Suffering from weakness and exhaustion, dragging his hollowed-out body, Jiang Shanfu came to the governor's office and met Xiong Wencan.

"Brother Ziliang, why are you looking like this?" Xiong Wencan was shocked when he saw Jiang Shanfu.

Jiang Shanfu drove everyone else out of the hall, and when only himself and Xiong Wencan were left, he suppressed his shyness and recounted what happened last night.

"Dong Weng, those two imperial guards must have been sent by Li Yanzhi. They clearly wanted to use my words to warn you." Jiang Shanfu finally said.

Xiong Wencan stroked his beard and looked Jiang Shanfu up and down: "Did they really do nothing but watch you and your concubine do that?"

Jiang Shanfu nodded and said, "No, I didn't say anything else, and I didn't even take the money I gave."

Xiong Wencan nodded and asked again: "Brother Ziliang, did you really do it seven times last night?"

"..." Jiang Shanfu's forehead was covered with black lines.

"My Lord Futai, can we stop talking about this? This is not the point of the matter!" Jiang Shanfu said helplessly.

"OK."

Xiong Wencan stopped teasing and said in a deep voice: "It's obvious. Li Yan has been warning us!"

"A mere warrior dares to treat the governor of a province like this..." Jiang Shanfu said angrily, but his voice became lower and lower.

Xiong Wencan sighed: "Because he is not an ordinary commander-in-chief, but a confidant of the emperor."

No ordinary general-in-chief should be respectful when meeting the governor, for fear of upsetting the civil servants. For the governor of a province, there are many ways to deal with an ordinary general-in-chief!

However, the emperor's confidants were different, because they could directly submit memorials and complaints to the emperor.

What's more, how do you know that others don't have other means?

"Can't we just surrender like this?" Jiang Shanfu said angrily.

The humiliation from last night was still there. He was a dignified official. How had the celebrity next to the governor ever suffered such humiliation? Now, he wanted to chop those two damn Jin Yiwei down.

Xiong Wencan sneered and said: "You want to use such despicable means to deal with me, how beautiful are you? Brother Ziliang, you will move into the governor's Yamen today. I want to see if they dare to enter the governor's Yamen and take action?"

"Then what?" Jiang Shanfu asked with hope. He didn't want to stay in the governor's office all day.

Xiong Wencan didn't say anything and then sighed: "Let's allocate some money and food to Li Yanzhi another day. When a scholar encounters soldiers, it's hard to explain why. Besides, the Jin Yiwei didn't do anything. We have no evidence to impeach him for his misdeeds."

That's it, thank you for looking so upbeat just now! Jiang Shanfu was suddenly a little disappointed.

"Brother Ziliang, don't be anxious." Xiong Wencan comforted him, "It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Let's first stabilize Li Yanzhi. With his character of retribution, I don't know what he will do next, but he is surrounded by a group of people.

It's inevitable. When the time comes, all we need to do is give it a gentle push, and it will definitely plunge it into a state of catastrophe!"

Jiang Shanfu nodded and sighed: "This is the only way."

"You allocate 10,000 taels of silver, plus 5,000 shi of rice, and have someone deliver it to Li Yanzhi, and stabilize him first." Xiong Wencan ordered.

Just as Jiang Shanfu left, someone suddenly came to report that Fujian Inspector Liu Mao had arrived.

Although the rank of the censor is low, he has the authority to impeach the governor specifically to check and balance the existence of the governor. Xiong Wencan did not dare to neglect Liu Mao's arrival and ordered people to come in.

After the two greeted each other, the host and guest took their seats, and a servant brought tea.

Liu Mao did not drink tea, but took out a folder from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Xiong Wencan.

"Governor Xiong, someone has told me something about you recently. I don't know whether I should report it to His Majesty. Governor Xiong, you'd better take a look." Liu Mao said calmly.

Xiong Wencan was shocked. The secret passage finally came. He instinctively felt bad from the moment he knew Liu Mao was coming.

"Isn't this appropriate?" Xiong Wencan said politely, but he picked up the book, opened it and looked at it, and his face suddenly turned livid.

In the excerpt, a total of eight charges were listed against Xiong Wencan, including accepting bribes, allowing domestic slaves to oppress good people, and robbing shop property. The most egregious one was that he raped more than a dozen women and committed sexual acts in the governor's office all day long.

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Grandma, that is clearly a singer that I spent money to support. How could you have robbed her? With your eyes, you saw me professing prostitution in the daytime?

The more Xiong Wencan read, the angrier he became. He almost tore up the book and threw it in Liu Mao's face. But when he turned to the last charge, he was shocked, like a basin of cold water poured on his head.

The last charge was that he supported pirates and smuggled goods to Japan for trade! The booklet clearly stated the names and hometowns of the pirates he hired, as well as the conditions of the ships, and even the names and quantities of the goods they loaded were exactly right!

Yes, this crime is true!

As the governor of Fujian, how could Xiong Wencan be willing to accept the fact that the local gentry were earning countless amounts of money from sea trade and were only willing to share some leftovers with themselves?

