Xu Ping cleaned up and went out of the room, and Liu Xiaoyi, who was standing in the courtyard, said: "Junhou, I don't know what to eat in the morning, I'll go and ask the store to bring it in." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Whatever, you know my tastes, look at what the inn has, just take some to fill your stomach."

Liu Xiaoyi responded and went out to prepare breakfast.

Xu Ping looked at the red glow that had just appeared in the sky and stretched. The early morning wind blew, carrying a dense mist, blowing on the face, pulling people out of the early morning state of confusion at once.

Not long after, Liu Xiaoyi brought a handyman from a post house into the small courtyard and ordered the food to be delivered to the room.

Xu Ping was about to purify the water and enter the house for breakfast, when suddenly an entourage walked in quickly and saluted: "Deputy envoy, something happened to the team transporting goods to Xijing, a few thieves were arrested, and they are waiting in the official hall of the post house!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Ping was taken aback. Since the founding of the country, no matter how many thieves there are, I have never heard of anyone who dares to rob on the Liangjing Post Road, not to mention that the team of the three divisions is huge, and it is necessary to grab an army.

Ignoring eating, Xu Ping let his entourage lead the way and walked out of the courtyard where he was resting.

As soon as I entered the post office, the people present saluted together.

Looking left and right, not only are the leaders of the post house here, but even the delivery team is headed by a few people. Wang Yan didn't know what to do, but when he got the news, he rushed over earlier than Xu Ping.

Sitting down on the main seat, Xu Ping asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The general who grabbed the person stepped forward and saluted: "Deputy envoy, early this morning, these three people made trouble at our delivery team. They said that they were some kind of public officials in Heyin County, but they didn't have official documents, and they didn't go to the local prison town to communicate with them, so they looked like thieves no matter how they looked at them. A few of us brought it over, and let the deputy envoy send it down! ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Bring someone over for questioning." ”

Just as he was answering the promise and beckoning, a few box soldiers pushed the three men to the bottom of the hall.

As soon as he knelt on the ground, the man in the middle shouted that he was wronged: "Official, we are indeed the public of Heyin County, we have been ordered by the county order to come here on business, we are really not thieves!" ”

Xu Ping looked at the three of them, his face was ruddy, although he was not wearing official clothes, but his manners were regular, even when he knelt in the hall, his expression was very natural, and he already believed that they were not thieves. Most of the people who have this kind of performance in the public court are really the public in the yamen, and the ordinary people do not have this calmness.

Clearing his throat, Xu Ping said loudly: "Don't say that you are coming to other states and counties, even in this county, you also need official documents to take people on a business trip, how can the court law be regarded as child's play?" You don't wear official clothes, and you don't have official documents with you, why do you say that you are a public person? Crashing into the truck fleet of the three divisions is not a small crime, how can you let it go with just a few words? Come on, put these three people in prison, go to Heyin County, and let them send someone to write the official document to go to Henan Mansion to collect people. ”

Seeing that Xu Ping had no intention of trying the case at all, he was about to arrest people to Luoyang, and Wang Yan, who was sitting at the bottom, hurriedly said: "Deputy Envoy Xu, the truth of the matter has not been clarified yet, why do you want to take people away?" If you really want to be imprisoned, you have to hand it over to Xiangfu County, we just need to hand it over to the local prison town. ”

Xu Ping looked at Wang Yan and said lightly: "They collided with the team of the three divisions, if it is a public errand, it is naturally excusable." But if not, then they are really thieves who want to rob the goods, and naturally the case will be handled by the three divisions. Of course, people are taken away by us, how can they be handed over to the place! ”

Xu Ping's original intention was to give these few errand chiefs who didn't know the height of the sky to go to the prison town, and it was easy for Heyin County to send people away, or take them directly to Luoyang and let them suffer a little.

After the order, Xu Ping wanted people to escort these three down and get up to hurry. A month's time to survey the river is very tight, and you can't waste time on these chores.

At this moment, the general stepped forward and said, "Deputy envoy, there is also a young man who was arrested together, and it doesn't seem to be with these three people." However, Director Chen said that it is not necessarily, the young man had nowhere to rest last night, and stayed in the store where our three teams lived for a night, and it was their eyeliner to say that it was not good. ”

Xu Ping didn't expect that there would be these branches, and said to the general: "Bring that young man up." ”

Sun Erlang was swept to the ground by the escorted van soldiers, and he was busy kneeling and shouting grievances like the three people just now: "Official, the small one is an ordinary farmer in Heyin County, Mengzhou, and he is not a thief. Last night there was a festive brother, who saw that I was resting by the Jinshui River and was pitiful, and took it back to stay overnight, and there was nothing else. ”

Xu Ping didn't know about these things, so he called Director Chen up and asked him to explain what had happened.

