Chapter 37 The World of Red Mansions 37
Two months later,
Wei Qixuan gathered everyone in the renovated county hall.
The person who came first was elated, looked at Wei Qixuan who smiled and said hello, "Sir, fortunately, the county government has been repaired."
Wei Qixuan smiled slightly and praised, "You did a good job.
" Everyone was overjoyed, thinking that this good-natured new adult was planning to reward them.
Although there is no shortage of this thing, but it is an adult reward anyway, so I have to give face, smile and next, right?
In front of Wei Qixuan, there was that condescending person who was already discussing in a low voice, where to go to spend some time after the office.
Obviously, the two months of indifference gave them the illusion that Wei Qixuan was easy to get along with.
When everyone arrived, all the doors and windows were closed in an instant, and more than 30 heavily armed men appeared in the hall.
Everyone looked at it in astonishment. Seeing that the big men were wearing yamen clothes, their faces began to panic, and they obviously realized what was going to happen next.
Wei Qixuan said calmly, "Zhao Ping, oppressed the people, injured Liu Daniu in Liujia Village, made him disabled, beat twenty big boards, deprived of his yamen status, and imprisoned for five years."
Immediately there were two The big man came out and restrained Zhao Ping.
Zhao Ping struggled unwillingly, "My lord, I was wronged. That was what the young master of the Liang family explained. I dare not refuse to listen."
Wei Qixuan raised his head coldly and cast a glance at the two yamen. Zhao Ping dragged him out, and soon there was the sound of hitting the board, accompanied by a howl of pain.
"Xiao Qiu, forcibly collected taxes from Xiaoli Village and Zhangtou Village, a total of 240 taels in six years, deprived his family property, and went to prison."
"Zhang Chengshi forcibly sold orphans, widows and mothers' real estate and fertile land, causing people to die, and forcibly selling good homes. Women, their sins are unforgivable, they beat fifty big boards and asked to be executed after the autumn."
"Zhang Shide..."
Every time a name was called, someone was dragged down.
The people in the lobby were frightened and their faces turned pale. There are those who are not good, and have already collapsed on the ground.
As one person after another was dragged down, there were only the master bookkeeper, the master, and three new yamen left in the lobby.
These three came up in place of their fathers in the last two years. Because they were bullied all the time when they were young, and because they had been here for a short time, they didn't get any benefits, so Wei Qixuan temporarily let them go.
Taking a look at the quiet lobby, Wei Qixuan instructed, "Master Zhang, the rest of the yamen will be handled by them. You can take them to go through the formalities. I hope that within half a month, the whole work will be completed. The county government is running smoothly."
Zhang Zhushu saw Wei Qixuan's methods, and he dared to have any objection at this time, and immediately bowed and replied, "Yes, my lord."
"Master Wang, do you want to be idle, or Do you want to work?" Wei Qixuan asked.
Master Wang immediately knelt down and bowed, "I would like to serve the adults. From today, the adults are the next parents. The adults let the villains go east, but the villains never dare to go west. The adults tell the villains to catch chickens. "Little man..."
"Okay," Wei Qixuan interrupted, and said coldly, "You ask Master Zhang to send you as many people as you want. Within half a year, I want to see that people have cases and go to the government. Instead of the clan to solve it in private, or to find some Liang family."
Master Wang raised his head in astonishment, and saw Wei Qixuan's stern expression, he shuddered, and immediately bowed his head respectfully, "Yes, the villain obeys.
" There are not many things, and now that the spring ploughing has passed, there are basically not many major events.
In addition to taking people to check the water conservancy in Jiangyi County, Wei Qixuan also sent people to secretly investigate the existence of hidden fields, as well as the situation of rushing good fields into inferior fields in an attempt to evade taxes.
Jiangyi County has a developed water system. Several rivers pass through it. The water potential is relatively gentle and the water storage is sufficient. There has been no drought for many years.
However, after the exploration, some problems were found. For example, the Heti was only covered with light, but it has already been eaten by insects and ants. Once there is a flood, the people along the coast will suffer.
Therefore, the renovation of water conservancy is imminent, but the county government is very poor, and they have no money to repair the river, and they have no money to recruit people.
