"Mr. Zheng Zhuan has been released." The thief Cao hurried in and looked at Lu Yuandao.

"Where is the person?" Lu Yuan said in a deep voice: "Let him come to see me!"

After Zheng Zhuan was taken away, Lu Yuan felt the more he thought about it. As an important counselor under his command, Zheng Zhuan was in charge of many of his own affairs. He knew too many secrets. After Liu Yi took Zheng Zhuan away, he did not allow others to visit him at all, which made Lu Yuan feel a little nervous.

"I'm resting at home. I heard that the Yuting Marquis really didn't let Zheng Zhuan close his eyes for three consecutive days! After Zheng Zhuan came back, he fell asleep and couldn't wake up no matter how he called him!" The thief Cao said with a wry smile.

"He's back alone?" Lu Yuan frowned. He didn't sleep for three days and didn't think it was a big deal. He was just a little sleepy. After all, he had never tried what it felt like to sleep for three days.

"It was sent back by Yuting Hou." The thief Cao shook his head and said.

"No!" Lu Yuan noticed something wrong when he heard this. He couldn't tell me, but he always felt something was wrong. He stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll call him in person."

Gongcao nodded and was about to accompany Lu Yuan out, but he saw a county guard outside the hall hurried in and bowed and said, "Mr., Zhang Bao, under the command of Nanzhong Cheng, is here."

"What are he here to do?" Lu Yuan frowned, not wanting to see him, and was sent away by someone, but saw that Zhang Bao had already come in straight.

Anger rose in his heart, and he suppressed it with a smile on his face: "What advice does General Zhang have?"

"Mr. Tinghou invites me, please come with me." Zhang Bao said to Lu Yuan with a polite manner.

"Okay, General Zhang first asks you to handle some government affairs, and then arrive." Lu Yuan smiled.

"What's the matter more urgent than summoning the Marquis of Ting?" Zhang Bao raised his thick eyebrows and said unhappily: "What's the matter? Let's talk about it after seeing Marquis of Ting."

Lu Yuan's face darkened slightly, but he quickly recovered. He took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, General Zhang, please wait for a moment and wait for me to change my clothes."

This time Zhang Bao did not stop him, but just nodded and said, "Please hurry up, Mr. Fu."

Lu Yuan asked Zhang Bao to wait in the main hall, and he took the thief Cao to the back hall. While asking the maid to replace his clothes for him, he said in a deep voice: "Take someone to Zheng Zhubu and see what happened?"

"Here!" The thief Cao bowed and agreed and left straight away.

Lu Yuan changed his clothes and went to Liu Yi's side with Zhang Bao.

"Sir, please see the Marquis of Ting." Seeing Liu Yi, all the unhappiness on Lu Yuan's face had been curled up, and he greeted Liu Yi with a smile: "I don't know the Marquis of Ting, but what's the point?"

"I have some things to ask the Lord of the Mansion. I hope the Lord of the Mansion should not be surprised." Liu Yi nodded and signaled Lu Yuan to sit down.

"The King of Ting is so serious. This is his official position, so why not talk about being strange?" Lu Yuan said hurriedly.

Liu Yi picked up a bamboo slip and frowned and said, "I have compiled the records of Zhu Ti's official warehouses in the past three years. I found that the official warehouses were mostly in a deficit state, but this time I have visited more than a dozen barbarian cities and have also learned that the goods handed over by the barbarians every year are not equivalent to the money and grains distributed by the state government. How can this be explained?"

"Mr. Ting doesn't know something!" Lu Yuan was obviously prepared for a long time, and he was not panicked when he heard this. He just smiled bitterly: "The grain distributed every year is equally divided with Jianning, Jingwang, Yuewang and Yongchang County, which is farther away. Although Zhu Ti has been placed in a lot of nominal way, in fact, most of them are sent to the other four counties. Most of the barbarians there are unruly and unruly, and they also need more materials."

"In other words, did a fake account?" Liu Yi weighed the bamboo slips in his hand and frowned: "If you report this kind of thing to the magistrate, how can you make a private decision?"

"It's not that I don't want to. It's just that Yizhou was in turmoil a few years ago, and we didn't know that we should obey the king. The Hou of Ting Wan Wang forgives the crime. Since this year, the officials have begun to order people to reorganize the files and report the matter to the king." Lu Yuan said hurriedly.

"Well." Liu Yi nodded. Whether it was true or not, he recruited Lu Yuan this time not for this matter, nor did he deliberately pursue responsibility. The reason for this matter was to make it easier to do what he really wanted to do next. Looking at Lu Yuan, Liu Yi smiled and said, "In addition, when I checked the file yesterday, I found that the prisons among the three counties of Zhuti were already overcrowded. Why is this?"

Lu Yuan bowed and said, "Monk Ting knew that these unruly people often refused to pay taxes and even gathered to resist taxes. The subordinates had to do it. If they were not punished, where was the prestige of the government?"

Liu Yi nodded after hearing this: "It's true, but if you put them in prison, you have to waste money and food to support them. This is not good. The treasury is already in short supply. This is because of the prison, a large amount of expenses will be allocated to the prefecture. How can this be done in the long run?"

"Who said no?" Lu Yuan also looked worried and said: "It's just that the officials have let go of a group of people, but when the autumn harvest comes, they will definitely be arrested again."

