Chapter 445： make trouble

“Stop making trouble, we’ll have dinner later.”

Yingbao slapped Wei Zhan's hand away, turned around, and gently poked his head away: "You sit down for now, and I'll look at the account book for a while."

Wei Zhan then squeezed in and sat next to the young lady, stretched his head and said, "I'll watch it with you."

Yingbao had no choice but to let him go.

This account book contains many errors and omissions, and there are signs of alteration.

The more Ying Bao looked, the angrier he became.

No, this county must be properly renovated. Otherwise, why don’t we want to drink from the northwest wind next year?

Unexpectedly, before she had time to govern Zhouhe County, many brightly dressed people gathered at the door of Princess Jun's mansion, asking the princess to give her food.

Some people shouted loudly, saying that their ancestors had lived in Zhouhe County for generations, and their life was not easy. But now the princess came to build a lot of construction projects, which made them miserable.

Yingbao called Song Changshi and asked, "Is this mansion newly built by the imperial court, or was it renovated from someone else's old mansion?"

Song Changshi clasped his fists and said: "It was renovated from an old house purchased by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Including the surrounding terrain, it was also purchased by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there is no such thing as disturbing the people."

Yingbao understood.

I feel like some people don't take my mud-legged princess with a foreign surname seriously, and want to use this method to force her to submit.

So very good.

"Take a few people to quietly check out the background of those people outside and who is leading the trouble. Once you find out, there is no need to alert the snake. Collect more of their crimes. From petty theft to bullying men and women, let me investigate them all. Be clear and ask the victim to sign.”

"Isn't this good?" Song Changshi hesitated: "Princess, these people are local snakes. We are new here, so it's better not to provoke them."

Yingbao glanced sideways at Song Changshi: "What do you mean, I, the royal princess, come to my fief and have to be manipulated by these unruly people? I am slandered by them and can't speak out?"

Song Changshi clasped his fists: "That's not what I meant by being promoted to official position, it's just"

Ying Bao waved his hand: "You don't need to say more, this matter is none of your business. I'll let others go. You can go."

Song Changshi hesitated to speak. In the end, without saying anything, he bent down and left.

Ying Bao called Chu Shun again, told him his request, and asked him to investigate quietly.

Chu Shun agreed without hesitation and took the order to leave the house.

In the evening, Wei Zhan brought his people back from outside the city. Hearing that someone dared to come to the gate of the princess's mansion to cause trouble, he became furious.

“I see they are so anxious that they are jumping over the wall!”

Wei Zhan said: "I have traveled to several villages in the past few days. Many people there have no land and only rely on renting fields for a living. However, the gentry colluded with the officials and falsely reported the number of grades to a large number of fields in order to pay less taxes. Later, the officials And put unused taxes on the people."

"I inquired in the countryside that the officials used clever names to issue all kinds of bizarre taxes to the people. One of the old men said that they were all charged a sun tax when they were basking in the sun under the city wall. If they didn't pay, they would be taken to the county jail. In the end, they would be charged The family spent money to redeem it.”

Ying Bao listened with a sullen face, and immediately pulled out a dagger and handed it to Wei Zhan: "This is what my master gave me, take it. If you encounter something like this, arrest those little officials directly, interrogate them and take them to the local area." Parade and let the people give evidence. If the crime is extremely heinous, he will be executed directly!”

This place is her own fiefdom, and prisoners do not need to be sent to the government for trial. As long as the evidence is conclusive, she can ask the county magistrate to execute the criminal or sentence him to prison and exile.

Of course, high-ranking officials still have to be sent to the capital to be interrogated and sentenced in Dali Temple. Only after the emperor approves can the criminal be brought to justice.

Wei Zhan took the dagger, took it out of its sheath, looked at it, and then put it back in.

Speaking of which, although he is a second-rank general serving the country, he has dozens of followers. As long as he wants to, it's no problem to deal with a few short-sighted guys.

But Song Changshi's duty is to supervise his and Yingbao's behavior. Once they do anything out of the ordinary, he will come to dissuade them, or directly write a note and send it to the capital to complain.

So Wei Zhan is relatively tolerant outside, for fear of causing trouble to Ying Bao.

The next day, the people making trouble outside came again.

This time they not only yelled and cursed outside, telling the princess to get out of Zhouhe County, but they also used poles, iron forks and wooden sticks to attack the three or four guards standing at the door.

Ying Bao and Wei Zhan came out after hearing the news and stood on the steps and sneered.

These people may think that she is a woman who is easy to bully, but they don't know that even a grassroots princess can kill them on the spot.

"Come here! Arrest these thugs who have committed the following crimes!" Wei Zhan shouted: "If you dare to resist, shoot without mercy!"

Hulala, a hundred or so guards appeared from behind the troublemaker, surrounding forty or fifty people.

When these people saw this, they immediately panicked. Some abandoned their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.

But there were still a dozen street gangsters who were not afraid of anything. They shouted and wanted to fight the guards, but they were stabbed by the guards.

At this time, the gangsters became honest and all fell to the ground to beg for mercy.

“Send them to the county government office!” Wei Zhan waved his hand, and hundreds of guards dragged these people to the county government office.

Soon, the entrance to the princess's mansion was cleared, and everyone who was watching the excitement and not taking it too seriously had fled.

Yingbao and Wei Zhan boarded the carriage and came to the county government office.

Mei County Magistrate had received the report and knew that the princess and his wife were coming, so he immediately ran out to greet them.

Wei Zhan and the young lady were sitting in the carriage without getting out and said: "From yesterday to today, dozens of thugs attacked the princess's mansion. Magistrate Mei County, you are the majestic head of the county and manage the security of the entire county. You pretend to be deaf." What's wrong with being silent and doing nothing? Do you think the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and you have already regarded Zhouhe County as your own? "

Magistrate Mei turned pale with fright, fell to his knees on the ground, and said tremblingly: "I really don't know, and I haven't received a report from the Princess's Mansion."

The implication is that if it was really that serious, why didn’t your princess come to the county government to report it?

Yingbao smiled, looked at Magistrate Mei, and found that this old man in his fifties was actually the magistrate who tried the case of Jiang and Chen more than ten years ago.

What a coincidence.

"Magistrate Mei, I will leave these thugs to you today. I will see the results tomorrow. If you deceive the superiors and cover up the criminals, you don't have to stay in He County this week. Just go find another job." ”

After Ying Bao finished speaking, he turned to the captain of the guard and said, "Write down the names, places, and household registrations of these people. Then you will check one by one. The family situation of each person within five servers must be found out."

The guard captain raised his fist and said, "Yes!"

When Magistrate Mei heard this, his face turned green.

Many of these people are relatives of his junior officials, as well as local ruffians invited by the Lord Bo County Lieutenant.

They originally wanted to give this grassroots princess a warning and tell her to stay in the mansion and stop looking for trouble. In the end, she injured so many people and dragged her all the way to the county government office.

Once she finds out that he is involved, he may not be able to keep his reputation.

What should we do about this?