Li Shishi saw that Fang Yingwu was still giving him face, so he advised again: "These three thousand taels are a shortfall from the public treasury, and they are not your personal pocket, so why bother with it? When you first enter the officialdom, you must consider your reputation. If you force your predecessors to
You have no choice but to spread the word. What will others think of you?"
Fang Yingwu nodded and replied: "What the teacher said is reasonable, don't students understand? It's just that three thousand taels is too much, so we must be cautious."
Li Shishi turned to Sun Zhixian and said: "Look..." Sun Zhixian quickly answered: "I am willing to make up for five hundred taels."
Fang Yingwu sneered secretly, since he really looked down on Magistrate Sun. He chuckled and asked, "Let's not mention the number for now. First, I want to know how these three thousand taels were lost?"
Sun Zhixian did not answer directly, but looked at Li Shishi again, but now Li Shishi was also impatient with Sun Zhixian.
Today, if it weren't for the sake of Dr. Gan from his hometown, he wouldn't bother to take care of this matter, let alone speak for Sun Zhixian, who always wants to be clever. You know, Fang Yingwu is much more important to him than Sun Zhixian.
Mr. Li's tone became a little heavier and he urged: "Master Sun, you can tell people everything you want. Just open the skylight and speak frankly! Fang Yingwu is your successor, and the one who takes over is your position. You can't check anything that happens in front of you.
Did it happen? So you don’t need to hide it! As for Dr. Gan and I, don’t you still believe it?”
Sun Zhixian had no choice but to explain: "These shortfalls are mainly due to road construction last year. There are many temples in Xishan in the capital, and the current Queen Mother goes to Xishan temples several times a year to offer incense."
Because the roads were dilapidated and there were a lot of people coming and going, last year the imperial court sent 20,000 taels of silver to Wanping County and ordered the county to repair the roads outside Fuchengmen and Xizhimen. This is why the deficit of 3,000 taels came from this."
It turned out that this was the reason! Fang Yingwu no longer wanted to waste time in circles, and asked directly: "Isn't the silver tael issued by the imperial court not enough? Even if it is slightly insufficient, it is not short of three thousand taels. But I don't know why there is a shortage.
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Sun Zhixian thought hesitantly and said mysteriously: "Master Fang, it's better not to ask, it really has nothing to do with you. If Master Fang feels that the deficit of three thousand taels is too much and is unwilling to take over, I can make up some more."
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Fang Yingwu snorted coldly, stood up and said to Li Shishi: "Student, I came here with sincerity, but others refused to be sincere. So I took my leave."
If you want to ask him to take over, you have to let him figure out what's going on inside first. If you don't want to say it clearly for this reason, then there is really no need to make excuses.
Dr. Gan, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly shouted to Sun Zhixian: "Master Sun! Do you have something to say? Don't be pretentious!"
Sun Zhixian looked at the expressions of everyone present, and suddenly found that he had become a loner without knowing it, and everyone looked at him in a bad way.
Resentment and humiliation filled his heart like a tide. He gritted his teeth and said, "You really want to know? This construction was overseen by the West Factory. The deficit of three thousand taels was taken away by the West Factory!"
Xichang? Li Shishi and Dr. Gan were both shocked. Ever since Xichang cleared half of the important officials out of the court during the imperial war, it can be said that it became famous in one battle and became the leader of the three major factory sanitary organizations. Its terror has long been imprinted on everyone
Inside the minds of officials.
Whether Li Shishi or Dr. Gan, in fact, they can only be regarded as ordinary officials. The hardness of their waists is not as good as that of Fang Yingwu. When I suddenly heard the name of Xichang, I was really shocked.
Only Fang Yingwu remained calm and thoughtful. Although this answer was unexpected, it is not surprising. He lost a large sum of money in a short period of time, and there must be something fishy behind it. It was just who did it. It turned out to be the West Factory.
.....
Seeing that everyone seemed speechless, Sun Zhixian suddenly laughed wildly again, "What? You didn't answer when you heard about Xichang? To be precise, these three thousand taels were taken away by Wei Ying from the Qianhu household in Xichang. You just
To put it lightly, who dares to go to him and ask for his return?"
Fang Yingwu sighed sadly, feeling that Sun Zhixian no longer looked so annoying, but rather pitiful.
Obviously, his abnormal behavior was caused by a sudden burst of emotion after being suppressed to the limit. There is probably only one reason for this: he was too angry at being the magistrate, and he was usually too aggrieved!
For example, Xichang took three thousand taels of silver from him and forced him to regard the money as a loss. This is just a typical example. It is difficult to be the magistrate of Wanping County! I don’t know how many other examples there are.
, so it’s not surprising to want to vent.
But having said that, when others heard the name of Xichang, they were really shocked, but Fang Yingwu was not afraid, on the contrary, he was a little eager to try. He said to Sun Zhixian, who was obviously in an abnormal mood: "In this case, I won't
Say more. Mr. Sun, you can make up five hundred taels yourself, and after I take office, I can ask for the rest from the West Factory."
Li Shishi and Dr. Gan were both surprised again, and even Sun Zhixian stopped shouting in surprise. If they heard it right, Fang Yingwu said that he went to Xichang to ask for money? What is the difference between this and pulling out a tooth from a tiger's mouth?
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When Fang Yingwu saw others looking at him, he raised his head and said proudly: "If you uphold justice, what does Xichang have to fear? Why should you make such a fuss?"
Li Shishi didn't understand what was going on, but Dr. Gan already clasped his fists in admiration and saluted, "What a great man! As expected of Mr. Fang, who once served in three prisons. Today, he is truly worthy of his name!"
Fang Yingwu smiled and said nothing, what he wanted was this effect... He had just calculated that if the silver was indeed swallowed up by Xichang, he would not be able to get it all back even if he killed Sun Zhixian.
It would be better to ask Sun Zhixian to make up 500 taels and then let him go, leaving a sliver of favor and making it appear that he is benevolent, righteous, generous and generous in official circles.
And if you want to recover the remaining two thousand five hundred taels from Xichang, it will not be easy. It will be too difficult to spit out what you have eaten.
But there is no need to recover the entire amount, just one thousand taels should be enough? Qianhu Wei Ying is Wang Zhi's dog, and with her relationship with Wang Zhi, she should have this face.
In this way, half of the deficit of three thousand taels can be made up immediately, which is acceptable, and the rest will be slowly digested during the term of office.
Of course, the biggest benefit is not just to solve a small deficit, the money is all external things...the biggest benefit is actually to help improve one's prestige.
Just think about it and you will know that after taking office, you are not familiar with the place and you are too young. You must be in urgent need of establishing prestige as soon as possible. And where does prestige come from? Different people have different methods. It is the so-called three things for a new official to take office.
But is there any way that can be more shocking than brazenly asking for the money back from the West Factory? Just look at the faces of Master Li and Dr. Gan in front of you and you will know that this will be more effective than any new official’s three tricks. When the time comes, Wan Ping
Who dares to be dissatisfied among all the officials in the county?
Others regard Xichang as fearful as a tiger, but in the eyes of Fang Yingwu, he is just a reputation cash machine... It just so happened that this time he took the initiative to send it to his door, and Fang Yingwu just wanted to shout, "God help me!"
Just when Fang Yingwu was thinking about things and was so happy that he almost uttered a voice, Sun Zhixian bowed excitedly to Fang Yingwu, "Master Fang Mengchang has returned to the world with great righteousness. How old am I? I am willing to bow down!"
"Senior, you are serious! You are serious!" Fang Yingwu quickly helped him up. As a result, the scene became harmonious, and the host and guest returned home happily.
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