Zhou Yangyou, the governor of Hedong County, looked at the foundation of the county governor's office and suddenly laughed.
"All ministers in the country will be prosperous and mature, and the Tao will not starve people. Long live this practice!" Reading the inscriptions inscribed on the bricks and stones of the foundation, Zhou Yangyou's heart was full of ridicule.
These sixteen characters were used by the governors of the Qin Dynasty to praise Qin Shihuang. After the rise of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang ordered that the foundations of the governor's offices in all local counties must be made of bricks with these sixteen characters inscribed on them.
I hope this will remind the county guards to be honest and honest.
"Long live this practice?" Zhou Yangyou looked at the inscription on the floor with a sneer.
Emperor Liu's thoughts were too good, right?
Zhou Yangyou will never forget how his uncle Liu Chang, King Li of Huainan, died.
He could not forget how his father Zhao Jian spent the rest of his life.
From that moment on, he knew that a man cannot lose power for a day. Once he loses power, no matter how heroic he is, he will immediately turn into a bear.
So, for more than ten years, he worked hard to climb up, using any means necessary to climb up.
The late emperor liked courtiers who were courageous and courageous, so he pretended to be courageous. From the time when he was still an official, he showed a hatred of evil.
Sure enough, he was promoted soon.
In more than ten years, he climbed from a small official to the position of governor of Hedong County and a high official in the border areas.
As the saying goes, there are only one emperor and one minister.
When the late emperor died and the new emperor came to the throne, he immediately eliminated the former emperor's ministers from the court.
Ting Wei Zhang Shizhi flew to Huainan.
Deng Tong starved to death on the streets.
Zhang Han from the Dian Kingdom went home to farm.
Not long ago, even Tao Qing, the imperial censor, and Wang Hui, the great official, were finished.
According to Han tradition, new courtiers will definitely replace the county governors appointed by past courtiers with their own people.
Zhou Yangyou felt that he might not be able to hold the post of governor of Hedong County for long.
Since last year, he has had the feeling that he might lose his official position at any time, thinking that the authority in his hand might disappear. Now that he is about to step down to serve the people, his authority will be lost, so he began to use his power to benefit himself.
You can't say that if you lose your power, you have to go back to your hometown and live a simple life, right?
That's something only fools do.
As a result, he unexpectedly formed a partnership with the county lieutenant, who had always been at odds with him before, and started a business of reselling grain from the official warehouse.
At that time, he thought very well.
In the past three or four years, the grain in the official warehouses of Hedong County was often piled up with last year's grain before it was finished. This year's grain was piled in. Every year, a lot of moldy corn was taken to feed the pigs.
This is such a waste!
Since hundreds of thousands or even millions of grains of grain are piled up in warehouses every year to mold or even rot, why can't they be sold to make some money?
The price offered by the merchants was too much for him to refuse.
So, starting from March, the food in the two official warehouses in Hedong continued to disappear. At the same time, the officials in the entire Hedong County were full of fat. Many officials also became grateful to him, which made Zhou Yang
From becoming excited.
What's more important is that the imperial inspection envoys and officials who had been worried about it before didn't realize that there was less food in the official warehouses of Hedong County.
Those guys usually just walk around the warehouse, and when they see the old grain in the warehouse, they start laughing and go back to do business.
As a result, Zhou Yangyou became more and more courageous.
More and more food is being sold.
At first, he only dared to sell it for a few thousand shi, but later it became ten thousand shi and ten thousand shi. Finally, he sold 200,000 shi at a time to his cousin Liu An, the king of Huainan. As for what Liu An wanted to do with so much food.
, he is too lazy to care!
But who could have imagined that the situation in May suddenly changed, and God actually sent a plague of locusts.
Despite the emperor's will, the locust plague was finally extinguished in time and did not allow it to expand throughout the county. The total affected land in each county was only a few thousand hectares.
To be honest, in previous years, this would not have been a big deal at all. Gencang even only needed to leak a hole, and Hedong County could solve it by itself.
