. "Who stipulates that when you have supper?" the man said lightly: "You still have to wear official uniforms?"
"What about your third yamen runners?" Wang Zheng said: "Even if they get off work, they should live in the government office. Don't miss me.
"I don't raise idle people, and I can't afford to raise idle people. The man said coldly: "You have asked enough. Now I will ask you, who are you?"
"I am the young master of Taipu Temple, Wang Jin," Wang Jin said in a deep voice: "These are all officials who visited His Majesty the Southern Tour. I will ask you for the last time, are you really the prefect of Huai'an?"
“I am the one.
"The man had long seen that these people were officials from the capital, so he was not surprised and said without changing his face: "What's the matter with you to me? If it's official business, please present the imperial edict."
"Well" Wang Lie was stunned. He didn't expect that the other party would be so calm after knowing his identity. He couldn't help but blurt out: "What's your name?"
"I am named Hai Rui's name is Wangfeng." The thin man with yellow face said, "You said you are the Shaoqing Wang of Taipu Temple. Please show your customs and check your official position." It turns out that he was Hai Rui, and I don't know when he was transferred from Nanjing to Huai'an.
If Wang Qian had been in the Jiangxi and Fujian area, he would have changed his attitude immediately after hearing this name and stopped provoking the King of Hai Yan. Unfortunately, he was from the north and had been an official in Beijing. Hai Rui had not yet reached the point of being famous nationwide. As a result, Wang Lie did not know him at all and thought he had met an official who had been stimulated.
"This" Wang Bao nodded depressedly and said, "Well, let's understand people, let's talk about serious matters. When the young man behind him took out Wang Qian's seal letter from his bag and showed it to Na Hairui.
Hai Rui looked at the lights and knew it was not a fake, so he nodded and said, "It turned out to be Wang Shaoqing. I don't know what you are doing here, and what convenience do you need for me to do?"
Hearing that he even made an official voice, Wang Huan snorted, "Stop pretending, I don't believe you don't know. What am I here to do?"
"Mr. Wang is joking. I never lie!" Hai Rui said in a deep voice: "I am not a fortune teller, how can I know why you came?"
"You" Wang Ji said in anger: "At this time, what else can you do when the Taipu Temple official comes here?"
"There are so many things that can be done." Hai Rui said lightly: "For example, inspecting Ma Zheng and acquiring good horses," the official could not guess.
"Does the Huaihe River produce horses?" Wang Huan almost collapsed. Before he could speak, the entourage next to him couldn't help it. They followed the emperor south along the way, and they didn't do such an errand once or twice. No matter how the local officials were careful to flatter him, they were afraid of being unpretentious. Even the governor and governor dared not be arrogant in front of them. So they didn't take the Huai'an prefect seriously at all, and pointed at him and said sternly: "Your surname is Hai, don't pretend to be stupid to us. Do you dare to say that you don't know about the emperor's southern tour?!"
"The Emperor's Southern Tour" Hai Ruimu said, "Of course I know that the officials have received the imperial court's writings long ago."
"Then you don't know what we are doing?" The official stared at him and said.
"What does it have to do with the emperor's southern tour? Hai Rui said with confusion.
"We are officials who fought for the emperor." As Beijing officials, when facing local officials, they always feel a little superior, so Wang Huan is unwilling to lose his nobility in front of Hai Rui, and said with a strong anger: "To be honest, the emperor will stay in the noble house in the future. How are you prepared?"
"Full "according to the emperor's request," Hai Rui said seriously: "It's ready."
"Are you ready?" Wang Lie and others looked at each other and said, "What are you preparing?"
"The inn has been cleaned up." Hai Rui said: "The emperor can enter the throne at any time
"What else?" Wang Qian asked.
"And" Hai Rui thought for a while and said, "Oh. I also bought some local specialties, please try it out by the emperor.
“What are there?”
"Pucai, tea, and leashes" Hai Rui said: "It's all local specialties, and I'm sure the emperor has never eaten it before."
