Emperor Yongzheng: Eagle Bow Sirius

Chapter 64 Gaming, official affairs, taking lots and dividing accounts
Everyone chewed the poem with Qi Rong on their faces, and the family members had already brought up the dishes in strips.Yin Jishan and Li Wei worked together not long ago, and it was the first time that he sat down to eat with him. Looking at the "Xi" noodles, there were only six dishes: roasted bean tendons, fried yellow flowers with green peppers, cold vermicelli, fried bean sprouts with red peppers, and there was only one steamed fish and A plate of scrambled eggs is considered a meat dish.Li Wei is a well-known bold and forthright governor. In the officialdom, he is concise and straightforward in his decision-making.Li Wei saw that everyone was in a daze, so he ordered the dishes with chopsticks, and said with a smile: "It's delicious, what's the matter? Mr. Wu has disturbed our excitement of drinking, and we will be fined! Jishan, these are my home-cooked dishes , please use—Uncle Fan, fuck you, you are frowning, what's wrong?"

This scolding shocked not only Wu Sidao and Yin Jishan, but also Cui Er, who was sitting behind the screen and doing needlework. ——When looking across the screen, Fan Shijie was not only not annoyed, but squinted his eyes with a smile, picked up the door cup and drank it down, grinning with the smell of alcohol: "I haven't seen Prince Yi in recent years, almost Depressed, someone finally scolded Lao Fan—is Mrs. Zhi a girl? Come on, have a toast, Mrs. Zhi and I are married!" The originally dull and depressing atmosphere was washed away by a few words of ridicule from them. , even the long follower who stood outside and waited covered his mouth and snickered.Wu Sidao smiled and said: "This clan association is very interesting. Coincidentally, my surname is Fan." Li Wei smiled and held a cup of wine for everyone, and said: "You don't know that our brother-in-law doesn't get scolded for three days. I can't even eat it! He brayed like a donkey in Changchun Garden in front of Long Live God! It's so ugly, but he even spat two loud farts with his mouth!" Because of the past story of Yun Xiang twisting Fan Shijie's ears to imitate the donkey braying Having said that, several people all burst into laughter.Yin Jishan said with a smile: "The donkey's bray is true and silent, and the seven sages in the bamboo forest often come to have a voice. It's an elegant thing! You can say that you have no official dignity of the Han Dynasty, and you have a little demeanor from the Jin Dynasty"!" Wu Sidao said: " That's right!" Li Wei said with a sip with a smile: "I don't care about Huang Zijin. This Ershan, I think he is looking for trouble. You are a fan, so I will point at you as a donkey to deal with him. !"

Fan Shijie said with a sneer: "Don't talk about Ershan, Nian Gengyao is also rare! In such a rich province in the south of the Yangtze River, the fire consumption is only three yuan, and Li Wei is a high-ranking official! Looking at this hospitality dish, I am moved: it is better than a The county magistrate’s food is not good! Just now he made a table to meet foreigners, Mr. Yin, we have counted, and there are only 23 counties that are actually short-lived. If there is something to do, ask this angel to just find Lao Fan, "broken the jar" and drop it! As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from the boot page and handed it to Li Wei: "This is a list, all of which were flooded in the east and north of Jiangsu, so check it out."

Li Wei took it and took a look, handed it to a family member, thought for a while and asked, "Did you follow my idea?" "Yes," Yin Jishan bowed and said, "I declare to everyone that Mr. E is coming to the province for a review." Master E knows all about the deficit. This time, he specially seconded [-] accounting experts from the Ministry of Accounts. Although there is no deficit in our province, I am a little worried. Please write a note to tell the truth, if there is, there is, If there is no one, there is none—as long as it is true, our governor’s office will take care of him in front of Mr. E.”

"Okay." Li Wei nodded, then turned to the family and said, "Go to the signing room and ask Mr. Zhao to open a form. The two copies are exactly the same, and half of the county names are written. Don't write any of the 23 counties. I understand. Already?" A few people didn't know what he was up to, and looked at Li Wei suspiciously, Li Wei said with a hippie smile: "Don't ask, the secret must not be leaked! Old Fan, you are unlucky enough, please fight in the ring, and don't want you to fall!" Jar. Check the deficit, of course you will be the receptionist. Be polite and considerate, this, this...not skinny (neither humble nor overbearing), just don’t ask him to pick out other thorns!" After finishing speaking, he stood up calmly and said with a smile : "Come on, come on, don't feel shabby, I was born as a beggar, and I can't afford to be generous! - I also asked them to make two 'beggar chickens', I'm afraid you haven't tasted them - burn them up Is it gone?"

"Beggar's chicken?" None of the people had eaten it, and everyone stopped chopsticks, and then saw a cook coming over with two balls of black and autumnal things on a wooden tray.Fan Shijie was a little nearsighted, so he took a closer look, touched it with his hand, and shrank from the heat, "This isn't a chicken, it's two balls of roasted yellow mud!"

