Chapter 288: Capable Officials
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Among the county guards of Zhuo County. Li Chongjiu and Wei Zheng sat opposite each other, with a pot of plum wine in the middle and a reed mat underneath. Seeing each other again, in Li Chongjiu's eyes, Wei Zheng still gave him a rather strict feeling, not smiling, and a sense of not being angry and arrogant.
Wei Zheng took the lead in saying: "Duke Wei asked me to assist Li Envoy Jun here, and if there is anyone in Wei who can be worthy of being sent by Envoy Jun in the future, please ask Envoy Jun to give orders." β
Li Chongjiu smiled and said: "It's okay, I have appreciated Brother Wei for a long time, since this is the case, I will boldly ask Brother Wei, although the land of Youzhou is not big, but it is also an important place for the imperial court. β
Wei Zheng pinched his beard and said: "Make the king, the chaos is easy to cure, and the hungry are easy to eat." As long as Li Yuanjun has the heart of loving the people, let the local cultivation and recuperate, and do not fight, Youzhou can return to the old view within a few years. β
After Li Chongjiu heard this, he smiled and asked: "The people are easy to govern, but it is difficult to clear the rats, the scholars of Zhuo County steal the granary, sell the grain and rice, in order to seek personal gain, and privately set up dams in the upper reaches of the river, for their own selfishness, and cut off the river, the people on both sides of the river can not cultivate the fields, but also hide the population, suppress the field endowment, and guide the emptiness of my treasury, which is a big disadvantage." β
Wei Zheng said: "Make Jun, the Youzhou Shi clan since the Han Dynasty, has been hundreds of years, has long been deeply rooted in the local area, on the flesh and blood are connected in the texture, can not be dissected, the current Youzhou, the war is peaceful, like a person infected with scabies, under a serious illness, it is not easy to take strong medicine, it needs to be slowly supplemented, and after the body is healthy, so that Jun will try to seek after-effects." β
Li Chongjiu showed a look of deep approval, but said: "Having said that, how can you bear it now? β
Wei Zheng arched his hand and said: "The ambition of a certain envoy is not a city and a place in Youzhou, and now the Youzhou scholars cannot be attached, but the power of the envoy is not enough to convince them." A certain JianyΓ¬ made the monarch collect grain and grass widely, train elite soldiers, recruit leaders from the poor and merchants, encourage farming and warfare among the people, and never be the king until there is no victory. β
"After the four battles of expanding the land, subduing Di Yi and accumulating military merits, Qin was a barbarian country in the past, but the sixth generation can win the world, so that the king must not be in a hurry."
Li Chongjiu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said with a smile: "Brother Wei, why do you say that I have the ambition to be the king, I am now under the banner of Duke Wei." You are also a courtier of the Duke of Wei. β
Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "In terms of quality, Wei Gong is a genius in the sky, in less than two years, from the place of despair, to now he has an army of 500,000, one-third of the world. I, Wei, have rarely been convinced in my life, but Wei Gong is the only one. Wei Gongshi is Cao Cao, Sun Zhongmou's general hero. β
But the more talented people are, the more unwilling they are to accept advice, and Wei Gong is self-reliant and refuses to listen to the opinions of others. And when I was in the Wei Mansion, I gave ten suggestions to the Wei Gong, but they were all refuted by the Wei Gong, so I understood that the Wei Mansion was not the place where I Wei Zheng was the director. To tell the truth, I came to Youzhou to ask Duke Wei for my life. Because I think that although Li Yuanjun is not as good as Wei Gong, he is a person who is willing to accept advice with an open mind, so Wei's talents can be displayed to the greatest extent in Youzhou. β
I'm not as good as Li Mi. When Li Chongjiu heard this, he inevitably felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, where did anyone say this to his face, but he was relieved to think about it, and saw that Wei Zheng was really a straightforward person. It seems that this famous minister in history, although he changed his lord five times, is also to find a monarch who can display his ambitions.
Li Chongjiu smiled, threw away a little mustard just a little mustard, and said: "I don't know if I can let Brother Wei be in Youzhou, I don't know if I have ambitions, but Brother Wei is definitely a person who can be honest with each other, since this is the case, I will entrust Zhuojun to Brother Wei." β
When Wei Zheng heard this, he got up and bowed to Li Chongjiu with the courtesy of a scholar.
Li Chongjiu sat on the chair and accepted it calmly, then got up and helped Wei Zheng up, and said: "Brother Wei and I are both from poor families, you were a Taoist priest back then, and I also entered the Buddhist temple, now we must work together." β
"No." Wei Zheng's old-fashioned face finally showed a hint of discoloration.
After the scholars of Zhuo County lost their sincerity to Li Mi, the officials of Zhuo County also began to return to the government, and the county government was on duty, and Zhuo County returned to the old view.
Li Chongjiu immediately announced to everyone that Ren Wei Zheng was the magistrate of Zhuo County, and before that, the county was killed by Luo Yi, Li Chongjiu vacant the county and kept the second position, so he became the highest civil official in the county.
The officials of the Youzhou scholar clan inquired about Wei Zheng's background, and heard that although the other party was born as a small official, he had also been a Taoist priest before, and he was also from a poor family in another county, so they couldn't help but slander him. However, they didn't take their grievances out on Li Chongjiu's head this time, because they all knew that Wei Zheng was Li Mi's person, and Li Chongjiu couldn't use it in order to give Li Mi face.
