As the night deepened, it was already time to hold the lights. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhangye County Guard's Mansion, the lights in the study room in the west wing were a little dim, flickering and flashing.

Taishou Wang Desheng was lying on the bench at the moment, looking like he was asleep.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the corridor outside the study.

I saw that the prince of Xiaolang in the mansion was still humming a little song and walked in from the outside lightly.

When approaching the study, worried that his father would find out, Wang Shang slowed down and stopped singing.

There was a servant standing outside the door of the study, and when he saw that Xiao Langjun was back, he hurriedly greeted him.

Wang Shang asked in a low voice, "Is my father in the study?" ”

"Back to Xiao Langjun, the adults are inside, but they seem to be asleep." The servant replied cautiously.

"Oh." Wang Shang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and was about to turn around and leave.

At this time, Wang Desheng's voice came from inside the house, and he heard Wang Shang's questioning outside the house.

"Is Shang'er out there?"

There was no way, it seemed that he couldn't escape, so Wang Shang had no choice but to respond: "Father, it's the child!"

"Did you just come back?"

"This ...... Be. ”

"Come in, for the Father has something to ask you."

Wang Desheng's majestic voice came out.

Wang was still unable to do so, so he had to push open the door and enter the study.

Seeing that the lights in the room were relatively dim, he took the initiative to walk to the lampstand, lifted the cover, and moved the wick, and the room was much brighter all of a sudden.

Putting down the lampshade, Wang Shang respectfully walked in front of his father and saluted.

"Son, meet your father."

"Well, I'm back, what are you doing today?" Wang Desheng asked while reading the book with a book in his hand.

"Back to my father, this ...... Well, the boy went to dinner with a few friends. Wang Shang was a little nervous.

"Oh, is it? Ate all day? ”

Wang Desheng put down the book in his hand and stared at his son with sharp eyes.

This made Wang Shang even more nervous, and he had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Actually, the child didn't go anywhere, he just went to the Rejuvenation Workshop to play once."

"Huh? You're gambling again? Where do you get the money? ”

"This, this, this...... The child met someone before, and they asked the child for help. ”

"When the child saw that things were simple, he agreed, and they were grateful, and they gave me a few silver tickets."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?!"

"Speaking of which, I have to ask my father for help in this matter, and the county magistrate of Xiaogu County wants to ask me to say something in front of your elder."

The child thought that this was just a trivial matter, and he agreed.

"I didn't think that Master Li would not go, so I had to invite the child to drink and thank you."

"Tell me clearly, what the hell is going on?"

Wang Desheng frowned slightly and put down the book in his hand.

Now is a sensitive period, and he is worried that his son will act unscrupulously and be caught, which will affect his future.

"It's just to help catch a few people."

Seeing his father's ugly face, Wang Shang couldn't help but be a little more careful when he spoke.

As soon as he heard this, Wang Desheng was stunned, and after thinking about it slightly, he understood the trick.

It must be Xiaogu County that caused the trouble, and he was worried that he would be known by the capital, so he wanted to make up for it at this time.

Thinking of this, he relaxed and spoke in a much softer tone.

"Li Xianling, this person is known to his father, and he is also an acquaintance, how much benefit did he give you?"

As soon as he mentioned money, Wang Shang couldn't help but show a little smug on his face.

"It adds up to almost 10,000 yuan, but it's ......"

"But what?"

"A few days ago, the child owed some money to the outside, so most of it was repaid by the child, and now there are less than 3,000 left."

"Well, got it, you go down."

"Drink less alcohol in the future, the limelight has been tight recently, so I don't go to spend time drinking, so that outsiders know that it's not good."

Originally, Wang Shang thought that he had swallowed up the money of other people's filial piety, and he would inevitably be taught a lesson by his father, but Wang Desheng did not say anything after listening to it.

How did he know that now that his father's energy was all about welcoming the western tour of the capital, where would he pay attention to such a trivial matter.

……

While officials from all over the country were busy saving themselves, Wei Shuo was on his way to Zhangye at the moment.

"Daohe, Meng Xun, how is the rectification of officials in various places progressing now?"

"Back to Daduhu, according to the report of Master Cui, the Inspector Division, after half a month of rectification, Wuwei County alone has cleared out nearly 30 illegal officials, and there are as many as 100 officials at all levels."

"How did the Metropolitan Protectorate deal with it?"

"All officials who violate the law shall be carefully examined, and those who are found to be at great fault shall be severely punished; Those who commit lesser crimes are dismissed from their official positions and never to be reinstated. ”

"Well, that's fine, so let's do it."

