Chapter Ninety-Eight: Preparing for the Annual Examination

Li You followed Xiaozhu into the room, Jin Baoer helped him take off his coat, and asked Li You to sit down in Xiaozhu. He sent Xiaozhu, who was full of depression, to boil water, and secretly asked, "Did the master tease Xiaozhu again?" ”

Li You laughed and said, "Don't ask her to wait outside in the future, the weather is cold and she is easy to get sick." "It's really easy to make those two rooms have ideas like this every day..."The slave family also persuaded her today, she had to go by herself." Jin Bao'er suddenly remembered something, and kept laughing, "Do you know what Xiaozhu Bai compares you to?" ”

"What?"

"She said that you are like Tang Sanzang in the Journey to the West story, if you don't go to the courtyard gate and catch it first, then you will be captured by other female goblins."

Li You couldn't cry or laugh for this metaphor, so many monsters who wanted to catch Tang Sanzang were only beautiful female goblins who were more popular with the masses.

"What's going on at home today?" Li You said casually.

Jin Bao'er gently helped Li You press her head, "The slave family only taught Xiaozhu to play chess today, and others don't know." ”

Sure enough, Li You thought. His three wives and concubines didn't know each other before, and their backgrounds were different, and they weren't the kind of familiar people who would take the initiative to make friends with others.

The wife is introverted and self-esteem and cowering, a concubine is passively obedient and demure, and the last sister to enter is a little reserved, and the three of them are not good at walking around. Even if they live in a compound, no one has taken the initiative to find another room, and they are still like strangers.

As a result, the voices of chickens and dogs heard each other, and the whole scene of not getting along with each other reached the supreme realm of inaction in the minds of the sages and Lao Tzu.

The harem is not yet harmonious, the lord still needs to work hard, and the dissatisfied Li Inspector can only shake his head and encourage himself.

In his last life, he didn't want to think about the huge harem, you kiss me, you kiss me, and serve a husband crookedly, no matter ancient or modern, after a creature like a woman is piled up, it is already the best situation to be safe and sound, and there is no right or wrong, do you have to find out something if you have nothing to do?

I saw Xiaozhu come in angrily and complained: "There is no firewood at home!" There is no one in charge. ”

Li You smiled bitterly, and it was difficult to take care of housework during the inspection. After thinking about it, there are four sedan chairs for traveling, and there are also those who open the road, and it is a little redundant to bring two long followers, so it is good to ask Li Si to stay as a housekeeper. The house is not very big, so it should be taken for granted.

There was nothing to say all night, and in a blink of an eye, an announcement released by the Xujiang County Ya immediately shook the county's silk industry, and everyone rushed to tell each other. The content is probably:

First, in the year of famine, the county remembered that the livelihood of the silk households in the county was difficult to continue, so he followed the old example of the sages and built a silk warehouse to help the weak and help the craftsmen. There are also Cao, Qi, Tian and other families in this county, offering 5,000 taels of righteous silver to help.

Second, since then, the county has been running the official business of raw silk, and all the raw silk in the market from the west water will be bought by the official general ledger room at the market price, and the general ledger room will be managed by the Guanjia Silk Bank. Other private households are not self-raised.

Third, unemployed households can go to the Jigong Treasury to register and make a register to receive raw silk in limited quantities according to the number of machines, weave it into silk and return it, and have official remuneration to maintain their food rations.

However, it was said that the principals of the three big machine households of Cao, Qi, and Tian joined hands with Master Yan to plan the merger, and when they were in full swing to prepare for a big fight, they suddenly saw the official mansion's list that came out without warning, as if it had been poured snow on a summer day, and he still didn't know what had happened in the county office. When Li You and the magistrate were secretly discussing, only Master Huang was present, and no one really knew the inside story, and Aunt Guan might be half of it.

The county government justifiably monopolized the distribution of raw silk to small machine households, and the efforts of the three major households were all in vain. At least the 5,000 taels bribed by the government were thrown away in vain. In fact, it is not in vain, the county lord wrote three plaques for commendation and charity, so that people blow and beat the street to show the public, and then send them to the three doors respectively, but it is also very beautiful. The three masters of Cao, Qi and Tian won the name of the three good people of Xujiang, and there was a grand occasion of the beggars in front of the door multiplying.

For the silk industry insiders who read the announcement, the county government wants to come forward to run the official silk, and the construction of the general account room and the silk warehouse are all due meanings in the question. But the only thing I don't understand is that the Guan family is just a very ordinary and inconspicuous shop in the Xishui Bazaar, and I have never heard of an official background.

Everyone inquired one after another, and finally found out a hot news, the Miss Guan who was above the top of her eyes had quietly committed herself to Inspector Li as a concubine!

Suddenly, everyone was stunned, it turned out to be that hateful and enviable, pathetic and enviable power transaction. I think this Li Patrol Inspection is the right-hand man of the county magistrate, and it is not a matter of one sentence to take over the general ledger room. How did they know that Li You had done his homework for this sentence, and spent countless saliva to pave the way, and it was typical to see thieves eating meat and not thieves being beaten.

As a result, the gossip between Li You and Guan Xiuxiu became a hot topic in the silk industry, and even diluted the incident itself (the shift in focus is actually a good thing for Li You). The conversation is speculating, is it the hero who wants to pass the beauty "pass", or the sword cuts the martyr and the beauty hooks the hero?

