Royal Gold Magistrate

After returning to the newspaper office, the two chose an empty room and sat in it, looking at each other without saying a word.

Li Yuanzhao sat on the chair in a daze.

When Fangzheng saw his appearance, he didn't want to disturb him, so he poured two cups of tea and drank it alone.

Outside the door were the voices of reporters constantly discussing loudly, as if they were talking about a certain news.

In this way, Li Yuanzhao spoke with a hoarse voice until the tea was cold and drained, and Fangzheng had three cups in a row.

With a sad tone in his tone, he couldn't hide his disappointment and said: "How could this happen, I didn't let them blackmail the people."

"They are also common people, and they will put their heart into disaster relief when there is a heavy rain in the workshop."

"They drank and ate meat with Ben Gong...there was no trouble before...how could it be now..."

In words, there is an indescribable loss.

Fang Zhengyi can only listen quietly. He has also experienced betrayal, and he has experienced the mentality of being deceived.

A simple clerk in the workplace suddenly became a county magistrate overnight, with more burdens that did not belong to him, and he couldn't take them off.

Bringing the "burdens" to fight, and finally when there is meat to eat and money to share, some of those who share weal and woe will always have a different heart.

The halo of the county magistrate on his body does not deter everyone.

Those outsiders seem unattainable, untouchable, and great characters, until you walk into his life, the physical distance is shortened.

The radiance of the halo fades away...so does the sense of awe and boundaries, which is human.

This is also part of the reason why the health team dared to deceive the superior and the inferior, and used power for personal gain.

The prince often gets into a ball with the people below, which looks very harmonious and beautiful.But there is a hidden worry in it, Fang Zhengyi never said much, just watched quietly, some things can only grow through one's own experience, and it is always two points less meaningful to say it through other people's mouth.

Li Yuanzhao sat in his original position, looking a little at a loss.

Fang Zhengyi said softly at this moment: "Has Your Highness ever thought that this is actually your problem?"

"My problem?! What problem will I have?" Li Yuanzhao felt his chest constricted: "I just want to make people's lives better, and the people below are deceiving me!"

"Your Highness, who are they? They were just a group of excavators who didn't know a single character."

"Get up early and work late every day to earn a penny, and barely support the family."

"Now that they have the opportunity to make money, how can they not do it? Even if it is to squeeze others!"

"Even though their lives have improved compared to before, their horizons have also broadened and their desires have also grown."

"Now that His Highness has handed over the authority to them, will they give up this opportunity?"

"Does your highness realize how important the word prince is? You represent the court and the country."

"Now that you are standing behind the health team, it means that the imperial court is standing behind them."

"How can they not take advantage of themselves? Maybe they have never deceived His Highness, but just passed layer after layer of proposals to His Highness, His Highness agreed one by one, and then the health team increased the pressure on the merchants layer by layer. .”

"They have raised the bar to the point where it is impossible to achieve. On the one hand, they are using you to expand their power, and on the other hand, they are trying to prevent you from getting involved in the following situation so that you can shift the responsibility to the merchants."

"Anyway, the health team has set a standard in their hearts, but the merchants don't obey the management, so they can't always achieve it."

"They will always benefit from it, and merchants will always make mistakes." Fangzheng said in a calm voice.

Li Yuanzhao seemed more and more depressed, until Fang Zheng finished speaking, swallowed and retorted: "Old Fang, what you said is too much."

"Even if they don't know a single word, even if they used to dig shit, I still have a lot of good people under my command."

"Do you still remember Captain Wang during the disaster relief? He rescued the injured people from the collapsed houses regardless of his life."

"He is now in charge of the largest area of ​​Banshanfang. I don't believe he can do such a thing!"

"Shen Yi!" Fang Zhengyi shouted when Li Yuanzhao finished speaking.

Shen Yi pushed the door open and entered.

"Bring over the materials I asked you to prepare!"

Hearing this, Shen Yi turned his head back to his work station, took back a few pages of materials and put them in front of Fangzheng's table after a while.

"Thank you, leave the door open, you can go to work." Fangzheng picked up the materials: "Your Highness, this is the evidence that the health team blackmailed the merchant."

"And this is only part of it. On the surface they are still a health team, but in private they have already become a bandit."

"There is also Captain Wang that His Highness said, he is more greedy than anyone else, and the restaurant can exempt from all inspections as long as it pays him 20 taels of silver for a month!"

"Boss Lin Lin can at least collect hundreds of taels of silver for a month. As long as he works hard for a few months, he can live comfortably in this life!"

"If your Highness doesn't believe it, you can call him over to confront him!"

Li Yuanzhao's eyes were lost, he grabbed the material, pointed at the words on it, and read it carefully.

He muttered in his mouth: "Impossible, I have had three drinks with him, he is bold, and the people below love him, there is no reason to do such a thing. If it is what you said, how could he be What about the kind of person who risked his life to save others?"

As he talked, he couldn't continue. Following his fingers, everything about Captain Wang's deeds were recorded in detail.

Gradually, Li Yuanzhao's eyes turned red.

The reporters who walk the streets and alleys every day are very professional, comparable to detectives.As a result, the above content is written in too much detail, the specific location, the amount of money and even the time of the transaction are clearly written.

Combined with today's on-site visits, there is almost no possibility of fraud.

Li Yuanzhao gave up and leaned back in his chair slumped.

Spreading his hands, the paper was scattered on the ground.

Fangzheng picked up the materials together, and said calmly: "Does Your Highness need to call Captain Wang over to confront him?"

"No...no need..." Li Yuanzhao said dejectedly: "Where did I go wrong...Is this palace treating them badly? Why did you treat me like this?"

"Of course they didn't target His Highness." Fang Zhengyi smiled slightly: "But these disasters were caused by His Highness."

"Power is like fine wine, addictive and corrupting."

"They themselves are not strong enough to bear this power... and naturally they cannot control it."

"So much so that they use their power to make it difficult for merchants...the bottom is fighting each other."

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