Chapter 46 Unintentional Prestige
Although it is very crowded, it is the first time for young people with salt poles to live in such a good house. If you listen carefully in this yard late at night, you can hear many whispers, all of which are excited conversations between salt poles who can't sleep.
Li Meng lives in a separate house, so naturally it is not so noisy. The house has been carefully cleaned up, and the new bedding is pretending to be a sample and lit the pillars. Speaking of which, this place is the house where Li Meng killed the evil inspector Mou.
But it has no effect on Li Meng, and he is just thinking about how to practice these useless salt rods in the future. Oh, no, they are real salt diced now.
The inspector is a ninth-rank official and is stationed in the anti-smuggling salt, so there is no special yamen in Jiaozhou City. However, the inspectors who have served will not treat him badly. The courtyard where Li Meng lives is closely adjacent is the inspection office.
In the late Ming Dynasty, literati who were officials were not practical and were often blinded by minor officials such as teachers and documents. Li Meng didn't seem to have to worry about these things, because the officials who worked under inspector Mou were also quite familiar with the local salt roads.
Since they are familiar with the local situation, they naturally know what kind of people Li Meng and Yan Ganzi are. So after Li Meng's appointment, they all made excuses to leave. What Li Meng saw was just an empty yard.
Zhao Neng, who was following Li Meng, first happily wandered around these houses, and then said to Li Meng with concern:
"Mr. Li, we guys don't know the accounts, how can we start doing it?";
Since the general flag was prosecuted, Zhao Neng's attitude has not been as natural as before. After the appointment of the inspector, he even spoke out loudly. Li Meng was very awkward and wanted to correct it but failed. Later, seeing that Zhao Neng and others were still intimate towards him, they were allowed to do so.
When Li Meng heard Zhao Neng's words, he had nothing to worry about. He had come. There must be a road before the car arrived at the mountain. Why do you have to think so much? He went up and took a rag and wiped it on the desk that was already covered with dust. When he heard the noise in the adjacent yard, he knew it was the lively 150 salted dicks.
Li Meng frowned and looked up and said to Zhao Neng:
"Take out the money I found in those thieves yesterday, buy the yards on both sides of the yards where I live, and arrange the brothers first, remember, don't deduct the money you give, don't force others to do anything!"
Zhao Neng nodded, turned around and was about to go out, Li Meng called Zhao Neng and said coldly:
"What are these kids who are happy about this? Ma Gang asked them to lead them out of the city to practice. The practice is increased. There is no special thing in the future, and it will be like this every day!"
Zhao Neng also nodded and agreed and went out to arrange his plans.
When Jiaozhou magistrate was relieved when he heard the report from the magistrate who came back, he thought to himself that the Yanding Rossi, who reported the news, exaggerated the words. How many people were there, only six of them were injured. Maybe he encountered a few brave thieves on the way.
But the next morning, there was a paper from the inspection where the case was detailed. There were some salt vendors in Jiaozhou magistrates, thinking that you had already taken office safely and were still so endless. Do you have to learn to act spoiled by children? But think about how much you pay for the money you took office and pay back the money from the other party, and with the paper, there was a gift of 100 taels of meeting. It was rare to have such a polite and polite salt administration inspection, so you still have to give this face.
Now three horses were sent to explore the site. The so-called horses were fast, and the horses were fast. The combat power was not a little bit, but the speed was faster.
The magistrate means that these constables will go and return quickly and reply to the newly appointed inspector. This matter will be resolved. The military men of the prefecture and Jiaozhou look down on this inspection, thinking that a little big thing will scare you like this. In the future, it will be clear that you will investigate and smuggle salt everywhere.
The horse was about to go out in the morning and lunch was just over, and these constables came back. But as soon as they saw the city gate, they fell off the horse. One of them was very angry, and one was sitting on the ground and could not say anything. The other covered her face and cried loudly, which scared the soldiers guarding the city gate.
Everyone was familiar with these constables and hurriedly notified them to the yamen. A few yamen runners came over to help the people back and invited the doctor from the pharmacy to diagnose them. They said they were frightened and prescribed Ning Shenshunqi's decoction. After decorating the medicine, they poured the three people.
The three of them slowly calmed down and sent them out in the morning, but returned like a madman in the afternoon. All the officials from the prefectural yamen were alarmed and went to the back hall to see it. At this time, one of the horses was about to recover and said stutteringly:
"Hundreds of people died, hundreds of people died of salt..."
After asking for a long time, I didn't find a correct number, but I was shocked. It turned out that the siege of Yanding was true, but did not only injured three of Li Meng's subordinates? Why did those former Yanding die hundreds of them? Anyone knows that those under inspector Mou can fight? It should be said that the people in the salt administration inspections in the Ming Dynasty are very good at fighting. In everyone's judgment, they are even more combat-effective than the soldiers stationed outside the city.
Li Meng is just a new powerful man and has not recruited salt stewards. Those of him are brought out from military households, but those military households are honest farmers, so how can they have any combat effectiveness?
In the afternoon, the Jiaozhou Prefectural Office began to report the case, saying that there were eighty-five corpses neatly placed on the edge of a certain official road. Some people recognized it as salt dicks under the previous inspector, and their bodies were all covered with holes, and their death was very miserable.
Thinking of the long spears carried by those who were led by Li Meng yesterday, the short weapons carried by him, and the blood stains, they finally figured out what happened. It turned out that the story of Salt Ding Rossi's complaint was true, that is, Li Meng used 150 people to kill the siege of the desperate and scoundrels, and killed more than 80 people at the cost of slightly injuring six.
What kind of combat power is this? Officials at all levels of Jiaozhou who thought about this suddenly shuddered. No one thought that the gentle and humble young man with a smile was like this!
The confidentiality system in the officialdom has always been like a sieve. The things that happened in the yamen were not dark yet, and the entire Jiaozhou City was almost known. As a result, the neighborhood of the house where Li Meng lived suddenly became deserted. Everyone would rather take a few more steps than walk in front of the door.
Chapter completed!