This is Chang Feng's third errand trip to Beijing since he joined the guard.

The first time he went out of Beijing, he caused a disaster in Shandong and kept the storage position for Zhu Youji.

The second time he left Beijing, he went to the oyster mirror to worship Mazu. During this period, they killed the Japanese and slaughtered the gentry, and provoked the internal fighting between the real and the fake Japanese.

The third time he went out of Beijing, God knows what kind of waves he will make.

Chang Feng came out of the Qianqing Palace and returned to Jinyiwei to discuss with Xu Guangzuo.

Chang Feng said: "In the sixty-nine counties that have been inventoried, the number of grain hoards is all full. I suspect that many of the robes were bought by magistrates. ”

Xu Fatzi echoed: "It must be so." The magistrate's method of buying people is clever! When you come up, you will send money and women. ”

"There are very few people in this world who are not greedy for money, and there are very few people who are not lustful. Neither greedy for money nor lustful is simply rare! ”

Chang Feng said: "We don't bring a guard of honor when we go out of Beijing to inspect this time." Plainclothes walking. Only fifty elite wrestlers were brought with them, all of whom were armed with scorpion crossbows. ”

Xu Fatzi said: "Success!" Wearing official clothes and making fanfare inspections, it is inconvenient to do things. ”

Xu Fatzi thought that it was inconvenient to visit the local Qinglou in his spare time by inspecting with great fanfare. The famous prostitutes in the capital are not blown out. Everywhere you go, you have to check the customs.

The custom shop explores the shop and the Internet celebrity belongs to yes.

Chang Feng said again: "We have to take Qian Ning and Shi Wenyi with us this time." ”

Chang Feng considered that if there was really internal and external collusion to obstruct the Holy Hearing, the officials would definitely be killed.

To kill an official is to offend a string of protégés behind the official.

The murder is still handed over to his stand-in Qian Ning.

As for Shi Wenyi. He's so good at serving. The robes even nicknamed him "Big Guy". With him, he can arrange food and accommodation along the way.

made up his mind, and Chang Feng went home. Let Mrs. Nine pack a few changes of clothes for him. The flying fish suit and the embroidered spring knife were put into a rattan box.

Mrs. Nine was a little reluctant: "How many days will I have to go on this errand?" ”

Chang Feng said: "This time, I won't go out of Beizhili, just hang around in a few prefectures and counties near the capital." It didn't take two months to be back. ”

The Ninth Lady said, "Then you have to take care." Don't be like last February, when you ran an errand in Daguan, you have such a long scar on your chest. ”

Chang Feng picked up the embroidered spring knife in the rattan box and wiped the scabbard with a cloth: "Don't worry." This time he went out to deal with the officials, not against the Tatars. It's a pity that the official died. They didn't have the guts to assassinate Chincha. ”

"Besides, I have fifty elite wrestlers with me. All of them are good hands from the 12th regiment battalion. ”

Mrs. Nine was a little melancholy: "I have to leave for two months, alas"

Chang Feng attached to the ears of the Ninth Lady and whispered between her husband and concubine: "You are in charge of the family's shopping." Don't you know, the eggplant on the market is 12 cents a pound."

The Ninth Lady's small fists continued to hammer into Chang Feng's chest one after another: "It's bad for you." ”

For a while, the atmosphere in the bedroom became ambiguous, and Chang Feng closed the bedroom door smoothly

On the third day of the first month of March, Chang Feng took everyone out of Beijing.

They planned to inspect Ansu, Dingxing, Xincheng, Rongcheng, and Xiongxian counties in Baoding Province, a total of five counties.

Everyone came to Xiongxian first.

During the Mengyuan period, the county was determined by the registered population. There are more than 6,000 households in the upper county, 2,000 households in the middle county, and less than 2,000 households in the lower county.

After the founding of Hongwu, the county was determined by the amount of money and grain paid. 100,000 stone of grain is for the upper county, 60,000 stone is for the middle county, and 30,000 stone is for the lower county.

