Hope for luck

Chapter 57
Dayu Chaotianfeng 15th year, early October.

It's time to pay the autumn grain tax every year again, and the grain supervisors from all provinces came to the prefectures and counties one after another.

One is to check the collection situation of each county, and the other is to urge the delivery time. Although the official position of the food supervisor is not obvious, but the position is low.

Otherwise, if you offend the food supervisors assigned by you, just find any reason, it will be enough for the magistrates and magistrates to drink a pot.

Dantang County was no exception. On the fifth day of October, when they heard that a food supervisor came to inspect, Gao Pan brought a group of officials to the east gate of the county early and waited.

There is a saying that the king of Hades is easy to see, and little ghosts are difficult to deal with. Gao Pan knows the truth well, and he is not so arrogant that he breaks the rules. When you should deal with it carefully, you should deal with it carefully!

He had finally broken through the situation, and if he made a mistake in this last step, then all the things he had done before would be in vain!
While waiting, Gao Pan remembered his official panel, the value of prestige had risen to [-], and the value of official voice had skyrocketed to [-].

This made Gao Pan very excited. He had gone from all zero values ​​at the beginning to now his official voice surpassed that of Zhou Zhengxin, the county magistrate.

This is enough to show that everything is developing towards the good side.

However, what puzzled Gao Pan was that the Luck value has not changed until now, it has always been one, and it seems to be a useless attribute at all.

Seeing this, Gao Pan had no choice but to smile wryly in his heart, no longer caring about luck or not, maybe it has something to do with his luck, when luck gets better, the value of luck will change!

In order not to disturb the people entering the city, Gao Pan chose to wait on the sidelines, watching the sparse people entering and leaving the city gate, Gao Pan felt a little moved after watching.

Previously, whether it was the problem of bandits, or the Du family's gentry annexing other people's land, or, many people lived on borrowing.

All kinds of signs show that the people of the Dayu Dynasty are not doing well, and it is very likely that an outbreak will erupt at a certain moment, such as a natural disaster, and then the people will naturally have to go to extremes.

From the poor people entering and exiting the city gate at this moment, one can see the clues, and the wealthy and non-members are either being carried or sitting in a carriage, accompanied by many slaves and servants.

Gao Pan could imagine that most of the servants in these gentry's families were poor people before.

Gradually, he had to live under the squires, which made Gao Pan's heart tighten suddenly.

He doesn't know what he can do, but at least it's good enough to guarantee his rule, change the situation, and prevent riots?

When Gao Pan was meditating, suddenly a small official rushed to Gao Pan's side to report.

"My lord, there is news from the Zhonglishan Inspection Department, saying... yes, there is a wave of bandits coming down the mountain, and it seems that they are heading towards our county!"

Hearing this, Gao Pan woke up instantly, stared at the little official and asked:
"Do you know how many people there are? When did they come down?"

"This little one doesn't know either. The little one is only in charge of passing on the message and doesn't know anything else. The people from the inspection department only said these things and nothing else!" The little official quickly replied respectfully.

After Gao Pan listened, his brows were furrowed. The news was so rough?

"My lord, it seems that the defense of the county must be strengthened, otherwise, our county may suffer!"

Deng Wenshan on the side also heard the news, and quickly said faithfully.

Gao Pan looked into the distance, thinking in his heart that the autumn harvest was over now, and it was a good time for these bandits to go down the mountain to plunder.

"Let the people from the inspection department continue to keep an eye on the people on the mountain... come here, notify the village chiefs and security chiefs, and let them pay attention to guarding against bandits. Once they find bandits, they will immediately report to the county government. , The entrance of the city defense, step up your defenses, everyone who enters the city must be checked carefully, don't let the bandits enter the city again!"

Gao Pan first asked the little official to pass the message to the inspection department, and then ordered people to go to the villages to pass the message, and also to control the entrance of the city.

The city of Dantang County is not big, and the city walls are not high, only more than ten feet high, and there are only two city gates, east and west. The street in the middle is East and West Street, connecting the two gates.

The city wall has not been repaired for a long time, and it looks a little old and weak. In Gao Pan's view, if there are siege equipment, the city wall can be easily destroyed.

Gao Pan thought, if he had free time, he would have to repair the city wall.

As Gao Pan's order was issued, there was a yamen servant leading the order to pass on the message, and not far away at this moment, there happened to be a group of people coming towards Gao Pan and them.

"My lord, the food supervisor is here!"

The sharp-eyed Yin Weian quickly sent a reminder to Gao Pan.

Hearing this, Gao Pan looked over the avenue outside the city and found a group of people walking towards them.

The leader was also holding a plaque and holding a banner, on which were written the words 'Supervise Grain by Order' and 'Avoid', and on the banner was a big word 'Grain'.

Gao Pan saw these battles, and thought in his heart, if some bandits see such a team, they don't have to think about it, just go and rob it.

Thinking of this, Gao Pan suddenly moved in his heart, took it into consideration, squinted his eyes and looked at the food supervision team that was approaching.

After a while, this group of people came to Gao Pan and the others. Gao Pan hurriedly led people forward to say hello, and looked at the carriage surrounded by these people.

But I heard a very sarcastic remark:
"Yo, who am I to know? It turns out that it's the useless fourth son of the Gao family who came from the capital to be a sesame official, tsk tsk tsk... or your useless second brother is smart enough to cause a mess , I went back to the capital to be chic, leaving you here to suffer, pitiful, lamentable, pitiful!"

Hearing this, Gao Pan was stunned for a moment. Gao Pan didn't take the sarcasm in the words seriously at all, but he didn't expect that the visitor would recognize him?

Then, Gao Pan saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing the true appearance of the man who spoke the sarcasm!

He was a young man with a weak crown, dressed in a gray and white satin gown, with a pair of slanted eyes under his short and thin eyebrows, his nose bridge looked even more ugly, and his red and thick lips made Gao Pan feel disgusted and contemptuous.

Coupled with the bitter accusation on his face at the moment, Gao Pan instantly had a preliminary understanding of this person.

Moreover, in Gao Pan's mind, this person's information appeared:

"Official position: Food Superintendent, rank: from seventh rank, prestige: twenty, official voice: ten..."

A person with such a poor official voice must not be a good person in Gao Pan's opinion, but Gao Pan looked through the memories of his predecessor in his mind, but he didn't recognize who this person was!
"What? You can't even recognize me? That's right, you're a trash who doesn't go out of the gate. I'm afraid you've only heard my name, but you can't remember my appearance? I'm curious , Your family, what exactly did you say to you, so that you, who have never dared to go out, dare to come to be an official?"

But the young man saw that Gao Pan seemed to be stunned and didn't recognize him, so he couldn't help but sneered a few more words.

(End of this chapter)