Jia Min's Counterattack

Chapter 139

After Lin Ruhai arrived in Suzhou, he was not in a hurry to take office in the government office.On the one hand, he contacted the Lin family's spies to investigate the affairs of the former Zhizhou when he was in office, and on the other hand, he asked Lin Dayong to inquire about a person named Hua Chong.

This Hua Chong was from Kuaiji, a famous juvenile candidate in the late emperor's time, but because he was a concubine, he was feared by his aunt, so he planned to frame him and lose his fame. .Later, this person went to Suzhou and worked as a shopkeeper in a small silk and satin shop. For 15 years, he helped the owner of this silk and satin shop to turn a silk and satin shop with only one small shop into the largest silk and satin shop in the south of the Yangtze River.However, his ability was also feared by his boss. The boss didn't want him to control the entire silk and satin factory, but he didn't want him to join other silk merchants after leaving.So he murdered his family, but his life was not guaranteed. Later, he ran to Zhen Yingjia and recommended himself, became Zhen Yingjia's counselor, and advised Zhen Yingjia. Lin Ruhai also suffered from him in his lifetime.After Hua Chong gained power, he planned to bring the silk merchant who killed his donkey into a treason lawsuit, and the nine clans were killed.And his relatives in Kuaiji's hometown also made him plan to be expelled from the family.

Now Hua Chong's family members should have just been killed by his boss, and he himself is like a mouse crossing the street not daring to show his face.Lin Ruhai wanted to find him in advance, take him under his command, and make him his master for his use!

Within two days, the hidden guards found Hua Chong's hiding place.Hua Chong is indeed a very scheming person. He bought a very small yard at the back door of the silk and satin house. No one knew that he bought this yard, not even his own family knew that there was such a yard. .Hua Chong is now hiding in this courtyard, and no one would have thought that he would be hiding under the nose of the silk merchant.

That night, Lin Ruhai came to the gate of the courtyard where Hua Chong was hiding alone. He looked around and found no trace of anyone except An Qi and An Nineteen hiding in the dark, so he knocked on the courtyard door lightly. Door.After a cup of tea, Lin Ruhai heard the breathing of someone behind the courtyard door, but the other party seemed to have no intention of speaking.

"Since you have seen me outside the door, sir, please open the door and let me enter the courtyard before you go into details. I believe that you don't want to disturb the people on the other side!" Lin Ruhai said with a smile, turning her head and sweeping away seemingly unintentionally. He glanced at the back of the silk and satin shop across the yard.

After a while, the courtyard door opened, only wide enough for one person to pass through. As soon as Lin Ruhai walked in, the courtyard door behind him was quickly closed.Lin Ruhai turned around, facing Hua Chong without saying a word, just looking at Hua Chong's shocked and puzzled eyes.In the darkness, the two stood in the courtyard and stared at each other silently for a long time. Hua Chong first withdrew his eyes and silently made a gesture of please.Lin Ruhai smiled slightly, turned around and walked into the house with his hands behind his back.

Hua Chong and Lin Ruhai walked into the house. Hua Chong pushed open a wardrobe in the room by the moonlight outside the window, revealing a secret door. He turned his head to look at Lin Ruhai, and saw that he was still looking at him calmly. He himself entered the secret door first, and Lin Ruhai followed without hesitation.

Inside the secret door, Hua Chong lit an oil lamp, instantly lighting up the dark secret room.At this moment, both of them saw each other's appearance clearly.Hua Chong only saw Lin Ruhai's figure and his voice when he called the door in the yard just now, so he judged that it was a young man, but he didn't expect it to be such a young man with a good appearance and bearing People, but such a young man has very sharp eyes, and when he looks at him, he will unconsciously feel chills in his heart.In Lin Ruhai's eyes, Hua Chong has average appearance and a typical Kuaiji person, some short and some thin, but his head is very big.She has the elegance of a scholar all over her body, and there is a strong hostility in her eyes, perhaps because she has just suffered the disaster of destroying her family.

"Who are you? How did you find someone here?"

"I am the new governor of Suzhou, and I am also Lin Ruhai, the head of the Lin family on Suzhou East Street."

Hua Chong was stunned for a moment by Lin Ruhai's direct identification of his identity, but soon recovered, "I don't know why Mr. Lin came here?"

"Are you here because you want to imitate Liu Xuande?"

