The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 169 If the emperor sees my hands full of calluses, hehe ([-]-character chapter)

Yanggu County Government.

Guo Qi's brows were tightly furrowed, his face full of sorrow.

It is a good idea to let the water dragon rush the embankment.But I'm afraid that Liu Daxia will lead Jinyiwei's Chang Butcher around Shandong.He can't tear down or destroy all the dams in Shandong.

So far, we can only take one step at a time.Let's talk about the embankment of the Jialu River first.

He had a little bit of luck: Fortunately, my godfather is the Chief Bingbi of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and Qian Ning is in Shandong to take care of me.The two imperial envoys do not look at the face of the monk but at the face of the Buddha
Everything is risk and benefit coexist.

When there is no flood, the river officials are the first-class fat vacancies.Once there is a flood, it becomes an unlucky person who may lose his head.

A guard in brocade clothes came to him: "Guo Shaojian, the two imperial envoys invite you to go to the lobby to discuss the work."

Guo Qilu followed Lishi to the lobby.

As soon as he entered the lobby, he found that the atmosphere was not right.

Chang Feng sat in the main hall.Liu Daxia and Huang Boren lined up on both sides.

The guards in brocade clothes lined up on both sides of the geese.This is clearly the posture of the trial.

Seeing Guo Qi's donkey coming, Chang Feng raised a row of gavels: "Come on, take it!"

Two wrestlers immediately stepped forward and tied Guo Qi's hands.

Chang Feng said angrily, "Guo Qidonkey, are you guilty?"

Guo Qilu pretended to be innocent: "Master Chang, what did I do wrong? I am the young prisoner in the palace. Even if I committed a crime, I should be tried by the supervisor!"

Chang Feng sneered: "Toad yawns, you're so loud! It's just a little young prisoner. I think I can follow Shang Ming's seal in the hand of the chief inspector back then!"

When Guo Qilu heard this, his anger suddenly disappeared: "Master Chang, I have been wronged!"

Chang Feng clapped his hands, Fatty Xu brought the little eunuch up.

Guo Qi was surprised: "Wei Bin? Didn't you go to Cao County?"

The young eunuch's name is Wei Bin.This is a name that will be included in the "Eight Tigers" in the future.

Wei Bin turned around fast enough, seeing Guo Qi donkey tied up by Chang Feng, he immediately lost his usual respect: "Guo Qi donkey, I'll fuck your mother!"

"You asked me to go to Cao County to do the breach and harm the people along the river. Can I listen to you?"

"I have reported all your bad things to Master Chang!"

"In front of the stern and selfless Master Chang, I advise you to confess honestly!"

At this moment, Channing walked in.He was greatly surprised: "Master Chang, why did you tie Guo Shaojian? He is my godfather's adopted son!"

Chang Feng said: "He regards the Shandong river supervision office as his own vegetable garden. He regards Zhiheyin as a radish and cabbage and moves it to his house."

"If Eunuch Qian finds out about this, he will definitely let me enforce the law impartially!"

Qian Ning took Wei Bin's bank note, and said, "Master Chang, I'm afraid there may be some misunderstanding among them?"

Chang Feng ordered Qian Ning: "The Zhenfu envoy will try the case, and Qianhu will stand aside!"

Channing had no choice but to cup his hands: "Yes!"

Wei Bin is Guo Qidonkey's henchman.It's okay to still play Guo Qilu's wife on the bed.

He knew everything about Guo Qidonkey.

Wei Bin said: "Master Chang, there are two accounts of the river supervision yamen. One clear account is for the imperial court to read."

"A secret account, which records the detailed accounts of 28 river officials in Shandong, as well as prefects along the river, prefects and counties carve up and control Heyin."

"One pen, one pile is clearly recorded!"

Chang Feng quickly asked: "Where is the secret account hidden?"

Wei Bin replied: "It's hidden in the dark cell under the bed in the bedroom of Guo Qilu in Jinan!"

Guo Qi was furious: "Wei Bin, you betrayed me!"

Not to be outdone, Wei Bin said, "I didn't sell you! I'm helping my grandfather punish rape and eradicate evil!"

Guo Qi was puzzled: "Your grandfather, who is it?"

Wei Bin said: "Master Chang is my grandpa!"

Chang Feng ordered Shi Wenyi to say, "Go to Jinan immediately. Bring that secret account."

Then he slapped the gavel: "Guo Qilu, if you are sensible, tell us the truth about how to be greedy for ink and govern Heyin."

"It doesn't matter if you don't recruit. If you bring back the secret account, the evidence is as solid as a mountain. You will still die!"

Guo Qi's donkey is the mouth of a boiled duck: "Wei Bin spitting blood! Chang Feng, you colluded with him to frame me!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Qian Ning suddenly said, "Master Chang, I'm about to report Guo Qi ass!"

