Chapter 258: Rich Businessmen Arrogant and Fake Disaster Relief

Only Da Sikong warned Lin Shaowen that he could reprimand officials and write a note of impeachment, but he could not be dismissed, because Lin Shaowen was a court official after all, not a local official. Moreover, Lin Shaowen did not have the appointment of a saint to remove officials, so Lin Shaowen could scold.

Lin Shaowen nodded, thanked Da Sikong, and then prepared for a while, and asked Yu Ming if he was with them, Yu Ming was busy going to the East China Sea, so he was naturally unwilling, and Lin Shaowen didn't force it, so he left here with Chen Qiushi.

On the way, Lin Shao was very happy when he heard it, and what he thought to himself was that even if there was a disaster, there would be people eating porridge.

At noon the next day, Lin Shaowen's carriage arrived at a disaster-stricken county, and before Lin Shaowen entered the city gate, he saw a group of people in rags, walking on the official road with their families.

Seeing this situation, Lin Shaowen's heart was sour, and when the coachman asked him if he was going to the inn, Lin Shaowen said that he would go to the disaster relief site.

When he arrived at the disaster relief site, Lin Shaowen got out of the carriage, and then watched these victims come over from the disaster relief point with empty bowls.

Lin Shaowen didn't expect this to be the case, even if it was porridge, there would be a few points left.

In order to understand the situation, Lin Shaowen stepped forward, and the guards on the side saw this situation and said to Lin Shaowen: "Line up, line up, come one by one." ”

Lin Shaowen ignored it, he stepped forward to see that there was soup in this pot, and there were a few wild vegetables in it.

"This is disaster relief?"

Lin Shaowen couldn't believe his eyes, and the spoon said loudly: "Are you blind?" Don't you see the four big words "Disaster Relief" written next to it? ”

"That's how you were ordered to provide disaster relief?"

"What's the matter, you can't get enough of a bowl of hot soup? Don't come if you don't want to drink, what's the matter, do the victims still regard themselves as uncles? ”

When Lin Shao heard this, he said indifferently: "Let your master come out." ”

Lin Shaowen was really angry, this person heard this, and there was no reaction, and Lin Shaowen's guards walked to the side of this master, one of them grabbed an arm, and then pressed hard, this person knelt on the ground, Lin Shaowen said to the surroundings: "Who is in charge." ”

Soon, a man dressed as a wealthy businessman came over, saluted Lin Shaowen and said, "I'm the one in charge here, I don't know what advice this master has?" ”

Lin Shaowen looked at the rich merchant suspiciously, and the rich merchant told Lin Shaowen that this yamen had no money and no food, so he borrowed it from himself, and waited for the disaster relief money to be used to make up for him after the disaster relief money was gone.

"In that case, that's how you provide disaster relief?"

"This master, how to provide disaster relief if you don't do it like this, there are so many people in this disaster, even soup and firewood, which are not a small expense."

"Yes, how much silver do you want on this day?"

"At least twenty taels of silver a day."

"How long have you been in disaster relief?"

"It's been more than twenty days."

After Lin Shaowen finished speaking, he said to the rich merchant: "In this way, you have a total of more than 400 taels of silver, okay, go find a rice shop and a firewood seller." ”

The rich merchant said that he was a grain merchant, and the rice shops in this county town were all his.

Lin Shaowen asked him how much rice was, and the rich merchant said that he was still the same, one tael of silver and one stone of rice.

Lin Shaowen asked the price of firewood again, but the rich merchant did not answer, and someone said that if this load of firewood is enough, it will only be two hundred yuan.

Lin Shaowen said that since he used twenty taels of silver a day here, it was so good, he would sell it to this rich merchant.

When the rich merchant heard this, he couldn't help but say: "This lord, I advise you not to be strong, this is allowed by the county." ”

"Zhixian, okay, you let Zhixian come."

Hearing Lin Shao's words, the rich merchant made a look, and a servant ran away, and then the rich merchant still said respectfully: "This lord, what kind of identity is the county respect, I will come here for you as a madman, but I advise you to be old and less to fight grievances, this human thing is not something that can be done with a lot of blood." ”

"So, I'm wrong, are you right?"

"At first glance, this master is used to being pampered, this vegetable soup is difficult for you to swallow, but for the victims, it is already ginseng soup, if the lord makes a big fuss, the county lord is angry, and he is not in disaster relief, I am afraid that these people will not be able to do it if they want to make this soup."

"So, they have to thank you, don't they?"

"You can ask everyone about this."

Lin Shaowen looked at the hungry people with yellow faces and thin muscles around him, these people all looked at Lin Shaowen with expectant eyes, Lin Shaowen had a sour nose, and said to the rich businessman: "I didn't expect that heaven and earth would give birth to a person with no conscience like you." ”

"You don't have to worry about whether you have a conscience or not, it's just that if you are always making trouble unreasonably, you will inevitably go to prison."

