Yang Ling sat in the signing room, looking at the pile of case files piled up in front of him in a daze. He wanted to get to work right away, but he was like a layman at first facing a rotten fishing net that was piled up more than a man high, and he didn't know where to start.

If you think about the work that the county master is responsible for, you will know, but it is not just the nothing you see on TV sitting on the Qipin main hall and patting the shocking wood, a county's finances, taxes, transportation, laws, everything has to be made by the county master, originally the county master in addition to the county master, the main book, there are also a bunch of criminal masters, money and grain masters, knife and pen masters, and now Min County has ordered this half-hung county master to lose all his brains to Yang Ling, even if it is an experienced Shaoxing master, I am afraid that he will be busy for a while.

The signing room is composed of three bungalows connected in the form of a string of sugar gourds, and usually the county lord's master and staff members read official documents and handle government affairs here. In front of the signing room is the Qipin main hall where the county magistrate asks about the case, and behind it is the residence of the county magistrate's family.

Since he helped the Ma family solve the life lawsuit, the Min County Commander praised him a lot, and immediately invited him to the mansion to serve as a master. Yang Ling was worried that he had nothing to do, and it was shameless to be raised alive by a little girl, so he readily agreed at the moment.

However, because of Han Youniang's complaining eyes, he had to make it clear to Min County that being a master was only an expedient measure, and he would still have to go to the provincial capital to participate in the township test for the next year's big exam, and Min County Ling also agreed.

In fact, he knew that his fate would not be long in coming, and he usually inquired about people and knew that even if he was admitted to the top prize at that time, the best result would be to stay in the capital to be a Hanlin editor, and it would be great to be able to release a magistrate immediately, there was no big official to do, and now it was just out of love for Han Youniang and a sense of responsibility for a man, I wanted to leave her a family property as much as possible, and I didn't want to participate in the township test at all, but I couldn't stand the tenderness of a woman, Han Youniang was not very old, but a pair of gloomy and resentful eyes were enough to make him change his mind, at least on the surface.

Min County Ling is a soldier, and the cronies he brought over are also soldiers, and he really doesn't know anything about the governance of this county, the original Huang County Cheng in the county is not yin or yang to him, and he is like a clay wood carving all day long, if it weren't for the monthly salary and silver, you can still see him running with an empty pocket to receive rice and money, and you can't see the shadow of this person.

Thanks to the simplicity of the people of Jimingyi, there has been no major fault for more than two years, but seeing that the period of the political performance examination is approaching every three years, the imperial court wants to assess the performance of officials.

Where does the imperial court exam come from? In fact, there are no more than two things, one is clear under the rule, and the other is timely taxation. Under the so-called rule of Qingming, as long as there are no peasant disorders, businessmen boycott, scholars protesting, and no major cases, then it can be reported to the peaceful and prosperous scene of not leaving the road behind and not closing the door at night.

There are two teams of officers and soldiers stationed in Jimingyi, plus the officers of the post office and the county yamen, and the management is stricter than that of the ordinary third-class county, and nothing major has happened in the past two years. However, this tax is not the case in time, because the local area is a place where many merchants gather and distribute, and the tax and silver collection of this merchant is still timely, but the nearby residents are mostly residents in the mountains, and they usually live in scattered places and are not easy to manage, coupled with the poor ridges of the mountain fields and the tartars from time to time to harass and plunder, the payment of this grain tax is quite unsatisfactory, and it will inevitably become the weakness of the Min County Order when the big examination is made.

Min County ordered the official to do a mess, and he also went to Fucheng some time ago, and after listening to Shangguan's chatter, he knew that there were many things to say in the civil official assessment, and he was worried about how to show off his political achievements.

However, the operation method of the political axe in this era is really not something that Yang Ling can understand, although Yang Ling was the director of the insurance company in his previous life, but the management structure and system at that time, even if there was no director, the operation of the entire organization would not be affected too much, but now it is different, almost all major and small matters have to be decided by him, Yang Ling was in a hurry, and he couldn't even deal with the official documents that were said to be normal, how to make achievements.

He straightened up, thumped his back and looked at the pile of case files with a sad face, approaching the end of the year, the delivery office had a batch of Western Regions specialties purchased by Ouchi to be transported to the capital, and the carts and mules and horses were not enough, and he asked the county government to solve it.

The receiving office received an official letter from the Ministry of War, and there was a recent transfer of the army, and it was necessary to pass through the Jiming Post at night, and it was necessary to make good arrangements to open the city gate at night, arrange for errand officers and soldiers to guard the city gate, and strictly prevent people from taking advantage of the chaos to enter the city at night.

The New Year is approaching, the curfew has been lifted, and he is the master of the criminal name for matters related to public security and anti-theft, so naturally he must be arranged to deal with him.

The smoke news of the beacon tower, the relevant materials of the fire need to be replaced, the farming cattle of the Dou family in the suburbs of the city are missing, the big fat pig that has been raised by the Yi family of Liu Jiaao for three years in the west of the city has been stolen, the Li family has set a few ruffians to tease the little widow, the children of the Hao family in the north of the city have played with artillery and set fire to the firewood and stacks of the He family, the He family has come to the door to injure the daughter-in-law of the Hao family, the Hao family has accused the He family of murder and injury, and the He family has accused the Hao family of igniting a fire.

What's even worse is that there are too many peasant households in arrears of government taxes, some of which have only been delayed for a year or two, and some of which have been in arrears for as long as 10 years.