Chang Feng became interested: "Oh? Why are you reporting him?"

Qian Ning took out the 3000 tael bank note from his sleeve.

Bank notes are easy to carry.Qian Ning was afraid that others would see the bank notes, so he always carried them in the dark pocket of his robe sleeve.

Qian Ning walked up to Chang Feng and handed over the 3000 taels of silver notes: "Master Chang, Guo Qilu has been corrupt and accepting bribes in his post, making money to enrich himself."

"When he saw the two imperial envoys arrive in Shandong, he felt very guilty. He actually took this 3000 tael silver note and tried to bribe me! Let me cover up his crimes."

"I, Qian Ning, have been with you, Master Chang, for so long, how can I not know the truth that God never hides evil?"

"I originally wanted to reject the 3000 taels of silver with words. But after thinking about it, there is not much silver for river control. Wouldn't it be nice if I took his silver and handed it over to the public for water control?"

"I was about to give you the silver. Coincidentally, you caught him!"

Channing is also a fine person!He directly disregarded the relationship and described bribery as being selfless.

How could Chang Feng not see the tricks in it?But if you don't tell the truth, it's still a good stand-in.

Chang Feng praised Qian Ning: "You are worthy of being Eunuch Qian's good adopted son! It is not in vain that I have vigorously promoted you in the past six or seven years."

Guo Qi donkey was completely dumbfounded!

He didn't expect Wei Bin and Qian Ning to sell him so easily.

Chang Feng questioned him: "Guo Qilu, you have no ghosts in your heart, why did you bribe Qian Ning? Oh, it's 3000 taels for the first time, how generous you are!"

"Xu Guangzuo. The emperor passed an oral order to me. How do you say it?"

Fatty Xu said loudly: "Anyone who obstructs disaster relief, flood control, greedy ink, food relief, and mercury control, from the third department to the officials, Changfeng can kill first and then play!"

Chang Feng nodded: "Come on. Pull Guo Qi's donkey down and chop it up!"

Chang Feng just scares Guo Qi ass.

For one thing, Guo Qilu was always a man in the palace and Qian Neng's adopted son.With Qian Neng's face, Chang Feng can arrest him and interrogate him, but he cannot kill him.

Chang Feng has already made up his mind, and after the interrogation is clear, he will hand over Guo Qilu to Qian Neng.

Secondly, Chang Feng also expects Guo Qi donkey to bite out all the river officials in Shandong involved in corruption.He wanted to catch everything in one go, and ransack all his homes.

Several warriors stepped forward, set up Guo Qi's donkey and dragged it outside the yamen.

Guo Qi donkey yelled: "Master Chang, please spare me. I'll do it, I'll do it all!"

Chang Feng ordered the warrior: "Stand back."

Guo Qilu confessed very happily: "I have been in office for three years, and Shandong's river governance silver totaled 20 taels. I took 12 taels, and the river channel officials and local officials along the river in Shandong Province shared [-] taels."

"Chang Ye Ming Jian. Sit in the position of the river supervisor. If I don't take the money, the people below won't be able to. They will hate me!"

"If I don't follow the rules of the officialdom, the officialdom will treat me as a different kind!"

"I'm not considered black. I only got 20 for [-]!"

Liu Daxia, who was listening to the trial, couldn't help it: "20 taels of Heyin, only 5 taels were actually used?"

"Has your conscience been eaten by dogs? Once the Yellow River swells, it will be strange if the dam doesn't break down!"

Guo Qilu said: "Liu Duyuan, you have been in the officialdom for a long time, so you don't know about it. It's normal for two or three out of ten of Zhihe Yin to be used in practice."

"I'm not the only one who supervises rivers and rivers in the whole world! This is the unspoken rule of everyone."

Liu Daxia said angrily: "The government is ruined because of these so-called official rules!"

Chang Feng said: "Guo Qilu, which river officials and local officials along the river are involved in the case. Write down the names."

Fatty Xu took a piece of paper to Guo Qilu.

Guo Qilu wrote more than 40 names on it.

After finishing writing, he explained: "I can't remember exactly how much money these people took, and when they took it. There are hidden accounts anyway. You will know when you see it."

Chang Feng picked up the piece of paper as if he had found a treasure.The people above are all fat, oily pigs!

Chang Feng ordered: "Come on, make two copies of the confession. Give one to me. Give the other to Eunuch Qian."

"In addition, take Guo Qi donkey back to the capital and hand it over to Eunuch Qian."

Guo Qi's donkey was taken down.

Chang Feng told Qian Ning again: "You don't need to wait for Shi Wenyi to get back the secret account. You follow this list first and take people to raid houses from house to house!"

"You are my big apprentice who ransacked the house, and the shopkeeper of Qianhu Office. You have to do this job well."

