Jianghu I am the only one

Chapter 278 Governance
The man walked onto the street and found that the street was not as chaotic as he thought, or empty, but there were already many people walking on the street.

Among them are small people like him who have to come out to eat and run for the family, and some bold merchants, but the largest number and the most eye-catching ones are the gangs who patrol and patrol, as well as the former government servants.

The teams of cadres patrolled the area regularly, and occasionally stopped one or two suspicious people for questioning.

Because he had experienced the previous experience, the man was no longer afraid of seeing this scene again.

What caught the man's attention the most were those yamen servants.

I saw that not far from him, a group of yamen servants were sweeping with brooms, buckets and other tools.

"I said why the street is much cleaner than yesterday. It turns out that these officials did it... why is it so rare?" The man muttered to himself, scratching his head, very puzzled.

Although the yamen servants are at the bottom of the management, in the past they were directly in charge of these small people, so regardless of their titles, the small people have to call "officials" when they meet.

In the past, these "officials" walked the streets and alleys, yelled and drank, and asked for cards, which was majestic.Now they are sweeping the streets like hard labor, which is unimaginable.

Although he felt strange, the man still avoided the places where these "officials" were sweeping, and came to a rice shop.

To his surprise, the rice shop was open.

He took a closer look, and was even more pleasantly surprised—it turns out that the price of brown rice today has dropped by seven or eight cents compared with the day before, and it is only a few cents away, and it will return to the price in October last year.

Since November last year, food prices have been rising, and until the day before yesterday, the price has almost doubled compared to last year.

Later, the man heard the people who worked with him talk about it, and then he realized that it was because King Qing and King Duan fought for the throne, which caused the price of food to continue to rise.

He and other ordinary people dare not talk about the affairs of the princes, but his heart is getting more and more sad, and he always feels that if this continues, his salary will not be enough to support his family in a long time.

He originally thought that now that there are wars in the prefecture and the city, the price of food will rise even higher.Who would have thought that today it would drop so much that he couldn't believe it for a moment.

Seeing the female shopkeeper of the rice shop dialing the abacus inside, the man asked aloud, "Shopkeeper Tong, is the price of rice correct?"

"It's a mistake, don't buy it!" Shopkeeper Tong gave the man a blank look, and said angrily.

Embarrassed, the man hurriedly explained: "Shopkeeper Tong, I just asked more questions because I saw the price of rice dropped sharply."

After hearing the man's explanation, the shopkeeper Tong became even more angry. He clapped his abacus, put one hand on his hip and said, "If it weren't for the damn gangsters forcing the price down, my mother would have marked the price like this? Do you know that selling my mother would be for nothing?" Already!"

The man knew that shopkeeper Tong had a sharp mouth, but he had a good heart. When he had no money to buy rice a few times, he would pay him on credit, which was much better than other rice shop owners in the city.

So he quickly made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Tong, don't talk nonsense, there are gangsters on this street, if they hear you, you will be in trouble!"

"So what if you hear it?" Shopkeeper Tong became more energetic, and his voice was even louder, "Forcing us to sell food at a lower price, why don't we say a few words? Believe it or not, they are standing at the door, and my mother is like this... Hey, Master Bai, why are you here again?"

Speaking of the back, shopkeeper Tong suddenly changed his face, and said smilingly towards the direction behind the man's back.

The man turned around, just in time to see a gang of gangsters approaching. The leader was wearing iron armor, obviously he was not an ordinary leader of gangsters.

Bai Si'an ignored shopkeeper Tong's greeting, looked at the man, and asked, "But she doesn't want to sell you food?"

"No, no." The man quickly denied, "It's just that shopkeeper Bai knows me well, so we chatted a little longer."

Bai Si'an nodded, took a deep look at shopkeeper Tong, and then led him away again.

The man didn't dare to stay here any longer, so he quickly bought brown rice with all the money he had on his back, and went home first with a rice bag on his back.

Seeing that the man came back shortly after leaving the house, and brought back a bag of rice, the woman couldn't believe it, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

The man smiled and said, "The gang is not as scary as the government said before, and even asked the rice shop to sell grain at a reduced price, so I bought some rice and sent it back first."

