Shi Zhongkui cupped his hands with a smile and said, "So, the first credit is still yourselves, and the lower officials and masters Gao only got a little hard work."

Zou Hengyi and Gao Yongmin laughed after hearing this.

As soon as the memorial to Yang Wenqin was handed in, the Ministry of Industry came up with the results.

He was demoted and sent to the Shanxi Border Farming Division, where he served as a fifth-rank commander.

It's okay to be downgraded two levels in a row, but Jinbian is the border with Mongolia and belongs to the border town.

Maybe one day we will encounter a small group of Mongolian cavalry riding in the autumn wind.

What's worse is that if there is a war, you have to obey the orders of the general who guards the border to deliver food and defend the city.

With this punishment, Yang Wenqin defeated a fourth-grade military attache, and received many praises from the scholars and the court.

After the Ministry of Industry handed over Shi Zhongkui's memorial to the cabinet, everyone realized that Shi Zhongkui had promised to open up 1,000 acres of paddy fields in three months.

If he is given another year or a few more years, not only will the Farming Department of the Ministry of Industry be evaluated as excellent every year, but countless nobles and officials who want to gain benefits will definitely come to his door in the future.

Maybe half of the paddy fields cleared by Shi Zhongkui will become other people's land next year.

Give him a few more years and develop 10,000 to 20,000 acres of paddy fields, which will not only yield an additional 30,000 to 50,000 taels of grain, but the paddy fields alone will be worth more than 10 to 200,000 taels of silver.

Now many high officials and nobles who had been watching the excitement began to look forward to and support Shi Zhongkui.

Again, if it is beneficial, everyone will support you, even let you, and tolerate your various actions.

When Shi Zhongkui returned to Wanping County, not only the county magistrate and other officials personally greeted him in the small town of Tuntiansi, but dozens of Wanping County squires also came.

Moreover, in addition to the officials from Wanping who were working in the fields, even the officials from Daxing also came.

The attitude of this group of people towards him this time was as respectful as possible.

Even Daxing's Tuntian Dusi simply knelt down and begged Shi Zhongkui not to target him.

After greeting the magistrate, officials, and squires of Wanping City, it was already half afternoon.

He ordered Xue Biao, "Let all the civil servants below the seventh rank and the military officers below the fifth rank go back to work. Take the others to the festival hall and wait. After I have freshened up, I will go see them."

Xue Biao's face changed as soon as he heard about the festival.

The Festival Hall was first used as a hall for military envoys to collect banners during the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was originally a side hall for generals to discuss military affairs, and later it gradually became a hall for discussing confidential and important matters.

It is said that Shi Zhongkui's official rank was only from the sixth rank, and he did not have the power and responsibility of commanding the army, so he was not qualified to establish a festival hall.

But he is an imperial envoy.

The hall where the imperial envoys store confidential documents is the Festival Hall.

The Tuntian Division nominally belongs to the Ministry of Industry, but the Tuntian soldiers are still soldiers after all.

During the farming season, you still need to train your troops.

As for whether military affairs have been abandoned a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shi Zhongkui doesn't care.

It’s okay to say that the festival hall he built is the White Tiger Festival Hall.

In other words, this is to use military law to govern the officials of the Tuntian Department, large and small.

If it's serious, it's okay to be decapitated by military law.

Wanping, who had already been demoted from the capital of Wanping, was very frightened. After entering the festival hall, some people's legs started to tremble.

No need to guess, this person must have a big problem.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui really didn't intend to clean up the borers.

After all, farming is not a war.

And even if he leads an army to go on an expedition, he will only kill a few to warn the people below.

There is a saying that goes well. In many cases, the effect of using criminal officials is far greater than that of honest officials.

An upright official is only morally sound, but his ability to handle specific affairs is hard to say.

Of course there are great ones, but they are definitely only a small part.

Half an hour later, when Shi Zhongkui walked into the festival hall wearing official uniform and followed by Xue Biao holding an imperial edict, more than twenty civil and military officials knelt down on the ground without any hesitation.

He shouted, "I've seen the imperial envoy."

Shi Zhongkui sat on the main seat with a smile, "My lords, you are welcome. Although I am responsible for the imperial envoy's errands, when it comes down to it, I am only concerned with increasing the production of the rice fields.

I also ask all adults to relax and just do things with sincerity."

After hearing these words, some people even let out a heavy breath unconsciously.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and was not in a hurry to let the group of people get up.

His tone turned stern and he said, "But if someone has selfish or even bad intentions, then don't blame me for using military law to deal with you."

The civil and military officials at Wanping instantly understood that Shi Zhongkui must have received the news in advance as he killed Wanping Dusi immediately.

And the person who sent the message might be one of you.

Even several.

The mood of more than a dozen Wanping civil and military officers was as bad as they could be at the moment.

It was agreed that everyone should give the imperial envoy a show of strength, so that he would not interfere in the oil and water affairs as soon as he arrived.

But before this was launched, someone betrayed his colleagues and leaked information.

Otherwise, why would the imperial envoy attack Dusi first?
Chapter completed!