Chapter 1: Bai Hong (Mikami)

This story is no funnier than the first two, and it has a huge flaw. However, most of the guests here were scholars, and what they were most happy to believe in was that as long as they read the books of the sages, power, money, and beautiful women would rush to them. Therefore, he was slightly stunned at first, and then smiled "hey, hey, hey" tacitly.

Xue Jingxian looked at everyone's performance, and became more and more suspicious that everyone was sincere and couldn't get along with him. Snorted coldly, and asked with a smile: "As a dignified scholar, I actually went to enter the house of the merchants." It's really a dog's belly! Are all the local officials blind? How can such a disgraced thing be allowed to happen? ”

"It's just a joke. Don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously! Zhao Wuwu didn't have the heart to compete with this person who didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly waved his hand and explained by himself.

Zheng Ang, the official in the department, couldn't see Xue Jingxian being so boring, so he smiled and interjected coldly, "No matter how lenient the magistrate is in charge of the marriage of a man and a woman, there is no reason to interfere!" Besides, people who are admitted to the Jinshi may not be to be an official, so why is it inconvenient to be a son-in-law? Maybe the little couple is enjoying the thrush at the moment, and it's not about the local officials! ”

This statement is very realistic. During Li Linfu's period as prime minister, he appointed others as relatives. There are many scholars who are admitted to the Jinshi but can't make up for the real shortcomings. Like Zhang Xun, who is a flower explorer, he has stayed in the Beijing division for many years after the title of the gold list, if he hadn't entrusted the Qin family's door, maybe he would have to continue to wait for him for the rest of his life.

For those new science and technology scholars who have no backers behind them and their personal reputation is not prominent, joining a wealthy family should not be a very bad ending. Although his personal future will be affected by this, at least his lifelong events and the job for the rest of his life will be guaranteed. It's better to wait hopelessly in the inn year after year.

Xue Jingxian couldn't argue with Zheng Ang, but he was unwilling to admit defeat. His eyebrows jumped, and he used the topic to play: "How can it not be about other people's business?" Since my generation is shepherding one side for the Son of Heaven, we must fulfill our responsibility to educate the people. Business is a cheap business, but the shepherd sits back and watches him humiliate Sven, isn't this a dereliction of duty? ! ”

"This, Zhao said it was a joke, and he couldn't take it seriously. Lord Xue, don't pursue it anymore! Zhao Wuwu arched his hand with a smile and said in a somewhat pleading tone.

"It's not that Xue is more serious, but it involves the bottom limit of being an official, so I have to argue with Zheng Langzhong!" Xue Jingxian glanced secretly at Mrs. Qiuguo's seat and continued to be impassioned.

"Master Xue wants to teach me how to be an official?" Zheng Ang was furious and immediately ridiculed him. "The position of the servant of the ministry has just become vacant? With Lord Xue's talents, he must be able to show his strengths here! ”

mentioned the gap in official positions, Xue Jingxian's face immediately turned red. He is only a county commander from the seventh grade, and his position is far from the position of the waiter, and he is more than one or two levels shorter than Zheng Ang, who is the fifth rank of the Lang. Just about to open his mouth to scold the other party for using his official position to oppress people, he heard a light cough from Mrs. Qiuguo's side, and then asked with a smile: "What are you arguing about!" I can't understand half of a sentence! Weren't we talking about poetry just now? How did you get so far off the topic?! ”

Ahh Everyone secretly screamed in their hearts. They put away their anger and put back their smiles on their faces. The one surnamed Xue is a mad dog today, catching and biting whoever bites. It doesn't matter if everyone fights with him, in case he sweeps away the beauty's excitement, Yang Xiang, who was sued by her, goes there, or blows a few pillow winds in the ears of the Son of Heaven, but no one can eat and walk around.

It was still Jia Chang who was considerate, took the conversation with a smile, and took the initiative to explain to everyone: "They are used to being busy on weekdays!" So if you are not careful, it will be involved in government affairs. Most of the people who have just handed over the seal letter and entered Beijing to report on their work have this problem, more or less. Wait for a few more days of rest in the Jingshi, and slowly change again! ”

"Oh!" Mrs. Qiu Guo suddenly realized, and a pair of eyes flickered. "I see, it seems that little women are rare and strange. They are also officials, how can they use people like this. What should I do if I'm tired?! You should give everyone half a year off, travel around, and relax! ”

Hey! The crowd gritted their teeth with hatred. didn't dare to refute Mrs. Qiu's red face, but she turned her eyes to Xue Jingxian, eager to kill this heartless guy with her eyes on the spot. Half a year off, aren't you resting enough? There are only a few fat shortages that can be produced every year, and after half a year off, can the fat difference still get everyone's turn after coming back?

