"Why is Nanchi so..."
Jia Cong looked at Nanchifang City at the moment and always felt something was strange. After thinking for a long time, he finally came up with a suitable adjective.
"Why is it so harmonious? Yes, it is harmonious! When did Nanchifang City not even have a quarrelsome person? Where have all those young masters gone?"
Are you kidding me? In a place like Beijing, where a brick can hit a fifth-rank official at random, it is too suspicious that there is such a harmonious scene.
Jia Shiyi replied quietly: "Young Master, you forgot? Prince Zhongshun has returned to Beijing!"
"Hey, I've been so busy these past two days that I forgot about this."
Jia Cong put his head on his forehead and smiled, and said: "I have to say that the Thirteenth Master has been greatly wronged for the sake of our people in the capital. He has been blamed for being the biggest playboy in the capital. Look, this is a harmonious and beautiful world. Xia Jingcheng!"
The harmonious Nanchifang City makes Jia Cong feel a little regretful. Mr. Yumao wanted to do something chivalrous and righteous today...
After shopping around, Jia Cong bought a small orange cat from a cattery and carried the kitten to the edge of the South Pool.
"Guanhai Tower...it's quite elegant. Brother Zhang really knows how to choose a place."
Before he went upstairs, he saw a noble prince waving to him by the window on the second floor facing the pond. His sword eyebrows were slightly open but not sharp, but gave him a sense of stability and elegance.
Jia Cong waved to him in response, and then quickly climbed to the second floor. After entering the private room, the two of them didn't even exchange greetings. They sat across from each other drinking tea and looking at the scenery from the window.
It turns out that the person who invited Jia Cong to come here today is none other than Zhang Sanzhang Zhengju, the son-in-law of King Wu Liu Chen, the guest of honor of the princess, and the outlaw.
"Brother Zhang, you finally came to the capital. I thought you were going to take part in the examination this spring. Is it to assist His Highness King Wu in handling the affairs of Jinling?"
Hearing Jia Cong's inquiry, Zhang Zhengju shook his head and smiled: "Those people in Jinling are nothing more than chickens and dogs. When the royal soldiers arrived, they were as well-behaved as kittens. The main reason is that my wife is pregnant. How can I Can you walk away?"
"ah?"
Hearing this, Jia Cong quickly raised his hands and congratulated him: "Congratulations, Third Brother Zhang. When the child is born, I must go get a glass of wedding wine."
"Even if you don't want to go, I'm going to tie you up."
Zhang Zhengju laughed heartily, and after chatting for a while about family affairs, before noon, there was a knock on the door of the private room again.
With a creak, the door opened, and a young man with a golden crown and jade belt walked in. Jia Cong and Zhang Zhengju stood up to greet him.
Jia Cong cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations, fourth brother, you are going to be an uncle..."
King Wu and the current emperor are contemporaries, so Liu Hong and the princess of King Wu's Mansion have a cousin relationship, which is the kind that has not been out of the fifth server.
Will Zhang Zhengju’s future children call Liu Hong uncle?
Under Jia Cong's introduction, Liu Hong met the highly regarded Jiangnan talent for the first time.
"If Your Highness wants to evaluate the officials of Shuntian Prefecture in accordance with the "Daxia Code", then the Department of Literary and Literary Selection of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will have to prepare more replacement candidates."
Zhang Zhengju just briefly flipped through the file Liu Hong brought, then closed it and said: "The money and food for disaster relief are allocated layer by layer, and almost everyone who has passed it has gotten their hands on it. If Your Highness wants to truly implement it, the first step is to manage the officials." , the second is legal regulations, and the third is supervision. As long as any of these three points are not implemented, natural disasters will definitely reappear."
These few words shocked Liu Hong greatly. As expected of someone recommended to him personally by his imperial grandfather, he has such insight at such a young age.
He stood up and bowed, "Sir, please teach me!"
Zhang Zhengju hurriedly stepped aside and bowed in return: "Your Highness has offended my ministers. It is the minister's duty to share your worries with you."
