Chapter 318 Press the gourd and the ladle will float
In fact, Magistrate Luo has only seen 50% of Li You's tricky skills so far. He will soon see the remaining 50%...
On that day, Mr. Li had arranged these things to improve the government office. He saw Mr. Hu holding a directory and reporting: "This is the birthday of the gentry in Jiangdu County recently. Please take a look at it."
Li Youxin took it and found that it was a coincidence that the first one was Magistrate Luo. His superior was celebrating his birthday, so there was no reason why his subordinates should not wish him a happy birthday, so he gave Master Hu some instructions.
But it was said that Magistrate Luo was furious when he returned to the government office hall. He knew very well before that that provoking Li You would probably lead to various adverse consequences. Sure enough, in just one day, the retaliation from the county government began one after another.
appeared.
Although he was mentally prepared, Magistrate Luo was still very angry. He overestimated his patience and open-mindedness. At this time, Lord Luo wished he could catch Li You who had openly offended the dignity of the magistrate, torture him and send him to prison, just like those who
Just like ordinary people.
It is a pity that we are all officials of the imperial court and official seals. Without the edict in hand, the prefect cannot directly impose ** punishment on the magistrate.
Magistrate Luo thought for a moment and immediately launched anti-retaliation measures. He ordered the magistrate and the magistrate to take the officials from the government office and the execution room to the county magistrate for inspection. The magistrate ordered some money and food, and the magistrate reviewed the case files, and the county magistrate must not be allowed to do so.
It's so wonderful.
Sending personnel to inspect is one of the methods used by superiors to suppress subordinates, but Mr. Luo also understands that the current focus of the battle with the county government is the power to preside over the county examination. This is the directional incident, and everything else is subordinate.
The dispute over the authority of the examiner was originally a situation where everyone had their own reasons. The government office could gradually gain the upper hand by relying on the authority of the superior. However, Li You suddenly opened a cheat without following the rules and abused the power of the garrison department to send soldiers to seize the examination room. As a result, the government office was at a disadvantage.
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After the incident spreads, everyone will know. If there is no examination room, how can we take the examination? The government will definitely fail.
At present, no other official in Yangzhou City can make a final decision on the imperial examination dispute, not even the highest-level Salt Transport Department. If Li You is allowed to continue to toss with force, the government office will be completely disgraced, let alone the government office.
The one who stirs up trouble first is even more ridiculous.
What to do? The more Magistrate Luo thought about it, the more he realized the seriousness of the matter, but he had no idea at the moment.
But Master Kong walked into the hall with a strange look on his face, holding the order, and reported: "Li You learned that the proprietor's birthday was approaching, so he sent someone to send a congratulatory gift..."
Is the weasel paying New Year greetings to the rooster? Magistrate Luo was stunned, not knowing why this sentence came up in his mind. He took the gift list and looked at it. It was sent by Li You on behalf of the county government. The congratulatory gift only contained a simple line - one thousand taels of silver.
Magistrate Luo didn't dare to accept Li You's money even if he killed him, so he ordered: "I refuse this gift. I don't have to give anything to the county for my birthday!"
Master Kong passed the original message to Master Hu, who was sent by the county government to deliver the gift, and Master Hu in turn passed it on to Mr. Li.
Mr. Li stroked his pen and a new notice came out. "On a certain day of a certain year and a certain month, it is the birthday of the governor. The governor ordered the people in the county not to give anything! I tell you what you need to know."
There were heated discussions again, and the people who read the notice quickly reached a consensus - this prefect is really hypocritical. He wants to receive gifts and then tells others hypocritically. It is obvious that he is a bitch and wants a memorial arch!
Within a few days, the prefect's reputation in the city continued to decline, and I will not mention it later.
It is said that Mr. Li played a trick on Magistrate Luo again, and while he was feeling very proud, the backyard caught fire...
It turned out that several patrols investigating smuggled salt went to the county government from the checkpoint outside the city and handed over a document signed by hundreds of people. On behalf of all the patrols, they asked Mr. Li to give an explanation on the future of the salt patrol, otherwise he would
Collective strike.
This is considered a sudden attack on the palace! Li You was shocked and angry at this. At any time, as long as the crowd can unite, the strength will be doubled. Faced with this, even Mr. Li, who has gradually established a strong position in the county government, is a little difficult to deal with.
What can he say about the future of patrols? The original plan was to abolish all patrols and replace them with soldiers. However, the application to use battalions to detect illegal salt has not yet been approved, and it is estimated that it will be delayed for another month or two, so it is still
Patrol service is required.
But it’s hard to say so clearly now. If there is a collective strike by patrolmen, Jiangdu’s defense line will be completely lost in the next two months, and the flood of illegal salt can directly affect the two lakes and Jiangxi, the Huai salt sales areas.
If the official salt in these provinces was as unsalable as in Jiangdu County, even if it was only for a month or two, the loss of salt would be at least hundreds of thousands of taels. If the court held him responsible, Li You would not be able to afford the compensation for selling him.
Li Xianzun has always looked down upon his servants. He thought that disbandment was just a matter of a word. Do you still need to explain whether the government would use it? But he didn’t expect that they would join forces in advance to force him, the county Zun, into the palace! Tired of living?!
Mr. Zhuang, who came to report the matter, reminded: "Every crowd gathering incident must be connected by someone. I guess there is someone behind it! The patrol was under the jurisdiction of Meng Dianshi before. Maybe this time it was a good thing done by Meng, except for him."
It would be difficult for others to connect hundreds of patrols so quickly and neatly."
Li You wondered: "If the patrol is disbanded now and private salt becomes rampant, the salt merchants selling official salt will first lose money and be unlucky. The man surnamed Meng has a good relationship with the salt merchants and is Jin Wanwan's cousin-in-law, so he has a certain stance.
How could the salt merchant use this as a blackmail?"
"It's very possible that the salt merchants also know that you don't dare to disband the patrol now, and they have no other means to restrict you, so they use this to take a gamble and force you to make concessions."
Li You suddenly slapped the case, thinking that you salt merchants are just props to boost your reputation, how dare you resist so fiercely?
Suddenly he felt that he had realized something, but he couldn't grasp it. Mr. Li thought hard for a quarter of an hour, but still couldn't figure it out. Until his eyes casually fell on a government official document on the desk, which was stamped with the seal of the prefect, and he suddenly felt as if he was enlightened.
Initiation, great enlightenment.
He deliberately struggled with the salt merchant on one matter after another, which was so similar to the prefect's attitude towards him! Didn't Magistrate Luo also deliberately quarrel with him on one matter after another?
His short-term purpose of attacking the salt merchants was to build his reputation. Could it be that Magistrate Luo also had the same purpose in confronting him? He was also a famous figure in the court after all. Could it be that Luo deliberately fought with him to gain fame through himself?
Once upon a time, he also became a figure whose reputation could be boosted... Mr. Li was flattered when he thought of this.
Putting aside Magistrate Luo, who had been suppressed by him, Li You thought of the salt merchant again. He couldn't help but sigh, the ecological circle in Yangzhou City is really inextricable.
Originally it was Magistrate Luo who was chasing him to cause trouble, but he swallowed his anger while chasing the salt merchant to cause trouble. Now he just fought back against Magistrate Luo because he was unhappy and had the upper hand over the government office, but he was shot back by the salt merchant, and he was in a dilemma
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It was like pressing down the gourd and raising the gourd again. Li You thought of a sentence in his mind, you look at the scenery on the bridge, but you don't know that you have become the scenery in the eyes of others.
