208 Fighting wits
In the government office, except for Qian and Huang, the other three heads of the family are all in their prime.
It is inevitable that they will be complacent when they are just in charge, and there is still some unconcealable edge in their expressions, but fortunately, the three of them know how to restrain and know how to measure, and everything is based on the money and Huang families.
Qian Yousen is over sixty years old, five feet tall, and seems to be a kind old man, but in fact, he is meticulous and extremely insidious.
I didn't find out anything wrong with this meeting, turned around and handed everyone a look, and said goodbye to Wang Zhe with a smile.
Liang Zijun also wanted to go to the treasury to check the government silver, Qian Yousen instructed the Huang family to hand over the key, "You are not here, the affairs of the county government are all discussed by everyone, if there is any difference, even if you send someone to ask, we will cooperate with the transfer."
Liang Zijun nodded, and stretched out his arms to invite, "In this case, Lord Wang should also go with him, so as not to have any discrepancies at that time, and it is not good to deal with the imperial court."
Wang Zhe was in a dilemma, so he had to stand up and signal to the old money.
Qian Yousen sighed a little sadly, "To tell you the truth, the government bank has long been lost, and if it weren't for the county's own fundraising over the years, even the city wall would not be able to repair it......"
"Yes, yes, if it weren't for the lack of silver, we wouldn't be able to watch the government office be abandoned to this point......" Huang Dao also replied with a sad face.
But after hearing a few people's complaints, Liang Zijun sneered, turned his head and asked Wang Zhe, "Where have the taxes been used over the years? Even if the predecessor is corrupt and perverts the law, he will not be greedy for the silver of the past two years, right?"
Wang Zhe hurriedly questioned the five families, and Qian Yousen explained unhurriedly, "Because of the frequent floods in recent years, the villagers raised funds to repair the river, so the government office owes a lot of silver, which has not yet been settled...... Therefore, in addition to submitting the tax to the imperial court, the rest is used to pay off the debt."
"Without the approval of the county government, you dare to embezzle tax money without authorization, and I don't know if the state lord knows about this matter or not?" Bolin accused without saltiness.
Wang Zhe hurriedly responded, "This matter is indeed allowed by the lower officials, floods are frequent, and the people are not happy, if it were not for the generosity of these five families, I am afraid that the river will still not be governed, and the lower officials have to collect it from the people for the sake of the people."
Liang Zijun waved his hand, there is no evidence, this matter is not clear at all, "The previous bad account book official does not want to pay attention, as for how much money the government office still owes you, whoever gave the order back then, you will ask whomever you want"
Qian Yousen didn't expect the new county official to dare to repay the account, he wanted to take this opportunity to give him a blow first, but he never thought that this guy would be so thick-skinned that he would easily rely on the account to Zhizhou...... However, how dare they ask Wang Zhe for money?
The repair of the river was originally created out of nothing, and the taxes and silver were also handed over to Wang Zhe year by year.
At that moment, the five of them pretended to suffer a loss and remained silent, and Liang Zijun also pretended to be pretentious by them, and asked, "In order to solve the drought and flood, the imperial court specially issued a grain control order." In the first year, the tax was turned into food, and the choice was the boundary of your Yuzhou, right?"
Wang Zhe wanted to withdraw quickly, but he didn't expect that this guy was not only thick-skinned but also a fine person, and it was not too early to go straight to the office, so he needed to go back to the government office.
How could Liang Zijun let him run away? He opened the granary in a big way and began to count in front of everyone.
The more Bolin looked at the sweaty appearance of the six people, the more he wanted to laugh, and when he finished checking, he secretly coughed, "Is the number right?"
Liang Zijun pretended to be puzzled and shook his head and sighed, pointing to the account book and asking, "There are more than 900 households in Feng County, and there are more than 6,000 people recorded in the register, according to the calculation of three strong men and four women and children in each household, the number of catties of grain is far more than these......"
"Is there anything to hide?" Wang Zhe wiped the sweat off his forehead, and said secretly.