Xiongxian is a lower county with an annual grain payment of 20,000 stones. According to the standard set by Emperor Hongzhi, the county's official warehouse should accumulate 5,000 stone of grain.

Everyone entered the county seat of Xiongxian County and stayed in the only inn in the county.

The second floor of the inn is the guest room, and the first floor is the restaurant.

Chang Feng went downstairs with everyone to taste Baoding's local specialty donkey meat.

After a while, several people walked into the inn.

The man at the head was dressed in a robe with a chain around his waist. The rest of the men were armed with waist knives. He looks like a local servant.

The shopkeeper of the inn hurriedly greeted him: "Oh, this is not Jia Bantou." Come and go. Are you here for dinner, or are you here for dinner? ”

Jia Bantou looks hey! The monkey has sharp-beaked gills, a crooked nose and slanted eyes, and is as thin as a skeleton. Anyone who saw his dignity would have nightmares or nausea and couldn't sleep.

Jia Bantou scolded the shopkeeper Wang: "Fart! Did you use Lao Tzu as a wine bag and rice bag? Lao Tzu has to eat when he comes to your inn? Can't work poorly? ”

Shopkeeper Wang seemed to be very familiar with Jia Bantou, and he smiled: "Don't eat, that relationship is good." You don't give money anyway for eating. ”

Jia Bantou said angrily: "Shopkeeper Wang, don't look at your mother-in-law's second uncle's brother-in-law's brother-in-law is the king's head catcher, so he dares to grind his mouth and fight with me all day long!" ”

After speaking, Jia Bantou raised his arm like a withered branch: "When I entered the county office, he was still collecting swill on Slanting Eye Street!" ”

The shopkeeper said, "Yes, yes." Who doesn't know you. If you fart, the whole Xiongxian County will tremble. If you poop, the whole Xiongxian County can smell the stench. ”

Jia Bantou was smug: "That's!" After a while, he frowned: "No, why don't I sound like a good word!" ”

Chang Feng on the side listened to the conversation between Jia Bantou and the shopkeeper Wang, and couldn't help laughing.

Jia Bantou said: "Okay! Let's do business first. The meal has to be prepared for us, and we will eat it after we finish it! ”

The shopkeeper muttered in a low voice, "Yes, I'm still here for dinner." I'll let the kitchen prepare your meal. ”

Jia Bantou started working poorly. The so-called tolerance is actually blackmail.

Xiongxian is a poor place where birds don't poop. The common people can't be bare-chested when they are poor.

The inn is different. The people who live there are merchants who come and go from the south to the north. This is the only place where oil and water can be squeezed.

Jia Ban led a few soaps to a table of guests.

Jia Bantou said: "Yo, isn't this the ginger shopkeeper of Fucheng Butcher's Shop?" You've been making a fortune lately! ”

Shopkeeper Jiang knew that he had provoked a disaster, so he hurriedly got up: "Jia Bantou, I still have something in the shop, go first." ”

Jia Bantou stopped the shopkeeper Jiang: "Don't go!" Someone came to our strong class and sued you. Say you sell sick pork! ”

The shopkeeper Jiang patted his chest and shouted: "The conscience of heaven and earth." The pigs I killed were just as alive as you were. ”

Jia Ban grabbed the hand of the shopkeeper Jiang with his hand: "Your silver slipper looks like mine." ”

After speaking, Jia Bantou took away the silver slip of the Jiang shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper Jiang said: "I just beat this silver slipper." ”

Jia Bantou sneered: "What I fancy is mine!" What, do you need to bring someone to your shop to check on the sick pigs? ”

The Jiang shopkeeper admitted that he was unlucky: "Yes, is it yours yet?" I'm still waiting to kill the pig in my shop. Goodbye. ”

After speaking, the shopkeeper Jiang left in a huff.

Chang Feng frowned. The leaders and errands in these county offices are heaven for the common people. They are like crabs on their own turf and can walk sideways.

Xu Fatzi was about to get up, and he said in a low voice: "I'll teach this dog a lesson." ”

Chang Feng stretched out his hand and pressed his shoulder: "We came out this time to check and stock up on grain, so we don't have to make any extraneous branches." There are too many such things in the world, and we can't control them. ”

Chang Feng spared Jia Bantou, but Jia Bantou took the initiative to find trouble.

