Hong Chengchou and Yang He were talking, Yang He was silent, there are several Li Chaosheng and several Lantian counties in this world, and there is no more, there is only one Li Chaosheng, one Lantian County.

Can Li Chaosheng's success not be replicated? No, there is nothing surprising about Li Chaosheng's success, in the early years of Hongwu, when the world was at peace, the people also lived so comfortably and comfortably, and the officials at that time were really honest and dedicated to the public.

But if you let Yang He go to Hongwunian to be an official, he won't want to, it's really Taizu who treats officials too harshly.

Do not do to others what you do not want to do to yourself, how can you still criticize others for doing this, unless they can voluntarily become an official in the Taizu period like Li Chaosheng.

Those who are honest and honest, and do not covet the people for a penny, but is this possible?

Yang He knows that he is talking about a dream, this Ming official is not corrupt, he Yang He doesn't believe it, Yang He knows that this Ming is a little difficult to return, but there is nothing to be done, the world is like this, not one person's power can be changed.

Yang He thought about it and looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "Okay, don't talk about this, Yan Yan has heard some bad rumors recently?" ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Yang He for a moment and said, "What does the public mean?" ”

Yang He said: "Some people say that the robbery of the Fan family grain team that has been in a lot of trouble in the past few days was done by our border army, and some people say that it was done by you Hong Chengchou, what does Yan Yan think?" ”

Hong Chengchou heard this and said with a wry smile: "To be honest, Yang Gong, I think I did this thing, if I do it, at least now the big guys can have a full meal, that is 200,000 loads of grain, if I knew the news in advance, maybe I could really be tempted and loot." ”

Yang He said with a dark face when he heard this: "Yan Yan can't be joking, how can we be officials and soldiers to rob the people, this is not a big rebellion!" ”

Hong Chengchou laughed when he heard this: "The official army, the thief army, if there is not enough military food, the official army is a thief army." ”

Hearing this, Yang He sighed and said, "Give the court a little time, military rations are being raised." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Financing, this word can fool the soldiers for a day or two, but after a long time, no one will believe it, Yang Gong thinks twice." ”

Hearing this, Yang He looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "How about you say we should go and ask Lantian County for it?" ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou said: "Lantian County has paid this year's taxes in full, let's ask for it again, and then report to the sentinel, Xi'an Governor Zhang Jinru went to Lantian County a few days ago to bring back 40,000 loads of grain from Xi'an City, and was almost besieged by the people, which shows that Lantian has not much grain in stock, if it is forcibly requested, for fear of provoking a civil uprising, there will be one more anti-thief in Shaanxi!" ”

Yang He pondered for a moment when he heard this, and sighed: "Speaking of which, the whole of Shaanxi can't just rely on his Lantian to provide for it, for the sake of today's plan, I can only think of other ways." ”

It is very difficult for Yang He, the governor of the three sides, to be the grain and grass, and the ordnance.

Hong Chengchou glanced at Yang He, followed by a cup of tea silently, although the land of Shaanxi cannot be supported by Lantian, but he has to find a way to get food from Lantian, it seems that he is going to go to Lantian County.

Hong Chengchou made up his mind to go to Lantian County, but Li Chaosheng scattered all the grain, and there was no food in the granary of the government, Li Chaosheng didn't want to give a big gift to others.

On the third day of the game between Hong Chengchou and Yang He, Hong Chengchou came to Lantian County, and when he first arrived in Lantian County, Hong Chengchou was startled, because he found that Lantian's territory had expanded to more than half of Chang'an County, and Chang'an County was compressed again.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou frowned and didn't say much, and continued to go to Lantian County, and when he arrived at Lantian County, Hong Chengchou saw Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng was correcting the official document at this time, and someone reported that Hong Chengchou was coming, and Li Chaosheng hurriedly greeted him.

"Lord Hong, why don't you report if you want to come, I can also find someone to prepare a banquet."

Hong Chengchou was dressed in military uniform at this time, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Haha...... Your 20,000 quintals of grain in exchange for the county is getting more and more different. ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and arched his hand and said, "It's all about adult cultivation." ”

Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said: "I didn't cultivate you, it's all your own ability, and my military salary depends on you a lot." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this, looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord, I still have something to report to my lord." ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"The matter related to our Lantian boundary monument, the adults should have seen it, our Lantian boundary monument has almost occupied half of the territory of Chang'an County and several nearby counties at this time, which is very frightening, so I ask the adults to send people down in the name of the political envoy to warn the people not to disturb the boundary monument and return the boundary monument to its original boundary."

