Yanggu County Government.
Guo Qi’s brows were furrowed and his face was filled with sadness.
Flooding the dike is a good idea. But I was afraid that Liu Daxia would lead Chang Butcher from Jin Yiwei around Shandong. He can't tear down and destroy all the dams in Shandong.
At this point, we can only take one step at a time. Let’s talk about the embankment of Jialu River first.
He had a sense of luck: Fortunately, my father is the chief Bingbi of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and I have Qian Ning to take care of me in Shandong. The two imperial envoys looked at the Buddha's face without looking at the monk's face...
Everything has risks and benefits.
When there are no floods, river officials are the first-class vacancies. Once there is a flood, it becomes an unlucky child who may lose his head.
A guard in golden robes came to him and said, "Guo Shaojian, the two imperial envoys invite you to go to the lobby to discuss the pilgrim work."
Guo Qilu followed Lux to the lobby.
As soon as he entered the lobby, he realized that the atmosphere was not right.
Chang Feng sat in the main hall. Liu Daxia and Huang Boren lined up on both sides.
The geese spread out on both sides of the armored warriors. This is clearly the manner in which a case is being tried.
Seeing Guo Qilu coming, Chang Feng was stunned: "Come on, take it down!"
Two strong men immediately stepped forward and tied Guo Qi's hands.
Chang Feng said angrily: "Guo Qilu, do you know your sin?"
Guo Qilu pretended to be innocent: "Master Chang, what crime am I guilty of? I am a young prisoner in the palace. Even if I commit a crime, I should be tried by the ceremonial supervisor!"
Chang Feng sneered: "Toad yawned, you have such a loud tone! You are just a young eunuch. I think I was able to verify the seal of Shang Ming, the eunuch of ceremony!"
When Guo Qilu heard this, his arrogance suddenly disappeared: "Master Chang, I was wronged!"
Chang Feng clapped his hands, and Fatty Xu brought the little eunuch up.
Guo Qilu was surprised: "Wei Bin? Didn't you go to Cao County?"
The young eunuch's name was Wei Bin. This is a name that will be included in the "Eight Tigers" in the future.
Wei Bin turned around quickly enough and saw that Guo Qi was tied up by Chang Feng. He immediately lost his usual respect and said, "Guo Qi, I'm going to fuck your mother!"
"You asked me to go to Cao County to destroy the river and harm the people along the river. Can I listen to you?"
"I have reported all your bad things to Master Chang!"
"In front of the selfless Mr. Chang, I advise you to confess honestly!"
At this moment, Qian Ning walked in. He was greatly surprised: "Mr. Chang, why did you kidnap Shaojian Guo? He is ***'s father's adopted son!"
Chang Feng said: "He treats the Shandong River Supervision Office as his own vegetable garden. He moves the river management silver to his home like a carrot and cabbage."
"If Eunuch Qian knows about this, he will definitely let me enforce the law impartially!"
Qian Ning took Wei Bin's banknote and said, "Master Chang, there...is there some misunderstanding?"
Chang Feng ordered Qian Ning: "The governor will review the case, and Qianhu will stand aside!"
Qian Ning could only hand over his hand: "Yes!"
Wei Bin is Guo Qilu's confidant. No matter what, she still pretended to be Guo Qilu's daughter-in-law on the bed.
He knew everything about Guo Qilu.
Wei Bin said: "Mr. Chang, the Hedao Supervision Office has two books of accounts. One clear account is for the imperial court to see."
"A secret ledger that records the detailed accounts of the twenty-eight river officials in Shandong, as well as the prefects and magistrates along the river who divided up and governed the river bank."
"Every stroke is recorded clearly!"
Chang Feng quickly asked: "Where is the secret account hidden?"
Wei Bin replied: "Hidden in the secret room under the bed of Guo Qilu's back office in Jinan!"
Guo Qilu was furious: "Wei Bin, you betrayed me!"
Wei Bin was not to be outdone: "I didn't betray you! I was helping my grandfather punish his daughter and eliminate evil!"
Guo Qilu was puzzled: "Who is your grandfather?"
Wei Bin said: "Master Chang is my grandpa!"
Chang Feng ordered Shi Wenyi to say: "You rush to Jinan immediately. Get the secret account
. "
Then he was shocked: "Guo Qilu, if you are wise, you can tell the truth about how to use ink to control Heyin."
"It doesn't matter if you don't do it. Bringing back the secret account will be irrefutable evidence. You will still die!"
Guo Qi's mouth is like a boiled duck with a mouth that cannot be overcooked: "Wei Bin is a slanderer! Chang Feng, you colluded with him to frame me!"
Seeing that something was not going well, Qian Ning suddenly said, "Master Chang, I am about to report Guo Qilu!"
Chang Feng became interested: "Oh? Why did you accuse him?"
