Chapter 168: If the Emperor Sees My Calloused Hands, Hehe, Hehe (5,000 Words)
Yanggu County Ya.
Guo Qidonkey's brows were tightly locked, and his face was full of sadness.
A water dragon is a good way to do it. But I'm afraid that Liu Daxia will lead the Chang butcher of Jinyiwei around Shandong. He couldn't tear up and destroy all the dams in Shandong.
So far, we can only take one step at a time. After breaking the embankment of the Jialu River, we will talk about it.
He had a hint of luck: Fortunately, *** Dad is the chief Bingbi of the celebrant supervisor, and Qian Ning is in Shandong to take care of me. The two Qincha did not look at the face of the monk and looked at the face of the Buddha......
Everything is a combination of risk and benefit.
When there is no flood, the river officer is a first-class fat shortage. Once there is a flood, it becomes an unlucky child who may lose his head.
A brocade-clothed guard came to him: "Young Eunuch Guo, the two Qin envoys have invited you to go to the lobby to discuss the matter of the work."
Guo Qi Donkey followed Lux to the lobby.
As soon as he entered the lobby, he noticed that the atmosphere was not right.
Chang Feng sat in the main hall. Liu Daxia and Huang Boren lined up on either side.
The geese on both sides of the brocade guard are lined up. This is clearly the posture of the trial.
Seeing Guo Qi's donkey coming, Chang Feng was shocked by a row of trees: "Come on, take it!"
The two wrestlers immediately stepped forward and tied Guo Qi's donkey's hands.
Chang Feng said angrily: "Guo Qi donkey, are you guilty?"
Guo Qi Donkey pretended to be innocent: "Master Chang, what am I guilty of? I am a young eunuch in the palace. Even if I have sinned, the celebrant should judge me!"
Chang Feng sneered: "Toad yawns, you have such a big breath! It's just a little young eunuch. I thought that I would be able to judge Shangming in the palm of the master of ceremonies!"
When Guo Qi Donkey heard this, his arrogance suddenly disappeared: "Master Chang, I was wronged!"
Chang Feng clapped his hands, and Xu Fatzi brought the little eunuch up.
Guo Qi Donkey was surprised: "Wei Bin? Aren't you going to Cao County?"
The little eunuch's name was Wei Bin. This is a name that was later included in the "Eight Tigers".
Wei Bin turned fast enough, and when he saw that Guo Qi's donkey was tied up by Chang Feng, he immediately lost his previous respect: "Guo Qi donkey, I'll your mother!"
"You let Lao Tzu go to Cao County to do something that pits the people along the river. Can I listen to you?"
"I've already reported all those bad things to Chang Ye!"
"In front of the iron-faced and selfless Chang Ye, I advise you to confess honestly!"
Just then, Channing walked in. He was greatly surprised: "Master Chang, why did you tie up Young Eunuch Guo? He's the righteous son of *** daddy!"
Chang Feng said: "He regarded the Shandong River Supervision Yamen as his own vegetable garden. I will carry the silver of the river to my house like a turnip and a cabbage."
"If Father-in-law Qian knows about this, he will definitely let me enforce the law impartially!"
Qian Ning took Wei Bin's silver ticket and said, "Master Chang, ...... of this I'm afraid there's some misunderstanding, right?"
Chang Feng ordered Qian Ning: "Calm down the envoy to try the case, and thousands of households stand aside!"
Channing had no choice but to give up: "Yes!"
Wei Bin is Guo Qi's donkey's little belly. It's okay to play Guo Qi's daughter-in-law on the bed.
He knows everything about Guo Qi's donkey.
Wei Bin said, "Master Chang, there are two accounts of the river supervision yamen. A clear account is for the court to see."
"A dark ledger that records the detailed accounts of the 28 river officials in Shandong, as well as the prefects and counties along the river to divide and govern the river silver."
"A pen, a record is clear!"
