Under the cover of night, the Daizhou Governor's Mansion seemed quiet and dark, except for the sound of insects from time to time, only the creaking laughter of the child in the backyard was particularly clear. But as the moon went up, the child seemed to be asleep, and there was no more noise.

After settling the child to sleep, Wang Rong slowly came to Du Shiyi's side, and saw that he was still looking at the examination papers in high spirits, so he sat down next to him and said softly: "Even the officials behind you are rumored to be thunderous and furious today, and you are so frightened that you are silent up and down. What, have you finally found a breakthrough? ”

"I brought such a small number of people to Daizhou, how could there be a breakthrough so quickly?" Du Shiyi slowly rolled up the dossier and put it on the bookcase in front of her, then looked at his wife with a smile and said, "It's a stick given to me by someone else, I'll borrow it and beat it." Wen Zhengyi has a strong sense of locality, and he has seen that the major families in Hedong almost control the Bingong in Daizhou, and the local literati and warriors are rarely able to make a name for themselves, and he is known as a Lang official, and his heirs are not angry, so he has been heartbroken for many years. So, when I was tempted to be ambitious, he was willing to do it. ”

"That old Wen? He's already sixty-five years old, so he's so bold" Wang Rong raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then asked, "What about Duan Guangzhen, the commander of the Xichengguan Brigade?" I heard that Bing Cao joined the army and Qian Tong returned to the straight house to cry out for wrongdoing, saying that he must have been signed by Duan Guangzhen at the beginning. You know, since they dare to do such a thing, they must not be negligent in this. Being able to make the receipt of the signature and the pledge blank for no reason should not be a means that the new official can come up with after only a few days in office, right? Could it be that Elder Wen again? ”

"Although Wen Zhengyi is indeed the first gain that surprised me, but after all, he is old, and Duan Guangzhen is another gain from my trip. Others thought he was just a mere military general, but they underestimated him."

Thinking that at that time, he heard Duan Guangzhen say that he had done something to sign the receipt for Cang Cao's joining the army in the Daizhou Governor's Mansion, and a friend who served as a scribe in the Daizhou Governor's Mansion cooperated, so that the handwriting disappeared, not to mention him, even Wen Zhengyi was greatly surprised, Du Shiyi couldn't help laughing. But then, the corners of his mouth returned to their original positions.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I believe that just by revealing this little bit, there should be people who can't sit still, and just wait for the next reaction of others, they can make the next move. Young lady, you take care of Twenty-six Lang first, and don't be distracted by the rest, others must be staring at you. When I first arrived in Daizhou, knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger was more important than forcing people and dogs to jump over the wall. ”

"I listen to you." Wang Rong bowed slightly, but then asked, "It's just that you tell me the truth, Liu Mo didn't follow us into Daizhou at the beginning, what about others?" ”

"Whoever follows me into the city will be stared at. Didn't Bing Cao join the army this time, didn't Qian Tong push the matter to the Northern Capital Ordnance Supervisor? It must be known that Taiyuan Yin Li Gong is not only the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, but also the position of the Northern Capital Weapons Supervisor. I just have to declare to the public that I have sent someone to ask Li Gong, Li Gong can't rub sand in his eyes, and he will never sit idly by and watch others splash dirty water on him, and some people may not be able to control it."

Although there was a lot of uproar about the shortage of grain and weapons in Xichengguan, in the next few days, Du Shiyi seemed to have completely forgotten about the matter and never mentioned it. But the more he didn't say anything, the more uncertain the subordinate officials and officials below became, especially Pei Haiyun, who was ordered to investigate, and even more bitter. Not to mention how cumbersome the various files and old cases involved are, even the clues exposed in it also make him secretly awe-inspiring. At noon on this day, when his eyes were bloodshot and he closed an old volume of Zuihou and stood up rubbing his wrists, he suddenly saw a confidant scribe he usually trusted walking in quickly.

"Pei Hu Cao. Pei Qilang in the north of the city asked to see the envoy, and he had already gone to the study at this time. ”

Pei's three branches and five rooms, Pei in the east, Pei in the middle, Pei in the west, Pei in the west, Pei in the west, Pei in the west, and Wu Pei in the south, most of the differences between them are related to the region of the later migration, and the roots are all from Hedong Wenxi. Among them, compared with the other branches, most of the Zhonghuan Pei branch are officials in the Hedong area, and even the hall name of this branch is set as Hedong Hall, and the sect hall is in Jiangzhou Wenxi. In addition to trying their best to spread out in Jiangzhou, Taiyuan Mansion, Luzhou and other places, backed by Yanmen Mountain, unlike Shuozhou, Yunzhou, and Ulzhou, which had to face the threat of the Turks and Xi people, it is naturally a place where Pei's tentacles are deep.

As Pei Haiyun said to Cui Hu, he belongs to the Pei family's Zhongjia Pei branch, he is Pei Guangting's clan, and those children of Pei in Daizhou are not only of the same origin and surname, but also the same clan and clan, so for these Pei family children, they naturally have to take care of a few points. Pei Qilang, whose real name is Pei Yuanshan, is fifty-six years old and is about to be a sixtieth year, and he is the person in charge of the Pei family in Daizhou in Hedongtang, and he has also served as three or five officials after entering the Ming Dynasty, but his political performance is mediocre, and his body can not bear to run around in various places, and later moved to Daizhou, and the industry of the Pei family in Daizhou is well managed.

"Hu Cao Ke wants to go to see the envoy together?"

