The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

Watching Lin Tailai enter the county government office, the local people who followed behind him talked about it.

They all felt that this Jiuyuan Zhenxian had no style at all, and his performance was not much different from that of a low-end gangster. It was really better to meet him in person than to hear about him.

Such a person could win the first place and the first place, but their county city had his head shaved in the provincial examination last year. God is blind.

Only Feng Shike sighed: "There will be a disaster in my county!"

He knew very well that the worse Lin Jiuyuan's performance was, the bigger the next thing would be.

Then Feng Shike said to other scholars: "I will guard here. If you are familiar with Lin Taigong's family, go and persuade them to go out to avoid disaster!"

Everyone didn't care and smiled and dispersed. This second master Feng was too alarmist!

The Lin family was also a famous family with tens of thousands of tenants and two generations of scholars. Who could move the Lin family in Songjiang Prefecture?

The magistrate of Huating County, the capital of Songjiang Prefecture, is surnamed Nie, and is now in the most stressful time of the year.

Because after the autumn harvest, it is time to collect taxes. Songjiang Prefecture, like Suzhou Prefecture, regards money and grain as the top priority.

Being an official in these two places, if you fail to complete the task of money and grain, it is equivalent to a veto!

Although the total tax amount of Songjiang Prefecture is only half of that of Suzhou Prefecture, it can only rank second in the world, but Suzhou Prefecture has seven counties and prefectures, while Songjiang Prefecture has only two or three.

Huating County is the biggest head in Songjiang Prefecture, so the tax burden can be imagined.

The land annexation phenomenon in Songjiang Prefecture is much more serious than that in Suzhou Prefecture, where the proportion of official land is extremely high, and the power of the big families is stronger.

Rather than saying that it is collecting taxes, it is better to say that the government office and those big families with fields are repeatedly pulling each other, which is the most headache for Magistrate Nie.

Thinking of this, Magistrate Nie couldn't help but feel emotional, a little envious of the two counties in the city of Suzhou Prefecture next door.

In the eyes of outsiders, if there is a bully like Lin Tailai with strong ruling power in the local area, it will greatly damage the authority of the government.

But in the eyes of County Magistrate Nie, the above statements are all nonsense from people who don't know anything!

Look at the county magistrate next door, Xiao Yuan, who knows nothing except drinking and partying. Whether in Changzhou or Wu County, has he ever worried about the money and grain problem?

In the next door, as long as you serve the bully Lin well and talk about the positive items and loss numbers this year, you don't have to worry about anything!

If there is such a bully in Huating County, I don't know how much trouble I can save!

County Magistrate Nie was thinking about this, when suddenly a yamen runner stood outside the door and reported: "Master! Lin Jiuyuan, who came from Suzhou Prefecture, just entered the county government!"

County Magistrate Nie was full of doubts. What's going on? Speak of the devil? Could it be that Lin Jiuyuan wants to come to Huating County to develop business?

He and Lin Jiuyuan have never had a friendship, and Lin Jiuyuan probably doesn't look down on him with his status.

"He came to surrender himself!" The yamen runner continued to report: "He said that he beat Lin Taigong and caused him to lose eight teeth, so he came to the county yamen to surrender himself!"

Nie Zhixian was stunned. What kind of disaster was this?

The yamen runner urged: "The gentlemen in the criminal department can't handle this case. Please come out quickly, sir!"

Nie Zhixian came back to his senses and spoke as if he, the magistrate, could handle it.

On one side is Jiuyuan Zhenxian, needless to say, he has the power to hear directly from the heaven.

Just to say one thing, how many people can fool 200,000 taels of silver from the increasingly tight treasury to carry out an inexplicable dredging project?

Even his immediate superior in the same city, the prefect, was arranged by Lin Jiuyuan!

On the other side, Lin Taigong is a local boss. If the latest version of the local official protection talisman is compiled, the first row of families must be Xu, Gu, Lin, and Feng, and Lin Taigong is the Lin in it!

But the magistrate is the biggest in the county yamen, and Nie Zhixian can't not come out, unless he quits.

So Magistrate Nie could only reluctantly go to court temporarily. When the drum sounded, he asked the officers to drive out the idlers who wanted to watch the fun.

There was no arrangement for the execution and the police in the court, only Magistrate Nie himself and the clerk.

There was also a chair next to the case, and Lin Tailai sat down next to it after he went to court.

Magistrate Nie asked as kindly as possible: "Why did you have a conflict with the old servant?"

Because Lin Jingyang, the Grand Master Lin, was the Minister of the Imperial Household, he was respectfully called the old servant in the county court.

Lin Tailai replied: "I had a few quarrels with the old servant Lin, and then I beat him up. Many people saw it.

There are also eight teeth that were knocked out as physical evidence. Please judge according to the law!"

Magistrate Nie: ""

How is it fair? According to the law, eight teeth knocked out must be compensated with 56 stone of rice?

Can that be considered fair? Can the local Lin family agree to it?

If Lin Jiuyuan was an ordinary person in politics, he could be punished more severely by "using the lowly to bully the noble", but Lin Jiuyuan's political status was no lower than that of Lin Taifu.

The clerk next to him came to the rescue and said, "Where is the servant of the plaintiff?"

Mr. Lin replied, "He was carried away by their servants and should have been carried home!"

The clerk advised County Magistrate Nie, "You can't just listen to the defendant's one-sided statement. The plaintiff is not here and has not spoken, so you don't have to rush to make a judgment."

County Magistrate Nie said to Lin Tailai, "Why don't you go back first and wait for further notice."

