marquis of jingan

Chapter 37 Emergency Treatment Plan

Chen Zhifu was shocked and angry.

Especially after seeing the last sentence "Jiangdu is full of tigers and wolves", his pupils dilated a little.

In this nursery rhyme, the opening chapter compares Beiman to tigers and wolves, and at the end it says that Jiangdu is full of tigers and wolves. If there are tigers and wolves everywhere in Jiangdu, then what is he, the prefect of Jiangdu?
Northern man!
In the past 60 years, who in the whole of Dachen did not regard the Beiman as a beast?As a tiger wolf?The word Beiman has evolved into a curse word in Da Chen, but now, someone actually uses this word to discredit the Yamen of Jiangdu!
To discredit Jiangdu Yamen is to discredit him, the prefect of Jiangdu!

Seeing Chen Yu's ugly face, Mr. Zhao beside him was thoughtful, and then took the blank paper from Chen Yu's hand, and after reading it from top to bottom, Mr. Zhao smiled dumbly: "This is the paper under the ruler of Fu Zun." Is it something written by a human being? It is said that Jiangdu produces talented scholars and beautiful women, so how can you write such unreasonable sentences, which are no different from jingles."

Mr. Zhao shook his head and put the paper aside.

"I can't even look down on my background as a general."

"That's the catchphrase."

Chen Zhifu's face was ugly.

"And it has almost spread throughout Jiangdu."

Speaking of this, Chen Zhifu's face was extremely ugly, he gritted his teeth and said: "The people in the yamen, damn it, such an important matter, it took two or three days to send it to me!"

When this nursery rhyme was first spread, although it spread quickly, it did not attract the attention of the yamen. After all, a few children sang a few words indiscriminately, and not many adults would care.

The more important reason is that in this era, there is no internet and no means of instant messaging, and there are not many people who really have a "staff" in the magistrate's yamen. Most of them are "officials" working for the imperial court. These people heard this After the nursery rhyme, it is unlikely that anyone would dare to inform the old man of the mansion.

It wasn't until the third day after the matter fermented that the officials of the magistrate's yamen realized that something was wrong, so they sent someone to inform the prefect Chen Yu.

In the past few days, Chen Yu's main thoughts have been on accompanying the guests, and he only wants to accompany this young master from the capital, so as to make his journey to be transferred to the capital official in the future smoother.

The combination of various reasons caused Chen Yu to see this jingle until now.

Chen Zhifu trembled with anger.

He is a very motivated person.

In other words, he is a very ambitious official.

Yang Xiangguo, who is in charge of the overall situation in the court, is his teacher. At the age of 35, he can sit in the position of Jiangdu prefect, which can be said to have a bright future.

His goal is to enter the capital and pay homage to the prime minister on stage!

But now, something like this has happened in Jiangdu, among other things, once the officials of the Ministry of Officials get to know about it next year, once the officials of the Ministry of Officials find out about it, it will greatly affect his reputation as an official!
This is something Chen Yu absolutely cannot accept.

After hearing Chen Yu's words, Mr. Zhao, who was originally "calm and breezy", frowned slightly. He picked up the paper again, read it carefully, and then lowered his eyebrows and said: "Chen Yu Fu Zun, Jiangdu Mansion should handle this matter properly, if this thing spreads to the capital, Xiang Yang is not the only one in the court..."

Prime Minister Yang Jingzong is currently one of the prime ministers in charge of the court.

The emperor was young, and the prime minister assisted the government. As the prime minister, Yang Jingzong could almost be said to be the most powerful person in the court other than the empress dowager.

And the empress dowager is only in her thirties this year, she is not very familiar with government affairs, and she listens to the opinions of several prime ministers in most things, which has caused this Yang Jingzong, Yang Xiangguo, to become so powerful that it cannot be added.

With a high position and authority, people will naturally be watching.

Yang Xiang was not the only Prime Minister in the imperial court. Some of the other prime ministers were staring at his position, and some had other thoughts. The emperor who was about to grow up in the palace was also looking for opportunities to take charge of the government at any time.

The height is not cold.

If it is just greed for 2 taels of silver, then even if evidence is found, others will not provoke Yang Xiangguo, but if it is Jiangdu, because the greed for money arouses public resentment, and some people take the opportunity to slander the court, it is very worthy of someone With this excuse, Yang Xiangguo took a bite.