"There are chickens in the yellow mud!" Li Wei came over, took out the wooden stick in the plate, and tapped it lightly. The yellow mud wrapped outside was already burnt, and even the hairs were peeled off, revealing two bright white chickens. The bright chicken immediately filled the room with a tangy aroma, and Wu Sidao couldn't help applauding: "It's so fragrant!" Li Wei picked the chicken to a big plate with chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Brother Yin is a big family. Killing pigs and butts, each has its own Killing method-this is the method I learned when I was a beggar-the stolen chicken has no nest stove, and it is made of yellow mud. After it is cooked, the chicken feathers are gone-it is better than anything else! He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said again: "Now that I am an official, I still can't forget it. But I eat carefully. Hook the intestines out of the asshole, and stuff them with condiments such as onion, ginger, garlic, and salt—you hear it." This smell!"

So, several people picked up the chicken with chopsticks, it was crispy, put it in the mouth to taste, it was soft and delicious with endless aftertaste.Fan Shijie first praised: "It's wonderful! Wouldn't it be better to add some soy sauce?" Yin Jishan savored the taste and said, "Such a delicacy should be praised. Hmm—" he thought, and said slowly:
Birth also screams, and death has no burial?
Wu Sidao said:
Use my belly as your coffin...

"Okay!" Fan Shijie yelled, "Don't be too busy, I still have something good!" Then he laughed loudly:
Alas - get the soy sauce!
Everyone laughed in an uproar, all leaning forward and back.Li Wei swallowed his breath with a smile and said: "I don't know poetry, and I find it interesting to listen to it. Brother-in-law Fan has yours—" When he was still talking, a family member came in with a famous thorn and said: "Master Taiwan, Master Ershan comes to worship!"

"No see!" Li Wei was disappointed immediately, and said with a long face, "Go, say I'm very busy!" The family promised to turn around and leave, but Wu Sidao stopped, "Slow down!" Then he turned to Li Wei and said: " Don't be so petty! He gives you a stick, and you return him a gun, which is not only disrespectful to the minister, but also trivializes right and wrong."

Wu Sidao spoke eloquently, both as persuasion and admonishment.Yin Jishan felt that although what he said was concise and well-founded, he was worried that Li Wei would not be able to bear it, but Li Wei made a grimace, winked and smiled: "The surname E is really a disappointment! If this is the case, when Jishan wins, we simply Let's meet him together. See what kind of rules he has, he just acted out of camera—I just wronged Mr. Wu and told you to sit down." Wu Sidao seemed to realize that his tone was too heavy, because he smiled and said: "You are on official business, I have What's the big deal? Tweety has already ordered someone to move my family, so I'm talking about it!"

"Okay, open the middle door and fire a cannon to welcome you!" Li Wei ordered briskly, "Ask all the officials from the conference hall to meet outside the gate!" Putting peacock feathers in his eyes, putting on the golden pheasant mending suit, and shaking off a yellow mandarin jacket by himself to wear outside, his whole body is brand new.In an instant, Li Wei seemed to be a different person, his lazy, careless and casual air was swept away, he bowed to ask Yin and Fan to go out first, he bowed to Wu Sidao and left the hall proudly.Yin Jishan and Fan Shijie waited under the dripping eaves. Seeing him coming out, they followed him out of the private mansion, bypassed the meeting hall, and saw more than 100 civil and military officials standing around the gate, not daring to look at Li Wei.Fan Shijie looked outside the gate. Ershan was full of imperial envoy books. Dozens of school lieutenants stood in front of a green woolen sedan chair with their swords, surrounded by Ershan with a solemn expression, waiting for Li Wei to come out to greet him. .Yin Jishan moved closer to Li Wei and said, "It seems a little disrespectful to wear a yellow mandarin jacket when receiving an imperial envoy..."

Li Wei didn't answer, he took out the gold watch in his pocket to check, it was just past time.At this time, the westward sun was like a ball of blazing fire, illuminating the earth and houses to be waxy white, and the melting hot air rushed towards the face, steaming so that one could not breathe, compared with the few basins of ice just now. The main room really feels like two lifetimes away.As soon as Li Weilue stopped, he continued to walk forward. He heard three "dong dong dong" gunshots, which startled a group of birds hiding in the shade and flew away.When the officials saw the Governor dressed up in this outfit, they slammed their horseshoe sleeves and knelt down. Except for a slight gasp, the crow was really quiet.Li Wei tugged at the lapel of his coat, and calmly waved his square steps to welcome him out of the gate. Seeing that Ershan was also wearing a yellow jacket, he stopped five or six steps away, raised his hand, and said with a smile: "Grand E is working hard! Please come into the yamen to speak."

There was no expression on Ershan Qinghuang's face.A pair of brush-like upside-down brooms with a pair of eagle-like eyes under his eyebrows, his face full of knives-like wrinkles remained motionless, he stared at Li Wei for a long time, then stroked his gray beard, as if suppressing the anger in his chest, his cheeks twitched slightly , breathed a sigh of relief, and popped out a sentence from between his teeth: "I have a purpose, and I come by divine order!"

Because of Jing, although the voice of this sentence is not high, it sounds very clear and firm, with a faint sound of gold and stone.Yin Jishan, who was on the left side of Li Wei, shuddered. All the civil and military officials pricked up their ears, listening to Li Wei's answer.

