In ancient times, the speed of information transmission was very slow, especially in rural places like Chenshi Village. So after the ancestral hall held a meeting that day, it took Chen Shiai, an old showman, a few more days of hard work to contact a group of colleagues and prepare to go to the county government for a wave.

The colleagues who Lao Xiucai contacted are naturally also Xiucai. No matter how high-level Jinshi is, he can't be a bird, and low-level Tongsheng can't be useful, so he can only show talent.

Fortunately, Xiucai is enough. In the great erosion of the literati class at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xiucai was originally responsible for charging into battle and making bad money. Covering up lawsuits, spilling in the court, gathering crowds to besiege the official office, and other bad things were all brought forward by Xiucai. So this time I went to the county government office as a daily routine, and everyone was very proficient in business.

Among the brave people who went to make trouble this time, except for another talent in the clan, most of the rest that Chen Shiai had contacted were litigants and poor sours in the nearby townships, as well as two local snakes in Guangzhou City.

After receiving the bank's money, the group of people geared up and said that they wanted to help Chen Friend and bring a good rhythm.

When the lineup of the combination of internal and external was completed, Chen Shiai, an old showman, led a group of bad talents, and took out a ticket to help the subordinates who were responsible for the noise, and set foot on the road to Guangzhou City in the early morning of June 20.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the city of Guangzhou was jointly administered by the two counties of Panyu and Nanhai. The jurisdiction of these two yamen exactly divided the city of Guangzhou into two, and the area was roughly the same.

After the Ming Dynasty, due to the expansion of the land area and the urban area to varying degrees, most of the Guangzhou City during this period of time was under the rule of Panyu County, except for one-fifth of the territory in the west.

Unlike later generations, the ancient county jurisdiction was very large. Guangzhou Mansion in the Ming Dynasty almost included the entire Pearl River Delta region, with a total of only thirteen counties. In the later generations, there were eleven districts in Guangzhou alone.

So where does the new city plot under construction belong to? I'm sorry, but it happens to be under the management of Panyu County. So today's matter, reasonable and reasonable, Panyu County can't get out.

When Chen Shiai and a group of people entered the city gate and came to the Panyu County Ya located on the eastern side of Yushan Mountain, the sun was already hanging in the air, and it was the time when the county government announced - this group of old Xiucai naturally would not mistake the announcement day of the county government.

Then Chen Shiai successfully handed over the complaint against Cao Dashuai.

At the same time, in Chenjia Village, Jinshi Chen Shiqi was holding a letter and shouting: "Go and call the patriarch back!" ”

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As the saying goes, no coincidence is possible. At the moment when Chen Shiai entered the city, a young man dressed as a servant and a subordinate also stepped into Chen Shi Village. After the young man entered the village, he found the door of Chen Shiqi's house by asking all the way, and finally handed over a few letters to Master Chen.

In ancient times, private messages were often delivered by businessmen and fellow villagers. Especially for the long distance from the capital to Guangzhou, unless it is a major matter, few people send special messengers, without him, the cost is too high.

This time, Chen Shiqi received a letter from his old friend in the capital more than a month ago. This old friend of his is also a poor Beijing official, and he can't send any express mail, let alone send any 800 miles of urgency, which is to lose his head, so he can only ask the merchant to bring the letter.

The merchant went all the way along the Grand Canal, and after wandering around to Canton, it took a few more days to settle the carriage and horses, and it was not until this morning that he sent a companion to deliver the letter.

In other words, Chen Shiai and his group passed by the guys.

And when Chen Shiqi read the letter, he was dumbfounded on the spot: the letter wrote that Cao Thief actually made a great contribution to the country at the border, beheaded more than 4,000 people, and resisted a round of political tide, and was made an earl by the emperor!

"Go and call the patriarch back!"

This was Chen Shiqi's only reaction after reading the letter. Unfortunately, he reacted a little late.

Sun Rishao, a native of Jiangxi, a Jinshi in the year of the Apocalypse, from the first year to the fifth year of Chongzhen, served as the commander of Panyu County.

The Sun County Commander of this meeting, who was taking square steps, with official robes all over his body, turned out from the back of the hall, accompanied by the classic cheers of the officials under the hall "ascending to the hall + mighty", and sat on the official hat chair of the main hall with a golden knife.

The next moment, Sun Daxian, who was emaciated, took a letter from the side of his hand and read it carefully, and then announced that Chen Shiai went to court.

"Your Majesty Xiucai, you sued the Zhangchao General Soldier for abusing the people and seizing people's homes today, do you have any evidence?"

At this moment, Chen Shiai's face was calm.

Because before this, he had asked the trustee to meet the county order in private, and gave a gift, explaining his intentions: to maintain a low-intensity struggle posture with the dogleg surnamed Cao, and when the situation in the court changes in the future, this springboard can be used, and the Chen family will join the army that overthrows Cao, and when the time comes, there will be injustices, and the losses must be made up.

So when he saw Sun County Commander appear in the lobby as usual, he was convinced: after all, this is a lawsuit against a second member, if the county commander is unwilling to cooperate, then he can not get out of his illness today, or directly reply to ask his family to stop and not make trouble for him.

"My lord, the general soldier surnamed Cao went to Chenshi Village a few days ago to threaten to buy land, and then saw that the people did not obey, so he asked people to destroy my fertile land at night, poison my fish pond, and destroy the villagers' hard work for many years."

"All kinds of above, there are literati certificates here, and I hope that the adults will not be afraid of the powerful and avenge the people!"

Hearing this, Sun Xianling frowned slightly.

