On April 11, the documents of the imperial court arrived in Runing Mansion, and Huang Zongxi officially left the post of magistrate of Queshan County and transferred to the magistrate of Neixiang County in Nanyang Prefecture.

When the news was released, Huang Zongxi was quite surprised.

Although Huang Zongxi thought that he was honest and honest during his tenure, and he did his best to do government affairs and other things, but he had no choice but to run rampant, coupled with the hypocrisy of the county officials and the greed of the local gentry, the county did not get better under his rule.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Zongxi always thought that he was afraid that he would be transferred to other remote states and counties to serve as officials, but who knew that now it was an inner village!

Li Tuiguan, who came to the Runing Mansion to convey the court documents, looked at Huang Zongxi's eyes a little wrong, and his eyes were full of envy.

"Huang Xianzun, I didn't expect you to have an old relationship with Liu Zhongcheng, such a big event, why don't you talk about it in the house anymore, Liu Zhongcheng is our big savior in Henan, now the whole province, which one doesn't give him an immortal tablet."

"If you want to say that there is such a relationship, the money allocated by the government last year is estimated to have been sent to you in Queshan County, Nanyang is not far from here, and you have to ask Huang County to take care of it when you turn around."

Huang Zongxi's eyes were a little confused, and he gave up his hands to deal with two sentences, this thing turned out to be done by Liu Wujiang?

Liu Ximing had previously told him that he was welcome to join the Datong Society, and he also knew that Liu Ximing had specially handed over to the imperial court after the end of the epidemic prevention to report his merits, but this transfer to the inner countryside was indeed a bit unexpected to him.

With the arrival of the official of Runing Mansion, the news that Huang Zongxi was leaving office quickly spread throughout the small county town.

"County Zun, you can't go, how can the people of our mountain live if you leave."

"Lord Qingtian, stay and continue to be the county honor."

When Huang Zongxi packed up and was about to leave two days later, hundreds of people from Queshan County came to see him off.

Although Huang Zongxi thinks that he has not done much, he can at least enforce the law impartially, be honest and honest, such a person is already a rare good official in the Ming Dynasty, and of course the people are a little reluctant.

Standing on the steps at the entrance of the county government and looking down, seeing hundreds of people kneeling and kowtowing, Huang Zongxi's sense of responsibility exploded again.

He hurriedly waved his hand to help everyone, "Folks, Huang has been in Queshan for three years, and he hasn't been able to do anything practical for the people of Queshan, so he really can't afford everyone's praise, the court has its own rules, even if I want to stay, I can't stay, please go back quickly." ”

The people of Queshan stayed for a while, and Huang Zongxi shirked it for most of the day before he came out.

However, when Huang Zongxi finally walked out of the crowd and came to his family Ding Huang Han, he found that Huang Han was accompanied by several carriages that looked quite good, and there were more than a dozen men in blue-black suits standing next to the carriages.

"What kind of people are these, don't you just go to find a carriage, how did you get like this?"

The Huang family has been an official for generations, and Huang Han is also the son of the Huang family, hearing the master's reprimand, the young guy was a little helpless and smiled bitterly: "Master, this car is not a small one, they sent it to the door themselves." ”

Huang Zongxi was shocked, could this be what the gentry of Queshan County wanted to do?

He immediately changed his face and said angrily to those men: "This official is sitting up straight, I haven't taken half of you in office, and it is even more impossible for me to leave office now, so you can retreat quickly." ”

Who knew that the leader of a big man with a square face and broad shoulders immediately smiled and arched his hand at Huang Zongxi:

"In Xia Fu Jieli, don't worry about the county, we are sent by Lei County of Neixiang County to welcome you to take office, and it has nothing to do with Queshan."

What?

Huang Zongxi was suddenly a little stunned, this Ming official has always had regulations when he took office, and all of them took office on their own, how could he hear that the states and counties that went to take office still had to greet him, could it be that the inner countryside was doing some kind of evil spirit?

Seeing that Huang Zongxi's face was a little unhappy, the man hurriedly explained with a smile: "County Zun, it is really the rogue that has been raging recently, and Lei County Zun is worried about your safety, so he sent me and others to meet you." ”

Afraid that Huang Zongxi would continue to insist, the man leaned over to him after speaking, and said in a low voice: "Since the county zun has joined the Datong Society, it is my own people, and we naturally have to protect it thoroughly, this carriage is all an industry under the name of Zhongcheng, not the county pays for it, and the county respects and relaxes." ”

Huang Zongxi suddenly felt that Liu Xi's fate was deep, and he suddenly looked forward to the inner countryside and his party.

