Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 330

Wang Xingfu couldn't help calling his nephew Wang Yu to ask, Wang Yu was also confused.

He also told his uncle how easy it was for him to be a capital in Wendeng County, and he didn't need to lead troops out to patrol at all. The security in Wendeng County was inexplicably good.

He once said that he wanted to lead his troops out to the countryside for a tour, and the soldiers said to make arrangements, and then he went to the countryside in such a safe and sound way. Everywhere he went, some members of the Supervisory Committee would come to treat him to dinner and send him gifts. Cheng Yi, who was almost the same, finally had enough food and drink and respectfully sent him back to Wendeng County.

"It's all done like a landlord who has closed his classes."

The Board of Supervisors again?After hearing the name of the Supervisory Committee again and again, Wang Xingfu finally became interested in the Supervisory Committee.

What kind of organization is this thing?
He called the other leaders under him to inquire, and all of them were very respectful to him, but when he asked about the supervisory committee, they all changed their faces instantly, and they all kept silent, even if it was Wang Xingfu. Losing their temper at a few people, the few people just smiled salivatingly, with an appearance of not wanting to get involved at all.

Wang Xingfu became more and more angry. He suddenly found that he seemed to have some inexplicable problem with the ability to control the Wendeng County Government. All these people were dealing with him in this way. When he got angry, he asked his soldiers to arrest them all and beat them up. After listening to the news, those soldiers got sick one by one, and even ran away when they returned home.

Wang Xingfu could only think of other ways. The affairs of the folk associations should be managed by the county's prefects. He knew that every county's prefects were from the local old land, and he often knew the most well-known figures of these three religions and nine streams.

Even if this kind of official is a little cautious about a genuine official like himself, but at this time he has to ask the secretary.

Wang Xingfu knew that all the power of the abbot came from the county government. If he wanted to be a tyrant, he could not lose face. He was afraid that something would happen to the supervisory committee, so Wang Xingfu directly asked Wang Yu to come and bring the abbot. .

But after waiting for two hours, Wang Yu sent back the news that the abbot heard that Wang Xingfu had asked the head of the county for questioning, so he left the city early and went back to the farm in the countryside.

Wang Xingfu was dumbfounded by this direct response, at this moment the magistrate of Wendeng County slowly walked into the yamen.

Wang Xingfu hurriedly asked the county magistrate, "What is the situation of the supervisory committee?"

The county magistrate looked like a Buddha, and said with a simple smile: "My lord, the county magistrate, still can't see that the county government in our Wendeng County can manage to the edge of the city gate. After the city gate, it is the world of the supervisory committee." .”

Hearing these words, Wang Xingfu broke out in cold sweat, stood up and said, "Could it be that the supervisory committee has rebelled?"

The county magistrate smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not a rebellion, but it's not far from it."

After explaining to Wang Xingfu, Wang Xingfu realized that many villages in this Wendeng County were already under the control of the Supervisory Committee. Whether it was collecting money, food or collecting corvee, the first thing the government servants did when they left the county was not to go to the villages to publicize. Instead, go directly to the local supervisory committee to negotiate.

The Board of Supervisors blatantly negotiated with the Wendeng County Government and demanded that the county government reduce their annual taxes and corvee to the minimum passable limit.

Wang Xingfu was in disbelief when he heard it, "He is just a master of Taoism, how dare he do such a thing? Isn't it going to mess up the court's law! Could it be that we can't catch him by launching troops?"

The county magistrate was taken aback, quickly stopped Wang Xingfu and said: "The magistrate be careful that walls have ears."

Although Wang Xingfu was baffled, he was so frightened that he subconsciously lowered his voice.

The county magistrate said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that the supervisory committee can mobilize a lot more people in Wendeng than we do. Now they don't fight the county seat, that is, the ten-mile card Sun Xin, and they don't want to compete with the imperial court. It's just a conflict, if you really want to fight the county seat, you can probably fight it in one morning."

"That's why the previous county lord ran so fast."

This county magistrate is already an old man in his sixties or seventies, and he had long thought of changing his life elsewhere, so he simply messed with things in Wendeng County and the Supervisory Committee.

Wang Xingfu had just arrived in the county before, and he was not clear about the situation in the county, so he couldn't rashly come forward. At this time, Wang Xingfu had already seen that something was wrong, so he just explained it to Wang Xingfu, and invited Wang Xingfu to fool around with him. .

But after Wang Xingfu heard what the county magistrate said, he was afraid. If the superintendent had such a big influence, wouldn't he be finished if he really made any trouble in the future?

He is different from the county magistrate, he is only in his early fifties, and he still wants to make a good living in the officialdom.

When Wang Xingfu heard the words, he directly slapped the case and said angrily: "This Wendeng is where they are so troubled? I will definitely send a letter to Dengzhou Prefecture to send troops to destroy them!"

When the county magistrate heard the words, his face turned pale with fright, and he looked mentally ill. The county magistrate saw Wang Xingfu tried hard to persuade him, but he ran away quickly.

Wang Xingfu was so angry that he thought about how to rectify Wendeng's situation, and urged Wang Yu to look for it, and led his troops out of the city to look for the Yasi.

