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Chapter 227

Hong Chengchou talked with Yang He, and Yang He was silent. There are several Li Chaoshengs and several Lantian counties in this world, and there is no one more. There is only one Li Chaosheng and one Lantian county.

Can Li Chaosheng's success be replicated?No, there is nothing surprising about Li Chaosheng's success. In the early years of Hongwu, when the world was at peace, the people lived so comfortably and comfortably. The officials at that time were really clean and dedicated to serving the public.

But if you let Yang He go to Hong Wunian to become an official, he would not be willing either, because Taizu treated officials too harshly.

Don't do to others what you don't want to do to others, you are like this, how can you criticize others for doing this, unless they can be like Li Chaosheng voluntarily become an official in the reign of Taizu.

He is honest and upright, and does not corrupt the people for a penny, but is this possible?
Yang He knew that he was talking nonsense, Yang He didn't believe that the officials of Ming Dynasty were not corrupt, Yang He knew that this Ming Dynasty was hard to get back, but there was nothing he could do about it, the world was like this, no one person could change it.

Yang He looked at Hong Chengchou thoughtfully and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this, Yanyan has heard some bad news recently?"

Hong Chengchou stared blankly at Yang He and said, "What do you mean?"

Yang Hedao: "Some people say that the robbery of the Fanjialiang team that has been raging all over the past few days was done by our frontier army, and some people say that you, Hong Chengchou, did it. What does Yanyan think?"

Hong Chengchou smiled wryly after hearing this: "To be honest, Mr. Yang, I think I did this. If I did it, at least everyone can have a full meal now. That's 20 dans of grain. If I had known the news in advance, I might be tempted to loot it."

Hearing this, Yang He said with a dark face: "Yan Yan is not a joke, we are officials and soldiers, how can we plunder the people, this is not treason!"

Hong Chengchou laughed loudly when he heard this: "Official army, bandit army, if there is not enough military food, the officer army is a bandit army."

After hearing this, Yang He sighed and said: "Give the court some time, the army rations are being raised."

Hong Chengchou smiled wryly when he heard the words: "raising, this word can fool soldiers for a day or two, but after a long time, no one will believe it, Yang Gong think twice."

Hearing this, Yang He looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "How about we ask Lantian County for it?"

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou said, "Lantian County has already paid this year's taxes in full. Let's go ask for it again. It's unreasonable. Next, we will report to the sentry. , and was almost besieged by the people, which means that there is not much food in Lantian, if you forcefully ask for it, I am afraid that it will stir up a civil uprising, and there will be another family of rebels in Shaanxi!"

Yang He pondered for a moment when he heard the words, and sighed: "Speaking of it, the whole of Shaanxi cannot be supported by him alone in Lantian. For the current plan, I can only think of other ways."

It is very difficult for Yang He to be the governor of the three sides. The difficulty lies in food and weapons.

Hong Chengchou glanced at Yang He, followed by drinking a cup of tea silently. Although the land of Shaanxi could not be supported by Lantian, he wanted to find a way to get food from Lantian. It seemed that he had to go to Lantian County. .

Hong Chengchou made up his mind to go to Lantian County, but Li Chaosheng scattered all the grain. There was no grain in the government granary. Li Chaosheng didn't want to give others a big gift.

On the third day of the game between Hong Chengchou and Yang He, Hong Chengchou came to Lantian County. When he first arrived in Lantian County, Hong Chengchou was shocked because he found that Lantian's territory had expanded to more than half of Chang'an County, and Chang'an County was compressed again.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou frowned and didn't say much. He continued to go to the Lantian County Government Office. When he arrived at the Lantian County Government Office, Hong Chengchou saw Li Chaosheng.

"Master Hong, why don't you let me know if you are coming, so I can find someone to prepare a banquet."

Hong Chengchou was dressed in military uniform at this time, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Haha... the county magistrate you exchanged for these [-] dans of grain is getting more and more stylish."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and cupped his hands and said, "It all depends on the cultivation of the adults."

Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said, "I didn't train you, it's all your own ability, and I also depend a lot on you for my military salary."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord, I have something to report to you."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "What's the matter?"

