When he saw the man's face, the bus Shangshu was almost frightened and sat on the ground, his tongue not turning: "Four Blades..."

Shi Gan hooked at him expressionlessly, and the bus merchants walked in under the public eye. Several of them wanted to follow him, but he stopped him.

Looking at the door creaking again, Changsui, the master, group trainer and others outside the door looked at each other and whispered: "What's wrong? Are you a slut?" "I heard that I'm called the Four Great Masters, where did you get such Four Great Masters?"

Just as people were talking inside, their prefect followed Shi Gan into the cross-court.

"Master Shi... where are you going to take me?" Bus Shangshu asked in a low voice: "Is the prince here too?"

Shi Gan had no choice but to tell him about his problem. He took him outside the east wing and ordered in a deep voice: "Let's wait here first." After that, he knocked on the door and went in, and it took a while before opening the door: "Come in."

The bus Shangshu's heart seemed to be hanging fifteen buckets of water, and was still swaying up and down. He quickly followed the cat's waist. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the prince sitting on his head with a deep face, looking at him firmly.

He quickly pushed the Jinshan Mountain, Qin Lei, who was turning the jade pillar, knelt down, and after two buttons and six bows, he said with a little panic: "Prince Sheng'an..."

"I am not at ease." Qin Lei said coldly: "With a good subordinate like you, it is difficult for the Lone King to be at ease."

The bus merchant quickly stuck his butt high, kowtowed and said, "I'm afraid of being a humble job, and I'm guilty of being a humble job..." He had imagined countless times when he met the prince who gave him a second life, but never thought that he was so embarrassed.

When he thought, he should have proudly raised his chest, kowtowed three times to the prince, and then shouted: "Your Highness, I am lucky to have fulfilled my mission." Yes, he did think so, and he also struggled for this purpose... but the result was this scene.

"Are you guilty?" Qin Lei said with a smile: "What are you guilty?" He said, and stood up, walked with his hands behind his back, "You are the leader of the twenty-eight prefectures of the two provinces and the most capable official in the south. What crimes can you have? I will ask you for merit..." There are 28 prefectures in the two provinces of Jiangbei and Shannan, but seven of them were almost razed to the ground by the Maitreya Cult. Now they are aiming for reconstruction, so they are taken out to evaluate them separately.

The more he said this, the more trembling the bus merchants became. After a while, he was scared and sweated all over. He said with difficulty: "I am so foolish and rude, but I don't know what I am wrong. Please criticize the prince!"

Qin Lei was furious and his anger that had been suppressed suddenly burst out. He kicked the bus Shangshu on the arm of the arm, and kicked him away slantedly.

After falling on the ground and turning around for a few more times, the bus merchant book had not recovered yet, and the prince roared in a low voice: "Just pretend you! Gu is so blind, why did you believe you, a bastard?" As he said, he put down two chairs, a table, and a few white porcelain tea sets. Fortunately, there was nothing good in the small inn.

The bus Shangshu endured the pain and knelt down again and said loudly: "Please give me advice, what are the evil things in the humble position that make you angry?" As he said that, he knocked hard, and with a 'bang' sound, his forehead and the floor tiles were really colliding, and his forehead was immediately purple and blood was flowing out.

Qin Lei narrowed his eyes slightly, snorted coldly, turned around and sat down on the chair, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, the Lone King will tell you, it's also a good thing to make you a fool." As he said that, he briefly told the story of what happened last night, and after that, he said angrily: "I'll ask the first capable official to tell you, what does this mean?"

The bus merchant book perfectly interprets what a dumb chicken is. He stared at the corner of the table next to the prince, his nostrils opened and opened, and his mouth wide open, which even made people see his little tongue, looking more surprised and more surprised.

Qin Lei was unmoved at all, but just looked at the bus merchant book expressionlessly. To this day, Qin Lei is no longer the foolish boy who was so easy to coax back then. He believed that even when faced with an exaggerated performance, he could make the right judgment.

But this time, he did wish the public car dealership. After a while, the public car dealership came to his senses, kowtowed respectfully to Qin Lei, then straightened his upper body, and said with a solemn look: "Prince, please allow the criminals to defend themselves, and then let them go, and there will be no complaints."

Qin Lei's eyelids drooped and nodded slightly, as if he agreed. In fact, he shouldn't have been so angry, but judging from the reports he received in the past, this bus business book could definitely be regarded as outstanding political achievements and excellent reputation. In addition, what Qin Lei saw and heard all the words of praise for the prefecture. So much so that Qin Lei had already written in the car "Commendation and requesting the prefectures of various provinces and counties to study the decrees of Xiangyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefectures"... However, when he arrived at the place, he encountered such an outing. If he had been quick at that time and sent the orders to the prefectures, wouldn't it be a big deal to the world?