As a student of Yang Xiangguo, Chen Yu knew that he could not make mistakes, let alone let his teacher be passive in court.

Otherwise...he would be a pariah.

Chen Fuzun took several deep breaths and forced himself to calm down. He turned his head to look at Mr. Zhao, lowered his eyebrows slightly and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Chen will handle this matter properly, and definitely control this matter within Jiangdu Mansion. It will not affect the son."

"It doesn't matter if it affects me."

Mr. Zhao got up and stretched his waist: "I was born in the general family and went to work as an errand in the household department. It was because the adults in the family saw that I was idle all day long, so they asked me for an errand. Even if the errand failed, I would be dismissed from office. At most, I will continue to go back and do nothing.”

After saying this, Zhao Yu turned his head to look at Chen Yu, and smiled: "The Chen family respects you. If you don't handle this matter well, it will probably affect your future."

With a gloomy face, Chen Fuzun stood up from the chair, his voice became a little hoarse: "It will be taken care of."

Zhao Yu chuckled, and left with his hands behind his back: "Then Mr. Chen, you are busy, and I am busy looking for those two pipa girls."

After finishing speaking, Mr. Zhao turned around and walked away, while Chen Yu got up long, and sat in a sedan chair from the bank of Yudai Lake, all the way to the magistrate's yamen.

It was already night, and after returning to the magistrate's yamen, Chen Zhifu sat in his study and immediately called the clerk of the magistrate's yamen.

"Go, call Feng Lu to me!"

This clerk is also an old official who has worked in the magistrate's yamen for many years. He has served countless magistrates. After hearing this sentence, he bowed his body and said cautiously: "Master, it's already very late now. , or else I will call Master Feng tomorrow..."

"Snapped!"

Chen Zhifu patted the table fiercely, and said angrily: "I told you to call now, are you deaf?!"

The old official shrank his neck in fright, bowed repeatedly to the prefect Chen, bowed his body and retreated, and ran all the way to the county government office to call for someone.

About half an hour later, County Magistrate Feng, who was a bit fat, hurried over. After seeing Chen Yu, Fatty Feng wiped the sweat from his forehead, panting: "My lord , are you looking for me?"

This time, Feng Lu's panting was not feigned. He was called up from his concubine's bed in the middle of the night, and then he came all the way to the magistrate's yamen. In addition to the hot weather at the moment, he was indeed a little out of breath.

Chen Fuzun sat behind his desk.

At this moment, he has calmed down quite a bit. When he saw Feng Lu standing in front of him, Chen Yu said with a blank expression on his face, "In the past few days, someone in Jiangdu has slandered the Yamen and the imperial court."

"Does Magistrate Feng know?"

Feng Xianzun shook his head in a daze, with an innocent face: "Huifu Zun, I don't know."

In comparison, Mr. Feng doesn't have much ambition in the officialdom, and he doesn't want to go to the capital to be a gentleman. In addition, he hasn't made any mistakes, so he appears to be respectful on the surface, but he is actually calm in his heart. match.

Chen Yu took out the white paper from his sleeve, put it in front of Feng Lu, and said coldly: "This is a nursery rhyme that has been widely sung in Jiangdu City in recent days. You can read it yourself."

County Magistrate Feng took the paper with both hands, and after reading it carefully, he shook his head and sighed: "In recent days, the price of food in Jiangdu has skyrocketed, and the lower official is preparing to report the increase in food price to the magistrate. nursery rhyme."

County Magistrate Feng sighed: "This increase in food prices has nothing to do with our yamen."

"Stop talking nonsense."

Chen Zhifu took a deep breath and said, "From tomorrow onwards, it is forbidden to spread this rumor in the city. If there are any more troublemakers, they will be arrested immediately!"

"Go and find out, who made up this jingle!"

Prefect Chen's voice was hoarse.

"Besides, I will write a letter to adjust grain tomorrow. Tomorrow, you go to meet those grain merchants and tell them to let them lower the price of grain. If they raise the price again, the government will never forgive them!"

County magistrate Feng quickly lowered his head, and asked, "Fu Zun, do you want to arrest the person who has sung this song these days?"

"Catch? How?"

Chen Yu looked at Feng Lu coldly.

"You want to bring this matter to the capital?"

(End of this chapter)