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Chapter 615 It¡¯s easy to spend money but hard to make money

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    The sky is overcast, but there are crowds of people on the Banshan Bridge in Kunshan County.  Kunshan people gathered together, craning their necks to look at the dock under the bridge, waiting for grain ships.

    Since the elder took office, five grain ships have come to Kunshan every day to deliver grain, rain or shine, all day long.

    This sight, which they have become accustomed to, makes the people of Kunshan feel more at ease.

    Even when they learned the day before yesterday that the reserve warehouse had been burned down and the grain storage was destroyed, the citizens did not panic.

    If you burn it, just burn it. It¡¯s not food for your family anyway.  As long as the food ships keep coming every day, no one will go hungry.

    But today, an atmosphere of uneasiness is spreading.

    Rumors suddenly spread in the county.  People everywhere are saying that in fact, the county master didn't get that much food at all.  However, Zhao Zhixian doubled the number in order to avoid causing panic buying.

    In fact, at least half of the five grain ships arriving in Kunming every day are filled with sand!

    In other words, only one thousand shi of rice is supplied to the county every day.  This amount of food is just enough to provide relief through work. How can there be food rations for the citizens?

    "And there are rumors that there are noses and eyes, and it is said that the inspector is specially here to investigate this case.  He also said that Lin Xun's survey preparation warehouse had obtained conclusive evidence.

    He also said that he would inspect today¡¯s five grain ships at the dock today, and expose Zhao Zhixian¡¯s trick of fooling the people on the spot!

    How can the people in the county not panic?

    That is to say, Zhao Shouzheng had just arrived, and he was extremely effective in fighting floods and providing disaster relief, which made the people in the county have a good impression of him.  The two sides are in a stage that Yizhi County calls ¡®sweet as honey¡¯.

    So everyone could barely keep from getting into trouble, and they just rushed over to see what was going on.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The Banshanqiao Pier is already waiting, and a seventh-grade official is sitting in the pavilion.

    Inspector Zheng, who usually showed off his power, was like a grandson in front of that man.

    It turns out that the rumors are true!

    "Hey, if this is really found to be a fraud, my parents' days in Kunshan will be over"

    The citizens sighed, it was so easy for Kunshan to get a top scholar to be the county magistrate, and they thought they had finally met a rare good official.

    ??Could it be that everything is just an illusion?  The so-called good official does not exist in this world at all?

    "I'd rather the patrol officer didn't investigate!" Some citizens shouted: "Just trust your parents."

    ¡°Can you believe him even if he is a liar?¡± Someone immediately protested.  "Everyone believed in his evil deeds, so they didn't save any food. Let's just wait for the whole family to starve to death!"

    No one can refute this statement. Everyone is indeed too optimistic about the sight of five ships of food every day, and they are not willing to buy food at high prices.

    ¡°If this is true, I don¡¯t know how many people will starve to death in Kunshan County

    ??~~

    Fortunately, Lin Xunzhang had already expected that people would swarm in, and ordered Zheng Qian, the inspector of the Jinxi Town Inspection Department, to block the dock with his archers.

    In the rain shelter, Lin Xun sat straight on a high-legged chair, holding a teacup in one hand and gently skimming off the foam with the lid of the cup with the other hand. His calm and leisurely look was different from the panicked Zheng Xunxun.  In sharp contrast.

    To be honest, Inspector Zheng never wanted to wade into this muddy water.  His base is in Kunnan.

    Hundreds of thousands of people in Kunnan depend on the old man for their livelihood, but he brings the soldiers of Kunnan to stir up troubles with Lin Xun.

    ????????????????????? Once any unfavorable evidence is really found and the eldest man is harmed, how can he still hang out in Jinxi Town in the future?  I am afraid that all my brothers will hate me.

    But what can he do?  Although there is only one word difference between patrol and inspection, the status of the two is as high as the heaven and the earth.