"If you do this job well, you will not only be able to make meritorious service, but you will also be cleared of the suspicion of accepting bribes from Guo Qi's donkey!"

Qian Ning said: "Come on! Master Chang, just take a look!"

Changfeng set off a major case in the Shandong river.He himself did not participate in it, and let Qian Ning stand in front of the stage to arrest people and ransack their homes.

Qian Ning knew it was a pit, so he had to jump into it.Or in other words, in his eyes, this is not a trap, but a step up for Liwei.

Chang Feng said with a smile to Liu Daxia: "Liu Duyuan, I think we will spend at least 30 taels more out of thin air this time."

Liu Daxia asked: "Didn't it mean that they corrupted a total of 15 taels of ink?"

Chang Feng said: "These people have been working in the officialdom for a long time. They must have a lot of family property. In addition to managing Heyin, they can also copy their old books."

"30 is a small amount in my opinion!"

Liu Daxia laughed and said, "It's really wise for the emperor to let you be my deputy imperial envoy! You are really my lucky boy."

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "That's natural. I used to be the general banner of Jinyiwei's family raiding. What I do is the job of a boy who recruits money."

In the next month, the entire officialdom in Shandong was made into a panic by Qian Ning!

In the words of later generations, this is a typical case of corruption.

More than 40 officials who were confessed by Guo Qilu were arrested, pulled out radishes and brought out mud.They also confessed many small officials of the eighth and ninth ranks.

The eighth-rank and ninth-rank petty officials also offered many food chiefs and service chiefs.The total number of people involved has reached more than 400 people.

Qian Ning ransacked his home and ransacked it.A huge amount of dirty silver was delivered to Liu Daxia in a steady stream.

Liu Daxia made hundreds of thousands of Zhihe Yin out of thin air, and he was more comfortable in doing things.

Hongzhi six years, April [-]th.Huanglinggang, Cao County, Heze, Shandong.

The imperial envoy Liu Daxia and deputy envoy Chang Feng are worshiping the river god.Today is the day when the Jialu River Dredging Project starts.

There are too many metaphysics in this world that cannot be explained.It is necessary to worship the river god before starting work.At least it can play a role in appeasing the people.

Liu Daxia personally pushed the three animals into the Jialu River.

Afterwards, two official ships came to the center of the river carrying two Zhenhe stone cattle.

The soldiers on the official boat worked together to push the stone cow into the rolling river.

The ceremony of worshiping the river god is over.The project officially started.

In the evening, Fatty Xu came to Chang Feng: "Master Chang, the peasants fished out a tombstone from the river."

Chang Feng frowned: "That's not very auspicious. Let's sink the tombstone to the bottom of the river again."

Fatty Xu smiled and said, "Haha, that inscription is very interesting. After we appreciate and analyze the inscription together, it won't be too late to sink it into the bottom of the river."

Liu Daxia became interested: "Oh? Is there an epitaph engraved on the stele?"

Epitaphs are usually written by refined and learned scholars.Literati have always been interested in epitaphs.

Huang Boren said: "I will go too!"

Led by Fatty Xu, the three of them came to a tombstone.

It's strange that the owner's name is not engraved on the tombstone.There is only one epitaph.

The epitaph is only 35 words long, but it made everyone laugh.

The specific content is as follows: at the beginning, he studied literature, but failed in ten years; later, he practiced martial arts, and the school sent out an arrow, and the drummer was expelled; then he studied medicine and achieved success.Write a good prescription, take it, and die!
After everyone laughed, they were filled with emotion.

Chang Feng said: "This person's life is really interesting. He can achieve nothing in his life. After he dies, he writes his life into a 35-character epitaph, but it can make future generations laugh."

Liu Daxia said with emotion: "We laugh at the people in the grave. Maybe the people in the grave are also laughing at us."

"It's scary not to accomplish anything. What's scary is not even having the courage to try to do something."

Huang Boren said: "There are even more terrible ones who have done evil things all their lives. For example, my second brother."

Chang Feng ordered people to sink the stele into the bottom of the river.

The stele entered the river, splashing water.The splash was quickly swallowed by the raging river.

Isn't a person's life like the stone tablet that sank to the bottom of the river?It can only splash a tiny splash, and then be submerged by the torrent of history rolling forward.

In the following days, Chang Feng dispatched a group of accountants from the Accounting Office to watch the local officials in Shandong purchase the materials needed for river control.

He himself came to the construction site, and together with the peasants, he picked up the soil, the bundles, and the stones.

Although very tired.But Chang Feng has never been as carefree and comfortable as he is now in the past seven years.

The [-] people in Luxi followed Liu Daxia to dredge the Jialu River, Sunjiadu, and Sifuying.