"It's about our Lantian boundary marker. My lord should have seen it. Our Lantian boundary marker has almost occupied half of Chang'an County and several nearby counties. In name, send people down to warn the people not to tamper with the boundary markers, and return the boundary markers to their original boundaries."

Li Chaosheng cupped his hands and looked at Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou was taken aback when he heard the words, then took a deep look at Li Chaosheng, and then laughed and said, "Lizhi County is surprised. Since the move of the boundary marker is a spontaneous act of the people, this minister can't do it." Contrary to the people's ideas, since the boundary marker in Lantian County has gone to Chang'an County, let it stay in Chang'an County."

"This land can provide me with enough taxes in your hands, but in the hands of these people, even a grain of grain cannot be shipped, so I am very relieved that these places are in your hands."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you can rest assured, but I have offended my colleagues in Shaanxi by doing this. Now there are more than a dozen papers about impeachment of me every day."

Hong Chengchou said: "It doesn't matter, as long as I am here for a day, I will help you suppress these papers for a day."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Forget it, someone told me that when you are an official, you have to follow the crowd. If others are corrupt, I will be corrupt. If others don't do things, I can't do things. This is the only way to be wise and protect yourself. It will not be seen as an outlier and attacked."

"fart!"

Hong Chengchou yelled angrily when he heard this: "If everyone is like this, what should Ming do? These people are the moths of Daming, and I wish I could kill this bureaucrat."

Li Chaosheng said: "My lord, there is no need to be like this. I am already an outlier in Ming Dynasty. Those papers will be put on His Majesty's desk sooner or later. At that time, His Majesty will reward me with dismissal from office if he is happy. If he is unhappy, he may even give me a gift The disaster of prison."

"Are you afraid?"

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and asked, Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment and said: "I'm not afraid, I just feel that if there is such a day, I will be quite wronged."

"Grievance, hahaha... how can a man be afraid of being wronged when he does things, Li Chaosheng, although you, the county magistrate, did not pass the imperial examination, but you are doing better than everyone else. The people in Lantian County live better than the people in any place in Shaanxi. Well, even in Daming, those who live a good life are all thanks to you."

"Just based on this, the people in this place will appreciate your kindness after you leave office. Even if you go to jail, you can say that you have a clear conscience and are worthy of the people here. That's enough!"

Hong Chengchou said, after hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed: "Lord Hong, what you said is true, but when Li is really convicted by His Majesty, please ask Master Hong to stand up and say a word for me, so it is not in vain for you I have a date."

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou said: "That's it."

After saying this, Hong Chengchou forgot the unpleasantness of finding out that it was Lantian County when he first entered Chang'an County. At this time, Li Chaosheng arranged for someone to go to Yuxian Tower to arrange a banquet, so that he could entertain Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou readily accepted, Hong Chengchou has never been a clean and honest official, he likes to enjoy, he doesn't like Qingliu, although Ru Haigangfeng is admirable, but he is just a talker, in terms of ability, his contemporaries Zhang Juzheng was far ahead of him.

Hong Chengchou likes Zhang Juzheng, he has first-class abilities, and of course he is not a clean official.

Zhang Juzheng knows how to enjoy himself, and he is also very good at managing government affairs. Honest officials are not necessarily good officials. Honest officials may just be lazy and unwilling to do things. If you want to do things, you can't avoid contact with the three religions and nine streams, and you can't avoid some extravagance .

Just like Sun Liancheng in the name of the people, is it corrupt?No, they don't. This is definitely an honest official, an honest official who only receives a salary, but do you think he is a good official?

That's definitely not the case. Inaction is actually a kind of incompetence.

Everyone scolds Heshen for corruption, but without Heshen, replacing Heshen with Liu Yong, whether an upright official like Ji Xiaolan can play with such a huge court, the result is definitely impossible.

Since ancient times, those who have been emperors must understand that honest officials are not necessarily capable ministers, and capable ministers are not necessarily honest. This is normal.

At the Yuxianlou banquet, Hong Chengchou was very happy to eat. The simple stir-fry, with fish, meat and vegetables, was much better than what he ate in the military camp. After eating, Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Li Zhixian, I hereby I came here this time to buy all the autumn grains you have stored in Lantian County, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was stunned. Hong Chengchou wanted to buy grain, but he didn't have any extra grain in his hands. Thinking of it, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord, Lantian has harvested some grain this year, but throwing away the rations and The seeds can only add [-] to [-] dan, but Master Zhang Jinru asked to leave a few days ago, and we have no food here."

