Without the power to adjudicate lawsuits, the number of people who send money to local officials will be greatly reduced in the future. If the income of local officials is reduced, the money that local officials send to higher authorities will also be reduced. This will affect the performance of local officials.
Promotion. When all the officials heard Li Zhi's words, they all looked ugly and remained silent.
The officials wanted to resist, but they were afraid of Li Zhi's methods and did not dare to speak.
Cui Changwu looked around at the local officials and said with a smile: "You seem to be in a dilemma?"
After a long silence, Wu Zhiyuan, the magistrate of Nanpi County, jumped out. He stood up with a flick of his sleeves, stretched his neck and shouted: "Uncle Xing Guo, destroying a person's wealth is like killing his parents. Even Uncle Xing Guo cannot do it.
It’s too much!”
Hearing Wu Zhiyuan's words, several county magistrates who had good relations with him quickly grabbed him. They pressed Wu Zhiyuan back on the chair, begged for mercy and said: "Uncle, please calm down. Uncle, please calm down. Wu Zhiyuan was impulsive.
I really oppose Uncle Uncle’s court.”
"Uncle, Wu Zhiyuan also supports my uncle's court! He made a mistake at the moment!"
Wu Zhiyuan pushed away the other county magistrates who were holding him down and said loudly: "I can't stand this cowardice! If you first take away my taxes and then my power, what else can I do as a county magistrate?"
He shouted loudly to Li Zhi: "I will not allow the court to be located in Nanpi County!"
Li Zhi looked at Wu Zhiyuan coldly and said lightly: "Wu Zhiyuan, do you know what you are talking about?"
Wu Zhiyuan said loudly: "Li Zhi, I have to take my life. I am getting old, and at worst I will be killed by you! Scholars all over the world will spread my reputation for resisting you, Li Zhi!"
After hearing Wu Zhiyuan's words, Li Zhi said coldly: "Want a good reputation?" He smiled and said: "Read the newspaper tomorrow!"
After Li Zhi said this, he stopped talking to these local officials and left the second hall with his hands behind his back. Cui Changwu looked at the magistrates who were looking at each other, and the magistrates followed Li Zhi's footsteps and walked out.
In the second hall, all the officials looked at Wu Zhiyuan, as if they were looking at a prisoner sentenced to death.
Wu Zhiyuan's face was red and white, and he was speechless.
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The next day, in the teahouse of Nanpi County, newspaper readers read loudly among the crowds of several floors: "The headlines on the front page! "Wu Zhiyuan, the magistrate of Nanpi County, received more than 20,000 taels from the gentry in three years to help them.
tax evasion.""
Is the magistrate of this county being bribed? When the tea drinkers of Nanpi County who were watching heard such explosive news, they all pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
"Wu Zhiyuan, the magistrate of Nanpi County, was focused on making money during his three years in office. During his three years in office, he collected more than 20,000 taels of bribes. The amount was huge and shocking."
"From last May to May this year, the county magistrate Wu Zhiyuan collected 7,200 taels from thirty-eight gentry families, including the Liang family in Gouziwei, the Xue family in Xuejia village, and the Wang family in Guoheling, in an attempt to exempt all these gentry from paying land tax. However, Xingguo
The uncle rectified the tax system and after checking for deficiencies, all thirty-eight gentry families paid taxes in full. Wu Zhiyuan had no choice but to return all the 7,200 taels of silver!"
When the people listening to the newspaper heard such shocking news, they were all stunned and speechless for a long time.
Xing Guobo's newspaper is too powerful. If it publishes such dirty things in Renzhi County, won't it make Wu Zhiyuan unable to be an official?
Although there were basically not many good officials in the Ming Dynasty, and nine out of ten were corrupt. But all the officials in the Ming Dynasty wanted to have face. On the surface, all of them were Jinshi and were sanctimonious. When they stood up and spoke, they were full of benevolence, justice, and morality.
They are all scholastic models.
If private matters are revealed in this way, wouldn't it mean that he will become a scum of the scholarly community? Not to mention that Xing Guobo wants to deal with him, under the fierce public opinion, I am afraid that the gentry must first clean up the family, exclude the scholar, and boycott Wu Zhi for the sake of the reputation of the scholar.
Far.
The tea patrons in the tea house were about to listen carefully when they suddenly heard a commotion outside. On the street, it seemed that a group of green men came over and wanted to cause trouble in the tea house.
