Inspector Li has been very unhappy these days because he was reprimanded and fined one year's salary. The reason for this is that an inspection document stamped with the seal of the imperial envoy was moved to the county office. The content is that an inspector, as an official, behaved
The misconduct aroused public opinion, and the county magistrate was ordered to investigate and respond.
Chen Zhixian replied in a very official manner: "Mian Hua Su Liu" is true, he has been reprimanded and fined one year's salary, and there is no investigation into the matter of raping civilian girls. To be honest, Mr. Chen has always been dissatisfied and despised Li You for his improper private life.
Whenever there is an opportunity, he will beat him up. In fact, Li You was wronged. It was purely because of his reputation. Everyone said that he was like this and that. In fact, it was just spreading rumors. How could the real situation be so exaggerated? That's why he was punished for this punishment that affected Chi Yu.
accurate.
Ma Yushi was also unhappy. He had been patrolling Xujiang County for so many days, and found out a few trivial things, but not a single one with real foot pain. All his predictions were in vain. He was the patrolman of ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River.
Press, you are not a patrol inspector in a county in Xujiang. You cannot stay in a county for too long without a special case. Otherwise, you have committed a crime and are waiting to be impeached.
After much deliberation, Ma Yushi couldn't help but call Mr. Cui over to give him a lecture and ordered him to contact the locals again to see if there were any good clues. "If you can't find it again, what's the use of you!" Ma Xun pressed.
Finally scolded.
Mr. Cui came out with a disgraced face, full of a sense of crisis about his future, because he was scolded for even using these words. When he looked up, he saw Inspector Li checking on the security matters at the county mansion, as if he had found a life-saving straw.
He quickly stepped forward and pulled Li You to a secluded and uninhabited place, and asked: "Master Li, don't forget the agreement. I have followed the agreement and informed you of the patrol's whereabouts to the best of my ability."
As for the agreement between the two that night, Li You had previously planned to leak to Ma Xunjian that the stones of the Xuhe Water Conservancy Project were very suspicious, and then to point out Qian Huangshang. Others pretended not to know anything.
It's definitely enough.
Presumably Yushi Ma will be very satisfied after hearing this. This is a big case involving tens of thousands of silver. On the surface, it seems to be related to Chenzhi County. It is just right in Ma Yushi's hands. I just don't know when he will supervise it with full of expectations.
What will you do when you suddenly discover that a large number of high-ranking officials and dignitaries including the governor of Zhejiang are implicated?
If he can continue to pursue the investigation desperately, Li You admires him and calls him a hero. If he stops here and gets no results, it is none of Li You's business. He kindly gave you clues but you can't investigate it yourself. Don't blame others.
To make a few digressions, some people may not know why Li You didn't remind Chen Zhixian that these stones were stolen goods. The reason is very simple and unnecessary. This is a truly official-based feudal society, and the official position and the title of Jinshi are talismans.
Looking at the crimes of officials in the dynasty, not to mention misuse of stolen goods, it is just direct embezzlement. As long as the amount is not too shocking and the timing is not too sensitive, or offends the emperor and his bosses, the punishment is almost to be dismissed from office and then to recover the stolen goods and atone for the crime, and then continue to serve as an official.
. Even Emperor Taizu, who was known to kill officials like hemp, could only compromise like this in the end... There was once a strange county magistrate who could rise and fall three times because of repeated embezzlement.
Based on this, it can be speculated that the worst result of Chen Zhixian using stolen goods is to be told, "Young and ignorant, if you are a careless official, you can just be reprimanded by a supervisor." Especially since he is a Jinshi, he must protect his enthusiasm for becoming an official. What's more, he is a Jinshi.
It's for official business, it's not a private crime, and it won't affect your promotion at all.
Therefore, Li You only reminded him after he was full. If Magistrate Chen asked Li You, you were so frightened that you ran away when you found out about this, why did you only remind me now? How did Inspector Li respond? Could it be that it was just now?
I know that your enlightenment teacher, who is not your biological father but is more like your biological father, is the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so you have to fawn over him?
