Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 217

The southern tip of Daming, Leizhou Peninsula.

Leizhou City is located in the hinterland of the peninsula, with the Nandu River in the south, the West Lake in the west, Guangzhou Bay in the east, and the western Guangdong plate that borders the mainland in the north.

Because there are pearl ponds and salt fields in the area under its jurisdiction, and it is the only way to go to Qiongzhou Island, and the land is fertile, the commerce and trade here are fairly developed.

After years of baptism, this ancient city located in the borderlands does not look old, but the ancient houses and ancient streets have an antique style.

"You still say it's Master Hanlin! How can you be so heavy?"

"That's right, I don't understand a little pity and pity, I'm so angry!"

"The emperor shouldn't have demoted him at all, he should have been chopped off in the first place!"

……

Several girls from Yihong Building walked into one of the rooms and saw their companions crying at the corner of the bed, and there were a few clearly visible welts on their hands and feet, they all spoke indignantly.

The pretty little girl had injuries on her face, and when she saw her companion coming in, she suddenly hugged an older girl and cried bitterly.

"Okay, they gave you money, so Xiaoli quickly give Xiaotao some medicine!" The old bustard also arranged with distress when seeing her girl suffer this.

Xiaoli picked up the bottle of medicine on the table and walked over, still said calmly: "How many stinky money think they are great? He will get retribution sooner or later!"

Guangchao North Street is very lively. It is connected to Chaotianmen in the north. Many tourists will choose to stay nearby. Yihonglou is located here.

While the girls downstairs were chattering, a handsome young man staggered away from Yihong Building with a wine jug.

This young man is none other than Yang Tinghe, the Yuan Hanlin who was demoted to Leizhou to review him.

Since he was demoted, he no longer needs to pretend to be a moral gentleman, but here he showed his true nature.It's just that no one would have imagined that a change of fate would turn a moral model into a real villain.

Yang Tinghe is no longer a modest gentleman with a sachet hanging on his waist. Now he shows a somewhat unrestrained hermit demeanor. His ninth-rank official uniform looks loose, and he smells strongly of alcohol.

A mother and daughter just happened to come face to face. After smelling the unpleasant smell of alcohol on Yang Tinghe's body, they pinched their noses and looked at the drunk official.

"Damn, damn, all whores should go to hell, why do you want to kill me?" Yang Tinghe said angrily after venting in Yihonglou, as if he was not relieved in his heart, gnashing his teeth angrily.

Although it has been several months, but every time I think of that experience, I still can't let go of it.

He was originally a dragon and phoenix among men, if there were no deviations, he would not only join the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, but would also become the future leader of the civil service group.

It's just that I just went to the Jiaofang Division to drink because of the frustration of my promotion, but I was exhausted by that unreasonable official prostitute, which caused me to fall from the sky to the ground, and came to the southernmost tip of the Ming mainland to serve as an insignificant warehouse ambassador.

Although the official prostitute is dead, every time he thinks of that woman ruining his bright future, he can't wait to dig that woman out and flog her corpse.

Now my biggest entertainment is to come to this Yihonglou, vent my anger on these women, and vent the hatred in my heart.

"Master Guan, would you like to try grilled fish? I heard that all the dignitaries in the capital eat it, and it is said that His Majesty eats it too!" A stall owner selling grilled fish stepped forward and recommended it enthusiastically.

When Yang Tinghe heard those two words, he couldn't help but think of the young man sitting under Fengtian's gate and controlling everything, so he pushed the stall owner away angrily and said, "Get out!"

Because of the taboo, it is not good for him to blame the crime he encountered on that person.

It's just that I obviously didn't kill anyone, and at most I said a few unpleasant words, but that person actually demoted me to this place where no shit.

If he is in charge of history, he must make that person the number one fool in China.

So what if that person likes to eat?Not only can I not eat this bullshit grilled fish, but I also have to spit and step on the grilled fish.

The stall owner who sold grilled fish was nearly 60 years old, but was suddenly pushed, lost his balance and fell to the ground, breaking a piece of skin with his elbow on the green brick.

"careful!"

"Who is this person, how can this be?"

"So oppressing goodness, he should be sent to the government!"

……

The people around saw the stall owner being pushed to the ground, and several diners stepped forward to help him up, but they all condemned him.

"Keep down, we can't mess with that person!" A stall owner next to him came over to help, also showing his injured elbow earlier, but shook his head helplessly.

