Zhang Wen sat in the signing room, casually looking at the documents and accounts reported by each room, thinking about what to do to really break free from their constraints. While thinking, he spoke to Huang Renzhi next to him, "Mr. Huang, help me look carefully, and give me any doubts." ”

Huang Ren stroked his beard and played, and said leisurely: "If you look carefully at everything, can you see it?" ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly humbly asked: "Please Mr. Huang for guidance." ”

Huang Ren said straightly: "If there is a problem with the official documents and accounts, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the officials are generally held accountable, what do you do with so many things?" Just grab three points. ”

"Which three?"

"As soon as the tax is levied, Shangyu County is a middle county, and it is paid sixty percent according to the tax specifications of the county every year, and the peak will not be blamed; Second, keep the county calm and peaceful, don't always let people go to the higher levels to sue, and don't provoke rebellion. Both of these things have been done, and if Shangfeng is still making things difficult for adults in terms of administration, then everyone will not be able to stand it. As for some subsections, like these accounts, they are all tricks to see, and they are useless, and those who manage the accounts have taken all the things that should be taken, and who still records them? ”

Zhang Wen nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Mr. Huang said three points just now, what about one more point?" ”

Huang Ren pointed to an official document in front of him and said, "This is it." ”

Zhang Wen took it over and looked at it, saying that some relative of the Shaoxing prefect crossed the border of Shangyu County, and the county government allocated fifty taels of silver to the post station as the travel expenses of that relative.

Huang Ren said straightly: "Fifty taels is obviously less, but five hundred taels." ”

Zhang asked and said: "It is the county Cheng Liangma who is in charge of the money and grain, and they are deliberately rectifying me?" ”

Huang Renzhi nodded and said, "I'm afraid that's the case, and after saving so many expenses, they didn't take the rest of the envy." ”

Zhang Wen suddenly felt angry on his face.

Huang Renzhi said again: "The matter of the scrivener of the torture room got to this point, and the adult's incident last night is known to passers-by, and it is a joke, and the victory and defeat have been decided." Adults should stop biting and deal with it as soon as possible. Adults don't care, but let them figure it out. ”

Zhang Wen sighed, bowed and bowed, "Thank you Mr. Huang for your advice." ”

Huang Ren smiled, hurriedly got up and returned the salute, and said: "The old man took the salary given by the adult, and the so-called matter of eating the king and being loyal to the king is naturally worthy of the silver." Adults don't have to. ”

Zhang asked, "Mr. Huang can't afford to pay that amount of money, so I want Mr. Xie." ”

Huang Renzhi nodded and said, "Although the adult is from a Jinshi, after all, he is young, and it is not easy to do what he is now. The old man accepted the worship of the adult, and said another word. ”

Zhang Wen said modestly at the moment: "Please Mr. Huang for advice." ”

"At the end of this year, there is a royal history to inspect local officials in various places, as long as the adults pass the imperial history, at least this Shangyu Zhixian is sitting firmly, and it will not change for at least three years, and those people below will naturally be obedient at that time." Huang Renzhi said unhurriedly, "The county seal is in the hands of adults, if they don't cooperate with adults, everything will be inconvenient." So the adults are not thinking about how to fight them at this time, but they first sit in this position, and with the power of the chief, they can't fight them? ”

Zhang asked, "Mr. Huang is really my officialdom teacher. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, the adult is an eighteen-year-old Jinshi, which makes the old man admire it so much, the old man has not been admitted to the lifting of people for decades...... Hehe, let the adults laugh. ”

Zhang asked: "With Mr. Huang's knowledge, even if he is a friend of the governor, it is more than enough, I don't know why you want to come to this small county in Shangyu with me?" ”

Huang Renzhi showed a vicissitudes of life on his face, and said with a forced smile: "My lord is promoting the old man, or is it more practical to have silver." ”

Zhang Wen said embarrassedly: "When the official has the silver, he will definitely pay back the principal and interest." ”

"No hurry, no hurry."

In the afternoon, there was a dinner hall, and Zhang Wen ordered to ascend to the lobby, the same ceremony, the same drum, and the same singing: "Ascend ...... Hall...... Oh......"

Zhang Wen walked up to the warm pavilion, took a seat on the public seat, knelt down in soapy clothes, and then stood solemnly.

"Someone, bring the criminal Huang Dashi to the court."

At this time, the scribe Feng Gui immediately became nervous, in fact, Feng Gui was not really fearless, he was also gambling on the choice between Xinzhi County and the old master. Gambling is risky, if Zhang Wen's magistrate can sit for a long time, he Feng Gui will definitely not be pleased.

But Feng Gui chose to be in charge of Bo, because he felt that these people were very powerful, and it was more stable to choose them, unlike Zhang Wen of Xinzhi County, who heard that he also offended the people above.

Huang Dashi knelt under the hall wearing a chain.

Zhang Wen said to Feng Gui: "Read the confession of the bitter lord that day. ”

Feng Gui was overjoyed at the moment and read the confession again. Zhang asked: "Huang Dashi, the confession of the bitter master Li Ke, can you plead guilty?" ”

That Huang Dashi has been paying attention to the "entering through the dog gate", and when he heard it clearly, he immediately said: "The grass people confess. ”

"Okay, take it to him."

