Chapter 25: Dialogue with the Prefect
Huan'er was startled when she saw Liu Zheng coming in, Liu Zheng hurriedly saluted and said: "Don't be afraid, madam, I'm not a bad person, I'm here to find the prefect, and now the city is in ruins, and I have to know that the lord of the mansion is in charge in person!" I don't know where the prefect is? ā
Huan'er desperately moved back like a frightened deer, avoiding Liu Zheng's gaze and said, "Husband, husband, I'm sick, I'm ...... in the room."
This scene was too embarrassing, so he Liu Zheng wanted to do something to her, Liu Zheng didn't wait for Huan'er to finish speaking, so he hurriedly bowed again and hurriedly walked to the bedroom where Wang Jiabin was lying on the body, and pushed open the bedroom door, Liu Zheng saw Wang Jiabin lying on the bed with a sad face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Wang Jiabin heard the movement, took a look, and found that it was Liu Zheng who came in, and immediately sat up in shock and said: "Traitor, you, what are you going to do, you, are you here to kill, kill me?" I, let me tell you, I am an official of the imperial court, and I am definitely not afraid of death......"
Liu Zheng was most annoyed to hear this, and hurriedly said: "My lord, my subordinates are here to ask my lord to hurry to the front office to work, now this Qingzhou city is in ruins, and a lot of things are very busy, you, the prefect, don't hurry up to post a notice to settle the people, don't hurry up to deal with the backlog of official business, but lie here and pretend to be sick, are you embarrassed?" ā
"I, I'm ......" 'I' for a long time Wang Jiabin suddenly said angrily: "This official is an official of the imperial court, thanks to the attention of His Majesty the Emperor, I ordered Jinshi, this official has nothing to reciprocate, only this crippled body." The traitor wants the official to descend you, don't think about it! I will die with my will! ā
Liu Zheng covered his head and said: "Okay, okay, I know, you are very loyal, you are extremely loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but now Qingzhou City is still His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but you are slacking off on official duties here, your loyalty is just lip service?"
Wang Jiabin was a little dumbfounded: "You, you, what do you mean by this?" ā
"It's literal, this Qingzhou is still the Qingzhou of the imperial court, and the people are still the people of the imperial court, and now the official affairs that need to be dealt with have been squeezed a lot, when will your illness be cured?"
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Wang Jiabin was silent, he really didn't know whether to believe Liu Zheng's words or not, he was too stupid to believe it, he didn't believe it, but there was a lingering expectation in his heart.
Liu Zheng knew that Wang Jiabin was struggling at this time, so he continued: "My lord, what my subordinates said is the truth! ā
"Then you ......" Wang Jiabin didn't know what to say, and thought for a while before saying, "Then why did you rebel?" ā
Liu Zheng showed a gentle smile and said, "My lord, where did I rebel?" ā
Wang Jiabin said in his heart, "Why don't you open your eyes and talk nonsense?"
"Liu Zheng, I won't go around in circles with you, what do you want?"
Liu Zheng did not answer directly, but arched his hand and said: "My lord, my subordinates have cleared all the obstacles for my lord, and from now on, all the people in this government will obey your orders, and the people in this city are also looking forward to you, my parents, to lead them to a good life!" That's all I have to say, I hope you can get the government back up and running as soon as possible! ā
Liu Zheng left, Wang Jiabin sat on the bed and was silent, thinking about Liu Zheng's words, after a while, his wife Huan'er came in with medicine, only to beat his thoughts, looking at the anxious concubine, Wang Jiabin suddenly got out of bed in a hurry.
"You don't need to take medicine for your husband, if your husband is not sick, go get your husband's official uniform!"
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After a while, the dressed Wang Jiabin came to the front office, and sure enough, he saw that the three classes of officials were there, but his master was not there, and after sitting behind the public case, he called a government officer to come over for questioning.
"Mao Fei, let me ask you, have Yu Tongzhi and Qian Tuiguan ever been in the Yamen? Can the history of each room be in the yamen? Have you ever arrived at the third class of officials? ā
Mao Fei said with a flattering smile: "My lord, Lord Yu, Lord Qian, and the canons of each room are all sick, and they may not be able to come to the yamen for a while!" ā
Wang Jiabin was silent, he knew that this was what Liu Zheng said to clear the way for himself, but it was not the same as Liu Zheng said, this yamen is still the yamen of the imperial court, this yamen only has the skin of the imperial court, and the inside is already Liu Zheng's.
"Then since the canonical history of each room is sick, how to deal with the official affairs of each room?"
"My lord, Liu Ye has already gone to find someone, it is estimated that he will be able to come soon, by the way, my lord, when Liu Ye leaves, let the little one tell you, let you hurry up and issue a notice of peace and mind, or someone will send some land deeds after a while, saying that these lands will be used as official fields, and Liu Ye asks your lord to issue an official document for the next year's land tax exemption, and the small ones will be posted outside the city quickly!"
"Title deeds? Chongguantian? Exemption from land tax? Wang Jiabin looked at Mao Fei in surprise and said, "Where did you come from?" When did the imperial court say that it would be exempted from land tax? ā
"My lord, where can the villain you ask know, but the villain knows that this exemption from land tax is not the will of the court, but the order of Liu Ye, Liu Ye said that it is enough to pay enough silver to the court, as for how Liu Ye makes up the silver, the little one doesn't know!"
