After the discussion, Liu Zunhe, the county leader, and Wei Kungang, the official history, flashed quickly, and the chief bookkeeper Zheng Shixin also had a lot of official business. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang He had nothing to do, so he planned to go to his own practice general office to have a look.

After solving the matter of the displaced people, Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, was in a good mood, and specially and cordially instructed Master Tian to lead him forward.

Deng inspected everything and followed, not in a hurry to go home.

He is a native of Suining, and he also has a house in the city, but now his home is deserted, and the tigress has stayed in Pizhou's mother's house after a big fight with him and has not returned.

Inspector Deng didn't bother to call her back, this girl would only cry, make trouble and hang herself, and she was happy to be alone.

Everyone walked out of the lobby, Yang He was still wearing official uniforms, wearing a mink cloak, and covering his ears to warm his ears, and then Chen Qiuao's five iron-armored guards and two fat and thin soaps followed.

Stepping down the steps, many officials immediately gathered to curry favor, and the greetings of "Lord Yang" continued.

Yang He nodded slightly, both sides of this hall are known as the gathering place of the six departments, officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, grain departments, horse departments, contract rooms, and shop chief divisions are all here, and there is one secretary and two wardens in each room.

These are all serious county officials, almost passed down from generation to generation, and in fact control the political affairs of various states and counties, and then there are various offices and clerks, which are recruited by hire.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were many officials, and the names were different, but in the first year of orthodoxy, the officials of the world were cut, and each room stopped saving one official and two wardens.

In addition to all kinds of gray income, generally each scribe is a year of food and silver, and most of them are levied in the whip.

Looking at the flattering expressions of these people, all of them are harmless and friendly like guinea pigs, but Yang He knows their inner story, "Let your officials be as clear as water, it is inevitable that the officials will be as slippery as oil".

There is even a story in "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", a Shangshu asked a minister to do things, and the little official knocked him 10,000 taels of silver when he opened his mouth.

In order to control the officials, the "Da Ming Law" specifically stipulates: "Whoever has an official who does not live in the official room in the public office, but lives in the public house on the street, will have 80 rods." ”

They are only allowed to go out on the first and fifteenth days of each month, but now it has become empty talk.

It was not yet time to deal with them, and in the midst of the greetings, Yang He nodded lightly, talked to Master Tian and Inspector Deng, and strode out of the lobby, leaving behind a restrained smile on his face, and a pair of deep or complex eyes.

Out of Yimen, Chen Qiuao and others went to take back the horses and came out of the county office.

Then there were still a lot of onlookers on Yaqian Street, Yang He came out surrounded by Master Tian, Deng Inspector and others, and there were ironclad guards following, as soon as he walked out of the county Ya gate, there was a sound of tsk.

Most of the local officials have been old men for many years, and middle-aged people are rare, but now there is a young official who is less than 20 years old, presumably for a long time, the people of Suining, all the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, there are topics of gossip.

Yang He mounted his horse and was at the west gate, but Yang He ordered him to go east, and he planned to climb the polder wall from there, from east to south, and then to the west.

The group rode their horses down the street, all dirt roads, which were also quite filthy, and it was fine now, if it rained......

And Yaqian Street is also the most prosperous place in Suining City, there are relatively many shops and pedestrians, and the people walking here will be brighter.

The official uniform on Yang He is the best dodge card.

There are still quite a few people who give up their hands, whether Yang He knows them or not, they all put on a very familiar look, which makes Yang He feel the nobility of officials at this time.

Suining is not a very small place, but there are only six officials, and each official is very valuable.

Tian Shi'an introduced softly on the side, it was so-and-so who greeted him just now, and he was the shopkeeper of so-and-so, Yang He listened with a smile.

But in his heart, he was thinking: "When the banquet comes, these people can prepare the gift money, and they will recruit the homeless people themselves and solve the big trouble for them, how can they not knock them out?" ”

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Soon arrived at the east gate "Chongwen Gate", Suining city layout is the county government in the northeast corner, not far from the city wall there is Chang Ping, the southeast corner is the Confucian Temple and the school hall, there are a large number of lakes and ponds around, each alley winds along the street lake.

There will be more brick houses in the northeast corner and southeast corner, and these courtyard houses are mostly built on the platform to prevent floods, and then there is a water gate in the southeast corner of the city.

From the urn city, there is the East Gate Bridge, which is also a suspension bridge, and there are filial piety workshops and martial arts temples near the bridge, as well as a Lianyi Academy.

The east gate is the main passage to Suqian, which is slightly wider from the city gate to the polder, about 200 steps, and the buildings in the middle will be better than the north gate, of course, it looks dirty and messy in the Yang River.

Soon, they boarded the East Polder Gate, and Master Tian was quite enthusiastic and introduced the surroundings to Yang He.

When facing Yang He, he didn't have such a cold face towards others.

Yang He eagerly inspected the city, which must be very in line with his thoughts, after all, his owner is the magistrate, and if something happens to the city, he, the magistrate, will not be able to escape.

