"It is! The honor guard of the new magistrate? ”

Zhu Tong saw the honor guard and sedan chair in the distance, which were only available in the county. Pro-Shell Pavilion

"Doesn't it mean that the genius is coming!"

Lei Heng was startled, and secretly called it a fluke in his heart, fortunately, Shi Yong had already left, if he was encountered, he would have won all the stolen goods, and he couldn't argue.

"Officials cross the border, idlers avoid!"

An officer who looked like a guard saw Zhu Tonglei waiting on the side of the road, and stepped forward to scold.

"Yuncheng is the head of Zhu Tong and Lei Heng!"

Zhu Tong and Lei Heng hugged their fists.

"It turned out to be Zhu Dutou and Lei Dutou, the official Zhang Shuye, the new magistrate of Yuncheng!"

There was a neutral voice from the sedan chair carried, and then the sedan curtain was lifted, and a man of about fifty was sitting inside, with a burly figure, white sideburns, and a slight trace of wind and frost on his face.

"This ......"

Zhu Tong and Lei Heng were shocked when they saw Zhang Shuye's appearance, if it weren't for the clothes of a civil official, most of them would think that the person in front of them was a military attaché.

"Meet Lord Zhixian!"

Zhu Tong and Lei Heng reacted quickly and bowed to Uncle Zhang.

"Why are you both here?"

Uncle Zhang looked at Zhu Tong and Lei Heng and asked, it was not early at this time, how could Zhu Tong and Lei Heng be alone outside the city? He had heard that there was a Liangshan giant near Yuncheng, which was very dangerous.

"I'll go out of the city and do some inspection."

Lei Heng hurriedly explained.

"Why did the magistrate arrive today? The official document said that it would only arrive tomorrow, and the official prepared a welcome ......"

Zhu Tong asked, he had specially arranged the welcome ceremony, but it was tomorrow.

"It doesn't have to be like that, I rushed to Yuncheng immediately after meeting the prefect in Jeju Mansion, how is the situation in Yuncheng now?"

Uncle Zhang looked at Zhu Tong and Lei Heng and asked.

"Yuncheng is currently fine, and there are no thieves coming."

Lei Heng hurriedly spoke.

"No thieves coming? How did I hear that Liangshanbo under the rule of Yuncheng was very arrogant, and even the official army was defeated many times? ”

Uncle Zhang asked with a frown.

"This ...... Please know that the county minister entered the city, and the small officials gathered everyone to report. ”

Zhu Tong was a little difficult to answer, so he had to ask Uncle Zhang to go to Yuncheng at night.

In Yuncheng, Zhu Tong quickly gathered a group of officials to go to the mansion to meet Uncle Zhang.

"You don't have to be so polite, let's talk about the situation in Yuncheng first, why has the population on it lost so much?"

Uncle Zhang closed the population booklet and looked at everyone and asked, the key to an official's governance of a place is the population, and a prosperous population can ensure the prosperity of the place.

"Why don't you speak? How to explain to the upside of the displaced people, these are the top priorities! ”

Uncle Zhang looked at the silent officials and asked, the former magistrate is not there, these officials have the responsibility to govern the place well, how can the population lose nearly forty percent in just two years, of which two percent were lost this month, which is a serious dereliction of duty.

"The magistrate of the county, we have tried our best, those Diao people are unrepentant and bent on being thieves, we can't help it."

One spoke.

"A thief?"

Uncle Zhang heard the problem from those words, civilians to be thieves? He also thought that the civilians fled because of the rampant local thieves, how did they become thieves?

"The magistrate of the county, those Diao people have gone to take refuge in the thieves of Liangshan, the villages and towns near Shuibo have long been occupied by thieves, and now all civilians are running to Liangshanbo, not only our Yuncheng, but also all parts of Jeju, and the same over Yunzhou."

