I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Chen Liu stretched his neck, wanting to see what Jiang Yuan looked like.

"You two, follow me. I won't charge you ten taels of silver for nothing." The waiter waved his hand and shouted to the crowd.

"Make way! This is our distinguished guest at the Taiping Inn!"

Hearing the sound, the people around immediately made way for them and looked up and down at Duanmu Xiongtu and the other man.

Duanmu Xiongtu felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. Why did these people look at him as if he were a victim?

Following the waiter into the teahouse, the waiter immediately cleared a table and made hot tea for them.

Duanmu Xiongtu looked around and his eyes stopped on the young man in a white robe.

He looked harmless, but he was sitting with his legs crossed, looking nonchalant. Duanmu Xiongtu couldn't help but frown slightly.

Is this Jiang Yuan?

Why does the Taiping County Magistrate seem so unreliable?

"He looks like a human but is a beast in human clothing!" Chen Liu came to the conclusion directly. Such a person should be sent to the palace to be castrated to prevent him from harming any young girl in the future.

"It is said that in that distant country, there lived a group of evil people who believed in the power of light!"

"Whenever someone tries to enforce justice, they will step forward to stop the good man, until one day..."

After a while, Duanmu Xiongtu showed an interested look on his face.

Although Jiang Yuan seems unreliable, the story he tells is quite convincing.

Just as Jiang Yuan was speaking, a man with a long sword on his waist walked in.

"My two guests, this man is called Li Hu, the chief constable of our Taiping County. His martial arts skills are all in his legs!" The waiter hurriedly introduced him.

Duanmu Xiongtu took a few looks at him and nodded slightly. Li Hu had long legs and walked with a strong momentum. He stepped on the wooden boards without making any sound. His leg skills must be quite good.

Li Hu spoke a few words into Jiang Yuan's ear, and Jiang Yuan immediately stood up.

"Everyone, I'm busy with official business. I need to go take care of something. Ma Zhi, please tell everyone another paragraph for me."

With that, Jiang Yuan hurriedly left the teahouse.

Ma Zhi stood up and stroked his mustache with a rather obscene expression: "Okay, next I'll perform a scene of Zhao Zilong's seven ins and outs at Changbanpo!"

"Don't listen to this, kids. Get out!"

The eyes of the men around them lit up instantly, and they took out a few coins from their pockets and asked the children to buy some food.

Some children who were unwilling to leave had their ears covered by adults.

Duanmu Xiongtu was very confused. It was just a story, so why didn’t he let the child listen?

Ma Zhi sat down in Jiang Yuan's previous seat with dignity. After taking a sip of tea to moisten his throat, he slapped the table and said:

"Speaking of which, Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong, with a dragon-bearing silver spear at his hip, fought his way through Changban Slope seven times! Unparalleled in his bravery..."

Hearing this, the doubt in Duanmu Xiongtu's eyes became more and more obvious. Isn't this a normal story? Why can't children listen to it?

When he said this, Ma Zhi's eyes lit up, but his eyes were too small, and his mustache was shaking with excitement, making him look even more wretched.

"But this Changbanpo is no ordinary creature. With a charming expression, a pair of jade arms embrace Zhao Zilong, and a pair of slender legs lock the lower body..."

This is fucked!

Duanmu Xiongtu let out a long sigh. What the hell is this guy talking about?

No wonder they don’t let their children listen to it. It’s so shameless to do it in broad daylight!

"Let's look somewhere else!" Duanmu Xiongtu stood up with a sullen face, and the waiter sighed with regret.

He couldn't hear it anymore, but the customer is God, what can he do?

Walking the two of them out of the teahouse, Duanmu Xiongtu shook his head. This guy's story was quite shocking.

"By the way, since you are businessmen, how about I take you to see the specialties of our Taiping County?" said the waiter with a roll of his eyes.

Duanmu Xiongtu's expression changed slightly. This was a good opportunity to see what other rare things there were in Taiping County.

"Lead the way."

