Huang Qian was an official in Beijing, but because of his honest and clean temperament, he was demoted to work in Qingjiang, Jiangxi.
One day, he came to Qingjiang magistrate of a county yamen and asked magistrate of a county Liu Wenju to arrange an errand for him. Liu Wenju left an official document for him to sit at home at night. In the evening, Huang Xi walked into Liu Wenju's house. Liu Wenju was lying in a chair in the hospital, enjoying the cool air. There was a dish of goose's feet on the small table beside him, and he chewed a piece into his mouth from time to time. When Liu Wenju saw him running empty-handed, he thought, He really doesn't take me seriously. After a long silence, he chewed the last goose web and said slowly, "There is no vacancy in the county government for the time being. Come back another day. " Took a sip of his teacup. Huang Qian turned back and cursed as he walked: "Shit, I just don't give gifts. I'll find something to do myself. " Huang Qian doesn't even have enough money to eat and can't afford a gift. I really want to kick his little table over with a goose's foot.
Huang Qian couldn't find anything suitable to do at the moment, so he had to dig a fill embankment at the foot of the embankment with a pile of mud legs and made a "loess master". While digging, mud legs talked about local new things, saying that the two pieces of silver allocated by the court to repair the embankment repaired the embankment of the local tyrants and saved the farmland of the local tyrants. The extra money was greedy by the county magistrate. If there is a flood, the most unfortunate thing will be the fields of ordinary squires. Huang Qian was very surprised.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the work of digging and filling the levee is over. Huang Qian was hungry and cold, and found a late-night job. That night, Huang Qian was cold and hungry, so he had to lie in bed and knock on the wooden banger. The sergeant looking for the night angrily said, "Is there such a lazy person?" Pick him up from the bed and swing the club to play. Huang Qian quickly said, "wait a minute, wait a minute. Doctors have never been punished since ancient times. You can't hit me. " Huang Qian dressed like a beggar, and the sergeant almost laughed: "Are you a doctor?" Huang Qian shivered and took out his resume. The sergeant looked at it and frowned: "It's really an official sent by the imperial court. There is such a miracle in the world. "
The next day, the sergeant took Huang Gan to the magistrate's lobby. Liu Wenju looked: A black and thin beggar came in and was about to curse. The sergeant said, "my Lord, this man says he knows you." Please punch a hole to see if he is an official. If he is an impostor, beat him with 20 sticks and tell him to get out. " Liu Wenju listened to a familiar voice. When he looked carefully, he remembered that Huang Xi had been here. He patted his thigh and whispered, how could I forget this person? I thought he went home without saying hello. I couldn't help helping myself: "Oh, it's you. I have arranged your errand. I haven't sent anyone to find you for a long time. " Actually, it's all bullshit. Liu Wenju said to the police officer, "Help me find a warm dress." Everyone in the class understood that this man turned out to be an official in the yamen, making the magistrate of a county have a hard time.
In order to scare Huang Qian, Liu Wenju set a banquet at home, full of county officials. Liu Wenju introduced Huang Xi to everyone and announced that Huang Xi was a full member of the house. To put it bluntly, it is to send and receive documents. Huang Qian looked at a table full of dishes, and his mouth was watering. He probably ate too much, drank a little wine, growled, and hurried to the toilet.
After Huang Xi went to the toilet, Liu Wenju told officials that Huang Xi had been down and out for more than three months. Officials spat at each other until they burst into tears and said, "What a suck!" Pointing to Liu Wenju, he said, "You, you, how did you turn the capital into the loess?"? You really have gone too far. " Liu Wenju "hee hee" a smile, called the housekeeper, whispered a few words. The housekeeper answered and went to the back garden, took a small shovel, dug out the soil in the flowerpot, dug out a lump of stone and wrapped it in red silk. Huang Qian squatted in the toilet. From the crack in the board in the toilet, he just saw the housekeeper digging a lump in the stone and blinked.
Huang Qian returned to the hall, and everyone ate almost, leaving one after another. Liu Wenju took HongLing's package from the housekeeper and handed it to Huangdao Road: "Bro, this is four hundred and twenty pieces of silver, which is my apology. In the future, we will work under the same roof and take care of each other. This money, buy a house and buy some clothes. " Huang Qian was stunned: Liu Wengu's money was buried in a flowerpot. In fact, what Liu Wenju brought him was stolen loess silver, which was a little shameful. Huang Qian took the money, thinking that it was generous of him to give me so much at a time.
The next day, Huang Qian went to the yamen to handle affairs, still wearing the old clothes given to him by the sergeant. Liu Wenju was surprised and went to the front and said, "Why don't you buy a new suit? Who are you pretending to be poor with? " Obviously unhappy on his face. Huang Qian said, "I have the salary of the imperial court. Wearing new clothes is the same as wearing old clothes. I am very satisfied. "
In the blink of an eye, Huang Qian suddenly found that everyone's face lit up. Liu Wenju patted Huang Xi on the shoulder and said, "Come to my house tonight." It depends. That night, everyone went to the magistrate's house to eat and drink, and Liu Wenju gave everyone a silver ticket. Huang Qian took a look: 1000 beam. I was so scared that my eyes were about to fall. Liu Wenju leaned close to his ear and told him with a smile: This is the money allocated by the imperial court to repair the embankment. I haven't used it up yet, which can improve everyone's life, pointing to the delicious food on the table: "All we eat and drink is the money for repairing the embankment. We don't eat for free. " No wonder the levee was built into chicken intestines. The original silver coins were really greedy by them. Huang Qian put the silver ticket in her arms and followed the officials out of Liu Wenju's home, becoming a corrupt official.