"Do you have any clever ideas, sir?"
"Didn't His Highness say that punishment should be carried out according to law? Let's start from the "Daxia Law"..."
The second floor of Guanhai Building has been taken over by Liu Hong, and a team of dragon guards in plainclothes are guarding the stairs. Some people also wanted to use the family's power to climb to the second floor, but were scared away by a flying fish token.
Zhang Zhengju was talking eloquently in the elegant room, explaining his views to Liu Hong and Jia Cong.
"The dynasty has lasted for hundreds of years, and many officials have been neglected and neglected. During the reign of Taizu, he was greedy for money and silver.
For twenty taels, he was dismissed from office and seized the title. For more than two hundred taels of silver, he was executed. Do you dare to do this now? "
Liu Hong subconsciously wanted to say something, but then he remembered his imperial grandfather. The emperor treated his ministers leniently, and even if he embezzled a hundred thousand taels of silver, he was dismissed from office, and he didn't even have to go to jail...
"Since being greedy for twenty taels of ink means dismissal from office and seizing a title, being greedy for a hundred thousand taels is nothing more than dismissal from office and seizing a title. Since you can't die anyway, why not make more money?"
Zhang Zhengju's expression became more solemn and he sighed: "If you follow the rules of the Taizu Dynasty, those files that Your Highness has just shown me, 99% of them will be taken to Caishikou and beheaded. But does Your Highness dare to do this?"
Liu Hong then sighed: "I have this idea in my heart, but I dare not do it."
He didn't lie, he really didn't dare. Even the emperor did not dare to actually kill these people according to the rules of the Taizu Dynasty, because according to the rules of dismissal from office and seizure of titles at twenty taels, and execution of judgments by beheading at two hundred taels, all the civil and military ministers in the court could be replaced with new ones.
Zhang Zhengju nodded: "I can understand that a single move can affect the whole body. Therefore, my first suggestion is that since you can't move the official position for the time being, then skip this step and directly take control of the strengths of the township."
Such a familiar pattern...
Jia Cong subconsciously said: "Power to the grassroots? Is the countryside surrounding the city?"
"Delegating power to the grassroots? That's quite appropriate."
Zhang Zhengju explained in detail: "Since ancient times, the countryside has been dominated by officials. The people who manage the place for the country and the dynasty are county magistrates, rather than the officials, township heads, and village chiefs. Therefore, as I wish, Your Highness may wish to formulate a new According to the regulations, the heads of townships, li, and county officials were incorporated into the state and dynasty system and given titles."
"The second is to determine the law. This matter has been discussed with Mr. Qingteng. In a few days, it will be presented to the palace at the meeting. The new law has its own new regulations, which can be tried out in Shuntian Mansion first."
"As for supervision, I am willing to expand the Metropolitan Procuratorate and increase the number of imperial censors. However, Mr. Qingteng said that Mr. Xiao Jia made a fresh suggestion..."
Um?
Jia Cong was still thinking about things at the grassroots level under power when he heard Zhang Zhengju mention him.
"Brother Zhang is talking about setting up an Information Department?"
Zhang Zhengju nodded. This was the first time Liu Hong heard this.
He turned around and asked, "What is the Information Department?"
"It's a variation of Di Bao. Di Bao is top-down, while news is bottom-up..."
Jia Cong gave an example: "The imperial court can set up an Information Department to recruit righteous people as journalists. If there is a wealthy family in a certain place that oppresses the people, and the officials are shielding them, and the people have no way to turn to them for help, the reporters from the Information Department can spread a piece of paper all over the world. Advertise it widely. When the superior officials hear it, how can they ignore it?"
Zhang Zhengju nodded and added: "This method is feasible or not. Chen Zheng and Mr. Qingteng are trying to find a way to modify it so that it can be implemented in the world and fill the gap in supervision."
"Isn't possible?"
Liu Hong thinks this method is very good. In this way, Daxia will not have thousands of censors out of thin air. How can those wealthy families dare to bully the people?
