Hengkou Town.

Zhu Ming paced into the field affairs yamen, this belongs to the local dispatch agency of the Changping Division, and the civil officials from Jiupin are responsible for all kinds of work, so it stands to reason that they can just repair a mansion.

With such a grand cultivation, I am afraid that the Cai Party has been in business for a long time.

Yang Pu moved to hand over the chair, Zhu Ming sat down with a golden knife, and Li Bao and Zhang Bo stood behind him.

Ren Chong drooped his head, looking like his father and mother were dead.

"This yamen is very generously repaired, and it is almost catching up with the county government of Shiquan County," Zhu Ming asked as soon as he opened his mouth, "You let people repair it?" ”

Ren Chong sighed: "Alas, I don't want to have fun, I arrived last summer, where can I have time to build a house?" The field affairs yamen of Hengkou has been built for almost ten years. ”

Zhu Ming grasped the key point: "What were you doing before you took office last summer?" ”

Ren Chong sighed: "Read hard in the cold window, the title of the gold list, if there is no way to choose, who is willing to cling to the powerful?" I haven't taken the exam, I've been waiting to fill the gaps, waiting and waiting, but I still can't wait to be conferred. I had to give gifts to people, so I finally got a job of doing business. ”

"There is plenty of oil and water here, how much money was sent?" Zhu Ming asked.

Ren Chong has broken the jar and become very honest: "I am a native of Jianping, Jiangdong (Langxi), and my family road has fallen, and I can't take out any money." There is still a strange stone in the ancestral house, and sooner or later it will be requisitioned as a flower stone gang, so it is better to take the initiative to send it out to find a real shortage. He said that he wanted to dedicate it to Prime Minister Cai to wish him Shou Jianping, and the county order really didn't dare to stop it, and handed it all the way back to the official ship for transportation. ”

Zhu Ming commented: "This is a good idea, but it is guilty of waste utilization." ”

Ren Chong said with emotion: "The same branch jinshi, Taishou is already a court official and governor, but I am just a field officer. Taishou Mo has to feel that there is enough oil and water, I can't be the master here, and the officials are all people who are judged by Li Daju. I signed it, and then I made a seal, and I was sent a few small dollars. ”

"Then what are you doing to hinder me?" Zhu Ming asked.

Ren Chong laughed at himself: "I can't afford to offend Prime Minister Cai, and I can't afford to offend Taishou." It's that Li Daju, and I can't afford to offend either. Since Taishou is so tough, I will try to cooperate as much as possible. In the future, if Li Daju is sent, I can only cooperate. The gods are fighting, and I, a mortal, only want to save my life. ”

"You are from a scholar's background, where will you worry about your life?" Zhu Ming said with a smile.

Ren Chong said: "Transferred to the wilderness of Guangnan, there are not a few people who die because of the water and soil. ”

"Whatever you want," Zhu Ming said, "I don't embarrass you, no matter what you do in the future, just send someone to report to me." ”

Ren Chong immediately said: "Thank you for your mercy." ”

Ren Chong has already expressed his attitude that he has nothing to pursue in his life.

One is the general sentence of the Cai Party, and the other is the official Zhizhou, he doesn't want to offend anyone, and he listens to anyone's orders.

If there is a conflict between the orders of the governor and the general judgment, he will give priority to the general judgment. Because he is a field officer, and the general judge is also the Golden State Promotion Changping, in terms of position, he is his direct boss.

If he had to be forced to stand in line, he would definitely occupy the side of the general judgment, after all, the county official might as well be in charge.

Zhu Ming didn't force this, and only let Ren Chong report if he had something.

said hello in advance, Zhu Ming didn't blame him, and would point the finger at Tongju. If you don't say hello, Zhu Ming will kill Ren Chong first!