"I have a way to solve this problem," Liu Yi said with a smile.

"What is the trick of Marquis Ting?" Lu Yuan asked hurriedly.

"It's not a clever plan." Liu Yi shook his head and smiled: "This time, I came to Nanzhong to use copper mines to fill the treasury. However, the population of Nanzhong has withered and it is difficult to force the levy. It is just right for these people who have no money to come and use it for me to repay the taxes they owed."

"This..." Lu Yuan frowned and said, "There is no precedent."

"The Lord of the Mansion has been in Nanzhong for a long time, and I don't know that this method has actually been used by someone." Liu Yi shook his head and said, "According to the people on this list, we will transfer people out within three days, and this official will use it."

"Here!" Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment, but at this time the words had already reached this point, so he couldn't refuse, so he had to bow and agree.

"If there is nothing else, please say goodbye first!" Lu Yuan bowed and said when Liu Yi lost other instructions.

"Well, Mr. Fu walked slowly." Liu Yi nodded and signaled that Lu Yuan could leave.

Ma Liang looked at the list in his hand, and after Lu Yuan left, he smiled and looked at Liu Yi and said, "Is Tinghou's calculation made out of nothing?"

Someone has been sent to investigate before. There are no prisoners in the prison. In fact, these prisoners have been hired by the big family in Zhuti County. I really think that Lu Yuan would spend money to support so many idle people? But on the books, these people are still in prison and will ask for a expense from the state capital every year.

"That's right." Liu Yi threw the bamboo slips in his hand on the table, but the smile on his face was gone, and he said coldly: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it's hard to believe that these people were so rampant. Haha~ None of the Central Plains family and the wealthy family dared to do this."

These wealthy families in the south, in terms of their abilities, influence and abilities, are incomparable to those real aristocratic families, but their means and courage to make money are much more rampant than those aristocratic families.

"The most chaotic place I have ever been to, and there is no one in the prison." After knocking on the table, Liu Yi snorted coldly: "These people are really dare to report, and those people in the prefecture are really dare to criticize them!"

"Marquis Ting is preparing to attack the people of the state?" Ma Liang frowned.

"I'll beat the mountain and shake the tiger, let them restrain themselves. Their eating habits are too ugly." Liu Yi nodded: "Of course, I can't do it all. The pressure is too great. Leave this matter to Wang Shang and Kong Ming. I'm only responsible for reporting. How to deal with it is their business."

At the end, Liu Yi couldn't help but sigh. He didn't want to get involved in these political vortexes, but he was just in the situation. How could he really stay out of the matter? But being involved in it is certain that he offended people. Now he understands why Fa Zheng is vengeful and the enemy... has to be punished to death.

Ma Liang nodded and said, "There are three major hidden dangers in Zhuti County. The barbarians have been exploited for a long time, the prison is overcrowded, and the public is full of grievances. Now I just wait for the Internet to be closed, and all of them will be solved. What will Tinghou do next?"

"Jianning!" Liu Yi clicked the map and said, "This is the key. After all, Zhuti is a small county, with a small population and not many large households. However, this Jianning is different. The largest county in the south center, if this place can be settled, then the south center can be settled."

"The prefect of Jianning Zheng'ang has a lot of official voices!" Ma Liang said in a search: "According to the information from Jianning, the prefect ordered the prefect not to leave the yamen office. Instead, all the things in Jianning are led by Yong Kai."

"Yong Kai?" Liu Yi looked at Ma Liang and said, "It's the descendant of Yongchi?"

"No," Ma Liang nodded and said, "From the news coming now, this person is quite famous in Nanzhong. Not only is he a high status among the Han people, but he also has enough prestige among the barbarians. In fact, the prefects of the county in Nanzhong are headed by this person. This person is not as good as Lu Yuan. If there is no sufficient reason, it is not easy to touch him."

"So powerful?" Liu Yi was a little surprised. He remembered that Yong Kai was only the descendant of Shifang Marquis, but in fact he had no official title.

"This person has some means to use the barbarians to grow stronger, and then in turn, he used the Han army to suppress the barbarians and be a good person in the middle." Ma Liang nodded bitterly and said, "Now this person's general situation in Nanzhong has been achieved."

"The general trend?" Liu Yi shook his head: "In the past, the Marquis of Shifang was also a powerful general. He didn't want his descendants to hide in this wilderness and become king."

Ma Liang nodded and smiled, "But that's the case. It's just that in the southern middle place, it's not easy to move this person. What is the name of the Marquis of Ting?"

"Since the prefect can win over here, the question is simple. Ji Chang shouldn't forget what happened to me when I came to Nanzhong this time?" Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Copper mine?" Ma Liangshu asked.

"Before entering Nanzhong, someone was about to harm us." Liu Yi groped his chin and thought, "You said, if we hadn't touched the other party's interests, how could the other party have such great courage?"

Ma Liang nodded solemnly when he heard this: "Then Yong Kai must have the copper ore in his hand, so he doesn't want us to come and collect copper."

"That's right." Liu Yi nodded and said, "I'm very curious. If I wait here to stabilize my foothold and release news that I want to go to Jianning to pick copper, then what will Yong Kai react?"

Ma Liang looked at Liu Yi with a smile on his face: "I'm afraid it will be very troublesome."

"That's interesting."
Chapter completed!