Qin Lei became more and more angry the more he thought about it, so he gave the bus a briefing. Fortunately, he woke up in time and did not make him become unable to take care of himself.

Taking a deep breath, he calmed down his excitement and listened to the bus merchant book in a deep voice: "Since he took office, I have always forgotten the prince's kindness and kindness of support. I wish I could work hard for Xiangyang Mansion and overcome all obstacles. Although I didn't say that I had been through the house three times like Dayu and did not enter, I did not slacken for a moment, for fear of losing the prince's kindness and having no face to see you again." Miraculously, he did not stutter.

Qin Lei's face was slightly relieved, but his voice was still cold and said, "My merit is merit, and fault is fault. The Lone King will not ignore your achievements." He paused and said, "But he will not indulge your faults."

The public car merchant bowed again and said, "Your Highness is fair and strict. The empress should not speak cleverly and argue for himself, but he is afraid that the prince will not be able to cure some things, which will cause endless harm in the future. Therefore, he defended himself with a gun." As he said that, he stood up, looked at Qin Lei calmly, and said loudly: "I think I have been indulging in the face, but there is a reason for the matter, so I have to do it."

Qin Lei leaned forward slightly when he heard this, his right hand was placed on his thigh, and said in a deep voice: "Did you know about it in advance?"

The public car merchant nodded without hesitation and said, "The criminals do know that most of the regiments in Xiangyang Prefecture come from the original Xiangyang Guards. Without the support of the court, they rely on the local and rich gentry to live a life of only a little money. As for, they have fallen completely and become completely depraved. They are in chaos with the gangsters, snakes and rats in the city. They are a big cancer on the body of the city." The voice gradually lowered: "And they are particularly disgusted with the Fuxing Yamen... They always feel that it was this Yamen that made them lose their jobs..."

"Fuck, their job was smashed by the Lone King," Qin Lei sneered: "You have never been surprised by being able to watch them so greedy," he slapped the table and said in a deep voice: "Since the team training is so dirty, why do you still have to indulge them until now and not deal with them?"

The bus Shangshu smiled bitterly and said, "Report to your highness, I have only 100 yamen runners under my command, but they have nearly a thousand people, and they are all desperate gangsters, so I dare not act rashly."

"That's not a reason. You can give the Orphan. Can the Orphan King be sorry for the thousand and eight hundred gangsters?" Qin Lei's face turned gloomy. He was not very satisfied with the answer from the bus merchant book.

"I think the plan for the year lies in spring. If the whole spring is used to fight gangs and eliminate evil, the loss to Jiangbei would be too great." The bus Shangshu saw sweat on his forehead and whispered: "After all, these group trainings are a mustard disease. I think... let them do whatever they want for a while, and it will not be too late to clean up during the slack season."

"Tolerate!" Qin Lei said with four words heavily: "The original intention of the Lone King is to recruit team training from the strong and pure people and serve in turn. Why did he become the land like today?"

The sweat on the forehead of the bus Shangshu became denser and denser, and he spitted out with a mouthful of swearing: "Because the strong men cannot be recruited..."

"Why can't you recruit?" Qin Lei asked lightly.

"Xiangyang Prefecture was in trouble last year, and its population was almost half. It has not yet recovered to its original 60% of the original. There are many lands and few people, and no major household is willing to let go." At this time, 90% of the farmers depend on the landlords and gentry to survive, and the remaining 10% are naturally those rich peasants, and they will not come out to do anything to train. Therefore, after all, they finally summoned the guards who were disbanded by Qin Lei.

It was reasonable to hear his explanation. Qin Lei closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and then said calmly: "You pushed two, five, six, and put all the shit basins on Tuanjian. Are you really okay?" He said that, and threw down a book from the table and said: "Why are the Fuxing Yamen not allowed to check the accounts?"

"This... I really don't know." Gongche Shangshu said frankly: "I am full of ice, the sun and the moon can be seen. The prince can investigate as much as possible. As long as I find out that there is a bit of evil in the Wei minister, I... would rather die."

Qin Lei smiled with difficulty in understanding his meaning: "I will investigate, but I want to see if there are any dirty thoughts hidden under your colorful surface articles..."

The bus merchant said frankly: "Please check the account with Your Highness." Qin Lei laughed and said: "Coincidentally, this time the Lone King went south and brought more than a dozen accounts. Not only your Xiangyang Prefecture account, but all the twenty-eight prefectures in the two provinces need to be checked." As he said that, he stood tall and said with a slightly ferocious face: "From now on, it's better to hope that the Lone King will not find anything."

