Elegy of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 184 Gyeonggi Public Security War
Waheb is a Hu businessman from the Western Regions. Of course, he is a former Hu businessman. Now he has gone bankrupt and has become a delivery driver in the Shazhou caravan.By "entraining" some private goods, he traveled between Shazhou, Hexi and Chang'an, and made some small money.

Such little people usually take it one day at a time without thinking too far ahead.

Since the Shazhou caravan monopolized the business from the Western Regions, the lives of these small businessmen from the Western Regions who came to the Central Plains to "dig for gold" have become increasingly miserable.Getting rich in one day has become an unattainable dream. There is everything in the prosperous city of Chang'an, but those things have nothing to do with him.

On this day, he had just delivered the goods in the caravan to the shops in the East Market, and then quietly went to the West Market and sold the private goods he had brought with him.Suddenly, I had dozens of "huge sums of money" in my hand, which I kept in a bank in the West Market. I only took a few coins and put them on my body for fun.

After leaving the Western Market, when Waheb walked, the sound of copper coins swinging around his waist sounded extremely pleasant!It made his waist stiffen a bit.

Waheb hesitated again and again, wondering whether he should go to Pingkangfang to find an orchid at a reasonable price.Of course, there were only a few "strongholds" in the east that he could afford.

But the quality of the Orchid in those positions is not very good.

But if the quality is good, he can’t afford it.

There is often an unspeakable gap between desire and ability. Maybe this is life!
Waheb thought sadly.

hateful!Why do I feel like I’ve earned so much when I’m making money, but when I need to use it, I feel like I’ve earned so little!Why do the powerful get what they want without doing anything?

He had to leave some money to "purchase goods" in Chang'an West City, and then continue to bring private goods with him, ride on the Shazhou caravan to Dunhuang, and sell them there.But you can't spend all your money on women's bellies.

The last time he went to Pingkangfang, a certain Hu Ji he had a crush on actually refused to do his business even if he didn't get the money!She also dislikes how smelly he is!
Thinking of what he was angry about, Waheb spat out thick phlegm on the ground, stamped his feet angrily, and looked up at the gate of the West Market where people were coming and going.

He secretly made up his mind to spend three years in Hedong and three in Hexi. Don’t bully the middle-aged poor!He will definitely achieve great success in the future, let those sluts who look down on others see him!
However, before Waheb took a few steps toward the far door, he was immediately stopped by two muscular young men wearing linen robes.

"Spitting on the ground is punishable by a fine of ten cents."

One of them placed the Jinwuwei badge on his waist in front of Waheb, waved it, and said in a calm tone.

"what?"

Waheb was stunned and asked in authentic Chang'an Mandarin, feeling baffled.

When will there be a fine for spitting?
Don't bully him for being a foreigner!He knows the situation in Chang'an City very well!Not to mention spitting, he has seen a lot of people pooping and peeing everywhere in Chang'an City!Since when have you ever seen a fine?
"The sign is up here, don't you see it yourself."

Another Jinwu guard wearing casual clothes pointed to a wooden sign not far from the West Market Gate.Waheb, who had very good eyesight, could see it at a glance. It read in neat fonts: "Spitting on the ground will result in a fine of ten cents."

Is it okay to ride a horse?
Waheb's whole body was not well.After looking at the "plainclothes" Jin Wuwei with unkind eyes, he had no choice but to take out ten coins, feeling bad luck secretly in his heart. In the end, he didn't have any intention to go to Pingkangfang's Hu Ji for entertainment, and went to the inn outside the city alone.

Similar stories are constantly happening throughout Chang'an City these days.Jinwuwei attacked across the board, extremely eye-catching!
Anyone who rides a horse in a downtown area, regardless of whether you are a powerful person or not, arrest him!fine!Horses confiscated!
Those who defecate and spit everywhere will be fined depending on the severity of the crime!Those who dump garbage carelessly will be fined!
If a wealthy family builds the second floor of their house to the outside of the square wall, they will be fined!Demolish illegal structures!
If the wedding specifications exceed those customized by the court, you will be fined!

