Now that the emperor is old, sooner or later the throne will be passed on to his son. In case it is the second prince who will ascend the throne in the future, then Zhang Jin, as an old man, will definitely be able to add an official to the knighthood, and when the time comes, he wants to rectify himself, but Xiahou Yong will not be able to keep it. Thinking of this, Li Mingyuan was depressed.

"What can I do?" Li Mingyuan walked on the street racking his brains. No matter how scared you are, the days will go on, and the future will be talked about in the future.

Spending money will definitely not work, without Zhao Honglang's consent, even if he wants to spend money on Zhang Jin, he can't find a way.

"Yes, don't all officials cherish their feathers and value their reputation? Lao Tzu tried to make the reputation of this imperial history stinky, so that he would retreat! After seeing a few beggars on the street, Li Mingyuan had a plan, and after thinking about it for a while, he found that it was a good strategy. I couldn't help but smile smugly.

In the afternoon, the complacent Zhang Jin took Pang Xiude into the county office with a red face, followed by a soldier, holding a thick stack of ledgers in his hands.

Along the way, the officials of the county government were all smiling, bowing and bending, which made this imperial historian even more arrogant.

In fact, Zhang Jin has always been envious, jealous and hateful to Zhao Honglang, although the two are classmates, but Zhao Honglang is tall and handsome, dignified, how do he look like a scholar when he stands next to him. In addition, Zhao Honglang has a wide range of contacts and extraordinary conversations, so during the entire study period, no matter how hard Zhang Jin worked, he was always an excellent existence to set off Zhao Honglang, and it was difficult for him to endure it for so many years.

"Zhao County Order, I'm so interested!" Zhang Jin walked into the hall triumphantly surrounded by everyone, and found that Zhao Honglang was still sitting on a chair drinking tea calmly, obviously not taking himself seriously, and couldn't help but mock.

Zhao Honglang, who was already distracted, did not fight back, but said with an urn voice, "Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid!" If Zhang Yushi has any evidence of his official's violation of law and discipline, he will directly submit it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and if the official says a soft word, he will be reading the sage book for so many years in vain! ”

Zhao Honglang's attitude made Zhang Jin even more angry, turned around and took out an account book from the soldier's hand and said sinisterly, "Since Zhao County Order is so confident, then the official will check it carefully to see if some people are fame-seeking." ”

"Please!" Zhao Honglang raised his head and said arrogantly.

So, in front of Zhao Honglang, Zhang Jin and Pang Xiude began to settle all the accounts of Cangsong County for so many years, and if these two guys investigated according to the rules, it would be okay. Zhang Jin's nitpicking, Shi Lu's finger scolding, and Shi Lu's hidden needle, Zhao Honglang can endure it, and the sage book for many years has not been read in vain, and there is still a little bit of self-cultivation in front of the villain.

"Lord Zhang, looking at last year's miscellaneous taxes, it seems that something is wrong!" The confrontation between Pang Xiude and Zhao Honglang has been put on the surface from the secret to the open. The contradiction between the two individuals can only be completely eliminated if one of them falls. Plus according to the dark laws of Dahua's officialdom. After the general county order is dismissed, there is a high probability that the county lieutenant will succeed him. From the eight-rank county lieutenant to the seven-grade county order, this temptation is too great for Pang Xiude. So he was unswervingly determined to help Zhang Jin bring down Zhao Honglang.

Hearing Pang Xiude's words, Zhang Jin's face turned happy and he said, "Really? Show it to the official! ”

Zhao Honglang, who has always been calm, said in Zhang Jin that the miscellaneous tax accounts were chaotic, and he suspected that someone had done something to the accounts, and he finally couldn't help but break out.

"Zhang Jin, you deceive people too much, what do you mean by this? Are you suspecting me of being corrupt and greedy in my miscellaneous tax accounts? You and Pang Xiude opened their eyes wide, I personally reviewed this account, I remember it clearly, where is the chaos, you can point it out and show it to me! Zhao Honglang glared and roared. He can tolerate his dismissal and oppression, but he can never tolerate villains ruining his reputation. Fame is more important to him than life!

Seeing that Zhao Honglang was finally angry, Zhang Jin smiled proudly in his heart, he was able to force such a handsome gentleman to such a point, and only he had this ability!

"Lord Zhao, don't forget, this official is patrolling the imperial history, and has the duty of picketing and impeaching places, and everything in the local government and yamen is within the authority of this official picket, and this official has only turned over a few pages of account books, Lord Zhao is so angry and ruined, are you cowardly or weak-hearted?" Zhang Jin sneered triumphantly.

"Xia Guan is probably a thief!" Pang Xiude said majestically on the side.

Seeing these two villains singing and playing double reeds in front of him, Zhao Honglang couldn't wait to step forward and slap these two guys a few times, but he silently recited three times in his heart, "Only women and villains are difficult to raise, and after that, they magically calmed down!" ”

"County Lieutenant Pang, shut your dog's mouth, Shangguan speaks, you don't have to intervene!" Zhao Honglang took a sip of herbal tea, and reprimanded with a face in his heart.

"You!" Pang Xiude's face turned dark, and in broad daylight, he was scolded as a dog, which made the arrogant Pang Xiude unbearable.

"Huge man, you go out first, and I'll take care of the things here!" Zhang Jin stopped Pang Xiude, who was about to fight back, and said expressionlessly.

Pang Xiude, who was stopped by Zhang Jin, looked at Zhao Honglang unwillingly, and found that people didn't look at him at all, and kept looking up at the beams of the house, which made him even more angry and had nowhere to spill it, so he had to retreat with hatred.

"Hmph, shameless villain!" Looking at Pang Xiude's back, Zhao Honglang couldn't help but scold angrily.

Zhang Jin smiled noncommittally, he didn't look down on this Pang Xiude, although he himself was not a good bird, but at present, Pang Xiude was still useful to him, it was a knife, a knife that could cut down Zhao Honglang.

"No matter how villain you are, you Lord Zhao don't have a chance to move him, maybe he is the next county magistrate of Cangsong County after you. Okay, let's get down to business. Lord Zhao, do you have any reasonable explanation for this unclear miscellaneous tax account? If not, don't blame the official for being selfless and ignoring the feelings of his classmates! Zhang Jin found a seat and sat down by himself, and said proudly with Erlang's legs crossed.

"If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, Zhang Jin, what you said, if you can't come up with evidence, this lawsuit will hit Yanjing, I won't be afraid of you, I must tell you about this matter!" Zhao Honglang said without fear.

Zhang Jin looked at Zhao Honglang with pity, and smiled: "Old classmate, old classmate, I said that you are confused as an official, who do you think you are?" A small seven-pin county order, what qualifications does he have to enter Yanjing to fight a lawsuit, if everyone is like you, my Dahua will not be messed up? Okay, okay, I've basically found out, you have been in Cangsong County for so many years, and you have been in chaos under your rule, and the taxes are a mess, and you are a county magistrate who can't escape the guilt. In this way, for the sake of classmates, you clean up by yourself, go back to your hometown as soon as possible to farm, I will help you say a few good words from the Inspectorate, and I will not hold you responsible! ”