Although grain officials are not worth mentioning in the officialdom, they still cannot be provoked in the eyes of the common people.

What's more, this Ambassador Cang was born in the Hanlin Academy, and he was also favored by the magistrate of Leizhou, and his father-in-law and father were both honorable Jinshi officers of the Ming Dynasty.

"Master Hanlin, shit!" A strong man looked at the direction Yang Tinghe was going away, and immediately spit out angrily.

Leizhou City is not small, but it is not big either.

Originally, many people were surprised by the relegated Hanlin master, but after seeing Yang Tinghe's various behaviors, they refreshed their understanding of the Hanlin master.

In the past, they all thought that Master Hanlin was a modest gentleman, but now they know that they are all hypocrites, and their actions are a hundred times more disgusting than real villains.

It can only be said that if they are at the top of the society, each of them is a modest gentleman who promotes good and eliminates evil, but when it is their turn to fall to the bottom, they are more evil than anyone else.

Perhaps it confirms the sentence: "Don't persuade others to be kind before others suffer. If you suffer from me, you may not be as good as me."

After Yang Tinghe's original smooth life changed, the moral role model of "an extremely human minister but caring about people's livelihood and persuading Wu Zong to cultivate virtue" disappeared, and was replaced by an official second-generation ambassador who was evil.

"I heard that he not only vented his anger on the girl from Yihonglou, but also attacked his wife!"

"A majestic Hanlin official actually vented his anger on his wife. What kind of promise is this? How dare he speak directly to the emperor?"

"Correct me, he is no longer an imperial official, and I heard that he was demoted by the emperor because of his indirect death!"

……

The common people present watched Yang Tinghe go away, they had no sympathy for the demoted Hanlin master, but they talked about it here.

In the west of the city, there is Changping Warehouse in Leizhou Prefecture, which is where the government stores grain.

Yang Tinghe was demoted to be the Cang Ambassador of the Ninth Rank, but this official position is also of great importance, after all, if there is a famine, the whole government will count on the grain storage here.

A clerk walked out of the duty room at the side door of the granary, and reported anxiously: "My lord, I just want to look for you! Just now, the lord of the government ordered you to go to Chaotianmen as soon as possible. The governor is coming to Leizhou today!"

"What is the man who is in collusion with the eunuch doing to welcome him? Go and tell the lord that I am in poor health, so you won't go with him to greet him!" Yang Tinghe felt disdainful towards Wang Yue, and ordered.

The clerk swallowed hard, and then seriously reminded: "My lord, then our lord governor, the lord governor is also ordered to be the Prime Minister of Yanzheng. I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you not to go?"

"What nonsense! Just go and talk to Zhifu Lin, he will help me straighten things out!" Yang Tinghe waved his hand impatiently, and walked towards the bamboo chair in front of him.

The clerk saw that Yang Tinghe fell asleep as soon as he lay down on the bamboo chair in the duty room, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward to deliver a message.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, it was the Cang Ambassador who was born in the Imperial Academy who had the courage to dare not go to the city gate to greet the governor who was an imperial envoy.

While Yang Tinghe was sleeping soundly, a mighty team came from north to south.

Although Wang Yue was a civil servant, he had already developed the habit of riding horses during those years in the frontier fortress, and now he directly led Lu Song and others from a hundred households in brocade clothes to ride quickly.

"Is this Leizhou City?"

"Not to mention, this city is quite majestic!"

"Nonsense, this is the capital city of Daming, and Su Dongpo has stayed here before!"

……

Wang Yu and Hu Jun saw Leizhou City lying in front of the official road from a distance, and they all commented on this extremely solid city.

Starting from Anlu last year, they traveled from west to east to Yangzhou Prefecture, then went south to Wuchang to solve the case of Wang Hua's embezzlement of ink and military pay, and finally arrived at Guangzhou Prefecture, and now they came to western Guangdong from east to west.

Along the way, everyone has grown up in these turmoil, especially Wang Yu and Hu Jun's eyes reveal a kind of determination that doesn't match their age.

"Your Majesty, Lin Qingfeng, the prefect of Leizhou, led all his staff to welcome the Governor!" Lin Qingfeng, the prefect of Leizhou, led a group of government officials and all the officials of Haikang County to wait here for a long time, kneeling respectfully and saluting.

