"Who."
As soon as Meng Changqing and his party arrived at the gate of the county government office, they were stopped by the government officials. Bafang stepped forward to identify himself, "This is the magistrate of Beishan County. I have something to do with you. Please tell me."
"Beishan...please wait a moment, sir." The yamen servant retreated to the door and talked with the people inside for a while. Meng Changqing saw the people inside the door going to the yamen.
She turned over and dismounted and waited at the side door for two-quarters of an hour before the person who went to report came out slowly, "Sir, my lord is busy with official duties. I'm afraid it won't be convenient to see you today. Please come back later."
Meng Changqing grabbed Bafang, who wanted to speak, and stepped forward and said: "I have no personal relationship with your master. I came to see him today for official business. Please tell me again. If Mr. Wei insists on not seeing you, then I can only ask He went to the magistrate’s house to gather together.”
The person who announced the report retreated back into the office, and after another quarter of an hour, the man came out again, "Mr. Meng, please come in."
"Lead the way."
Meng Changqing and his party followed them inside, but before they had gone a few steps, the messenger who reported the news said again: "Mr. Meng, I would like to ask the rest of the people not to enter the important place of the yamen."
"Okay." Meng Changqing turned around and said, "You all stay here, Mr. Bai will go in with me."
The yamen servant looked at Chu Mufeng secretly, "Who is this Master Bai?"
Meng Changqing: "The Royal Forest Army guards are following orders and are not just idle people."
"Yes." The yamen servant only heard the word Yulinjun and did not dare to offend him, so he led them into a reception room.
"Please ask the two adults to wait here. My adults will come over after finishing their work."
When Meng Changqing saw the yamen officer exiting, he directly put together a few chairs and lay down to sleep.
"Mr. Meng." Chu Mufeng was surprised, "What are you doing?"
"We have to wait. Mr. Bai, look there is a row of chairs over there. You should also take a nap."
"Master Meng..." Chu Mufeng shook his head, "Forget it, you can rest."
Meng Changqing arrived at the Weishan County government office just in time for lunch. There was no hope for lunch, so he should just take a lunch break.
Sure enough, when she woke up from her sleep, Cao Hongxing's official duties were not finished yet. In the room, only Chu Mufeng stared outside and took a few steps from time to time.
"I told you to take a nap." Meng Changqing got up and moved his body, then took out the shortbread he brought with him and ate it, "Mr. Chu, if you have any dried meat on you, I will exchange the shortbread for you."
Chu Mufeng took off the cloth bag from his waist, sat next to Meng Changqing, and ate some cakes and dried meat.
"I think you have offended Mr. Cao before, and he deliberately made things difficult for you." Chu Mufeng said, "If you want to get rid of the population from here, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky."
"No." Meng Changqing gathered the scraps of oil paper together and ate them.
It was not until midnight, that is, after three o'clock in the afternoon, that Cao Hongxing, who had been busy with official duties, finally appeared.
"Mr. Meng, oh, and this Mr. Bai." He stood at the door and said hello reluctantly, "I'm really sorry to have kept you two waiting for so long. It's really because you two didn't inform me in advance that I took this opportunity. Don’t open your body.”
"It doesn't matter." Meng Changqing said with a smile: "There are only a few people in my county, so there is nothing to do. I can afford to wait for even two days, let alone more than two hours."
Cao Hongxing sneered, lifted his robe slightly and walked in.
"I wonder why Mr. Meng is looking for me?" Cao Hongxing pretended not to know, sat down on the main seat, picked up the teapot at hand, and realized that there was not a drop of tea in it. He then cursed outside: "What are you doing? Yes, Mr. Meng doesn’t know how to refill tea at any time here, so what’s the use of you!”
He cursed loudly, and the yamen servant outside also pretended to be obedient, and immediately brought hot tea and put it in the hands of the three of them.
Meng Changqing waited, waiting for the yamen servant to finish serving the tea and exit, and then waited for Cao Hongxing to pick up the tea cup and drink half of it slowly. She never spoke.
I've been waiting for two hours and don't care about it.
In terms of patience and yin and yang energy, Cao Hongxing was no match for Meng Changqing, who had experienced it in the palace.
"Mr. Meng, you have been sitting here until now. If you have something to say, just tell me."
Meng Changqing said kindly: "On the 25th, Mr. Wei made a special trip to my Beishan County and told me that there is a village in your Weishan County. The place is not suitable for farming and the people's life is difficult. They want to move to our Beishan County. I I haven’t seen anyone since I’ve been waiting until today, so I came to ask.”
"So it's because of this." Cao Hongxing picked up the tea cup and put it down again when he saw that the tea in it was almost empty. "Mr. Meng has not done any scientific examination, so I don't know how much you know about officialdom."
Meng Changqing looked at him, waiting for him to speak.
Cao Hongxing continued: "Do you know how many people there are in that village? If I gave those people to you, what would be the result of my evaluation at the end of this year?
I know there are few people in Beishan County, but you are really too willful to ask me for people directly. This is officialdom, not a play between you children. ”
After he finished speaking, it was Meng Changqing's turn to pick up the tea cup, "It turns out that Mr. Cao thinks that Mr. Wei is playing tricks on you, so you must have coaxed Mr. Wei into doing this before."
Cao Hongxing was a little angry, "You don't want to involve Mr. Wei in everything."
"It's Chang Qing who was rude." After she finished speaking, she stood up and apologized to Cao Hongxing, "Master Cao, I was young and frivolous and didn't know the etiquette, and I offended you. I hope you won't blame me.
As you can see, I have not passed the scientific examination, and my words are inevitably a bit vulgar. Again, please forgive me. ”
After Meng Changqing finished his confession, he didn't wait for the other party's reaction, and then said: "Talking about the relocation to the village, I was also surprised when Mr. Wei told me about it. As you said, this matter is related to your political achievements after all.
At that time, I asked Lord Wei, why would Lord Cao agree to such a thing?
Mr. Futai only said one sentence..."
As expected, Cao Hongxing pricked up his ears and waited.
Meng Changqing paused for a moment before saying, "What he said about you is for the sake of the people."
Cao Hongxing took a breath and held it.
"Meng Changqing." Cao Hongxing said: "I also looked down on you in the past, thinking that you came to the official position cheaply, and you didn't have much ability yourself.
Since the Beishan County City Wall was built, I have had some changes in my view of you.
No matter whether you have real talent or not, you have accomplished something big, and your trip to Liangzhou has not been in vain.
I heard that you personally went into battle to kill the enemy that day. I respect your bloodshed.
In this case, I won’t beat around the bush with you.
Mr. Wei agreed to move the village, and so did I, but the people living in that area may not be willing to go to your Beishan County.
No matter how bad it is to be next to the red sand dead land, it is still their hometown, the place where their ancestors lived.
Your Beishan County was a battlefield before, with graves everywhere. It sounded scary to people, and they were unwilling to go there.
The people here are different from the refugees in your Beishan County. They are all farmers with their own responsibilities, and we cannot treat them the same way we treat prisoners.
They don't want to leave, and it's hard for me to chase them away. "(End of Chapter)