Five hundred and fifteen chapters seems to be an old friend
Mr. Li's history was so dazzling that he almost swore to write a letter of guarantee. Only then did he dispel the doubts of his companions and bid farewell to each other and go home.
On the way, Li You couldn't help but murmured: Could it be that the purpose and significance of today's gathering was that his comrades were trying to stop him?
His group of comrades are all well-educated and have a smooth and smooth road, which is naturally different from Mr. Li's alternative path that is full of thorns along the way.
But if he doesn't overcome all obstacles and go against the current, he, Li You, is probably still sitting on the bench in Suzhou Mansion as a little governor.
The next day, others got up early in the dark to go to court in the cold wind, but Li You got up early in the dark to patrol the city in a warm sedan chair.
After leaving the house, Mr. Li yawned lazily and dozed off leaning on the tight sedan chair. There were hundreds of sergeants and policemen outside, shouting and shouting, and they would naturally wake him up if something happened.
Besides, he was on official duty to patrol the city on behalf of the imperial court, and he had a guard of honor given by the emperor. He didn't have to think about paying homage or avoiding other ministers on the way. It was very worry-free and he didn't have to worry about being called out frequently.
Compared with the hard work of eating and drinking, Mr. Li's comfort is worlds away. Therefore, it is not unreasonable that he has been violently criticized and envied and hated by officials all over the capital recently.
It is a pity that not everyone is qualified to be expelled from the court by Mr. Yuan Ge himself... What is even more pity is that it is difficult to find a way to avoid attending the court without losing the holy family and prestige. After all, for ordinary Beijing officials
In other words, being dismissed from court is equivalent to losing power.
Moreover, the emperor was kidnapped by the ministers and the ancestral laws and had to bear the responsibility of diligent administration. Every three, six and nine days, he went to the emperor's gate to suffer (more than a hundred years ago, theoretically, he should have visited the court every day). Of course, he had to suffer together, and he would not easily let the ministers feel comfortable.
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The sedan chariot swayed rhythmically with the steps of the bearers, which was most suitable for taking a nap, and Li You was immersed in the sweet sleep of returning to the cage.
"Master? Master?"
The familiar soft call woke Li You from his sleep, and he felt vaguely that it was the voice of Changsui Han Zong. He opened his eyes and looked at the sedan window, and the voice came from the other end of the curtain. That is, it came from the cold outside world.
Come.
Master Li coughed heavily. When Han Zong heard it outside, he naturally knew that the master had woken up. He quickly took a step closer and reported: "Master, someone stopped the street to complain. Please tell me what to do!"
Oh? Mr. Li was puzzled for a moment during the brief period of confusion after waking up. The time of his patrol of the city was consistent with the time of the court meeting. The characteristic was that it was very early. In this winter morning, there were actually people who were willing to get out of their hot beds and run to the street to block the way.
He, the five-city admiral and censor, must have a huge grievance when he files a complaint.
Then he remembered that this was the first time he had encountered someone who was blocking an official's sedan chair to complain about grievances since he took office, and he should not handle it too hastily. Strictly speaking, it was illegal for people to block officials' sedan chairs to complain about grievances. But in fact, that was not the case.
How to deal with it is very particular. If you are close, you will not be inferior, and if you are far away, you will be resentful. If you get off the sedan chair and ask questions in a cordial way like in the TV series with brain-dead people, it will be over. Don’t go out in the future. The people who complained will remove you from home.
The door is blocked to the entrance of the government office.
But being too indifferent is not a good thing, not to mention that it has not been long since Mr. Li took office, and it is a sensitive time.
When Li You was considering whether to ask questions on the street to show his image of being close to the people, or to send someone warm and thoughtful to send him to the Yamen to wait, or to ask him to complain to the censors in charge of the cities, he heard another report from Han Zong outside the window: "Little
I came up to see him. His accent sounded like he was from Xujiang."
This was very important information. Li You immediately ordered: "I want to get off the sedan chair!"
Nostalgia is very important these days. If Mr. Li shows even the slightest indifference, he will definitely be stabbed in the spine. It will not be nice to hear the news back to Xujiang County. Besides, he can come from Xujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture to the capital city more than 2,000 miles away to seek life.
, and those who still have the heart to complain are probably not particularly low-level people.
After Li You got off the sedan, the guards in front of him automatically opened a passage and closely guarded Mr. Li as he walked forward.
A man wrapped in a thick winter coat, a cloak covering his body, and a hood covering his head was kneeling in the middle of the road, his hands red with cold raised in the air.
At Li Qianxian's signal, the officer collected the complaint. At the same time, Li You took the complaint and casually ordered the complainant: "Raise your head!" It is the basic skill of a criminal judge to observe the actions of the plaintiff and the defendant. Many details are in the characters.
in his expression.
The sufferer raised his head, and the hood attached to the cloak fell down, revealing the face of a beautiful and charming woman, about thirty years old.
Li You looked familiar, but couldn't remember who it was for a moment. He stared at her again and again until the woman couldn't help but feel shy, her ears turned red, her face turned red, and she lowered her head.
Finally, Mr. Li remembered it. Ninety percent of the women he knew in Xujiang County were from prostitutes, and there were not many women from good families. The temperament of the woman in front of him was obviously that she came from a good family, so the scope for recall was very narrow.
, I remembered it after using my brain.
"Aren't you the Han goddess from the City God's Temple? How did you get to the capital?" Li You asked in surprise.
In the sixth year of Jinghe's reign, when he was still the official history of the county government, he was appointed by Chen Zhixian County to be in charge of praying for rain. The Chenghuang Temple in the county planned to organize a parade of gods in the streets, so the temple priest asked his wife to come to the county government to find him and Li You to clear his joints based on his beauty.
