Fu Song

Chapter 218: Chapter [-]
Zhou Wei left.

Xiao Cheng personally sent it to the pier, and he didn't turn around until Zhou Wei's boat disappeared from sight.

Judging from Zhou Wei's salute, he has made a lot of money in Qianzhou these years!
Big bags and small bags, big boxes and small cages, all packed a whole boat.

However, this person is not bad, at least when it comes to the handover, he didn't make any mistakes, but he seriously handed over the big and small things to Xiao Cheng clearly.

More importantly, he made some reminders to Xiao Cheng. Although it was very taboo, Xiao Cheng still accepted his love.

This person cannot be said to be a good person or a good official, but he is the most standard ordinary bureaucrat of this era.

In Xiao Cheng's own words, he is an official with the most basic conscience.

Such officials are the mainstream of officialdom at any time.

Officials who are too dark and corrupt will always be pulled out as a model and thrown away, as a sign for the court to show the people that they care about the people and fight corruption with iron fists.

Officials who are too clean and upright can hardly go too far in the officialdom. In the face of countless obstacles, most of these people will die halfway.

The ones who can really go far are the officials like Zhou Wei, who can walk with the light, get along with everyone, and seem to be no threat to anyone.

Of course, Zhou Wei will not go too far.

Because although he has such qualities, his talent can reach this stage.

If you go up again, you will be a person at another level.

Rank five is a huge watershed.

Above this level, if you want to go up, then ability and background are indispensable.

Even Yu Shi Zhongcheng, who is a full-time troller, is very good at trolling people. If he doesn't spray people, he will be fine. One spray can hit the point, and one spray can knock down a high-level official.And if you want to spray so accurately and well-founded, without any level, wrist, or strength, can you do it?
Of course, Li Guang's mentor was also a member of the former Eastern Mansion who had retired honorably.

The lottery in Qianzhou finally belonged to him.

Zhizhou's public hall is the main hall.

The signing hall is not a house, but two rows of wing rooms in the main hall, which are divided into small rooms one by one.

Of course, as Zhizhou's deputy and Qianzhou's second-in-command, the room where the judgment was signed was the first room in the east next to the main hall of the Zhizhou Yamen. Inside is the office.

For other officials, there is only a small signing room.

As for the other officials, they could only squeeze into the outermost big room. Rows of desks were placed on the ground, and everyone crowded together to work.

In Qianzhou in November, the weather is already quite cold.

Different from the coldness in the north, the coldness in Qianzhou is like a sharp thorn, which penetrates everywhere along the gaps in the clothes.If it were in Bianliang, the house would have been lit with earth dragons at this moment, but here, in the house, there is only a pot of charcoal fire placed in the inner room of Xiao Cheng's signing hall.

Li Xin was shivering from the cold outside, while Xiao Cheng sat in the room, his hands were also cold, and from time to time he had to rub his hands or put them under his armpits for a while.

All kinds of files in the house are piled up like a mountain, not only are they piled up on the big cases, but also put a lot on the ground.

Xiao Cheng wanted to look at the past files and learn about the specific situation in Qianzhou, so all the soldiers below brought so many files.

It's a very old-fashioned way to give the chief a blow.

As soon as Xiao Cheng came, Ma Zhizhou fell ill at the right time, and the people below him naturally knew what to do!
Ma Zhizhou is a seated household in Qianzhou. He has been the Zhizhou here for many years.

As for Xiao Zhijuan, he is new here, and I heard that he is not yet eighteen years old, and he may be well educated, but he is afraid that his body hair is not yet fully grown. How can he compete with the mature Ma Zhizhou?

How to choose a team, this is a question that does not need to be considered.

Xiao Cheng was naturally mentally prepared, he had no intention of going to see these things at all, if he really wanted to see them, he would spend a year watching them and couldn't finish them, let alone see why.

Now he is frowning, annoyed by the cold wind that is howling.

Those who are officials really don't build their own official offices!

This house is leaking from all sides.

When the wind blows, you can hear the sharp whistling sound when you sit in the house, Xiao Cheng even wonders if it's raining, does he have to prepare a few earthen basins to catch water in the house.

Just like this, not to mention that there is only one charcoal basin in the house, even if the earth dragon is burned, the temperature will still not rise.

This is the case in my own room, and I am afraid that other people are not much better.

