Peng Zeliang was indignant and turned his eyes away from Su Chen. Otherwise, if he continued to stare at him, he would really be unable to control his impulse and would continue to beat people, or even let the police arrest him and put him in jail!

No father wants to see his daughter hurt herself, suffer, and be scarred for a man!

Even in ancient times, men were superior to women, and married daughters threw water on them, but some people of status still regarded their daughters as the apple of their eyes and cherished them extremely.

Peng Zeliang's first wife died of illness prematurely, and Qingqing lost her mother when she was five years old. In order to prevent his daughter from being bullied, and to fulfill his promise to his late wife, he did not renew his position as first wife and equal wife, and only moved into a house.

Concubine, but was not given any identity. In the Peng family, Miss Qingqing was still the most valuable.

He himself had never hit Qingqing with his own hands. This was the first time he had grown so big and was injured like this. How could Peng Zeliang not be angry?

"Who did it?"

Su Chen replied: "Back to the magistrate, they should be the five Jiangdong monsters in the green forest. They were led by one person to the Su Mansion to commit murder. There were six of them, and they all came for me. It happened to be Qingqing...last night

After dinner, it was too late to teach Ling'er martial arts to my dormitory sister, so I stayed with her. When the gangsters from Green Forest entered the Su Mansion, they were discovered by Qingqing, so they started fighting..."

My unmarried daughter is living in the Su Mansion again!

Thinking of this, Peng Zeliang was so ashamed and angry that the maid even told herself that she went to the Bai family to live with Su Su, and when her term expired, the master of the family really deserved a beating!

From now on, Peng Zeliang plans to strictly monitor his daughter's whereabouts and will not let her stay up at night.

"Don't call Qing Qingfang by her first name, call her Miss Peng. She's not that familiar with you!" Peng Zeliang corrected Su Chen's verbal address as if he was trying to hide his name.

Su Chen was so ashamed that he accepted the instruction and did not dare to say anything more.

Seeing Su Chen being wronged, Bai Susu couldn't bear it. Yingying stepped forward and said: "Uncle Peng, the five Jiangdong monsters have a bad reputation in the green forest. It's just that they haven't entered Runzhou City in the past two years and only walked around the rivers and lakes. They and Su

Chen has no grievances. This time he entered the Su Mansion at night, but he actually had other motives."

Peng Zeliang looked at Bai Susu. He had always admired her wit. Seeing that she said so, there must be a reason for thinking and thinking, so he asked: "What's the mystery here?"

Bai Susu sighed: "To be honest, both Qingqing and Su Chen have been implicated by the Bai family. Recently, the Bai family and the Ding family were completely at odds over the royal merchant's tribute to porcelain. The Ding family even hesitated to

He bribed the long-term workers at the kiln entrance, secretly learned the Bai family's white porcelain recipe, and even sent people to find the undercover in my grandfather's daily meals.

The poison turned into a stroke, and he is still paralyzed in bed. However, the Ding family did not expect that the Bai family would use Su Chen's secret recipe of blue and white porcelain and soap to disrupt the Ding family's wishful thinking and threaten the Ding family's status. Therefore,

Two days ago, someone from the Ding family came to ask Su Chen for the secret recipe, so he hired the Five Jiangdong Monsters to rob people and coerce them."

After hearing this, Peng Zeliang's face became solemn. If it were just the Jiangdong Five Monster bandits in the green forest, he could send Runzhou police officers to Huanghe Mountain's lair to hunt them down. All the prefectures and counties were wanted. But the Ding family was involved, and Runzhou had been entrenched for decades.

The first-class Jiangzuo family in the prefecture has the support of the governor. Even he, the prefect of Runzhou, can't do anything just by asking.

What's more, all of this is just conjecture. If you don't have evidence to deal with the Ding family, you can definitely be beaten by the Ding family.

Thinking about facing the intervention of Governor Yin, Peng Zeliang was also in a dilemma.

The post of governor has been established since the Han Dynasty. It was originally a supervisory position. In the first year of Suihe, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, the governor was renamed Prefecture Mu, and his powers were further expanded, from a supervisor to a local military administrator.

In the fifth year of Emperor Ling's reign, some senior governors were renamed as shepherds. The governors were actually the chief officials of a state's military affairs and the superiors of the prefects, and a two-level system of prefectures and counties was formed. The governors of Wei and Jin were able to lead troops, but not to lead troops.

In terms of the distinction between soldiers, the commander of the army and the governor are in the fourth rank, and are often given the title of general. Those with more important responsibilities are called envoys and governors.

In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yangdi changed the prefecture to a county and the governor to the prefect; in the Tang Dynasty, he changed the prefecture to a prefecture and the prefect to the prefect. By the time of Xuanzong, the prefecture was restored to a county and the prefect was restored to the prefecture; Suzong restored the old system of the early Tang Dynasty. In this way, the governor was

The name of the governor was changed again and again, but the power and position did not change significantly.

The Li family of the Southern Tang Dynasty absorbed the old system of the Tang Dynasty, not only setting up a governor in the state capital, but also introducing the post of magistrate. In fact, they were worried that the governor would be in charge of local civil affairs and military power, and supervise them all, like what the military governors of the feudal towns did in the late Tang Dynasty.

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Therefore, the power of local state officials was restricted, and the responsibilities of Jiedushi were divided into the governor and the prefect. The governor was mainly responsible for controlling local military training, supervising hundreds of officials, etc., while the prefect was mainly responsible for civil affairs, people's livelihood, taxation, and settling cases, etc.