    He didn¡¯t dare to disobey Lin Xun¡¯s orders, otherwise he would be beaten on the spot. After the beating was over, he would ask him to take off his official robe

    Originally, Inspector Hua could send Deputy Inspector Hua Qian to top the tank, but Deputy Inspector Hua was sent to Wuxi on official business because he had a distant relationship with the Hua family.

    At this moment, I am afraid of being fragrant and spicy, maybe I can climb a wide relative.  From then on, he perched on a high branch and reached the pinnacle of his life, leaving his former boss far behind

    Thinking of this, Inspector Zheng sighed gloomily.

    ¡°Hey, it¡¯s easy for Hua Qian but hard for Zheng Qian.

    I was feeling sad secretly when I suddenly heard a commotion among the people on the bridge.

    "Here it comes, the grain ship is coming!" the citizens shouted one after another.

    Zheng Qian also looked over, and sure enough he saw a grain ship with the flags of "Wu Ji" and "Kunshan County Official", slowly passing through the bridge hole and heading towards Zhihe Pond in the north.

    There is a reserve warehouseThere is a special dock where grain ships do not have to stop.

    Lin Xun chose to inspect here because he wanted the people of Kunshan to see with their own eyes how their trusted boss treated them like fools.

    "Stop the boat and dock!" A sentinel boat lay across the river, with an archer in a blue uniform holding an inspection token.  "Inspection Department inspects!"

    "Didn't you see? We are a ship carrying grain to the county!" On the grain ship, the man escorting the ship was Uncle Mi, Wu Ji's steward.

    "It's you who are being investigated!" Yuan Fangdan shouted on the dock.  "The Inspector is here, why don't you dock immediately!"

    "Ah?" Uncle Mi showed a horrified look and whispered to the waiter beside him: "Let the boats behind you retreat quickly!"

    Seeing that the old guy was in a panic, Lin Xunjian's last doubt disappeared. He quickly stood up and said, "Stop them!"

    Two sentinel ships came across from the south of the bridge, blocking the way of the grain ship behind.

    In fact, these five grain ships were targeted by Lin¡¯s patrolmen as soon as they left Suzhou.

    At that time, except for the Xu family, no one in Kunshan knew that he was going to do a food inspection today!

    "Look where you are running away?!" Lin Xunjian, who is highly motivated, feels that he has become much more capable and can already be called a "capable official".

    ???????????? In fact, the grain ship is cumbersome and heavy. Even if there are no ambushes to stop it, where can it go?

    ??~~

    In a moment, five huge grain ships all docked, filling the pier to the brim.

    Zheng Qian took the archers on the boat to be on guard in case Wu Ji¡¯s men jumped over the wall and hurt the patrolman.

    Lin Xun stood in the pavilion and watched Yuan Fang direct Wu Ji's men to start unloading the ship.

    Behind him stood a group of squires, most of whom were vassals dedicated to the Xu family. However, in the Xu family's three-level lackey system of 'family members, foster sons, and adopted sons', they were still at the lowest stage of 'family members'.

    Family members are servants.

    So they are all slaves of the Xu family, and naturally they are more valued by the Xu family than the godsons who set the fire.

    They can only play the drums, and it is not their turn to share the secrets like the adopted men.

    ¡°Well, this doesn¡¯t seem to be a bad thing

    Today, Lin Xunjian wanted to summon the squires of the county to build momentum for him and witness his glorious moment as an anti-counterfeiting hero.

    However, for the sake of confidentiality, he did not inform the five famous Gu, Dai, Mao, Zhou, and Zheng families in Kunshan County, and he did not even call the next-level squires such as Zhijia and Guijia.  In the end, all the Xu family's servants in Kunshan were brought to the dock to hold the show.

    Although this way, there would be no major squires in the county to support him, which made Lin Xunjian feel disappointed.

    But at this moment he discovered that it was enough for someone to be present wearing a silk robe and a big hat.

    ¡°I need the word ¡®country squire¡¯, not which country squire.

    No one is in the way, so better!

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