Chapter 318: Hundred Officials' Deeds
He still put Uncle Guo's score in front of Zhang Xuan's entourage, and after getting up, he staggered his body, and while walking out with square steps, he ordered his subordinates to quickly set up a wine and banquet.
In the courtyard of the city lord's mansion, he stepped into the eight-lift sedan chair, and someone shouted in front of him, and marched majestically towards the inn where Zhang Xuan was.
When he didn't move, he came to the door of the inn, but saw that the door was closed, and only a corner door for pedestrians to enter and exit was open, and the sedan chair could not be carried in.
Jiang Liufang was about to have a seizure, so he immediately turned his mind and forcibly suppressed the idea of seizure, let the sedan chair man put down the sedan chair, walked out of the sedan chair, entered the courtyard through the corner gate, and asked the innkeeper with a displeased face: "You guy, why did you close the door during the day, don't you want to do business?" ”
The gatekeeper didn't know that he was the lord of the city, and when he saw that he was wearing an official uniform, he knew that he was an official, so he replied in a low voice: "My lord, which one is willing to close the gate for no reason?" It was ordered by an old resident here, saying that if we don't close the door, we will break our legs, and we have no choice but to do so! ”
"The old official who lives in the hotel? That's-"
Halfway through Jiang Liu's words, he realized that the old official who ordered the door to close was destined to be Zhang Xuan, so he quickly put away the damn word that slipped to his lips, and subconsciously covered his mouth, calmed down his emotions, and ordered the janitor to take him to see Zhang Xuan.
As soon as he saw Zhang Xuan, Jiang Liu said with a haha: "Oh, nephew and son-in-law, we are close relatives, we should move around more, but because of official business, we usually don't have many opportunities to move around, and we finally met today, haha!" ”
Zhang Xuan glanced at him and said, "City Lord Jiang, we are meeting now in an official capacity, not a gathering of relatives, you don't want to make a distinction between public and private and confuse your identity!" ”
Jiang Liu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Zhang Xuan holding a shelf and not talking about friendship with him, and hurriedly gathered the smile on his face and the folds brought out by the smile, and said, "Ah, yes, yes, Lord Qincha reminded me right, I'm dizzy!" Lord-sama, what is your next schedule? ”
Zhang Xuan responded with a cold face: "The imperial court sent me here to observe the political style and observe the people's feelings. I have concluded that some officials here will inevitably behave crookedly, and the people will inevitably have some grievances, so I plan to put up some notices in the streets and alleys, so that those who have grievances will come here to complain about their grievances and pour out their bitterness. In addition to receiving the visiting people, I would like to have personal contact with the middle-level and above officials and those wealthy businessmen in Luancheng, do you have no opinion? ”
"Aha, Lord Qincha has set the tone and itinerary, I only have to cooperate, how dare I have any opinions!" Jiang Liu laughed again, and some folds appeared on his face, "Lord Qincha, I'll let them set up a banquet to catch you and wash the dust, you see-"
"Ah, you set up a banquet, delicious and delicious, of course I want to participate." Zhang Xuan responded shuanglily, "No matter what, I still have to give this face." ”
Jiang Liu didn't expect Zhang Xuan to agree so happily, and his heart was suddenly relieved.
At the banquet, Jiang Liu did not say anything, did not laugh and laughed, and asked those accompanying officials and wealthy businessmen to take turns to toast Zhang Xuan, and did everything possible to please Zhang Xuan. Although Zhang Xuan was serious, he did not refuse to come, and during this period, he activated the black pupil to trace the past deeds of a dry person, and memorized them one by one in his mind.
Early the next morning, Zhang Xuan ordered a group of big demons to post notices along the streets, and let them keep an eye on the notices, ready to subdue those who caused sabotage. Although the big demons have all transformed into human forms, their combat power is not comparable to any person, and whoever wants to destroy them in front of them is asking for bad luck.
After Zhang Xuan calmly had breakfast, he talked to the middle-level and above officials in Luancheng one by one, asking them what they did on weekdays. Naturally, the officials would not confess their evil deeds, but Zhang Xuan found out those evil deeds clearly through his black pupils and remembered them in his mind.
At the same time, his subordinates were in another place to receive the people who had come to petition after seeing the notice.
Around noon, the demons brought into the inn the creatures who had tried to tear them off and prevent the people from watching the notice. After Zhang Xuan learned the reason for these guys through the black pupil, he asked the big demons to take them down and hand them over to the local officials to deal with.