Li Chaosheng arched his hand and looked at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou was stunned when he heard this, glanced at Li Chaosheng deeply, and then laughed and said: "Li Zhixian is surprised, since it is the spontaneous behavior of the people to move the boundary monument, the political envoy of Benbu cannot go against the people's ideas, since the boundary monument of Lantian County has run to Chang'an County, let it stay in Chang'an County." ”

"This land can provide me with enough taxes in your hands, but in the hands of these people, not a single grain of grain can be transported, so I am relieved that these places are in your hands."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said with a smile: "My lord, you are relieved, but I have offended my colleagues in Shaanxi by doing this, and now I can have more than a dozen excerpts to impeach me every day." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "It doesn't matter, as long as the official is in one day, these folds, the official will help you press down for a day." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Forget it, someone told me that being an official must not follow the crowd, others are corrupt, I will be corrupt, others do not do things, I can't do things, so that I can protect myself, so that I will not be regarded as an outlier and attacked." ”

"Fart!"

Hong Chengchou shouted angrily when he heard this: "If everyone is like this, what should Daming do, these people are the moths of Daming, and they can't kill this bureaucracy." ”

Li Chaosheng said: "My lord doesn't have to be like this, I am already an outlier of the Ming Dynasty, and those folds will be placed on Your Majesty's desk sooner or later, at that time, Your Majesty will be happy to reward me with a dismissal and return to the government, and if you are not happy, maybe you can give me a prison disaster." ”

"Are you scared?"

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and asked, Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm not afraid, I just think that if there is really such a day, it will still be quite aggrieved." ”

"Grievance, hahaha...... How can you be afraid of grievances, Li Chaosheng, although you are not a county magistrate, but you are better than everyone else, the people of Lantian County are better than the people in any part of Shaanxi, and even in Daming, they all belong to a good life, this is all your credit. ”

"With this alone, the people of this place will be grateful for your kindness after you leave office, even if you go to prison, you can be said to have a clear conscience, worthy of the people here, so enough!"

Hong Chengchou said, hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed: "Lord Hong, what you said is true, but when Li was really convicted by His Majesty, he also asked Lord Hong to stand up and say a word for me, so it is not in vain for you and me to have a relationship." ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou said: "That's it." ”

After saying this, Hong Chengchou forgot the unpleasantness that he found out that it was the county border of Lantian County when he just entered Chang'an County, and at this time Li Chaosheng arranged for someone to go to Yuxian Tower to arrange a banquet, and he invited Hong Chengchou to the banquet.

Hong Chengchou gladly accepted, Hong Chengchou has never been an honest official, he likes to enjoy, he doesn't like the clear stream, although Haigangfeng is admirable, but he is just a clean talker, if you talk about ability, Zhang Juzheng, who is his contemporary, is far superior to him.

Hong Chengchou likes Zhang Juzheng, has first-class ability, and is certainly not a clean official.

Zhang Juzheng knows how to enjoy very much, and he is also very good at governing government affairs, Qing officials are not necessarily good officials, Qing officials may just be lazy and unwilling to do things, but if they want to do things, they can't avoid contact with the three religions and nine streams, and they can't avoid some extravagant atmosphere.

is like Sun Liancheng in the name of the people, is it corrupt? No, people don't, this is definitely a clean official, a clean official who only receives a salary, but do you say he is a good official?

That's certainly not, inaction, in fact, is also a kind of incompetence.

Everyone scolds He Shen for corruption, but without He Shen, replace He Shen with Liu Yong, whether a Qing official like Ji Xiaolan can play such a huge court, the result is definitely impossible.

Those who have been monarchs since ancient times must understand that a clean official may not be a capable minister, and a capable minister may not be honest, which is normal.

