Be the emperor from Zhuxian

Chapter 16 Brother-in-law, you should say something! (Please collect recommended tickets)

The land of the Central Plains, Qian Dynasty.

Since Emperor Qian Taizu, regions have been divided by states, prefectures, counties, and cities.

In order to better manage various places, large and small official positions were derived.

The position that governs a state is called state pastor.

The position that governs a county is called the sheriff.

The position that governs a county is called a county magistrate.

The position that governs a city is called the city lord.

Under each position, there are corresponding subordinates who perform their duties.

In order to prevent officials from all over the country from guarding and stealing, and to deal with some difficult cases, institutions such as six doors have been established in various places.

These large and small official positions are combined to maintain the operation of the entire dynasty.

now.

In front of the City Lord's Mansion.

Yuchijiang raised the big drum placed at the door and beat it vigorously.

The dust on it fell in flakes, obviously it has not been used for a long time.

Seeing this, Ye Xingchen couldn't help shaking his head:

"The greatest tragedy of a dynasty is losing the trust of the people."

"It is really a long way to go to regain credibility."

The people today are not without grievances.

But they would rather endure it by themselves than come to the City Lord's Mansion to seek justice.

It can be seen how disappointed the current government has disappointed the people.

"Squeak-"

The gate of the City Lord's Mansion opened slowly.

A yamen servant in a black official uniform came out sleepily, cursing and saying:

"Knock what, knock what, believe it or not, put you all in prison!"

Ye Xingchen stood with his hands behind his back, and said calmly:

"Why, isn't the grievance drum placed outside for someone to beat?"

Now he has changed his appearance with a thousand machines, although he is still young, no one should be able to recognize him.

At first, when Yuchijiang saw Ye Xingchen's face-to-face transformation, he also thought it was inconceivable.

However, he only thought that Ye Xingchen learned it from some ancient book in the palace, so he didn't get too entangled.

"Hey, I'm so short-tempered, why don't you talk stubbornly to me..."

Hearing Ye Xingchen's words, the yamen servant rolled up his sleeves and scolded:
"There are so many girls out there, why don't you grab one?"

"Do you know how much this grievance drum beats once? Do you have the money to pay?"

Ye Xingchen said lightly:

"The Mingyuan Drum is specially set up to avenge the people's grievances, and you need to pay for it once?"

The yamen servant snorted coldly:
"Every place has its own rules, and our City Lord's Mansion has to pay for every knock!"

"If you don't have money, get out as soon as possible, and be careful with me..."

"Snapped!"

Before the yamen servant finished speaking, a big slap was directly printed on his face.

The yamen servant let out a scream, performed a Thomas maneuver on the spot, and finally fell heavily to the ground.

"Um..."

The yamen servant held his swollen cheek.

I just feel dizzy in my head, humming, and can't say a word.

Yuchijiang withdrew his palm and snorted coldly:
"You trash with no eyesight, tell your city lord to come out and meet me!"

No more nonsense with this short-sighted yamen servant.

Ye Xingchen and Yuchijiang walked slowly into the City Lord's Mansion.

There were also yamen servants in twos and threes inside, all of them leaning powerlessly to one side, with dark circles under their eyes, as if their kidneys were overdrawn after flying all night.

These yamen servants naturally also heard the movement outside.

When Ye Xingchen and Yuchijiang came in, no one dared to stop them.

"A group of mobs who don't look like officers and soldiers, the court's reputation has been ruined by this group of people!"

Seeing how useless these yamen servants looked, Yuchijiang couldn't help but get angry.

Ye Xingchen seemed rather calm:

"The general environment is like this, you can't be too harsh on them."

As the saying goes, those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

These yamen servants have low skills and low speech. It seems that they have no other way to go except to follow the crowd.

Otherwise, why do you say that no matter how difficult it is for a poor family to produce a noble son?
The environment determines too many things.