If the trees near your residence are cut down and the fruits are cut down according to the law, you will also be fined!

As long as there are crimes written in the Tang Code, Jinwu Guards will not only actively manage them, but also focus on fines.

However, Fang Chongyong, as the culprit, is currently dealing with the Integrity Inspector sent by Yushitai to inspect. Of course, this Integrity Inspector was also appointed by Zhang Xi's father, Zhang Yi, to come to the Jinwu Guard Yamen to find trouble... On business.

Integrity inspectors do not have fixed official positions, but are assigned when there are errands to do.It's the same as the "group training envoy" that Fang Chongyong once had.It can be hung either on the governor or on the observation and disposal envoy. It is very flexible.

Therefore, this central official may not actually be from Yushitai, let alone Zhang Yi's confidant.So Fang Chongyong was a little unclear about his position.

Fang Chongyong felt his heart in his throat as he looked at the central official in front of him who was slightly fat, round-faced, and looked harmless. He was checking the accounts.

"Well, the accounts are very clear and there are no problems."

The man nodded slightly, with a look of surprise on his face.Jinwuwei's internal accounting is so good, every fine is clearly recorded, which is really not easy.

Even if it's a fake account, it's a very impressive fake account.

"Back to the Integrity Inspector, although it's a fine, every account is clear." Fang Chongyong said carefully, adding in his heart: Although only half of it will be handed over to Brother Ji.

"Then what is General Fang going to do with these fines? In the past, most of them were punishments, but there was rarely a time when fines were imposed. The court had no set rules before."

The Integrity Inspector put down his account book and asked with a calm face and a very easy-going tone.

Fang Chongyong looked around and waved his hands gently.After seeing the crowds in the lock-up room, all the other people left the place. Then he pulled Liu Yan, the anti-corruption envoy, to a secluded place and whispered: "This is to add money to the saint's inner treasury. I have no choice but to do this. This is It’s good for the Integrity Inspector to know about it, don’t make it public.”

In terms of official slang, "Don't make any noise" does not mean that the matter cannot be said, but it is a reminder to the other party "not to talk nonsense"!
Those who should know must let the other party know and cannot hide it; those who should not know must not create extraneous matters and leak the information.

"I understand. I will go back and report to Yushi Zhang right now."

Liu Yan saluted Fang Zhongyong with his hands crossed.Judging from his attitude, generally speaking, there is no problem with the "integrity inspection" this time.

Censor Zhongcheng Zhang Yi's approach this time was also very tricky. In order to "avoid suspicion", he specially assigned a chief of the Ministry of Justice as the Integrity Inspector and asked him to come to Jinwu Guard to check the accounts!However, no supervisory censor from the censorship station was sent to handle the errands.

Obviously, this person also knows that it is not easy to find trouble with the trivial matters handled by Jin Wuwei. He can only use the method of auditing accounts to spread dirty water all over the world!
No matter how arrogant and noisy the people of Zuo Jinwu Guard were in Chang'an City, even if every action they took was in compliance with the law.As long as the backend accounts don't match up, it's corruption!
Yushitai can definitely get to the bottom of it!
When the time comes, no matter how hard Fang Chongyong tries, it will all end in vain and he will be in trouble!

It's a pity that Zhang Yi's trick may be very effective against others.But for Fang Chongyong, an old accountant who had been doing "yin and yang accounting" in Shazhou for four years, Zhang Yi's ethics were simply not enough.

Fang Chongyong, who has always been accustomed to "tricking people to harm me", had long expected that the court would not be able to resist coming to check the accounts. He had been prepared in private and did not "divide the spoils" in advance.And he also knows that no matter how much the court investigates, it is impossible to find Ji Ge, and it is impossible to publicize the fact that the fine finally fell into Ji Ge's hands!

This was the first time that Zhang Yi, the censor Zhongcheng, sent someone to Zuojinwuwei to check the accounts, and it was also the last time.

Zhang Yizai learned that all the money from Jinwuwei's fine ended up in Brother Ji's hands, so they should have made a decision in their minds about what to do.Fang Chongyong felt that this man would definitely not mess around, unless he really didn't want to be an official anymore.