Chang Feng hurriedly asked, "Where is the hidden account?"
Wei Bin replied, "Hidden under the bed in the back bedroom of Guo Qi's donkey in Jinan!"
Guo Qi was furious: "Wei Bin, you betrayed me!"
Not to be outdone, Wei Bin said: "I didn't sell you! I'm helping my grandfather punish the girl to get rid of the evil!"
Guo Qi Donkey was puzzled: "Your grandfather, who is it?"
Wei Bin said, "Chang Ye is my grandfather!"
Chang Feng ordered Shi Wenyi to say, "You rush to Jinan immediately. Get that dark book
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Then he patted the shocked wood: "Guo Qi donkey, if you are an acquaintance, you will bring the truth about how to be greedy for ink and silver."
"It doesn't matter if you don't. The secret account is ironclad. You will not escape death!"
Guo Qi's donkey is a boiled duck with a mouth that can't be boiled: "Wei Bin's bloody mouth spews people! Chang Feng, you colluded with him to frame me!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Qian Ning suddenly spoke: "Master Chang, I was about to raise Guo Qi's donkey!"
Chang Feng became interested: "Oh? What do you cite him?"
Qian Ning took out the silver ticket of three thousand taels from his sleeve.
The silver ticket is easy to carry. Qian Ning was afraid of being seen the silver ticket, so he always carried it with him in the hidden pocket of his robe sleeve.
Qian Ning walked up to Chang Feng and presented the three thousand taels of silver tickets: "Master Chang, Guo Qi Donkey is corrupt and bribe-taking in office, making money for personal gain."
"When he saw that the two Qins had arrived in Shandong, his heart was very weak. He took this silver ticket of 3,000 taels in a vain attempt to bribe me! Let me cover up his crimes."
"I, Qian Ning, have been with you for so long, how can I not know the truth that the sky does not hide women?"
"I wanted to say no to the three thousand taels of silver. But when you think about it, there is not much silver to govern the river. Isn't it beautiful that I have taken his money and give it to the public for the need to control the waters?"
"I'm about to give you the money. Coincidentally, you arrested him!"
Qian Ning is also a personal essence! directly cleared up the relationship, and said that the bribery was selfless.
How can Chang Feng not see that it is greasy? But if you don't see through it, it's still a good stand-in.
Chang Feng praised Qian Ning: "He is worthy of being a good son of Father-in-law Qian!" It is not in vain that I have promoted you vigorously for the past six or seven years."
Guo Qi Donkey was completely dumbfounded!
He didn't expect Wei Bin and Qian Ning to sell him so easily.
Chang Feng questioned him: "Guo Qi donkey, you don't have a ghost in your heart, why do you want to bribe Qian Ning? Oh, it's three thousand taels as soon as you make a shot, you're so generous!"
"Xu Guangzuo. The emperor sent me an edict, how did you say it?"
Xu Fatzi said loudly: "Anyone who obstructs disaster relief, water control, greed for ink relief food, and mercury treatment, from the three divisions to the officials, can be cut first and then played!"
Chang Feng nodded: "Come on." Pull Guo Qi's donkey down and cut it down!"
Chang Feng was just scaring Guo Qi's donkey.
First, Guo Qi Donkey has always been a person in the palace and the righteous son of Qian Neng. If you have money and face, Chang Feng can arrest him and judge him, but you can't kill him.
Chang Feng had already calculated, and after the interrogation was clear, he handed over Guo Qi's donkey to Qian Nengfa.
Second, Chang Feng also counted on Guo Qi's donkey to bite out all the river officials involved in corruption in Shandong. He had to catch them all and raid his house.
Several wrestlers stepped forward, picked up Guo Qi's donkey and dragged him outside the yamen.
Guo Qi didnkey shouted, "Chang Ye spares his life. I'll move, I'll do it all!"
Chang Feng instructed the wrestlers, "Stand down."
