Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 164
"Eh!"

Zhong Ping didn't even have time to call out Wu Zhi, so he sighed and stomped his feet repeatedly.

Now that the matter has come to this point, he can't just watch, and as a shopkeeper with his hands away, Zhong Ping bites the bullet and goes in, and glances at Cao Cao's expression from the corner of his eye, but he never sees anything unusual.

With some confidence in his heart, he stepped forward to salute first, then turned sideways calmly, blocking Wu Zhi behind him.

"Cao Gong."

"This is?"

Cao Cao didn't care about Zhong Ping's small actions, and his face was purely curious about Wu Zhi.

"Cao Gong, can you retreat from the left and right? Ping has something important to report."

Zhong Ping looked hesitantly, and stayed for a moment on the beautiful woman beside Cao Cao's table.

"Ah."

Cao Cao squinted at the woman, lowered his head slightly, and let out a casual voice of command from his nasal cavity.

The woman was panic-stricken, she didn't dare to raise her head to look more, she just bowed and turned into the inner room.

Zhong Ping confirmed that there was no one around, so he integrated his words and told Wu Zhi's mouth about the county officials' meat and common people, among the counties and states, nepotism, and officials and officials protecting each other.

"...In a county, there are many things like selling children and daughters."

"Perhaps I heard that there are many old customs in the countryside where lowly sons value daughters. It is based on the fact that women can be used as servants and prostitutes to present to adults in order to get promoted."

"Since the county, the officials have hidden rules that if you donate a girl, you will be exempted from one-year rent. After the term, there are countless villages where there are only boys left."

"...the villagers, in order to make a living, even filled the regulations with good-looking boys."

There was a look of pain in Zhong Ping's eyes.

When he heard the nursery rhymes in Wu Zhi's mouth, he thought that the words "five years and three hundred days" were just false references, but it was the truth.

Five-year-old children can already see their future appearance and character, and when they are ignorant and ignorant, it is best to choose training.

Teach them to learn a charming posture, servile and loyal, so that they can use it for themselves.

Or it can be used for human relations and flattery; or it can be kept by your side for fun and enjoyment;

From this point of view, if the prefect of Chenliu County was either powerless to resist, deliberately turned a blind eye, deliberately indulged, or regarded himself as the emperor of the earth, he dared to cover the sky with one hand and act recklessly.

After Cao Cao heard Zhong Ping's words, his brows twitched for a while, and he was slightly angry, but he didn't suppress it, but asked seriously about the evidence about this matter.

Only then did Zhong Ping let Wu Zhi go and let him tell the truth about the evidence he had.

Wu Zhi knew in his heart that facing Cao Cao, he could no longer use the relaxed posture he used to face Zhongping, but he also had a correct expression, except for repeating the words that Tong Zhongping said at night in detail.

When it came to matters related to the treasury, he thought hard for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he added: "When the county official asked for money and food from my house, he once had a plan for my sister."

"I was not at home at that time, and my mother asked the county magistrate for a grace period on the pretext that my sister would turn five years later."

"The county magistrate was worried that my mother would run away with my sister, so he forced my mother to sign a document for renting a maidservant, and gave my sister the name of a servant girl in the mansion, so I was relieved."

"The reason why I entered the county instead of my sister was because I wanted to destroy the documents, so that my sister could keep her family clean. After a few months, she would still be persecuted by the county officials."

When Wu Zhi talked about the deep love, his eyes were scarlet and full of tears. If he hadn't taken Cao Cao's identity into consideration, he would have slapped the table with his palm in the next second.

"Since you are a rented maidservant, there should be a time limit in the contract."

Cao Cao lowered his head, but his eyes did not fall on the chopsticks.

When he was young in Luoyang, he and Yuan Benchu ​​also saw slaves and maidservants trading in the city. He remembered that buying a beautiful maidservant cost about [-] to [-] yuan, while an ordinary maidservant cost only [-] to [-] yuan.

Even though he followed Yuan Shao, he also knew that Yuan Shao was used to extravagance, and every meal would cost seven or eight thousand dollars.

However, relying on the funds he can obtain, it is still a bit stretched to buy five or six beautiful maidservants in one go.

But now it is only a county, and it is easy to sell dozens or hundreds of slaves. Even if they are private servants, the wealth that can be hoarded is hard to measure, let alone a county?
In Wu Zhi's mouth, it took only two or three years for Tu County to do this, but this was only after changing the county magistrate and doing things cheaply, so it was so grandiose.

In other counties, is it really only in the past two years that girls are forced to be servants?
The more Cao Cao thought about it, the more frightened he became.

He couldn't help but suspect that the money accumulated in this way was more than enough to raise an elite cavalry.

Zhong Ping didn't know much about the prices in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so he couldn't guess the twists and turns behind it. He was just resentful at the ugly behavior of officials in Tu County.

When he first entered the officialdom, he was at the top of the court. Even though he was beside Cao Cao, he often engaged in some bookkeeping.

However, he really doesn't know anything about the official dealings of these low-level officials, so he has never trained his mind and ability to be an official.

Being able to occupy the post of Jiuqing until now is true because the credits made in the past are heavy enough, and Wang Yun, Xun You, and Cao Cao have successively protected him intentionally or unintentionally.

For Cao Cao, he also had the idea of ​​delegating Zhongping to the bottom to practice and practice.

It's a pity that not to mention that Zhong Ping's resume is too good, it is difficult to find any reason for him to be demoted.

Even if the official is to be demoted, it is difficult to directly push Zhongping to the end and let him become a county official.

So Zhong Ping has grown up to this day, and he is still as picky and impulsive as Zhong Ji.

"Wu Zhi once said in Tongping that the contracts for buying and selling slaves usually have middlemen and old friends. Cao Gong sees, can we start from here?"

Chong said in all fairness that it is not easy to fake this thing, if one checks the treasury and finds that the number of slaves and maidservants does not match the household registration...wouldn't that be the best proof?
Even though he thought this way, he also had a vague feeling that after being forced to serve as a maidservant for almost two years, if Duyou Xingxian could escape, he was also blind when he co-authored the prefect to inspect the prefecture in August, right?
No matter how you think about it, it's not right. The governor of Yanzhou was still Liu Dai two years ago, right?
Chong Ping stroked the short beard on his chin, which had grown with great difficulty, and fell into thought.

I can't... Liu Dai also let this kind of thing go his own way, right?
What is he planning?

Obviously Cao Cao and Zhong Ping thought of one thing, and they both focused on Liu Dai who had been in the box for more than a year.

It's just that unlike Zhongping's confusion, Cao Cao's thoughts are deeper and more.

If Liu Dai was the promoter of this matter and wanted to recruit soldiers and horses with this, it is absolutely impossible to do so only in Chenliuyi County.

However, since he entered Yanzhou, there were not a few officials who changed positions, so there must be no news at all.

It can be inferred that either Liu Dai only used Chen Liuyi County as a money bag, so he could cover it up properly.

Or, this matter has nothing to do with Liu Dai.

Cao Cao felt that the latter was more likely.

After all, Liu Dai has no son, so after his death, there are still subordinates who loyally do such things for him, are they going to support Liu Yao?

Arabian Nights.

"How much does Bo Heng know about the Xin family in the county?"

Cao Cao tapped lightly on the table, realizing that this matter must have something to do with the Yanzhou gentry, so there is no need to measure it.

(End of this chapter)