After the initial success of the water division method in Shandong.Liu Daxia led people south again to build a long embankment.Flood prevention by barrier water method.

The project was carried out from the spring of the sixth year of Hongzhi to the middle of winter.

Xuzhou Changdi construction site.

Chang Feng and Fatty Xu were carrying a basket of stones to the embankment.

Liu Daxia looked at the engineering drawings in the shed.

There are snowflakes in the sky.Dozens of knights rushed towards the construction site surrounded by a eunuch.

The person who came turned out to be Qian Neng!

Qian Neng came to deliver an order to call Liu Daxia and Chang Feng back to Beijing.

The Chief Supervisor of Rituals sent Bingbi to convey the decree to Liu and Chang, which shows that Emperor Hongzhi affirmed their achievements in water control.

Qian Neng advanced into the shed and found Liu Daxia.

Qian Neng asked: "Where's Changzhen Fushi? The emperor ordered you to return to Beijing, and I will announce the order to him."

Liu Daxia replied, "It's on the embankment construction site."

Qian Neng said: "Ah, he went to the embankment construction site to supervise the construction?"

Liu Daxia couldn't help laughing: "It's not the supervisor, it's going to work."

Qian Neng was dumbfounded: "Work? What kind of work can Beizhen Fushi do?"

Liu Daxia said: "Picking soil, lifting scorpions, and moving stones. Chang Feng is now proficient in all of them."

After speaking, Liu Daxia brought Qian Neng to Chang Feng.

Qian Neng asked: "Liu Du Yuan, where is Chang Feng?"

Liu Daxia pointed to the person in front of him: "No, isn't this Chang Feng?"

Qian can't believe his eyes!
For the past eight months, Chang Feng has spent every day on the construction site.The whole person is as tanned as black coal balls.

His hands were full of calluses and his fingernails were full of mud.

At this moment, he was wearing a cloth robe, and his toes were almost exposed from the broken boots on his feet.

How is it still like the handsome and imposing Fushi Beizhen who was dressed in brocade clothes eight months ago?
Simply a man of the people!

Qian Neng was furious: "Liu Daxia, do you dare to abuse the emperor's private envoy?"

Chang Feng smiled slightly, his mouth full of dry skin: "Eunuch Qian, you misunderstood. I did it on my own initiative."

"I've handed over the matter of prison Zhi Heyin to the accounting gentlemen. I can't help, so I might as well come to the construction site to help."

Qian Neng held Chang Feng's hands and looked at them.He felt distressed: "It's all calluses. How much effort did you put in!"

Chang Feng said: "I have killed too many people these years, and I have killed all my crimes. Building dams to benefit future generations is a matter of virtue."

"I put in more effort on the embankment, and I'm trying to kill myself!"

"Picking soil and moving stones is much more comfortable than punishing people and killing people."

Qian Nengdao: "The emperor ordered you to return to the capital with Liu Duyuan. I'm afraid the emperor will feel sorry for you when you return to Beijing with your appearance!"

In fact, Chang Feng wanted this effect.He was bored at night, imagining countless times how Emperor Hongzhi would react when he saw him with calloused hands.

Maybe Emperor Hongzhi would hand over the entire Jinyiwei to him if he was moved.

Chang Feng said: "The minister receives the decree."

Afterwards, Chang Feng apologized to Qian Neng: "The matter of Guo Qi's donkey, the lower officials had to do it."

Qian Neng said: "You don't need to say anything! Guo Qi donkey not only lost face to me, but also to the palace. As soon as he was escorted back to the capital, I asked Dongchang Banzi to beat him to death with a big stick. gone."

"Beating him to death can't relieve the hatred in my heart!"

Chang Feng said: "This time you went to Shandong to control the water, and your adopted son Qian Ning made great contributions. 41 corrupt officials were seized and more than 360 corrupt officials were seized."

"When I return to Beijing, I will give him credit in front of the emperor."

Qian Neng was very moved: "I thank you on his behalf!"

Qian Neng suddenly pointed at Fatty Xu: "Who is this big black fat man?"

Chang Feng burst out laughing: "You don't even recognize Ding Guogong?"

Qian Neng was surprised: "Huh? Xu Shizi? You also went to the river bank as a coolie?"

Fatty Xu smiled and said, "My boss is already on the embankment, how can I not follow?"

"What Master Chang said is right, three people make a crowd. In the matter of water control, more monkeys will do more!"

Qian Neng actually bowed to Liu Daxia, Chang Feng, and Fatty Xu with the respect of the chief pen-holder of the Rites Supervisor.

Qian Neng said with emotion: "The officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty. If everyone can be like you, then the world will be peaceful!"

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.Chang Feng returned to the capital with dark skin and calloused hands.Waiting to participate in the Wu Dynasty and return to Emperor Hongzhi.

(End of this chapter)