Guo Qidonkey confessed very happily: "I have been in office for three years, and Shandong's river management silver has totaled 200,000 taels. I took 30,000 yuan, and the river officials and local officials along the river in Shandong Tong Province divided 120,000."
"Chang Ye Mingjian. Sitting in the position of the young superintendent of the river supervision. If I don't take the money, the people below can't take it. They're going to hate me!"
"If I don't follow the rules of officialdom, officialdom will treat me like an alien!"
"I'm not black. Only 30,000 of the 200,000 were taken!"
Liu Daxia, who was listening to the trial, couldn't help it: "Of the 200,000 taels of river silver, only 50,000 taels are used in practice?"
"Has your conscience been eaten by dogs? Once the Yellow River rises, it is strange that the embankment will not be broken!"
Guo Qi Donkey said: "Liu Duyuan, you have been in the officialdom for a long time, you won't know it. It is normal for two-three out of ten of the silver to be used in practice."
"I am not the only one in the world who is greedy for ink and silver! It's a tacit rule that everybody knows."
Liu Daxia said angrily: "The destruction of the officials is ruined by these so-called officialdom rules!"
Chang Feng said: "Guo Qi donkey, which river officials and local officials along the river are involved in the case. You write your name."
Xu Fatzi took a piece of paper for Guo Qi Donkey.
Guo Qi Donkey wrote more than 40 names on it.
When he finished writing, he explained, "I can't remember exactly how much money these men took, and when they took it. There are dark accounts horizontally and vertically. You'll see when the time comes."
Chang Feng picked up the piece of paper as if he had found a treasure. The people up there are fat, oily pigs!
Chang Feng commanded, "Come, copy the confession in two." Give me a copy. A copy for the celebrant's father-in-law."
"In addition, escort Guo Qi's donkey back to the capital and hand it over to Father-in-law Qian for disposal."
Guo Qi's donkey was escorted down.
Chang Feng instructed Qian Ning again: "Don't wait for Shi Wenyi to get back the secret account. You first follow this list and take people to raid the house!"
"You are my great apprentice who raided the house, and you are the current treasurer of the Thousand Households. You're going to have to do this job."
"If you do this job well, you will not only be able to make meritorious contributions, but you will also be able to clear the suspicion of accepting bribes from Guo Qidonkey!"
Channing said, "Gotcha! Chang Ye, just take a look!"
Chang Feng set off a major case in Shandong. He himself did not participate in it, and let Qian Ning stand in front of the stage to arrest people and raid his home.
Qian Ning knew that it was a pit, so he had to jump in. Or, in his eyes, this is not a pit, but a step of Liwei's advancement.
Chang Feng smiled at Liu Daxia and said, "Liu Duyuan, I think this time we will at least add 300,000 taels of silver out of thin air."
Liu Daxia asked, "Didn't you say that they were greedy for a total of 150,000 taels?"
Chang Feng said: "These people have been in the officialdom for a long time. It must have been quite furniture. In addition to the silver of the river, I can also copy their old books."
"300,000 is a small amount to me!"
Liu Daxia said with a smile: "The emperor is really wise to let you be my deputy envoy! You're my lucky boy."
Chang Feng smiled slightly: "That's nature. I used to be the general banner of Jinyiwei. It's the errand of a lucky boy."
In the next month, the entire Shandong officialdom was made by Qian Ning!
In the words of later generations, this is a typical case of corruption.
More than 40 officials confessed to Guo Qidonkey were arrested, pulled out radishes and brought out the mud. There were also many petty officials of the eighth and ninth grades who were confessed by them.
The petty officials of the eighth and ninth grades also provided many grain chiefs and service chiefs. The total number of people involved in the case has reached more than 400 people.
Qian Ning copied his house. A huge amount of dirty silver was continuously delivered to Liu Daxia.
Liu Daxia gave hundreds of thousands of extra river silver out of thin air, and he was more handy in doing things.
