Chapter Twenty-Seven: Here Comes the Shark
In June, the biggest thing in Chang'an City was a dispute between the official paper workshop and Ping'an over the water source.
The sewage pond of the official paper-making workshop was overturned due to the rain for several days, and a pipe gushing appeared at the bottom of the embankment, which burst in the middle of the night, flooding 28 acres of fields in Ping'anli.
Before dawn, the angry peace grew up, and took a hundred and ten villagers to the paper-making workshop.
By the time Yun Chu got the news, three people had died and twenty-one were injured.
The papermaking workshop is actually not a good workshop, not to mention the huge amount of water consumption, but also produces a large amount of sewage containing lime, which cannot be directly used in farmland, so it has to choose a low-lying land without farmland to be stored first, waiting to be slowly absorbed by the Loess Plateau.
Yun Chu had already warned all papermaking workshops to take care of these sewage pools, but as a result, there was still a problem.
For the problem of the sewage pool, Yun Chu was mentally prepared.
Today, the number of Chang'an people who directly eat papermaking has reached 30,000, and the population indirectly relying on papermaking workshops to feed has reached at least 60,000. Not to mention the marketing of the paper made in the Tang Dynasty, the farthest has been taken to distant Rome by Hu Shang.
In particular, after the advent of young bamboo papermaking technology, Chang'an City took advantage of its surrounding hills to plant large areas of bamboo forests, which in turn allowed Chang'an's paper industry to flourish in a state of abundant raw materials.
Rather, it is the loss of eight acres of land, which is not worth mentioning in the face of the huge economic benefits brought by the paper industry.
Even if Yun Chu had not yet arrived at the scene, the Wannian County government had already formed an opinion in favor of the papermaking workshop.
As for environmentalism, which only Yun Chu knows, as long as Yun Chu doesn't mention it, no one will know, but in the era of Datang, where everything is premised on a full stomach, even if Yun Chu brings it up, no one will care.
Where does the huge amount of domestic sewage that appears in Chang'an City last flow from the culvert?
The answer, of course, is Weishui, where the sewage flows for a while, then flows into the Yellow River and finally into the sea.
Even so, the Weishui water is still clear, and the Yellow River is still turbid, and whether it is clear or turbid, it has nothing to do with human pollution.
Now the trouble is that three people died.
If there were no dead people, Yun Chu, the county magistrate, would not even need to personally visit the scene of the brawl.
In today's Datang countryside, all kinds of brawls are very popular, for water, for the land, for a mountain, and sometimes even for a gossip, which can form a large-scale brawl scene that is no less than an army battle.
And in this kind of scene, the main force turned out to be the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and these bastards directly used what they learned in the army in the weapon fight.
It's bold.
Therefore, Yun Chu went to the countryside not to mediate the armed fighting at all, but to punish those government soldiers who participated in the armed fighting.
As long as these bastards are dealt with, the fight in the countryside will become a hooligan fighting each other, and there will be no major incident.
When Yun Chu arrived at the area where the accident occurred, the brawl had already subsided, and the county lieutenant Zhang Jia was holding a leather whip and was teaching the main person responsible for the brawl a lesson.
The soldiers who participated in the brawl stood to the side with uncertain expressions, the armor they had taken off was neatly placed on the ground, and Yun Chu also saw sticks, hoes, rakes and wooden forks, fortunately, no standard blades were used.
It was also because of the government soldiers of the paper mill against the government soldiers of Ping'an that the number of casualties was reduced to the current situation.
If the soldiers on both sides were to directly target the people, it was very likely that the number of casualties would increase tenfold.
When Yun Chu came, the soldiers knelt on one knee on the ground, which was not the etiquette for the people to see the county order, but the etiquette for the subordinates to see the general.