Yang Tinghe was sleeping soundly while lying on the bamboo chair, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, but it was a sweet dream.

In the dream, his teacher Liu Ji became the chief assistant of the court, and Xu Pu, who valued him, also entered the cabinet to pay homage to him. Not only was he not demoted, but he was also arranged by the teacher to enter the East Palace to become the prince's teacher.

As the prince's teacher, he not only had to instill the Confucian idea of ​​a virtuous monarch, but also had to observe the prince closely so that he could be easily manipulated in the future.

As for the uncontrolled emperor Hongzhi, when the prince was eight years old, an imperial physician sent Hongzhi a bowl of soup and said, "Drink it!"

Whoa!

When Yang Tinghe was most proud, a basin of cold water fell from the sky without warning, but it drenched half of his body, causing him to realize that it was just a dream.

Just as he was looking for the perpetrator angrily, he saw a young man splashing water, but there were a group of officials standing beside the young man.

"Ambassador Yang, quickly open the door of the granary!" Lin Qingfeng, the magistrate of Leizhou, had a very ugly face, and said sternly to Yang Tinghe who had woken up.

Although he was afraid of the forces behind Yang Tinghe, but two days ago he clearly emphasized that the governor would come, but this person even dared to drink and make mistakes during the day.

"What are you still doing in a daze, quickly open the door of the granary, my lord wants to check the warehouse!" Lu Song saw Yang Tinghe's reaction in his eyes, but urged him in a business-like manner.

Yang Tinghe swallowed this breath secretly, then touched his waist, but found that the key on his waist was missing, he couldn't help but panic.

"My lord, didn't you hide the key under this brick? You said it's not easy to be stolen!" The clerk saw Yang Tinghe's habit of touching his waist, and reminded him seriously.

Yang Tinghe suddenly remembered that since he lost the key last time, he had secretly hidden the key.He removed the brick in front of him, and a key was trapped underneath.

"You calculate carefully for the governor, and you must match the account book!" Wang Yue knew the importance of finding out the grain now, so he urged him seriously.

At this time, in addition to the imperial guards, there were also a group of accountants.Each of this group of people is good at arithmetic, but unlike the accountants of later generations who can only calculate accounts, these people not only know how to calculate accounts, but can also do work by themselves.

There are records of the incoming and outgoing accounts of the granary, and there is no disaster this year, and the collection of summer grain has already been completed, so the granary is usually very compact at this time.

Wang Yue personally took his own people into the granary. In order to prevent rain and fire, the granary has been divided into large and small grain pools, and each grain pool stores a few shi to dozens of shi.

As soon as the group of people walked in, they were greeted by a burst of rice fragrance.

"Grandpa, come and see!"

"There's only one layer of polished rice on it!"

"It's all sand and stones down here, what's going on?"

……

Before weighing and counting, Wang Yu and others checked the quality of the rice grains as usual, only to find that the grain pool here had only one layer of polished rice.

Wang Yue picked up a handful of sand and stones from the bottom of the milled rice, and asked angrily: "Come on, lock the prefect of Lin!"

"Your Excellency, I am wronged! This rice grain has always been in good condition, and the lower officials didn't know it would be like this, so please be careful!" Leizhou prefect Lin Qingfeng was dragged over, and said in a panic.

"Your Excellency, Ambassador Cang has been drinking too much! I don't know if it's because of his ineffective supervision that caused the rice to be stolen!" Magistrate Haikang said, pointing at the door.

Wang Yue's expression softened, although he vaguely felt that the problem might not be as simple as it appeared on the surface, but he had personally witnessed that Cang Ambassador drinking heavily, and he had actually seen this Cang Ambassador.

"It is true that the lower official has some omissions. Is five hundred shi grains missing? The lower official still has some meager resources in his family. Give the lower official three days to buy them back to make up for the lack of food!" Yang Tinghe knew that he could use money to solve the problem. Not really, Dang even prepared to make up.

Wang Yue squinted at the young man in front of him who was smelling of alcohol, and said with a serious face: "Do you think it's about five hundred shiliang?"

"Governor Wang, do you need to make such a big fuss about such a small matter? The subordinates use their own private wealth to fill the gap, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds!" Yang Tinghe faintly felt that Wang Yue was deliberately targeting him, so he said angrily.

Wang Yue took a deep look at Yang Tinghe, but ordered after making a certain decision: "Come on, set up the torture platform!"

(End of this chapter)