Dominate the Country

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No one knew that while the Lushan County government officials were waiting ten miles away from the county seat, the object of their warm welcome, Mr. Chang Rui and Chang Da, had been lazily nestled in the courtyard since early this morning. Heqiao Station was motionless.

Yes, he never set off at all.

Uncle Chang was playing with a snuff bottle in his hand, sitting leisurely on a chair, as if he was staying at his own home for a vacation. And the two masters he hired through his connections before leaving the capital were covered in sweat.

One of these two masters was named Zuo, Zuo Ziqi; the other was named Lu, Lu Hang. Both of them are scholars, and they are no more knowledgeable than Chang Rui, who passed the exam. However, both of them have been in the industry for more than 20 years. They have worked in state and county offices countless times, and they are very familiar with government officials and petty officials. I am very familiar with the methods of holding back, stumbling, and doing nothing, and I am very powerful and knowledgeable.

Chang Rui is a banner man, and although he has a relatively strong background, it is really not a good situation to treat everyone in Lushan County like mutton slices today. Everyone will get angry, and when they are angry and share the same hatred with the enemy, life will not be easy for a newly arrived magistrate like Chang Rui.

But neither Zuo Ziqi nor Lu Hang tried to persuade him. They had already persuaded him before. Chang Rui doesn't listen, what can the two of them do? I can only pray in my heart that my proprietor is really powerful and can suppress the group of monsters in Lushan County!

But how valuable is this hope? The two masters were in a state of confusion. The proprietor himself was already thirty years old, and he just became the first magistrate. It would be wrong to say that he had a big background. But Chang Ruiruo really has no confidence at all, and he is not stupid, so why would he dare to do this? This is embarrassing the whole Lushan County.

Chang Rui, who was sitting on the chair, didn't care about the intense activities in the hearts of the two masters. He should eat and drink at noon, and then sleep after eating and drinking. It’s too hot today, let’s go tomorrow!

But Chang Rui, who actually returned to the room, was sitting on a chair waiting for someone to arrive. It took half an hour before a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old knocked on the door and walked in.

"uncle."

"Hatu, have you found out? What's the grudge between Guan Heze and Li Zhoutong and the Chen family?"

"Uncle, the grievances between Guan Heze and the Chen family are getting serious. Li Zhoutong wants to smooth things over and allow Guan and Chen to merge, so that he can take advantage of it. But neither the Chen family nor the Guan family are fools and have not been fooled. Now Li Zhoutong My uncle must not have given up yet."

"How many tens of thousands of dollars does the Chen family and the Guan family have? How could they attract Li Zhao to do this?"

When the young man heard the word "wealth", his eyes lit up, "Uncle, the Guan family and the Li family are really rich. The Guan family's land is in Zhugemiao Town, Baofeng, with more than 3,000 acres to their name, and more It's a good paddy field. Before the merger of Chen and Guan last year, the entire Zhuge Miao Town was controlled by the Guan family. "

"Guan Heze has a son who is a civil servant, and he made up an edict in Lanyang, Kaifeng Prefecture. Master Mingzheng, the co-president of Kaifeng Prefecture, is related to Master Tao Guan Yuanqi, the governor of Jingdezhen. So Guan Heze wanted to give his son a better education. After paving the way, he decided on the Chen family's bone china formula and asked the thieves from Baofeng Qingtiaoling to kidnap the Chen family's only seedling.

Even though the Chen family is just a wealthy family, all branches of the family work together. I collected tens of thousands of taels of silver and worked hard with the Guan family. I used the money to buy out the Ruzhou Camp. Last winter, several hundred officers and soldiers of the Ruzhou Camp guarded the Qingtiao Ridge Mountains for two or three months. Qingtiao Ridge surrendered directly. soft. The Chen family also took the Guan family's life lawsuit and spent all their money in the prefecture and Baofeng County, making Guan Heze miserable.

What's even better is that the Guan family doesn't know who betrayed Guan Heze and revealed Guan Heze's little thoughts to the Chen family. The Chen family went directly to Kaifeng with several fine pieces of bone china and the formula and techniques, and dedicated them to Mingzheng. The Guan family's bamboo basket was in vain. Although they were strong, they were defeated and lost. This has attracted countless people to covet Zhuge Temple Town. Then Li Zhoutong should be one of the middle ones. "

Chang Rui's nephew spoke in a very organized manner, explaining in detail the causes and consequences of the feud between Guan and Chen, and then the Chen family's Ruzhou matter. Combined with Li Zhoutong's words during his visit, Hatu said: " Uncle, it seems that the person who instigated He Huazhang to harm Gao Yanming and Chen Jigong was Li Zhoutong."

Chang Rui stood up and paced back and forth. After a while, he finally said with a ferocious look, "So what if it's Mr. Li? If you hurt them both, you're looking down on them." The Guan family has three thousand acres of land and more than a dozen shops. , restaurants, and also controls the dock of Zhuge Temple Town, which is an industry worth at least thirty thousand taels of silver. What about the Chen family? Chang Rui didn't know much about bone china and flush toilets. Bone china, which had just appeared less than a year ago, had not yet entered the Beijing market. But he knew that flush toilets had been sent to the palace by flatterers and were already in Beijing. Word spread. The head of the Chen family has more than 1,000 acres of land and 400 acres of high-quality paddy fields, which is much less than the Guan family. However, in terms of business, the Chen family, who was born in a wealthy family, is much better than the Guan family. Even though the previous battles had caused the Chen family to bleed a lot, the head of the Chen family did not buy any land and did not move his shop. This proved that the foundation of the Chen family was still there. Thirty thousand taels were not available, and the worth of 20,000 taels and 10,000 taels was indispensable.

Chang Rui was moved.

He had been a grandson in the capital for ten years. When he was sent to the local area to be a grandfather, he had to hold the power [money] and be a grandfather. Although Chang Rui had not experienced the compromise of the local county government, he knew it. Even on the way after leaving Beijing, the two masters told him a lot. In Chang Rui's mind, it was absolutely impossible for him to compromise with a group of soap households and low-class households. He was a bannerman, a master, and a grandfather.

Kill the chicken to scare the monkey! See which grandson in the county government dares to make a noise.

Huang Shao came to surrender early. He was the chief clerk. Whether it was to reward merit or to balance the county government, Chen Hui, as the household clerk, was one of the people that Chang Rui had targeted. The position of the household clerk was too important and must be taken. Now there is such a thing again. Who is not a choice? Chen Hui is him.

After doing this business well, Chang Rui felt that he could get five or six thousand taels even if his share was less than 10,000 taels.

After all, the Guan family was a family of scholars, so it was not good to do things to the extreme. The Chen family was a lowly family, so even if their methods were harsh, they would not be a problem for the officials and scholars.

Chen Hui, who was sitting in the carriage on his way back to the county, had never thought that he had become the chicken that the new county magistrate wanted to kill to scare the monkey. He was even thinking about how to serve and flatter the new county magistrate, but he had no idea of ​​his fate. The fate of the entire Chen family was decided by two officials, not very important officials, one of the seventh rank and the other of the sixth rank, after a simple visit and a simple "verification"!

This is the reality of my Qing Dynasty, this is the rule of my Qing Dynasty, and this is the most real scene of the ancient official-oriented society.

A county magistrate who ruins a family, a magistrate who exterminates a clan!

Chang Rui is a county magistrate, and Li Zhao is only a state official, but the two together are enough to dominate the life and death of the Chen family and the fate of the Guan family.