Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 644 Treating the governors like donkeys
Since they can become officials, they are all people with good face. Even if they didn't have face before, they will save face after wearing the official uniform.If Wang Pingan raises the standard of being a good official, he will be praised in a short period of time, but in the long run, there is no doubt that it will have a very bad negative impact on Datang's officialdom.

If officials encounter difficulties and realize that they may not be able to do well, they will not try hard to do it. Instead, they will learn from those Lu people that they will go around the difficult situation if they do not help their compatriots in distress. They will also make excuses, saying that they are doing nothing to cure, and doing nothing to cure the root cause is commendatory. If it is used as an excuse, it will become derogatory!
If everyone doesn't do anything, and if they encounter difficulties, they will be ashamed, and the world will be in chaos. Why do you want to be an official? Why do you want the court?The common people do their own things, which is almost the same as the last years of the previous Sui Dynasty!

As soon as Wang Ping'an talked about the laws of the Lu State, Di Renjie's forehead was sweating immediately, and he said: "Young brother is reckless, big brother taught me a lesson!"

Wang Pingan said: "It's nothing, you are just inexperienced. After a long time, these principles will be understood naturally."

Che Sitong thought in his heart: "You are not much older than the county magistrate Di, right? You said it lightly, but it's hard for a smart woman to live without rice. Now I have no money, and you refuse to pay, so what should I do? Everyone ran to the street and sat down." , Waiting for the world to lose money? There is no salary!"

Che Sitong: "My lord, you have to think of a way. After all, the money matter has to be settled within three to five days, otherwise the project will really stop!"

Wang Pingan hummed, stood up from the chair, and kept walking on the ground, thinking of a way.Che Sitong and Di Renjie looked at him together, waiting for his idea.

After a while, Wang Pingan said: "I originally planned to sell the blueprint of the waterwheel, but now it seems that the progress is too slow. Firstly, the news is not widely spread, and secondly, there is no benefit. No one will spend money to buy it. Everyone is waiting and watching, waiting for others to make the first move. Come on, those businessmen from Chang’an haven’t arrived yet, and they can’t solve the fire near the fire. We can’t solve the urgent problem with the strength of our state alone.”

Di Renjie said: "Brother, do you want to advertise or something, send someone to ride a horse with a flag on their back, and run around?"

Che Sitong's eyes lit up, and said: "This is a good idea. I heard that the prince once held a race meeting in Chang'an, and the income was very rich. How about we also run in Qingzhou?"
But Wang Pingan shook his head and said: "That's not right, didn't I say that, now the nearby merchants are all waiting to see, waiting for others to make the first move. Although some local merchants are willing to make the move, it's a favor to leave. Favors, don’t we have to raise the standard of being an official again, not every official is willing to owe favors to the common people!”

Di Renjie spread his hands and said, "This won't work, and that won't work, so what should I do? Everyone knows that this water truck can make a lot of money, but the problem is to make a lot of money within three to five days, otherwise the project will be ruined." stopped."

Wang Ping'an looked at the courtyard and said: "Officials can't do it to the people, then the officials will treat the officials and share the benefits. Officials are in the officialdom, and the officials are in the field!" Write letters to the governors of Huizhou, Jingzhou, and Yuanzhou, and also write a letter to the governors of Lanzhou, telling them that I have invented a large water truck, each of which can irrigate... [-] mu of land, and ask them to send someone to look at it , I’ll give them one for nothing per state!”

Che Sitong was taken aback, and said, "A water truck can irrigate [-] mu? This is impossible. It's too exaggerated. Those governors won't believe it!"

Wang Pingan looked up at him, and said again: "If I say three or four hundred mu, do you think they will come? But if I say ten thousand mu, will they come?"

Di Renjie laughed and said, "The problem is that if the governor hadn't come in person, others wouldn't be able to squeeze out the oil!"

Che Sitong suddenly realized, and said: "It turns out that the prince wants the governors of the states to come! There is a law in the Tang Dynasty that the governors of the states are not allowed to leave their posts if there is no important matter, so to be honest, I am afraid that they will not come. At most, they send people to come, but if a water truck can irrigate [-] mu, then this matter is too serious, they have to come in person, and it is not a violation of the court's law."

Wang Pingan nodded, thought for a while, and said: "Time is too tight, if they dawdle, it would be a waste of time, we have to treat them like donkeys and whip them!"

Di Renjie laughed loudly and said, "Treating people like donkeys again! How can you treat the governors of various states like donkeys?"

