Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 265 Lessons from the past
Upon hearing this, Li Jingwen turned to look at Zhou Hengchen and Zhang Li. Seeing the ashamed expressions on their faces, Li Jing sighed, turned to old man Zhang and said, "Uncle, it's all Li Jing's fault for not doing a good job. Here, Li Jing apologizes to Uncle." Don't worry. I'll ask someone to solve these problems later on. All the conditions I promised you will be fulfilled, and all the debts owed to you will be made up."

Old man Zhang was overjoyed when he heard that, turned over and knelt down in front of Li Jing, kowtowing and saying: "The old man kowtowed to the commander-in-chief on behalf of his father and fellow villagers."

Li Jing hastily pulled old man Zhang up, patted old man Zhang's hand lightly, and then said to the soldiers behind him: "You immediately inform Yu Leting to bring people into the salt factory and ask him to thoroughly investigate the officials of the salt factory. Shen Zheng and Yuan Shu, let them put down what they are doing and come to the salt factory as soon as possible, and fully accept the operation and management of the salt factory."

"Yes!" The soldier clasped his fists and walked away quickly.

Just as the soldiers left, a group of officials came one after another with the people nearby.

Seeing the common people approaching, Li Jing hurriedly stood up and greeted them. After approaching, he found that most of these common people were dressed in rags, and almost all of them had green faces.

Li Jing's heart tightened, he stepped forward quickly, bowed and bowed and said: "Fathers and folks, Li Jing is sorry for everyone."

Listening to Li Jing's self-report, all the people said one after another:
"Grandpa, you are here!"

"Finally met benefactor!"

……

Speaking of which, all the people knelt down in front of Li Jing and kowtowed.

"Get up, get up!" Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward to help everyone up.

The officials next to him hurriedly helped Li Jing lift up all the people one by one.

When everyone got up, Li Jing continued: "Fathers and fellow villagers, you have suffered a lot during this time. Today Li Jing came here to visit you and solve problems for you. Tell me what difficulties you have today, and I will help you. Immediately arrange someone to solve the problem for you.”

All the people were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately began talking in a hurry.

At this time, Wang Chengen also got up and came to Li Jing's side. Seeing all the people chattering in a row, he couldn't help frowning, and then shouted loudly: "Quiet, what a mess, come one by one."

Li Jingwen smiled when he heard this, Wang Chengen had experienced such a scene in court for a long time, and he thought he hated such a situation.

However, Wang Chengen did not dare to reprimand the ministers in the court, so if he seized the opportunity at this time, would he let it go?

It should be said that the common people still prefer this way, after being reprimanded by Wang Chengen, they immediately fell silent.

Li Jing smiled, waved his hands and said, "Folks, I think the problems encountered by each of your families are roughly the same, so how about it, you choose one person to come out and tell me."

At this time, the old man Zhang also came over and said to the people: "Masters, I have told the commander-in-chief of everyone's difficulties just now, and the commander-in-chief has already promised to help us solve it. It is not easy for the commander-in-chief to come once, so don't always take us That bit of shit is bothering you, Commander, hurry up and take out whatever food and drink you have, benefactor is here, we can't let benefactor just stand here like this!"

"Brother Zhang is right. When you see your benefactor today, don't bother him with such nonsense. I have a jug of good wine at home. I'll fetch it and treat him to a drink." An old man hurriedly said.

With this person taking the lead, everyone responded one after another, and all the people hurried back home to get their own good things.

Seeing this scene, Li Jing shook his head helplessly, pointed at old man Zhang and smiled wryly: "Uncle, I want to hear about everyone's difficulties, how did you drive them away!"

The old man Zhang said with a simple smile: "When the benefactor is here, there are no difficulties. Besides, the benefactor is busy with affairs. How can I have time to listen to their noise? If you don't take this opportunity to be filial and filial to the benefactor, when the benefactor is gone, they should take care of you." I regret it."

Li Jing sighed softly, patted the old man Zhang's hand, turned to look at the officials and said, "Have you heard, Li just did some insignificant things, and the common people remember Li's actions." Benefits, shouting benefactors one by one. But Li felt ashamed! Because Li did not do what he promised them!
what about you?The folks came here from all the way, what have you done?
Look at the clothes of the folks, and what are you wearing?Look at the complexions of the folks, take a mirror and take a look to see what your complexions are!
Where do you get what you eat and what you wear?It was bought with a drop of sweat and a drop of blood by the common people!It can be said that the common people are our parents.

But you eat well and dress well, but you treat the common people like this. You pat your chest and ask yourself, are you worthy of these common people?
There was a riot here two years ago, you will not forget, right?

I won't talk about why there are rogues, everyone understands the reason.I just want to tell you that if we don't resettle the common people well, what happened last year will happen again.

Lesson learned!Why don't you learn your lesson?
If you can learn the lesson, you will be in awe of the people, and only if you are in awe, will you do things for the people with your heart.

We common people are the most honest. They know that the kindness of a drop of water will be repaid by the spring. If you do things for the common people, the common people will never forget you.

