Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"The magistrate is here, didn't you see it! Blind your dog eyes!"

On a narrow path ahead, a group of people came.

One of them was a man in official uniform, riding on a horse, surrounded by local soldiers and officials from the county.

As soon as the man arrived, he pointed at the farmers who were harvesting rice in front and shouted, "All the grain will be confiscated! Come on, move it all away!"

Chapter 827 Grab Grain! (Second more)

As soon as he said this, the surrounding farmers all raised their heads and looked over.

And those yamen servants had already dispersed, and began to shout arrogantly: "Have you heard, bring all the food!"

"This official, what's the matter?" A young man raised his head, holding a sickle in his right hand and the freshly cut rice in his left.

On the other side of the field, a lot of rice was piled up.

Everyone has a smile on their face, and they will have nothing to worry about this winter.

"I'm talking about Mr. Tang, at the beginning of this year, the county issued an order to change rice into mulberry. You ignored the government's order, didn't you!" the yamen official scolded angrily.

"This..." The young man froze for a moment, then smiled, "Didn't we wait for the subsidy that the county said? If we changed it to planting mulberry seedlings, how would we eat?"

"Stop talking nonsense! I told you to change it. If you don't change it, you have disobeyed the imperial court's order. Now hand over all the food!"

Another farmer on the side immediately said: "Now I will hand over the food to you, what shall we eat?"

"It's none of my business what you eat! Anyone who doesn't grow mulberry seedlings will have their food confiscated!"

"Why!" Several other people gathered around.

"Stop talking nonsense, this is the magistrate's order!"

"You took the food away, what shall we eat?" Tang Laosan shouted loudly.

"What are you shouting for?" A few Yamen not far away, as well as the Turkish army came over.

They have knives in their hands and bows and arrows.

"What? You want to fight against the imperial court! This is a serious crime of beheading!" The yamen servant named Chen Zhi shouted loudly.

When he said this, those people immediately dared not speak.

"Come on, move all the food away!"

"Yes!"

Liu Yu, the magistrate of the county, said to Zhou Bing, the county magistrate of Gourong County, with a smile on his face: "Shangguan, you see, these unruly people dare not touch them. After the food is taken back, half of it will be handed over to the superiors, and the other half will be kept by you." I heard that there are special people collecting grain, and it is for the Liaodong Army!"

Zhou Bing pretended to be majestic, and he said: "I am only strictly following the imperial court regulations, so don't talk nonsense!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's Meng Lang, the next official!"

At this time, there was a heart-piercing cry in front, and a woman ran over from there quickly. She threw herself on the pile of rice and shouted: "This is the grain we have worked hard for a year." , is our life-saving food for winter, you can't take it away!"

"Oh, you dare to fight against the imperial court!" Chen Zhi walked over with someone, "If you don't get out of the way, I'll take you in the jail for obstructing the government's law enforcement!"

Tang Laosan immediately walked over and pulled his wife aside.

Tang Laosan was so angry that he held the sickle tightly, and the others were also staring at the piled rice, watching the yamen servants remove the bundles, their hearts were bleeding.

"You took all the food away, what shall we eat?" Tang Laosan said with a mournful face, "Leave us a bite anyway."

"If you didn't catch you, it would be considered cheap for you. Do you know that you have disobeyed the new policy of the imperial court! The county has repeated orders to change rice into mulberry! Change rice to mulberry! It's good for you, don't change any of them! If you are really an official, you will fall on deaf ears. ah!"

Chen Zhi said viciously.

"Now the county magistrate is merciful. He only collected your food and didn't arrest you! Just be content with it! A bunch of troublemakers!"

Tang Laosan argued vigorously: "Your subsidies, I haven't seen anything, let us take some kind of mulberry, we want to eat!"

"Yes! We want to eat!"

"You didn't give subsidies on purpose at all, let us plant rice fields, and now use an excuse to get our food!"

"..."

The crowd immediately became excited.

"Shut up! Believe it or not, I'm going to arrest you now! Sentence each of you! You all want to go to prison, don't you?"

"us……"

"Isn't it!" Chen Zhi roared angrily.

Now everyone is quiet.

Seeing those officials transporting all the food to the trucks, they felt very distressed.

Tang Laosan said: "Aren't you afraid that we will go to Jiangning Mansion to sue?"

Chen Zhi said with a look of disdain: "You go and sue! Go now! Go right away! Let me see who of you has the ability!"

"Jiangning Mansion will not sit idly by!"

"You don't abide by the new policy of the imperial court, and you still want the wicked to tell you!" Chen Zhi was even more disdainful, "Go!"

After saying that, he turned and left.

After walking a certain distance, he turned around and said, "I took all your food away, what can you do!"

Chen Zhi: Go and sue!You go make trouble!So what!At that time, I will punish myself with three cups!

On the sixth day of August, in Jiangning City, the yamen of the appeasement envoy.

"Qin Xianggong, Gou Rong County has collected grain." Wang He, the magistrate of Jiangning Prefecture, said.

"Collect food?" Qin Hui put down the pen in his hand, looking a little surprised, "What food to collect?"

"Gourong County didn't change a few acres of land today. In order to punish those troublemakers, the local government confiscated their food!"

"Nonsense!" Qin Hui's expression changed drastically, and he said angrily, "Why do you confiscate the people's food at will!"

"This matter has indeed gone too far locally." Wang He said, "If this causes a civil uprising, no one will be able to stop it!"

"Who came up with the idea?"

"It's Zhou Bing, the magistrate of Gou Rong."

"I think he doesn't want to be an official anymore! He's too courageous!"

