Framing the blame

Author: Lone Wing

Framing the blame

After eating breakfast, Lin Qianxing began to practice his martial arts skills.

At present, he has only one martial arts mastery.

That is the "Physical Strength Boxing" that has reached the proficiency level.

This boxing technique itself is not very powerful, and the energy and blood mobilized is also limited. It is much inferior to the martial arts Lin Qianxing once knew.

Its main purpose is to move Qi and blood and keep the body healthy.

After Lin Qianxing practiced and warmed up a little, he began to figure out and try to modify this martial art.

But this is not easy.

Although it seems that the memory of the main world body can still be mobilized, his associative thinking speed has slowed down a lot.

As a result, although Lin Qianxing knew a lot of knowledge, it would take a lot of time to consider whether it was reasonable to make slight modifications, and then practice the judgment to feel the results.

Shaking his head secretly in his heart, Lin Qianxing felt that the physical hardware was too poor.

It takes so long to calculate a result using existing data, which is really rubbish.

Compared to the moment when he directly understood the essence of Taoism in his main world, it was not at the same level.

He was practicing martial arts when suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

Lin Qianxing frowned slightly, stopped and walked to the door. When he opened the door, he saw a few petty officials in silk clothes standing outside.

The leading clerk bowed to Lin Qianxing and said, "May I ask, but in front of Mayor Lin?"

"It's me, what do you want from me?" Lin Qianxing asked.

"It's like this. The autumn harvest is coming soon. We have been ordered to measure the fields in order to collect the land tax from the townspeople after the harvest. Please also lend us a copy of this year's field book for comparison to avoid mistakes." The official said.

The document came out and he spoke out.

"Why is it so early this year?" Lin Qianxing looked at the document and frowned after realizing it was true.

According to memory, in previous years, officials would be sent to measure the fields and collect land taxes from house to house only one month after the autumn harvest.

The clerk who measured the fields today came obviously almost a month early.

"We don't know, but we are just following orders. If Mayor Lin has any doubts, he can write a letter and ask the county chief." The clerk said.

Lin Qianxing was in a hurry to practice and didn't want to cause too much trouble, so he simply ignored him and said, "Wait a minute, I'll get the field book right now."

After saying that, Lin Qianxing turned around and returned to his residence. He came to a cabinet and found the stored field books and copied copies of the field books inside.

There will be some changes every year, such as to whom a certain family's land is sold, or if they lack labor this year and allocate part of it to a certain family to help with farming, etc.

Because the data changes too frequently, under normal circumstances, the townspeople first register with the town mayor, and then they are checked by officials when paying land taxes and reported to the county government. Finally, the data is handed over to the central government for counting by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

All in all, it's very troublesome.

Because of this, if some local officials below have their own ideas, it will be easy for the people to be exploited even more.

This situation is not uncommon in today's era.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many sallow and skinny people on the streets.

As for why the court didn’t care?

Today's emperor is obsessed with cultivating immortality and has little regard for governing the government.

As long as the following people don't rebel, he won't care about it at all.

These thoughts flashed through Lin Qianxing's mind one by one, and at the same time he walked out and handed the field book to the clerk responsible for measuring the land.

Then the clerk left, and Lin Qianxing returned to the yard to practice boxing.

When he got a little hungry after practicing, he started to eat, then continued to practice boxing and continued to eat.

Just cycle through it quickly, accelerating the speed at which you can obtain free attribute points.

At the end of the day, Lin Qianxing directly obtained 1.68 free attribute points, which is quite amazing.

He directly added one of the free attribute points to his body, which increased his longevity a little, and at the same time, his charm also increased a little.

Now Lin Qianxing's longevity has reached more than sixteen years.

A complete escape from the short-lived future.

What seemed like a difficult start at first is no longer a problem at all.

Early the next morning, Lin Qianxing continued to practice as he did the previous day.

However, as soon as he had breakfast, there was a knock on the door.

After Lin Qianxing opened the door, he saw four policemen in protective clothing standing outside the door.

The leader was a tough man about 1.8 meters tall with a steel knife at his waist.

"The mayor of Maplewood Town, right?" The tough man asked Lin Qianxing.

"Who is your Excellency?" Lin Qianxing asked.

"Zhao Yu." Zhao Yu took out his gold-plated waist badge and showed it to Lin Qianxing.

The waistband is engraved with the word "sunset", and below it is the word "catching".

This means that the other party is the head catcher in Sunset County, equivalent to half the police chief.

When it comes to power, the other party is still higher than the mayor Lin Qianxing.

Moreover, the opponent's breathing was steady and his posture was also quite particular. At first glance, it seemed that he had some martial arts skills.

Lin Qianxing didn't want to provoke the other party, so he smiled and said: "It turns out to be Capt. Zhao. I wonder what the purpose of Capt. Zhao is here?"

Zhao Yu said: "Yesterday, two officials who came to measure the fields died outside Fenglin Town. Before they went to measure the fields, they seemed to have taken this year's field books from you. We would like to ask Mayor Lin about this.

Are there any clues?"

"Dead?" Lin Qianxing raised his eyebrows and said with a puzzled expression: "They took the field records and left. How could I know what happened?"

"Is that so?" Zhao Yu nodded, and then said to Lin Qianxing: "Mayor Lin, the court land tax is of great concern. Is it possible for me to wait until the house is searched?"

Lin Qianxing frowned.

Did Zhao Yu suspect that he had secretly changed the land records and embezzled the townspeople's land, and was he afraid that the officials who came to measure the land would find out and kill him?

This is simply nonsense.

He has been the mayor here for more than thirty years. If he is really serious, it is not difficult to exploit the people to obtain a fortune.

That is to say, in my memory, he didn't care much about mortal things and only thought about cultivation. Otherwise, developing a huge family wouldn't be a problem.

So there is no reason for this suspicion at all.

Then there is something wrong with Zhao Yu.

After thinking about the problem for a moment, Lin Qianxing also wanted to see what the other party meant, so he said: "Please."

"It's very offensive. Please forgive me, Mayor Lin." Zhao Yu nodded.

As soon as the voice fell, he waved his hand and let his detectives enter Lin Qianxing's house and start searching.

Their search was quite civilized, they did not tamper with it randomly, they all appeared to be cautious.

While the few people were walking away, Zhao Yuze had a conversation with Lin Qianxing.

"Mayor Lin, does he know that this year's land tax has increased by another 20%?" Zhao Yu suddenly said.

"I don't know that." Lin Qianxing shook his head.

In his memory, he never cared about these things. He always ignored what was happening outside the window and only focused on his own affairs.

It can be said that he is not qualified for the job of mayor.

But even so, he is still more popular than the mayors and village chiefs of the surrounding villages and towns.

It's not that he did well, but that his peers set him off.

Because he calls himself a cultivator and would never exploit people, nor would he bother to exploit them.

The other mayors will more or less use their power to gain some benefits for themselves.

"Mayor Lin is only focused on cultivation." Zhao Yu said cheerfully.

"Ashamed, I'm getting older and I can't do things well in this town. I plan to resign after this year and live in retirement." Lin Qianxing shook his head.

"Mayor Lin, there is no need to belittle yourself. You are still able to move freely now, and your energy and blood are strong, especially young. I am afraid that you will have no problem being the mayor for another few decades." Zhao Yu praised.

"Where is it?" Lin Qianxing waved his hand and said.

After the two exchanged business blows for a while, a policeman suddenly said: "Boss, I found something."

Zhao Yu and Lin Qianxing stopped chatting, their expressions calmed down, and then they quickly walked to the talking policeman.

Lin Qianxing's expression changed slightly and he quickly followed.
To be continued...