"I don't know who the Wolong Master Lin is looking for?" Hua Chong smiled mockingly.

"Since I'm here, sir is naturally the Wolong I want to invite!" Lin Ruhai kept smiling and his eyes were firm, which made Hua Chong believe what he said, and his tone lost the hostility before, but Still with a deep defense.

"Since Mr. Lin is the head of the Lin family on the East Street, it's not a problem to find any kind of capable person. There are even many people who will take the initiative to join Mr. Lin. Why did you choose this poor dog alone?"

"Sir, what you said is right! But those people are not what I need. The people I want are not only well-educated, but also have extraordinary strategies and scheming beyond ordinary people. Such people are not easy to find. I choose In order to have a husband, one is to believe in the ability of the husband, and the other is to believe that I can make the husband willing to help me?"

At this time, Hua Chong really had some admiration for Lin Ruhai, and he asked Lin Ruhai playfully: "Why is Mr. Lin so confident? Aren't you afraid that I will obey others?"

"I won't say anything like avenging my husband, because my husband doesn't need my help at all. If I intervene, I will look down on my husband, and it will also make me and my husband have interests involved! I just want to say , I understand the innocence deep in Mr.'s heart, and I am willing to realize each other's dreams together with Mr.

"Oh? I wonder what dreams Mr. Lin has in his heart?" Hua Chong did not deny Lin Ruhai's analysis of his heart. He was indeed a scholar with ideals and aspirations before, but the repeated tribulations in life made him take that The heart of a child was deeply buried in his heart, and Lin Ruhai's ability to say these words made him feel like he had met a confidant towards Lin Ruhai.

"Right now, I just want to be a qualified governor of Suzhou!"

Hua Chong once again looked at the young man in front of him seriously. He was full of righteousness, his eyes were clear, there was no trace of greed or ambition, but only expectations for the future and determination to win.He finally understood why Lin Ruhai was so confident that he could make himself submit to him willingly. In fact, they were the same kind of people.

Hua Chong didn't hesitate anymore, lifted the hem of his robe, and solemnly knelt down in front of Lin Ruhai, "My lord, please be respected by the villain!"

Brother Chapter 140 Yamen

Lin Ruhai arranged a new identity for Hua Chong, letting him live in the courtyard behind the yamen.From then on, Hua Chong was no longer the shopkeeper of the silk and satin shop that was hunted down, but the master of Lin Ruhai, the magistrate of Suzhou.

At this time, Lin Ruhai had successfully taken over all the affairs of Suzhou Zhizhou Yamen.With the help of a master who had been the shopkeeper for more than ten years, Lin Ruhai quickly checked out all the accounts of his previous boss.The previous magistrate, named Qian Zhengqin, was also a native of Suzhou.Although he embezzled a lot of money, he was considered smart. When he learned that he was dismissed from office, he hurriedly made up the money.I was afraid that I would lose my official position and lose the lives of my whole family.

Lin Ruhai's first task was to solve a very serious problem in Suzhou.There are many silk and satin villages in Suzhou, and there must be a lot of silk and satin merchants, but these silk and satin merchants have only a few fields under their names. So where do they plant mulberry and raise silkworms?Are so many fields in Suzhou unclaimed land?Lin Ruhai has memories of her previous life, so of course she knows what's tricky about it.It turns out that in order to reduce the tax payment, these silk merchants even went to the yamen to apply for the red deeds for their own fields. Of course, they had to hand over a sum of money to the yamen, but this money was compared to the annual tax payment. It is too much less.But in the ledgers that Lin Ruhai got, there was no record of this amount of money, so it was self-evident where so much money went.

Lin Ruhai just took office, and he didn't want to fall out with his fellow judges and judges. In his previous life, he was also young and vigorous, and his actions were not thorough enough. He slapped several people in the face and violated the interests of many people, which made him isolated later on. , There is not a single helper in the entire Jiangnan officialdom.This time, Lin Ruhai had already made arrangements, and he asked Hua Chong to help him solve this matter, which also meant to try Hua Chong's skills.Of course, Hua Chong understood what Lin Ruhai meant, and also knew that Lin Ruhai wanted to give himself a chance, on the one hand to prove his strength, and on the other hand, he could take the opportunity to punish his enemies.

