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The next day, the Marquis of Luyang took Zhang Chun to Yecheng to visit Mao Jue and Mao Guoqi, the old county commanders.

Zhao Yu was concerned about this matter, and also took Jingnu, Cao An, Zhang Ji, and Ma Cheng to follow his father and follow his father to Yecheng.

Yecheng, located in the southeast of Luyang, the two counties are about 80 miles apart, but whether it is the scale or the population of the county, Yecheng is more than twice as large as Luyang in the past, and it is a veritable large county.

Such a big county, besides, the county order has an old relationship with the Luyang Township Marquis, and some time ago it could have helped Luyang deal with the refugee problem, but unfortunately, Ye Cheng was too busy to take care of himself, because the refugees who poured into Ye County were only a lot more than the refugees who poured into Luyang, so the Luyang Township Marquis and Liu Jian were naturally embarrassed to go to Ye Cheng for help.

Everyone rode in a carriage, and after driving for most of the day, they finally entered the territory of Ye County and saw countless refugees.

As Liu Wei, the county magistrate, told Zhao Yu a few days ago, when Luyang County implemented cash-for-work and achieved good results, Yexian County immediately followed suit, set up several sites in the county, implemented the strategy of cash-for-work, and built bridges and roads with the help of refugees in the country.

According to the Luyang Township Marquis mentioned to Zhao Yu in the carriage, Ye County not only plans to repair the official road to the neighboring county, but also plans to repair it all the way to Xuchang and Yuncheng counties to make the road smoother.

Unlike Luyang, Ye County has rich financial resources, and did not ask neighboring counties for help in building roads, but did it by themselves, which I believe made Liu Wei envious for a long time.

As dusk approached that night, the group finally arrived in Ye County.

Similar to Zhao Yu's imagination, the county seat of Ye County is indeed larger than Luyang, no less than the Ruyang that Zhao Yu has seen, which can be called one of the largest county towns he has seen so far.

When entering the city, the county guard on duty at the city gate shouted to stop the carriage of the group and stepped forward to interrogate: "Wait, it's not my Ye County native, right?" Is there a way? ”

At this time, Zhang Chun, the head of the guard, sat in the coachman's position, took out a wooden card from his arms, and said in a low voice: "The person sitting in the car is the townsman of my Luyang County, Zhao's Jinggong, he has an old relationship with the county commander Mao Gong of your county, and today I have something important to visit Mao Gong." …… This is the road seal issued by my Luyang County Order. ”

"It turned out to be Zhao Xianghou."

The county magistrate who came to interrogate suddenly realized, and he didn't look at the road guide in Zhang Chun's hand, and said with a smile: "I have also heard about Zhao Xianghou's affairs back then, it's amazing. …… No delays, please. ”

Seeing that the other party was so easy to speak, Zhang Chun was also happy in his heart, and took out a small bag from his arms and stuffed it into the other party's hand: "Please eat and drink, brothers." ”

"This ...... How embarrassing is that. ”

pretended to be polite, and the county pawn collected the money beautifully.

The carriage started again and headed towards the city, at this time Zhao Yu asked his father curiously: "Dad, you are a villager, when you go to Ye County, you actually need a road guide to enter the city?" ”

The Marquis of Luyang said flatly: "Why do you think I don't need a guide? ”

"I thought the townsfolk could have any privileges......

"The imperial court established the national law, so that everyone obeyed the law, and no one could be exempted. …… Even if he is a father and goes out of Luyang County, he needs to bring the road guide issued by the county government. ”

"When did my father ask Liu Gong for the road guide? Why didn't the child pay attention last night? ”

"Ahem." The Luyang townsman coughed, and was pestered by Zhao Yu for a few words before telling the truth.

It turned out that unlike the road guide that ordinary people got, the Luyang Township Marquis is permanent, and the 'reason for leaving' engraved on it is also a simple and vague word 'service', which means that the Luyang Township Marquis does not need a second road guide, as long as he can prove his identity, then he can freely enter and exit any county town in the Jin Kingdom, even the royal capital.

In all fairness, this is really not a privilege, because even ordinary people can apply to the county government, and the county government will also issue it as appropriate, but every time you go to another county, you must apply to the county government once, which is more cumbersome, unlike the Luyang township, as long as you don't lose it and use it for a lifetime.

"And say that there is no privilege, although this privilege is really insignificant......

Zhao Yu glanced at his serious father, because he knew that the piece of road guide in his father's hand was actually considered a violation.

After a while, the group came to the post house in the city, booked a few rooms in the post house, and then took the carriage to the county government again.

On the way to the county office, Zhao Yu asked his father: "Dad, I heard you last night that Mao Gong helped you expose Kong Jian's crime back then?" ”

"Hmm." The Luyang townsman nodded.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu became even more curious: "How did you bring down that Kong Jian back then?" ”

I have to say that he is really curious, although his father is the Marquis of Luyang, but he has no real power except for some family wealth, but Kong Jian was the county commander of Luyang County at that time, and it stands to reason that the Marquis of Luyang does not have any advantage.

"It's nothing."

"Dad, let's talk about it."

