Winter goes to autumn and comes again, and most of the time is fleeting, as if someone has stolen it.

In the sixth year of Tianfeng (19 A.D.), in the early autumn of July, it was located in the northernmost part of Liewei County, "Xiuling County" (Luochuan, Shaanxi) and 鄜 (fū) Township.

For this poor country, today should have been a peaceful and normal day, the three elders of the village with dove canes leaned against the shade of the trees and dozed, and the simple-faced Li Tian made up the wooden scorn by himself. The villager surnamed Lu was lying in front of the case frowning and lifting his pen, and he was not very good at articles, and he was most afraid of writing a report on it.

Until the official hurriedly ran into the township temple and said that a convoy came from the county!

The villagers looked at each other, and when they went out, they saw three carts as guides, and seven or eight officials, all with swords. There was a canopy on the main car, and from above came a young official.

He was only eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a cloth crown on his head, and when he approached, he found that he was wearing a yellow ribbon and copper seal on his waist, either a county prince or a first-class figure in the county Cao Peng.

The accompanying county official immediately introduced to the villagers: "This is Cao Peng from the county, the fifth gentleman!" ”

Surname No. 5?

Lu Qifu himself is a rare surname, but he didn't expect to meet a more scarce one, he has no culture, he doesn't know the deeds of Zhudi, but the three elders have heard the young people in the township who have been to the south mention it.

"Could it be that in order to save his brother, he resolutely resigned from the Lang official and returned to the lieutenant to be Cao Peng to repay the country?"

Only then did everyone react, this is a well-known figure in the county.

"All the fame has spread to the village?"

The fifth Lun is already accustomed to it, and only follows them into the township temple, and does not be verbose, and directly explains the meaning, and looks at the township's household registration, household account, field house map, and the arrangements for next year's miscellaneous affairs.

Hearing this, Lu Qifu's face was a little unsightly, and Litian was also distracted, looking at their virtue, Wu Lun smiled and said: "Don't worry, gentlemen, I am not a postal supervisor, nor a cangcao, and I won't check the warehouse." There is no need for the fire dragon to burn the warehouse or accidentally drop the book into the well. ”

He had really encountered a lot of such miracles, and he sat down at the table, and his words were indifferent: "People are not sages, which county and township account will have no mistakes or omissions?" I should have seen it, I turned it over in the county. ”

"If you and others act faster, you will encounter accounts that do not match the county, and Ben Cao Peng can also help you and others to check and fill in the gaps."

The townsmen looked at each other, and they didn't hurry to get it until the accompanying county Peng nodded. Then he stood in front of Fifth Lun like a minion, looking weak-hearted, so that Fifth Lun had to ask them to sit down again.

"Let the dove staff elder stand for a long time, and the princes want to harm me?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was so tense, Xian Peng spoke and said with a smile: "His generation is a contemptible person in the township, and I have never seen Cao Peng as diligent as the fifth monarch." ”

Isn't it comfortable for an ordinary Cao Peng to never go out of the county seat half a step all year round, just sitting in the spacious and warm official temple, casually looking at the plan submitted by the county and township?

Fifth Lun flipped through the thin book in his hand at will, and said in his mouth: "Don't praise you, when I followed Taishou in the spring at the beginning of the year, I had bypassed several counties in the south of the county, but the three counties in the north of the county had never come. I heard that the scenery here is very different from that in the south, so I took advantage of my position to visit the mountains and rivers, and the inspection was just incidental. ”

I still have to blame Wang Mang's administrative division, which simply and rudely divided Zuo Fengyi of the former Han Dynasty into two, with Shiwei County in the east and Liewei County in the west, each with ten counties.

The north and south of Liewei County are far apart, and it takes a full 400 miles to reach Xiuling County in the northernmost part from Changling, the southernmost county, which used to be called Dun County, and the new dynasty normally changed its name.

The most pitiful thing is that it is not distinguished by the barriers of mountains and rivers, and Xiuling County is far east of Luoshui. Not only the mountains and rivers here are different, but even the dialect is completely different from the south of the county, but fortunately, the fifth Lun followed Yangxiong to learn the dialect of the county all over the world, even if he can't speak, he can understand seven, seven, eight, eight.

After flipping through the booklet, Wu Lun asked everyone not to be restrained, but only said that he was here, mainly to see for the county Yin to see if there was any disaster in the county.

It's still to blame for the system of "linking fortune with disasters", since the establishment of the new dynasty, the year has been strange, and various disasters have occurred frequently.

And in order not to deduct the money, the officials from the bottom to the top began to think of a way: they reported the big disaster as a small disaster, and the small disaster as no disaster, and the country and the people were safe, so that the deduction of the money would be less.

