Chapter 152: Pressing Forward
"Speaking of which, you haven't met County Lieutenant Du yet, I'll take you to meet him."
After chatting for a while, Zhang Yichen said that he would take Luo Cheng to meet Du Ruhui. Although he has now decided to join forces with Luo Cheng again, Zhang Yichen is still happier if he can not turn his face.
As for Luo Cheng, he is also willing to meet this so-called arbitrary Du Ruhui. As long as Du Ruhui is willing to stop and is no longer aggressive, Luo Cheng is also willing to make some concessions.
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County Yadongxiang.
The county lieutenant's public hall is here, and the entire county government has three entrances, the front and back residences. At the same time, there are left and right compartments, the county order, the county officer, the chief bookkeeper, and the county lieutenant all have their own public hall duty rooms, and the two rooms and three shifts are on the east and west sides of the south. As for the county jail cell, it is on the south side outside the county government and is known as the South Jail.
On the county lieutenant's hall.
Du Ruhui sat in the hall in a dark green official robe, and below him was the new team of the county government appointed by him.
There is one person in the record, two in the division, four in history, and one in the account history. There are two judicial assistants and four Shi people.
There are also two wardens, one city order, one city history, and one head of the three classes.
There is also a newly established county science doctor and a teaching assistant.
Du Ruhui below, twenty-six people.
They are all miscellaneous jobs without quality, and they are also the officials of Zhangqiu, except for the twenty-five li of the five townships, the county officials are all here.
These people have the old people in the former county government, who are not deeply involved with Fan Hu and others, and there are also the former Lizheng in the township, or some talented people, and some powerful children of the big clans.
"County lieutenant, Luo Cheng entered the city today, and now he is on the side of Zhang County's order." The head of the Zhuang class reported to him. This person is the only one in the new team of Zhangqiu Xu who is not a native of Zhangqiu, he was originally a member of the Du family, and Du Ruhui asked this tribal family who had been a soldier in the Weifu army to serve as the leader of the Zhuang class, which is also of great significance.
The head of the fast shift reported that after the county barracks received the order to move the camp, there was no movement, and Luo Cheng did not give an agreed reply.
The new secretary reported that Luo Cheng had signed an agreement to return the 400 acres of land.
"This Luo Cheng is also a coward." Someone chuckled.
Du Ruhui listened to the report, but looked at the account book in front of him.
These are the books of account for the handover of two rooms and three shifts.
Before taking office, he had already figured out that if he wanted to do something in Zhangqiu, he had to really grasp the real power. And Zhang Yichen cleaned the county government, drove away the county clerk and the master bookkeeper, and used Luo Cheng and his team to complete the control of the county government.
If he doesn't do something, then he is in Zhangqiu, don't think about really being in power and speaking.
He inquired about Luo Cheng carefully, and also studied this person, young, too young, too lucky, too good. But this person does have the ability, and looking at his behavior when dealing with the two rooms and three shifts of the former yamen, it can be seen that although this person is young, he is not all luck to get to his current status.
This man is steady and ruthless, and he leaves no room for things.
The officials in the former yamen were served by him, not only lost their errands, but also had to pay money to fill the deficit in the end, and even no matter how the foolish account came from, they had to fill it all up. In the end, in the name of quelling the chaos, all these people were exterminated.
Such a person is like a vicious wolf.
Cheng County Cheng and Fei Zhushu both lost their positions because of this.
Du Ruhui came to replace Luo Cheng as the new county lieutenant, and he didn't believe that Luo Cheng would be honest and obedient.
Especially after seeing the domineering of the Luo Cheng brothers in the restaurant that day, he had the idea of defeating the Luo brothers in one fell swoop. defeated the Luo family brothers and won the control of the two rooms and three classes, and he could also use this to establish his authority and truly become a county lieutenant, and at the same time avoid being set up by Zhang Yichen.
Therefore, as soon as he took office, he drove all the Luo brothers out of the yamen.
Then he began to take over the two rooms and three shifts, and the first thing he did was to take stock of the books. Originally, he thought that the Luo brothers had been in charge of two rooms and three shifts for a while, especially if there was such a big action as cleaning the old officials in the middle, they would definitely take the opportunity to be greedy for ink.
As long as you can find a handle, you can completely liquidate the Luo family brothers.
can check and check, but it is found that the treasury of Zhangqiu County is full, and the money and grain are piled up. Because of the liquidation of those moths in the past and the confiscation of many properties, the yamen is indeed very rich.
However, after careful inspection, I found that although the account books were a little irregular and chaotic, all the strokes were very clear and clear, and all of them were correctly recorded.
Even if some expenses are obviously unreasonable, such as rewards for the township corps and subsidies for the county barracks, these expenses are signed by Luo Cheng and signed by the county order.
Moreover, these expenses were traced to the township regiment and the county soldiers, and it was found that they were not misappropriated.
This surprised him very much.
Du Ruhui was still a little unwilling, thinking that Luo Cheng had made a false account, but he asked the staff who came with him to check it in person, and in the end he didn't find anything.
Luo Cheng really didn't take the opportunity to embezzle.
Even after checking the back, Du Ruhui was surprised to find that Luo Cheng had not received any filial piety or autumn wind since he was the head of the third class at the beginning, and he was in charge of the third shift. Later, when he became the acting county lieutenant, he also did not take any filial piety that he should not take, nor did he confiscate any money.
can't find loopholes, can't catch the handle, Du Ruhui is unwilling.
Later, he found trouble with Luo Cheng, drove the county barracks out of the county seat, cut off the supply of the county barracks, and even took back the 400 acres of land that had been allocated to Luo Cheng, all of which wanted to provoke Luo Cheng and force him to leave on his own initiative.
He hoped that Luo Cheng would not be able to stay in Zhangqiu, and then go to the county town to join Zhang Xutuo.
In this way, he doesn't have to worry about being hindered in Zhangqiu County, and without Luo Cheng's minions, Zhang Yichen, the county commander, naturally doesn't have to worry.
In fact, Zhang Yichen also proposed things to him several times, and it was almost over.
But Du Ruhui didn't stop.
He is not a person like the former county Cheng Cheng, he has no motivation anyway, so he has to get by. is not a person from a poor family like Fei Zhushu, who relied on the imperial examination to enter the office, and only knew that he had no ability to read the dead book, he would not let his subordinates be blinded.
Du Ruhui is not afraid of offending people.
If you want to do something, you will offend people.
He regarded Luo Cheng as an obstacle to his governance in Zhangqiu, and if he wanted to do things in Zhangqiu, he had to clear Luo Cheng's obstacle first.
Luo Cheng didn't leave for a day, and he Du Ruhui was always uncomfortable in his heart.
He closed the account book that could not be found and spoke slowly.
"Wang Zhutou, this official received a report that the Liu family restaurant in the market illegally bought and sold beef, which is very serious. Ploughing cattle is so valuable that private slaughter is prohibited. But nowadays, in order to make profits, some people slaughter and sell cattle privately, or even sell them right under our noses, and this kind of thing must not be condoned. You immediately bring someone to investigate the matter, first seal the store, and then arrest the store back for interrogation. ”