Poor family mother and son

There is always a kind of person who is often talked about by others. Even when a couple talks privately, the content they talk about revolves around this person, such as Chu Qing.

Hu Hengqiu and his wife ate at Chu Qing's restaurant, with Chu Qing's "Glass Sales Contract" beside them, and then talked about Chu Qing's kindness and simplicity, how to provide help when there is need, to make a boat out of a desperate situation, to find a light in a dark room, and to make a fish out of nothing. Water, eager for justice, generous in righteousness and spreading wealth...

There is always a kind of person who often ruins the atmosphere, even when a couple talks privately, such as Hu Tu.

Of course, for Hu Hengqiu, it was called a rescue or a rescue.

As a secretary, well, also called a secretary, Hu Tu's job should be to organize documents and manage files for Hu Hengqiu, but he also had another responsibility - running errands and delivering messages.

Just when Hu Hengqiu was so angry with his wife that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas passed into nirvana, there was a knock on the door. Hu Tu knocked on the door and shouted: "Sir, sir!"

Hu Hengqiu felt like he was being pardoned and asked for leave from his daughter-in-law: "Madam, just sit inside and eat slowly. Don't worry, I'll go and find out what's going on."

"Wait a minute!" Mrs. Hu quickly pulled out part of each dish, put it on an empty plate, then put two balls of rice wrapped in vegetable leaves and handed it to Hu Hengqiu: "Is that Hu Tu outside? He probably hasn't eaten yet. , you send it to him!"

"Hey!" Hu Hengqiu reluctantly took it and muttered: "You are very similar to Chu Qing in this way!"

It refers to Mrs. Hu's great care for her husband's subordinates.

But my heart is bleeding: "The food at Cheong Wa Dae is so expensive!"

Hu Tu brought a large pile of official letters to him, which were sent from various governing offices: "Sir, it's all about Yong'an!"

The council offices of each government reported on the local banditry and chaos and the government's suppression of bandits.

Judging from the report of the Board of Directors, the reports of banditry reported in the memorials discussed at the meeting were "leading the crowd to kidnap and rob, and repeatedly resisting the officers and soldiers", which was not entirely untrue.

The so-called "leading the crowd to kidnap and rob" is true, but to say "repeatedly resisting officers and soldiers" is an exaggeration, because few government offices in various places asked the garrison for assistance.

The official letter from the board of directors mentioned the Chu family's bandit suppression operation, saying that it was a real bandit suppression operation, but it only suppressed bandits encountered by its own caravan and did not care about banditry in other places.

Suppressing banditry should be a matter for local government agencies.

For small-scale banditry, if the yamen is short of manpower, local braves can be recruited.

However, if the scale of the banditry is too large, such as hundreds or thousands of people, and the local prefecture and county cannot solve it on their own, they can apply to the local garrison to mobilize troops to suppress the bandits.

But as long as you apply for foreign aid, such as recruiting Xiangyong, the government will have to spend money.

This is small money, but if you ask for support from the garrison, it will be big money.

In theory, there should be no cost to requesting support from the garrison, as this is the garrison's duty.

But in fact, if you don’t give money, the defense won’t be able to deploy troops!

He would use various excuses to shirk the responsibility, such as the troops were sent to a certain place to suppress the bandits, and your county arrived late; or the court's food and salary were insufficient, and the soldiers were hungry, so how could they not have the strength to suppress the bandits, etc.

In short, if you don't take good care of your defense, don't let him send troops to you.

This is talking about the government office. If there is too much banditry in a certain county and you want to apply for the deployment of garrison troops, you have to apply to the government office first, and then you have to make some "contributions" to the prefect.

Who can afford this?

So, after learning that the Chu family's caravan just fired a few cannons to drive away the gangsters or raided their nests, some yamen started to think of the Chu family's caravan.

As a result, the Chu family offered a price of one cannon and two cannonballs, and the rent was 100 taels per day.

It sounds like it's cheaper than running a defense officer, but it's a day's rent.Not to mention a prefecture, there is more than one bandit in a county alone.

Running from here to there takes up an incredible amount of time just on the road.

And it’s hard to say whether a group of bandits can be wiped out in one day, let alone the “bandit trouble”.

The scale of the "bandit trouble" is naturally huge, not to mention the bandit groups with certain armed forces.

Anyway, I have never heard of any government office that can wipe out "bandit troubles" in one day.

100 taels of silver a day, what about five days?What about ten days?

One cannon is not enough, what about five or ten cannons?
A cannon is only equipped with two cannonballs, so why is it enough?

It can be said that "a cannon fires, and gold is worth ten thousand taels". This is no cheaper than taking care of the defense!
These contents, including the prices issued by the Chu family, were not reflected in the local government reports. They only reported the fact that the Chu family was firing guns everywhere.

Only the board of directors reported it.

If the official report does not reflect this, it means that Duke Yong'an does not support the court's suppression of bandits, at least not proactively and actively; but the actual situation is that people are willing to help, but they need to spend money.

The records of the movements of the Chu family's caravans and artillery by the local councils were not authorized by the Secret Investigation Department or the emperor, because the movements of Duke Yong'an were monitored by the Yong'an Mansion Council.

However, the Chu family's caravan launched an artillery attack on the bandits with great fanfare, and even threw the bandits, whether alive or dead, at the gate of the government office. It was impossible not to pay attention.

Since the end of last year, public security has been unstable in various places, and the council has been paying attention to whether there is any collusion between officials and bandits, in order to speculate whether someone is inciting the civil unrest and whether there are rebel elements.

Nowadays, there are piles of people or corpses piled up in front of the government or county government offices. After interrogation, they are related to the Yong'an public caravan, so the management office will naturally report it.

This is a duty and also self-protection.

Even if any of the [-] want to curry favor with Mr. Yongan and hide the matter, first of all, if he can't hide it, can the noise of the firecrackers be reduced?How few people know?

Another thing is that Mr. Yong'an has already put a letter in the arms of the robbers. He clearly said that it was all done by the Chu family. If you keep it a secret, let alone flattering Mr. Yong'an, you will be punished for dereliction of duty and concealing information.

Therefore, no one would do such stupid things, and Mr. Yongan did not need them to fawn over him.

Hu Hengqiu glanced at these official letters and said to Hu Tu, who was waiting for instructions: "Eat first, these are not big things, don't be in a hurry."

Hu Tu was holding the plate of food ordered by Mrs. Hu. His stomach was already noisy. He was really hungry. A superior officer could eat on time, but his subordinates may not!

When he heard Hu Hengqiu say there was no rush, he immediately grinned happily: "That's good, that's good. Thank you Master Hu for the meal!"

Hu Hengqiu was a man who loved his wife and said, "My wife prepared this for you. Thank you very much, Madam."

Hu Tu: "I would like to thank Mrs. Hu! Sir, please convey this to me."

Hu Hengqiu was also a stingy person and said, "Well, this is the food from Cheong Wa Dae. You should taste it carefully!"

Hu Tu: "!!!"

Hu Tu held the plate in one hand and touched his belly with the other... In his arms was the Blue House half-price card that Mr. Chu had given him before he became Marquis of Linyang...

At that time, Lord Chu had told him: "Don't let your commander find out!"

Humph, Hu Tu thought, I will definitely listen to Mr. Chu!