"It turns out that the music officials are not only famous for poetry, but I didn't expect to be proficient in arithmetic, which really makes me admire!"

Lotte just said politely, and the three people who welcomed Lotte upstairs to accompany the last seat, that is, Weng Xuezheng's three sons-in-law flattered at the same time.

For the education of the Great Song Dynasty, Lotte despised it in his heart. 'One Hundred Steamed Buns and One Hundred Monks' was only a math problem in the fourth grade of primary school in later generations, but I didn't expect to get it to the Northern Song Dynasty and be able to stump a group of high-achieving students from local universities, which is really laughable.

"Ashamed, ashamed!" Thinking like this in his heart, on the surface, Lotte still wants to make a show, and hurriedly returns the gift.

"These three are the sons-in-law of the old man." Taking the opportunity, Weng Xuezheng introduced his three sons-in-law to Lotte one by one.

Lotte returned the salute one by one, just politely b, to see how Weng Xuezheng spoke next.

In the dynasties of the country, all the rich businessmen had a habit of making friends with Shilin students to show their elegance, to put it bluntly, that is, the rich local tyrants stuck in the pile of cultural people, and spent money to make friends with celebrities to dilute the copper smell on their bodies. It is said that Wang Lun, a local tyrant, also ushered in a send-off for the scribes, and even when he said goodbye to Li Bai, because he spent a lot of money, he fell into the poet and his old man's sentence 'not as good as Wang Lun to send me love' and left his name for a hundred generations, and even the third-grade primary school students in later generations also knew his name, which can be said to have made a lot of money, and can be called the strongest soy sauce player in history.

The restaurant here served the food, and when everyone had just raised their wine glasses, they suddenly heard wild shouts outside, as if something had happened.

Listening to the voice, Lotte was startled, and speculated in his heart that there had just been a mutiny in Caizhou City, could there be any more commotion. As an investigation official of the Imperial City Division, if something goes wrong, he will inevitably be held accountable.

The crowd stood up in unison, came to the window and looked out. In the night, a group of people with torches and sticks rushed to a certain shop along the street, and after a loud cry, they saw these people running out of the shop, each with a pocket container on his back, and began to flee in all directions, leaving only the shopkeeper crying and swearing.

"What happened?" Lotte asked. After coming to Caizhou for more than a month, except for the mutiny of the soldiers, Lotte really had never encountered such a robbery.

"That's Zhang Ji's rice shop." Weng Xuezheng's little son-in-law said.

Robbed the rice shop, hearing the news, Lotte couldn't help but squint his eyes, and even had a little smile in his eyes, but he said angrily: "Lang Lang Qiankun, the thief actually dares to rob the house like this, don't you think you are tired of carrying your head on your shoulders for a long time?" ”

Lotte said this, but it made Weng Xuezheng and the others surprised in their hearts, a few days ago, they cut off twenty-two people's heads at the Yayi Gate of the Mansion and still remembered it, and they couldn't help but feel a chill on their bodies, and their eyes changed when they looked at Lotte.

A military general is a military general, that is, he can make a good poem, and with the word general, the whole person has become murderous, and now Lotte gives these people an impression.

After seeing the excitement, everyone returned to their seats one after another, and Lotte deliberately asked: "The state city is under the governance of Lord Ye, it can be said that the road is not left behind and the house is not closed at night, the soldiers mutinied because of the barn corruption case, in addition to Le, he has never encountered chaos in the state city for more than a month, could it be that this rice shop offended someone on weekdays, so that someone went to loot tonight?" ”

Hearing Lotte's this, Weng Xuezheng's eldest son-in-law sighed: "Caizhou is a year of famine, and there has never been such a chaotic ......."

Halfway through speaking, Weng Xuezheng's eldest son-in-law couldn't go on, Lotte took a look at the remaining two sons-in-law of the Weng family, and the eyes of the two were opposite to Lotte's at first glance, so they dodged with an embarrassed look on their faces.

