As Fan Jin estimated, there has been a lot of backlog of papers in the yamen signing room, which is still based on Fan Jin's strengthening of the management of the yamen and the assessment of the yamen during this period. Let some small cases be resolved on the spot after they occur, so that there will be no backlog, otherwise the number of cases will only increase.

The disadvantage of not having a staff member is this, after the chief officer goes out, there is no one around him who can do things. Zhang Tiejian was very ashamed and angry to complain to Fan Jin, telling about the constraints from Liu Peng in the past ten days.

As a canonical history, Liu Peng's scope of work is to handle cases, and he also has the power to intervene in the handling of cases. Liu Peng was very cooperative with Fan Jin's work before, and he was not stingy when he could help, at least he could not be hindered. However, in recent times, it has frequently used its power to interfere with the work of arresting speed, which has reached the point of affecting the normal office.

For example, in this exposé, it is said that the official wants to track down who posted the exposé and hold him accountable, but Liu Peng threw a bunch of troublesome and no serious cases to the yamen, and solved the case within a time limit. Occupy the limited number of fast catchers, and you can't find out who posted the post.

Originally, there were some people in the government who were forced to lose their sincerity under pressure, but now they see that the wind is not in the right direction, and their position is a little shaken. Fortunately, their handle is still in Fan Jin's hands after all, and it is only in the shaking stage at the moment, and when it comes to anti-water, no one has the courage to do so.

Zhang Tiejian, a person from the rivers and lakes, actually has no guarantee of loyalty, he was the master who could even betray his life-saving benefactor Zeng Guang for his own life, and he could not really be Fan Jin's hardcore loyal minister. But his brain is better than ordinary people after all, especially in terms of looking at the style, he has extraordinary talent, otherwise he wouldn't be able to live now.

Fan Jin's relationship is in Beijing after all, even if he really can't get along in Shangyuan, he can still return to Beijing and continue to be an official. As long as he hugs his thighs, he will not worry about flying Huang Tengda, if he betrays Fan Jin, no matter how he looks at it, he will not end well. Therefore, in this turmoil, he firmly stood on Fan Jin's side, and during this time, he really ran a lot of roads and found a lot of people in the scorching heat.

Relying on the relationship that Feng Si left him in the rivers and lakes, he was not at a loss, and the investigation during this period of time also had some results. This is a matter of someone giving money to beggars and asking them to post it. Later, someone said that the words on the post were not conducive to Fan Jin, and those beggars stopped doing it, and those people had to go to the gang.

Although the person who came forward is also a splashy tiger on the street, the people in the rivers and lakes also have their own means of finding people, and they can probably find out if they investigate it back. The clerks of Shangyuan County paid the money, and many of them had nothing to do with the summer grain collection. The backers behind are Chen and Liu, two adjutants.

These two people were originally very supportive of Fan Jin's work, but now their attitudes have reversed, naturally because what Fan Jin is doing now is harming their interests.

Zhang Juzheng's new law is, to a large extent, to compete with the officials in the yamen for food, and take back the part of them that is greedy for ink back into the hands of the imperial court. In fact, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty are, in the final analysis, a succession. The highest level is responsible for decision-making, and the lowest level is responsible for implementation. Any link that goes wrong will lead to a problem for the country. At present, Daming is in the hands of Zhang Juzheng, and there is no problem in the field of decision-making, but it is difficult to say in the field of implementation. The officials do not like the system that is not beneficial to themselves, although they do not have the ability to confront the upper echelons, but they have the means to read the good scriptures crookedly.

For example, the policy of exchanging silver for service was originally a good government that was very beneficial to the people, but the grassroots officials were able to implement it as a local policy of harming the people where the silver had to be paid and the service had to be served. The common people don't know what the system of the court is, so they will only scold the court for messing around, but the result is that the officials who should be punished the most are cheap.

From Wang Anshi's new law in the Song Dynasty to Zhang Juzheng's whip. Every time a new law fails, it is true that there is an attack from the enemy in the imperial court, but the distorted and excessive implementation of the grassroots implementation is also a factor that cannot be ignored. Fan Jin's position in front of Zhang Ju was to pioneer the way, and he did not hesitate to implement the new law by rapid means, and the decision-making of the upper echelons was not under his control, and he had to do the things of charging into battle to capture the flag, and the enemies in front of him were the squires, officials, and officials.

