When the lieutenant came to Zhao Guangsheng's house again, he saw Zhao Guangsheng, who refused to hand over any food and was not obedient, and was immediately furious, he clamored to let Zhao Guangsheng go to prison, and sure enough, only five or six days later, Zhao Guangsheng received a summons from the county government, and two messengers came over and took him to the county government.

"My lord, this case looks like Diao Min's business, and he refuses to pay the grain," the warden in the county government said: "Why do you have to try it yourself, just put Diao Min in prison." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the Imperial History of the Patrol happened to be near the prefecture and county these days," the county magistrate Wang Qingfu said: "Why would this county even have to personally try the case of the village households handing over grain? ”

The lieutenant chief and Zhao Guangsheng were detained together in the hall, and as soon as the lieutenant chief came up, he convicted Zhao Guangsheng and said: "My lord Mingjian, grain household Zhao Guangsheng, his family has fifteen acres of private land, but he is in arrears of summer tax and autumn grain and refuses to hand it over, the villain has repeatedly urged him to pay, not only does he refuse to pay the grain, but his words are not inferior, and he insults for no reason, the villain has really never seen such an unreasonable person!"

The magistrate said: "Zhao Guangsheng, why don't you pay the grain?"

Zhao Guangsheng was actually very scared, but in order to survive, he could only stubbornly say: "My lord, it's not that I don't pay food, but I really can't afford it!"

He trembled and told the situation of the people's land and the grass land, but the chief denied it, saying that all the fields in Bianli Village were levied according to the acres of land registered in the fish scale atlas, and that Zhao Guangsheng's land written on the fish scale atlas was good land, and the tax on the people's land should be levied, and Diao Min Zhao Guangsheng lied that his field was grass collapse in order to escape the delivery of grain.

Zhao Guangsheng naturally didn't admit it, and the two of them argued in court, and Wang Qingfu patted the wood in surprise and said: "Whether it is a grass collapse or a private field, the official will know at a glance." It's just that the grass collapses and the grain has to be paid, and the lieutenant said that you, Zhao Guangsheng, refuse to pay even a spoonful of grain, isn't this deliberately in arrears?"

Zhao Guangsheng shouted that he was wronged, and said: "My lord, I can't afford to pay it! He Wang Gui asked us to pay grain, which is higher than the tax on official fields! Pay five liters of six and five spoons per mu, and after we pay the summer tax, we don't even have a mouthful of our own rations left, and the autumn grain is also collected according to this, and we have paid all the grain, and there is still a lot of difference, so he Wang Gui asked me to take the seeds and sell them, and also sold donkeys and rakes, but only pots and pans were not sold!"

Naturally, the lieutenant refused to admit that he had overcharged Shengdou, and he said: "My lord is a clear man! Don't listen to his nonsense! The villain assisted the grain chief in collecting grain, and he has always been clear and clear, and he will collect as much as he should collect, and he has never collected an extra bucket or a spoonful! The villain has witnesses to testify!"

The witness was quickly brought up, it was more than a dozen peasant households, and they were gossiping and saying that the chief was indeed fair and just, and he did not embezzle much grain, Zhao Guangsheng said: "My lord, they, they are all relatives of the chief, and the chief is in charge of our Bianli Village and Xiagou Village, and Xiagou Village is his relative, so naturally there is less urgency!"

Of course, Zhao Guangsheng also came prepared, and he also invited his own witnesses, a number of people in the village who were willing to testify for him, etc., and everyone said that Zhao Guangsheng's home really only had grass that was difficult to cultivate, and the grain chief also asked him to collect taxes on official fields.

The two parties were arguing and quarrelling, and Wang Qingfu patted the shocked wood to calm them down.

