Everyone felt that what Shi Qingluo said seemed to make sense.
Both Ge Chunru and her brother might lack love.
One found a husband who was more than ten years older than herself, and the other found a wife who was more than ten years older than himself.
Shi Qingluo shrugged indifferently: “I don’t mind having a young stepfather, but Ge Chunyi shouldn’t try to control me.”
If Ge Chunyi wanted to be her stepfather to get revenge, he would be wrong.
Mrs. Niu was only her mother on the surface, but not in reality. Not to mention that their relationship was not good.
She didn’t care what Mrs. Niu would do, or what kind of husband she would find after being divorced.
Then she touched her chin: “I just don’t know if Ge Chunru, the elder sister, would be so happy if she knew that her beloved brother had found such a young sister-in-law.”
“Puff!” Xi Rui couldn’t help laughing out loud.
“She won’t be happy, I think she’ll want to cry.”
Liang Youxiao said with a sly smile: “I suddenly want to see Mrs. Niu calling Ge Chunru sister-in-law.”
Shi Qingluo said with a chuckle: “You stole what I wanted to say.”
Suddenly, she was looking forward to seeing Ge Chunru’s ‘happy’ look when she found out that she had an “older” sister-in-law.
Given the nature of Mrs. Niu’s blood-sucking worms, it will be difficult for Ge Chunru to get rid of her once she gets involved.
Ge Chunyi was fantastic at it. He has a grudge against his sister and deliberately did this.
She was afraid Mrs. Niu and Ge would have to fight in the future.
Xiao Dalang shuddered when he heard the laughter of several people: “……”
He always felt that they had bad intentions. He will stay away from these people in the future.
Shi Qingluo looked at Shi Laosan and said: “You don’t have to be angry. If you marry a woman again in the future, maybe you will have a son.”
Shi Laosan was originally very unhappy. It was not that he still misses Mrs. Niu, but he felt particularly ashamed.
After hearing what Shi Qingluo said, he felt a little comforted: “Well, just let her be.”
Mrs. Niu had done so many evil things. She doesn’t think about doing some good deeds, so she won’t be able to give birth to a son.
Anyway, he had done his best for her.
The matter between Mrs. Niu Shi and Ge Chunyi came to an end.
Xiao Hanzheng said to Xiao Dalang: “What is the situation in this county? Tell me about it.”
Xiao Dalang thought for a while and replied: “It’s poor, and the previous county magistrates have falsely reported the number of households. There are many empty households.”
“On the surface, there are more than 5,000 households in the entire Heyang County, but there may be only more than 3,000 households.”
“Our county is also one of the poorest counties in Beicheng Prefecture.”
Then he roughly talked about the key points he knew.
In general, it revolves around one aspect. The place was too poor, there were not many rich households in the county, and many people in the county were hungry, not to mention the villages and towns.
There was also some resentment in his words, which was directed at his Second Uncle, Xiao Yuanshi.
Not only did he bring them to the northern border, but he also deliberately sent them to such a poor and cold county town.
Xiao Hanzheng wrote down the key points after listening.
He asked: “Since it is so poor, how did the previous county magistrate get greedy?”
Xiao Dalang reported the county magistrate, so he was still clear: “Before they were news, saying that there would be a war, so the people above allocated money to build the city wall and the dam, but the previous county magistrate did not build them.”
“Also, the court had a policy that if there was no labor force at home or disabled veterans, they would not have to pay taxes, but the county magistrate didn’t announce it and collected it anyway.”
“Occasionally, when the harvest was good for a few years, he privately increased the tax by 10%, but didn’t hand it over to the court, but pocketed it.”
“When the year was bad, the above asked to reduce the tax, but he didn’t, but reported the reduction to the court. He ate up the rest.”
Xiao Dalang felt that the previous county magistrate was too much.
In particular, once he was sent to collect taxes, he saw that many people in the village were wearing ragged clothes and were almost starving.
Some families lacked labor, but still had to pay so much tax, and kept kowtowing to ask them for leniency.
He felt very uncomfortable at the time, but he didn’t know that these people were exempt from tax at that time.
He just watched the yamen runners forcibly take away the food that kept people alive as taxes.
It was not until his Second Uncle’s people found evidence of the previous county magistrate’s corruption that they knew about this.
What Xiao Dalang said not only made Xiao Hanzheng look a little ugly, but Xi Rui and others were also very angry when they heard it.
“This county magistrate is rammed, too much.”
“He should be dragged back and tortured.”
Shi Qingluo sighed: “It’s a mess.”
The previous county magistrate was too ruthless, and the people in this county were too miserable.
But since they were here, they naturally have to change these current situations.
Xiao Hanzheng had been to the northern border before, and he had some ideas on how to improve the situation in Heyang County.
He told Xiao Dalang: “Today, you send people to find all the books of the county government, taxes, account status, etc. in the past year. I want to see them tomorrow.”
Xiao Dalang was unhappy. He had always given orders to others before, but now he had to be suppressed and listen to the orders of this cousin.
But he didn’t dare to say it no matter how unhappy he was, otherwise he might be punished.
He pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying: “No problem, I’m familiar with the county government, leave it to me.”
Xiao Hanzheng found that it was not bad for his scumbag father to throw the old Xiao family here.
At least it wouldn’t be a black mark for him to come here, and he could use Xiao Dalang.
He asked: “Did you report the previous county magistrate for his bad actions?”
Xiao Dalang smiled embarrassed: “I just can’t stand him squeezing the people, so I can’t report it.”
No one present believed this, but they didn’t point it out.
Xiao Hanzheng reminded meaningfully: “Your Second Uncle helped you to pull the people down, but he didn’t make any operation to let you be the county magistrate.”
“Nine out of ten, he lets you decide to be the new county magistrate on your own.”
“So when I was sent here to Heyang County to be the county magistrate, you showed off your power as the new county magistrate as soon as we came.”
“But how many county magistrates from the capital are transferred to this prefecture?”
“This time, many children of noble families were sent to the northern border to gain experience. Just like the county magistrate of Lin County, he is the direct descendant of the Duke’s Mansion.”
“You wanted to be a county magistrate, but can you be better than the county magistrate from the capital?”
“Are your hands really that clean?”
“When the new county magistrate has established a firm foothold, he can kill you as a warning to others.”
“I will not bother with you about the past, so I will not kill you as a warning to others.”
He continued to say: “You are a smart person. Go back and think about what you should and should not do.”
Would the Scumbag Father be so kind as to help Xiao Dalang eliminate dissidents? What a beautiful dream.
His purpose was to send Xiao Dalang to the new county magistrate to be killed.
But the Scumbag Father may not have expected that Prince Jin would come up with a brilliant idea and let the people of the Ministry of Personnel transfer him to this county as a county magistrate.
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