Half a day later, I got the news that the Yasi didn't come out after returning to his farm.

Wang Xingfu asked him what he was doing in the village, and Wang Yu replied that the jute harvest season was coming, and he was entertaining merchants from Dengzhou in the village.

"Tengzhou merchants?"

"It's the factory buyer in the Supervisory Committee."

Wang Xingfu was so angry that his seven orifices were full of smoke. Even so, he was still a little rational and didn't dare to go too far. After thinking about it, he deliberately asked the officials to conscript more corvees.

Originally, the amount of corvee service in Dengzhou Prefecture this year was determined by the Supervisory Committee and the officials in the county government through consultation, and it has reached the lowest value.

But according to the law, it is true that dozens more people can be conscripted.

But after Wang Xingfu gave this order, the yamen servants and petty officials under him instantly showed bitterness.

Wang Xingfu sneered even more, these people were indeed bought by the supervisory committee, but since Sun Xin didn't dare to attack the county seat, it meant that he was still afraid, even if he went too far, he didn't believe the other party would dare to do anything.

Seeing that Wang Xingfu was not suitable for his subordinates, he asked his nephew Wang Yu to find some capable people.

The new soldiers hadn't been recruited yet, but the next day after Wang Xingfu's order was issued, a director of the Wendeng County Supervisory Committee came to post a post to Wang Xingfu, saying that he wanted to be accommodating.

Wang Xingfu thought to himself that these people were really scared, and directly threw the post out.

He felt that even if he had no choice but to remove the power of the Supervisory Committee from Wendeng, he would have to show a confrontational posture, otherwise how would he have bargaining chips in the future?
Thinking so, Wang Xingfu waited until Wang Yu had recruited more than a dozen people, and then asked Wang Yu to go to the door to pursue them according to the roster, and rushed to the field to forcefully arrest ten more people and take them to Dengzhou Prefecture.

Sun Xin only found out about this a day later. When Wang Yu went out of the city to arrest people, the peasants and soldiers in the supervisory committee were almost ready to attack, but they were still suppressed by the local supervisors. There is no need to make it so stiff.

Sun Xin also agrees with the Wendeng Supervisory Committee's opinion in his heart. He has too many means.

In the end, the solution to the matter was very simple. Wang Xingfu arrested ten more corvees and took them to Dengzhou Prefecture, but these people ran away before leaving Wendeng County.

Wang Xingfu's plan to deal with the Supervisory Committee is simply ridiculous. Originally, these corvee workers were organized by the Supervisory Committee to go to Dengzhou Prefecture to work. In order to ensure their safety, the team specially sent cadres from the Supervisory Committee to go with them. Let the cadres On the way, everyone said that everyone should retreat, and everyone went home with hoes and poles without saying a word. How dare the few escorting soldiers stop?
It is said that Wang Xingfu was dumbfounded when he heard the news.

It's only half a day's journey from Wendeng to Dengzhou. The road is full of bustling commercial roads, and I haven't heard of any banditry activities. Where can the corvees in Wendeng County go?
But people just told others to run away so plainly that Wang Xingfu couldn't even track him down, because even the soldiers who escorted the corvee ran away.

When the news came to Sun Xin, Sun Xin looked indifferent.

Before, he wanted to get Zongze to agree to cover Wendeng County's taxes and corvee by way of tax package. Although Zongze was unwilling to give it, he had to do this step.

I am still only paying taxes now, which is already giving the Terengganu government a lot of face.

Sun Xin’s current approach to Wendeng County and the future Mouping is that they will pay the minimum tax and corvee, and the supervisory committee will have money. It’s not yet time to raise the flag for rebellion, so there’s no need to get into a fight with these officials. But all of this is for the sake of maximization. This compromise cannot exceed a certain limit, and Sun Xin will directly change the rules of the game in a violent way if the part exceeds the limit.

Afterwards, he asked Lehe to send someone to watch Wang Xingfu carefully to see what was going on behind him.

In the past half a month, Lehe has reacted to the news that Wang Xingfu seems to have been honest by him, and now he is depressed in Wendeng County, and is gradually accepting the fact that his government order does not leave the city gate.

In the past two days, the entire yamen team that was supposed to be convened once every tour did not hold a meeting. Wang Xingfu also understood that it was meaningless to hold a small meeting every half a month for a yamen that could only manage one county like every family.

In fact, Sun Xin's tribute to these court officials is also very generous, enough for them to live honestly within the scope of the county government, and these people can't turn the sky.

Take Wendeng County, where Sun Xin has the strictest control, as an example. Two capitals in Wendeng County have joined the supervisory committee, and even the supervisor in Wendeng County has directly become the supervisor of a certain village in Wendeng County. He is more serious than Yasi. He is currently striving for the title of hemp planting model village in the supervisory committee, and even applied to send his two sons to Sunjiazhuang to study.

All infrastructure and commercial activities in Wendeng County are already under the control of the Supervisory Committee, and even the Supervisory Committee controls the economic lifeline of the entire Wendeng County by controlling the main assets, which is already a disguised form of tax collection.

(End of this chapter)