Che Sitong grinned and said, "Be a donkey? They are all governors, local officials, how can they be donkeys?"

"It's not difficult to let them come flying, as long as I move my pen!" Wang Pingan said with a smile: "It can be changed to a water truck that can irrigate [-] acres... too little, why not change it to [-] acres?" Mu. This kind of waterwheel is extremely difficult to build. I take into account the feelings of my colleagues, so I am willing to sell one, but there is only one. There are too many monks, and first come, first served.

Di Renjie said with a smile: "As long as you can fool them!"

Che Sitong scratched his head, and said: "But, these words are obviously false. Those governors are all treacherous and cunning, so they can't be fooled, right?"

But Di Renjie said: "Even if it's fake, they have to come here desperately. Because this is the standard for being an official!"

Wang Pingan nodded and said: "That's right, loving the people is like a son, this is the minimum standard, if they don't want to come here desperately, it means that they can't even meet the minimum standard, so they have to come here even if they know it's fake. Others, just to prove to the imperial court how much they care for the people!"

Che Sitong snorted, and murmured: "If that's the case, then they won't be able to become donkeys if they want to, and they have to try their best to prove that they are good donkeys. If they refuse to be this donkey, they may not even be able to become officials." Already!"

Di Renjie sighed: "No wonder ordinary people are willing to raise donkeys. It seems that donkeys are really good things!"

Wang Pingan chuckled twice and said, "Of course!"

Che Sitong scratched his head again, accidentally scratched off several hairs, and said: "But, if they rush here and find that the waterwheel can't irrigate [-] mu at all, what should we do? Why don't you fight the prince to your death?" ?”

Wang Pingan sighed, shook his head and said, "You are such an elm-headed man. If a man makes a mistake or a horse shows his hooves, just say that I made a typo and wrote [-] mu instead of [-] mu. Who doesn't write a few acres in a lifetime A typo, is it because of a typo that you are fighting me desperately? It’s not possible!"

Che Sitong couldn't believe his ears, he shouted: "It's okay..." The second half of the sentence didn't have the nerve to shout out, you are too skinny!

Wang Ping'an and Di Renjie said in unison: "Why not?"

Che Sitong started scratching his head again, this time with both hands, not only did his hair fall out, but even his scalp fell off. He said, "That, that, that, then try it!"

Wang Pingan wrote a good letter, called the Ouyang brothers, and gave them such instructions, teaching them how to tell the governor.

Eight hundred miles to send the letter urgently, changing horses but not changing people, Huizhou, Jingzhou, and Yuanzhou must arrive within a day, and Lanzhou is a little farther away, but they must also arrive in a day and a half.

Ouyang Li personally delivered the letter to Lanzhou, and the other states were sent by the Ouyang brothers. They rode on the best horse in the governor's mansion and took a spare horse with them. They went out of the city like crazy and rushed to the states.

The states and counties around Gyeongju are the poorest in Gyeongju, and the other states are considered rich, especially Lanzhou, which is a big state. It not only has developed agriculture, but also has a lot of business and travel. It has ample finances and has never been short of money. .Wang Ping'an played officials against the people, and there was no effect for a while, but it was no problem to play officials against officials and take advantage of a few governors.

Lanzhou.

The governor of Lanzhou is in his prime, 35 years old, born in the army, in excellent health, and has a hot temper. He has been transferred from a military position to a civilian position. He has only been in office for two months.But he is different from Wang Ping'an. Wang Ping'an's new official took office three fires, repaired local officials, and only treated them as "envoys". But the governor of Lanzhou is different. He beat up several officials, and everyone in Lanzhou was afraid of him. He was much more difficult to serve than Wang Ping'an!
Just after noon that day, there was an urgent official document from Gyeongju. The person who sent the letter was a general of the Weifu, and his rank was not low.The governor of Lanzhou was very polite to Ouyang Li, he handed towels and tea, and entertained him hospitablely.

But when he opened the official document and saw it, he immediately became angry, jumped up and cursed, what is Wang Pingan doing, this is, are you playing me like a monkey?There is also a water truck that can irrigate [-] mu of land. To fool a fool, let alone how big the water truck is, does he know how much water is needed to irrigate [-] mu of land?
The governor of Lanzhou was furious and shouted: "This general, the prince of your governor, is he playing me like a monkey?"

Ouyang Li thought to himself: "No, the master definitely didn't regard you as a monkey, he just regarded you as a donkey, the monkey is only as big as the donkey, and you look down on yourself too much, you still have a lot of weight!"

