", don't open the city gate soon!"

Wen Shan, the former chief secretary of the temporary county magistrate who rushed to hear the news, is a sitting snake. For generations, he has been a large household in Hengshan County, and when Xiao Milled according to Jinghu, he defected to the attachment and was awarded the county master. Not long ago, the Jiangling upheaval, Xiao Milling entered Beijing, and then the Hunan Domain was canceled.

The original Hengshan Taishou was also regarded as the military leader of the secession place, and when a decree arrived in Luoyang, the Taishou had no choice but to disband the soldiers and horses, and then took a group of county officials, county orders, and generals from Hengshan to Luoyang to report on their work.

The order of Hengshan County also left, and the county lieutenant went to Beijing with him, and the Hengshan County Ya was managed by Wenshan, the main book.

The gates opened.

Wen Shan trotted out of the city, and saw two officials in scarlet robes, one old and one young, the old beard and hair were white, but they had the demeanor of a fairy, and the young one was estimated to be in his twenties, but he was wearing a scarlet robe at such an age, which made him amazed.

Looking at the two battalions of Qin troops in the back, all of them have shiny armor and swords and guns in their hands, the momentum of the dragon and tiger, is it the rabble of the previous Taishou soldiers and horses?

"Xiaguan Hengshan County, the chief bookkeeper of Wenshan, to meet Shangguan, I don't know that Shangguan is coming, I welcome you late, forgive your sins."

"This is the new Li Taishou of Hengshan County, this official is the new county prince, passing by Hengshan, come and take a look."

Ma Zhou said easily, come and take a look, but Wen Shan is under a lot of pressure, Ma Zhou. Even if he is in the remote Hengshan County, he knows that this is the champion of Luoyang's new point this year, it is said that he is the pillar of the country selected by the emperor's Golden Palace interview, and the top boy selected from the hundreds of thousands of scholars in the country.

"Tell me about the situation in Hengshan County, how many registered population, the geometry of shops and workshops, and how many barbarians are in the mountains?" Ma Zhou beckoned, and Wen Shan had no choice but to step forward.

He accompanied him into the city with him, and then introduced the situation in Hengshan County as he walked.

Although Hengshan County is on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, it is indeed not big, and even in the great cause, it was once included in Changsha County. Hengshan County is far inferior to Xiangtan County in the south, not to mention the county seat Hengyang.

Walking around the horse and listening, the city wall of Hengshan County is not high, and it can be seen that some are in disrepair, and in some places there are even miscellaneous trees more than one person high on it.

After entering the city, the city was also bleak, and the streets were narrow and dirty. Its urban layout is the same as that of many cities in the Central Plains, it is a square market layout, after entering the city is the street, on both sides are the square wall, and the market is concentrated in the southern corner of the city.

In many places in the Central Plains, it has begun to be under the tide of demolishing the walls of the workshop and changing the market, and it is unchanged and seems very backward.

There weren't many people on the streets.

According to Wenshan, although the disaster in Hengshan is not as serious as that of Dongting Lake, it is also greatly affected, so many people went out to escape from the famine earlier, because Hengshan is close to Guangxi and knows that it is peaceful there, so many people go to Guilin County along the Xiangjiang River to seek refuge.

The county government is a relatively tall building in the county, living on the street in front of the city in the north of the city.

Ma Zhou and Li Gang entered the county government, and Li Gang asked his entourage to bring his set of tea sets, and then began to make tea leisurely.

Ma Zhou was not in this mood, he asked Wen Shan to take some files from the county, carefully checked the meeting, and asked him to give him the money and grain account books of the government treasury.

After going through everything, he asked Li Gang to rest in the yazhong, then personally led people to inspect the warehouse, and finally went around the street again.

Back to the county office.

Ma Zhou directly asked Gongsun Wuda to take down Wenshan.

