In the blink of an eye, October is coming.

The sky was like a thick ink, with raindrops scattered with cold air, scattered in an ancient city with a roundness above and below, wetting the two crisscrossing blue brick streets in the inner city.

This autumn rain brought not only a baptism to the ancient city, but also a chill of autumn, causing the temperature in the city to drop suddenly. It seemed that in this autumn rain, people fell from the hot summer.

In the cold autumn.

Although it was raining in autumn, the government office of Leizhou Prefecture was not closed and was still open as usual. At this time, an official wearing a fifth-rank official uniform was sitting in front of the case and trying the case.

"This official announced the verdict! The Qian family immediately returned the land that occupied Fan San, and did not delay and retreat!" With a sound of a grove, the trial of the case ended.

A honest man immediately knelt down and the dignified seven-foot man's tears came out, flowing to his cheeks, and shouting: "Master Qingtian".

This case is not complicated. Fan San has opened up a piece of deserted land, which is next to the Li family's fields. However, the Li family sold the fields to the Qian Mansion, and the Qian Mansion took Fan San's fields together.

Although Fan San's deserted fields pay taxes every year, they are not registered in the county government and have not been able to obtain the testimony of the grain chief, which is considered to be empty talk. Instead, the Qian Mansion took out the land deed and said the piece with confidence.

The deserted fields belong to their family, and they are the land marked on the land deeds.

When encountering such a thing, most people may think they are unlucky, but Fan San is just a stubborn person. Recently, he heard that the new prefect is fair and honest, so he came to the government office to file a lawsuit.

For such cases, the yamen has always refused to accept them, and complaining will only waste the complaint money. But this time, the Leizhou Government not only accepted the case, but also ordered the Qian Mansion to return the encroached land.

"Is Fan Sanzhen going to go back to his deserted fields?"

"I also want to sue the Qian Mansion, and I have taken over my land again!"

"A good official has finally arrived in Leizhou City. My family's Tian Qi is still pressing on the head of the bed. I'll go back and take it away!"

...

Once the news of Fan San winning the case came out, it caused a thousand waves, and many people complained.

In less than half a day, countless papers flew over like snowflakes, all suing the local rich man in Leizhou City to occupy their land or forcibly buy them at a low price.

Fan San's victory undoubtedly made everyone see a ray of dawn and the opportunity to regain the occupied land.

If it were before, whenever the people sued the gentry for land and property, the government would often help the gentry, causing them to lose the case. The repeated defeats and wasted complaints made them gradually daunted.

This is not the case of Haikang County or Leizhou Government, because this situation was a normal state in the entire Ming Dynasty. Compared with the poor peasants who were powerless and powerless, the yamen would rather believe the one-sided words of the gentry.

But this time, Lin Qingran broke this convention. When facing such a vague case, he was "rather than surrender to the gentry," and the balance tilted towards the poor people.

The people who were wronged were naturally extremely happy, but the local rich men were frightened and uneasy.

It is definitely impossible for them to accumulate so much land, if they say that they are all sold legally. Especially in this era, people regard land as their lifeblood. If they buy and sell land, they will be scolded by their tribesmen, so no one will easily do so.

Sell ​​land.

That's why most of their land is obtained by taking advantage of the dangers of others, some of which are obtained through unremarkable means, and some are even occupied.

If they really want to pursue it, they may have to return a lot of land. Just thinking about it this way will make these local rich men known for being stingy and feel ache, and even feel the desire to die.

Of course, they also thought of uniting and resisting together. They had done this many things before, but this time they faced an ordinary prefect.

This prefect was not only from the Hanlin Academy, but also an authentic western Guangdong native, and his official reputation was also very good. In addition, he also brought many merchants from Guangdong into his camp, and there was also the Minister of Rites in the capital, which was basically the same tumbler.

In fact, they could not blame Lin Qingran too much, because everyone knew that this incident was caused by the incident that day, and they angered the Lord of the Mansion who was born in the Hanlin Academy.

"Isn't it just to plant cotton with 20% of the thin fields? I'll just agree to him!"

"That's it! Qian Shan is just a pig, and he dares to turn against Prefect Lin. Isn't this seeking death?"

"I didn't give me any face at the beginning. Now I want to mess with you, so I can't blame others for turning against you!"

...

After a group of local rich men had no choice but to do anything, and finally pointed the finger at Qian Shan, pushing the blame on Qian Shan, which ignited the anger of the new magistrate.

The same is true. When they heard Lin Xuran's proposal that day, although they knew that it might damage their interests, they wanted to sell Lin Xuran for a little face and plant some cotton with a few pieces of fields.

But who would have thought that Qian Shan, the idiot, jumped out and openly opposed it, angering this noble and young and energetic master of the Mansion, which led to such a disaster.

At this moment, what they hated the most was not Lin Weiran who wanted to hit them, but the lazy Qian Shan.

If the rich man in the land is not having a good life, Qian Shanzhi feels that the clouds are covering the top and the end of the world is coming.

It was also on this day that a rumor that was extremely unfavorable to the Qian family appeared and spread in the streets and alleys of Leizhou City. In fact, this is not a piece of news, but an old rumor.

However, when the rumors spread, the Qian Mansion suddenly paid for the construction of Qianbin Bridge in the Nandu River. At that time, the Qian Mansion was in full swing, so the rumors quickly disappeared.

Although it was mentioned later, more people believed that the generous and generous Qian Mansion was innocent and they were deliberately slandered by their enemies.

In this rumor, the old woman who helped Qian Bin was named Li Hui, and was a Yao people. This Yao people were probably the most restless ethnic minority in the Ming Dynasty. From the Hongwu period to the present, they have been lifted up from time to time since the Hongwu period and nowadays. The banner of rebellion.

When the Qian family learned that Yao people were in trouble again, they were afraid that they would be implicated, so they swept the already deaf and blind old woman out of the house and made an ungrateful act.

However, the old woman was lucky to be taken in by Qian Bin’s main residence, and enjoyed her life and had a good ending.

Now that the rumors have recurred, everyone no longer favors the Qian Mansion, but confirms the matter. Soon, everyone came up with an astonishing fact that this rumor was not fabricated. The Qian Mansion really did ungrateful. thing.
Chapter completed!