The lady is the wife of Miao Zhu of the Chenghuang Temple. She is usually responsible for receiving female guests in the temple, so she is called Han Shenpo.
Li You also remembered that Miao Zhu's surname seemed to be Dai. And that year, when Dai Miao Zhu had just finished preparations and was about to parade through the streets in high spirits to pray for rain, Li You kicked the Dragon King statue, and it started raining.
The parade ceremony came to an abrupt and tragic end.
The officers and sergeants nearby saw Mr. Li's slightly lost look and couldn't help but whisper, could it be that Li Qianxian's old flame when he was not prosperous in his hometown came to visit? Although he was a few years older, his appearance was quite attractive. At that time, Li Qianxian
Adults don't necessarily care when the youngest is lustful.
Li You subconsciously asked about it, only to realize that it was inappropriate. It was too disrespectful to have sex with a beautiful woman in the street in full view of everyone, and it would lead to a scandal for himself.
He quickly assigned a few people and ordered Han Shenpo to be sent to the government office. After the city tour was completed, she returned to the government office and then formally went to court for interrogation.
Mr. Li then continued to patrol the city and briefly looked at the lawsuit in the sedan chair. It turned out that Han Shenpo and her husband Dai Gongzhu were trafficking goods to the capital, but all the customs duties outside Chongwen Gate were confiscated, and Mr. Dai was also arrested by the Propaganda Division.
He got angry and took the lawsuit to him.
Thinking of the complaint filed by Goddess Han, Mr. Li couldn't help but smile bitterly. It was obvious that this was a fat sheep slaughtered by the customs. Investigating and dealing with the matter, and finding out the injustice and then redressing the case would definitely attract praise in the capital, and he also needed this when he just took office.
Reputation. The Chongwenmen area has a large flow of people, and any news will spread quickly.
But the complainant is a beautiful woman, so making the decision for her is a bit different, and it is easy for scandals to spread. I heard that in the past, there were so-called "honest officials" who cherished feathers when they saw a beautiful woman complaining, and they beat her half to death without mercy.
To avoid incurring unfavorable comments about yourself.
Without further ado, they walked around the imperial city. Mr. Li completed his tour of the city and returned to the government office. He first scanned all the documents for today to make sure there was nothing too important, and then sent an order to the court.
When Mrs. Han was waiting in the yamen office, she didn't suffer much. The officials and servants in the yamen were very careful. Otherwise, it would be too common for a beautiful woman to enter the yamen and be teased a few times.
After entering the hall, Mr. Li spared the gift from Goddess Han, showed his official appearance, slapped the table and shouted: "Our court has five censors, who are responsible for impeaching officials and soldiers in the capital and accepting lawsuits from the capital. All outside Chongwen Gate belong to Nancheng.
, if you have any grievances, you can go to Nancheng Censor Office to complain, it is really inappropriate to intercept me!"
Han complained softly: "The customs were unreasonable, and the women had no choice but to submit a complaint to the Nancheng Procuratorate. Instead, the censor scolded them for being stubborn businessmen and causing trouble over nothing, and drove them out. When she was desperate in the guild hall, she received advice from her fellow villagers.
I just learned that the eldest master has been appointed as the new admiral and censor of the five cities, and he is ordered to patrol the city every morning, so I boldly stopped the sedan chair today."
Li You's heart moved and he asked: "Is Nancheng Yushi really so rash?"
"Everything the citizen woman said is true, how dare you deceive the great master?"
Since Master Li took office, the three cities in the east, west and north have been relatively docile. Only Zhongcheng and Nancheng have been alienated. However, he does not want to be too forceful for the time being and is just holding back until he has the right opportunity. Now I heard that Han
This incident suddenly felt like an opportunity for an attack.
Then he said in a friendly manner: "It's not easy to be away from home. Considering the friendship between fellow countrymen, I will definitely not ignore you. You can tell me your experience in detail. This petition is not written in detail."
Mrs. Han's eyebrows were filled with joy, and her face became a little lively: "The woman and her husband were in the temple to celebrate, and the eldest master also knew it. But at the beginning of the year, he made a mistake and was exempted from the temple blessing by the county magistrate. The family had no livelihood for a while.
The husband had no choice but to engage in business, sell silk and satin with his capital, and come to the capital to sell them, and the women of the common people followed him."
"When we went outside Chongwen Gate to file our taxes, the master of the Propaganda Branch took 50 of us and other merchants together to prepare a tax bill and inspect the goods..."
Li You thought, this is quite trouble-free. It is faster to pass the customs in batches than one by one.
Mr. Han continued: "However, the customs system uses a series of tax laws. If one of the fifty people fails to declare their goods, the goods of those fifty people will be confiscated. My family suffered this unreasonable disaster. At that time, someone was found to have leaked goods.
When I reported a piece of goods, the men from the Propaganda Department couldn't help but confiscate all the goods belonging to fifty people like us."
Li You was speechless. Just now, he had taken it for granted. He actually thought that the fifty-person joint bill was a convenience move to quickly pass the customs. He really shouldn't have overestimated the moral quality of the customs officials. Fortunately, he didn't express his ideas verbally, otherwise he would be another
A shameful thing.
"The goods are my family's livelihood. My husband got angry and quarreled with the master of the Propaganda Department, so he was taken down on the spot and detained till now. The woman is really at her wits' end and begs the master to save my husband for the sake of the fellow villagers. My family will do it
Even if you are a cow or a horse, you are willing to repay me!" Goddess Han said, stood up and kowtowed repeatedly.
"I'm sure!" Li You said loudly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)!~!
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