Chapter 257: Postponement of recovery
"You?" Lu Chengyuan was so murdered by Xu Liang, and his face was immediately red and he was extremely embarrassed.
"What are you?" Xu Liang chattered endlessly, and continued to scold: "You also know that you have to respect Shangguan, are you blind and can't see the red robe on this official?" This official knows from the Pingliang of the fourth grade, you are a small Zhizhou from the fifth grade, the official has never asked you, how do you jump out and shout nonsense? Do you still have this official in your eyes? Such a disrespectful official, a sven scum who doesn't know the number of etiquette, even dares to go to the Yamen of the Pingliang Prefect to discuss matters? ”
"Come on," Xu Liang said coldly: "Drive this disrespectful and uncontrollable bullshit Guyuan Zhizhou out of the Pingliang Prefect's Yamen, such a low-ranking and corrupt person, he is not worthy of entering this prefect's yamen!" ”
"Yes!" There was a loud shout outside the hall, and a team of Liang soldiers rushed in, escorted the stunned Lu Zhizhou and walked out, and the officials in the room were so shocked that their tongues were about to fall out.
"Xu Liang! You declare a personal vendetta...... I, I'm going to sue you, I'm going to the capital to sue you......" Lu Zhizhou was dragged to the door by the Liang soldiers before he came to his senses, struggling to jump to his feet and scold.
This scolding can be regarded as pulling Governor Zhang back from the shock, and Governor Zhang hurriedly shouted: "Slow! ”
The Liang soldiers who were guarding the people paused when they heard this, and looked at Xu Liang hesitantly, Xu Liang pursed his lips, waved his hand coldly and said, "Take it out!" ”
The team of soldiers immediately and quickly escorted Lu Zhizhou out of the prefect's yamen hall, and listened to Lu Zhizhou's angry scolding from a distance.
Governor Zhang was stunned, trembling and pointing at Xu Liang and shouting: "Xu Liang, you are too presumptuous!" ”
Xu Liang plucked his ears with the tips of his right fingers and looked at the officials. Said like nothing happened: "It's much quieter now!" Now it's time to sit down and deliberate! Hmm, Lord Futai, where did you just go? ”
Governor Zhang's face turned blue, and he snorted heavily, not looking at Xu Liang.
Xu Liang smiled. Unimpressed, he looked at the scrivener who was still holding the account book and shouted, "Were you reading the account book just now?" ”
"Yes......," said the scribe nervously.
"Then let's finish reading." Xu Liang said quietly.
"Uh...... ......" The scribe answered, and glanced at Governor Zhang's mansion worriedly, and saw that his face was as black as the bottom of an iron pot, so he stared at the account book and read the account.
The other officials in the lobby were unusually quiet, and they were even cautious when they were tired of sitting in chairs and wanted to change their positions. For fear of making a little noise and upsetting an adult in the hall.
In the lobby, the scribe could be heard intermittently reading the ledger as if he had just read it, and when he finished reading the ledger, the scribe's face was covered with beads of sweat.
Xu Liang squinted his eyes and seemed to be asleep. The scribe then looked at Governor Zhang's mansion and hesitated: "Futai." The ledger is finished......"
Governor Zhang exhaled the turbid air heavily, and waved his left hand vigorously into the air, as if to drive away the unhappiness in his heart. Looking at the officials in the circle, when their eyes fell on Xu Liang, they immediately took it back, and said in a deep voice: "That's it, the amount that needs to be recovered in this state and county is also clear, and you dare to pursue it after you go back." This concludes the meeting. Meeting. ”
After Governor Zhang finished speaking, he got up first, and was just about to move. Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, and the officials sitting in the hall had no intention of dismissing the meeting at all, and they all looked at Pingliang and the prefect Liang. Even the other Pingliang Tongzhi Lu Yifa on the right was no exception, looking at Xu Liang and waiting for him to speak.
It seems that without Xu Liang's words, all the officials did not dare to leave the scene.
Governor Zhang suddenly blushed and had a thick neck. Embarrassed and angry, it was not enough to stand on the edge of the table. Neither is it to stay.
Xu Liang opened his eyes leisurely and looked at the officials in the circle. He seemed to be very satisfied with your expression, smacked his mouth, and said quietly: "My lords, I think everyone has heard the amount of recovery that the scrivener of the household just now...... Belch? What are you doing standing? But have an urgent need to leave? Then you are busy first, and the official will lead the big guy to the next meeting? ”
Governor Zhang forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and found a step for himself, "I forgot to ask the opinions of the two Tongzhi, now please talk about your opinion." After that, Governor Zhang sat back extremely unnaturally.
