Xu Tianxin recalled what she said:
The town pavilion fishes and meats the people to win their desires.
She told Lu Yan and Suifeng Suihe that their well-connected relative was Zhao Dashan, the town's chief catcher, who was law-abiding and upright, honest and honest.
They will not be allowed to misbehave outside based on this relationship, but they will not be allowed to be unfair outside.
After Xu Tianxin explained this relationship clearly, he didn't say much more.
She felt that there was no need to elaborate on some aspects. It was not like General Lu Yan had not seen it with his own eyes.
When the general and his entourage arrived, the group was going on a rampage and committing evil acts.
The leader is Zhenting's nephew. He has been leading a group of scattered gangs to bully men and women all year round. No one dares to redress. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is an organized crime.
Moreover, Bai Ding was able to command a group of government servants to cause trouble. As for the above-mentioned actions, no one would believe him without the support of the second uncle of Zhenting behind him.
And behind the Xu family and Erdaohe Village, they were clearly protected by Capt. Zhao, so they were still bullied.
One can imagine what the common people in the town and other villages below would be like without noble relatives like Zhao Dashan.
If the common people are not the fish and meat on the chopping board of the town pavilion, what else can they be?
She summed it up in one sentence, saying bluntly that the people in Zhenting were fish and meat, and she was not exaggerating.
As for the second sentence, Xu Tianxin said that she suspected that Zhenting was corrupt because the source of the huge wealth was unknown.
This crime exists in modern times, but Xu Tianxin doesn't know if it exists here. She currently doesn't have the spare money to buy books on Zhou law.
But it's still the same sentence, her family is rich and her relative is the town's head catcher named Zhao Dashan.
According to calculations based on the bottom-level salary, Zhao Dashan's salary accumulated over the past few years, and his family could only afford a small remote house in the town worth forty silver taels.
After getting a salary, he once bought two acres of medium-sized farmland for his hometown.
Currently, Guokui is sold in a small shop rented for thirty silver taels a year. The shop was still facing a residential street, not on a central street where caravans would pass by.
Zhenting, on the other hand, was only half a rank higher than her noble family members, so they were among the lowest.
When you are an official who doesn't know the "origin", you may be able to fool people who don't know the "truth". Most of the people only think that the Zhenting family's wealth is due to their official position and salary. How can they know that Zhenting's family is rich? How much do you earn in a year.
Even if some people have the ability to understand this aspect, they will not reveal it to others for fear of offending others.
Fortunately, she was able to calculate based on the salary of her noble relative Zhao Dashan, and secondly, when her grandfather Li Zheng took her to the government office to apply for land deeds, he frequently introduced the rank of the town pavilion; how much the town pavilion earned in a year; The Ting family used to be the same as Grandpa Li Zheng's family. Their ancestors only had more than 30 acres of fertile land.
Later, by chance, after fifteen years of working as a town pavilion, there were four shops on the central street of the town; each of his two sons owned a house and a village.
His name went from more than thirty acres to one hundred and fifty acres of prime farmland. If the property under the name of immediate family members was included, she had reason to suspect that the property was as high as 500 acres.
You don't need to make false accusations about Zhenting's family situation. You can find out by going to the town to check the real estate and land records.
Then... then Xu Tianxin felt that there was no need to elaborate.
Then forget it, you will know how much you have been greedy by doing the calculations.
The monthly salary given to Zhenting is twice that of Zhao Dashan, five taels per month, which is sixty taels a year. He worked as a town pavilion for fifteen years. Even if his family did not eat, drink or spend money every day, the accumulated salary in fifteen years was nine hundred taels.
But if one acre of top-grade land is only purchased for fifteen taels of one hundred and fifty acres of land, that would be two thousand two hundred and fifty taels of silver.
Therefore, at this point, there is no need to forget about other unidentified properties. The more than two thousand silver minus the nine hundred taels of Zhenting's salary for the past fifteen years, where did the extra one thousand taels come from?
As far as Xu Tianxin knew, Zhenting's family had no other business. They were afraid of affecting the next generation to participate in the imperial examination, so they relied entirely on rent.
Okay, let’s take a step back to defend Zhen Ting. It can be said that it’s a family
He became richer and richer by renting a house. Indeed, after laying a good foundation, wealth will increase exponentially. This is what the saying goes, the rich will only get richer.
But where does the money to lay the foundation for purchasing land and real estate come from?
Her Xu family is laying the foundation now, and she knows very well that laying the foundation is the most difficult thing, but it is easy at Zhenting, as if hundreds of acres of land were sent from the sky, and they can directly earn money by selling food.
