In the morning, the rain had stopped. Ye Yongjia packed up his things and said goodbye to Tongpao Chen. He naturally kept that reminder in mind, but he would only avoid this Tongpao Chen. They were not on the same road.
Working together will inevitably lead to fierce conflicts and confrontations.
But there is no need to worry about this yet, they have gone their separate ways.
The two arrived in Chenzhou soon. The local officials first arranged for them to go to the official building, gave them official uniforms, and talked about local government affairs. There were no major issues. The only one was the capital of Chenzhou a few months ago - Huai
There was a riot outside the city of Ningcheng, and they were defeated by Yuan Lun, the governor of Chenzhou, with a hundred men in three days. The leader questioned and beheaded him in the city. He also asked about the relationship between the governor Yuan Lun and the prefect Lu, and these people all
Silent and speechless, he had no choice but to change his subject.
After a while, Ye Yongjia had to pay a visit to the prefect, so he left Kou Zhong in the hall and went directly to the government office.
"Master Prefect." Ye Yongjia walked into the meeting room, looked at Lu Deguang sitting under the grid window at the door, and bowed heavily.
"The new Tongpan?" Lu Deguang stood up holding the handle of the chair and asked Li Yong beside him to pour tea.
Ye Yongjia approached and looked at Lu Deguang's face. He didn't know how to talk pleasantly to the magistrate who had ruined his family, so he had to sit on a chair and wait for Magistrate Lu to speak.
There was stiff silence. Magistrate Lu stood in front of him, but he stayed there for half a day without saying a word.
Li Yong glanced behind them, put the tea on the table, and coughed.
"Ah... that..." Lu Deguang was the first to break the deadlock, "Ye Tongpan... how is your family?" After saying that, he swallowed his own saliva and coughed awkwardly.
"Everything is fine at home." Ye Yongjia reached for the tea and looked around.
"That's good..." Lu Deguang said with a smile, but the skin on his face was trembling and he smiled very reluctantly.
"Your Excellency, the magistrate, I have given you some official business. After all, I am here for the first time..."
"Yeah," Lu Deguang laughed again, "I forgot all about this..."
"This general magistrate is responsible for water transportation, salt affairs, and litigation, and acts as a deputy magistrate. However, this place belongs to Henan, so water transportation is not important. The salt affairs department only acts as a salt supervisor. Once the ship waiting to transport salt arrives, he will interrogate and question him.
That's all; as for this lawsuit, I have a heavier burden to bear. If in the south, this job is still hard, but in Chenzhou, Ye Tongpan just needs to learn some ways of doing politics, which is quite easy."
"When subordinates first take up their posts, they must ask the prefect to take more care of them."
"Of course, I have read your paper after all...is there anything else?"
Ye Yongjia put the bowl down gently, "My subordinate is fine." He stood up, "Can you go?"
"Let's go... let's go." Lu Deguang nodded.
Ye Yongjia then turned around and left the meeting room, heading towards the lobby.
"It seems that he also has a grudge against you." Li Yong poured tea for Lu Deguang and said.
"Now that we are winning people's hearts, we can use him to deal with Yuan Lun; from now on, we will definitely not be able to keep him." Lu Deguang looked up at Li Yong and said.
As time went by, Ye Yongjia and he had seen each other for a long time, and the estrangement that was exposed to the outside naturally disappeared, but it was not wiped out, but deeply hidden in his heart. More than three months passed during this period, and Ye Yongjia also visited the governor several times.
They also had different views on Yuan Lun. His nickname was Weizong, and he was originally from Liu Zhennian to govern Guangxi. After Lu Deguang was sent to Chenzhou, the imperial court appointed him as the governor. He was probably the spy installed by Liu Zhennian. But
In addition, Yuan Weizong also had his own ambitions. It was not enough to hold military power. He also coveted Lu Deguang's political power. Although his ambitions were strong, he was still a little too ambitious.
Unknowingly, it was the busy season of farming. Since the reported grain yield was very insufficient, Lu Deguang immediately suggested: "In ancient times, officials encouraged farmers when they were all farming. Today, the tradition has been lost. It is a pity. I will write an article to encourage farmers.
