Chapter 16 Pushing officials to dredge the ditch
Ye Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a while, I am the magistrate of the Criminal Hall, how can it be my turn to dig a canal and repair a sewer? Zhang Fatzi is a person who has no idea, as soon as he heard Yu Junting mention yƬ, he immediately felt that Ye Xiaotian was a very suitable candidate, so he said: "Ye Tuiguan ......"
Ye Xiaotian reacted, hurriedly got up and said, "My lord, the lower official is the seal of the torture hall, I'm afraid it will ......."
Yu Junting's black and white handsome eyes squinted at him, and said with a smile: "Ye Tuiguan has been very idle recently, can't he share his worries for the prefect?" ā
"Uh......"
Ye Xiaotian really wanted to say that he was indeed very busy with his conscience, but this little demon girl was very rude, what if she had to let herself hand over the first complaint she undertook? So far, only one Tushe has come to complain, and he has not handed over the complaint because Pu Jie was killed......
In desperation, Ye Xiaotian had no choice but to pinch his nose and admit it, bowed his head and said: "Yes, then, please leave the matter of dredging the river to the lower officials." ā
Zhang Fatzi turned his anger into joy, and praised him: "Ye Tuiguan is young and promising, shrewd and capable, and he will definitely not live up to the trust of the government, I can rest assured that you will do things." ā
Ye Xiaotian was speechless.
Zhang Fatzi agreed on this matter, so that he could avoid the noise of his relatives looking for him, so he went back to the inner house with satisfaction, and a master stepped forward for him, greeted Ye Xiaotian with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Ye Tuiguan, most of the people living in the area of Xicheng are the family of Lord Fuzun, you know, hehe......"
As soon as the master left, Dai Tongzhi came up again, smiled warmly at Ye Xiaotian, and said: "The water in front of this official mansion is very deep, and it is very inconvenient to enter and exit, you know, hehe......"
As soon as Dai Tongzhi walked away, the state judge Yulong came over again and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Ye Tuiguan." This official lives in Anlan Lane in the south of the city, you ......"
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly nodded and said, "I understand, I understand!" ā
The son can be taught, Yuzhou Judge smiled and left, Li Shi came up again, put his arm on Ye Xiaotian's shoulder, and said affectionately: "Brother Xian, my father-in-law's family lives on the street, my family lives at the end of the street, you know where my family lives." I don't have to tell you anything, brother, anyway, you know. ā
Ye Xiaotian was speechless again.
Along the way, those who knew and those who didn't know, those who were higher than him, and those who were lower than him, stepped forward to say hello one after another, Ye Xiaotian vaguely agreed one by one, and when he returned to the execution hall and sat down, he was already dazed, Li Qiuchi slipped over like a yellow croaker and asked, "Dong Weng." What's the important matter with the prefect's summons? ā
Ye Xiaotian thought that he had a promoter and ran to dig a ditch to control the river, and he still had a little unreal feeling for a while, so he said a little confused: "Today's heavy rain has caused waterlogging in many places in the city. The prefect decided to allocate funds to clear the stasis and dredge the river, saying that our criminal department was not busy with affairs, so he handed it over to our criminal department. ā
Li Qiuchi frowned at first, and then said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if he is in his part or not." It's better to do something than to do nothing. Besides, this incident may not be an opportunity for Dong Weng to forge relations with other officials. Hehe, I don't know how much the prefect is going to allocate funds? ā
Ye Xiaotian frowned. Trying to recall: "Well, ......, it seems that two hundred taels of silver will be allocated, and it will be exchanged in turns, and three hundred people will be levied for each allocation of labor." ā
Li Qiuchi rolled his eyes and thought about it, then turned around and walked out, Ye Xiaotian had no experience in municipal construction, and was thinking hard about how to start, Li Qiuchi walked back with an abacus, which he borrowed from Huke.
Li Qiuchi, as a master, has a desk on the left side of Ye Xiaotian's public case, Li Qiuchi put the abacus on the table, and began to crackle the abacus, while planning to make the plate, he also recited the words: "According to other practices, a city the size of my Tongren, it will take about two years for the whole city to be cleared, and the construction will be carried out in sections, and if you employ 300 people a day, it will be calculated as ...... 219,000 ......"