He walked up to Chang Feng: "What are you doing?" ”

Chang Feng replied: "Passing merchants." ”

Jia Bantou stretched out his hand: "Merchant? What about the guides? ”

According to the "Great Message", all the people of the Ming Dynasty who are hundreds of miles away from their places of residence need to be issued by the local yamen. Similar to a pass.

If there is no way out, the government can send him back to his place of origin.

Chang Feng was stunned. Jinyi Wei Weifu goes out, how can he find Shuntianfu to open a road?

Chang Feng said: "I forgot about it." ”

Jia Bantou smiled: "That's easy to do!" Either pay a fine of thirty taels of silver, or I will arrest you and take you back to the county office, beat you with thirty boards, confiscate the goods, and send you to your hometown. ”

Chang Feng stood up: "The silver is on my waist." Take it yourself. ”

Jia Bantou smiled darkly: "I like you to be so knowledgeable." ”

Jia Bantou reached out and touched a hard thing on Chang Feng's waist.

That's Changfeng's waist card.

Jia Bantou picked up the waist card and looked at it, and scolded: "You dare to play me? Just such a broken copper lump, can it be worth thirty taels of silver? ”

Chang Feng couldn't cry or laugh. It seems that this Jia Bantou is illiterate at all!

Jia Ban raised his head and gave Chang Feng a big fight.

Chang Feng was stunned! In the autumn of the twenty-second year of Zichenghua, he asked Wantong to beat him in the duty room, and he never received a slap again.

Jia Bantou is amazing. actually gave the well-known Jinyi Weichang butcher in the capital a big fight!

Seeing this, Qian Ning became angry and slapped the table: "Brothers, give me a call!" ”

"Hula!" More than 50 civilian clothes wrestlers got up together, rushed up, and beat Jia Ban and the others to the point that they cried and shouted for their mother, with a blue nose and swollen face.

After a pillar of incense, Chang Feng waved his hand: "That's it!" Don't kill anyone. Let them go. ”

Jia Bantou thanked him for his kindness: "Thank you for the grace of the good man's life!" Brothers, go! ”

A few minions followed Jia Bantou to the door of the inn. Jia Bantou suddenly turned around and shouted, "You're in trouble!" Wait for me! ”

After shouting, he ran away.

Xu Fatzi was indignant: "Damn, Master Chang, why don't you order them to be corrected on the spot?" ”

Chang Feng said: "As the saying goes, little ghosts are difficult. This kind of little devil in the yamen, there are not 100,000 but 80,000 in the whole world. Shall we finish killing? ”

The crowd had just finished eating. Suddenly, dozens of catchers, soaps, and people rushed in.

The leader is the warden of the county government, surnamed Lu. Jabantou followed behind him.

Although the warden has no grade, he is in charge of the county's arrest of thieves and handling cases. It is equivalent to the county-level director of the Folpole in later generations.

Lu Dian's official shouted: "Beating an official is like a rebellion!" I'd like to see who is so bold. ”

Chang Feng sighed: "Alas. Originally, it was going to be a private interview with Weifu. Well, I can't hide it. ”

"Hulala", fifty wrestlers escorted Chang Feng, all took out their scorpion crossbows, and aimed them at those officials.

Lu Dianguan shouted: "It's the opposite! It's the other way around! Dare to hold a blade privately! ”

Jia Bantou saw that the momentum was not right, and said: "I rode out of the city on a donkey and found the garrisons of hundreds of households outside the city to quell the rebellion!" And when he had said that, he was to anoint the soles of his feet.

Chang Feng no longer hides his identity. He threw the waist card in the face of Lu Dian.

Lu Dian's official was in pain, caught the waist card with his hand, and glanced at it. It didn't matter if he looked at it, he knelt down for Chang Feng with a "poof".