However, when he wanted to open a granary to store grain, he was shocked to find that the originally full root granary only had 500,000 shi of grain stored in it, which was less than half of what it was at its peak...
Once the order is given to open the warehouse, the court will definitely know that Gencang only has 500,000 shi of grain!
How can this be done!
Once this matter is exposed, his whole family will die!
In order to prevent his whole family from dying, he had no choice but to exaggerate the disaster area to the court, deliberately report two counties that were not affected by the disaster, and then falsify the accounts to use the losses of those two counties to make up for Gencang's deficit.
As for the people in the places that were really affected by the disaster?
He is too lazy to care about the life and death of those mud-legged people!
Just control the crossing of the river and prevent those mud-legged people from having the opportunity to go to Guanzhong to complain!
But after all calculations, he miscalculated one more thing.
Just because the mud-legged people can't go to Guanzhong doesn't mean that the nobles from Guanzhong can't come to Hedong!
This morning, the officials guarding the river crossing came to report to him that a large ship docked near Caoyang Pavilion, and all the people disembarking were nobles from Chang'an, Guanzhong.
Someone even reported to him that among the people who disembarked from the ship, there were scholars who had passed the examination and been hired by the Tian family.
He was able to mobilize naval warships to cross the river, and among the people accompanying him, there were also scholars who had participated in the examinations and were finally hired.
This incident immediately made Zhou Yangyou extremely vigilant.
Even if the visitor is not the royal family, he is still a nobleman closely connected with the royal family!
Think about it again, what kind of virtues did Liu's princes have when they were young?
Zhou Yangyou felt that he would not be surprised at all if the legendary crown prince, Prince Liu De, came to Hedong in person.
Not to mention running out of Hangu Pass and visiting Hedong.
Zhou Yangyou wouldn't be surprised if the prince of the Han family went to the kingdom of Guandong.
"If that person is really here..." Zhou Yangyou felt extremely headache. Just when he didn't know how to solve and overcome this difficulty, another piece of bad news came. The person who was directly facing Dayang
The county is gone!
Zhou Yang knew what the situation was like in Dayang County now. There was no doubt that the situation in Dayang County had become corrupt!
Originally, his plan was to wait two months and the food deficit was replenished, then it would be time for him to come out to take charge of the Ming Dynasty, arrest and kill all the idiots in Dayang, and return the land to the farmers.
In this way, he not only gained fame, but also could perfectly cover up the matter.
"It must be that one!" Zhou Yang was not stupid. He immediately knew that the person coming must be the would-be crown prince, the now prosperous prince Liu De and his entourage.
There is the Tianzi Temple in Dayang County. Ten years ago, Empress Dowager Dou and the late Emperor went to the Taizi Temple to worship.
Liu De probably came here to fulfill the Empress Dowager's wish.
In addition, crossing Dayang and heading east is Pinglu, where there is Pinglu Hou, an elder of the clan.
"Come here!" Zhou Yangyou thought for a long time, finally made up his mind, called his confidants, and gave instructions.
That night, there was a fire in Gencang, Hedong County. Zhou Yang, the governor of Hedong County, reported it to the court. The grain stored in Gencang was destroyed by the fire, and more than 700,000 stones were destroyed.
Looking at the fire rising into the sky from Gencang, Zhou Yangyou finally felt a little more at ease.
Since the fire burned the food, even if the court came to investigate, nothing would be found.
Well, now is the time to push those idiots from Dayang out to the court, especially His Highness. It would be great if they could get on His Highness' lap.
As for what the powerful landlords, wealthy businessmen, and officials in Dayang County would think?
Zhou Yangyou sneered.
I don't care if you die! (To be continued...)
ps: call it a day and go to sleep~
Well, I have made up some of this plot~ Ahem, after all, history books cannot record all the details in detail. Novels can be artistically transformed as needed~
But if there is clear history to check, I will never be self-righteous~
