Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 161 The Night Banquet
Night falls.

In the Zhangqiu county government office, the county government office is the layout of the front government office and the back residence. The county magistrate Zhang Yichen lived in the official residence with his family.Du Ruhui took office not long ago, but because he didn't bring any family, he also lived in the back mansion.His house and Zhang Yichen's house are actually only separated by a wall, but it is also an independent small courtyard.

Tonight, Du Ruhui specially held a banquet in his small courtyard.

In the living room, there are only three desks.

Du Ruhui didn't invite anyone else either, just the county magistrate Zhang Yichen and the captain Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng got off his horse in front of the Yamen, Xu Bo personally led him to the back mansion, and Du Ruhui greeted him in front of the courtyard.

"I've met County Captain Du." Luo Cheng cupped his hands.

Du Ruhui also cupped his hands in return, "Please, Captain Luo."

After the two entered the hall and sat down, Uncle Xu went to invite Zhang Yichen over again.

When someone came, the three of them sat down and had a chat.

"Let the cook serve the dishes." Du Ruhui confessed.

There are several tables per person, the dishes are more delicate, and the wine is also very good.

"I brought this cook from my old home in the capital. I am used to the taste at home, and I am afraid that I will not be used to it outside. This wine was also brought when I left Beijing. It was a gift from Gao Shilang of the Ministry of Officials. This is jade scallion. Wine, this wine is made by the emperor today, the method of making wine comes from the Hu people, it is very precious, it is hard to find a piece of wine, and there is no market for the price."

After Luo Cheng heard this, he couldn't help being curious. He didn't expect that Yang Guang, the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, could still make wine.

Pick it up and take a sip, it feels mellow and cold, like beer.

"This wine is really special."

"It's made from water and grain, imitating the wine of the barbarians. It doesn't get drunk even if you drink too much, and you don't get sick even if you get very drunk." Du Ruhui introduced.

Luo Cheng thought to himself, isn't it just beer, you won't get drunk if you drink too much, even if you are really drunk, you won't have a headache or hurt your body.

Zhang Yichen is also a wine lover, and he praised after a few sips, "Although it's not as strong as Xinfeng wine, nor as strong as San Lejiang, it's really mellow and good wine."

Everyone began to drink, and after a few glasses of wine, the topic gradually began to chat.

The atmosphere gradually became less awkward.

Du Ruhui was also a carefree and forthright person. He raised his glass to drink a glass first, and then raised his glass to apologize to Luo Cheng and Zhang Yichen.

"If Huihui is young and aggressive and doesn't know how to handle things well, the two of you will laugh at me. I hope you will forgive me. In the future, I will be an official with the government. I hope that I can put aside the past and manage Zhangqiu County together, so that the achievements can be made, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment."

How could Luo Cheng put on airs when Du Ruhui put on such a low profile.

Immediately, he also got up and raised his glass, "It's Luo Cheng who is reckless, and I hope Captain Du will take care of him."

Zhang Yichen laughed out loud. For him, the current result is naturally the best.

While drinking and chatting, everyone really talked and laughed.

Du Ruhui's cook's dishes are very good, the dishes are exquisite, and the taste is also very good, which opened Luo Cheng's eyes. He always thought that the Sui people's recipes were simple, but now that he thinks about it, it's because of the Sui people he came into contact with. The dishes are all about the life of ordinary people, and the food and clothing have not yet been solved. Naturally, it is impossible to pay attention to cooking and exquisiteness.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Du Ruhui was slightly drunk.

Although this jade scallion wine is not top-notch, Du Ruhui's drinking capacity is indeed average.

He couldn't help complaining that Zhangqiu was indeed a place where troublesome people came out of poverty, not to mention bandits and even rebels in Changbai Mountain.This rebel just flattened, and here came another gang of cattle thieves and butchers that crossed counties.

"The subordinate officials in the yamen are also good and bad. The arrests who have just entered the yamen not long ago will become corrupt immediately, which is disappointing."

Zhang Yichen couldn't help but get a headache when he heard it, and kept saying that it was true.