That's why Xu Tianxin bluntly told Lu Yan that he suspected that the source of the huge wealth was unknown. She felt that she was not exaggerating.
As for the unknown whereabouts, whether or not to check, and how to check, that is not her responsibility.
Xu Tianxin thought, just say a few words himself.
At this time, all the villagers present, including Mrs. Xu: "..."
Everyone brushed the floor and had a few words in their hearts, which they wanted to give to Xu Tianxin sincerely.
One sentence is: "What do you mean by just saying a few words to the general?"
Another sentence is: "What's your name? Why haven't you said anything yet?"
What else do you want to say, ah? baby!
Every sentence hit the point, and the nine members of the Zhenting family felt like they couldn't escape. They must not be allowed to escape. They are all bad. If one of them gets in, the common people will be spared the most suffering.
And this girl is ruthless, do you understand? I can't offend her even if I offend her milk in the future.
And the villagers, headed by Liu Laozhu, were extremely emotional:
If you don’t talk about people, you need to be more literate and read more books.
Look, he is so good at summarizing and settling accounts.
If it were them, it would be easy for them to be confused even if they were asked about it by a senior official. I don't even understand the charges.
Why did you bully them and still get involved with fish?
Ah, there are other ways to use fish.
Zhao Dashan looked at Xu Tianxin and thought:
"Arita, do you know that your daughter is now more powerful than the county magistrate's lawyer? She is very good at speaking in Mandarin. It feels like someone who has lived for decades than me, an uncle, can still talk nonsense.
Alas, I feel ashamed to say that I am too stupid and have no knowledge to even meet ***. I don't know how to say simple polite words, I just keep doing things.
In short, your daughter no longer looks like a farm girl...like you. "
Just like the first impression you gave me, standing with farm men, you don't look like a farm boy at all.
Compared with Zhao Dashan's complicated emotions, Zhao Dashan's wife only has one kind of emotion, and that is extreme joy.
Isn't that right? Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law hugged Xu Tianxin again, cried, smiled and said excitedly: "How can this child be so good? How can he be so good?"
Look at her Tian Xin's mouth, how long it is. While she can trample Zhenting under her feet with just a few words, she also doesn't forget to praise her man. Otherwise, there would be no way for her man to represent her.
Yes, she is acting as a deputy town pavilion, but this does not mean that her man will take it down in the future, but that it will be under military control.
Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law Hongmei specifically asked if this was a mutual trade. This town had been placed under the jurisdiction of the Zhenbei Army. Who knows whether the jurisdiction will be expanded in the future or what will happen. For now, the name "Zhen Pavilion" has not been changed.
It may be that it is called this at first, and then it will be changed to another official title after the scope of management is finalized. .net
"Martial control?" Liu Laozhu and other men were shocked: "Our father-in-law will no longer be the county magistrate, but the general of Zhenbei?!"
The women were concerned: "That good female general Hetian Xin'er, the female general our whole village has just hosted, is a very senior official in the Zhenbei Army, right? Can she speak well in front of the general? This doesn't mean Tian Xin got to know our parent officer!"
Hongmei nodded happily to the villagers: "The designated one!"
This was also the reason why her man, Zhao Dashan, was so excited and insisted on a trip to Erdaohe when he just took office.
Although Hongmei didn't understand why her man was so nostalgic for Huo Jiajun, she didn't get much extra salary when she was the head of a small town.
But she knows that since her man returned to his old age,
After arresting the head, I couldn't use my hands and feet.
There is a town pavilion from above who is always pressing down on her, ordering her husband to pay attention to all kinds of human relationships when he returns to his place, and not to be single-minded. There is a county government office above, and there are many officials in the government office. It is complicated, and the county magistrate can control the sky with one hand. It's hard for her man to do well.
This time it was settled, even if the plan was re-planned and it was replaced by General Zhenbei who could dominate the sky with one hand, her man specifically said it was different when he came here.
After it was assigned to the Duhufu, what specific aspects should her man take care of as a "Town Pavilion" and how to manage it, such as mutual trading matters, how to cooperate with the generals sent by the Duhufu to hand over goods, how to dispatch manpower and government officials to supervise where, etc. On the one hand, based on Huo Jiajun's past style, the boundaries would be clearly drawn.
As long as you do it well, you won't make mistakes, let alone the human relationships in the town and county. Anyone who dares to disturb it will be arrested directly.
Xu Tianxin was hugged by Zhao Dashan's wife, and she followed Aunt Zhao's words to make an analysis.