In the sixth year of Hongji, April 13. Huanglinggang, Cao County, Heze, Shandong.
Liu Daxia, the envoy of the Qin Mission, and Chang Feng, the deputy envoy, are worshipping the river god. Today is the day when the Jialu River dredging project begins.
There are too many unexplained metaphysics in this world. It is necessary to worship the river god before the start of construction. At the very least, it can play a role in appeasing the people.
Liu Daxia personally pushed the three animals into the Jialu River.
Subsequently, two official boats carrying two Zhenhe stone oxen came to the center of the river.
The soldiers on the official ship joined forces and pushed the stone ox into the boiling river.
The ritual of worshipping the river god ends. The project officially began.
In the evening, Xu Fatzi came to Chang Feng: "Master Chang, the people fished out a tombstone from the river."
Chang Feng frowned: "That's not very lucky. Resink the tombstone to the bottom of the river."
Xu Fatzi smiled, "Haha, that inscription is very interesting. Let's appreciate the strange text together, and then sink it to the bottom of the river."
Liu Daxia became interested: "Oh? Is there an epitaph engraved on the stele?"
Epitaphs are usually written by elegant and learned men. Literati have always been interested in epitaphs.
Huang Boren said, "I'll go too!"
The three of them, led by Xu Fatzi, came to a tombstone.
It's strange that the tombstone doesn't have the owner's name engraved on it. There is only one epitaph.
The epitaph is only 35 words, but it makes everyone laugh and lean back.
The specific content is as follows: Beginning
From the text, ten years are not in the middle; After practicing martial arts, the school field sent an arrow, and the drummers were driven out; Then he studied medicine and became successful. Write a good prescription by yourself, take it, and die!
After everyone laughed, they felt a lot of emotion.
Chang Feng said: "This person's life is really interesting. Nothing will be achieved in a lifetime. When he dies, he writes his life into a 35-character epitaph, but it can win a smile from future generations."
Liu Daxia sighed: "We laugh at the people in the grave. Maybe the people in the grave are laughing at us."
"Nothing is scary. It's scary that I don't even have the courage to try to do things."
Huang Boren said, "There are even more terrifying ...... All his life has been done evil deeds. Like my second brother."
Chang Feng ordered the stele to sink to the bottom of the river.
The stele entered the river and splashed with water. The splash was quickly swallowed up by the raging river.
Isn't a person's life like a stone monument that sinks to the bottom of a river? It can only make a tiny splash of water, and then be drowned by the torrent of history rolling forward.
In the following days, Changfeng dispatched a group of account keepers from the 100 households to watch the local officials in Shandong purchase the materials needed to control the river.
He himself came to the construction site, picking up soil, carrying silicon, and moving stones with the people.
It's tiring though. But Chang Feng has never been as happy and comfortable as he is now in the past seven years.
Lu Xi's 100,000 people followed Liu Daxia to dredge the Jialu River, Sunjiadu, and Sifu Camp.
After the water division method in Shandong has achieved initial results. Liu Daxia led people south again to build a long causeway. Flood prevention by water barrier method.
The project lasted from the spring of the sixth year of Hongji to the middle of winter.
Xuzhou Long Causeway construction site.
Chang Feng was walking with Xu Fatzi carrying a basket of stones to the embankment.
Liu Daxia was looking at the engineering drawings in the shed.
Snowflakes drifted in the sky. Dozens of knights rushed to the construction site with a eunuch in their arms.
The person who came turned out to be Qian Can!
Qian Neng came to deliver the decree and summon Liu Daxia and Chang Feng back to Beijing.
The chief of the ceremonial supervisor was sent to pass the edict to Liu and Chang, which shows that Emperor Hongzhi affirmed the achievements of the two in controlling the water.
Qian Neng went to the shed first and found Liu Daxia.
Qian Neng asked, "What about Chang Zhen's envoys? The emperor will let you return to Beijing, and I will go and announce the decree to him."
