Chapter 61: The White Bone Spirit (13)
At dawn, Wang Quanle and Wang Zhifu woke up from their sleep. After the prefect finished washing up, he sat at the dinner table, and the events of last night were naturally recalled. Compared with the gorgeousness and richness of the Luoyang water seat, the breakfast at home is so bland that it makes people feel nothing. But at the dinner table of Luoyang Water Seat, You Yong, the director of the tax bureau, actually dared not to give him the face of the prefect in public, and the anger caused by the humiliation at that time was now churning vividly in the heart of the prefect Wang again.
Eating fried dough sticks slowly, Wang Zhifu was thinking about how to clean up You Yong. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that he didn't seem to have a special solution. The Great Song Dynasty system traditionally adopted the method of 'mixing different theories and mixing large and small'. The prefect of Luoyang is the highest magistrate in Luoyang, but he has no authority to arbitrarily follow his wishes. The power to appoint and dismiss officials rests with the Ministry of Officials, which is now the Organization Department.
If this is the case, the prefect still has a lot of power over the personnel evaluation of subordinates. Before Zhao Jiaren came to power, the country's tax system was to collect taxes locally and hand them over to the imperial court. The tax collector was just a tax collector back then, and at most he was a local snake. The prefect had many ways to deal with the petty officials.
The current tax bureau is no longer simply a local government department that collects taxes, but an 'expatriate unit' of the new China tax bureau. In other words, the tax bureau was theoretically directly under the authority of the National Taxation Bureau of the imperial court. If the prefect of Luoyang wants to move the tax director, he can either persuade the State Taxation Bureau of the imperial court to order his dismissal, or catch the tax director You Yong for corruption and bend the law, and get rid of You Yong through the supervision department.
The National Taxation Bureau of the imperial court has no reason to show favor to the prefect of Luoyang, as for exposing You Yong's corruption and perversion ......of the law, the prefect Wang thought of Ma Qingchang's invitation to eat and drink in recent years, and all kinds of filial piety. In this way, according to the law promulgated by the Zhao official family, the prefect of Wang has already broken the law. Just accepting gifts from subordinates can already be legally dismissed.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhifu took a bite of the fritters fiercely and put aside the idea of dealing with You Yong for the time being. It's really short of hands and soft mouths. Eating and drinking on weekdays is comfortable and comfortable. Drinking depends on delivery, smoking depends on supply, wages are basically not used, and wives are basically not moved. That's really fun. The benefits and psychological satisfaction brought by the status made the prefect feel the superiority of being an official. But at the critical moment, these things turned into shackles, so that the prefect had to do something he didn't actually want to do.
You Yong is a slippery official, and it seems that he has done things without leaving a trace in the past few years. Everyone's buttocks are not clean, if the method of denunciation is adopted, maybe You Yongyu will fight back.
After eating, the prefect Wang had already made up his mind not to interfere in this matter anymore. He, Wang Quanle, is not an immortal, nor is he an official, so he doesn't care about anything where he has so much power. Ma Qingchang stabbed the basket, and let Ma Qingchang resist by himself.
Although this decision was made, Wang Zhifu was still unhappy when he went out. Ma Qingchang's face is not important, but the prefect of the king still wants to save face. There were also many officials who participated in the banquet yesterday, and these people saw Wang Quanle appear in person, and then he was slapped in the face in public. If he can't get back to the field, Wang Quanle will be underestimated in the future.
Sitting in the carriage, Wang Quanle thought about how to get back face if things didn't work out. After thinking about it, he had to face a character he didn't want to face. In Zhao Jiaren's system, the senior of the school took over the role of the former chamberlain and played the role of supervision. If you want You Yong to change his mind, Wang Quanle can't do it himself, but Hong Nanfeng, the senior of the tax bureau, can.
But thinking of Hong Nanfeng, Wang Quanle felt a pain in his brain. This Hong Nanfeng is an official from a military background, and like similar officials, they are from ordinary humble backgrounds, have gone to school, but do not read the Four Books and Five Classics. Just to learn the teachings of the school led by the Zhao official family, as well as the so-called 'scientific knowledge'. Therefore, the military upstarts take the Zhao official family as their backing, and they are extremely rude and barbaric, and the rules of the so-called officialdom are never looked at.
You Yong is a slippery official, and if it were him, he would probably not completely lose face to the prefect of Wang. This time, the matter was difficult to clean up, and it was because Hong Nanfeng had already ordered the tax police to be dispatched that You Yong dared to publicly not give face. If something happens, there is You Yong to stand up.