Xu Tianxin thought:
It seems that the Zhenbei Army is currently wrestling with the imperial court.
For example, the bargaining chip used for arm-wrestling was how many war horses were given to other armies of the imperial court after mutual trading, including how much grain tax was paid to the imperial court, but the imperial court could not just wait for ready-made goods to take advantage. The Zhenbei Army took advantage of the inconvenience of handing over goods in the mutual market and re-divided the scope of control. This is how their town was assigned to the General's Mansion. I think they will find excuses to expand from east to west, north and south in the future.
Xu Tianxin still had a guess in his mind that he couldn't express to outsiders.
She guessed that the next ambition was to make the Zhenbei Army bigger and stronger and become a local military governor?
As a foreign general who cannot have his military symbols taken away at will, he will receive military orders and not receive them.
However, even so, Xu Tianxin was still willing to think the best of the general, whether it was the Huo Family Army or the Zhenbei Army.
That's why the fight is not necessarily for rebellion, but because the court designated him to be incompetent and disappointing, forcing people to start protecting themselves. Otherwise, after killing the foreign enemies for the emperor and paying high taxes and grains, he would still be hidden by the birds.
To be honest, if her Xu family had been a loyal general for several generations, they would have prepared for rebellion earlier. After all, life cannot be in the hands of others. Especially in the hands of the emperor who is unable to give, does not hesitate to use good generals, is harsh in his rule, is so stupid that he does not use strong troops, dares not fight with foreign enemies, and only dares to use mutual trade as a temporary measure.
What's more, who is the emperor? He is just an old man, and the imperial power here is supreme and he speaks his mind. What if he is confused and energetic? He will not listen to anyone, only hear slanderous words, be greedy for beauty, make random guesses, and kill good generals at will.
Without a backup plan, even if the history books of future generations rewrite the Humen generals and ministers as loyal ministers, they will die unjustly. In order for this court to be saved, everyone should protect themselves.
When the Xu family heard this, their faces became better.
Otherwise, Mrs. Xu would have regretted having believed her granddaughter's lies. If she had known that her granddaughter's airy "nothing to say" was so serious, she would have regretted asking in front of everyone.
Just now, she was stared at by several of her sons. Everyone really improved their skills and dared to stare at her.
Because the Xu family was worried that all the minions in Zhenting had not been wiped out in one fell swoop. If the county magistrate had kept him alive, he would have heard a few words from his own child. What happened to our child if they came to take revenge? How to fix it.
Fortunately, a few days later, they no longer paid taxes and grain to the county government. Zhenting's group of minions would be beaten to death if they fell into the hands of the Zhenbei Army.
Although the people in the village thought about this, the Xu family didn't care much.
First, the villagers are borrowing money. They can only follow the same hatred and hatred. Can they still feel sorry for the town pavilion and not be oppressed? I will only be happy, and the mountains on my head will be moved away.
Secondly, even if the villagers fully understand today, their children's words are like knives. If they really want to complain, it doesn't matter if they think they are cruel and can be sent to jail.
After all, it's time for Tian Xin to show off his talents. How can a child like gold be hidden? Even though he is no less capable than me and is a boss who pays a lot of wages, some people in the village always treat the "Xiangjizi boss" as if he is not a dish, and treat him like an ordinary junior.
Xu Jiasan thought to himself: Tian Xin’s
The weight of your speech must be raised from this moment on.
Zhao Dashan probably noticed the change in the Xu family's expressions, and waved his hand to stop the villagers' lively discussion.
At this moment, Zhao Dashan seemed to have something attached to him. He was no longer a hunter with a knife, but an agent in charge of the pavilion.
Only then did Liu Laozhu react: Hey, isn't this his superior? How could he have the confidence to slap someone on the shoulder and laugh just now?
In the past, he was someone who went to the jail to do something and had to sit on the bench.
I don't know what happened, but when Zhao Dashan smiled kindly and talked to the villagers, Liu Laozhu's eye circles suddenly turned red.
I remembered that the last time I took Tian Xin to the government office to sign the land deed, he bent down and put on a pouty smile, and was kicked off his feet and told that he was just looking for trouble. He also had to measure the land, treat guests to dinner, and treat them to big fish and meat. , Tian Xin and Meizhuang could only buy two buns to save money, and Liu Laozhu turned sideways with a sore nose.
It turns out that after a while, this is how it feels to be mermaided.
Zhao Dashan was smiling and explaining to the villagers:
The left-wing general is not someone who would send someone to jail after hearing a few words. We can't talk nonsense like that when we go out.
