Chapter 169: Robbing Me Minerals Scares You to Death

When the crickets stopped, it was already dawn, and Zhang Zhong looked very energetic when everyone got up for breakfast.

But the seven people who joined the army and the county order of Taihu County were different, one by one, their eyes were dark, and they kept yawning, as if they hadn't slept all night last night.

This is not to blame them, it is really that the impact caused by last night's letter to them is too great, if you really do it according to the method in the letter, I don't know if there will be more trouble, once others find out, it will not be as simple as killing the head, and even the entire clan will be wiped out.

They also admitted that if they did that, Zhang Zhong would definitely not have the time to take care of them, otherwise, not to mention that this year's tax would reach 150,000 yuan, whether they could collect it or not, and even needed relief from the imperial court.

With such a choice in mind, how could eight people sleep well, even if they lay down, they couldn't sleep, the county magistrate of Taihu County fell asleep when it was almost dawn in the morning, but the dream woke him up again.

All night, eight people asked themselves, do they do it or not?

Zhang Zhong didn't know why the eight people didn't sleep well, he only knew that these eight people definitely didn't have any good intentions.

Seeing that the eight people listlessly ate a little porridge and never ate anything else, Zhang Zhong didn't care about them, he ate slowly, there is still a place to go today, there is more than an hour away from here, Zhang Zhong is afraid that he will be hungry when talking to others on the road and can't eat casually, he has to eat first.

When everyone had almost eaten, the team continued their journey to another place with a beautiful view.

As soon as I came down the mountain, another team appeared at the foot of the mountain, and from the flag, it could be seen who had arrived, Li Xun, the king of Tong'an County.

As soon as he saw Li Xun, Zhang Zhong seemed very calm, and brought the officials over to greet him, Li Xun's grade is high, from a first-class official, others are not as good as him.

Zhang Zhong felt that it was nothing because he was familiar with Li Xun, and he had never regarded Li Xun as a great person, he had always regarded him as a junior, only caring and not respecting.

But this is not the case with other people, especially the few people who joined the army, they are really afraid now, afraid that Li Xun will find something there, and directly impeach them, and it is impossible for them to deal with Li Xun with the same method as Zhang Zhong.

They didn't sleep well last night at this time, and they met Li Xun again, and they were scared once, and they immediately felt in a trance, and they were confused on both sides of the road.

But Zhang Zhonghe talked to them from time to time, so that they had to deal with it strongly, and now it was over, their spirit was not enough at all, and they were worried about Li Xun who suddenly appeared, and their eyes always wanted to see what Li Xun meant.

Li Xun didn't have the time to care about them, so he ran directly to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, watching the two of them accompany the four little guys there, and also help cut fruit and feed the four slanderous little guys.

As a county king, personally serving others, Li Xun didn't feel like he fell off the shelf at all, the four little ancestors of the Zhang family are not everyone who can feed things, after he came over, he just washed his hands, or the fruit he took himself, the Zhang family didn't check it at all, which is very indicative of the status, a family.

What makes Li Xun even more proud is that the four little guys are not fed by anyone, even if they are from the inner courtyard, but when he feeds, the little ones always smile at him, which makes him even happier than when he suddenly gets 10,000 yuan.

It wasn't until the four little guys covered their stomachs and didn't eat anymore that Li Xun asked Zhang Xiaobao, "Why are you in such a hurry to find me?" I'm busy building roads there, and I'm going to have them repaired before the winter of this year, so I guess there must be roads to the counties and the docks.

There is also planting fruit trees, I planted fruit trees on the side of the road, that is, between the two trees is a ditch, when the time comes, when the time comes, passers-by are thirsty when they walk, they can use stones to knock down a few fruits to eat, four kinds of fruits, except for winter, other spring, summer and autumn. ”

"What fruit does spring have?" Zhang Xiaobao thought that Li Xun had come up with an out-of-season fruit.

"Yes, it's the flower of the locust tree, it's really not good, I'll let people look for it, there must be, when the tree grows up, my fiefdom will be stronger than others, say quickly, what's the matter that brought me here, I'm busy, tens of thousands of dollars in a quarter of an hour."

Li Xun used the words he learned from Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan laughed on the side, in fact, Zhang Xiaobao was not wrong at the beginning, he was indeed hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, but Li Xun didn't believe it.

