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"Brother Duolao is attentive, but this matter must not hurt the innocent."

"The fifth brother puts his heart in his stomach, and the fourth brother saves the things that damage yin and morality, and he won't do it."

'Is it too hard?' ’

After Wang Zhongde left, Wang Xingping muttered to himself, originally he just planned to rectify Cui Ba and get back the silver that belonged to him by the way, but now it's good, Cui Ba directly 'hanged himself', and he didn't see the silver, and it seemed that he had offended a cadre of officials. However, Wang Xingping is not worried about what Xu Yi did, Cui Ba's death, whether it was done by Xu Guoqi or not, is mostly inseparable from him, at least one thing is certain, that is, there are many people who want Cui Ba to die, and there are 'enemies' and 'friends' in between. The murderer seems to have taken the lead this time, taking advantage of the loopholes that the yazhong is not prepared for, but because of this, he also shows his feet.

Wang Xingping doesn't know how many such examples he has seen in the media of later generations, using one mistake to cover up another mistake, originally he was just a traitor, but he was really going to be exposed, and he pulled in a few substitutes for the dead, and then gave up most of his net worth, and he would never lose his life. But it is to take this net worth too seriously, and the ghost makes the gods want to kill people and destroy their mouths, since there must be a helper in this matter, there are more and more people who know the inside story, you must know that there have never been a few people's secrets, just mutual suspicion can make people unbearable and do some stupid things again, and it is really simple to let these black-hearted officials do stupid things again.

There is only one pair of bait, originally to catch small fish, but I didn't expect that even the big fish were hooked together, and there was no need to urge, Wang Xingping was still in the county for a day, and he would force these people to do wrong.

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The azure Ru kiln porcelain cup was held in his hand, and the clear tea soup made the fatigue of getting up early disappear a lot, and he closed his eyes and felt the smell of incense in his mouth.

"It's not over yet."

"What did the gentleman say?" Wang Xingping asked knowingly and said with a smile, in the past two days, he has become more and more close to this deputy envoy, coupled with his well-behaved work, and driven by common interests, Chen Huangsheng has privately treated him as a descendant.

"Last night, Xu Guoqi secretly moved five large boxes to the county office, saying that it was a warehouse." Chen Huangsheng snorted lightly in his nose, "It's the first time I've heard of it in the middle of the night. ”

"Is it for the Yellow Book?" In private, Wang Xingping is not stingy with showing his wit and intelligence, Xu Guoqi will never move the box to the yamen for no reason, there is no need to say anything about what is in the box, the blind can see it.

"It's a bit bigger, but it's also a dog jumping off the wall."

In fact, it is really unjust to say that Xu Guoqi changed the yellow book without permission, and he didn't change it at all, originally to help the person who asked for it to avoid taxes. Of course, it is okay to say that he did it deliberately, and it is reasonable to say that he was unintentional and negligent, and find a subordinate scribe, and some benefits will come out to apologize, and he will be punished in the past. But the difficult thing is that someone is staring at the case, and he has done a lot of work in the treasury on weekdays, and now he has to give up his family wealth to fill the deficit first. In this section, even a few cronies did not give all the truth, and I was really worried that some people would choose to take risks for fear of being responsible.

"A full five boxes of silver coins, why didn't I see the face of this Xu Lao'er before, but the small Zunyi City is so capable of hiding filth and dirt."

"Liu Lingdang knows about this matter."

"What can I do, now that they are crossing the river in the same boat, something happened to the household officials of the county government, if he personally punished it, but it was the old man who pierced this layer of window paper, how could he be willing to make wax."

"Besides, the next year's foreign inspector Liu Renbiao still wants to take the exam and release a prefect, and he has already spent a lot of money on the upper and lower points, so he has to fight hard, even if he doesn't want to, Du Tianpei will force him to hard-top, and the fellow villagers in Huguang have never put the officials of the Taoist Department in their eyes."

The officials of this dynasty are divided into Beijing and foreign officials, and there are Beijing inspections and foreign inspections, and the external inspections are held once every three years. Since the time of Taizu was set to Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei Nian as the year of the foreign officials entering the Beijing Hajj, the inspection of the code followed, so the pilgrimage was inspected, and the back edge was customized, and the officials were all inspected by the Ministry of Officials together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the foreign officials.

The imperial court stipulates that officials will inspect every three years, and the three examinations will be completed, although the place after the inspection has been stopped, but since there is no outstanding merit, this time still has to be full, but if there is any major case during this period, it is inevitable that it will be deducted from the comment that people are not prudent and inactive, and they can't get it if they want to use it. Even if he doesn't waste money for the sake of his future and money, Liu Xianzun will no longer be a bystander.

Chen Huangsheng said detached, naturally he also has his transcendent capital, Liu Ren is from a people's background, and his position is already considerable, and it is estimated that he will be able to do it again as an official in the prefect's office, but he really wants to investigate it, he is not much younger than himself at the age of fifty, where will he stay up for nine years? Naturally, he can't compare to him, a jinshi, a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

"The student heard an interesting story." Wang Xingping laughed as he spoke.

