Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 52: Not Killing Is Not Enough for Civilian Indignation

The second day after coming to Yingchuan was the first day of the New Year. On this day, Pei Qing invited the county magistrates to visit the county magistrate's office. At the same time, he also made it clear that in addition to being a guest, the political achievements of the county officials must be routinely planned, that is, the political achievements of the officials were evaluated.

However, the officials in question did not take Pei Qing's reminder to heart, because they had already delivered all the gifts to Pei Qing in advance. I believe that Pei Qing, who accepted their gifts, would definitely not blame their problems. Besides, they had made contributions before, so how could Pei Qing not be reminiscent of his old love?

So after having double guarantees, all the officials with problems entered Yangdi City with high spirits. Before leaving, they all promised their subordinates that they would be safe and sound when they went to Yangdi this time, and that they would continue to serve after they came back. Some officials directly asked their subordinates to hold a banquet to welcome their return.

However, they did not expect that what many people here would embark on would be a road of no return.

In a blink of an eye, it was the third day of the first lunar month of the third year of Chuping, the Han Dynasty. On this day, the county magistrates and many gentry arrived at the county magistrates in Yangdi as promised. Many of them brought wealth and property, and blatant bribes in the name of Pei Qing's reception. Pei Qing ordered people to accept all the gifts as a single one.

Pei Qing's move made all the officials and gentry who gave gifts calm, thinking that there must be no problem this time.

And of course, there were some people who did not bring gifts, especially two of them were full of disappointment. One of them said in disappointment: "Brother Zhao, I thought this new prefect might be able to clarify the administration and give me a happy land of Yingchuan, but I didn't expect that I was also a corrupt person. I came here to be in vain. It would be better to go back."

The young man called Brother Zhao said, "Don't be anxious first, Brother Du, since we are here, let's be calm and take a look at how this envoy of Pei did it? If we make a mistake, wouldn't it be a bad person?"

"But Brother Zhao, haven't you seen this chaotic scene? How could we wrongly accuse him? Alas, according to me, we shouldn't have come. If we didn't come, we would have arrived in Xiangyang long ago, so as not to be sulky when we see these dirty officials."

"Brother Du, although what you said seems to make sense, we cannot easily draw conclusions in many things, so it is better to see them yourself. Hehe, if I hadn't met them in person, I wouldn't believe that a corrupt official could write such profound poems about marriage." The young man named Zhao said to the young man surnamed Du, "Zixu, just let me be willful. In fact, we can't delay much time at all."

"This, okay." The young man surnamed Du heard that the young man surnamed Zhao actually had a tone of begging and was not easy to refuse, so he sighed and said slowly: "Since you insist on doing this, I naturally have to refuse. Now I just hope that this person can really not let you waste such thoughts."

So the two young men stopped talking, but slowly entered the prefect's mansion with the abortion, wanting to see what Pei Qing was going to do today, is he a sincere person or a corrupt official who was a fish-meat villager?

However, not long after, when they arrived at the courtyard of the prefect's mansion, they saw an army rushing over and actually surrounded the prefect's mansion. The brother was arched and his sword was unsheathed, and his murderous aura was filled with murderous aura. This scene made many people panic, wondering what Pei Qing wanted to do?

At this time, a person outside the lobby shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone. The reason why the envoy wanted to make such a big fight this time was not to have an ulterior motive, but to maintain the order of the plan and avoid someone escaping. Now the plan has begun, please ask the emperor of each county to go to the envoy to accept the plan. First of all, Yangdi County, please ask the Yangdi Order Wu Meng to come and take the plan..."

"The lower official Wu Meng pays homage to Pei Envoy." A middle-aged man with big ears and fat intestines wearing a Jinxian crown rushed into the prefect's lobby when he heard this. Although he was not squinting, he had a hint of pride on his face, because he gave Pei Qing the most gifts, and I believe that Pei Qing would not make things difficult for him this time.

So when he saw Pei Qing, Wu Meng bowed to Pei Qing calmly. After the plan started, he directly handed over the official documents he had made up his random data to Pei Qing. In his opinion, Pei Qing would definitely let him get away with it.

However, Pei Qing said coldly after only a quarter of an hour: "Your total data and the sum of various data is very different. The number of households in this county should be 43,721, and the number of households should be 183,463, but your calculation result is much more. The number of households is 63,483, and the number of households is 216,534. Your data calculation is obviously wrong. This is one of them. Secondly, the tax revenue and total household registration in Guizhou this year are very different. Not to mention the actual data, 63,483 households and 216,534 households, even if it is 43,721 households and

If you count 183463, the rent and tax paid by Guixian County is far from enough. I just calculated carefully. The rent and tax you paid is only enough for the tax paid by 12,632 households and 36,825 households. You are naturally slapping bones and marrow to the people and using all kinds of things. In this way, there is only this tax. This proves that the population of Guixian County is actually less than 40,000. Even if the population of local powerful families is added, it may not reach 50,000. Do you dare to fool me with such exaggerated data? Do you really think I am blind?"

"This, how did he calculate the data so accurately? It took us a long time to calculate this data, and several people calculated it together. Could it be that there was a thief in our county who leaked the data?"

Wu Meng was very shocked. He did not expect that Pei Qing would point out the loopholes in the data he submitted without hesitation. However, he also knew that if he didn't say a few words to cover it up in this situation, his official position would definitely not be able to be saved.

So Wu Meng said bitterly: "I have clearly understood that Yingchuan has experienced several wars and the number of personnel has decreased significantly. This is almost well known. However, the number of households at the beginning of his tenure was more than 50,000, and the number of households was about 150,000. Now the envoy made a plan that although the actual population has dropped significantly, it can only report the population. Because according to the rules of the court, once the population drops when the plane is on the plane, the officials can only lose their officials. Now all counties do this, so we can only do this. Please understand that as for the data calculation errors, it should be that those clerks do not work carefully, and they must punish them after they go back."

"Hehe, do you still want to go back? I don't think it's necessary. Wu Meng, I have a complaint here about the common people suing you for joining the local wealthy families to oppress the people. You privately lent usury, forcing the women of the people, and forcing the land of the people, one by one, it is even more hateful than a robber. How can I allow you to get away with the law like a trampler? Not killing is not enough to calm the anger of the people. Today I will behead you to comfort those people who are bullied by you!"
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next