In the past, all the people who held this post were scholars who did not distinguish between promotion and fighting, and how could they know that they were secretly tired, and the reason why he was framed for embezzlement of public funds in the past county orders was also because he suffered such a loss during the handover.
Qian Yousen hurriedly said, "The county government is useless, and some people refuse to pay taxes, and we are helpless." In addition, each village is self-counted, and it is handed over according to the head of the person, and the county is only helping to enter the warehouse, and some discrepancies are inevitable."
"Ridiculous! Who dares to refuse to pay taxes? Someone is coming, why don't you catch them quickly and serve them?" Liang Zijun shouted loudly.
The yacha looked at each other, and secretly said that the new magistrate of the county has a big official frame, and I don't know what handle the master has in the hands of this person, why do you obey him alone?
Wang Zhe knocked out his teeth and swallowed them in his stomach, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered ten officials to go to the countryside to arrest people.
Liang Zijun picked up a wooden stick casually, poked a bag of grain hard, twisted the shriveled wheat grains and reprimanded, "The old grain is full, what a big courage!"
The five of them, including Wang Zhe, were all shocked, and it was too late to stop them. Liang Zijun poked it up and down, left and right one by one, and found pockets mixed with wheat bran at the bottom layer.
At this point, even Qian Yousen began to be calm, and he looked down and thought for a long time before he had to justify, "The land in Feng County is barren, and the rain is not harvested this year, and the villagers are really helpless to shoddy......
Liang Zijun said in a negative way, "Oh? I don't know which overseer collected the grain? I dare to put it in the granary without even looking at it, is it not knowingly committing a crime? Or is it stealing the beam to change the pillar? Or is it receiving any benefits in private?"
Wang Zhe flattered Lord Liang for being discerning, and then turned his head and shouted, "Who is responsible for collecting grain?
Qian Yousen's eyebrows jumped, and he hurriedly planted the blame outside the five families, Wang Zhe immediately sent someone to arrest and escort him back to the provincial capital to ask for the crime, and repeatedly promised that he would investigate the matter thoroughly.
It's strange that there is no unscrupulous deed in this way. Liang Zijun knew that this matter would not be resolved, so he didn't hold on to it, sold him face, and handed people over to the government office.
Although it is only a side branch, but in the end they are all brothers of the same root, Qian Yousen said bluntly with an embarrassed face that he was unwell, and he wanted to retire if he took the first step.
The other four families were also afraid of extraneous branches, so they resigned one after another. Liang Zijun didn't stop him, but said that if there was any more chachi, he would definitely come to the door to find it.
The corners of Wang Zhe's mouth twitched slightly, and he bowed down to receive the order, and was detained five more officials to be dispatched, and then he looked flustered and escorted him back.
I thought that this person was not only a big man, but also a treacherous person who knew the reason, only from his perspective on the overall situation, he could see that he was not an idle person.
But how could he be a scholar who knew how to distinguish between them? Even it was difficult for him to recognize Chen Liang at a glance, could he really be from a village household?
When the people left, Liang Zijun covered his nose and sneered, "I smelled musty in the morning, is it useless to be the landlord?"
Bolin picked up a handful of wheat grains, rubbed them and asked, "I guess we have settled this loss, what should we do in the future?"
Liang Zijun also understands that the five families are responsible, and the tax will not be recovered. Let the master take on such a big deal of losing money, and if he doesn't get it back from a few families, he will not be Liang Zijun.
"Let's put this aside first, the most important thing at present is to recruit manpower" Liang Zijun probed to see the lazy and lazy yacha.
Counting the ten people who went to the countryside to arrest people, there are only fifteen errand soldiers, and it is simply an impossible task to recover Feng County with these unsatisfactory things.
At this time, there is an urgent shortage of henchmen, master bookkeepers, officials, and eyeliner...... , the two light pole commanders want to succeed, but there are more than one or two things to worry about.
