This story is no funnier than the previous two, and the flaws in it are huge. However, most of the guests here are scholars, and what they are most willing to believe is that as long as they read the books of sages, power, money and beauties will all rush to them. Therefore, let’s start with a little
He was stunned, and then he smiled with a tacit understanding of "hehehe".
Xue Jingxian saw the performance of everyone in his eyes, and became more and more suspicious that everyone was sincerely trying to make things difficult for him. He snorted coldly and asked with a smile: "As a high-ranking scholar, you actually went to the home of a foreign merchant. I really read all the books.
It’s in the dog’s belly! Are those local officials blind? How could such a polite and sweeping thing be allowed to happen?”
"It's just a joke. It can't be taken seriously, it can't be taken seriously!" Zhao Wuyou didn't want to compete with this ignorant person, so he quickly waved his hands and explained himself.
However, Zheng Ang, the doctor in the civil service department, could not see how boring Xue Jingxian was, so he smiled and added coldly, "No matter how lenient the local officials are in the matter of marriage between men and women, there is no reason to interfere! Besides, people
If you pass the Jinshi exam, you don’t necessarily want to be an official. What’s the inconvenience of being a son-in-law? Maybe now the young couple is enjoying themselves painting eyebrows, and it’s none of the local officials’ business!”
This sentence is very practical. During Li Linfu's tenure as prime minister, he appointed people as relatives. There were many scholars who passed the Jinshi examination but could not fill the gap. Talents like Zhang Xun stayed in the capital for many years after being named on the gold medal list.
, if it hadn’t been for the help of the Qin family, maybe I would have continued to be on the waiting list for the rest of my life.
For those new scholars who have neither a backer nor a prominent personal reputation, marrying into a rich family should not be a bad ending. Although the personal future will be affected to some extent, at least the life-long events and the rest of the life will be affected.
His job is guaranteed. It's better than waiting hopelessly in a small inn year after year.
Xue Jingxian couldn't argue with Zheng Ang, but he was not willing to give in. His eyebrows twitched, and he used the topic to say: "Why is it none of other people's business? Since we are pastors and guardians for the emperor, we must fulfill our responsibility to educate the people. Business is a humble industry.
If you are a shepherd and guardian but sit back and watch him humiliate Gentleman, what is this if not dereliction of duty?!"
"Zhao said this is a joke and it can't be true. Mr. Xue, please stop pursuing it!" Zhao Wuyou smiled and cupped his hands, saying with a somewhat pleading tone.
"It's not that Xue is serious, but it involves the limits of being an official, so I have to argue with Dr. Zheng!" Xue Jingxian glanced secretly at Mrs. Guo Guo's seat and continued to be impassioned.
"Master Xue, are you going to teach us how to be an official?" Zheng Ang, a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, was furious and immediately retorted. "The position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel has just become vacant? With Mr. Xue's talents, I think he can give full play to his talents here!"
"
Xue Jingxian's face immediately turned red when he mentioned the gap in official positions. He was only a seventh-grade county magistrate, and his position was far from that of a minister. He was more than one step shorter than Zheng Ang, a fifth-grade doctor.
Level two. Just when he was about to scold the other party for using his official position to oppress others, he heard a slight cough from Mrs. Guo Guo, and then asked with a smile: "What are you adults arguing about? Why can't I understand even half of the sentence?"
!Weren’t we talking about poetry just now? How could we let the topic go so far?!”
Ah! Everyone secretly screamed in their hearts. They put away their anger and put smiles on their faces again. The man named Xue was a mad dog today. He would bite whoever he caught. It doesn't matter if everyone is fighting with him. If he kills the beauty,
If she was interested, she could go to Yang Xiang, who was being sued by her, or blow a few words into the emperor's ears, but no one could bear to walk away.
