In total, Governor Guo has seven counties under his control, but except for Yidu County, the people's livelihood in other counties is somewhat poor;
Moreover, except for Yidu County, the county magistrates from other counties were successively sent last year and this year.
Governor Guo had just arrived. Although he had officially taken over the governor's office, because Magistrate Lu had managed the governor's office for half a year, he had good relations with the chief historian and Sima of the governor's office, not to mention the junior officials below.
Sometimes it would take about two days to get things done from Governor Guo, but if Magistrate Lu had something to do, he could just say it and it could be done on the same day.
Therefore, Governor Guo urgently needed to raise a county to compete with Yidu County.
He originally preferred Qiancheng County, but because of Bai Shan and Zhou Man's presence, he now prefers Beihai County.
Beihai County is not far from Qingzhou City. The most important thing is that they are relatives!
Relatives should help each other.
Bai Shan also believed that they should help each other. Not only could he help Guo Governor integrate into Qingzhou faster and make political achievements for him, but he would also try to ease the conflict between him and Magistrate Lu.
Magistrate Lu sat aside and watched his ally chatting happily with Governor Guo, feeling very complicated in his heart.
After afternoon tea, Governor Guo led everyone back to the Governor's Mansion. He first asked the county magistrates to rest for a while, but invited Bai Shan and Zhou Man to talk in the study.
What made Governor Guo very satisfied was that after a serious incident such as bandit robbery occurred in Beihai County, Bai Shan informed him immediately and asked him for help.
This allowed Governor Guo to participate in county governance, which made him very satisfied.
This time Governor Guo called him to discuss this matter.
The county magistrates who were taken down to rest looked at each other and gathered together in the courtyard to talk.
Seeing that the servants had served tea and then retreated, they couldn't help but relax a little. They quietly glanced at Magistrate Lu and said, "I heard that a group of bandits came out of Beihai County and robbed the village, and many people died.
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"I've also heard that the fuss about the matter has spread to our county. Because County Magistrate Bai is open to hearing the case, some scribes from our county have recently gone to Beihai County to watch the fun... Oh, no,
It’s time for the court hearing.”
Another county magistrate went to look at Magistrate Lu, "Magistrate Bai, is this considered a merit or a demerit? Although the bandits were wiped out, there was such a serious banditry problem under his rule..."
He didn't finish his words, but his meaning was obvious.
County Magistrate Lu finally put down the tea cup in his hand and said with some guilt: "The bandits appeared when I was in office, and even the robbery incident happened when I was in office. If I want to say that I have neglected my duty, it is because of me, and
Magistrate Bai has nothing to do with it."
Several other county magistrates looked at each other, but they didn't expect Magistrate Lu to admit it so readily. By the way, Governor Guo thinks so highly of Bai Shan, do you really not want to struggle anymore?
Is it really okay to just admit defeat?
Governor Guo was also discussing with Bai Shan about Magistrate Lu's dereliction of duty at this time.
Bai Shandao: "It is true that Magistrate Lu has neglected his duties, but he cannot be entirely blamed for this matter."
He said: "The first time they robbed Xiaoliu Village was in September last year. At that time, only a few houses were damaged. Because no one was hurt and only some property was lost, the village chief only reported it to Li Zheng."
"At that time, it happened to be the Li Zheng selection held every three years, but he did not report it out of selfish motives," said Bai Shandao: "The second time, that is, the time when a person died was before the Chinese New Year. At that time, County Magistrate Lu had been transferred to Yidu.
County, Beihai County, where Fang County Cheng and Dong County Lieutenant were acting as government officials. Jia Lizheng discovered that the villagers under his rule had formed a gang to rob the village, and because Jia Dalang and others were from the same clan, he helped to hide it.
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The case is now very clear. Jia Dalang is lazy and wanders around the countryside. He also likes to gamble.
He lost a lot of money last year, but he still wanted to save face and spent a lot of money. The first robbery of Xiaoliu Village was an accident. At that time, he was short of money, so he asked a few people who were good at hunting to go hunting in the mountains.
, I want to catch some game to sell in the county town.
As a result, they didn't catch any game, and they actually followed the mountain to Xiaoliu Village on the other side.
There has always been only one road leading outside Xiaoliu Village, and the road they took was so messy that it couldn't be called a road at all.
But I saw that the village below was quiet and peaceful, and the air seemed to be filled with the scent of wheat just after dinner.
Jia Dalang, who had been hungry for almost a day, became evil and hid in the mountains with his people for half the night. When it was completely dark and everyone was asleep, he quietly went to several houses on the side of the mountain.
The movement alarmed others, but they were arrogant, moved quickly, and had knives in their hands specially brought for hunting. They threatened people and took out their money, and then ran away carrying a bag of grain.
They returned the same way and didn't bring any food home. They took it directly to the market and sold it. When they combined it with the money they robbed, they found that they were young and old, and it was almost as much as their annual income.
So they took the money and squandered it for a while. After spending all the money, they still owed a lot of gambling debts.
But this time, Jia Dalang, who had tasted the sweetness, was not anxious at all. He stared back and forth at Xiaoliu Village several times and found that although the village was small and poor, because it was almost isolated from the world and the fields inside were fertile, it was actually
There is no shortage of food.
They have a lot of food, more than their big village of Dajing Village.
So Jia Dalang decided to do something big, so he summoned all the brothers he could find, found an opportunity to go in and robbed the entire village.
That time, they emptied almost all the food in Xiaoliu Village, as well as the villagers' savings.
That is the savings of several generations of a village. It is not usually visible, but it is quite a lot when put together.
Although it had to be divided into many shares among the brothers, as the eldest, Jia Dalang still received a lot, and those who were closer to him also received a lot.
The result was obvious. Many people suddenly became rich in the two villages. Jia Lizheng was not a very good character, but his vision was very sharp. He felt something was wrong at the moment, so he walked around in various houses, and then he discovered some
Something incredible.
In addition, the village chief of Xiaoliu Village also came to report the incident to him, saying that Xiaoliu Village had been robbed.
Jia Lizheng was not stupid, he knew immediately who did it.
Such a serious incident occurred under his rule, and most of the bandits were members of his own clan. Jia Lizheng decided to hide the incident without hesitation.
Otherwise, if we cause trouble, the Jia family will no longer want to be human beings in this area.
He could only hide it for Jia Dalang.
Jia Dalang also knew that Jia Lizheng knew about it. Seeing that he took action, he was generous and directly brought two chickens and two bags of grain to Jia Lizheng's house.
Jia Li was collecting the things, so he could only cover them up more diligently.
Bai Shandao: "So although Magistrate Lu failed in his duties, he cannot be entirely blamed."
He changed the topic and said: "Now that Jia Lizheng and all the bandits are being detained in the county government office, I would like to hear your opinion on how to deal with it."