Nine hundred and twentieth chapters suddenly turned
These officials and nobles never looked down upon the common people and never looked down upon them as human beings. The salt workers and salt slaves who were even lower than ordinary people were even worse than pigs and dogs in their eyes. But naturally Wang Junlin would not think so.
He even thinks exactly the opposite. The officials, master craftsmen and salt workers in the salt field are nothing compared to the tens of thousands of salt workers and salt slaves.
"After two days, if the salt workers and salt slaves do not get the money they deserve." Wang Junlin said with a smile: "Don't doubt my ability. No matter what means you use, as long as you don't follow my instructions,
If you do it, I will always know. Again, I hate people lying to me the most, and if anyone who cheats me does not exceed my ability and status, I will have my head chopped off."
When Wang Junlin said these words, although his face was calm and calm, and he even had a smile, everyone felt a chill. The five master craftsmen in charge turned pale, and one of them kept smiling.
He said: "Sir, I have something to report to you."
"Oh! Tell me." Wang Junlin glanced at the chief craftsman with interest.
"There may be wage arrears, but the amount is not large, and there are internal reasons for this. I have just arrived here, and you don't know the nature of these untouchables in the salt field. Each of them has a family and a family, and they are obviously working alone in the salt field.
But we have to report several people. It’s not that we are in arrears with wages, it’s actually that they want to defraud the government of their money. Isn’t this equivalent to reducing the county’s tax revenue?”
"Oh?" Wang Junlin looked surprised: "Is there such a thing?"
"Yes." The chief craftsman obviously did not see the sarcasm in Wang Junlin's words. Seeing that the prefect believed his words, he said happily: "Sir, those untouchables and slaves are cunning and cunning.
Mr. Dong felt sorry for them and dared to deceive us. Moreover, once we could not satisfy them, he would be passive and slack in work. There were even bold people who took the lead in making troubles in series, thus reducing the overall output of the salt farm and invisibly greatly reducing the county government's income.
Taxes!”
The chief craftsman knew that under normal circumstances, the prefect cared most about the county's tax revenue, so he kept pouring the dirty water into the salt water.
While pouring salt on the workers and slaves, they also tried their best to raise taxes from the county. I thought to myself that I have never heard that you, Wang Junlin, are a good official. Today's attack is probably because the second master's gift last night has not been enough to feed the prefect.
, I just want to use an excuse to extort another sum of money. In this case, as long as I find an excuse and meet the money that the prefect wants, the matter will be over. At worst, I can get it back from the salt workers and salt slaves later.
In fact, up to now, except for the people brought by Wang Junlin, Qian Zhengkuo and the people at the salt farm did not believe that Wang Junlin was doing it to help the salt workers and salt slaves, but because Wang Junlin had too much appetite.
Big, the second master of the Lu family failed to satisfy the prefect last night with the two carts of silver and the thousand acres of fertile land, so he found an excuse to get it back from these master craftsmen who represented the Lu family in the salt field, and as long as these master craftsmen took
Just pay a lot of money and satisfy the prefect.
Therefore, the master craftsman in charge stood up and found an excuse that he could come up with. In the eyes of everyone in the salt field, it was considered clever. Under normal circumstances, the prefect would follow this idea and then wait for the master craftsmen to come up with it in two days.
I collected the money and gave it to the prefect.
Wang Junlin's expression did not change, but he sighed: "I see! I just talked for a long time, who is this sir?"
Dong Kang quickly introduced to the side: "Reporting to the Grand Administrator, this is Mr. Lu, the chief officer of the first branch of the five branches of the salt field."
"Chief Officer, Mr. Lu?" Wang Junlin looked confused, "Isn't the chief of the sub-site the chief craftsman of the sub-site? In other words, the chief is the chief. When did the official position of chief officer exist in the salt field? What rank is it?
Officer? Why don’t I know?”
Everyone was startled. After Dong Kang was stunned for a moment, he didn't know what to say, because the prefect was right. Although these five chief craftsmen had nice names, they were actually the chief craftsmen, and even more so.
There is no rank. To be honest, in the salt fields of other counties, although master craftsmen such as the master craftsmen of the branch have some status, they are far less than those of Fanyang County. The reason why Fanyang County is special is naturally because of the five representatives of the master craftsmen.
With Lu family.
Ignoring the five master craftsmen who were in charge of the branch, their faces became extremely pale. Wang Junlin suddenly felt cold.
He said in a loud voice: "As ordinary people, I am inspecting today. You, a mere official who is not waiting for questioning outside the hall, dare to enter the hall without a care, and dare to sit among the imperial officials. It is really... so courageous.
!Master Dong, are all your salt farms such ignorant people?"
When Dong Kang saw that the prefect was angry, his expression suddenly changed, he stood up and held his hands in his hands, saying, "I am guilty of this."
After the confession, Dong Kang didn't say anything. What else did he dare to say? Not to mention the prefect's power, he didn't dare to disobey him face to face. What's more, the prefect was reasonable, even if he wanted to do something for these five chiefs.
The craftsman didn't know how to say something.
The chief craftsman surnamed Lu's face turned red and white. Even Lu Youwei, the second-in-command of the Lu family, came to give gifts to the new prefect last night. He still dared to say anything. He was so angry.
As soon as he cupped his hands, he had to sit down.
Zhang Tiangang suddenly shouted: "You are so bold and unruly. You don't even kneel down when you see the prefect, and you dare to sit down."
Everyone was startled, and the five chief craftsmen stood up with ugly expressions, but they didn't know if they felt that they were embarrassed in front of everyone, so they refused to kneel without mercy. Dong Kang cursed secretly, and knelt down first with a thump.
He fell to the ground and said, "Sir, I have misbehaved with you, please forgive me."
After saying that, he shouted at the five master craftsmen in charge: "If you still don't kneel down, are you looking for death?"
When the five chief craftsmen saw that Dong Kang, a fifth-grade official, was kneeling down, they quickly knelt down too.
Wang Junlin first asked Dong Kang to get up, then looked at the five master craftsmen in charge and shouted: "You are so brave. You dare to be disrespectful to me. Come here, give me ten slaps on each of my hands."
"Yes! Sir." Zhang Tiangang agreed, waved his hand, and the five guards walked out with a grin and walked towards the five chief craftsmen.
The five master craftsmen in charge were completely panicked. The master craftsman surnamed Lu who just spoke gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, I wonder what I and the other five have done to offend you?"
Wang Junlin sneered and said: "You five untouchables exploit wages, bully men and women, and disrespect me. If I hadn't asked you five to make up for the wages you had deducted before, I would have ordered your heads to be chopped off."