Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 278 I don’t know you

"What urgent message?" asked the soldiers guarding the city.

"To report a death." Meng Changqing said, "Someone has passed away in the prefect's hometown. I am the magistrate of Beishan County. Here are my official seal and certificate. You can check them."

A basket was hung on the city wall, and Meng Changqing put the seal and the appointment document in it.
As the basket rose up, the city gate was soon opened a crack, and soldiers came out holding Meng Changqing's things. After returning them, they had to verify the identities of the people behind Meng Changqing.

Fortunately, this place is some distance away from the border. After verifying their identities, there are no other difficulties, so they are allowed to enter the city late at night.

This was Meng Changqing's first time in Dazhou, so he naturally didn't know where the prefect was, so he simply borrowed a soldier at the city gate and asked him to lead the way.

When we arrived at the place, we saw two lanterns hanging at the door, and under the lanterns was the tightly closed gate of the government office.

Meng Changqing dismounted, walked up to the guard leading the way, and stuffed a dime into his hand, "Thank you for leading the way. This is to treat you to tea."

The guard was surprised. "Thank you, sir! Since you are here, I will take my leave."

Before the man could walk away, Meng Changqing asked Bafang to go forward and knock on the door.

Bafang quickly jumped up the steps and started knocking on the door, shouting, "Open the door! There's an urgent letter!"

Soon, a guard on duty came out, looked at the people in front of the door and asked, "Who are you? What's the urgent letter?"

Without waiting for Bafang to speak, Meng Changqing stepped forward and asked, "Is Wen Ruxu in there?" When she asked this question, her expression was serious, and the yamen runners looked at her with fear. "Yes...Yes, who are you?"

"Don't worry about who I am, just let him get up."

The yamen runners were frightened and puzzled. This was the yamen of a fifth-rank prefect after all. What was the identity of this person? How dare he come here to cause trouble?

I think he is definitely not an ordinary person.

"Please wait a moment." He walked in quickly and asked other yamen runners to go in and report. Then he stood in front of Meng Changqing again and said with a smile: "I have already reported inside."

Soon, the gate of the government office opened wide, and first a group of bailiffs with knives came out, and then a slightly older man walked out. He had probably just put on his clothes, and was still adjusting his clothes after he walked out.

Looking behind him, there were several people following him.

This person should be the prefect of Dazhou. "Sir Wen." Meng Changqing said.

"Who are you?" Wen Ruxu looked at Meng Changqing in the light from the door and looked for a long time to confirm that he did not recognize the person in front of him.

"Meng Changqing, the magistrate of Beishan County, Sir Wen, you must have heard of me." Meng Changqing spoke a little quickly, "Not only that, you have also met other officials from my Beishan County recently, right?"

Wen Ruxu is really old, and he just gets a headache when he hears such sounds.

I have to listen carefully to the content, which is even more of a headache.

"Come to think of it, I have something to ask you." Wen Ruxu looked unhappy, "What's going on in your Beishan County? You keep coming to Dazhou every few days."

As expected of an old official, he has a lot of official airs.

But Meng Changqing is such a cunning person that she can only be scared when his status can suppress her.

Wen Ruxu's official position is indeed much higher than hers, but she is not an official of Dazhou. Wen Ruxu has no right to deal with her directly. How could Meng Changqing be afraid of him?

"Master Wen, while I am still respectfully addressing you as Master, let's go inside and talk. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee that I will say anything unpleasant in front of these people at the gate."

"Heh." Wen Ruxu laughed angrily, "You ignorant boy, I want to hear what you have to say. How dare you run to..."

Before the other party finished speaking, Meng Changqing interrupted directly, "What's going on with the Hong family?"

"What Hong family?" Wen Ruxu pretended to be innocent.

Meng Changqing raised his voice, "Then let's talk about your taking bribes, collusion between officials and businessmen, and oppression of the people."

Wen Ruxu said angrily: "What evidence do you have?"

Meng Changqing sneered, "I have no evidence, why would I come and say this?"

Bafang looked at Meng Changqing who was showing off his power and silently replied in his heart: "Yes."