The conversation went too far. Besides, Inspector Li was questioned by Mr. Cui. His mind flashed, but he put aside what he planned to say and talked about the government-run silk production: "Well, in early August, our county Jianji
The silk warehouse is run by the government, and the profits are considerable, but thousands of taels of it go unaccounted for every month, why not check it out? Don’t say that I was the one who leaked the secret, lest the county magistrates find out about it and punish me."
Cui Jingyi said happily: "That's good. I can explain it to the inspector. However, colleagues have checked before and found no problems."
"That's because the county has prepared it, and it will definitely be different this time." Li You was very enthusiastic, detailed, generous, and sincere in giving instructions on how to do it. He promised the Guan Family Silk Shop to cooperate with his chest. Mr. Cui was deeply moved.
With tears in his eyes, he praised Inspector Li as a man of faith.
After receiving the report from Mr. Cui, Ma Xunjian showed extraordinary and decisive action. First, he directly used the imperial envoy to seal the county silk warehouse and sent people to take stock of the inventory; then he personally led his subordinates to the Guanjia Silk Shop in Xishui Town and took them away.
After careful inspection, I found that more than 5,000 taels of silver had indeed entered the county government office. Then I checked the county government office and the bank treasury, but found that the money had not been entered into the account.
Immediately, the horse patrol was ecstatic! I sighed in my heart, there are mountains and rivers, doubts, no road, and there is a village with dark flowers and bright flowers. God has really helped me. Now I can really go to my father-in-law to ask for credit. I have another credit for Mr. Cui, and I am worthy of the praise.
It is the local elite leading the way.
According to the inspection procedures, Magistrate Chen needs to be summoned for questioning. Of course Ma Yushi is very happy about this. Who doesn’t like to see his opponent in embarrassment? However, after being summoned once, Magistrate Chen did not come, and was summoned by Ma Yushi again.
Just laugh at it, can you get by with it?
At this time, an attaché reported: "When my subordinates came back from the city, they saw a hundred or so mechanics gathered at the street corner, and there may be more and more people gathering, preparing to surround the county mansion and ask you to open the silk warehouse."
"Hahahaha." Ma Xunjian heard the words and laughed without any worries, thinking: Chen Tongnian, Chen Tongnian, are you so confused? If it was really your plan, it can only mean that you have lost your wits and incited public opinion.
useless.
There is indeed no pressure on the imperial envoys to gather to make trouble. Although there are many restrictions on the power of the imperial censors in this dynasty's system to prevent interference in government affairs. However, in order to maintain the majesty of the imperial envoys, there are many strict protections for the imperial envoys.
Measures, such as strictly prohibiting local soldiers and civilians from gathering in crowds to siege and patrol the imperial envoys regardless of right or wrong, are to prevent local officials from using public opinion to blackmail the imperial envoys. For local officials, the crime of instigating sieges against the imperial envoys is more serious than corruption and bribery.
Another news came that Inspector Li led soldiers and government officials to stop the group of mechanics, but these people turned around and surrounded the county government. Ma Xunjian commented on this: "Chen Tongnian is not stupid enough.
Know the seriousness of things."
A moment later, Li came outside to ask for an inspection, and Ma Xun's button was put in.
When Li You entered the room, he just bowed his hands to greet him. His rank was no worse than the third level, but he could kneel or not. Of course, Inspector Li was not willing to kneel to meet him. "I have met Mr. Ma, and the lower official came to convey a message. County Master Chen said that this mechanic works on a daily basis.
"A day without work means a day without food. Please show compassion to the people's livelihood, clear the silk storehouse, and provide raw silk to small businesses."
Ma Xunjian scoffed at this request. The case process has not yet been completed. Unsealing the silk library at this time would not give the county an opportunity to cheat. He is not Mr. Dong Guo.
"The livelihood of the common people is difficult and their condition is pitiful. Please have a kind heart and think again, Master Ma!" Li You continued to plead for the people.