Soap Yi took the confession and went down to draw a charge for him. Zhang asked: "Now the official sentence is as follows, Huang Dashi is guilty of stealing gold and silver, according to the "Da Ming Law" ......" Zhang Wen looked at Feng Gui, Feng Gui said in a low voice: "Twenty rods, three days of flail." ”

Zhang Wen continued: "Twenty rods, three days. ”

Huang Dashi hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Thank you for not killing, thank you for not killing." ”

Soap Yi brought the yellow stone down.

At this time, a servant came in to hand in the signature. Signs and tickets are the same, are used to dispatch the officer, almost the errand when the use of the holder, the tube in the sign, the name of each service, almost a certain service, then draw its name to the officer, the errand will be handed back.

The ticket is a paper ticket, on which the things to be done are written with an ink pen, the date is limited, the pen is signed, and the official seal is stamped.

The official said: "Yu Tang Zun, Luo Jiazhuang owes grain tax for three years, last year has compared the corresponding grain chief, the elder, the small one got the name of the Tang Zun yesterday, has taken Luo Jiazhuang's family, please Tang Zun to show down." ”

Yesterday, Huang Renzhi said that he generally did this to those who owed grain, and Zhang asked to sign it. At this time, he turned around and asked Huang Renzhi: "What's the comparison?" ”

Huang Ren said straightly: "Those who resist taxes will first pay the grain chief, called the comparative grain chief, and then compare the elderly, and if they don't pay, they will owe more money to their families." ”

Zhang asked, "Then bring it to the hall...... Compare. ”

At this time, Huang Renzhi said in a low voice: "It's not a family member at all, it must be a beggar who owes a grain to the household." ”

Zhang Wen was surprised: "Why don't you take the family according to the law?" ”

"There are relatives who are officials in the court. If you don't compare according to the rules, other grain households will feel unfair, so they hire beggars. ”

"Oh......"

At this time, it was really an old man dressed in tatters, skinny as wood, afraid that he would be beaten for a meal.

Seeing that he was pitiful, Zhang Wen turned around and asked, "Can you not compare?" ”

Huang Ren said straightly: "Just mean it." ”

Zhang Wen beckoned to the soapy clothes on the side, and the soapy clothes came over, and Zhang Wen said: "Tell people to start as lightly as possible, and give a meal to eat after the fight." ”

"The little one understands."

After Zhang Wen finished instructing, he was shocked: "Those who are bold to resist taxes, give me a comparison!" ”

The official pressed the old man to the ground and slapped the board a dozen times, and the comparison was over.

"Take it down to the hall."

The official was about to drag the old man when he suddenly said, "Honorable, he's dead." ”

Zhang Wen was taken aback and almost stood up. Huang Renzhi in the back said in a low voice: "If you die, you will die, carry it out to the employer and solve it yourself." ”

Zhang Wen sighed and said, "Carry it out and return it to the family." ”

After a while, when the time had arrived, he beat the drum and retreated, and Zhang Wen returned to the inner house, changed his clothes and prepared to go out for a walk. Wu walked to the door and asked hesitantly, "Do you want to go out again?" ”

Zhang Wen nodded.

Wu frowned, her position in the Zhang family was already embarrassing, and when she was brought home by Master Zhang, she was not a few years older than Zhang Wen, who had just learned to read and write, and the Zhang family treated her like a daughter, and she had always been grateful to the Lord and Mrs. for their kindness. Not long after she came to the house, her wife passed away, looking at the young and bereaved mother, Zhang Wen didn't know how to comfort her, some neighbors gossiped that she killed her wife, she didn't know if Zhang Wen thought the same way, but she never defended herself, because she knew that she was not so important. A few years ago, the old man was seriously ill, the medicine stone was ineffective, and he listened to the words of the fortune teller to marry her Chongxi, at that time Zhang Wen was already a young man who read poetry and books, and his indifferent eyes at the wedding have confirmed her future status in this family, she has never been and will not be Zhang Wen's veritable mother, and will not become Mrs. Zhang. The lord passed away on the third day after the wedding feast. Before dying, she stood by the bedside and looked into the eyes of the old man, understanding that he had already seen through life and death, and he did not believe in such things as fate and chongxi, but just wanted to give the Wu family a name that could ensure that she had no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life, because he knew that even if his son had no respect for this "mother" in his heart, he would definitely be filial to her and fulfill his responsibility to support her, regardless of family background. Wu was still grateful for the final decision that the master had made for her, but sometimes she preferred that the master had not thought so thoroughly, so that she might not have to feel like a burden every day and dragged Zhang Wen. She now sees him every day, often not knowing how to speak, what kind of identity and tone to speak to him.

"I remember when my lord was alive, he often said that only if you are not greedy for pleasure and care about the well-being of the people can you be regarded as a parent official. In the future, you should go to that kind of place less, right? Her face couldn't help but flush as she spoke, she listened to the rumors on the street and knew that Zhang Wen had come back last night, but it was true that he had come back late.

Zhang Wen's face turned red unconsciously, not only because the stepmother of the Wu family who was now facing him was a little embarrassed to talk to him about Qinglou, but also because she mentioned his father's bad problems at every turn, which really made him feel angry, as if she knew more about his father than Zhang Wen, at this time Zhang Wen really wanted to yell back, but she was just a woman with no relatives and no reason, she was timid to look at him in the courtyard every day, much more jerky than those subordinates, if he really lost his temper at her, where else could she run? "Got it." Zhang Wen answered briefly before going out, wanting to tell her that he wasn't doing what others thought he was there last night, but in the end he still felt that it was unnecessary, and how much she could understand the pressure he faced in the officialdom.