"Now it's just a month and a half after autumn, and this year's harvest is acceptable, and the people of Caizhou are living and working in peace and contentment, so there will be no such turmoil." Lotte set his eyes on Weng Xuezheng, and asked with suspicion in his eyes: "Why didn't you say anything in the middle of your mansion, and did you have another hidden story in the meantime?" ”

Just as Lotte was looking at Weng Xuezheng with his eyes, Weng Xuezheng asked rhetorically: "Don't you know about the music officials?" ”

"What does Le know?" Rakuten is also a rhetorical question.

Weng Xuezheng asked again: "The state government is arranged, and the music officials have not been present?" ”

He chuckled, and Lotte said: "Le is under the rule of the Imperial City Division, the state government, and it is not suitable to go as Le now." ”

"No wonder the old man never saw an official when he was in the yashen." Weng Xuezheng was suddenly. Suddenly, I thought about some rumors in my heart, and there were rumors that Lotte was at odds with this general judge when he was in peace, and it was reasonable not to go to the yashen.

At present, Ye Zhizhou is impeached, and everything in Caizhou is under the control of the adjutant Huang Tongju, and the state government affairs of the lamp of the yashen are naturally presided over by Huang Tongju, so that Huang Tongju has passed the addiction of being a Zhizhou in advance.

Zhizhou's addiction is over, but troublesome things are also coming. With the mutiny of the Huaikang Army, forty percent of the high-quality grain in the Caizhou barn was stolen by Lu Signature and others, but it was a big problem for the Caizhou official office, and all the moldy and rotten rice and grain in the warehouse were scrapped, plus daily losses and some other deficits, which means that the Caizhou warehouse has only half of the reserves at most.

The military rations supplied to the Huaikang army and the Xiang army are more than 10,000 stone in a month, plus the Lu rice distributed to the state army officials every month, all of which add up to a large number. There is still half a year to go before the new grain is harvested in the summer next year, and the country is based on agriculture, and the clear point is to watch the sky to eat, and I don't know what the harvest will be like next summer.

After serving as a general judge in other places for three years, and serving as a general judge in Caizhou for six years, as long as he survives this term, according to the customary system of the national dynasty, Huang Tongju can be moved to Zhizhou in another place. It's a pity that the credit for cracking the Caizhou granary case is nothing to do with his Huang Tong sentence, and the suppression of the Huaikang Army mutiny has nothing to do with his Huang Tong sentence.

Seeing that others had made meritorious contributions, how could Huang Tongju not be anxious in his heart.

At present, Ye Zhizhou is self-impeached and awakened behind closed doors, and Huang Tongju, who just grasps all the power of the state office, naturally wants to make some political achievements, and now the follow-up work of the Caizhou barn corruption case and filling the Caizhou barn to deal with the spring famine in the coming year has become the top priority.

Doing a good job is definitely a great achievement. This is the same principle as marching and fighting, and a good battle at the front is inseparable from the grain and grass officers and logistics work in the rear.

It is only a month and a half after the autumn, and this year's harvest is good, and every household has a lot of surplus grain after paying taxes.

Huang Tong's judgment ordered the counties under Caizhou's rule to urge the collection of grain in order to make political achievements. Although this year's harvest is good, and there is still surplus grain in the people's homes, who knows what next year's harvest will look like.

Everything is scarce and expensive!

Hearing that the grain was to be levied from above, although the people in the countryside did not know what was going on, they all tightened their grain bags, because the price of grain rose meant that something had happened. Grain merchants could not buy rice, so the price of rice under Caizhou's rule rose sharply, and in just a few days, the price of grain rose by as much as 30 percent, and now it will continue to rise.

The more the price of grain rises, the more tightly the grain pockets in the hands of the people become.

The price of grain has risen sharply, and the ordinary people living in the city can barely make ends meet, but those who have just been able to solve the problem of food and clothing feel that they cannot afford it, and even some destitute households have begun to take risks.

