Chapter 282 Punish corrupt officials, meet happily, and eliminate evil beasts
Dou Wentao inspected the southern border of his own jurisdiction, never alarmed the local government, always alone, dressed in civilian clothes, because of his long-term employment of Dong Zijian's carriage, more and more familiar, unconsciously, the two gradually increased friendship.
After dealing with him for a long time, Dou Wentao thought about it carefully, and felt that the coachman Dong Zijian was kind and very alert. Doing things reliably, the demon world is raging, the war between people and demons, in this troubled era, business is not easy to do, and he is also a newcomer, and there is a lack of a trusted person around him, so he drafted a fold and reported it to the emperor (Tong Qing's doppelganger), asked for approval, and after getting permission, he included the coachman Dong Zijian in the yamen of the governor of southern Xinjiang, and became an official errand.
Now, eat and drink without worry, food and clothing are worry-free, but the happy driver Dong Zijian, a thousand thanks, after entering the governor's office, Dong Zijian really lived up to Dou Wentao's expectations, he fulfilled his duties, worked hard, commendable, honest and dedicated, and soon, he became Dou Wentao's most trusted confidant, every time he went out, he would take it with him.
On this day, Dou Wentao took Dong Zijian, and the two dressed up as masters and servants, and came to a prosperous town on the ground in southern Xinjiang to inspect. As soon as they saw that it was getting late, they did not go back to the governor's yamen, but found an inn in this town. The two of them walked in the door, looked around, and felt that the inn was spacious and clean, so they asked for two first-class rooms, ready to rest for the night.
After washing their faces and drinking tea, the master and servant suddenly heard a commotion outside the door, so they opened the door and looked around.
It turned out that in this hotel, a few officials came in, all of them were not prestigious, looked up and down the hotel, and told the owner to leave after a few words.
After a while, the owner of the shop went straight to Dou Wentao's residence, and as soon as he entered the door, he said with a smiling face: "Two guests, just now, the county magistrate of this county sent someone to pass the word, saying that tonight, the newly appointed prefect will come to live in the town, and all the big guest rooms in the town will be removed. This store is the largest inn in the town, and after a while, the county lord will be here to set up wine for the prefect. I really had no choice but to wronged the two guests, and changed you to two houses in the side courtyard, and stayed together for the night. "
Dong Zijian, the old "servant" who was traveling with Dou Wentao, listened to the words of the shopkeeper, and he was about to speak, but Dou Wentao hurriedly waved his hand to stop him, and said to the shopkeeper that he agreed to change the house, but he put forward a condition, dinner should be opened according to the standard of the upper room.
The shopkeeper agreed, and when he left, he also took special care of Dou Wentao and said: "After a while, the prefect and the prefect are about to come over. "
When Dong Zijian heard this, he felt very uncomfortable, but Dou Wentao asked him to close the door tightly, and told him to quickly pack his luggage and move to two simple rooms in the side courtyard with the store guys.
After moving, closing the door, Dou Wentao said to Dong Zijian: "We came down to inspect the work, visit the poor and ask about the suffering, make private interviews, and learn about the political achievements and reputation of local officials in the jurisdiction. "
Not long after, there was a knock on the door, and the guy brought a meal, only one meat, one vegetable and one soup, which was not the food in the upper room at all.
Dong Zijian was going to the shopkeeper and questioned him. Dou Wentao didn't let him go, and said: "Presumably the kitchen was busy preparing a banquet for the prefect, and forgot about the two of us, so let's not ask, let's just eat a little." "
The master and servant were eating, and suddenly, there was a lot of noise outside.
Dou Wentao opened the room and walked out of the door to take a look, it turned out that the prefect of the county was leading the county officials, the chief secretary and other officials, wearing official uniforms and court boots, discussing in the hall how to present gifts to the new prefect. Some of the errand officers rushed forward and backwards, preparing tea, snacks, lamps, etc. A group of kitchen servants are cleaning up bird's nest, shark fin, sea cucumbers, and squid in the kitchen, and the servants outside the door are like wolves and tigers, holding whips viciously, driving away passing merchants and crowds of people who come to see the excitement.
Looking at it, Dou Wentao saw another official running in in a hurry, and said, The new prefect and his party are not far from the entrance of the town. When the magistrate heard this, he hurriedly got into the sedan chair and hurriedly rushed to the entrance of the town with a large group of people to greet him.