In fact, about the matter of land requisition, there has been a lot of uproar for half a year, and he has taken over a lot of the same situation, and the county magistrate naturally knows the cause and effect.

Originally, for the sake of gifts and a little friendship, Sun Xianling planned to make a handful of mud: Chen Shiai's clan head iron and surnamed Cao's wrist wrestling, although he was not optimistic, but as a lowly official close to the people, there was no need to intensify the contradictions between the two sides.

The information channel on the county order is naturally a little stronger than this gang of country sticks. This includes the news he got from Shangguan a few days ago, as well as some public content in the Di newspaper - on the whole, no one in Guangdong at the moment can tell what the surname Cao is, at least for a short time.

However, now the county lord's mind has changed. He really wanted to remind this fool in the hall: don't pull Lao Tzu into troubled waters. What does it mean to not be afraid of the powerful? The surnamed Cao was calling for wind and rain in the capital a few days ago, and he was really red and purple, but it was ridiculous that these idiots were still working as a car in the mantis arm. vainly trying to squeeze yourself by not being afraid of the powerful......

"Alas, whatever you want, this official will not serve."

Thinking of this, Sun Xianling said a little excitedly: "In this way, this state will stay in this office." After the official is written and the general soldier yamen, look at the receipt and then make a decision. ”

"Thank you, sir."

At this point, today's matter is over. Next, Chen Shiai will go back and wait for news - waiting for not the bullshit receipt of the chief soldier's yamen, the one who thinks with his heels knows what the content is.

Chen Shiai waited for news that was unfavorable to Cao Zongbing in terms of the overall situation. This news was basically his lifeline. If the news does not come for a long time, then the Chen clan will have to admit defeat, because the remaining savings in the clan cannot be postponed indefinitely.

At the moment when Chen Shiai bowed and withdrew from the hall, and Sun Mingfu had already reached out to take a copy of the certificate, there was chaos outside the county hall: a group of people broke in from the gate.

This team is wearing a new red mandarin duck jacket, a copper basin helmet, and buffalo leather combat boots.

After the elites broke in, they quickly waved their leather whips and short sticks to drive aside the melon-eating crowd gathered outside the hall gate. After clearing the road, the gang worked in pairs and cleared the human wall from the gate to the main hall.

Next, a small group of guards with short guns pinned to their waists walked into the county office surrounded by a member wearing a red robe, and there were even guards holding Remington's five consecutive rounds in front of and behind the team.

At the same time, the guards who rushed to the lobby had already shouted out a long title at the top of their voices: "Uncle Zhongyong, Doctor Ronglu, Zhuguo, Squire of the Military Department, Governor of the Left Capital of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, Chief Military Officer of Daming Guarding Zhangchao and other places, Lord Cao Chuan has arrived at the ......."

After hearing this series of titles, Chen Shihoi, who was already stunned, jumped up in the hall.

I didn't want another person, but I really jumped: Sun Rishao, the main hall of Panyu County, Guangdong, Daming.

After a spirit jumped up from the seat, the grandparents hurriedly bypassed the public case and stepped forward: "The next official Sun Rishao saw Lord Cao, but he didn't know that the adult arrived, and he missed the distance, and he hoped to atone for his sins." ”。

Even if the late Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, but a seven-county order was in front of the super earl, it was still necessary to honestly carry out the ceremony. In fact, theoretically, the county order still has to kneel, and it is already very good to just make a salute.

"Haha, I'm an uninvited guest, what is Sun Mingfu's crime?"

Cao Dashuai came to Panyu County today, not to ask for the county order, so he didn't bother with the county order, but explained with a smile: "I just came back from the capital a few days ago, and I originally came out of the General He Army's Mansion today, and I didn't want to pass by the county office, but I heard that someone was suing me...... Sun County's order, this official may observe? ”

"Yes, yes!" When Cao Dashuai entered the yamen before, his parents saw the arrogant behavior that no one in the whole Guangdong official dared to put on, and knew that this belonged to a battlefield general who would turn his face when he said that he would turn his face, so he would not touch his head, and hurriedly nodded and agreed.

"Haha, then thank you grandparents." After Cao Dashuai finished speaking, he turned around and swaggered onto the public case, and sat on the official hat chair of his parents, ignoring the embarrassment on his grandparents' faces.

After sitting on the county magistrate's seat, Cao Dashuai picked up the pleadings on the case, shook his hands and threw down the pleadings, and then asked with a smile: "Who in the hall sued this official?" ”

Chen Shi's love secretly complained, but he was already riding a tiger at the moment, and he couldn't say that he didn't hand it over?

So Chen Shiai bowed his head and came out of the ranks, coughed, habitually bent down and bowed, and was about to say something.

The next moment, with Cao Dashuai's faint "take", Chen Shiai was instantly pressed to the ground by two guards with big shoulders and round waists.

Chen Shiai was shocked: "Huh!? Master Cao, why did you arrest me? What sins have you committed? ”

"Fang just roared at Shangguan, can't you be caught?"

Not only Chen Shiai, but everyone in the hall was shocked at this moment: coughing is also considered a roaring Shangguan?

"I don't accept it, it's a sin to be added!"

"Just a showman, not only roaring in the court, but also looking at the supreme official, seeing that I, the earl, didn't kneel."

Cao Dashuai took out the county master's order and threw it down: "Someone." ”

"Dashuai!"

"Strip off this person's scarf and green robe, and put him in the station cage to show the public."

"Order!"

"Again." Cao Dashuai snapped his fingers at this time: "All the party henchmen who arranged this person outside the hall will be taken down and put in the station cage." By the way, I took my post to Guangdong Xuezheng Yamen, and picked up the fame of this group of people. ”

"Order!"

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