Just when Fang Chongyong felt at ease and was thinking about how to expand the scope of "income generation" in the next step, Zhang Guangsheng hurriedly walked into the signing room. Fang Chongyong raised his hands and saluted: "General, if something goes wrong, go to the West Market with me quickly." Take a look outside the north gate!"

problem occurs?
"What's the matter?"

Fang Chongyong asked with a worried expression.

Zhang Guangsheng was so anxious that he stamped his feet and hurriedly pulled him towards the imperial palace gate in the south without having time to explain.

"General Fang, let's talk as we go, something really big happened this time."

……

Outside the square gate in the north of the West Market, a large circle of people gathered. They were basically people who were watching the excitement and didn't mind the fuss.

Several Jinwu guardsmen in armor were standing by to maintain order and protect the victims.There was a middle-aged man wearing coarse linen clothes on the ground, who had fainted from pain.

There was another person who was rolling on the ground in pain and wailing.

No one among the onlookers was willing to step forward to intervene in this "nosy matter", and they just talked on the sidelines.

Fang Chongyong hurried over with Zhang Guangsheng and found that it was Yuan Jie lying on the ground wailing!And the one who fainted from the pain was naturally Du Fu!

"Find an oxcart, put people on it, and take them to a certain house." Fang Chongyong whispered in Zhang Guangsheng's ear.

"Jinwuwei is doing some work. Let's all disperse."

Fang Chongyong looked around and shouted to the melon-eating crowd!
Immediately, the crowd of onlookers who had eaten enough to eat melon dispersed.

Zhang Guangsheng worked quickly and quickly moved Yuan Jie and Du Fu onto the bullock cart.He and Fang Chongyong drove to Yongjiafang.In order to keep it secret, Fang Chongyong wanted Anaye to treat the injuries of Du Fu and Yuan Jie, and also to ask what happened in a private place like his own home.

When Jin Wuwei arrived at the scene, the people who beat Yuan Jie and Du Fu had already disappeared.Zuo Jinwuwei has been focusing on "generating income" recently, so he doesn't pay much attention to such vicious public security cases, at least not to many busy nodes in the city where there are many people.

As long as we are human, we will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.Since there are so many "projects" that can generate income, then if the gang of Jinwuwei people are not open to making money, who will do those thankless things?

Therefore, failing to rush to the scene as soon as possible was an unjustifiable dereliction of duty.

When the group arrived at his home, Fang Chongyong quickly asked Anaye to help deal with the injuries of Du Fu and Yuan Jie.

Yuan Jie was in relatively good condition, with many bruises on his body, but after applying ointment, they were no longer serious.

But Du Fu was not so lucky. His right leg was deliberately broken!Anaye expertly reattached his bones, her skills were very high, and she was best at the injuries that often occurred on Qiu Ba's battlefield.

It's a pity that no matter how good the bone-setting technology is, there is no way to make the broken bones grow back immediately.In this situation, Du Fu seems to be unable to participate in the imperial examination!
He was now unconscious from the pain, so he could remain calm.I wonder how I will cry when I wake up and learn that there is no hope for the imperial examination!
"Brother Cishan, brother Zimei, what happened? How could you have experienced such a thing?"

In the study, Fang Chongyong looked at Yuan Jie, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, and had been beaten into a pig's head, and asked doubtfully.

"I don't know. It seems that someone blocked me and Du Zimei outside the West Market.

When they saw us coming out, they rushed forward, punched us hard, and even used sticks to break brother Zimei's right leg!
When the Jinwu Guards' whistle sounded, they ran all the way to the north, that is, the direction of the imperial city, and finally disappeared. "

Yuan Jie said with lingering fear.

He was very lucky that those people only broke Du Fu's legs and did not break his legs "by the way".Perhaps, it was just because Jin Wuwei arrived in time that those people had no time to kill him.

"That is to say, they deliberately stared at you and then took action suddenly, right?"

Fang Zhongyong held his chin and asked with some doubts.

