Zhu Nao

After Zhu Nao was stationed in Chengdu, it took nearly a month to sort out all kinds of official documents in the government, and he also had a preliminary understanding of various government affairs in Chengdu.

He made up his mind not to succeed Chengdu Yin immediately, but to take control of the real power first, and then take the title after the management of Chengdu Mansion is done, it will be more natural.But if he wants to exercise his powers, he must have a title that can be used. Otherwise, he always bears the title of a state official but commands in the capital, which is really unreasonable.

For this matter, Xu Yu also consulted with him specifically for this matter, to see if he could come up with a better solution.

Zhu Nao didn't find it difficult at all: "This is simple!"

He immediately took out a piece of paper, dipped the pen in the ink, wrote a few lines on the paper, and handed it to Xu Yu: "Xu Shaoyin, do you think this is written like this?"

When Xu Yu got it, she was shocked when she saw it: Zhu Nao actually wrote a letter of commission in the tone of pretending to be the imperial court, appointing himself as the "supervising censor".The supervisory censor has the right to supervise and impeach local officials.In this way, he has a reputation for doing things in Chengdu Mansion.

Xu Yu wiped his forehead: "This, this is a fake edict..."

Junao nodded: "Yes."

Xu Yu: "..."

He silently swallowed back the charge of forging the imperial edict.Zhu Nao committed eight major crimes of beheading, if not ten. Is this one more?Not bad.

Not long after, Yu Changming was called by Zhu Nao.

Zhu Nao handed him the edict of appointment that he had just written, and ordered: "I have a task for you. You take a few people out of the city tomorrow, and then come back pretending to be an envoy from Beijing, and go to the government to read the edict of appointment. Well, like this That's about it."

Yu Changming looked at the imperial edict with scrawled handwriting full of alteration marks in his hand, said "Oh" speechlessly, and left with the edict.

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After solving the troubles in name, Zhu Nao jumped three ranks and became the supervisory censor.From then on, I started to do things seriously.

There is no doubt that the first thing after he took office is still tax cuts.

We must know that Central Shu was originally a land of abundance, with abundant products, but it encountered successive years of natural disasters and Yuan Jilu's baptism of tyranny for many years, which led to the current miserable situation of people's livelihood.Therefore, the most urgent task is to rest with the people and restore the people's livelihood.

Zhu Nao checked the original accounts of the Chengdu Mansion. There is certainly a problem of official corruption in Chengdu, but this is not the most serious one.The worst thing about Yuan Jilu is that he does not deal with political affairs, but is extremely greedy for pleasure.He set up many institutions for his pleasure, and even specially raised a group of officials who looked for beauties for him, and the government alone had to spend a lot of money every year.

Moreover, the upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked. With a government official like Yuan Jilu, the official atmosphere in Chengdu is really bad. There is a phenomenon of waste and extravagance everywhere in the government. Two or three years.

In fact, Xu Yu and Lu Qinghui are not corrupt officials, and they are still trying their best to govern, but the reason why they make the Chengdu government worse and worse is that the government's expenditure is too large, and they have to collect more exorbitant taxes from the people to fill the vacancy.

So after Zhu Nao took over, he immediately abolished redundant institutions, and many redundant officials were also removed, and all the expenses of the new government were simplified.In this way, expenses are saved, and exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are naturally unnecessary.

Although the officials who had their welfare cuts felt resentful, Zhu Nao killed Yuan Jilu as soon as he said it, and Lu Qinghui drove him away as soon as he said it. Who would dare to say "no"?In addition, the thousand soldiers he brought from Langzhou are still staying in the city. Naturally, everyone is as honest as possible.

So as soon as the tax cut decree came out, the common people immediately cheered.The doubts of those people who had doubts about Zhu Nao's name as a benevolent official began to gradually dissolve.

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In the past few days, the sound of pinging, bells and bangs can always be heard in Chengdu, non-stop from morning to night.This is when the officers and soldiers of Langzhou began to help the people of Chengdu repair the damaged things.Not only did the soldiers help repair things damaged by the rebels, but even some roads and buildings that had been in disrepair for a long time were also enthusiastically repaired.