The county magistrate can issue documents to the people to serve corvée, but the yamen servants are already hard. If they can't guarantee food, they will starve to death.
Therefore, until you have money, the corvee cannot be opened.
I don't know where last year's taxes were paid. The entire county government couldn't even take out a hundred taels, and the warehouse was empty.
Wei Qixuan checked the account book, of course it wasn't that the previous county magistrate embezzled or made false accounts.
But in the entire county, half of the land belongs to the Liang family, 80% of the land does not need to pay tax, and it is also the tax paid by Bo Tian.
In the past, there was a business tax to support the daily expenses of the county government, but in the past three years, there was almost no business tax.
The reason is also very simple. 80% of the shops in the county are owned by the Liang family. They said that they did not make any money, and the ledger they handed over indeed showed that they were all trading at a loss.
The former magistrate was obviously incapable of arithmetic.
In terms of performance, the county magistrate has been in office for three years and has achieved nothing, except to ensure basic tax requirements, nothing else has been done.
Isn't this nonsense, what can you do without money?
Moreover, according to the previous situation of the county government, it is almost impossible for him to be a magistrate in Jiangyi County, right? There were people staring everywhere, wanting to do something, and Liang Tongzhi pressing him.
He doesn't have a backstage like Wei Qixuan, and his ability is a little bit worse, which is why he is in the current situation. The Liang family in Jiangyi County covered the sky with one hand, and even affected the promotion of officials.
If Wei Qixuan wants to make a difference in Jiangyi County, he must eradicate the Liang family.
He already has a plan.
Luo Shuang asked curiously, "What are you going to do? Gather evidence, bring down Liang Tongzhi, and then raid the Liang family?"
Wei Qixuan shook his head, "Liang Tongzhi is quite cautious, except for accepting offerings from the Liang family, he rarely accepts bribes. As for the Liang family, hehe, they are shrewd, and it is the yamen who do the bad things, and they get all the benefits."
For example, the yamen is forced to buy good farmland, and they buy it from the bitter master. After coming here, it will be sold to the Liang family.
In this way, although I paid a little more money, I pushed my sins away completely.
They are just normal business, how do they know where the fertile fields came from? Do I need to find out where I buy something?
No need, as long as the deed is there, right?
Besides, if the shop didn't pay tax, people have already leveled the account books and insisted that they didn't make any money. How can you help them?
Finally, there is one of the most important crimes of merchants - price gouging.
First of all, this is not a famine year, and secondly, the Liang family has also been very careful about this point.
In the end, only Yin Tian and Yi Yi were left with the crimes of the Liang family. With Liang Tongzhi, this was not a big crime. It might be the best thing to do, just make up some money.
But if there is no Liang Tongzhi, it will be up to Wei Qixuan.
Legally, there is no clear penalty standard for this. After all, different regions have different consequences, so it is difficult to quantify the standard.
For example, Jiangyi County, although there are many hidden fields, there are also many talented people in the territory. When the Liang family operates it, they say that it is their duty-free field. Then in recent years, Jiangyi County seems to be quite peaceful. The life of the people is difficult to write, but it can be passed. The consequences are not large, and the sentencing can be reduced again and again.
But if it was in a poor area, and it was a famine year, and the people were killed by the disaster, the sentence must be heavier, and the house raiding and exile would be lighter.
The ancient rule of man was so idealistic, it still looked at the ability of officials and the consequences of the incident.
Liang Tongzhi is indeed a very cautious person, and he melts caution into his bones.
Seeing that he had been a confidant in Yangzhou Prefecture for so many years, he did not bring the Liang family over, but made a fortune in this acre of land in Jiangyi County. Just know that here, the Liang family can do whatever they want, but in Yangzhou Mansion, he can't hold back even a little acquaintance.
It is very difficult for you to grasp the handle of such a person.
No matter what, Wei Qixuan is from outside, and he didn't have his own staff in Jiangnan before. No matter how capable his subordinates are, it is already the limit to find out here.
"So what are you going to do?" Luo Shuang asked.
Wei Qixuan smiled, "Do you remember Han Qi?"
"Naturally, it has something to do with her?" Luo Shuang asked curiously. The girl Han said she was going to the capital to sue the imperial court, but she didn't know what happened.
