"Master, master, uncle has been arrested!"

The housekeeper rushed into the house, and before Zheng Hongyi could speak, his wife had already come in crying.

As soon as he saw that, Zheng Hongyi had a headache.

He is indeed extremely protective of his shortcomings, and often protects his relatives. But this does not mean that he likes his relatives to cause trouble for three days, and his brother-in-law has long made Zheng Hongyi extremely annoyed.

"What's wrong again?" Zheng Hongyi didn't have a good airway.

His wife Feng Shi panicked: "It's Shu Da's case, Mingju has been arrested again!" ”

Zheng Hongyi was suddenly unhappy: "This case was closed last year, how can it be turned over again?" Is the surname Fu about to leave office, and he still wants to make a fortune before leaving? ”

"It has nothing to do with Master Fu," Feng said, "It's Shu everyone's, go to the government to file a grievance." Master Fu asked someone to report the news, let our family make some more silver, don't make trouble to the prefect's yamen. ”

"How can it be!"

Zheng Hongyi said angrily: "Shu Dan's case has already given the Shu family money. It's only been a year, and the case has to be reversed again. Could it be that they complain every year, and our family gives silver every year? You can't give this money, and once you give it, it's endless! ”

Feng Shi worried: "What if it really makes trouble to the prefect's yamen?" Mr. Li said that the prefect was already suspicious of the river embankment. If Shu Da's case is also targeted by the prefect, I'm afraid it will be ...... I'm afraid it's ......."

"Don't be afraid," Zheng Hongyi raised his hand and said, "This Huang Governor is from His Majesty's maid. Our daughter-in-law is Li Gelao's niece and granddaughter. Huang Zhifu and Li Ge Lao, they are both ministers of the dragon, and their own family members will not be able to get along with their own families? Even if Governor Huang doesn't give me face for the Zheng family, I have to leave some thin noodles for Li Gelao. ”

Zheng Hongyi said to the housekeeper again: "You go to the court and keep an eye to see what is going on." Also, ask the Shu family, why did they want to redress their grievances, do they not want to live anymore? ”

Two hours later, the housekeeper came back to report: "Master, the Shu family said that they didn't overturn the case, and it was the Fan family himself who was handing over the grievances." ”

Zheng Hongyi frowned, and muttered to himself: "A woman has already remarried, why did she risk offending the Zheng family and suddenly ran out to avenge her ex-husband?" ”

The butler stopped talking.

"Say!" Zheng Hongyi scolded.

The housekeeper said: "Master, I heard that the money we gave was swallowed by the Shu family, and not a penny was left to the Fan family. Not only that, but the Shu family also forced the Fan family to remarry a widower on Longyou's side. The widower was fifty years old, and in order to marry Fan, he gave the Shu family a full five taels of silver as a dowry. ”

Zheng Hongyi was stunned when he heard this, and then he couldn't cry or laugh: "The Shu family eats at two ends!" ”

Shu Da, who was killed by mistake, was a drunkard and a loser, and his family had long had enough of it. Family affection has been indifferent, and it is better to be beaten to death, not to mention getting compensation money.

The people of the Shu family swallowed the silver, and almost sold Shuda's widow to a widower in the name of remarriage.

Inside and out, make money twice, and of course they will not overturn the case.

Zheng Hongyi said: "Send a small guy to secretly contact the Fan family. She must have not received any money, and she was forced to marry an old widower, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so she lost her mind and went to report to the official. Give her twenty taels, so that she doesn't have to make any more trouble, otherwise...... What does her current husband do? ”

The housekeeper said, "Run an iron shop in Bamboo Shed Town. ”

Zheng Hongyi said: "If she makes trouble again, she will make her family's blacksmith shop unable to open!" ”

……

In the capital city of Quzhou, there are two levels of courts.

One is the Xi'an County Court and the other is the Quzhou Prefecture Court.

The official position of the prefectural magistrate in charge of the penal prison was abolished and replaced by the prefectural justice and the prefectural magistrate (prosecutor).