Li Chongjiu faked the history of Youzhou Thorn, and basically didn't care about the affairs of Zhuo County, so Wei Zheng, as the highest civil official of Zhuo County, began to govern the affairs of a county.
The local officials were dissatisfied, and began to bully at this time, although they thought that Wei Zheng's background was not small, but Li Mi was thousands of miles away, and he had to be embarrassed a little.
At present, in the county guard's mansion, the six Cao divisions have accumulated over the years, and hundreds of volumes of cases are stacked like mountains, and they are placed in the case for Wei Zheng to deal with, which is to watch Wei Zheng's joke. As a result, Wei Zheng finished reading all the cases in one day and one night, and immediately called the six Cao officials together to deal with them one by one.
For a while, the officials of Zhuo County were shocked, and Wei Zheng's name also spread to the entire Zhuo County officialdom, everyone knew that Shangguan was powerful, Wei Zheng was an absolute capable official, and at the moment the officials restrained their hands and feet, and no one dared to cross the rules for a while.
In the county guard's mansion, Lu Chengqing, the county commander, sat on the side, and was secretly surprised to see that Wei Zheng handled the copywriting so competently, as if he had been practicing in the yamen for decades.
As the county Sima, Lu Chengqing is going to be the deputy of Changshi, and he is also the second person in the current civil officials of Zhuo County. When Li Chongjiu recruited him as an official, Lu Chengqing hesitated for a while, and then asked his uncle Lu Ziqian for instructions.
Lu Ziqian just said seven words to him lightly: 'Since you come, you will be safe'.
Lu Chengqing got his uncle's will, so he went to the county guard's mansion to take up his post. For the scholars, the stage from the white body to the official is called Shi Brown. The children of the Shi clan are also divided into 369 and so on, such as Lu Chengqing, Fan Yang, and the Shi clan from the Lu family, who is a county Sima, for him, he is absolutely worthy of the identity of the Lu family.
Lu Chengqing saw along the way, in the county guard's mansion, the officials of Zhuo County walked like the wind, and they were in a hurry as if they had found a fire at home.
When several officials met, they asked, where are you leaving the file that Wei Changshi wanted?
I can't find it, but it's going to be fined.
It's okay to forget the fine, but I'm afraid of being scolded by the rod.
All the officials did not stop.
When Lu Chengqing saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little afraid of this colleague who was going to work with him in the future, and when he stayed in the Changshi room, he saw more than a dozen officials lining up inside and outside Wei Zheng's table.
And Wei Zheng put pen to paper, after reading an official document, he hastily glanced at ten lines, wrote the dragon and snake, judged it, and then threw it, and the officials who were dealt with read the approval document, all of them were impressed, without a trace of dissatisfaction.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen officials in the world were immediately sweating profusely and were beaten clean by Wei Zheng, and only then did Wei Zheng pick up the teacup and take a sip of tea.
Lu Chengqing coughed lightly and said to Wei Zheng: "It is Lu Chengqing, the county commander, who has seen Wei Changshi. β
Wei Zheng raised his head and glanced at Lu Chengqing, Lu Chengqing only felt that Wei Zheng's eyes were like knives, as if they were scraping on himself.
Wei Zheng asked at the moment: "It's okay, the county government is busy, it's good to have Lu Sima to share my worries, but I don't know where Lu Sima is good at?" What is the name of the sentence? Taxes? Teachings? β
Lu Chengqing was sweating profusely when he heard this, he had been busy studying in the house in the past few years, but although he was not ignorant of local governance, he was not proficient.
Wei Zheng saw Lu Chengqing's embarrassment, and he didn't reveal it, he muttered for a while, and said: "This year's local township ceremony drinking is coming soon, how about you come forward as the abbot of Wuzhuo County?" β
Lu Chengqing was overjoyed when he heard about the township ritual drinking, this township ritual drinking, is every year, the township doctor recommends the virtuous people to the imperial court, and drinks with them in the township school, and treats them as guests.
This is from ancient times, a kind of banquet and drinking custom of the Han people, when drinking the banquet, sixty people sit, fifty people stand to listen to the political service, so Ming respects the elder also, this is the Han people pay the most attention to the order of the ceremony. Confucius once said that I look at the hometown, and I know how easy it is to know the royal road. It's about drinking at the village ceremony.
Of course, the so-called village ritual drinking must be presided over by an official, usually the local official of the seal. And Lu Chengqing participates in such a banquet every year, and when the local celebrities are drinking, they will recommend the children of the scholars who have not yet been out of the ranks to the local officials, and they are familiar with each other, which can be regarded as a preparation before the ceremony of discussing talents in one county and one township.
Lu Chengqing promised at the moment and said: "I will do my best." β
Wei Zheng said: "A certain thing has always been a public judge, although you are from a famous family, but in my Wei Zheng's eyes, there is no second-class scholar family, you need to do things solidly, if you do well, I will not praise you, but if you do not do well, I will scold, if you are dissatisfied with me, you can speak to me, or report to the envoy, I have no objection." β
Lu Chengqing listened to this, although Wei Zheng said this with an iron face and selflessness, but for him, it had a different feeling. In the past, others would only regard themselves as the eldest young master of the Lu family, and they would be very respectful to themselves, but now he is also an official of a county.
Hearing Wei Zheng say this, there was a feeling that he was trying his best to do things, and now he was not the eldest young master of the Lu family, but the county Sima of Zhuo County. At that moment, Lu Chengqing took the order and left. Wei Zheng couldn't help but nod secretly when he saw Lu Chengqing's footsteps. (To be continued.) )