Royal Gold Magistrate

"I strangle you to death!!"

Li Yuanzhao saw Fang Zhengyi's cheeky smile, and finally couldn't hold back anymore, and rushed forward to pinch Fang Zhengyi's neck.

Then a large bank note was pasted on the forehead, and the whole person was frozen on the spot.

Li Yuanzhao angrily took off the bank note and put it in his sleeve, and said angrily: "You see, don't you have a lot of money? Why are you short of the health team's money?"

Fangzheng reached into his sleeve and pulled out the banknote.

Li Yuanzhao immediately bared his teeth and wanted to rush over, but Fangzheng hurriedly said, "Okay, okay."

Seeing this, the prince can't think of any solution, and if the trouble continues, the little money on hand will not be enough.

"I have done the math, and the workload of five more workshops can be balanced."

"Look at the group of people under your command. What kind of vehicles, horses and tools do you use? How are the working hours arranged?"

"There is also a deal with the excrement collection, can you think of a way to increase the price?"

"Your Highness, that's how we do things. It's useless to be reckless. We need to change from the bottom up and find ways to optimize the work process... The same effort can do more things."

"Okay, I'll stop here, Your Highness will take the rest to do it yourself."

Li Yuanzhao calmed down after hearing the words, showing a thoughtful look, feeling that he had grasped something, but it was not very clear.

After thinking about it for a while, I felt a little irritable, and then asked Fang Zhengyi again.

"I see, so... do you have any clue about gambling with Yan Guoan?"

"Yes, we only have three months. If we want to make a big change in Banshanfang, we must invest a lot of money to make it possible."

"I have an idea to make money quickly, but it will take some time."

"At present, what should we do? Part of the sanitation has been solved, and the number of crimes in Banshanfang has also decreased."

"The second step is to continue to deepen and thoroughly solve the crime problem, so that the people can have a safe living environment, and the following things will be easier to handle."

The issue of crime has long been on Fang Zhengyi's agenda.

The environment of Banshanfang has improved, and the crime rate has dropped significantly, but the reduction is basically petty theft.

Of course, Fang Zhengyi was not satisfied with such a small change.

There must still be many small underworld organizations underground in an environment like Banshanfang, charging protection fees for private shops.

This kind of organization is indispensable everywhere.

The difference is that there is a background and there is no background.

The closer to the center of the capital, the deeper the background, they might all be thugs from aristocratic families.

Fortunately, Banshanfang is really poor, and those with backgrounds can't get money here.

But it is also because of poverty that it is not easy to do business here, and even if you earn a little money, you will be exploited, making life even harder.

Originally, the small officials of the Bingma Division also exploited merchants, but under Fang Zhengyi's heavy management, it has been reduced a lot.

Although this group of people has seldom appeared recently because of the huge changes in the workshop, it is certain that this group of people will jump out one day sooner or later!

The task now is to eliminate the idle small organizations in Banshanfang and provide the common people with a stable living environment.

In the current situation, there are already a small number of people with private property. If they can't even guarantee the simple property security of these people, then don't mess around.

If there must be a gangster in Banshanfang, it must be me, Fang Zhengyi!

Li Yuanzhao scratched his head: "Crime problem? Then how to solve it, how do we know who committed a crime?"

Fangzheng smiled slightly: "Can't you just ask someone?"

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Then the two walked to the street and picked out a shop that seemed to be of a moderate size.

The shop sells groceries, and the business is not very good. A few guys are leaning against the door and chatting with each other, and some people are squatting on the ground to count ants.

Fangzheng shook his head when he saw it.

There is no management and publicity at all, it is too rough, Banshanfang deserves to be poor.

When the guys saw someone coming, they immediately got up and ran back to the house.

Fang Zhengyi and Li Yuanzhao also entered it.

The shopkeeper was also in the room, and he was pleasantly surprised when he saw the two of them.

"Ah! Mr. Sai and Mr. Li are here. They are really honored guests, honored guests!"

"I don't know what the two nobles need?"

During the time in Banshanfang, many people knew Li Fangzhengyi and the prince, although they didn't know their identities.

But it can be seen that all the officials and small officials in the workshop are under the management of the two, at least they are not small officials.

Especially Mr. Li, who wanders around the street with a group of people every day, supervising everywhere with a vicious look.

People talk a lot, but fortunately they have a good heart and never get angry with the people, and there has never been any incident of bullying the people.

Therefore, Li Yuanzhao can be regarded as prestigious.

Fangzheng smiled and said: "It's okay, I just came to ask the shopkeeper, how is your income recently?"

The shopkeeper smiled and bowed again and again: "Thanks to the two of you, the business has been very good recently! Especially at night, it is even better than during the day, how strange!"

"Now the monthly income is about 30 taels, which is not so much in the past, probably less than half."

Fang Zhengyi continued: "The 30 taels deducted some messy things, how much money is left?"

The shopkeeper suddenly smiled wryly when he heard the words: "It's less than 20 taels...."

"What!" Li Yuanzhao called out immediately.

Usually there are not so many taels, so it is calculated as 15 taels, so wouldn't there be five taels left?

The income is about the same as that of my health team members, so what is such a big store doing?

"Where did the deducted twelve taels go?"

The shopkeeper stood still and didn't dare to speak.

Li Yuanzhao's expression was serious: "Say it quickly!"

Seeing Li Yuanzhao's unfriendly expression, the shopkeeper began to hesitate and say: "The government will take away five taels for tax collection...the other five taels...give it away!"

"Give it away? Who did you give it to?" Li Yuanzhao felt a little confused.

"Uh.. a friend.."

"Friend?" Li Yuanzhao sneered, and slammed the counter, "Why does friend Yueyue want to send him five taels?"

"Don't tell the truth! Otherwise, I will bring someone to smash your shop!"

As soon as the words came out, the shopkeeper fell to his knees with a plop.

Shouting for grievances: "I am wronged, Mr. Li, I really gave it to a friend! My friend is quite poor, so I have to give it every month..."

Fangzheng narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about it.

I didn't expect a group of local ruffians to be so courageous that they dared to collect as much as the government.

It looks more serious than I imagined.

There was no such thing happening in Taoyuan County, so Fangzheng was not sure if he thought about it.

If anyone in Taoyuan County dared to charge protection money, they would definitely be arrested and have their legs broken in the street.

Can that be called protection fee?That's stealing Fang Zhengyi's money!

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