Chapter 791: Ability and Integrity are Different
A gust of wind blew, Xiaobei shivered, looked at the earthen wall in front of him from the gap in the crowd, and said: "Go in first, it's windy outside, the tent blew last night, and I didn't sleep well." ”
"The girl is tired." The old man who stood over earlier said distressedly.
"It's not me, it's the rest of the team, go in and arrange a place for them to sleep, go." Xiaobei walked forward first as he spoke.
Gongsun Moyu was by his side, and Wang Chang's status as a county commander could not be reflected at all, so he could only follow a few steps behind, afraid and aggrieved.
Hearing Xiaobei's words, he turned his head to look at it and muttered: "Didn't you say that the descendants and guards of the Zhang and Wang families are the first in the Tang Dynasty, and they will be tired when the wind blows?" ”
"What to say, what to say, I am most annoyed by others saying bad things behind my back, what's wrong with the elite? Elite are also people, and they don't need high-intensity anti-fatigue at ordinary times, or do you mean to tell us that in Wenshan County, our people need to maintain the same state of vigilance, are you worried about yourself or not at ease with the people in the county? ”
Xiaobei turned back to Wang Chang and asked.
Before Wang Chang could argue, the indignant eyes of the surrounding locals stared at him, and it seemed that they couldn't tear him apart one by one.
An old woman who was a little older and had a face full of people was holding a cane made of wood that she didn't know what kind of wood she didn't know, knocking twice on the ground, and slanted at Wang Chang and said in a hateful voice: "Useless things, the county order is not good, and the words will not be spoken, and the bad people don't know Xiaobei They came in a hurry, who can harm them in the county, there are really people who dare to make it bad, we dig three feet into the ground to find out people, like Xunyang." ”
Listening to the old woman's words, it was clear what was said next to her, a group of little guys in Xunyang on the Yangtze River were almost blown up by gunpowder boats.
I don't know how fast the message is transmitted, but the speed of this message is very fast, and the remote mountains know it.
Wang Chang opened his mouth and didn't say a word, for fear of causing a siege, so he lowered his head and continued to be aggrieved.
Becky sighed, shook his head and walked forward. I knew in my heart that Wang Chang was depressed, and not all the magistrates were as capable as Gongsun Moyu, and their abilities were limited. Most of them are maintained, especially people in remote areas, and ethnic groups are grouped, and they can't come up with a short-term effect and a plan to get rich with little effort. Everyone else resisted.
As long as he can let the local people continue to live and not rebel, he is a good official to the imperial court, and as for the hope of bringing the local people to prosperity, he must be a capable official.
It is said that Wang Chang's county order is not very wrong. Unless it is found that he is greedy for ink, takes bribes, abuses power for personal gain, or oppresses the people, even if he uses the money in the wrong place and does the wrong thing with good intentions, he will not be punished. Of course, if he really committed a few other crimes, even if he was greedy for a hundred yuan, the crime was not small.
Thought to myself. Xiaobei looked at Gongsun Moyu who followed. Thinking that the local people are living better, and the county's financial revenue has doubled, he has no problem being greedy. If you want to talk about fairness and justice, there is no place in this world.
"Uncle, I want to ask you something." Xiaobei suddenly asked the old man next to him.
"Don't say one, girl, I'll answer a few questions. There's so much to know. The old man said happily.
Wang Chang said violently: "It is to know everything, and to say everything." ”
"Shut up. You know? Do you know to take us to a good life? The old man reprimanded, and he didn't dare to say the county order before Xiaobei and the others came. Now I'm not afraid, it is estimated that the county order will not last long. Even if you continue to be don't be afraid, you say that the county order, the state assassin Shi did something wrong and still dared to scold in front of Xiaobei and several people.
Do you still have the guts to retaliate? You try, today you retaliate, and tomorrow someone will raid your house. Revenge for the affairs of Xiaobei and a few people is to prevent the people from speaking to the emperor. If the road to speech is not smooth, it will be difficult for the country to get through, what kind of crime do you say?
Wang Chang seemed to think of this, so he didn't even dare to give the old man's reprimand an angry look.
"Uncle, leave him alone, let me ask, do you like an official who is not greedy or possessive, who is dedicated to the people but can't make your life better, or do you like an official who is very smart and can make your life dozens of times better with just a little bit of energy, but will embezzle some of the money?"
Xiaobei asked, this topic is eternal to the present, and there are rights and wrongs.
The old man was questioned at once, and it was not until the party entered the range of the earthen wall that he clicked twice and said, "According to me, it depends on the place." For example, we can't eat meat twice a year in Wenshan, so we finally hunt something in the mountains, we have to make dried meat, take it outside and exchange it for oil and salt.
When the green and yellow crops are scarce, wild vegetables are a good thing, and the bark of grass roots is also good when they are hungry. The county commander wants to be greedy, he is comfortable, and we hate to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Replaced by Gongsun Boy, according to his method, after another year or two, he can be greedy if he wants, he is not easy, we can't be rich and suffer himself. People's hearts are flesh and blood, and we also hope that he is comfortable, and there are really people above to check, I don't know about others, I will help me speak, and I can stop him.
If you want to say that your home Sanshui County must be different, everyone has money, and there is usually no shortage of things, what you are an official is nothing more than to help maintain it, why are you greedy. When you are greedy for the money that should be used in the county, what will others use? You people in Sanshui County aren't greedy, right? ”
"Dare? Lend them a hundred guts, and I will let them earn their lives and spend their lives. Hehe, in fact, no official in my family will be greedy, and the money they are greedy for is not as much as the money they take after doing a good job. The eyes of the people are snow-clear. Uncle, do you say that Wang Chang is greedy for his county order? ”
Xiaobei seemed to understand a problem and led the topic to Wang Chang again.
