Chapter 140 Female Ambush
Zhuge Gui naturally knew that he would be hated by others if he broke some official habits as soon as he took office. Some people have also advised him to be more decent and convenient with his colleagues, so that it will be easier for him to do things in the future.
But if we are not decent with these moths, then who will give the people a way to live under their rule? Over the years, he felt more and more that the officials and officials were worse than the others, and the gathering of remnants of the people was even worse.
Of course he knew that the root cause was to sell officials in the West Garden of the country. Those who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a prefect, no one would come back with more money after taking office.
For example, when he went to Feixian County on business this time, the essence was just like this.
Feixian County is located on the passage between Mengshan Mountain and Nishan Mountain. It can be said that the most important passage from Yanzhou to Xuzhou is this Nimeng Road. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Ji family, a senior official in the Lu State, was entrusted here. Therefore, the valley here was wide and important, and the Ji family became one of the few senior officials in the Lu State.
Because the geography of Feixian County is so important, it can be said that it controls Yanxu's throat, so there is a permanent camp of 500 soldiers stationed here. But a few days ago, the soldiers in this camp began to mutiny over pay, and the prefect Zhang Ju sent him to Fei County to deal with the matter.
Basically no one is willing to do this. Those old revolutionaries who are owed wages will really lose their lives if they go crazy. Zhuge Gui also knew the eunuch's motive for letting him go. He did not please the prefect, so this life-consuming matter naturally fell on him.
But Zhuge Gui was not resentful and still took his old ox cart to Fei County to investigate.
The results of the investigation came out quickly. The former County Magistrate Fei left office and directly used the 500,000 yuan of military pay in the treasury, only to offset some bad things in the treasury.
Taishan County knew about this at that time, because in previous years they would have money to buy some cloth, silk and corn, which could be regarded as stabilizing prices. But the bad thing is that when the materials were put into the warehouse, no one came to check the quality of the materials.
In the spring of this year, the newly arrived Magistrate Fei distributed millet and silk to the camp troops as usual to celebrate the New Year. The soldiers who had come to receive their pay happily were furious when they received these rotten grains and broken grains. At that time, they made a noise and surrounded the Feixian County Office.
The rebels are clamoring, and if they don't pay the salary, County Magistrate Fei won't be able to leave either.
To be honest, the rebels have reason to be angry. During this period, several counties near Mount Tai have been suffering from disasters, and their families are waiting for them to take millet back. If you don't have millet, you will definitely die, but if you rebel, you may not die. Then these soldiers will definitely mutiny and fight for pay.
County Magistrate Fei is an upright person, and he refuses to acknowledge the debt to his death. It's not that he is upright, but that he is unconvinced. Why should he settle the debt with his predecessor? At that time, he told these rebels that you should go after whoever deceives you.
Then he was beaten by the soldiers, stripped naked and fell on the bamboo pole. Seeing that the matter was getting serious, the county clerk had no choice but to ask the county officials to report to Taishan County.
So Zhuge Gui came.
After Zhuge Gui arrived and found out the whole story, he immediately wrote a memorial to impeach the former Magistrate Fei, now Magistrate Mou. Not only must he hand over the embezzled 500,000 yuan, but he must also be punished according to law.
As for the camp soldiers who couldn't bear it, Zhuge Gui used Fei County's official land as compensation. He first borrowed 500,000 yuan from several powerful men in Fei County and distributed it to the camp soldiers first. This is what Zhuge Gui thinks. When the time comes, the five hundred thousand dollars will be recovered from the former County Magistrate Fei and returned to these powerful people, and the matter will be considered complete.
The soldiers saw that the official who came here really thought about them, so it was not difficult for Magistrate Fei to send him back with courtesy. Afterwards, Zhuge Gui returned to Fenggao and wanted to report to the county governor to take over the current magistrate Mou.
But what Zhuge Gui didn't know was that as soon as he left, several powerful men from Fei County who had lent him money gathered at the Chen family's residence in Fei County to discuss the money.
The Chen family of Feixian County is a well-deserved right-wing man in Feixian County, because the ancestor of his family is Chen He, the former Han Dynasty Marquis of Fei.
When Emperor Gaozu conquered the world, he relied on the support of his old brothers. And these old brothers were divided into several circles. The innermost circle is naturally the hometown of great ancestor Liu Bang, the Fengpei martial arts group. And in the outer circle is the Mangdang Wuren Group.
After Liu Bang left his hometown, his first battle was to attack Mang and Dang counties. He expanded his troops here by 6,000, which was twice the original strength. A wave of future feudal lords’ meritorious deeds emerged here, so they were also called the Mangdang Warrior Group. Chen He, the ancestor of the Chen family, is one of them.
Although the Chen family in Feixian County no longer has the princely style of the past, it is still the most vocal power in Feixian County. This time Zhuge Gui was able to borrow money from Feixian County, and the head of the Chen family, Chen Subaru, played a decisive role in it. .
This time several other powerful people came to Chen's residence to celebrate. Because they had made huge profits from this loan, they all came to Chen's residence to have a drink.
While they were drinking and drinking, the head of the Chen family, Chen Subaru, couldn't help but said proudly:
"Do you think we are making just that small profit from lending? To be honest with you guys, this time we made at least three times the profit."
As he said that, he couldn't help but pour himself another glass and drink it to the full.
His words stirred up a stir, and several people sitting there stopped drinking, wondering what he meant. Some of the anxious ones even scratched their heads and wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.
Chen Subaru said:
"Do you really think that former County Magistrate Fei can pay half a million yuan?"