The arrest of Zheng Hongyi's brother-in-law was approved by the criminal officer, and the police arrested him and locked him up pending trial.

In the prison, Feng Risheng lived in a single room and was drinking with the head of the jailer.

"Master Feng, this room has been sprinkled and swept several times, and the musty smell really can't be removed. You are old and wronged for a few days. The head of the jailer said with a smile.

Feng Risheng tasted the wine and nodded approvingly: "It's good, but you can't do it." ”

The head of the jailer hurriedly toasted: "Thank you Master Feng for cultivating!" ”

Feng Risheng said: "Have you inquired about things clearly? ”

The head of the jailer explained: "The Shu family received the money, but did not distribute it to the Fan family, and forced the Fan family to remarry the old widower, and took the opportunity to receive a bride price. The Fan family must not be angry, so he came out to hand over the complaint and shouted injustice. The old man sent a message to let Master Feng stay here for a few days, and when the Fan family was appeased, he would close the case. ”

"What's the trouble?" Feng Risheng felt that he had been wronged.

The head of the jailer sighed and said, "Master Feng, today is different from the past, after the Huang Governor's Mansion was transferred to Quzhou, many things are not as easy to handle as before. ”

Feng Risheng sneered: "A woman is not good at teaching her husband and children, and she actually came to be an official." Ji Si Chen, what are you afraid of her doing? ”

"This Huang Governor, after all, is the father who followed His Majesty to cause trouble in Wuxing Town," said the head of the jailer, "If she is a man, I am afraid that she will be the central minister." It's really going to annoy her, and she can poke things directly to the emperor. ”

Feng Risheng was also very helpless about this, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, just when I was unlucky to meet such a prefect." ”

……

The government office.

Huang Fei, also known as Xiaohong, is chatting with a "businessman".

"Quzhou officialdom, how rotten is it?" Huang Fei asked.

Dai Wenmeng said: "The criminal officers, justices, and magistrates at the prefectural and county levels are basically rotten. This time, he instigated Fan's grievances to overturn the case in order to test the situation. The result was very bad, although Feng Risheng was arrested, he was served with delicious food and drink inside. The reason why we know what happened to him in prison is that he went in under the pretext of visiting the prison, and a tael of silver could buy off the jailer, and when he entered, he wandered around without even asking which prisoner he was visiting in the prison. ”

Huang Fei pressed the anger in his heart and said, "I have been transferred to Quzhou for half a year. Whatever the matter, officials at all levels were very cooperative. The Longyou merchant gang grew stronger and stronger, and some factories were built, and the taxes paid by the Quzhou government increased year after year. Alas, I thought that Quzhou was already under great rule, but I didn't expect that I was just a confused official. ”

"Huang Fuzun doesn't have to blame himself," Dai Wenmeng said, "The decay of Quzhou officialdom is not something that happens overnight. It is not easy for Fuzun to take the initiative to break through the pustules. In the cases we have investigated, many local magistrates did not dare to pierce the window paper. ”

Huang Fei asked: "How many corrupt officials can the Metropolitan Procuratorate find out every year?" ”

Dai Wenmeng said: "This is not easy to say, sometimes more and sometimes less. Last year, two to three hundred officials were implicated in the embezzlement case of Henan's deputy transport envoy, which was much bigger than the case in Quzhou. Of course, officials engage in favoritism, corruption, and bribery, and are generally very hidden. Like Quzhou, which is known all over the city, I really haven't encountered it in the past two years. ”

"Your duties are more interesting than governing a place," Huang Fei suddenly laughed, "When the case in Quzhou is concluded, I will ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be transferred, maybe we will be colleagues in the future." ”

Dai Wenmeng was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Huang Fei's background was very hard, as long as she made a request, it was really possible to be transferred directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Dai Wenmeng persuaded: "Huangfuzun, the imperial history of the new dynasty of Datong is not the imperial history of the Ming court. often sent to the provinces to run around, sometimes even sleeping in the open, not to despise women, but to ...... It's really inconvenient for women. What's more, the Venerable Husband ......"

Huang Fei said indifferently: "I'm divorced." ”

"Uh......" Dai Wenmeng was stunned.

