Liu Bowen's ingenuity.
3. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Liu Bowen to Shuntianfu, the former imperial court, saying that he wanted to see what civil engineering could do, what should be demolished and what should be built. Liu Bowen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that this place was imperial and would come up with an opponent who would compete with him for the world.
4. Go ahead, go ahead. The next day, Liu Bowen set off with his servant riding a pony and a donkey. He passed a village and found that all the fertile fields were deserted and covered with weeds for horses to eat. In order to dispel doubts, Liu Bowen decided to rest for one night. He came to the farmer's house to stay and had a family conversation with the old man. He asked whether the local population was sparse. The old man replied that there were many people but few, and Liu Bowen was surprised. He clearly saw that there were many good fields by the roadside, and the old man told him that even the best fields could not be planted, and they were white. Liu Bo didn't understand, so the old man had to say that there was a stone horse here! Liu Bowen decided to find out the truth.
The old man took them to two stone horses in Lingdao and told them that these two horses often appeared. He once saw a passerby disrespectful to the stone horse, and he was killed by lightning when he peed on the stone horse.
6. Liu Bowen and Liu Yi once again came to the fertile land to watch horses grazing, and found that each horse's ass was numbered. The officers and men in charge of guarding the horses came to reprimand Liu Bowen and told them to leave as soon as possible.
7. The local commander and the magistrate Zhu are Liu Bowen's cousins. Changzhu escaped from Qingtian with his enemies. They haven't seen each other for years, and they don't want to meet here. Two people catch up after drinking, Liu Bowen began to check the accounts of selling thousands of military forces. He saw at a glance that there was something wrong with the ledger, and at a glance that his brother had something on his mind. He asked Chang Zhu to tell him the truth. Chang Zhu's eyes were shining and he was awkward. He just said that he had accounts to check. Liu Bowen told Changzhu that if he found greed here, his brother couldn't save him. Seeing Chang Zhu off, Liu Bowen couldn't help asking himself whether it was worthwhile to investigate his long-lost brother for the sake of strangers. Thinking of this, he called Liu Yi home and told him to pack his bags and hit the road at once. The case of stone horse destroying farmland was not solved. Liu Yi reminded him that this matter had been reported to the emperor, and if he didn't do it, he would send someone to do it.
8. Liu Bowen temporarily borrowed the county court to hear the case of Shima destroying farmland, and all the villagers sued Shima in Lingdao for occupying land and wasting food. The villagers said that they would sue the magistrate, who told them to go to Xuantianguan to find Shi Tian to understand the spirit. Shi Tian said that this is a young crop that was eaten by a stone horse. They violated the laws of heaven, and this is heaven's recovery of evil debts. Liu Bowen immediately invited Shi Tian, but Shi Tian came to the court and was full of nonsense. Liu Bowen was angry with him and tied him to the stone horse. It was dark and windy at night, and Liu Bowen frightened Shi Tian. It turned out that Shima was just a nonsense fabricated by thousands of households in the pastoral house and the magistrate of a county colluding to occupy fertile land, and it was Fu Changzhu who was in charge of this matter. Fu Changzhu knew that what he had done could not be concealed from his clever brother, so he surrendered himself. But they don't admit that the official horse is buying and selling itself to earn the difference. They said that their responsibility is only to raise official horses, and buying horses is a matter for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
9. As soon as the imperial envoy Hu arrived, all the prisoners except Fu Changzhu began to retract their confessions, saying that they had been tortured to extract confessions. It is said that Fu Changzhu and Liu Bowen are cousins. Hu secretly rejoiced and finally found a chance to get back at Liu Bowen. He asserted that Fu Changzhu was the principal offender. Liu Bowen couldn't stand Hu's arbitrariness and quarreled with him on the spot. The villagers also beat drums outside the hall, claiming that they all listened to Liu's adult. Seeing that the scene was out of control, Hu had to announce a retrial.