Ye Xingchen crossed the front hall, stepped into the hall, sat directly in the seat of the city lord in the center, and said lightly:
"Call your city lord over here, I want to ask him for a favor."

The eyesight of these yamen servants is much higher.

Knowing that since the two people in front of them dared to break into the city lord's mansion, they must have a lot of background.

Hearing this, he didn't dare to stay too long, and all left resentfully.

A quarter of an hour later.

A fat-faced man wearing a black gauze hat hurried over, with an uncontrollable anger on his face.

"Who, who dares to forcibly break into my city lord's mansion, do you want to fight against me?!"

Before the fat-faced man arrived, the voice came first.

Behind him was a group of yamen servants.

A group of people quickly walked around the front hall and walked into the hall.

"Brother-in-law, it's him, he's the one who hit me!"

The yamen servant who was beaten just now covered his face and pointed at Yuchijiang angrily.

Immediately, he looked at Ye Xingchen at the side again, his eyes widened even more:

"You, you are so courageous, you dare to even take the seat of the city lord!"

The fat-faced man first revealed an angry expression.

Immediately, when he saw Yuchijiang's appearance clearly, he froze in place as if struck by lightning.

Seeing that the fat man was silent, the beaten yamen servant couldn't help but tugged on the man's sleeve, and shouted loudly:

"Brother-in-law, you should say something!"

"They are so lawless that they even dare to take your place."

The voice was like an alarm bell, resounding in the fat man's ears.

next moment.

The slightly fat man knelt down tremblingly, tremblingly said:
"Your Majesty, I don't know that Master Yuchi is coming, so I feel lost and welcome, but I hope Lord Yuchi will forgive me!"

talking room.

His forehead was covered with sweat, trickling down drop by drop.

He used to work under Yuchijiang, and he knew that this lord was the most jealous.

Seeing the state of the city lord's mansion now, why not pull out his skin? !

but--

What he was more afraid of was the young man sitting in his seat.

Can let Yuchijiang stand, it can be seen that this man's official position must be much higher than that of Yuchijiang.

To offend two high-ranking officials at once, the mayor of Tianshui City almost wanted to die.

"Sister, brother-in-law, no way, he..."

The yamen servant next to him, still looking stupid, pointed at Yuchi Jiang.

"Shut up and kneel down!"

The lord of Tianshui City shouted angrily, and slapped him out.

The other side of the yamen servant's face was swollen and turned into a pig's head!

"Um-"

The yamen servant spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on the ground and didn't dare to say anything anymore.

A series of question marks rose above his head.

why did you hit me?
I didn't say anything wrong!

Yuchijiang looked at the Lord of Tianshui City who was kneeling on the ground, and said coldly:

"Fatty Huang, it's you. Who am I to think that I have such a big face, and I still have to charge money to beat the grievance drum?"

"You don't do business, but come here to be the city lord, I really wronged you!"

The Lord of Tianshui City knelt even lower:
"Master Yuchi, you have misunderstood, and I have no choice but to be dismissed."

Yuchijiang said coldly:

"Heh, do you still want to say that you are not interested in money and that others forced you to accept it?"

The lord of Tianshui City hurriedly explained:
"My lord, you don't know. The salary allocated by the emperor is limited every year. The villain really can't afford too many government servants and arresters."

"However, there are so many people beating the drums of grievances, and the city lord's mansion is really short of manpower, so they want to collect money!"

"The villain has never been greedy for the money he received!"

Yuchijiang snorted coldly:
"So, I have to praise you?"

"The villain dare not..." The Lord of Tianshui City was sweating profusely, and his back was soaked.

Ye Xingchen sat on the seat, tapped the armrest with his knuckles, and said calmly:

"What's your name?"

"Huang Tianfa, a low-ranking official." The Lord of Tianshui City said in a respectful tone.

"Huang Tianfa, right? I'm not interested in holding you accountable right now. Immediately gather people to accompany me to a place."

"I don't know where the adults want to go?"

"Cloud Mist Village!"

(End of this chapter)