Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 430 I Don't Believe I Can't Change It

Zhang Zhuyang arrived in Fuzhou and spent two days checking the river.

He is really an expert, and he quickly found the crux of the matter, and ordered his officials to buy earth and rocks, hire manpower, and prepare to start construction.

Kang Shouming, the head of the Ministry of Industry, presented the list. After Zhang Zhuyang read it, he smacked his lips and said, "Boss Kang, this earth and stone is more expensive than grain."

Kang Shouming quickly explained: "My lord, you don't know that there is a lack of soil and rocks in Fuzhou, and the locals also say that the soil and rocks here are more expensive than rice."

The corners of Zhang Zhuyang's eyes trembled, he smiled and said: "Fuzhou is mountainous, just hire someone to dig it out."

"The soil and rocks on the mountain are not easy to move. This place in Fuzhou is evil. You must have heard of Huntiandang. It is in the boundary of Fuzhou. If people enter, they will not come out alive."

Zhang Zhuyang continued to maintain a smile: "We said that we went up the mountain to collect earth and rocks, so how can we talk about the chaos?"

"That's what I'm talking about. You can't go to the place of Huntiandang, and you can't just go to this mountain. Who knows what's in the mountain, we can't afford to offend!"

Zhang Zhuyang nodded when he heard the words, and then looked down the list: "It costs three hundred Wen a day to hire a laborer? Even in the capital, sixty Wen is enough."

"My lord, it's the busy farming season right now. It's not easy to hire people. It would be good if you can hire a few people for three hundred dollars."

"This, this is inevitable..."

"My lord, this is not the first time we have been out on business. We know the rules, so we don't need to worry about these things. When the work is over, your lord will just wait for our news."

Zhang Zhuyang nodded again and again: "Master Kang, please call all your colleagues here, I have something to discuss with them."

Hearing this, Kang Shouming laughed.

Zhang Zhuyang is still the same Zhang Zhuyang, on the road!
Calling everyone here must be for the money.

He hurriedly gathered everyone together, waiting to listen to Zhang Zhuyang's orders.

Zhang Zhuyang asked his attendants to bring out a box, opened the box and saw that it was full of fifty taels of gold ingots.

The imperial court allocated silver, how did it turn into gold?
Everyone was puzzled, Zhang Zhuyang smiled and said: "This is Zhang's savings, a little thought, colleagues, don't be too little, one hundred taels of gold per person,

This time, let's stop thinking about other things and concentrate on doing the river affairs well. Zhang sincerely thank you all. "

Everyone looked at each other, looked at several boxes of gold, and looked at Zhang Zhuyang, the atmosphere gradually became dignified.

The principal Kang Shouming said: "Zhang Yushi, you can't trust us? Why do you let us take your money?"

Zhang Zhuyang waved his hands again and again and said: "How dare, how dare, it's a colleague, a fate, it's just a heart, everyone, accept it."

Seeing the silence of the crowd, Zhang Zhuyang sighed with a smile: "Purchasing earth and rocks, hiring people, it's not a big deal, Zhang can do it by himself, I have to trouble you for the dangerous places on the embankment, please help Zhang take care of it." on."

Zhang Zhuyang distributed the gold to everyone, and they didn't want to refute his face, so they dispersed.

The Ministry of Industry promoted Yue Hongji and said, "What does Zhang Zhuyang mean? Why do you want to eat alone?"

Kang Shouming shook his head and said, "I can't guess what he's thinking, let's wait for two days to see what he wants to do?"

……

Three days later, Marquis Mansion.

Xia Hu rushed back from Fuzhou and gave Xu Zhiqiong a list.

Xu Zhiqiong glanced at the list, which recorded the crimes of thirteen officials.

After Xu Zhiqiong saw it, he gritted his teeth and said, "Why is it so difficult?"

Xia Hu said: "I went to the porridge market to have a look. I can count the rice in a pot of porridge."

Xu Zhiqiong tightened his grip on the list and said, "Isn't Lao Meng here? But he doesn't care?"

Xia Hu sighed: "I met Meng Denglang, he recognized me, he said the porridge was too watery, but Jia Xingbang told him that disaster relief is a matter of the household department, and the Lantern Yamen has no right to intervene."

……

Fuzhou, Luohuai County, Shangyuan Village, Congee Farm.

