Chapter 113: Wu Guizhang of Meixian County
"The emperor is really right, he is always so partial, he only takes Concubine Xiao Guifei alone in everything, and he doesn't take our concubines in his eyes at all."
Yi Concubine said as soon as she spoke, Hua Concubine was even more angry in her heart, and Yi Concubine took the opportunity to say again: "Niangniang, the emperor won't let us go, we can go with it, didn't the emperor say it, the southern tour is outside, let everyone relax, don't be so obedient."
When you go out, just report to General Sima where to go and what to do, General Sima is your younger brother, and the concubine wants you to go to the emperor's place, General Sima shouldn't say anything. ”
This is a good way, Hua Concubine thought about it, and immediately asked Bai Shao to find someone to prepare the carriage and drive in the direction where Feng Feihan and the others left.
This palace wants to see what Tang Ningnan is doing with the emperor every time he is outside.
Among the people who went to Meixian County, in addition to Tang Ningnan, Huang Qi and Fan Si, as well as Duan An, the governor of Mianshui, Li Lanshi also went with a group of guards dressed in civilian clothes to help fight the flood and provide disaster relief.
At first, Tang Ningnan didn't understand why the guards also had to dress up in plain clothes, and if they went to disaster relief, wouldn't wearing the clothes of officers and soldiers be more deterrent and make the organization more effective?
After listening to Feng Feihan in the car, he understood the reason.
As the governor of the Mijiang River, Fan Si is responsible for the construction of the river embankment, and every year in late spring and early summer, he also has to inspect the local flood control construction.
This year, almost every place in the water has been monitored, and the problems pointed out by Fan Si have also been repaired, but when Fan Si went to Meixian County, he was repeatedly blocked by Wu Guizhang, the local magistrate.
So far, eight people have been confirmed to have died due to the floods, and 13 people are missing. It is conceivable that some of them swallowed the silver used to repair the river embankment, and regarded the lives of the people as if they were grass and mustard.
When he said this, the atmosphere in the carriage condensed a little, they all knew that Feng Feihan hated corrupt officials the most, and now that this corrupt official had made him bump into, and he had also taken the lives of so many innocent people, Feng Feihan naturally would not spare him.
Meixian is not far from the water, within two hours, the carriage entered the boundary of Meixian County, their destination is the county seat, not only because they want to ask Wu Guizhang, the magistrate of Meixian County, but also because the place where the embankment is broken is the river embankment of the county seat.
Due to the torrential rain, the road to the county seat was blocked by a mudslide that collapsed from the mountain, and the carriage could not pass. But this place is not far from the county seat, and now that the rain has stopped, everyone plans to walk over from here.
Fortunately, Huang Qiyou's hometown is in Meixian County, and he is quite familiar with this place, so he changed to another road if one road didn't work, and took Feng Feihan and his party into the county seat.
When I arrived at the county seat, I saw that the ground was devastated and the flood with sediment had accumulated in low-lying places, and it was muddy everywhere, making it difficult to get off the foot, and the relatively low-lying streets and houses were submerged in the river.
This is what it looks like after the flood, according to Van Si, the flood has receded a little, it is what it is now, if it was last night, this place must have been flooded, now I just hope that there will be no more rainstorms, if the flood executes the levee in him again, the situation in Meixian County will be precarious.
In the distance, higher up, where there was no flooding, there were makeshift thatched huts, and I think those who were victims of the flood, the houses were flooded, and some of their relatives may have been killed by the flood.
The magistrate of that Mei County is really a heinous crime, Tang Ningnan thought so in his heart, and couldn't help frowning.
Feng Feihan saw Tang Ningnan's expression, and thought that she was scared when she heard Fan Si's words, grabbed her hand, and cast a firm look.
Fan Si came back to Meixian so much, but he was stopped outside, and this time he naturally couldn't get through by asking him to call the door again, so Huang Qi asked Duan An to show his identity as the governor of Mishui, and the guards of the county government immediately bowed down and invited Huang Qi and his party in.
Feng Feihan glanced at Li Lanshi, Li Lanshi understood, and set aside some people to follow Fan Si to the breach of the embankment to check, and by the way to see if there was anything they needed to help.
The rest of the people all entered the county office, Feng Feihan and Tang Ningnan sat on the rose chairs on the left and right sides of the head, Huang Qiduan sat under the hall, and the rest of the guards stood around to guard.
The governor of Mishui may be just a water official in the eyes of the county, and he only manages the river and has no real power, but the governor is different, he is a dignified and upright official from the fifth grade, and it is more than enough for him, a small seven-grade county order, and the county order naturally does not dare to slack off.
Hearing the report from the guard at the door, when the governor of Mishui came to Meixian in person, Wu Guizhang, the magistrate of the county, immediately went to the lobby to meet him.
Just walk in and see, on the two roses on the top two chairs in the lobby, there is a man and a woman, the woman has a grand face and an excellent demeanor, and the man is jade and golden, and the air is magnificent, both of them are richly dressed and have an extraordinary bearing.
