There was a noisy noise from the public court, and the people of the Xu family made a fuss, which was too much to directly fine a thousand taels of silver without even seeing the face of Lord Zhizhou.

Seeing that there was a lot of noise over there, Chu Xia let Shi Zang go over, and it was best to leave this kind of thing to him.

Sure enough, Shi Zang didn't work for a while before he heard a scream coming from the public hall, and the noise suddenly disappeared.

Chu Xia raised the fan in his hand and said lightly: "These people who have committed crimes, it should be a matter of great gratitude to them to be able to wash away their crimes with silver. But they always lose their lives to protect their wealth, and it is a bad character to love money like their lives, but they can't get used to it. ”

"This king has always been merciful, and he will not tolerate sin when he sees blood, as long as it is not a big case, it is better to punish some silver."

Wu Tongzhi is a bit arrogant, and because of this, his relationship here is very poor. In addition, since he learned that the newly appointed Lord Zhizhou was a gentleman, he was not optimistic about him at all, and only hoped that he would have nothing to do in Hongzhou until he was transferred.

Unexpectedly, he still underestimated his skills, and just came over, and directly set the rules of buying sin with silver.

He frowned and clenched his fists and said, "My lord, I'm afraid this is inappropriate." ”

"What's wrong?" Chu Xia asked with a smile.

Wu Tongzhi didn't want to offend Zhizhou, so the future would be even more unpleasant, but he couldn't help it. Thinking that I couldn't stand this kind of fine in the future, I still had to say it one day, so I said it bluntly.

"My lord, if you are guilty of paying the money in the future, you can not be held accountable, then the rich man will take advantage of the rich family property and break the law, and the poor man will not be able to take out the money and will have to break up his wife. This will make the people feel unfair, and in the end, they will cause trouble. ”

Chu Xia looked at him, this person was really exactly the same as what was written on the intelligence, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Does the state capital have any silver now?" I want to fix the dock and separate the passengers and goods, otherwise it will be too chaotic, and I have to get a dock for the fishermen to have their own. ”

Wu Tongzhi is very rigid, and the matter of managing the accounts is handed over to him, and he knows best whether there is money in the state capital, and suddenly said with some embarrassment: "My lord, there are only less than five thousand taels of silver in the state and county treasury." ”

"So Wu Tongzhi doesn't have to think so much, since this king is here, he is not here to mess around. The geographical location of Hongzhou is so good, it can't be a poor state, and when it comes to silver money in the future, it will be more troublesome for Wu Tongzhi at that time. Chu Xia stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, this person couldn't be better at managing accounts, although that bit of high sourness is not pleasing to people, but it is much more innocent than others.

This made Wu Tongzhi not know what to say, if it costs money, it will be much more useful. The river embankments had to be repaired, the roads had to be repaired, the number of fire stations in the city was too small, and there were not enough people to buy them, and the few that were now in tatters were also dilapidated.

Not to mention the orphanage owned by other states, which used to be here, and in the end they couldn't even eat porridge, and in the end all the orphans were so hungry that they ran away to become beggars.

The Hongzhou official school is just a decoration, there are no students in it, and even Mr. has already gone to a private school. There are only two or three students whose families are so poor that they can't support themselves, and they are dedicated to studying, and they come to the state capital every month to ask for a few catties of rice, barely living, their clothes are patched, and the poor don't want to give them a few copper plates to teach.

Wu Tongzhi, as a scholar, was also poor when he was studying, and he relied on his family's hard work to support his family. Seeing this scene in the official school, he also had more than enough heart but not enough strength, although there were still a few thousand taels of silver in the official mansion, but he couldn't take it out at will.

He could only occasionally bring some green vegetables and radishes from home to add some vegetables to these yellow-skinned students.

Wu Tongzhi watched Chu Xia's hand move away from his shoulder, and when he was about to go inside, he subconsciously said: "My lord, the official school in this mansion is about to be abandoned, and there are still three poor students in the courtyard, and the gentlemen have to go out to teach in order to make a living, and if this continues, I'm afraid those three students will have to go home to farm." ”

Chu Xia had read a lot of information before he came, and as long as it was related to the government, he remembered it carefully. And the information about the lives of the people has also been sent intermittently.

The few students in the tattered official school who are as poor as Huazi, he is naturally very clear, and he also understands that if he wants this Wu Tongzhi to be honest and obedient, then he has to start from here.

"How much money is now allocated to government schools every year? How did you starve people like this? Chu Xia pretended not to know, just the silver exchanged for a few catties of rice was not enough for him to have breakfast.

Wu Tongzhi was embarrassed and said: "My lord, the total expenditure is only twenty taels a year, and there are too many places to use money, and there is no way to spend money for the official school." ”

The master was not in front of him, Chu Xia was very unfamiliar with this kind of small silver, but he couldn't say that he didn't know, so he said with a plausible smile: "Do you think how much silver a year can make the official school like other states, the students are well fed and clothed, and the husband can support his family and teach and study with peace of mind." ”

"Your Excellency. There is no need to compare with the good, as long as it can be maintained, four hundred taels of silver a year is enough for food and clothing for the husband and students, and there is no shortage of pen, ink and paper. "Wu Tongzhi doesn't know how many times he has counted, he has saved all the places he can sav, as long as he has this silver, although he can't get rich, he can at least eat enough and eat meat twice a month.

Four hundred taels of silver?

Chu Xia remembered that there were more than a dozen gentlemen in the ordinary petty official school, and the number of students was not counted, and this little silver was enough to drink some porridge, and he couldn't even afford to eat dry rice.