Looking at the young man in the hall, his body trembled on his knees, his expression was a little panicked, and he didn't know what to do, but he really looked like an ordinary peasant boy.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping asked: "Report your name, where does your family live, and why did you come to Bajiao Town." ”

"The little Sun Erlang lives in Caojiaao, Heyin County, Mengzhou, at the foot of Guangwu Mountain, not far from Biankou. Just because of the drought this year, there was no harvest in the field, and with his parents leaving his hometown, he went to Kaifeng Mansion to beg for a living. ”

In this era, in the words of Xu Ping's previous life, there were many extreme weather, one year cold and one year hot, one year flooded and one year drought, and there were more disasters than all previous dynasties. Just in the Central Plains, there are droughts or waterlogs every year, and Xu Ping has long been surprised. Hearing Sun Erlang say that his family was hit by a disaster, Xu Ping was not surprised.

Wang Yan, who was at the bottom of the head, said: "I'm afraid that what you say is not true, I know that there are places in Henan Province that have suffered disasters, but they are not serious, your home is in Mengzhou, why does it sound like the disaster is worse than those states and counties?" ”

Sun Erlang said: "The officials don't know, our land there was irrigated by the Yellow River water in previous years, but this year because of the drought and the river rolled north, the south bank of the Yellow River is nearly ten miles away from Guangwu Mountain, and in previous years, it was close to the foot of the mountain. There was no water in the fields, and the drought was not worse than the rest of the world! ”

From Sanmen to Baibo Yellow River, it is through the mountains, the river channel is narrow, the water flow is turbulent, once the Baibo River channel suddenly widens, the water flow is smooth, and it is very easy to silt up sediment. Coupled with the power of the Earth's rotation, the river gnaws at the north bank, leaving a large area of sediment on the south bank. From the outside, it looks like the Yellow River is below the middle reaches, and the course of the river naturally rolls northward, changing and uncertain. As a result, many banks burst and it was difficult to repair.

Jiangbei is yang, Jiangnan is yin, Heyin County was still called Heyang in the Tang Dynasty, and Mengzhou was Heyang three cities festival is from this. Today, it has become Heyin County, and the degree of uncertainty of the river can be imagined.

Xu Ping nodded secretly, knowing that what this kid said was right. In this era, there were no pumping machines, and how could they resist such natural disasters by relying solely on manpower to get water. The river has changed so much that even the waterwheels have lost their effect.

Suddenly, Xu Ping suddenly remembered something, sat up suddenly, looked at Sun Erlang in front of the hall, and asked loudly: "Did you just say that the Yellow River waterway is rolling north, and it is already ten miles away from Guangwu Mountain?" ”

Xu Ping's voice suddenly raised, startling the people around him, and Sun Erlang under the hall was even more frightened, and replied in a trembling voice: "Back to the official, the little one just said so." ”

Is that true? Within a year, the river went north for ten miles, and such a big change could not be hidden. I'm in the Third Division, why have I never heard the local state and county newspapers come up? ”

Sun Erlang saw that Xu Ping, who had always been pleasant, suddenly changed his face, and couldn't help but panic, and whispered: "The river doesn't go down every day, it retreats a little bit every day, many people don't care when they see it, and the officials are also negligent." ”

Hearing this, Xu Ping's face was cloudy, he thought for a while, and asked the people around him: "Who knows what is going on in that section of the Yellow River now?" The upper section of Guangwu Mountain is in Fanshui County, and the lower section is in Heyin County, are there any people who are familiar with those two counties? ”

Does anyone know the details of that small remote county? As the newly appointed deputy envoy of the Ministry of Households, Wang Yan read a little official document before leaving, and only then did he know that there was a disaster in Henan Prefecture, and he couldn't tell the specific situation. As for the rest, no one cares about these things.

Seeing that no one answered, Wang Yan whispered to Xu Ping: "Deputy Envoy Xu also thinks that what this kid said is untrue? In my opinion, many thieves just take advantage of the fact that the government will not suspect the children, and use them as eyeliner, so it is better to take down the detailed interrogation! ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "That's not what I mean, I thought of something else." ”

This time I came out to inspect the river, not the imperial history, and there was a transfer envoy who was not in charge of other officials in charge of these things on Jingxi Road. Xu Ping didn't want to make a fuss, and if he wanted to try the case, the local government would do it, so he couldn't take his turn.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said: "We will go to Zhongmu County tomorrow, and we will know what the specific situation is, as soon as we check the official documents in the county." These three people, as well as this child, take them together, and talk about it when they get to Zhongmu! ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and asked people to take them down.

Everyone dispersed, and after a while, only Xu Ping and Wang Yan and a few entourages were left in the official hall.

Seeing that the matter was just like that, Wang Yan couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. What officials care about the most is all kinds of cases, and once they are solved, it will be their own merits. As for inspecting the river, unless it is sure that the river can be opened, then it will have to be presided over by oneself in order to get some credit on oneself, which is all uncertain.

There is such a credit in front of him, but it was gently let go by Xu Ping, the more Wang Yan thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and said to Xu Ping: "Deputy Envoy Xu, although we said that we came out to inspect the river this time, but whether the canal can be opened or not is still between the two, and someone wants to rob the goods of the three divisions is in front of him." For today's plan, of course, it is necessary to hear the case in front of us clearly, and there is no hurry to inspect the river at this time! (To be continued.) )