Wei Shuo and Liu Muzhi had just finished talking about business, and before they had time to take a sip of tea and catch their breath, they saw the guard Kanglong reporting outside that a scholar asked to see him.

"Scholar? What scholar? Bring it here for me to see. Hearing this, Wei Shuo couldn't help but be stunned.

After a while, I saw a young scholar walking after Kang Long.

"Who are you? See what is the value of Pontus? ”

"Student Zhou Dingcheng visited Dadu Hu, and was entrusted by Mr. Yuan Liang to ask to see Dadu Hu."

"What do you say? Have you met Mr. Yuan Liang? ”

Zhou Dingcheng took out a letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.

"This is a letter handed over by Yuan Liangxian to Dadu Hu, which records the crime of the local officials in Zhangye who acted in cahoots."

Wei Shuo took the letter and did not open it in a hurry, but asked about Tao Qian's whereabouts.

"I wonder where Mr. Yuan Liang is now?"

"Mr. Yuan Liang went to Dunhuang half a month ago in order to investigate what happened to Niu Laohan's family."

"I also specially asked Zai Xia to confess to Dadu on his behalf, please forgive him for not being able to personally welcome Dadu into Zhangye."

"It's really hard work, Mr. Yuanliang."

Wei Shuo sighed first, then looked at Zhou Dingcheng and asked: "You are a scholar, and you are a native of Zhangye, you must know the local officialdom very well, I wonder if you can introduce Bendu Hu?" ”

"In the past, those officials did not dare to be blatant, but recently, favoritism, dereliction of duty, arrogance, and bribery have emerged one after another."

"Dadu Hu, what the other students have to say is in the letter!"

After listening to Zhou Dingcheng's introduction, Wei Shuo unfolded Tao Qian's letter and looked at it again, and after taking it and looking at it a few times, his face became ugly.

Then he closed the letter, took it to Liu Muzhi and said, "Daohe, you can also take a look." ”

Liu Muzhi took the letter, browsed it, and every time he saw it, his face became a little ugly, and finally turned cyan.

At this time, Wei Shuo's eyes said coldly: "I didn't expect that it has only been a few years, and the governments in various places are so corrupt, it seems that it is not possible to kill this trend." ”

"The entire Zhangye County is almost rotten from top to bottom, all rotten."

"These moths are really bold!"

"If you don't take the law of the country to heart, and don't take the people's to heart, they will read the books of the sages in vain, and their conscience will be eaten by dogs!"

"Shuo is eager to kill them all, and it seems that he must not be soft on corrupt officials and corrupt officials."

"In fact, most of the policies formulated by the metropolitan protector are good, such as the imperial examination, universal education, etc., but there are countermeasures."

"Take the scientific expedition as an example, only the first few sessions were boycotted by the family and the poor family took advantage of it."

"Next, when the family devotes great energy to scientific research, the family heritage will show its power, and the next few worlds will be dominated by the family."

"More than 70 percent of them are from or inextricably linked to the family."

"Coupled with the strength of the family, once you become an official with the help of the family, you will soon be able to rise up."

"On the contrary, those poor scholars have paid a hundred times more effort than the children of the family to be admitted, and if they do not follow the strong in the local area, they will be secretly resisted by the family, so that nothing can be achieved for several years."

"And the family took the opportunity to lure the poor into the game with their wealth, and as a result, the powerful forces are now rising again."

Zhou Dingcheng was also open-minded, and he had something to say, so he told Wei Shuo everything he had encountered and what he had seen and heard.

The more Wei Shuo listened, the more ugly his face became, and this week Dingcheng didn't care about it, he only cared about himself.

Unconsciously, the words were almost finished, and it was time to leave, Zhou Dingcheng bowed his hand to Wei Shuo and offered his farewell.

"The students told Dadu Hu everything they knew, and then we will see how Dadu Hu can turn things around and give the people of Zhangye a bright future."

"By the way, what about that old man? Pontus wanted to meet him. ”

"Originally, Niu Laohan was going to Guzang to find a complaint from Dadu, but later he heard that Dadu would protect the general to the west, so Mr. Yuan Liang persuaded Niu Laohan to stay in Zhangye temporarily."

"Right now, the old man is in the inn where Mr. Tao lived at that time, and Mr. Yuan Liang left enough money before leaving."

"That's it, I'll let Kang Long go into the city with you, and go find Old Man Niu first."

Bidding farewell to Wei Shuo at the moment, Kang Long led a team of guards to follow Zhou Dingcheng to Zhangye first, and the team then slowed down.

At the same time, after accepting a bribe from Xiaogu County, Wang Shang was also actively searching for the traces of Niu Laohan.