"Although you will make false accounts, but you can't fool the official, no matter how well you do the fake accounts, the official has also found many flaws. Tell me honestly, where did all the money and food in the treasury go? ”

The surface of the warm mountain is like dead ashes.

"Those were taken away by the Taishou and the county order."

"Is there an account signature?"

There are signatures, but Taishou and the county order only took most of them, and the rest was actually greedy by the people of Wenshan and Yali.

Ma Zhou himself is also proficient in account book calculations, but this time he took office, and brought several staff members who are more proficient in this, Director Wen's account is full of mistakes and omissions, and he can't explain it if he is right.

"When the former Taishou left, he took half of the money and grain from the county treasury, and when the former county commander left, he took away half of the remaining money and grain, but now, the government treasury is empty."

Wen Shan had to tell honestly that he had shared it with the rest of the county.

"Wen Shan, Ben Cheng is now dismissed from your post as the county chief bookkeeper, but if you are given a chance to make up for it, as long as you make up the deficit after three days, then you will only be dismissed from your position, and you will not be held accountable for your crimes. If you do not make up the problem after three days, you will bear the consequences. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Wen Shan sweated like rain and nodded again and again.

"Stand down."

After he retreated, Ma Zhou came to see Li Gang.

"Why don't you just take Wenshan and make an example of the chickens?" Li Gang made Ma Zhou a cup of tea.

"Speaking of which, this Hengshan County was originally the territory of Xiao Mill's feudal town, and before we arrived, this was not a place for the imperial court, so there was no need to delve into the previous matter. Besides, there is no need to kill people as soon as they come. ”

Although killing people is the best way to establish authority, Ma Zhou doesn't want to kill people, at least this Wen Shan is not violating the laws of the imperial court, even if he is corrupt, he is also corrupt.

"Do you think this Wen Shan will honestly make up for the shortfall?"

"Not necessarily."

"Oh, why is this the conclusion?"

Ma Zhou held the teacup and chuckled, "Actually, I checked a lot of file records, walked around the street a few times, and sent someone to quietly investigate the rumors in the market, and unexpectedly got a few somewhat unexpected news." This Wenshan is the head snake of the land, a large household in the county, and it is considered to be the head snake of the land who has lived here for generations. What is a little surprising is that in the Hengshan Mountains in the south, there is a group of powerful Hengshan thieves, whose leader is also surnamed Wen, and there are many rumors about this Wen leader, some of which are related to the Wen master book. I suspect that the Hengshan Wen thief must be of the same clan as this Wen master, at least there is a connection. ”

"Then you deliberately let him go, so that Master Wen can make up for the shortfall, is it possible?"

"That's right, although Wen Shan embezzled the money and grain in the treasury, it was before I took office after all, but if he dared to collude with the Hengshan thieves, it would be after I arrived."

"Well, so Wenshan colluded with the Hengshan thieves, just the name of killing is justified, and by the way, you can also fish out the Hengshan thieves to catch them all, killing two birds with one stone, King Bin, you have a good trick."

"But have you ever considered that there are two battalions of government soldiers, and the Hengshan thieves may not dare to come."

"So the students pretended to send two commanders to lead the troops to leave by boat, saying that they would go to the barracks station first, but in fact, they boarded the ship and left during the day, but they landed nearby and hid, and the real guards were still on the edge of the county and could come back at any time."

On the surface, there are only 100 soldiers left in Hengshan County.

Therefore, Ma Zhou believes that the Hengshan thieves are very likely to come, which he obtained according to some rumors and news about Wenshan, Wenshan is a ruthless person, don't look at the original is just a county master, but this person is ruthless, colluding with thieves to assassinate the chief, he really did it.

After all, that deficit is not a small number, and a person like Wen Shan, how can he spit out what he eats.

Colluded with thieves to kill Ma Zhou Li Gang, and then took advantage of the chaos to burn the account books and warehouses, the emperor was far away, and reported a thief to commit it, and he Wenshan had nothing to do, maybe he could take over as the commander of Hengshan County.