Ma Xunjian scolded: "How dare you, a small inspection officer, be so presumptuous! I am investigating the case, and no one can interfere until the situation is clear! Your county has hijacked public opinion, what do you want! The county magistrate has not yet been questioned in the court, and you still dare to talk nonsense.
Huh?"
Li You explained: "When Mr. Chen left the office, he was blocked by the noisy mechanics. Now he really can't come."
Ma Xunjian sneered a few times, "Will your county play such a trick of shouting to catch a thief? Anyway, the county magistrate Chen Dazhi refused to come, so I personally went to the county government office to look for him. I wanted to see if he had escaped."
Immediately, Ma Xunjian went to the county government with his subordinates and his entourage. Li Xunjian sent a soldier with fast legs to report the news, while closely following the imperial envoy team.
As expected, there were seventy or eighty people making noise outside the gate of the county government office. They were all mechanics from the county. Inspector Li shouted that the imperial envoy was coming. The villagers should be quiet and wait to see what the gentlemen would do.
The leader who opened the way opened an aisle from the crowd. When the horse patrol arrived in front of the door, they got off the sedan and waited for County Magistrate Chen to come out to greet them. At the same time, another sedan and several entourages came to the gate of the county government office, and a man with a gauze hat got down.
The man in the brocade robe is in his thirties, with a pale complexion and no beard.
Ma Xunjian glanced at this man and felt very strange. He had seen such clothes when he was in the capital. He was clearly dressed as a eunuch. In other words, the man in front of him was a eunuch, but he didn't know why he appeared at the gate of the county government office.
Since he was an eunuch, how could Ma Xun, as a second-ranked Jinshi, a clean and honest man, mix with these eunuchs with a bad reputation? He couldn't help but look at him with contempt, covered his nose and rolled his sleeves and stayed away for a few steps. Speaking of Ma Xun
After arriving in Suzhou Prefecture, he didn't stay long and went straight to Xujiang County. He didn't meet many people in the prefecture. Otherwise, maybe he would have recognized this person as the leader of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, the weaving eunuch.
Not long after, Chen Zhixian walked out steadily with his head held high and his chest high. He stood in the middle of the gate of the county government office and bowed his hands to Ma Xunzhen as a courtesy. Ma Xunzhen opened his mouth to say something, but saw that Chen Zhixian did not talk to him and scolded the eunuch with his halberd finger.
Said: "Eunuch! You are such a wolf and want to seize my raw silk in Xujiang. I have become the magistrate of this county and only care about the livelihood of all people. How can I be afraid of your weaving bureau! As long as I am here, you and others will
The eunuchs can never succeed!"
Next to him, Inspector Li stepped forward and scolded: "Don't have such wishful thinking, castrated dog! Although the county magistrate is only a seventh-grade official, he has his own righteousness. How can you coerce him? It will be useless if you come again several times!"
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In the face of insults, the weaving eunuch smiled gracefully and calmly, as if he had everything under control.
When they heard about the eunuchs and then the Weaving Bureau, the mechanics gathered in front of the county government immediately became uproar, whispering and talking among themselves. Seeing this, some eunuchs from the Weaving Bureau wanted to seize people's property. Fortunately, the county magistrate seemed to have a lot of integrity.
Although Li refused to obey, Inspector Li seemed to be a good person and dared to stand up for the interests of his hometown.
Ma Xunjian, who thought he should be the protagonist, was confused and acted as a spectator for a while. He just felt that this weaving eunuch could really cause trouble. The investigation was reaching a critical moment, so what the hell was he doing here.
Chen Zhixian raised his hand to stop Li You from yelling, and said loudly to the weaving eunuch: "I guessed that you would have ruthless means before, but I never thought that you could collude with the imperial envoy and the inspector to conspire together!"
These words were so deafening that Ma Xun pressed his ears. For a moment, he thought he had heard it wrong. How dare he do such a thing? If so, his reputation would be completely ruined.
The weaving eunuch smiled and bowed to Ma Xun with a respectful attitude.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the crowd of mechanics immediately became excited. They felt in their hearts that the truth about Siku's closure yesterday was about to be revealed, and it was about to come out!