"Let's divide the soldiers into two ways......" Liang Zijun waved his hand and said in his ear.
Boleyn's eyes widened when he heard this, and he whispered with a questioning face, "Don't die!"
Liang Zijun hurriedly covered his mouth and muttered in a low voice, "Master, this is also a dangerous move, and you will die and be born!"
Bolin slapped his hand away in frustration, and complained, "The soldiers and bandits conspired, don't really lift a stone to shoot yourself in the end in the end!"
Liang Zijun sneered, in extraordinary times, he can only borrow extraordinary means, and King Jing will bear it for him, and no matter how muddy things are, he will dare to do it. Besides, although Helian Mountain is a horse bandit, he has never done the act of killing people and overstepping goods, he used his authority to go to the mountain to Zhao'an and relieve the bandits for the imperial court, only the credit is at fault?
At that moment, the two of them instructed the government to lock the granary, settle the carriage and horse luggage, and strode into the backyard of the government office.
These five families really only do superficial work, and they can still see people in the court, but this backyard is overgrown with weeds, and how can people live in the collapsed houses?
Liang Zijun knocked off the old spider silk, waved his hand to fan away the dust in the room, clapped his hands and scolded, "Damn, clean up a clean ground first!"
The two of them rolled up their arms and sleeves to scrub it, looking around the main hall where the only one could live, Bolin smiled and sighed, "I didn't expect you and I to be crowded in a bad room."
"Master sleeps in bed!" Liang Zijun hugged the quilt and couldn't get up on the bed.
Bolin glanced at the ground, looked up at the slightly lighted roof, lifted his luggage and pushed the man inside.
Liang Zijun hugged the quilt and shrunk into the corner, and shouted funny, "The master is a married man, and he has no special habits"
"Fuck off, what are you doing when I rarely sleep?" Bolin raised his eyebrows, lazily ignoring him, "Bored!"
"You have a chat, then talk to the master~" Liang Zijun poked him on his stomach and began to deploy the next plan with a broken mouth.
Bolin turned his back to him and muttered to himself, I really don't know how Chen Qing endured it, this guy has changed a lot, he knew this virtue earlier, and he really regretted coming to this troubled water......
"Hey, asleep?" Liang Zijun saw him sleep with his eyes closed, and began to scratch the wall boredly.
I miss my daughter-in-law...... This broken floor, broken bed, broken house, why should I do it if my daughter-in-law is not there?
Early the next morning, as soon as the two went out, they were stared at viciously by fifteen pairs of eyes.
Liang Zijun coughed secretly, waved his hand and ordered, "The government office is simple, you arrange it yourself, you don't have to wait for the meal, just go to the street to eat something."
The corners of Bolin's mouth twitched slightly, and he walked quickly to keep up, passing the hungry servants who had been living in a dilapidated house for a night, and muttered silently in his heart, "I'm sorry everyone, if you want to blame, blame your master."
Everyone watched the unscrupulous county official go out, and turned their heads to discuss, "What should I do?"
"What can I do? Let's find an inn first, this broken ground can't live in people!"
"Who's going to pay for the money?"
"If you deduct it like that, you won't pay for us if you have money."
"If you want me to say, forget about the pick, the province will be angry with him here!"
"Phew! Forgot what the master explained? Go back and pick up this official skin!"
"Ahem...... Let me ask first, what should I do with these people?"
Just out of breath, staring at the captured Diao Min, everyone slowly surrounded the city, crackling and beating under the frightened expressions of several people.
After enough fighting, they were put in the dungeon, and as for the mention of people, wait for the county master to remember!
Liang Zijun walked around the street without combing his face or washing his face, and picked for a long time before stopping in front of a slightly clean shop.
The man threw away his rice spoon in fright, ran back to the stove room, and after a while, the owner came to entertain him. He was careful to serve and wipe the table, and after breakfast, he didn't even dare to ask for money and hurriedly sent the plague god away.
Bolin could understand the dialect to some extent, and said in a low voice, "He is afraid of being blamed by the Qian family, so he is so afraid."
