Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

Lin Xuyi was brave and followed two boatmen alone.

Naturally, these two people did not dare to go to Mei County Cheng for fear of being silenced by him, but they went to look for the water thieves.

However, this group of water thieves was not on the river, or in some remote mountain village. Their old nest turned out to be a manor near the river.

And this manor is under the name of Qu Yuanwai, headed by Anlan's top ten members. Qu Yuanwai is married to the Prime Minister of Meixian County, and her eldest daughter married the third son of the Prime Minister of Meixian County two years ago.

Lin Xu found out about the water thieves' lair and returned to the county government to transfer people. Three squads of government officials came out, hundreds of people raided the Qu family manor, and captured dozens of water thieves alive.

Qu Yuanwai was naturally also arrested. It's just that the Prime Minister of Mei County got wind of the news in advance and ran away.

After all, hundreds of government officials made such a big noise. Mei County Prime Minister had something in his heart, so how could he not pay attention?

Jiang Ruiyan also sent people to keep an eye on the Mei County Magistrate, but the County Magistrate has his own government office and is not in the city. How can a few government officials keep an eye on him?

During the battle at Qujiazhuang, not only were the water thieves captured, but they also found eight thousand taels of gold, dozens of carts of stolen goods of all kinds, and a huge amount of five hundred thousand taels of silver! This has not yet been fully calculated.

Qu Yuanwai Zhao confessed that there was also a batch of gold and jewelry that was supposed to be sent to the capital. But as soon as he left Anlan County, he was guarded and stolen by several people responsible for escorting him.

With the blame coming from above, Qu Yuanwai had no choice but to order his subordinates to work hard to make money in order to make up for the previous losses before the end of the year.

Originally, when Xie Chengan took office, the Prime Minister of Meixian County told Qu Yuanwai not to act for the time being until he had figured out the character of the new magistrate.

We are human and have weaknesses.

According to Qu Yuanwai's explanation, in the past, county magistrates would be dragged down by Mei Xian Cheng in various ways. Those who are good at money give money, those who are good at women arrange beauties, and those who are good at food provide delicious food...

As for those who have a good reputation and a good career, they have their own means to deal with them. After all, there is someone in their court!

In fact, there are ways to deal with honest officials. For example, arranging a large number of complainants will distract the county magistrate's energy. He also arranged for the six-room clerk to do tricks, so that the magistrate could not even check Qiangu's accounts.

No matter what kind of person comes to Anlan as an official, a dragon must be coiled or a tiger must lie down.

Although Mei County Prime Minister and Xia Chief Secretary have served three consecutive terms, they have stayed in Anlan for nine years but have not been transferred. This is naturally someone above doing this deliberately.

Although the two are official officials, they are comparable to local snakes.

Xie Chengan came to take up his post, bringing with him three masters, twenty or thirty followers and guards. Prime Minister Mei Xian knew that Xie Chengan was not without foundation, so he asked Qu Yuanwai to calm down first.

Unexpectedly, there was something wrong with the property sent to the capital this year. Seeing that Xie Chengan had been busy with various promotions and promotions since he took office, he asked Qu Yuanwai to take risks and continue to act.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xu followed the lead and found Qujiazhuang because of his indulging in Zhusun merchants.

Qu Yuanwai was the younger brother of Guo Xuanfa's wife, the Minister of Civil Affairs. Because he was incompetent in literature and martial arts, he was sent back to his hometown by Guo Shangshu.

Although Qu Yuanwai doesn't have much talent, he is very good at observing people's opinions and making friends with others. An Lan was also doing well in her hometown.

Until Guo Xuan took the position of official in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, this Qu Yuan was even more satisfied. Guo Xuan is an official from Qingyang, the highest-ranking official he can be.

He naturally became the leader of Qingyang officials.

The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is known as the "Heavenly Official" and is the head of the six departments. Responsible for the examination, transfer, appointment and dismissal, promotion, promotion and rank of officials below the fourth rank across the country.