"No need." Pei Haiyun shook his head and burst out these three words, and then warned the scribe, "Since the seventh uncle has come to see the envoy, and I have nothing to do, you don't have to go outside and shout." ”

Pei Yuanshan, the seventh lang of the middle family, at first glance, is a gentle old man with a thin figure and a smile in his eyebrows. However, Du Shiyi has been in the officialdom for a long time, and the habit of judging people by their appearance has long been put into the cold palace, so he has a cold but polite attitude. And Pei Yuanshan is obviously very good at dealing with people, a few words of greeting start with the geographical location and customs of Daizhou, showing his erudite and talented side, seeing that Du Shiyi seems to be pale, he said the topic with a smile.

"When I heard that the envoy was in Chengdu, he persuaded tea to repair water conservancy, and opened tea to introduce the law, which benefited the people for a while, and the court benefited; When they were in Yunzhou, the Anliu people fled to Huairen in the clouds, transported coal to Youzhou, transported southern grain to Hedong, and connected the east and west, and everyone praised it. Now that the king is in charge of Yanmen, the people are all looking forward to making the king's stone into gold, so that more than 100,000 people in Yanmen can live and work in peace and contentment, and live a healthy life. ”

In other words, if he has no new measures in Daizhou, the people will be disappointed in him, and he will lose the hearts of the people?

Du Shiyi raised her eyebrows and said quietly: "Thanks to Bixia, I am entrusted with the six prefectures of Dai, Wei, Yun, Shuo, Lan, and Xin, and I am not only responsible for the people of the place. I have always been in charge of the policy according to local conditions, not blindly changing course. If the people of Daizhou are expecting my new office to enact a flood of unheard-of decrees, I will disappoint them. ”

So Du Shiyi doesn't really plan to make a big move?

Pei Yuanshan thought so in his heart, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter: "The envoy is really humble and simple, a few days before the next respect, I heard a rumor that the grain and ordnance sent by Xicheng Pass over the years are short?" This is really unheard of, the East Guanxi Guan, is the east and west gateway of Yanmen County, Daizhou, if the soldiers are hungry and empty-handed to prepare for the war that may occur at any time, isn't it a big joke in the world? I don't know if these deficits can be found today? ”

"It's not a shortfall, the total shortage of grain in Xicheng for four years is calculated according to fifteen stones per month, a total of more than 700 stones, which is not much money converted into money, not so much corruption and perversion of the law, but dereliction of duty." When Du Shiyi said this, he saw that Pei Yuanshan was surprised and inexplicable, as if he still had some faint relief, so he suddenly changed his words, "But according to my visit, Daizhou often closes positions, and the stored grain is not one out of ten, I don't know if Yuanshan Gong is well-informed about this matter, what is the explanation?" ”

Du Shiyi brought a total of more than ten people to take office, and the local heroes in Daizhou also made people keep an eye on every one of his servants, even his wife Wang Rong. After all, as we all know, when the price of grain in Yunzhou was high, those grain merchants ignored Wang Rong and the female stream, which made her calmly transfer a large amount of grain from Youzhou and solved the grain price crisis in one fell swoop. Even the new faces that appeared in Yanmen County, Daizhou, were staring at them.

However, now although Du Shiyi has opened the lid of the lack of grain and weapons in Xicheng Pass, he just threw it to Hu Cao and Pei Haiyun as if he was in charge, and he has not made any big moves for several days, but as soon as he opened his mouth today, it turned out to be another bigger cover

Even though Pei Yuanshan had been in trouble for a long time, he couldn't help but change his color at this moment, and then hurriedly covered it up: "Is there really such a thing? If that's the case, this will be a shock to Hedong......"

"I don't have to think about whether I am shocked by Hedong, I have to report to Taiyuan Yin Li Gong for such a big thing." Du Shiyi happily stood up with his hands behind his back, and then said with a smile, "In addition, so that the Duke of Yuanshan will know that the lack of ordnance in Xicheng Pass is due to the lack of things sent by the Northern Capital Ordnance Supervisor, and I dare not slack off, so I have already asked people to report to Yin Li Gong of Taiyuan overnight." Li Gong was so angry that he had already asked people to strictly investigate when the Northern Capital Weapons Prison was established."

Hearing this, Pei Yuanshan finally gasped, and his heart was bitter. It is said that Du Shiyi has been in office in Daizhou for more than half a month, and he has spent time following the old politics, as if he is very relieved to suddenly have to supervise Yanmen, and he doesn't want to toss as before, but now it seems that he is really doing nothing, this is obviously not the most tossed, only more tossed He has been in charge of Daizhou on behalf of the Zhongjia Pei family alone, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, but when he was in the officialdom, he relied on the family shadow to be an official, and rarely experienced real battles, not to mention a sharp chief official like Du Shiyi.

For a while, he thought that this trip would be easy, and he fell into the most embarrassing situation.

"Moreover, as far as I know, Daizhou Changping was originally set up after the Kaiyuan Dynasty, because the capital of the imperial court was not abundant, so it was often empty or only three or four tenths of the position was accumulated at first. But later, Daizhou was the central governor's office, and the imperial court filled up the 3,000 yuan required for the regular liquidation, and the permanent liquidation was still empty most of the time. However, when the price of grain in Yunzhou was high before, and the price of grain in Hedong and Hebei was also high, Daizhou Changping did not sell grain to stabilize grain prices in accordance with the imperial court's regular liquidation system, and waited until the grain price fell in response. ”

Speaking of this, Du Shiyi's face showed a deep expression. He never believed that the ambassador of the grain depot would dare to bear this kind of unbelievable behavior when he did not sell grain when it was expensive, but often closed the empty position when it was cheap