"Li Xin, come in and enjoy the fire!" Xiao Cheng poked out half of his head, looking at Li Xin who was sitting shivering in a ball outside.

The two of them sat by the charcoal fire, and a copper kettle was warmed beside the fire, but it was steaming hot, and they finally felt a little warm.

Some greedily stretched out his hand to the fire, Li Xin glanced at the case files in the room, and said with a flat mouth: "This is the same thing again, they don't think it's too old-fashioned!"

"It's not old-fashioned, it's not old-fashioned at all!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Everyone goes down to the state capital and goes up to the central yamen. Everyone does this. The old man became the third envoy last year. He just entered the yamen. Didn’t the envoys do the same thing?”

"Erlang, do you really see it?"

"Look at the ghost!" Xiao Cheng said disdainfully: "The ones that can be brought in front of you are either not faulty, or they are traps. No matter which one is thankless, I don't bother to deal with it."

"But if you don't look at anything, how do you do things? You can't just warm up like this all day long, can you?" Li Xin blinked his eyes and said anxiously: "If you don't do things, how can you gain authority and stand firm?"

Xiao Cheng laughed loudly: "Li Xin, being an official is not about doing things first."

"What are you going to do then?"

"First of all, you have to get someone!" Xiao Cheng said lightly, "If you can't get someone, how do you do things? I am the second-in-command in Qianzhou, not the officials below. Is it possible that I will go down in person and do everything by myself? ?”

"Exactly!" Li Xin said indignantly: "It stands to reason that today is your first day at work. Shouldn't the chiefs of the various departments below come to see you one by one to report to you? Instead, there are baskets of files carrying Come on, visibly disturbed and kind."

"Li Xin, I'll test you!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile, "Tell me about it, your young master wants to attract someone, which one should you start with?"

Li Xin's eyes widened, and he said after a while, "Erlang, this is hard for me."

"Tell me, I won't blame you if I say something wrong!" Xiao Cheng pulled the fire to make it burn hotter.

"You definitely shouldn't think about joining the army. He is the leader of all Caos, and he must be the confidant of Zhizhou!" Li Xin thought for a while, and said: "Don't even think about Sihu joining the army. He is in charge of money, not Zhizhou. My confidant, I can't take this seat. According to me, only the manager and the judiciary can think of a way."

"Sure enough, I'm still making some progress!" Xiao Cheng laughed: "Then what do you think of it?"

Li Xin lowered his voice and said, "Erlang, I think we should find trouble with Si Li first. Si Li joins the army with the prison in his hand, and I really don't believe that he doesn't have many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. If you come out, you can use this as an excuse to threaten him!"

Xiao Cheng smiled and said nothing.

"Erlang, did I say something wrong?" Li Xin asked cautiously.

"It's not wrong!" Xiao Cheng said: "Well, since you came up with the idea, then you'll be in charge of this matter. Find a way to catch the wrong person who joined the army. I don't care what method you use. Go ahead and do it.”

"Let go and do it?"

"Li Xin, this is also a kind of experience for you, I hope you can do well!" Xiao Cheng stood up and walked out shaking his hands.

"Erlang, where are you going?"

"Go to pay a visit to Zhizhou!" Xiao Cheng said without turning his head: "Zhizhou is in poor health, I will go to pay a visit immediately."

Zhizhou's home is integrated with the yamen, the front is the yamen, and the back is Zhizhou's mansion.

Zhizhou Ma Liang seemed to have expected that Xiao Cheng would come to see him. As soon as the door announced, Xiao Cheng was directly led into the small reception hall.

Compared with the dilapidated yamen on the outside, the magistrate's mansion in the back is only separated by a wall, but it has two heavens, heaven and earth.

Although it can't be said to be beautiful, it can at least be regarded as exquisite.

It is exquisite.

There is still a big gap between the aesthetics of this place and the north. In the north, what I like is the openness. The aesthetics here are somewhat the same as those in the south of the Yangtze River.

The small living room was warm, and it was obviously installed with earth dragons. Walking into the room, it was like walking into spring, and the body immediately became warm.

"Chongwen is here, sit, sit!" Ma Zhizhou sat on the Taishi's chair and did not get up, but there was a thick blanket on his legs, and he pointed to the opposite chair enthusiastically and smiled. "Today is your first day on duty. I, the magistrate, should have taken you around the house, but you see, my old cold legs are attacking, and I can't move an inch for several days. They didn't make things difficult for you, did they?" ?”