In terms of matters related to the common people, the prefect is one level lower than the governor.

This is only the characteristic of the Southern Tang Dynasty's own local officials, while the Northern Song Dynasty has basically eliminated the titles of governor and governor, and began to fully implement the new system of local officials such as prefect, prefect, tongsang, punishing officer, and local three envoys

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"Ding family! Governor Yin..." Peng Zeliang murmured to himself, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Because of this incident, Peng Zeliang broke the balance of local officialdom, directly affected the Ding family, challenged the Yin governor, and tried to punish the Ding family, who was the mastermind behind the scenes. However, it seemed that the weight was not enough and the timing was inconsistent, so he couldn't help but fall into hesitation.

Although the status of merchants was low, merchants were very powerful in the Southern Tang Dynasty. They could even serve as officials. There were also some Jia people who were involved in politics. For example, in the Imperial Academy, the Jia people were born in Fujian and Yue.

In this area, he was familiar with the local mountains and rivers situation, so he "learned the strategy of establishing a state for the study of Huihua paintings". ("Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records)

Another historical example is recorded in "Ma's Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty": During the Kaibao period, the Song Dynasty army wanted to attack Jinling and stationed its naval forces in Jiangling. There were merchants coming and going, and they were prepared for the situation. Therefore, they asked the Privy Council of the imperial court for advice and asked them to "

Stealing and burning the imperial warships."

The economy of the Southern Tang Dynasty was declining and the treasury was empty. In order to secure a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, the Li family began to continuously elevate the status of the local merchants and powerful squires in the east of the Yangtze River to consolidate their royal and aristocratic group in the north of the Yangtze River and gain a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Jiangnan

The Zuojiu family, as well as some of the big merchants in Jinling, have an extraordinary status that cannot be moved by local officials. Moreover, the major families have bribed many officials in the court to use them as protection fees and party funds, and their influence is deep-rooted.

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Peng Zeliang looked at Miss Bai and asked, "Susu, can you provide conclusive evidence?"

Bai Susu pondered for a moment and said: "The five Jiangdong monsters were instigated by others to come to Su Mansion to commit murder. They came mainly for Su Chen and the secret recipe in his hand. Their operation failed tonight. Before leaving, they kidnapped Ling'er.

They should use this as a threat and wait for Su Chen to take the secret recipe in exchange for Ling'er. At that time, as long as he follows the clues and catches the five Jiangdong monsters, he can pry out the mastermind behind the scenes from among the five people."

Peng Zeliang nodded slightly, but still had doubts: "What if we catch the five monsters and they are tough-talking, keeping secrets, and refusing to admit it?"

Bai Susu said with a faint sneer: "The magistrate's interrogation method involves severe torture to extract confessions. In addition to being tortured and intimidated, the Bai family will come forward again and induce them with large sums of money. We will offer them five times the reward given by the Ding family to induce them to defect. This is a combination of soft and hard tactics."

, I don’t believe these green forest bandits will not be tempted!”

"It makes sense!" Peng Zeliang heard Bai Susu's plan. Both the prefect's Yamen played a bad role, and the Bai family's arrogance played a good role. They used both intimidation and temptation. Green forest bandits with such corrupt character and bad conduct expected them to keep their mouth shut.

, it is impossible to stick to the bottom line, because they themselves have no bottom line.

Peng Zeliang said: "I will now order each class to arrest the leaders and search the whole city for the whereabouts of the Five Jiangnan Monsters!"

Bai Susu shook her head and said: "Uncle Peng, this will alert the enemy. Seeing that the prefect's Yamen attaches great importance to it, the green forest bandits may not be able to escape. The Ding family is also in a bad situation, and they dare not contact the five monsters anymore, or even let them kill people."

Silence and cut off clues. So, for the time being, we have to pretend as if nothing has happened. Qingqing also

It's just a slight injury. The Su Mansion just went through the reporting procedure and did not attract the attention of the prefect. The city gate is just a formality, loose on the outside and tight on the inside. We should keep an eye on the Su Mansion at all times. The five weirdos are not worried when they see the news.

We will send someone to deliver a message, forcing Su Chen to bring the secret recipe to meet him, and then we can catch them all in one go."

Su Chen's eyes flickered, and he glanced at Bai Susu from time to time, thinking that she was quite good at strategizing, and it would be better not to offend her in the future, otherwise she would plot against him, and he would suffer a lot!

Peng Zeliang stroked his short beard and listened quietly to Bai Susu's analysis. It was clear and logical, with clear priorities and priorities. He nodded in agreement that his strategy was feasible.

"Then let's do it according to Susu's method. To keep things to a minimum tonight, I asked the police to keep their mouths shut and not to leak the news." Peng Zeliang decided to implement Bai Susu's plan. In addition to being able to catch the robbers, he also provided a safe place for his daughter.

In addition to revenge and grudges, it can also temporarily suppress the incident and prevent his daughter from sleeping in the Su Mansion's reputation, which is in his interest.

As for dealing with the Ding family, the mastermind behind the scenes, Peng Zeliang felt that just because of his status as the prefect, he could not do anything for the time being. He needed to cooperate with the Bai family to get more evidence of the Ding family's crimes so that Yin Governor could be silenced. It would be best if he could
Chapter completed!