Idle courtiers

Chapter 128
The five walked and talked.

The leader of the yamen servant heard Zhou Nan's question and replied: "The refugees have no food and clothing. It takes a little effort to become a villain. Some of the refugees used to eat loose food in their hometowns and refused to suffer. They set up stalls on the street to trick people, open characters, and sell medicines to defraud people of money. .”

"One of them, surnamed Hao, used to be a native of Xinchang, Zhejiang. I heard that he was a local temple celebrant. When the Japanese pirates rebelled, he fled from Zhejiang to Huai'an with his wife and children. He ran out of money on the road, so he had to take his daughter with him. The statue of God Wa was put on display, and at first it was said that Empress Nuwa was possessed, coaxing some incense and money to make a living, and I heard that she has accepted more than a dozen disciples in the local area, and she is somewhat famous."

"Nuwa empress is the master of the heirs. One of the women often went to his stall to ask for advice, and gave away a lot of money. The husband of this woman was weak and sick, and he often felt powerless when doing that. Just yesterday, the husband and wife squatted together. I don't know what happened to the man in this family, which made the woman hard to hold on to herself. When he got up, he shouted, "Thanks to the teacher, I am so happy." The man suddenly felt that something was wrong. My mother-in-law had an affair with Hao Miao, so I got entangled in neighbors and acquaintances who wanted to call me."

The grassroots organizations of the ancients were strict, and they lived together with the ties of the village and blood, and they lived in a group.Especially the fleeing people, being bullied, the fellow countrymen have to stand up.

So, when this incident happened, more and more people from both sides gathered together, and it was about to lead to a bloody incident.

Zhou Nan was speechless for a while, what kind of crotch thing is this!According to what the yamen servant said just now, that Hao Miaozhu was actually quite miserable.The Ming Dynasty had a complete set of national public sacrifice system. Every prefecture and county had government-run temples, such as the Temple of Fire, Guan Gong Temple, and Nuwa Shrine...the temple celebrations will be registered, and the state will allocate funds for them every year , can be regarded as a staff member who eats the imperial food.

Hao Miaozhu is a member of the public family. After fleeing to Huai'an, he also went to the Shanyang County Yamen and wanted to settle here.As a result, it aroused public indignation among all the temple officials—this is purely to grab jobs!
There are only a few state-owned religious enterprises in Fucheng, and the state allocates a fixed amount of money every year.If you, a foreigner, want to build a Nuwa Palace in the city, who will provide the land and who will allocate the money to build the temple.The most abominable thing is that many believers will be separated, which is absolutely intolerable.

Being squeezed out by the local temple priests, Hao Miaozhu couldn't get along, so he had to put a statue of the Nuwa Empress in the rented house, secretly attracting some good men and women to come over to burn incense, read a few scriptures, and mix some sesame oil to make ends meet.

Probably this person surnamed Hao also has a bit of ability to read faces, maybe he also understands some principles of psychology.I will never go back to the bitterly cold place in the south of the Yangtze River, which is hot in summer and cold in winter.

If you encounter this kind of thing today, you will be beaten by the locals. It is estimated that you will not be able to gain a foothold in Huai'an City in the future.

Hao Miaozhu is a foreigner, if he wants to settle here, he will not seduce a married woman in Huai'an.

That woman's husband is also ridiculous, and being able to satisfy his own wife is something to be proud of for a man.However, he suspects that his wife has an affair with someone else. Could it be that he has to make things hastily every time to be proud?
Ignorant, backward, absurd, boring.

After a while, another person ran over, and after paying homage to Mr. Zhou, he introduced himself as Mao, the neighbor of Hao Miaozhu Street, and the owner who rented a house to Hao Miaozhu.

After walking two streets, we arrived at Hao Miaozhu's rental house.Sure enough, 34 people gathered at the gate of the courtyard, divided into two groups.Shouting, stabbing at each other with sticks.

They were shouting and cursing loudly, and for a while, the voices of "Straight mother thief!"Some people scolded: "Where did the mountain dogs come from, they bullied us Huai'an people, and beat them to death!" Hey, what are you doing running away from us?" Hearing the accent, in addition to Huaixi dialect, there is also Zhejiang dialect, anyway, it's all a map cannon attack.

Needless to say, the person speaking with a Zhejiang accent should be Hao Miaozhu's fellow villagers. Hearing that the Huai'an people came to bully him, they all ran over to help him.

Fortunately, in a society ruled by law, the government implements authoritarian rule, fearing that people will be killed, so both sides basically restrain themselves.Only cold weapons were used to exchange fire in the air, with loud thunder and little rain.

Now both sides have raised this simple civil dispute to a regional issue, and the anger has gradually increased.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Zhou Nan cried out inwardly.From his heart, it is hoped that this fight has already started, and once there are casualties, it is easy for him, the governor of the Criminal Justice Department, to deal with it.The big deal is to follow the law, murder pays for life, wounds and steals to pay for crimes, just arrest people, right or wrong has nothing to do with Zhou and others.It's simple and refreshing, and it doesn't prevent him from going to Miss Zixiao to enjoy music.

Well now, the criminal case hasn't happened yet, it's just a civil conflict, and as an official, you have to mediate.There is no reason in the world to satisfy both parties. Once the mediation fails and a fight breaks out, the responsibility will fall on Zhou Nan.