Zhu Ming suddenly asked again: "What is the situation of Chen Ge?" He seems to have been doing it for five years and hasn't moved his nest. ”

"I don't know," Ren Chong shook his head to show that he didn't know, and added, "Chen Xiansi will definitely be able to share a few of the gold in Jinzhou." In fact, there is not much gold in the Golden State, and the big one is in Fangzhou next door, where a larger gold mine was discovered decades ago. ”

"I don't care about Fangzhou, I only care about the affairs of Jinzhou," Zhu Ming advised, "Remember, what Li Daochong asked you to do, you have to tell me secretly!" ”

Things are basically straightened out.

Cai You's brother-in-law, Song Sheng, as a transfer envoy on Jingxi Road, has the greatest supervision power, and he will definitely be able to get a piece of the pie.

The gold mine used to be under the management of the Criminal Division, and although it was assigned to the Changping Division, the Criminal Envoy still retained part of the supervision power, so Chen Ge was most likely involved in the Criminal Punishment.

There is also a general sentence of Li Daochong, who is directly in charge of the gold mines in Jinzhou.

These three people joined forces to embezzle and divide the gold, and behind them were Cai Jing's father and son as backers.

Zhu Ming has no right to interfere at all, except for impeachment.

"Give me the key to the storeroom." Zhu Ming said.

Ren Chong had already begun to mess up, so he threw the key to Zhu Ming.

In order to show that he did not steal gold, Zhu Ming called the officials of Hengkou and opened the treasury in public to check the gold inside.

One small bag after another, after all the weighing, there were about 82 taels and 5 yuan.

Zhu Ming asked, "Shipped away once in a few months?" ”

Ren Chong replied: "Once every three months, Li Daju sent someone to escort him. ”

Zhu Ming turned to look at the officials: "Just the two of you?" ”

The officer immediately bowed his head.

Zhu Ming went to check the field account books again, and the data was very interesting.

Last year, Hengkouwu's annual gold class was 26 taels, and 104 taels of gold were purchased from the private sector, with a total of 130 taels of gold.

"What a big guts," Zhu Ming sighed, and then shouted, "Take away all the gold and account books!" ”

……

Zhu Ming took the gold and slowly went to the state city to take office.

And Ren Chong took a small boat, quickly went to Jinzhou City, and went straight to the mansion of Li Daochong.

"Big sentence, help!" Ren Chong cried as soon as they met.

Li Daochong had already received news from the officials and knew that Zhu Ming had asked the peasants to go back to farming, so he said angrily: "What the hell is your name?" ”

Ren Chong seemed to be angry little daughter-in-law: "Jinzhou guarded Zhu Ming too much, and suddenly led people to rush into Hengkou, and detained me indiscriminately." He also seized the treasury of Hengkou and took away the gold and account books. ”

"How can it be!"

Li Daochong was furious: "He is a Zhizhou, where does he get the power to seal up the field affairs?" ”

Zhu Ming really doesn't have that qualification, Hengkou is subordinate to Jinzhou Changping, Jinzhou Changping is subordinate to Jingnan Road Changping Division, and Jingnan Road Changping Division is directly under the central government. Even if Zhu Ming is the chief official of Jinzhou, the seizure of the field affairs is also an ultra vires act.

Ren Chong stopped making a sound, he had already come to report the news, and the rest of the things had nothing to do with him.

Li Daochong ordered a group of people and horses, and rushed to Hengkou Town, and bumped into Zhu Ming halfway.

Zhu Ming stood on the boat, looked at the surrounding boats, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to murder Taishouye?" ”

Li Daochong directly tore his face: "You are too guarded, you should know the law, why did you exceed your authority to seal up the field affairs?" It is even more audacious to take away gold without permission! ”

Zhu Ming asked, "What was the Golden State's gold class last year?" ”

"No comment!" Li Daochong was reluctant to say more.

Zhu Ming said: "If you don't want to talk about it, then I will detain it first and hand it over to Changping to dispose of." ”

Li Daochong said angrily: "You have no right to seize the account books of Hengkou's goods!" ”

"What if I buckled it? You're going to be impeached. Zhu Mingman didn't care.