The waiter led the two of them through many twists and turns and finally arrived at a wide avenue, which was wide enough to accommodate seven or eight carriages traveling side by side.

Duanmu Xiongtu was greatly shocked. As he walked along, he found that even every small alley in Taiping County was paved with clean stone slabs.

Even in the imperial capital where he lived, only the inner city had stone paved roads, while most places in the outer city were still dirt roads. When it rained, the roads became extremely muddy, and the mud thrown up when walking could fly eight feet away.

It can't be compared with Taiping County at all.

What puzzled Duanmu Xiongtu even more was that along the way, he hadn't seen a single homeless person, let alone a beggar. The entire Taiping County was incredibly clean, and not even a fruit peel could be found on the ground.

Is the quality of everyone here so high?

At this moment, Chen Liu, who was walking in front, threw the finished Taiping milk tea on the ground.

"Wow! It tastes really good, and it's made from a paper cup. You can even light a fire after drinking it. Whoever designed this thing is really smart!"

As soon as the paper cup was thrown to the ground, two constables rushed over.

"Damn it! How dare you litter? Come with us!"

Chen Liu's face immediately turned dark. What's wrong with throwing away garbage?

The imperial capital is so big, as long as I leave the palace, I can throw things away however I want.

The waiter quickly came up to smooth things over: "Hey, guys, these two are distinguished guests of the Taiping Inn. They've just arrived in our county and don't know much about it yet. Don't send them off to labor reform."

The constable nodded slightly. "Alright, since this is your first time, I'll let you go through the labor reform and fine you one or two taels of silver."

"What? One tael of silver? This cup of milk tea is only thirty wen, and you're charging one tael of silver for throwing a paper cup?" Chen Liu glared at the constable, his face full of dissatisfaction. (One tael of silver is equal to one thousand wen, which is usually called one string of coins.)

"Sir, you'd better give it to me, otherwise you'll regret it if I arrest you and send you to labor reform," the waiter advised.

Duanmu Xiongtu frowned slightly: "Give me money, don't waste my time."

Chen Liu took out a small piece of silver from his sleeve pocket with great reluctance.

The constable took out a small scale from somewhere, weighed the silver carefully, cut off some silver coins the size of fingernails with scissors, and handed them back to Chen Liu.

Chen Liu curled his lips and said, "It's quite fair. He said one ounce, so it's one ounce."

After the constable walked in, Chen Liu immediately looked at the waiter and asked, "What do they mean by labor reform?"

Duanmu Xiongtu also looked over curiously. He had never heard of this word before.

"Hey, you two, this is a law unique to this county. What should we do with those who have committed minor offenses but are not serious enough to be thrown into jail? We just drag them over and make them work."

"Look, when this road was being built, many of the people working on it outside the city were former labor reformers."

"Isn't this forced labor? You're fined for just throwing away garbage. As the county magistrate, you're pocketing all the money!" Chen Liu said dissatisfiedly.

It’s okay to kick others, but it’s outrageous that you even kick yourself!

"What are you talking about? Our county magistrate is wholeheartedly serving the people. Even though those people are being sent to labor reform, they are also being paid."

"Besides, everything we asked them to do was for our Taiping County. As for these fines, County Magistrate Jiang took all the money from the people and used it for the people!" said the waiter confidently.

Duanmu Xiongtu couldn't help but show a curious look: "Where did all the money go? And what projects did the people undergoing labor reform go on?"

"The private schools in our county are all free to attend and provide meals, and the projects those people built are all for our Taiping County."

"Let me give you an example. Why is there so much farmland in our county? It's all because County Magistrate Jiang ordered the moat of the neighboring county to be diverted directly from the upstream. This project was huge and we worked on it for a whole month." The waiter explained proudly.

Duanmu Xiongtu struggled internally. The people in Tai'an County must be unlucky to be your neighbors.

After a while, Duanmu Xiongtu calmed down and shook his head with a wry smile:

"So, your County Magistrate Jiang is truly a good man who deserves to be struck by lightning."