Chapter 43: The People Who Were Lied
Bashan, outside the Xuanguan Drum Tower.
He Xin was standing on the Drum Tower Square, waiting for the soldiers to gather all the Taoist priests of the Xuanguan.
He Xin has been in Bashan for a few days, and just a few days ago, after she trapped Zhang Jinren's anti-routine in the cave, she sent a signal for the soldiers who had been waiting for many days at the bottom of the mountain to go up the mountain.
Now all the Taoist priests in the Xuanguan have been gathered in the square outside the drum tower one by one by the soldiers.
He Xin looked at the surrounding walls with the words "quiet and inactive" and "leave the country and sit and forget", and felt quite disdainful in his heart.
"A group of fake Taoist priests just pretended to be quite like that, and on the surface, they all looked sanctimonious but were actually black-hearted. If it weren't for the fact that Zheng Qiming was displeased by the exposure of Zhang Jinren's embezzlement of official funds this time, I am afraid that the good reputation accumulated by this Xuanguan over the years would have been ruined in the hands of Zhang Jinren. He Xin really couldn't imagine that there were really many things she found in the past few days when she investigated the metaphysical temple.
"Tom ......"
Dozens of soldiers moved the boxes in the secret room one by one and placed them beside He Xin in turn.
You're just a Taoist temple, even if you have the blessing of some mythological stories. But the dozen chests of gold and silver found in your secret room are a bit too much?
You can just talk about a Taoist temple, even if you have the blessing of some mythological stories. But is it a bit too much to find more than a dozen boxes of gold and silver from Zhang Jinren's secret room?
"Tut-tut, it seems that Zhang Jinren has been exploiting a lot in the past few years!" He Xin watched boxes of wooden boxes full of gold and silver being moved, counted slightly, and asked a young soldier who had just moved the boxes: "Have any of you gone to inform the people under the mountain to come up the mountain?"
The young soldier who was questioned hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied: "It's the general, as soon as you gave the order before, we have already gone down the mountain to invite the people to go up the mountain." ”
"Very good, hard work brothers, the brothers who just moved the boxes will rest for a while, and then everyone will maintain order on the spot. He Xin nodded and said.
"General Xie!" the soldiers gave a military salute to He Xin in unison.
"Well, you guys should rest first, don't be too tired. I'll go over there and have a look. After He Xin finished speaking, he thought about walking to the side of the square.
After watching He Xin leave, the young soldier who was questioned before looked at He Xin's back and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
"Hey, I said you don't look at it, it's time to go back to your soul. A veteran touched the young soldier on the shoulder, saw that the other party came back to his senses, and continued: "General He has always been very good to everyone, as long as it is not on the battlefield, General He has always been very approachable to everyone, so don't think too much about it, you kid." ”
"I ...... I don't, don't talk nonsense. The young soldier's face flushed, but he withdrew the gaze that had been looking at He Xin before.
"Hey, I'm talking nonsense. Who hasn't come from your age? I know everything I know, and I thought so about you back then. But it is better to recognize reality and not have too many unrealistic illusions. Very tired. He patted the young soldier on the shoulder as he spoke, and said no more.
"Well, I understand. I just admire the general. Although the general is a woman, she has the courage and courage to be as good as a man. Generals are the goal of my marching career. The young soldier clenched his fists and said.
Shi Chang glanced at the young soldier, bowed his head and smiled without saying a word. People like generals are the goal of every military man.
Since then, another teenager has been addicted to his military career and cannot extricate himself.
He Xin didn't know that his personality charm once again strengthened the military career of a teenager. She now looked at the Xuanguan Taoist priests who were constantly being brought by the soldiers, and she had the illusion of seeing a herd of pigs.
Sure enough, this Zhang Jinren has really been kind and charitable in recent years, but what he is happy to give is the fake Taoist priest he has received.
Every year, Xuanguan had to advance a large amount of silver to the imperial court, and sometimes even a large amount of gold. Although the money reported each time is related to the repair of the Taoist temple and the charity, according to He Xin's observation in the Taoist temple in the past few days, it can be said that in addition to the original fame here, the inside and outside of the Xuanguan have not changed in the slightest from a few years ago.
If there is any change, it is that the Taoist priests in this metaphysical view are more mellow than the other.
He Xin stood back on the high platform, looking down at the neat group of Taoist priests standing below, and she had the illusion that she saw a pig that could walk upright.
This group of fake Taoist priests is really too mellow, you can imagine how moisturized this group of Taoist priests is on weekdays.
But that's the end of the happy days for these Taoist priests, and they will help the villagers at the bottom of the mountain to repair their houses in the future. He Xin believes that this group of round fake Taoist priests will definitely lose weight one day.
Looking at the villagers in the village not far from the foot of Bashan Mountain, it is not an exaggeration to compare everyone to dry firewood, not to mention that they are in normal health.
The Taoist priests on the mountain are all fat and big-eared, but the people under the mountain have no food to eat.
The dynasty is not the age of natural disasters and man-made disasters, why do some people be hungry and skinny if they can't eat?
In the end, it's not a good thing that Zhang Jinren did.
The appropriation of the imperial court came as soon as it was said, and the imperial court still had to send ministers down to the grassroots level to conduct on-the-spot investigations.
So the people of the imperial court came down to investigate and saw that the surrounding villagers were doing quite well, so how could the imperial court allocate the money that was already difficult to distribute?
Therefore, Zhang Jinren began to deceive the villagers, saying that as long as everyone pretended to be miserable. Only then will the court allocate the money, and he will be willing to share a part of the money in his hand to reward those who have behaved well when the officials come to investigate.
The surrounding people were also induced by Zhang Jinren, and they were working hard just to get the amount of money that Zhang Jinren did not say in his mouth.
