Chapter 22 Bullying the Officer
In the second hall of the Gongzhou Mansion, Hou San knelt on the ground, and the wound on his leg had been healed, but after kneeling for a long time, the wound was still oozing blood. After escaping, he didn't dare to go back to Zhuangzi, and sent the young master directly to the house, after knowing what had happened, the old man was furious, and several people were beaten by the board, just to see that he was injured, so he was exempted from kneeling here!
I don't know how long it took, the screams outside gradually became smaller, a servant on duty came in and lit the candles in the hall, and the prefect Chen Tang then entered the house, sitting on the Taishi's chair with a sinking face, and the servant carefully sent tea and quietly retreated.
Chen Tang picked up the cup, skimmed the foam with the lid of the cup, smacked the tea, looked at the kneeling people at his feet, the flame that had just been extinguished was burning again, and the son of his dignified prefect made his nose blue and swollen face, not to mention, he was scared to pee his pants, how will he mix in the officialdom in the future! The more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and splashed the tea on Hou San's face, the hot tea splashed on his face, and the hot Hou San beat the spirit, but he didn't dare to wipe the water droplets off his face, just kept kowtowing.
"My lord, the eldest young master has fallen asleep after drinking the medicine, there is no big deal!" The housekeeper of the house then walked in and said.
"Well, is Zhang Yan here?" Chen Tang nodded, and asked with a slightly soothing expression.
"Zhang Baozheng is here, waiting outside, the villain will call him in immediately!" The steward said, and then ordered the servant to call someone.
"Brother-in-law, is your nephew okay?" While talking, a person came in from outside, if you look at it from behind, it is a normal person, but the front is unsatisfactory, the mouth is crooked and the eyes are slanted, with a 'glass flower' outside, obviously looking like a wicked person, but he has to pretend to be a Sven, with a scribe's scarf on his head, wearing a Confucian robe, and two mouse whiskers on his chin.
"Well, sit down!" Chen Tang frowned slightly and asked him to sit down, his brother-in-law was a country scoundrel, he didn't have enough to eat, what he couldn't do, he always wanted to follow him to do a ministry, but he really couldn't get on the stage, he couldn't stand the pillow wind, so he had no choice but to let him be a village leader in his own Zhuangzi, and promoted him to be a Baozheng, and the size was also a grassroots cadre.
"Brother-in-law, although my nephew was beaten today, it was the face of you, brother-in-law, who was really beaten, we can't just forget it!" Zhang Yan sat down, crossed Erlang's legs and said.
"Hmph, I still have the face to say that my nephew was beaten on your ground, you righteous prestige!" Chen Tang said sarcastically.
"Alas, when I got the letter and summoned the bankers to rush over, they had already run away, otherwise I would have called them..."
"Don't blow it anymore, look at the person you can fight the most, isn't it still a bunch of rubbish, and you actually make children disgraced!" Chen Tang pointed to Hou San, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said, "That family dares to fight Zi'an, is there any kind of battle, have you figured it out?" ”
"Brother-in-law, this family has been here for more than a year, and they all speak with a Beijing accent, but I haven't heard of any backers, the head of the family is a seven or eight-year-old child, and everything is a group of stewards, I guess the adults in the family are dead, and they can't get along in Beijing, so they hide in the countryside, or who will come to this poor country to be a rich man! But..."
"But what?"
"This family is very rich, there are hundreds of hectares of land alone, most of them are good land, there are more than 500 tenants, and the food and clothing of the family are all good. Zhang Yan said with a twinkle in his eyes, "Brother-in-law, I heard my sister say that the gifts given to Cai Xiangye for the Chinese New Year this year are not enough, if we take this opportunity to bring him over, a hundred hectares of land will be worth a lot of silver, plus their big manor, how can they get 200,000 yuan, all problems have been solved, brother-in-law may be able to go to Beijing, and it is not impossible to enter the cabinet!" ”
"Oh, his family is so rich..." Chen Tang stood up violently, and soon realized his gaffe again, he looked at Hou San, who had shrunk on the ground, and said to the official: "Take him down, find a doctor to see!" ”
The official family waved his hand, and the two officials came up to carry Hou San down, Chen Tang saw that there were no outsiders in the house, so he called Zhang Yan over and said, "Zhang Yan, if you want to bring that Zhuangzi, what should I do..."
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The palace was slaughtered, the guards were all dressed in strong clothes, the knives were unsheathed, the bows were wound, more than 20 villagers were also holding guns and sticks outside the gate, and not far away another group of more than 20 people were also eyeing the door, and it was Zhang Yan who was arrogant. ,
"Big steward, those people have figured out the bottom of the group!" Zhao Ta sat in the main hall with an angry face.
"Second master, I found it out, it was the people from the Zhuangzi of the Gongzhou Prefect, and yesterday the gang was led by his eldest son, Chen Zi'an, and outside the door was his brother-in-law, Zhang Yan, the Baozheng of Dachen Zhuang!" The archsteward replied respectfully.