It's already very difficult to deal with You Yong, but there is still a way. But no matter what Wang Quanle thought, he couldn't find a way to solve Hong Nanfeng by himself. As the senior of the Great Song Society, the disposal must be approved by the Great Song Society. In other words, Wang Quanle had to sort out excellent materials and publicly complained to the Great Song Society about Hong Nanfeng.
The Great Song Society was led by the Zhao official family. What kind of character is Zhao Guanjia? It was a Jinshi emperor on horseback, who ruled the army on horseback and the people on horseback. With his intelligence and experience, how could he not see Wang Quanle's selfishness. It is not much different from Hong Nanfeng's public decision to live and die, and political suicide.
Thinking of this, Wang Quanle and the prefect of Wang slammed his fist on the seat of the new carriage issued to the prefect by the imperial court. The saddle is a brown pad, with moderate hardness and softness, and this punch goes up, although the fist hurts a little, but it doesn't hurt particularly well.
Wang Quanle couldn't enjoy one punch, and punched several more punches. The dignified prefect of Luoyang is unexpectedly constrained everywhere in Luoyang City, and there is no way to call for wind and rain. It really doesn't make sense!
With an angry mood, he arrived at the yamen, and just a few minutes after sitting down, the secretary came in to report, "Prefect, Director Ma asks to see you." ”
"Nope!" Wang Quanle said angrily.
The secretary knew Wang Quanle's mood, and he said in a gentler voice: "Prefect, Director Ma said that if the tax bureau is so hard, I am afraid that it will cause a civil uprising." If the imperial court knew about this, I was afraid that it would be blamed. ”
When Wang Quanle heard this, he laughed angrily: "Haha! You go and tell Ma Qingchang, I want to see what kind of civil uprising there will be. If there is really a disturbance among the people, it is not wrong to be afraid that the tax bureau will dispatch the tax police! ”
When the secretary heard such a vicious speech, he didn't dare to say anything more and withdrew. Wang Quanle only felt that the anger went straight to his head, he couldn't move the tax bureau, and a pickled director of the Civil Affairs Bureau dared to come out and talk crookedly, did anyone dare to bully Wang Quanle?
In anger, a thought suddenly flashed through Wang Quanle's mind. The original angry smile disappeared, and after a while, it turned into a somewhat smug sneer. Although the civil revolt is not good, the popular revolt forced by the tax police may not be. If there is a large-scale conflict, the tax police will have to be held responsible.
Destruction of river crabs, bloody clashes. Can the tax police get out so cleanly? It's just that you can't play 50 boards each, at least you can play 20 boards of tax police. Isn't there anything wrong with the tax police for such a big thing? As long as there is a little difference, Wang Quanle will have an excuse to ask You Yong, Hong Nanfeng and others to be transferred. In the officialdom, getting rid of You Yong and Hong Nanfeng is equivalent to Wang Quanle's victory.
Thinking of this, Wang Quanle swept the depression in his chest and felt that he had a direction. Diao Min and Diao officials died together, and a good official like Wang Quanle could live freely. If all those military upstarts who were born in the army are finished, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to make a positive dynasty. Let the Diao officials and the Diao people die together.
Picking up the pen, Wang Quanle and Wang Zhifu wrote a letter to his former boss. From the perspective of political factions, Wang Quanle was born in Wen Tianxiang's line. Before Prime Minister Wen went to Fuzhou, he had organized a rebel army to resist the Mongol army, and his old boss had already followed Wen Tianxiang at that time. At this time, it is good to ventilate the old boss first and let him be prepared.
At the beginning of the letter, Wang Quanle introduced the situation of the old boss's son as an official in Luoyang in a respectful tone, and told how Wang Quanle took care of and cultivated the old boss's son.
Just when the prefect of Wang tried his best to write a letter with words and feelings, Ma Qingchang also listened to the message brought out by the secretary. Director Ma didn't know Wang Quanle's thoughts of the Wang Governor's Mansion, but from the news brought out by the secretary, he knew that the Wang Governor's Mansion was going to abandon Ma Qingchang.
Ma Qingchang asked the secretary to find a way to make Wang Quanle change his mind, but the secretary refused with an embarrassed expression. None of them are fools, and they have already seen that something is about to happen. Will a village that dares to beat up an officer of the tax bureau bow down to the tax police when it is confronted? At least I haven't heard of it in years.
