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Chapter 249
The next day was December [-]th, Han Qi'an took people to Syria, and Jiang Chun had already returned from Syria.

Jiang Chun took this trip and gained a better understanding of the situation in Xuzhou and Qingfu County next year.

Compared to Fang Yankai's hesitation, he seemed calm and confident.

In terms of credit and hard work, he may be far behind Li Xia or Fang Yankai, but in terms of backing and future, although he is not as good as Li Xia, he is far better than Fang Yankai.

Because Mou Zicai, the uncle of his wife Mou's family, just moved to the post of Minister of Rites this year, just after Pu Zezhi changed to Shu Shuai.

……

"Don't worry, Feiyu. This time when I went to Xuzhou, I didn't mention Zhang Yuanming's death. I only said that I supervised the construction of the five hundred river cruisers. The money and food were donated by wealthy households. Meng. No one will look into this matter."

"Thank you magistrate."

"Hey, I'm the one who wants to thank Feiyu and share the credit with me."

Jiang Chun looked at Li Xia, with a warm smile on his face, and said: "Zhizhou is very angry that you and Zhengshu didn't follow orders, and they have impeached you, but you have also reported your merits truthfully. No matter how bad it is... the merits must outweigh the faults, haha."

"Yes."

Li Xia responded casually, not caring.

Jiang Chun observed his expression and asked, "What's Feiyu's plan?"

"Presumably the county magistrate is going to be promoted. Although I am not talented, I want to be in charge of the government."

"confident?"

"Ding Xianggong has become the left prime minister."

Jiang Chun stroked his beard and smiled, and had a tacit understanding with Li Xia, half jokingly said: "The appointment of the court will not be until March or April next year at the earliest, before that, please don't dislike me staying in Qingfu. .”

"Don't dare, there are still many things to ask the county magistrate to advise."

"By the way, is Feiyu used to living in the West Wing? The location over there is not very good, why don't you move to the East Wing?"

"No, it's fine for now."

"Okay, okay, it's really gratifying that you and I can live under the same roof..."

After seeing Li Xia, Jiang Chun naturally wanted to see Fang Yankai again.But he was drinking tea and didn't ask anyone to invite him for a long time.

Until Zhan Gang opened the door and came in, he asked, "Dong Weng, haven't you seen the owner's register?"

"Things are changing so fast. I thought it would be Fang Zhengshu who helped me get a high-level evaluation. Unexpectedly, Li Feiyu came and made great contributions and gave me a push." ​​Jiang Chun said with emotion.

"Yeah, who would have thought of that."

"Of the three county magistrates in Qingfu, Fang Zhengshu is usually the most powerful, but when it comes to meritorious service, he is the most useless one."

Zhan Gang is not easy to answer this question.

Jiang Chun waved his hand and said, "Please come over with the official letter."

When Fang Yankai came in, Jiang Chun put on a gentle smile again.

"Don't worry, your merits must outweigh your demerits. Zhizhou still appreciates you very much, saying that you must be coerced by Feiyu."

Fang Yankai breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

"But he impeached you anyway."

"This……"

"This is also for your own good, to let you know that on the battlefield, obeying orders is more important than doing meritorious deeds."

Fang Yankai remained silent.

Jiang Chun held the teacup, pondered, and finally said: "Zhengshu, you and I have been together for nearly two years, and there is something I wanted to tell you a long time ago..."

"The county magistrate said it's okay."

"How do you open your mouth... You are better at government affairs than I am, but I know more about officialdom than you."

"Yes."

"The impeachment of Shi Zhizhou is not painful to Feiyu, but to you, it is a matter of future."

Fang Yankai was taken aback.

"If your merits are greater than your faults, you can be promoted; if your merits are greater than your faults, you can only get some rewards in the end... I will put this here now. If you don't believe it, wait until March or April to read."

"I believe."

Jiang Chun sighed: "I've wanted to tell you this for a long time. Shi Zhizhou is a good and honest official, and he does business properly, so he won't be able to support you... Alas, I have said too much. I am just afraid that you will be disappointed, not to say Zhizhou made a mistake."

"Zhizhou did the right thing, I really didn't follow orders."

"If you really want to be promoted, please ask Feiyu to help you. Do you think Pu Shuai is responsible for Zhan Wuliang's cooperation? My vision is low. Let me tell you, the credit is Ding Xiang's. Right now, Feiyu's words are worthy of you." Two years of hard work."

