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Chapter 435
While Cui Pu was busy doing his work, Governor Wei acted vigorously, and together with envoy Pei Jinglue followed the clues, and arrested all the gang who stole official money!
After interrogation, this group of people confessed to the incident, and most of the stolen [-] taels of official silver were recovered.

The news was sent to Chang'an, which caused a shock in the government and the public, and the saint was even more furious. He directly photographed the Imperial Forest Army to bring him back to Chang'an, and the third division presided over the trial.

This time, a magistrate, three county magistrates, and a bunch of lower-level officials were implicated, and even the previous governor of Guangzhou was implicated.

This move also had a great impact on Lingnan officialdom.In one night, one magistrate and three county magistrates were vacated, wouldn't it make many people's eyes turn red?And as long as the people below fill these four vacancies, there will naturally be four more places correspondingly, waiting for the next group of people to fill them.Therefore, as long as there are hopeful people in the whole Lingnan, they will walk around, hoping to plan a good position for themselves.

Cui Pu also discussed with Mu Jiaojiao: "Tell me, if I win the position of magistrate of Xiatang County to Wang Shiqi, will the two of you agree?"

Although Xiatang County is in Guangzhou Prefecture, it is remote and not a good place—or it should be said that in such a large area of ​​Guangzhou Prefecture, only Guangzhou City is more prosperous because of the Hu merchants. These are some rotten places where nothing shit happens. Officials from outside the Lingnan area don't even bother to come here to take office.That's why a group of people here are still fighting for those positions.

However, Wang Shiqi has accumulated a lot of experience after being the chief bookkeeper for so many years.But he is shy, so it would be inappropriate to rashly give him a good position.This position is just right, you can let him practice his hands first.Wait for him to loosen up a bit, and then change to a better place.

Mu Jiaojiao nodded. "As long as it's the position you want, can those two stop it?"

"Hey, look at what you said, am I such a messy person? I have great respect for these two superiors!" Cui Pu immediately said seriously.

Mu Jiaojiao curled her lips, not bothering to argue with him anymore.

Now that he had made up his mind, Cui Pu called Wang Shiqi over to ask his opinion.In fact, when he was in Yangzhou before, Cui Pu mentioned that he would be sent to the next county to be the county magistrate.After all, the chief bookkeeper is just an official, and his status is far inferior to that of an official, and his development prospects are even worse than that of an official.If he wanted to gain a firm foothold in the Wang clan and trample down those useless brothers he had descended from, he had to stand up and become an official!
But Wang Shiqi refused, saying that his ability is still weak, and he might not be able to do it.Cui Pu knew that he knew that he would not have a long-term position as the magistrate of Yangzhou, but with Wang Shiqi's ability and relying on him alone, it was a bit difficult to live like a fish in water in the treacherous Yangzhou.Therefore, he also put the matter aside for the time being.

This time it was so easy to meet another great opportunity, Cui Pu didn't want to let it go.Moreover, with Li Linfu's small belly and chicken guts, he will definitely be kept in Lingnan for many years.In this case, he can at least protect the king for [-] years without any problem.

After listening to Wang Shiqi, he thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, I'll go."

"Okay, then go back and let your family pack your luggage! I'll go to Governor Wei and Envoy Pei Jinglue to discuss it. The three of us jointly nominated you. You won't have to worry about losing this position!" Cui Pu immediately patted his chest. Guaranteed.

But when he walked outside for a while, when he came back, he was so angry that his feet almost flew up.

"I'm so pissed off, I'm so pissed off!" After walking around the room a few times but still unable to calm down, he punched the couch in front of him angrily.

The poor couch suffered unjust injustice, and was split into two parts in his life.

Seeing this, Mu Jiaojiao was also taken aback. "What's the matter? But things are not going well?"

"It's not just bad luck!" Cui Pu gritted his teeth, "This governor Wei is really shameless! It's true that he contributed the most to breaking this big case, but that's not the reason for him to be smug! Today I'll go to envoy Pei Jinglue first. I just mentioned the matter of recommending Wang Shiqi, and Pei Jinglue nodded in agreement. But when I went to find Governor Wei, this man pretended to make me wait for a full hour before coming out to meet him. When he said that he would give Wang Shiqi the position of magistrate of Xiatang County, he exclaimed, he already had someone in mind for that position! He even had candidates for several other positions! However, the position of magistrate of Xiatang County He can consider nodding. Hehe, a mere county magistrate, do you still need him to give it?"

When Mu Jiaojiao heard this, she couldn't help drooping her eyelashes. "This person is really floating."

He had just handled a case, but before the reward from Chang'an came, he had already started to be arrogant, and even envoy Pei Jinglue didn't take it seriously?Among the vacated positions, there is only one magistrate and three magistrates, which still have some weight.It stands to reason that Cui Pu, the magistrate, is not eligible to be considered, but it is only natural that he be assigned one of the three county magistrates.There is still one magistrate and two county magistrates left, which is enough for him to place his people.Envoy Pei Jinglue has reached the first rank, and he is a legitimate frontier official, and he will not take such a small official position in his eyes.But this person is so shameless that he wants to take all the main positions into his pocket. He doesn't even look at how big his appetite is, whether he can digest so many things!

