Seeing that his father planned to send people to Dinghu County, Li Zhen quickly had an idea in his mind.
The Jing Dynasty had a vast territory and rich resources. As a member of the royal family, Li Zhen had the dream of traveling around his country since he was a child.
Li Zhen has indeed done this in the past few years. Whenever his father has to go abroad, he is the one who takes the initiative to ask for help the most. Over the past few years, he has gone to many places.
As for the northern border, Li Zhen knew that if nothing unexpected happened, he would never have the chance to set foot there in his life, so why not take advantage of this time to go and have a look.
There is also the matter of the death of bandits in Duzhi County. Li Zhen has always had doubts in his heart.
In recent years, the world has become peaceful, the people live in peace, and banditry is rare, not to mention the interception and killing of court officials.
So Li Zhen really wanted to go to Saibei and see what the actual situation was like there.
Thinking of this, Li Zhen stepped forward, bowed and asked Emperor Jingkang for orders, "Father, why don't you let me go to Dinghu County?"
"you go?"
Emperor Jingkang was surprised, he did not expect that the third prince would ask for orders to go.
Emperor Jingkang was naturally pleased that his son could help with the affairs of the court. If things continue as before, he will definitely agree quickly. Just thinking that this time he was going to the northern border of Saibei, Emperor Jingkang felt a little hesitant.
However, Emperor Jingkang quickly remembered what the late emperor had said to him. The late emperor said that only with more experience can people develop foresight.
With this thought in mind, Emperor Jingkang didn't stop him anymore, thinking that he could just send more people to follow him.
After making up his mind, Emperor Jingkang did not hesitate anymore and nodded, "Okay, I will send you to Dinghu County this time. If the situation is as what Magistrate Luo said, I will order you to immediately remove Lin Xiuzhan." The positions of magistrate of Yongning Prefecture and Dinghu County will be escorted back to Beijing!"
"Yes, I will take your orders!"
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Lin Yuanqiu naturally didn't know that he had been sued by Magistrate Luo, let alone that the other party was already dissatisfied with him.
Since he concurrently served as magistrate of Dinghu County, Lin Yuanqiu did not feel the need to meet Magistrate Luo because he was busy with affairs in two places and Yongning Prefecture was not under the jurisdiction of Shizhou Prefecture.
But what Lin Yuanqiu didn't know was that it was precisely because of his refusal to meet that Magistrate Luo felt neglected. In his opinion, there was no reason why county officials would not come to pay homage to the head of the prefecture.
Thinking back to the former magistrate of Duzhi County, not to mention the festivals at all times of the year, just to go to his place to ask for support from the soldiers and guards, one would have to make several trips throughout the year.
Such a comparison makes it even more obvious that the current Lin Zhixian is contemptuous of him.
He was said to be the magistrate of Lin County, but in fact Luo Wenqing also knew that this was just a temporary appointment. His real official rank was the magistrate of Yongning, which had no government relations with Shizhou Prefecture.
So if you want to find fault with the other party, you really don't have the right.
Every month, the county magistrate must compile his work into a book and report it to the prefecture. That is to say, Lin Yuanqiu must submit his work report to Magistrate Luo.
"Jingchao Official System" clearly states: The Ge Monthly Report is a quarterly report. Based on the number of quarterly reports, all prisoners in prefectures, prefectures, and counties will be judged according to the law, and there is no need to forward them. If there is any violation, he will be impeached by the censor and the inspector. If the order is issued, the world will follow.
In other words, local officials only need to report the judicial cases that govern the area every month. This is understandable. After all, it is related to the wealth and lives of the people, and it must be the most important.
Therefore, every month, Magistrate Luo would receive reports on major and minor cases sent by Lin Yuanqiu. Magistrate Luo had read them carefully and found that no matter how big or small the cases were, they were all handled in a satisfactory manner and there was no fault in them.
As for other affairs in Dinghu County, for such a county with low tax revenue, Magistrate Luo did not want to inquire too much. Don't ask too many questions. When the time comes, people will complain all kinds of things and hope that the government government will help them. I won't be able to find something to do.
Therefore, in addition to legal matters and other government affairs in Dinghu County, Magistrate Luo absolutely did not interfere or participate. Anyway, he has already thought about it. Since you don't respect me, well, if anything happens to Dinghu County in the future, don't blame me.
You know, Dinghu County is the closest to Tuzi Gorge. Every time the Shanrong people came over, they didn't patronize their place first. Otherwise, how could Du Zhi County have lost his life?
As Honghuying and Dinghu County were separated by more than sixty miles, Luo Wenqing was convinced that Lin Zhizhou would ask for him sooner or later.
