Peng Huizu, forty-one years old, was from Heyang, Tongzhou, Guanzhong.
It is said that he is a descendant of Peng Zu, who lost forty-nine wives and fifty-four sons.
His father was a gambler and sold Peng Huizu as a servant six times. Each time, Peng Huizu could be found at home and begged his father not to sell him again... As a result, his gambler father sold him for six times.
He was proud of it and often praised Peng Huizu as a smart boy who could run back by himself.
The reason why it was only sold six times was because when I sold it for the seventh time, I was unlucky and met the second buyer. They broke Peng Huizu Aye's legs, and he wailed for two days.
, and died of pain.
After that, Peng Huizu became a boy servant of the family that bought him for the second time, specializing in serving the elderly in the family. Later, because of his diligence, good looks, and strong strength, he won the favor of his master. In his spare time, the master also
Teaching Peng Huizu how to read and write.
Before his death, the old master did not mention Peng Huizu's identity as a husband, but also made up for Peng Huizu's academic status at the county school and sent him to the county school, thereby erasing his status as a slave.
Twenty years later, Peng Huizu won the first place in one fell swoop.
He has always believed that as a human being, one must abide by one's duties and respect superiors and inferiors. This is the basic order of society. Slaves must have the consciousness of slaves, and farmers must have the consciousness of farmers. Only when all four people are in their proper place can order be achieved.
will be stable.
Just like these runaway slaves in front of them, they don't think about how to serve their master well. After gaining the master's favor, they can obtain freedom through formal channels, and then get the high position they want like him.
Those who do not obey the rules are untouchables, the real untouchables, because they cannot even do the basic duty of observing order, and they only want to escape and use the power of the Tang princess in front of them to gain freedom.
It's not okay to do this. They can't do things that break the rules.
In his opinion, running away from one's master is the greatest damage to order, especially since there are many people in this group who have fled due to adultery, and there are quite a lot of them. These people are even more despicable than bandits who kill people and steal goods.
Therefore, he planned to send these fugitive slaves who fled to Leize County back or kill them on the spot, which was very in line with the spirit of the law of the Tang Dynasty.
Before sending these escaped slaves back or executing them, Peng Huizu planned to teach them some lessons.
Wen Wen stood at the door of the yamen with his hands behind his back, watching Peng Huizu deal with the escaped slaves, especially after he saw Peng Huizu ordering the fingers of a maid who had fled for adultery to be cut off with a clamp and the legs of the maid's lover broken.
I think this Peng Huizu deserves to die.
"Go and burn the county government office."
Wen Wenwen gave the order without looking back, and within a moment, fireworks were erupting from the house behind the county government office.
When Peng Huizu heard that there was a fire in the back hall, he stopped trying the case and ordered the pair of escaped slaves who had passed out to be tied up at the gate of the county government office. They hurried to put out the fire.
Since the fire was lit by Wen Wen's order, it would not be easily extinguished. Before Peng Huizu and the others could put out the fire in the back house, the Yamen in front was on fire.
Naturally, it was impossible to save the fire by playing hide-and-seek. When it got dark, Peng Huizu had no choice but to give up fighting the fire and watched helplessly as the Leize County Government Office was burned to ashes by the fire.
Only when there is a county government can there be county magistrates. Without a county government, there can be no county magistrates. This logic was established during the Tang Dynasty, and Wen Wen, who has been a county magistrate for so many years, naturally knows the three flavors.
Generally speaking, a county government office is composed of a court hall, a middle hall, and a back hall. The court hall is used to try cases, the middle hall is used to handle official business, and the back hall is used to house the county magistrate and his family.
Leize County is a small county, and the government offices and prisons are integrated with the county government office. Therefore, if Wen Wenwen burns the county government office, it is equivalent to burning the management foundation of Leize County.
Wen Wen needs time to bypass the county magistrate and deal with the mess left by Li Si as soon as possible. Once these escaped slaves enter the village and obtain official status, it is basically like a fish entering the sea.
In the Tang Dynasty, even if the county magistrate wanted to accomplish something, he had to go through the village chiefs one by one to accomplish it. Imperial power never went to the countryside!
The imperial power did not go to the countryside. This was not so much a phenomenon as a compromise made out of desperation, because the imperial court did not have so much money and food to support the huge number of rural officials.
In the Tang Dynasty, there are eleven prime ministers, 137 ministers, 688 ministers, 1,953 fourth-rank officials, and 1,953 fifth-rank officials.
There are tens of thousands of officials, more than 40,000 sixth-grade officials, more than 80,000 seventh-grade officials, and countless officials receiving imperial salaries. If we add in the even larger number of rural officials, there were originally 3,500 people in the Tang Dynasty.
The ratio of supplying one official will suddenly increase to two thousand people supporting one manager.
This kind of support ratio is not a big problem in Chang'an, but there is only one Chang'an in the entire Tang Dynasty, and the tax collected by most states and counties in a year is not even more than the tax collected by one Jinchangfang in a year.
This is the current situation of Datang.
Of course, the Tang Dynasty also had some governance actions in the countryside, but generally it chose talented people to carry out the tasks instead.
These two talented people refer to people who have money and talents.
In other words, the governance of the countryside has always been implemented by wealthy households and landowners instead of the dynasty.
Even if you are tracking down a fugitive, once you get to the village level, if the head of the family or the village head says that this person is not found, then it means that this person is really not found.
Yun Chu has always believed that the countryside of the Tang Dynasty should make great achievements. He himself has grown from being the head of Jinchangfang to Guangmingli to reach his current position step by step.