Lin Tailai said dissatisfiedly, "Your Excellency, you are violating the principle by doing this and are suspected of partiality!

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Even if it is difficult to make a judgment in terms of procedure, I, the accused murderer, should be detained in jail first!"

Nie Magistrate looked at Lin Tailai, very incredible, is it possible that you, Lin Jiuyuan, came here just to go to jail?

If you want to go to jail, you should go to the imperial prison! That is the promised land for people like you! What is there in a broken county prison that is worth your interest?

Lin Tailai threatened: "If the county lord intends to indulge the prisoners for personal gain, then I will appeal! Anyway, the government office is not far away, and it is the same to go to jail in the government office!"

Nie Magistrate knew that as long as Lin Tailai appealed, he would definitely be punished! Since he became an official, he has never experienced such a painful thing.

Finally, Nie Magistrate said to the clerk of the criminal room helplessly, "You go and tell the county prison to clean up a room in the front hall of the prison for Jiuyuan to stay temporarily!"

Mr. Lin quickly interrupted and said: "One room is not enough, I want to bring dozens of followers to protect myself.

If something happens to me in there, I am afraid that the county lord will be implicated."

Dozens of followers? The clerk looked at Magistrate Nie in embarrassment, but Magistrate Nie said expressionlessly: "Do as you say!"

Feng Shike had not left, and sat in the torture chamber waiting for the result.

After hearing about Lin Jiuyuan's imprisonment, he immediately left the county government office and went straight to the residence of Grand Tutor Xu in the south of the city.

At this time, he could only ask Xu Fan, the head of the Xu family, to come forward to see if the situation could be turned around.

"What exactly does Lin Jiuyuan want to do?" Xu Fan, who had extremely rich life experience, was extremely puzzled after listening to Feng Shike's report.

It can be said that the life experience of Grandpa Xu Fan far exceeds that of others, and few in the world can compare.

He lost his mother when he was young, and his father Xu Jie was exiled to serve as an official in other places, so he could only grow up alone.

After becoming an adult, Xu Fan went to the capital to join his father, and then helped his father Xu Jie to fight wits and courage with Yan Song and his son, and also built a palace for Emperor Jiajing, and was promoted to Shaoqing of the Taichang Temple by Emperor Jiajing himself.

In his old age, Xu Fan returned to his hometown to annex lands, but was punished by Hai Rui again. He was sentenced to exile for political reasons, and then pardoned.

In short, he served top people like Jiajing, Yan Song, and his father Xu Jie all his life, and was retaliated by Gao Gong, rescued by Zhang Juzheng, and beaten by Hai Qingtian.

It can be said that what kind of people has old man Xu Fan not seen in his life?

But at this time he was also confused and could not understand Lin Tailai's behavior at all.

"You are more familiar with all aspects of the situation, what do you think?" Xu Fan asked Feng Shike.

Feng Shike replied: "I can only imagine that if the news of Lin Jiuyuan's imprisonment in Huating County is reported back to Suzhou, it will cause a huge shock!"

Xu Fan sighed and said: "Maybe Lin Taifu is greedy this time, I will go to Suyuan to visit first!"

Suyuan is the garden of the Lin family and the current residence of Lin Jingyang.

Xu Fan and Lin Jingyang were engaged in marriage, and they were in-laws, so they should visit them.

When Xu Fan and Feng Shike arrived at Suyuan, they saw Lin Jingyang lying on his back on the couch in the inner room, with his mouth no longer "guarded", and he was in so much pain that he couldn't speak.

He was still conscious and had no mental problems from being beaten.

And the twelve-year-old only son Lin Youlin was standing next to him, wiping his tears. He was also the fiancé of Xu Fan's youngest daughter.

It was difficult for Mr. Lin to have children. He was nearly fifty years old before he had a son, so he was only twelve years old now and couldn't set up a household.

Lin Jingyang didn't want to talk, but looked at his in-law Xu Fan with expectant eyes.

Xu Fan had no choice but to answer, "I will do my best to help you get the compensation back.

But you may have made a mistake. The 200,000 gold is not the money of the court, but the money of Lin Tailai."

After visiting his relatives, Xu Fan went to the county government of Huating County and went into the county prison to visit Lin Jiuyuan.

After passing through the heavily guarded gate of the county prison and a gloomy and narrow corridor, he finally entered the prison.

He saw dozens of big men standing outside the front hall of the prison. Other clerks and jailers were driven out and could only squat in the corner to work.

The windows of the three front halls were all open, and the mixed laughter of men and women could be heard through the windows.

The experienced and experienced old man Xu Fan was indifferent to this, as if being in prison should be like this.

He just shouted to the window: "Lin Jiuyuan! I'm here to visit you!"

Lin Tailai appeared in the window with a beautiful woman in his arms, and replied: "How dare I trouble Taichang Gong!"

Xu Fan once served as an official in the Taichang Temple, so he could be respectfully called Taichang Gong.

Xu Fan smiled bitterly and said: "Let's not beat around the bush. Lin Jingyang was beaten badly. How about Jiuyuan Jun pay some compensation?"

Mr. Lin sneered a few times and said: "I am a great Hanyuan Qinghua, Jiuyuan Zhenxian, and the first deputy leader of the literary world in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and I have been tricked into jail! I pleaded guilty! What else do you want from me?"

Xu Fan was choked and speechless for a while.

He suddenly felt that Lin Tailai's imprisonment seemed to have a taste of retreating to advance to some extent.

Although there was a lot of performance, in name, Lin Tailai was indeed wronged to be in jail with his identity.

But I still can't understand, what can you, Lin Tailai, do by pretending to be wronged? What benefit can you get?

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