On the tenth day of the first month of December, the wax festival has passed, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and even Anlu County, which does not snow in previous years, has fallen into a heavy snowfall......

The snow fell all night, and by the next morning, the whole of Anlu was white: the trees of the mountains and forests were covered with snow, like jade leaves; The roofs of Liju were covered with snow, and the people hid in their houses and shivered and did not want to go out; Those empty acres became a snowy field, and a few hare haunted left plum blossom footprints on it; Yun Mengze also had a thin layer of frost, and the north wind was whistling on the surface of the lake, and there was a cold scene everywhere.

Although the weather is bad, there are still some pedestrians and vehicles on the road. On the road thirty miles south of Anlu County, there is a carriage with two horses and wheels driving slowly, the horse's hooves are wrapped in non-slip straw, the coachman exhales white gas while driving the car, the car behind him is full of firewood and grass, and there is a person lying on the thick haystack......

But I saw that this man was wrapped in a thick winter coat, a hat on his head, and a sword on his shoulder, but the hat could not cover the bright red silk on his forehead, and the robe could not cover the silk clothes on his body.

Looking at the dress, when he is a pavilion chief, it is the black man who just passed the assessment a few days ago and was appointed as the pavilion chief of Huyang!

Hefu came today, but for his appointment, and he has been delayed for several days.

It turned out that on the first day of the lunar month, in front of the chief official Peng, Heifu answered twenty legal questions correctly in one go, and his face did not change, which shocked the entire chief official Peng Guan. The chief official Peng was surprised, and immediately reported the matter to the county order, the county right lieutenant, and the left lieutenant.

In this way, the left lieutenant, who had been saying that Heifu was a rough man, did not know the law, and could not be an official, had no excuse, so he had to pinch his nose and watch the county commander and the right lieutenant approve this appointment, he was not the chief official after all.

Although the appointment has been issued, Heifu is involved in a lawsuit again, and it is he who sues Rizheng Sunset!

Heifu reported to the county that Li was inciting people to make trouble at sunset, trying to break into his house and take away the stepping block, and Li Zheng had also taken revenge on Heifu's family in the past few years.

It's really a coincidence that the one who was arranged to accept this case was still Prison Pengxi, who was happy to see that it was Heifu, and was stunned at first, and then his expression was "Why are you again?" ”

Fortunately, there were no twists and turns in this case, because there were too many witnesses for Heifu, from the old official Yan Zhen in the plaque where he was taught, to the inner prison door in the sunset, they all stood on Heifu's side and confirmed what he saw that day.

As for the people who were summoned in the sunset, perhaps because of the events of that day, they were ashamed, or they were afraid of Heifu, the new pavilion chief, and they also said that they were purely instigated by the lizheng to gather to make trouble, and some people testified: "When the sunset is distributing cattle and farm tools, they are biased towards their own relatives, and those who have grievances often do not get the ploughing oxen, so they can only pull the plough themselves......"

It is indeed unclean, and now that the wall is falling down and everyone is pushing it, it is impossible to clear the charge.

Finally, under the conclusive evidence, Xi cited the "Code of Conduct for Cadres of the Great Qin" ("The Way of Officials"), in which "Officials Have Five Mistakes", and believed that the sunset was committing mistakes such as "seeing the arrogance of the people, uneasing their duties, taking good advantage of officials, and making improper affairs", which was also a crime of dereliction of duty at the lightest.

But it did not cause serious consequences, and the title was made by the top, so it could be slightly atoned, and in the end only a "ransom" was sentenced, and at the same time, the position of Lizheng was removed, the meritorious lord was cut off, and the rewarded fields were confiscated......

Li Zheng completely lost his status at this time, he spent most of his family wealth and paid more than 30,000 yuan to be exempted from the punishment of black noodles, and all those field slaves were taken away by the government, and he may have to work in the field in person with the lowly people he despised in the future.

This matter is not over, Shang Ying said, ten miles to break the weak, five miles to break the strong, although the grassroots officials are small, but they are indispensable for a day, and you have to choose another one in the sunset.

Generally speaking, the lizheng is elected by the local people, or directly appointed by the village officials, and is often held by the person with the highest title, the most prestige, and the strongest financial resources.

In the end, the old man with the highest title in the middle of the prison got his wish and became the new Li Zheng, so that the position of the prison gate was vacant again......

What is unexpected is that when the new prison gate was selected next, the villagers actually came to the door one after another, please do the prison door sincerely!

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Although he seems to have a cowardly personality, he is loyal, fair, and can be trusted. On that day, the roar on the threshold of his home made the people in the house respect him more.

Coupled with the fear of the head of the Heifu Pavilion, some of the people made a move to curry favor with the Heifu family, so they were pushed to this position.

"I don't want to do anything ...... prison."

But he was not happy, his head shook like a rattle, he was a person who didn't like to be in the limelight, and he really didn't want to get into trouble for five buckets of rice.

The third brother was shocked and felt that it was not appropriate for some officials to do it? How majestic! But Heifu was supportive, thinking that it was better not to wade into this troubled water.

