Linhuai County Government Office, today’s appointment.
Before dawn, the county's magistrates, chief registrars, historians, edicts, inspections, postmasters, tax ambassadors and other officials gathered from all over the county to the county government office.
As cannons were fired in the hall, three squads of government officials took their places, and all kinds of ceremonial guards for the county magistrate were put in place.
When the two bangs were struck and the drums were beaten, the green-robed officials separated into left and right groups and stood still under the hall.
When the banggu was played for the third time, everyone came together to welcome the magistrate to the court. It was like a miniature and simplified version of the emperor going to court.
Han Yike sat behind the big case, feeling very happy as he watched his officials bow to him and salute him.
He is not a corrupt official, he just enjoys being an official. So if he doesn’t like it, he will start complaining.
I remember when I was a censor in Beijing, I often heard my colleagues say, ‘I love the foreign officials who have paiyamen, and the foreign officials admire my toothpai’.
Now he has practiced toothpai and experienced paiyamen. The conclusion is that toothpai is nothing...
It is too difficult to be a capital official, especially for Boss Zhu. You have to go to court every day under the stars and the moon, no matter the wind or snow, and you have to endure hardships and colds to be used as decorations for others.
How can you sleep like this and wake up naturally every day, and let your subordinates act as decorations to build up energy for you?
But every time I think about this, Mr. Han will criticize himself for being vulgar, but we have pursuits!
Han Yike, don’t be obsessed with formalities and do practical things!
Then the next day, I continued to indulge in yamen...
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After everyone was seated, Magistrate Han cleared his throat and began to lecture.
"With the joint efforts of all colleagues, this year's spring floods have been safely passed. However, we still cannot relax. The plum floods are the real test!"
"Yes, yes. What the county magistrate said is absolutely true." All the officials naturally nodded their heads in agreement.
"After the water level goes down, we must repair the outer embankment as soon as possible. When it's time to drive piles, when it's time to lay stones, we must completely complete the reinforcement before entering the plum." So Han Yike became more and more energetic:
"In addition, we also plan to build another sub-district to ensure that everything is foolproof..."
"This..." The county officials immediately lost their composure. They shed a layer of skin when building the levee last year, why the hell do they build another levee? Another layer of skin they shed?
"Your Majesty, the existing levees are enough to protect against a flood that occurs once in fifty years."
"What if there is a once-in-a-hundred-year flood?" Han Yike asked.
"Your Majesty, in order to build the current embankment, this county has spent every last copper penny." Linhuai Chief Secretary said with a bitter face: "Do you still have money to build another embankment?"
"It doesn't matter, let's borrow it first." Han Yike waved his hand and said: "The debt can be paid back slowly, but the embankment was repaired early to ensure the safety of the imperial mausoleum and the county's elders. How can it be cost-effective? This debt is not difficult to calculate, right?
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"But who cares about borrowing it?" The bookkeeper said even more sadly: "We are so poor in Linhuai, but we are not like Fengyang County, which is full of rich families."
While the two were arguing, suddenly there was the sound of a drum in front of them.
Mr. Han immediately became energetic. He beat the drum to complain and went to court to investigate the case. In his ranking list of county magistrates, he ranked higher than Pai Yamen.
He said: "There is a grievance! Go and see what's going on!"
Then he said to all the officials: "It's time to go, it's time to go to court in this county!"
"Farewell to the county magistrate." All the officials stood up and saluted together, watching Han Yike go behind the screen.
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Here Han Yike returned to the third hall, changed into regular clothes, and was about to go to the lobby to attend the ceremony.
But Li Sili came in quickly and reported: "County Lord, I understand. It is Chief Tang Jia who is here with the Hong brothers."
"Why, is he still making trouble?" Han Yike frowned. Why is this man named Tang so ignorant?
"No, it's the case of the Hong brothers. Chief Tang brought them to report to the official." Li Sili quickly explained.
"What happened to them? What happened?" Han Yike's heart suddenly clenched.
