My book friend Long Aotian

Chapter 30 The legend of Linzhi City, the famous Wu Wei!

The layout of Lin County's county government is the same as that of other places.

There is a plaque hanging high above the main gate, with two big drums standing on both sides. The one on the right is called "Tanggu", which is the broadcasting system used by the yamen.

It is struck in the morning and evening to notify county government employees to clock in and out for get off work.

Hitting it during a public trial is a way of telling the idle and unruly people to come and watch the fun.

This is called the rising drum.

Hitting it when the trial is over is the instrument that you have all become very good at playing since childhood when facing the opposite sex you like - the drumbeat.

Sometimes, when common people want to report a complaint to the authorities, the county magistrate may be in the back hall discussing work with other leaders, or reporting work to his wife. At this time, the people can beat the drum on their own.

But the meaning here is not "My Lord, I am innocent", but "You corrupt officials, please come and take up this job."

As for whether there is a drum like the one shown in TV dramas that is used to appeal for justice... there is one in this world!
Just on the other side of the drum!
It is said that "when the drum is beaten once, the whole county is shaken", "when the drum is beaten twice, the prefectures and counties hear it", and "when the drum is beaten three times, it is heard by heaven". This is the way to make it known.

Whenever the drum sounds, the county will record it and report it, and the prefecture will also send special officials to verify it. In addition, all trials and handling situations must be summarized and reported to the central government for personal review and inspection by the court. During this process, anyone who obstructs, procrastinates, cheats, falsifies, or intimidates will be punished severely.

The legal mechanism established around the Dengwen Drum is extremely complete and has been implemented effectively, objectively ensuring the promotion of social justice and the supervision of lower-level judicial organs by higher authorities...

But there is a small detail involved.

——The drumstick of Dengwen Drum weighs four hundred and eighty kilograms.

This gave rise to a famous joke of this dynasty... If the imperial court ordered all prefectures, counties and districts to reduce the weight of the drumsticks used for reporting official affairs, it would be regarded as a benevolent policy by the martial arts scholars.

Li, who was born in Baihua Valley, is the actual inventor of this joke.

But just as the inventor of Subject 3 could not have imagined that this thing would become popular abroad, he could not have imagined that this cold joke would spread and even be exported abroad and used by the Bac Ninh barbarians to mock the Southern Dynasty system.

But he wasn't worried about it at all.

——Because the knife he handed over was too spicy!
At this moment, Li from Baihua Valley walked over from the square in front of the Yamen. His eyes swept across the Dengwen drum and fell on the pavilion beside the west wall of the courtyard. On the pavilion hung a plaque with the words "Jingshan Shenming". In the pavilion, there was a stele made of iron and stone, divided into two parts, painted in red and black, with some words pasted on each side.

The latest text in the red part is "Master Li Bailong of Baihua Valley kindly gave me forty taels of silver, and in May, four volumes and three acts were added to the official drama."

The next line reads "On April 25th, twelve top disciples of Longshenghe Martial Arts School rescued oxen from a ditch in Beisang Township, saving the livelihood of an entire family. This was the greatest kindness they could have done."

Next is "Tiexianmen responded to the call of the county magistrate and assisted the farmers in Nansang Township in picking mulberry leaves and collecting cocoons."

This is Jeongseon.

There is a longer one behind it, which is the hot search in March.

It is about "the mother of Zhu Wulang from Zhujiazhuang encountered a snake in the wild. Zhu Wulang carried his mother and ran for more than 20 miles to the county. His hands and feet were sore and he crawled on his own, begging passers-by for help. The Lingyu people took pity on his filial piety and detoxified him to save him. The county magistrate was touched by his filial piety, so he gave him silver and medicine and sent a carriage to send him back. The county magistrate said, the holy emperor governs the world with filial piety, and the people serve their teachers and parents with filial piety."

This is not just Jingshan, it is the political achievement that the county magistrate should include in the government work report.

The black part also has text on it, corresponding to the "statement", which is basically a blue-background Weibo, and is a notification of illegal and criminal behavior.

The content is basically something like "Diaomao was severely punished by the iron fist for committing crimes, and you guys should be honest and obedient, otherwise you will die too" and so on.

There is also a pavilion next to the east wall, with the words "Respect the Saint and Perform Martial Arts" written on it.

The content of this pavilion is a section exclusively for warriors, with news such as major events in the martial arts world, adjustments to preferential policies for warriors, conscription notices from the military guards of various prefectures, recruitment for outsourced tasks from the county government, and announcements on promotions for warriors in the county.

Three young men in tight shorts stood in front of the pavilion, arm in arm, stretching their necks, trying hard to decipher the words on the notice, imagining and yearning for the world they had never set foot in.

