When Qu Huan heard that Shen Xiu wanted to see Luo Gong, he asked out of curiosity: "Why did my sister-in-law see him?"
Shen Xiu didn't want Qu Huan to know her plan, so she only said: "I have some business matters and I need his help."
Qu Huan said: "He is currently busy with land tax matters. I went to see him two days ago, and we only talked for a while before a government official said something happened in the countryside."
"What happened in the countryside?" Shen Xiu asked.
Qu Huan said: "Don't mention it. Ever since County Magistrate Shi increased the tax by 20%, this has caused hardship to the people in the countryside. The family in trouble only had one strong man in the family, and there were as many as seven or eight children, old and young.
Originally, they could barely pay the tax according to previous years. However, this 20% increase in tax will cost them their lives.
The strong man in that family couldn't think about it for a moment, so he bought a package of arsenic and put it in the food."
Qu Huan sighed and said: "After this incident came out, it aroused public anger. People who originally had to pay land tax stopped paying it."
"It would be fine if Magistrate Na Shi knew his mistake and corrected it, but he felt that the yamen officials had not handled the matter well, so he put the responsibility for this matter on the yamen officials."
Qu Huan said: "Luo Gong doesn't think it's right to take advantage of a government servant. Now he is at odds with County Magistrate Shi!"
Luo Gong has really been unhappy recently.
He is a young master from a big family. Before he became the county magistrate, he had never taken care of the secular affairs. Now that he has become the county magistrate, he realizes that he is not easy to do.
Coupled with the fact that Magistrate Shi is short-sighted, stingy and greedy for money, and his vulgar wife, Luo Gong has been so angry with their couple recently.
It was at this time that Shen Xiu came to the door. Luo Gong thought she was doing business, so he invited her to sit down at the stone table in the yard and asked the maids to pour tea.
The maids here in Luo Gong were bought after he took over as county magistrate. These maids are all in their teens and look very lively.
Normally, more men come to see Luo Gong, but today it is rare for a female visitor to come. The maids couldn't help but look at Shen Xiu a few more times, and the tea they served her was also the best Junshan Silver Needle.
Shen Xiu was not in the mood to drink tea. After a brief greeting with Luo Gong, she said, "I came today to say goodbye to Mr. Luo."
"Goodbye, where are you going?" Luo Gong was obviously a little surprised when he heard Shen Xiu say this.
Shen Xiu smiled helplessly: "I don't know, anyway, I don't want to stay in the county town anymore."
Luo Gong was silent for a moment, probably guessing why Shen Xiu couldn't stay any longer.
Before he spoke, Shen Xiu continued: "I originally thought that even if Mrs. Ma is not as generous and polite as Mrs. Wen, she is still an official wife, and she will not be too ugly. But I was wrong."
"I have closed the shop because I am afraid that Mrs. Ma will find me. But hiding like this is not an option, so I don't want to stay in the county anymore. As for the next batch of orchid brochures Mr. Luo wants, please forgive me.
Not in the mood."
When Luo Gong heard this, he interrupted: "You don't need to say anything anymore, I already know it."
Shen Xiu sighed: "If we want to blame it, it's our bad luck. We met such a county magistrate. If Magistrate Zuo was here, things would never have turned out like this."
Luo Gong remained silent. His dissatisfaction with Magistrate Shi had reached its peak. The news that Shen Xiu was leaving was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Ms. Shen." Luo Gong finally spoke, "If you want to move out, I won't stop you. But I advise you to wait for more than a month. If things still haven't eased after more than a month, then you should leave or stay.
It's up to you. But I hope you can wait for more than a month now."
Of course Shen Xiu was unwilling to move away, she just wanted to force Luo Gong to do so.
She knew that no matter how much she talked about the truth, it would not hurt him more than harming his interests. So after she came, she neither mentioned how unpopular Magistrate Shi was nor the excessive things that Mrs. Ma had done.
, I just said that I would no longer provide him with orchid brochures in the future.
Shen Xiu predicted well that Luo Gong really didn't want to endure it anymore when his own interests were involved.
And as long as he refuses to endure it any longer, there will definitely be a way to suppress County Magistrate Shi.
After all, Luo Gong comes from the capital and comes from a big family. He must know a few censors to some extent. As long as he writes a letter to the capital and asks one or two censors for help, the things that County Magistrate Shi did will be reported to the higher authorities.
Know.
And once the people above knew what Magistrate Shi had done, they would definitely not be able to protect a person who had no backing.
As long as Luo Gong is willing to take action, Magistrate Shi will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being dismissed from office.
Before Shen Xiu met Luo Gong, Shen Xiu also made a point of getting to know the background of Magistrate Shi. Magistrate Shi was actually a low-level official. Because he was senior enough, he was able to reach his current position.
There is no so-called backer behind him except himself, and because he did not pass the Jinshi examination, there are no contemporaries in the court who can help him.
Such people are actually easy to deal with.
As long as the imperial censor hands over the memorial and no one in the court helps to correct the situation, it will be very simple to be dismissed from office.
Luo Gong naturally understands things that Shen Xiu can understand.
Just because of the good relationship between County Magistrate Shi and Magistrate Zuo, Luo Gong was unwilling to break up with him.
And one of the most taboo things in official circles is to impeach a superior official.
But there was no way, Luo Gong really couldn't bear it anymore.
What County Magistrate Shi did was really going too far.
He is now more and more ashamed of being an official in the same county as the other party.
How could there be such a greedy, stingy, despicable person in the world?
When Luo Gong was writing the memorial, he kept comforting himself that he didn't want to make a difference in the officialdom anyway. In the future, it would be taboo to be tabooed by Shangguan. It was better than collaborating with County Magistrate Shi.
Luo Gong couldn't help but shudder when he thought that one day he would become a person like County Magistrate Shi.
Although he, Luo Gong, cannot be called a gentleman, he does not want to be such a person.
He dipped his pen into the ink in the inkstone and wrote firmly.
After Luo Gong finished writing the letter, he asked his confidant Luo Si to deliver the letter to the capital as soon as possible.
In order to avoid anyone noticing, Luo Gong told Luo Si that if anyone asked, just say that this letter was a letter from home written by him.
After saying this, Luo Gong asked Luo Si to leave and told him to get to the capital as soon as possible.
When Luo Si came out of Luo Gong's place, he met the master next to County Magistrate Shi.
The master came to Luo Gong to discuss matters, and happened to see Luo Si stuffing a letter into his arms.
"What are you doing?" Master asked kindly.
Luo Si was startled, then remembered Luo Gong's words and said hurriedly: "Our Lord has written a letter to the family and asked you to send it to the capital."
The master said casually and let him go.
Luo Si couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, resigned from his master, and quickly left the county on horseback.