You will not be officials here forever, and you will not be officials forever. When you leave office one day, do you want the common people to see you off, or do you want the common people to join hands and celebrate behind you?

I have always said that money is something outside of the body. If you don't bring it with you when you are born, you don't take it with you when you die. Don't take money too seriously, but some people forget their duty because of money.

Let me put my words here today. Under Li’s rule, anyone who doesn’t take the people seriously will be making things difficult for me, Li Jing. Whoever dares to bully and exploit the people, I will look good on them!
I know that some people have such thoughts. If we commit crimes together, I, Li Jing, will have nothing to do with you, because the law does not blame the public!
But I advise you to give up this idea. You can go to Henan to find out how many corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen Li killed at one time when Henan was hit by a disaster last year!

I know that many officials in Henan are calling Li a butcher behind his back, but Li doesn't care.Not to mention hundreds of people, even if there are tens of thousands, Li can still kill them.

If you want to see the sharpness of the knife in Li's hand, you might as well try it! "

Li Jingyue said that the more serious his expression was, the more serious he was in the end.

Seeing Li Jing's gaze sweeping towards the officials present like a knife's edge, Wang Chengen's heart was awed, and he thought to himself: "This Li Jing usually speaks in a pleasant manner, without showing any anger. I don't want to be so murderous once he gets angry."

Turning his head to look at the officials present, he saw that they were so angry that they didn't dare to make a sound.

Wang Chengen sighed in his heart, if the ministers were so afraid when the emperor got angry, how could he dare to do things carelessly?
In fact, why the ministers were not afraid of the emperor, Wang Chengen knew very well, because the emperor was often angry, and he would say anything when he was angry, but most of the things were left behind after the incident. As time passed, the ministers no longer cared about seeing the emperor getting angry.Although the ministers looked trembling on the surface, they were actually just pretending.

But the appearance of these officials in front of them is by no means fake, which shows that Li Jing has kept his word.

Thinking about how Li Jing killed hundreds of people at a time in Henan last year, Wang Chengen smiled bitterly in his heart. Li Jing killed so fiercely, how could the officials below not be afraid?
Li Jing scanned the officials several times, and finally looked at Liu Shuyan and said, "Liu Shuyan, you were recommended by Mr. Zhang Li. I wonder if what you have done is worthy of Mr. Zhang's recommendation?"

Without waiting for Liu Shuyan to answer, Li Jing looked at Zhang Li again and said, "Master Zhang, you came to visit Li to get to know the people in the state. When we met, you and I hit it off right away and became close friends. Wan don't get involved with anything here! Otherwise, even if Li respects favors, the rules set are not respectful!"

Zhang Liwen clasped his fists at Li Jingyi and said, "Commander, I will guarantee my superior's head. Since I joined the commander, I have never done anything wrong. If there is anything false, the commander can just chop it off." The official's head! But you can't pursue the past!"

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "It's good that you are sure of this. Li has long said that let the past go. You and your colleagues don't need to worry about this. I can tell you! What you and your colleagues have done in the past two years Very satisfied, very satisfied! Just keep your heart in your stomach!"

"Thank you, Marshal! However, I can assure you that I am not at fault. But if the recommended person makes a mistake, the subordinate is also responsible. Zhang Li asks the Marshal to punish him." Zhang Li clasped his fists and answered.

Li Jing waved his hand and said: "You can't escape the responsibility, but how to punish you will be discussed after the investigation. Now you still do your duty."

"Yes!" Zhang Li replied.

Seeing that Zhang Li dismissed himself with a few words, everyone was amazed.

Li Jing's answer in this way clearly revealed the underlying meaning, that is, as long as Zhang Li himself has no problems, even if the person recommended by Zhang Li makes a big mistake, Zhang Li will not be too implicated.At most, he would take the responsibility of knowing someone unknown and give him a warning.

Li Jing didn't want to punish Zhang Li, because Zhang Li's work was really good during this period, and Xiezhou had really developed well under his governance. Li Jing didn't have many such talents.

At the same time, it also shows that Li Jing is quite sure that Zhang Li is not involved.

Because there are not many officials of Zhang Li's level in Pingyang Mansion, and there are less than ten people at full count. These people are naturally the focus of Yu Leting's Metropolitan Procuratorate. If there is any problem with him, Yu Leting may have arrested him long ago Woke up.

Up to now, Li Jing has never heard Yu Leting mention that Zhang Li made any mistakes, which means that either Zhang Li's actions were too concealed, or Zhang Li's actions were really in place, and there was no one to be caught.

Obviously, Li Jing believed in the latter.

It's not that he feels relieved about Zhang Li, but that he feels relieved about Yu Leting.

Yu Leting may have been born to be a material for investigation, and he would not let go of any trivial matter.

One of Zhou Hengchen's relatives asked Zhou Hengchen to do a small matter. After Yu Leting found out about it, he investigated it a lot. Although the matter was small, Yu Leting still told Li Jing about it.

Li Jing admired Yu Leting's dedication to work, but Li Jing would not believe Zhang Li's mistakes that escaped Yu Leting's eyes.

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