Chapter 153
Neihuang is within the Yellow River. Neihuang County is located in the north of the river and in the south of Wei County. It has both the benefits of Huangze and the irrigation of clear water. It ranks among the top wealthy households in the county.
In the county temple, the Neihuang County Priest was very proud of his work of letting the stakeholder fall into the water a few days ago, and said to the county magistrate: "To deal with this new little county magistrate, just use one word: drag it!"
In the view of the Neihuang County Jail, the reason why the fifth reunion could easily take Wei County from Li Yan was entirely due to the help of the soldiers of Zhiting County. During the stay of the Neihuang County, he had already shown loyalty to the court and supplied some food. This was a plan that other counties needed to pay, so should Neihuang be exempted?
After all, there are indeed big problems in the account book. Even if the bad debts are pushed to the Zhiting soldiers, it cannot cover up the fact that Neihuang County Criminals and Huang Ze thieves have been hooked up in the past year.
The general environment is here, and the officials and bandits are not just the fifth reunion and Ma Yuan?
So the priest of Neihuang County came up with the account book and had no good idea when he encountered a flood. He was sure that the fifth republic had just taken office, and had no soldiers or food, so he could not do anything to the county.
This year, Wei County not only made plans to rebel, but also caused thieves everywhere: Taihang thieves, Qinkou Mountain thieves, and Huangze thieves all gathered hundreds or thousands of people. There are also thieves abroad, not to mention Fan Chong, who was rampant in Mount Tai, even Pingyuan County, a few months ago, there was a woman named "Chi Zhaoping". She was known as an immortal. She also gathered thousands of people in the Yellow River area after the crackdown of the river and had violated the edge of Wei County.
Let’s use the drag-on technique first. By next year, I don’t know what the situation is in Wei County.
"Maybe Da Yin will be gone as he drags it!"
He was either transferred by the emperor who changed his orders every day, or killed by the wealthy officials in the county who disliked him.
The Neihuang County Priest also had a reason to look down on the fifth ethics: "He recruited talents, but even the dwarf of the county was abandoned and Huang Chang was appointed as the subordinate clerk. He was quite a close confidant, and it was seen that no one was available."
But the one who came back first was not the clerk, but the news that the county magistrate sent his subordinate Ma Yuan to Neihuang County!
This shocked the Nenghuang County Jail, who had just calmed down, and could it be that the Fifth Reun sent someone to the door to ask for the crime? It shouldn't be!
"Immediately arrange the envoy of the county magistrate to the inn to rest!"
The Neihuang Zai will invite the nobles of the county to accompany the subordinates to find out whether they can bribe him. If they can, then they will be happy and everyone will deceive the fifth relationship together. If they cannot...
Then he would choke to death by vomit when he was drunk, fall into the gutter and knock it to death, fall into the toilet and drown!
Before Nei Huang Zai could change his clothes, his subordinates quickly came to report: "Mr. County Master, the subordinates didn't enter the post station, so they came directly into the city!"
"What!"
Neihuang Zai was anxious: "Let the county soldiers stop him."
"I didn't stop him. The subordinate Ma Yuan led the way with the county's chief Huang, and led more than a hundred county soldiers behind him!"
This is really a joke with him! Nei Huang Zai felt very wronged. He was not the only one who fooled him this time. Why should he catch him? The other party was coming in a fierce manner. It was too late to think about it at this time. Nei Huang Zai hurriedly packed up the fine and soft things, trying to escape from the city with his family and ran to Huang Ze to commit suicide by robbing thieves.
But Ma Yuan was in a hurry and came too fast. He had already broken through the threshold and entered. He appeared in front of the county magistrate and shouted: "Neihuang Zai, can you know your crime?"
Nei Huangzai knelt down with a pounce: "No...I don't know what the crime is."
"Let me tell you." Huang Chang flashed out from behind Ma Yuan, walked with his hands behind his back to the county priest who was pressed to the ground by the prisoner, full of astonishment. The little dwarf looked proud.
Huang Chang was proud of his talent and was unwilling to be a rich man for the rest of his life. He came to the county to try to be an official, but was mocked by the county magistrate and drove him out. Now it was his turn to take revenge, so he was righteous and shouted:
"One of his crimes is that he does not obey the county order, does not follow the old rules, damages the plan, and deceives the fifth official."