"My people followed her and found that she did not go to the capital after landing, but returned to Yangzhou Prefecture." Wei Qixuan said.
Luo Shuang's eyes lit up, this is a story!
Wei Qixuan nodded, and began to tell the news he got from Han Qi.
After Han Qi returned to Yangzhou in disguise, he went straight to the next tea stall at the city gate, and then followed the owner of the tea stall back home.
In the evening, they went to a house together, and they didn't show up again after that.
The servants squatted outside the house for four or five days, and found that the people who came in and out were all skilled people, followed by the people dressed as housekeepers, and finally came to the weaving office.
There are three major weaving offices in Jiangnan, respectively in Jiangning, Suzhou and Hangzhou, but there are also small weaving offices in other places.
This one in Yangzhou is inconspicuous. Mr. Li Yang Li was the emperor's guard. He had saved the emperor's life and was seriously injured because of it. After the emperor's reward, he was sent to Yangzhou to be a small weaver.
Everyone knows that this is for him to come here for retirement. Although it is not as good as the three major weaving, it is full of oil and water, and it is an excellent seat.
Sure enough, in the following twenty years, Mr. Li has not been promoted to an official position, and has been staying as an invisible person.
No one would have thought that he was actually the emperor's eyeliner in Yangzhou.
"Are you sure it's Xuanyiwei?" Luo Shuang asked.
"It can't be wrong." Wei Qixuan nodded slightly, his smile full of impetus.
Luo Shuang was slightly taken aback, "What do you want to do? Wait, you don't want to put yourself in the Xuanyi Guard, right? You can take it easy, if you are discovered..."
That would be a big deal !
"Then let Li Yang be the grasshopper on my rope before he is discovered." Wei Qixuan replied.
The tone of his voice, of course, is eye-catching.
Luo Shuang couldn't help holding her forehead, she knew you were crazy, but I didn't know you were so crazy!
"You are relying on yourself as the emperor's grandson. The old emperor feels guilty for the first prince, so he dares to do this because he won't do anything to you for the time being?" Luo Shuang complained.
Wei Qixuan shook his head and smiled, "Nonsense, I'm obviously relying on the power of the lady, knowing that the lady will make money to support me, and by the way help me to support my subordinates, I dare to be so crazy."
"Haha," Luo Shuang rolled her eyes. , I have never seen such a brazen person, "Tell me, what do you want to do? If there is no complete plan, I will not give the money." As soon as
I think of the money I haven't received, I have already arranged how to spend it. , She felt that the whole person was not well.
Moreover, the money was spent at an extraordinarily risky level. If one is not good, disaster is imminent!
Wei Qixuan is smart, he can calculate people's hearts, but you must know that people's hearts are also the most uncontrollable.
Some people have been loyal all their lives, but they may betray them because of a chicken feather, and some people have betrayed but their consciences are disturbed, and they finally turn against the tide again.
Such things abound in history.
"Didn't Han Qi want to repay us," Wei Qixuan said with a smile. "If that's the case, let's clean up Liang Tongzhi by the way."
Zhou Linshou has been able to do good fortune in Yangzhou for so long, not to mention that he is in harmony with the top and bottom, at least Most of Yangzhou's officialdom is his people.
Even if Liang Tongzhi did not join forces, he at least closed one eye.
What's more, he also quietly helped deal with some things, otherwise he wouldn't be able to stay in the position of mutual knowledge.
The woman Han Qi only hated Zhou Linsao on the surface, but she didn't have no hatred for other people in the Yangzhou officialdom.
From the contents of the ledger, we knew that most of the evidence in front was Zhou Linjie's crime, and a small part of the prefect was in the back. She wanted to catch it all in one go.
"As long as people give Han Qi a little guidance, let her know that Liang Tongzhi's blame is also involved in the tragedy of the Han family. Then she will naturally pull Liang Tongzhi off the horse." Wei Qixuan said.
Luo Shuang squinted at him, "Dirty politician."
Wei Qixuan laughed, "You don't need injustice, and you're not a good official. Once a lot of officials like this are captured, the seats will be vacated, and the more Those who have the ability will
go to the top." "Hehe, you can remember, the means are the means. If you eliminate dissidents in this way, you will also have to deduct the merit points. The better the official, the more merit points." Luo Shuang said.