That was during an investigation of 1,700 taels of silver in the cellar of Zhenting's house, and found the Yin and Yang ledger and two boxes of gold and silver jewelry.
He was taken away and asked where his salary obviously exceeded the legal income. He was also asked about the filial piety of his subordinates who bought and sold his office. This is how the government servants who caused trouble for your village came. He also accepted filial piety from merchants and allowed him to establish a monopoly to prevent others from doing the same business. For example, the pawnshop and the town pharmacy gave him a lot of gifts. Others could not open a medical clinic.
When Guan Ertu heard this, his eyes were as wide as bells. Isn't the medicine hall in town opened by his senior brother? It turns out that he dared to say that no one would accept his medicinal materials, and also said that this was how he had the confidence to remain poor forever in this pile.
In addition, the previous town hall took advantage of the New Deal to seize land for private use. For many years, roadblocks were set up to make it difficult for traders on their way to collect tribute. And over the years, bribers who had been bribed by Busao had been punished for distorting the facts, causing many people to become poorer and poorer. Their land and houses were seized, and bribers who had a good relationship with the town pavilion became richer and richer.
There are still some things that Zhao Dashan has not said, because the trial has not been completed yet, and even the above ones were explained one after another through the nine clans in Zhenting after they were arrested.
Zhenting's own family members, including his brother-in-law, all work for Zhenting to collect bribes and make money. If any family has a difficult matter, they only need to pay some money to find these relatives, and the relatives will hand it over to Zhenting and it will be solved.
The villagers were speechless after hearing this, which was really an eye-opener.
This is a town pavilion. You can imagine how much money the county magistrate would make if he were like this. No wonder even Li Zheng, the short-lived ghost king of Wangjiagou, was so rich.
Everyone looked at Liu Laozhu silently.
Liu Laozhu: "...I haven't done anything. I'm so poor. If the Xu family hadn't invited me to eat dumplings, I wouldn't have been able to afford it."
Only then did Mrs. Xu smile and signal Zhao Dashan to come into the house: "Yes, let's eat dumplings."
Zhao Dashan and his wife were not polite either.
In fact, when he takes office, he has a lot of things to do in the town. For example, Zhao Dashan's wife heard the good news and was waiting for her son to return at home. But the couple immediately wanted to drop everything and rush to Xu's house in Erdaohe to share this gift. joy.
At this time, Zhao Dashan specifically called Mrs. Xu aside and said that Wang Lizheng of Wangjiagou was dead, and his most capable third and fourth brothers were both missing. Wangjiagou could not remain righteous forever: "Auntie, who are you looking at? The kind that is pleasing to the eye and can get along with the other person calmly."
Mrs. Xu and Liu Laozhu discussed for a while which one was the soft persimmon. After being able to listen to Erdaohe's command, they turned around and gave Zhao Dashan a name.
As for Zhao Dashan's wife, she was always surrounding Xu Tianxin, silently observing her figure and thinking about making clothes for her.
It stands to reason that the Zhao family is now in control of the pavilion. In the past, they didn't dare to find trouble even if they took a hundred courages from the old lady.
But during the whole process, the old lady curled her lips in disgust and secretly spit several times.
Because she heard the women in the village making dumplings behind their backs saying that Zhao Dashan’s daughter-in-law once came to visit her and looked down on her great-granddaughter and did not want to get married. Look again
Now, are you regretting it? Our children are not in a hurry this time. With that eldest female general as your backer, you may not be prepared to marry an official as your wife. If you are not an official, you may also be a capable guard. Who would care about your family's prosperity?
If you don't say that the young man looks at people through cracks, he is not as discerning as peasant women like them.
When the old lady heard this, she felt strange that she had no opinion. She didn't expect that there would be such a problem.
However, what she reasoned about was that now, there was no time to complain about the future.
The old lady rushed straight to Dashan's wife, rolling her eyes in disgust and thinking:
Without her great-grandson to deliver messages to the female general, how would your man be able to be in the town pavilion? If you smile when you grin, why don't you give me some money if you get promoted?
The other one is also stubborn, and looks like he will not have much potential in the future.
After all, this is the world of the Zhenbei Army. Her great-granddaughter and the female general already have an affair with two silver ingots. If you rush to make friends later, you also have to help the Xu family, so giving some money is not right now. ?
They are going to open a shop, and it will be opened soon. Don't you have any way to celebrate?
In short, from the old lady's point of view, you should give her some favors, but she came empty-handed and had to eat fifty dumplings from her Xu family. Oh my god, this guy is really interesting in doing things, he is so bad, bah, no wonder he didn't get promoted before.
