Chapter 125: It's easy to spend money, but it's hard to make money
The sky was overcast, but the bridge in Kunshan County was crowded with people. The people of Kunshan gathered, and they all craned their necks to look at the wharf under the bridge and wait for the grain ships.
Since the eldest man took office, five grain ships have come to Kunshan every day to deliver grain, rain or shine, day long.
This accustomed scene makes the people of Kunshan feel at ease.
Even when they learned the day before yesterday that the reserve warehouse had been burned and the grain stored was destroyed, the citizens did not panic.
If you burn it, you can burn it, and it's not your own food anyway. As long as the daily grain ship continues, everyone will not go hungry.
But today, an atmosphere of unease is spreading.
Rumors suddenly spread in the county. People everywhere are saying that in fact, the county master didn't get that much food at all. But Zhao Zhixian doubled the number in order to avoid causing panic buying.
In fact, at least half of the five grain ships that arrive in Kunming every day are loaded with sand!
In other words, only 1,000 koku of rice is supplied to the prefecture every day. This amount of food is just enough for cash-for-work, so how can there be rations for the citizens?
Moreover, it is rumored that there are noses and eyes, and the inspector is specially here to investigate the case. He also said that Lin Xun had already obtained conclusive evidence according to the survey and preparation warehouse.
He also said that he would inspect today's five grain ships at the wharf today, and expose Zhao Zhixian's trick of fooling the people on the spot!
How can the people of the county not panic?
That is, Zhao Shouzheng has just arrived, and he is extremely effective in fighting floods and disaster relief, which makes the people of the county have a very good impression of him. The two sides are in the stage of 'sweet as honey' as Yizhi County said.
So everyone can barely mess around, just scramble over to see what happened.
As a result, I really saw that the mid-level bridge wharf was already waiting, and a seven-grade master was sitting in the pavilion.
Zheng Inspector, who shows off his martial arts on weekdays, looks like a grandson in front of that person.
It turns out that the rumors are true!
"Hey, if this is really found out to be fraudulent, the old parents' days in Kunshan will come to an end......"
The citizens sighed, Kunshan was so easy to put up a champion to be the magistrate of the county, and they thought that they had finally met a rare good official.
Is all this an illusion? The so-called good officials do not exist in this world at all?
"I'd rather patrol the adults than check!" Some citizens shouted: "Just believe in your old parents in a daze." ”
"If he's a liar, he can believe it?" Immediately someone made a big noise. "Everyone believed in his evil, so they didn't have any food. Let's just wait for the whole family to starve to death! ”
No one can refute this sentence, everyone is indeed overly optimistic about the sight of five boatloads of grain a day, and they are not willing to grab grain at a high price.
If this is true, I don't know how many people will starve to death in Kunshan County......
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Fortunately, Lin Xunji had long expected that the common people would flock to him, so he specially ordered the Jinxi Town Inspection Department to inspect Zheng Qian, and with his archers, he blocked the dock.
In the rain shelter, Lin Xun sat on a high-legged chair, holding a tea cup in one hand and gently skimming off the foam with the lid of the cup in the other.
To be honest, Zheng Inspector never wanted to wade into this troubled water. He's based in Kunnan.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Kunnan rely on the eldest master to feed, but he brought Kunnan's soldiers to make trouble with Lin Xun.
Once any unfavorable evidence is really found out and the eldest master is harmed, how can he still mix in Jinxi Town in the future? I'm afraid that these brothers under him will hate him.
But what can he do? Although there is only one word difference between patrol and inspection, the status of the two is heaven and earth.
Lin Xun didn't dare not listen to the order, otherwise he would be able to hit his own board on the spot, and after the fight, please take off his official robe......
Originally, Hua Patrol could also send a deputy inspector Hua Qian to top the cylinder, but Hua Deputy Inspector was sent to Wuxi on a business trip by the eldest master because he had a kinship with the Hua family.
At this moment, I'm afraid that I am eating and drinking spicy food, and maybe I can climb to a wide range of relatives. Since then, he has perched on a high branch and walked to the pinnacle of his life, leaving his former boss far behind......
Thinking of this, Zheng Inspector sighed gloomily.
Hey, Hua Qian is easy to Zheng Qian.
was secretly hurting himself, and suddenly heard the people on the bridge commotion.
"Here, the grain ship is coming!" The citizens shouted one after another.
Zheng Qian also looked over, and sure enough, he saw a grain ship with the banners of 'Wu Ji' and 'Kunshan County Official', slowly sailing through the bridge and going towards Zhihetang in the north.
There is a special wharf in the preparation warehouse, and the grain ships do not have to stop here.
Lin Xun chose to inspect here, just to let the people of Kunshan see with their own eyes how the old man they trusted played them like fools.
"Dock the boat!" A sentinel ship sits across the river, with an archer dressed in teal and a patrol token in hand. "Patrol inspection department!"
"Don't you see? We are a ship that transports grain to the county! "On the grain ship, the one who escorted the ship was Uncle Mi, the steward of Wu Ji.
"It's you guys who checked!" On the dock, Yuan Fang broke off. "Lord Patrol is here, don't dock immediately!"
"Huh?" Uncle Mi showed a frightened expression, and whispered to the guy next to him: "Let the boat behind quickly retreat!" ”
Seeing that the old guy was panicked, the last trace of doubt in Lin Xun's heart disappeared, and Huo Ran got up and said, "Intercept them!" ”
Two sentinel ships crossed the south side of the bridge, blocking the way of the grain ships behind.
In fact, as soon as these five grain ships left Suzhou, they were targeted by Lin Xun's people.
At that time, except for the Xu family, no one in the whole Kunshan knew that he was going to inspect the grain today!
"See where you run?!" Lin Xun, who is self-motivated, feels that he is much more capable, and he can already be called a 'capable official'.
In fact, the grain ship is clumsy and heavy, but if it is not stopped by ambushers, where can it run?
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In a moment, all five huge grain ships docked, filling the dock to the brim.
Zheng Qian took the archers to the boat to stand guard, in case Wu Ji's men and dogs jumped off the wall in a hurry and hurt the patrolman.
Lin Xun stood in the pavilion and watched as Yuan Fang's men commanding Wu Ji began to unload the ship.
There is also a group of squires standing behind him, most of whom are vassals dedicated to the Xu family, but in the three-level lackey system of the Xu family's 'family, righteous man, and stepson', they are still at the lowest level of 'family'.
The family is also a slave.
Therefore, they are all slaves of the Xu family, and naturally they are more valued by the Xu family than those godsons who set fires.
They can only beat the side drums, and it is not their turn to be confidential like the righteous men.
Well, that doesn't seem like a bad thing......
Today, Lin Xunji wants to summon the squires of the county to build momentum for himself and witness the glorious moment when he became a hero against counterfeiting.
However, for the sake of secrecy, he did not inform the famous Gu, Dai, Mao, Zhou, and Zheng families in Kunshan County, and even the squires of the second grade and the return family did not call them. In the end, only the minions of the Xu family in Kunshan were all brought to the dock to support the field.
Although in this way, there was no main squire in the county to support the scene, which made Lin Xunji feel stunned.
But at this moment he found that it was enough for someone to be present in a silk robe and a big hat.
I need to be the word 'squire', not any squire.
No one gets in the way, better!
ps. The second of the three consecutive changes, ask for a monthly pass recommendation ticket!!