Jia Bantou was puzzled: "Master Lu, why did you kneel down for the thief?" ”

Lu Dianguan scolded: "Blind you, oh no, our dog eyes!" These are the top of the brocade guard! ”

"Shangcha, I don't know Taishan with eyes! Spare your life! ”

Jia Bantou can be regarded as a small leader of the officials. Although he was illiterate, he had also heard of the name of Jinyiwei.

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Ah! Ancestors spare their lives! Ancestors spare their lives! ”

Chang Feng walked up to Jia Bantou: "You just slapped me." I don't want your life, I just want you to pay back this slap. Fat Xu, pump him! One is the limit! ”

The strong man Xu Fatzi, who was more than 200 pounds, lifted Jia Bantou up like a chicken. He commanded, "Stand up straight! ”

Jia Bantou had no choice but to obey orders.

Fat Xu took a deep breath, gathered enough strength, and slapped Jia Bantou in the face.

The strength was so great that it directly made Jia Bantou turn around three times on the spot, and four teeth were broken.

Chang Feng said: "That's it! I'll spare you once. Take us to the county office! ”

Chang Feng and others entered the Xiongxian County Office.

The five Jinyi guards who inspected and hoarded grain in Xiongxian County also lived in the county office.

They visited Changfeng with Cheng Zhixian of Xiongxian County.

Chang Feng did not pursue Lu Dian's and Jia Bantou's collision with him again. Asked bluntly: "How much grain have you stockpiled in the official warehouse of Xiongxian County?" ”

Cheng Zhixian replied: "Five thousand five hundred stones." in excess of the amount set by the Holy Decree by one percent. ”

Chang Feng looked at the general banner of Pao Zeliang, who was kneeling beside Cheng Zhixian.

He saw that Liang Zongqi's face was slightly red, as if he had drunk wine. There is also a smell of fat powder on the body.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Liang Hong, have you checked it?" ”

Liang Zongqi replied: "Master Chang, I have checked it." Five thousand five hundred stones, one stone is not less. ”

Chang Feng actually did not object to his subordinates eating the magistrate's wine and playing with the woman sent by the magistrate.

When he went to the south on an errand by himself, he also received the wine and filial piety of the magistrates along the way.

This is the rule of officialdom. The reception has been the same for thousands of years.

As long as the errand is handled impartially and without favoritism, it will be done.

Chang Feng said: "Okay! Take me to inspect the official warehouse in your county. Cheng Zhixian, I have words first. I know that the official warehouses everywhere are tired. ”

"It's nothing more than taking old grain and swapping new grain to make the difference; Mixing quicklime into the grain makes the grain rise; There are three kinds of sand to steal weight. ”

"If I find out, you will lose not only the official hat, but also the head under the official hat!"

Cheng Zhixian said confidently: "Check it casually!" Our official warehouses are all full of wheat. Find out a grain of wheat, a piece of sand, a handful of lime, you take my head! ”

Chang Feng said: "Okay! Let's go, let's go to Guancang. ”

One stone of one hundred and sixty-six catties in the Ming system. The main production of Xiongxian County is wheat. A total of more than 900,000 catties of wheat were hoarded in the official warehouse.

Chang Feng and the others walked to a grain hoard, and he ordered someone to bring a sharpened half-cut bamboo and poke it on the sack containing grain.

"Whoa, whoa", a lot of wheat grains flowed out of the bamboo.

Chang Feng grabbed a handful, looked at it, and put a few grains of wheat in his mouth to chew: "Well, it is indeed good new wheat." ”

Cheng Zhixian said triumphantly: "The emperor has issued a holy decree, how dare the lower officials slacken?" I will do my best to make mistakes, and I don't dare to make any mistakes. ”

Chang Feng said: "There is no basis for what you say. Jin Yiwei only looks at the facts when handling cases. Come on, check it out for me! ”

More than 50 wrestlers, each responsible for three or five grain tuns, took half of the bamboo to inspect around.

It was found from noon to late evening. Sure enough, as Cheng Zhixian said, all of them were heavy new wheat, and the total number was only a hundred catties.

More than 5,500 stone grains, there is always the loss of insects eating rats. A hundred pounds of grain is nothing.