Each of these gentry had a background, and their forces were intertwined. Xiong Wencan had no choice but to join in. He also secretly sent people to buy a seagoing ship, used the governor's authority to purchase goods, and then hired crew members to trade with Japan. After a trip,

, earned almost more than 100,000 taels of silver!

Sailors who travel overseas all year round are no different from pirates. It is not wrong to say that Xiong Wencan supports pirates. The problem is such a secret matter. Liu Maogang has only been in Fujian for a long time, so how can he be so clear about it?

There are no other charges, but this charge alone can make him dismissed from office and his house confiscated!

Xiong Wencan looked up and saw Liu Mao sitting with an expressionless face, quietly holding a teacup and sipping tea.

At this moment, Xiong Wencan had murderous intent in his mind, and wanted to kill Liu Mao directly and destroy his body and eliminate all traces of it! Of course, he was just thinking about it.

Not to mention whether Liu Mao had any other means or whether anyone else had seen the excerpt, just because he was killed by patrolling the censor in a dignified manner, no matter what the reason, he, the governor of Fujian, had achieved his end.

"Master Liu..." Xiong Wencan called in a trembling voice.

Liu Mao said nothing and looked at Xiong Wencan quietly. His eyes were so clear, but Xiong Wencan felt as cold as if he was in an ice cave.

Xiong Wencan turned pale, waved the others out of the room, closed the door himself, walked back, and knelt down in front of Liu Mao.

"Master Liu, please give me a way out..."

A man may have gold at his knees, but career, reputation, wealth, and life are all more valuable than gold!

"So, everything mentioned in the brochure is true?" Liu Mao said calmly.

Xiong Wencan's lips twitched. He really wanted to say that most of them were fake, especially those who promulgated prostitution during the day. After thinking about it, there was no point in defending.

"It's true," Xiong Wencan sighed, "but it's true that Xiaguan bought a ship and went to sea for trade, and he did hire some sailors, but he didn't know that they turned out to be pirates..."

"Let's talk to the court and His Majesty about this." Liu Mao stood up and made a move to leave.

"Master Liu," Xiong Wencan hugged his leg, "Since you showed me the book, you probably didn't intend to kill me. If you have any requests, just give me your orders."

Seeing Xiong Wencan being so polite, Liu Mao finally smiled and sat down again.

...

"Xiong Wencan has taken it. From now on, let him go east but he will not dare to go west. No more obstacles will be set up."

At night, Liu Mao appeared in the barracks again and spoke directly to Li Yan.

"It's true that you don't have to drink fine wine when you toast!" Li Yan sighed, "Yesterday I agreed with him after careful discussion, but he had to make it so ugly."

Liu Maoze was speechless. What do you think of a high-ranking governor or a feudal official? If you hadn't been caught, how could you make him surrender with just a few words?

"Xiong Wencan promised that he would allocate money, food and materials across the province for you to train your troops." Liu Mao continued, "But he also said that although he is the governor, the prefects and the thousands of commanding officers in each guard post may not listen to everything.

For him, if he wants to mobilize money, food and materials, he must have a certain excuse."

Li Yan laughed straight away: "It's not easy for him to want an excuse. Just make him an excuse."

"How to make it?" Liu Mao asked subconsciously.

Li Yanzhi didn't want to say anything, but after thinking about it, Liu Mao was one of his own, and he was the censor of Fujian Province. He would have to rely on him for many things in the future, so he put his mouth next to Liu Mao's ear and whispered.

stand up.

"What?" Liu Mao was shocked, "We are officials of the imperial court, deeply trusted by His Majesty, and shoulder His Majesty's expectations? How could we do such a thing?"

Li Yanzhi smiled and said: "It is precisely because I bear the great hope of His Majesty that I have to do this! The situation in Fujian is complicated. If we want to open up the situation quickly, we can only use some last resort means."

Liu Mao frowned and said, "Isn't there any other just and fair way?"

Li Yanzhi sneered and said: "Yes, of course there is. Mr. Liu, you can go and talk to those maritime merchants and gentry, let them sell the goods to us, or let them pay commercial taxes. We don't want too much. We always go to sea."

Sea-going ships, just pay a tax of two to three thousand silver for each sea-going ship."

"How is this possible?" Liu Mao said speechlessly.

Those gentry usually refused to pay land taxes and taxes. How could they be expected to pay business taxes with so much money?

"You also know it's impossible?" Li Yanzhi sneered, "In front of money, who cares about the court and the country's justice? We people came to Fujian to compete with them for business and money. The two sides have long been in a life-and-death relationship.

!Don’t look at them making any movement now, Mr. Liu, do you believe it, if there is a chance, those people dare to hire pirates to kill you and me? "

Liu Mao shook his head and nodded, not knowing what to say. He was also a civil servant and a member of the gentry. How could he not know the nature of these people?

These gentry, because they have worked hard to study and gain fame, think that everything is due to them, and they dominate the local area. Anyone who touches their interests is their mortal enemy! Maybe they dare not openly attack people like them.

But no one knows what methods will be used secretly.
Chapter completed!