Changshi said: "Wu Penghui, the former county magistrate, has a family, he is a Jinshi background, and he came to Bocheng County to be a county magistrate without bringing his family, but if something like this happens, his family will inevitably come to him!"

If this happened at other times, then we would just tell the truth, but it happened on the eve of the Zen Ceremony, if we told the truth to his family, then it would inevitably involve a series of problems, then the involvement would be more and more extensive, and there would be more and more troubles, and once this matter was revealed, it would make the imperial court lose face.

Even the official believes that when the common people talk about this Zen ceremony in the future, they may not remember the grand occasion of the ceremony at that time, but will only remember a big case that happened at this time. ”

Li Rizhi was silent, of course he didn't want such a consequence, even if he didn't want to whitewash the peace, but now he had to make up the Taiping in front of him, there was nothing to say, this was something that a feudal official had to do.

Changshi looked at Li Rizhi's face and said: "This official has no experience to talk about this kind of thing, but I don't know if the Inspector has a plan, can you tell the official about it, and let's discuss it together?" ”

Li Rizhi sighed and said: "This official actually has an idea, that is, the county commander Wu Penghui died because of overwork, in this case, if he dies in office, the court will also give him a commendation, so that his family will not be investigated, and it will not affect this Zen ceremony, but in this way, Wu Penghui's family will not know the truth of his death, so will it be a little cruel to his family?" ”

Changshi listened to the first half of Li Rizhi's words, touched his beard, nodded slightly, and agreed, but when he heard the second half of the words, he couldn't help but look at Li Rizhi, and thought to himself: "How can this be considered cruel?" For Wu Penghui's family, what can they do if they don't know the truth, in short, there is no one, giving them some practical benefits is the most important thing, if you don't believe it, you can ask Wu Penghui's family, ask them if they want the truth, or do they want benefits! ”

Changshi said: "Then try to ask for more benefits for Wu Penghui's family, such as Yin Yizi, in this way, if Wu Penghui's descendants want to enter the official career, then they will start higher than others." ”

Li Rizhi has no other better way, after all, people can't be resurrected after death, so although Wu Penghui is innocent, he is dead, in addition to avenging him, the biggest benefit for his family is to seal his wife and son.

After the two of them discussed, they discussed some matters related to the Zen Ceremony, and Li Rizhi sent Changshi away, and then he recorded what happened that day, and planned to send it to Xu Jingzong in the future.

In the days that followed, Li Rizhi made rounds to inspect various projects related to the Zen Sealing Ceremony.

As a result, something happened that surprised him!

Li Rizhi found that the projects everywhere and the projects in charge of Yanzhou officials were of course no problem, and they all met the standards, but they were only up to standard, and it was not necessarily how good or brilliant they were.

However, the projects in charge of Bocheng County are not only up to standard, what surprises Li Rizhi is that these projects are completed very well, all of them are beyond the standard, and they can be said to be model projects!

Li Rizhi felt very puzzled, the project in Bocheng County must be the responsibility of the Xiangma, but will the Xiangma do their best to repair the project for the emperor and empress?

This is obviously impossible, but why is the project of Xiang Matthew so much better than that of normal officials?

Li Rizhi went to ask the craftsmen who were repairing the project, and the answers of the craftsmen surprised him even more!

The craftsman in charge of the project in Bocheng County told Li Rizhi that no one supervised them, because they were all craftsmen who collected wages, not people who were forcibly brought in, and even if there were people requisitioned by the county, they were all paid for wages.

These are two completely different things from catching strong men and repairing the Great Wall!

The craftsmen in charge of the project in Bocheng County all said that the county's servants paid them enough, and they gave them as much as they wanted, and they paid their wages once every ten years, and there were a lot of children, so everyone worked hard and did what the project was good.

But when Li Rizhi asked about the project that Yanzhou officials were responsible for, the craftsmen refused to say it at first, and it was not until Li Rizhi repeatedly questioned them that they told the truth, saying that the Yanzhou officials did not pay them enough, and there were many complaints in their language.

If you want to say whether Xiangma will embezzle the project money, then the answer is 100% yes, they will definitely be corrupt, of course, this cannot be said to be corruption, because they are Xiangma, not officials, so they siphoned off the project money, which should be regarded as a robbery.

But even if the Xiangma are very greedy, just like Zhen Mengde and Wu Bufu, but the degree of greed still has some bottom line, the money they give to craftsmen and people is actually half deducted, which is equivalent to half of the brothers meeting each other, and the Xiangma directly siphoned off half of the project money, and gave the remaining half of the money to the people who worked.

But the greed of the horses is still incomparable with the officials, the officials actually directly siphoned off seventy percent of the project money, and then the remaining thirty percent was given to the people who worked, but even these thirty percent were not enough, and the officials and errands who were responsible for handling it also had to take away one and a half percent, so in the end, in the hands of the workers, the project money was actually only one and a half percent.

With only one and a half percent of the money, the project can be completed in accordance with the standard, which can be called a miracle, and it can also be imagined how much the craftsmen and people have paid.

Li Rizhi couldn't help but sigh, if you want to get rich and become a robber, you can't be a robber, you have to be an official!

In this era of the Tang Dynasty, there were not many officials who dared to blatantly embezzle, but there were only not many, and there were still some, but there were not many opportunities to get corruption, and if they did not get the opportunity, the officials would naturally be much less corrupt.

However, there was a big project here in Bocheng County, and the officials were able to get their hands on it, and the result was that the project repaired by the officials was not repaired well by the horses, and even the horses did not supervise the work.

Li Rizhi was angry in his heart, he couldn't write an official document to report this matter, after all, the face of the court is important, and the face of Empress Wu is even more important, but he can tell Xu Jingzong that this matter can be put aside for the time being, and after the end of the Zen ceremony, he will settle accounts after the autumn, and he can't run the monk or the temple!