Yuan Jie thought for a while, and finally nodded and said, "I think it should be like this."

Du Fu and Yuan Jie are both figures whose names will be remembered by later generations.But the problem is that at this moment, they are all unknown people. At most, they have a little bit of poetic talent to stand out, and there is no problem of offending the powerful.

Who is it that wants to carry out such a vicious attack and specifically target them?
Fang Chongyong thought about it, but he didn't find any "strange" qualities in the two of them, which required the thieves to take special risks to beat them up!

Just as he was deep in thought, Zhang Guangsheng, who was on duty outside the door, ushered the sweating Jingzhao Prefect Zheng Shuqing into the study!
When Zheng Shuqing saw Yuan Jie with a bruised nose and swollen face, and Du Fu lying in a coma on the couch in the study, his face suddenly turned dark!

"Two more?"

Lao Zheng blurted out and asked.

"What do you mean there are two more?"

Fang Chongyong had a black question mark on his face. He didn't know what Zheng Shuqing was asking.

"Just now, an imperial examination candidate named Xue Ju came to the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to report that he was being chased and beaten by a group of thieves for no apparent reason while walking on the road. Fortunately, he ran fast and hid in a house, and escaped. After a calamity, people are still staying in the Yamen.

In addition to him, two other scholars were also beaten.They are all candidates from other places who don’t have any good connections here in Chang’an! "

Zheng Shuqing said with a slight frown.

Oops!He is an imperial examination candidate!Fang Chongyong suddenly realized.

No matter whether it is Xue Ju who went to Jingzhao Mansion Yamen to report the case, Du Fu and Yuan Jie, or the other two unlucky guys!They all have a common identity, that is, candidates who will take the imperial examination in Chang'an after Ji Ge's birthday this year!

And they are all candidates who are local and have no connections and no backstage hardships!

How did Du Fu and the others' identities get discovered by some people with malicious intentions?

Who provided the list of candidates for the imperial examination?
Who provided the information about these candidates?
Why can those thieves easily find lonely candidates and then wait for them with a flurry of punches?
Fang Chongyong thought about many problems in his mind. He felt that perhaps many things were making great strides towards collapse.

"There are some people who have begun to break the rules!"

Fang Chongyong looked at Zheng Shuqing and said solemnly.

"Oh, at this juncture, don't talk nonsense. These are obviously aimed at Jingzhao Mansion Yamen and Jinwu Guards.

If the thieves cannot be caught, the saint will definitely blame them!You usually have the most ideas, what should you do now? "

Zheng Shuqing was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He skipped work and came here just to wait for Fang Chongyong to come back to discuss important matters. He didn't even dare to go to the Jinwu Guard Yamen.

If he fails to handle this matter well, not only will he be in bad luck, Fang Chongyong will also be in bad luck!

"Now, it's just the cat catching the mouse. They are the mice and we are the cats."

Fang Chongyong sighed and said, now we are in a bad situation where the enemy's situation is unclear.All they could do was wait for the next victim to appear, and then Jinwuwei captured those people.Otherwise, there is still no way to break the current situation.

He had a vague guess in his mind, and he was even certain that this was definitely a new trick played by the left prime minister.

It can be called killing two birds with one stone!
At this moment, a Jinwu guard hurriedly ran in, whispered into Fang Chongyong's ear: "General, the Yushitai sent a supervisory censor over, saying that someone in Chang'an City beat up the candidates taking the imperial examination from other places. Let’s seize the time to solve the case!”

Yes, this horse riding is really a complete show!

The nasty incident of beating up imperial examination candidates just happened today, and the Yushitai has already sent people to their Jinwu Guards Yamen to "supervise the battle."

"Go and tell the supervising censor that he will solve the case within 20 days before the imperial examination is held. Let him go back to the censor's yamen to cool down first!"

Fang Chongyong ordered with a cold face.

"Do you want to tell me the exact words?"

"Yes, just tell me the exact words."

Fang Chongyong was really made angry by some people who did not respect martial ethics!
If some people don't do human things, then they have to stop being human!

　A new wave of climax is coming

　　
　
(End of this chapter)