Liu Daxia replied, "On the embankment construction site."
Qian Neng said, "Ah, he also went to the embankment site to supervise the construction in person?"
Liu Daxia smiled dumbly: "It's not an overseer, it's to work."
Qian Neng was dumbfounded: "Work? What kind of work can the North Town Fu Envoy do?"
Liu Daxia said: "Pick up soil, lift silicon, and move stones. Chang Feng is now proficient in everything."
After speaking, Liu Daxia led Qian Neng to Chang Feng.
Qian Neng asked, "Liu Duyuan, where is Chang Feng?"
Liu Daxia pointed to the person in front of him: "No, isn't this Changfeng?"
Money can't believe its eyes!
Chang Feng has been soaking on the construction site every day for the past eight months. The whole person is tanned like a black briquette.
His hands were full of calluses, and his fingernails were covered with mud.
At this moment, he was wearing a cloth robe, and the broken boots on his feet were almost revealing his toes.
Where is it still like the brocade-dressed, graceful, and imposing Beizhen Fu envoy eight months ago?
It's just a folk man!
Qian Neng was furious: "Liu Daxia, you dare to abuse the emperor's private army envoy?"
Chang Feng smiled slightly, his mouth was full of dry old skin: "Father-in-law Qian, you misunderstood. I did it on my own initiative."
"I will leave the matter of the prison to the bookkeepers. I can't help, so I just come to the construction site and do my part."
Qian Neng held Chang Feng's hands and looked at them. He felt distressed: "It's all calluses. How much effort do you muster!"
Chang Feng said: "I have killed too many people over the years, and I have killed all of them. Building dams for the benefit of future generations is a matter of virtue."
"When I put more effort on the embankment, I am sanitizing sin for myself!"
"Picking up soil and moving stones is much more comfortable than rectifying people and killing people."
Qian Neng said, "The emperor has told you to return to Beijing with Liu Duyuan. You went back to Beijing like this...... I'm afraid the emperor will feel sorry for you when he sees it!"
In fact, Chang Feng wants this effect. He was bored at night, and imagined countless times how Emperor Hongzhi would react when he saw him with calloused hands.
Maybe when Emperor Hongzhi is moved, he will hand over the entire Jinyi Guard to him.
Chang Feng said: "The minister's decree."
Then Chang Feng apologized to Qian Neng: "Guo Qi's donkey matter, the lower officials have no choice but to do it."
Qian Neng said, "You don't have to say it! Guo Qi Donkey not only lost my face, but also lost the face of the palace. As soon as he was escorted back to the capital, I let the banners of Dongchang beat him to death with a big stick."
"Killing him won't cure the hatred in my heart!"
Chang Feng said: "This time I went to Shandong to control the water, and your other righteous son, Qian Ning, made a great contribution. Forty-one corrupt officials and more than 360 corrupt officials were found."
"When I return to Beijing, I will ask for credit for him in front of the emperor."
Qian Neng was very moved: "I thank you for him!"
Qian Neng suddenly pointed his finger at Xu Fatman: "Who is this big black fat man?"
Chang Feng laughed out loud: "You don't even recognize the prince of Dingguo?"
Qian Neng was surprised: "Huh? Xu Shizi? You've also gone up to the riverbank to work as a coolie?"
Fat Xu smiled: "My bosses have all gone up the river embankment, how can I not follow?"
"Chang Ye said it well, the three of them are a crowd. When it comes to controlling the water, many monkeys have three more points of strength!"
Qian Neng actually made a gesture to Liu Daxia, Chang Feng, and Xu Fatzi with the respect of the chief of the ceremonial supervisor.
Qian Neng sighed: "The officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty. If only everyone could be like you. Then the world will be at peace!"
The twenty-third day of the lunar month. Chang Feng returned to the capital with dark skin and calluses on his hands. Waiting to participate in the Wu Dynasty and return to Emperor Hongzhi.