There was also a group of people who looked like guards around him, and this momentum made Wu Guizhang take aback, "Is this posture so big for the Governor of Mishui?" "I thought that I was really a wretch to be the county commander.
After a moment's stunned, the guards came to report the presence of the governor, but he didn't know who the governor of the four people sitting in the hall was.
Excluding the woman and the two people sitting below, it should be the man on the left.
Wu Guizhang arched his hand and saluted Feng Fei Han and said: "Wu Guizhang, the county commander of Xiaguanmei County, has seen the governor, but I don't know if the governor is missing in person, and I hope to forgive me." ”
But no one responded to him, so Wu Guizhang saluted, his body stiffened there.
The entire county government was unusually silent, Wu Guizhang seemed to be like a man's back, his eyes fluttered and looked at the people in the hall, and the people around him who seemed to be guards looked at him with strange eyes, as if he had made a big joke, and the two people sitting in the hall also had complicated expressions.
Rose was staring at the man on the chair with sharp eyes, and his eyes were on the same as him, Wu Guizhang was like someone suddenly choking his neck and panting, and his back was sweating a lot in fright.
Immediately, it was changed from kneeling to kneeling.
"Wu Guizhang, the county commander of Xiaguanmei County, has seen the governor, but I don't know if the governor is there to welcome him in person, and I hope you will forgive me."
He saluted Feng Fei Han again, and repeated the words he had just said, when he heard the voice of a man sitting on the right side of the hall sound: "Is Wu Xian Ling looking for me?" ”
Wu Guizhang looked up, and Duan Anzheng, the governor of Mishui, was looking at him with a smile.
Liang Guo is respected above and below, and the lower is secondary; The left and right are respected, and they are secondary; First up and down, then left and right.
In this order, the man who claimed to be the governor on the right side of the hall was the lowest of the four.
A governor from the fifth grade actually sits in the lowest position, so what kind of great man is the person sitting in this hall?
Wu Guizhang immediately kowtowed again, and said: "The lower officials are guilty, I don't know that the adults and the governor came to Meixian in person, and they were negligent, it is really the fault of the lower officials, please raise your noble hands, and the lower officials will definitely entertain you." ”
Although I don't know what official position it is, in short, it is higher than myself, so it's right to kowtow!
Feng Feihan stared at Wu Guizhang's flattering appearance, picked up a cup of tea on the table, put it on his nose, sniffed it, and put it down again without drinking.
"Wu County's fault is just to snub us?" ”
Feng Feihan's tone was light, but with a condescending momentum, which made Wu Guizhang even more scared in his heart, it's over, what kind of high-ranking official is he neglecting, and he wants to ask him directly.
But Feng Feihan was reluctant to talk to this corrupt official, so he gave Huang Qi a look and asked him to continue with his words.
Huang Qi opened his mouth and said: "Wu County ordered two crimes, one is to block the routine inspection of the river embankment by the governor of Mijiang, which led to the flood breach and the people to be displaced, and the second crime is not to resettle the victims well, so that the people are physically and mentally affected, this is what we have seen so far, as for what other unsightly sins are behind it, then we will investigate them after the inspection." ”
Wu Guizhang's scalp was numb, and these two things were reasonable, and he couldn't deny them.
Hurriedly spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your noble hand, although the lower official is only a small county order, but there is a layer of in-law relationship with Sima Guozhang in the palace, if you can be accommodating for the lower officials in this matter, the lower officials must inform Prime Minister Sima and let him take more care of you." ”
In Wu Guizhang's mind, there is nothing that money can't solve, people will only have endless desires, although these people look richly dressed, but it is impossible to be more noble than Prime Minister Sima, think that these people must also want to give themselves a better future, move out of Prime Minister Sima, they will probably be afraid.
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Feng Feihan with bated breath.
Tang Ningnan pulled the corners of his mouth, revealing an embarrassed expression, this Wu Guizhang is really good at stepping on thunder, the emperor hates corrupt officials the most, he is greedy, the emperor likes the cherished people, he regards them like mustard.
Now, Sima Bin, who the emperor is most afraid of, but he respects him as the national abbot in front of the emperor, and the national abbot has to be the queen's father to be called it, and now Sima Shuhua is just a concubine, where does Sima Bin's identity come from?
This person is hopeless, Tang Ningnan shook his head, but he really deserved it, he did so many bad things and wrong things, and he deserved to be punished.
Tang Ningnan looked at Feng Feihan, his face was gloomy, his thin lips pursed and he said slowly:
"Oh, is it? I also came from the capital, why have I never heard of Sima Guozhang? ”
After speaking, he asked Tang Ningnan, "Madam, have you heard of it?" ”
Tang Ningnan shook his head and said, "The concubine has never heard of it. ”
Feng Feihan asked Huang Qi and Duan An again.
The answers were all "I've never heard of" or "I've never heard of it."
Wu Guizhang immediately relaxed, none of these people knew Sima Guozhang, and he was definitely not a big official, and his tone became triumphant:
"It's the current Prime Minister Sima Bin Sima Prime Minister, his prime minister is still the emperor's own title."