Jia Chang was still considerate and took over the conversation with a smile, and took the initiative to explain to everyone: "They are used to being busy on weekdays! So they accidentally got involved in government affairs. Most of the people who have just handed over their seals and come to Beijing to report on their duties,
We all have this problem, more or less. Once we rest in the capital for a few more days, we will slowly get better!"
"Oh!" Mrs. Guo Guo suddenly realized, her eyes flickering. "So, it seems that little girls are so rare. The same goes for their officials. How can they employ people like this? What should I do if they are exhausted?! We should give everyone half a year's leave.
It’s best to travel around and relax!”
Hey! Everyone gritted their teeth with hatred. They didn't dare to refute Mrs. Guo Guo's beauty and disaster, but they all turned their attention to Xue Jingxian, wishing to kill this heartless guy with their eyes on the spot. After half a year's vacation, didn't everyone get enough rest?
There are only a few fat boys that can be produced every year. If you take a half-year vacation, will the fat boys still get their turn when you come back?
Xue Jingxian also understood at this moment that he had accidentally become the target of public criticism, and he immediately regretted it. However, it was impossible for him to explain in public that he was not looking for a quarrel just now, but just to attract the attention of Mrs. Guo Guo, so he pretended to make shocking remarks. That's right.
In the embarrassment, he heard Jia Chang say with a smile: "How can that be done? Yang Xiang is starting to clean up the mess left by his predecessor. It is the time when people are needed. No matter how tired they are, they must get through this period of time!"
After hearing this, everyone immediately found their way to the foot of the steps, cupped their hands in the direction of the palace, and swore in agreement: "Exactly, exactly, what Mr. Jia said makes sense. How can you be too tired and bitter to serve your country!"
Mrs. Guo Guo smiled slightly, raised her wine cup and tasted it carefully, no longer dwelling on this boring topic. Seeing this, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and when they looked at Xue Jingxian, they became even more disgusted.
Seeing that the atmosphere that had just begun to improve at the banquet was about to be ruined again, Jia Chang had no choice but to find a happier topic to talk about. He told a few very interesting jokes one after another to dilute the unhappiness in everyone's hearts. Then he shook his head again.
, said with great joy: "Actually, Mr. Jia also has this problem. He never strays from officialdom. There is a joke recently about a certain county's powerful people. I wonder if you have heard of it?"
"Which one?"
"Tell me? Brother Jia, don't you want to whet people's appetite?"
The guests didn't want the banquet to end unhappily, so even if they weren't very interested, they responded one after another.
"It's quite interesting to talk about this. We have tolerant laws in the Tang Dynasty, so there are always one or two families in the local area who do some shady things with the help of big trees and deep roots! Sometimes when officials take office, they really take advantage of them.
It’s quite embarrassing! Leave it alone, I’m really ashamed of His Majesty’s teachings. Leave it alone, and pull out the radish with mud..."
"Yes!" The guests who had experience in serving as local officials nodded. What Jia Chang said was true in the lower-level official circles. Local officials in the Tang Dynasty were appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Personnel, and were usually not allowed to serve as officials in their place of origin. However,
Petty officials are not subject to this restriction. Therefore, in many local government offices, petty officials are often served by minions of big families, or have been bribed by big local families. They would like to sleep with the rich every night. However, when a new official arrives for the first time, his eyes are open.
Once you are in trouble, you have to rely on these subordinate officials. As a result, you often find that you have been ignored within a few days of taking office. Either the government orders cannot get out of the county government at all, or you have to work with the subordinate officials and become the leader of the local big households.
Shadow puppets. Even if there are individuals who want to serve the court wholeheartedly, their term of office is often up before they can change the situation in the struggle with local powerful people. They are either promoted or transferred to other places to serve as officials. The new successor
He will make the same mistakes as his predecessor again.
Mrs. Guo Guo was not too dissatisfied with learning about strange things in some places. Seeing that Jia Chang captured everyone's hearts with just a few words, she turned around with a smile and quietly waited for the other party's next words.