After the shop gradually quieted down, Dong Zijian took the footbasin and went to the kitchen to get hot water. When I came to the kitchen, I saw that more than 20 people were busy cutting and washing fish and meat, all the stoves were occupied, and there was no hot water, so Dong Zijian casually asked: Can you boil some hot water, but I didn't expect to be scolded by a servant for a dog blood sprinkler. Dong Zijian endured the anger, so he had to take the empty basin, returned to the room, and truthfully reported the situation to Dou Wentao. After Dou Wentao heard this, he sighed and persuaded Dong Zijian to be patient for the time being, and wait for those people to finish eating, and then go to fetch hot water.
At this time, there were bursts of gongs and drums from a distance, and it turned out that the sedan chair of the new prefect had arrived, and the prefect and others surrounded the new prefect and got off the sedan chair and came to the hall.
The prefect immediately asked the prefect to take the lamp and invite the new prefect to the upper room to rest.
The new prefect was addicted to smoking in the upper room, drank strong tea, and accompanied by the prefect and others, and the entourage officials went to the hall to sit down, surrounded by the delicacies of the mountains and seas, wine and delicacies on the table, and began to eat and drink.
Dong Zijian waited patiently in the room for a long time, until the group was full of wine and food, and then took the footbath to the kitchen again to fetch water.
At this time, Dou Wentao was already very unhappy by the noisy sound outside. He thought: "Why is it so earth-shattering for a prefect to take up his post, and he is just passing through here? In a few days, we must find out who this person is, and see what his political achievements and reputation are?" He was thinking about it, Dong Zijian suddenly entered the door, knelt on the ground, and cried to Dou Wentao and said: "My lord, I went to the kitchen to wash my feet, and saw a big pot boiling on the stove. This is the water to boil for the prefect, see which bastard dares to pour the water!' I'm so old, and I was beaten like this by him, my lord, you must call the shots for me!" he said, and kept shedding tears.
Dou Wentao looked at it, Dong Zijian's face was beaten blue and swollen, at this time, he couldn't bear it anymore, and said to Dong Zijian: "Go, hang up the governor's lantern!"
Hearing this, Dong Zijian hurriedly took out a folding lantern from his luggage, turned it on, lit a candle, and hung it under the eaves outside the gate of the side courtyard. The red candlelight clearly illuminated the seven thick strokes on the lantern: "Dou Mansion, the governor of southern Xinjiang." "
The gang had enough of eating, drinking, and having fun, and the shopkeeper suddenly found the official lantern hanging on the small door of the side yard, and he took a closer look, startled, and hurriedly walked to the magistrate, and said a few words in his ear.
When the magistrate heard this, he thought about it and said: "Last month, the imperial court issued a document to inform the local government that the new governor of southern Xinjiang, Lord Dou Wentao, has taken office and manages the government affairs on the ground of the entire southern Xinjiang. The magistrate was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and in an instant, his mind was blank, and he had no idea, so he had to quickly report this matter to the new prefect.
After hearing this, the new prefect was also taken aback, hurriedly stood up, and said: "I also heard that Lord Dou Wentao, the governor, is one step ahead of me, and he has been in office for more than a month. "
The magistrate immediately sent a family member to Dong Zijian to inquire, Dong Zijian couldn't help but burst out with anger in his stomach, pointed to his swollen face, and asked the family to see.
When the magistrate heard that the old servant of the governor Dou had been beaten, he was even more anxious, but he had to bite the bullet, put on official clothes with the new prefect, and went to meet the governor of southern Xinjiang, Dou Wentao.
As soon as they entered the house, the prefect and the prefect knelt down together and asked the governor Dou Wentao for peace.
Dou Wentao asked them to get up and sit down, but there was only one chair in the room, Dou Wentao was sitting, and they had no chair to sit on, so they had to stand aside.
The prefect bowed down and said: "I went to the post of a humble post, passing by here, I didn't know that Lord Dou was here, and I didn't come to ask for peace, and I hope Lord Dou will forgive my sins." "
The magistrate also sincerely said: "I was busy welcoming the prefect, and I didn't know that the governor Dou was coming, so I didn't greet him." Today, the lowly servant beat Master Dou's entourage again, a capital crime, a capital crime! If you go back from your humble position, you will be severely punished for the perpetrators!"
Dou Wentao briefly asked about the resumes of the two, and then asked the prefect: "How many people did my brother bring with him this time?"
The prefect replied in a snort: "Lord Dou, the governor of Hui, there are about ...... There were about a hundred people. "
Dou Wentao asked again: "Then who are you bringing with you, and what are you bringing them for?"