"Zhou Bing's original intention was also for the New Deal. The people were unwilling to change rice into mulberry, so they were not nervous. After the court's punishment, His Majesty's punishment, we are also worried about you, Mr. Qin!"

Only then did Qin Hui's expression soften a little, and he asked, "How much food did you collect?"

"It's all taken."

"Take them all, you are forcing them to revolt!" Qin Hui said with a gloomy expression, "Each household will return some to appease the people, don't make things worse, give them some punishment, and they won't be uncooperative next year. "

"Yes! I will do it right now!"

Wang He received the notice as soon as he left the pacification envoy's yamen and returned to the prefect's yamen.

"Li Buzheng wants to see me?" Wang He said.

"Yes, Li Buzheng has an urgent matter and needs the Prefect Wang to go there immediately."

"Okay, I'll pack up and go."

At this time, Li Guang was reading the letter Mei Zhili had written to him.

After reading it, Li Guang asked his staff Zhang Yang: "The capital has some objections to Qin Xianggong's change of rice to mulberry. What do you think of this matter?"

"The malpractice has been exposed now. The county magistrate of Gourong County dared to claim to seize food from the people. This matter is very important. If you don't give an explanation to those people outside, I'm afraid Gourong County will trigger a civil uprising!"

"This official knows it well. I'm asking about the new policy of changing rice to mulberry presided over by Qin Xianggong this time. What do you think?"

"Some people in the court have long been dissatisfied with Qin Xianggong, especially the Ministry of Household Affairs. This year, the pressure on the treasury is very high. Qin Hui asked the court for several million coins. It is called a subsidy for the people, but in my opinion, many officials The pockets are full! Mei Shangshu’s letters contain many accusations against Qin Hui, and Li Buzheng can take advantage of this opportunity to bring Qin Hui down!”

"It's not easy to overthrow Qin Hui." Li Guang said, "Qin Hui will naturally pick himself clean in this matter."

While talking, someone outside informed Wang He that he was coming.

Chapter 828 Qin Xianggong, you can't play the dog emperor! (third change)

"My subordinate has seen Li Buzheng."

"Prefect Wang, sit down."

"Thank you, Li Buzheng."

Li Guang asked: "I just heard that the county magistrate of Gourong County took the yamen to forcefully collect food from the people. Do you know about this?"

"There is such a thing?" Wang He pretended to be surprised.

Li Guang said, "The people have already found me!"

Wang He said hastily: "The official has been busy with official duties recently, and he may have been negligent. I don't know where the person is. The official will handle this matter personally."

"People are outside." Li Guang said.

Wang He said: "Li Buzheng has a lot of official duties, so this matter will be handled by the lower officials."

"What are you going to do about it?"

Wang He added: "This grain involves people's livelihood, so naturally part of it will be returned to them."

"Part of it?" Li Guang asked suspiciously.

"Li Buzheng, this matter may not be regarded as an ordinary matter."

"How do you say that?"

"The implementation of the new policy of changing rice to mulberry in Gourong County is extremely slow, and certain penalties must be imposed, otherwise there will still be no progress next year." Wang He said.

"It is slow to change rice into mulberry, and punish people by robbing people of food?" Li Guang's temper suddenly came.

"Li Buzheng calm down, there is nothing to do about this matter. The imperial court now wants to change rice to mulberry. If it cannot be carried out, His Majesty the Emperor will blame him, and no one can afford it!" Wang He's tone was still very soft, "When the time comes I'm afraid Li Buzheng and you will also be implicated."

This is threatening people with the softest tone, which is relatively common in officialdom.

Li Guang said: "The change of rice to mulberry was carried out by Qin Xianggong. I have not participated in this new policy, and I don't know much about the process of the new policy. However, this kind of robbery of people's food involves Jiangdong Road Minsheng, as the chief envoy, I have a duty to do so!"

"Yes, Li Buzheng's teaching is correct." Wang He continued softly, "The lower officials are dull. I don't know what advice Li Buzheng has?"

This Wang He is definitely a standard official, and what he is best at is Tai Chi.

The bureaucratic system has a magic power: after a normal person enters, he will immediately become a Tai Chi master.

"Return all the food!"

"Yes, I'll do it right now." Wang He agreed, "May I ask what else Li Buzheng wants you to do?"

"No more, you go to deal with this matter now, if you can't handle it well, I'm the only one who will ask you!"

"Yes!"

After Wang He left, Li Guang immediately started writing letters.

Who is he writing to?

Naturally, it was played closely by Zhao Guanjia.

He knew that although Wang He agreed, but when he got out of this threshold, he would turn around and run to Qin Hui.

This matter involved the new policy of changing rice to mulberry, which Qin Hui was in charge of.

Now the peasants are unwilling to change, and they are punished in a brutal way, which is naturally beneficial to Qin Hui's implementation of the New Deal, and it is also beneficial to Wang He.

Wang He will not obediently return the food.

Some people have even divided up the food and sold it.

Li Guang had also worked as a transshipment envoy on Gyeonggi Road before. How could he not know about food?

Sure enough, as Li Guang expected, Wang He left the governor's office, turned around and ran to Qin Hui's comforter's office.

Of course, in addition to giving a secret performance to Zhao Guan's family, Li Guang also wrote back a letter to Mei Zhili.

When Li Guang dealt with this matter, he immediately showed his political wisdom.

Qin Hui led the new policy of changing Jiangdong from rice to mulberry. Now the people below are robbing food. If the court asks questions, they will send people to investigate.

Who to send?

Send the Su Provincial People's Court and the local prison department to investigate.

But Qin Hui is here, and a deputy prime minister is here, who dares to really turn over the sky in Jiangdong to investigate?