So on this day, Lin Ruhai called Master Zhang, the Tongzhi, and Master Xu, the judge, and told them about his series of decisions.

"My lords, I have invited you here today because I have a few things to discuss with you. The first thing is that the floods we suffered in Suzhou this time were extremely serious, and many fields were destroyed. Therefore, I decided to re-measure the fields. , Immediately send people to various villages and towns. The second thing, I found that there are many unowned lands in Suzhou. Plant mulberry trees on the ground to raise silkworms, so that the imperial court can get an extra share of tax money, and the annual income will be owned by our yamen, except for some necessary expenses, and the rest will be distributed to everyone according to their rank. What do you two think?"

Zhang Tongzhi and Xu Tongsan looked at each other, not understanding what Lin Ruhai's move meant, but he was afraid that the matter would be revealed and cause trouble for him, so he tried to stop it.

"Master Lin, the imperial court has rules for measuring land, and it is not in accordance with the rules to measure land rashly!" Zhang Tong knew.

"Yes, yes! Master Lin, there is no law in this imperial court that stipulates that the Yamen can use the unowned land at will!" Xu Tong judged.

"Hehe! My lords don't know something. Before I came to Suzhou, I discussed this matter with the emperor. The emperor still agrees with the re-measurement of the fields after the flood, and said that in the future, wherever there is a disaster, the land will be re-measured. Land, it will be easier for the government to manage, and it will reduce many incidents of occupying other people's land, but this imperial decree has not been promulgated for a while, but the emperor has allowed me to implement it in Suzhou first." Looking at the obviously flustered Er People, Lin Ruhai continued: "In addition, the emperor has also made new arrangements for the unowned lands in various places. From now on, the unowned lands will be unified under the management of the government, and half of the benefits produced will be handed over to the imperial court, and the other half can be distributed by the state. The high-level yamen handles it by itself. Our Suzhou is the place selected by the emperor for trial." After speaking, Lin Ruhai took out a secret decree from his bosom, opened it, and read it out to the two adults, Zhang and Xu.The two knelt on the ground, listening to Lin Ruhai finish reading the secret decree, beads of sweat appeared on Da Dong's forehead.

"My lords, if you have any difficulties, you can discuss it with me, and I will help you find a solution!"

Lin Ruhai didn't bother with them anymore, after all, the road has already been paved for them, if they are stupid and don't follow the road, then he can't blame himself, when the time comes, he will just be able to promote the people he wants to use.

On that day, the news that the fields in Suzhou were going to be re-measured spread throughout the streets and alleys, and there were also rumors that from now on, the fields without red deeds would be regarded as unclaimed land and would be under the unified management of the government.Now the city of Suzhou exploded. Those who did not apply for the red deed quit, but they handed over money to the yamen. Why should they take back their own fields?So for three consecutive days, Zhang Tongzhi and Xu Tongpan were blocked by those silk merchants asking for an explanation, but no one dared to trouble Lin Ruhai. How can someone who got money turn around and refuse to admit it?

Hua Chong didn't care so much, he just led the yamen servants to various villages and towns to measure the land. Those lands that could not get the red deeds were erected by the yamen servants on the official boundary markers.Now those who wanted to wait and see couldn't sit still anymore, and ran to the yamen to make trouble. Lin Ruhai pushed all these people to Zhang and Xu.

Zhang and Xu came to ask him to come forward, but Lin Ruhai said: "These people say that those lands are theirs. What proof do they have? They said they have already handed over money to the government. What proof do they have? I didn't see it in the account book. What about the records about this money! Since they said it was the money I handed over before I came here, it has nothing to do with me, and naturally it has to be handed over to the two adults!"

Zhang and Xu left dejectedly. They discussed countermeasures together, but they never thought of what to do.

"Master Zhang, I heard what Master Lin said just now, do you want us to take the initiative to hand over the money we took, and then hand over the account book to him?"

"No, if we hand it over, don't we just give the handle to others?"

"However, now we are fish on the cutting board, and we will be slaughtered sooner or later. After all, what we take is a small number, and most of it will be given to Qian Zhengqin. If we take the initiative to show our favor, maybe Master Lin will help us suppress this matter." Not necessarily! You forgot, he said that if you have any embarrassing things, you can find him!"

Zhang Tongzhi thought about it carefully, looked at Xu Tong and said, "Master Xu means..."