"The second crime is to blame the public and ask private matters, to guard profits, to invade fishing people, to gather and become traitors."
"The third crime is that the election of the government is unfair, my virtuous people are favored, and my children rely on their honor and power to be in prison."
"The fourth crime is to violate the official position, Afu's powerful men, collude with thieves, pass on goods, and cut off the government orders."
Huang Chang is a local, and he is not clear about the good things the county magistrate did. He scolded him one by one, and some did, and some could finally confirm it after a little check.
Ma Yuan then refused to let Huang Zai shout for justice, and only ordered everyone to take him down.
"Take it back to the county and hand it over to the county monarch."
He also summoned a group of county officials who were trembling after being scared and took out the county's orders covered with the fifth seal of reunion: "From today, I will be temporarily appointed as the fake slaughter of Neihuang!"
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After taking down the Neihuang Zai, Di Wulun was very happy and said to Geng Chun: "Don't the priests of the Six Hundred Stones often say 'I would rather bear 2,000 stones than the rich'?"
"It's the same for Erqianshi who just took office."
"I can't cure everyone, and I can't cure you!"
Neihuang County Jailu is the chicken that the fifth reunion used Ma Yuan's slaughter knife to kill.
After being taken to Yecheng, he was soon sent to prison by the fifth reunion and was only waiting for interrogation. In fact, Huang Chang was asked to be tried on the way, but Huang Zai only admitted to the crimes of corruption, dereliction of duty, disrespect for the superiors, and refused to admit the crimes of Afu's powerful and collusion with thieves.
It seems that the water here is still very deep. These six hundred stones should have stood with the county magistrates, but their power is smaller and they are more likely to be eroded, bought and subjugated by powerful people. In addition, most of them come from neighboring counties or even neighboring counties, and they are naturally close to local forces, so they become one of officials and gentry and collude.
After Geng Chun coughed, he reminded the fifth reunion: "Boyu, you and me are also great people."
Wu Lun glared at him: "A gentleman is not a weapon, he is a rich man in his hometown, and he is a 2,000 stone in his other county. Isn't it okay?"
Different places, different butts, and different choices. When the fifth reunion was in the New Qinzhong, he was also "the powerful Zhang Chun, a powerful man who colluded with thieves and bandits"!
Therefore, the fifth reunion killed Nei Huang Zai not based on his personal morality, good or evil, but "if anyone does not support me, you will beat me."
In short, the cooperation and struggle between the two thousand stones, powerful and county officials had lasted for two hundred years. Before Emperor Yuan of Han, the government had the advantage, such as the cruel official Yan Yannian, who ruled Zhuo County, and at the same time fought against the county officials and officials of the great surname Xigao, Donggao and Afu, and finally won, which made the county shock and fear.
But now that the central government cannot provide any shelter and support for the 2,000 stones, the fifth reunion can only stop the authority of the court. The thief of the tyrants slaughtered 2,000 stones were like killing a dog, trying to gain power. Otherwise, if they were not doing well, their lives would be explained here.
He originally wanted to take down Yecheng next after controlling the county government, but Yecheng was too powerful and the Ye County Priest was not good at picking up his own skills, so the fifth reunion could only change his thinking.
"Avoid big cities and start with neighboring counties."
Sending Ma Yuan to Neihuang as a fake slaughter is a test of the situation. There are many poor people in that area and recruit young and strong men. Based on the already small-scale 300 prisoners, one thousand soldiers loyal to the fifth king will be trained by next year. If he fights against Huangze thieves and trains soldiers, he will be qualified to fight with the powerful.
After taking down Neihuang Zai, Di Wulun killed Neihuang, who had outstanding acting skills, in public, and allowed the planners from more than a dozen counties to watch. This group of monkeys were indeed scared by the blood of chickens all over the ground. Di Wulun only asked them to go back. Because of the mountain torrents, the thieves lost the five counties with poor plans, there will always be copies? It must be made up.