Zhang Xuan spent a whole day talking to the officials, and then spent another two days chatting with businessmen with a certain amount of wealth, and then did not make any moves for a day or two. The eyes of local officials and wealthy businessmen saw that Zhang Xuan was either purchasing medicinal materials in the pharmacy or going to the mountains outside the city to collect medicines, and he seemed to be tired of this and was very busy.
The officials and wealthy businessmen listened to the report of the eyeliner, and couldn't help but wonder, and when they got together in private, they discussed:
"I said, man, that Lord Qincha Zhang Xuan, the world blows him to the gods, but if I want to say it, he is just a silver pewter spearhead, and he is useless at the critical moment. He came to Luancheng to inspect, and on the surface he did a lot of style, and he posted notices and talked to people, but what did he talk about? When talking, he is nothing more than casually chatting with people, a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, and he can't touch anything, I see how he goes back to make a difference! ”
"Well, brother, this guy really doesn't have any skills, he has no ink, he doesn't have any city government, and he hasn't even put a word of use out of our mouths, in fact, he is an officialdom. Ah, saying that the officialdom Xiaobai is promoting him, he is actually a Xiaobai who behaves in the world, a pure white white paper. However, Xiaobai returns to Xiaobai, after all, he is a dignified horse master, even if he doesn't find anything here, who can do anything to him after he goes back? Maybe there are some people who like to hold stinky feet, saying that he can do a good job! ”
"Oh, we people have been nervous for a while, and the city lord is still nervous about what offensive and defensive alliance he has made with us, I knew that this was the case, why should we bother ourselves and work in vain? Wouldn't it be very enjoyable to have that time, eat a few more wines, and play a few more chicks? ”
These guys talked about it with their own enthusiasm, but how did they know that Zhang Xuan had already recorded what they had done with the black pupils, and compiled them into "Hundred Officials' Deeds" and "Bad Deeds of Profiteers" respectively, and returned to the imperial city at night and handed them over to the emperor Sima Letian.
After Sima Lotian read it, he couldn't help but be furious, and hurriedly summoned Sima Yi to discuss.
Sima Yi flipped through it roughly, frowned and said, "Brother Huang, if these circumstances are true, the officials and businessmen involved should be cut with a thousand cuts. However, Ziang has just been to Luancheng for a few days, and he has found out the situation in such detail, is there any inaccuracy in it? ”
"Second child, you must know that Ziang is a master in the world, and what he does cannot be measured by common sense. If it were someone else, it would definitely not be so efficient, and it might not even be possible to touch the slightest truth. Sima Lotian said, "The accounts on the "Hundred Officials' Deeds" and "The Bad Deeds of Profiteers", everything is recorded in such detail, the time, place, people, causes and consequences, I think it is very true, there is no need to repeat it at all!" ”
"Does the imperial brother mean to hand over the officials and businessmen involved in these two pamphlets to Dali Temple for interrogation?" Sima Yi asked.
"Well, it's easy to interrogate others. What to do with that damn river is a bit of a problem for me. Sima Lotian said with a sad face, "He is Jiang Lan's own brother, if he kills him with a knife, even if Jiang Lan doesn't mess with me, how can I face her calmly?" ”
Sima Yi pondered for a while and then said, "Brother Huang, in that case, I'd better go to Luancheng in person." My opinion is that Jiang Liu himself is not prudent, his governance is not effective, and he has no way to govern it, so he is removed from the post of the city lord of Luancheng and lives idle. Others, they are to be punished according to the law. ”
Sima Lotte looked at Sima Yi steadily, and after thinking about it, he said, "Well, it's just like this." There are so many officials involved in Luancheng, and those vacancies must be filled in time, you first deploy how to send officials from the imperial court or other places to Luancheng to fill the vacancies, and then take Dali Siqing to Luancheng! ”
"Brother Huang, don't worry, I will deal with it properly!" Sima Yi responded.
A few days later, Sima Yi of the Great Pillar Kingdom came to Luancheng with the officials of Dali Temple.
Seeing this, the officials and wealthy businessmen in Luancheng were a little frightened, but they were lucky. They naively thought that Sima Yi personally dispatched to repair Zhang Xuan's lost face. Zhang Xuan came to Luancheng to inspect, nothing was found, his face had already been thrown into the ocean, if Sima Yi didn't come to pick up his lost face, how could he go back to the imperial city?