Picking up the wine cup in front of him and taking a sip, Jia Chang continued to say with a smile: "In this situation, many people are afraid of trouble and simply turn a blind eye. Anyway, those big business owners have their own sense of discretion in their actions and will not easily do it."
It went too far. But there is such a person who does not believe in evil. Only half a month after taking office, he dug up several old cases that the previous presidents had delayed again and again, and prepared to deal with them impartially! As a result, several local officials
The big bosses immediately gave up and colluded, preparing to give this person some color. Among them was a man named Huanan Jin, who was a tyrant in this area. He deliberately set up his horse not far from the gate of the county government to hurt people.
, and then wait calmly to see the county magistrate’s joke!”
Everyone here has encountered similar embarrassing things before. It is nothing more than finding someone to talk to, and both parties taking a step back. The new officials no longer care about the backlog of cases left by their predecessors, and the troublemakers also introduce a scapegoat who will go to jail for a few days.
.Then they took the opportunity to find out each other's limits and agreed not to cross paths from now on!
I don't want to, but there is no other way. If I want to catch the real culprit, the police officers are not willing to take action seriously. The county magistrate himself cannot carry a knife to chase a bully in the streets! And once a so-called "civil uprising" occurs
", when the superiors investigate, one comment of "unfavorable" will completely ruin your future!
As if he had guessed what everyone was thinking, Jia Chang smiled slightly and said proudly: "Who would have thought that the county magistrate was even more frightened than the bully? He immediately threw down the fire sign and asked his subordinates to take action within three days! Those!
Of course, the officers refused to agree and continued to blatantly sabotage their work in accordance with tradition. Unexpectedly, just one day later, Hua Nanjin, the bully who injured people on horseback, took the initiative to surrender to the county government. Not only did he admit his guilt, but he also committed several crimes before
Several cases that the county magistrate did not dare to handle, he also took the initiative to admit. The county magistrate immediately put him on death row and planned to report it to the Ministry of Punishment for execution in the future."
"Now, the local bigwigs are in disarray and are getting together again, preparing to go to the top to jointly accuse the new county magistrate of "falsely accusing a good person of being a thief." Who would have thought that the petition paper has just been written, and the ink has not yet dried.
There are already guards in that compartment holding chains to block the door!"
"Ah!" Not only Mrs. Guo Guo was curious, but all the guests who had been local officials were also dumbfounded. It is better to hope that the bully who has been running rampant will repent than to hope that the stone will bloom! And since those gang of officers are local powerful men.
How can you feed a well-fed 'house sparrow' and then immediately turn on someone and catch someone without any prior knowledge?
Could it be that the county magistrate has a huge backer behind him? But it is hard for a strong dragon to defeat a local snake. Who can have such a strong backer to make all the county officials change their minds at the same time?
"Those big people are wondering, they are all acquaintances, how can they fall out so easily!" As expected of a jester who can talk eloquently in front of the emperor, when Jia Chang tells stories, every sentence is just touching people's hearts.
"I immediately complained loudly that the government officials were unjust and threatened to expose the other party's background. No one could have an easy time. The government officials laughed bitterly for a few times, then pointed at their own faces and said, 'Do you still need to expose the enemy's background? We have already exposed the enemy's background.
Exposed!'"
"After hearing this, the big bosses took a closer look and found that almost all the government officials had bruises on their noses and faces. Several of the most respectable agents and squad leaders actually had their beards and eyebrows shaved, leaving their heads bare.
Like a big duck egg." Jia Chang paused and continued to tell with a smile, "It turns out that they were all blocked at home by a masked man last night. After cleaning up the mess, not only did they put themselves and the big family
The collusion was confessed, and even all the immoral things they had done in the past few years were done under the coercion of the other party."
"Ah! The masked man? Could it be that he is a knight?" The officials' eyes lit up again, and they shouted excitedly. As daily entertainment activities such as Pinghua became popular throughout the Tang Dynasty, stories about swordsmen also became the weeds after the rain.
