Can Ercheng does not kill officials and rebel. Nor did he go out to kill people and set fires, and he kept buying people, scholars, and scholars in a panic, deliberately creating a situation of peaceful coexistence. In this way, it will not attract the attention of Shangguan and the imperial court. After all, up and down is more than one thing, better than less.

"This gang of fashionable thieves is really hateful." Wu Mingjin said with annoyance.

"Don't worry. The fashionable thieves are still acting in a measured manner, what do they want, it is up to them to go Wang Zhaomin can't come up with any clever ideas, so he has to sacrifice the "ostrich policy."

"That's it." Wu Mingjin knew that he had three choices, either he committed suicide immediately, killed himself, and made the thieves lose the object of use, but he was reluctant to die like this, not to mention that there was a family; Either abandon the official and flee, or sneak back to his hometown, or go to the capital or provincial capital to announce the urgency, but the county order has the responsibility of defending the land, and it is a felony to abandon the post and flee; Zuihou is sending someone to the provincial capital to ask for help, this is even more unscored, when he sent someone to Qiongshan to tell the urgency, Zuihou came out of a few letters of letters, and did not see a soldier to suppress the bandits. Besides, it has been more than a year since the thief landed, and Shangfeng really wants to ask, what has he been doing for more than a year, and what is his answer?

Come to think of it, there's really not much you can do other than default to reality.

"What changes have been made in the county office?" Since you plan to continue to be hypocritical, you have to know the other party's moves.

In addition to Chen Mingwang, Zhang Shi was also arrested. Wang Zhaomin said in detail about the adjustment of the people in the county government of the crossing group, "Between me, most Australians will ask Dong Weng to dismiss all these people."

"Then it's up to them." Wu Mingjin thinks that things are only like this now, but these familiar hands are gone, and how to deal with official affairs in the future has become a problem.

"There's no need to worry." Wang Zhaomin said, "The Hufang Bookstore made up Zhou Qi, he is Chen Mingwang's big apprentice, and he is an old man. The clerks of the four rooms of officials, ceremonies, workers, and soldiers are still retained, and as for the head of the third shift, Wang Zhaomin feels that it doesn't matter if there are them or not at the moment.

As for the torture room, there were not many cases to be handled in this county, and there were other scribes in the torture room who could handle them on their behalf, and one less Zhang would not collapse in ten days.

When you think about it this way, it's not a big problem.

"Master Xiong said, the fee for filling the vacancy in the bookstore is still the same"

Wu Mingjin's eyelids twitched, but if the clerk's office has to fill the vacancy, he has to pay a fee to the county lord as usual, and the same as the official, there are different markets according to the size of the oil and water missing. Now the fashionable thief has captured two bookstores in one go, and this income is not small! Wu Mingjin suddenly felt a little regretful that since he had been arrested, it would not be better to simply arrest all the six room clerks, anyway, the past bookstores were not necessarily loyal.

But the clerk of the treasury was also arrested

Wu Mingjin was taken aback: "The fashionable thief wants to rob the county treasury?"

"It didn't work, it just took people away. Still in the yamen, Wang Zhaomin whispered: "There is a seal on the treasury. They were also guarded. There are no other abnormal changes, Lingao is a poor county, and there is not much oil and water in the county treasury. But there is no more oil and water. The treasury also has a few hundred taels of silver, more than a thousand stones of grain, and a lot of cloth and miscellaneous goods, which is also a lot of wealth. If you really want to rob it, Jingguang, with the high financial situation, it will not be able to make up the gap in three or five years, and when he leaves office, Wu Mingjin will not be able to explain to his successor.

In an empty room in the county office, the treasurers who had been arrested yesterday were all detained and awaiting interrogation.

The person in charge of the interrogation was You Guotuan, and Zhou Dongtian had already rushed to the "study class." specially interrogated Chen Mingwang and his gang. You Guotuan's task is to pry open the mouths of the treasury officials and find out how much wealth these rats have accumulated for themselves to fill the treasury of the Planning Commission, and the other is to grasp the key points in it, so that they will take over more states and counties in the future.

"Don't underestimate a few. Dong Weiwei, the treasurer, said, "Do you know who is the richest in Beijing in the second generation of the Ming and Qing dynasties?" ”

"The emperor is a dignitary, a traitor? .

"Haha, that's okay. However, the wealth of the treasury officials is what the Beijing division is famous for. ”

This treasurer. It was the treasurer who managed the treasury of the household department, and their theft and embezzlement of the household bank and the two to make a fortune was an open secret in the society at that time.

The situation in the local yamen treasury is similar, although it is not as oily and watery as the household treasury. But it's also enough to make a fortune. In addition to the household clerk in the county government, the treasury clerk of the silver and grain warehouses has the most oil and water. The so-called management of the treasury eats the warehouse, compared to the counterparts in the household treasury who just stuff silver into the anus and mainly steal, the jishu content of the treasurer of the local yamen is much higher, and there are many tricks of cheating.

