The back garden of Yongzhou Prefecture Yamen.

The chief bureaucrats and officials gathered together to meet the new magistrate Xu Ping.

Everyone knows the rumors of a conflict between Xu Ping and Cao Keming, and the atmosphere is very depressing. The officials of the Mushi and some low-level officials sat on the table carefully, looking at their noses and their noses, without saying a word.

At the top was Cao Keming. He was almost sixty years old. His hair and beard were gray, but his body was still very strong. He wore a cloth shirt to cover his brass and iron bones.

Cao Keming was from Yazhou, Sichuan and Shu. He joined the army with his uncle Cao Guangshi. Dangxiang rebelled, and Li Jiqian pretended to surrender and killed Cao Guangshi. Cao Keming secretly sneaked into the enemy's back and brought back Cao Keshi's body, which was highly valued. Because his mother was old and secretly returned to her hometown, she happened to encounter Li Shun's uprising. She was promoted due to military merits. Later, she was transferred to Yongzhou to quell the rebellion of the Mandong. Since then, she has been in charge of many places, most of which were related to the rebellion of the Dongman rebellion and made great military achievements. Because Jiaozhi has led to Yongzhou, she has been transferred back. With his reputation, she only sent people to Jiaozhi for negotiations. Li Gongyun then withdrew his troops and expressed his apology.

To be honest, this is a veritable veteran and veteran. One of the Optimus Prime, who suppressed many barbarians in the Song Dynasty. Xu Ping also understood that even though he understood, he did not realize that he was humble in front of Cao Keming just because of this. Everyone has their own division of labor and different responsibilities. Even if they really look down on him, they must be able to live up to their face. If Cao Keming doesn't give him this face, he simply doesn't want it.

Cao Keming looked at his subordinates, turned to Xu Ping, who was sitting next to him with a pale face, and said, "Yongzhou is small and there is no singing or dancing to cheer him up. A few days ago, the magistrate of Tian of Guizhou came to him and said he would lend us a few singing girls, why didn't he come with the magistrate?"

Xu Ping said in a deep voice: "I went out of Guizhou with the envoy Wang Cao, and the supervisor went on a patrol. How grand is it? How could it be that I could bring the singers together and make the people feel innocent!"

Cao Keming shook his head repeatedly: "Wang Cao is a scholar-in-law and can only play with these false things. What's the matter with a singing girl? He can still sing and dance to entertain him when he is bored on the road. I think he is also a man who is not aware of things. Once Guangxi has no real achievements, he transferred Duan Fang back to Yongzhou. Who in Guangnan doesn't know whether Duan Fang's grudges and Mandong are confused. Isn't this causing me trouble?"

Xu Ping didn't know these secrets. When he remembered the strange expressions of the Yongzhou officials who saw Duan Fang, he was afraid that there were really many stories, so he kept silent and refused to answer Cao Keming's words.

The ranks of local officials in the Song Dynasty were generally not high, and the supervisors especially liked to find trouble for the military ministers and magistrates of the prefectures, so Cao Keming was dissatisfied with Wang Weizheng. He was self-reliant and was not afraid that this boss would wear small shoes for him. At this time, the King of Jiaozhi Li Gongyun was already old, and everyone knew that he could not live for a few years. The old and new things were inevitable. The state was turbulent, and Yongzhou was in no way out.

There were all kinds of fruits piled on the table in front of everyone. This was a specialty of Lingnan and much richer than that of the Central Plains. However, the wine and vegetables were not available, and Cao Keming was a little impatient.

After finally meeting the officer in charge, Cao Keming called him in front of him and asked sternly: "The officials have been sitting here for so many times, and the drinks are gone. What are you doing?"

The stinger looked at Xu Ping with a bitter look on his face, and said, "The magistrate will come up soon. Today, there are not many wineries in the city, so it is not easy to buy them."

"Go! Go!"

Cao Keming waved his hand impatiently.

The official wine used in each state is brewed by the ministerial warehouse, and one is divided into the ministerial wine warehouse. Yongzhou is because of the small population. The most important thing is that Cao Keming is not good at managing finances. The ministerial warehouse has long stopped brewing wine by himself. When it is used, he always takes money to buy it in the restaurant outside. Guangdong and Guangxi do not charge or denied wine, and allow the people to brew and sell it at will, which is called Wanhu wine. The price of wine is much lower than that in other places, so it is not troublesome to buy it.

Xu Ping looked at it but just sneered in his heart. He had already ordered his subordinates to send someone to guard the minister's warehouse. As long as he had money, he would first receive the debt from the military fund warehouse.

When the minister's custody uses money, he must first approve the note and sign the magistrate to the official magistrate to pay it to the officials in charge of the custody. Xu Ping didn't look at Cao Keming's note, but he just signed it, adding eight words: "The magistrate is public, and the magistrate is allowed to take care of it." Anyway, he made up his mind not to use the minister's custody for this period of time, so he asked the li owed the minister's custody to strangle the money from the minister's custody to death, and then cut off Cao Keming's source of income first. If he has the ability, he would use his own salary to work, but although his salary is generous, it is probably far from being used for official business.

The expenditure of the minister's warehouse mainly affects the daily expenses of the prefect, the governor and the governor and their direct subordinates. Other general fiscal expenditures come from the military capital warehouse, which is under Xu Ping's control and will not cause a rebound from the subordinates.