At this time, Magistrate Luo, who was furious, had forgotten that Magistrate Yongning was also in charge of the military guards. In other words, Magistrate Luo never expected that the state military guards would be used to protect Dinghu County.
So when the New Year was approaching and other counties under its jurisdiction were sending New Year gifts but Magistrate Dinghu still showed no response, Magistrate Luo was shocked to realize that Dinghu County had never come to ask for military guards even once.
Just when he was wondering what was going on, a government official came to report that when people passed by Daya Village, they found that the entire village was empty, and many houses in the village had their roofs burned by fire.
Upon hearing this, Magistrate Luo was immediately frightened. Isn't Daya Village the closest village to Tuzi Gorge?
What Magistrate Luo was thinking at this time was that Magistrate Lin probably didn't care about anything, so he was massacred by Shanrong people without even knowing about it.
Thinking of this, he no longer cared about the ice and snow outside, and quickly sent someone to Daya Village to check.
The results were unknown without checking. But upon checking, I was shocked to find that not only was there not a single villager in Daya Village, but there was also no one in the neighboring Hewei Village, and many houses in Hewei Village had been burned down.
And this kind of burning house behavior is probably only done by Shanrong people.
I don’t know when this happened. Due to the heavy snow cover, those who went to inquire could not tell how many new graves were added in the village. Anyway, there must be many dead, otherwise there would not be no one in the village. Come to think of it, The villagers were really scared and fled one after another.
This realization made Magistrate Luo couldn't help but sweat sweating down his spine. As the head of a government, he naturally had the responsibility to take care of the peace of the country. Otherwise, why would the imperial court ask him to take charge of four thousand soldiers and guards?
But now something like this happened in the area under his jurisdiction. Magistrate Luo knew that if the Holy Master knew about it, Magistrate Lin might be asked to take him with him if the crime was minor.
If this is really the case, then I would be wronged.
However, Magistrate Luo would not just wait for His Majesty to punish him. Thinking of his actions in Du Zhi County, he immediately gave up his intention to come to question him and quickly wrote a memorial to His Majesty.
As for the contents of the memorial, Magistrate Luo would definitely not say anything about the Shanrong people. He only reported the situation of Daya Village and Hewei Village truthfully, preparing to blame others for poor governance.
After the memorial was written, Magistrate Luo immediately had people rush to send it to the capital.
What Magistrate Luo never expected was that on the second day after the memorial was sent, someone told him about the strategy of building a "small county but a big city" in Hu County. Only then did Magistrate Luo realize that the villagers had not fled, but had all settled in the city.
The person who wrote the document to inform this matter was Gao Cheng, the magistrate of Qing'an County. Qing'an County is next door to Dinghu County. When the villagers built their houses, some people went to the neighboring county to buy tiles. However, Gao Cheng only learned about this recently. thing.
Logically speaking, Shizhou Prefecture is far away from Dinghu County, so it makes sense if you haven't heard of "small county, big city", but Qing'an County is right next door, so it's a bit inappropriate to only know about it now.
But this is indeed the case. Being close does not mean that you can know first.
It turned out that whether they were allocated house foundations or started building houses, the villagers basically did not announce it to the outside world. After all, getting a homestead in the city for free is like pie in the sky. It's hard to guarantee that there won't be jealous people, don't get into trouble and let the government take back all their homesteads. Then there will be hell.
As a result, the villagers all reached a tacit understanding and did not say much about this matter to the outside world.
In fact, the villagers don't know. Even if they tell others, others may not believe it. Just like when buying tiles, some villagers accidentally spilled the beans when they were happy. But at that time, the shopkeeper of the tile shop just thought it was a joke. The government gave the homestead free of charge. I'm afraid it was not a dream.
As for Kochi County, more and more people in the county reported this matter, and the county magistrate told him after hearing it.
It turns out that a few days ago, all the villagers in Dinghu County moved together to the city, but many people saw it, and everyone knew that it was true that the magistrate next door allocated land for villagers to build houses.
Looking at the documents from Kochi County, Magistrate Luo couldn't believe for a moment that there were tens of thousands of villagers. So, what kind of brains did they have to come up with such a method?
I have to say, this is really a good idea.
"Oh, my memorial!" Magistrate Luo slapped his forehead. He had to get the memorial back quickly.
However, I have been working hard for a whole day, and I want to recover it, but how is it possible?
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In the past few days, the people in Yongning City and Dinghu County have a feeling of being protected in the palm of their hands, especially the villagers who have lived in the city for the winter for the first time.
Because compared to the previous days of being on tenterhooks, they had been living so comfortably these days.
As long as you don't go outside the city gate, you can do whatever you want.
