On the second day after coming to Yingchuan, it was the first day of the new year, on this day, Pei Qing invited the county magistrates to come to the county guard mansion as guests, and at the same time made it clear that this time, in addition to being a guest, the performance of county officials should be routinely counted, that is, the performance of officials should be evaluated.

However, the officials in question did not take Pei Qing's reminder to heart, because they had already sent all the gifts to Pei Qing in advance, and I believe that Pei Qing, who accepted their gifts, would definitely not blame them for their problems.

Therefore, after having a double guarantee, those problematic officials all went straight to Yangzhai City, and before leaving, they assured their subordinates that they would be safe and sound when they went to Yangzhai this time, and they would continue to serve after they returned, and some officials directly asked their subordinate officials to set up a banquet to welcome their return.

However, they did not expect that many of them would embark on a road of no return.

In a blink of an eye, it was the third day of the first month of the third year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, and on this day, the county commanders and many squires arrived at the county guard mansion in Yangzhai as promised.

Pei Qing's move made the officials and gentry who gave the gifts all feel calm, thinking that there must be no problem this time.

And among them, of course, there are some people who don't bring gifts, especially two of them are full of disappointment, one of them said stupidly: "Brother Zhao, I thought that this new Taishou might be able to clarify the rule of officials and return me to a happy land in Yingchuan, but I didn't expect that it would be a corrupt person. ”

I saw that the young man who was called Brother Zhao said: "Don't worry, Brother Du, since you are here, let's be calm and not impatient, let's take a look at how this Pei Yuanjun did it?" If we get it wrong, won't we be wronged by the good guys? ”

"But Brother Zhao, didn't you see this chaotic scene? How could we have wronged him? Alas, according to me, we shouldn't have come, if we hadn't come, we would have arrived in Xiangyang by now, so as not to sulk at the sight of these filthy officials. ”

"Brother Du, although what you said seems to be very reasonable, but we can't easily draw conclusions about many things, it's better to see it for yourself, hehe, if I hadn't seen it in person, I wouldn't have believed that a corrupt official could write such a profound poem as a newlywed." The young man surnamed Zhao was full of unwillingness, and said to the young man surnamed Du: "Zixu, you just let me be willful, in fact, we can't delay much time at all." ”

"This, okay." The young man surnamed Du heard that the young man surnamed Zhao actually had a hint of begging, and it was difficult to refuse, so he had to sigh and said slowly: "Since you insist on this, I naturally can't help it, now I just hope that this person can really not let you waste so much effort in vain." ”

So the two teenagers stopped talking, but slowly entered the Taishou Mansion with the flow of people, wanting to see what Pei Qing was going to do today, whether he was a person who sincerely served the people or a corrupt official who was a fish and meat villager?

However, not long after, when they came to the courtyard of the Taishou Mansion, they saw an army rushing over, and they actually surrounded the Taishou Mansion, and the elder brother had his bow wound, the knife was out of the sheath, and he was murderous, this scene made many people panic, I don't know what Pei Qing wants to do?

At this time, I saw a person outside the lobby shouting loudly: "Don't panic, the reason why the envoy wants to make such a big move this time is not for any ulterior purpose, but to maintain the order of the plan and prevent anyone from escaping......

"Xiaguan Wu Meng paid a visit to Pei Yuanjun." A middle-aged man with big ears and fat intestines wearing a Jinxian crown hurriedly entered the Taishou lobby when he heard this, although he did not squint, but there was a trace of pride on his face, because he gave Pei Qing the most gifts, and I believe that Pei Qing will not be embarrassed for him this time.

So when he saw Pei Qing, Wu Meng calmly saluted Pei Qing, and after the plan began, he directly handed over the official document of his random fabrication of data to Pei Qing, in his opinion, Pei Qing would definitely let him get by.

However, I didn't expect Pei Qing to say coldly after only a quarter of an hour: "Your total data and the sum of various data are far from the same, the number of households in this county should be 43,721, and the number of mouths should be 183463, but your calculation results are a lot more, the number of households is 63,483, the number of mouths is 216534, your data calculation is obviously wrong, this is one, second, the total number of taxes and households in your county this year is far from the same, not to mention that according to the actual data of 63,483 households and 216534 households, Even if it is calculated according to 43,721 households and 183463 households, the tax paid by your county is far from enough, I just calculated carefully, the tax you pay is only enough for 12,632 households and 36,825 households to pay the tax, you are naturally for the people are knocking on the bone and squeezing the marrow, do everything, so that there is only this tax, which proves that the population of your county is actually less than 40,000 people, even if you add the population of the local Haoqiang family, I am afraid it will not reach 50,000 people, How dare you fool me with such exaggerated statistics, do you really think I'm blind? ”

"This, this, how did he calculate the data so accurately? At the beginning, it took us half a day to calculate this data, and several people calculated it together, could it be that there were thieves in our county who leaked the data? ”

Wu Meng's heart was very shocked, he didn't expect Pei Qing to unceremoniously point out the loopholes in the data he handed in with a single sentence, but he also knew that if he didn't say a few words to cover up the past in this situation, his official position would definitely not be kept.

So Wu Meng said with a bitter face: "Make Jun Mingjian, now Yingchuan has experienced several wars, and the personnel have been greatly reduced, this matter is almost known to everyone, but the number of households at the beginning of the lower official is more than 50,000, and the number of mouths is about 150,000. It should be that those officials are not careful in their work, and when they go back, the officials must be severely punished. ”

"Hehe, do you want to go back? I don't think so. Wu Meng, I have a complaint from the common people accusing you of uniting with the local wealthy clan to oppress the people, you privately lend usury, rob people's daughters, forcibly occupy people's land, one by one, one by one, even more hateful than robbers, how can this official allow you to go unpunished? If you don't kill you, it's not enough to be angry, so today I will behead you to comfort the people who have been oppressed by you! ”

When Pei Qing said this, he immediately said to the left and right: "Come on, drag this moth out of the gate of the mansion for me, and behead it for public display!" ”