Ye Xiaotian looked at him curiously, not knowing what this master was going to do, but ...... Master Li's abacus is really good, and the crackling sounds quite rhythmic, it seems that Li Daxiang is quite competent if he goes to be an account office.
Li Qiuchi continued: "The current market price is two stone rice and one tael of silver, and two hundred taels of silver can buy four hundred stone rice, and if four hundred stone rice is four, the per capita daily grain rice is about three taels ......."
Li Qiuchi's brows frowned, at that time, one tael was about equal to thirty-seven grams in modern times, that is to say, if the people who were in labor brought their own tools, and the government was only responsible for eating, these laborers would only have about 100 grams of rice per person per day, and this bit of rice porridge had to be boiled a little thin to survive three meals a day, not to mention that the government could not only be responsible for eating, mules and horses, vehicles, and repairs of damaged tools, these are all money.
Ye Xiaotian had already frowned when he heard this, the two glanced at each other, and invariably spoke.
Li Qiuchi said: "Such a little money......"
Ye Xiaotian said: "It's been so long......"
Li Qiuchi shook his head and said: "Dong Weng, time is not a problem, the most difficult thing is the initial arrangement and scheduling, once it is determined, the adults only need to arrange a few small officials to be responsible, and they don't have to do it themselves. ā
Ye Xiaotian jumped up and said: "What Mr. said is very true, what to do without money, I will go to Lord Fuzun to ask for silver!" ā
Ye Xiaotian left in a hurry, and came back in a daze after only half an hour, Li Qiuchi asked, "How much silver is Dong Weng asking for?" ā
Ye Xiaotian grinned like a toothache, and said: "The prefect is an iron rooster, it is very difficult to pluck his hair, this matter will be talked about later, you first go to the engineering department to ask for the drawings of the underground culvert in the city, and we will study and study it." ā
Li Qiuchi said with a bitter face: "Dong Weng, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice!" ā
Ye Xiaotian's consistent thought is that when he is a monk for a day, he must hit the bell for a day, and he must hit the bell seriously. In a modern philosophical saying, "Life is like being forced. Rape, if you can't resist, just enjoy it! So he said: "There is no rice, let's conjure rice for him, that's called ability." As an official, you are not afraid of having a hard worker, but you are afraid that there is no messenger, let's go all out! ā
Early in the morning, Ye Xiaotian's first business as a promoter finally officially opened, Li Qiuchi really secretly encouraged some people with old cases to sue these days, but in view of the fact that the last trial of the murder case of the Dai and Zhang families was not resolved, for the sake of prudence, Li Qiuchi did not seek merit this time, but sought no fault, and hoped that this first case would be handled cleanly and neatly. So I found a case with a very clear cause of action.
This case is not difficult to judge, the bitter lord has also handed over the case to the yamen before, but how can the official in Haiyu pay attention to this kind of thing, he was still a very playful teenager at that time, and the letter was handed over and sank into the sea, and there was no response at all.
You must know that this Tongren Mansion is different from Huxian, most of the officials here are local officials, although after more than 100 years of infiltration, there are now a large number of officials, which can be regarded as a mixture of officials and local officials. However, they are one government and two systems, and local officials do not need to be evaluated by the imperial court.
When Yu Tuiguan was in office, since there was no need for evaluation, who would pay attention to whether this case could be handled or not. Today's Ye Xiaotian is different, he is also an official in Tongren Mansion, and the imperial court's examination method has an impact on his promotion, appointment and dismissal, so he naturally has to be more diligent in accepting cases.
Ye Xiaotian summoned the defendant, and the original defendant confronted him in court. Li Qiuchi had already made all the preparations in advance, and the human and material evidence was adjusted quickly and accurately, so that Ye Xiaotian fully expressed the majesty of the Qingtian Lord, and an old backlog case was actually tried on the same day that he received the complaint. The officials of the Punishment Hall who did not know what to do were surprised.
In the afternoon, Ye Xiaotian changed into regular clothes and left the torture hall with Li Qiuchi.
Ye Xiaotian carried the drawings that Li Qiuchi asked for from the engineering department, and took them out from time to time to take a look. From time to time, he walked with Li Qiuchi for a while, and from time to time he stood in front of the pit full of dirty water and pointed at it, and the guests and hosts showed a wicked smile. I don't know what I'm discussing.
