These days, Li Patrol was very unhappy, because he was reprimanded and fined for one year. The reason for this is that there is a patrol document stamped with the seal of the Qinchaguan and moved to the county office, and the content is that a certain inspector is an official, and his misconduct has caused public opinion, and the county is ordered to find out and deal with it.

Chen Zhixian replied in a very official article: Mianhua Suliu is true, and he has been reprimanded and fined for one year, and there is no such thing as forcibly occupying the people's daughter. To tell the truth, Master Chen has always been very dissatisfied and contemptuous of Li You's indiscretion in his private life, and he will beat and beat him whenever he has the opportunity. In fact, Li You is very wronged, purely because he is burdened by fame, everyone says that he is like this and that, it is really a false rumor, how can the real situation be so exaggerated? That's why he was upset about this punishment that affected the pond fish.

Ma Yushi was also very unhappy, he had been inspecting Xujiang County for so many days, and a few trivial things were revealed, but none of the real sore feet were found, and the expected calculations were all in vain. He is the patrol of ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, not the patrol of one county in Xujiang, and he can't stay in one county for too long when there is no special case, otherwise he will be negligent, waiting to be impeached.

After thinking about it, Ma Yushi couldn't help but call Mr. Cui over and reprimanded him, and ordered him to contact the locals again to see if there were any good clues. "If you can't find it again, what's the use!" Ma Xun reprimanded at the end.

Mr. Cui came out in disgrace, and his heart was full of a sense of crisis about his future, because he was scolded for even saying this. When I looked up, I saw Inspector Li inspecting the guards in the county mansion, as if he had found a life-saving straw. Hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Li You to a secluded and uninhabited place, and asked, "Lord Li, don't forget the agreement, I will follow the agreement here, and I will do my best to inform you of my whereabouts." ”

Regarding the agreement between the two that night, Li You was going to leak the suspicious stone material of the Xuhe Water Conservancy Project to Ma Xun, and then point out the Qian Huangshang. Anything else pretending not to know anything is definitely enough.

Presumably Ma Yushi will be very satisfied when he hears this, this is a big case involving tens of thousands of silver, and on the surface, it seems to be related to Chen Zhixian, which is simply in the heart of Ma Yushi. I just don't know what he will do when he goes down with anticipation and suddenly finds that a large number of high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as the governor of Zhejiang are implicated?

If he can continue to track him down, Li You admires him and says he is a good man. If you stop here and there is no result, then it is not Li You's business, and the clue that you kindly gave is that you can't check it yourself, no wonder others.

To say a few digressions, some people may not know why Li You didn't remind Chen Zhixian that these stone bars were stolen goods, the reason is very simple, there is no need at all. This is a feudal society with a real official position, and the official position and the fame of the jinshi are talismans.

Looking at the crimes of officials in the country, not to mention the misuse of stolen goods, it is direct embezzlement, as long as the amount is not too shocking and the timing is not too sensitive, or it angers the emperor and the like, the punishment is almost all to recover the stolen goods after being dismissed from office, and then continue to use them as officials. Even Emperor Taizu, who was known as a murderer, could only compromise like this in the end... There was once a strange county that could rise and fall because of repeated embezzlement.

Based on this, it can be speculated that the worst result of Chen Zhixian's use of stolen goods is that he was given a sentence "Young and shallow, careless as an official, just have a division to admonish him", especially as a jinshi, he must protect the active surname of the official. What's more, it is for official business, and it is not a private crime, and it does not affect the promotion at all.

Therefore, Li You will only remind when he is full. If Chen Zhixian asked Li You, you were so frightened that you got away when you knew about this, why did you not remind this official until now. How does Inspector Li answer? Could it be that because I just know that you are not your own father, the enlightenment teacher is better than your own father, and you are a scholar, so you have to stammer?