Yun Chu stopped in the middle of this group of people, glanced at the government soldiers present, and said directly to Zhang Jia without asking any reason: "What errands can make these bastards lose face and be ashamed?" ”
Zhang Jia smiled cruelly: "Back to the county, there are always unformed baby corpses blocking the sewers in Pingkangfang, and no one is willing to take over if the subordinates pay a high price, so it's just right for these bastards to do it." ”
Yun Chu looked at the earth-colored soldiers in front of him and nodded, this matter is a certainty.
The soldiers thought that something had happened, and at most a military stick would be over, but they didn't expect to go to the land of fireworks to do these pickled things, and the most taboo thing in the army was things related to women, they thought that these actions would make them suffer bad luck in the army, so they begged the county lord to spare them once.
It's a pity that Yun Chu was unmoved, he knew that for the soldiers of Chang'an Mansion today, making them lose face was far more deterrent than beating military sticks.
"Giving you preferential treatment and giving you face is to cultivate your sense of honor, so that one day when the enemy invades my Chang'an, you can take up arms to defend your family and the country, not let you beat your own people with your strength.
That's it for this time, and next time, I'll send you to be an assistant to Wen Po to serve the woman in childbirth. ”
An elderly soldier led by the government moved a few steps forward with his knees, came to Yun Chu and hugged his fists and said: "Junhou, the little one knows that he is wrong, please Junhou for the sake of the little one who once fought with the prince in the south and the north, he doesn't dare to ask for exoneration, just want to let the little one pay for the redemption and find someone else to replace him." ”
Yun Chu smiled, looked at the familiar veteran in front of him and said, "Lao Ding, you are also an old man in the army, when have you heard of the fact that Ben Hou's subordinates have ever used money to redeem them?"
If you make another mistake, Benhou should naturally protect you for convenience, this time is different, you are beating your own people, and you are also killed, now, it is already extrajudicial benevolence, don't know what to do.
Tell you, not only are you going to Pingkang Fang to dig sewers, you are also the leader of this group...... If you can't dig it up, I'll only settle accounts with you. ”
Lao Ding didn't dare to blame Yun Chu, but just looked at Zhang Jia with hatred, he felt that when this matter passed, he had to find Zhang Jia to theorize.
After dealing with the soldiers, Yun Chu came to the side of the three corpses covered by sackcloth, lifted the cloth and looked at the faces of the three people, and said to Zhang Jia: "Three two-year-old cows from the papermaking workshop will be compensated to these three families." ”
Zhang Jia whispered: "Two died in Ping'an, and one died in the papermaking workshop, all of which will be compensated by the papermaking workshop?" ”
Yun Chu snorted coldly and said: "Who made them richer, who let them mismanage them, not only did they have to produce three cows, but they also had to buy the destroyed twenty-eight acres of land at three times the market price and plant bamboo on it." ”
Zhang Jia said again: "How to deal with the injured? ”
Yun Chu immediately set his eyes on the two people in Ping'an, the chief and the manager of the paper workshop.
"The cost of the twenty-one wounded people's soup and medicine will fall on the two of them, not only to pay for the soup and medicine, but also to compensate the injured for the wages incurred during the time when they are recuperating from their injuries and unable to work.
The salary is calculated according to 100 yuan a day.
In the future, if there is such a brawl in Wannian County, it will be dealt with according to this example. ”
Twenty-one people, two times a day, whether it is the manager of the paper workshop, or the chief of Ping'an, both of them can pay this money, but the family business has shrunk greatly, it is certain.
Yun Chu took care of the whole thing in just a few words.
Over the years, there have been few scenes in the two counties of Wannian County and Chang'an County that the people think of officials protecting each other, and in addition, when these two counties deal with things related to the people, they mostly follow the township rules and conventions, and try to use the law as little as possible, so the results of handling things are basically in line with the wishes of the people.
This led to the fact that the recognition of the government of the people was still relatively high, and the three families of the dead people were carried back to prepare for the aftermath by wearing linen and filial piety, and the injured people were also being treated by the doctors invited by the steward and the chief.