Early the next morning, Ye Xiaotian summoned a cadre and subordinate officials of the Torture Department to start distributing the stasis removal project. According to the map of the city's water canals provided by the engineering department, Ye Xiaotian asked the painter in the yamen who was responsible for painting shadow graphics to draw a large wall chart for him, and hung it above the public court.
Ye Xiaotian pointed to the drawings and said: "Hua Experience, you go to Huke to ask for the roster of serving migrant workers, and allow you to have a hundred laborers, and start digging ditches and clearing stasis from the intersection of Qingping Street; Jiang experience, you are the same, you are allowed to work 100 people, starting from the intersection of Taiping Street; Governor Zhang went to the household department to get back the silver and was responsible for purchasing grain. Yang Zhaoma, you write a few notices and post them in the streets and alleys, preaching the kindness of the prefect......"
Qingping Street, Qinglang Street, Taiping Street three streets and six lanes, the most prosperous place started at the same time, all from the intersection of excavation, precipitation of hundreds of years of sludge all dug out, exposed to the river on both sides of the river, a moment of stinking.
Immediately, a notice from the torture hall was also posted, trumpeting the good governance of the prefect. Many merchants were also affected by heavy rains, and it was a great thing to be able to clear stasis and dredge, so although it caused temporary inconvenience, the number of customers also decreased significantly, and the merchants were also very understanding.
Early in the morning of the third day, the staff master next to the prefect entered the torture hall with a calm face, and when he saw Ye Xiaotian, he sneered: "Ye Tuiguan is a liuguan appointed by the imperial court, and our prefect is the local prefect, presumably Ye Tuiguan doesn't take my family in his eyes!" ā
Ye Xiaotian said in surprise: "Why did Mr. say this, this official has always respected Lord Fuzun, and An dare to be disrespectful in the slightest?" ā
The master sneered, "Really? Qiao had already greeted you in advance, saying that the area around Xicheng lived in the prefect's own house, but now he started to clear the stasis from the place where the merchants of the third street and six lanes lived, this is not to despise my family, what is it! ā
Ye Xiaotian was taken aback and said, "Where do you start with this, Mr. Qiao, you misunderstood the official, the official is obviously ......, Mr. Li, Mr. Li!" Come over to me! ā
Ye Xiaotian summoned Li Qiuchi to the front and asked viciously: "This official entrusted you with all the matter of clearing stasis, you say, where did you start clearing stasis?" ā
Li Qiuchi said blankly: "Didn't the adults tell you to start from the most important place, the students want to come, the three streets and six lanes are the place where Tongren's wealth gathers, and it should be the most important, so ......"
Ye Xiaotian was furious and patted the case: "Didn't I tell you that you have to clean up from the west first?" ā
Li Qiuchi continued to say blankly: "Yes, the students started to clean up from west to east!" ā
Ye Xiaotian was furious, his hands clenched into fists, and he held them high in the air: "When I say West, I mean Xicheng!" Xicheng, understand? You are also a master, and Mr. Qiao is also a master, why is the gap so big, you are too worry-free, do you have to tell me everything thoroughly? ā
Li Qiuchi's face was full of shame and resignation. Ye Xiaotian shouted loudly: "You go, stop work elsewhere immediately, and start to clear the stasis from Xicheng first, it's really unreasonable!" ā
Li Qiuchi hurriedly agreed to retreat, and Ye Xiaotian said to Master Qiao with a pleasant face: "It's really ashamed that the lower officials are negligent. But this is really not the original intention of the lower officials, in front of Lord Fuzun, he also asked Mr. Qiao to say a few kind words on his behalf. To tell you the truth, this master was recommended by an acquaintance, and he was retained because of his feelings, where can he be a wise man like Mr. Qiao. ā
Master Qiao's face paleated slightly, and he snorted lightly, and said: "That's it, Mubin George, you also need to be experienced, I see that your master is still very young, and it is inevitable that you don't know the importance of doing things, you don't have to be too harsh, Lord Fuzun, Qiao will turn around for you." ā
Ye Xiaotian was relieved, and hurriedly thanked him: "Mr. bothered, the Japanese official must thank him for the wine, and please Mr. Qiao must appreciate the light." ā
: Double at the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass!.
(To be continued......)