"I heard that my family's ancestral grave was almost dug up?"
Li Zhigang's eyes crooked, and Wang Huaide, the prefect of Songjiang, suddenly felt his knees weak and fell to the ground. At the same time, his crotch was almost wet.
"No, no, absolutely not!" Wang Huaide waved his hands desperately, sweating profusely.
Who in the official circles of the Ming Dynasty didn't know that the imperial envoy with a bright future in front of him was actually the most vindictive and petty person?
If his ancestral grave had been dug up during Wang Huaide's tenure, would the prefect Wang Huaide's head still be on his neck?
"No?" Li Zhigang's face was grim.
Suddenly, Wang Huaide's heart moved.
The tombs of ancestors are a major family matter and a taboo that outsiders cannot touch.
I'm worried that I can't please the imperial envoy, so is this a good entry point?
Officials can be poor in ability and conduct, but their brains must not be bad, especially if they are serving as officials in the same place. If their brains were poor, they would have been trampled to death!
Therefore, Wang Huaide immediately said, "I dare not deceive the imperial envoy..."
"Huh?" Li Zhigang lowered his face.
"Look at the mouth of this humble minister, it deserves a slap!" Wang Huaide gave himself a slap in the mouth and said with a smile, "The humble minister dare not deceive the superiors!"
"Yeah!" Li Zhigang's expression softened a little.
Being an imperial envoy is temporary, but becoming a minister is for life.
"It is true that there are a few ignorant small landowners who listened to other people's fallacies. After drinking yellow soup in a restaurant, they started talking wildly and said that they would touch... the ancestral graves of adults!" Wang Huaide said.
"What fallacy did they hear that made them so angry?" Li Zhigang suddenly interrupted.
"It's just..." Wang Huaide was stunned and said timidly, "It's... the imperial court doesn't allow famous scholars to give them land. They can only pay as much tax as they have land..."
"This is not a fallacy, it is indeed true! This is what the Benbutang does!" Li Zhigang sneered, "A few small landlords? It's good not to hold them accountable, but they are still full of dissatisfaction? My Li family is also a big one in Songjiang.
Landlord, but after I wrote the letter back, I immediately vomited out all the advantages I had taken against the court over the years, and it was a lot of money! Huh... If I hadn't seen Songjiang as my hometown, I really wouldn't have dared to make a big deal about it.
A heavy check?"
"Do you even know that this is your hometown? Whoever has become a high official in the past and present has not sought the welfare of his hometown. Who, like you, not only has no welfare, but also makes people make trouble in his hometown?"
"Why can't people feel resentful? Cutting off a person's wealth is like killing his parents. Even a small landowner can give hundreds of acres of land to his family a year, and the money saved is enough to buy a few cows!"
"Ten years is just a few dozen cows, and within twenty years the family fortunes of these small landowners can double. You have not only cut off their wealth in this life, but also cut off the wealth of their descendants."
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"You deserve to dig into your ancestral graves!"
"You still have the fucking nerve to say that? You don't even recognize your relatives, so you just deal with outsiders. You didn't even let go of your Li family! Those uncles and uncles of yours have long hated you in their hearts!"
Wang Huaide cursed loudly in his heart, but on his face he said respectfully, "My lord, you are so noble and upright, and I admire you for your humble position!"
"Talk about the ancestral graves!" Li Zhigang waved his hand, "Have they been dug up?"
"No!" Wang Huaide said quickly, "They were talking nonsense in the tavern. Some people were afraid that something would really happen, so they went to the prefect's Yamen to report the crime." After saying that, he paused, looked at Li Zhigang's face, and continued loudly, "It's a humble position.
When I received the case, I heard that someone wanted to attack your ancestral graves, sir, so I will personally supervise the investigation!"
"Immediately ordered the three squads of government officers and patrol soldiers to arrest those arrogant villains!" As he spoke, he rolled his eyes, "After some interrogation, I found out that they are indeed..."
"What is it?" Li Zhigang asked.
Wang Huaide lowered his voice, "You do have that intention. If the humble position is delayed by just a day and a half, they will really be ready to go!"
"Then what!?" Li Zhigang became nervous.
Wang Huaide perked up and said, "Then he sent those people to prison directly under his humble command, and sent soldiers and government officials to patrol around the ancestral graves of the ministers for twelve hours non-stop. Except for people from the Li family, no other people were allowed.
near!"
