Li Shi'er smiled and hurriedly replied, "This.... The slave didn't dare to say such disrespectful words and things in front of the master.

But since the lord is here today, if I don't say it, it will be disloyal, a slave has no conscience, and he has been infamous as a disloyal and unrighteous villain; If I say it all, I also know that the lord will be angry and punish me, but I am loyal and a loyal servant, how can I punish me because I am afraid that the lord will punish me, then I will pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Master, the slave is brave and loyal, and I think the master will be able to understand me."

Jia Zheng looked at Li Shi'er in front of him and also restrained his temper, but felt that this Li Shi'er was a great loyal slave, and his conscience was quite rich, so he smiled and said, "Your slave is not bad. However, no one else dares to say this to me, but you have a kind. But don't worry, as long as you are right, I will not punish you for this." net

Li Shi'er said: "Actually, the lord doesn't know, those scribes and officials are all official positions that have been bought with money, and the matter of selling official beards has abounded throughout the ages.

They spent the silver, so they naturally wanted to get their money back, and they all relied on the little money issued by the imperial court, how could they be? Even if it's enough, how many teenagers will it take to be able to return to the basics?

The officials and scribes in this yamen don't want to make a windfall? After all, they also have to provide for their families.

It's just that since the lord came to this post, he hasn't seen the lord contribute to the country's major affairs and make any achievements, but it has aroused the dissatisfaction of many people and said some gossip that is not good for him."

Jia Zheng was quite surprised when he heard this, he was an honest and honest official, how could he be gossiped about, and he looked at Li Shi'er in surprise and asked, "I have a clean sleeve and have never done anything that violates the law of the country, how can this folk gossip about me?" Tell me what gossip you have?"

Li Shi'er smiled slightly and said, "Those people are all saying in private that if there is a newly arrived lord in this court, the more beneficial the notice promulgated, the more they want to make money from the people and grab wealth from the pockets of the people.

The state and county were afraid, so they sent a lot of silver to the old men, and they were also afraid that they would be unlucky and the whole family would be unlucky.

When it was time to collect grain, the yamen said that he would do what the lord said, and told the people that the newly arrived lord was different from the previous lord, and he told them that the lord and your decree were listened to with them, indicating that the lord was a clean official and would not ask the people and the officials below for money.

It's just that those villagers are willing to spend a few dollars in their hearts, and they are usually early, but now the old man said that he didn't want money, and they were afraid, afraid that the old man would say that he didn't want money, and that he was secretly making money better than anyone else, and they were even more scared!

So those people not only don't say half a good word about the lord, but say that the lord must be a big corrupt official, so that the state lords can make more money and squeeze more ruthlessly.

Some people even said that what was the price before, but now after the lord takes office, the price will rise, and for a while, the people are panicked and say a lot of gossip to the lord.

It's that the adults above don't dare to embarrass the lord because they know the identity of the master, and for the sake of officialdom and harmony, those who know the times pretend to be harmonious with the top, but the officials below and the adults above don't think so, and it's only a few years old, and there is no future for them, how can they get it?"

When Jia Zheng heard this, his face changed slightly, and he reprimanded: "It's really nonsense, am I really so ignorant of current affairs? If it is really harmony between the upper and lower levels, you are telling me to be a corrupt official with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials?"

When Li Shi'er saw Jia Zheng angry, he also replied: "Master, don't be angry, it's not the words of the slaves, but the gossip of those people below, I just said this with this loyalty. If the lord is still unwilling to listen to a few good words, when the lord is here to become famous, the lord will say that the slave has no conscience and will not tell anything

sued the master, and did not remind the master of this matter from the side."

When Jia Zheng heard this, his face once again showed a deep expression and said, "Then in your opinion, what should I do, master?"

At this moment, Jia Zheng also seems to have realized the entanglement of Jia Yucun in the past, when he tried Xue Pan, that feeling of powerlessness was to weigh the pros and cons, cling to the powerful, and deliberately misjudge the murder case, or to be upright, offend the powerful, and become a small person on the edge of society.

For a while, Jia Zheng's heart was also very entangled, and he couldn't help but ask himself in his heart: "Could it be that this Qing official has also become a mistake in the eyes of the people?"

Jia Zheng is high, but he is not a low-level official.

The low-level officials are the masters who are in charge, and they have to deal with those people every day.

What Jia Zheng conveyed here will not be the same when it falls below.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom.

Even the authority of the emperor could not go to the countryside.

No matter how good the above idea is, once it is concretely implemented, don't you still have to count on these grassroots officials?

It is impossible to let the emperor come down as such a small county magistrate!

Even if the emperor really comes, can so many county orders in the whole world be able to find the emperor to be the emperor?

Therefore, Jia Zheng is certainly not wrong, but in the eyes of Li Shier and others, it is an extremely stupid act.

There is no benefit, the officials below, who wants to do things for Jia Zheng?

I can't say, because of Jia Zhenggang's honest and honest behavior, they are afraid that they will encounter Jia Zheng's butcher's knife, and they will secretly stumble, and it is not necessary to disgust Jia Zheng.

If there is harmony between the upper and lower levels, they must be in the same stream and in the same dust, otherwise, there is really no way for this big official to do anything in the ancient society.

Li Shi'er saw that Jia Zheng was moved by his clever mouth, and his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Master, in fact, this matter has been talked about, and there is nothing else.

Now the spirit and age of the old man are in the prime of life, and there are also wives in this family to take care of, and the old lady's body is also tough, and everyone feels that the old man can only take care of himself.

If the old man keeps looking for money at home, I'm afraid it won't be a year's time, and even the money in the old man's house will be taken out to make up for it, and there will be a big and small head and brain complaining.

The wives in the family will complain about the lord in private, saying that the lord is a foreign officer, not only do they not send some silver to the family for the wives to eat and wear, not to mention, but they also keep asking for silver from the family, subsidizing this, naturally they got private money in the field, hid the money outside for their own use, and used it to support the little wife, making a lot of trouble inside and outside are not people.

If something happens to the lord in the future, then who will help the lord say a few words?

Those people hate the lord so much, and they want the lord to die early.

Once the master is in trouble, he also wants to solve it at that time, but he can't solve it, and it's too late to regret it."