It's time for a showdown, all the powerful officials in Beijing are my students!

Chapter 165 Chapter 164

"Cough" Tang Sicheng coughed lightly when he saw a villager's hands ready to move.

If someone beats someone in the court, even if Landlord Qian is a heinous villain, the villagers will still be punished for disturbing the court.

Landlord Qian saw that all the villagers were waiting for him, so he hurriedly said, "My lord, listen to the sophistry of the grassroots."

"No, no, Mr. Tang, listen to Cao Min's explanation."

Tang Sicheng: "The Landlord Qian has no brains to be honest, so it's better to recruit from the truth."

Magistrate Fan also glared at Landlord Qian. If he hadn't provoked him, how could he be driven from his seat in the lobby to sit on the bench next to him.

Landlord Qian wants to use the eloquence he learned to fool people when he was a gangster, just like he fooled Fan Mengsheng, he fooled Tang Sicheng.

"My lord, the grass people bought the fields of the surrounding people for their own sake."

"There are a lot of paddy fields in this area, and it is very hard to farm without cattle. When the land is not good enough to plant for a year, it is not enough to pay taxes. The grasslanders can't bear to see them like this."

The villagers inside and outside the lobby rolled their eyes to the sky, "..." We will really thank you.

Landlord Qian put on a bitter face, looking aggrieved by being misunderstood for everyone's good: "I didn't expect Caomin's kindness to be so misunderstood by the surrounding villagers. I blame me for not explaining it clearly to them."

If people who don't know the truth see it, they will really think that he is a kind person who is misunderstood to save his neighbors from suffering.

Tang Sicheng: "Then according to what you said, the people around you will come to thank you."

Landlord Qian knelt on the ground and glanced out of the corner of his eye. Sitting in the lobby, Tang Sicheng was expressionless.

For a while, he couldn't tell whether his words were true or sarcastic, "No need to thank you." He could only bite the bullet and reply: "In order to make life easier and better for the villagers, it's nothing for me to be wronged."

"Don't pull me, I'm going to beat him to death." A villager couldn't bear it anymore, took off his tattered shoes and threw them over.

Let the common people next to him who were also disgusted by the big landlord Qian hold him back, "Calm down, calm down, with Mr. Tang around, he will make decisions for us."

"Ah—" Landlord Qian cried out in pain.

When An Xin saw that he was also kneeling in the crowd, Mr. Zheng's wife, while no one was paying attention, put her hand on Landlord Qian's thigh, gritted her teeth and twisted it.

Then I pretended to be nonchalant and retracted my big rough hands made from doing farm work, and knelt there honestly as if I hadn’t done anything.

"Crack!" Tang Sicheng patted the gavel: "Quiet."

Landlord Qian looked at Tang Sicheng aggrieved: "Someone twisted my thigh."

"Cough" Tang Sicheng: "Who saw it?"

An Xin, who was standing in the crowd, also raised the corners of her mouth. This is also a wonderful person... Don't make it too obvious.

The common people inside and outside the yamen hall collectively shook their heads. Everyone said that they were blind for a moment just now and couldn't see anything.

"You...you!" Landlord Qian glared fiercely at the villagers next to him.

Tang Sicheng: "Do you think I'm like someone, being fooled by you as a fool?"

Magistrate Fan glanced sideways at Tang Sicheng, wondering who the person he was talking about was.

"???" There is always a feeling of being connoted.

Tang Sicheng looked at the fact that it was a robbery, and he was able to say something about being a rich landlord who was good for others. If it wasn't for the damage to the official prestige, he couldn't help but spit at him.

This also fooled him as a fool. Landlord Qian thought that he, like the magistrate Fan next to him, didn't bring his brains when he took office.

After coming to Moshan County, he took bribes everywhere and did things for others.

Relying on the backstage of the Marquis of Wuchang in the capital, Tang Sicheng dared to accept any money. Tang Sicheng turned his head and glanced at County Magistrate Fan who was still staring at him unwillingly, and felt that this person was too stupid to want.

According to the people he sent to inquire about, in the past few years, at the instigation of the big landlord Qian, he even arrested all the villagers who came to sue the big landlord Qian Ergui, not counting.

He even had the audacity to sell those people to work in a nearby private mine to earn money.

This is something a smart official can do.

Tang Sicheng actually thought highly of Fan Mengsheng.

He was not a smart person, nor was he a scholar, a Jinshi, a county magistrate who came here through formal channels.

As far as his reputation as a scholar is concerned, it is also Fan Mengsheng's younger sister who is a concubine in the Marquis Mansion of Wuchang, so that he can improve his status in the Marquis Mansion.

The gentleman who paid a lot of money taught for almost 20 years before he reluctantly let the only elder brother of his natal family hang a car tail and be admitted as a scholar.

In this way, a person who becomes a county magistrate relying on connections, what ability can you expect him to manage a county's affairs well.

This is why An Xin, Old General Liu, and Li Ziyu were all in favor of it. Liu Boxing, whose brains are a hundred times stronger than Fan Mengsheng's, stayed in the capital as an official after being admitted to Jinshi.

To be a parent official is not as simple as talking about it.

When An Xin saw the corners of Tang Sicheng's mouth curling up, she knew that this guy must have something bad in his heart.

Sure enough, he started a counterattack against the landlord Qian.

"Qian Ergui, as a country gentry, forcibly buys the land of the common people.

The witnesses are all the people in the several villages around Qian's house, and the physical evidence is the deed that you bought the land at that time.

Do you think this officer will believe what you say is good for the neighbors? "

Landlord Qian still wanted to quibble: "My lord."

"Shut up! You really think I'm a fool." Tang Sicheng's eyes were cold: "Spend two or three taels of silver to buy a villager's good farmland worth fifteen or six taels and one mu."

"You say it's for their benefit, then you go back and ask the Yamen, do they believe the hundreds of thousands of people?"

"Don't believe it, don't believe it, don't believe it." The people inside and outside the yamen shouted in unison.

Landlord Qian shrank his arms, his face was ugly, and he wanted to say something.

Tang Sicheng didn't want to hear it anymore: "If you dare to quibble again, I don't mind giving you another one. It's the crime of fooling the officials."

Thinking that buying land forcibly will not be punished with multiple crimes. At most, the purchased land will be returned to the group of poor people at that time, and maybe I will be fine if I walk away.

Landlord Qian then lowered his head and did not retort, which aroused public outrage, and he admitted the crime.

But Qian Dadizhu thinks less about things.

Tang Sicheng then brought out the evidence that he colluded with the officials of the county government and sold many of the captured prisoners and the villagers who sued him to a mine to work as coolies.

When Tang Sicheng took over the case, he sent people to collect more information and dealt with it as quickly as possible.

When a group of ragged, unkempt men with protruding cheekbones, sunken eye sockets, and scrawny men were brought to the yamen.

(End of this chapter)