In this regard, most people are very happy.Needless to say, those whose houses were damaged, even those who did not suffer losses when the rebel army came in were also happy. After all, everyone in the city felt uncomfortable looking at the dilapidated ones.

Ordinarily this is a great thing, and everyone should be happy.But there are some people who feel very uncomfortable.Pan Laomao is one of them.

Early in the morning, Pan Laomao was sitting in his room carving a jade pendant, when he suddenly heard his eldest son Pan Dachun yelling from the yard: "Brothers, come in quickly, are you thirsty? Do you want me to pour it for you?" Have some water?"

Then came the stranger's answer: "No, no, which door in your house is broken? Just show us."

Pan Laomao couldn't help being startled when he heard the stranger's voice, he quickly put down his work and ran out, only to see three men in military uniforms standing in his yard besides his son.

As soon as Old Mao Pan saw the soldier, he immediately became impatient, stretched out his hand and shouted: "Who allowed you to enter my yard? Get out of here!"

His son Pan Dachun was stunned for a moment, and so were the three soldiers.

Pan Dachun hurriedly said: "Father, I invited these three brothers back. Just now I saw them helping the neighbors to build tables at the street corner, and I found out that they can do some carpentry. The door in my house has been broken for a long time. I want to ask them to come and fix it."

Old Mao Pan rushed out and slapped his son on the head: "Who will allow you to bring Qiu Ba home?"

Pan Dachun covered his head in grievance, and the three soldiers also looked a little ugly when they heard Qiu Ba's insulting name.

After a while, the three of them thoughtfully said: "It seems that today is not very convenient, we should go back first."

Pan Dachun wanted to keep them, but Lao Mao Pan twisted his ears again, so he could only watch the three soldiers leave.

As soon as the soldiers left, Pan Laomao immediately scolded his head and face: "Stinky boy, are you tired of working? I have repeatedly taught you to take a detour when you see those Qiubas. You are fine. If you don't listen to me, let it go. How dare you kill Qiuba? Introduced to the house?! If something happens to the house, I will peel off your skin and stretch your tendons!"

Pan Dachun explained: "Father, these soldiers are different from others. They have been in the city for a month, and they have been helping the people in the city to repair houses and make furniture. They have never done anything bad. The house of my second brother and I The door has been broken for a long time, forget it in summer, but it is really cold in winter. I just want to ask them to help fix it."

Old Mao Pan scolded: "Fart! Who is Qiu Ba good? You let Qiu Ba step into the house, and our family will have three years of bad luck!"

Lao Mao Pan is in his thirties this year and is a sculptor.Originally, he was good at handicrafts and earned enough money to support his family, but he and his wife are very fertile, and now they have five children.Even though he has worked hard, the family is still very tight. The items in the house are broken, and they will suffer as long as they can, and it will cost money to repair and replace them with new ones.

Pan Dachun argued: "There will be no such thing. Now that the city is full of soldiers, is every household going to be unlucky? My second and third younger brothers and I have stayed with them for the past few days. They are by no means bad people."

"What?!" Lao Mao Pan suddenly jumped into a rage, "You have been running outside every day these days, so you are hanging out with Qiu Basi?! I...I will break your legs!"

The father and son quarreled too loudly, Pan Laomao's wife and several other children heard it, and hurried out to try to persuade them to fight.Finally, the excited father and son were separated.Persuaded by his wife, Pan Lao Mao went back to the house angrily.

As soon as Pan Laomao left, the remaining brothers and sisters started discussing immediately.

"Father is too stubborn. I asked the soldiers to come to the house to help repair it. I don't even have to pay for it. What's wrong?"

"Isn't dad always like this?"

"Just now Dad called them Qiu Ba in front of several people, they won't be angry, will they?"

Lao Mao Pan's wife said: "Okay, don't talk about it. The soldiers from Langzhou look different from other places. But your father will not harm you, and it is always better to stay away from the soldiers. It would be wrong. After all, he has seen more than you."

The children were silent when they heard their mother say the same thing.

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Two days later, Lao Mao Pan went out on business.When he came back from his work, he saw his own children were all there in the yard, holding back their smiles with treacherous brows, as if they had done something wrong.

Old Mao Pan asked, "What are you doing?"

