Please ask me to be the emperor

"'Old stubborn' Kong Zhenyun has been demoted!" As Kong Zhenyun and Tang Shiji exchanged official positions, the news soon spread throughout the streets. Many people who couldn't stand Kong Zhenyun's stubbornness and stubbornness couldn't help but make up stories one after another.

"Great, great. This guy can't even ban a prostitute. It's really abominable!" Many people couldn't help but cheered after hearing this.

"By the way, what position is he demoted to?"

"Demoted to the position of censor of Zuodu!"

"What? Damn it, this guy is not being demoted, he is clearly being promoted to a noble rank!" Everyone who was originally happy couldn't help but change their expressions, and started to cry out.

"Why is this?"

"This guy is just a 'stone in the pit', smelly and hard. If he is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, how can all the officials in the world be good?"

"Everyone must have heard of my reputation!" While there was a lot of discussion outside, the new Zuodu censor Kong Zhenyun sat in the lobby of the Imperial Court and sneered at the censor below.

"If you do well, you will naturally be promoted to a higher position. If you don't do well, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"How come it's him!" And when Kong Zhenyun appeared in the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the new censors who were gearing up suddenly turned as pale as earth.

"Then how can it be considered a good job and how can it be considered a bad job?" Someone couldn't help but boldly asked.

"It is not good to deliberately seek trouble and create difficulties in every possible way, causing the people to suffer; if you abide by your duties, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong, you are naturally doing well!" Kong Zhenyun said with a sneer.

"Don't think that I don't know what your plans are. You all have sharpened your heads and want to be officials. This is a good thing."

"But if you lose your conscience and harm the people in order to be an official, be careful if I can spare you, His Highness King Shun will not spare you!"

Everyone looked at each other in shock when they heard this, and quickly said: "I understand!"

Then Kong Zhenyun said: "In that case, I will explain to you how to patrol prefectures and counties."

“The shortcomings of states and counties are firstly money and food, and secondly criminality.”

At first, everyone was still cursing secretly, but after hearing a few words, their eyes suddenly widened.

It turns out that although what Kong Zhenyun described is simple, it is the key to inspecting prefectures and counties.

As the basic administrative units of the Ming Dynasty, prefectures and counties had complicated daily affairs, but the areas where they could handle matters were money and food, criminal matters, and personnel affairs.

The so-called "corruption and bending of the law" means that corruption is money and food, and violating the law is naturally criminal, and personnel is the main channel for forming cliques and conveying benefits.

A censor does not need to be proficient in everything. He only needs to grasp these three keys. Basically, local officials will have nothing to hide.

All the censors were mesmerized by what they heard. Some of them were astute and took out pens and papers. They quickly took notes while listening, and even almost shouted to Kong Zhenyun.

It turns out that although Kong Zhenyun was full of enthusiasm, he actually didn't have much experience in affairs because he had been an editor of the Hanlin Academy for many years. This was also an important reason why he was unconventional.

However, it doesn’t matter if Kong Zhenyun doesn’t understand, Zhang Shun understands.

Although it has only been four short years since Zhang Shun raised his army, his experience has been more complicated than most people's lifetimes.

Therefore, he has the most experience in regulating these prefectures and counties.

In order to ensure everything was foolproof, he also specially consulted senior officials and experienced censors before compiling such a simple and practical teaching material.

Sure enough, Kong Zhenyun won a huge reputation with this action, making these censors both respected and feared.

After three to five days, the "training" was completed. Zhang Shun assigned ten soldiers to each of the food patrol censors as guards, and gave them some money and food as travel expenses, and then let them go on the road.

The first person to bear the brunt was none other than the 22 counties in the five states of Shuntian Prefecture.

Originally, these people were able to work in this lucrative place, so naturally they were all people with connections and connections.

As soon as these people heard that the "Iron-faced Censor" was coming, they couldn't sit still. Nearly half of them abandoned their posts and absconded. The remaining half had already prepared money and women, preparing to "corrupt" these new Censors. history.

It's just that they never imagined that this time these censors came out not to ask for money, but to ask for their lives.

Among them, the magistrate of Wanping County was not vigilant enough. He simply waited for the arrival of the grain inspection censor, and quickly borrowed grain from large households to replenish the grain storehouse, while preparing a banquet to wash away the dust.

The censor who patrolled the grain supply was quite interesting. He just waited for the Wanping magistrate to make arrangements without saying a word.

As soon as the banquet started, all the beautiful women came rushing in. He couldn't help but slap the table and said: "His Royal Highness King Shun has repeatedly issued orders to all states and counties to keep things simple and not to waste anything."

"You have a lot of money, and you also attract prostitutes. You must be a corrupt official. Come here, take care of him first, and the others will go with me to count the money and food."

The magistrate of Wanping County had never found a new censor who was so disrespectful of "martial ethics", so he took control of him and caught him off guard.

"Bitch thief, I treated you kindly, but I didn't expect you to be so ambitious and covet my position!" The magistrate of Wanping County just woke up from a dream and couldn't help but cursed.

But where is the time?

Not long after, the grain inspection censor had already taken control of the county government's granary and bank, called the money and grain master, and started counting everything.

The magistrate of Wanping County could not withstand it. Seeing that there was no hope of escape, he couldn't help but plead to the rebel soldiers: "I drank too much tea today. I want to go to the toilet."

The rebel soldiers didn't know what was true, so they had no choice but to agree and just stay near the toilet.

Magistrate Wanping entered the toilet and saw no one around, so he untied his belt, put it on the toilet beam, tied it firmly, and then stuck his head in.

It turned out that this guy couldn't escape, and even wanted to commit suicide out of fear of crime.

It was said that there was nothing in the toilet to put his feet on, so the man tied his belt on the toilet.

After his neck was hung up, he jumped into the pit and his whole body hung on it.

However, something unexpected happened.

As the saying goes: the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. The Wanping magistrate has his hands all over Wanping County, and the government servants and masters under him are not idle either.

They had already spent most of the money to build this toilet, and they only bought some rotten wood to make up for it.

Originally, according to their thinking, a small toilet only serves as a shield. What else can it do?

As a result, it was tragic when the magistrate hanged himself.

Most of the beams in the toilet have rotted away. How could it withstand such strength?

The rebel soldiers were guarding outside. Suddenly they heard a "boom" and the toilet collapsed, followed by a "help" call from inside.

When the soldiers rushed in, they finally opened up the debris and looked inside. They saw that the magistrate Wanping, who looked like a dog, was completely submerged in the latrine. There were many maggots crawling in his hair and clothes. .

"Vomit!" The soldiers first found a place to vomit, and then found a stick to pull him up.

At this time, the magistrate no longer wanted to live and die. He quickly found a well and fetched seven or eight buckets of water in a row before washing himself clean. However, he could no longer keep his official uniform.

After finally begging the soldiers, he went to his house to get another set of clothes and put them on. At this time, the censor who patrolled the food supply just returned.

"Hey, you took off your official robe now, you still know yourself!" The food patrol censor couldn't help but sneered.

"I have already understood that there are two thousand seven hundred and ninety-three two-seven and six cents of silver in the treasury missing, and three hundred sixty-seven stones and ninety-seven kilograms of grain have disappeared. What crime do you deserve!"