please make me king

Chapter 1524 Iron Censor
"'Old Stubborn' Kong Zhenyun has been demoted!" As Kong Zhenyun and Tang Shiji exchanged official positions, the news soon spread throughout the streets and alleys.Many people who can't understand Kong Zhenyun's stubbornness and obstinacy couldn't help making up speeches.

"That's great, that's great, it's really abhorrent that this guy even bans a prostitute!" Many people couldn't help cheering after hearing this.

"By the way, what position is he demoted now?"

"Relegated to Zuodu Censor!"

"What? No way, this guy is not demoted, this is clearly a promotion!" The people who were still rejoicing at first couldn't help but their expressions changed, and they wailed one after another.

"Why is this?"

"This guy is purely a 'stone in the latrine', smelly and hard. If he is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, how can all the officials in the world be good?"

"I'm sure everyone has heard of the old man's reputation!" Just as there was a lot of discussion outside, the new Zuodu Censor Kong Zhenyun sat in the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sneering and talking to the Censor below.

"If you do well, you will naturally be promoted to a noble. If you don't do well, don't blame the old man for being ruthless!"

"Zensheng is him!" And when Kong Zhenyun appeared in the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the faces of the new censors who were gearing up to fight suddenly turned pale.

"Then how can it be considered a good job, and how can it be considered a bad job?" Someone couldn't help but boldly asked.

"It's not good to intentionally find fault and make things difficult for the common people, but it's good to abide by one's duties, right or wrong, of course!" Kong Zhenyun sneered.

"Don't think that this old man doesn't know what you're up to. It's a good thing that you all sharpen your heads and want to be officials."

"But if you lose your conscience in order to become an official and harm the people, be careful that this official will spare you, His Royal Highness King Shun will not spare you!"

Everyone looked at each other in dismay when they heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Understood!"

Then Kong Zhenyun said: "Since this is the case, the old man will explain to you how to inspect the prefectures and counties."

"The disadvantages of the state and county, the first is money and grain, and the second is criminal ears."

Originally, everyone was still cursing inwardly, but they didn't expect their eyes to pop round after hearing a few sentences.

It turned out that although what Kong Zhenyun said was simple, it was the key to patrolling prefectures and counties.

As the basic administrative units of the Ming Dynasty, the prefectures and counties, although their daily affairs were cumbersome, could be involved in one area of ​​money and food, the other in criminal affairs, and the third in personnel affairs.

The so-called "corruption and breaking the law" means that what is stolen is money and food, and what is broken is naturally criminal, and personnel is the main channel for forming gangs and transferring benefits.

A censor does not need to be proficient in everything, as long as he grasps these three keys, basically the local officials will have nothing to hide.

All the censors were fascinated by listening to it for a while, and even a few smart ones took out pens and papers early, and hurriedly listened and took notes, and almost shouted at Kong Zhenyun.

It turns out that although Kong Zhenyun has a passion for it, in fact, because he has been an editor of the Imperial Academy for many years, he does not have much experience in affairs, which is also an important reason why he is not in line with the world.

But it doesn't matter if Kong Zhenyun doesn't understand, Zhang Shun understands.

Although it was only four short years since Zhang Shun started his army, his experience was more complicated than most people's lifetime.

Therefore, he has the most experience in rectifying these prefectures and counties.

In order to ensure that everything is safe, he also specifically asked the old officials and experienced censors, and then compiled such a set of simple and practical textbooks.

Sure enough, Kong Zhenyun won a great reputation with this action, which made these censors both respect and fear.

After three to five days of hard work, the "training" was completed, and Zhang Shun assigned ten soldiers as guards to each of the censors who patrolled the grain, and some money and grain as travel expenses, and let them go on the road.

The first to bear the brunt is none other than the 22 counties of the five prefectures in Shuntian Prefecture.

Originally, these people were able to work in this lucrative place, so they were naturally people with connections and connections.

As soon as these people heard that the "iron-faced censor" was coming, how could they sit still? It turned out that nearly half of them abandoned their officials and absconded for a while, while the remaining half had already prepared money and women, and were ready to "corrode" these new censors. history.

It's just that they didn't expect it, this time these censors came out not for money, but for death.

Among them, the magistrate of Wanping County was not vigilant enough, and when the patrolling grain censor arrived, he hurriedly borrowed grain from big households to replenish the grain depot, and at the same time prepared a banquet to clean up the dust.

The censor who patrolled the grain was also interesting. He just waited for the arrangement of the county magistrate of Wanping and didn't say a word.

When the banquet started, Yingyingyanyan's women rushed in, he couldn't help but slapped the table and said: "His Royal Highness King Shun made repeated orders to keep everything simple in all states and counties, and no waste is allowed."

"You are a big fish and meat, and you recruit prostitutes. You must be a corrupt official. Come on, take care of him first, and the others will go with me to count the money and food."

The magistrate of Wanping never found out that the new censor didn't talk about "martial ethics" so much, so he controlled him when he came up, and he was caught off guard.

"Dog thief, I treated you kindly, but I didn't expect you to be ambitious and covet my official position!" The magistrate of Wanping only woke up from a dream at this time, and couldn't help but cursed.

Just where is it too late?

Not long after, the patrolling grain censor had already taken control of the county government's granary and silver warehouse, and called Master Qian and Liang to count them every five and ten.

How could the magistrate of Wanping be able to withstand it? Seeing that there was no hope of getting rid of the crime, he couldn't help pleading to the volunteer soldiers: "I drank too much tea today, I want to go to the toilet."

The soldiers of the righteous army didn't know what was true or false, so they had no choice but to obey, and only stayed near the latrine.

Wanping County Magistrate entered the latrine, and seeing no one around, he untied his belt, put it on the latrine beam, tied it firmly, and then put his head in.

It turned out that this guy couldn't get rid of himself, and he wanted to commit suicide in fear of crime.

It was said that there was nothing in the latrine to step on, so the man tied his belt to the latrine.

After the neck was hung up, the person jumped into the latrine, and the whole person was hung on it.

However, an accident happened.

As the saying goes: the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked.The county magistrate of Wanping worked his hands in Wanping County, and the servants and masters under him were not idle.

They have already stolen most of the money for building this toilet, and only bought some rotten wood to make up for it.

Originally, according to their thinking, a small toilet is just a shelter, so what else?

As a result, it was a tragedy when the magistrate hanged himself.

Most of the beams in the latrine have been rotten, how can it withstand such a force?
The volunteer soldiers were guarding outside, when suddenly there was a "boom", the latrine collapsed, and then there was a "help" sound from inside.

After all the soldiers rushed in, they managed to scrape away the sundries and looked inside, only to see that the dog-like magistrate of Wanping County was soaked in the latrine, and there were many maggots crawling in his hair and clothes. .

"Ouch!" All the soldiers found a place to vomit, and then they found a stick and pulled him up.

The county magistrate didn't look for death or life at this time, he quickly found a well and fetched seven or eight barrels of water in a row before he washed his body clean, but he couldn't have the official uniform.

After finally begging the soldiers, he went to his house to get another suit of clothes and put them on. At this time, the censor who patrolled the food just turned back.

"Hey, you just took off your official robe, but you still know yourself!" The patrolling censor couldn't help but sneered.

"This official has already understood lightly. There are 790 three-two-seven-six cents of silver in the treasury and 360 seven stones and 97 catties of food are missing. What should you do?"

(End of this chapter)