dhibooks Chapter 142
Chapter 142
Chapter 142
Qin Feng was full of official authority. When these words came out, the group of yamen servants immediately felt thunderous in their ears. The whole body was shocked three times, and they backed up several steps involuntarily.
Qin Feng stepped forward and asked: "Your Majesty, there is no evidence, why do you say that this official accepts bribes?"
"Isn't what you're holding a certificate? You're a mere county magistrate with a yearly salary of 50 taels of silver. How can you have so many silver bills? This silver bill is at least 3 taels of silver!"
The prefect was very excited.
Of course, he is actually jealous, and wants to get the money in Qin Feng's hands. As long as he holds down the charge, arrests Qin Feng, and turns back to himself, isn't it what he said?At that time, the bank note will naturally fall into his hands.
It's just that he didn't expect that so many yamen servants behind him would be so useless, and they would be dismissed with a single word from Qin Feng.
Now these yamen servants can't count on it, but how can they arrest Qin Feng?
For a while, the prefect was in trouble.
Qin Feng looked at the banknote in his hand and chuckled: "Master Zhifu wishes to step down from office. The banknote in the hand of this officer is obtained from selling ducks. The Su family bought the secret recipe of my roast duck and raised it. There are 20 ducks used to control locusts. If you don’t believe me, you can ask on the spot, the elders of the Su family, Miss Su Jin, who is in charge of the Su family, are all here.”
With so many people, Qin Feng is not afraid that the magistrate will wrong him.
Su Jin felt the need to speak for Qin Feng and stood up.
"Lord Zhifu, what Lord Qin said is true. Lord Qin invented a new way to eat roast duck, which is extremely delicious. Nowadays, the Chunxiang Building is overcrowded every day, and it is hard to find a duck. A duck can be sold for as much as five taels of silver .”
"The Su family spent a lot of money to buy Mr. Qin's roast duck recipe and ingredients, and there are written evidence to prove it."
As Su Jin said, she asked someone to take out the paperwork she had just prepared. She was about to show it to Qin Feng and ask him to sign it.
Hearing what Su Jin said, the magistrate frowned, looked around, and said: "It's nonsense, how can you sell so much money for just a few ducks? 5 taels, you think this is a tribute to the court? Are you in Are you playing tricks on me?"
The magistrate especially didn't believe it.
This time, it was the turn of the people to stand up and speak for Qin Feng.
"Master Zhifu, this duck, let alone five taels, is worth six taels!"
"That's right. I waited in line for two days to get this one."
"Master Zhifu, you have wronged Lord Qin. Lord Qin loves the people like a child. He not only raises ducks to control locusts, but also hugs the crops of our farmers in Ninghai County. He also invented such delicious food. You are really a good parent official in Ninghai!"
"I ask the magistrate to investigate clearly!"
"I ask the magistrate to investigate clearly!"
The common people spoke one after another, telling the magistrate to have nothing to say.
In this kind of scene, even if he wanted to frame Qin Feng, he couldn't do it, so he had to give up.
"Okay, let's not talk about this matter for now."
The magistrate swallowed his saliva, and challenged Qin Feng again: "I said yesterday that I finished my inspection of Ninghai County and returned to Dengzhou today. As the parent official of Ninghai County, don't you know how to send me off? Qin Feng, I think you despise your superiors! What should you do?"
Qin Feng chuckled: "The law of this dynasty is to despise the majesty of the monarch, and the crime can be punished, but I have never heard of the law of despising the superior. Please tell the magistrate, what crime should be despised by the superior?"
The magistrate pointed to Qin Feng's nose: "If you despise your superiors, you can be judged as a crime..."
Qin Feng interrupted the magistrate's words calmly, and said leisurely: "I advise the magistrate to think about it carefully, and then speak after thinking about it. If there is any discrepancy between what you say and the laws of this dynasty... then it will be punished." The great crime of slandering Chao Gang!"
The magistrate suddenly got stuck in his throat, unable to utter a single word.
There are so many people who are still facing Qin Feng's Ninghai people. If he talks nonsense here, even if he is not afraid of Qin Feng suing, he must be afraid of these people talking outside!
If the news spreads to the capital and is heard by the court, then his prefect's official hat will be in danger!
"you……"
The magistrate pointed at Qin Feng, you have been waiting for a long time, but there is no reason for you, so he can only let go: "Let's go!"
After speaking, they turned their heads and left.
"Tch, you still want to mess with me at this level? You're so small..."
Qin Feng looked at the back of them leaving, and muttered with disdain.
After a while, Qin Feng said goodbye to Su Jin and left, and returned to the Yamen. The locust plague was over, but he still had a grand goal to achieve, and there were still many things he needed to do.
The magistrate and his team finally left Ninghai.
As soon as he left the city gate of Ninghai, the magistrate scolded the servants who accompanied him like hell.
"Trash, it's all trash! I told you to take Qin Feng down, what did you do?"
A group of yamen servants drooped their heads and said nothing.
They have been tortured by bandits to such an extent that they have no energy to argue with the magistrate, and the magistrate scolds, just listen.
The magistrate scolded for a while, but no one responded. He felt bored, so he shut up.
But his thoughts didn't stop. Looking at the harvest scene in the surrounding fields, the magistrate couldn't help thinking: This Qin Feng is really difficult to deal with, and he actually managed to control the locusts by his own ability.
And the money borrowed for locust control was paid back so quickly!
These days, he has heard about what Qin Feng did, and he knows that he borrowed 10 taels from the Su family!
One million taels!
Qin Feng actually returned it, and made a lot of extra money?
Thinking about the stack of bank notes in Qin Feng's hand, the magistrate is jealous. Why doesn't the money belong to him, the magistrate?
"This damn Qin Feng!"
The more the prefect thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, wishing he could immediately pull this Qin Feng off his horse, and stop asking him to be the county magistrate.
It's a pity that he has no handle against Qin Feng. How can he think of a way to bring this Qin Feng under control?
The prefect was thinking about it. There was originally a fast horse in the distance. When the people above saw the prefect and his party, they immediately reined in the horse and stopped, turned over and trotted towards the prefect.
"Master Zhifu, why are you going back now! Something is wrong!"
The person who came was a counselor of the magistrate's yamen.
When the magistrate heard that something was wrong, he hurriedly asked, "What? What happened? Tell me!"
"Master Zhifu, the grain harvest this year is too little. Many people in Dengzhou have sold all their belongings in order to survive. Now there are a large number of refugees in all counties. In our Dengzhou Prefecture alone, there are thousands of people. !"
"These refugees can't eat, they do everything, stealing chickens and dogs is not bad, some refugees rob in the street for food! The people in Dengzhou are miserable, and they are all waiting for you to go back and uphold justice!"
The counselor said with a bitter face.
"What? Refugees? Thousands of people? This is terrible!"
The magistrate's face changed drastically. What the officials fear most is famine and homelessness. The more people there are, the more afraid the officials are!
If there are too many refugees, the law and order will be bad. If the law and order are not good, the higher-ups will blame them, and the locality is not a good thing either!
"Quick! Go back to the Dengzhou Yamen!"
(End of this chapter)