"How do you think Ge Daniu should be dealt with? Do you really want to sentence him to prison and escort him to the capital?"
Wu Guofu is asking the official Hu Zhaolong here.
"I'm afraid something else might happen when we are escorted to the capital. It's better to find a way to get rid of him on the way to the capital."
Hu Zhaolong replied.
After hearing this, Wu Guofu said: "I know, do it more carefully."
Not long after Wu Guofu said this, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, and then a government servant ran in: "Your Majesty, the Holy Master is back again!"
After hearing this, Wu Guofu felt like a thunder was exploding in his ears.
D.
Emperor, weren't you ashamed of being contradicted by me and then left in dejection?
At this time, Dongchang Dajue Qiao Ke came in and ordered: "According to the order, Wu Guofu, the magistrate of Huarong County, sent someone to spy on the holy driver. He was planning to be dismissed and questioned, and the county government was confiscated. Yang Tinglin temporarily served as the magistrate of Huarong County to interrogate Ge Da. Wait, Huarong County is temporarily not allowing anyone to leave the city!"
"Take it!"
Qiao Ke pointed at Wu Guofu and gave an order.
"yes!"
Liang Dongchang fanzi came over and pushed Wu Guofu to the ground.
Qiao Ke took off the black gauze hat on his head, threw it to the clerk behind him, and ordered: "Copy!"
Two teams of East Factory personnel who had been prepared rushed in with torches.
Also rushing in were the civil servants from Dongchang, all holding abacus in preparation for checking the county government's account books.
At the same time, Yang Tinglin came with a team of troops temporarily seconded from the Imperial Guard Camp and ordered: "Bring Ge Daniu to trial."
Not long after, Ge Daniu was escorted to Yang Tinglin.
Ge Daniu was surprised when he saw this and asked: "What's going on? One moment I was left in the county government office, and the next moment you took me back."
Yang Tinglin replied: "Because I am the county magistrate here now, please tell me whether the tolls you collect will only be collected by your village, or will some be given to the county. Does the government know that you are blocking the road tolls?" ?Don’t lie, lying can only be a capital crime!”
Ge Daniu therefore replied: "I will give some to Hu Dianli in the county, otherwise he will ask people from other villages to collect it."
"Who is Hu Dianli?"
Yang Tinglin replied.
Ge Daniu turned back and pointed at Hu Zhaolong who was still in the county government office: "That's him."
Hu Dianli was already trembling all over.
And Yang Tinglin also looked at him at this time: "Take it!"
The two sergeants detained Hu Dianli.
Yang Tinglin asked: "Do you get the money paid by Gejiacun alone, or does it belong to other people in the county government? Answer truthfully, otherwise, you cannot afford the consequences!"
"The county magistrate also gets a share."
Hu Dianli replied tremblingly.
"Report! A lot of silver coins were found in the backyard of the county government office, about 300,000 yuan. There are account books for accounting, and there are detailed contents of the tolls of various official roads!"
At this time, someone from the East Factory came out to report.
Before Qiao Ke could speak, Zhu Youxiao, who had already returned, spoke loudly: "Wu Zhi County! Restrict the people not to do illegal things and deal with local gangster cases. You say you don't have enough manpower and are too lazy to take care of it, but you know how to collect money." !very good!"
"You are talking upright in front of me. Those who don't know better would think that you are really a direct minister who is not afraid of the powerful, but I am not that easy to bully!"
Zhu Youxiao pointed at Wu Guofu and shouted loudly.
"His Majesty!"
Wu Guofu shouted loudly.
"Shut up!"
Zhu Youxiao yelled loudly, and said: "As soon as you angered me, I knew that you wanted me to lose my mind due to anger, or leave, or kill you directly, and if I had killed you directly at that time, , you have to leave a record of innocent killing of officials, you made a good calculation! But I didn’t fall for your deception! You don’t know me well enough, you obviously suffered the disadvantage of not being an official in front of the emperor!”
Zhu Youxiao said: "Drag him out and throw him to death. Then he will be charged with corruption and stripped of his skin!"