"My lord," the warden put down his pen and said, "Ordinary people think that the common people have no money and no power, and they are weak compared with the chief and the chief of grain, and they always suffer a loss in lawsuits." However, the villain feels that this case is not that the people are innocent, and the people are probably not ordinary people, but Diao people. The so-called Diao people are broken and scoundrels, most of them are idle, poor, and rely on some inferior means such as helping idleness and extortion to make a living, and what they sue is Diao, not only to harm people, but also to make profits, it is precisely because they look weak and pitiful, so everyone is deceived by them, and they pit the real good people. ”

Wang Qingfu, the magistrate of the county, nodded pretending to be pretended, and said: "In our county, there are a lot of such cases in the backlog, all of which are unwilling to pay grain, or resist the payment of grain, the facts of the case are simple and clear, that is, crying and selling poor, if you are forced to urge, then cry, make trouble, and hang yourself, the chief and the grain chief are all villagers in the township, and they always take care of the situation in the township, and there is no way, and then these Diao people are even more fearless, and they want to drag it all the time with a 'drag' word, and drag the grain chief to the end- Zhao Guangsheng, if you are a bad person, for the sake of harming the township, if the official does not bring you to justice, how can you set an example?"

The lieutenant immediately called out to the Qingtian lord and said, "My lord is really hanging in the mirror, and he has insight into everything! The villain can't be killed by such a stubborn people! And these people know that they are gathering people to resist, my lord, these dozen or so people are unwilling to pay food!" You know, if the grain is not paid evenly, only the grain chief will make up for it, our Zhizhou lord is honest and honest, and he has repeatedly been kind enough to pay summer taxes and autumn grain for them, but he has nourished such a group of people who are not grateful to Dade, how much money can our Zhizhou lord have, and when can he pay it for them? Such a Diao people are not worthy of the kindness of the Zhizhou lord at all!"

Seeing that Wang Guitian was shameless, not only did he make the dozen or so people who testified in the hall angry, but even the people who stretched their necks outside to watch the interrogation were angry, and they all shouted and wanted to rush into the court.

"Okay," Wang Qingfu said angrily: "If the official is not satisfied, there is actually a disturbance for the people!"

The wardens under his command were simply acting for the tigers, and said: "My lord, they came just in time! Diao Min is a minority after all, at best there are only one or two hundred people, and the county officials and arresters are all there, and they are afraid that they will not make trouble?"

He didn't believe that the people would dare to confront the government, even if the county's servants added up to only a dozen, but these people were enough. Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the crowd that was still indignant just now suddenly fell silent.

Seeing this situation, Wang Qingfu smiled proudly, and was about to speak, but heard someone in the crowd shouting: "If the government urges it like this, everyone will not be able to live, everyone will go together, the law will not blame the public!"

Suddenly, the crowd began to crowd again, and Wang Qingfu was a little flustered, and said: "How dare these people - quick, fast! What are you waiting for, quickly beat these people out with sticks! If the first evil is caught, this official will severely punish him!"

"Heh-" A bell-like voice came: "What is the county order of the broken family, the mansion of the destroyed door, this official has finally seen it!"

Everyone was looking for prestige, Wang Qingfu saw someone coming, and he was so frightened that he fell down from the chair, "Lord Patrol?"

The person who came was Gao Wei, the superintendent of Henan.

In the fifth year of Tang Tianbao, the emperor sent officials to inspect the officials according to the customs of the world, and the name of the patrol began here. And the dynasty to a province as a one, sent the imperial history to each province to inspect, inspect the rule of officials, every year in August out of the patrol, called the patrol according to the imperial history, also known as according to the platform. Although the grade of the patrol according to the imperial history is low, it patrols on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the emperor is invited to adjudicate on major matters, and small matters are dealt with immediately, and the matter is quite powerful. In addition, the supervisory bodies in charge of inspections usually have top-down vertical leadership, are accountable to the emperor alone, and are not interfered with by other departments, so as to facilitate the independent exercise of their powers.

They are specially inspecting the situation of the chief executives of various provinces and prefectures, prefectures, and counties to see whether they are competent and honest.

Wang Qingfu immediately greeted him, made a long salute, and respectfully almost flattered: "Why did the lord come to the county? The lower officials have not been informed, nor have they been greeted in person, please forgive your sins!"