After hearing Hai Rui's words, Wang Zheng and others opened their mouths. They couldn't close for a long time. They didn't know whether Hai Rui was really stupid or fake. If he was really stupid, how could he become the Lord of this mansion? If he was fake stupid, would his old birthday boy eat arsenic and live enough?
After a long time, Wang Huan came to his senses and thought secretly: "No matter what, I have to pass this level first, otherwise I will have to be in trouble with this kangmao. In order to make the supervisor do his best, Sister Yuan ordered him to bear joint and several liability with the local officials. What punishment should the local officials take, the supervisor will also bear.
Thinking of this, he gave up the meaningless question and said straight to it: "Master Hai, whether you really don't understand or be foolish, now the emperor is here soon. You have not prepared anything here. Have you ever considered the consequences?" He said, "Please move the officials in the city to borrow money immediately, wealthy business people, everything is under my command, and use this day to try my best to remedy it; I will make a few more words in front of the emperor and the old master Yuan to help you pass by.
"Mr. Wang's kindness, I appreciate it." Hai Rui said without appreciation: "But there is no need to bother, "Why not?" Wang Huan said angrily: "You are not afraid of death. Don't implicate others and you are unlucky!"
"How did you say this?" Hai Rui said with a confused look on his face: "I am not greedy or reading, and I will obey the saint's order. Who will take my life?
"The emperor has been going south until now, and no matter what are the prefectures and counties along the canal are prepared wholeheartedly. If you buy major issues, you are afraid that you will not be well received and you will not be charged at all?" Wang Huan sneered and said repeatedly: "There are more than 70 officials who have been dismissed from office for crimes such as negligence, rudeness, omissions, etc., and some have even been rushed to the imperial prison by the East Factory! You, Huai'an Mansion, deliberately neglected, isn't it a death sentence for deceiving the emperor and the emperor?!"
"Mr. Wang's words have confused the officials." Hai Rui bowed to the north and said, "Last month, the officials received an imperial edict from the province. In the imperial edict, the emperor clearly demanded that local governments should not disturb the people in the name of receiving the emperor, waste them in the name of receiving the emperor, and plunder them in the name of receiving the emperor. Everything should be kept simple. With Emperor Xuan's grace, he said with a touching face: "The officials deeply agree with it and are determined to implement it firmly!" He then changed his face and said to Wang Jin with a cold face: "Now you tell me that you should buy it in large quantities and make extra money." He was completely different from the emperor's edict. Whose idea was it?"
"Of course it's the emperor." Wang Lie said in a muffled voice, he was so depressed.
"Then please show the imperial edict and Hai Rui stretched out his hand.
Wang Huan was a little dizzy by him and smashed his mouth. He changed his mouth and said, "You know. Some things can only be understood but not expressed in words, and you must understand the meaning." He said, "The emperor issued an imperial edict. It is just a gesture. How can you take it seriously? If you don't see other places, how should you prepare and how can you prepare?"
"I didn't see it." Hai Rui said with a tense face: "I forgive my ignorance and only know what happened to me."
"You!" An official who came with the king's maid was so angry that he pointed at Hai Rui and said, "I think you were just making trouble!"
"I am following the imperial edict! I never exceed the rules." Hai Rui stared at the man with his eyes as lightning. He slapped the arson and said, "It's you, you don't have imperial edicts, and you don't wear official uniforms. Just talk nonsense here and ask me to do this and that, which is really a mess!"
"I can't tell you clearly!" Wang Huan was so angry that he lost his cultivation. He took out an envelope from his arms and said, "This is Mr. Yuan's handwritten letter. Read it yourself." He was worried that he would argue with the local officials, so he would not listen to anyone else. So he asked Sister Yuan to ask Sister Yuan for a warrant. Of course, Sister Yuan asked him not to take it out unless he had no choice.
Obviously, in Wang Lie's view, it is now a last resort.
Hai Rui took it and looked at the letter in the light, which read, "I'm sending a member to your office to supervise the pickup matters, and ask your personal orders to cooperate. The signature is Sister Yuan, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and his private seal is stamped.
"You have nothing to say now, right?" Wang Huan sneered.
"I'm sorry, I can't obey orders!" Unexpectedly, Hai Rui didn't buy the Grand Secretary's account and said in a deep voice: "Old Master Yuan's order conflicts with the emperor's edict, and the lower officials don't know which one should obey.
"Of course I'm listening to Master!" Wang Lie's escort said anxiously.
"That means, don't listen to the emperor?" Hai Rui asked back with a smile.
"Of course not," the man said in a few minutes: "The emperor's words must listen more, but the emperor also has the same meaning as Yuan Ge Lao."
"I have a black and white letter from the upper part of my heart, but it means the opposite." Hai Rui looked at the man with his eyes as lightning and said, "Where is your imperial edict? It's not a fabrication!"
"You" was speechless by Hai Rui. At this time, Wang Lie said in a deep voice: "Since you can't communicate with Lord Hai, please gather your subordinates. I will snatch them up. I believe there is still a clear understanding of the matter!"
"This" Hai Rui said: "You have to wait until tomorrow to see them
"Why?" Wang Qing said.
"Because they don't live in the government office." Hai Rui said: "I fired the chef of the government office, so they had to go home for dinner."
"You" are so good." Wang Lie smiled backwards and said, "Who has followed a boss like you. I have really gone through eight lifetimes of blood."
After waiting for a night, Wang Zheng and others finally waited for the next morning. The drum sounded at Mao hour, and seven or eight low-level officials came in dressed in a hurry. But after three times of drum sound, there were still seven or eight people, and there was no one else. Wang Zheng felt that he saw the joke about Hai Rui's joke and said with a smile: "Master Hai is very strict, I admire you.
"Where are there." Hai Rui said lightly: "All the officials of this mansion have arrived. Please tell me, Lord Wang.
"Are you here?" Wang Lie's eyes almost fell to the ground. Although he was a Beijing official, he also knew that there were at least more than a hundred people at the level of the mansion. Why was there only seven or eight in Huaian Prefecture? He couldn't help but say with a dark face: "Don't joke, is there anyone who is late or not?"
"No more Hai Rui said: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, each prefecture should have one person in the prefect, a co-magistrate, a magistrate, a magistrate, a prosecutor, an experienced, a governor, a magistrate, a prosecutor, and a prisoner. Here, a total of eight people, a total of eight people, is not just a few.
"Really? Wang Jin asked those humanitarians.
"That's true, those people said with a sad expression: "Sir, since our mansion came, we have done some training and simplified government affairs, and all the clerks, clerks, yamen runners, and messengers who were expensed by the mansion. Even if we were not officials, the national salary would have been reduced.
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"Who will do so many things in the whole mansion? Wang Lie widened his eyes and Jiang Dao.
"We" whispered: "Of course, Master Fu Zun has only half of it."
"What if we arrest the bandits and maintain public order?" Wang Jinxin said skeptically: "It depends on you weak scholars to do it?" "That's not necessary" those people come in. "We will temporarily convene Baojia strong men.
"What can those people do?" Wang Zheng said: "It's all from ordinary people. Wouldn't it cause trouble to use them?"
"My lord doesn't know that the people here are tough, and the men are very good at fighting for years." Although they have a lot of opinions about Hai Rui, they still couldn't hide their admiration: "In previous years, officials were often beaten back when they went to the countryside, but the government masters used villagers to govern the villagers, so there was no problem."
"So, Hai Rui fired all the yamen runners?" Wang Lie completely collapsed. He felt that Hai Rui was from another world and completely ignored the rules of this world. At this moment, he lost the courage to continue and asked the Huaian officials in a trembling voice: "Do you listen to me or to him?"
Everyone looked at Wang Lie, then looked at Hai Rui, and whispered: "We listen to the Lord of the Mansion." The implication is that unless you remove Hai Rui, we really dare not listen to you.
"Okay, okay, okay" said three good words in a row. Wang Jin said, "I don't care. You can do it yourself. I'll go back now, waiting to see your good show." He waved his sleeves and said, "Let's go!" He was now in his heart. He really didn't know how to explain to the mean and polite Lord Yuan.
"Wait" Hai raised up and said, "I have a letter here, which is written to Mr. Yuan. If you show it to him, you will not implicate Mrs. Wang."
The prince was stunned, took the letter, looked at Hai Rui carefully, and said softly: "Why are you doing this?"
"I just want to be honest with you." Hai Rui said lightly.
After hearing Hai Rui's words, Wang Jin looked at him deeply, and then left with his men with a complicated expression.
Looking at the figures of those people leaving, the Huai'an Prefecture's subordinates worriedly: "Sir, we won't have anything to do, are we?"
"Put your heart in your stomach." Hai raised it and said, "I will push you to the sky when it falls. You can beat the drum and buy candy. Everyone does their own way, don't worry about anything else."
"Yes." The officials were really relieved to hear that Hai Rui would be responsible. Although their boss didn't know how to trust others, Hai Rui believed what he said.
Wang Zheng ran wildly at twice as fast as when he went there, and finally returned to the southern tour team at noon that day. He told Yuan Ge Lao about his experience in Huai'an Prefecture. Yuan Fei was so angry that his face turned purple and said, "I have heard of Haibijia in recent years, and I just thought it was just a story. I didn't expect that he was really a 25-year-old who was not afraid of death."
The prince took out the letter from Hai Rui from his arms and said, "There is another letter that Hai Rui wrote to you."
Yuan Fu took it and opened it and saw that Hai Rui's general idea was: "We received an imperial edict to keep us simple. But as far as I know, in order to receive the emperor, all places spent a lot of money. Every time the emperor went to a place, all places would respect the emperor for "a name of filial piety, plundering people's wealth, and being extravagant. This obviously does not conform to the emperor's "simple and frugality, and not allowed to be flattered. Now the emperor is about to come to Huai'an, and we feel deeply embarrassed about this. As mentioned in the imperial edict, we are very afraid of being negligent. If we imitate the entertainment of others, we are afraid of going against the emperor's intention of caring for the people. Master, what should we do?"
After reading Hai Rui's letter, Master Yuan was so angry that his face was purple. He knew that Hai Rui was placing his army, and if the pre-determined itinerary, the Holy Lord would go to Huai'an to station, and there would be no time to prepare. At that time, although Hai Rui was unlucky, the emperor was furious and he would not have any good results.
Thinking that he had called the wind and rain for half a year, a small prefect made a move. Yuan Fu couldn't help but feel so angry that he said, "Hai Rui, let's ride a donkey to read the account book, let's take a look!" He had already made up his mind and would have to let out this anger sooner or later.
"Gei Master, you don't have to worry about dealing with the Haiwang Peak at this moment, anyway, he can't escape." Wang Jin whispered: "The problem now is, will the emperor still stay in Huai'an?"
"I'm still not here!" Yuan Fu cursed: "Let the fleet speed up, cross Huaian overnight, and let the emperor stay in Yangzhou."
"That's all," Wang Maid said suddenly: "I think Hai Rui is the one who is fighting."
"You still need nonsense!" Sister Yuan really wanted to slap him, and cursed viciously: "Get out of Yangzhou quickly. If there is another leak this time, you won't have to come back!"
"It's me again?" Wang Lie said with a bitter face: "Ge Master, I'm running back and forth, my crotch is worn out and my waist is about to be broken. You can't change someone,"
"No." Yuan Fu said with a dark face: "This is a punishment for you."
"Well, okay, Wang Lie is so depressed.
A day later, the southern cruise fleet passed by Shanyang County and went south without stopping. Hai Rui, dressed in a common man, stood on the shore, looking at the fleet covering the sky and the sun, and couldn't help but chant softly: "When traveling south on the funeral, there is no martial law, who will report the letter of advice on the nine-stage level? The spring breeze lifted the whole country to cut off the palace brocade, half of it was blocked mud and half a sail
"Okay, you actually dare to compare the current emperor to the Emperor of Suichang!" A voice sounded behind him, making Hai Rui's face pale.
Chapter completed!