In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 627 Don’t you take me seriously?
After Zhao Xiaojiu left, Zhao Yurui waited silently for a while, but no one came for a long time.

Oh my god, Zhao Yurui was secretly annoyed, don’t these people take me, the county magistrate, seriously?

The county magistrate is at least the second in command and is responsible for a lot of things. After all, it is impossible for the county magistrate to do everything by himself, so many affairs of the government office are almost always managed by the county magistrate.

There are generally two situations in which local officials do not take the county magistrate seriously.

First, with the support of the county magistrate, everyone follows the county magistrate and naturally does not need to take the county magistrate seriously.

Secondly, the locals stick together. Not only can they not appoint the county magistrate, but in the Ming Dynasty they could even remove the county magistrate from office.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing happened in the original Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty.

This is because most of the county magistrates and their assistants are not locals, while the clerks and other officials are all locals.

These people are basically from local powerful families. After joining forces with local powerful forces, they are able to control some weak county magistrates.

It's a simple matter. You, the county magistrate, want to collect taxes, right?
These people are the ones who collect taxes. If they just lie down and pretend to obey but actually disobey, you, the county magistrate, will have a hard time if you fail to collect taxes.

Needless to say, the other things are enough to deal with you.

This is actually the situation in Yin County.

Zhao Yurui got the news the next day, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who found out.

It was a small gang headed by the local clerk Li Tian, ​​the county lieutenant Niu Feng, and the chief constable Xu Haishan.

Before Zhao Yurui came, even the magistrate Zhou Datong gave in to them, because Zhou Datong was about to retire and was not a local, so many affairs of the yamen were left to the three of them.

Now Zhao Yurui suddenly appeared and took away Li Tian's position. The three of them were already very angry with Zhao Yurui and threatened to make him pay.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of the meeting, Zhao Yurui beat Li Tian violently. Although the three dared not speak out, they had already made it known that anyone in the county who dared to help Zhao Yurui would be against them.

Although Zhao Xiaojiu, the household clerk, is also a local, he had a conflict with Xu Haishan over a woman. Later, he was retaliated and excluded by the three men. His work and life were not going well. This time, he was the first to turn to Zhao Yurui, which was also a helpless move.

After figuring out the situation in the yamen, Zhao Yurui had a clear idea of ​​what was going on.

He had just arrived in Yin County, and was waiting quietly while arranging for people from Dinghai to come over.

He has a large number of people in Dinghai. In addition to Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang's people, some of them will be moved here, and there are also several people he has trained himself.

Within a few days, Lin Bin, Ma Gang, Wang Zheng, Wang Wu and others arrived in Yin County.

In this way, Zhao Yurui will have a strong army around him.

He has been in Yin County for almost a week. He has nothing to do every day. He either sits in the office or stays at home.

There was nothing assigned to him at the county government office.

Zhou Datong is waiting for retirement anyway, so all the previous work will be handed over to Li Tian. Li Tian is in the hospital recently and not at work, so it seems that the government office suddenly has nothing to do.

In fact, many things were handled by Niu Feng and others, and never went through Zhao Yurui's hands.

Niu Feng, Xu Haishan and others decided to follow the usual approach and leave Zhao and Rui alone, leaving them nothing to do.

After about ten days, Zhao Yurui was ready for everything and was about to start, but unexpectedly Zhao Xiaojiu came to them first.

He complained to Zhao Yurui with a sad face.

"Last autumn, we were still short of 67,000 dan of grain tax. County Magistrate Niu asked me to make up for it by the end of next month, otherwise he would punish me."

Zhao Yurui was amused when he heard this: "What does Niu Feng manage?"

Niu Feng is the county lieutenant, so of course he is in charge of the chief constables, jails, arrests and other matters. When did he become in charge of collecting taxes?

In the past, all tax matters in the county government were under the jurisdiction of the second-in-command, the county magistrate.

"Yin County is a rich county, why can't it collect grain taxes?" Zhao Yurui asked again.

Zhao Xiaojiu cried, "They are deliberately torturing me."

Although Zhao Xiaojiu was the household clerk, the tax collection was mainly done by several of his subordinates, and these people were protected by Niu Feng and others.

These people deliberately failed to collect the money, and then the county magistrate Zhou Datong could only make trouble for him, and he couldn't do anything about the clerks. If you fire a few people, no one will follow him, and they can turn around and join Niu Feng.

The key point is that he has no right to fire others, so he has to let the county magistrate speak.

Zhao Xiaojiu is actually quite miserable. He is bullied by his superiors and dominated by his subordinates.

No wonder when Zhao Yurui came over and saw that Zhao Yurui was more powerful, they immediately joined Zhao Yurui.

"Call all your men here." Zhao Yurui said.

"I can't call them. They are all playing cards in the side room." Zhao Xiaojiu smiled bitterly.

Haha, Zhao Yurui was even happier when he heard it: "Zhao Yusheng."

Call someone immediately.

He arranged six people in the yamen, Zhao Yusheng, Wang Baobao, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Youcheng, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhang Shicheng.

The affairs in Dinghai are now all handed over to Tang He and others.

He had more confidence in Tang He, and he believed that Tang He was much more efficient than Chang Yuchun in handling local affairs.

Zhang Shicheng was not as good as Tang He in this respect.

Zhao Yurui called six people and went to the household room in a mighty manner.

The Hufang is the most important of the nine rooms in the county government office. It is relatively large and has three rows of rooms.

Among them, the various remaining data and account books occupied four or five rooms.

At the very edge of the east wing, four people were sitting in the room playing mahjong, with three people watching around them.

The people playing mahjong were exactly the ones who controlled Zhao Xiaojiu in the household.

Zhao Yurui led his men in, and saw several people fighting fiercely.

"Bang, haha, it's a single hang." One person laughed wildly.

He only has one card left in his hand, and it's a wild card, so he's sure to win this time.

Just as he was feeling extremely happy, he looked up and saw Zhao Yurui coming in.

Everyone in the room was stunned for a moment, and then someone called out softly, "Master Zhao."

But more people didn't say anything. Among the four people playing mahjong, someone wanted to stand up, but the person who was playing alone looked at him and he didn't stand up either.

It was obvious that no one took Zhao Yurui seriously.

"Are you taking a break today?" Zhao Yurui asked with a smile.

The man hanging alone was called Xie Zhilin, and he said calmly: "We don't have any official business today, we will wait here for the arrangements from above."

"Oh, I see." Zhao Yurui said, then turned to look at Chang Yuchun and suddenly yelled, "What are you waiting for?"

"Bang!" Chang Yuchun grabbed an empty stool nearby and smashed it hard on Xie Zhilin's head.

"Ah" Xie Zhilin was caught off guard, holding his head and screaming, then fell to the ground with a bang.

The scene was suddenly in chaos and Zhao Xiaojiu was stunned.

The county magistrate Zhao Yurui came down personally, and rushed forward with Lao Zhu and six others, and beat up the four people playing mahjong.

These four servants were lazy and had weak bodies. Old Zhu and his men fought at the dock every day and even killed people, leaving these servants without any resistance.

The other three people watched from the sidelines but did not dare to take any action. One of them quickly turned around and ran away, probably to find Niu Feng.

When Niu Feng arrived with a group of constables, the four men had their hands tied behind their backs and were forced to kneel on the ground.

(End of this chapter)