Live as the emperor

Chapter 147 Visiting Gong Changlong

Chen Guang returned to the study, opened the imperial decree, took a rough look, and said with a smile: "I knew it was like this, he must die."

In the imperial decree, Chen Ang scolded Peng Cheng in very severe terms, and then demanded that he be executed.Chen Guang has already done this, and the next step is to accept the fate letter, accept the fate of Gong Changlong, the county magistrate of Qing County, and be promoted to the prefect of Wuyuan County, and let Gong Changlong make arrangements for everyone.The entire Wuyuan County will be exempted from taxes and corvee for two years, and the whole county will open warehouses to release grain.

Chen Ang is indeed a hard-working emperor, at least an emperor who wants to work hard, otherwise he would not entrust such a heavy responsibility to Gong Changlong. The county guard is a fourth-rank official, and the county magistrate is a seventh-rank official, or a deputy. How many levels has Zi Gong Changlong been promoted?It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a steady rise.It is only under the leadership of an emperor who is making great efforts to reform and reform, that talents will be reduced in such an eclectic manner.As for the subsequent exemption from corvee and taxation, and the opening of warehouses to release grain, it is purely to compensate the people.

The imperial edict also stated that officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel would arrive shortly afterwards to investigate Peng Cheng's embezzled stolen goods, as well as the promotion and transfer of Wuyuan County officials.

Of course, these are not what Chen Guang cares about. He read the edict, and then rolled it up again, saying: "Father is still as wise as ever. Where is Li Xiaoyao? How is it?"

Since Li Xiaoyao is an orphan, Chen Guang naturally wouldn't let him continue wandering here, so he asked Wu Xin to take him to the capital, where he could do something for Li Xiaoyao, even if it was to stuff his hope Going to work in engineering or following Jin Kebi is a thousand times, ten thousand times better than being here.

Wu Xindao: "At the beginning, I took Li Xiaoyao back to the capital and met the emperor. The Minister of Rites, Mr. Zhou, said that the child was very clever, and he liked it very much. So he asked the emperor to give Li Xiaoyao to Mr. Zhou. As an adopted son. Mr. Zhou said that his only daughters are all married to His Highness the Crown Prince, and he is lonely at home, so Li Xiaoyao happened to be happy to be a companion. "

"I'm sorry, this little guy's luck is so good that he exploded. He changed from a beggar to a yamen in an instant. A proper second-generation official." Chen Guang couldn't help being surprised, and then sighed, this is fate, Who can explain fate?

Wu Xin has long been familiar with these trendy vocabulary, and can even say them together.He said: "That's right, Li Xiaoyao is smoking from the ancestral grave. If his parents find out, the spirit in heaven can rest in peace."

Now that Li Xiaoyao found such a good home, Chen Guang naturally didn't have to worry about him. He put the edict in a bag and said, "Let's go, let's go to Mr. Gong's house to have a look."

When the two came out, Chen Guang said to the yamen servant: "Let the common people not lose it, this Peng Chengcheng should find a place to bury him, and clean up the inside and outside of this yamen, the new county guard I'm going to take office soon, and I must scold you to death when I see this."

When those yamen servants heard this, they couldn't help but slander, didn't you connive at the common people?How do you make it sound like we lost it?However, Chen Guang was an imperial envoy, so of course they dared not say these words, so they had to obediently follow what Chen Guang said.

"Go and go, it's all scattered, Mr. Peng is about to be buried." Those yamen servants drove away the people who were blocking the outside, and carried away without caring about the eggs and vegetable leaves covered on the surface of the coffin. I am fed up with doing this to the common people every day. Some people are not good enough and will throw eggs at them.Now that this guy can finally be buried, how can they care so much? They almost ran away carrying the coffin. They dug a hole in a mass grave outside the city and buried him.

The matter has been satisfactorily resolved, and Chen Guang can go back to his life now, but remembering that even if he returns to the capital, there seems to be nothing to do, so he plans to play for another two days.He went to the inn to take a good shower, changed into his own clothes, took his own saber, and took Wu Xin to Qing County.

The gate of the Qing County Yamen, which had been closed for many days, was reopened. The yamen servants stood in line on both sides, and the normal office order had been restored. Chen Guang came to the gate of the county yamen and was about to enter, but the two yamen servants stopped him at once. in front of him.

Chen Guang took a look, it's not right, what kind of situation is this?Then Wu Xin took a step forward and said: "This is the imperial envoy from the capital, how dare you stop him?" Wu Xin took out his sign, waved it in front of the two yamen servants, and said, "Look carefully."

The two government officials carefully identified each other, and then they bowed their hands and said, "I didn't know that the Imperial Envoy was here..."

Now in the entire Wuyuan County, who doesn't know that the governor of the county, Peng Cheng, has been executed by the imperial envoy. Those corrupt officials are all at risk, but the honest officials are relieved, singing the praises of the emperor all day long, and the common people are as happy as in the New Year .In such a big environment, the two yamen servants naturally knew that there was an imperial envoy in Wuyuan County, but they had never seen it. Now that the imperial envoy was standing in front of them, they were naturally surprised and happy.He was happy that the imperial envoy in front of him had dealt with the local emperor Peng Cheng, but he was surprised that he almost offended the imperial envoy just now.

"Okay, okay, is Lord Gong at home?" Chen Guang stopped him from flattering him and went straight to the point.

The yamen servant said: "If you are here, I will report to the adults."

Chen Guang waved his hand and said, "No, I can just go in by myself."

Entering the yamen, go around from the side corridor to the back, there is a large courtyard, this is the residence of the yamen servants, Gong Changlong's small courtyard is in the corner, at this moment the gate of the courtyard is open, Gong Ruifang is practicing sword in the small courtyard, look Seeing someone coming, she stopped immediately, seeing clearly that it was Chen Guang, suddenly surprised and happy, ran over at once, and said excitedly: "Why are you here?" Then she asked worriedly: "Has that matter been resolved?" ?”

"That?" Chen Guang didn't react for a moment, "Girl, how about we two be innocent? You said this as if I did something to you."

Gong Ruifang wiped his neck and said, "This."

Only then did Chen Guang understand, and said with a smile: "It's solved, it's solved, can we not solve it? I told you it's okay."

Although the news of Peng Cheng committing suicide in fear of crime had spread throughout Wuyuan County, only Chen Guang and Gong Ruifang knew the truth, so Gong Ruifang still couldn't feel relieved without definite news.

Now hearing Chen Guang's affirmative statement, Gong Ruifang was completely relieved and said, "That's good."

Chen Guang said: "Where is your father?"

Gong Ruifang said, "I'm at home." She turned around and ran inside, shouting loudly, "Father, mother, the imperial envoy is here."

(End of this chapter)