Zhang Xiaobao listened to Li Xun's plan, and didn't hit him, but when the time came, he knew that it would not be successful, it was nothing more than spending more money, looking left and right, except for the four little guys who ate fruit and slept full, after others couldn't hear them, he said:

"Do you want to get rich? It's the kind with a lot of money? I have a way to make you rich without worrying about other people looking for trouble. ”

"I don't want to, how do I want to spend money now, how can I bother to make money? My money is enough for me to build a fief, and after the fief is built, I can have more money in hand, I don't worry, I can't lose a big one because of a small one, and I'm not afraid of others looking for trouble, and I don't rebel, who dares to trouble me? Who would dare? I'm tired of dying and there are so many ways to die, what are you looking for me for? ”

Li Xun actually refused, and the meaning of his words showed that he was now engaged in construction with all his heart, and did not consider new sources without lacking funds.

"Don't want to? It is to make a fortune in your fiefdom, there are two mines, one is a copper mine and the other is a marble mine, which have been secretly mined by others for several years, and when I saw that there was no mountain we came down from just now, there was a copper mine on it, but only one entry of ore income was written in the official booklet.

You see what I mean? And that marble, really marble, as white as a cloud, and it seems to be transparent, I used that to pave the ground in my home, stopped a person who dug secretly, two mines, and if I didn't think of a way, I would let people steal it. ”

Zhang Xiaobao pointed to the mountain that had just come down, and then pointed to the clouds floating in the sky.

Li Xun was stunned when he heard Zhang Xiaobao's words, and after a while, he suddenly shouted: "What? It's true? Stand down, what are you doing here? ”

After drinking back the guards who rushed over to protect him, Li Xun lowered his voice and asked Zhang Xiaobao with a blue face: "Xiaobao, you didn't lie to me, did you?" Who had the audacity to steal copper and marble mines in my fiefdom for several years? I see that they don't want to live anymore, so let me know who it is, and I'll let them spit out all the money for a few years. ”

"Really, when did I lie to you? But what happened a few years ago had nothing to do with you, it wasn't your fiefdom at that time, and after we got here, it is estimated that they would be able to ship it out three or four times, and my father met it once, and they ran away and didn't catch up.

The goods are left, most of the marble is given to Xiaobei where they play, the copper mine is still there, you arrange someone to take it away, there is a copper mine on the mountain just now, and now the place to go is the marble mine. ”

Zhang Xiaobao finally found a solution to the problem, although the two mines are good, but the goal is too big, after all, it is where you can get money by digging, and your own home is not suitable for occupancy, it is better to give it to Li Xun, let Li Xun occupy it, and others can't say anything.

Li Xun felt right when he heard it, it had nothing to do with him before, but he was still uncomfortable, he thought that if others didn't dig it secretly and left it to him, how much more could he get? There is no shortage of money, the problem is that others can't take their own money for nothing.

Now he finally understood why Zhang Xiaobao brought him here: "You don't have to give me what you left behind, Xiaobei, they like to play on the marble?" Then when I take the place back, I will send you more marbles, so let's mine together, just like your family used to take me with you when they did business."

Now that I have something good, I have to think of you too, Xiaobao, do you know who secretly dug it? Tell me, I'll clean it up at once, kill them lightly, and give them a charge of smuggling coins, and the whole clan will be wiped out for him. ”

Li Xun didn't care about the marble for Xiaobei to play with them, the four little guys were so cute, no matter how much marble they had, he wanted to find someone now, and then do it.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at Li Xun's reaction and knew that he had guessed correctly, and sure enough, but now there is no evidence, it is easy to kill people and difficult to convince the public, and if you want to deal with people, you have to find an excuse.

"Li Gongzi doesn't need to worry, people actually know that it is the officials here, and all the officials who can be contacted will be suspicious, and when the evidence is found, take a look at the place first, remember, and have a goal."

"Yes, yes, you can't do it directly, there's no evidence, and it's not an extraordinary time, so it's okay, they always have to dig it, right? As long as they dig, then they can catch them and see who is bold. ”

Li Xun is not the little waiting master who only knows how to bully people at the beginning, since he has a fief, he has to do things according to the rules, and agreed to Zhang Xiaobao's proposal.

Zhang Xiaobao thought for a while and asked, "Then what if the last person found is from your clan?" ”

"This ...... If it's a clan, then the one who was stolen in front of me will be given away, but the people below must be cleaned up, and I can't let the imperial uncle kill all my cousins, it's impossible. ”

Li Xun said what he thought in his heart without concealing it, that is, the leader is fine, and the people below are unlucky, who let you not do things well, and if you are caught, you will have to bear such a punishment.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan can understand Li Xun, let alone this time, when is it not the case? Something happened, the small fish was caught, the medium changed places, and the big fish was fine.