Li Bailong retracted his gaze and walked into the gate of the county government office.

Lin County Yamen has five courtyards, covering a vast and square area. The first courtyard is the gate. There are four courtyard buildings on both sides of the road, namely the guest house, the canteen, the prison and the duty room of the three shifts of yamen. Going straight along the road, you will reach the ceremonial gate, which is usually not open. People usually go through the corner gate next to it. The second courtyard after the ceremonial gate is the office area of ​​the county government. There are six rooms for officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals and workers on both sides of the road. At the end is the main hall of the yamen for case judgment.

These are the scenes in TV dramas where things like "I was born with supernatural powers" or "Sir, you said you don't know martial arts" happen.

After arriving at the second courtyard, more people came. There were people queuing up in front of the household office, the etiquette office and the workshop to do business. There were common people as well as wealthy people. From time to time, the police came out to call out the numbers, and the scene was actually very lively.

As soon as I entered the door, I met a warrior wearing a half-worn silk shirt and with white hair and beard walking with his head held high. A young man followed behind him, carrying two locked large boxes and jogging steadily.

When Li Bailong saw him, he bowed and said, "Uncle Wu, I am honored to be here."

When the old man saw Li Bailong, a warm smile appeared on his face, and he rushed forward two steps to return the greeting: "Greetings, Wu Kui."

This old man is 72 years old. He is a legend in Linzhi City, the famous Wu Wei.

——By the way, the cyber degree of this name is not 2077 times higher than that of Sun ０克.

His life can be described as a typical example of the "Great Qi Dream".

His parents were from a farming family. He was discovered by a local martial arts master and accepted as a disciple when he was young. At the age of 21, he passed the provincial examination and became a scholar. His master collected a large transfer fee and traded him to a top-notch sect in the prefecture.

At the age of 24, he passed the examination and became a military candidate.

The following year he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, but failed.

In the following six years, he was cultivated and given all the resources by the sect - that is, he was sent to the border army to participate in military training, to fight the enemy as a sharp warrior, and to accumulate combat experience between life and death.

He also spent a large sum of money to invite a famous teacher from the top three sects to give him one-on-one tutoring.

It also allowed him to travel around the world, learn about the world, and make friends with people of the same kind.

Seeing that his foundation since childhood was a little lacking, he bought two packages of Yijing marrow-strengthening packages from the teaching and training sect to optimize his martial arts bones and complete his foundation.

Afterwards, Wu Wei went to Beijing to take the exam twice, but failed both times.

When he was in his early thirties, he was optimized by his sect and cleared out of the martial arts examination sequence.

Later, he was transferred to a middle-level management position in the sect and participated in the sect's industrial affairs - his main task was to carry guns and knives and engage in business wars with "friendly sects and friends".

I took this opportunity to interact with all kinds of people and see what's going on in the world.

At the age of 35, he performed great merit and brought heavy losses to the Youzong sect, so he was rewarded handsomely by the leader.

The leader's idea was that the sect would pay for the arrangement and let Wu Weiwu, as a successful candidate, seek a position as an inspector of the state. Even though it was a menial position, the official status would be enough to support him for the rest of his life.

He thought about it all night, refused, begged to leave the sect, took a severance pay, took his family back to Lin County, bought a piece of land, built a small martial arts hall, and established a micro-sect.

No one knows what he is thinking.

All we know is that he started from humble beginnings, from snatching outsourced tasks from the government office, to training martial arts children to receive subsidies from the court for his sect, and even to acquiring properties and shops, participating in local affairs, and gradually building up an unknown sect.

At the age of fifty-three, he used the savings he had accumulated over the years to buy the copyright to a set of mental and physical skills from an old sect. Together with his self-created boxing and stick techniques, he fulfilled the most critical and hard condition of "independent martial arts inheritance property rights", which enabled his sect to be successfully promoted from Class 3C to Class 1B.

The rating of martial arts schools goes from C to B, just like a warrior refining his essence into qi and developing internal strength. It is a sign of a fish leaping over the dragon gate and entering the hall, and it means that fame, fortune and status will come in abundance.

It took him less than twenty years.

In an ordinary county town, a Class B sect is already a pillar of the local area, deeply involved in local affairs, and is a towering tree in the local martial arts world. Wu Wei has worked his way up from a farmer's son to a famous figure in the county's martial arts world. Naturally, he is a well-deserved legend of Linzhi City... and a living one at that.

Unfortunately, fate played a trick on him. Just a few years after Wu Wei became famous in Lin County, a young heroine named Yang Ying ran to the north of Lin County and started drawing circles.

(End of this chapter)