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou was not surprised, took a sip of wine and said, "Don't be nervous, Lizhi County, I didn't come to Ming to grab it, I bought it with gold and silver."

Hong Chengchou said with a smile, "Hong Chengchou has a lot of gold and silver, mainly from the extermination of bandits. Wherever bandits have harmed, the place must be searched, but when Hong Chengchou exterminated the bandits, he left the gold and silver, and did not say that he would return the gold and silver to the victims." .

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard the words and said: "Although gold and silver are good, but Lantian has just come from the famine years, and the people would rather store up the grain, rather than exchange it for money. They are really hungry. You can’t buy food in Lantian.”

Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "Although there is no Lantian, Sichuan has grain, and Jiangnan also has grain. Especially in Jiangnan, gold and silver are still very sought-after. They are not short of grain. They have plenty of grain. I will take the grain in my hand." I'll give you the gold and silver, how about you send someone to organize a caravan and go to the south of the Yangtze River to buy food for me?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou, and said immediately: "Master Hong, you also know that this transportation must be consumed. If I participate, I will definitely take a layer of skin from the gold and silver and put it in myself." pocket, my lord, think twice."

Hong Chengchou said: "I came to you after thinking twice."

Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord, why don't you send your frontier troops to buy food?"

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Soldiers of the frontier army defending the country can't be used for private use, they will be impeached."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Your Excellency has been an official for many years, and there must be many friends of the same age, or elder masters. They should be scattered in various places to be officials. Why don't you ask your friends in Jiangnan for help, why ask me an outsider. "

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou sneered twice and said: "Li Zhixian, why do you ask why you know it? My classmates and friends who read sage books only know how to put money in their pockets. They have been assimilated by official characters. If the money is in their hands Here, they never gave me more than [-]% of what I should have been given.”

"And the money is in your hands, you can give me at least [-]%."

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou after hearing this and said, "I'll give you [-]%, and the remaining two floors will be consumed on the way of delivery. In addition, I have to pay for the hard work of the escort, so I can guarantee to give it to you." It's [-]%."

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou looked at Li Chaosheng with piercing eyes, and Li Chaosheng looked at Hong Chengchou expressionlessly. After a long time, Hong Chengchou said: "Basically, enough is enough. If you can really give me [-]% of the food, I will be your favor." !"

Li Chaosheng raised his glass and said, "You don't need to be my favor. I didn't do all this to please you. I just didn't want the frontier soldiers to go hungry."

Hong Chengchou laughed and said, "I thank you in advance for them."

Hong Chengchou was a very straightforward person, and he left after eating. The next morning, five hundred soldiers came to Lantian County with three carts of gold, silver and jewelry.

Li Chaosheng sent Mr. Liu to lead people to count the numbers and to appraise some gold and silver jewelry. After all, there is silver and gold in it, and gold includes gold earrings, gold bracelets, pearl necklaces, rubies and so on.

All these things need to be appraised, so Master Liu pawned the shopkeeper of the Huibao shop, the same shopkeeper who bought Li Chaosheng's glass beads, and asked him to help with the valuation. This is an old shopkeeper with vicious eyes.

After arriving, salute to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng greeted him with a smile, followed by the old shopkeeper and began to estimate the value of these things. After a while, the old shopkeeper finally estimated that the three carts of gold, silver and jewelry were worth 15 taels , This is a conservative valuation, and Hong Chengchou's soldiers who escorted the car are very satisfied with this, because Hong Chengchou's base price is 13 taels, which is 2 taels more, which is beyond Hong Chengchou's overdue, and he can also make a deal.

When Li Chaosheng saw that the counting was complete, he said to his soldiers: "Go back and reply to Master Hong, just say that the money has been received, and I will send people to Jiangnan and other places to buy food in a few days, so I won't miss his work."

The personal guard heard the words and said: "I must convey it, thank you for your hard work, sir."

Here Li Chaosheng was busy helping Hong Chengchou to buy grain, while on the other hand, the sentry reported that Jiannu had been detained.

(End of this chapter)