Qian Ning took out the three thousand taels of silver note from his sleeve.
Banknotes are easy to carry. Qian Ning was afraid of being seen by others, so he always carried the banknote in a hidden pocket on his sleeve.
Qian Ning walked up to Chang Feng and presented the three thousand taels of silver notes: "Mr. Chang, Guo Qilu has been corrupt and bribed during his tenure, making money to enrich himself."
"When he saw the two imperial envoys arriving in Shandong, he felt guilty. He actually took this three thousand tael banknote in an attempt to bribe me! Let me cover up his crimes."
"I, Qian Ning, have been following you, Master Chang, for so long. How can I not know what Tian Bu Zang Nu is doing?"
"I originally wanted to verbally reject the three thousand taels of silver. But then I thought about it. The silver for river control is not much. Wouldn't it be nice if I accepted his silver and gave it to the public for use in water control?"
"I was about to give you the money. By chance, you caught him!"
Qian Ning is also a good person! He directly distanced himself from the relationship and described accepting bribes as selfless.
How could Chang Feng not see the fishiness in it? But seeing through it without telling it off is still a good substitute.
Chang Feng praised Qian Ning: "You are indeed a good adopted son of Eunuch Qian! I have promoted you in vain for the past six or seven years."
Guo Qilu was completely dumbfounded!
He didn't expect that Wei Bin and Qian Ning would sell him out so easily.
Chang Feng asked him: "Guo Qilu, you are innocent, why did you bribe Qian Ning? Oh, it's three thousand taels at a time, you are so generous!"
"Xu Guangzuo. Your Majesty gave me an oral edict. What did you say?"
Fatty Xu said loudly: "Anyone who obstructs disaster relief and flood control, and who is greedy for money, food relief, and mercury control, from the top three departments to the officials, Chang Feng can be killed first and then reported!"
Chang Feng nodded: "Come on. Pull Guo Qi down and chop him down!"
Chang Feng was just scaring Guo Qi.
First of all, Guo Qilu has always been a member of the palace and the adopted son of Qian Neng. Chang Feng could catch him and interrogate him, but he could not kill him because of his money and ability.
Chang Feng had already made a plan. After interrogation, he handed Guo Qilu over to Qian Neng for punishment.
Secondly, Chang Feng also hoped that Guo Qi would bite out all the river officials in Shandong who were involved in corruption. He wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop and ransack their homes.
Several strong men came forward, picked up Guo Qi's donkey and dragged it outside the Yamen.
Guo Qilu shouted: "Master Chang, please spare your life. I will attack you, I will attack you all!"
Chang Feng ordered the warrior: "Get back."
Guo Qilu confessed happily: "In the three years I have been in office, the total amount of silver for river management in Shandong was 200,000 taels. I took 30,000, and the river officials of Shandong Province and the local officials along the river divided 120,000."
"Mr. Chang Mingjian. I sit in the position of the river superintendent. If I don't take the money, the people below can't. They will hate me!"
"If I don't act according to the rules of the officialdom, the officialdom will treat me like an alien!"
"I'm not considered bad. I only took 30,000 from 200,000!"
Liu Daxia, who was listening to the trial, couldn't help it: "Of the two hundred thousand taels used to treat Heyin, only 50,000 taels were actually used?"
"Have your consciences been eaten by dogs? Once the Yellow River rises, it will be strange if the dams are not washed away!"
Guo Qi said: "Liu Duyuan, you have been in the officialdom for a long time, so you don't know it. It is normal for two or three out of ten river silver to be used in practical applications."
"I'm not the only one who is greedy for river supervision all over the world! This is a tacit rule that everyone understands."
Liu Daxia said angrily: "The ruin of officialdom lies in these so-called official rules!"
Chang Feng said: "Guo Qilu, who are the river officials and local officials along the river who are involved in this case? Please write down their names."
Fatty Xu brought a piece of paper to Guo Qilu.
Guo Qilu wrote more than forty names on it.
After writing, he explained: "I can't remember exactly how much money these people took, and when they took it. There must be secret accounts. You will know when the time comes."
Chang Feng picked up the piece of paper as if he had found a treasure. The people above are all fat and oily pigs!
Chang Feng ordered: "Come on, make two copies of the confession. Give one to me. Give the other to Father-in-law Qian, the Supervisor of Ceremonies."
"In addition, escort Guo Qilu back to the capital and hand him over to Eunuch Qian."
Guo Qilu was taken away.
Chang Feng ordered Qian Ning again: "You don't have to wait for Shi Wenyi to get back the secret account. You first lead people to search every house according to this list!"
"You are my eldest apprentice who raids homes and is now the manager of the Qianhu Office. You have to do this job well."