Xue Jingxian also understood at this moment that he had accidentally become the target of public criticism, and he suddenly regretted it in his heart. However, it was impossible for him to explain in public that he was not trying to quarrel with someone just now, but only to attract the attention of Mrs. Qiuguo, so he pretended to be shocking. When I was embarrassed, I heard Jia Chang say with a smile: "How can you do that?" Yang Xiang set out to rectify the mess left by his predecessor, just when he needed to hire people. No matter how tired they are, they have to get through this time! ”

Hearing this, everyone found the bottom of the steps, arched their hands in the direction of the palace, and swore to echo: "Exactly, exactly, what Lord Jia said is very reasonable." Serving the country, how dare you be tired and tired! ”

Mrs. Yu Guo smiled slightly, raised the wine cup and savored it, no longer dwelling on this boring topic. Seeing this, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and looked at Xue Jingxian's gaze, but they became more and more disgusted.

Seeing that the atmosphere at the banquet that had just begun to improve was about to be destroyed again, Jia Chang had no choice but to find a happier topic to talk about. He told a few very funny jokes one after another, diluting the unpleasantness in everyone's hearts. Then he shook his head and said very happily: "Actually, Jia also has this problem, and he does not leave the officialdom in three sentences. Recently, there was a joke about a certain county, I don't know if you have heard of it? ”

"Which one?"

"Tell me? Brother Jia, don't you want to adjust people's appetites? ”

The guests didn't want the banquet to break up, and even if they weren't very interested, they all responded one after another.

"It's interesting to talk about. Our Datang law is tolerant, so there are always one or two families in the local area, relying on the big roots of the tree, doing some things that don't know what to do! Sometimes officials take office, and it's really hard for them! No matter what, I'm really ashamed of His Majesty's teachings. Anyway, I pulled out the radish and the mud ......."

"Hmm!" The guests, who had experience as local officials, nodded their heads. Jia Chang's words are all the truth in the low-level officialdom. Local officials in the Tang Dynasty were appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Officials, and were usually not allowed to serve as officials in their hometowns. However, the officials are not subject to this restriction. Therefore, in many local government offices, small officials are often served by minions of large families, or have already been bought by local large households, and they can't wait to sleep with the rich every night. However, when the new officials first arrived, their eyes were dark, and they had to rely on these officials. As a result, within a few days of taking office, they often find themselves in the air. Either the government decree could not be issued by the county government at all, or they had to go along with the officials and become the shadow puppet of the local big households. Even if there are a few people who want to serve the court wholeheartedly, they often have already reached their term of office before they can bring the situation back in the wrestling with local tyrants. Either he was promoted or he was transferred to another place as an official. The new successor will repeat the mistakes of his predecessor.

As for learning about some local anecdotes, Mrs. Qiu Guo was not too disgusted. Seeing that Jia Chang grabbed everyone's hearts in just a few words, he also turned his head with a smile and quietly waited for the other party's next words.

Picking up the wine cup in front of him and taking a sip, Jia Chang continued to say with a smile: "Many people are afraid of trouble in this situation, so they simply turn a blind eye. Anyway, those big families also act in their own way, and they won't go too far. But there is such a person, but he doesn't believe in evil, and after only half a month in office, he turned over several old cases that had been delayed again and again, and was ready to deal with them impartially! As a result, several big local households immediately quit and colluded, ready to give this person some color. Among them, there is a Leng Touqing named Hua Nanjin, who is a tyrant in this place, so he deliberately injured people not far from the entrance of the county government, and then waited calmly to see the joke of the county order! ”

Similar embarrassing things have happened to everyone here. It's nothing more than looking for someone to talk about the item in the middle, and both sides take a step back. The new officials no longer care about the backlog of cases left by their predecessors, and the troublemakers have put out a scapegoat to go to jail for several days. Then they took the opportunity to find out each other's bottom limit, and agreed that in the future, the well water will not interfere with the river water!

I don't want to, but there is no other way. If you want to catch the real murderer, the fast catchers are not willing to do it seriously at all, and the county order can't chase and kill a bully all over the street with a knife! And once the so-called "civil uprising" is provoked, the comments from above that "one thing is not good" will completely ruin your future!

As if guessing what everyone was thinking, Jia Chang smiled slightly and said proudly: "Who would have thought that the county order was more powerful than the bully, and he actually immediately dropped the fire lot, and asked the officers under his command to take people for a limited period of three days!" Of course, the servants refused to accept it, and continued to blatantly slack off their work in accordance with tradition. Unexpectedly, only a day later, Hua Nanjin, a bully who hurt people, took the initiative to surrender to the county office. Not only did he admit his guilt, but he also took the initiative to admit several cases that the previous county commanders did not dare to handle. was immediately put on death row by the county order, ready to report to the criminal department, and beheaded after the autumn. ”

"Now, the local big families can mess up, get together again, and prepare to go to the top to jointly accuse the new county magistrate of "slandering the good as a thief", hehe, who expected that this side of the paper has just been written, and the ink has not yet dried. There's already an officer with a chain blocking the door! ”

"Ahh Not only did Mrs. Qiu Guo listen curiously, but the guests who had been magistrates were also dumbfounded. It is better to expect the bullies on the rampant side to repent, than to expect the stones to bloom! And since those errands are the 'house sparrows' who have been fed by the local heroes, how can they immediately turn their faces and arrest people without telling them in advance?

