At this time, the news naturally reached the Tiju Changping Si Yamen.

Zhou Hongzheng was surprised. The people below came over and said, "Zhou Cang, there is a man outside who claims to be Shaanxi Banking Supervisor Hu Quan."

"Hu Quan?" Zhou Hong was surprised.

Hu Quan is naturally a celebrity, and he was entrusted with important responsibilities at a young age.

Banknote payment was first implemented in Hebei and then in Shaanxi last year.

This person's official career is a miracle. Others stayed in office for several years and got promoted due to good luck. Most people could not get promoted in more than ten years or even decades.

He went everywhere, today Hebei, tomorrow Shaanxi, and the day after tomorrow he returned to the capital.

Every time he made some political achievements in a certain place, he was immediately transferred, as if he was afraid that he would continue to make greater political achievements.

And every time he was transferred, Hu Quan would be promoted.

"Let him in."

Hu Quan walked in and said: "But the South Jing Road promoted Chang Ping's envoy Zhou Hong and Zhou Cang?"

"This is my official." Zhou Hong looked at the young man in front of him and said, "Your Excellency, is Hu Quan, the envoy of Shaanxi Banking Regulatory Commission?"

"It's me."

"If you are not in Shaanxi, why do you come to Xiangyang?"

"Your Majesty is at the magistrate's office now. Let me invite Zhou Cang to come over and have a chat."

When the imperial guards arrived at the transfer office, they did not find Li Zhaoyan.

But Li Zhaoyan had already arrived at the prefect's Yamen in advance.

He brought many government servants with him.

After getting off the carriage, he glanced at the people around him and said, "Who is here? They are so majestic and have surrounded the prefect's Yamen!"

A Guardsman came forward and asked: "Who are you?"

"My official name is Jingnan West Road Transfer Envoy Li Zhaoyan. What! Which yamen are you from?"

"It turns out to be Li Cao, the transshipment envoy. Please come inside."

"snort!"

Li Zhaoyan snorted coldly and strode in.

Seeing him wearing official robes, no one stopped him.

When he entered the court, he saw Zhou Jiande sitting there with a large bruise on his face, and Guo Rong standing aside with a large bruise on his face.

When Zhou Jiande saw Li Zhaoyan coming, he stood up immediately as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

Li Zhaoyan is a transfer envoy and a high official of the imperial court!

Even if this group of people is really from the Su Provincial Academy, they still have to give face to the transfer.

"Li Cao, you are finally here!" Zhou Jiande was so excited that he almost cried.

"Who dares to be so presumptuous here..." Li Zhaoyan said coldly, his eyes suddenly shifting to the young man sitting on the left.

His whole body was shaken, and he looked over carefully with his eyes widened, suspecting that he had seen wrongly, and then wiped his eyes with both hands.

Obviously, he couldn't believe what he saw for a moment.

He quickly took two steps forward, but was stopped by Jing Chao.

He looked at Jing Chao again, "Good guy, isn't this Jing Chao, the chief minister in charge of Wende Palace, Yu Hou?"

The last time I saw him was when I went to the capital to report on my work at the end of last year.

Li Zhaoyan didn't react for a while.

He looked carefully at Zhao Ning, then at Jing Chao, and then at his surroundings.

My head is buzzing.

He pinched himself hard and then asked carefully: "Your Majesty?"

Zhao Ning glanced at him: "You're here."

Only then did Li Zhaoyan confirm that the person sitting in front of him was really the Zhao Guan family.

He plopped down and knelt down: "I see your Majesty! Your Majesty's royal chariot came to Xiangyang, and I didn't greet you. I deserve death!"

His behavior directly confused Zhou Dejian.

Guo Rong, Guo Chang, and the rest of the family were all confused.

Especially Zhou Jiande's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, get up." Zhao Ning's tone was still as calm as the wind.

Li Zhaoyan stood up tremblingly.

Zhao Ning asked: "Why is Li Qing so nervous?"

Li Zhaoyan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I was extremely excited when I suddenly saw Your Majesty."

Zhou Jiande, however, climbed down from the top and said, "I didn't know it was His Majesty who came here. I deserve death!"

This time, Zhao Ning didn't let him get up.

Zhao Ning said: "I have read your memorial letter word by word. You said that people's livelihood on South Jingxi Road is very difficult, and you hope that the court can reduce taxes. I have also considered it carefully."

Li Zhaoyan said quickly: "Your Majesty's saintly benevolence and virtue illuminate the world."

"I came here this time to see with my own eyes the hardships of people's livelihood." Zhao Ning continued, "I just arrived in Xiangyang and looked around. You really didn't lie to me. People's livelihood is indeed difficult!"

At the last sentence, Zhao Ning's tone became obviously stiff.

Li Zhaoyan still doesn't know what happened, but looking at this situation, it's probably not a good thing.

Zhou Jiande knelt there, burying his head between his long sleeves, sweating like a waterfall all over his body and shivering.

"Where's Zhou Hong, is he here?"

Just as Zhao Ning asked, footsteps could be heard outside.

It was Zhou Hong and Hu Quan who were promoted to Changping Secretary.

After Zhou Hong came in, he quickly said without saying a word: "I am late to welcome the Holy Emperor, please forgive me."

Zhao Ning said with a cold face: "It's good that you're here. Now that you're all here, let's make this clearer!"

As soon as he said these words, the surroundings suddenly fell into dead silence.

Zhao Ning stood up and walked to Guo Chang. Guo Chang knelt on the ground and said with a trembling voice: "I don't know if it is His Majesty the Emperor. The common people deserve to die!"

"Are you a debt collector?"

"yes!"

"Are you the one who puts out the grain?"

"There are many people, and Cao Min is just one of them."

Zhao Ning asked Guo Rong again: "Who is involved in the money in your lending business?"

Guo Rong said: "It's all the common people's own money, and the prefect Zhou gave a little bit."

"No one else?"

"there is none left."

Zhao Ning turned around and looked at Li Zhaoyan and Zhou Hong, whose foreheads were covered with sweat. Then his eyes shifted to Zhou Jiande: "How much money did you put in Guo Rong's place?"

"Five...five hundred guan...I don't have much money..."

"Are you thinking in your heart that triple interest rates are everywhere among the people? I want to investigate this matter. Many people are guilty, so I won't do anything to you?"

"I...I don't dare!"

"If you don't dare, just say it!" Zhao Ning suddenly roared out, "If you answer truthfully, I will spare your life, but if you dare to say even a word to deceive me, I will kill you all!"

Zhou Jiande was so frightened that he shouted: "I said it! I said it!"

Zhou Hong on the side had already begun to tremble, and he quickly said: "Your Majesty, such corrupt officials should be severely punished immediately to serve as a warning to others!"

"Shut up!" Zhao Ning replied with just one sentence, which scared Zhou Hong into shutting up quickly.

Zhou Jiande said quickly: "There are 200,000 guans! There are 200,000 guans! All the money of Li Cao and Zhou Cang is with me. I am responsible for finding private landlords and businessmen to lend the money!"

Two hundred thousand dollars?

At that time, the annual coins given to Xixia by the Song Dynasty were only 20,000 guan!

Those with more than 10,000 yuan were considered rich in the Song Dynasty.

How much currency is there in the entire Xiangyang Prefecture?

In the Song Dynasty, copper coins were minted in the past, and more than two million coins were minted in a year.

In a Xiangyang Prefecture, the loans colluded between officials and businessmen, involving only officials' money, amounted to 200,000 yuan!
To be continued...