No one knows better than Yunchu how powerful the li chief is. Once the business is well done, it will be easy to make the countryside business prosperous through clan or interests. When the time comes, the li chief will not live by looking at the face of the county magistrate.
It should be that the county magistrate was overjoyed by the strong man's face.
The imprisoned runaway slaves were taken by the village chiefs who had been contaminated by Li Si and settled down after changing their names.
Peng Huizu was busy looking for people to build the county government.
As for the fugitive slaves who had escaped without a trace, he couldn't take care of them at this time.
For a new county magistrate in Leize County, where there is no one and no money, trying to get a county government office for nothing is as difficult as an unknown monk carrying an alms bowl and asking for alms everywhere in the hope of building a large temple.
Just when Peng Huizu was in the most difficult time, Angel Jia Chunyan came to Leize County after inspecting Linpu County.
In Juancheng, Jia Chunyan was full of praise for the newly appointed local magistrate. He believed that this magistrate, who had just taken office, could quickly calm down the chaos in which the previous magistrate was killed and officials were arrested, and quickly put the governance of Juancheng County under control.
He is a man of political integrity and a rare talent.
In Linpu County, although Jia Chunyan pointed out many problems, he believed that the problems here were caused by the excessive involvement of the government soldiers in hunting down the previous county magistrate and officials. The county magistrate of Linpu County
, it is already rare to maintain a seemingly peaceful county. I believe that as long as the county magistrate is given another three months, he will be able to return a happy and peaceful Linpu County to His Majesty.
Even Leize County is a little worse, not a little worse, but a lot worse. Not only did civil unrest occur here, but also a serious incident occurred where people set the county government office on fire in a rage, resulting in prisoners in the county government prison.
Dispersed in a hurry.
Seeing the county magistrate Peng Huizu being accused by thousands of people in Leize County who were bought by Li Si with money and land, Jia Chunyan killed Peng Huizu in front of the people of the county in order to calm down the anger of the people. For this reason, the angel Jia Chunyan also received
Wrote a letter to all peoples.
In this book, Peng Huizu, who had been in Leize County for less than twenty days, committed so many crimes that it is difficult to describe them. Fortunately, an angel arrived in time and saved the people of Leize County from the fire and water.
Jia Chunyan didn't understand why Yunchu would do this. It was obvious that things in Leize County should be small but big, so why did Yunchu act in such a big way?
Even if Peng Huizu is a born evil person, he has only been in Leize County for twenty days. How could he commit so many crimes? This Book of Ten Thousand People does not look like a letter of commendation, but more like a letter of commendation.
Proof of guilt.
Jia Chunyan told Yunchu that this was inappropriate, but Yunchu still insisted on his opinion and refused to change it. In desperation, Jia Chunyan took this book of people back to Jiyang City, where the emperor was stationed.
This time, Yun Chu bet that the emperor still couldn't see clearly and couldn't understand the far-reaching significance of what he did in Leize County by accepting escaped slaves.
After Li Zhi read the book of the people submitted by Jia Chunyan, he asked Jia Chunyan in confusion: "Was Peng Huizu's death unjust?"
Jia Chunyan looked at his nose and nose and calmly replied: "Unjustly accused."
Li Zhi added: "It seems that the crimes mentioned in the Book of Ten Thousand People are also false?"
Jia Chun said: "More than 80% of it is nonsense."
Li Zhi moved his buttocks on the chair, leaned closer to Jia Chunyan and said, "In this case, why did you kill Peng Huizu unjustly?"
Jia Chunyan sighed and said, "When the people's resentment is boiling, the first thing I have to do is to appease the place for Your Majesty and eliminate the grievances between the government and the local people. At this time, there must be no chaos in Caozhou."
On the other hand, His Majesty's purpose in sending Peng Huizu to Leize County was to quickly quell the local chaos caused by the murder of the previous county magistrate and the capture of officials, rather than sending him to continue to cause trouble in Leize County.
Damn it, as long as he can calm the place and appease the people, the rest can be taken care of later.
It seems that he is a mediocre and weak official who cannot help His Majesty to solve his problems. The only use he has left is to use his head to quell the people's grievances."
Li Zhi asked: "Could this matter be related to Yun Chu?"
Jia Chunyan looked around, then lowered his voice and said, "It has nothing to do with Yun Chu, but everything to do with Princess An Ding."
"What's the reason?"
"Princess Anding is not only selling food at low prices in Leize County, she also wants to deploy some land in Leize County to plant new seeds and crops grown by Donggong. I heard that one of them can make a lot of money."
Li Zhi said gloomily: "What crops can make a lot of money?"
Jia Chunyan said in a deep voice: "Caozhou Peony."
Li Zhi slapped the table with a heavy hand and said: "What a waste of money. The farmland in Leize County is not fertile. There is insufficient food every year. If we don't grow food, what does she want to do with peonies?"
Jia Chunyan sighed and said: "When I passed the Yunchu military camp and returned to Jiyang, I once asked Princess Anding. Princess Anding said: Just because the food produced in the fields is not enough to eat, it is not as cost-effective to plant peonies. As long as the peonies are planted
After coming out, the money exchanged is enough for the people of Leize County to buy food in other places..."
Li Zhi trembled with his hands and roared: "What if no one cares about the peonies I planted?"
Seeing that the emperor was so angry, Jia Chunyan hurriedly said: "Princess An Ding said that she will accept them all. Not only do she want peonies in pots, but she also wants peony roots to be used as medicine, and peony seeds to cultivate new peonies in other places... As long as they are cultivated
When a new variety of peonies comes out, she can sell hundreds of peonies."