Wang Chang instantly felt that the cold winter was coming, and it was still when he was standing on the top of Minshan Mountain, and he really wanted to say that he was greedy, and the crime was added to the fifth degree, and it was no problem to kill his head directly.
"I'm not greedy." Thinking about his head, Wang Chang shouted at the top of his voice.
Xiaobei said lightly: "There is reason not to be loud. ”
"I'm really not greedy, look at it, you all look at it, look at my clothes." Wang Chang continued to shout, and lifted his official uniform outside as he spoke, revealing the inner lining, the fabric of the inner lining was still good, the big man and the little man came over and reached out to touch it, looked at each other, nodded, and the little man said:
"Shudi second-class brocade, fine stitches, silky silk, the only drawback is that the embroidery is slightly poor, the first grade is much better, such as ...... For example, the inner lining of the fairy, the fairy came over for everyone to see. ”
The little man thought that what he and the others were wearing was not Shu brocade, but fine cotton, so he had to call the maid over and lift the outer shirt to reveal the inner lining. said to the people around him: "This is a first-class high-grade Shu brocade, and Wang Xianling's clothes can be worth five dollars, but it seems that he has been wearing it for many years." It's patched, and my stomach is about to break here. ”
"Thank you, thank you, good man." Wang Chang, who breathed a sigh of relief, said gratefully. At the same time, he glanced at the maid fairy enviously, everyone else wears a maid better than himself, you people, why don't you say that a maid is good or not.
Of course, the Diao people don't care how well the maids of the Zhang and Wang families are dressed, and the inner courtyard of the Zhang and Wang families has long become a legend. It is said that you can be a good magistrate if you take out any of them, and half of the officials in the entire Tang Dynasty suddenly died, and there was no problem in putting the inner courtyards of the two families on top, and the decree was still unimpeded.
What the people cared about was whether Wang Chang's county order was a show, so they stepped forward one after another to touch Wang County's clothes and left various handprints on them.
Wang Chang's heart was twitched when he was touched, and he gritted his teeth and stiffened, just a piece of clothing. It's better than losing your life.
"The patch is not new." Finally someone has come to a conclusion.
"It's not." Someone chimed in.
"I've been wearing it for years."
"A few strands of silk here are already bad."
Wang Xianling, who was touched and was about to collapse, suddenly felt that there were still many good people in the county. The old lady who was the first to speak just now, don't look at the wrinkles on her face now, counting twenty years old, she is definitely a beauty. There are also black handprints, saying that a few little boys who are messy are guaranteed to be pillars when they grow up. can easily get a top score, or the kind of Jinshike.
Xiaobei's nine little guys also wondered. Heads pressed together and muttered for a moment, then turned back. Xiaobei asked, "Wang Chang, you didn't deliberately wear a torn dress to deal with us, did you?" I'm here to put it, if you really do something wrong, you can just say it, as long as it doesn't kill someone, or your wife is separated, we won't go deeper to pursue you.
However, if you dare to deceive us, you will expect that the investigation methods of my Zhang and Wang families will not work. Once we find out, the dozens of people standing on Suzaku Street in Chang'an, Beijing, will have multiple partners. The original Hongnong County ordered Yanzheng's family to die, and he is still alive. ”
Xiaobei began to scare Wang Chang, Yan Zheng's family was sent back from Japan because the relationship between the little daughter did not die, and then arranged to be sent to another place, but outsiders didn't know, and they thought that the whole house was beheaded.
And the reason why Yan Zheng lives so tenaciously is that he knows that his family is still there, and his youngest daughter came to see him once during the Chinese New Year, and he sat in the car and raised the curtains to watch, and he also saw the son that his pregnant wife held to him when he was arrested.
Then he needs to cooperate and shout to every official who passes by, withstand the wind and rain, and if he does not die for 20 years, he can be reunited with his family. Although he knew that he might not be able to hold on for twenty years, he was willing to do it, and it was enough to see his family every year.
Most of the others were caught in the last fraud and religious incidents, and only a few were officials from other places. It was a mercy for them to die, they had to live, to let the other officials see their bodies decomposing, to watch the medical disciples operate on them, to cut off the rotten flesh for treatment, to see how they reacted when they were to be pricked.
Wang Chang has seen it, and he has seen it when he returned to Beijing with other local officials during the Chinese New Year to discuss how to support Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's westward expedition this year. The capital was colder than Wenshan, and one of the captured officials had a frozen leg. Then he was assigned to see someone from the medical school to explain to the apprentices how to deal with it.
At that time, the officer's legs were already black, and there were bulging and broken chilblains on them, and then he was poured boiling water to record the skin reaction when he suddenly became hot after frostbite. Finally, the leg was sawed off, and a few more injections of the newly developed drug were given. Before returning to Wenshan, I saw the man again and found that he was not dead, which means that the medicine is good, and the people in the medical school are highly skilled.
In any case, I didn't want to experience the superb medical skills of the medical school on Suzaku Street.
Thinking of this, Wang Chang swallowed his saliva and said: "Clothes are definitely not pretentious, I usually don't do anything bad." ”
"Then why are you white and fat, Gongsun Moyu is black and thin?" Xiaobei asked about the other party's skin color and figure. (To be continued.) )