At the beginning, Yang Ling also patted the table and asked Wang Bantou to take someone to arrest Hong Mancang, the Diao Min who owed the most and had the longest time, and wanted to make an example of him, and after listening to Wang Bantou tell him that the county master had used this method, he forced Hong Mancang's wife to hang herself, and Hong Mancang also became half-crazy and half-upset.

Wang Yangzheng, the chief bookkeeper, saw that this young colleague was kind and serious, so he secretly told him that Huang Xiancheng had stayed in the county for the longest time, and he had been waiting for two county masters.

Yang Ling gritted his teeth when he heard this, bought ten catties of fat pork, and a bag of good tea to ask for advice, who expected that Huang Xiancheng just taught his little grandson to practice calligraphy hand in hand, and only smiled faintly when he heard Yang Ling's intentions, and he didn't want to help him with his tricks, but the pork and tea were honestly and unceremoniously laughed, which made Yang Ling cry and laugh.

"Alas!" Thinking of this, Yang Ling sighed heavily, a little distressed about the twenty-four dollars he spent, the little girl at home occasionally bought some meat, and pulled it into his bowl, he was reluctant to eat a bite, he knew that it was better to take the meat home and give it to the poor and cute little girl to beat her teeth.

He picked up his pen and wrote down the calculated results on the official document submitted to the household department to declare the money and food needed for next year: "There are 79 officials and officials in Jimingyi, 158 post soldiers, 260 defenders in the city, 45 long husbands, 82 post horses, 7,647 taels of silver and 52 stone of horse material. Another: There is a crack in the battle platform of the West City Gate, which needs to be repaired, and it needs 116 taels of silver."

Picked up the official document and blew the ink on it, carefully resting it on the stack of official documents, and as soon as the door curtain was lifted, a man in a green robe walked in. The other officials in the room who were in charge of copying and sorting out the documents hurriedly stood up and said, "Lord Min."

Yang Ling looked up and hurriedly got up to salute. That person was the commander of Min County, wearing ordinary clothes, he waved his hand casually, and shouted loudly: "It's okay, it's common to see the sky, what kind of courtesy, seeing that the hour is not early, let's disperse today."

The few little officials hurriedly began to pack up their things, Lord Min walked in front of Yang Ling, and saw that he had already handled nearly half of the official documents, and couldn't help but raise his big fingers and praise: "Mr. is so capable, this county has a headache when he sees these things, I didn't expect you to deal with half of it so quickly, hahaha."

Yang Ling smiled bitterly, he dealt with it very quickly, but most of them were things that were connected from top to bottom, how could it be so fast to deal with the really tricky ones, not to mention those who were in arrears of taxes for a long time, and those who were maliciously in arrears and those who were indeed poor.

There is no need to send a few people to deal with the cases of lost cattle and stolen fat pigs, and it will take three days and five days to investigate at the earliest.

In the past, watching TV, those officials would make private interviews at every turn, and find out the case, it seems that it is pure nonsense, there are so many things to do in a day, where can he leave the official office at every turn to investigate any case in person.

However, it was naturally inconvenient for him to complain to the county magistrate about these things, so he had to say repeatedly: "Where is it, the adult has won the award."

Seeing that those little officials were gone, Min Xian Ling patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I'm a rough person, I don't need to be so angry when I'm not in court." By the way, pack up and hurry up with me, Ma Yicheng invited us to Hongyan Tower to drink and watch a play in order to thank you and me."

Yang Ling couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this: "Huh? Whether this adult takes the first step, I have to go home first and tell my insider, so that she will not worry about her at home."

Min Xianling laughed loudly, stroked his beard and punched him the shoulder, and scolded with a smile: "Where is there so much verbosity, men, when you want to go home, you will naturally go home, and when you don't want to go back, the woman will stay at home and tell her what to do?" Walking around, I was young and had a fear of internal problems."

Min County's order was not up to him, and he pulled him out of the door and left, Yang Ling had no choice but to go with him. Min County Ling both wore civilian clothes, and did not sit in the official sedan chair, plus this chicken song post city is not big, only four miles between the north and south city gates, Hongyan Tower is next to the Jinguang Temple, and the county government is only separated by a street, and even more impatient to sit in the sedan chair.

The two of them walked to the Hongyan Building, Ma Yicheng and Ma Ang, Ma Li'er had already waited in the private seat on the first floor, this was originally a theater, said to be a private room, but it was just a good position in the middle with a screen to separate some reading space.

To Yang Ling's surprise, Huang Xiancheng was actually there, and they couldn't help but be polite to each other when they met. Ma Ang was imprisoned in prison for more than ten days, and the irascible surname restrained a lot, and when he saw his life-saving benefactor Yang Ling, his expression was very affectionate, and he stepped forward to hold his arm and thanked him.

Yang Ling and Ma Ang are both young people, but one is polite, handsome and delicate, and the other is vigorous and burly, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Ma Li'er just lightly applied fat powder and beautiful makeup today, and her coquettish face was a lot more reserved when she looked at Yang Ling.

Yang Ling's appearance is extraordinary, the first time they met, Ma Li'er had a little love for him in her heart, but she immediately knew that he had married a wife, and for him, Ma Li'er had already regarded him as a benefactor and a friend with a different surname who she liked.

The identity of the concubine is not a few points higher than that of the slave, Mo said that he is just a showman, even if he is the governor of a province, although Ma Li'er is only the daughter of a low-level official, there is absolutely no possibility of being a concubine, so the affection has been nipped in the bud.

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