However, Yang He always felt that he was not smiling, and he was quite familiar with his owner Gao Qifeng, so it was no wonder that the two would get together.

"Roughly the periphery of the county, divided by the middle line, this east, from north to south, is the Shuinan Society, Fangkuo Society, Wu Branch Society. To the west, from north to south, are the Bamboo Castle Society, the Shicun Society, and the Hushan Society. ”

"There are also shops in the northeast and south of the county, and the north must be clear to Lord Yang, and the east traffic Suqian has nine shops. Divided into two roads, go straight to the east all the way, go fifteen miles to Gaozuopu, go east twenty miles to Shajiajipu, and then go east thirteen miles to Jiangzhuang Pu, just hand over the Suqian boundary, and then walk twenty-five miles to Suqian's Xiaohepu. ”

"The other way to the southeast, ten miles to Xiahepu, and ten miles southeast to Zhanglinpu, and then ten miles southeast to the ancient house shop, and then to the southeast ten miles to Gualoupu, and then southeast to Wozipu, and then ten miles southeast to the ancient embankment, and then out of the county, and then eighteen miles away, to Suqian's Caozhuang shop."

"If it is south, there is only one shop, go southwest fifty miles to Tuqiaopu, and then divide the road, all the way to Hongxian, all the way to Lingbi."

Master Tian pointed out to Yang He, and Yang He nodded slightly.

At this time, he stood on the polder wall, although it was a polder wall, it was also a city wall, and like the inner city wall, it was built of rammed earth, without bricks.

Both are about the same height, two feet and eight feet tall.

Then the wall was four feet and five feet wide, and the top was one and seven feet wide.

Standing on the wall, you can see the scenery outside.

The east gate is the essence of Suining, there are two polders, divided into Suqian two roads, the two gates are about the side houses, although they are all short less than 100 meters, only along the dirt road on both sides of the few shops tea shops, some small alleys.

But it is much more prosperous than the empty house outside the north gate.

Then the plains outside are vast, and there are also some villages that are quite populated, which is quite different from the scenery in the north of Suishui.

However, the Yang River also saw that there were many forks and lakes on this side, and most of them were connected with the Sui River, especially close to the east polder wall, almost one or two miles of water swinging reeds were dense, except for the two pieces of Guanxiang, there were few large dry places.

Yang He breathed a sigh of relief, such terrain was beneficial to the defense of the city, because it was difficult for the Liukou army to gather.

There are muddy lakes nearby, how to arrange troops?

After watching it for a while, he rode his horse to Weinan, Chen Qiuao and others followed, and then some people who nodded their heads and bowed.

The polders of the city wall are generally forbidden for people to climb, and the horse road to the city is also patrolled by the people.

However, Yang He, Master Tian, Deng Xunjian and others inspected the city, and they naturally let them go and followed behind.

Soon Yang He and others arrived at the southeast polder, which leads to the Caozhuang shop in Suqian, and there are also many temples around the polder, especially not far from the polder wall, near the road, there is a Ganlu Temple.

There are also castle towers on the polders here, but they are smaller than the inner city, and when you turn to the south, this side is more depressed.

There are only a few houses outside the polder, and there seems to be a tea shop.

Then not far from the southwest of the polder, there is a wind, rain, thunder and lightning altar.

This side of the city is also full of mud lakes and ponds, and the flood washed away Suining City, and these traces are still left over the years.

Looking at the distance to the south of the city, there are also some villages, but the density is not as good as that in the east of the city.

Pointing to a Zhuangzi on the side of the official road a few miles to the southwest, Master Tian said: "That's Yuzhuang, and there is a tomb of the Marquis of Suiling in the east of the village." ”

Yang He nodded, he knew that it was "Wang Xiang's tomb", this person was a native of Linyi in Langya, Western Jin Dynasty, and had served as the county commander of Suining.

Finally, everyone came to the west of the city, the Yang River was a pour, this side was bare, wild, and several miles near the city, all of which were barren and grassy.

Moreover, most of the ground is dry, and there are quite few rivers and lakes, and it seems that ten miles to the west, there is only a rather large river, which comes from north to south, and cuts through the Sui River.

It is also obvious to see the large abandoned fields and some abandoned villages around the west of the city.

Yang He heard Chen Qiuao snort behind him, obviously he also understood that Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, had good intentions in setting up his own public barracks near the west gate.

Look at the surroundings of Suining City, the north, east, and south are not conducive to most of the attack, and only in the west of this city, the Liukou can arrange most of the troops.

Master Tian coughed and pointed: "That's the Baitang River, which flows from Baitang Lake by the Yellow River, that's the martial arts arena, and that's the Shanchuan Shejitan." ”

Yang He raised his eyes and looked out, about 200 steps out of the polder, and there was indeed a martial arts arena on the north side of the road.

But looking up, it is obvious that this martial arts arena has been abandoned.

One mile away from the southwest of the polder, there is a mountain and river society altar.

In addition, it is a barren land, and there is no one left.