"If you do this job well, you will not only be able to make a contribution, but you will also be cleared of the suspicion of accepting bribes from Guo Qilu!"
Qian Ning said: "Okay! Master Chang, just take a look!"
Changfeng set off a major river case in Shandong. He himself did not participate in it, letting Qian Ning stand in front of the stage to arrest people and ransack homes.
Qian Ning knew it was a trap, but he still had to jump in. In other words, in his eyes, this is not a trap, but a step to establish prestige.
Chang Feng smiled at Liu Daxia and said, "Liu Duyuan, I think this time we will get at least 300,000 taels of river silver out of thin air."
Liu Daxia asked: "Didn't you say that they embezzled a total of 150,000 taels of ink?"
Chang Feng said: "These people have been in the officialdom for a long time. They must have a lot of private property. In addition to managing the river bank, they can also copy their business."
"I think three hundred thousand is a small amount!"
Liu Daxia smiled and said: "It is really wise of the emperor to let you be my deputy imperial envoy! You are simply my fortune boy."
Chang Feng smiled slightly: "That's natural. I used to be the general banner of the Jinyiwei's family raiders. My job was to attract money."
In the next month, the entire Shandong officialdom was in turmoil due to Qian Ning!
In the words of later generations, this was a typical case of corruption.
More than forty officials who Guo Qilu confessed to were arrested and pulled out radish and brought out the mud. Many eighth- and ninth-grade minor officials were also surrendered by them.
The eighth- and ninth-grade petty officials provided many grain chiefs and service chiefs. The total number of people involved in the case reached more than 400.
Qian Ning ransacked everything. Huge amounts of dirty silver were continuously delivered to Liu Daxia.
Liu Daxia obtained hundreds of thousands of Zhihe Silver out of thin air, making it easier to do things.
In the sixth year of Hongzhi, April 13th. Huanglinggang, Cao County, Heze, Shandong.
The imperial envoy Liu Daxia and deputy envoy Chang Feng were worshiping the river god. Today is the day when the Jialu River dredging project starts.
There are too many mysteries that cannot be explained in this world. It is necessary to worship the river god before starting work. At least it can play a role in appeasing the civilian husband.
Liu Daxia personally pushed the three animals into the Jialu River.
Later, two official boats carried two river-calming stone cattle to the center of the river.
The soldiers on the official ship worked together to push the stone cow into the rolling river.
The ceremony of worshiping the river god is over. The project officially started.
In the evening, Fatty Xu came to Chang Feng and said, "Master Chang, the villagers fished out a tombstone from the river."
Chang Feng frowned: "That's not auspicious. Let's sink the tombstone to the bottom of the river again."
Fatty Xu smiled and said: "Haha, that inscription is very interesting. After we have appreciated the wonderful text together, it will not be too late to sink it to the bottom of the river."
Liu Daxia became interested: "Oh? Is there an epitaph engraved on the monument?"
Epitaphs are usually written by elegant and learned people. Literary men have always been interested in epitaphs.
Huang Boren said: "I'll go too!"
The three of them, led by Fatty Xu, came to a tombstone.
It's strange that the tombstone doesn't have the owner's name engraved on it. There is only an epitaph.
The epitaph was only thirty-five words long, but it made everyone burst into laughter.
The specific content is as follows: initial
After studying literature, he failed to pass the exam for ten years. Afterwards, he studied martial arts and shot an arrow in the school field, which killed the drummer and drove him out. Then he studied medicine and achieved success. Write a good recipe yourself, take it, and die!
After everyone laughed, they felt a lot of emotion.
Chang Feng said: "This man's life is really interesting. He achieved nothing in his life. When he dies, he writes his life into a thirty-five-word epitaph, but he can make future generations laugh."
Liu Daxia lamented: "We laugh at the people in the grave. Maybe the people in the grave are also laughing at us."
"It's scary to accomplish nothing. What's scary is not having the courage to even try to do anything."
Huang Boren said: "There is something even more terrifying... He has done evil things throughout his life. For example, my second brother."
Chang Feng ordered people to sink the stone tablet into the bottom of the river.
The stone tablet entered the river and splashed with water. The splash was quickly swallowed up by the raging river.
Isn't a person's life like that stone tablet sinking to the bottom of the river? It can only make a tiny splash, and then be submerged by the rolling torrent of history.
In the days that followed, Chang Feng dispatched a group of accountants from the Baihu Branch of the Department of Accounts to watch local officials in Shandong purchase the materials needed to control the river.
He himself came to the construction site and worked with the fellow workers to carry earth, carry pots, and move stones.
Although very tired. But Chang Feng has never been as happy and comfortable as he is now in the past seven years.
One hundred thousand civilians from western Lu followed Liu Daxia to dredge the Jialu River, Sunjiadu, and Sifuying.