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and explained: "The teacher said that this method has also been used by others to control public opinion and is not conducive to the rule of the country."
"Prophecies from the countryside can make people panic. His Highness has underestimated the power of the Information Department. If someone with intentions takes control of the Information Department, no one is sure whether what happened to Dachu Xing and King Chen Sheng will happen in this dynasty. .”
Zhang Zhengju's words startled Liu Hong, and the conversation and atmosphere just now turned cold. The three of them all skipped the matter of the Information Department and turned the topic back to the grassroots level under power.
This conversation lasted for almost two hours. Even during lunch, Liu Hong was not idle and asked Zhang Zhengju a lot about "Daxia Law".
After three glasses of wine, Zhang Zhengju made bold remarks.
"There are as many omissions in the Daxia Code as there are sieves. If I commit a crime, let alone the fact that the government cannot find any evidence to convict me. I am still 100% sure that the person who knocked the alarm will be sent to prison." Prison!"
After hearing this, Liu Hong finally understood why Jia Cong called his cousin-in-law an outlaw.
After seeing off Liu Hong and Zhang Zhengju, Jia Cong yawned and went to Tai Hospital with the little orange cat in his arms.
Mr. Yu Chenglang checked the kitten, fed him a pill of who-knows-what ingredients, and then kicked out Jia Cong, who was disturbing him when playing with bugs.
Originally seeing the sun setting in the west, Jia Cong planned to return to his mansion. Unexpectedly, just when he was shaken to sleep, the carriage suddenly stopped suddenly and almost rolled out of the carriage.
There was a lot of noise outside the carriage, with faint quarrels and fights.
"Little Third Master, I seem to hear someone calling Uncle Xue..."
Wow, Jia Cong immediately lifted the curtain and went to the door of the restaurant not far away. A circle of people gathered around him, and he could faintly see a few people struggling together inside.
He jumped off the carriage, and after the guards opened a path, he came to the front of the circle.
It was indeed Xue Pan who was fighting with someone, and it was one-on-five.
The guards around him were all suppressed by other people's guards. He could only rely on his strong body to fight against others.
At this time, Xue Pan's face was covered in bruises and bruises. If he wasn't a familiar person, he wouldn't have been able to recognize that this was the uncle of the Xue family of Huangshang.
Seeing that Xue Pan was punched again in the face, Jia Cong immediately shouted: "Stop!"
Unexpectedly, these people did not pay any attention to Jia Cong. Instead, there was a woman dressed as a maid, standing on the stone steps at the door of the restaurant, frowning and saying, "This is a private matter of mine. Master, it's better not to get involved. Keep fighting, the girl said, If something goes wrong, she’ll bear it!”
The crowd of onlookers immediately started whispering. One of them recognized Jia Cong's identity and sneered to his friends in a low voice: "This Xia family is going to be kicked out of the woodwork. The Xue family is a serious relative of Rongguo Mansion. Cong The third master got angry and even killed the prince and the prince!"
I went out today without wearing a cat suit. Are I being looked down upon?
He touched the frightened cat and snorted coldly: "Pull them apart. If they resist, their hands and feet will be broken!"
Following Jia Cong's order, several guards did not even pull out their swords. The scabbards hit the hands and feet of the slave guards hard, and the chaotic scene was instantly controlled.
"Brother, they are too bullying (Brother Cong, they are too bullying)..."
Well……
Xue Pan was so miserable that his mouth was so swollen that he could not speak.
Jia Cong summoned the boy next to Xue Pan and soon figured out the cause and effect of the conflict.
It turned out that Xue Pan had a conflict with the Xia family, who was also an imperial merchant, over the ownership of the restaurant in front of him.
Of course, it was not Xue Pan who used the power of the Rongguo Mansion to pressure people, but the Guihua Xia family, who coerced the restaurant owner who had already received the Xue family's deposit to go to Daxing County Yamen to sign the contract.
"It turns out to be Master Yumao. This servant is too blind to recognize Taishan. Please forgive me."