The lids of several large pots were lifted, and there was no rice in the pot, and even the soup was clear.

More than three hundred villagers held bowls, waiting for this bowl of porridge to drink.

There is only one bowl of porridge every day, but today I may not even be able to drink this bowl of porridge.

Bao Dexing, the head of the household department, stood on the platform next to the porridge shed, holding a whip, silently watching the people waiting to receive the porridge.

Usually he seldom comes to the porridge market, but today is an exception. Yesterday, more than a dozen people thought the porridge was too thin and made trouble in the porridge market.

Bao Dexing walked up to an old woman, raised his foot and kicked the old woman to the ground: "You are too old to be ashamed!"

There was a middle-aged man kneeling next to the old woman. Bao Dexing stepped forward and whipped him twice on the face: "Can't you scream? Don't you mean that you are not full? Call me and I will listen!"

There was an old man kneeling beside him, and Bao Dexing stepped on the old man's face and scolded: "I didn't starve you to death, old man, but you dare to make trouble here!"

A dozen or so people were kicked and beaten one by one, and Bao Dexing shouted: "The imperial court sent an imperial envoy to help the disaster, and we followed Mr. Jia to fight for your food without sleep. You just repay us like this. What about your conscience? Have you let the dog eat it?"

Bao Dexing walked to the side of the porridge pot, and took out a spoonful of rice soup with a spoon: "Do you know where this food comes from? It was all saved from our mouths by the few of us who followed Mr. Jia. For you, we ran and broke our legs. Fuck it!" mind
You wait for food with bowls every day, it’s nothing but ungrateful, and you’re making trouble here, this porridge is for you, it’s better to give it to the dog! "

"Then let me eat it for you!"

boom!
Someone kicked Bao Dexing behind the back, and Bao Dexing staggered and fell to the ground. The boiled rice soup was overturned and spilled all over his body.

"Ah! Ah!" Bao Dexing wailed like a pig, "Who! Who dares to attack the imperial court official! Someone, take it down, quickly take this mob..."

Bao Dexing opened his eyes and watched for a moment, then murmured: "Hou, Lord Hou..."

Standing in front of him was Xu Zhiqiong.

Behind Xu Zhiqiong is a group of fierce lantern bearers!
Xu Zhiqiong's veins bulged, he grabbed Bao Dexing's hair, pressed him against the pot, and gritted his teeth, "Is this porridge?"

"Yes, it's porridge, Lord Hou, it's porridge..."

"Is it porridge? Try it again!" Xu Zhiqiong pressed Bao Dexing's head against the surface of the rice soup, and the rising steam scalded Bao Dexing's face.

"Lord Hou, Lord Hou, please spare me!"

"Where is Jia Xingbang?"

"Imperial envoy... Then, what, Mr. Jia is in the county government office, dealing with official duties!"

Xu Zhiqiong turned around and shouted: "Lao Meng, tie Jia Xingbang and He Jianzhong together!"

……

In the county government office, Jia Xingbang was taking an afternoon nap in the bedroom, and a handsome servant girl was standing beside the couch, gently shaking her fan.

Suddenly hearing a commotion outside the door, Jia Xingbang opened his eyes and shouted, "Who is making the noise!"

The servant girl was about to go out to check, but she saw Meng Shizhen opened the door and walked in.

Jia Xingbang sat up, frowned and said, "Meng Baihu, what are you doing in the county government office?"

Meng Shizhen smiled and said, "Come and invite your lord to go to the porridge market."

Jia Xingbang said angrily: "The Holy Majesty ordered me to preside over the disaster relief. I have said more than once that I don't need to intervene in this matter!"

"Don't intervene, how about intervening?" Meng Shizhen stepped forward and kicked Jia Xingbang.

Jia Xingbang shouted: "I am an imperial envoy, and you beat the imperial envoy with the intention of plotting rebellion!"

Meng Shizhen spat and said, "All the real imperial envoys have arrived, but you are still pretending to be an imperial envoy, so tie me up! Send it to the porridge market!"

With the help of Onmyoji's magic circle, Meng Shizhen sent Jia Xingbang and He Jianzhong to the porridge market in a short time.

