Facing Zhu Biao's inquiry, Li Jin just smiled and said nothing. Whether it was true or not will be known in the future.
Time flies, and a month passes in the blink of an eye.
Li Jin still led the chieftains to lively and debauched every day, and more and more chieftains heard the news and came out from the mountains with hundreds of thousands of natives.
They came to Hepu County and became brothers with Li Jin. Everyone was smiling because they knew that the magistrate Li in front of them was very generous and generous.
To put it bluntly, he was taken advantage of.
The chieftains came here in droves just to make good friends with Li Jin, a rich man, so that they could eat and drink for free, and get free money.
Hundreds of thousands of natives were brought out by the chieftains and joined Li Jin's disaster relief tent, which made Zhu Biao feel extremely stressed.
After all, there was not much left in total from the grains defrauded from other grain merchants. If this continued, Zhu Biao even felt that Hepu County would soon run out of grains.
At the same time, the one who was more anxious than Zhu Biao was Jin Yiwei Baihu.
After he sent the memorial, he never heard from Zhu Yuanzhang, which made him very anxious now.
After all, nearly two months have passed now. It stands to reason that the memorial should have arrived in the capital long ago, and the emperor's imperial edict should have arrived in Hepu County.
But now there is no news, which made Baihu think that he might have made a big mistake, which made the emperor very angry.
Thinking about the consequences of Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, Baihu felt a cold air from the soles of his feet to Tianling Gai.
If this is really the case, I am afraid that he and his nine tribes will soon meet in the underworld.
Fortunately, Baihu was just worried in vain. Just when he was in a state of confusion, Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict finally arrived.
Zhu Yuanzhang praised Baihu in the imperial edict, saying that Baihu could act according to the situation and avoid an unjust case, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very pleased.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang ordered hundreds of households to be stationed in Hepu County, strictly supervising the actions of Zhu Biao and Li Jin. If there was anything out of the ordinary, he would report to him immediately without making any mistakes.
Baihu received the imperial edict with a complicated expression. He didn't know what the emperor's attitude was towards him.
If it's appreciation, then why leave him in such a place where no one can shit?
But if it were to be blamed, I am afraid that his population would have been hanging on the east gate for a long time now.
But no matter what, what the emperor told us must be completed.
Hundreds of households immediately ordered people to start monitoring the activities of the government office. If there was any trouble, they must report to themselves immediately.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang already has Jin Yiwei as his eyes and ears beside Li Jin and Zhu Biao. It can be said that every move of Li Jin and Zhu Biao is now under Zhu Yuanzhang's control.
It's just that after Zhu Yuanzhang experienced the last incident of raising food prices, he felt that it was just one-sided words from one party and seemed not enough.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to send a few more people to Hepu.
On the one hand, he strengthened the protection of Zhu Biao, and on the other hand, he continued to supervise Li Jin.
At this time, Li Jin knew nothing about this. He was entertaining hundreds of chieftains at the largest brothel in Hepu County.
"Everyone, please listen to what I have to say."
Li Jin took the main seat, stood up slowly, raised the wine glass in his hand, and said to the toasts on the surrounding wine tables:
"I am destined to meet you all here today. It is rare to meet here. Please drink this cup to the full."
After saying that, Li Jin took the lead and drank it all in one gulp.
The toasts cheered loudly and then toasted one after another.
"All the leaders are heroes. It is a great honor for me to meet all of you today."
"I hope you all have a good time today. After you have eaten and drank enough, I will give you a big gift. I hope you will accept it."
Li Jin laughed and looked extremely happy, as if he was really happy to have met so many heroes.
When the chieftains heard what Li Jin said, their eyes were all bright.
After getting along with each other for so many days, the chieftains have a deep understanding of Li Jin's generosity.
In the past month, just entertaining these people probably cost more than one hundred thousand taels of silver.
There is absolutely no way a gift given by a person like this would be petty.
This made the chieftains full of expectations, and then they began to drink happily under Li Jin's persuasion.
Soon, these toasts were all drunk and unconscious.
After everyone was drunk down, a person came out from behind the screen, it was Zhu Biao.
I saw Zhu Biao smiling, waving his hands towards the corner and the door. Pairs of soldiers and government servants came from all directions, saying that these toasts, who were as drunk as dead pigs, were carried out of the room. Then they were all tied up and thrown into the carriage.