But whether there is a disaster or not, it only depends on how much the tax revenue from the hourly field rent increases. As a result, the officials forced the victims of the famine to continue to pay the taxes of the harvest year, which was simply bullying the officials and abusing the people. reported it like this layer at a time, which made Wang Mang in Chang'an Shoucheng's room really think that the world is smooth and rainy!

This has made the people suffer, and there are not a few people who have broken their homes for this.

The county chief Yin Zhang Zhan is a good person, and his choice is to send officials to inspect the counties, and if there is a disaster, he will report it, hoping to reduce some taxes for the people. As for the officials, anyway, there are many fields at home, and they should not starve to death, so they should sacrifice them first.

But in this way, the officials will not receive enough money, and in the end they will still use their power to extort to make up for it, or even squeeze more.

Fifth Lun quickly saw what was going on, and carefully mentioned it to Zhang Zhan, but Zhang Junyin turned a deaf ear and was still paranoid about letting Fifth Lun count the disasters in the whole county.

"Zhang Zixiao also understands that he can't change anything."

"At least by doing so, his conscience will be okay."

A funny scene appeared, no matter whether he met a "good official" or a "bad official", the sickle would eventually be swung at the bottom of the people. It was a dead end for a while, and the county Yin couldn't do anything, let alone the little Cao Peng of the fifth lun.

At this time, the official came to report that someone from outside had come to sue him.

Lu Qifu answered, got up to leave, but was stopped by the third elder.

He turned his head in surprise, and after the other party made several glances, the deer husband reacted, and hurriedly sent an invitation to the fifth Lun: "The superior officer wants to hear the lawsuit together?" ”

"Ahem." The county official and the third elder coughed at the same time, and Lu Qifu hurriedly changed his statement: "No, it's the main lawsuit for the township!" ”

"Isn't that overreach? The harm of invading officials is worse than the cold, the lawsuit has its own husband, the county cheng, and the superintendent of the post is ordered to supervise, what does it have to do with my household? ”

Fifth Lun was not interested in being the master of Qingtian, so he yawned and said: "I am tired from the journey, I want to take a rest, you gentlemen should be busy first, the food is as good as ever, and call me when the corn is ripe." ”

Then he turned over on the couch and fell asleep with his back to the others, only after they retreated and said goodbye, the fifth Lun raised his hand again, and let the fifth blessing, who came in with his bags and sharpened the ink for him, went out.

The fifth blessing is not familiar with this routine, so he promised to go, and he will report the process of the lawsuit to the fifth Lun in detail.

Fifth Lun couldn't sleep, only closed his eyes, thinking about his experience as an official in the past six months.

During the festival, he was shocked to hear that there were several peasant uprisings in the Kanto region, and he only thought that it was a spark that could set the prairie on fire.

But the size of this boss empire is there, Fan Chong, Lu Mu, Lvlin, etc. have been burning for more than half a year, and they are still local stragglers, although they caught up with the great drought in the Kwantung region, and the party was immersed in a lot, but the imperial court also dispatched county soldiers to suppress it, and they fought each other repeatedly, and failed to sweep into a piece.

So the fifth Lun, who looked at the east all day, could only be patient and do his own thing.

When there was no sound of footsteps outside, he got up again and took out a few tí sheets from his bag—yellow hemp paper, which could be bought in the silk and linen mills in Guanzhong, and which had spread all over the Central Plains as a by-product of the textile industry. Although it seems a little rough in the eyes of the fifth Lun, the good quality is smooth and soft, and it can be written.

Compared with bamboo slips and silks, Wu Lun loves them more.

The mountains, rivers, roads, and other graphics drawn with thin black lines on these pieces of linen paper are the greatest achievements of the fifth Lun in the past six months: a detailed map of the entire liege county.

"After walking through this Xiuling County, Yanchou Township, and dozens of townships in ten counties in the county, I have personally walked through them."

Although his ancient history is not good, he often goes online to politics, and he has no right to speak without investigation.

After the whole county came down, they had a clearer understanding of the current situation.

In the first few months, Wu Lun was also full of justice, and when he encountered a lawsuit from Tanabe during his inspection, he enthusiastically took care of it, but slowly he found out......

In this world, it's really not like one or two more "good officials" can become better. Zhang Zhan is a conscientious official, but Liewei County has still become like this.

He also thought about it repeatedly, what happened to this big new? In the end, only one conclusion can be drawn......

It's really a system problem!

Just like the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, from domestic and foreign policies to the rule of officials, the economy, land, and people's livelihood are full of drawbacks.