Heifu was so heartfelt and shocked: "The inner prison gate, Wu Lao and the like, even if they are elected by the insiders, the uncle does not have to be the uncle, just because Qin Lu is too strict with these positions, and if he is not careful, he will have an accident." ”

For example, if a thief enters A's house and injures A, and A cries out that there is a thief, his neighbors, Lizheng, and Wu Lao all go out and do not hear the shout. When the punishment is made, the neighbors go out without punishment. Even if Li Zheng and Wu Lao are not there, they cannot be exempted from responsibility. The inner prison gate that allowed thieves to enter was also punished.

In the Qin State, officials should not only enjoy the benefits of food, but also take responsibility and risks, remember, remember.

As a traverser, he knows the general trend of the times, just like a salmon swimming against the current, he knows where to swim safely, and if he can't enter, he will retreat to the end.

And there is a sentence that Heifu didn't say directly: "Want to please our family? Asking for forgiveness? I'm sorry, I don't have the same good temper as my uncle, I don't appreciate it!"

Besides, the old man in the communication room, what is there to do!

So, I sincerely rejected the recommendation of the people in the house, and continued to focus on the more than 200 acres of land at home and the education of the shock.

At the same time, Heifu's sister-in-law was also left in the county's wood-tapping workshop to participate in the manufacture of "stepping on the mill".

It turned out that after the county engineer and the cangfu presented this thing, the Anlu county order attached great importance to it, and immediately ordered a batch to be made out and put into use in the county warehouse - the government-run workshop could not casually make the official "letter of order", that is, the utensils other than the plan, unless it was approved by the local county order.

However, the reward that should have been given has not been given for a long time. Because the county order was not sure how much credit this was, he packed the matter and sent it to Gangneung City, the capital of Nanjun, together with an imitation of the treadmill, and asked the county guard of Nanjun to make a decision......

From Anlu to Jiangling, across Yunmeng Daze, the mountains and rivers are 500 miles, and it takes more than half a month to go back and forth. Because of the household registration system of Qin Guo's pit father, the utensils were offered by the whirlpool, and this matter has little to do with him, but fortunately, no matter what the result is, the cheap ones are all from their own families, and they are not a loss.

And Heifu himself went to visit Yan Xu's house again and thanked him for his help. On the eighth day of the lunar month, after hurriedly passing the day of the lunar sacrifice and settling down at home, he went out to work.

However, Heifu did not go directly to Huyang Pavilion, but first went to Liyi in Zhuanshui Township and met with the "Youyou" who was responsible for arresting thieves in Hongxiang.

Although the pavilion chief is a subordinate official directly under the county lieutenant, and there is no direct subordinate relationship with the "head of the township police station", there is a lot of overlap between the responsibilities of the two.

For the way of officials, it is not only the ability to look at, but also the number of human favors.

After that, Heifu was trapped in the village of Zhuanshui by this sudden snowfall, and he could not set off until the snow stopped this morning.

He was lucky that a carriage to the county seat promised to take him with him.

Unlike at the end of September, when he went to the county seat to serve, he had to rely on his legs to go back and forth, and now Heifu has an official body, with a red curtain on his head and a silk robe, and when he encounters a passing carriage, he can stop it with a casual stretch of hand, and then arch his hand and politely say Can you take a ride along the way? The owner of the car will agree with the eight CDs.

So, Heifu just lay down on the carriage, swayed comfortably, and took all the way to the north of Zhuanshui Township......

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"This pavilion chief, Huyang Pavilion has arrived."

The carriage came to a slow stop on the side of the road, and the coachman warmed his frozen hands, and turned back to wake up the sleeping Heifu.

Heifu got up and looked, but saw that next to the straight road, there was a wooden pillar about a foot high, and on the top of the pillar sat a statue of a strange monster, which was like a raccoon dog and a dog, and Heifu couldn't name it. Looking down, there is also a wooden board nailed in the center of the pillar, on which are engraved four small seals of "Huyang Pavilion".

Heifu knows that this is Huan Watch, which can also be called Huabiao, according to legend, Yao Shi set up Huan Biao in the traffic artery, for people to write advice, needle when it was used, and then it gradually became the symbol of the pavilion.

Beyond the Huan Table, there is a dirt staircase, which leads to several earthen houses covered with black tiles, that is, pavilions......

"This is my pavilion......"

In the past few months, Heifu has seen a lot of pavilions along the way, and he has long been surprised, but the only one in front of him makes him feel both familiar and unfamiliar, and his heart is full of mixed feelings.

His story started with the conflict with the head of the Huyang Pavilion, and he came here by mistake, and it was really not easy to become the head of the pavilion.

At this time, two people walked out of the door of the pavilion, which had been open. They seemed to have been waiting at the door, and when they saw the carriage stop, they came out and cried out in a loud voice, "But Hefu? ”

The sound was loud, shaking the snow on the pines and cypresses on the side of the road for a while, and Heifu was immediately happy when he saw it.

The visitor was also dressed in a silk suit, with a sword on his waist, two thick sideburns on his cheeks, and a terrifying leopard print birthmark on his forehead.

Except for his good partner Dongmen Leopard, who else can there be?