Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 232 0227【Turn face when you meet】

Hengkou Town.

Zhu Ming walked into the field affairs yamen, which belonged to the local dispatched agency of Changping Division, and civil servants from the ninth grade were in charge of various tasks. It stands to reason that it would be fine to just build a house.

With such a magnificent repair, I am afraid that the Cai party has been in business for a long time.

Yang Pu moved the chair, Zhu Ming took a seat, and Li Bao and Zhang Tong stood behind him.

Ren Chong drooped his head, as if his parents had died.

"This government office has been repaired very richly, almost catching up with the county government in Shiquan County," Zhu Ming asked, "Did you ask someone to repair it?"

Ren Chong sighed: "Hey, don't worry about the prefect. I arrived last summer. How can I have time to build a house? Hengkouwu's field office has been built for almost ten years."

Ju Ming grasped the key point: "When you took office last summer, what were you doing before?"

Ren Chong sighed: "Studying hard in the cold window, getting a title on the gold list, if there is no way to choose, who would be willing to cling to the powerful? I haven't passed the test, and I have been waiting to fill the vacancy. I have to give People give gifts, at least they got a field job."

"There is a lot of oil and water here, how much did you give away?" Zhu Ming asked.

Ren Chong has broken the jar and become very frank: "I am from Jianping (Langxi) in Jiangdong. It is better to take the initiative to send it out to find a real shortage. He said he would dedicate it to Cai Gongxiang to celebrate his birthday, and the Jianping county magistrate did not dare to stop him, so he handed it over all the way and sent it to the official ship."

Zhu Ming commented: "This is a good idea. It's a crime to use waste."

Ren Chong said with emotion: "Jinshi in the same department, the prefect is already a court official who knows the state, but I am just a field officer. Don't feel that the prefect is full of oil and water. I can't be the master here. The officials are all from Li Daping. I will sign A word, another seal, and a few small coins will be sent at the end."

"Then why are you obstructing me?" Zhu Ming asked.

Ren Chong laughed at himself and said, "I can't afford to offend Mr. Cai, and I can't afford to offend the prefect. I can't afford to offend Li Daping either. Since the prefect is so tough, I will try my best to cooperate. If Li Daping is sent in the future, I will You can only cooperate. You gods fight, and I, a mortal, just want to save my life."

"You were born as a Jinshi, how can you worry about your life?" Zhu Ming laughed.

Ren Chong said: "Transferred to the wild land of Guangnan, the water and soil are not acclimatized, and there are not a few people who died."

"It's up to you," Zhu Ming said, "I won't make it difficult for you. No matter what you do in the future, just send someone to report to me."

Ren Chong bowed immediately: "Thank you, the prefect, for your mercy."

Ren Chong has expressed his attitude that he has nothing to pursue in his life.

One is the general judge of the Cai party, and the other is the court official Zhizhou. He doesn't want to offend anyone, and he obeys everyone's orders.

If there is a conflict between the orders of the prefect and the general judge, he will give priority to the general judge.Because he is the field officer, and the general judge is also the Jinzhou promotion Changping, and he is his immediate superior in terms of position.

If he had to be forced to stand in line, he would definitely take the side of the judge, after all, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.

Zhu Ming didn't insist on this, and only asked Ren Chong to report when he had something to do.

After saying hello in advance, Zhu Ming will not blame him, and will point the finger at the judge.If you don't say hello, Zhu Ming will kill Ren Chong first!
Zhu Ming suddenly asked again: "What's the situation with the torturer Chen Ge? He seems to have been in office for five years and hasn't moved out yet."

"I don't know," Ren Chong shook his head to express his ignorance, and added, "Chen Xiansi must be able to divide the gold in Jinzhou. In fact, there is not much gold in Jinzhou, and Fangzhou next door is the big one. An even bigger gold mine was discovered ten years ago."

"I don't care about Fangzhou, I only care about Jinzhou's affairs," Zhu Ming urged, "Remember, you have to tell me secretly what Li Daochong asks you to do!"

Things are basically straightening out.

Cai You's elder brother-in-law, Song Sheng, as a transshipment envoy on West Jing Road, has the greatest supervisory power, so he will definitely get a piece of the pie.

The gold mine used to be under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Division. Although it was assigned to the Changping Division, the Criminal Envoy still retained part of the supervisory power, so Chen Ge, the Criminal Envoy, probably also got involved.

There is also Li Daochong who is the general judge and directly governs the gold mines in Jinzhou.

The three of them joined forces to embezzle and divide up the gold, and Cai Jing and his son were behind it.

Apart from impeachment, Zhu Ming has no right to interfere at all.

"Give me the key to the warehouse." Zhu Ming said.

Ren Chong had already started to play badly, so he threw the key to Zhu Ming.

In order to show that he would not steal gold, Zhu Ming also called the officials from the Hengkou Office, and opened the warehouse to check the gold in public.

One after another, after weighing all the small bags, it was about 82 taels and 5 yuan.

Zhu Ming asked: "How many months does it take?"

Ren Chong replied: "Once every three months, Li Dapan will send someone over to escort the transport."

Zhu Ming turned to look at the officials: "Just you two?"

The official bowed his head immediately.

Zhu Ming went to check the account books again, the data was very interesting.

Last year, the annual gold class of Hengkou Wu was 26 taels, and 104 taels of gold were purchased from the private sector, for a total of 130 taels of gold.

"How courageous," Zhu Ming sighed, and then ordered, "Take away all the gold and account books!"

……

Zhu Ming took the gold and slowly went to Zhoucheng to take office.

Ren Chong, on the other hand, flew to Jinzhou City in a small boat, and went straight to the mansion of Tongju Li Daochong.