At the Yuxian Lou banquet, Hong Chengchou was very happy to eat, a simple stir-fry, with fish, meat and vegetables, but it was much better than what he ate in the barracks, eating food, Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Li Zhixian, I came this time to buy all the autumn grain stored in your Lantian County, what do you think?" ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was stunned, Hong Chengchou wanted to buy grain, but he didn't have any extra grain in his hands, thinking that Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said: "My lord, Lantian has harvested some grain this year, but if you throw away the rations and seeds, you can have more than forty or fifty thousand quintals, and as a result, Lord Zhang Jinru was going to leave a few days ago, and we have no food." ”

Hong Chengchou was not surprised when he heard this, took a sip of wine and said: "Li Zhixian, don't be nervous, I didn't come to Ming to rob it, I bought it with gold and silver." ”

Hong Chengchou said with a smile, Hong Chengchou has a lot of gold and silver, mainly to exterminate the thieves, and the thieves must loot the place, and Hong Chengchou exterminated the thieves, so he left the gold and silver, and did not say that he would return the gold and silver to the victims.

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard this: "Although the gold and silver are good, but Lantian has just come from the famine years, the people would rather store the grain and rot it than exchange it for money, they are really hungry and afraid, Lord Hong, this gold and silver can't buy food in Lantian." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled when he heard this: "Although Lantian doesn't have it, but there is grain in Sichuan, and there is grain in Jiangnan, especially in Jiangnan, gold and silver are still very popular, they are not short of grain, they have grain, I will give you the gold and silver in my hand, how about you send someone to organize a caravan and go to Jiangnan to buy grain for me?" ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, and then said: "Lord Hong, you also know that this transportation must be consumed, if I participate, I will definitely pick up a layer of skin in this gold and silver and put it in my own pocket, my lord think twice." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "I came to you after thinking twice." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "Why don't you send your subordinates to buy grain?" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "How can the soldiers of the border army defend the country use it privately, and they will be impeached." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "My lord has been an official for many years, and there must be many friends of the same year, or elders of the teacher, they should be scattered in various places as officials, why don't you ask your friends in Jiangnan for help, why bother looking for me as an outsider." ”

Hong Chengchou sneered twice when he heard this: "Li Zhixian, why do you ask knowingly, my classmates and friends who read the books of sages and sages only know how to put money in their pockets, they have been assimilated by the official characters, if this money is placed in their hands, they will definitely give me no more than forty percent of the food they deserve." ”

"And this money is in your hands, and you can give me at least seventy percent."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou when he heard this, and said: "I'll give you eighty percent, and the remaining two layers will be consumed on the way to transport, and I will also have to pay the escort personnel for hard work, so I can guarantee that what I will give you is eighty percent." ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng with blazing eyes, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou expressionlessly, and Hong Chengchou said for a long time: "Eighty percent, enough, if you can really give me eighty percent of the food, I will become your favor!" ”

Li Chaosheng raised his glass and said: "I don't need you to be my favor, I don't do all this to please you, I just don't want the soldiers of the border army to go hungry." ”

Hong Chengchou laughed when he heard this: "I thanked you for them first." ”

Hong Chengchou was a very straightforward person, and left after eating, and the next morning, five hundred sergeants came to Lantian County with three carts of gold, silver and jewelry.

Li Chaosheng sent Master Liu to take someone to count the number and estimate some gold and silver jewelry, after all, there was silver and gold, and there were gold earrings, gold bracelets, pearl necklaces, rubies, and so on.

These things need to be evaluated, so Master Liu brought the shopkeeper of Huibao Pawnshop, who bought Li Chaosheng's glass beads in the first place, and asked him to help with the valuation.

After coming, he saluted Li Chaosheng first, Li Chaosheng greeted him with a smile, followed by the old shopkeeper and began to evaluate these things, and after a look, the old shopkeeper finally estimated that the three cars of gold, silver and jewelry were worth a total of 150,000 taels, which was a conservative valuation, and Hong Chengchou's personal soldiers who escorted the car were very satisfied with this, because the reserve price given by Hong Chengchou was 130,000 taels, an extra 20,000 taels, which was beyond Hong Chengchou's overdue, and he could also pay the difference.

Li Chaosheng saw that the count was completed, and said to his soldiers: "Go back and reply to Lord Hong, just say that the money has been received, and I will send people to Jiangnan and other places to buy grain in the near future, and I will not miss his matter." ”

When the guard heard this, he said, "I must convey it, I have worked hard." ”

On the other hand, the sentry reported that Jiannu was detained.

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