"Isn't it? It became a thing. He really thinks that he is the boss here in Lingnan? He always talks to me in a charitable tone, as if he can pull himself down and say a few words to me. It's enough to give me face!" Cui Pu was still very angry.

Mu Jiaojiao quickly poured him a bowl of herbal tea. "Drink a bowl of herbal tea first to calm down. It's not worth fussing with this kind of person."

Cui Pu took it and drank it down.I've been drinking this stuff recently, and I've gradually gotten used to it, and the taste doesn't seem so bitter anymore.Now after drinking the whole bowl, he felt that burning feeling faded a little.

Mu Jiaojiao asked again: "What about the result? Did he let go in the end?"

"In the end, I didn't bother to talk nonsense with him. If I just said something like this, then we still invited Pei Jinglue to come over and discuss the candidates for the nomination together. He just gave up, and reluctantly let go of the position of magistrate of Xiatang County Come out." Cui Pu said coldly.

Although Envoy Pei Jinglue didn't care about these places, if he were to be brought in for discussion, he would definitely make things right.Then, Governor Wei will lose more than one magistrate's position!
He understood this truth in his heart, so he simply backed down a step, so as not to lose more.

"Since we backed down, it's fine." Mu Jiaojiao said in a low voice, "The key now is to arrange a way out for Wang Shiqi. Once he is settled, we will have a big wish fulfilled."

"That's right! If it wasn't for the purpose of finalizing Wang Shiqi's future as soon as possible, I wouldn't have been so swallowing! The old man really thinks that I am a rank lower than him, and he is really several heads shorter than him!" Think about Wei Shishi At that time, Cui Pu was still furious about his foolish behavior, "And you know what? When he finally let go, his face was so ugly. His eyes were like poisoned knives. Rip me to pieces!"

You can imagine.You took the food from his mouth, how can he not hate you?Especially Governor Wei is such a small-minded person.

"So, in the future, we will be ready for a long-term battle of wits and courage with Governor Wei?" Mu Jiaojiao said with a smile.

"This is necessary." Cui Pu nodded.

After a pause, he continued: "By the way, before I left the governor's mansion, I also met Mr. Wulang, the governor of Wei. This man's tone was very yin and yang, but he kept saying that he admired my reputation for a long time. I will come to visit you in the next day."

"It seems that he didn't take advantage of us, so he planned to settle accounts with us after Qiu Qiu." Mu Jiaojiao said.

This man really did the math!Anyway, others should give them favors, and they don’t have to pay them back—or, in other words, they feel that they have paid back Cui Pu’s favor by giving up the position of county magistrate for Cui Pu’s convenience in business a few days ago. ?But one thing is certain, that is, no matter who offends this family, they will keep this incident firmly in their hearts, and they will take revenge when they find an opportunity.Anyway, they don't eat it!

This heartless virtue is even more excessive than theirs!
Cui Pu sneered. "Come if you want, who is afraid of whom? I'm still full of anger these days! If they dare to come to the door by themselves, I can completely tear my face to make them look good!"

In fact, she was quite looking forward to this scene.After all, it is not Cui Pu's style to swallow his anger.These days, she felt very distressed seeing him make such compromises in order to stabilize his foundation in Guangzhou first.

She couldn't help but patted his head, and spoke softly to comfort him.Cui Pu snuggled into her arms even more, demanding more tenderness from her even more aggrieved.

Early the next morning, a gold-painted post was delivered to Mu Jiaojiao.

"Lang Jun, madam, Mrs. Pei Jinglue sent a post to the family."

Mu Jiaojiao unfolded it and took a look: "Oh, it was the strategy that made Madam's insomnia certificate completely healed, so she planned to hold a banquet to thank us. The date is set in three days."

"Three days later?" Cui Pu twitched his eyebrows, and ordered to Xiao Si'er, "You go and ask, the Jinglue envoy's office has also posted a post for the governor's office."

Xiao Si'er quickly agreed and went out.He came back at night and said, "The Jinglue envoy's office did not send a message to the governor's office. However, Governor Wei also seemed to be moved by the news that Jinglue envoy's wife had recovered and wanted to serve wine."

Sure enough, he didn't expect it.Governor Wei is now in his prime, so naturally he has to seize every opportunity to show his presence.And at the banquet three days later, he and Pei Jinglue were both there, so how could he let go of this great opportunity to stomp them both down?

It's a pity that it's not certain who will step on who by then!

Anyway, he has endured to the limit.Although Pei Jinglue seems to be paying little attention to their every move now, only he knows what this person is thinking in his heart.

"You go to inquire again in the next two days to see if he will bring his son there with him. If he brings his son, then let's bring the eldest lady there too!" Cui Pu said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)