The officials have been successfully subdued, and the squires can cooperate temporarily by the lure of interests. Fan Jin has no hatred for the gentry class, and he doesn't want to be their enemy, this relatively friendly attitude has also gained the kindness of the gentry, and the two are likely to cooperate.

Now in front of me are the officials.

They were smart enough, and Fan Jin's strategy of frying fish was seen through by them, and they realized that if they didn't do something, when Fan Jin became the county magistrate for three years, they guaranteed to lose nothing. did not passively see the moves, but came a wave of active counterattacks.

On the one hand, it is to create public opinion, and on the other hand, it is passive sabotage. It's not that all the officials will unite against Fan Jin, and there are all dynasties for those who want to be good people and those who are timid. But the problem is that the current general trend is to reverse Fan, and those who want to help Fan Jin dare not stand up now, otherwise their colleagues will not be able to pass the hurdle.

Listening to Zhang Tieji's report, Fan Jin nodded and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"The next army is reckless, and he only knows how to cut people with a sword, where will he have any opinions. What the master says, how to listen to the next battle, I will kill whoever I want. I want to walk the rivers and lakes after the battle, and I don't know how many ...... I have killed under a sword."

"Enough! The official asked you to say that he just wanted to listen to your true opinions, and those perfunctory words, I just listened to the other officials. You have a lot of experience in running the rivers and lakes, but you still lack experience as a confidant. Remember to be a henchman, especially a confidant of Wenchen, you also have to have a little brain, you can only cut people sooner or later and be sent to the border to be a military general, do you really want to be a military attaché? ”

Zhang Tiejian smiled awkwardly, scratched his head and said, "Is Xia Gong a rough man, where do you understand so many truths, and you don't know how to deal with people." Anyway, when we run the rivers and lakes, there are two ways to encounter this kind of thing. Either take a knife to the door and cut people, and everyone will see the real chapter under their hands. Either you just talk to the boss of the other party, everyone comes out to mix, and seeking money is not seeking anger, but always making money in harmony. If it's really not right, you have to talk about it. ”

"I said, you do have talent in this area, and you don't have to play stupid in front of me in the future. I have a lot of fools under me, and I still need a few smart people. Go and call Chen Youfang, and then call Liu Peng to see me in half an hour. ”

Chen Youfang, as the second official, and Fan Jin, although the county order is directly subordinate to the subordinate level, generally speaking, he also has the qualifications to treat each other as enemies. When patting the Ya Bai Yin, the second official of Zuo first has to pay homage to the chief official, and the chief official will also visit Zuo Er afterwards, so as to show that the two are not distinguished from each other.

The performance appraisal of the county is in the hands of the magistrate, and the magistrate himself needs to go to the ministry to narrate his duties, and all official affairs during this period must be managed by the county magistrate. For example, in remote areas like Yunnan, the chief official often delays his time on the way back and forth between the place of appointment and the Beijing division, and the county is responsible for the specific work. Therefore, the relationship between the two is very important, if you can't cooperate together, it is not a comfortable thing for anyone.

The gap between Chen Youfang and Fan Jin is in the backer, he relies on his own ability to fight to this position little by little, and there is no comparison with an official like Fan Jin who is directly airborne under the care of a big man. When the two are facing each other alone, the difference in aura is very large. Fan Jin looked at the stickers while eating snacks, looking very undignified, and there was no official decency. Chen Youfang kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, not knowing what medicine was sold in the old man's gourd.

"These foods were given by the villagers when the official returned to the city. It's a gift, not a robbery, and I want to give money, but no one is willing to accept it. Some elderly people directly said that giving money was to look down on them, so they had no choice but to accept it. Fortunately, these things don't add up to much value, and I'm not afraid to sue anywhere. In addition to these, there were live chickens, live ducks, and some geese, enough for me to eat for days. Guess why they gave me food? ”

"I don't know ...... my job"

"Because I've got their back! I don't understand such a simple truth, how did you come out to be an official. The idea of the common people is very simple, whoever helps them save money and get rich, they will support whomever they want. I measured the land, assigned to the big families what had been assigned to them in the past, and told them that in the future they would either serve or pay for it, and only one thing would have to be done. If anyone wants both, they will beat him half to death and send him to the county yamen, do you say they will support me? ”

"Respecting the people and loving the people like sons is the blessing of the people of my Shangyuan."