Wang Jiabin sighed silently, he knew that he would probably be a puppet in the future, so he commanded, took a pen and paper, wrote a notice to settle the people, and then wrote an official document and notice for the exemption of land tax for the coming year, and ordered people to print and post everywhere.
After doing this, Wang Jiabin asked, "What about Mao Fei, Liu, Liu Zheng?" ā
As soon as he heard Liu Zheng asked, Mao Fei hurriedly replied: "In the house, I said that I was waiting for those account rooms to come!" ā
"Hmm!" Wang Jiabin got up and walked out, and when he came to the yamen room, he saw that the door was open, Liu Zheng was sitting on the bookcase and writing something, Wang Jiabin coughed lightly and raised his leg into the house.
Liu Zheng was very embarrassed, got up and shouted an adult, Wang Jiabin pressed his hand and motioned for Liu Zheng to sit down and speak, and said: "Liu Zheng, do you plan to let some bookkeepers act as the history of each room?" ā
Liu Zheng nodded and said, "I do have this plan, I don't know if the adults ask, is there someone you like?" ā
Wang Jiabin shook his head, he didn't have any favorite person, he had been here for three or four months, and no one had taken refuge in him.
"Then, do you think it's inappropriate for Liu Zheng to do this?"
Wang Jiabin said in his heart that this is not nonsense? If so, what are you asking? It's a pity that he can only think about it in his heart, and said calmly: "There is indeed something wrong, although the classic history is of no grade and low status, it is indispensable in the public gate, and most of the operation of the yamen depends on these classic histories to maintain, so those who choose to act as the classic history must be cautious!" ā
Wang Jiabin actually wanted to choose a few scholars to be the history of this classic, such as those unambitious talents in the mansion and in the counties, after all, the scholars are stronger than those account offices, and the most important thing is that these scholars are of the same heart as him.
Liu Zheng didn't know the twists and turns in Wang Jiabin's heart, he just laughed in his heart, and said that the classic history is indeed very important in the yamen, but it also depends on whose yamen it is, if it is a person who has the ability, can control the field and is extremely honest as an official, whether there is a classic history is like that, such as Hai Rui, the classic history under Hai Rui's hand is not a fat shortage, it is a ghost gate, you dare to play in it, Hai Rui Cliff will not let you go, you will be asked to go to the prison to eat public dinner, maybe it will cut you with a knife, Therefore, there is no history in his yamen.
But if it's like Lord Wang, then Liu Zheng can only hehe.
However, Liu Zheng was embarrassed to expose his shortcomings bluntly, and organized the following language: "My lord, the history of each room is really important, but now no one is available, I have to choose some bookkeepers who can read and settle accounts, and then I will personally teach how to do this history of each room, I believe there will be no big mistakes!" ā
Wang Jiabin hurriedly said: "It's better to choose some unambitious talents in Fucheng or counties to do the history of each house, they are all familiar with the books of sages and sages, and they have also learned the method of calculation, which should be much better than Mr. Accounts, right?" ā
Now Liu Zheng understood the little Jiujiu in Wang Jiabin's heart, but he didn't care, after all, he was also in urgent need of talents, so he said after a little hesitation: "What my lord said is very true, I will teach these bookkeepers first, and then let these bookkeepers assist those showmen for a period of time, so that they can work alone, so that we can also free up time to do other things!" ā
Wang Jiabin was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, just do it, I'll send official documents to the counties!" ā
Liu Zhengxin said that Nima is really a half-ass, your hairy official documents, no one will pay attention to you when your official documents are sent, and now there are countless displaced people and disaster victims around the county towns waiting to be pacified and resettled!
"My lord, now only the victims around Fucheng have been properly resettled, and I am afraid that the victims of the disaster have not been properly resettled in other counties, so this official document ......"
Wang Jiabin's face turned slightly pale, what happened in these days made him selectively forget other places, and now he was reminded by Liu Zhengyi to wake up, and when he woke up, he was sweating on his back.
What Wang Jiabin thought in his heart, Liu Zheng could also guess that eight or nine were not far from ten, so he got up and said: "If you go out of the city with your subordinates to take a look, if there is something to learn from the method of relocating disaster victims outside the city, you might as well extend it to all counties, and you can also solve the disasters in various places as soon as possible!" ā
"Good!" Wang Jiabin got up and said, "You and I will go out of the city together to have a look, I already have a lot of questions to ask you!" ā
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Today's Qingzhou outside the city and inside the city are completely two worlds, the city is desolate and desolate, but the outside of the city is in full swing and thriving.
Out of the city gate, as far as the eye can see, less than 100 meters on both sides of the official road are the newly built countless houses, and then go inside, there are houses under construction, countless strong men carrying baskets of bricks stacked on the construction site, and some people throw these piles to the masons who build houses, people walking on the street, regardless of men and women, whether women, children, old and weak, all are full of energy, and their eyes are full of hope.
After walking not far, Wang Jiabin sighed several times, and after seeing and coming out of the brand-new house, Wang Jiabin once again expressed a general feeling, which was about the meaning incredible, and then asked anxiously: "Liu Zheng, how did you do this?" Can you teach with this house? ā
Liu Zheng didn't plan to hide it privately, he had long planned to pocket this very incompetent but very incorruptible Wang Jiabin, so he said: "My lord, in fact, my people in the Central Plains are a group of very simple, very lovely, and very pathetic people!" ā
"Unpretentious? Lovely? Pathetic again? What do you mean by that? ā