One of the powerful family heads, stroking his beard, analyzed:
"In the years that County Magistrate Fei has been in office, as far as I know, he has spent no less than 700,000 yuan. This 500,000 yuan is more than enough. It was also because of this information that I and my brothers lent it to Zhuge Jun. ”
Chen Subaru scoffed: "You are also an honest person. What he gets is his, right? Does he not want the one above? Then again, let alone whether he has it or not, even if he has it, he will probably not pay the money. You think about it, how could the prince of the government expose the mutiny of the soldiers in Feixian County? He was trying hard to enter the court. If this happened, why would he be able to keep the ribbon on his waist? That’s amazing.”
As soon as these words came out, several powerful men below panicked, and one of them said with a trembling voice:
"Then the money we borrowed was wasted?"
Chen Subaru laughed:
"You forgot, when Zhuge wanted to borrow money, why did I have to use the official land in Feixian County as collateral? It's because of this crop. The twenty or so hectares of official land in Fei County are all high-quality mature land. That Zhuge Gui is not familiar with general affairs, so he will do this. Don’t worry, even if you only give us half of this land, we will make five times the profit.”
"Gao, Chen Jun is really tall."
In this way, the powerful men of Feixian County made a good deal here, and Zhuge Gui also told Zhang Ju, the governor of Taishan County, about Feixian County.
Zhang Ju had a headache. He swayed back and forth in the hall, then clapped his hands, saying that he knew what had happened, and asked Zhuge Gui to go back first. Zhuge Gui had no choice but to bow and retreat.
As soon as Zhuge Gui left, Zhang Ju called over his own secretary, Bian Wei.
Bian Wei was originally from Chenliu, Yanzhou. His grandfather lived in Fenggao, Mount Tai, for a generation. After that, Bian Wei's father's family left the property in Fenggao and did not follow him back.
Bian Wei was a man of many letters and good at rhetoric. As soon as Zhang Ju came to Taishan to be the prefect, he appointed him as the recorder of the history of the office, and he was responsible for writing and exhorting the secretary. Generally, those who hold this position are confidential dignitaries of the chief officer. Some documents, exchanges, and secret plans all passed through the hands of these recordkeepers. It can be said that the master's family was both prosperous and devastated.
As Zhang Ju's chief secret confidant, Bian Wei had done well in some personal matters he had done before, so Zhang Ju gradually regarded Bian Wei as his confidant. This time, he was called here to do something that was difficult for him to do.
After Bian Wei got the order, he dropped what he was doing and hurried over. As soon as he came, Zhang Ju asked him to come over and told him to do this and that.
Bian Wei thought for a moment and ordered to go.
While walking on the road, Bian Wei was also speculating on the meaning of the initiative.
What Zhang Ju asked him to do was not complicated. He just asked him to reconcile with the county magistrate Zhuge Gui to see if this matter could be handled by the county.
The former head of Fei County will pay 200,000 yuan for military pay of 500,000 yuan, and then another 200,000 yuan will be deposited in the treasury of Fei County. This money can be folded and spread to the annual account to make it a little smoother. There is another 100,000 dollars, 50,000 dollars will be paid by the county meritor who promoted the former County Magistrate Fei at that time, and the remaining 50,000 dollars will be contributed by the current County Magistrate Fei, who asked him not to check the warehouse when handing over.
Although Bian Wei was not young, he had already been deeply immersed in these official affairs, otherwise he would not have been able to write a history record for a prefect. The former county magistrate paid the 500,000 yuan directly. Why should we divide it?
It is because of these 500,000 yuan that County Magistrate Fei himself received 200,000 yuan, and the remaining 300,000 yuan, the county meritorious officer received 100,000 yuan, and his pioneering proposal received 200,000 yuan.
He understood what Zhang Ju meant, that is, he wanted to make this matter a big deal, but he didn't want to spend a penny.
On the other hand, why should he be the intermediary in this matter instead of Zhang Ju directly talking to Zhuge Gui? This is the knowledge of being an official.
This has two advantages. One is that it does not miss the mark. It was through Bian Wei that Zhang Ju came to know that these people could not be brought to the stage, so Zhang Ju was not involved in this matter. If Zhuge Gui makes his debut in the future, it can only be blamed on Bian Wei. This is the Shangguan way of being an official.
Everything is the discretion of the person below, I don’t know.
Since Bian Wei knows the sinister nature of this, doesn't he feel resentful? Naturally, he doesn't complain, that's what he does, and he should have the consciousness to cushion the knife edge for the officer.
As for the second advantage, it is that doing so can preserve the dignity of Zhang Ju and Zhuge Gui.
If you tell it directly, then it will be done. If Zhuge Gui disagrees, it will make the scene ugly. One of them is the magistrate of Taishan County, the other is the magistrate of Taishan County, with a rank of two thousand dan, and the other is the magistrate of Taishan County, with a rank of 600 dan. It is not good to make it look too ugly.
Although privately the prefect Zhang Ju felt very wrong and sent him to Ge Gui, there were both incompatibility between the two and institutional reasons. In the Han system, most of the officials in a county were recruited by the prefect, but only the county magistrate was appointed by the central government. How could this be in the same pot as the prefect. But then again, generally ambitious people would rather be a county magistrate than a county magistrate. The county magistrate is to make people bigger, which is called Xiong Fei, and the county magistrate is to make others smaller, which is called female subjugation.
A real man, An Neng can hide in love!
But Zhuge Gui is not a master who is willing to be submissive, so this matter is not easy to handle. It was with such anxiety that Bian Wei came to Zhuge Gui's office.
Looking at the previous chapter, has no one discovered who Zhuge Gui is?
(End of chapter)