"I know." Li Wei said quietly, "I also have a will, and I also have a sacred order. So treat each other equally, please don't mind, Mr. E." He bowed and stretched out his hand, and said: "Please—play music!"

Together with the drumming, the tense atmosphere immediately eased.Li Wei Ershan walked side by side at the front, Yin Jishan followed closely, followed by Fan Shijie, according to the procurator, the officials of Shuntian Mansion Yin Xiaoda, all sweaty and heavily clothed, returned to the meeting hall with the two embarrassing imperial envoys .

"The emperor handpicked me to preside over the Nanjing Tribute Examination. Ting Ji must have read it." The two sat down as guest and host, and after offering tea, Ershan bowed and said, "The last time my lord visited, it happened to be I'm not feeling well, I've treated you very slowly, thank you in advance." After saying that, he got up and bowed.Li Wei looked at the officials standing in silence with a smile, and said, "Nanjing is too hot, and it's not uncommon for Mr. E to come from the north and be unaccustomed to the environment. We are all dogs working for Lord Yongzheng, why not?" 'Wang Wang' is still a nest, this one adults don't worry about it. Tingji, brother, I carry it with me. I went to visit, and it was not for clinging. Firstly, I wanted to invite Shengan, and secondly, I also wanted to know the emperor's will. Just in time for your lord to be 'uncomfortable', my court post has arrived when you go back to the yamen. Today, Lord E is visiting, and you are ordered by the emperor, I want to hear more about your regulations." These words were lukewarm, half-joking Ershan sarcastically heard that "they are all dogs", and felt that it was not useful, but when he thought about his daily memorials, there was also a talk about "the work of a dog and a horse", and there was really no way to refute it. He coughed and said: "Since Mr. Li already knows the will, there is no need for brothers to babble. I came to review the deficiencies. I have no personal intentions. Because some provinces have falsely reported deficiencies and ended them, the emperor feels very uncomfortable. He asked me to study politics. Let’s check it out, it’s not that the brothers are looking for Mr. Li intentionally. Please forgive me for this. Please help me with this errand. There’s also a heartfelt word: If there is any one who ends up at a loss, you might as well say it now. , This is not a big mistake. You know that I am a person who is not willing to let things go. If you find out, you will inevitably be in danger of being destroyed." After saying that, he raised his face and stared at Li Wei.

Li Wei seemed taken aback for a moment, and said, "According to what I reported earlier, our province is indeed not at a loss. I didn't think of such a thing as 'reckless'. The first group of dogs now are all created by me. I didn't dare to You lied to me. But since E Gong said it, I can’t shake your heart.” He stood up, took a big banana fan and fanned it around, then raised his voice and asked: “Who is taking credit for it? ? Is there any fraud?"

All the officials looked at each other, but no one answered.

"What I said - I don't dare to bully you, and these bastards don't dare to bully me!" Li Wei giggled, and returned to the chairman's seat, "E Gong, we are the richest in Jiangnan. I, Li Wei, They are famous for being difficult to deal with ghosts. They—" He pointed at the crowd with his fan, "They dare not coax me!" He was so careless and careless, in stark contrast to Ershan, who was sitting upright and as cold as a stone man, Goshha, who follows Orshan, sees a lifeless Taoist face every day. How many times have he seen such a feudal official?They all gritted their teeth and bowed their heads, wanting to laugh but not daring.The officials in Jiangnan had already been scolded by Li Wei, so they just smiled shyly.

"Master Li doesn't bully you, I can believe this." Ershan couldn't understand Li Wei's ruffian appearance, but he couldn't do anything about him, because he sneered and said: "As for whether these old men bully Li Wei or not?" My lord, we have to wait until we have checked."

"Check it out, what's the way?"

"I brought a lot of good interrogators from the Ministry of Household Affairs." Ershan's deep eyes moved on everyone, "From the capital of Nanjing, from near to far, one by one, one state and one county."

Li Wei shook his fan and said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. E is going to leave me, Li Wei, and check the accounts alone. I have to remind my lord that you just said that you want me to 'help you with all your strength'. The original words of Li Wei said, "We will re-examine with Li Wei, and we must not be careless", so I am also an imperial envoy!" Then he looked at Ershan, and said slowly: "There is a reason for title here, but I don't dispute it. Think about it, it’s only a few months away from Qiu Wei, and your main task is to study politics, so go county by county to check, with the dozens of accounts you brought, you can get the year of the monkey?” Ershan didn’t expect this The governor, who was illiterate, was so shrewd. He made a fuss about the word "Huitong" and flattened his status as an "imperial envoy". Thinking about Li Wei's words, there was still no way to refute them. He swallowed silently and said, "According to Mr. Li, What should I do?"

"They're all imperial envoys, half of which is divided upon meeting. 120 for four states and counties, 62 for you, and 62 for me. In the yamen of Fan Shijie's vassal office, the veteran accountants are no worse than those brought by you." Li Wei smiled hippiely, and waved to Fan Shijie: " Lao Fan, you are going to sign the bond room now, divide the names of the provinces and counties into two, disrupt the order, and twist two pieces of paper!"

(End of this chapter)