In other words, who takes the initiative? Is it passive? There are also observers of social phenomena in this county who sighed that Li Tanhua finally stretched out his claws to the good family as expected... Gossip aside, Li You saw that his means were gradually implemented, and the money was about to roll in, so he was naturally in a good mood. Although he is not an economist, he also went to school, and his textbooks include planned economy, unified purchasing and marketing, public-private partnerships... Therefore, it is always useful to study hard and improve every day.

He doesn't have the ability to intervene in the specific business matters, nor does he have the name to interfere, and he doesn't do anything, anyway, it is about the concubine. It's just that they took precautions and sent soldiers to take turns to go to the market to stand at the Guanjia Silk Store to demonstrate and deter Xiaoxiao, after all, the interests are important and must be guarded against. After that, he had to concentrate on the affairs of the inspection department, after all, the annual examination was only in these days.

Sure enough, what did he want to do, and the county government came over, and later said that the county would come to the inspection department to preside over the examination.

After reading the official document, Li You became more cautious. It is well known that the county is not dealing with him this week, although he is almost a court official with a small real power, and he is not afraid of any eight-grade county cheng, but he can't be caught. Otherwise, when I went to the county to remedy, my face would not look good, and I might even be laughed at by Master Huang.

At that moment, all the scribes were summoned to the signing room to give a careful explanation, and all the documents and files in the office were sorted out, destroyed, forged, and concealed, and no gaps were allowed to be left in the office. Whoever dares to make a leak will be dismissed from his position as a scribe, and he will go to Taihu Lake to rock the boat and blow the wind and waves and sing mountain songs.

He also called the prison guard Meng Zheng and instructed: "In these days, everyone will add a bowl of rice, and be kind to appease, and tell them that they will be released after three days." Don't die a single one! ”

Team Meng said yes and left.

After arranging, Li You was a little relieved. It's a pity that I was relieved for a moment, and I saw that Team Meng was stumbling in, crying and shouting: "Inspect the master!" The two of them had a hard head in the competition, and one died after hitting the wall. ”

Two hundred became one hundred and ninety-nine... Li Youqi thrashed the case, pointed at Team Meng and reprimanded: "Master, I'll give you another chance!" Get down! ”

Fortunately, only one died, and the number was about the same. Li You wanted to give an order, and today and tomorrow, all the soldiers of the division should be scattered, and he had to arrest a prisoner and come back to make up for it. No, you have to catch a few more to prevent another death, I was distracted too much and neglected before, it should have been like this a long time ago.

When he was thinking about it, he saw the new scribe Sun He confidently walked into the signing room and said: "I am willing to share my worries for the inspection!" ”

"What ideas do you have?" Li You half-believed and asked, how many days will Sun and this newcomer come?

Sun Ji took out a few documents and said: "I saw that a colleague secretly hid these documents, including several people involved in the case, and there is also evidence, it must be that he took the benefits of the suspect and deliberately concealed it, why not chase down and bring the case to make up the number of people?" ”

What else can you find out about this? Li You came to be interested. is also, the cunning officials in the official office yamen are used to going up and down, and there are fewer things to hide. Well, he did it himself. So why go out aimlessly to find criminals?

While thinking about it, I took it and flipped through it, and it was really a very good and powerful case, with confessions, evidence, and numbers, so good that it couldn't be better, but the surname of the subject was Guan... After seeing it, Li You threw the paperwork on the table and scolded: "Mr. Sun, you don't meddle in your business!" Just do what I tell you honestly! ”

Sun Ji, who invited merit and reward, was stunned, he didn't understand what happened to Li You, how could there be such a boss in the world who rewarded and punished unknown! For a while, the surname came, and he shouted: "Li Inspector, you can't treat your brother like this for many years, although the scribe is now your subordinate..."

"Then I'll give you an explanation, the old man in this case is the father of my concubine, understand?"

It turned out that these documents were all files of Aunt Guan's father's smuggling of salt, which Li You personally reviewed that night... Although Li You didn't plan to pursue it at that time, he still left evidence of his confession, as a means of coercion when necessary, and who knew if Guan Xiuxiu would repent, so he had to keep a guard.

I still want to keep it now, and because Li Inspector is really not at ease with Guan Laozhang's reckless and impulsive surname, and he can't believe it from his heart, it can be seen that this old man loves his daughter very much, and who knows what he thinks about Li You's occupation of his daughter as a concubine, although Guan Xiuxiu is voluntary. What's more, the recent big business has used his family's silk shop, and there must be corresponding restraints in secret.

The scribe was ordered by Li You to hide these case files that were not used. As a result, he was stolen by mistake by Sun Soy Sauce, who didn't know the truth, and he was full of expectations to inspect Li... He didn't know that Guan Yuanwai's daughter had become Li You's concubine, after all, Guan Xiu's embroidery into the Li family was too low-key.

Inspector Li sprayed his subordinates and said: "I said yesterday, tell you to eat, drink and have fun, don't go to be a scribe without doing your job!" The task he recently gave to Sun Ji was to give full play to his experience and expertise in helping people, and to hook up with these people in the inspection department, please eat, drink, play and have fun, and allocated relevant funds. Naturally, Inspector Li has his own purpose, and I will talk about it later.

Sun He, who couldn't get rid of his fate, retreated.

I have to go out and arrest a few people and come back, Li You thought, don't remove the cover that has been covered in the official office. This remarkable test is close at hand, and it must be obtained.

(To be continued)