As someone who has worked at the grassroots level in the county government, Zhou Nan really understands how much he can do and how much he can do wrong, and it is not a good official rule.

Today, this matter has to be solved in the shortest time and in the simplest way.If you procrastinate, it will spoil the food.

Thinking of this, Zhou Nan suddenly had an idea.Pulling Mr. Mao and whispering: "Mr. Mao, fighting is not good. In this way, you and I will divide the work, and this street will belong to you. You can persuade all the people under your command to leave. If you can't persuade, This officer makes the decision for you, the boards in the yamen are not vegetarians."

Neighborhood Leader Mao, a grassroots member of the country who collects food for the government on weekdays, can't suppress the people without strong means, and is used to domineering.When encountering official duties, if some people dare not obey, they will curse with their mouths and beat them with their hands, and they will not take the people seriously.

He rushed forward, slapped and slapped the two leaders of both sides, slapped each of them a few times, and cursed: "You rascals, you don't care about your wives and children being hot on the kang at night, and you come here to make trouble, what do you want to do?" What are you doing, let me go back to my mother, otherwise Wang Fa is not a vegetarian. You must be arrested and locked up in the yamen for three or two days to feed the mosquitoes."

To be honest, he doesn't care about who is right and who is wrong among the refugees and the common people.He was cooking hot pot when he went out, and planned to have a bite or two, and went to bed when he was slightly drunk, he just wanted to drive them away quickly.In addition, Hao Miaozhu rented his house.When the fight broke out later and the rental house was smashed to pieces, he would lose himself.

Zhou Nan suddenly called out: "Mr. Mao, how can you beat people? You are all kind. How can you beat people? Our government wants to love the people like a child. You are abusing the people. This official will never allow it."

Originally, being beaten by the neighbor's elder was also a beating. The people did not fight with the officials, knocked out front teeth and swallowed blood.

But when he saw that there was an official who made the decision for himself, the two leaders of the two sides who were beaten screamed.

"My lord is right, Neighbor Mao, you are bullying us foreigners. Although we are from Zhejiang, we are also citizens of the Ming Dynasty. You are worse than Japanese pirates."

"Mao, last year when you came to Latin to repair the embankment, my family Ada was still lying on the bed with a fever. You beat him when you came up and left with tied people. We haven't settled this account yet! We were sent to another country today Being bullied by others, you, as a Huai'an native, turned your elbows outward, you are clearly greedy for Hao's monthly rent."

Neighborhood leader Mao is used to being majestic, when has he been scolded like this before?Immediately, his face turned livid, and he said to Zhou Nan: "Master Zhou, you are not going to be fooled by these cunning bastards. These bastards don't remember to eat or beat them. From Xiaoda's point of view, they should all be tied up and hammered on." Just be honest."

After speaking, he spit out a mouthful of sticky green phlegm towards the crowd.

This time, public anger was committed, and both the Zhejiang people and the Huai'an people were full of resentment.

Zhou Nan saw that the fire had already spoken, and suddenly shouted to Neighbor Mao: "Sure enough, he is a Xu thief, come here, and tie him up!" It was too late to say it, but it was almost there, and he retracted his hand, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and tied him up. Mouth blocked.

The four yamen servants were rewarded by Zhou Nan, and they wanted to show themselves in front of the new governor. They rushed up and tied the head of the neighborhood into rice dumplings, and they couldn't move anymore.

Now both parties are satisfied.

The Zhejiang refugees thought to themselves, this lord takes pity on us as refugees who have left their hometown, not afraid of the local tyrants and evil gentry, fair and strict, it really is a big blue sky!

The local people thought again, for the monthly rent, the man surnamed Mao actually helped outsiders oppress his fellow countrymen.
Relying on his identity, Neighborhood Chief Mao is also the local tyrant, usually domineering, and belongs to the local cannons in the suburban fringe where the people are angry.This time, he fell from the horse with an arrow, lost all his prestige, and his hearts were greatly relieved.

Zhou Nan smiled and said to the crowd: "Fellow folks, the culprit has been eliminated and the sky is completely dark. We must wait until the soldiers from the Xiafu Yamen and Shanyang County Yamen patrol here to punish you for the crime of gathering crowds to cause trouble. Shut up three or two Day, it’s not worth it, let’s go away!”

Seeing Master Zhou's amiable attitude and his face-saving appearance, everyone bowed their hands in return and dispersed.

Some people came back to their senses after returning to their own house: "Today is obviously going to mess with Hao Miaozhu who bullied us Huai'an people, why have you been arguing for a long time, there is nothing wrong with the surname Hao, and you have arrested Neighborhood Leader Mao instead? Weird, weird!"

Another Zhejiang refugee thought: "Today is clearly to return Hao Miaozhu's justice and his innocence. If a Miaozhu has a bad reputation, how can he accept incense? Why didn't that adult mention this matter, but arrested him with the surname Mao?" of?"

Who cares, everyone in the world has a dark psychology of hating officials and riches. No matter how you say it, the arrest of Mao is a very happy thing.

After all this trouble, neither side had the energy to take care of the matter anymore, and the conflict ended inexplicably.

(End of this chapter)