"I can't say that I love the people like a son, but I just do my duty. I'm not married now, I don't have a son of my own, but I do have a godson. If anyone dares to cheat my godson out of his money, I will definitely break his legs. But at the moment, someone is cheating on the money and food of the people of Shangyuan, but I can only cut off two heads, and it depends on whether the Shangxian Yamen approves it. What kind of parent am I? According to my opinion, it is normal for this kind of bastard to cut a few, and if they don't kill their prestige, how do they know that they are afraid? How do you know that there is a limit to doing things, and if you exceed this limit, you will be beaten. I can understand that everyone comes out to do things to make money, but they can do anything for money, which is unacceptable. I did them, it's already considered a high and light, and there are still people who think that I am too ruthless, what is this? ”

Chen Youfang wiped his sweat faster, and Fan Jin said again: "If you think what I did is wrong, you can ask me to explain it clearly." actually poked a cold gun in the back and released a cold arrow, do you really think this method is useful? I can tell you right now that in two days the whole of Jiangning will be plastered with new posters. The above content is that Chen Youfang and Liu Peng embezzled summer grain and filled their pockets. Stealing money and grain from the county government office to enrich themselves. There are also people who leave the county border privately, go to Suchang in Qinhuai River in casual clothes, and then collude with Feng Bangning to find a woman for him, they will all appear in front of the people of Jiangning. ”

"Honorable, where does this begin? Humble and unjust! ”

"Yes, of course I know you're wronged, but so what? Isn't this official wronged? No one has cried out for me, so why should I cry out for others. I don't have any other skills, it's my turn to frame others, spread rumors and slander to make the fake true, and I have never lost. I raised so many beggars in Shangyuan and allowed them to beg in Shangyuan just so that one day I could use them as forced labor. Of course, these beggars can't think of it that far, and they think that I am their great benefactor, and I will let them post some unmasking posts now, do you say they will go or not? ”

Chen Youfang said: "Honorable, I don't understand ...... humble position."

"You don't understand why I didn't use the government to clean you up, but this method, right? Because the government's methods are too slow to deal with you, and it also gives you too much face. I name Yan Shen, you will definitely be dismissed. There is no need to doubt this, but there is always a delay of several months in this back and forth. Besides, I'm a second-class heirloom to impeach you, a county man from a high background? I'm ashamed myself. So I give you two ways, the first is to hand in your resignation by yourself, hang the seal and go home, and I will allow you to leave with half of your belongings. Second, just wait for me to bring you to ruin and become the hatred of Jiangning. Whether you can leave Jiangning or not at that time, I can't guarantee it. ”

"You must have heard some rumors, there is no fault for the lowly position, and the matter of exposing the post this time has nothing to do with the lowly position."

"You know best what it has to do with it. I will let you and Liu Peng be responsible for the matter of Xia Liang, and now I will be responsible for the matter like this, just this one, I should take off your yarn hat. What you want to do, I know in my heart, but I want to tell you, the rules have changed! I still want to be like in the past, and it is destined to work with the officials to make a fortune. ”

"Honorable, the official is as clear as water, and it is difficult to prevent the official from slippery like oil. If we can't cooperate with the officials, it will be difficult for the yamen to carry out its official duties, and there will be hardships in lowly positions. As for these revelations, it's really not ......"

"I can't show any evidence that you participated, but this is not in court, and I don't have to speak with evidence. In fact, if I want Jinyi Wei to investigate, I will definitely be able to find out, but if things get to that point, everyone will have no way out. So how to choose, you think about it yourself, you only have one chance to choose, if you choose the wrong one, you have no chance to regret it. I'll give you a day, if I can't see the resignation letter at this time tomorrow, the post about you will be posted all over the streets and alleys of Jiangning City, what to do, think about it yourself. ”

A moment later, Liu Peng, who was also sweating profusely, sat opposite Fan Jin, and he also showed incomprehension and struggle with Ah's request. Fan Jin said coldly: "Chen Youfang has decided to write his resignation, and he is willing to take the lead in denunishing what you colluded with him." If I don't see your sincerity, I'll have to condemn you according to what he says. When the time comes, you'll be completely finished. I'm a very talkative person, and as long as you're willing to cooperate, I'm not going to kill them all. But if you don't know how to lift, then don't blame the official for being unkind. ”

That night, Zheng Chan tried her best to satisfy Fan Jin, and when she was exhausted, she remembered the news she heard from Ma Xianglan and explained to Fan Jin that Rouge had committed suicide by humiliation. Fan Jin nodded when he heard this, "Then let Luo Wu do his part, and the official will call the shots for him." This official is the official of Shangyuan's parents, and I will not agree to anyone who bullies my people. ”