At the request of his son, the Marquis of Luyang hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "Your grandfather collapsed in the middle of the road, I was only more than ten years old when he died, when Kong Jian saw that I was young, and saw that my Zhao family had a rich ancestral business, so he became greedy, and said that he wanted to marry his daughter to me, but in fact he tried to encroach on my ancestral business, he thought I didn't know?" …… At that time, I heard that Mao Gong of Ye County was upright, so one day I secretly came to Ye Cheng and met Mao Gong. ”

After a pause, the Luyang townsman looked at the scenery on the street outside the car window, and recalled: "At that time, I told Mao Gongxiang how Kong Jian used his power for personal gain on weekdays, and how he tried to encroach on my family's ancestral business. So, I came up with an idea. ”

"What's the idea?" Zhao Yu opened his eyes, he knew that the main drama was coming.

"It's not something to brag about. …… After returning to Lu County, my name is Wu Bo...... Oh, you may not know that Uncle Wu was an old man in the house at the beginning, and he was quite loyal to your grandfather, but unfortunately he passed away when he was old...... At that time, I asked Wu Bo to secretly spread the news in Lu County, saying that the harvest in the county had not been good in recent years, and he was ready to find me to dispatch grain in Luyang County, so the price of rice in the county was bound to rise. At that time, I persuaded several other families in the county to ask them to reduce their grain production, and those families were naturally willing to help me secretly because they had been squeezed by Kong Jian for a long time.

The combination of the two, sure enough, the price of rice in the county rose sharply. Later, I found Kong Jian, pretended to unintentionally tell him about the sharp rise in the price of rice in the county, and instigated him to move the grain in the official warehouse and sell it privately...... Kong Jian saw that I was young at that time, and I was submissive in front of him at that time, he did not guard against me, and under the influence of greed, he really moved the grain storage in the official warehouse as I said...... The follow-up matter is simple, when the time is ripe, Mao Gong suddenly came to Luyang County with people, asked to open the official warehouse, Kong Jian did everything possible to stop it, but in the end he failed to stop Mao Gong, Mao made the official warehouse public, and saw that the grain storage in the warehouse was insufficient, so he used the power for personal gain, and the prison was taken down on the spot by Kong Jian and the others...... Subsequently, some county people revealed that Kong Jian had set up a name to collect taxes on weekdays, and the evidence was conclusive, so Mao Gong reported the matter to the imperial court and sent someone to escort Kong Jian to the royal capital......"

After listening carefully to his father's story, Zhao Yu secretly praised himself.

He had to say that his father's trick was really too bad.

But to be honest, this trick is not very clever in Zhao Yu's opinion, but considering his father's age at the time, and considering that his father knew that Kong Jian was trying to encroach on his ancestral business, his father had to deceive the other party's trust by deceiving him, Zhao Yu felt that compared to the trick itself, it was the most difficult for his father to deceive Kong Jian's trust.

He smiled and said to his father: "The dignified county order, I was deceived by a teenage child. …… Dad, no wonder that Kong Jian hates you so much. ”

The Luyang townsman snorted lightly and said no more.

After a while, the group came to the county office and saw the old Mao county magistrate who was old and in poor health.

Seeing the Luyang Township, the old man Mao was very happy, and immediately beckoned the Luyang Township Marquis to eat and drink together, and said with a smile: "Gongyu, ha, the old man just told you about you and Liu Gongqian, hahaha, this time you Luyang County is amazing, you also saw it when you came, right?" The old man is preparing to repair a few official roads, don't laugh at me, Ye County follows your example. ”

is different from when he was called by Kong Jian, and when he was called by this old man Mao, the Marquis of Luyang was not dissatisfied, on the contrary, he also held the gift of his juniors: "Gong Mao, Zhao Jing came here today not to catch up with you and eat wine, but to discuss something important with you." ”

As he spoke, he told Mao Jue everything about Kong Jian.

When Mao Jue heard this, he was shocked and angry.

He was shocked that Kong Jian, the corrupt official who did a lot of evil back then, was still alive; And the angry thing is that the corrupt official who is worthy of being a royal minister has actually turned into the county guard of Nanyang County.

Is there justice in this world?!

"Wang Ying, Wang Taishi?" After hearing about Kong Jian's current backstage, the old county commander Mao frowned and said: "Liu Gongqian has seen the world, he is right, Kong Jian is just a chess piece that can be discarded at will for that Wang Taishi, but Wang Shangde's side is more troublesome...... In this way, the old man has an old friend who is also in the royal capital, and he has always been at odds with Wang Ying, so I will see if I can ask him to help secretly. ”

Hearing this, the Marquis of Luyang asked curiously, "Is it the one you call 'Chen Gong'?" Mao Gong, who is this Chen Gong? ”

"You can't say it, you can't say it." Mao Jue waved his hand and said: "It's not that the old man deliberately concealed it, it's just that the old man has never liked this, if the old man casually reveals the adult's name and is known by him, he is afraid that he will never eat and drink with the old man again." …… However, Gongyu can rest assured that whether it is Wang Ying or Wang Shangde, they must give him some face, come and come, eat and drink. ”

Seeing this, the Luyang townsman was not good to ask again.

That night, the father and son were invited by Mao Lao County to eat some wine at the back office of the county government, and left late at night, and then returned to Luyang County the next day.

I have to say that this old county magistrate is the most powerful helper that the Luyang townsman can find.

Facts have proved that the Marquis of Luyang really understood the temperament of Kong Jian, and only five or six days later, that Kong Jian returned to Luyang County again, and also brought a partial general under Wang Shangde......