The words are far away, and then the Li patrol was questioned by Mr. Cui, and his heart flashed, but he put aside what he was going to say, and talked about the matter of the official raw silk: "This, at the beginning of August, our county built a silk warehouse for Jigong workers, and another official raw silk, which made considerable profits, but there are thousands of taels of unknown whereabouts every month, why not check it?" Don't say that I leaked the secret, lest the county know about me. ”

Cui Jingyi said happily: "This is good, I can explain it to the patrol press in the next place, but some colleagues have checked it before, and I didn't see any problems." ”

"That's because the county has prepared it, and this time will definitely be different." Li You was very enthusiastic, detailed, righteous and sincere, and pointed out the doorway, and promised to let Guan Jiasi cooperate with his chest side by side, and Mr. Cui, who was directly moved, burst into tears and praised Li Inspector for being a faithful man.

After receiving the report from Mr. Cui, Ma Xunji showed extraordinary and decisive action. First of all, the county silk warehouse was directly sealed with Qinchaguan and sent people to take inventory; He personally led his subordinates to the Guanjia Silk Store in Xishui Town and took away all the account books. After careful inspection, it was found that more than 5,000 taels of silver had really entered the county office, and then the county government's house and silver treasury were checked, but it was found that the silver had not been deposited into the account.

Suddenly, the horse patrol was ecstatic! sighed in my heart, the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, God really helps me, and now I can really go to my father-in-law to ask for credit. gave Mr. Cui another credit, and praised him as a local elite leading the way.

According to the procedures of the patrol, Chen Zhixian needs to be called for questioning, of course Ma Yushi is happy to do this, who doesn't like to look at the embarrassment of the opponent. However, after being summoned once, Chen Zhixian did not come, and was ridiculed by Ma Xun, can he rely on the past?

At this time, an attaché reported: "When my subordinates returned from the city, they saw that more than 100 mechanics had gathered at the corner of the street, and they may have gathered more and more, preparing to besiege the county mansion and ask the adults to unseal the silk warehouse." ”

"Hahahaha." Ma Xun laughed without any worries, and said in his heart: Chen Tongnian, Chen Tongtong, are you Zhang Huang at a loss? If it is really planned by you, it can only mean that you are dizzy and it is useless to incite public opinion.

Ma Xunpress really has no pressure to gather crowds to make trouble. Although there are many restrictions on the power of the imperial history in the system of this dynasty, there is no phenomenon of interfering in the administration and disorderly administration. However, in order to maintain the majesty of the Qincha, there are many strict protective measures for the patrol, for example, no matter what kind of right or wrong, it is absolutely strictly forbidden for the local military and civilians to gather to besiege the patrol and the imperial history, which is to prevent the local officials from taking advantage of the public opinion to blackmail the Qincha. For the magistrates, the crime of instigating the siege of the Chin Cha was worse than embezzlement and bribery.

There was news that Inspector Li took the soldiers and the Zhuangban officials to stop the crowd of mechanics, but these people turned around and went to besiege the county government again. Ma Xunji commented on this: "Chen Tongnian is not stupid to the end, and he knows the seriousness of the matter. ”

After a while, the outside came to report to Li Patrol to see him, and Ma Xun pressed it in.

Li You just bowed his hand to meet when he entered the house, and the grade was not worse than the third grade, but he could kneel or not, of course Li Inspector was unwilling to kneel to see him. "I've seen Master Ma, and the lower officials came to pass the word. Chen Xianzun said that this mechanic is based on capital, and there is no job and no food, please have mercy on the people's livelihood, and solve the silk warehouse to provide raw silk to the small machine households. ”

Ma Xunpress scoffed at this request. The case procedure has not yet been completed, and the unsealing of the silk library at this time has not given the county an opportunity to cheat, he is not Mr. Dongguo.

"The livelihood of the little people is difficult, and their condition is pitiful, please think twice with a benevolent heart!" Li You continued to ask for the people's life.