In order to get the empty silver ticket that Zhang Jinren said, the villagers did everything.
Your family buries pigs, his family drowns cattle, and this one pushes the wall and the other tears down the house. For a while, the surrounding villages were so chaotic.
However, after a few months, the great official who had made Zhang Jinren and the village name so miserable finally came, and the official was almost not scared half to death by the villagers who looked like dried corpses. The senior officials didn't even dare to go to the toilet at night, because these people were still too enthusiastic. You said you went to the toilet to relax, but behind your ass was a man who looked like a dried corpse with a lantern.
This picture is very exciting to think about.
In the end, the official only stayed in Bashan for three days, and then hurried back to the dynasty. He reported everything he had seen, heard and felt in the past few days to Zheng Qiming word for word.
Zheng Qiming looked at the big official who had been a little fat, and after going to Bashan for three days, he had lost a lot of weight. At that moment, a batch of official banks were allowed to pass.
Zhang Jinren, who waited in Bashan for a few days to receive the payment, did not give a part of the village names as he had promised.
On the contrary, he deceived the name of the village again and again and did not receive the funds from the imperial court, and still encouraged everyone to make themselves a little worse.
So the kind villagers don't doubt him, which is why we have today's ending.
After waiting for another stick of incense, the villagers under the mountain arrived one after another.
It's not that they don't want to come quickly, it's that they don't have much strength to come up right away.
When everyone was in order, there were soldiers separating people from each other. He Xin said to everyone under the high stage: "Hello everyone, we are soldiers of the dynasty. Although we came here for official business, we found out that everyone was deceived by bad guys. Now we are here to give you justice. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Is it time for my house to be rebuilt?"
"Ah, this is a woman, she can be the master of such a large group of men?"
......
Hearing the discussion of the people in the audience, He Xin didn't talk nonsense. She motioned directly to the soldier behind her to open the box.
"Click"
With the opening of large wooden boxes full of gold and silver, the people who were still talking in the audience just now stopped talking for a moment. The eyes of the boss widened, and they were about to put the water scoop in.
"You don't need me to say more, you all know what these are, right?" He Xin asked loudly, pointing to the contents of the box.
"Yes, yes. Master Guan, this is going to give everyone money. ”
"Thank you, Lord Qingtian, thank you, Lord Qingtian......"
Looking at the villagers in the audience who obviously misunderstood something, He Xin waved his hand, and the soldiers on both sides instructed him to shout "Jing" in unison!
The villagers who had just thanked him shut up in an instant, and they looked at He Xin with tears and didn't know what the other party was going to do.
"Listen to me, this money is the ...... of the imperial court"
"What? That's not for us?"
"We're so miserable, don't the court care?"
"Yes, yes, does the court want us dead?"
As soon as He Xin's words began, the people below the high platform had already begun to shout. They feel that it is because of the appropriation from the imperial court that they have become what they are now. If the court doesn't care, then they really have no hope of survival.
"Everyone be quiet! Do you listen to what I say well?" He Xin used his internal force to spread his words more powerfully, and the villagers under the high platform were shocked and quieted down.
"I promise you that some of the money here will be given to you. I promise. He Xin paused, and seeing that the villagers were no longer chaotic, she spoke again: "However, when distributing the money to everyone, I ask everyone to talk about the loss of their own family, so that everyone will not lose the allocation of the imperial court." ”
As soon as He Xin's words came out, the villagers were stunned at first, but immediately someone with a flexible brain said: "My family's ten cows, twelve pigs, and ten acres of land are gone." ”
As soon as the first person to speak took the lead, the others began to falsely report their losses.
However, their little abacus was crackling, and He Xin was not a stupid girl, so why didn't he know that they were all talking nonsense.
"One thing I forgot to tell everyone is that false reporting of losses is punishable. ”
As soon as He Xin's words came out, the villagers who were still full of excitement just now quieted down again, but they calmed down and thought about it, who of these officials knew how much they had lost?
Just when the villagers tried to continue to lie about their losses, He Xin squinted at them and said: "If there is a penalty, there will be a reward, and if anyone reports a false loss, half of the funds allocated by the reported person will go to the whistleblower." ”
He Xin's words were like a bombshell, shocking the people under the high stage.
There is a reward for reporting, but they are not too familiar with this.
At that moment, the backs of the villagers who had just falsely reported their losses were soaked with sweat.
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you. For a time, the atmosphere of the scene and its oppression.
"I report, Zhang Er Mazi. He didn't even have a barn, and where did he get ten acres of fields for cattle and pigs. ”
"You fart, Lao Tzu has. Don't listen to the villain's nonsense!" Zhang Ermazi heard that someone had reported him, so he immediately stopped doing it and shouted: "Ah, I want to report it too." I reported Liu Hongniang, she is a widow, and there is no man in the family, let alone any land. Moreover, she told me to say that it was all her fault to punish her. ”
As soon as Liu Hongniang heard that someone reported herself, she screamed at the top of her voice: "Okay, your Zhang Er Mazi, you still called Honghong when you were on the belly of the old lady, and you have to report me now." I'm not alive anymore, I'm not alive, whoa, whoa......"
These villagers were deceived by Zhang Jinren, maybe they will be deceived by the second Zhang Jinren, if they don't teach them a lesson, I'm afraid they will suffer in the future. He Xin didn't expect that he was so frightened, and these people were so easily frightened.
"Well, everyone, remember not to overstate losses. Just a reminder that if someone commits another crime, they will be severely punished. Fortunately, He Xin was not affected by this group of villagers, and ordered the soldiers to register and record the losses reported by the villagers, and she walked down the high platform and walked behind the Xuanguan.
Now, it's time for her to deal with Zheng Zumeng's affairs.