"Shameless face, Lao Tzu didn't trouble him, but he dared to trouble Lao Tzu today!" Zhao Ta scolded, he didn't want to cause trouble yesterday, so he let Chen Zi'an go, but he didn't expect this kid to turn his face when he got on the horse, and he shot him with an arrow when he looked back.
At night, the shameless Zhang Yan actually brought people to their mansion to 'mediate' as a baozheng, and the lion opened his mouth to let them take out 100,000 yuan to settle the matter, and he came to guarantee that the prefect would not trouble him. The chief steward has also seen the world, in Beijing, even Shangshu and the prime minister will give him three points of thin noodles, and now a small 'village cadre' dares to go here to spread wild, of course he is looking for someone to blow them out, if Zhao Ta hadn't instructed him in advance, he would have broken his leg long ago. I didn't expect this guy to be endless, leading people to block the door of the house, and breaking in to arrest people.
"Aren't they going to come in? Master Meng, you bring people to prepare, as long as they enter the mansion, close the door immediately, arrest them all for me, and fight to the death if you dare to resist! Several people in the hall were stunned when they heard this, the prince seemed to be really annoyed, Huang Daguan didn't come back yesterday, others wanted to persuade but didn't dare, after all, this child is their real master.
"Yes, I'll do as the second master tells me right away!" After Meng Tao finished speaking, he went out.
"See, go and bring my royal robe, and prepare the chariots and horses!" Zhao Ta said to Jianxi on the side again.
"Second master, what are you doing here?" Seeing the joy of being stunned, I don't know what kind of moth the prince of Lu Dao has.
"Caught them and kept them playing? I'm going to send them to the prefect's yamen and accuse them of murdering the prince, but I want to see whose father is big!" Zhao Ta said with a small face.
"Yes!" Seeing Xi immediately understood, he was going to fight with that Chen Zi'an, but is this comparable, the prince himself is several levels older than the prefect, he looked at the prince, and knew that the other little ghosts had already had an idea, and immediately ordered Feng Xi to take two small yellow doors to get clothes and prepare a sedan chair.
"The chief steward, find someone with good writing, let him write a complaint immediately, and say that Chen Zi'an plotted to kill the prince and wanted to do wrong, I want to see how his father tried this case!"
"Second master, you don't have to go to this matter in person, I can get things done with your post, and I will let him do it impartially!" The chief steward failed to properly understand the leader's intentions and persuaded.
"No, I'll go and see for myself, and let him know that his father is the prefect!" Zhao Ta immediately declined his kindness.
Catch people here, write the form, and when everyone returns to the main hall after finishing their work, their eyes are bright, it is really a person who relies on clothes and horses to rely on the saddle, the prince has changed into a 'formal suit', wearing a seven-beam forehead flower crown, wearing a purple four-clawed dragon python robe, a gold belt around the waist, a goldfish bag hanging on it, a white jade ring, a mink fur cloak, a deerskin cloud head boots, plus a small white face with clear eyebrows, that is called a spirit.
"Lord Wang, the sedan chair is ready, please move!" Miki also changed into 'work clothes' and bowed and shouted.
"Well, let's go!" Zhao Ta went out of the door, the outside was ready, he got on the sedan chair, the eight sedan chair men cheered together, the sedan chair of Hongni was raised steadily, the most idle in the house was them, this was the first time to use them, and they were full of spirit.
The team at the gate of the house has already stood still, just waiting for him, Yang Feng in front of him with six guards to open the way, Zhao Ta's sedan chair followed, four sumo wrestlers each occupy a corner of the guard, see Xi Fengxi holding the sedan chair, with a few small yellow doors waiting, the big steward and Meng Tao led a dozen or so guards to ride horses to accompany them, and the last is that the Zhuang guests are escorting a string of 'terrorists' who 'attacked' the palace, and the group is ready to bully the official.
"Lord Wang, when you open the mansion alone, let's match the honor guard, that formation is even bigger than this!" Jianxi said with a smile to Zhao Ta in the sedan chair through the curtains.
"Hehe, let's play big this time, I don't know if the Emperor of Lu Dao will scold me for making too much trouble when he hears about it!" Zhao Ta's helpless voice came from the sedan chair, this time Xingshi moved the crowd to 'fight a lawsuit', he used his feet to think about the result, not to mention the identity of the prince, a prefect and a county king are not a level at all, he only has to find abuse, but he is helpless to do so.
Since the meeting of the Tianning Festival, as he expected, after seeing the rich and young owners of their family, some small children began to move, all kinds of apportionment, all kinds of inexplicable husbands and servants began to come to the door, in short, the township asked for money to go on a business trip, and even the adjacent land disputes also increased, the bold moved the boundary card openly, and the timid also secretly dug the edge of the ground, gnawed the corner of the field, and made the tenants at home complain.
Zhao Ta believes that Bao Zheng's brazen collusion with the prefect to snatch the land is caused by the blind forbearance and the attitude of calming things down in the past period of time, and now he wants to establish his authority, and use this matter to completely solve the troubles that may arise in the future once and for all, and 'fight' a peaceful and stable environment for his future!