"Oh?" For this young man's rhythmic speaking style, Vice Envoy Chen has become a little adapted, and from the past, he has never spoken uselessly.

"The students just heard that the county treasury still collects Benyang, so they think it's funny."

"You mean the box?"

"There was only one box, and the rest were copper coins and silver."

Chen Huangsheng was impressed by Wang Xingping's ability to find out the news, and he didn't know what the officials didn't know, and he didn't know how he knew all the news in the county government, but this was a good thing, and it was also a help to himself.

"Presumably, it is the salt tea silver newly collected from Liangguang in the county, and the palace has received it, and the county government has naturally received it." Wang Xingping continued to joke.

Chen Huangsheng was stunned when he heard this, and immediately burst into laughter, he told Wang Xingping about the collection of salt and tea taxes in Sichuan by King Fu Mansion the night before, but he didn't expect that it would be arranged on the head of the county lord when he learned and sold now. Yinyang is a silver coin that comes with the trade of the Taisi people, mostly produced by Spain in the Americas, and travels through Luzon trade to Liangguang and Fujian, if it is the silver ocean that appears here in Sichuan, most of it is through the trade of Liangguang and Yunnan-Guizhou, Guizhou leads to Guangxi, Yunnan leads to Myanmar, and it is a place where silver can be obtained from overseas. It's just that it is considerable to be able to accumulate a box, and it is necessary to know that at this time, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty pay attention to the sale of gold and color, and they are afraid that someone will use lead and silver as a counterfeit. Whether it is the official silver ingot or Taixi's Benyang, it is to be cut into small pieces to see the fineness to use, and if you accumulate too much, you have to send it to the dumping shop again to cast it into large pieces, so if it is really a whole box of untouched Benyang, it is really rare to see it in the mainland, and the government will not use foreign silver to collect taxes, even if it is broken silver, it will be smelted and minted, and such silver will be replenished into the treasury, which is naturally a joke.

Chen Huangsheng laughed for a while, and said: "'Xu Zhusi' has made a lot of money this time, in order to make up for the deficit of the county treasury over the years, it has to be thousands of taels." ”

Deputy Envoy Chen also learned from the flattery of outsiders and called Xu Guoqi 'Charge Division', but it was just another case of Fenggu. In fact, his inference is only an estimate, after all, Xu Guoqi transported to the county government has silver and copper coins in the box, most of them are also in a hurry to piece together from various industries of the Xu family, but from Wang Xingping's understanding of what he said, plus the placement of the Cui family and the cost of doing things everywhere, Xu Guoqi has already received seven or eight thousand taels of silver in one go, and this money is a first-class rich family in Beijing, you must know that Liu Zhixian's two taels of true color in a year add up to less than thirty taels, even if you add the extra discounted treasure money, the annual salary will not exceed fifty taels, Although all kinds of common practices will not be short, but an official can take out seven or eight thousand taels of silver for nothing, at first glance it is still appalling, after all, this is a poor place in the southwest, before this matter, although Xu Yimu is also disgusted in the county, but no one from the officials above to fight his idea, he was also forced to be helpless this time, and there are still a lot of silver in the middle of the county and the second order in the past two years.

"It's really a lot of money." Wang Xingping said with a smile, in order to drag the Cui family, he folded the ancestral grange into it, and there was no response to the things he had entrusted to Deputy Envoy Chen.

"Tiancheng, you don't have to go around the bend when you talk to me." Chen Huangsheng felt that Wang Xingping was all good, but his mind was a little too old, unlike the age of this young man, and every time he said a few words and looked at his appearance, he felt a little grotesque.

The deputy envoy asked his entourage to bring a wooden box, and when he opened it, he saw that there was a stack of yellowed papers.

"Since the return to the stream, there has been no major war in Banzhou, and the salt tickets saved over the years are all here, a total of 1,000 small leads, Tiancheng, you don't have too little."

Finally seeing what he wanted, Wang Xingping suppressed the throbbing of waiting for many days, and thanked: "Where do students dare to be too little, they are all serving the imperial court, and there is also Mr. Lao." ”

"Don't say anything about this, your family's five thousand taels of silver have rushed into the official together, but the court has no reason to let the loyal and upright people suffer, and the old man has such a valuable thing in his hand, you can use it with confidence, but there is no signed delivery date on these quotations, if you go to guard the branch, but if it changes hands to others, you have to add the date." Being able to hand over the filling date to Wang Xingping is Chen Huangsheng's favor, in fact, there is no risk, after all, the reason why he is willing to give Wang Xingping salt is because the salt in Sichuan is not enough now.

"Sir's teachings have been written down by the students."

If a 1,000-tael salt ticket is discounted by tax silver, it is only five or six hundred taels, but one tael can be used to support 200 catties of salt, and the value itself is also six taels, which adds up to more than 5,000 taels of silver, and it is not a loss on paper. He originally understood that when he entered the official ranks, as long as Cui Ba was guilty, the Cui family's property would not be returned, and now although Cui Ba hanged himself, he was determined to die in fear of sin, which is the same. Therefore, he planned to find some silver here in Chen Huangsheng from the beginning to come back, and received his own gift, there is no reason not to help, not to mention that there is a grange of his own and the Cui family's large and small industries behind, all of which are in the pockets of the masters, and it is also appropriate to let the old men share some profits, not to mention that Wang Xingping is a conscientious person, as long as the salt is salt, the tea is not moved.