Before leaving, Jia Xingbang's sin karma was five inches two. In just a few days, it had grown to five inches five. Xu Zhiqiong knelt down and asked, "What did I tell you before I left? I told you not to be greedy." , tell me how much you have been greedy for?"

Jia Xingbang gritted his teeth and said, "There is no proof, but Master Hou wants to kill this official unjustly?"

"It's not an unjust killing, it's a beating! Lao Meng!" Xu Zhiqiong called Meng Shizhen, "Beat me to death, in front of the people, until he confesses."

Jia Xingbang shouted: "Xu Zhiqiong, you bastard, do you still have kings in your eyes? I let you fight, see if you can break my iron body!"

Meng Shizhen started beating with a whip, Xu Zhiqiong ordered people to count the rice and cook the porridge again, Li Pu'an was ordering people to pour out the rice soup in the pot, a woman, holding a child, rushed forward.

"My lord, don't spill this porridge and rice. Give my girl a bite. My lord, I won't eat it. My girl is starving, so just give her a bite. I beg you."

Li Pu'an quickly took the bowl, scooped up as much rice as he could, and served the girl porridge.

After the porridge was served, Li Puan did not hand it over for a long time.

He didn't think that girl looked right.

"My lord, my lord, I beg you, I'll just give my girl a bite, just one bite, I'll kowtow to you, my lord."

The woman kept kowtowing.

Li Puan hesitated for a moment, but still passed the porridge over.

The woman put porridge and rice near the girl's mouth, but the girl didn't eat it.

"Eat, eat quickly, you won't be hungry after eating." The woman gently poured the rice soup into Nizi's mouth.

"No, that, that..." Li Pu'an didn't know what to say, "This girl, you child, she, she, she..."

That girl, I can't eat it.

Can't eat anymore...

"Eat, mother feeds you," the woman put her arm around Nizi and held the bowl in the other hand, pouring porridge and rice into the child's mouth, "I have food, I am not hungry anymore, I have food to eat!"

Rice soup flowed out from Nizi's mouth.

Ma Guangli clenched his fists: "These bastards!"

He stepped forward and punched Jia Xingbang and kicked him a few times. Jia Xingbang coughed a few times and said, "Don't hit me any more. It's none of my business. It's Bao Dexing and He Jianzhong. This officer, this officer is responsible for negligence!"

Bao Dexing shouted: "You also took the money, and it was sent to the capital for you, why are you turning your back on it?"

Meng Shizhen snorted coldly: "I've said everything I need to say, should I still fight?"

Ma Guangli swung his whip and said, "Hit, hit him asshole, don't you just talk about iron bones?"

……

Hearing that Xu Zhiqiong was coming, Zhang Zhuyang and Yu Shi Wei Dongliang rushed over.

Zhang Zhuyang and his subordinates' crimes did not change.

Censor Wei Dongliang was in charge of supervising the use of funds. Before he left, his crimes were one inch and eight inches.

Now, the sin karma is two inches and four inches.

Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wei Dongliang, and there were some things that he couldn't understand.

This is a good official!

"How much are you greedy for?"

Wei Dongliang exclaimed in astonishment: "Why did Marquis Yun slander me? Since I came to Fuzhou, I have spent my own money for every meal and night. I have never..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Zhiqiong shouted: "Old horse, tie him up and beat him together!"

……

In the secret pavilion, Emperor Chang Le looked at Xu Zhiqiong silently, with only despair in his eyes: "Brother, I promised them, I said it in front of them, I will give them a promotion when I say it, I said never treat them badly,
I said, don't be greedy this time, just such a little thing, why is it so difficult? "

Xu Zhiqiong remained silent, and he also overestimated the bottom line of these people.

Liang Yuyao said from the side: "I said that there is no one who is not greedy for this kind of thing, but that guy Zhang Zhuyang is promising, that's all, I will send the red-clothed envoys to beat them hard."

"No need to beat!" Emperor Chang Le, who was always optimistic, was furious, "Kill, kill those greedy for money! Get back the money for disaster relief!"

"The money for disaster relief is easy to talk about. If their house is stolen, the money will come naturally," Xu Zhiqiong stood up and said, "Go to the Ministry of Households to choose three officials for disaster relief, and let them go to Fuzhou with three heads in their arms. I don't believe in reform." No more problems."

(End of this chapter)