Liang Zijun raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that pedestrians on the street avoided it, and the shops closed their doors one after another.
Hehe...... The first time he was treated like this, Liang Sanye was happy.
At this juncture, he can still laugh, and Bolin is really convinced of him.
The two went home, packed up and left the county government to the government to take care of, and took the horses and set off separately.
Bolin went to the provincial capital to find Li Shuhe to borrow people, and Liang Zijun went to climb the mountains to borrow bandits!
Liang Zijun didn't mention it first, Bolin ran for two days before he returned, he thought that Chen Qing must be anxious to wait, but he didn't want to, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a room of people busy cleaning grapes.
Li Shuhe saw people entering the door, smiled and raised his hand to greet him, and after speaking, he whispered to Chen Qing for advice.
A carriage stopped outside the door, and the guy shouted in the local dialect, "Get out of the way!"
Boleyn was pulled aside, and the two men carried the huge clay pot into the courtyard.
Liang Jia skillfully led the guy to move to the backyard, and greeted Bolin again, "There is still leftover food in the stove room, you can get together first......
Bolin touched his nose, washed his face with water, and after eating the excess, he paced and asked, "Drying grapes again?"
Chen Qing shook his head and asked with a smile, "Is Fengxian's trip still going well?"
Bolin shook his head and smiled bitterly, Li Shuhe said with a smile, "I guessed that you have to come back to me, this is not early."
Bolin asked for a long time, only to know that it was fruit wine that was pouring out.
When he visited yesterday, Li Shuhe brought the Baiguo wine that the two of them had been thinking about for a long time. After hearing this, Chen Qing smiled and said that although the fruit is fragrant, it is far less mellow than the grapes, Li Shuhe was very interested in hearing this, and invited the old man to make wine together.
At the end of autumn, there were still grapes to sell, so everyone bought all the grapes in the market to make wine, and specially bought wine urns for fermentation.
"You're really idle, Fengxian is about to burn your eyebrows," Bolin smiled bitterly.
"Don't worry, I already have a plan in my heart, and I will make an appointment with two classmates in the morning" Li Shuhe said and went over to help.
Bolin was anxious to arrest people and return to the county, but Li Shuhe was so interested that he had to wait for the grapes to enter the urn before he was willing to set off.
As a last resort, Bolin could only magnify his moves: "Liang Zijun, that bastard, has climbed the mountains for the second time!"
Chen Qing and Li Shuhe looked up when they heard this, and after a while, they laughed in a low voice, "I guess I went to Zhao'an, since Brother Liang dares to go, he must be confident."
"With his three-inch incorruptible tongue, the dead can give a living heart," Chen Qing echoed.
Boleyn sighed, where do you get your confidence?
Chen Qing smiled and said nothing, because he is my husband Liang Zijun~
Chen Qingzhen looked up to Liang Zijun a little highly, and after going up the mountain, he didn't wait to see Helian Mountain, he was first beaten by the reckless men under his hands, and then hung up by the second master to show the public.
Liang Zijun shouted and broke his throat before he called Helian Shan out.
"You still dare to come to your grandmother!" Helian Shan pointed at the dog officer with a machete.
Liang Zijun laughed: "If you really want this mountain to be Longtan Tiger's Den, you dare to come, you are not afraid of death!"
Helian Shan waved his hand, and a more than a dozen catties of machetes chopped obliquely into the mud, if it weren't for Liang Zijun's fast legs, he would have chopped off his feet.
"Fuck you! If you have something to say, why do you use knives and guns......" Liang Zijun lifted his feet and hung in the air, scared into a cold sweat.
The second boss talked to Helianshan, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his neck, and the bluffing Liang Zijun hurriedly begged for mercy, damn it, the hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of him, sooner or later, let Helianshan kneel down and call grandpa!
Seeing that the dog official was instigated, everyone laughed and laughed, and only after the big boss signaled that he unloaded the person and kicked it into the lobby.
