Outside the prefect's office, there was a dead silence.

Both officials and minor officials in the government office were kneeling on the ground in fear.

Li Jinglong stood up the steps, staring at the thousand households in Jiujiang Prefecture.

The Qianhu stared at the middle of the bridge of his nose, in the shape of a cross-eye, like a fool.

"Who did you just say it was?" Li Jinglong couldn't help it anymore and sneered and came to the thousand households.

"Are you talking to Beizhi?" The Qianhu's eyes finally moved.

"I won't talk to you, but I will talk to ghosts?" Li Jinglong sneered.

Swish!

The Qianhu suddenly pulled out the dagger from his waist.

Li Jinglong quickly took two steps back, "Bold..."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he saw the Qianhu holding his hands on the ground, aiming the dagger in his hand at his palm, and creaking.

Um!

After the Qianhu groaned, there was a bloody color on the ground. The two fingers in the blood had separated from their palms, revealing white bone stubble.

He was also a man, sweating all over his head and didn't say a word. Then he looked at Li Jinglong, "Master, I was wrong. Can you give me a chance?"

The officials around were so scared that they were out of their minds, while Li Jinglong was stunned on the spot.

It took him a while to say in a complicated mood, "It's a man!"

"It is because I am not afraid of death that I have grown from a soldier to a thousand households." The thousand household said gritting their teeth, "Please don't kill the black officer!"

Suddenly, seeing this straightforward man like this, Li Jinglong became a little bit loving about talent.

"Go and wrap it up and keep kneeling when you come back!" Li Jinglong whispered, "How to deal with you, I will still have to let you go!"

As he said that, he looked coldly at the officials in Jiujiang Prefecture, walking towards the government office with heavy sleeves.

~~

Zhu Yunxiu looked at the Jiujiang Prefect Chen Jingzhi who was kneeling in front of him, and his face turned gloomy as water.

"Jiujiang Mansion, you have good control! Well!" Zhu Yunxiu sneered, "It's so good that I'm shocked!"

"I deserve to die..."

"When did I issue an order? Those who go to the city to sell vegetables and firewood must collect taxes?" Zhu Yunxiu said angrily, "When did I say that tax officials can arrest people and detain goods at will?"

"Emperor!" Chen Jingzhi looked up, his face turned gray, "This is all... it's all the people below who are taking their own actions. I really don't know!"

"As the prefect, you don't know, so what are you doing?" Zhu Yunxi's tone was extremely poor, and he almost pointed at Chen Jingzhi's nose and cursed.

Chen Jingzhi knew that his destiny was no longer guaranteed. When he thought of the harsh torture and cruel laws against officials in the Ming Dynasty, he felt even more disappointed.

But at the same time, he suddenly felt a lot of unwillingness and even grievances in his heart.

"Emperor!" Chen Jingzhi gritted his teeth and looked up, "I have negligent tax collection, but... I have also had my own difficulties!"

As he said that, he continued to shout, "In recent years, the taxes of the court have been more important than commercial taxes. The money and grain paid every year are mostly for silver. If you don't collect taxes, what should I pay the tax and silver to the Ministry of Revenue?"

"Oh, you have any reason?" Zhu Yunsheng smiled angrily.

Then, he gritted his teeth and sneered, "Okay, okay, you have any reason, then I will let you say it! Say it!"

"Besides, there is no accurate description of the city gate taxes in various places. What kind of goods can be collected and what kind of goods cannot be collected. The annual taxes in Jiujiang Prefecture are clear."

"I'm a bit cruel. But I didn't have any money to fall into my pocket." Chen Jingzhi felt more and more aggrieved. "Besides, there are so many servants in Jiujiang Prefecture who have to support them, and they have to show off some of the military pay from the garrison. They don't collect taxes... Where can I get the money?"

"Besides......" Chen Jingzhi made up his mind, "It's not just Jiujiang and the whole country like this, but it's like this everywhere. The emperor! I am guilty, but I am just Xiao Gui and Cao Sui."

