The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 178 Chapter 178
Liang Mao said: "If you want people to be ignorant, you have to do nothing. I have a friend who is a county magistrate. He is very talented, but unfortunately he has not been promoted. I just heard that Chen Qun accepted bribes to do things for others. He told me about this, and in a fit of anger, I wrote this letter and sent it to Chen Qun's residence."

"Aren't you afraid of hurting your friends by doing this?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liangmao said: "A good man is a good man when he does things, how can I give out my friend's name?"

Zhang Yandao: "I didn't see it, you are quite loyal. What is the name of your friend, and where is the official, you tell me, if this person is really talented, I will definitely The one who promoted him to my side."

Liang Mao asked suspiciously: "My lord is not lying to me, is he?"

"It seems that you still don't trust me enough. In fact, Chen Qun did all these things at my behest, because he wanted to..."

Zhang Yan then told Chen Qun's intentions. After hearing this, Liang Mao immediately felt ashamed, and also regretted the letter that scolded Chen Qun.

"If that's the case, Mr. Chen is doing something practical. I really shouldn't scold him like this!" Liang Mao said in shame.

Zhang Yandao: "You don't need to be emotional anymore, I recently set up a new Metropolitan Procuratorate, and I just need someone like you who is fearless and very upright, to monitor and report some officials' violations of laws and regulations for me. , once it is found to be true, it will be reported, and I will deal with it according to law."

Liangmao was a little overjoyed, he didn't expect that his abusive letter would bring him such a great honor.

For this reason, Liang Mao immediately thought of his friend who was not promoted, and cupped his fists respectfully to Zhang Yan and said: "Sir, there is a person whose ability is far greater than mine, if this person can be transferred to the If you are an official by your side, I believe this person will definitely be able to bring you many pertinent suggestions."

"Is this person you mentioned a friend of your county magistrate?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liang Mao nodded, and said: "That's right. This person's surname is Liang and his name is Xi. He is from Zhecheng, Chen State. He is now the magistrate of Feng County, Pei State. I heard that King Chen, King Liang, and King Pei all sent envoys to join him. Your Excellency, Chen Guo, Liang Guo, and Pei Guo are actually your lord's territory. Now that your lord is employing people, if you can transfer Liang Xi to your side and entrust him with important tasks, I believe your lord will gain unexpected results. "

Liang Xi, courtesy name Ziyu, Cao Wei's governor of Bingzhou, served more than [-] years in office.

After hearing this, Zhang Yan wrote a letter without any hesitation and sent someone to Chen Gui, asking Chen Gui to send someone to escort Liang Xi to Pengcheng.

Three days later, Liang Xi arrived in Pengcheng and was received by Zhang Yan. Liang Mao was also in the hall. When Liang Xi saw Liang Mao, he was very surprised and hurriedly asked, "Brother Bofang, why are you here?" ?”

Liang Mao said: "Brother Ziyu, don't be alarmed, now I am the supervisor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate under the lord's account."

Liang Xi is tall and strong, but he is about the same age as Liang Mao, only 23 or [-] years old.

Therefore, Zhang Yan said to Liang Xi: "Zi Yu, thanks to Bo Fang's recommendation, I transferred you to my side. I want you to lead my army. I don't know what you want?"

Liang Xi said: "The last general will never give up!"

So Zhang Yan sent out [-] troops, appointed Liang Xi as the captain of Zhaoxin, and asked him to lead them back to Peiguo temporarily, stationed in the Longkang area, and defended Yuan Shu in Huainan.

Liang Xi received the order, took the seal ribbon, battle armor, and weapons given by Zhang Yan, and went directly to the school grounds.On the school grounds, Tai Shici assembled three thousand infantry soldiers early in the morning and handed them all over to Liang Xi. Liang Xi led the three thousand soldiers and went directly to Longkang in Peiguo without stopping.

Later, based on the information provided by Chen Qun, Zhang Yan asked Liang Mao to lead a team of yamen servants to take the initiative to investigate the people who gave gifts to Chen Qun, preparing to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Xuzhou had the most officials involved in this matter. Officials in Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou did not dare to disturb because they did not understand the actual situation.Only the officials in Xuzhou knew more than others, and they tried their best to curry favor with Chen Qun.

Mi Zhu is Zhang Yan's left arm, and Chen Qun is Zhang Yan's right arm.Mi Zhu was already the richest man in Xuzhou, and he was not short of money at all. Even if those officials wanted to bribe, they couldn't afford to bribe Mi Zhu, so they unanimously targeted Chen Qun.

In addition, when Chen Qun received gifts from these officials, Jiang Qi refused to let them in, but those gift givers tried their best to make Chen Qun accept bribes, and even gave Chen Qun's housekeeper money.

After discovering this situation, Chen Qun came up with a way to do whatever he could. Since you send it, I will accept it as it is, but I will not touch any of yours, and seal them all up to see how many are there. The person who gave him the gift then followed the clues and checked one by one.

This time, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Yan used Liang Mao to investigate the matter thoroughly in the capacity of the supervisory censor.

