"Yes, we are passing through here and staying overnight."

Su Manrong nodded repeatedly, still looking curiously at the other person in front of him.

The uncle looked around for a while, then lowered his voice, moved closer to Su Manrong, and said cautiously: "Girls, you don't know something. We only have this butcher shop in Jincheng, and the price is 30% more expensive than other cities."

"Then why are you all queuing up here to buy? Go directly to the city next door to buy a few kilograms and stock up. Now that the weather is getting colder, it's not impossible to stock up."

Su Manrong thought that there was only one butcher shop, so the pricing was indeed quite outrageous.

But theirs is not the only butcher shop in the world. As long as everyone goes farther to buy meat, within a few days, the butcher shop will naturally lower its prices to retain customers.

"Well, it's not that we don't want to go to the city next door to buy meat. It's just that we don't dare to get sued just for a bite."

The uncle shook his head helplessly again: "The owner of this butcher shop is the nephew of the prefect.

At first, the business of their butcher shop was not good. Two years ago, the government issued a policy.

All meat sold on the market must be inspected by the government to confirm that it is good meat before it can be sold.

Most of the meat sent to the government by ordinary butchers is not up to standard and is said to be dead pork, which is harmful to the health of the people.

The government did not allow butchers to sell meat. Seeing that the pork was being hoarded at home, they secretly sold the meat to the people. However, they were caught by the government and thrown into prison. They are not out yet."

The more Su Manrong listened, the more she frowned, and Xiao Chengxian's expression didn't get much better.

The two of them listened to the uncle explain the ins and outs, and then they realized that this business was the private property of the county magistrate.

Ordinary butchers were no match for the government. Besides, they killed pigs and sold meat just to make a living, and they could not commit a crime, so they successively looked for other livelihoods.

Gradually, only the magistrate's nephew's butcher shop remained in Jincheng, and business was booming.

The local people who raised pigs in Jinzhou also suffered. Since there were no other butcher shops to buy their pigs, the magistrate's nephew paid whatever he wanted to get the pigs, and those farmers didn't even have the capital to bargain.

They had also thought about selling pigs to butcher shops in other cities, but Jinzhou had express regulations that anyone who opened their doors for business, or for farming and breeding, had to undergo regular inspections by the government.

It is said that it is for the health of the people, but in fact it is to control the market and make the magistrate's nephew's business grow bigger and bigger.

For this reason, in the past two years, when people want to eat meat, they have to make excuses to visit relatives in other places.

If you want to buy meat from other places to eat, you must first pass the inspection in front of the city gate.

Every day, there are government personnel in front of the city gate to arrange things. It doesn't matter if they are outsiders entering the city.

Any local who returns after leaving the city will definitely have their luggage and packages searched.

However, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. The common people are not helpless at all, and sometimes they ask outsiders who come into the city to help bring some pork over.

But in order not to alert others, they still had to line up in front of the magistrate's nephew's butcher shop to buy some meat, so that when they stewed meat at home, they didn't have to worry about the government lackeys going to complain.

"We came from Dekang and never heard of such ridiculous policies."

Su Manrong also knew that during this natural disaster, many people must have taken the opportunity to make a lot of money from the national crisis.

But now that the disaster has passed, Dekang is in urgent need of development. Now it is a waste of manpower and material resources to go back and settle old debts.

So now Dekang can only reform as soon as possible and strive to let the people live a stable life as soon as possible.

But I didn't expect that Jincheng would oppress and embarrass the people like this two years ago. The government even helped the evildoers, making fuss about the people's daily necessities to make these shady money.

If they had not stopped in Jincheng this time, they might never have known that it was difficult for the people in Jincheng to eat meat...

After all, Jincheng is just a small county town. Even the 50th Guards never stay or do business here and have no idea of ​​the shady happenings here.

Even if those outsiders are just staying here for one night or staying for a while, even if they know some news about Jincheng, it is none of their business.

After hearing what the uncle said, Xiao and Su did not continue to line up, but went back to the inn first to discuss how to solve this troublesome matter.

"It seems that not only in Jincheng, but also in every place that we can't see, there will be injustice happening."

Su Manrong held her chin with her hands and stared at Xiao Chengxian, who was also very angry, with an annoyed look on her face.

Along the way, they also dealt with many government officials. They were dedicated to serving the people in Qianzhou, Ancheng, and even the magistrates of Heicheng.

On the premise of seeking development for their respective cities, they thought that by being a good official, they could one day go to Beijing to meet the saints and become a good official who could leave a name in the history.

Therefore, she subconsciously felt that all officials, seeing the people displaced by natural disasters, would focus on seeking development for the people.

But I didn't expect that there are still some fish that slipped through the net. No matter what the common people have experienced, they still have to drink the common people's blood and eat the common people's flesh...

"We go to the county magistrate now. Under pressure, he will definitely order rectification and show off in front of us.

As long as he is still in the Jincheng government, he will definitely embarrass the people in other ways in the future, and will still deduct the money he deserves from the people.

Why don't we alert him first, and after returning to Dekang, we can transfer him to Dekang overtly or covertly?

The next magistrate of Xinyang County will definitely be his, and we will also find out his organization.

Finally, find a reliable person from Dekang officials to take over Jinzhou."

Xiao Chengxian knew very well that these officials were all protecting each other. The fact that the magistrate of Jinzhou dared to do this so boldly and without any scruples proved that there were people above him and those below him who could support him.

Therefore, the magistrate of Jinzhou is not the key. The key is to find all the people above and below him, so that peace can be restored to Jinzhou.

"That's fine."

Su Manrong thought about it seriously, and realized that Duke Protector and Grand Master Su did have great power, but they could only intimidate them in a short period of time.

They will get worse in the future, so we still need to fundamentally solve this matter.

"But now it seems that it's not just Jinzhou, I'm afraid this phenomenon also happens from time to time in other small cities."

What does it mean to be a small demon in a temple?

I'm afraid this is what I'm talking about. On the other hand, in the larger cities, people from the imperial court were always watching, and they didn't dare to be too arrogant.
Chapter completed!