"This subordinate, Zhen Shijie, pays his respects to the Marquis Yang!"
In the hall of the Marquis Mansion, Zhen Shijie, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, bowed to Yang Zhengshan in greeting.
Yang Zhengshan welcomed him with a smiling face and warmly helped Zhen Shijie up. "This Marquis has long admired Lord Zhen's name, haha~~"
He and Zhen Shijie were merely familiar by sight. On ordinary days, they had no real dealings with each other; they could only meet during morning court, and Yang Zhengshan rarely attended morning court, so it barely counted as being familiar by sight.
However, Zhen Shijie had been born in Pingyuan Province of Liaodong, and the Zhen clan was the greatest powerful clan in Pingyuan Province.
Back when Liaodong suffered a great drought, with Yang Zhengshan's covert support, quite a few officials and wealthy merchants in Pingyuan Province had been investigated and seized by the court. Among them were many wealthy merchants who were Zhen clansmen.
Right, there was also Zhen Yang Shi. She could also be counted as part of the Pingyuan Zhen Clan.
Of course, whether it was those wealthy merchants who had been seized back then or Zhen Yang Shi, in truth, they had little to do with Zhen Shijie.
Zhen Shijie was fairly upright and clean as an official, and his abilities were also very strong.
After all, the post of prefect of Shuntian Prefecture was no ordinary official position.
The Capital was full of nobles and powerful officials, and the cases Zhen Shijie handled most as prefect of Shuntian Prefecture were cases involving those nobles and powerful officials. Without some real ability, he could not have sat securely in the seat of prefect of Shuntian Prefecture at all.
But Zhen Shijie had already served as prefect of Shuntian Prefecture for ten