Weng Xuezheng is by no means the kind of old pedant who reads books and reads stupidly, and analyzes things for Lotte in a logical way.

"The students are taught!" Lotte is bowing to Weng Xuezheng. I also knew in my heart that these things were naturally said by Weng Xuezheng's three sons-in-law and listened to him.

Lotte's face was teachable, but he was smiling secretly in his heart. On the day of the mutiny, when Ye Zhizhou hesitated to cut off the heads of the twenty-two people, Lotte told Ye Zhizhou about the matter, and after the Caizhou barn case was revealed to the world, Ye Zhizhou was bound to face the situation of the barn void to clean up the mess.

cut off the heads of these twenty-two people, and one can impeach the mutinous sergeant; Second, Ye Zhizhou can use this to impeach himself, and use the excuse of closed-door self-reflection to push away the matter of the barn and the trouble it has caused. It was found that the trial of the Micang corruption nest case and the mutiny of the bomb suppression box army were already earth-shattering achievements in this dynasty, who wanted to get rid of the thankless and troublesome things of Li Micang next, and listened to Lotte's suggestion, how could Ye Zhizhou not happily cut off the heads of a group of criminals.

The result was the same as Lotte had predicted, and the follow-up work of the barn case was really troublesome, but although it was troublesome, someone happily took over.

Although Lotte doesn't go to Yashen, how can these things not reach Lotte's ears, it's just that he doesn't know what to do.

After thirty years of drinking, Weng Xuezheng's face suddenly became solemn: "Today, I invite the music officials to the banquet, the name is to describe the friendship between you and my teachers and students, but in fact, the old man has asked Mr. Yu." ”

Lotte hurriedly got up and saluted: "The teacher can say this, and the student is tormented!" ”

Weng Xuezheng said slowly: "I think the officials already know, among my three sons-in-law, the eldest son-in-law and the second son-in-law are the eldest sons of the Shen family and the Wang family respectively, although the third daughter has never passed the door, the future third son-in-law is the third son of the Chu family. ”

"My father is just a businessman, and he only has business dealings with Zhou Cangduo, but he doesn't participate in it."

"Yes, my father was also affected by it, and I asked Mr. to do more in the yazhong."

……

Listening to his father-in-law speak like this, Weng Xuezheng's three sons-in-law all bowed to Lotte and said.

"The teacher is serious." Hearing Weng Xuezheng speak like this, Lotte sighed: "The student is just a military attaché, and under the rule of the Imperial City Division, although he has the responsibility to investigate the case, he has no right to try it, and he cannot affect the judgment of the Lord Yazhong. ”

For Weng Xuezheng's three sons-in-law to talk like this, Lotte scoffed, bought high-quality grain in the state warehouse, and sold moldy and inferior grain into the state warehouse, how can you profiteers not know that they are tired of it, and it is almost the same to deceive three-year-old children with these words.

Weng Xuezheng just smiled, knowing that Lotte's words like this were just a panacea, and said: "That day, when I saw the actions of the boss of Zhizhou and the Leguan people when they suppressed the mutinous soldiers, the old man could see that the old man of Zhizhou relied on the Leguan people to be the dry city, and obeyed the words of the officials, and this matter was just a sentence of the Leren. ”

Lotte sighed: "Master Ye is introspecting behind closed doors, and Huang Tongju in the Yazhong is in charge of everything, and I think the teacher also knows that the relationship between students and Huang Tongju has always been not harmonious......"

"Mr. Ye has made earth-shattering achievements, and he will be trusted by the officials, or it will not be long before he moves to the right, of course, this Caizhou Office is still in charge of Mr. Ye." Weng Xuezheng smiled, then leaned into Lotte's ear, and said in a low voice: "If Mr. is willing to help him, the old man will have a good reward." ”

This book was first published in Reading Rim