"So you were waiting for me here."
Zhao Ping sneered in his heart.
There was no trace of panic on his face, and he said loudly: "Go back to the county master, the common people do not admit these crimes."
"First, the grassroots people only ran breweries, not textile factories."
"Here is the official document of the brewery. I would like the county magistrate to take a look at it."
A government official presented the official document to the county magistrate, who read it and handed it to Huang Fengnian.
Huang Fengnian was extremely puzzled. He didn't give Zhao Ping the official document of approving the brewery? Where did he get it?
But when he saw the official seal and private seal of the county governor stamped on the official document, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
Zhao Ping actually climbed up to the county guard?
But Huang Fengnian soon rejected this idea.
Zhao Ping showed up again and again, and Huang Fengnian had already found out all the generations of his ancestors.
He is an out-and-out civilian.
The reason why there is an official brewery approved by the county governor is probably the work of the Tian family.
After all, when we were fighting the plague some time ago, he saw Tian Zhen, the young master of the Tian family, bringing wine home from Zhao Ping.
I think the brewery should be run by the Tian family.
Zhao Ping is responsible for taking care of it.
After all, the cost of buying a factory in Yun'an County is much lower than buying a factory in the county town.
At the very least, you can save a lot of money on labor.
After figuring out the key, Huang Fengnian nodded and said, "If you have the official document in hand, then the first crime is false accusation. I will make the decision and erase it for you."
"What about the remaining sins?"
"Back to the county master, let the common people talk about privately built houses first."
Zhao Ping said with a smile: "The houses built by the grassroots are not houses, but factories. They are for the people who work. They are not houses of the grassroots."
"The common people will not recognize the following crimes."
"House for workers?"
Huang Fengnian was confused.
Throughout the entire Dawei Dynasty, workers were at the lowest level, and it would not be an exaggeration to call them untouchables.
Which of those landowners and gentry didn't let them live in woodsheds?
If you are harsher, just let them rest in the corner.
If you are more harsh, you won't give them any time to rest at all.
sleep?
Beautiful thought.
Master, I spent money to hire you to work, and that is to make you work. How can I allow you to sleep?
But Zhao Ping wants to build new houses for workers to live in.
Isn't this a waste of money?
Zhao Ping nodded and said, "Not bad."
“It’s true that workers make money from me, but they also create profits for me.”
“Without them here, there’s no way to make more wine.”
"Rather than saying that I am fulfilling them and helping them support their families, it is better to say that they are fulfilling me and helping me earn more money."
"So I give them three coppers a day, and I also provide them with a full meal, white rice, broth, whatever they want."
"Then build them houses where they can rest."
"Only when they have enough food, drink, sleep and no worries can they work harder."
"Otherwise, they won't be able to sleep well if they don't have enough to eat, and they will always fall asleep at work. In serious cases, they may get sick. I have to ask a medical officer for diagnosis and treatment, so it's really not worth the gain."
Huang Fengnian touched his beard and thought for a moment, what he said seemed to make sense.
The crowd gathered outside had already exploded.
"Mr. Zhao said that very well."
"Some time ago, I worked for the landowner in our village, and he let me live in a woodshed. The mosquitoes almost bit me to death. I couldn't rest well at all. How could I still have the energy to work during the day?"
"That's good for you. When I was working for the landlord, I was not allowed to sleep at all. I worked day and night. When I was tired, I was asked to lie down on the roadside and rest for a quarter of an hour. When the quarter of an hour was up, I continued to work and just worked. After three days, I couldn't hold on anymore and ran back. The landowner who had entered the dog didn't even pay me the wages, saying that I didn't work until the time. I had already decided that even if I starved to death, I would not pay that landowner again. Work.”
"Mr. Zhao, do you still need workers there? I also want to work there."
"Yes, Mr. Zhao, I want to go too."
"..."
When the lawsuit was brought to court, it turned into a recruitment meeting.
Huang Fengnian's face was extremely dark, and he kept patting the gavel to silence everyone.
But no one listened to him.
It wasn't until the government officials pounded the water and fire sticks on the ground and said "mighty" that the noise outside gradually stopped.
Zhao Ping nodded secretly.
The purpose was achieved.
Don’t you, Huang Fengnian, want to punish me?
Today I took the opportunity to promote the factory and build its reputation.
As for the remaining guilt, Zhao Ping had already thought of his excuse and was not afraid at all.
"This crime counts as your passing."
Huang Fengnian said with a dark face.
His house was given to workers, so even if he wanted to punish him, he couldn't stand it.
I could only continue, "He is not a medical officer, but he practices medicine and treats diseases. How do you explain it?"
"Magistrate Huang, I want to ask, which eye of yours saw me practicing medicine?"
Zhao Ping asked rhetorically.
"hehe."
Huang Fengnian sneered, "How dare you quibble?"
"When the plague broke out, everyone drank the decoction you brewed. Not only did I see this, but the sick people present also saw it."
"Can I still frame you falsely?"
"Magistrate Huang, you are not a human being."
Before Zhao Ping could speak, people outside started to boo again.
"Mr. Zhao solved the plague and reduced so many losses for our Yun'an County. Now you actually want to use this to punish him. Where is your conscience?"
"If Mr. Zhao hadn't been here, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to keep your black hat now, right?"
"That's right, Mr. Zhao is the savior. He is saving us, but you repay kindness with hatred. You are not worthy of being our county magistrate."
"Get out of Yun'an County."
There were constant denunciations for a while.
Some people even took rotten vegetable leaves and threw them into the court.
Zhao Ping was frightened and hurriedly hid aside.
I still sigh in my heart that the ancients were simple.
How dare you openly fight against the county magistrate for an unrelated person like yourself.
Nor is it in vain to resolve to change their lives.
