Chapter Eighty-Four: We Must Take Sides

On the second day, Huo Guang went to the county government as usual with full of energy, speaking of which he was really incompetent in this Chang'an order, at least he had been in the county government for less than three days in the past half a month since he took office, and almost everything in the county government was handled by Zhang Ji, Li Ling, and Du Yannian. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair"

Of course, this also shows that Huo Guang's team makes him very worry-free, and in the words of later generations, it is an organized, disciplined, and combat-effective team.

Huo Guang went to the county government office, and Huo Quzhi was also busy with his own affairs, it seems that the matter of going to Li Yan's house to propose relatives was temporarily put on hold, and there was no preparation in the Hou Mansion.

In the past few days, the main thing in Chang'an County is of course to liquidate the assets of the city lord and wealthy households. However, what is surprising is that since Huo Guang led the army to forcibly enter the Sang family for liquidation that day, every time the county government arrived at a rich household the next day, it seemed that it was just a routine matter, and even the county officials did not count the number of chariots, horses, and slaves one by one, and directly registered the number reported by each rich family.

In fact, such a move was also instructed by Huo Guang, and after the liquidation of Sang Hongyang's family, the Chang'an County Ya implemented the liquidation of the money order and returned to routine. There are two factors in this, one is that from the next day, most of the wealthy businessmen have taken the initiative to donate a lot of property, the so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, Huo Guang can no longer arbitrarily liquidate. Second, after the first day of liquidating the Sang family, it is equivalent to giving a signal to other rich households, these families have used various means to begin to hide their assets, and now even if Huo Guang strictly enforces it, it will not have any effect.

For three whole days, Huo Guang stayed in the county office, living a standard ancient 9-to-5 work life. Huo Guang has almost done nothing in the past three days, except for the back and forth between the Hou Mansion and the county government, and has never been to the third place.

In fact, Huo Guang was waiting for the three days, waiting for the summons that might come from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but after three days, there was still no summons from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which completely made Huo Guang accept the tiger talisman with peace of mind. After more than ten days of liquidation, the liquidation of the merchants under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County has also been completed, but the liquidation accounts in front of Huo Guang, except for the first day of Sang Hongyang's family, almost every other is not detailed, it can be said that this is just a bunch of completely useless false accounts.

"My lord, Lord Shi Yizong is here, and now he is not far from the county office." Just as Huo Guang listened to Zhang Ji, Li Ling and others report on these accounts, a government official hurriedly came in to report that Yizong had arrived outside the county office.

It is not unusual for Yizong to come to Chang'an County, after all, he is an internal history, and Chang'an County is still his subordinate department, even if it is not Huo Guang to do Chang'an's order, according to the custom, Yizong will go to the county government once a month, which is considered a routine inspection. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair"

"Then come out with me to greet Lord Youneshi!" Huo Guang stood up and walked out as he spoke. No matter what the relationship between Yizong and Huo Guang is in private, this kind of superficial article in officialdom still has to work hard, this is the rule, no one can mess around.

The team of Yizong is also slowly approaching the county government, which is also the knowledge of officialdom, just like the future generations to welcome the leader, it must be the subordinates who arrived first and then the leader drove to arrive. Almost when Huo Guang led the county government officials to stand at the gate of the ya, the team of Yizong also happened to stop outside the county office.

"The lower official An ordered Huo Guang to lead the subordinate officials to meet Lord Youneshi!" Yi Zong helped the carriage to get out of the carriage, and the carriage of this era was mainly the unshed frame of the Warring States period.

"Huo County's order is exempt." Yi Zong said with a majestic expression, and there were no extra polite words.

"Right-sama, please." Huo Guangxu pointed a finger, fell half a step behind Yi Zong, and walked into the county office together.

"Huo County Order, take this official to take a look at the clearing accounts of your county government these days." Yi Zong walked into the county office and said, it seems that the main purpose of his coming to the county office today is for those false accounts.

"No, my lord, please." Huo Guang responded, and then took Yi Zong to the room where the accounts were kept. Because Huo Guang also looked through these accounts just now, most of these bamboo slips are still spread on the table.

Yi Zong walked into the house, picked up a bamboo slip and looked at it, and after a while, he seemed to read the accounts on the bamboo slip, so he gently directed it, and then picked up another book. But this time, before he could start looking, he said: "Everyone else can do their own thing, Huo Xian Ling can stay." ”

Zhang Ji and the others subconsciously glanced at Huo Guang, this clearly showed that Yizong wanted to support these people, Huo Guang estimated that Yizong had something to say, so he slightly signaled Zhang Ji, Li Ling and others to go out first.

"Xiaguan and others retire!" Zhang Ji, Li Ling and the others bowed down, and then walked out one after another, and Zhang Ji, who was the last to go out, naturally closed the door after going out.

"How credible are these accounts?" When there were only two people left in the room, Yizong and Huo Guang suddenly threw the bamboo slip in his hand, and then asked Huo Guang.