……

Longyou County, Zhupeng Town.

The blacksmith was forging farm tools, and the jingle was not lively.

A few idlers walked into the iron shop, and the apprentices hurriedly greeted them: "What do you want to do?" Iron pots, iron scoops, hoes, sickles...... My master can fight, and his skills are very good. ”

The leading idler said, "You, get out!" ”

"Huh?" The apprentice didn't figure it out.

The idle man said, "A few of us, we are here to collect debts today, and your master owes us ten taels of silver." ”

A blacksmith about fifty years old, when he heard this, turned slowly, carried a hammer, and said, "I don't know you, when did I owe you ten taels of silver?" ”

The idler took out an IOU: "You have set up a note, do you still want to deny it?" ”

The blacksmith said angrily: "Nonsense, you are slanderers! Bolt, go and report to the officer! ”

The idle man sneered: "Report to the official? In this Quzhou Mansion, which official dares to take care of the affairs of the Zheng family? ”

The apprentices were already out of the house, and when they heard this, they stopped, and turned to look at the blacksmith at a loss.

There are several counties in Quzhou Prefecture, and the real power of the Zheng family is also in Xi'an County, which is next to it, and Longyou County.

Fan suddenly walked out of the back room and said with a cold face: "If there is anything coming at me, don't embarrass my husband!" ”

"Close the door!"

The idlers kicked the apprentice in both feet and quickly installed the door of the iron shop.

The leading idler looked at Fan and suddenly coveted him. This woman was born so beautiful that she married a fifty-year-old blacksmith widower, and she was really a flower stuck in cow dung.

"Little lady, how about coming with me to live in the city?" The idle man smiled and said, "You thin-skinned and tender-skinned man, you stay in the iron shop in the country town all day long, and you will be smoked into a yellow-faced woman in a few years." ”

Fan slapped the crotch of the idle man, blurted out the words of the tiger and wolf, and said contemptuously: "Just the two taels of meat in your crotch?" Do you want to take off your pants and compete with my husband? ”

"Hahahaha!"

When the other idlers heard this, they were immediately amused and laughed.

The leading idler was furious, and felt that he had lost face, and immediately shouted: "Hold down the blacksmith, and I want this woman to know what is wrong!" ”

An idler reminded: "Fifth brother, we are here to do something, you don't want to spoil the master's errand." ”

The leader of the idlers said, "Don't worry, the money will be given." Let this woman sleep, and she will not dare to speak out, and things will be done more properly. As he spoke, he frightened the blacksmith and his wife, "If they dare to report to the police afterwards, they will kill people and burn down the shop!" ”

The blacksmith is not a vegetarian either, wrapping the handle of the sickle in a rag, holding the rag with both hands and gesticulating: "Whoever dares to come, Lao Tzu will kill him!" ”

The scythe, just taken out of the furnace, was burned red.

The blacksmith stepped forward and swung it, causing the idlers to retreat.

The leader of the idle man shouted as he retreated: "There is something to say, and there is something to say." As long as the lady withdraws the form, she will give you ten taels of silver...... Wait, don't do it again, how about giving fifteen taels of silver? ”

"Get out, don't want the Zheng family's dirty money!" The blacksmith roared.

A few idlers got off the door panel and quickly fled.

After escaping from the door, the idle man shouted again: "Toast and don't eat and drink, beware of your iron shop burning in the middle of the night!" ”

The blacksmith couple looked worried, went to the back room and said, "Two officials, I'm afraid someone will set fire to it at night. ”

Inside the room sat two integrity officers, who were dedicated to security.

Liang Tingxin slowly put the sword back into the cloth bag and said with a smile: "Arson is a big crime, at least it can be punished with exile." If you burn property or injure someone, you can be sentenced to death at your discretion! ”

Many honest officials are from the Datong Society!

After Zhao Han occupied Jiangsu and Anhui, hundreds of swordsmen were recruited into the central and local clean government departments.

They are not afraid of fighting, killing people and setting fires, they are encountered, and they don't even want to escape.