As for the eight counties that made fake accounts, the fifth reunion did not make much trouble for them. They only said that the county government accidentally caught fire and burned their autumn harvest account book again. They made a replica of the food that should be handed over to the county this year and sent them together.
There are also three counties in Ye, Fanyang and Liangqi, which have good plans, and the fifth reunion is commended, indicating that when paying wages next month, we will consider allowing the three counties to get full monthly salary from county magistrates to minor officials!
"You must never let honest people suffer!"
For a moment, some people were happy and some were worried, but when the somewhat proud fifth reunion returned to the county government, Geng Chun told him something.
"Nei Huang Zai, committed suicide!"
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When my brother came back, Li Lu, the chief iron official of Weicheng County, informed him of the latest news.
"Nei Huang was killed and died when he touched the wall."
"It's up to him to know the truth." The thief Li Neng was not surprised. Nei Huang Zai knew that some secrets were best in his stomach. Once disclosed, Nei Huang Zai would not only die by himself, but his family and the entire clan would be insured.
When Li Neng sat down, his left hand was still hanging weakly, but he was like his ancestors, Li Mu, Wu'an Jun of Zhao State, was disabled. However, Li Mu was born to be unable to stretch his right arm, while Li Neng was injured after all.
Li Lu sat against him, leaned forward, and asked, "Brother went to the Ximen family house, how should Ximen Yanshou respond?"
"What else can it be?" Li Neng expressed his despise of his ambiguous attitude towards his father-in-law's family with a sneer.
"I told Ximen Yanshou tactfully that the fifth reunion would pretend to be in charge of the county's nobles and right, eliminate Feng Weibo as an official, and recruit children from various families to work in the county."
"On the one hand, he recruited poor common people and poor men as subordinate officials, sent close friends to train prisoners as soldiers, and distributed armor and weapons. Now he took the name of the master plan to seize Neihuang County, in order to seize all the power in the county."
Li Nengdao: "But the old man in Ximen said that Wei was just conspiring to rebel against Li Yan and could no longer be in turmoil."
He didn't understand what Ximen Yanshou thought? After coming back from a wall, Li Nengxin made up his mind and decided not to care about the Ximen family and his family went all the way.
"The fifth one is greedy and insatiable, quite brave and wise, and Ma Yuan. Geng Chun is a right-hand man, and he is not easy to deal with. If he cannot suppress him while he is still a little bird, he will probably be difficult to deal with when he is full of wings."
Li Neng said: "You can't let the fifth relationship be too smooth. You have to cause some trouble for him and let him know who has the final say in Wei County!"
Wei Chengruo discussed the prominent family and the backing of the court, he rebuked the Qiu Tang family and the Xu family of Pingen. But in terms of strength, the Ximen family of Yecheng was known for its wealth, while the Li family of Wu'an County was responsible for its military power, and most of the county soldiers were controlled by the thief Li Neng. His younger brother Li Lu relied on the skin of the iron official and ruled over thousands of iron official slaves in the three northwest counties, and monopolized the source of iron tools.
No matter which force Wei Cheng was, the white or the underworld, the bandits or the clan soldiers, he had to rely on the iron-cast soldiers assigned by the Li family. Through the exchanges between the county magistrates and officials of various places who were friendly to the Li family, they only robbed others and did not touch the interests of the Li family.
"It's autumn, and it's time for the thieves to come and move." Li Neng suddenly said this. Their family inherited the military spirit of Li Mu and Li Zuoche, which is different from the Ximen family. They don't like literary battles, but prefer martial battles.
Li Lu knew: "Which bandits in Qinkou Mountain and the zodiac thief in Huangze Lake will be sent?"
"Qinkou Mountain is too close to Wu'an, so let them take the food from Wu'an, Shexian and Wushi to Yecheng."
"But Huang Ze's thieves can come out in full bloom."
"Take the Neihuang County Town and kill the horse and help!"
Li Neng stroked his disabled left hand: "Fold the fifth reunion and the arm, see if he dares to flap his wings!"
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ps: The real name of Li Neng, the governor of Wei County, was Li Xiong. See "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Qingqi". Because he had the same name as Gongsun Shu's conspiracy, Li Xiong changed his name to avoid the readers' confusion.
Chapter completed!