"Oh, yes." Xu Liang laughed twice, touched his chin with a long beard and said: "If you want to say that this matter of recovering and reducing money and grain, it is a big policy approved by the Holy Emperor, the Ministry of Households, and the big policy of white and black words falling on paper, not only our Pingliang, but also the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and all prefectures and counties must strictly implement it, and this money and grain must be collected." ”
Governor Zhang listened to it, and glanced at Xu Liang unexpectedly, he originally thought that Xu Liang came to the government office for a meeting today, just to stir up the matter of recovering money and grain, but now he heard Xu Liang say such words in favor of the recovery, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
The officials in the hall looked at each other with different faces and whispered something. Pingliang official Huang Daozhou got up and arched his hand: "My lord, although it is imperative to recover money and grain, but Pingliang has been in drought for many years, and has just experienced war, the people of Pingliang are ten rooms and nine empty, and the people are not living. Please think again! ”
Lin Jialuo, the magistrate of Jingzhou, also got up and said: "Huang Tuiguan is not wrong at all, Lord Futai, Lord Xu, Lord Lu, Pingliang is now in chaos, the people are poor, and there are many complaints, a little carelessness can cause large-scale turmoil, please think twice." ”
Governor Zhang waved his hand and said: "Lin Zhixian, it is the emperor's will to recover the money and grain, and it is not out of our original intention to recover the money and grain, there is really no way." ”
Lin Jialuo's lips moved, and he looked at Xu Liang again.
Xu Liang sighed lightly, pressed his hands down in the air, and shouted, "Lord Huang and Lord Lin, please sit back." ”
After the two of them sat back, Xu Liang said, "What Lord Huang and Lord Lin said is not wrong at all. The people of Pingliang are already in extreme hardship, and if they recover money and food, they will inevitably be forced to a dead end. However, the will of the court could not be disobeyed, and the official thought about it and thought of a workaround. ”
Seeing that all the officials were looking at him, Xu Liang glanced at Governor Zhang slightly proudly, and saw that he was still dark, so he couldn't help but be even happier, and then said: "The people owe the court money and grain, and they can't return it all for a while. In this way, it can not only recover the recovered money and food, but also not drive the people to a dead end, which can be described as the best of both worlds. Well, I think it's limited to twenty years, who is that? Xu Liang pointed to the household clerk and said, "You calculate, how much grain should be recovered every year for the twenty years of the extension of the money and grain that should be recovered?" Forget it, redo this book, and chase it according to that share. ”
The scribe responded, and looked at Governor Zhang uneasily.
Governor Zhang snorted coldly and asked, "Lord Xu, how should I pay to the household department in this way?" ”
Xu Liang glanced at Governor Zhang strangely and asked, "Did the text stipulate a time limit for the inevitable recovery?" ”
"Uh...... Not really. Governor Zhang said.
"Isn't that the end of it?" Xu Liang rolled his eyes, "There is no time limit, let's recover it in a month, a year, or even ten years, twenty years, or hundreds of years, who dares to say that we are not?" ”
"This ......" Governor Zhang was dumbfounded, moved his lips, and was speechless.
Xu Liang got up and yawned, and said, "Then let's do it." Alas, I got up earlier in the morning, and I'm still sleepy. The official has to go back to be discovered, alas, he has to go back and dare to write a copy of the excerpt, impeaching Lu Chengyuan, the original governor of the state, bullying the king, and being a supreme official...... This bastard, it's really not worrying! ”
After that, Xu Liang yawned and walked out.
The officials hurriedly got up, looked at Xu Liang's back and said respectfully, "Congratulations to Lord Xu!" ”
"Excuse me!" Xu Liangren had already walked to the door and waved his hand back gently.
Governor Zhang's face sank, and he flicked his sleeves angrily and entered the backyard of the second hall of the mansion.
After a while, the officials on duty heard the sound of bottles and cans falling to the ground in the study of Governor Zhang's mansion. Immediately I heard the terrible howl of the prefect of Zhang's mansion like a bruised beast, and the officials who were on duty outside were terrified when they heard it, and they quietly inquired about each other before, only to know that Xu Liang, the governor of Pingliang who had not shown up for a long time in today's meeting, appeared to participate in the meeting, not only drove away a prefect, but also made the people of the mansion and Taiwan very angry.
The officials immediately felt relieved.
Shi Junsheng, the magistrate of Zhenyuan County, walked to the door of the backyard of the second hall, heard the scream of Governor Zhang's mansion, trembled in his heart, and hurriedly pulled over a servant and asked, "Lord Futai, what's wrong?" ”
The official pouted, "Who knows, maybe it's a sheep's fever attack......"
Shi Zhixian sighed in his heart when he heard this, waved off the servants, turned around and went in lightly to find Governor Zhang's mansion. (To be continued)