"It is said that at noon yesterday, a group of criminals entered Jinqiaokan and robbed the Hong brothers."
"What? Did anyone get hurt?" Han Yike suddenly jumped up, his calm demeanor as a county magistrate gone.
"No, I just robbed their food..." Li Sili said hurriedly.
"Did you rob someone else's house?" Han Yike's eyes flashed.
"Just robbed their family." Li Sili replied.
"Good guy." Han Yike took a breath and wondered, did you mean it so deliberately?
After pondering for a moment, he gave the order again: "We won't go to the hall anymore. Let's invite them to the second hall to talk."
"Okay." Clerk Li responded. He went out with his front foot, and the head of Han Zhi County came in with his back foot and whispered a report.
"Oh?" Han Yike changed his direction after hearing this, and quickly came to the back office and entered his signing room.
Then he saw the tall and heroic Fengyang Guard commander Ping An, sitting there leisurely drinking tea.
"Brother Ping, unfortunately something happened to those five brothers." As soon as Han Yike entered the door, he clasped his fists in apology and said, "You sit down for a while, I will go to the front to meet them."
"Were they robbed?" Ping An put down the tea cup and asked casually.
"This..." Han Yike showed a surprised expression, completely unable to tell that he had guessed it.
Han Zhixian waved his hand, and Chang Sui quickly retreated. He closed the door and said, "Brother Ping, how do you know?"
"How fresh, how could I not know what I robbed?" Ping An said with a wry smile. After all, he is a warrior, not as careful as a scholar, so he thought Han Yike was kept in the dark.
"What, you robbed it?" Han Yike looked shocked. He pointed to the sky for a while and said, "Is this what the above meant?"
"Of course, the emperor wants to create some problems for your highnesses. Otherwise, if you lend me ten courages, I wouldn't dare to touch the prince." Ping An's wry smile became heavier and he said: "You don't know how to scare me when you do it.
Yes, I’m afraid that I’ll cover it too tightly and hold His Highness in, or tie him up too tightly and hurt His Highness. I’m also afraid that if I don’t cover it tightly enough, His Highness will see me...”
"Then Brother Ping should keep it a secret. What you told me means..." Han Yike looked at him helplessly and said, "Am I going to be your accomplice?"
"Smart." Ping An gave a thumbs up and said: "Originally, we are responsible for this matter. Of course, we should share the blessings and share the difficulties."
"Haha." Zhixian Han chuckled and said in his heart, it is certain that you want to share the difficulties with me, but not necessarily the blessings.
"The emperor may have noticed that you let the water go." Seeing his reluctance, Ping An said sternly: "I specifically told them to let them get through the difficulties on their own, and no one is allowed to help." p>
"Okay then." Han Yike nodded horrifiedly, but said a little unbearably: "But they are about to run out of food, what should they do if they can't eat?"
"The emperor said that no one helped him thirty years ago, but didn't he get through it?" Ping An said solemnly: "Now his son must get through it too, in order to truly deserve everything they have!"<
/p>
"Yes, I understand." Han Yike bowed deeply towards the south, finally realizing Emperor Hongwu's good intentions.
Just the thought of having to interpret the darkness of the government to their highnesses made him feel pain in his balls.
But the emperor's orders were overwhelming, so he could only obey them.
After discussing with Ping An again, Han Yike came out of the signing room and asked Li Sili, who had been waiting outside the door:
"Have they written a pleading?"
"No." Secretary Li shook his head. According to regulations, when making a complaint, you must write a pleading. However, Emperor Hongwu stipulated that the government should not make things difficult for the people, so you could file a complaint first, and then the Yamen Clerk's Office would fill in the pleading for free. It was also the earliest form of judicial assistance. "Then what kind of complaint are you going to file? Let them write the complaint before coming back." Han Yike said coldly, turned around and went in.
With a bang, the door to the deposit room was closed.
After encountering the frustrated Secretary Li, he felt that his brain was a bit out of control...
ps. Fourth update, 5,000 orders for additional update.