The maid had already found out Jia Cong's identity from the servant, but she remained neither humble nor overbearing. After making a Wanfu ceremony, she said: "Sir, the original shopkeeper of this restaurant has signed a contract with my family at the Daxing County Yamen, and has taken over my family's money. Money, but the Xue family came to the restaurant to quarrel and provoked my girl. Even if the Rongguo Mansion is high and noble, it must be reasonable. "
Jia Cong chuckled: "I have sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, but I am unreasonable. What can you do to me?"
"Folk girls can't do anything to Mr. Xiao Jia, but "Da Xia Lv" can."
The voice is cold, but its owner is in good shape.
Xue Pan glanced at the woman walking out of the restaurant and whispered in Jia Cong's ear: "She is the only daughter of the Xia family..."
Jia Cong nodded slightly. It turned out to be Xue Pan's bad fate in the original work, Xia Jingui, a girl from the Osmanthus Xia family.
I saw this woman wearing a veil on her face, gold and jade on her head, all her clothes were exquisite, and her figure was enchanting...
Although I couldn't see what it looked like, it made the melon eaters around me daydream about it.
Even Xue Pan, who was beaten into a pig's head, muttered: "I just saw it by chance, and it looks so pretty..."...
"Brother Xue has fallen in love with this girl? How about I go back and tell my aunt and ask her to hire someone to go to Xia's house for matchmaking?"
Hearing Jia Cong's joke, Zhu Touban immediately shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, no, the tigress can't do it!"
Xia Jingui didn't even look at him when he saw Jia Cong. He thought he was very angry.
She suddenly felt suffocated.
She frowned and said, "The Xue family's uncle made a fuss in my restaurant today and spoke rudely to me. Is it not too much to punish him a little or two from my Xia family?"
Jia Cong gave up the nonsense with Xue Pan, raised his eyes and sneered: "The Osmanthus Xia family, are you qualified to say the word punishment in front of me? Who gave you the courage to hit my brother Xue?"
Although the Osmanthus Xia family has a temporary position in the Ministry of Household Affairs, their empty title, like that of the Xue family, was taken back by the Ministry of Household Affairs after their father died of illness.
The Xue family also has a male heir, Xue Pan. If he can be cleared up, the Xue family can get another false title of sixth rank in the household department. But the Xia family has no male heirs, and by Xia Jingui's generation, they might not even be able to keep their status as imperial merchants.
Jia Cong ordered: "Go to the people from the Daxing County Government and call the original shopkeeper of the restaurant. I want to see today how the Daxing County Government dared to transfer the ownership of the restaurant after paying the deposit."
Xia Jingui immediately panicked when he heard this. This restaurant is located not far from the imperial city and has an excellent location. The person behind the restaurant was demoted from his official position, so she had the opportunity to use various means to force the shopkeeper to put up a transfer sign.
But she never thought that she just left the capital and returned to her hometown in Baoding Prefecture. After returning to the capital, she found that the restaurant owner had reached a verbal agreement with Xue Pan and even received a deposit of 500 taels from the Xue family.
Is this okay? That man wanted this restaurant, and she, Xia Jingui, was just showing up.
This Xue Pan is the nephew of Prince Teng, the uncle of the county under the command of Du Taiwei, and an in-law of the Rongguo Mansion. How can the Xia family compete with him?
So Xia Jingui went to that person's house overnight, and early the next morning he led his men to seize the owner of the restaurant and forced the Daxing County Government to transfer the property and sign a deed for him.
Originally, I thought that with the endorsement of the county government, the Xue family could only admit that they were unlucky. But I never thought that the Xue family would have a stubborn new head. Not only did he cause a stir in the restaurant, but he also attracted the little devil star of Rongguo Mansion...
Xia Jingui gritted his teeth, took a few steps forward and came to Jia Cong, leaned down and said in Jia Cong's ear: "Master Jia, I can't help myself, please show me your kindness, I will be rewarded generously!"
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