Age of mythical princes

Chapter 167 Sweeping Six Counties
What the hell is the gong for?

"This gong is used by the villagers to die together when they can't survive." The village said with emotion.

"Although the village head is only the lowest-level official, he can directly decide the fate of a family in many cases."

"Take advantage of you today, put your family in corvee service tomorrow, and dig a hole for your family the day after tomorrow. These are all very easy to do."

"If the family from which the village head is born is the biggest tyrant in the village, then the village head and the family will be the king of the village together!"

"In addition, many people are common people and savages who migrated here. They have suffered too much before, so many times the village chiefs threaten them and frighten them. They cherish their current life very much, so they just swallow their anger. Little did they know that this kind of behavior increased the arrogance of the village chiefs, and eventually the village chiefs went too far."

"In just a few months, many people were killed. Many people were directly killed by the village chief because they didn't like him. When they reported it, they said that they died at the hands of monsters, and their bodies were swallowed up."

"Sometimes the village chief kills someone, hides the body directly, and then reports him missing after a few days. In today's situation, you also know that disappearances are very common, and deaths are also very common, and the higher authorities don't have enough energy to go one by one. verification of the truth."

"Over time, a large number of bullies and villainous village chiefs were born."

"Later, the lord discovered this problem when he inspected the villages, so he set up a gong. At the beginning, the gong was hung in the center of the village."

"When it was hung, the villagers were called to talk about the function of the gong. One side of the gong is in the village, and the other side is in the prefect's mansion."

"When a villager rings the gong, the prefect's mansion will immediately send a Taoist to investigate the truth."

"However, the number of Taoists in the prefect's mansion is also limited, and the number of villages that can be visited in a short period of time is extremely limited. Therefore, tell the villagers directly that if it is not a matter of life or death, do not ring the gong. And once the gong is struck , there will be a Taoist priest from the prefect's mansion coming in person."

"At that time, no matter what kind of bully is, in front of the Taoist priests of the prefect's mansion, they will not be able to withstand the soul-searching spells and soul-searching tools. Under the soul-searching, all the truth will be revealed to the world."

"This gong is the bottom line. Once a village head becomes a bully who commits all kinds of crimes, then the village head must be prepared to face the Taoist priests of the prefect's mansion."

"So, what's the effect?" Xiao He asked directly.

Although the village head hasn't answered yet, past experience tells Xiao He that the effect of this thing may not be ideal, and there are too many ways to avoid it.

Hearing this, the village chief nodded and shook his head again: "The effect is indeed there, especially at the beginning, all the bullies are very honest."

"But after a long time, the bullies found a loophole. They took advantage of the compromise characteristics of the villagers and found more means to exploit the villagers."

"Of course, this is only a small number of villages. Most villages are better than before."

"However, there are also some lawless guys. They set up a fence near the gong. Every day during the day, they send people to watch near the fence. At night, they tie a few vicious dogs here. Once someone approaches , the vicious dog will howl.”

"As soon as the Taoist left, these villains directly threatened the villagers. Some set up fences, and some simply removed the bronze gongs and moved them to their own homes. They used various methods to prevent ordinary people from touching them."

Xiao He nodded slightly, this is normal.

From Xiao He's past experience as a county magistrate, this is the normal reaction of officials.If you don't do this, you are not an official.

This is human nature. When they were not officials, everyone wanted to beat the dog officials to death.But when he became an official, he gradually became the dog official he scolded when he was a teenager.

At least Xiao He couldn't solve these problems.

"and then?"

"Then the matter was discovered by the wind watcher. The wind watcher reported to the cabinet, and the cabinet reported to the lord. The lord expanded the number of gongs from one to nine, and the positions were fixed. At the same time, the wind watcher was sent to make irregular inspections."

"These observers are all outsiders, and they have no connection with the local people. Basically, they sneak away after observing them, and they don't reveal their identities in advance. So far, the effect is not bad."

"Like the former village chief in our village, he did too many bad things. In a guilty conscience, he released two vicious dogs and set up fences to prevent villagers from approaching. But in the end, the villagers killed the vicious dogs directly. , struck the gong."