The simplest and most "incorruptible" trick is to embezzle money with treasury money to earn interest; Silver and copper coins can be used for money, and in places like Lingao, where the commodity economy is not developed, cloth and grain can also be used for lending.

The second is that it is shoddy, and all kinds of physical objects stored in the warehouse: grains and classes, which have been stored for a long time, naturally have losses, and the losses are here. Yes a lot. Let the treasurers have the final say. Or directly report the loss and cancel it, or report that it has been stored for a long time and is about to be damaged, and request to sell it at a low price.

Even if there is no problem of loss of silver and copper coins, the treasury officials can also play the trick of shoddy haode, replacing the good money in the treasury with low-value small money such as sand shell films. The silver that has been carved cannot be touched casually, but the loose silver that has not been re-smelted after collection can be replaced with miscellaneous silver of low fineness.

These are all open secrets in the state and county yalimen, but the magistrates rarely dare to rectify them, and if they block his financial route, there will be trouble when he leaves office. For the problem of "inconsistent accounts", the magistrate has to pay for it. In addition, the treasurer also had filial piety to the magistrate. Generally, honest and ethical magistrates do not accept the filial piety of the treasurer at most, but they do not dare to provoke them easily, and even if the deficit of the treasurer is exposed, they have to try to hide it for him and let him use his own brains to make up for it. We must not be too anxious, let him jump over the wall in a hurry, and turn over, the treasury officials will lose their envoys at most, but the officials will have to suffer and be tired, and if they don't make trouble, they will be dismissed from their posts.

If it is a corrupt official, then it is even more permissible to make a fool of himself and further commit false accounts or self-theft. Some county magistrates directly use the county treasury as their own ATM, and when they need to use silver, they will make white slips and withdraw them directly. There is hardly a state or county in the world that has not had a deficit.

As for the scribes of the grain store, the benefits are even greater. Because the storehouse was full of grain.

The room for reversal and withdrawal is greater than that of the silver warehouse. For the problem of mildew and aging of grain, as usual, some old grain must be dealt with every year, and the old grain should be dealt with at a low price, and then the new grain should be put into the warehouse. This is a practice that is allowed by the warehouse method. After the approval of the county order, the good grain was also recorded according to the selling price of the cheap grain, and the difference between the account and the actual price was a considerable "interest".

As for shoddy products similar to those in the county treasury, it is easier to do them in the grain depot. Good millet is sold, and the same amount of inferior goods are bought from the outside to replace it. As long as the accounts are right, there is no risk.

"These are the simplest tricks, we don't know how many tricks they have in reality, you'd better ask more about it." Dong Weiwei said, "It will be useful in the future." ”

"Don't worry, I'll pry their mouths open." You Guotuan is very sure of this.

"Man, but I'm a gentleman and a chef, so you can play slowly." Dong Weiwei said with a smile and walked away.

"Playthings with these ugly uncles," You Guotuan said, "what a strong nerve." I'm going to do this."

Retracting his grumbling thoughts, You Guotuan came to the room where the treasurer was being held, which was the three main rooms. The largest room in the middle was counted as his interrogation room, and the wing room was used as a cell.

At that moment, he put people up, and he looked at the few people kneeling in front of him, there were those who were in charge of the silver warehouse, those who were in charge of the material warehouse, and those who were in charge of the salt warehouse, because of the local production of salt, so there was more such a warehouse. are all the core figures in the treasury and treasury officials.

To pry their mouths open as quickly as possible, torture is of course the best choice.

It's a pity that not many people are willing to learn this promising craft. Several apprentices led by Zhou Dongtian were all serving Chen Mingli and his colleagues in the study class. Here I had to go into battle myself. Fortunately, the soap class has retained some veterans who are good at torture and torture, and they can be used.

You Guotuan sat down on one of the chairs majestically, didn't look at them, and began to drink tea. Although things are complicated and urgent, they are not in a hurry at such a moment.

These guys knew that this was a fashionable thief who was giving them a horse, and they moved their bodies uneasily. It's uncomfortable to kneel for so long, and since they were arrested last night, they have only eaten very little, these people are pampered and live a superior life on weekdays, where can they afford such hardships. In less than ten minutes, some people couldn't support it anymore and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Chief, say it, if there is any command, the little ones dare not disobey."

You Guotuan made a drunken and leisurely appearance, and said casually: "I heard that several of you are very rich." ”

These words were like lightning strikes, and the faces of several people froze. One of them hurriedly kowtowed: It's just a small errand in the county, but to make a living, how dare you say that you are rich. Then the others chimed in.

You Guotuan frowned, these people are not only greedy but also very stupid: it seems that the errand service in the government for too long has a bad impact on IQ, and he always feels that what he says is what he says, even if he opens his eyes and says nonsense, no one dares to question it.

"Come on!" You Guotuan shouted. The intern of the Political Security Bureau, who had just been added to the soap class, immediately trotted over:

"Chief of Reporting"

"I don't want you, but call the people who are retained." You Guotuan added, "Bring their guys." Outside the board, well, just bring a clamp stick! ”