"Big sentence, save your life!" Ren Chong cried as soon as he met.

Li Daochong had already received news from the officials that Zhu Ming told the farmers to go back to farming, so he said angrily, "What's your name?"

Ren Chong seemed like an angry little daughter-in-law: "Jinzhou prefect Zhu Ming suddenly led someone into Hengkouwu and detained me indiscriminately. He also sealed up Hengkouwu's warehouse and took away gold and account books. "

"No reason!"

Li Daochong was furious: "He knows the state, where does he have the power to seal up the field affairs?"

Zhu Ming really didn't have that qualification. The Hengkou Office was affiliated to Jinzhou Changping, Jinzhou Changping was affiliated to Jingxian Road Changping Division, and Jingxinan Road Changping Division was directly under the Central Committee.Even if Zhu Ming is the chief official of Jinzhou, the seizure of field affairs is an act of ultra vires.

Ren Chong stopped making a sound, he had already come to report, and the rest had nothing to do with him.

Li Dao rushed a group of men and horses, rushed towards Hengkou Town, and bumped into Zhu Ming on the way.

Standing on the small boat, Zhu Ming looked at the surrounding boats and asked with a smile, "You want to murder the prefect?"

Li Daochong directly broke his face: "You are the prefect, you should know the law, why did you exceed your authority and seize the field affairs? It is even more daring to take away the gold without authorization!"

Zhu Ming asked: "How much was Golden State's gold class last year?"

"No comment!" Li Daochong didn't want to say more.

Zhu Ming said: "If you don't want to talk about it, then I will hold it up first and hand it over to the Changping envoy to deal with it."

Li Dao rushed angrily: "You have no right to seize Hengkouwu's financial account books!"

"What's the matter if I buckle it? You're impeaching me." Zhu Ming didn't care.

Li Daochong began to threaten: "Do you know that this gold is going to be transported to Cai Xianggong!"

Zhu Ming laughed immediately: "I only know that the gold goes to Changping's treasury, and then sent to the court. Cai Xianggong also accepts gold? Come on, but tell me, let's impeach Cai Xianggong for corruption."

Li Daochong was speechless for a moment, since he couldn't scare Zhu Ming, he really had no choice.

Because Zhu Ming was completely unreasonable and didn't even talk about the court system, and openly violated his authority to seize and seize Changping Division's things.

"Start the boat!" Zhu Ming shouted.

Both Li Bao and Zhang Tong had taken off their bows and arrows, and aimed at the ships in front of them.

Li Daochong stared at Zhu Ming, hesitated for a while, and finally waved his hand to let him go.

Zhizhou and Tongpan returned to Zhoucheng together.

The state capital of Jinzhou is Xicheng County, and there is one in Xia County, which is quite poor.The state government is located here mainly because of its strategic position.

In the pre-Qin period, the two countries of Qin and Chu fought repeatedly here.

During the time of the Three Kingdoms, the two countries of Wei and Shu also saw each other here.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were also constant wars.

This city is the east gate of Hanzhong.

Officials at the prefecture and county levels had already left the city to welcome them. They saw Zhu Ming smiling, and Li Daochong with a gloomy expression next to him.

Zhizhou hasn't gone through the handover formalities yet, so it seems that he's at odds with the Tongjuan.

The officials were all in a dilemma, they could only greet Zhu Ming politely, but they didn't dare to show too much enthusiasm, for fear of making Li Daochong angry.

Only Si Li joined the army, Huang Gui, who disregarded Li Daochong's face, and expressed his goodwill in public: "I came from Hangzhou, and I listened to the teachings of Mr. Motang (Chen Yuan) last year."

"So that's how it is," Zhu Ming said, holding Huang Gui's hand, "From now on, we should be close."

Huang Gui used to be the principal of a government school in Hangzhou. Like Chen Yuan, he is from Fujian.

Chen Yuan came home and passed by Hangzhou. He gave lectures for half a month, and Huang Gui very much agreed with the study of Taoism.

Huang Gui is not very famous himself, but he has taught two top students: Shen Hui, the last number one scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhang Jiucheng, the second number one scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Ming and Huang Gui entered the city in the same car.

Li Daochong's face became more and more ugly. This Huang Gui, who had been against him before, was now messing with Zhu Ming again.

Zhu Ming lifted the curtain of the car, looked at the city wall that was getting closer, and asked, "How long has it been since the city wall of Jinzhou was repaired?"

Huang Gui said: "Decades ago, the Han River surged and was repaired once."

Zhu Ming said again: "I came along the Moon River, and the water conservancy along the river is so wasteful."

"I'm busy panning for gold, how can I have the heart to repair water conservancy?" Huang Gui couldn't help but said, "I also took care of it. I personally took a boat to Hengkou Town and ordered the farmers to be released to go back to farm. Alas, no one listened, or the prefect There are means!"

Huang Gui belongs to the kind of civil servant who is very knowledgeable and upright, but has little ability to handle affairs.

In fact, he is not incompetent, but he is in a big environment, and his immediate boss is Cai Dang. He really doesn't know how to break the situation, so he can only muddle along.

Huang Gui looked back and asked in a low voice, "The prefect withheld the gold?"

Zhu Ming said, "It's only a few catties."

Huang Gui reminded: "This is an act of exceeding authority, beware of being impeached by the traitor party."

Zhu Ming righteously said: "Pleading for the people, why should you spare yourself?"

Huang Gui was in awe, sat up straight and cupped his hands and said: "Mr. Mo'an's words are about the unity of knowledge and action. I am afraid that is the case. I am ashamed. Although I understand this truth, I dare not fight against the traitor after all."

"It's good to have such a heart." Zhu Ming comforted.

(End of this chapter)