"Come here, drive all these unruly people out. Anyone who dares to cause trouble again will be shot with a stick."
Huang Fengnian wiped a handful of rotten vegetable leaves from his face and threw away the worn shoes from the public case. His body was shaking with anger, and he ordered the troublemakers to be beaten to death.
Only by frightening them can Zhao Ping be frightened.
Then Zhao Ping will obediently dig into his family's wealth.
Most of the yamen servants are the helpers of tigers. When they hear orders, they will smash them with the water and fire sticks in their hands.
A few who ran slowly were knocked to the ground.
When Zhao Ping saw this, he could only stop him.
"Stop! Stop it quickly!"
How could those government officials listen to a prisoner like him and continue to beat him up?
Zhao Ping could only signal to Li Hu.
Li Hu jumped out, dodged left and right, and snatched the water and fire sticks from the hands of the Yamen servants.
With one push, all those people were pushed over.
Seeing how fierce Li Hu was, the remaining government officials did not dare to step forward.
Even Huang Fengnian was shocked.
He quickly called the Yamen servant to come over and protect him.
Zhao Ping waved his hand, and Li Hu understood and retreated into the crowd to hide.
Zhao Ping then stepped forward to help the fallen government servants up, and then said loudly to the crowd watching outside: "Fellow folks, you are here to protest against me, Zhao Ping. Zhao Ping is very grateful."
"But this is the court, where justice is served."
"Please also wait calmly for Magistrate Huang to pronounce the verdict, and don't get too excited and do some irrational things."
"Mr. Zhao, we are not angry."
Those people were not afraid of trouble and responded loudly, "You healed us for free and you are our benefactor."
"Now the county magistrate, a bitch, wants to punish you. We don't accept it and want to plead grievances for you."
"I thank you all for your kindness."
Zhao Ping bowed his hands and bowed, and continued: "But our county magistrate is a good official who knows right from wrong and is fair and strict."
"As long as I have not committed a crime, he will never be able to punish me in public."
"Please also give me some time to clarify the facts for the county magistrate and remove suspicion."
When he said that Huang Fengnian was a good official, Zhao Ping deliberately emphasized his tone, which was a reminder to Huang Fengnian not to make mistakes.
"All right."
The crowd agreed, but they also made up their minds.
As long as the county magistrate dares to deal with Zhao Ping, they will risk their lives and fight in court to rescue their benefactor.
Zhao Ping then turned around and said to Huang Fengnian: "Huang County Magistrate, when the plague broke out, it is true that I made soup, but it was just soup."
"I saw that the people in Yun'an County lived in poverty and only had two meals a day. Some even only had one meal and were still not full, so I took the initiative to make some soup with wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. How could it become a practice of medicine to treat diseases? ?”
"Soup?"
Huang Fengnian sneered, "All the ingredients used to make the soup are medicinal materials."
"You actually said it was a wild vegetable, and you still want to use this as a quibble. Do you really think I am so easy to be deceived?"
"Medicine?"
Zhao Ping pretended to be shocked, "The common people are not medical officers, so they don't know that those wild vegetables are medicinal materials."
"Can I be innocent if I don't know?"
Huang Fengnian slapped the gavel tree hard and shouted coldly: "Don't take medicine indiscriminately. What if someone dies from it?"
"Although there is no problem now, what about later?"
"Who can guarantee that?"
"If something goes wrong, you, Zhao Ping, will take full responsibility."
"According to the Dawei Law..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Ping, "Magistrate Huang, you were also present when I was making those soups. As the county magistrate, why didn't you stop the common people?"
"I am not a medical officer, how do I know if what you are boiling is medicinal materials or ordinary wild vegetables?"
"Then why do you say it's medicinal now?"
"Because there are witnesses."
Huang Fengnian said: "Come here and bring witness Cao Qing to the court."
Cao Qing, who had been eavesdropping from behind, walked out and said bluntly: "Go back to the county master, the soup made by Zhao Ping is all medicinal materials."
"And it contains certain toxins. If it is not excreted from the body in time, problems will definitely occur over time."
"He was not saving people, he was murdering."
"The villain asks the county magistrate to make the decision and kill this man who cares so little about human life."
"What? What Mr. Zhao boiled was actually poison?"
People outside immediately exclaimed.
But there are also objections.
"Fart! Can poison cure the plague?"
"This Cao Qing is a black-hearted medical officer. If you don't have hundreds of dollars to seek medical treatment from him, he won't treat you at all. Moreover, one consultation is often not enough and requires several times. He will not give up until your family is wiped out."
"Yes, it was the same last time I saw a doctor. I could still eat two meals and be full every time, but he was so stupid that I could only eat wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger, and I still couldn't eat enough."
"He is jealous that Mr. Zhao has cured the plague and his medical skills are better than his, so he doesn't want to be treated well by others, and the evildoer will complain first."
"Master County, please be wise and kill this black-hearted medical officer."
"Yes, kill this black-hearted medical officer."
"..."
For a time, public opinion was boiling, and they rushed to kill Cao Qing.
Fortunately, there were government officials who stopped him, otherwise, these people might have rushed to the court and punched Cao Qing.
Even so, Cao Qing was frightened.
Huang Fengnian could only be urged, "Master County, now that the witnesses and material evidence are all there, how long can we wait if we don't pronounce the verdict?"
Huang Fengnian nodded, he also wanted to deal with Zhao Ping earlier.
Taking advantage of the current obstruction of the government officials, the unruly people were unable to resist and took Zhao Ping into prison first.
Things will be much easier to handle in the future.
He picked up a writ and threw it into the court. Before he could pronounce the sentence, he saw someone squeeze into the crowd.
Before the person arrived, the sound had already been heard.
"My lord, wait a minute, the common people have something to say."