The group turned over and got on the horse, and when they got out of the county seat, Huang Zongxi suddenly found that there were nearly 100 guards parked outside the city.

"These are also from the county?" , Huang Zongxi sat in the carriage and looked at Fu Jieli curiously.

"Hehe, there has always been a practice of forming a militia in my county, these are all people in the county's militia group, if not, how can we keep the peace of Dengzhou in the inner township."

Huang Zongxi is about to take over the inner countryside, and Fu Jieli is not afraid to tell the truth.

Looking at the well-trained members of the Inner Township Militia in action, Huang Zongxi fell into deep thought.

In fact, he is not the only one, Liu Ximing specially ordered that all the members of the Datong Society who can take care of them must be escorted and protected, such as Xia Yunyi in Shanxi, who was also escorted by him.

There was nothing to say along the way, but when he entered the inner countryside, Huang Zongxi could be said to have opened his eyes.

There are checkpoints everywhere in the county, and these checkpoints do not charge miscellaneous taxes, but are only used to prevent spies, giving people an inexplicable sense of security.

The official roads of the county are also very smooth and wide, and the fields on both sides of the road do not show the slightest sign of abandonment, densely planted with grain, like a green ocean.

However, in addition to wheat, there are many crops that Huang Zongxi has never seen.

After asking, he learned that these were called corn.

Huang Zongxi had also heard of this thing in Queshan County, and it was said that the yield was very high, but due to the speed of technology spread and the government's ability to execute it in this era, the surrounding prefectures and counties, including Huang Zongxi, were unable to promote the reform of this crop.

Unexpectedly, Neixiang and Dengzhou could allow this thing to be planted in the county, and Huang Zongxi couldn't help but take a look at the Datong Society led by Liu Ximing again.

Only those who have been local officials know how difficult it is to govern the locality, the power of the Ming Dynasty is not lower than that of the county, and the officials can only rely on the officials and gentry to rule the locality, and what they can do is really limited.

What made Huang Zongxi even more surprised was that when they came to Neixiang County, Lei Hong, who was supposed to leave for Dengzhou, was still waiting for him in Neixiang County.

"Brother Taichong, the little brother has waited for a thousand times, but it can be regarded as waiting for you."

Lei Hong, who had been promoted to Zhengliupin Zhizhou, was quite polite to Huang Zongxi, and greeted him with a smile as soon as they met.

After returning the salute, Huang Zongxi asked curiously: "Brother Youze doesn't go to Dengzhou to take office, but what are you waiting for me to do here?" ”

"It's not a matter of government affairs handover", Lei Hong showed a wry smile, "Brother Wujiang has already set a rule for me in Datong, all local handovers, must make the predecessor and successor face to face, and only after clarifying all the details are allowed to leave office." ”

"Besides, the government affairs in my inner countryside are very different from those in other places, if I don't wait for you to come, I'm afraid that you won't be able to find a way out of many things."

Huang Zongxi was overjoyed when he heard this, this Datong Society's routine of doing things is too much to his liking.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a term for the handover of government affairs, but because the officials had been in office for too long, this handover was often a mere formality.

Usually, the predecessor would leave all the documents in the treasury, and throw them to officials such as the county governor for safekeeping, and when the successor official took office, he could only go through the files himself.

It is precisely because of this system that the phenomenon of the predecessor digging the pit and the later generation filling the pit is often caused.

Even if the successor official examines what is wrong on the spot, because the predecessor has left office, you have to carry these problems yourself, so that the local government affairs are worse day by day.

Lei Hong's handover is different from Huang Zongxi's previous experience, in addition to his predecessor as the county magistrate, Pei Lexin, a member of the Datong Society who served as the county governor in Neixiang County, and all the personnel in the household room and the torture room were handed over by him to hand over together.

The Datong Society infiltrated the entire Neixiang County very thoroughly, and when he heard that all the officials, including the county officials, were all members of the Datong Society, Huang Zongxi almost fainted.

The reasons why Neixiang can be unique among many states and counties have begun to emerge.