"How could I not understand? But Ding Daquan is a traitor..."

"That's right." Jiang Chun murmured: "Come to think of it, when Ding Daquan was appointed as the chief secretary of Ningde County, he also encountered Zhengshu's current situation, right?"

Fang Yankai didn't understand... Shi Zhizhou did nothing wrong, and he himself did nothing wrong, but how did things become like this?

~~
A Taoist priest named "Yu Dechen" was meditating in the post house.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, feeling a little distressed.

He came to Qingfu to kill Li Xia. He saw people on the first day, but unfortunately there were dozens of soldiers around... Later Yu Dechen heard that those were the soldiers who beheaded Wuliang Hetai.

For the next two days, I never saw Li Xia again.

Didn't even see ginger rice.

Those people seemed to have forgotten him, Yu Dechen, they left him in the post house and never came back.

The plan of getting close to Li Xia and killing him didn't seem to work, so Yu Dechen decided to sneak into the county government at night to kill him.

During the day, you have to go out and step on the spot.

He picked up his sword and left the posthouse.

Qingfu Street is a bit lively, because the county government is recruiting laborers to build bridges and roads. It is said that they are building a stone bridge on the Fujiang River and building official roads leading to Xuzhou, Anning County, and Junlian County.

Since yesterday, some refugees from nearby states and counties have come...

Yu Dechen was crossing the long street, a woman in sackcloth and mourning ran past at the corner and almost bumped into him.

He dodged to dodge, looked around, and saw that the woman was 27 or [-] years old, and her expression seemed a little flustered.

……

Zhang Min ran across the street corner and almost bumped into a Taoist priest. Turning his head, he saw that the people behind him had already chased him up.

"Master, can you help me?"

"How can I help you?"

Zhang Yu hurriedly said: "There is someone chasing me from behind, I..."

"Follow me." The Taoist pulled Zhang Xiao and quickly ran into another alley, pointed with his hand, and said, "Go over there."

Zhang Min quickly ran away, turned his head to look, and saw that Taoist kicked a pursuer flying away.

"Stop bullying women..."

Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly ran to the south of the city.

……

Yan Yunyun just came out of the cosmetic shop, and suddenly squinted her eyes.

Recently, many people in the city are wearing sackcloth and filial piety, but she saw Zhang Yuanming's daughter once, and she recognized it immediately.

She walked up quickly.

I saw Zhang Min turning into an alley and knocking on the door in front of a yard. A man opened the door, saluted respectfully, and welcomed Zhang Min in.

Yan Yunyun leaned against the wall and watched, thinking in her heart that the people living here might be old Zhang family.

Just turning around to report to the county government, she suddenly stopped, with a confident smile on her lips...

~~
Yu Dechen clapped his hands, stopped looking at the evil servants lying on the ground, and continued walking towards the county government.

At the next street corner, I saw a group of people gathered there, who didn't know what they were doing.

Yu Dechen is a Taoist priest, thinking in his heart that he should not be too curious, but he still couldn't help but went over to have a look, but a group of people were buying salt.

"Eighty Wen per catty."

"Really? Official salt is 140 four cents a catty. Are you illegal salt? Let me tell you, in our county, the investigation of illegal salt is very good. If you sell three catties, you can kill your head."

"What nonsense?" said the man selling salt, "This is official salt. If you don't buy it, go away. That's all for today."

"I would like to buy it, but I'm afraid that the official salt will not be sold, and there will be a bureaucracy. I'm an accountant."

Yu Dechen stood beside him calmly and listened, curious about what "Kefu" meant.

Soon someone asked, "What is Kefu?"

"If the official salt cannot be sold every year, the county government will force us households to buy it."

"Then you go away, I'm a tenant, I'll buy it."

"Stupid, if you can't sell a lot, you have to apportion..."

"I've told you all, this is official salt, and there will be no official salt in the county. Buy it or not, or go away if you don't buy it."

Yu Dechen looked at it for a while, felt bored, and turned to leave, but saw a middle-aged scribe rushing over, and almost bumped into him again.

Then, I heard the quarrel between the middle-aged scribe and the salt seller.

"You said you are the official salt, show me the salt!"

"You just watch it? Who are you?"

"Who am I? If you don't take out the salt, don't blame me for taking you down..."

(End of this chapter)