Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 285 Judgment

   Of course there is none. Magistrate Sun has done a good job of keeping secrets. The grain depot that stores this batch of grain is not used very much. Few people know that this is the grain depot, so the grain in it is still there, that is...

   Zhao Hanzhang lowered his head and grabbed a handful of wheat mixed with mud and sand, and said meaningfully: "This chaos in Yangyang County is not wrong at all."

   The county magistrate and the clerk on the side blushed, I don't know if they were ashamed or afraid.

   Zhao Hanzhang didn't even look at them, he dropped the wheat in his hand and said, "Go and invite the rich households and gentry in the city to come over, let's take a look and count the grain in the grain depot."

  She said: "Most of them are literate. Now that Yangyang County is in trouble, it is the time when they are needed."

   was frightened all night, and even the wealthy households who were rushed into their homes and robbed were invited by the soldiers to the grain depot to watch the people from the county government count the grain.

   They were angry and startled. They hadn't woken up from the chaos last night. As soon as they arrived, they stared at the county seat and General Ding Can and asked, "Where's Magistrate Sun?"

   Zhao Hanzhang said quietly: "The magistrate Sun has gone to Chen County, and now I am in charge of Yangyang."

   Everyone just saw Zhao Hanzhang.

   Many people know her. They also went to the Zhao family's winter solstice banquet last year, and they met at that time.

  Those who don't know her can guess her identity after thinking about what she called last night and seeing her surrounded by people.

   Their faces improved slightly, and they were still graceful. They raised their hands and saluted Zhao Hanzhang, and sincerely thanked them: "Thank you Zhao Xianjun for your help."

   Zhao Hanzhang nodded slightly, his face improved a little, and asked gently, "Is everyone okay at home?"

   Some people sighed, some looked sad, and some people responded: "Thanks to the timely arrival of reinforcements last night, although some property was lost, people are still fine."

   Zhao Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Just be nice."

   She looked back at the granary, "It's just that this time the chaos, there are already a lot of bad people. The root cause is all from the grain."

   Everyone followed her gaze. When they saw so much sand and gravel mixed in the opened grain bag, they were shocked, "What's going on?"

  Yeah, what's going on here?

   The magistrate Sun was not there, so Zhao Hanzhang could only question the county magistrate and the registrar.

  The two of them didn't expect that Zhao Hanzhang would do it when he said he would do it, so they could not help shouting, "This has nothing to do with us, we don't know anything."

"As the county magistrate and the chief clerk, especially the chief clerk, I don't even know the inside story of such a big thing as the payment of food, so that such chaos has arisen. Isn't this serious dereliction of duty?" Zhao Hanzhang stared at him with cold eyes and asked: " What face do you have to say 'I don't know'?"

The head clerk wanted to cry without tears and said, "But I really don't know that such trivial matters as payment of food are handled by the subordinates, and we only need to check the accounts. How can we know that the people below are so daring and unreliable? Dare to smuggle grain tax and mix it with sand and stones?"

Hearing his explanation, Zhao Hanzhang was so angry that he threw the whip over and knocked the man to the ground, "Subsidiary? Isn't your little chief clerk also a subordinate? The official rank is not large, but the pomp is not small, as the chief clerk. , can't even check and verify, in his position, without seeking his political affairs, it is simply worse than a lukewarm worm!"

   Zhao Hanzhang originally wanted to interrogate him, but now he is too lazy to interrogate him, so he directly ordered: "Drag him down and cut him down!"

The master widened his eyes and shouted when the soldiers came up to drag people: "You, you can't kill me, you can't kill me, I am the master of Qiyang County, not Xiping County, I own Sun County. order to be sentenced..."

   As soon as Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand, the soldiers stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth and dragged the man out.

  The grain depot became quiet, everyone looked at Zhao Hanzhang in surprise, and the county magistrate was most afraid. He stood aside tremblingly, feeling that his legs were a little weak.

   Zhao Hanzhang's eyes fell coolly on the county magistrate.

The county magistrate swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and when her eyes fell on him for a long time, he knelt on the ground with a plop, pointed to one of the wealthy households and said, "This is the Guan family and the magistrate Sun, the chief clerk. I am not involved in the calculation of the replacement food together."

  The wealthy households and the gentry turned their heads to look at Guan Yi.

   Guan Yi's face was pale, but he was still calm, "You are spitting blood, and my Guan family is not short of this little food. How can I change the food tax?"

   He paused and said: "And the chaos was not caused by the replacement of the grain tax, but because the grain tax allocated by Yuzhou was too high, and the people could not afford it, so they rebelled."

   Zhao Hanzhang said quietly: "Master Guan knows it very well."

Guan Yi became more and more calm, and said with a smile instead of a smile: "I heard that nearly half of it should be the Xia tax of Shangcai and Xiping, but because Zhao Xianjun refused to pay the full amount of taxes, Yuzhou put all these taxes on the on our head."

"The people under my rule are poor, and if they really pay the taxes required by Yuzhou, then the people under my rule will also starve to death, so for them, I am willing to fight for them," Zhao Hanzhang said: "The magistrate Sun can learn from me. !"

She said: "As a county parent official, the most important thing you should do is to protect the people of the county. I don't regret what I have done, but Master Guan, how do you know that the taxes and taxes that have been spread to the people of Qiyang this time? Is the replaced grain tax irrelevant?"

   "If you can replace grain with sand and gravel, how can you know that you won't raise taxes for grain, in order to greed for more grain?"

that is!

  Everyone stared at Guan Yi with piercing eyes.

   Guan Yi's heart skipped a beat.

   Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand and asked Guan Yi to be taken down as well. Seeing his unwilling struggle, she said, "Don't worry, Master Guan, you are different from the master."

   She said: "The chief clerk is an official appointed by the imperial court, who eats the emperor's salary, but he does not do anything to be loyal to the emperor.

"But Mr. Guan, you are a citizen and I am an official. If you commit a crime, I will try it clearly, how to judge it, and follow the law." Zhao Hanzhang turned slightly to look at the county magistrate, and said with a sneer on the corner of his mouth: "This It's your responsibility for the time being."

   The county magistrate's knees became weaker, he kowtowed and answered tremblingly, "Yes."

   Zhao Hanzhang smiled at the remaining wealthy gentry and said, "I'm asking everyone to help. Now that everyone has arrived, let's start counting the grain in the grain depot."

  Rich households: "...How about we call the accountant at home for help?"

   They are definitely not as good as the family accountant when they do this kind of thing?

   But is Zhao Hanzhang just doing an inventory?

   She wanted them to see why the people of Xianyang County rebelled this time.

   Zhao Hanzhang just pretended he didn't hear their different opinions, and asked people to go back to the county government office to bring over the account books for this year's tax collection.

   Oh, the master was beheaded. Zhao Hanzhang's soldiers were lazy and didn't want to go far, so they beheaded people not far from the grain depot.

The head of    was separated, and he was still lying on the ground at this time.

   The people in the grain depot can see the corpse just by turning slightly sideways, so although they have never done such a thing, and they think they are arrogant, they still... can't help but listen to Zhao Hanzhang's words.

Good night

   (end of this chapter)