Liang Mao said: "If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do." I have a friend, he is a county magistrate, very talented, but unfortunately he has not been promoted, just heard that Chen Qun accepted bribes, as soon as he said that he was doing things for others, he informed me of this matter, I was angry, so I wrote this letter and sent someone to Chen Qun's house. ”

"Aren't you afraid of endangering your friends by doing this?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liang Mao said: "A good man is a good man, how can I give the name of my friend?" ”

Zhang Yan said: "I don't see it, you are quite righteous." Tell me what your friend's name is, and where he is, and if he is really a talented man, I will certainly promote him to my side. ”

Liang Mao asked suspiciously, "Your Excellency won't be deceiving me, right?" ”

"It seems that you still don't believe me enough, in fact, Chen Qun did these things at my behest and wanted to ......"

Zhang Yan immediately told Chen Qun's intentions, and after Liang Mao heard it, he immediately felt ashamed, and he regretted the letter that scolded Chen Qun very much.

"If that's the case, Lord Chen is doing practical things, and I really shouldn't scold him like this!" Liang Mao said ashamedly.

Zhang Yan said: "You don't need to sigh, I recently set up a new Metropolitan Procuratorate, and I need a person like you who is not afraid of heaven and earth and is very upright, to supervise and report some officials' violations of law and discipline for me, once it is found to be true, I will report it, and I will deal with it according to law." ”

Liang Mao was a little overjoyed, he didn't expect that one of his abusive letters would actually bring him a great honor.

For this. Liang Mao immediately remembered his friend who couldn't be promoted. He respectfully hugged his fists to Zhang Yan and said, "My lord." There is a person who is far greater than my ability, and if I can transfer this person to the side of the adult as an official, I believe that this person will definitely be able to bring a lot of pertinent advice to the adult. ”

"This person you're talking about is your county friend?" Zhang Yan asked.

Liang Mao nodded and said, "Exactly." This person's surname is Liang Mingxi, a native of Zhecheng, Chen Guo, and is now the county magistrate of Pei Guofeng County. I heard that King Chen, King Liang, and King Pei have sent envoys to attach themselves to the lord. Chen Guo, Liang Guo, and Pei Guo are actually already the territories of adults. Now that the adult is employing people, if Liang Xi can be transferred to the adult's side and entrusted with important tasks, I believe that the adult will have unexpected gains. ”

Liang Xi, the word Ziyu, Cao Wei's history of merging the state assassination, has been in office for more than 20 years, and he is powerful and humble, and he killed the rebel Hu. It makes the people in the Bingzhou area live and work in peace and contentment, and they can be regarded as people with all-round talents in civil and military affairs.

Zhang Yan listened. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly wrote a letter and sent someone to Chen Jue, asking Chen Jue to send someone to escort Liang Xi to Pengcheng.

Three days later, Liang Xi arrived in Pengcheng and was received by Zhang Yan intimately, and Liang Mao was also accompanied in the hall, when Liang Xi saw Liang Mao, he was surprised and hurriedly asked, "Brother Bo Fang, why are you here?" ”

Liang Mao said: "Brother Ziyu, don't be surprised, now I am the superintendent of the Imperial Court under the lord's account." ”

Liang Xi was burly, strong and tall, but he was about the same age as Liang Mao, only twenty-three or fourteen years old.

So, Zhang Yan said to Liang Xi: "Ziyu, thanks to Bo Fang's recommendation, I transferred you to my side, I want you to lead the troops and horses for me, I don't know what you think?" ”

Liang Xi said: "The last general will never give up!" ”

Zhang Yan then divided 3,000 soldiers and horses, named Liang Xi as the captain of Zhaoxin, and let him lead him, temporarily returned to Peiguo, and stationed in the area of Longkang to defend against Yuan Shu in Huainan.

Liang Xi received the order, took the seal, armor, and weapons given by Zhang Yan, and went directly to the school. On the school ground, Tai Shici gathered the three thousand infantry together early in the morning and handed them all over to Liang Xi, who took the three thousand soldiers without stopping and went directly to Long Kang in Peiguo.

Later, according to the information provided by Chen Qun, Zhang Yan asked Liang Mao to take a team of officials to take the initiative to investigate these people who gave gifts to Chen Qun, and prepare to investigate this matter thoroughly.

The officials in Xuzhou were the most involved in this matter, and the officials in Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou did not dare to move because they did not understand the actual situation. Only the officials in Xuzhou know more than others, and they desperately stammered Chen Qun.

Mi Zhu is Zhang Yan's left arm, and Chen Qun is Zhang Yan's right arm. Mi Zhu is already the richest man in Xuzhou, and he is not short of money at all, and those officials just want to bribe, but they can't afford to bribe Mi Zhu, so they unanimously aimed at Chen Qun.

In addition to this, when Chen Qun received gifts from these officials, Jiang Qi also refused to do so, but those gift-givers tried their best to make Chen Qun accept bribes, and even stuffed money for Chen Qun's housekeeper.

Chen Qun, who discovered this situation, came up with a way to calculate it, since you sent it, I will accept it correctly, but I don't move every penny of you, and seal it all away, see how many people give him gifts, and then follow the vine to touch the melon, check one by one.

This time, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Yan used Liang Mao and asked Liang Mao to investigate the matter thoroughly as a superintendent of the imperial history.