This is a very ordinary day for Yun Chu.
When I returned to the county office, I also discussed with Master Liu that it was the most cost-effective thing for Master Liu to go there to serve as the chief official next.
It's just that just after dawn the next day, the city gate was opened, and a government soldier rode into Chang'an City, bringing a bad thing to Yun Chu.
There is a man named Huang Peng in Ping'anli, who died in a fight yesterday, and Yun Chu has already compensated his family for a cow, and thought that the matter was over.
As a result, not long after Yun Chu left yesterday, Huang Peng's son, who had left Guanzhong with the nobles in the early years, came back.
When he heard that his father had died in a fight, he went into the paper-making workshop that night and killed thirteen sleeping workshop men in one go......
Guanzhong's human nature is violent, and this kind of thing has occurred one after another in the past, and it took Yun Chu a lot of effort to suppress this barbaric habit.
Now, this kind of thing has once again appeared in Wannian County.
Without waiting for Yun Chu to order the arrest of this thief, there was bad news in Ping'an, and Huang Jue, the chief of Ping'an, hanged himself alive in a small forest with a rope after learning about it.
Then, the steward of the paper workshop, after witnessing the death of thirteen people under his command and hearing the news of the suicide of the chief of Ping'an, decisively stabbed himself to death.
A small dam failure case, eighteen people have died so far, this is already a vicious case, if Yun Chu is an ordinary county order, he has been dismissed and questioned at this time.
Yun Chu carefully recalled whether he had missed anything when he dealt with this matter yesterday.
After reliving the whole thing in his mind, he was sure that there was nothing wrong with his disposal.
In a collective fight without personal grudges, the focus of the disposal is to appease the deceased, and it does not matter whether the matter is right or wrong.
Just yesterday, when the amount of compensation for the deceased was set, he deliberately observed the families of the three deceased.
Chang'an Niugui is a two-year-old ploughing cow, which is worth about fifteen yuan, which is almost the salary of an adult man in Datang for five years.
It is very suitable to compensate for the death of the fight, and the family of the deceased is also very satisfied with this result, and no one questioned it in court.
The patriarch of the Huang family, that is, Huang Jue, the chief of the family, didn't feel that anything was wrong.
In this case, why did Huang Peng's son immediately turn his face after he returned, and was willing to risk entering the paper workshop late at night to commit such a heinous bloody crime?
Thinking of this, Yun Chu patted his head, feeling that he was still too rash yesterday, and did not pay enough attention to this matter, and always thought that the reason for the fight was the twenty-eight acres of land, but now it seems that it is not ......
There are too many dead people, and it is already beyond the jurisdiction of Wannian County, and it is urgent for Dali Temple to take over.
Yun Chu could imagine that at this moment, Di Renjie had already led someone to intervene.
However, just when Yun Chu was waiting for the results of Di Renjie's investigation, a guy dressed in green, Shi Shiran walked into the Wannian County Office.
Yun Chu went out to greet him, and as soon as the two met, they saw a tiger jumping over to each other, grabbed Yun Chu's arm and said, "Yu Chu, I want to be a brother." ”
Yun Chu looked at this guy in a green robe, wearing a green hat, and his long beard and face were red and purple from the ultraviolet rays of the plateau, and the whole guy of the Tang Dynasty version of Guan Gong said for a long time: "Helan, have you already taken down the Yangtong tribe?" ”
At this time, Helan Minzhi is completely different from the Helan Minzhi in Yun Chu's memory, if the previous Helan Minzhi is a crooked flower in the greenhouse of the Tang Dynasty.
Then, the current Helan Minzhi is a towering tree that has experienced the baptism of storms in the wild.
Not to mention that this guy still smells of sharks, this smell carries a fishy smell, a smell of urine, and the unique salt smell of the sea. (I just smelled it today, and I heard that sharks never urinate)
This is the standard taste of the fierce man.
(End of chapter)