It was a ten-day rest, and Liu Wenju walked along the embankment. He saw mud legs repairing the embankment under the embankment, and a familiar figure attracted him: Isn't that Huang Qian? Look at the dike again. It's not a levee built by local tyrants. Liu Wenju waved to Huang Xi to wake him up. Liu Wenju asked, "Did you build the wrong embankment?" Huang Qian said with a smile, "Since someone has paid for repairing the dike here, let's repair it, as long as there is money to earn." Liu Wenju nodded and said, "Huang Qian, don't forget what the sage said: Those who work hard rule the people, and those who work hard rule the people. How can you earn so much money?' Master Loess' is addicted? " Huang Qian smiled and said, "I don't make money. Sitting in the yamen every day, my back aches and I dig two shovels of soil, which makes my bones and muscles loose. I know it all. " Liu Wenju snigger: "It turned out to be an old acquaintance." Pat him on the shoulder and say, "Stop accompanying them and come with me." So, Huang Xi accompanied Liu Wenju around the riverbank. Liu Wenju pointed to the wide levee in front of him and said, "The levee can't be repaired like this." He pointed to the narrow river bank in the distance and said, "Only a little can be built every year, that's all. If it is completely repaired, will the court still allocate funds? Rivers that supply water every year must be treated every year; There will be special funds every year. Every year, Lord He Du builds millions of dikes, and more than 65,438+10,000 come to us. Make good use of this money, understand? " Liu Wenju "hey hey" laughed, and Huang Qian suddenly realized.
Time flies, and I don't feel that a few years have passed. On this day, Huang Xi said a few words in Liu Wenju's ear, and Liu Wenju smiled. It turned out that Huang Qian's "same year" was a county magistrate in Fengcheng. Fengcheng county and Qingjiang county drink the same river, and the situation is the same. Huang Xi invited "the same year" and Liu Wenju to drink at home. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the more you talk, the more enjoyable you are, and you can't help bragging. "The same year" spread out his fingers and said that he took so much money every year to build dikes, but only used so much: he held out a finger. Liu Wenju shook his head: "What is this? I have so much money in my hand. " Open your hands and put them in his ear. "Governor Jiang is my distant relative. I only used so much. " Hold out a little finger. They looked at each other and then "ha ha" laughed. "The same year" shook his head: "You said that your bank was built into chicken intestines. If there is an opportunity one day, look at our levee and leave some dangers every year. " Huang Xi thumbs up, Liu Wenju candidly admit defeat. When it comes to how to be greedy for money, the more they talk, the more energetic they are, and the less they drink.
Soon, the county magistrate sent an urgent official document saying that an imperial envoy had made an unannounced visit to Qingjiang. Liu Wenju was caught off guard. Early this morning, county officials rushed to the yamen and lined up to meet him. An imperial envoy got off the sedan chair, and all the accompanying officials behind him looked grim. Liu Wenju was surprised: "How did Huang Qian's' same year' come with an imperial envoy?" An imperial envoy entered the hall of the county government, waved to the accompanying sergeant, and captured Liu Wenju and other officials in one fell swoop. Liu Wenju opened his mouth wide: "This ... Why is this?" An imperial envoy came to the hall, sat in front of the case, raised a gavel, and listed dozens of crimes committed by Liu Wenju and others, including what Liu Wenju and Huang Qian said in those years. Liu Wenju regretted it: "It turned out that Huang Xi set me up to drill. I didn't press myself that day. "
Liu Wenju was sweating profusely. See Huang Qian, he was also taken down. He is sneering. Huang Qian's "The Same Year" whispered to the imperial envoys. An imperial envoy waved to a sergeant, who released Huang Qian. Liu Wenju trilled: "My Lord, this ... this Huang Qian has been in Qingjiang for three years and has been greedy for twenty thousand dollars. Everyone can testify. " His officials nodded in succession. An imperial envoy slapped the table: "Don't worry about other people's affairs first, and explain your crimes clearly!" " "Huang Qian and his" same year "stood in one place, whispering to each other and looking cool. Liu Wenju understood, and he was half dead with anger: You are a heartless thing. I have given you so many benefits that I can bite the hand that feeds you!
When an imperial envoy raided Liu Wenju's home, he touched it accurately. All the flowerpots were smashed to pieces, and tens of thousands of pieces of silver were copied from the flowerpots alone. A small county magistrate, corruption is so rampant, the imperial edict is furious and announces the decision! This is his killer: killing corrupt officials for good officials.
How can an imperial envoy be so unfriendly? It turns out that Yongzheng became emperor this year and made up his mind to punish corruption: tigers and flies fight together! Imperial envoys were sent to the provinces, and Yongzheng gave them the privilege to act first. The imperial envoys did not say hello anywhere, and vigorously handled the case. The imperial envoys were accompanied by alternate officials and local officials. Once any well-known and local officials are found to be corrupt, they are immediately replaced. If the amount of corruption is huge, it will be settled. Huang Qian's The Same Year is an alternate magistrate of a county. He quietly came to Qingjiang, and Huang Xi cooperated with him and Liu Wenju in a "heart-to-heart" play. In addition, through investigation, he got a lot of evidence of corruption in Liu Wenju. Isn't Huang Qian also "greedy for the Lord"? The local squire took out a pile of bills, and when he read them, he realized that Huang Qian had paid all the money for the mud leg to repair the embankment for the ordinary squire, including the stolen 420 silver, which was used here.
An imperial adult listened to the story of how Huang Qian became a "master of loess", especially used all the "benefits" given by Liu Wenju to repair the embankment. He could not help but nod and simply let him make a Qingjiang county magistrate. The "master of loess" became a county grandfather, clean and honest, and remained uncorrupted. He served as an official for the benefit of one party, and the levee was built firmly, saving a lot of money for the court.
That's all the sheriff ordered. I want to know more. Please keep it.
Laoye county magistrate