Wei Qixuan patted her on the head lightly, "Just ask the lady to supervise it."
"Yes," Luo Shuang pointed at her eyes, "I'll keep an eye on you! Go ahead and report to Mrs. Ben, what are you going to do next? ?"
She always wanted to know where her money was going.
Hey, it's really hard to save money, especially after you fall in love with a prodigal!
"Use Han Qi to infiltrate the Xuanyiwei in Yangzhou, and then arrange for my people to enter by cleaning up Yangzhou's officialdom. When everything is settled, even if Li Yang does not cooperate with me, he will not dare to report what I have done. After all, Yangzhou can be punished by I have mastered it, and there is still a part of his credit in it." Wei Qixuan said with a smile. "After so many years of eating and drinking, is he really unaffected? Can he watch his family be let down by the emperor?"
"Afterwards, you can use him to find other Xuanyiwei in Jiangnan, and then let him They do things for you?" Luo Shuang asked.
Wei Qixuan said before that, if nothing else, there should be three emperors' eyeliners in Jiangnan, one is the Xue family in Jinling. His family is easy to guess. Decades ago, the head of the Xue family, the father of the current family head, was suddenly named Ziwei Sheren.
At that time, some people speculated that the Xue family was a royal businessman, and there was no credit on the surface. Why did he get the title when he was so good? Therefore, the discerning person felt that the Xue family must be helping the emperor in secret.
Wei Qixuan also thinks so, and the other place is Jiangsu. As the chief leader of the three major weaving companies in Jiangsu, he was a confidant sent by the emperor many years ago, and he has been favored over the years.
This is almost a nail on the bright side. Anyway, everyone in the official circle knows that the Sun family in Jiangsu is the emperor's.
In this way, the emperor's layout is really meticulous. On the bright side, the Sun family is collecting information. A half-revealed, hard-to-distinguish Xue family, a completely hidden, no one would have thought of Mr. Li Yang Li.
Mr. Li really hid it deeply. After so many years, Zhou Linshou had made a fortune in Yangzhou, and he couldn't bear it.
In such a situation, no one would suspect that he was the emperor's eyeliner, right?
But it's different now, the emperor is obviously going to do it, and that's why Li Yang arranged for someone to contact Han Qi.
Li Yang naturally has the evidence of Zhou Linshou's crimes in his hands, but as the deepest piece of chess in Jiangnan, he still has to hide his identity as Xuanyiwei.
Therefore, even Han Qi didn't know that his boss's boss was the inexistent Master Li Yang.
She just thought it was the imperial envoy sent by the emperor, who specialized in investigating the case.
I have to say that the common people's concept of imperial envoys probably comes from various operas and various versions of Bao Gong's case.
In order to find out the case, Bao Gong has been incommunicado again and again, and after finding evidence, he reappears to punish the bad guy!
Such a statement is very convincing to someone like Han Qi.
But Wei Qixuan, who was in the officialdom, knew that it was all nonsense.
Maybe it was because he believed too much in his secret ability, or he didn't look down on Han Qi's ability. Butler Li Yang didn't do more to hide when contacting them, which led them to be exposed to Wei Qixuan's eyes.
It's luck and strength.
Wei Qixuan was lucky to meet Han Qi who was running away on the way to his post. He was lucky enough to be followed by Han Qi, and there happened to be a subordinate who was good at tracking and hiding, so he was told to discover Xuan Yiwei's secret.
Wei Qixuan now wants to infiltrate the three Xuanyi guards little by little through the hands of the most secretive Li Yang, and through them, change the blood of Jiangnan officials and replace them with his own people.
This process is very difficult, and if you are not careful, you may lose the whole game.
Fortunately, he still has the identity of a grandson, and now is the time when the emperor feels the most guilt.
After listening to Wei Qixuan's series of plans and how he planned to do it, Luo Shuang just wanted to say. Ha ha, calculating people's hearts to such an extent, if you don't succeed, who will succeed?
If the infiltration plan has a chance of success, it can be increased to six points if Wei Qixuan operates it.
In that case, let's do it, who is afraid of it.
It's just her money!
When can you beat the Lin family?