The new dynasty is not new at all, it is more like inheriting the accumulated diseases on both sides of the former Han Dynasty, Wang Mang saw that the root of the disease is the contradiction between man and land, so he went down with the fierce medicine of Wang Tian's private family, and was stirred up by these quacks of local officials, and the world became more sick.

In this world, what is most needed may no longer be medicine and improvement strategies, but a quick knife to cut through the mess and a flame that burns everything.

Therefore, the fifth Lun was less compassionate and compassionate, and in addition to running the clan alone, he began to observe and record the absurdity and strange phenomena of this season, and gradually became aware of the treacherous and evil in Lu, the gains and losses of the officials, and also memorized the population and dangers of each county, and could use them in the future.

In the process, he has seen the most despicable officials, witnessed the insatiable hero, personally buried the starvation outside Zhumen to death, and brought more children who lost their parents to wander back to the fifth mile to settle, and half of the tun has been gathered.

Then, the fifth Lun will also be for the rich and unkind, the tyrants, and the jackals who eat people and do not spit out bones in his eyes, are all recorded on this long list!

Then mark their name with a striking ×!

But from time to time, you can often meet good officials who insist on themselves in the absurd world, people who really try to save more people with a chivalrous heart, and Confucian scholars who believe in the way of sages and benevolence and righteousness.

The Fifth Lun was also recorded, drawing a √ after their name.

But more officials are going with the flow, and there is nothing to do. You say they are good people, but they do participate in corruption and pervert the law, and live by drinking the blood of the people; It's said that he is a bad person, but he has a bottom line, leaving some leeway for the people under his rule, and occasionally doing some personnel.

For example, this deer husband, after listening to the lawsuit outside, Wufu reported to Wulun, saying that it was a case of a son who mistakenly beat his father, and was sued by a neighbor to the government.

If you change the impatient official, you will directly sentence your son to be rebellious, but although this deer husband doesn't know what the Spring and Autumn Prison Sentence is, he can ask about the process in detail. He summoned his neighbors to verify it, and finally thought that the son did not have a heart, but that the neighbors had bad intentions and beat him in the court.

Fifth Lun bowed slightly, as for Lu Qifu has always been like this, he only did it deliberately today, and there will be time to observe and inquire in the next few days.

He wrote down the names of officials at all levels in Xiuling County, and drew a "? ”

These symbols determine their future fate.

"Me, how do I mark it?" Fifth Lun suddenly thought.

After biting the pen and thinking about it, he only drew one in the palm of his hand...... Exclamation!

……

The next day, Lu Qifu, who did not know that he had been labeled, took the car of the fifth Lun and went to the middle of the mountain.

This is another purpose of Wu Lun's trip: to visit an old friend on behalf of Yangxiong.

If the Changling area is still a typical Guanzhong Plain, then Xiuling County shows the characteristics of the Loess Plateau.

They walked on a huge plateau, and the loess under their feet was thick and compact. The end of the ridge is vertical and horizontal, it seems that the distance is not far away, but it may go up and down many times, and the local people are trapped in the valley, which also creates five miles of different customs, ten miles of different sounds.

However, unlike the barren plateau with the loess facing the sky in the imagination of the fifth lun, the air here is more humid and much more habitable than in later generations, and at least half of the area is covered by grassland.

But the forests have been almost cut down, and many places have been cleared into fields, and the harvest is approaching, and the crops are toiling in the middle of the yellow season.

The destination of the fifth lun is a small mound with buildings similar to caves in later generations, surrounded by farmland that has only been cultivated for a few years. A group of people are working, and the young people who lead them are holding on to their hoes and singing.

It is not a folk harmony song that is sung, but a more obscure rhetoric.

"Linjiang is on the verge of hiding tears, how can there be nine moves and nine songs? The sage of the husband will not suffer, and he will have all the fate. ”

"Xi Zhongni went to Luxi, and he was slow and thoughtful, and finally returned to the old capital, why bother Xiangyuan and Taose!"

Fifth Lun is happy when he listens to this tune, isn't it his master's "Anti-Divorce"? only said to others: "It is worthy of being the place where Xuan Jugong lives in seclusion, and you can still hear such 'elegant' songs." ”

The deer and the county magistrate had strange faces, they had come and touched the wall many times.

Seeing a guide coming, the young man's singing immediately stopped, and he only waved his hand to let the people working in the fields leave quickly, and he came with a hoe, and when he saw that Wu Lun and the others were all officials, he frowned and said loudly:

"How many more times do you want me to say it?"

"My father will never come out, you don't have to come again!"

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