As soon as the news came out, those who had given gifts to Chen Qun were full of regret, and now they can only put everyone in danger, so they started to think crookedly again, sending gold and silver to Liang Mao.

However, Liang Mao didn't eat this set, accepted the gift, and immediately turned his face and denied the person, and regarded the gift as a kind of criminal evidence, and also arrested the person, used it as a witness, and then thoroughly investigated the matter.

The first county magistrate to give a gift to Liang Mao is undoubtedly the most unlucky person, it is simply a handful of rice that is not a chicken steal, and he also adds a degree to his guilt.

Since then, officials everywhere have been worried, and some officials, fearing punishment, have resolutely fled with their families and children. There are also some officials with poor psychological quality who even commit suicide in fear of crime.

In just half a month, in Xuzhou, there were as many as seven county magistrates who committed suicide alone, while there were 23 people who absconded in fear of crime, and there were three county magistrates who wanted to rebel, but they were reported and exposed by the county lieutenant and killed with the officials.

In Xuzhou, there are five counties and 62 cities, and as a result, the number of county orders that gave gifts to Chen Qun was as high as 33, which shows that more than half of the county orders in Xuzhou are actually doing evil on their own territory, and he has no idea. As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Yan felt a chill down his spine and a cold sweat broke out.

I didn't expect that under my nose, there were still people who dared to do so many things.

Liang Mao's trip was quite fruitful, and he thoroughly investigated the thirty-three county orders, except for the seven people who committed suicide, the remaining twenty-six county orders were all arrested and sent to Pengcheng, and handed over to Zhang Zhao, the secretary of Dali Temple, for examination, and let the Metropolitan Procuratorate jury.

According to Liang Mao's thorough investigation, these 33 county orders all have violations of law and discipline, either occupying people's land, abusing power, or robbing people's daughters, anyway, there are countless types of crimes, and facts speak louder than words.

So, after some trial, Zhang Zhao came to the conclusion that according to the new decree formulated by Zhang Yan, the remaining 26 people were all sentenced to beheading.

On the day of the beheading, Zhang Yan personally went to supervise the beheading, and the twenty-six fresh human heads instantly broke away from the neck and rolled to the ground, and the blood that continued to gush out of the cavity stained the entire venue.

Subsequently, Zhang Yan asked the twenty-six heads to be put up in a wooden box, and then sent them to the counties, so that the county orders of the counties could take warning!

However, then there was also a difficult problem, who should fill the vacancies of these 26 county orders?

Now that Zhang Yan's subordinates are no longer available, at such a critical moment, Zhang Yan came up with a solution, he is ready to promote a group of county officials to the county order, give them a year, see how the political performance is, if they can be qualified, they will continue to serve as the county commander, if they are not qualified, they can only be replaced.

In addition, Zhang Yan clarified the functions and powers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, and through this incident, he sounded the alarm of many county orders, so that they would not dare to violate the law and discipline in the future.

Zhang Yan killed thirty-three county commanders in one fell swoop, of which twenty-six were county commanders appointed by Tao Qian during his lifetime, so some people are also doubting Zhang Yan's intentions, whether he wants to completely remove the remnants of Tao Qian's shili?

In Zhang Yan's view, this is a big blood exchange, after the blood exchange, the county commanders are more conscientious and conscientious, and they dare not have any more hearts, for fear that they will end up like this.

The rule of officials in Xuzhou has been rectified, and the haze that has been shrouded in officialdom has finally dissipated.

The weather is getting colder day by day, and seeing that the New Year is approaching, Zhang Yan also specially prepared many gifts and sent people to the soldiers who have worked hard for a year, as well as officials at all levels, and hopes that they will have a prosperous career and a prosperous life in the new year.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, after Zhang Yan was busy that day, he returned to the room with his tired body, and the room was baked by a coal fire, and the temperature was much warmer than outside.

Zhang Yan walked straight to his wife Mi Zhen's side, and as soon as he sat down, he hugged Mi Zhen's waist and kissed her directly.

"Madam, you miss me......"

Saying that, Zhang Yan was about to pick up Mi Zhen, but this time, Mi Zhen pushed Zhang Yan and said busily: "Husband, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to do it today, the concubine is a little unwell......

Zhang Yan said dishearteningly: "Unwell? How is this possible, didn't you just feel unwell five days ago? Why is it here again? ”

"Husband, when I say physical discomfort, I am not the physical discomfort, but the real physical discomfort......"

"I'm confused by you, what's wrong with you?"

Mi Zhen wanted to say and said: "The concubine has a ......"

"What's up?" Zhang Yan asked.

Mi Zhen glared at Zhang Yan, thinking that Zhang Yan was so stupid, and she couldn't understand it, so she touched her stomach and said, "The concubine has the flesh and blood of her husband......

When he heard this, Zhang Yan was a little overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Really?" ”

"Well, I just invited Dr. Fan to come and see it, and I am indeed happy. That's why I can't have sex with my husband anymore. ”

"I can't have sex if I haven't heard of pregnancy......"

Mi Zhen said: "My husband is good or bad, the same room I am talking about is the ......"

"Huh? Can't do it when you're pregnant? Who prescribes? Zhang Yanya was stunned for a moment, and his face was even more stunned. (To be continued......)