Someone opened his mouth to explain, the new magistrate wants the new official to take office three fires, but this fire can't be burned on them, they have been doing their best for more than a year, but the Liangshan thieves are too powerful to be opponents at all.

"Civilians running to the thieves?"

Zhang Shuye only felt that his cognition had been subverted, how could it be possible for civilians to take refuge in the thieves who occupied the mountain and looted wantonly? Civilians should run to the government to administer justice when they see thieves!

"The magistrate of the county, this Liang Shanbo has been pretending to be hypocritical to demagogue the civilians, and after the defeat of the official army last month, he even called the people to reclaim the famine, and the ignorant people were greedy for small profits, and they all left the household registration to run to the thieves!"

Zhang Wenyuan said.

"Tell me more!"

Uncle Zhang has been an official for decades, and he knows very well that the officials in front of him are avoiding the important and light, and he can't figure out how the civilians are thieves.

Everyone talked about the situation of Liangshanbo, and the more he said that Zhang Shuye's brows wrinkled tighter, he had heard before he came that the thieves in Liangshanbo were vicious and untamable, and the local officials and troops were defeated twice, and the imperial court's allocation of military horses was also a fiasco.

But now that I look at it, defeating the officials and the army is still secondary, this thief in Liangshanbo is inviting the people to buy the hearts of the people, this is really going to rebel.

"Are you telling the truth? How can such an important thing not be reported to the authorities! ”

Uncle Zhang looked at the group of officials and asked, Liang Shanbo's thief's antipathy was obvious, he hadn't heard of it before.

"I've reported it, but it's ......"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, that means obviously, they don't have the right to go to Tokyo, at most they have to report to the state capital, and then they can't get in touch with it.

"Tell me about the situation of the previous battle, how did the 20,000 army lose?"

Uncle Zhang sighed and asked, looking at the expressions of these officials, he knew that the news must have been concealed by the state government, and if it reached Tokyo, it would have a great impact on the career of local officials.

After learning about the fiasco of Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng, Zhang Shuye's face was already gloomy like water, and the thieves in Liangshan were far more difficult than him.

"A notice will be posted tomorrow, Yuncheng County will reduce and exempt all taxes from now on, and tenants' rents will be levied according to the regulations ......of the imperial court, and the official will sit in the government office, but he will not be spared if he oppresses the people."

Uncle Zhang watched the officials open their mouths and give orders, almost exactly the same as Liang Shanbo.

"The magistrate of the county, I'm afraid I have to report this matter to the prefect, this tax matter ......"

A group of officials are reluctant to carry it out, but the tax must be handed over to the imperial court, and the tax reduction must have court documents, Zhang Shuye has no right to do this, and a large part of the excesses and miscellaneous taxes are to be distributed to everyone and the Jeju government, how can this be done?

"Didn't you hear the order of this county?"

Uncle Zhang didn't talk nonsense with these officials at night, it is a common phenomenon that officials are strong and officials are weak, if he doesn't show some courage, I'm afraid he won't be able to suppress these people in the future.

"I was ordered to come to Yuncheng to solve the Liangshan thieves, how can I let the civilians surrender to the thieves like this? What has become of Yuncheng County without population? How can there be a county ruler in the whole world who throws a large number of thieves? ”

Uncle Zhang saw that everyone didn't dare to speak, so he explained slightly, a county's tax is a trivial matter, and it would be terrible if there was a large loss of population.

Although the officials still wanted to oppose it, they didn't open their mouths in the end when they saw Zhang Shuye's strength, and they didn't understand the reason, if the population was lost in large quantities, the tax revenue would also be unguaranteed, and they would not be able to make any money.

Watching everyone retreat, Uncle Zhang frowned and looked at the official documents on the eucalyptus, every official document in the past two years was related to the Liangshan thieves.

"It seems that this Yuncheng is not so simple."

Uncle Zhang sighed, and began to look at those official documents from the beginning by candlelight, he wanted to understand Liang Shan's feelings clearly.

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