4. The official has a few heads
As a result, as soon as he arrived at the Ruxiang Station, a state official came to look for him, and claimed that he had been waiting for the place for a long time.
Two days later, the two overseers traveled to the Imperial History and arrived at the Assassin's Mansion in Yuzhou City, where Lu Qi came to welcome them.
Gao Yue's first impression was that Lu Qi was extremely ugly, with big eyes and small eyes, a serious face, teeth exposed like fangs, and a blue complexion, looking like a Celtic warrior wearing an official uniform of the Tang Dynasty.
But Gao Yue knew in his heart that this scheming city was very deep, and his methods were extremely destructive, and in addition, a person like this who looked hideous but was in a high position was actually extremely sensitive and inferior in his heart, so when he was ten feet away, Gao Yue tended to go up and salute, completely plain.
Lu Qi was very happy to see that the young superintendent had no reaction to his appearance.
And Lu Zhen was relatively a little caught off guard, he stared at Lu Qi's appearance and was surprised for a while before saluting, Lu Qi's heart suddenly burned a flame of jealousy, but quickly extinguished it, after all, there is something more important than this, so after entering the palace, he invited "two attendants (the superintendent of the imperial history claims to be a certain surname superintendent, but others still call them servants)" to sit down, and then talked about the pigs raised by the official village of Yuzhou trampling on the crops of the people.
Gao Yue quickly looked around, and saw that Lu Qi's private life should also be very frugal, there was no Qiluo brocade tent in the palace, and there was no official prostitute vocal music, so he listened quietly, and was ready to test Lu Qi's tone at any time.
"Oh, don't hide it from the high servant and the Lu servant, this pig of the Honglu Shui Guanzhuang has made the people miserable, with three thousand heads, almost becoming a wild boar, rushing out of the fence and running around, not only stepping on the crops, but also gnawing the trees, and even rushing out to hurt people."
"Have the head of the official village and the guest of the village been detained?"
"Not yet! But this assassin wants to investigate them for the sin of not repairing the fence of the official village. ”
Gao Yue rolled his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Isn't there even a fence for raising pigs in this official village?" ”
Lu Qi sneered twice and replied: "The fence has been said to be in disrepair, and the three thousand pigs are thin and long-haired, like evil ghosts. ”
Over there, Lu Zhen conveyed His Majesty's handling opinions, "Lu Envoy, the holy intention is to move these three thousand pigs to the Shayuan Prison in Tongzhou to be shepherded. ”
As a result, Lu Qi stood up very seriously, paced back and forth for a few steps, and replied righteously: "If three thousand pigs go to Shayuan Prison, they will harm the people of Tongzhou, aren't the people of Tongzhou His Majesty's people?" ”
At this time, Gao Yue slowly took over the conversation: "But the cattle and sheep envoys in the Shayuan Prison, I'm afraid that they are more conscientious than the head of the Honglu Water Guanzhuang, and raise the meat as wild boars, so where does the money of the Honglu Water Guanzhuang go every year?" ”
When these words were spoken, the three people in the entire palace quickly fell silent.
Obviously, Lu Qi's eyes were fixed on Gao Yue.
But Gao Yue stopped talking and remained silent.
He was waiting for Lu Qi to make a statement.
Lu Yi was also silent on the side, but he was actually thinking about it.
The key lies in Gao Yue's sentence: "Where does the money from this Honglushui Guanzhuang go every year?" ”
And Lu Qi was waiting for this sentence, and finally Lu Zhen opened his mouth to say, "The income and expenditure of the official village are under the management of the inner village." "It means that it is inconvenient for us to ask about the Imperial Historical Tower, or you Lu Envoy.
But Lu Qi's enthusiasm was very high, and he asked Lu Zhen rhetorically, "Who is the envoy of the inner village?" ”
Lu Zhen smiled and didn't say much.
"The brother of Wang Gongsu, the judge of the Ten Princes' Mansion, Wang Weirong." Lu Qi's self-question and self-answer was already expected by Gao Yue, and when Lu Zhen thought about it, he immediately understood.