So he waved his hand and said directly: "Okay, give the official school 1,200 taels of silver a year, and give everyone something good to eat." If you are saved from being an official, you will be blinded by the prosperity, and you will become a corrupt official. ”

Originally, the officials in the state capital looked at him, wanting to see that Wu Tongzhi had offended Lord Zhizhou, and he would not be allowed to go to the dinner party. But he didn't expect that he would directly ask for 1,200 taels of silver for the broken official.

Everyone was stunned, this is directly more than eight hundred taels of silver, not to mention eating meat for meals, you can go to Fengyue Place for a few trips!

Like a splash of water dripping into the hot oil pot, it suddenly exploded, and all the officials gathered around, "My lord, the weapons we should arrest have been broken and need to be replaced." ”

"My lord! The Peach Blossom Bridge has been repaired a long time ago, and there has been no silver! ”

"My lord, the city guards said that if they don't give any more money, they will ignore the security in the city, this matter is urgent!"

"Adult ......"

Chu Xia was surrounded by them, and he felt as if he had fallen into a wolf's den, and he had a feeling of being extremely vicious.

Wu Tongzhi had just received 1,200 taels for the official school, and when he saw that everyone pounced, he was afraid that the little money in the state capital would not be enough to spend, so he deducted the irrelevant official school. He hurriedly stood in front of Chu Xia and shouted: "What are you going to do, everyone is a person who has read the books of sages, what kind of system is it now!" ”

"It's easy to discuss everything, what are you going to do here, and the adults are not leaving tomorrow!"

was scolded by him like this, everyone realized that they were out of shape, and quickly eased their emotions and said with a smile: "Wu Tongzhi is right, the adults have come to take office, and we haven't drunk a cup of tea yet, and it's not our fault to be busy with official business." ”

It's good to have silver, Chu Xia smiled and said: "Don't worry, where there is a shortage of silver in the state, now that I am a governor, of course I will find a way to solve it." Let's work together to make Hongzhou a rich land of fish and rice, with more taxes and good public security, you can also be promoted to serve the country! ”

At this time, the officials only felt that the new Lord Zhizhou was really good, and he was worthy of being a person from the capital, and he was so bold in doing things. No official dares to boast that Haikou wants to do something related to money when he takes office, and he doesn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, which is really very powerful.

Zhuang Rou looked at these elated officials coldly, thinking that there was no virtuous king here, who could let him extort so much silver, Chu Xia patted her on the shoulder and said, "The matter of silver will be handled by this Zhuang Dianshi." Rest assured, during my tenure in Douhu County, she earned 20,000 taels of silver in only one month, so everyone's affairs are trivial. ”

"Ahh Everyone looked at Zhuang Rou, but they didn't expect that this female Ying, who seemed to be playing with pets, had such great ability.

Zhuang Rou looked at Chu Xia dumbfounded, who wants to make him money, such a big state and county, and not a place with a big sesame in Douhu County, are all rich and wealthy people, just get a few powerful people to come over.

Look at what kind of chaos this dock has become, even the dipping pig cage has been made, and you still expect to collect tens of thousands of taels at a time?

As soon as she wanted to refuse, she saw Xu Tongju running out of the hall angrily, came to Chu Xia and hugged her hand and said, "My lord, I don't think it's appropriate to try the case like this, even if the Xu family uses lynching indiscriminately, it is because of the customs here for hundreds of years." Thinking that they are rude people and do not know how to be polite, it is also a first offense, and please spare them. ”

Chu Xia glanced at Zhuang Rou and said two words with his mouth, silver.

Zhuang Rou rolled his eyes, and didn't pay attention to him at all, the one thousand taels of fines couldn't be paid, and he would pay for it out of his own pocket at that time. For a county king, this bit of silver is nothing.

She didn't want to care about it, but others didn't, it wasn't about a dinner party, but about what the magistrates had promised. The officials talked about Xu Tong's sentence, and some people came over to pull Xu Tong's elbow to the side in the name of comfort.

"Xu Tong's sentence, Lord Zhizhou is all for everyone's good, and it is not merciful to say the law, but you are too surprised to pay a fine and not to cut off your head."

"That's right, you can't just because you are the same sect, Xu Tong sentenced you to protect your shortcomings like this."

"Lord Xu, don't worry about this, your lord will have a banquet tonight, let's get drunk and rest, what do you care about those who have committed crimes."

Xu Tong was confused, it had only been more than an hour, why did everyone all go to the new Zhizhou? Could it be that something happened here when I was in the lobby?

At this time, his head catcher dragged him far away, and told him what happened while dragging, but don't let his own head suffer.

"One thousand two hundred taels for that useless broken official school?" Xu Tongju's eyes lit up when he heard this, and the one of the things he was in charge of was Guangshui Shui, which was about to kill him, and he couldn't do anything without money.

After thinking about it, anyway, he had done a lot of things for the Xu family before, but now it's a big deal to say that Lord Zhizhou is pressing him, so just push the basin out, and it's not himself who offends people. When you can't get the money, it's okay to embarrass him again, now let's see what he's capable of.

So, Xu Tongju looked suddenly enlightened, and said regretfully: "It turns out that the adult has such intentions, and the villain almost made a mistake due to his lack of knowledge, please forgive me." ”

"Well, let's go forward and retreat together in the future." Chu Xia slapped his fan and smiled, and walked towards his place in the state capital with the support of everyone.

Looking at this large group of Hongzhou officials who were following him and were very happy, Zhuang Rou shook his head, only feeling that they were too pitiful. This is a good official who can't do things, and he can still eat and wait for death to return to his hometown.

It's good now, or I'll have to worry about my head in a few days, and when will it fall out because of the chaos of Lord Zhizhou.