After the water diversion method in Shandong achieved initial results. Liu Daxia took people south again to build a long embankment. Prevent floods by blocking water.
The project started in the spring of the sixth year of Hongzhi's reign and lasted until the middle of winter.
Xuzhou Changdi construction site.
Chang Feng and Fatty Xu were walking up the embankment carrying a basket of stones.
Liu Daxia was looking at the engineering drawings in the work shed.
Snowflakes were falling in the sky. Dozens of knights surrounded a eunuch and rushed towards the construction site.
The person who came turned out to be Qian Neng!
Qian Neng came to convey the order to summon Liu Daxia and Chang Feng back to the capital.
The chief ceremonial supervisor was sent to deliver the decree to Liu and Chang with a pen, which shows that Emperor Hongzhi recognized their achievements in water control.
Qian Neng entered the work shed first and found Liu Daxia.
Qian Neng asked: "Where is the envoy of Changzhen? The emperor has ordered you to return to the capital. I will go and announce the order to him."
Liu Daxia replied: "It's at the embankment construction site."
Qian Neng said: "Ah, he also went to the embankment construction site to supervise the work in person?"
Liu Daxia laughed dumbly: "I'm not supervising the work, I'm going to do the work."
Qian Neng was stunned: "Work? What kind of work can Beizhen Fushi do?"
Liu Daxia said: "Carrying earth, lifting pots, and moving rocks. Chang Feng is now proficient in everything."
After saying that, Liu Daxia led Qian Neng to Chang Feng.
Qian Neng asked: "Liu Duyuan, where is Chang Feng?"
Liu Daxia pointed to the person in front of him: "Nuo, isn't this Chang Feng?"
Qian Neng couldn't believe his eyes!
Chang Feng has been at the construction site every day for the past eight months. His whole body was as tanned as black coal balls.
His hands were covered with calluses and his fingernails were filled with mud.
At this moment, he was wearing a cloth robe, and his toes were almost exposed in the worn boots.
How is he still like the richly dressed, elegant and imposing envoy of Beizhen eight months ago?
He is simply a civilian husband!
Qian Neng was furious: "Liu Daxia, how dare you abuse the emperor's private military envoy?"
Chang Feng smiled slightly, his mouth full of dry skin: "Eunuch Qian, you misunderstood. I took the initiative to do it."
"I'll leave the matter of fixing He Yin to the accounting gentlemen. I can't help, so I might as well come to the construction site and lend my strength."
Qian Neng took Chang Feng's hands and looked at them. He felt distressed: "They are all calluses. How much strength can you exert!"
Chang Feng said: "I have killed too many people over the years, and I am guilty of killing. Building dams to benefit future generations is a good thing."
"By putting more effort on the dam, I am killing my own evil!"
"It's much more comfortable to carry dirt and rocks than to torture or kill people."
Qian Neng said: "The emperor has ordered you and Liu Duyuan to return to the capital. If you return to the capital like this... the emperor will probably feel sorry for you when he sees you!"
In fact, Chang Feng wanted this effect. He was bored at night and imagined countless times how Emperor Hongzhi would react when he saw his calloused hands.
Maybe Emperor Hongzhi would be moved and put the entire Jinyi Guard under his control.
Chang Feng said: "I accept the decree."
Chang Feng then apologized to Qian Neng: "What happened to Guo Qilu, I had to do it as a last resort."
Qian Neng said: "You don't have to say it! Guo Qilu not only disgraced me, but also disgraced the palace. As soon as he was escorted back to the capital, I asked the bannermen of Dongchang to beat him to death with a big stick. Already."
"Even beating him to death won't relieve the hatred in my heart!"
Chang Feng said: "This time when we went to Shandong to control floods, your other adopted son Qian Ning made great achievements. We uncovered 41 corrupt officials and more than 360 corrupt officials."
"When I return to Beijing, I will thank him in front of the emperor."
Qian Neng was very moved: "I thank you on his behalf!"
Qian Neng suddenly pointed his finger at Fatty Xu: "Who is this big black fat guy?"
Chang Feng laughed out loud: "You can't recognize the prince Dingguo?"
Qian Neng was surprised: "Huh? Prince Xu? Are you also working as a coolie on the river embankment?"
Fatty Xu smiled and said, "My bosses are already on the river embankment, how can I not follow them?"
"Master Chang said it well, three people make a crowd. When it comes to water control, more monkeys will give you three more efforts!"
Qian Neng actually bowed to Liu Daxia, Chang Feng, and Fatty Xu with the respect of Bingbi, the Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies.
Qian Neng sighed: "Officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty. If everyone could be like you, then the world would be peaceful!"
The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month. Chang Feng returned to the capital with dark skin and calluses on his hands. Waiting to attend the noon court and return to Emperor Hongzhi.