Even for officials of fourth rank and above, although they do not have the right to appoint, remove or transfer officials, they still have the responsibility of assessment.

In this way, how could there be so many officials below the fourth rank all over the country not trying their best to gain access to Guo Xuan?

But Guo Xuan's position as minister is not secure, as the assistant ministers on his left and right have similar qualifications to him. Guo Xuan got this official position because she had been Zhan Shi in the Prince's Palace before the emperor ascended the throne, so he naturally had to be cautious.

Moreover, Guo Xuan was born in the right way and attached great importance to his reputation. When the officials hit a wall, they thought of another way. However, Guo Xuan did not bring many family members to the capital, and the doors were strictly guarded.

Later, a smart person decided to go to Anlan County, Guo Xuan's ancestral home. Unexpectedly, Guo Xuan's father was an old man and drove out all the people sent by these officials.

Guo Xuan's repeated honest behavior also reached the ears of the Queen Mother, and she was highly praised. Guo Xuan has secured her position since then.

It wasn't until five years ago that an expert guided everyone to use Qu Yuan, Guo Xuan's brother-in-law, as a breakthrough to successfully gain access to Guo Shangshu.

The expert who gave guidance to the officials was none other than the Prime Minister of Anlan County, Chengmei County.

He and Chief Xia were both close confidants of Guo Xuan, and he was the one who sent them to Anlan. Guo Xuan looked down upon Qu Yuan's abilities.

As a relative of Guo Xuan, Qu Yuanwai is only responsible for transporting money to buy official positions in Beijing. He did not ask specifically how Mei and Xia operated the business of buying and selling officials.

In order to transport gold, Qu Yuan also recruited many heroes from the world to raise them in the village. Although these people are paid every time they escort gold, how can they be satisfied?

In their spare time, some people started doing business without capital. These people do things cleanly and neatly, and often act outside the borders of Anlan County, so Qu Yuanwai turns a blind eye.

For example, the case of the Zhusun Merchant was the work of these Jianghu merchants. They don't eat alone when they get money, and they often offer 80% of the money to the music performers.

The remaining 20% ​​was used by these high-rollers either for free money, gambling, or visiting brothels.

Qu Yuan was a bit lustful, but when he was in Beijing, he offended a noble disciple and was seriously injured. Guo Xuan was afraid that he would cause trouble again, so he asked him to return to Anlan County.

Qu Yuanwai could no longer be lecherous and became interested in gold and silver, but he couldn't bear to spend it. The stolen goods obtained by the dealer were locked in the warehouse and not touched much.

The eight thousand taels of gold were actually Guo Xuan's gold that had been secretly withheld by Qu Yuanwai in previous years. There are so many accumulated over the years.

The officials discovered that Guo Tianguan was not greedy, but extremely cautious. He had to secure his seat before he would accept the cash.

No, this Guo Tianguan is not very interested in silver, he only wants gold! And he has a huge appetite. For example, for state and county chief seal officials, only five hundred taels of gold can be awarded to them.

Five hundred taels of gold, that’s ten thousand taels of silver!

The county magistrate's annual salary is only sixty taels of silver. Even with various subsidies and regular local contributions, the income is only three to five hundred taels of silver.

What about the expenditure of these ten thousand taels of silver to buy an official position?

That must be scraped back from the local area after taking office, double or even ten times!

The official position of Xie Zhizhou, the father of Xie Chengan, was also obtained by paying filial piety to Guo Xuan's thousand taels of gold with the support of the Jiang family!

These are all issues of external treatment. He dared to tell everything, even if Xie Chengan knew the truth, he would not dare to do anything to him.

Sure enough, when they heard that I had bought all the magistrates, both Xie Chengan and Jiang Ruiyan were stunned.

Well, if this matter is exposed, Mr. Xie will not be able to keep his position as governor.

This is really pulling out the carrot and bringing out the mud!

If you want to move people like Qu Yuanwai, Meixian Cheng, and Master Xia, you must first kill your relatives for justice!