which scared Gao Wu. He breathed a sigh of relief and knocked on the window after seeing who it was.

"Sir, who is coming?" After a long while, Brother Gao finally managed to say something.

"Let him get in." Young Master Zhao's muffled voice was heard in the carriage.

The man got into the car again and saw Zhao Hao lying on Secretary Ma's lap with his eyes closed. The road was too bumpy and Mr. Zhao was a little carsick.

I didn't mean to take advantage of Sister Ma.

"What's the matter?" Young Master Zhao asked without opening his eyes.

The ignored young man replied in a low voice: "The servants of the Xu family have rebelled and surrounded Tuisi Garden the day before yesterday. County Magistrate Zheng also replied that you can rest assured, young master, he will try to intensify the conflict between the upper and lower levels of the Xu family."

"Hmm." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "Tell County Magistrate Zheng to rest assured that no matter what the final result is, he will not be implicated."

"I understand." The young man responded.

Just as he was about to disappear without a sound, Zhao Hao suddenly opened his eyes and asked the ordinary-looking boy with a smile, "How is it? Are you getting used to your new job?"

"I like it very much." The boy nodded and said happily, "This job is very suitable for me. I don't have to worry about not being able to attract attention anymore."

He grinned and said, "The day before yesterday, I sneaked into Xu's house and stirred up trouble, but no one noticed me..."

As he spoke, his voice gradually became quieter, and he lowered his head in depression and said to himself: "No one paid attention to me even though I was like that. Even if I died, no one would notice me..."

"This only proves that you are a genius in intelligence work. When doing intelligence work, the less noticeable it is, the better." Zhao Hao encouraged him seriously, "No one will know your name, but your achievements will live forever!"

"I understand." The man... oh yes, his name is Fang Wen, nodded encouraged, turned around and disappeared.

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