Could it be that there is a huge backer behind the county order? But the strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake. Whose backer would be so hard that the officials of the county would change their minds at the same time?

"Those big guys are wondering, they are all acquaintances, how can they turn their faces!" is worthy of being a courtier who can talk eloquently in front of the Son of Heaven, and when Jia Chang tells the story, it is simply tickling people's hearts. He immediately complained loudly that the officials were not righteous and threatened to expose the other party's old background. Don't think about it, everyone. The officials smiled bitterly a few times, then pointed to their faces and said, 'Do you still need to expose it?' Our old bottom has already been exposed! ’”

After hearing this, the big families took a closer look and found that almost all the officials had blue noses and swollen faces. A few of the most well-known catchers, the team leader, actually shaved their beards and eyebrows, and their heads were as smooth as a big duck egg. Jia Chang paused and continued to tell with a smile, "It turns out that they were all blocked in their homes by a masked man last night. After cleaning it up ruthlessly, not only did he confess his collusion with the big households, but even all the immoral things he had done in the past few years were coerced by the other party to pour beans into a bamboo tube! ”

"Ahh Masked people? Could it be a chivalrous man? The officials' eyes lit up again, and they shouted excitedly. With the popularity of daily entertainment activities such as Pinghua in various parts of Datang, stories about swordsmen have also become popular like weeds after the rain. Among them, the more influential stories such as the Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust have tampered with an important figure in the previous dynasty into a bearded guest. And when the Tang Dynasty was founded, he would oppose Gaozu everywhere, and Li Jing, who was almost cut off by the Autumn Queen, was crowned as the founder of the country in one fell swoop.

However, after all, the swordsman is too mysterious, and everyone just wants it to have it, but no one has seen it with their own eyes. Listening to Jia Chang at this moment, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is it really a chivalrous man?" So how did the county magistrate get acquainted with such a person? Does Brother Jia know exactly where the incident happened? If you have the opportunity another day, you really want to see it! ”

"Zhenyuan County. You really haven't heard of it? Recently, it's been spread all over the market! Jia Chang glanced at everyone in surprise, and his white face was full of innocence.

"True Source?" Mrs. Qiu's eyebrows jumped suddenly, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at Jia Chang, but she didn't find any deliberate signs on the other party's face. Her heart was beating wildly, and her cheeks were slowly turning red from the smell of alcohol. True source, that is where Xiao Zhang Tanhua was reappointed as the county commander. The courage to do things, jealousy and hatred, is also his consistent style. That masked hero should be Brother Lei. But Brother Lei clearly left more than half a year later than Zhang Xun, how could he help him teach those officials and local tyrants a lesson when the latter had just taken office?

Lei Wanchun, the back that had gradually drifted away, instantly became clear in her heart. The angular face, the full beard, the eyes that are always full of smiles. It's like a little candlelight in a long winter night, illuminating all the cold and dirt.

That's where he's supposed to be. Stand with a sword, happy to take revenge. If he stays in Jingshi, I am afraid that he will sink day by day, and become a hopeless drunkard and a bad old man.

"I thought everyone had heard about it!" In the drunken haze, Mrs. Qiu Guo saw Jia Chang patting her chest and added with a smile, "Bai has been worried for a long time. Of course, it was the chivalrous man who made a move. But not one, but a group. The county commander didn't know how to take the shit luck, and actually made a group of heroes to work for him. Hua Nanjin's villain hit his head on the iron plate, thinking that this time he could teach the county magistrate a lesson as before, and it could also be used as a basis for rampaging in the township in the future. Unexpectedly, the officials didn't arrest him, but his Zhuangzi was broken by several heroes that night. The whole family has been tied up, if he refuses to take the initiative to go to the county government to surrender, he will have to do the right thing for heaven! ”

At first, the officials thought that Hua Nanjin had another plan, and they waited to see the excitement. Unexpectedly, I didn't see it, and I was all beaten up, and I had to bite back at the previous buyer, in order to atone for my sins. When those local tycoons saw this battle, they were dumbfounded. If you want to escape, you can't escape, and you don't have the courage to rebel. Fortunately, the county magistrate didn't want to kill them all, but just took out all those old cases and verified them one by one. The board should be beaten, the fine should be fined, and the prison should be ordered by each family to send one of their descendants and nephews to the prison for the crime. The crime of beheading should also be handled in the same way. After a string of case files were sent to the Criminal Department for verification, more than a dozen bloody heads were cut off directly outside the west gate of the county seat last winter. Since then, the people of the entire Zhenyuan County have been invigorated, and no one dares to rely on family power to run rampant in the township. ”

'A bunch of knights? No wonder the true source county order has no fear! The guests shook their heads in amazement. If you change places with each other, I'm afraid you will have to throw off your arms and do a big job. For one term, who doesn't want to leave a good name in the local area? It's just that no one is as lucky as the True Source County Order!

Only Mrs. Qiu Guo slowly turned her mind from her intoxication, and her autumn-like eyes stared at Jia Chang a few more times. Suddenly, she laughed softly, and for a moment she was suddenly abruptly surprised.

This Jia Chang is also a good man!