Chapter 35 Investigation
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the officials of the prefecture and county are not allowed to meet in private to prevent them from colluding and cheating. Correspondence was carried out by the officials, and it was a violation of the system for two officials to meet without an outsider.
But now it's not the year of Hongwu, who really takes the system seriously? Especially this is not the hinterland area, but Guangzhou, where the emperor is far away, who really cares about your rules and regulations?
In an inconspicuous small restaurant in Guangzhou, Lin Shouzheng was dressed in civilian clothes, sitting opposite Li Yanqing, who was also dressed as a scholar, and the two held chopsticks while eating snake soup and dog meat pot. Eating in the yamen, Governor Lin has always been a demeanor, only eating a few bites of each dish, and then putting down the chopsticks and not moving. In order to please the madmen in the city, he even quit dog meat.
As a result, no one knows him here, his chopsticks are flying, his appetite is not inferior to that of Li Yanqing, a young man, and he himself has eliminated seventy percent of a serving of dog meat.
"Confused, reckless, too young." Lin Shouzheng's face hated that iron does not become steel. "You are the magistrate of the county, your job is to shepherd and guard the party, educate the people, and the affairs of the White Lotus Sect are not for you to worry about. Zhelin mutiny, can the board fall on your head? You know how deep the water is? The arrears of military salaries accumulated over the years, if this account is really checked, I don't know how many people will die. But the old man dares to guarantee that if you really get to that point, you will definitely be the first to die......"
"Thank you Lin Weng for your advice, Xia Guan is a foreigner, and he doesn't know much about Guangzhou. I have the heart to defect to Master Guo's door wall, but also because I know that this matter is tricky, and I hope that he will be there for the governor and say a lot of good words......"
"Nonsense! Those military salaries were all released by his hands, do you think he will be less mixed in this matter? If you do go to his door, I guarantee you will be thrown out and killed. Now that this matter involves Jinyiwei again, I can't suppress it if I want to suppress it, so I can only think of a way to smooth it out. ”
Li Yanqing was secretly happy in his heart, although Lin Shouzheng was old and sophisticated, he was still blinded by himself and his disciples joining forces to set up a situation. This is not to say that Li Yanqing's intelligence is off the charts and he completely abused Lin Shouzheng, it is purely that the information between the two is not equal, and Lin Shouzheng was misled by the people around him. With a preconceived assumption, Liu Chaozuo was ready to defect to Guo Anbang.
Don't underestimate Li Yanqing as just a seven-grade main hall and a small sesame official. At present, the situation in Guangzhou officialdom is complicated, just like the temporary tranquility before the storm. Any change in weight can cause an imbalance in the situation.
If he really took refuge in the past, then this White Lotus Lesson Plan is likely to become a powerful weapon, which was used by Guo Anbang to attack Lin Shouzheng, who had no way to protect and connived at the bandits.
His arrangement has always been a problem, if it is small, I am sorry that he has followed Wu Shuai conscientiously over the years. If it is given big, objectively there is no lack of arrangement.
If he stays in Guangzhou and doesn't leave, he can't say if he will fall in love with the throne of the main hall in Guangzhou, if he really drives out Lin Shouzheng, he will naturally try to replace him. With Wu Shuai operating in the back, this matter really can't be said to be hopeless.
Lin Shouzheng naturally couldn't just hand over his official position, so he had to win over Liu Chaozuo by himself and pull him into the Guangzhou government system. Everyone formed an anti-Guo alliance to deal with this difficulty together. In this way, the White Lotus Sect Zhelin premeditated the hot potato of inciting mutiny, and he had to accept it, and he had to accept it if he didn't.
Lin Shouzheng is an old man, and he also saw his opportunity from the Zhelin Mutiny. These big-headed soldiers rebelled because of unpaid wages, so the court will definitely be held accountable afterwards, where did this huge salary go? Wu Guifang's dignified military family will not suffer because of such a trivial matter, but he must also give up something in order to completely suppress this matter.
So throwing away the pawn to protect the car is the only way in the officialdom, the abandoned pawn, apart from Guo Anbang, who else is more suitable? You must know that the military salaries in recent years have all been handled by Master Guo.
After hearing that Li Yanqing might defect to Guo Anbang that night, Lin Shouzheng had already thought of a coping strategy. Since your surname Guo dares to poach people in my Guangzhou officialdom system, and this incident has happened, don't blame me for being ruthless. I'll pull Li Yanqing over, turn this matter into a talisman for your Guo Fuzi, sacrifice you, and be happy in Guangzhou.
As for the Zhelin Mutiny, once it happens, how big will it be, and how big will it be, and this matter has something to do with his Lin Governor's Mansion? Of course, if Governor Wu had the means to suppress the mutiny, then he would be the first to take credit for the Governor Lin and still be able to ask for credit in front of the Governor.
The premise is that this matter must be reported by him, not by Guo Anbang, and the strength must also be in his own control, otherwise it will be nonsense. To achieve this goal, the key is to win over Li Yanqing.
In this matter, it is obvious that it is necessary to buy cronies. If it weren't for the third brother Lin who took the lead and pointed out the selfishness of his master, Li Yanqing would not have been able to design such a bureau to drag Lin Shouzheng into the water. Don't look at Liu Chaozuo as a Jiangxi prodigy, he was lifted before he was twenty years old, but this is really nothing in Daming.
Li Dongyang entered the Hanlin Academy as a jinshi at the age of eighteen, what is he, a twenty-year-old lifter? If you can't pull Lin Shouzheng into the water, this time you may be burying a mine for yourself to crack the White Lotus Lesson Case, and maybe one day you will blow yourself to pieces.
Now that Lin Shouzheng is willing to help him find a way, it means that subconsciously, he has regarded himself as a person in his boat, and this is easy to do. Li Yanqing felt that it was time to show his talents. Otherwise, if Lin Shouzheng is regarded as a person who does not learn and does not know how to do it, he will inevitably look too small.
"Boss, according to the official's thoughts, we might as well do this thing......"
When Li Yanqing said his thoughts, Lin Shouzheng's face soothed a lot and nodded. "I originally thought that you were young, had little knowledge, didn't know the world, and had no blood and bravery, but you didn't know the hardships of the world, and it was inevitable to be impulsive in doing things. Now it seems that you are an official material, work hard, and have a future. ”
Translated from this, Lin Shouzheng has always been worried that Li Yanqing will become an angry young man. You must know that the biggest specialty of the Ming Dynasty is the loyal and upright gentleman who is hot-blooded. Now it is the period when Xu Ge is reigning and the people are in power.
Since Yan Song fell, this kind of indignant wind has become more and more vigorous, and more and more young officials have to open peace for all generations at every turn, clean up the source for the Ming Dynasty, and are not afraid of broken bones, and they want to leave their innocence in the world.
When he heard that Li Yanqing was collecting money in Xiangshan County, Lin Shouzheng was very happy from the bottom of his heart. If he is a wealthy official, this will be easy. People who know how to be officials for thousands of miles, for food and clothing, generally speaking, are easier to deal with and easy to communicate. What I'm afraid of is that he, like another man from a noble background, is holding back his prestige, and the entire Guangzhou officialdom will not be at peace.
But this time in the matter of the White Lotus Sect, if Li Yanqing is to brush up his prestige, then no matter what, he will investigate the issue of military salary to the end, no matter what kind of big man is behind, he will investigate it to the end. If this is the case, Lin Shouzheng has no choice but to slash Ma Jian with tears and send him to death before he destroys the overall pattern of Guangdong officialdom.
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