The children shook their heads quickly.

Lao Mao Pan was not in the mood to tangle with them, so he went back to his room.He returned to the room, ready to take out the unfinished jade pendant two days ago and continue to carve, but after searching for a while, he couldn't find the jade pendant.

This jade pendant was entrusted to him by a wealthy family in the city, and it is quite rare.He would hide the jade pendant every day after carving, so as not to be bumped by any naughty child in the family.He searched around and couldn't find it, and then thought of the mischievous looks of those children when he first entered the yard, so he thought that one of them took it and wanted to mess with him.

As he walked out, he yelled: "Which of you has touched my jade? Hurry up and take it out..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly.After a while, he was shocked: "This door! Why is this door replaced with a new one?!"

His sons and daughters poked their heads in from the outside, but they dared not enter the house.

Lao Mao Pan immediately understood: these little bastards at home have brought Qiu Ba in again.

He thought of his missing jade pendant, and his face changed drastically: "My jade, my jade must have been stolen by Qiu Ba! Oh, that is the precious jade that the Li family entrusted me to carve!"

The children were startled when they heard this, and they didn't dare to hide immediately, so they hurried in from the outside.

"What jade? Father, you can't find your jade?"

"Dad, did you forget where you put it yourself? Hurry up and look for it..."

When Pan Laomao returned to the house, he searched all the places where he could hide things, but he couldn't find them.He couldn't help but cursed: "I warned you again and again not to bring Qiu Ba in. This is good, my jade was taken away by Qiu Ba! That piece of precious jade is worth five or sixty taels of silver at least. What do you want me to give to Li?" Family? I'll just sell you bastards to the Li family!"

The children were all so frightened that they could only cry and explain: "They won't be the ones who took it. We have been watching. They are not such people."

Old Pan Pan couldn't listen to a word.

After all, the thing is too valuable, Pan Lao Mao will never suffer such a dumb loss.He remembered that the few soldiers his son brought back last time were the ones who helped the neighbors repair their houses at the intersection.Immediately, he rushed out aggressively to find someone to settle accounts.

He rushed outside, and the soldiers were working on the street.Lao Mao Pan strode up, stretched out his hand to beg, "Give me back the jade!"

The soldiers were stunned for a moment, and said blankly, "What jade?"

"Don't play dumb, give me back what you stole!"

Hearing the word stealing, everyone's expressions sank.

"Mr. Pan, you lost something at home, you think we stole it, is that so?" asked a soldier.

Old Mao Pan raised his voice and said, "You guys stole it, don't rely on it!"

Gradually, people nearby came to watch, and passers-by also stopped to watch.

The soldier said: "Okay. Since you said so, let's report to the government together. Let the government investigate this matter."

Lao Mao Pan didn't buy it: "The government is with you and will definitely protect you."

The soldier said: "Zhuzhou...Zhu Yushi has clear rewards and punishments, so he will not shield anyone! As long as we are loyal to our duties, we will have five taels of silver every year and a few shi of grain. But if we dare to steal the people, it will be a death penalty." Think about it for yourself, how could we steal your things?"

The crowd on the sidelines suddenly went into an uproar.Five taels of military pay every year, isn't it considered food?What a treat!Now that the year is sluggish, the vast majority of ordinary people can't earn so much money a year, even if Yuan Jilu raised his military salary back then, he didn't have that much.

It is no wonder that the army in Langzhou is different from other armies.I don't know, is this treatment only available to Langzhou people, or is this treatment available to soldiers under Zhu Nao?Thinking about it, I'm really envious...

At that moment, a few people started thinking about it.

Lao Mao Pan was also very surprised when he heard this. The reason why he hated soldiers so much was because soldiers were always degraded in the eyes of the world. When they were degraded to the point of common people, there were rumors that if Qiu Ba entered the house, his master would be unlucky for three years.And soldiers have always been treated very poorly, and they are so discriminated against, so it is naturally impossible for them to treat others well.Rape and looting happened endlessly near the military camp.Lao Mao Pan had really suffered from Qiu Ba's loss before, so he was so vigilant.

But why are the soldiers in Langzhou treated so well?Stealing by a soldier would be a capital offense, and that's unheard of...