He said with a flattering smile, "Your ancestral grave is right next to the mountain. For the sake of safety, I humbly ordered the surrounding farmers not to go into the mountain to cut firewood, so as to protect the ancestral grave of Lord Butang!"
"Huh?" Li Zhigang leaned back and frowned deeply.
Wang Huaide looked at it and thought to himself, "Is he still not satisfied?"
Then he immediately said, "Master Butang is the pillar of the country, the first person to implement the new policy in our dynasty, and the emperor's most trusted minister. Don't worry, as long as your humble position lasts a day, your family's ancestral graves will be destroyed."
People can touch..."
"No plan?" Li Zhigang was not interested in Wang Huaide's flattery at all, but muttered another sentence.
"Looking at his expression, it seems...?" Wang Huaide thought in his mind, "It seems that no one has dug up his ancestral grave, and he is still a little unhappy?"
That must be unhappy.
Not only was I unhappy, I was also a little sad.
I even think that Wang Huaide is a bit troublesome!
To others, having their ancestral graves digged up is equivalent to ruining the feng shui of the entire family, a vicious curse on the entire family, and sworn hatred. It is even more difficult to accept than having someone steal your wife.
But for Li Zhigang, the ancestral graves cannot be dug up, so what does it depend on!
If you offend someone by helping the emperor with the New Deal and your family's ancestral graves are dug up, that's a great thing!
When the emperor heard this, could he not feel a little sorry?
"This Wang Huaide is so ignorant... He sent people to guard my ancestral graves for twelve hours?"
Li Zhigang was secretly annoyed.
It’s better to plan it!
It would be best to dig out all the bones and dregs of our ancestors and spread them all over the mountains and plains...
At that time, Li Zhigang vomited three liters of blood after hearing the bad news... In the emperor's heart, Li Zhigang worked hard for the New Deal and the Ming Dynasty...
Political achievements can only satisfy the emperor.
But this matter can make the emperor feel compassionate!
"What a pity!" Li Zhigang said in his heart, "This opportunity to win sympathy in front of the emperor has been wasted!"
As long as you can get promoted, what does your ancestral grave mean?
It’s not like those buried in the ancestral graves are all Li Zhigang’s direct ancestors. Their family is quite big!
Not to mention the ancestral grave, even if the grave of his biological father Li Zhigang was dug up, so what?
The ancestors are dead, but I don't see how they can protect their descendants, and they still have to pay homage to the mountain year after year.
But the Emperor is alive, and he will give rights to whomever he says he will give them! If the Emperor allows you to be above ten thousand people, you can be above ten thousand people!
"It's a pity. There was a lot to be done, but Wang Huaide did something bad!" Li Zhigang looked at Songjiang Magistrate and suddenly felt very displeased, "This person is a mess in official matters, but he takes things like this seriously. It's simply...
He’s an official whose mind is full of trying to make a profit!”
Seeing Li Zhigang's eyes sweeping over him, Wang Huaide felt terrified.
"It is really inappropriate to use government troops to inspect our ancestral graves!" Li Zhigang said slowly, "I am an upright official and I work for the court, the emperor and the welfare of the people. I have a clear conscience!"
"Yes, yes!" Wang Huaide nodded like a chicken eating rice.
"You have people guarding my ancestral graves and not allowing the surrounding people to go into the mountains to collect firewood. Doesn't that mean that others will say that I, Mr. Li, are acting for the public good for personal gain?" Li Zhigang said with a bluff, "To say that I, Mr. Li, can alone achieve the goal of chickens and dogs ascending to heaven? This is not true.
Ruin my reputation?"
"This..." In an instant, Wang Huaide was sweating profusely again, and then said quickly, "I know my mistakes because of my humble position. Is your humble position just going to let people go?"
"Yeah!" Li Zhigang nodded.
"Then..." Wang Huaide was stunned, "What if... what if someone has another wrong idea?"
"Hey!" Li Zhigang sighed, "You think so bad of people! How can there be so many bad people? Huh?" Then he said sternly, "Besides, you are the prefect of Songjiang, your job is
What? Leave the hundreds of thousands of people in Songjiang alone and focus on my Li family. Are you my domestic slave, Mr. Li?"