The county magistrate of Zhengding City trembled when he met Zhao Jinsen's cold gaze.
"You, you are..." The county magistrate's tone was hesitant and his heart was beating fast.
Did he just hear the other party calling himself "my official"?
Zhao Jin stared at the county magistrate of Zhengding City and said word by word: "Yun, state, county, guard."
The county magistrate's pupils suddenly tightened, and he was about to bite the bullet and ask if there was any evidence.
The next moment, Zhao Jin showed his official badge.
"I'll see you, sir!"
The county magistrate immediately knelt down with a plop, looking horrified.
And the government guards who came in after Zhao Jin were also dumbfounded.
The person they just stopped was the County Sheriff? And they also scolded the County Sheriff?
In an instant, a large number of people in the county government knelt down, and only Zhao and Jin were still standing.
Zhao Jin put his hands behind his back, passed the county magistrate and others, and walked straight into the lobby.
Seeing Zhao Jin walking inside, the county magistrate stood up tremblingly.
However, his knees were only halfway upright. Zhao Jin paused and said in a cold voice: "My officer, did you get up?"
"thump!"
The county magistrate was so frightened by the meaning of Zhao Jin's words that his legs lost strength and he knelt down suddenly, causing pain in his knees.
The pain coming from his knee made the county magistrate's expression a little distorted, but he could only endure it and did not dare to shout out the pain.
Zhao Jin didn't let go until he sat at the top of the lobby for a quarter of an hour and said, "Get up."
The county magistrate was relieved. As soon as he stood up, he hurriedly walked into the lobby and said, "Sir."
Zhao Jin did not look at the county magistrate. He held the tea cup in his right hand and moved his wrist slightly. The tea cup followed in a circle and his eyes were firmly fixed on the cup.
"Celadon from the Yue Kiln? Your Majesty, it's so elegant."
There is no emotion in the cold voice.
The county magistrate's back was wet with cold sweat, "This, this is a gift from a relative at home."
"Really?" Zhao Jin put down the tea cup without comment, looked away and landed on the county magistrate.
"What's going on in Zhengding City?"
The county magistrate's eyelids were twitching wildly. Sure enough, the county governor came in from outside the city and he might have seen everything.
He wiped his sweat and explained: "Sir, it is because more than 90% of Zhengding City is saline-alkali land. There is really no way!"
As he said this, the county magistrate shook his head and sighed, with a look of sadness on his face.
"Heh." Zhao Jin chuckled and repeated in a low voice, "Salt-alkali land?"
Seeing that Zhao Jin didn't seem to believe it, the county magistrate widened his eyes and said, "Sir, this is all true! I can take you to the fields to have a good look."
"No need." Zhao Jin looked at the county magistrate, "I have already sent someone to see it and come back."
Zhao Jin watched helplessly as the county magistrate's expression changed drastically in an instant.
The other party twitched his lips dryly, "So, I really have no choice. I tried many methods but nothing worked."
"How long have you been trying?" Zhao Jin asked.
The county magistrate rolled his eyes and opened his mouth: "This year, even the lower officials will return..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Takeda.
"Reporting to your lord, in the first year after taking office, the county magistrate of Zhengding City tried twice to deal with the saline-alkali land, but failed in the end. He has never tried it again since then."
In an instant, sweat dripped down the county magistrate's forehead, and his face turned pale.
Zhao Jin just didn't ask him, but the people he brought!
Zhao Jin raised his head and glanced at the county magistrate's expression, then said quietly: "Continue."
"Soon after, they directly occupied all the fertile farmland that was not saline-alkali land."
"My lord, I'm lowering my rank..." The county magistrate moved his mouth, and just as he spoke, he paused again, not knowing what to say.
What that person just said was false? It is indeed the case.
Zhao Jin only needs to ask a few more people to get the exact answer.
He has been strictly controlling the news and not spreading it outside. Who would have expected that the county governor would personally come to inspect such a remote place?
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhao Jin's mouth, "Tell me, I'm waiting for the county magistrate's explanation."
The county magistrate hesitated and hesitated, and in the end he could only say: "I'm an official, I really have no choice."
"There is no way?" Zhao Jin laughed angrily, slammed the table and stood up, his starry eyes were cold, cold and sharp.
"So you don't report it to the state or county, and you don't think of a solution?!"
Zhao Jin stared at the county magistrate, anger rising in his chest, and he shouted sternly, "As a parent official, let your people fend for themselves?!"
"My experience in Zhengding City is really eye-opening!"
The county magistrate's knees weakened, and he knelt down directly, crying with a grimace: "My lord! It's not that the lower officials have not reported it to the government office before, but they have reported it to the government for two consecutive years, and the superiors suppressed it."
"Xiaguan..." The county magistrate clenched his fist and hammered the ground, "Xiaguan, there is really nothing we can do!"
"No way?"
Zhao Jin lowered his eyelids and stared at the county magistrate, "After I took office, have you handed me a discount?"
No.
The county magistrate was speechless.
"And the more than eighty acres of fertile land." Zhao Jin settled accounts with the county magistrate one by one.
The county magistrate looked flustered and quickly lowered his head, "What eighty acres of fertile land are you talking about?"
"If you don't know," Zhao Jin said with a smile, "The county magistrate should be able to know about the torture instruments in the cell."
The county magistrate took a breath and said, "Xiaguan, Xiaguan..."
His eyes flashed, and his heart was panicked.
Zhao Jin said nothing, waiting for him to think clearly.
But after a moment, the county magistrate said softly: "Those are actually not fertile fields, but also saline-alkali land, but they are not that serious."
He wasn't lying.
Sudden!
A man broke in!
Takeda quickly stepped forward to stop the opponent.
Zhao Jin turned his head slightly and caught a glimpse of the official uniform on the other party, "Takeda, get out of the way."
As soon as Takeda turned aside, the man barged in.
"I'll see you, sir!"
As soon as the other party came in, he knelt down to salute and shouted to Zhao Jin loudly.
"County Magistrate?" Zhao Jin was about to ask why he broke in when the county magistrate screamed:
"What are you doing here?!"
He hurriedly said to Zhao Jin: "The county guard doesn't know something. The county magistrate was just found to have bribed hundreds of people this morning..."
"Dog officer!" The county magistrate interrupted the county magistrate sternly and glared at him, "The bribe you said about bribing the people was because the old lady was too hungry and I gave her some food!"
Zhao Jin's hand placed on the table on the right suddenly clenched into a fist, and he winked at Takeda who was still standing at the door.
Takeda understood and went out quietly without attracting the attention of the magistrate and magistrate.
"Tell me one by one." Zhao Jin knocked on the table and said quietly.
Perhaps it was because Zhao Jin was so angry and full of momentum, but just a simple word silenced the two of them.
The county magistrate was the first to say: "My lord, the county magistrate! I want to sue the county magistrate of Zhengding City, and the corpse will be eaten without food! Seize the people's farmland!"
"That's just saline-alkali land, where's the fertile land?" the county magistrate immediately retorted loudly.
Zhao Jin leaned on his chair and watched the two arguing.
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