This prince is the eunuch who came to the banquet with Li Gan when Gao Yue went to Wu Zhongru's house as a guest in the past, and almost became Guo Fenyang's grandson-in-law, he and Li Gan are undoubtedly the people of King Han - alas, it seems that Li Shi, who has just ascended the throne, wants to quickly remove the wings of King Han, and now this situation is ready to be sent on the bow.
As for this Lu Qi, I am afraid that he has already figured out the thoughts of the new emperor, seized the opportunity to make a ruthless move, and asked him and Lu Zhen to come to the two small lines, firstly, not to attract people's attention, and secondly, to avoid the criticism of "flattering and inviting favors": as long as there is a supervising imperial history present, this matter is a matter of the imperial court and a public matter.
"Wang Gongsu and Wang Weirong are the inner servants of the eunuch temple, aren't they the domestic slaves of the Holy Lord, and aren't they in charge of the Holy Lord's property? Our inspector and Lu Envoy Jun are all in charge of Fengxian, so there is nothing that cannot be managed. Gao Yue made the final decision.
"That's right, so we'll take care of it!" Lu Qi immediately agreed.
The so-called Guanzhuang, the full name of which is "Guanyou Zhuang Residence", is privately owned by the royal family, mainly concentrated in Jingzhao Mansion and Henan Mansion, but there are also prefectures and counties. How did this official village come about? The answer is that there are often scenes of "copying homes" in ancient film and television works, the emperor confiscates the sinners' family property, the wives and daughters of these sinners will be confiscated into the court, the money will be confiscated as stolen money, and the mansions and fields that cannot be taken away will become "official villages". The official village industry has weaving, animal husbandry, mulberry fields, fish ponds, tea gardens and orchards, car mills, mills, etc., which are always managed by the eunuch "Neizhuang House Envoy", independent income and expenditure, and the money obtained is neither into the treasury nor into the emperor's inner treasury, but can be at the disposal of the emperor for special occasions, which is regarded as an additional small amount of money for the emperor in addition to the inner treasury.
It seems that Lu Qi has been staring at Honglushui Guanzhuang for a long time, and the so-called Guanzhuang pig trampling on the people's crops in the song is just an excuse to completely make things bigger, Li Shi also understood it, and immediately instructed Dou Shen to let Gao Yue and Lu Zhen "cooperate" with Lu Qi's investigation.
Therefore, once the officials and thieves of Yuzhou received the order, they flocked to "raid" the Honglushui Guanzhuang.
Soon, no less than dozens of Zhuang heads, inspectors, and Zhuang guests were all shackled, and the crying shook the world and were escorted to the mansion, and they knelt on the ground.
When they saw Lord Thorn Shi, who looked like a demon, they were even more frightened.
In the hall, Lu Qiju sat in the middle, Gao Yue and Lu Zhen sat on the side, and the government clerk handed over the various account books of Honglu Shuiguanzhuang to Gao Yue's bookcase, and then raised his hand to the assassin Shi Yu and said: "When I went, this village was preparing to burn the account books, but before I could do it, the arrested thief officer was captured. ”
"Sure enough, there is dirt, Gao Shiyu used to be a Confucius in the Jingyuan shogunate, and he is very familiar with the affairs of the account books, and the things that are colluded are tired; Lu Shiyu's writing is brilliant, and this document is tired. I have sent the bureaucrats of the government to take stock of the village, and if there are any things that do not match the account books, I will ask them one by one! ”
Gao Yue and Lu Zhen stared at the same time, looking at the stacked books of Honglu Water Guanzhuang, and thought to themselves: "Now, I really want to move the mountains and Zhenzhou County......
Then, Lu Qi asked that the pigs of Guanzhuang broke out of the fence and damaged the crops of the people, which must be compensated, and the holy will is to directly kill the pigs of Guanzhuang and cut the meat to compensate, so the number of pigs must be counted.
When Zhuang Tou and the inspector heard this, their faces turned miserable.
Sure enough, soon after, the official came with news from the official village, "There are only 1,714 pigs in the official village of Honglushui. ”