"What a Xiao Gui Cao Sui, what a good one doesn't have money to pay taxes if they don't collect taxes!" Zhu Yunxiu hit Chen Jingzhi twice, "What a clever one!"

As he said that, he looked at Deng Ping, "Bring it up!"

"Abide by the order!"

A moment later, the tax officer, who had long been dissatisfied, was thrown directly into the lobby like a chicken caught by the guards.

"Emperor...Emperor...Emperor!"

"I ask you!" Zhu Yunxi said coldly, "Who gives you the right to arrest people and deduct goods?"

"Emperor..." The tax officer's teeth chuckled, and he couldn't even say a whole word.

"Tell me, where did your official power go?" Zhu Yunxiu said angrily.

He hated this kind of official who was the most disgusting to his subordinates, exerting his power to the extreme, but timidly facing officials.

"My..." The tax official first looked at the prefect of Jiujiang, Chen Jingzhi, and then looked at the guards in the hall. After suddenly, he burst out with a trace of courage.

"How are you?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.

"Your Majesty... Please defend yourself!"

"Oh?" Zhu Yunxiu was slightly surprised and smiled, "I didn't expect that the officials of your Jiujiang Prefecture would dare to talk to me. Okay, then I will tell you that if you can convince me, even if you offend me today, I will forgive you for not guilty!"

This sentence immediately made the tax officer's limp body have some strength.

He knelt with his body and said, "Today's affairs are based on today's affairs. If a horse seller cannot get the tax invoices for buying horses and pass the pass, it may be a robbery or a private dealer!"

"As a tax official, I cannot do anything without doing anything. It is my duty to seize people first and then check the authenticity of the goods. Although the emperor has never said that the tax official can arrest people, the emperor has never said that the permission will be allowed."

"Although I am a little domineering in this move, I am also acting for the public! I cannot allow goods of unknown origin to enter the city, and I cannot allow merchants of unknown origin to...."

"Ha!" Zhu Yunxiu laughed furiously, "You can't do anything wrong? You can do something for the public? So, you mean, you are just a little more serious. In fact, you are still a good official who is brave enough to do things, right?"

"I dare not..."

"Go outside and ask!" Zhu Yunxiu suddenly turned his head and said to Deng Ping, "Ask the merchants in the city whether this tax management has used the excuse of doing business for public service to fill their pockets and blackmail them." As he said, he said angrily, "Go and ask again, if the goods he detained, and after checking the source, whether they have returned the jade to Zhao, they will be returned to the merchants!"

Plop!

The tax officer's body fell soft again.

His fall has given the answer.

"I don't need to ask you, you know that Jiujiang Mansion is a businessman, and you must have suffered a lot in your hands!" Zhu Yunxiu said angrily, "You must have done more than this in blackmailing and distorting black and white things!"

"Tax collection is a major national fiscal plan! You and others..." Zhu Yunxiu sneered, "but he wants to profit from it and oppress good people!"

"Well....."

The tax official's eyes turned dark and he fainted from fear.

"He Guangyi!"

"I'm here!"

"The Jinyiwei investigated and dealt with this case!" Zhu Yunxi said coldly, "Look at how many people this black-hearted tax official bullied and how many evil he did!"

"Abide by the order!"

Then, Zhu Yunxiu looked at the Jiujiang Prefect Chen Jingzhi, "You feel wronged. Are you still wronged if your subordinates have such an official? You still have half of the tax and silver lost your bag? Hahaha!"

As he said that, Zhu Yunxiu laughed and said, "He extorted and fed his personal pockets outside the Yu Zheng tax. Do you have no share? Do you think I am a three-year-old boy emperor and don't know anything?"

"If he respects you with dirty money, can you promise him to be a tax official?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunxiu gritted his teeth and said, "This is me, why did he ask Li Zhigang to form the General Taxation Department and take back the tax rights from the local officials such as you!"

Then, he looked at the Jiujiang Prefect Chen Jingzhi who was also sitting in a mess, "Today, I will let you understand!"

"Deng Ping!"

"I'm here!"
Chapter completed!