The prefect said in a hurry: "They are all lowly cousins, in-laws, brothers and nephews in the cousin, and they were brought to the yamen on errands by lowly duties. Originally, I didn't want to take so many people there, but during the troubled times, the people were not happy, the lives were miserable, and the family affection was difficult, so I had to take them all, which can be regarded as serving the court. Please Governor Dou Mingjian. "
Dou Wentao pondered for a while, and said slowly: "The Nanhai City you are going to, that place is very poor, you take so many people to take up the post, where are you going to get money? The common people there, where can they get so much silver to support you? Lord Ben advises you to go back and find another rich place to make a fortune, Nanhai City, you don't want to go to the post." "
When the prefect heard this, he was in a hurry, so he hurriedly took out the documents from his body, presented them, and said, "There is a court edict here." "
Dou Wentao took the paperwork, and without looking at it, he stuffed it into his sleeve, and said with a smile: "This is very easy to do, this governor is going to write a fold, thank you for your kindness, this edict, I will write it off on my behalf." "
Then, Dou Wentao angrily scolded Zhixian: "You are an official of the imperial court, you should be diligent in government affairs and sympathetic to the suffering of the people, but you only know that you meet your boss and oppress Li Min, my old servant is so old that he was still injured by your family, and the suffering of the common people, needless to say." Hugh blames the governor for being ruthless, and now, there is nothing else to say, you go back quickly, and wait for the dismissal investigation. "
The prefect and the prefect retreated in disgrace.
When the common people heard about this, they all applauded.
At that moment, there were many poor people looking for Governor Dou Wentao to complain about injustice, pile by pile, all of which were accusing the local magistrate of the county for corruption and perverting the law.
Seeing the dismissal, the emperor (Tong Qing's doppelganger) Long Yan was furious, and immediately issued an order, giving Dou Wentao Shangfang a sword, telling that such corrupt officials who are corrupt and pervert the law, once verified, will correct the law on the spot, first cut and then play, punish corruption, punish evil and promote good, and appease the people.
In the southern border of Xinjiang, there was a huge shock in the officialdom, and many corrupt officials were guillotined, their family property was confiscated, and it was returned to the poor people.
The title of "Dou Qingtian" resounded throughout the land of southern Xinjiang.
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There are eight merchants in the capital, who have been doing business in various parts of China for many years.
On this day, they went to southern Xinjiang together, but who knows? Southern Xinjiang is mountainous, and they are only greedy for the road, but they actually miss the lodging, and after dark, they get lost in the mountains. Eight of them, on horseback, wandering around the mountains, full of cliffs, how could they not get out?
Later, when they saw a large tree with a trunk so thick that it took seven or eight men to hug it, they tied their horses to the tree and slept against the trunk of the tree, intending to wait until after dawn to find a way out of the mountain.
In the middle of the night, the cries of fierce beasts sounded everywhere in the mountains, including tigers, leopards, wild wolves, owls, and many unnamed ones, and the cries were strange and creepy.
Eight people were awakened from their sleep, one by one frightened, holding their legs and shrinking their heads, where could they sleep again?
At this moment, suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps shaking the ground.
The eight of them looked up in horror, and in the dim moonlight, they saw a monster with a giant man walking over, more than a foot tall. The eight of them were so frightened that they lay on the ground, and they didn't dare to come out.
When the giant monster approached, I saw its big eyes and mouth, and its face was hideous and terrifying.
The giant monster grabbed a horse and tore it to eat, just as it was as easy as a person tearing a chicken to eat, and in the blink of an eye, it ate all eight horses.
The giant monster burped, broke off a long branch, came to the trembling eight, grabbed their heads, thrust the branch through their cheeks, and then came out from the other side, like a string of fish, and strung the eight together.
The giant monster carried the eight of them away, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly heard the sound of a branch breaking. The giant monster was worried that the eight of them would fall from the branches, so he laid them on the ground, bent the branches together, brought a huge stone, pressed the ends of the branches, and hurried away.
Fortunately, the eight people were all wearing sabers, and when the giant monster was far away, they hurriedly pulled out the sabers on their bodies, cut off the branches, and took care of each other to pull out the branches on their faces, and then endured severe pain and quickly ran away.
Just after running a short distance, they suddenly saw the giant monster hurrying towards with another giant monster, and the eight people were so frightened that they quickly crouched in the grass, holding their breath and not daring to move.
The later giant monster was even taller, with a two-foot appearance.
Two giant monsters, they came to the boulder, found that eight people were missing, and hurriedly bent down to look for it. I searched for a long time, but I couldn't find it.