Xu Ping was sitting here. This little official dared not say that Xu Ping had cut off the wealth of the ministerial treasury. Tonight's banquet was afraid that a few of them would pay for the specific business. Of course, they could be placed in the ministerial treasury account. Whether or not they would have to pay it depends on the mood of the superior. The public officials of the Song Dynasty often faced such things, and many people lost their money. The servants were a terrible burden.

After waiting for a while, the food and drinks finally came up. Xu Ping saw that the standard was very low. Such a large group of people spent only 100 guan. You should know that this kind of official banquet was as little as 100 guan. It is not uncommon to spend more than 100 guan when you meet a luxurious magistrate. Kou Zhun liked to eat and drink more than 100 guan. He often gathered a large tent and lit huge candles to have dinner with his colleagues all night. The ministers always didn't have enough money to spend. This is a common scene in the Song Dynasty. Giving a magistrate was this kind of welcome standard. If you talked about it, you would be laughed to death by others.

Cao Keming couldn't hold his face, but he knew the situation of the minister Curry, so he couldn't blame the minor officials who did things, so he had to say with a shameless face: "Prime Minister Xu Tong was tired of eating wine and meat from Zhongyuan. When he came to Lingnan, he tasted more fruits and vegetables here, which was very different from the Central Plains!"

Xu Ping didn't say anything. He would drink others toast, and he would take chopsticks when others to eat vegetables.

In more than half a year, the banquet ended in a hurry, and there were no singing and dancing, and no other programs. The crowd of officials just sat there and suffered and scattered.

When Xu Ping returned to his residence, Gao Daquan and several Xu Ping's entourage were sitting in the yard chatting, and hurriedly stood up to salute.

Knowing that the public food in the prefecture yamen had been cut off because he had sealed the minister's warehouse, Xu Ping asked, "Have you eaten?"

Xiuxiu was riding her baby fruit next to her and strolled around. After hearing this, she rushed to answer: "We have eaten it! Officials, the glutinous rice cake we went out to eat and a kind of rice noodles. It was slippery and delicious!"

Rice noodles are later rice noodles, which are popular foods in Guangxi, and Xu Ping smiled.

Sitting down in the yard and having a bowl of tea, Xu Ping chatted with the entourage soldiers, asking where they were from, what their household registration was, and whether the monthly military salary was enough to support their family.

The Xiang army recruited from the beginning, especially these people were not under formal command, and they were all farmhouses near Yongzhou. Only Tan Hu was selected by the imperial guards, and they were homeless and were considered professionals.

Speaking of military salary, Tan Hu smiled and said, "The local prices in Yongzhou are cheap. For example, those like me who are not burdened by family, of course they can eat and drink enough. Others have parents, wives and children, so what is the salary enough! It's all up to the family to make a living by farming at home."

The salary of the Xiang army was much worse than that of the Imperial Army, and this situation was expected by Xu Ping, so he had to wait until the military capital treasury became richer in the future and give them more rewards.

Talked about gossip, Tan Hu said: "The official uniforms of the officials are still in the shape of the Central Plains, and it is a bit hot to wear here. Yongzhou is rich in ramie, and the cloth on the outside is very cheap. Officials can make other sets, and they are also cool to wear."

The squid is a large source of income from Yongzhou and is sold to all directions. It is also called Xiabu. In this kind of place, it is much more comfortable than Xu Ping's clothes, so Xu Ping naturally agreed. In fact, as soon as he arrived here, all these things should be prepared and he had to buy them himself. Now the minister Kuli has no money, so he can't even get the money for a family settlement. Besides, Cao Zhizhou didn't give up his eyes, so naturally he had nothing left.

Xiuxiu was tired of playing on the horse, so she led the horse to the side and tied it up and came over to listen.

Xu Ping said: "Xiuxiu, starting tomorrow, we will have a small meal. Every day when you go out to buy vegetables and cook, my salary will be collected by Gao Daquan, and the account will be settled once a month."

Xiuxiu said: "Why? I heard from them that there is a special blister kitchen in the state yamen, and we can all eat there and we don't need to make it ourselves."

Xu Ping shook his head: "The blister kitchen in the state yamen is afraid that it will no longer be opened tomorrow."

The various expenses of the provincial government are the major expenses of the ministerial treasury. From tomorrow on, I don’t know how many people will jump. Xu Ping thought that he should pay the monthly salary in advance before the New Year, and also rewards for the New Year, which will be given at one time to calm the anger of the people who suffered losses. There is no need to implicate other people in his conflict with Cao Zhizhou, so that it is not necessary to make others live a difficult life for many years.

These two Xiuxiu were flattered everywhere, and they thought they would live a good life with officials from then on. Unexpectedly, they would have to cook every day, and stood aside with their mouths pouted and got angry.

Xu Ping comforted her casually, but Xiuxiu was just angry and ignored him, so Xu Ping was too lazy to care about it. In the past two years, Xiuxiu has been with Suer every day, and has also learned from her spoiled habits.

After talking about Xiuxiu, Xu Ping said to Tan Hu: "You and Gao Daquan arrange the rotation of one of your subordinates. You don't need everyone to follow me every day. If you have free time, it's good to do some business to subsidize your family. If you want to leave the city, I will ask Gao Daquan to inform you in advance."

Tan Hu thanked him. Life in the wing soldiers is not easy. If there is no extra money and the superiors are not rewarded, life will be very tense. Xu Ping can understand their hard work and make them feel comfortable.

Looking at the moon on the sky, Xu Ping stood up and stretched: "Everyone, take a break early. There is still something busy tomorrow morning, so don't slack off."
Chapter completed!