Li Daochong began to threaten: "Do you know that this gold is going to be transported to Cai Xianggong!" ”

Zhu Ming suddenly smiled: "I only know that the gold goes into the treasury of Changping, and then it is sent to the imperial court." Cai Xianggong actually collects gold? came and went, but they shared with me that we would impeach Cai Xianggong for corruption. ”

Li Daochong was speechless in an instant, since he couldn't scare Zhu Ming, he really had no choice.

Because Zhu Ming was completely unreasonable, and even did not talk about the imperial court system, he openly overstepped his authority to seal and seize Chang Pingsi's things.

"Sail!" Zhu Ming shouted.

Li Bao and Zhang Bo had already taken off their bows and arrows, and aimed their bows at the ships in front of them.

Li Daochong stared at Zhu Ming, hesitated for a while, and finally waved his hand and ordered to let him go.

Zhizhou and Tongju returned to the state city together in this way.

The state of Jinzhou is Xicheng County, and the next county is one, which is quite poor. The state is located here mainly because of its strategic position.

In the pre-Qin period, the two countries of Qin and Chu repeatedly fought here.

At the time of the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Shu also started a tug of war here.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was also a perennial war.

This city is the east gate of Hanzhong.

The officials at the state and county levels had already spontaneously sent out to greet them, and they saw Zhu Ming with a smile on his face, and Li Daochong with a gloomy face next to him.

Zhizhou hasn't gone through the handover procedures yet, and it seems that he is on the same page as the general judgment.

The officials were a little embarrassed, so they could only greet Zhu Ming politely, but they didn't dare to show too enthusiasm, for fear of making Li Daochong angry.

Only the manager joined the army, Huang Qi, who did not care about Li Daochong's face, and expressed his goodwill in public: "I came from Hangzhou and listened to the teachings of Mr. Motang (Chen Yuan) last year. ”

"I see," Zhu Ming said, taking Huang Jue's hand, "I want to be close to each other in the future." ”

Huang Qi was the principal of the government school in Hangzhou, and like Chen Yuan, he was from Fujian.

Chen Yuan went home, passed by Hangzhou, and once lectured for half a month, and Huang Jue very much agreed with the study of Taoism.

Huang Qi is not famous himself, but he taught two champion students: Shen Hui, the last champion of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhang Jiucheng, the second champion of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Ming and Huang Qi took the same car into the city.

Li Daochong's face became more and more ugly, this Huang Jue had been against him before, and now he was mixed with Zhu Ming.

Zhu Ming lifted the curtain, looked at the city wall that was getting closer and closer, and asked, "How long has the Jinzhou city wall not been repaired?" ”

Huang Qi said: "A few decades ago, the Han River swelled and repaired once. ”

Zhu Ming said again: "I came along the Yue River, and the water conservancy along the river is also deserted. ”

"They are all busy panning for gold, how can they have the heart to repair water conservancy?" Huang Jue couldn't help but say, "I also took care of it, personally took a boat to Hengkou Town, and ordered the farmers to go home to farm." Alas, it's a pity that no one listened, and they were still too guarded with means! ”

Huang Qi belongs to the kind of civil officials who are very knowledgeable and upright, but have little ability to do things.

In fact, it's not that he is incapable, but he is in the general environment, and his top boss is Cai Dang, he really doesn't know how to break the situation, so he can only get by and live a chaotic life.

Huang Jue looked back and asked in a low voice, "Is the gold buckle too guarded?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "It's only a few catties." ”

Huang Qi reminded: "This is an ultra vires act, beware of being impeached by the traitorous party." ”

Zhu Ming said righteously: "Ask for your life for the people, why spare your own life?" ”

Huang Jue was in awe, sat up straight and arched his hand and said, "What Mr. Mo'an said is the unity of knowledge and action, I'm afraid that's the case." I'm ashamed, although I understand this truth, but after all, I don't dare to go out and go against the traitorous party. ”

"It's good to have that." Zhu Ming comforted.

(End of chapter)