It became so popular. Among them, the more influential story is the story of the Three Fengchen Heroes, which tampered with an important figure in the previous dynasty and turned him into a bearded guest. He also opposed Gaozu everywhere when the Tang Dynasty was founded, and was almost executed by the Queen of Autumn.
Li Jing, who had a big head, was elevated to the altar of the founding hero in one fell swoop.
However, the swordsman thing is too mythical after all. Everyone just hopes that it exists, but no one has seen it with their own eyes. When Jia Chang talked about it, they couldn't help but curiously asked, "Is he really a swordsman? That county
How did Ling get to know such a person? Does Brother Jia know where the incident happened? If I have a chance someday, I really want to see him!"
"Zhenyuan County. Have you really never heard of it? It has been spread all over the market recently!" Jia Chang glanced at everyone in surprise, his fair face full of innocence.
"True source?" Mrs. Guo Guo's eyebrows suddenly jumped, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at Jia Chang, but she didn't find any deliberate signs on his face. Her heart slowly started to beat wildly, and her cheeks were filled with the smell of alcohol.
Swelling up and slowly turning red. The true source, that is where Xiao Zhang Tanhua was changed to the county magistrate. He has the courage to do things and hates evil with hatred, which is also his consistent style. The masked hero should be Brother Lei. But Brother Lei
He clearly left more than half a year later than Zhang Xun. How could he help him teach those subordinate officials and local tyrants a lesson just after the latter took office?
Lei Wanchun, the figure that had faded away, instantly became clear in her mind. That angular face, that full beard, and those eyes that were always full of smiles. It was like a dot in the long winter night.
Candlelight illuminates all the coldness and filth.
That's where he should go. Standing with a sword in hand, happy with his grudges. If he stays in the capital, I'm afraid he will sink day by day and become a hopeless drunkard and a bad old man.
"I thought everyone had heard about it a long time ago!" With drunken eyes, Mrs. Guo Guo saw Jia Chang patting his chest and added with a smile, "I have been worried for a long time in vain. Of course it was the knights who took action. But not one, but a group of
.The county magistrate somehow got so lucky that he actually made a group of heroes to work for him. The villain Hua Nanjin hit his head on the iron plate. He thought he could teach the magistrate a lesson this time like before.
It can also be used as a basis for running wild in the countryside in the future. Unexpectedly, the government officials did not arrest him, but his village was destroyed by a few heroes that night. The whole family was tied up. If he refused to take the initiative to surrender to the county government
If you surrender, you will have to do justice to God!"
"At first, the government officials thought that Hua Nan Jin had other plans, and waited happily to watch the excitement. Unexpectedly, they did not realize the excitement, and they were all blamed. They had to bite the previous buyer in an attempt to atone for their sins.
The local powerful people were dumbfounded when they saw this battle. They couldn't escape, and they didn't have the guts to rebel. Fortunately, the county magistrate didn't want to drive them all out, but just took out all the old cases and brought them to justice.
Once verified, they will be slapped with the punishment, the fine should be fined, and the person who should be imprisoned will be ordered to have one person from his direct descendants and nephews to be jailed. The crime that should be beheaded will be dealt with in the same way. A series of case files will be sent to the Ministry of Punishment.
After verification, more than a dozen bloody heads were chopped off directly outside the west gate of the county last winter. Since then, the people of Zhenyuan County have been greatly improved, and no one dares to rely on family power to run rampant in the countryside."
'A group of knights? No wonder the Zhenyuan County Magistrate is so confident!' All the guests shook their heads and exclaimed. If they had changed places with each other, they would probably have to fight hard. After serving as an official, who doesn't want to be in the local government?
How about leaving a good reputation? It’s just that no one is as lucky as Magistrate Zhenyuan!
Only Mrs. Guo Guo slowly recovered from her intoxication, and stared at Jia Chang a few more times with her eyes like autumn water. Suddenly, she laughed softly, and for a moment she was filled with beauty.