"Sir, a man who calls himself Chen is standing outside the Yamen and says he has official business." Li Yong trotted in and said.
"What does it look like?" Lu Deguang's head was spinning, trying to recall who the person named Chen could be. However, Guanyi had reported that there was an official named Chen who had taken up a post in Runing.
"Wearing coarse clothes and carrying a letter in his waist."
"Is it possible that he is here to fill Wang Boyi's class? Go to the second hall to meet him."
"yes."
The man stood behind the threshold. As soon as he entered, he bowed steadily, then handed the letter over, glancing slyly at him.
Lu Deguang opened the letter and only glanced at the beginning and end of the book a few times. He immediately saw the eye-catching seal of the Governor's Office. Then he took a look at him and understood. He asked the person: "Yuan Weizong recommends you to fill the vacancy?"
"The governor heard that a secretary's office had been moved out of the residence, so he specially recommended me to come there." The man smiled.
Lu Deguang raised his head and met Li Yong's eyes, and he had already figured out the matter. He then looked at Chen and smiled and said, "Since you are a member of Brother Wei Zong, I will arrange for you to go to the household room."
"Thank you, sir!" Clerk Chen said happily, kowtowed his head, and walked out of the Yamen proudly.
Lu Deguang let out a long breath.
"This Yuan Lun is really ambitious." Li Yong said.
"Yes, having military power is not enough. It is not easy to refuse when someone is sent to interfere with matters in my yamen. Why are Liu Gang so hateful!" When Lu Deguang said this, he gritted his teeth angrily.
Secretary Chen came out of the lobby and blinked at the two government officials at the foot of the stone steps, and they came up to him happily.
"What? Did Magistrate Lu let you enter the house?" They stared at him with malicious eyes.
"Of course, he still dares to offend Yuan Lun?"
"We are worried that we don't have enough people to cover us in the sixth room. You have been a big help. Naturally, you will share more of the benefits."
Secretary Chen thought about it for a while and patted the two of them on the back: "Brother, I'm new here and have very little qualifications. I'm just like riding alone to fish for big pens. I'm afraid those old people won't be happy. I'd better call a few clerks from the execution room.
The three of us will make a lot of money later."
The two people immediately grinned and nodded in agreement.
Secretary Chen called several people from the execution room, and the two government officials took Uncle Wang to the waiting room, and asked him how much money he had hidden. Seeing their aggressiveness, Uncle Wang said cowardly: "Except Lu
The magistrate allocated about three taels or five taels in addition to his salary."
"How many fucking taels are there?" Secretary Chen asked fiercely.
"Three liang...three liang..." Uncle Wang shrank back and his voice trembled.
"I don't believe it," said the clerk in the execution room, who was rather kind. "A few days ago, Secretary Wang was quarreling with his brothers, saying that in order to prevent the prefect from interrogating, he had used up all the money on hand, but he still hid a lot.
Yeah. Isn’t it?”
He smiled again and said, "If the Secretary Wang conceals it, the crime will be punished severely."
"Yes, yes, yes," Wang Boyi's face became increasingly pale, "a total of... a total of twenty-one taels of silver."
"Damn it, you just tried to lie to me!" The yamen servant kicked him in the stomach. As soon as Uncle Wang got up, he did not dare to speak.
"Go and get the money!" The officer threw him out of the cell.
Several people went to Uncle Wang's house and looked at the box containing twenty-one taels of silver. They discussed for a long time, and Secretary Chen gave ten taels of silver to the executioner, and took six taels for himself, leaving five taels for him.
After meeting two yamen servants, the secretary of the execution room then went to the yamen, discussed with Lu Deguang, and convicted Uncle Wang before going out to weigh the ten taels of silver, and then went back to enjoy it slowly.
The two yamen servants were naturally not very happy when they got such a small share, but they could not break out in front of the two clerks. On the surface, they were still very happy. After the few people left, they were arguing about how to divide the money.
One of them understood and said to the other person: "He deliberately gave us uneven rewards to make us argue and hurt our harmony; we might as well be like the enemy who wanted to punish Chen."
A piece of silver was cut into two pieces and divided as desired.
A few days later, the yamen official revealed the matter while Lu Deguang was in court. Lu Deguang did not show any anger. He just sent Li Yong to call Ye Yongjia over and ran straight to the second hall.
"This matter is difficult to handle." Lu Deguang said. "Please sit down." He motioned for Ye Yongjia to sit aside.
"Chen Shuli instigated people to commit extortion. Although this is what a subordinate official does, once he is found out, it would be a loss of face if he is not punished. But if he is punished for this, Yuan Lun will definitely be furious, and
Maybe I will break up. I always know that Judge Ye Tong is smart and I need to give my government a trick to make Yuan Lun suffer."
Ye Yongjia pondered for a while, then pretended to be mysterious and said: "Then it depends on whether the prefect is willing to go to war over this."
Lu Deguang smiled: "As long as you say it, I will agree. It doesn't matter if you turn the world upside down."
Ye Yongjia was quite surprised. The last time he met such a person who was determined to pursue his own goals was Cheng Congyuan, an old servant in the mansion.
"Master Lu, these subordinate officials are never under the jurisdiction of the government. Their salaries are also allocated by the prefect, but they are just the prefect's long followers. And the number of people in the six houses is complicated, why not take the opportunity to cut off the subordinate officials and let them serve in the government
What?" Ye Yongjia talked eloquently, and Lu Deguang didn't know whether to praise him or not.
"Ye Tongpan, Lu Yan's ship has already set off. They have to enter from the Jialu River. When the time comes, you, the salt supervisor, need to handle things more safely." Ye Yongjia said 'yes' and withdrew.
Lu Deguang followed Ye Yongjia's idea and first incorporated the sixth house into the official title, so that he could serve in the official position, which saved a lot of his salary. Since he wanted to abolish the other house, he called Chen Shuli and said: "I
What if we want to eliminate all the subordinate staff in other houses and leave only the household room and the prison room?" Secretary Chen is from the household room, so he can extort money. He really wants to grow ten heads and kowtow to Lu Deguang.
After ringing his head a hundred times, of course he agreed.
Lu Deguang called the clerk of the execution room again, but he still said the same thing as before, and the clerk also said good things. He immediately withdrew the four rooms of workers, rites, officials, and soldiers. Although these four rooms were full of complaints, they still had households.
, the people in the torture chamber would not start making noises.
Unexpectedly, a day or two later, Lu Deguang called the household, and the second bedroom of the prison was assigned by the same magistrate, and was not directly dispatched by the prefect; and the fourth bedroom that had been deposed was combined into a management office, and was paid by the prefect alone. Since then, the first
Earning the support of Chen Shuli, who was Yuan Lun's confidant, and later almost annihilating the intervention of the Governor's Office in political affairs, such a clever move was unexpected by Ye Yongjia. Such a wily and scheming expert was something that he could not despise.
"Master, it's time for you to go outside and select your troops." Kou Zhong reminded him as he entered the account.
"I see."
He stared at the sword given to him by Yuan Lun, and the cold light flashing from the scabbard gave him a silent feeling: This seemingly ordinary salt boat entry was by no means that simple. This chapter has been completed!