The two-foot-tall giant monster was angry and roared, like a tiger's roar, which made people tremble when they heard it.
The big giant monster's hands opened his bow left and right, slapping the little giant monster. It is estimated that he was looking for eight people to enjoy him, but the delicacy in his mouth was gone, so he was resentful.
The little giant monster lowered its eyebrows and was pleasing to the eye, silently bearing the beating. Soon after, the two giant monsters were gone.
Eight men stood up, spread their legs and ran, and they were in a hurry like lost dogs, running around in the barren mountains and mountains. After running for a long time, they finally saw a light not far away, and the eight of them were overjoyed, and hurriedly ran to the place where there was a light, but it was a stone house.
They knocked on the door, and a man came out, let them into the house and sit down, and asked them where they had come from in the middle of the night.
Eight people told their stories.
The man said: "These two things have been a scourge for a long time, and I have long wanted to eradicate them, but I have never been able to think of a good way. When my sister comes back, we'll talk about how to deal with them. ”
After a while, I saw a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, carrying two huge dead tigers on her shoulders, and asked where they came from? Eight people told her about the terrible encounter tonight, and when the girl heard this, she said angrily: "These two scourges, I can't imagine that they are so rampant, even people have eaten them, and they should be eradicated immediately." ”
The child took out a hammer from the back room, weighing about four or five hundred pounds, and went out again.
The man began to cook tiger meat for eight people. They were surprised and asked, "Can your sister kill two tigers alone?"
The man smiled and explained that his sister was born with divine powers, and the tiger in front of her was no different from a cat.
When the eight people heard this, they were amazed.
Before the tiger meat was cooked, the girl came back and said, "It's a pity that these two scourges have escaped! They ran away when they saw me, and I chased after me for more than twenty miles, and broke one of the fingers with a hammer." The next time they met, they wouldn't have been so lucky. With that, he threw down a finger on the ground, as thick as a human calf bone.
Eight people were shocked, and one of them asked, "Dare to ask the heroine's name, and we will always remember your kindness." ”
The girl smiled and said, "When we meet in Pingshui, don't talk about it." ”
After a while, the tiger meat was cooked, but the cheeks of the eight people were painful, and they couldn't eat the meat at all.
Seeing this, the girl took out the medicine powder from the back room and asked them to apply it to the wound, and the wound immediately stopped hurting. The eight of them had a full meal and fell asleep against the stone wall.
After dawn, the girl went down the mountain with eight people.
When they arrived at the foot of the towering Tsubaki tree, their luggage was still there, and they went over and carried their luggage.
After walking more than 20 miles of mountain road, the girl suddenly pointed to a pool of blood in the stone depression and said, "Last night, I broke one of the fingers of the giant monster here." ”
Eight people saw that there was a mess here, and it was clear that there had been a fierce fight last night.
The girl sent them out of the big mountain pass all the way back to them.
The eight merchants came down the mountain, because the eight of them had scars on both cheeks, the size of copper coins, and they looked very strange. Out of curiosity, someone asked, and the eight of them talked endlessly about this adventure of escaping death, and everyone who heard it was amazed.
When Dou Wentao was inspecting, he accidentally saw these eight merchants, and quietly listened to the story of their adventure of escaping from death, suspecting that the brother and sister who lived in seclusion in the depths of the mountain may be the same as himself, when the two gods of Jehovah and Satan were reincarnated as angels to save the world, shouldering the heavy responsibility of doing the right thing for heaven and eliminating harm for the people, so he decided to go up the mountain to find the brother and sister, and joined forces to successfully kill the two giant monsters that plagued the world, eliminate harm for the people, and eliminate violence and peace.
Dou Wentao was alone, went up to the mountains, according to the dictation of the eight merchants, without much effort, he found the small stone house, met the brother and sister, chatted, and learned that the brother and sister were indeed the reincarnation of the two angels who were ordered to save the world, the brother's name is Shang Wujie, and the sister's name is Shang Wenjie.
The reincarnation of the three angels who were ordered to save the world met happily in this way.
The three of them were like-minded, joined forces, searched for traces, and finally found the hiding place of the two giant monsters sent by the female demon Yu Die'er to plague the human world.
Shang Wujie and Shang Wenjie, two brothers and sisters, after getting rid of the two scourges, were invited by Dou Wentao to happily decide to go down the mountain and assist Dou Wentao to jointly manage the government affairs of the southern Xinjiang territory, appease the people, protect the earth, fulfill their duties, eliminate violence and peace, and show their skills.