"After a while, a Taoist priest came. At that time, the villagers were running for their lives, and the village chief was chasing him."

Recalling this period of history, the current village head feels quite complicated.

"Later, when I became the village chief, the village became much better."

"Nowadays, every village has more than one gong, and there are wind watchers to visit from time to time."

Speaking of this, the village chief looked around and said in a low voice: "I heard that the bottom line of the wind watcher is to inspect a village at least once a month, mainly to check whether the gongs are blocked, and whether the village chief prevents the villagers from approaching the copper gongs. gong."

"Besides, I heard that the new policy will be implemented soon. It is said that from now on, we village chiefs will have to go to the county every year or every season to be inspected by Wenxinjing."

"This questioning mirror is said to be the ultimate magic weapon for the mind and spirit. You can directly check if you are lying."

"When the time comes, ask directly if you have killed people, violated the law, or oppressed the people this year?"

Something interesting, very interesting.

At this moment, Xiao He became more and more interested in the basic principle of Wenxin Mirror.

However, even so, loopholes can still be found, but with the use of the Questioning Mirror, the loopholes are getting smaller and smaller.

In Xiao He's view, no matter what kind of system, no matter what kind of system, no matter what kind of laws and regulations, there must be flaws.

It's just that some laws and regulations have particularly large flaws, and everyone knows that everyone can use the flaws for personal gain.

The better the system, the fewer loopholes, and the fewer people who can find loopholes and exploit loopholes.

There are indeed still flaws in Wenxinjing, and there must be many magic tools to restrain Wenxinjing in the future.Moreover, since Wen Xin Jing is a magic weapon, the person who controls Wen Xin Jing is also very important, as long as it is a human, there are loopholes!

Even if there is no one, the whole link is completely decided by Wen Xinjing, so there is no loophole?
No, if this system relies entirely on various treasures, once the flaws in these treasures are discovered, then the entire system will collapse.

Instead of using humans, just using treasures can avoid human relations and the defects brought about by humans, but are there no defects in the treasures themselves?

However, Xiao He still nodded and said: "In any case, it is much stronger than before."

The village chief also nodded: "Indeed, a while ago, after the invention of papermaking, the prefect's mansion printed many rules of conduct for the village chief."

Speaking of this, the village chief took out a code and handed it to Xiao He, who started to read it with great interest.

"These rules are very simple, and they are all established rules, such as those who kill people die."

"Also, besides this thin book, there is also a thicker one. Some cases are written under each rule, and the reasons are also analyzed. However, I am also illiterate. He knows me with this stuff, and I don't know him."

"I was an elderly commoner before, and I was not from a local background. I really don't know the characters of Yancheng. In fact, I didn't know many characters. I only know a few dozen characters of Chao Country."

"Fortunately, a crystal ball was distributed to each village above. Every night, this crystal ball will directly release projections, and it is also equipped with sound and subtitles."

"Every night, the villagers gather in the square in the center of the village, gather under the crystal ball, and watch the projection released by the crystal ball."

"This crystal ball will start to play the projection on time every night at [-] o'clock, and the first quarter of an hour will tell what happened in Yancheng recently."

"In the second quarter of an hour, I will take everyone to learn to recognize and write together. I will teach five characters a day, which is actually not much. If you study hard, even if you can't learn all five characters, you can at least learn one or two characters. .Follow me every day, and you will be able to recognize a hundred characters in a short time."

"After learning a hundred characters, you can go to the village for an assessment. If you pass the assessment, the village will give you a hundred catties of rice or a hundred dollars."

"After learning [-] characters, you can go to the county for an assessment. After passing, you will be given a thousand catties of rice or a thousand dollars. With this qualification, you can sign up to be a village head, but you need to go through training and pass the qualifications before you can become a villager. long."

"After learning [-] characters, you can go to the county to take the exam. After passing the exam, you will be rewarded with [-] yuan. You can also become the village head without passing the exam. At the same time, you have the qualification to be the township head."

"In the third quarter of an hour, I will talk about some laws and decrees in daily life, which are very popular, and will use common cases to give simple explanations."