Xiao Cheng smiled and bowed and bowed: "Thank you Zhizhou for your concern. How can I say that I am also a state-signed judge, and I am their superior. How dare they make things difficult for me? If someone really wants to embarrass me, the subordinates will naturally do the same." They still understand the truth that the early citrons will rot first! I can’t bear it.”

Ma Liang laughed loudly: "Young Fengrui, the Qianzhou Yamen is full of old-fashioned guys. This time you come, you are full of vigor, good, good! With your signing, I think we must come to Qianzhou The old looks new."

"Zhizhou is absurd, I don't care if I change my face or not, as long as everyone works together and don't treat me as an outsider, that's fine!" Xiao Cheng said.

"That's true! But it takes time to integrate!" Ma Liang said: "Chongwen, if you don't come today, I will ask someone to invite you. My old cold legs are really disappointing these days. , The doctor also saw it, and took a lot of medicine stones, but it didn't work much in the end, so I'm going to live in Biezhuang for a few days."

"Is Zhizhou going to leave the city?" Xiao Cheng was taken aback.

"I can't help it!" Ma Liang sighed, "I'm in the villa outside. There is a hot spring. Whenever my old cold legs attack, I can go there to soak for a while, and I will be relieved. Chongwen you When I first arrived, I should have brought you to familiarize yourself with official duties first, but "

"Don't worry about knowing the state!" Xiao Cheng waved his hands again and again: "The body is important, of course the body is important, business, if you don't do it today, you can do it tomorrow, if you can't do it tomorrow, just push it back!"

"Some things must be dealt with!" Ma Zhizhou's expression became serious: "Chongwen, while I am recuperating, if you take the burden of official affairs in Qianzhou, you must not slack off."

Xiao Cheng stood up, bowed and said: "I would like to obey the order. Zhizhou can go to recuperate. I think Qianzhou is very peaceful and nothing will happen."

"Where is the peace! Just on the Dushan side, I heard that there is a big incident. I have sent someone to investigate. After a few days, the general situation will come back. Chongwen hurry up and settle the incident over there." , If there is anything you really can’t handle, go to Biezhuang and find me!” Ma Zhizhou smiled and said, “Although I am not in the Yamen, I still want to support you.”

"Thank you Zhizhou!"

Coming out of Ma Liang's mansion and returning to his signing hall, Xiao Cheng chuckled a few times. Seeing Li Xin lying on the pile of files and looking at the files, he couldn't help but smile, stretched out his hand and grabbed him and said: " As I said earlier, it is impossible to easily find loopholes in these files. They are all old officials. If you can see through the things they made, wouldn’t they have lived in vain for decades? !"

"Erlang, you must be able to see through!"

"I can see through it, but I'm too lazy!" Xiao Cheng said, "Follow me."

"Where are you going?" Li Xin was taken aback.

Xiao Cheng said: "Let's go and see the official residence where the judgment was signed. Zhou Wei is gone, so we naturally have to move in. It's not a problem to live in the post all the time."

"Moving now? You're not working?"

Xiao Cheng glanced at the dossiers in the room, "I can't do it. Go to An's house first, it must not be settled, how can we settle in Qianzhou?"

With a hearty laugh, Xiao Cheng swayed through a row of lottery rooms. When passing by, each lottery room was quiet. After passing by, heads were half exposed from the doors. Looking at Xiao Cheng's back, he was either amazed, thoughtful, or gloating.

On the first day of work, except for some clerks who moved the files, the second in command of Qianzhou did not see any important officials.

No matter what others think, Xiao Cheng doesn't seem to care anyway.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the official house where the judgment was signed, pinching teeth.

"How did Zhou Wei live in this house for so many years?" Looking at the dilapidated official building, Xiao Cheng's eyes widened. Compared with his signing hall, this house was even worse.

"No official will build an official residence!" Li Xin whispered.

"Bah, if this house is not repaired, I'm afraid it will collapse." Xiao Cheng waved his hand.

"Okay, I'll find someone to fix it right away."

"This is an official building, why should I pay for it myself?" Xiao Cheng quit: "Let's go out for a walk today, and tomorrow, I'll have someone repair it. Since it's an official building, of course the officials have to pay for it. "

(End of this chapter)