Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 42: The officials and others refuse to accept!

Zhu Di scolded for a while, and Cao Peng was stunned.

Although he is the chief envoy of Beiping, he has only been in office for less than half a month.

Regarding the matter of borrowing grain, I also learned about it from the mouths of the prefects and counties. At most, I knew about the matter of borrowing grain, which seemed to have been agreed by King Yan and the chief envoy.

However, he does not know the specific inside story.

Therefore, when he came, he was full of confidence.

Thinking that he was arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily counseled by the fourth-rank chief envoy to block a small magistrate of Wanping County.

It's just that he didn't expect that a little magistrate would dare to contradict and threaten him like that.

And in the end, King Yan was provoked.

Even, King Yan didn't even ask about the specific inside information, just cursed at him, and didn't give him a chance to explain.

Then, this kind of borrowing of food definitely has a deep connection with King Yan.

And he, Cao Peng, not only failed to pinch the soft persimmon, but also directly hit King Yan's knife edge.

Even Nie Fantai has a deep connection with this matter.

The vassal king colluded with the chief envoy?

Stealing food...?
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Cao Peng's mind, and he even had a faint feeling of excitement!

However, after Zhu Di exhausted all the depression in his heart for the past few days, he did not give Cao Peng a chance to react, and gave the order directly.

"Come here, tie up all these thieves for this king, and take them to Beiping Chief Envoy!"

"As ordered!"

All the guards of King Yan responded in unison.

Hearing this, Cao Peng's face changed drastically.

"Your Highness, no! We are officials appointed by the imperial court, you can't humiliate the officials and others like this!"

"Hey, a group of thieves, what face do they have in front of this king, calling themselves officials of the imperial court?"

After Zhu Di cursed angrily, he ignored it and turned to look at Guo An and Wang Zhen.

"You can borrow food with confidence and boldly, I will see which thief dares to stop it!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Guo An and Wang Zhen responded quickly.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

All the people of Wanping County also quickly responded with gratitude.

Zhu Di nodded slightly, and then escorted Cao Peng and a group of prefects and counties to Beiping Chief Envoy.

All the way was mighty, and before Zhu Di entered the Beiping Chief Envoy, all the yamen and forces in the entire Beiping Mansion knew about it.

"Your official, Nie Zi, is actually meeting His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"Your Majesty sees His Royal Highness King Yan!"

Just as Zhu Di walked to the gate of the Beiping Chief Commissioner, Nie Zishi, the Peking Chief Commissioner, had already walked out with all the officials in the Beiping Chief Commissioner.

"Humph!"

Zhu Di snorted coldly, and walked straight in.

Nie Zishi smiled helplessly, and hurriedly led a group of officials inside.As for Cao Peng who was tied up, and all the prefects and counties, no one paid any attention to them.

After entering, Nie Zishi was the first to bow his hands to Zhu Di with an apologetic smile on his face, and apologized: "Your Highness, forgive me, I didn't expect that this Cao Shenshi would be so bold that he dared to take all the prefects and prefects there privately. Prevent the people of Wanping County from borrowing grain!"

Zhu Di stared at Nie Zishi closely, "You really don't know?"

Nie Zishi's face froze, and then he smiled wryly.

"Your Highness, the interests of Wanping County are too great, and the subordinate officials really can't hold back. Some even have their eyes on the position of the subordinate officials..."

At this time, Cao Peng and other prefects and county magistrates were also escorted in. Nie Zishi paused for a moment and sat down.

"Fantai, help!"

"Fantai, the officials and others were also deceived by the thieves!"

"His Royal Highness, Fantai, the officials are not convinced!"

As soon as they entered the main hall, all the prefects and counties who were silent all the way suddenly became noisy.

Hearing this, Zhu Di's face darkened again.

"Why don't you agree with a group of gangsters suffering from pink eye disease?"

On the side, Nie Zishi just looked at the group of prefects and prefects coldly, and ignored them!

"Your Highness, the officials and others brought tens of thousands of people from their respective prefectures and counties to reclaim wasteland all day long, and only a few hundred hectares of land have been reclaimed in the past two months!"

"That's right, Your Highness, I and other counties are like this. I just don't believe that the magistrate of Wanping County can reclaim [-] hectares of wasteland in just over two months!"

"Your Highness, Xiaguan and others are not convinced. Why can the people of Wanping County borrow food when they have no food to eat! But Xiaguan and others can't borrow food when the people under their rule have no food to eat?"

"Huh?"

Zhu Di was full of sarcasm, "Why didn't you say that you are incompetent?"

As soon as these words came out, all the prefects and counties immediately regained their spirits.

"Your Highness, Xiaguan and others have been officials for more than ten years, even if they are of average ability, but based on experience alone, they are not comparable to that Guo Zhixian!"

"Exactly, Your Highness, a while ago, countless people in Wanping County complained and abused the magistrate of Guo County, and the officials and others heard about it!"

"Your Highness..."

"You all shut up!"

Zhu Di said in a cold tone, "I didn't expect that this group of thieves will not do business all day long, and only want to catch other people's sore feet!"

The faces of the prefects and county magistrates remained unchanged, and they continued: "Your Highness, forgive me, the officials and the others heard the gambling between the magistrate Guo and His Highness that day, and thought that the magistrate Guo had some clever tricks to reclaim the barren fields.

Therefore, Xiaguan and others were going to ask the county magistrate Guo for advice, but before Xiaguan and others went to Wanping County, they heard complaints from the people of Wanping County! "

Zhu Di said: "You can see that Wanping County has reclaimed two thousand hectares of wasteland as early as a few days ago!"

"This is impossible!"

All the prefects and county magistrates shook their heads directly, with disbelief on their faces.

"Do you think this king is deceiving you?" Zhu Di's expression became gloomy again.

"Forgive me, Your Highness, the officials and the others have been leading the people under their rule to reclaim wasteland for the past two months, and they are fully aware of the hardships and slowness of reclaiming wasteland.

It would be fine if Wanping County had hundreds of thousands of people, but there are only tens of thousands of people.

Two thousand hectares of land have been reclaimed in two months, Xiaguan and others can't believe it..."

"If Wanping County really reclaims two thousand hectares of barren land, what should we do?" Zhu Di asked.

"This……"

Seeing Zhu Di's expression, all the prefects and counties couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

However, thinking of the difficulty of reclaiming wasteland for the people under their rule, everyone regained their confidence.

"Reporting to Your Highness, if Guozhi County of Wanping County can really reclaim [-] hectares of wasteland, the officials and others will be left to His Highness to deal with!"

"Exactly, no matter how His Highness punishes, we will never say anything!"

"Very good!"

Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction, "That's it, you will follow the king's guards and go to each township in Wanping County to check one by one!"

"Your Highness, the officials and others will check one by one?"

All the prefects and county magistrates were stunned, feeling something was wrong.

"Hmph, if you don't see it with your own eyes, how can you be convinced?" Zhu Di said.

"Your Highness, this..."

Before the magistrates could continue to speak, Zhu Di waved his hand directly, and said to Li Wang who was beside him: "You will escort these bandit officials to various townships in Wanping County to check!"

"Follow the order!"

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(End of this chapter)