New Shun 1730

"Funing Order?"

The Funing County Magistrate, who had been sitting for who knows how long, felt that his neck had become so stiff that he could no longer feel anything. When he heard Liu Yu's call, he quickly moved his stiff neck.

"The official is here."

"Have you heard anything about what's going on here?"

The Funing County Magistrate looked at the clock and saw that it was almost ten o'clock. He thought to himself that these people were probably not seeing the situation clearly, but they were frightened and didn't know what to do. Someone should take the lead at this time to ensure that they all come out. Admitted mistake.

But no.

If not, then no wonder you are adding insult to injury. Although we usually call each other brothers and make friends through letters, today this thing is so weird that I can’t help it.

"I have also heard about it before. But as an official, you should know your priorities. Before the construction started, the Duke also said that this time the imperial court will devote all the efforts of the whole country to restore the prosperity of the Huaihe River. Therefore, other things are of minor importance. Building the river is a big deal.”

"Xiaoguan has heard about it to some extent, but he thought that the river construction can only be done in winter, but the case can be handled all year round. Therefore, Xiaguan thought about priorities, completing the project first, and handling the case later."

"Even if the Duke doesn't investigate this matter, after the river is repaired, I will definitely investigate it to the end even if I have to bear the huge responsibility and be accused by thousands of people and intimidated by thousands of people!"

The Funing County Magistrate is already like this anyway. If you don't care, I won't care either.

It’s just that you’ve made it clear that you’re going to do something dirty, so what else is there to say?

At this time, the self-ringing bell was ringing, and everyone present could not help but shudder.

Liu Yu glanced at the Funing County Magistrate and recited another sentence.

"The tiger came out of the coffin, the turtle and jade were destroyed in the coffin, who is at fault?"

The Funing County Magistrate only spent about half a second thinking, and then replied: "If you know it is a tiger, then it is Dianshou's fault to take out the bird."

"If you don't know that it is a tiger, but think that it is a righteous bird and a lamb, then there is no fault in Dian Shou."

"The ancients said that when you know a person, you know his face but not his heart. The heart is in the cup and cannot come out. How can you know whether it is a tiger or a lamb?"

"To save others with oneself, to think of others with kindness, to trust others with benevolence and righteousness, this is the style of a true gentleman!"

"When it is opened, you will know that it is a tiger, and if you are brave enough to restrain it, you will be a true gentleman in the country!"

Liu Yu coughed lightly and thought to himself that he was indeed the magistrate of Wuzi County. He was indeed quite capable.

This five-character county is almost the top configuration in Dashun County Magistrate.

The previous dynasty pioneered the classification of counties into large and small, simplified and traditional. Following this, Dashun adopted a total of seven characters to evaluate each county.

They are: essential, complicated, relief, diao, difficult, side and special.

As the name suggests, it is a military important place. Once something happens, a government, a province or even the whole country will collapse. For example, Baoding is the gateway to the capital, Zhenjiang is the canal hub, Xuzhou is the gateway to the southwest, Jinling threatens Anqing, and Jilin Shipyard controls the entire Heilongjiang basin.

Complexity does not mean prosperity, but refers to many things.

Relief means that disasters occur frequently, which requires both organizational skills and at least a slightly better reputation for integrity.

Diao, the people are full of martial virtue, difficult to manage...difficult to deal with, just as the name suggests.

Since they are divided in this way, there are different opinions on the selection of county magistrates in each county.

Generally speaking, county magistrates across the country have the same grade, but a few words determine the order of promotion.

Even if a newly promoted Jinshi has the ability, it would be sheer nonsense to just throw them into a place like Xuzhou where a few words are basically missing.

Generally, among these seven words, the last word "bian" means that the county magistrate is selected from Wude Palace by default. Bian refers to both the external border and the internal Yi-Han border area.

Funing County originally had four characters, but as the canal was abandoned and the Huaihe River was renovated, it was directly upgraded from a four-character county to a five-character county... The most typical example of this kind of county-level adjustment is Shanghai County. It turns out that there is absolutely no word "want", but after the canal was abolished and maritime transportation began to rise, this word had to be added.

Funing County and the word "bian" are not close to each other, but the remaining words are all affixed. This has a special meaning in the officialdom: promotion is expected.

The imperial court is optimistic about you and thinks you are capable, so it sent you to Wuzi County to practice and practice. After all, everyone starts from two-character counties and three-character counties at the beginning, and only moves to five-character counties and six-character counties after performing well.

Even if it is flat and the level remains the same, the meaning is very different.

The more characters in the county, the higher the promotion ranking.

Of course, this also means that the rate of imprisonment is high, the rate of dismissal is high, and the rate of being found is extremely high.

Funing County, as for Funing County, was introduced in the atlas revised after the Privy Council usurped the power of the Office: Funing, the North Pole is thirty-three degrees and thirty-two minutes high. The forbidden city meridian is two degrees and fifty-seven minutes east. Complex, relief, difficult, difficult, special. It is adjacent to the Yellow River in the north and the sea in the east. There is a dike Fan Gong, which will not be closed for ten years. Five disasters, namely yellow, flood, tide, wind and alkali, occur frequently. Hongze Lake is also the flood discharge area.

If there are five of the seven characters, the county magistrate cannot be Chu'er.

For counties with more than five characters and counties with the characters "bian" and "te", the selection power lies neither in the hands of Jiedushi nor in the hands of the government, but in the emperor's secretarial team. The secretary-general’s Tianyou Palace.

Whether the emperor has power or not is one thing.

It's another thing to not use it if you have the right, or if you are lazy and leave it to the secretary.

It cannot be said that because the secretary does it, the secretary has the power and the emperor is decentralized.