This year Zhangqiu County has several major cases, such as the rebellion of the Blue Face Ghost, Zhi Shilang, and Wang Bo, the bandits in Changbai Mountain, and now there is a gang of robbers and cattle slaughterers. , Just a random one, don't even think about his performance appraisal this year, but now that they appear one after another, there is no need to think about the performance appraisal.

Local officials in the Sui Dynasty had a major exam every three years and a minor exam every year.And officials are promoted based on performance appraisal, and they can be promoted after three years if their performance is good.Those who do not pass the exam may not be promoted after nine years of service, and may even be demoted before completing three years.

There are many rigid assessment indicators for being a parent officer, such as the increase in the number of household registrations, such as the collection of rent and tax, the number of criminal cases, the quality of public security, and so on.

If there are nine cattle slaughter cases in Renqi, they will get bad grades, let alone repeated robbery cases, or even rebels.

Why are there so few homicide cases in the ancient official records, and sometimes it is even recorded that there are only a few dozen executed criminals in the entire dynasty in a year?

It's not that everyone is a good person this year, but the result of deliberate control.

Local officials are unwilling to impose the death penalty, because if one is sentenced, the performance evaluation will be lowered by a few points.

Therefore, if it can be private, it will be private, if it can be negotiated, it will be negotiated, if it is not possible, it will be sentenced lightly, or even simply concealed.

But this year Zhangqiu County can't hide it even if it wants to, and there are rebels.

But at last Zhangqiu County reacted fairly quickly, suppressed the rebels, wiped out the bandits, formed a gang of cattle slaughter and robbers, and caught them immediately.

In general, the remedy is fairly fast.

"Magistrate Zhang, Captain Luo, I, Du Ruhui, came to Zhangqiu. I knew the situation here was bad, but I still came here. He and the same are people who want to do some practical things for the benefit of one party. We had a little misunderstanding in the past, so let's write it off now. In the future, the three of us will work together to do more practical things in this Zhangqiu County. How about it? In the future, I will invite County Magistrate Zhang In charge of the overall situation, the captain and I are in charge of civil and military affairs."

"County Du's majesty, Luo Cheng admires it. After I drink this cup, I will definitely cooperate with the county magistrate and county captain in the future to manage Zhangqiu County well."

The three raised their glasses together.

With a glass of wine, all the past grievances and grievances have been revealed.

"Captain Luo, please bring the county barracks back to the city to station tomorrow." Du Ruhui took the initiative.

Unexpectedly, Luo Cheng shook his head.

"Lieutenant Du, I have been thinking about the garrison these days. The purpose of setting up the county barracks is still because of the unrest in our place, so after I think about it, I plan to adjust the location of the county barracks. Keep two teams in the Within the county seat, they are responsible for the defense of the county seat."

"Two teams of 100 people are stationed outside the city, responsible for assisting in the defense of the county and patrolling official roads."

"The other 300 people will be stationed at the foot of Changbai Mountain in the north of the city. There is a military station built when we suppressed bandits. I plan to have a team of 50 people stationed in one military station and stationed in six stations. In this way, we can keep an eye on our county. Changbai Mountains, to prevent new bandits from coming after the old bandits are wiped out."

Du Ruhui was surprised that Luo Cheng proposed this new garrison method so proactively.

But just thinking about it, I think it's really good.

There is Changbai Mountain, an endless deep mountain and old forest, which is a place where filth is hidden. Now that the bandits have been wiped out, there may be more of them gathered at some point.

If [-] county soldiers are stationed permanently to guard all the roads into the mountain, it will indeed play a very good preventive role.

"It's just that I have a request." Luo Cheng said.

"Captain Luo, please tell me."

"Before we wiped out bandits in the mountains, we also captured a lot of fugitives. Most of the current military depots were built in the villages of the fugitives. Those villages are now abandoned. Although the fields reclaimed by the fugitives are registered in the official account However, they are still left there unattended, so I would like to request the county to allocate the fields reclaimed by these refugees to the nearby county barracks, and let them cultivate the fields to supplement military supplies!"

(End of this chapter)