When the rich businessman said this, the county lieutenant appeared here with the box army, and the county lieutenant looked at Lin Shaowen and said arrogantly: "Are you making trouble here?" ”

Lin Shaowen asked the county lieutenant and said, "This is justified or not, you will know it as soon as you look at this pot." ”

The county lieutenant didn't open it, but just said to Lin Shaowen: "This court disaster relief, and you have a relationship with this, it's really a dog with a mouse to meddle in things, if you don't leave, go to the yamen with me." ”

When Lin Shao heard this, he scolded and said, "Let your county order come to see me." ”

After hearing this, the county lieutenant couldn't help but smile around and said, "Look, this person really has a madness, and he doesn't want to think about his identity, and he wants our county lord to see him." ”

When Lin Shao heard this, he took out his waist card and said, "Then is this enough?" ”

The county lieutenant was illiterate, looked at the waist card, and asked the literate people around him, who saw the waist card and knelt directly to the ground.

"What are you kneeling for, is it a big official?"

The man hurriedly said, "This is Dr. Otsuka. ”

The county lieutenant smiled and said, "Kotsuka Jae, Kotsuka Zai!" ”

The county lieutenant hadn't reacted at first, but when he reacted, it was really a battle between two forces, and he didn't know what to do.

The people around also knelt down and saluted, and Lin Shaowen said to the county lieutenant: "Why don't you go and let the county magistrate come to see the official, do you want the official to invite him personally?" ”

The county lieutenant is really distracted and panicked now, this Lin Shaowen didn't come back to his senses when he heard the instructions, and the people next to him reminded him a few times, but the county lieutenant was still indifferent, so he had to go and invite himself.

A quarter of an hour later, the magistrate arrived on horseback, and when he saw Lin Shaowen, he didn't want anyone to help him, so he jumped off the horse directly, saluted Lin Shaowen and said: "The lower official has seen Lord Kozuka, and the lower official has been rude, forgive the sin." ”

"Ming Mansion, this official asks you, is this how you provide disaster relief under your rule?"

When the magistrate heard this, he walked to the pot and looked at it, then walked to the rich merchant, threw it over with a slap, and said to the rich merchant: "Damn it, this county handed over this matter to you, and you dare to act like this." ”

The rich merchant hurriedly said: "Master, it is a small mistake, a small greed, a small greed, and a small greed, which has failed the love of adults." ”

When Lin Shaowen saw this situation, he asked the wealthy businessman, didn't the county know about this matter? The magistrate said that he was busy with government affairs, and he was gullible about this person, so he didn't know that this rich businessman was so relieved of disasters.

And this rich businessman's accounts are all twenty taels, and this account book is still there, and he didn't check it for a while, and he was deceived by this rich businessman.

Speaking of this, the magistrate handed over the account book, Lin Shaowen naturally couldn't understand it, Chen Qiushi took it and read it, and said to the rich businessman: "You are so bold, you dare to deceive the court, do you know what to do according to the law?" ”

"What kind of lard is a little bit of lard, and please be gracious to adults, and to be gracious to adults."

Chen Qiushi told the wealthy businessman that in this case, he would be redressed according to the law, and the culprit would be beheaded after imprisonment.

When the rich merchant heard this, he looked at the magistrate, and the magistrate said that according to the law, it should be three thousand, and the crime will not lead to death.

Chen Qiushi said that he was an ordinary person, and this rich merchant was a businessman and belonged to a lowly class, so his natural crime was added to the first degree.

Chen Qiushi also told the magistrate that the magistrate didn't have to worry about others, and the mistake made by the magistrate this time was a minor one that could not be investigated by Beijing, and a heavier one should be dismissed and investigated.

The magistrate said that he did not know anyone and was deceived by others, and he pleaded guilty to this incident.

The wealthy businessman also pleaded there, saying that he was really confused for a while, and he wanted to come to obey the law.

Chen Qiushi said that they would play the sage truthfully about this matter, and Chen Qiushi also told them that the sage would not be lenient about this kind of thing, and the rich businessman should be ready for the future.

The rich businessman turned pale and fainted directly, Chen Qiushi said to the magistrate: "Lord magistrate, please go with us to raid the house." ”

Originally, the county did not have such a right, but now that Lin Shaowen is here, this crime has been implemented, so it is naturally okay.

Zhixian had some weak feet, and he still had to say in the end: "Let's wait for the holy decree to come down." ”

"When the holy decree comes, how can you get the money and food for disaster relief? Could it be that there is still a surplus in the county yamen? Chen Qiushi grasped the weakness of the magistrate, and the magistrate could only take Lin Shaowen and them to raid the house.

The income from this copying has been written into a list, of which there are more than 10,000 taels of silver, and all kinds of other miscellaneous items add up, close to 100,000 taels, Lin Shaowen sighed, just such a rich businessman, and his family has more money than his own small mound.

After Lin Shaowen sighed, he sent all the rice from the rice shop to the disaster relief place, so that people could boil porridge again.

Seeing that this porridge was so thick, Zhixian said distressedly that so much rice was too wasteful, even if these victims were not affected, they would not have such a good meal.

Lin Shaowen said that this was the incompetence of his county, and he couldn't govern it well, and the silver was also taken from the people and used for the people.

Hearing Lin Shaowen say this, the magistrate could only say yes, and then Lin Shaowen told the magistrate and asked him to write to the nearby county magistrate, he didn't want to see this situation here, and he didn't pursue the previous things, if he went and encountered this kind of thing, then these people were provoking his own little tsukasa Zai, and he would let these people know that even if he was the small tsuka jae of Nandu, it was not something they could provoke.