Therefore, the county magistrate in a place like this knows people but not their hearts. It is difficult to say whether he is corrupt, but he must have some ability, and the ability to talk is also ability. Because after the selection, the emperor always summoned the county magistrates of some special places. On the one hand, it was to express his kindness to the emperor, and on the other hand, it was also a kind of inspection. The basic requirement was to get through with words.

When the Funing County Magistrate faced Liu Yu's problem, he directly removed Liu Yu's responsibility without even thinking about it.

It was originally Hu Si's responsibility, but when he said this, Liu Yu seemed to have no responsibility at all.

According to him, this is a blind box, and no one knows whether the people inside will be monsters or monsters or gentlemen and talents.

As a human being, you shouldn't think the worst of people. That's not taking the heretical path of thinking that human nature is inherently evil. Judging from the teachings of sages and sages, what Liu Yu did was right, and he was still a model of a gentleman. Don’t be suspicious of people you use.

The Funing County Magistrate said happily, and he was also thinking about the current situation quickly. He is the first county magistrate after Funing was promoted to a five-character county, and now Funing has the word "special" added to it.

This word is not permanent, it is temporal.

It seems that it is indeed "special" because of the construction of the Huaihe River.

The problem is that the whole process of repairing the Huaihe River has been soy sauce. The court directly parachuted a duke to coordinate. They also have their own shogunate team. As a county magistrate, I can't bear the word "special".

But before taking office, his specifications were indeed based on the specifications of the "Five-Character County".

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that the "special" thing about me as a county magistrate does not lie in the construction of the Huaihe River itself.

But it lies in what happens after the Huaihe River is built.

What can happen next?

I definitely don’t know now.

But now that Duke Xingguo has created a dangerous place like a depression to hold a "commendation" meeting, he has to ask people to surrender and admit their mistakes before the commendation begins. Isn't it clear that he wants to deal with these gentry?

After all, he is still a little timid and doesn't dare to have too much imagination.

The Funing County Magistrate thought for a long time and felt that what Xing Guogong meant might be that after the Huaihe River Irrigation District was built in the future, he would probably follow the example of Southern Jiangsu and conduct land inventory, re-rate the land taxation standards, or change the 11 Tax?

So you find an excuse to scare these gentry?

If he does this, he, the county magistrate, needs to understand that it is definitely not Duke Xingguo's intention to do this.

Although Duke Xingguo was said to be a thorn in the court before, he was not domineering. The two terms were clearly distinguished in official circles. If he was not domineering, he was only in charge of southern Jiangsu, and he was not in charge of southern Jiangsu justifiably. How could he reach out to northern Jiangsu on his own? Obviously, this was ordered by someone.

Who can instruct the Duke of the current dynasty?

The behind-the-scenes instigation is about to come out.

The Funing County Magistrate thought that the key point in this must be understood, and he must not get confused at this juncture. He is a small role. If the local gentry really had the ability to overthrow the duke, or force the emperor to deal with the duke, but it is expected that he does not have such ability, then what are he waiting for if he doesn't add insult to injury at this time?

Looking at the soldiers around the depression, the Funing County Magistrate was even more chilled. He thought that in order to show that the central government was still able to suppress the case of people buried alive, the court did not send troops at all. They thought that one jailer was enough, but now they directly sent field troops. This Is there some rumor? Isn't it possible that someone is crazy and wants to assassinate the Duke?

Thinking of this, he felt even colder all over and said hurriedly: "My lord, I think that since this kind of thing has happened, we should detain everyone first and examine them one by one. Whether they are guilty or not, it will be clear after the investigation." . The official will definitely do his best.”

Liu Yu said calmly: "Investigate, of course we have to investigate. But this matter... is not that troublesome to investigate. The rules are written in black and white. I don't think there is any need to interrogate them. We only need to send people to repair the river." Find more people and ask them how much money they received and what kind of rice they were eating. Isn’t that the end?”

"Now that the matter has come out, the food has been turned into shit. I don't think it matters what the process is like. This matter is not a trivial matter, and it is not ordinary corruption. It can be said to be river work money, or it can be It is said that it is a work-for-relief project, or that it is a major military matter of the imperial court, which is related to the safety of millions of people suffering from floods in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. It can be regarded as military affairs and according to military law. "

The Funing County Magistrate was frightened and thought to himself, "My lord, my lord, your hat is a bit too big."

If this is according to what you said, counting the river work money, relief money, military and political affairs and the crime of reselling military supplies... this will cost a lot of people.

If it's just corruption, it's not a big deal.

Just refund the money and add a fine, plus expungement, if any.

After all, Dashun is not in the mood to peel daylilies as a warning to others.

But if you characterize it as these three types, doesn’t it mean you want to kill people?

How to calculate this matter?

Is this considered ordinary corruption and expropriation?

Or is it counted as reselling military and political supplies, or is it calculated as embezzlement during disaster relief years using relief money for work?

It makes sense no matter what.

But the result is very different. If you are next to disaster relief funds or military supplies, you will die.

This is obviously a plan to kill someone, the Funing County magistrate thought, since you are planning to kill someone, then my opinion on whether to kill or not is just like fart?

But if you make a big case like this, my reputation will be ruined along with yours, and I have to leave a way out.

In the future, I can be a cruel official or not, but you can't let me have only this option. Today's incident is weird. I thought you just wanted to scare them so that it would be easier to check the land and raise taxes, but you directly put such a big hat on them and wanted to kill people. I have to think about it carefully.

"Duke! I have something to say, but I don't know if I should say it or not."

Liu Yu nodded and said, "It's okay to say it."

"Confucius said: If you govern by politics and punish by punishment, the people will avoid punishment but have no shame. If you govern by virtue and rites, they will have shame and be upright." After quoting this sentence, the magistrate of Funing County said, "Therefore, I think there is another explanation for this matter."