Being pressed to the ground, Liang Zijun reasoned with the facts, and when he said that his mouth was dry, he was still unconvinced, so he simply took out a gangster and asked, "Do you want to take revenge?"
This sentence pierced Helian Mountain's heart, and he got up and scolded, "Hello la......"
Liang Zijun gritted his teeth and smiled, and roughly understood, "If you want to take revenge, just follow what the master said, and ensure that you are fair and honest and slaughter the old dog!"
The second master persuaded, "Don't listen to the nonsense of the dog official, maybe he wants to lead us into the city for a pot......"
Helian Shan waved his hand, waved everyone away, closed the door and talked with Liang Zijun for a long time, until the early morning of the second day, the two went out together.
"Little ones, pack up your things and go to the city for the New Year!" Helian Shan yelled.
The crowd of horse bandits surrounding the courtyard shouted in disbelief, and even the villagers who ran to defect did not quite understand the meaning of the big boss.
They have just passed their birthday in two years, how can they say that they want to go back?
Liang Zijun waved his hand to stop the chaotic commotion, "cough~ Guys and gentlemen, listen to Liang Mou's words first! I know that you don't believe me, and you all scold me for being a dog official, but the county officials are also human beings, and if they are people, they can be divided into good and bad, and even you horse bandits are not from poor backgrounds? Who said that horse bandits must be great traitors and evil people? And who said that there is no good official who is an official?"
After everyone listened, they gradually put out the noise, quieted down and silently weighed in their hearts.
"It's not up to me to decide whether it's good or not, it's up to the people to wear the hat of a good official and a bad official. I came here today, if nothing else, I just want to ask everyone, do you want to have a peaceful birthday? Do you want to hide in the mountains for the rest of your life, or do you want to bring down the Qian family and return to your hometown to live?"
After asking a question, a feeling of returning home inexplicably rose in everyone's hearts, who doesn't want to have a peaceful birthday? If he is not forced to live, who is willing to go up the mountain to become a bandit?
Liang Zijun continued to agitate, "If you don't want to go, I won't force you, you can still stay in the mountains and cultivate the wasteland." As a county official, I will correct your name and pick up the name of bandits, and you are still ordinary people under the rule of Feng County!"
"Really?" everyone discussed, and Helian Shan took the opportunity to speak, "The woman and the baby stay on the mountain first, leave a few brothers to guard the mountain, and the rest will go to the city on an errand with Lao Tzu!"
"When is the errand, when is the errand?" the second master took the lead in asking.
"Huh...... Of course, I went to the county government office to be on an errand! From now on, our brothers will no longer be horse bandits!" Helian Shan grinned with a mouthful of white teeth, and even the scar softened a little with his smile.
"Grandma's, the horse bandit is on an errand, isn't the big boss teasing us?"
"The poor master is a master who doesn't have to give money anywhere, it's much more bullish than being a horse bandit!"
Liang Zijun waved his hand to stop the group of bandits who were happy, if they were not good at restraining them, these people were afraid that they would be difficult to get rid of, and they would bring great trouble to Feng County in the future.
Helian Shan received the signal and solemnly explained the set rules three times.
Everyone shouted when they heard it, this is not allowed and that is not allowed, the errand is not yet at ease!
Liang Zijun snorted, "If you are willing to be a bandit, the official will not ask you to come back, if you still want to oppress the people, what is the difference between it and the Qian and Huang families?"
The villagers who came to run immediately felt deeply, and they also had a little good impression of the new county official.
Helian Shan scolded in a deep voice: "What does his grandmother think? The state has a state and a family rule, and if an official does not seek the welfare of the people, he is a dog official! The official refuses to eliminate violence and peace and goodness, but bullies men and women, what is the difference between him and the ruffian hooligans? We are all fed up with this kind of wretchedness, so we ran out to seek a way to live, if any of us don't want to live in peace, we will roll down the mountain for Lao Tzu now, we don't raise scum on this mountain!"