"Last night, for example, I was talking about stealing a neighbor's chicken. I want to tell everyone that this is wrong. The first time you will be fined three times! The second time you will be fined ten times, and the third time you will be fined thirty times... …If you can’t afford the money, you will directly let this person join the official corvee team, go to the corvée, do engineering work, take care of food and housing, and have wages every day, which will be deducted from the wages.”

"In the fourth quarter of an hour, I will talk about some common sense. Yes, the Lord said this is common sense."

"These common senses cover all aspects of life, are very detailed, and can be described as all-encompassing."

"Last night, I talked about the fact that the cloth used to bandage the wound must be boiled. It is said that this is called disinfection..."

"One night a while ago, I talked about drinking boiled water, saying that there are many benefits to drinking boiled water."

"Since then, every night in the center of the village, a large iron pot will be set up to boil a lot of boiling water, and the villagers will use it for free. Of course, it is not free, because the money for boiling water is taken from the village public treasury. The money in the village [-]% from the town, [-]% from the county, [-]% from the county, and [-]% from the lord himself."

"This is really the grace of the lord!"

Having said that, the village bowed respectfully in the direction of Yancheng.

"My lord taught us to drink boiling water and provided so much money. Originally, the village was not willing to boil water to drink every day, and burned too much firewood every day. But if it is only [-]%, then the village can still afford the money."

"Some places even directly say that drinking more boiled water can cure all diseases. Whether you are healthy or unwell, drinking more boiled water is always right."

"The fifth quarter of an hour is dedicated to talking about the village chief's code of conduct. Even if you can't read, you can understand what he said. Although the old man was a commoner before, even though he couldn't read, he lived in Liucheng, and he still listened to Yancheng's words. understand some."

"Brother Qi, why don't we stay together, live a good life for a few days, and observe and observe."

"Okay, I'm actually quite interested in this place too."

Wu Qi is not only interested in military affairs, he is also very interested in political affairs.

If this is a game, Xiao He is a typical civil servant, with low force value and poor ability to lead troops to fight.And Wu Qi is a true hexagonal warrior, with extremely high personal strength, political ability, and military ability.

Xiao He glanced at the village head, and took out three small yellow croakers weighing one catty and handed them over: "The two of us will stay in the village for a few days, so I won't bother you these few days. The gold will be bought directly. public treasury."

The village chief was in a good mood when he received the gold. A tael of gold sand was worth [-] renminbi, and a small yellow croaker weighing one catty was worth [-] renminbi!

One hundred thousand dollars can be exchanged for rice, and one hundred thousand catties can be bought!
Even very expensive mutton is only 3000 yuan a catty, and you can buy more than [-] catties!
What's more, it's a full 30 yuan!
"Okay, from now on, the old man will know everything and say everything!"

That night, Xiao He and Wu Qi stayed for seven days and seven nights.

Just when Wu Qi and Xiao He started to observe deeply, Taoist Taiping came back with the head of the current head of the Wang family of the Qing clan.

Looking at this head, Jiang Hua remembered last year.

At that time, there was not a single Taoist priest in Yancheng, and the Hu family of the Qing family was the nightmare of Yancheng.At that time, many officials in Yancheng would be woken up by Hu when they dreamed at night.

But now, how long has it been?half a year?At most half a year, the head of the head of the Wang family, who is stronger than the Hu family of the Qing family, was directly placed in front of him.

"After I passed by, the Wang family of the Qing family had already prepared, and many masters rushed forward."

"However, they are all local chickens and dogs, and there are not many who can survive the old man's battle, so let's not talk about it."

"After the old man finished killing these masters, I wanted to go to the county where the Wang family is located. Unexpectedly, the young master of the Wang family would surrender directly."

"The young master of the Wang family took out a list without saying a word. It recorded all the nobles who were unfriendly to the Taoist, and the nobles who had done something to the Taoist after the release of the Dao extermination order. The old man followed the list and killed all the way through the six northern counties. .”

"Nowadays, the nobles who are still alive in the six counties don't dare to destroy the Dao. Even if the Taoists are open to activities, they will turn a blind eye."

"At this point, the old man feels that his mission should be considered complete."

Jiang Hua nodded without hesitation: "Of course!"

(End of this chapter)