After saying that, he shouted in a low voice: "Shi Gan!"

"Yes!" Shi Gan, who was fully armed, trotted in.

"Notify Ma Kan, Zhu Gui, Cheng Siyuan, prepare to close the net!" With Qin Lei's order, several red signal flares rose into the air at the same time and issued an action order to the spies lurking around.

Qin Lei's actions were definitely premeditated. Almost within one day, the entire south was shocked: teams of spies emerged from the dark, holding documents covered with the prince's seal, sealed the accounts and warehouses of each province and government, and the books were loaded and transported to Xiangyang Prefecture. All officials were notified that they were not allowed to leave the city and must be sent as soon as possible.

Under the thunderous anger of the prince without warning, the whole south was trembling. Whether it was a family or a high-ranking official, he finally discovered that the highness in Xiangyang had already formed absolute control over the south in a subtle way. Apart from crawling under such power, closing his eyes and waiting to die, there was no room for any rash move.

But this kind of despair is destined to be just a very small number of expressions. More people are celebrating and excited. They have been waiting for this day for a long time... In other words, they are vested interests.

For example, the Xu family, the small and medium-sized families led by the Chai family... and even the somewhat depressed Qiao family...

Yes! There is no Xu family! There is no Zhuo family! There is no Zhuo family that Qin Lei has been trying his best to win over! There is no Xu family that holds military power for all three generations!

The things here start from last year...

After the Southern Incident last year, Qin Lei re-divided the sphere of influence of the southern government and the major families with strong power and half guided him. But even with his lofty prestige, he could not do anything... to separate officials from the gentry.

Because the Qin Dynasty, especially the gentry forces in the south, are deeply rooted, and the main officials of the two provinces are children of the gentry. It can be said that the government is the spokesperson of the gentry... There is no doubt about this.

But what is the government? It is the administrator! And what is the gentry? At best, it is just a managed person with a noble identity. But in fact, the government protects the interests of the gentry and becomes a vassal of the gentry. Moreover, the power of the gentry in the south is too concentrated, and the government is basically monopolized and controlled by the four masters, so the four masters are the giants in the south, so...

Therefore, if Qin Lei wants to fully grasp the South, he must eradicate or control the four great masters... Elimination means completely eliminating and making it history; and control means making it obey orders, but once it belongs to surveillance, the ambition of independence will rekindle, so these two words have the essential difference.

Although the four great masters were frightened by his power and were very honest for a while, it seemed that they would not affect his control over the south. However, the center of the Qin Dynasty was still in Zhongdu after all. If you have the ambition to the world, you cannot live in the south for a long time. The south is the granary of the Qin Dynasty. If you have the ambition to the world, you must control the south.

How can you allow others to snore on the side of the bed?

The matter is very simple. If Qin Lei cannot stay in the south, he can only control the south through the government and the Fuxing Yamen. If you want these two to work, you must separate the government from the gentry. In other words, it means eradicating the four great masters... instead of controlling the four great masters.

As for the Fuxing Yamen, as long as the gentry forces are expelled from the government, they will naturally regard the Fuxing Yamen as a life-saving straw... and this is exactly what Qin Lei is willing to see.

But the big tree of the "Four Great Aristocrats" is too deeply rooted. Even if he has a huge force, he cannot uproot it at once... Even if he can really pull it up at once, it will shake the fundamentals of the south. So he can only follow step by step, talk about strategies, and put the slings on the heads of the four masters at once.

So last year he watched the Xu family fall indifferently, and used Yin energy to destroy the five success powers of the Xu family, and also pressed the Qiao family. As a result, after a lot of trouble, the Zhuo family became the only one among the four great families. The other three families died, the sick, the disabled, and the disabled, and none of them could recover their vitality.

In this series of struggles, Qin Lei's most cleverness is that he only provided a warming bed for the existing conflicts of the four families. After that, he hid behind the scenes, laughing and watching the dog bite the dog, and also came out to pretend from time to time, so that the four people did not notice his deep evil intentions under his smile and care.

Of course, the reason why he did not reveal his intentions was also related to the confidence of the four great masters... They believed that no matter who they wanted to rule this land, they had to cooperate with them, and it was impossible to destroy them.

But Qin Lei didn't believe in evil, so he really set up a trap and asked you to fall into the trap...

He set his sights on the Xu family and Zhuo family. The Qiao family, whose image and strength have been greatly damaged, will inevitably find ways to restore their vitality. The best way to restore their vitality is to directly replenish real money and silver. But where should these silver come from?
Chapter completed!