He put down his teacup and said: "No, how can my master play tricks on your lord, your lord is just joking!"

The governor of Lanzhou flicked the letter, and said angrily: "This letter is full of lies, and there are big traps in it. They want to trick this official into being fooled! What does Wang Ping'an want to do? Do you want to force me to go to Qingzhou?"

Ouyang Li hurriedly said: "No, no, my master doesn't mean that at all. In fact, my master wants... Do you want to hear the truth, or lie?"

The Lanzhou Inspector's face twitched, and he said, "Of course I want to hear the truth. Is it possible that this officer still wants to hear lies?"

Ouyang Li stretched out his hand and said, "If you want to tell the truth, your lord has to give the last general ten taels of gold. If you want to listen to lies, you don't need to give money!"

The governor of Lanzhou heard this, and almost jumped over from behind the table, and smacked Ouyang Li's ears, your master can fool me, and you can fool me too!He slammed on the table and shouted angrily: "I don't want to hear anything, and I won't give you a penny. Get out!"

Ouyang Li was very obedient and said: "Well, the end general will get out!" He walked out of the lobby without looking back.

The governor of Lanzhou looked at his back, bit his lips, let out a breath, and said: "Slow, wait, come back, I must listen to the truth! Come on, give him five taels of gold!" After finishing speaking , Distressed extremely, five taels of gold, Wang Ping'an's subordinates are also very dark, how dare they ask for a price!

Ouyang Li said: "Twelve taels!"

The governor of Lanzhou snorted, and said: "If you dare to blackmail the imperial court officials, you... just five taels, is there more?" You can only stretch your neck to be slaughtered!
The servant gave five taels of gold, and Ouyang Li put it in his arms, and said: "After my master received the letter, he wrote this letter immediately, and asked the general to send it to you!"

The governor of Lanzhou was taken aback, and said, "What letter? Whose letter did he receive?"

Ouyang Li said: "Whoever's letter is the first half, you only gave five taels, so the last general only said the second half, if you want to listen to someone's letter, you have to give another five taels!"

The governor of Lanzhou lost his nose and said, "Left and right, cut him down and hit him with fifty army sticks!"

Ouyang Li said: "My lord, if you beat me, the decoction fee will be calculated separately, which is more than five taels, and if you don't give the gold to Shicheng today, the general will not say anything. If you beat me to death, my lord By the way, the last general is also an imperial order, my lord, you have to be careful not to walk away with your pocket!"

"You, shameless!" The governor of Lanzhou said angrily.

"Thank you for your compliment, my lord. People usually say that I'm a scoundrel, and I never say that I'm shameless. Your lord, you're flattering me!" Ouyang Liman said indifferently.

The two looked at each other for a while, and the governor of Lanzhou said helplessly: "Okay, I'll give it to you. If you have anything to say, I will tell your governor. I don't have the same knowledge as people like you!"

The servant took another five taels of gold and gave it to Ouyang Li.Ouyang Li thought about it, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you should have done this a long time ago. Why get angry! In the first half, Chang'an sent a letter. I don't know which Prime Minister it is from." After finishing speaking, he turned and left without looking back.

The governor of Lanzhou was stunned on the spot. What he said meant that a certain prime minister in Chang'an wrote a letter to Wang Pingan. After Wang Pingan received the letter, he immediately wrote this letter to me!What does this mean, what happened in the court, is it testing me?
There were other officials in the hall, and asked bravely: "My lord, ten taels of gold is a lot of money, should it go to the treasury, or go to yours... that, that..." That means who paid for it? This amount of money should not be paid by the treasury, it has nothing to do with the treasury.

The governor of Lanzhou made a sound, came back to his senses, and said: "I'll talk about this later, don't worry, I have to go to Qingzhou first, and I will return in a few days. Well, a water truck that can irrigate [-] mu of land, How important it is, I want to go and see for myself, if I can get this water tanker, the people of Lanzhou will be blessed!"

Explaining the reason casually, he didn't care about anything else, and had no time to care, he strode out of the main hall, ordered the horses to be prepared, brought his personal guards and attendants, and followed Ouyang Li out of the city to Qingzhou.

Officials in Lanzhou were stunned, thinking in their hearts: "Something has happened, otherwise why would we be in such a hurry!"

The other states are the same as Lanzhou. If the governor loses his temper, the Ouyang brothers will hit him hard.
After the letter was sent out, just after dark on the third day, the four governors arrived in Gyeongju. Unexpectedly, the governor of Lanzhou was the farthest away, but he was the first to arrive!
(End of this chapter)