How about you and I going for a walk in the fields?" All the officials nodded and said yes. Lu Deguang went to the hall and asked for paper and pen. After writing, he first sent a few officials from the government office to inform the people, and prepared some good wine himself.
Ye Yongjia and others went to the countryside to persuade farmers.
All the farmers gathered in the fields, and when they saw the magistrate coming, they all cheered. Lu Deguang smiled, took the article to encourage farmers, jumped into the field, and loudly announced it to the people. Ye Yongjia listened to the article he wrote.
It doesn't require any code, it's easy to understand, and all the farmers understand it very well.
Lu Deguang took off his official robe and walked in the ditch pit. Whenever he saw which family had a lot of land, he would ask Ye Yongjia to carry a pot of wine and give it to his people. After giving away all the wine, he inspected the trend of the ditch with all the officials.
If dredging is needed, the construction will be started immediately. If there is still a need for waterwheels, money will be allocated to households and people will be asked to build it.
When Ye Yongjia saw the smile on his face, it was completely different from the modest smile when he first met him. There was always a trace of righteousness. But he was such a speculator who accepted dirty money and added insult to injury. Perhaps in Ye Yongjia's heart, this was just
It's just a slight relapse of conscience.
Lu Deguang climbed up from the field, and Ye Yongjia helped him and handed him his official robe. Just as Lu Deguang was about to put it on, he suddenly saw several people running desperately from the field, panting, and the farmers looked at each other in confusion.
What are you afraid of?
"Sir!" The common man cried a little. He knelt on the ground and crawled forward two steps. "We don't dare to say anything on weekdays. Today, when you see your Lord come in person, we must demand justice!"
Lu Deguang looked at those people and immediately squatted down in front of them calmly, listening to what he was about to say.
"Wang Boyi from that house used another name to ask us for food every time he came to collect food. If he couldn't afford it, he would lead a few soldiers from the yamen to trample the ground. Who dared to offend him? The villagers were afraid that the officials would protect each other.
, I dare not appeal; but you are a good man! I believe that if Magistrate Lu really knows this, he will severely punish that faint official!" His eyes widened, as if they were about to burst, and he immediately kowtowed three or five times, eager to
Looking at him.
"Bold!" Lu Deguang stood up neatly, startling the man, and the determination in his eyes suddenly turned into doubt and fear.
Ye Yongjia looked at him steadily.
"Go back to the Yamen," Lu Deguang turned around and said, "I want to interrogate Wang Boyi!" He shook his arm and walked away angrily.
This is the first time Ye Yongjia has seen Shengtang. He had never seen it before when he was a child. There were people standing outside the yamen. Although he may have seen it more than once, he still looked at the layout of the yamen with novelty: two teams of soldiers holding water and fire
The sticks were arranged on both sides, standing like iron, without squinting; on the east side sat the staff taking notes, and above was the prefect, who was wearing bright red and shiny official robes, and there were a lot of people sitting around him, including a general judge.
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Uncle Wang was escorted up by the soldiers and knelt down in the hall. The prefect picked up a piece of paper filled with ink characters and motioned to the yamen officer to pass it over.
"This is what those common people said. Do you admit your confession?" Lu Deguang asked.
"Master Magistrate, this is absolutely unreasonable!" Uncle Wang threw the paper aside and kowtowed.
"You don't mean what you say. I calculated the expenses you reported last month, which was about one tael of silver. But I just asked the household and said that after collecting the grain, you bought a cauldron stove in the house, which was about twenty taels.
Silver. Your monthly salary is only three taels. No matter how much money you save, you can't spend it on something like this, right? This coincides with the day of the grain levy, I'm afraid it's no coincidence."
Uncle Wang was shocked, and Magistrate Lu continued: "I'm afraid you saw people are in panic these days, so you hurriedly spent money. Isn't that right?"
He was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to argue, so he just kowtowed in a panic.
"Remove him first! Let's hold him accountable another day." Lu Deguang waved his hand, stood up and shouted: