When news came, the old prime minister Zeng Bu passed away. Zhao Ji issued an edict to pursue the title of Grand Secretary of Guanwen Hall.

Lao Zeng's voice was quite legendary, and he was still a bit of affair. He was a military prime minister (princesetter) and a government minister (the right minister of the Shangshu). At that time, he was in power with Cai Jing, but he was so miserable by Cai Jing. He was demoted and framed various charges to Lao Zeng. His children were often instructed by Cai Jing to invite officials of the Cai Party to have tea, and they were punished to death.

This kind of person who had political propositions and was eventually crushed by Cai Jing, a powerful person, can be said that if it were not in the Northern Song Dynasty, the whole family would have died. However, now, Lao Zeng has also achieved a good end.

Strictly speaking, when Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Zeng Bu made contributions. When Zhezong passed away, the Empress Dowager summoned the prime ministers to discuss the heirs. Zhang Dun advocated the establishment of King Jian and King Shen. The Empress Dowager wanted to establish King Duan. Then Zeng Bu, and Deng Xunwu, who was kicked up in the capital a few days ago, said that the Empress Dowager was very clever, so King Duan Zhao Ji ascended the throne.

Zeng Shicheng, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, is a relative of the old prime minister Zeng Bu.

This surname is a bit awesome in Yuncheng, so when Jurchen merchants moved to Yuncheng, they had to change their name when they became naturalized, and then they gave the Zeng family money. The old master of Zeng Shicheng gave the surname Zeng to Zeng.

It is estimated that the money I gave was still a lot, so relying on Zeng Bu's relationship and the talent of raising horses, Zengtou City also reached the line with the imperial court. The private capital affiliated with the Ma Zhengsi, a central enterprise, has expanded rapidly. So Wang Qinfei has always said that the barbarians in Zengtou City have friendship with the county lieutenant. Old Wang Qinfei is bad. This is both the truth and a ridicule of the county lieutenant Zeng Shicheng.

But later the Zeng family lost power and the wings that Zeng made became hard, so they stopped giving Zeng Shicheng the county lieutenant.

These were originally nothing to do with Gao Fangping. However, yesterday, a letter from the capital came, which was written by the empress, who specifically told Gao Fangping that the old prime minister had passed away, saying that he had kindness to the royal family and had to give him the dignity and respect he deserved, so that Gao Fangping could observe a moment of silence in Yuncheng.

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When I received the letter, Gao Fangping was depressed and had a look of Venus. What did it mean to me and I feel very familiar with him?

However, I think about it, the Empress is straightforward, and she does what she thinks and says what she thinks. With some of the words in the letter, Gao Fangping realized that the Empress has taken a fancy to me, Xiao Gao, and not only treats her own person, but also treats her son Zhao Huan's teacher.

Only when the queen-in-law treats Xiao Gao like this, Xiao Gao needs to go to the silence for three minutes for Zeng Bu whom he didn't know and couldn't even remember.

Because the queen mother is even nostalgic than Zhao Ji, she has done something to the couple, so of course she has been kind to her.

The county magistrate Zeng Shicheng never understood why the queen sent a letter to ask the great devil to observe silence for his second grandfather Zeng Bu? However, he didn't need to understand. With his wit, Zeng Shicheng would naturally take advantage of this opportunity to hype and show off. In Yuncheng, he even gave the old prime minister Zeng Bu a party similar to a memorial service to the old prime minister Zeng Bu. The banquet was held and Gao Fangping personally went to preside over it.

Since the great devil is simply supportive, Zeng Lan's nose is wide and pressing his mouth. Who asked him to have his last name, so he had to come to the banquet and gave him a large amount of bride gift.

Fu Qunlun impeached Gao Fangping and Zeng Shicheng in Jeju, saying that they used the "probability of the death of the old prime minister Zeng Bu" to make money and receive brides. This made Shi Wenbin very embarrassed. It would be fine if Fu Qunlun didn't complain, but Shi Wenbin could pretend not to know, but now he knew, so Shi Wenbin couldn't stand it. Since this was the case, he still had to express it. So Shi Wenbin had to reluctantly come to Yuncheng for a banquet and still gave him a gift of fifty cents of money.

In the end, I made a lot of money this time. After the banquet, I got 20,000 yuan in silver. Zeng Shicheng generously distributed 10,000 yuan to Gao Fangping.

This move was commented by Wang Qinfei and Fu Qunlun as: a group of bastards, crazy bureaucrats, corrupt officials...

Xiao Gao's past actions were barely controversial, but this time he joined forces with Zeng Shicheng to make money, and his reputation was quite bad. He could no longer satisfy everyone's venting thoughts. He also had the story of "Journey to the West". Yan Xiaoyi took the lead in calling him Bull Demon King. Later people found that it was more suitable to call him Pig Demon King.

The farce in the county government has not only been like this recently.

County lieutenant Zeng Shicheng has been more fond of dealing with Fu'an recently. In the past, Zeng Shicheng looked down on a hooligan like Fu'an. He was polite on the surface, but he just gave Gao Fangping's direct descendants face.

However, now, Zeng Bu, who has always been regarded as his benefactor by the Queen Mother, passed away. Zeng Shicheng had to lower his mind and keep a low profile. In addition, Fu'an has many disadvantages, but his advantages are that he is not very meaningful and not stingy. In addition, Fu'an, a traitor, said to everyone that he was the illegitimate son of the famous prime minister Fu Bi, and the grandson of the third father-in-law of the nephew of the nephew, and so on. So Fu'an has the bonus of the halo of identity, and Zeng Shicheng has become sworn brothers with Fu'an for the opposite sex.

In fact, Fu'an is not all a fool. He also has a genealogy as evidence. He asked Liang Hongyu to draw a relatively scientific and obvious blood relationship picture for him, and showed it to everyone. It seems that he can really be related to his famous and famous Fu Bi. In this era, blood relationship is really a halo, with a mysterious bonus for social occasions.

In the past, Fu'an's grandson was not so thick-skinned, and occasionally he knew he was shy, so even if he was a descendant of Fu Bi, he did not dare to tell others casually. Now this guy has barely been reborn. Although he has no official position, he believes that following Xiao Gao Gong is a useful person to the country.

Of course, Fu'an's advantages are quite outstanding. How to choose a subordinate? Fu'an has his own set of experience. A few days ago, several police captains (Du Tou) under the county magistrate were captured and killed by Xiao Gao's husband because of charging disinfection fees. Then Zeng Shicheng has been arrested and unable to open recently. Now, Zeng Shicheng has to command any case, including asking people to drink tea. This large number of cases have been misled by Zeng Shicheng's time to drink tea, manage brothels, and inspect private pig farms, so he was eager to recruit two formal civil servants to be the police captains.

Fu'an said, "I have a plan to manage Yuncheng well. It is recommended to use gangsters with high martial arts skills to train them, cooperate with the promised benefits to stimulate a sense of glory, and then you can become a competent capital."

The viewpoint coincides with Zeng Shicheng, and the two of them became confidants.

As a result, Fu'an recommended the two Yuncheng hooligans Zhu Tong and Lei Heng who had been observing for a while and were recommended to enter the county government.

In fact, it is because they are both very skilled in martial arts and are talented with stunning bones. They introduce a job to them and promise to give Fu'an some "agent fees".

Speaking of which, in the early battle to remediate the gangsters in Yuncheng, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng had good martial arts skills, they once defeated Fu'an and Fu'an's subordinates twice. As a result, Fu'an, who was bound to report the flaws, went to Yongle Army to make an appointment. Han Shizhong, Niu Gao and other soldiers took off their military uniforms and rushed to the door to teach Zhu Tong and Lei Heng to be human. So they didn't fight and got to know each other, and finally became familiar.

At present, the Song Dynasty implemented the policy of Wang Anshi, or the old service law was in effect. In the old law, the police arrested strong men and found people from the people to take turns to serve as a banker, and then did not pay wages, which was considered to be a service.

Of course, catching strong men to join the army is a cannon fodder, but being a "police policeman" in the county government is the opposite. However, not only does it delay the people's own business, it also makes the people very unprofessional. I won't mention it. Sometimes human nature has no surprises. Based on the concept that opportunities cannot be missed, we must gain more benefits when we are in the banker. This is why the Song Dynasty's government collapsed and officials are relatively qualified but officials are very dark.

Because they were serving, the real simple people were usually taken to serve, but the bad guys were usually monopolized by the powerful Wang Qinfei and others. They arranged their servants to take turns to serve in the county government office, which formed a situation where the gentry class almost covered the sky from top to bottom. This was the reason why many parents and officials could not leave the county government office in the past.

The county magistrate who came to the central government often has absolute judicial power, but who usually does not arrest him depends on Zeng Shicheng's expression. If Zeng Shicheng, the public security and urban management director, does not nod, it will lead to an embarrassing situation where Chao Gai and Ruan Xiaoqi are swaying around the city, but Shi Wenbin has no choice but to do so.

Strictly speaking, Song Jiang is a hooligan with dual attributes. He has a good relationship with Shi Wenbin, and he is very good at using resources. When he and Shi Wenbin cannot control Chao Gai and Wu Yong and others, Song Jiang will not get into a stubborn position. On the contrary, he chooses to have a good relationship with those people and make friends. When drinking openly and secretly, let them "relax" and give the government some face so that they can maintain it.

So in this way, the early Yuncheng administration environment was formed, and they could not starve to death and led to each other's life.

All this situation was officially declared to end after Gao Fangping, a cruel official, led the Yongle army to Yuncheng.

It is undeniable that the soldiers were bandits and hooligans, but they were relatively honest. These scumbags, including Han Shizhong, actually bullied the people. The only thing that could be forgiven was that they had some lower limits. After they drove away Ruan Xiaoqi and others, the people were also exploited. The reason why many people applauded now is that they did not have more than Ruan Xiaoqi and Wang Qinfei and others. It was such a simple arithmetic problem, one plus and one subtraction could lead to conclusions.

By the way, although the current environment is the old law of servants and the servants are to arrest strong men, the head of the public security department is the formal "official" organization, which is a long-term existence. Usually, once appointed, it will not be moved easily when there is no big mistake. This is why Zeng Shicheng dared not easily find people, and Gao Fangping did not easily approve them. Therefore, the positions of the head of the head have been vacant until now... (To be continued.)
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