Chang Feng praised Cheng Zhixian: "You are still a dedicated errand!" ”

Cheng Zhixian hurriedly said: "It's a bad compliment." Tonight, the lower officials will set up wine in the back office to catch the wind for you. I don't know if the upper difference can appreciate the light. ”

Chang Feng said: "Forget it." When you set up the wine, you need to have a woman to accompany the wine. We have to hurry tomorrow, and we can't put all our strength on women. ”

"We'll spend the night at the inn and leave tomorrow. The wine is exempt. ”

Then Chang Feng ordered Liang Zongqi again: "The inspection of Xiongxian County is over." Depart tomorrow also to inspect the rest of your ministry. ”

Liang Zongqi arched his hand: "Yes, Chang Ye." ”

Chang Feng remembered something: "Cheng Zhixian, you have a team leader surnamed Jia under you, who oppresses the people and extorts money. How can such a person be used again? ”

Cheng Zhixian immediately said: "Xiaguan immediately asked him to roll up and roll up!" ”

At night, Chang Feng returned to the inn. The crowd tasted the donkey soup.

Xu Fatzi "Boom", he ate a sea basin by himself.

Chang Feng said: "I always feel that something is wrong. ”

Xu Fatzi wiped his flamboyant mouth: "What's wrong?" The wheat is of good color. The numbers are also right. and stocked up on an extra 500 stones. ”

Chang Feng said: "It's because Cheng Zhixian's errand is done without leakage that I don't think it's right." I can't tell what's wrong. ”

Xu Fatzi said: "Cough, Chang Ye, are you too careful." There are more than 1,100 counties in the whole world. There is always a few dutiful ones to be singled out. ”

Chang Feng said: "That's it." Tomorrow, let's go to inspect Ansu County. ”

In the next half month, Chang Feng and others inspected the three counties of Ansu, Dingxing, and Xincheng.

Without exception, all the food hoards are sufficient. The wheat is also in good condition, and it is the new wheat of last year.

At the end of March, they came to the last county they visited, Rongcheng County.

Rongcheng County Ya.

When the magistrate saw Chang Feng, he bowed his head and bowed: "Huang Boren, the magistrate of Xiaguan Rongcheng, meet the superiors." ”

Chang Feng looked at Huang Zhixian. I saw that this Huang Zhixian was born with a fat head and big ears, and he had three golden slippers and two jade rings on his ten fingers. It doesn't look like a clean official.

Chang Feng suddenly felt that his name was very familiar: "Huang Boren? Why does it sound so familiar? Last year, the third place in the Beizhili Township Test, Yayuan Huang Zhongren, who are you? ”

In ancient times, if there were several brothers in a family, they would use "uncle, middle, uncle, and season" when naming them, and the elders and young would be orderly.

Huang Boren and Huang Zhongren sound like two brothers.

Huang Zhixian replied: "The gift is poor." Huang Zhongren is a younger brother. ”

Chang Feng's impression of Huang Zhixian was a little worse. As soon as his younger brother was promoted, he was full of promotions and made a fortune. Nine times out of ten, the elder brother is a corrupt official.

Chang Feng sneered: "Heh, if you want to talk about it, your second brother and I are still the same year." We are cordial brothers. ”

Huang Zhixian hurriedly said: "Don't dare to climb high." ”

Chang Feng said: "We came this time to check the grain hoarding in Gui County. ”

A trace of panic flashed on Huang Zhixian's fat face: "Huh? The brocade guard of the check-in warehouse has just left! ”

Chang Feng glared at Huang Zhixian: "What are you panicking about?" There's no ghost in my heart, are you afraid that we will check it twice? Could it be that you colluded with the Jinyi guards who checked the warehouse, gave bribes, and shielded and protected? ”

Huang Zhixian hurriedly said: "Ah, there is no such thing!" ”

Chang Feng said: "Is there any, you will know it as soon as you check the official warehouse!" ”

Chang Feng has already concluded that the food hoarding in Rongcheng County must be greasy. Everyone came to the Rongcheng Guancang.

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