"Just know who the suspicious person is, don't show it." Zhang Xiaobao said to Li Xun.

"Understand, I don't talk to them much, who am I, I am the king of the county, what are they? Huh? The little ones are eating again, and the fruit is digesting quickly. ”

Li Xun said as he spoke, seeing that the four little guys were all being held and go, and they were ready to feed the fruit.

As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan away.

Because the team walked slowly, the road for more than an hour, it took nearly three hours to get to the place, everyone did not eat at noon, some people ate too much in the morning, and some people couldn't eat, and their hearts were too heavy.

From a distance, I could see the green of the mountain in front of me.

Zhang Xiaobao said to Li Xun, who was looking for a mine in all directions: "Do you see the trees over there?" There is also grass, in fact, it is glued to the back, if you look closely, you will find that the tree and the grass are not right, it should not be so long, and I don't know who is so lacking in heart and eyes, and I can't even see the yin and yang sides.

The big tree, where the shade is on its back, grows denser than the sunny place, and the grass in the steep place, whose grass can grow perpendicular to the slope in that situation?

What is this place? Taihu County, what is my dad doing here? The construction of spiritual civilization in Shuzhou, who do you say has anything to do with it? On the mountain just now, the location where it should have been a mine turned out to be a lake, I originally thought that only my Zhang and Wang families had such ability, and the artificial lake, the county order of Taihu County is not small. ”

Li Xun listened to Zhang Xiaobao's words, how could he not understand what it meant, look at the trees and flowers on the mountain, sure enough, when he agreed with Zhang Xiaobao's lack of heart, he said angrily:

"There is no good official, layer by layer, everything that is caught, it is not a certain official, it is guaranteed that there are a series of problems, why do you say this?"

"There are historical reasons for this, and it is also a problem of the management mechanism, it is not easy to explain it in a few words, even if it is clear, it is not easy to solve, it is difficult."

Zhang Xiaobao knows that this is a problem related to the whole of human society, even if it is useless to pay a high salary, there are really no corrupt officials in Singapore? That's still a case where the local government is small and easy to govern, and if it is such a big country, who can put an end to it?

"As long as this society still governs people by people, then never expect all officials to be honest, you must know that the reason why society can develop is because of people's **, without **human beings will not exist, as long as they exist, then there will be such a situation."

Zhang Xiaobao said one of the most fundamental reasons.

Li Xun can understand a special vocabulary of Zhang Xiaobao, which he has learned over the years, knowing that Zhang Xiaobao is right, but he is still uncomfortable, and asks: "Why is Sanshui County different?" If you find any official, there will be no corruption, bribery, or abuse of power for personal gain. ”

"It's not that they don't have **, it's that they understand that they can be promoted without accidents, and when they leave office, they will get a lot of money, more than the money he is greedy for, and there is no risk at all, income and risk are proportional, 10,000 guan is likely to lose their lives, 5,000 guan is easy to get, of course they have to choose 5,000 guan."

"Didn't you say before that if there was a 300 percent profit, someone would risk all the risks to get it?" Li Xun argued.

"Does that mean that in the case of a failure of the supervision mechanism, Sanshui County has that opportunity? The most important thing is that there is a more powerful threat in Sanshui County, that is, the Zhang family, especially my father's official position, even if he runs away with all the tens of thousands of taxes just collected.

They understand the determination of the Zhang family, they will chase and kill when they go abroad, the opportunity is too small, the risk is too great, they are so honest, not to mention that their usual treatment is good, why do they have to take risks? ”

Zhang Xiaobao knows the reason, the most important thing is that the Zhang family has the ability to make money, there is no need to be greedy, if the Zhang family does not have this ability, the following things will not be managed.

"What then? Is there no solution? Li Xun was even more depressed, he knew that there was no second Zhang family, he couldn't suppress the place at all, he had money and ability, and he didn't have the ambition to rebel, where to find another Zhang family.

"It's not that there is no way, there is a way to do it, that is, to find a very powerful emperor who can see through everyone's hearts, or the kind that can see through the hearts of everyone in the whole country within a few breaths, and even all the people in the world together can't beat him alone, and he can increase the production of the land and make the flood disappear, so that there will be no more corrupt officials."

Zhang Xiaobao gave an answer.

"That's not the emperor you're talking about, it's a god." Li Xun was even more depressed.

Zhang Xiaobao smiled and said: "It is impossible to make all people and officials have no selfishness, but you can find a way to make officials make as few mistakes as possible, it turns out that fifty of the hundred officials are bad, so don't expect no one, down to ten is a success." ”

"Then how do you get down?" Li Xun thinks that it is also, if it can't be eliminated, it will be reduced.