No, there are people carrying baskets to buy new year's goods, there are people taking their children to the streets to buy cloth to make new coats, and there are also old farmers carrying stoves to go to teahouses to drink tea together.
Although there is a lot of snow on the ground and snowflakes are still floating in the sky, everyone's face is beaming with joy.
In other words, it is so refreshing to not have to worry about being robbed of food or killed by Shanrong people.
At this time, in a small alley in the south of the city, two women were walking towards the alley entrance carrying baskets.
The slightly taller woman said to the short woman behind her, "I tell you, Mr. Wang, please move quickly. I heard from Guizi that the government office will send a total of 500 Spring Festival couplets today."
"What, it's only five hundred pieces. There are more than ten doors in my house that need to be posted. Oh, then we really have to run faster." The short woman quickened her pace as she spoke.
As early as a few days ago, the government office had announced that it would send Spring Festival couplets to the people, and they agreed to send out 500 Spring Festival couplets for three days in a row.
As for people to write Spring Festival couplets, there is naturally no shortage of them. Lin Yuanqiu, Yan Tongzhi, He Tongpan, and more than 20 scribes each only need to write about 20 couplets, and they can easily complete 500 couplets. .
One half of the dozens of yamen servants helped cut the red paper, while the other half spread the written couplets into the inner hall. There were several charcoal basins there. The temperature was high, and the ink naturally absorbed moisture quickly. Then the officials delivered the dried Spring Festival couplets to the people one by one.
There was already a long queue waiting in front of the government office. To be honest, until now, there were still many people who found it unbelievable.
They never expected that one day Mr. Guan would actually write Spring Festival couplets and give them to them.
Not to mention the common people, even Yan Tongzhi and He Tongpan also found this experience quite novel.
Also, when they saw the smiles in the people's hearts and eyes when they received the Spring Festival couplets, the two of them couldn't help but smile.
As for Lin Yuanqiu, although the pen in his hand moved smoothly and penetrated the back of the paper, his mind was not on the Spring Festival couplets at this moment. In the morning, my father-in-law sent someone to report that another village was hit by fire last night and several houses were burned down. By the time the soldiers and guards arrived, those Shanrong people had long disappeared.
To be honest, even though the house was damaged, Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but feel happy that no one lived in the village, otherwise there would have been many casualties among the villagers in the past few days.
By the way, these Shanrong people are really hateful.
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Chapter 201 The grace of nurturing
Thinking of the hatefulness of the Shanrong people, Lin Yuanqiu felt that his plan was more and more reasonable.
To be honest, when Lin Yuanqiu was at the Sifang Teahouse in Jiangzhou Prefecture, when he heard the merchants talk about the Shanrong people often disturbing the people to steal food, he felt angry, but in terms of feelings, he felt that it was normal for the border areas to be unstable.
But ever since he came to Saibei and immersed himself in the situation, Lin Yuanqiu felt nothing but hatred.
Especially when he saw the burned houses and thought of the villagers who had been killed and injured by Shanrong swords in previous years, Lin Yuanqiu swore that he would definitely treat others in their own way.
Don't these people like to light fires and burn down houses? Then let them taste the taste of fire.
As for how to operate, Lin Yuanqiu had already thought about it. The process was not complicated and did not require much skill. Anyway, it was just three words: "burn directly".
What Lin Yuanqiu was thinking about was the ordinary way of inviting the king into the urn, which was to introduce the Shanrong into the farmyard, then close the door and set fire to him, burning him to pieces.
Although the method is old-fashioned, Lin Yuanqiu can be sure that the success rate is extremely high.
As for the reason, needless to say, it was naturally an unexpected attack, because the Shanrong people did not expect such a thing to happen.
Think about it, in the past, the villagers lived in their houses. When the Shanrong people came over, the villagers would not only light the house on fire themselves, but even if it was set on fire by others, they would like to put it out quickly.
Therefore, the Shanrong people would never expect that they would take the initiative to set their own houses on fire.
Lin Yuanqiu also suddenly came up with this idea a few days ago. He thought that now that the villagers have moved into the city and the houses in the village are empty, isn't it a good time to do something big?
What Lin Yuanqiu thought was that instead of letting the Shanrong people come over and burn them from time to time, it would be better for him to burn them once and let the evildoers disappear in the fire.
As for the time of action, he planned to choose New Year's Eve.
The reason why Lin Yuanqiu chose to take action at this time was not blind, but he came to the conclusion based on the notes left by his predecessor, Du Zhixian.
Speaking of which, Du Zhixian can be regarded as a good and conscientious official. Although Lin Yuanqiu did not know the other party and had never met him, he could figure out a few things from the notes written down by Du Zhixian.