"Master, what you said is true?" The woman couldn't believe it even more.

"Of course it's true." The man said with certainty, "By the way, after I go out to work, if you two really encounter bad guys at home, you can shout loudly. There is a team of gangsters patrolling the alley. Sheng should come back and help."

"Our house has nothing, how could the bad guys come." The woman came back to her senses and said so.

The man stopped talking, and immediately left home to go to the ceramic workshop in the southern suburbs.

He felt that since the city is so orderly, the ceramic workshop in the southern suburbs should also start work...
Prefect Yamen.

Six-room conference hall.

Yang Erqing and Liu Sheng are bringing some clerks, accountants, and some clerks from the former magistrate's yamen to report to Ouyang Ye the current situation of money and food in Yiling Mansion.

As for the folk registers, Ouyang Ye and the others didn't care much, because they all knew that the government of Dayu was corrupt, and the folk registers in various places had long been useless.Not to mention that the world is in chaos today, thieves are everywhere, and many people are displaced.

"The treasury of the household department is only 50 taels of silver. Isn't that too little? In addition, there is not much grain in the granaries in the mansion on the books, and it may be even less in reality. What's going on?"

Hearing Ouyang Ye's question, a group of clerks who belonged to the government office could not help but kneel down in fright, trembling all over, but no one dared to speak.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng replied: "According to my subordinates' interrogation, the treasury originally had more than 100 million taels of silver, but in recent months, the green battalion has continuously recruited troops, so they have withdrawn 50 taels.

However, according to the books, there are still nearly 200 million taels of treasury silver in Yiling Mansion. As for the rest of the silver, it is likely that the treasury officials and other officials embezzled.This kind of thing is very common in government offices everywhere. "

Ouyang Ye also knew something about this aspect, so it wasn't very surprising.

Nodding his head, he then said: "Since it may be corrupted by the treasury envoy and other officials, then let someone investigate. As long as the evidence is found, the houses of the relevant officials will be ransacked."

The gang is not the kind of poor and crazy bandit, so when they entered the city, they almost did not commit any crimes against the people. Even the homes of the officials were monitored by people, and the officials were separated from their families, and they were not taken at will. wealth.

Therefore, at this time Ouyang Ye proposed to copy the houses of corrupt officials.

But as soon as he said the words, he changed his mind, so he continued: "Forget it, don't rush to copy the evidence after finding the evidence, hold a public trial, and let Jia Zhihua preside over the conviction of those corrupt officials."

As soon as Liu Sheng heard it, he knew that Ouyang Ye wanted to use this method to tie Jia Zhihua to the Ganbang boat and cut off his retreat, so he couldn't help smiling, and clapped his hands in praise: "Help the wise man."

Ouyang Ye said again: "This time, we will ask those grain merchants in the city who are stockpiling strange things to sell grain at a lower price to see if there are any uncooperative or secret tricksters. If there are any, we will also check their background, as long as there is something wrong with the law , and handed over to Jia Zhihua for trial.

Also, he is idle now, so he is allowed to open court for four hours a day.Inform the people in the city of this matter, let them go to our magistrate if they have a grievance, and say that the magistrate will definitely try it impartially. "

After finishing speaking, Ouyang Ye couldn't help but smile when he thought of Jia Zhihua's appearance when he was forced to become Master Qingtian.

Then Ouyang Ye dealt with other matters of the Xiafu Yamen, and then asked about the performance of the Ganbang gang members after they entered the city.

President Yang Erqing was in charge of this matter, so he clasped his fists and replied: "I would like to report to the leader of the gang, because the rules of my gang are quite strict, and I have informed the rules after entering the city in advance, so the brothers are generally doing well.

A few who didn't control themselves, who molested women and ate bully meals, have already been severely punished by Brother Xingtang in public.

However, this time when thousands of us entered the city, the subordinates felt that the establishment of the Tuxing Banner was a bit inconvenient.Leader, should we change the organization of the Tuxing Banner? "

[Second update. 】

(End of this chapter)