The county magistrate colluded with the green-skinned boss to destroy the teahouse in the county? Can the news of him accepting bribes not spread?
The tea guests were nervous, but when they saw the green-skinned men walking to the door of the tea house, they all stopped. They seemed to have seen natural enemies in the tea house, and dispersed with a bang.
The tea guests took a closer look and found that at a table at the entrance of the teahouse, five soldiers of Xingguo Bohu Ben Division had been sitting at some unknown time. The soldiers were wearing Fanjiazhuang military uniforms and sitting there leisurely, as if they were enjoying themselves.
The green tea in the teahouse seems to have no green tea outside.
One of Fanjiazhuang's soldiers can fight three green-skins, and if he has a sword in his hand, he can fight five. With five soldiers sitting here, how can one green-skin dare to come up and cause trouble?
The green skin dispersed, and the teagoers listening to the newspaper looked at each other in confusion, and then looked at the young man reading the newspaper.
The young man licked his lips and read again: ""Wu Zhiyuan snatched a civilian girl as a concubine fourteen years ago, his face was outrageous"
"Fourteen years ago, when Wu Zhiyuan was the county magistrate of Yongxiu County, Jiangxi, he coveted the beauty of a woman from a private family and used despicable means to bankrupt the woman, eventually forcing the husband of the woman to sell his wife to pay off his debts. Wu Zhiyuan was already young at the time, but he was still shameless and shameless.
I bought a twenty-three-year-old folk girl as my concubine for ten taels."
Hearing this breaking news, the tea drinkers in Nanpi County all blushed and were very excited. Once the news spread, Wuzhiyuan would not be able to become the county magistrate! After listening to the newspaper reader's eulogy, everyone turned to
He turned his head towards the two scholars in the teahouse.
The two scholars were wearing square scarves and cocoon silk straight skirts. They were obviously the sons of the gentry, and they were sitting in the teahouse drinking tea. The two scholars passed the county examination in the hands of Wu Zhiyuan, and Wu Zhiyuan was considered theirs.
Master. When they heard the news about Wu Zhiyuan, the two of them turned red and felt awkward sitting there.
When everyone looked at them, they were so embarrassed that they covered their faces with their sleeves, threw down a few coins and fled from the teahouse.
Seeing the two "students" of Wu Zhiyuan in such a mess, the tea guests felt very happy and laughed.
The newspaper reader also shook his head, smiled, and continued reading.
Today's Tianjin Daily seemed to be printed for Wu Zhiyuan, with a large number of articles attacking Wu Zhiyuan. There were also dirty things about Wu Zhiyuan below, and the readers read them one by one.
""In the 11th year of Chongzhen reign of Wu Zhiyuan, he used the lawsuit to extort silk merchant Xu Rongyi from five hundred gold""
""Wu Zhiyuan Nanpi served as an official for three years and spent 1,193 taels on Cuiyulou, a brothel in Acropolis, Tianjin""
While the newspaper reader was reading, a shouting sound suddenly came from outside the teahouse. Everyone turned around and saw a dozen government servants dragging Wu Zhiyuan's flag and carrying Wu Zhiyuan's sedan running quickly to the county government office.
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The flag that was supposed to be held high was lying crookedly on the ground, dragging it like a burden. The government servant who was supposed to be holding the water and fire sticks arrogantly looked like a bereaved dog, extremely embarrassed.
Behind the sedan, dozens of scholars from the county, including Tong Sheng, chased Wu Zhiyuan's sedan with large stones and threw them, shouting loudly:
"Smash Wu Zhiyuan to death!"
"kill him!"
"Kill this scumbag scholar."
In the Ming Dynasty, dirty things could be done, but they could not be spoken out. Wu Zhiyuan was the leader of the Nanpi scholars. His dirty deeds were exposed, and the Nanpi scholars were all ashamed. The young and vigorous scholar
, the children rolled up their sleeves and began to attack Wu Zhiyuan and clean up the house.
The children and teenagers playing on the street saw how interesting this scene was, and they also picked up stones to hit Wu Zhiyuan's sedan. The stones kept flying towards Wu Zhiyuan's sedan. The bearers carrying Wu Zhiyuan ran very fast, as if they had lost a battle.
The defeated army fled towards the county government office.