Wang Xingping summoned Wang Xiaoliu to carefully store the wooden box, and Chen Huangsheng said: "I'm afraid I won't be in Zunyi when you come back, and there is a letter here that you want to transfer to Suzhi on your behalf." ”

Wang Xingping took the letter, put it away in his sleeve, said a few more greetings, and then said goodbye to the Taoist hall, and he will go north in two days.

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"When did Xiao Cuoda go on the road and find out?" The doors and windows in the study in the backyard of the Xu family were closed, and the cool breeze of early spring did not penetrate a trace, which made people suffocating.

Xue Siqi couldn't care that his face was about to sweat, and he hurriedly told the news he had heard in the past two days.

"I heard that when he brought those soldiers to eat and drink in a restaurant, he said that he would go north to Chongqing the day after tomorrow."

"To Chongqing? Not going back to Guiyang? ”

"It was said that it was decided at the beginning, and after a few days of delay in Zunyi, I still have to go."

"Which way to go?"

There are two roads from Zunyi to Chongqing, one waterway is in the west of Zunyi Mansion, passing through Yongzhen Post along the Chishui River all the way to Hejiang, entering the Yangtze River and then taking a boat to Jiangjin to go ashore, passing through Fotu Pass to Chongqing Mansion. The other land route is along the official road to the north, passing through Loushanguan, Songkan and Qijiang counties to Chongqing. When I returned, because the Yangtze River and the Chishui River were both countercurrents, there was only one land route to go.

I heard Xue Siqi frown and think for a while, and reluctantly said: "This villain doesn't know, but the villain heard that Xiao Cuoda has been in and out of the salt line for the past few days." ”

Wang Xingping makes salt, there are already many people in Zunyi County, and when he went back to inquire before, Xu Guoqi already knew that Wang Xingping and the salt line Longsheng of the Jin merchants in the city had a very close relationship, and now when he heard Xue Siqi talk about it again, he reacted.

"If you want to make salt, you must take the waterway." Whether it is to go to Hejiang to trade salt or to Fushun and other prison guards, it is necessary to go to the Chishui River.

Speaking of the waterway, Xu Guoqi thought thoughtfully, Shaoqing took a pen and paper and wrote, Xue Siqi was illiterate, but he also knew that what he wrote was a text message.

What did Xu Zhisi do when he wrote a letter, Xue Siqi could guess a rough idea in his heart, Xiaocuo, surnamed Wang, had damaged most of his wealth, and finally settled down, and his accumulation of more than ten years was exposed to the eyes of the officials in the city, which made him frightened for many days.

Xue Siqi was still thinking about which one to receive the letter in his heart, and he heard that Xu Guoqi had already folded the letter and sealed it and handed it over.

"You take this letter to Yongningwei, you must personally hand it over to the little general of the Xuanfu Division, he naturally understands after reading it, I will take a leave of absence for you in the Su Guan Camp, and you will not be busy coming back after the letter is delivered, so you must get things done."

Confidential matters Xu Guoqi is inconvenient to entrust to others, Xue Siqi is stupid, but fortunately, he has blood on his hands, and he is not afraid that he will not comply with him, but he is afraid that he will not be thoughtful, so he has to write another letter to explain, thinking that as long as there is a luxury family to make a move, I don't believe that he Xiaocuo Da can still live to Chongqing, as for whether the little general will make a move, he doesn't have to worry at all, anyway, a box of Benyang that his father has deposited here has entered the county treasury, and who is the culprit of all this, the letter has been written clearly.

But today, Xue Siqi was rarely smart and asked.

"I'm going to see the extravagant general, do you have a token to recommend?"

Xu Guoqi thought about it for a while, went to the chest of drawers behind him and took out a box, opened the box, and handed the contents to Xue Siqi, you take this out and look at it, he will naturally listen.

Xue Siqi was ordered to open the main door of the study, and the servants of the Xu family had already prepared their bags and horses in the courtyard, and they didn't want him to go home, so they put the courtyard in order, and Xue Guang, the prisoner in the prison, went to the west gate of Zunyi City.

It was only Xue Siqi who went out, but the sound of horses' hooves spread more and more densely through the wall of the Xu family's courtyard, and gradually the sound of hooves merged into one breath.

"What's going on out there?" At the moment of questioning, Master Xu remembered the scene when he heard that the Cui family was copied that day, and a trace of uneasiness passed on his face, but he immediately calmed down again, he did not fall into any serious handle, and the official will never be unfavorable to himself, at least the county will turn around for himself first.

Sure enough, I listened to the little guy who helped Xue Siqi lead the horse out just now and ran in to report back.

"Master, it's Lubu Feijie from Guizhou."

"Guizhou? Lub Feijie again? ”

"Yes, it is said that it is the victory of the twelve horseheads in Hongbian, the big thief, and the capture of more than a thousand."