As soon as the news got out, those who had given gifts to Chen Qun felt very regretful, and now they could only be in danger, so they turned their heads again and gave Liang Mao gold, silver, and beautiful women.

However, Liangmao didn't accept this kind of trick. After receiving the gift, he immediately turned his face and denied the person, and took the gift as a kind of criminal evidence, and even arrested the person as a witness, and then thoroughly investigated the matter .

The county magistrate who was the first to give Liang Mao a gift was undoubtedly the most unlucky person.

Since then, officials from all over the country have been worried. Some officials were afraid of being punished, so they decisively fled to other places with their family members.There are also some officials with poor psychological qualities who committed suicide in fear of crime.

In just half a month, in Xuzhou, there were as many as seven county magistrates who committed suicide alone, while 23 people absconded in fear of crime, and three county magistrates wanted to rebel, but they were reported by the county magistrate and brought to the police station. killed.

There are five counties and 62 cities in Xuzhou. As a result, there are as many as 33 county magistrates who gave gifts to Chen Qun. What does this mean? More than half of the county magistrates in Xuzhou are doing evil in their own territory, but he doesn't know it.Thinking of this, Zhang Yan felt chills down his spine and broke out in cold sweat.

Unexpectedly, under my nose, there are still people who dare to do so many things.

Liangmao's trip was very fruitful. He thoroughly investigated 33 county magistrates. Except for the seven people who committed suicide, the other 26 county magistrates were all arrested and sent to Pengcheng, where they were handed over to Dali Temple Minister Zhang. Zhao conducted a review and let the Metropolitan Procuratorate jury.

According to Liangmao's thorough investigation, these 33 county magistrates have committed violations of law and discipline, such as occupying other people's fields, abusing their power, or robbing civilian women. Anyway, there are countless types of crimes, and facts are better than facts. eloquent.

So, after a trial, Zhang Zhao came to the conclusion that according to the new decree formulated by Zhang Yan, the remaining 26 people were all sentenced to beheading.

On the day of the beheading, Zhang Yan personally went to supervise the beheading, and 26 fresh human heads instantly detached from their necks and rolled to the ground.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan asked people to put the 26 heads in a wooden box, and then sent them to the counties, so that the magistrates of the counties could learn from them!

However, a difficult problem also came up, who should fill the vacancies of these 26 county magistrates?
Now Zhang Yan has no one available under his command. At such a critical moment, Zhang Yan came up with a solution. He planned to promote a group of county magistrates to county magistrates and give them a year to see how their achievements were. If you are qualified, you will continue to serve as the county magistrate. If you are not qualified, you can only change to someone else.

In addition, Zhang Yan clarified the functions and powers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple. Through this incident, many county magistrates were sounded the alarm, so that they would not dare to violate the law and discipline again.

Zhang Yan killed 33 county magistrates in one fell swoop, 26 of whom were county magistrates appointed by Tao Qian during his lifetime. Therefore, some people also doubted Zhang Yan's intention, whether he wanted to completely eliminate Tao Qian's legacy remnants of the
In Zhang Yan's view, this was a big change of blood. After the change of blood, the county magistrates worked more conscientiously and did not dare to have another heart, for fear that they would end up like this.

The administration of officials in Xuzhou has been rectified, and the smog that has been shrouding the officialdom has finally dissipated.

The weather is getting colder day by day. Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, Zhang Yan specially prepared many gifts and sent them to the soldiers and officials at all levels who have worked hard for a year. The business is booming, and the life is prosperous.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, after Zhang Yan finished his work, he returned to the room with his tired body. There was a coal fire in the room, and the temperature was much warmer than outside.

Zhang Yan went straight to his wife Mi Zhen's side, and as soon as he sat down, he put his arms around Mi Zhen's waist, and directly kissed her on the cheek.

"Ma'am, you miss me so much..."

As he said that, Zhang Yan wanted to pick up Mi Zhen, but this time, Mi Zhen pushed Zhang Yan and hurriedly said: "Husband, I'm afraid I can't do it today, I feel a little unwell..."

Zhang Yan said disappointedly: "Unwell? How is this possible? Didn't you just feel unwell five days ago? Why are you here again now?"

"Husband, the physical discomfort I'm talking about is not the physical discomfort, but the real physical discomfort..."

"I'm so confused by you, what's wrong with you?"

Mi Zhen hesitated to say: "I have a concubine..."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Yan asked.

Mi Zhen glared at Zhang Yan, feeling that Zhang Yan was so stupid and couldn't understand it, so she rubbed her belly and said, "I have the flesh and blood of my husband..."

When Zhang Yan heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Really?"

"Well, I just invited Dr. Fan to visit, and I'm really happy. That's why I can't have sex with my husband."

"I never heard that you can't have intercourse if you're pregnant..."

Mi Zhen said: "My husband is good or bad, the intercourse I'm talking about is that..."

"Ah? If you're pregnant, you can't do it? Who made the rule?" Zhang Yanya suddenly lost interest, and was even more astonished.

(End of this chapter)