It was not possible to find Wang Quanle, Ma Qingchang could only leave and return to the Civil Affairs Bureau where he was located. Hu Tiefei, director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, did not refuse to see Ma Qingchang like Wang Quanle. He even listened to Ma Qingchang's request. After Ma Qingchang finished speaking, Hu Tiefei sighed: "Director Ma, I don't think you are too much." Do you have to be strong in the affairs of your villages? The folks in the countryside always have to think more about you. ”
Ma Qingchang laughed dryly, "Hehe, Director Hu, you are the villagers in the township, and they have all experienced it in the war." Director Hu, you are from Fujian and have never experienced war. You don't know how badly Luoyang was killed back then, after the official army conquered Luoyang City, they began to slaughter the city, killing half of the people in the city. As for the outside of the city, the Mongols burned, killed and looted. I'm afraid that the rest of the population is not half of it. Everyone has supported them so many years, I really can't say that I don't care about them, I don't care about them. ”
Hearing this, Director Hu sighed. He is a native of Fujian, and it is true that he has never experienced war. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Director Hu's family was from Kaifeng. When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, Director Hu's family moved south. After the Zhao family recovered Kaifeng, Director Hu's family moved back to their hometown in Henan. In Fujian, there are many people and little land, and there is a lot of land to cultivate in Henan's hometown. Originally, Director Hu just felt that Fujian had no future, so he persuaded the family to relocate. Unexpectedly, Zhao Guan's family decisively moved the capital back to Kaifeng, and he became a native of the capital by mistake.
After returning to Kaifeng, the locals in Henan described the tragic situation to their new neighbors, and Director Hu was a little hairstanding. In all the stories there is the same content, the Great Song showed no mercy to the Mongols and did not think at all about leaving prisoners. As for non-Han Chinese, the Zhao Guanjia is even more ruthless. The corpses that were killed were like mountains and rivers of blood.
Therefore, Director Hu still respects Ma Qingchang for taking care of the villagers so much, and the people who have experienced the bloody wind and rain are naturally closer. But Director Hu couldn't help but persuade in the end: "Director Ma, if you should let go, you have to let go." You can't take care of them for the rest of your life. Besides, they did something wrong this time too. ”
Ma Qingchang immediately hit the snake with the stick, and he begged: "Director Hu, I just want to ask you to come forward to help tell the tax bureau a message, and I am willing to persuade the village to hand over the murderer, and I only ask the tax police not to send it." ”
"If I just brought a letter, I could still do it." Director Hu agreed. Then he asked, "You have to make this clear in a few days." ”
"Can you ...... Losing some money? Ma Qingchang said his true psychological bottom line. Those villages did not pay taxes, so Ma Qingchang could get a steady stream of money from this trade by monopolizing the export of grain from the True God Sect villages. And what Ma Qingchang has to do is just to help those True God Cults continue to expand their lands. It would be great if it could break the bank. The current situation is the foundation of Ma Qingchang's continuous money, and maintaining the current situation is equivalent to maintaining Ma Qingchang's money.
"Then you explain both to me." Director Hu said by helping people to the end.
After getting Ma Qingchang's explanation, Director Hu went to the tax bureau. You Yong had already finished the regular meeting at this time, and the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau came to visit, of course, he couldn't help but see it. The two sat down to exchange pleasantries, and then moved on to the subject. You Yong listened to Director Hu's intentions, and said bluntly: "Director Hu, this matter is no longer in my hands. Senior Hong had already ordered the tax police to prepare for dispatch and sent a telegram to the IRS. I'm the director alone, what can I do. I can only look at Senior Hong. ”
"Can't you persuade?" Director Hu asked.
You Yong shook his head again and again, "It's not that I don't want to persuade." Senior Hong has decided to severely punish Diao Min who does not pay taxes according to the system, and I can't help but support him. ”
After listening to this, Director Hu also felt that it made sense. Ma Qingchang came forward for the villagers for the sake of friendship, and You Yong supported the personnel of the same department for the sake of political ethics. Putting aside the opposing angles, the two sides actually have the same true temperament. This made Director Hu sigh, "Alas! Then I'll not say anything. ”
"Do you want to meet Senior Hong?" You Yong asked.
Director Hu shook his head, "Senior Hong's temper, I will probably only be read by him after I see it." ”
You Yong has been read by Senior Hong many times, he simply didn't say anything, just nodded. The people who came out of the school club were so violent, not only the people in their own department were afraid, but also the people in the outside department.
Senior Hong didn't know that others were arranging him in his heart, and his attention was all on intelligence gathering. The more information there is here, the more serious Mr. Hong's mood becomes. These villages are all members of the True God Cult, and during the Mongol period, they developed from small villages to large villages, and were deeply trusted by the Mongols.
The Great Song Dynasty recaptured Luoyang, but this big village continued to develop, and it never paid taxes. This in itself proves that this place is not ordinary.
After posting the leave request, I felt very relaxed. When I was in a relaxed mood, I couldn't help but write. Write this, and send it. It's really not that I want to backtrack, I just can't help it.