"When the army ruled by *** is loyal and strong enough, it will be okay to monitor the officials without relying on manpower, now you don't have to think about it, it's useless, call you, go over and praise a few words."

Zhang Xiaobao also has such a dream, but he can't realize it at all, when he saw the people over there talking, he looked back here and pushed Li Xun.

Li Xun was reluctant to deal with such an official, but there was no way, so he had to go over and join the ranks of praising the local officials, knowing that behind the very unreasonable trees was a marble mine, and he also wanted to praise the strange trees and good scenery of this place.

"Yes, it's really a good place, Lord Zhang will definitely be able to build such a place into a place for people to entertain, especially the tree, other places are lush on the sunny side, and here is the shady side, it's really different, it's strange, strange, good scenery."

Li Xun was depressed and frightened people, pointed to a tree and said there, the county order of Taihu County was scared, and the sweat on his forehead dripped down in strings.

"And the vine, other places are coiled long, oblique long, or climb up directly, here is actually horizontally long, and it doesn't need anything to fix, beautiful, when it is to be written as an excerpt to the saint, it is also an auspicious ah, this king decided to send people to guard here day and night, until the court sent someone down to check."

The anger in Li Xun's heart was not finished, and he continued to scare.

This time, not only the county order of Taihu County was trembling, but even a few of the people who joined the army were also afraid, the important thing is to really write out the excerpts, let the people of the imperial court come over, and keep watch day and night, they will definitely be able to know about the fraud, and understand what is going on in the mines behind.

The first person to be arrested is the county order of Taihu County, as long as he confesses, he and others don't want to run, if he really wants to hide, he will kill the county order and all the people related to the county order, and killing himself and others is also guilty of not investigating.

Several people were thinking about what to do at the same time, and then Zhang Zhong spoke.

"Your Royal Highness, this matter is not appropriate."

"Oh? What's wrong? Isn't this vine so simple, come on, go up and take a look, dig three feet into the ground and figure it out. ”

Li Xun is often with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, not only learning knowledge, but also learning a belly of bad water.

"No, the king, no." There were three people on the side of the army who joined the army to stop them in unison, and several other people also wanted to say something, but they opened their mouths and didn't know what to say.

Zhang Zhong also dissuaded: "His Royal Highness the King of the County, it is not appropriate to refer to this, but it is no longer suitable at this time, and when the news reaches the capital, if someone from the capital comes here, it is estimated that the vines on the mountain are about to die or have died, and the people who come can't see it, isn't that a bully?" ”

"Really? Is there such a thing? Oh, when this king first came, I really don't know, what do you say? Li Xun looked at the frightened faces of the officials around him, and his mood improved.

"Yes, yes, what Zhang Tingshi said is right, that's right, if the king of the county really wants to report Xiangrui, it is better to wait for early next morning."

The reporter was about to sit on the ground, and said with blank eyes.

"Since that's the case, then forget it, this king wants to climb the mountain to see, who is the same as this king, so I can use this vine to climb up, don't underestimate this king, this king is powerful."

Li Xun then proposed, when the previous words were over, the officials just breathed a sigh of relief, and as the words came out, this anger rose again, and two timid people actually sat on the ground.

Seeing Li Xun's gaze, one of them was clever, and hurriedly explained: "The king of the county is really powerful, as soon as the lower official heard that he was going to climb, he was frightened, no, no, what if he climbs halfway and falls?" ”

The other immediately chimed in, and finally got the matter over.

Zhang Zhong knew that Li Xun was deliberate, and said next to him: "King Jun, there are more interesting things here than climbing the mountain, there is a lake not too far from here, called Taihu Lake, the fish and shrimp in the lake are good, why don't you go there for boating and fishing?" ”

"Oh? Really? Then take a look here and turn to Taihu Lake. Li Xun finally didn't continue to scare people, after speaking, he turned back to Zhang Xiaobao, and the people who could barely stand just now saw that Li Xun was gone, and regardless of whether Zhang Zhong was next to him, a few more sat on the ground.

Zhang Zhong began to make a way for people to write poems here, and then took the works written by others and nodded a few words, and left this place to turn to Taihu Lake in the flattery of everyone, which can be regarded as the end of this spiritual construction guidance work.

Li Xun, who returned to Zhang Xiaobao's side, first laughed twice, and then said angrily: "It seems that there are a lot of marble here, they didn't mine it at the beginning, but such a large area is full of trees and grass that were made later, Xiaobao, tell me, how to mine in the future?" ”