"There is no trust...... It's all fake! Huo Guang nodded slightly, his gaze happened to be intertwined with Yizong's eyes, Huo Guang replied very calmly, ignoring Yizong's questioning.

Yi Zong looked at Huo Guang's calm appearance, he looked serious at first, but he suddenly smiled, and then said in a soothing tone: "I was really worried at first, but looking at the actions of the county government in the past few days, I am too worried!" ”

Huo Guang knew from the beginning that Yizong had an attitude towards the Qian Ling, although Yizong was classified as a cool official in history, but Yizong should be regarded as an alternative among many cool officials, and Yizong also killed a lot of people for cool officials, but they were all wicked people who deserved it, and almost all of the people killed were powerful and powerful and their minions. In the final analysis, Yizong should be more like a radical official.

And Yizong's attitude towards the money order is actually not supportive, because in Yizong's view, this is undermining social stability, so in the past few years of Yizong's internal history, he has tried his best to rectify the theft of private money, but he has treated the money order negatively. This is also regarded as a political disagreement between him and Zhang Tang and others, at least Yi Zong believes that the prosperity of the country is not achieved by increasing taxes and heavy taxes, and if the businessmen are bankrupt, it will be more than worth the loss.

Huo Guang didn't know why Yi Zong was so anxious to show his intention to take refuge after he and Huo Qu returned to the court that day, in fact, it was also because Yi Zong noticed that he had a disagreement with Zhang Tang and others, and was in a hurry to find a way out for himself.

"That's it, it's a shame that there are still people in the DPRK and China who want to make a big fuss about making money worse recently, these people are really joking about the society, how can the country be rich and strong? These people should be arrested and killed! Yizong said with some righteous indignation, although Yizong did not say it explicitly, but Huo Guang also vaguely heard some rumors, that is, Tingwei Yang Ke advocated the promulgation of the 'Confession Decree', that is, to let the people report those rich families who concealed their family property and did not report and falsely reported, and distributed half of the reported property to the person who reported it.

It is obvious that Yizong is strongly opposed to this 'Confession Order', and Huo Guang has to admit that no matter what the evaluation of Yizong is in the history books, at least he still admires Yizong very much. Once this decree is implemented, it can indeed make the central government accumulate a large amount of money in a short period of time, but this also completely disintegrates the merchant class, and even makes no one in the world dare to do business anymore, and more seriously, the people will be out of control after tasting the sweetness of the confession, and the ordinary people will not be able to produce, and then form two irreconcilable opposing classes, at that time social turmoil and social instability are inevitable.

Yizong also saw this, so he strongly opposed Yang Ke's 'sue order'. However, Yang Ke not only got Zhang Tang's support, but also made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty moved, and Yizong also hoped to get Huo Guang's support when he came today. First of all, Huo Guang is the Chang'an Order, the first place to implement any decree must be Chang'an, as long as the 'Confession Order' cannot be implemented in Chang'an, then in the end it can only be abandoned halfway, and there is another important reason that getting Huo Guang's support is equivalent to getting the support of Wei Huo's relatives, and only the huge Wei Huo relatives can defeat Zhang Tang in the court today.

How Huo Guang didn't know Yizong's thoughts, in all fairness, Huo Guang was willing to stand on Yizong's side, but this was not just a simple matter of expressing one's attitude, but a real battle for governing ideas. With Huo Guang's current status and prestige, he didn't want to get involved in these battles yet, because if he lost, he would become a victim.

"The big policy of the imperial court is planned by the three princes, and the lower officials can only do their own things well. Xia Guan believes that the introduction of all policies should also be conducive to the community! Huo Guang euphemistically expressed his attitude that he could only act on orders. Although from the perspective of later generations, the order should indeed be stopped, but the situation is stronger than people!

Hearing Huo Guang's answer, Yizong was inevitably a little disappointed, and then left the county government after saying a few words that were not nutritious. Huo Guang also felt a little reluctant in his heart, but this is a power struggle, not a child's family, you can't start standing in line because you have a good impression of anyone, if you do this, you will only die miserably, and such a person is not suitable to be an official at all, and he will only die faster if he ranks in the court.

"My lord, a subordinate of the Tingwei Mansion asked to see you, saying that he came to find your lord on the order of Lord Yang Ke, the courtier!" Not long after Yizong left, when Huo Guang was still pondering alone in the room, the official came to report again.

"What is this for? After walking a righteous column, there is a Yang Ke, this is forcing me to stand in line! Huo Guang doesn't need to think about it to know what Yang Ke is looking for, the problem lies in his identity as the Chang'an Order, just like Huo Guang thought before, Yang Ke also hopes to take down himself, so that the Sue Ling can be implemented smoothly.

Strictly speaking, the position of the court lieutenant is higher than that of the internal history, and the court lieutenant mansion is still a place that all the princes and ministers are afraid of. Although he was extremely reluctant to see Yang Ke in his heart, Huo Guang had no choice but to get up and go to Tingwei's Mansion immediately.