Chapter 457： Shameless

Ying Bao smiled as she watched Wu Ya stumble over and threw herself into her arms.

“嬢嬢!” Wu Yao hugged Ying Bao and asked for praise.

“It’s amazing that we are all safe.” Yingbao 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 Hao pointed at the big buffalo and barked curiously, 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." Only with food can we live. The official said that this food collection was under the order of the princess. "

When Wei Zhan heard this, he became angry and asked, "Are those officials the ones who come to pay taxes every time?"

The cowherd boy 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 unless it is properly rectified."

He reduces taxes on the people here, and there are officers coming to collect grain. If these illegal things are not removed, the county will not be well.

Ying Bao: "Don't make any publicity about this 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."

Wei Zhan was puzzled: "What's the use of recruiting just a few?" There were dozens of government officials in the county, and behind each government official there was 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 realized: "That's okay. I will post notices in every 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 maintain their career.

She wants to use children from poor families to replace those "hereditary and irreplaceable" petty officials and government servants.

Of course, if those government officials stick to their own rules, they themselves will not be able 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 collude with others to oppress the poor people who have no resistance. Even if the offender is killed, the victim’s family will have nowhere to seek justice.

No, she had just killed a chicken to scare the monkeys a year ago. Those people had been stable for less than three months, and they started to behave randomly again.

It’s really abominable to act outside with your own name on your shoulders this time.

After returning to the county town, Wei Zhan worked non-stop to have people write recruitment documents and post them at various township markets.

Subsequently, people came to apply for jobs.

Among these people, Wei Zhan checked the household registrations one by one to check whether the person was the person he was. He also eliminated the families whose family members had petty officials and servants. He also did not want any of the people who were from wealthy gentry. The remaining ones were only more than forty people.

"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 ask the county magistrate to teach them how to do things.”

 Wei Zhan felt angry when he thought of the Mei County magistrate. The old guy is over 50 years old. He should have been promoted to other positions early, but he still remains a county magistrate. I don’t know whether he has insufficient political achievements or deliberately stays in the local area to be a parent official who is far away from the sky and the emperor.

But no matter what, I must get the old guy away and let him stay in Zhouhe County. Sooner or later, it 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, put his hands behind his hands and walked towards that direction.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard of Wei's house, he 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!" When Cao saw Wei Zhan, he was furious and rushed straight towards Wei Zhan, about to hit him head on.

Those girls and women were shocked when they saw it, and they quickly grabbed Mrs. Cao, "Madam, what are you doing? Why are you going after Qi Langjun again?"

Ms. 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 finished speaking, Wei Wenbai slapped her on the face, knocking her unconscious.

Wei Wenbai shouted with a sullen face: "Keep talking nonsense! Believe it or not, I will divorce you!"

Chao 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 **** who wants to die. How can you blame her?" Go to Qilang. "The one who can't be offended the most now is Qilang. Madam, you are confused.

Ms. Cao was soon surrounded by a group of maids 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.

When he came back from the capital this time, he just told the Cao family that he had taken Qingqing as his concubine, but the woman started making a fuss and directly embarrassed himself.

She is really used to it! There are no more rules!

Wei Wenbai decided not to come back for a year, so he would just let her stay in Zhouhe County with her children.

“Hitch the carriage and go back to the capital!” He told the boy: “Carry out the boxes from my room as well, be careful not to bump them.”

The box contains his private room and valuables, which are all taken to the capital this time.

As for Cao’s mother and son, they live with their parents and will never die of hunger anyway!

"Yes! Let's go, 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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