"yes!"
The accompanying official from the Ministry of Justice immediately replied.
Wu Guofu shouted loudly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
Zhu Youxiao ignored him.
…
"After returning to Beijing, we must immediately promulgate new regulations for state and county officials to make it known to the world that Wu Guofu was corrupt and inactive, allowed local people to break the law, and extorted businessmen and travelers!"
"In addition, the problem of insufficient grassroots officials must be solved. Each town must have a governor's station (equivalent to a police station), which must be fully staffed. There must be people responsible for traffic arteries, people responsible for arrests, and people responsible for drug control. Some people should be responsible for urban management, and others should be responsible for promoting the rule of law and providing incentives."
When Zhu Youxiao left Huarong and continued on his way to Shili, he told Lu Xiangsheng and Wen Tiren what they had to do in the future.
Not long after this, Zhu Youxiao entered Shili territory.
"Your Majesty! Please forgive me for being rude and unable to get up."
Chengguo Gong Qin Liangyu, who had returned to his hometown for retirement, started talking first when he saw Zhu Youxiao coming.
"I have already conveyed the decree to dispense with all the extravagant etiquette. You don't need to say anything more!"
Zhu Youxiao said, "I only found out about your serious illness after knowing that Marquis Nanjiang requested to return home to read your report. How have you been lately?"
"It's been a lot better recently. His Majesty sent an order to Dr. Wu and others to come to Sichuan in advance and bring a newly made medicine called quinine. It's been a lot better."
Qin Liangyu replied with a smile.
"It'll be good if it gets better. I guess the disease you're having is something you got when you fought in Burma. It's for the sake of the country. You need to take a good rest first and try to live until a hundred years from now."
Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.
"Old minister, thank you for your kindness."
Qin Liangyu replied, and then said: "Your Majesty, if I still have time left, I only want to do one thing, and that is to disband the white-pole soldiers and let them all disarm and return to the fields. At that time, please ask your Majesty to send more soldiers who will truly obey your orders." The imperial army is coming to the southwest!"
Zhu Youxiao was quite surprised: "Why is this?"
Lu Xiangsheng and Wen Tiren were quite happy after hearing this, and looked at Qin Liangyu with admiration.
"Now in the world, among the national defense forces that are not part of the emperor's army, the southwest white pole soldiers are the most powerful! Although the veteran is from the Tujia people, he is also familiar with history books and knows the dangers of not concentrating the world's military power in the hands of 'one person' , and also understand that the country can only have one "Emperor". Thanks to His Majesty's trust, I ordered the old ministers to expand the number of white-armed troops. Now Your Majesty has his own troops. It is time to disband, otherwise it will make the world uneasy and also It will harm ourselves, please Your Majesty."
Qin Liangyu replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded: "What Aiqing said makes sense! Being able to liberate military power by oneself shows that Aiqing really knows the general principles and understands the righteousness!"
With that said, Zhu Youxiao continued: "But it would be a loss for the imperial court to have all the white-armed soldiers disarmed and return to their fields. I have decided to transfer all the white-armed soldiers to local officials to serve as officials to enhance public security. From now on, all armies in the world will not only be officers, but also officers." Soldiers, after a certain age, are transferred to local patrol camps and stationed in various places. On the way to Shili, I witnessed many reasons why the government was weak and the people did not know the king's law. Regarding the role of bandits among the people, we now need to set up more local patrol camps to teach the people to abide by the law."
"In this case, can the court's money and food support it?"
Qin Liangyu asked.
"You don't have to worry about it. Let's first let the foreigners raise the officials, soldiers and horses for us. After the people have been educated and learned about etiquette and law-abiding, future generations of kings can streamline the government. Or maybe technological innovation will make it impossible to support so many officials in the future. What’s the problem? Anyway, one generation can only do the things of one generation, so you don’t need to persuade them to disarm and return to their fields, or to persuade them to respond to the court’s arrangements and go to local posts.”
Zhu Youxiao said.
After hearing this, Qin Liangyu said: "In that case, I will listen to the court's arrangements."
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