Ma Patrol scolded: "You little inspector dare to be presumptuous!" Ben Chin sent to investigate the case, and no one was allowed to intervene if the situation was unknown! What is your county's intention to hijack public opinion! The magistrate has not been questioned in the hospital so far, and he still dares to talk flatteringly? ”

Li You explained: "Chen Xianzun was blocked by the drumming mechanics when he left the ya, and he really can't come now." ”

Ma Xun sneered a few times, "Will your county play such a trick of a thief shouting to catch a thief?" Anyway, Chen Dazhi refused to come, so Ben Qin sent him to the county government to find him, but to see if he was hiding and not seeing. ”

Immediately, Ma Xunjian took his subordinates to the county office, and Li Inspector sent a fast-legged soldier to report the news, and closely followed the Qincha team.

Sure enough, there were seventy or eighty people gathered outside the gate of the county yamen who were clamoring, all of whom were mechanics from the county. Inspector Li shouted that the Qin messenger was coming, and the villagers were quiet and watched how the old man dealt with it.

The leader of the road opened a passage from the crowd, and Ma Xun pressed to the door and got off the sedan chair and waited for Chen Zhixian to come out to greet him. At the same time, another sedan chair and a few retinues came to the gate of the county government, and a man in a gauze hat and brocade robe came down, more than 30 years old, with a white face and no beard.

Ma Xun glanced at this person, and his heart was very strange, he had seen this kind of clothing when he was in the capital, and it was clearly a eunuch dress. In other words, the person in front of him was a eunuch, but he didn't know why he appeared at the gate of the county office.

Since he was a eunuch, Ma Xun, as a two-rank jinshi and a clear stream, how could he be mixed with these eunuchs with an infamous reputation, and he couldn't help but look at him with contempt, and covered his nose and shook his sleeves away a few steps. It is said that Ma Xun went straight to Xujiang County without staying for a long time in Suzhou Mansion, and he did not see many people in Fucheng. Otherwise, maybe he would recognize this as the head of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, the weaving eunuch.

Not long after, Chen Zhixian walked out with his head held high and stood in the middle of the gate of the county government. Ma Xun opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw that Chen Zhixian didn't talk to him, he scolded the eunuch with his halberd finger: "Eunuch! Your wolf's heart intends to swallow my Xujiang raw silk, this official has done this county, only thinking about the livelihood of ten thousand people, are you afraid of the weaving bureau! As long as the official is here, you will wait for the eunuchs to succeed! ”

Next to him, Inspector Li stepped forward and scolded: "Don't be delusional about the gelding!" Although the county is only a seventh-grade official, he has his own righteousness, how can you coerce and lure him! It's useless for you to come a few more times! ”

In the face of insults, the weaving eunuch smiled very gracefully, calmly, as if he had everything under control.

As soon as they heard the eunuch thief and the weaving bureau, the mechanics gathered in front of the county government were in an uproar, and they talked about it one after another. Seeing this meaning, there are eunuchs from the Weaving Bureau who want to seize the people's wealth, but fortunately, the county lord seems to be very dignified and refuses to comply, and Li Patrol seems to be good, and dares to stand up for the interests of his hometown.

Ma Xun, who thought that he should be the protagonist, was inexplicable, and acted as a spectator for a while, only thinking that this weaving eunuch could really add to the chaos, and the investigation was at a critical moment, what the hell did he do.

Chen Zhixian raised his hand to stop Li You's scolding, and said loudly to the weaving eunuch: "Before, this official guessed that you would have ruthless methods, but I never thought that you would be able to collude with the Qin Cha Patrol and conspire together!" ”

This sentence was deafening in Ma Xun's ears, and he thought he had heard it wrong for a while. How dare he do such a thing? If that were the case, his prestige would be completely over.

The weaving eunuch smiled and bowed to Ma Xun with a respectful attitude.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the crowd of mechanics boiled over, feeling that the truth about yesterday's silk library was about to be revealed, and it was about to come out!

(To be continued)