Chapter 457 Shameless
Ying Bao smiled as she watched Wu Ya stumble over and threw herself into her arms.
"Ma'am!" Wu Ya hugged Ying Bao and asked for praise.
"It's amazing that we are all safe." Ying Bao touched his head and picked him up.
At this time, a shepherd boy riding a big buffalo came from a distance. When he saw a large group of people here, he stopped.
Wu Yao pointed at the big buffalo in novelty and screamed, wanting to go over.
Ying Bao did not move. Wei Zhan and Chu Shun had already walked up to the shepherd boy and asked about the local situation.
For example, are there people here who are escaping from their fields, are there people who are robbers, or are there people who are collecting taxes and oppressing the people indiscriminately, etc.
The shepherd boy thought for a moment, picked his nose and said, "Yes, a few officials came here a few days ago, asking each household in our village to pay one stone of grain. They said that a princess came from the capital. The princess had many servants and needed a lot of food." We need food to survive, and the official said that this food collection was under the order of the princess."
When Wei Zhan heard this, his anger arose in his heart, and he asked again: "Are those officials the ones who come to pay taxes every time?"
The cowboy nodded.
"very good."
Wei Zhan asked the cowherd boy to leave, then turned back to Yingbao and said, "It looks like the yamen is rotten from top to bottom. It won't work if we don't take care of it."
I am reducing taxes and fees for the people here, and there are officers coming to collect grain from the other side. If these illegal things are not removed, the county will not be well.
Yingbao: "Don't spread the word in advance. When we get back, we will put up a notice to recruit a few teachers and say that we will find them for the children. There will be two military teachers and two civil teachers each."
Wei Zhan was puzzled: "What's the use of recruiting just a few?" There are dozens of government officials in this county, and behind each government official there is the shadow of a wealthy gentry family. If you want to replace them, it will be useless if you don't recruit more than a hundred people.
"We are using this as a cover. Others don't know how many people we are recruiting. As long as they pass the review, we will keep them all," Ying Bao said.
Wei Zhan suddenly said: "That's okay. I will post notices in each township later to ensure that each township can recruit six people."
Ying Bao: "Remember, you must be upright and very poor."
When looking for someone to work, you have to find someone from a poor family. In order to have a stable income to support their family, they will do their best to protect their career.
She just wants to use children from poor families to replace those "hereditary and irreplaceable" petty officials and government servants.
Of course, if those government officials keep to themselves, it is not impossible for me to be lenient.
Due to the recruitment system implemented by the imperial court, that is, using money to hire government servants and servants, instead of allowing people to serve in turns as before, these positions have gradually become a way for some people to make money, and they have been occupied by some people for generations. After a while, the disadvantages came.
Officials colluded to oppress poor people who had no power to resist. Even if they killed someone, the host family would have nowhere to seek justice.
No, she had just killed a chicken to scare the monkeys a few years ago, and those people had been stable for less than three months, and they started to behave randomly again.
This time, he actually used his own reputation to act outside, which is really disgusting.
After returning to the county town, Wei Zhan worked non-stop to have people write recruitment documents and post them at various township markets.
Then people came to apply for jobs one after another.
Among these people, Wei Zhan checked the household registrations one by one to see if the person was the person he was. He also excluded those whose family members had petty officials and servants, and did not want any of those who were from wealthy gentry. There were only about forty people left.
"Send them to various townships to work and cooperate with the tax collection and payment work in each township. If they find anything wrong, let them report it in time." Wei Zhan said to Chu Shun: "You will bring twenty more guards with you. If anyone asks If you have any objections, take them directly to the Yamen and let the county magistrate teach them how to do things."
When Wei Zhan thought of the Mei County Magistrate, he felt angry.
The old guy was over fifty, and he should have been promoted to other positions early, but he still ended up as a county magistrate. I don't know whether he had insufficient political performance or deliberately stayed in the local area to be a parent official who was far away from the sky and the emperor.
But no matter what, I will definitely get the old guy away and let him stay in Zhouhe County. Sooner or later, he will be a disaster.
Chu Shun clasped his fists: "Yes!"
Wei Zhan came out of the study after finishing his official duties.
Suddenly, I heard a commotion in my father's yard. It seemed like someone was crying and screaming.
Wei Zhan frowned and walked over there with his hands behind his back.
As soon as they stepped into the courtyard of Wei's house, they saw a group of girls and women surrounding the two people who were pulling and trying to stop the fight: "Madam, let go quickly, you have torn the eldest young master's clothes."
Ms. Cao's hands were torn apart by everyone, and she cried louder and louder: "You have no conscience! I have worked hard to manage this family and raised your two children, but you want to take in my sister! You are still not a human being. ! Oh my God, how could you do such a thing?"
When Wei Zhan heard these words, he probably knew what was going on. He turned around and was about to go back.
"Qi Lang! Stop!" Mrs. Cao was furious when she saw Wei Zhan. She rushed towards him and was about to hit him head on.
Those maids and women saw this in awe, and quickly grabbed Mrs. Cao, "Madam, what are you doing? Why are you going after Qi Langjun again?"
Mrs. Cao cried and pointed at Wei Zhan: "It must be you! You are the one who has been stabbed a thousand times. My sister is obviously the one."
Before she could finish her words, Wei Wenbai had already been slapped on the face, which immediately knocked her unconscious.
Wei Wenbai shouted with a sullen face: "Keep talking nonsense! Believe it or not, I will divorce you!"
Cao was dumb, covering her face and looking at her husband in disbelief: "You hit me? You hit me in front of my servants? Oh, I'm going to die!"
When her nanny saw this, she immediately held her in her arms and comforted her heart and soul: "My eldest lady, you must be more open-minded. It's all that bitch who wants to die. How can you blame her?" Go to Qilang." The one who cannot be offended the most now is Qilang, the lady is confused.
Mrs. Cao was soon surrounded by a group of girls and women and returned to her yard, while the others dispersed one after another.
Wei Zhan glanced at his eldest brother, said nothing, and went directly to his mother's yard.
Wei Wenbai stood in the main courtyard for a while, clenched his fists, and went straight outside.
This time when he came back from the capital, he just told the Cao family that he had taken Qingqing as his concubine, but the woman started making trouble and directly embarrassed him.
I'm so used to her! There are no more rules!
Wei Wenbai decided that he would not come back for a year, so he would let her live in Zhouhe County with her children.
"Hitch the car and go back to the capital!" He ordered the boy: "Carry out the boxes from my room, be careful not to bump them."
The box contained his private room and valuables, which were all taken to the capital this time.
As for Cao's mother and son, they will live with their parents and they won't starve to death anyway!
"Yes! Come on, little one!" Several boys ran back to the house and moved boxes into Wei Wenbai's house.
Ms. Cao didn't know it yet, but her husband had taken away all the family's money and even some valuable items in a box, and was carried to the carriage by the servants.
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