The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

When Da Zhongwen brought all the officials of Lizhou out of the government office to meet the envoys, he saw an old acquaintance Wang's servant in the blink of an eye.

That's right, the servant of the king who came to the Lizhou mission this time happened to be Wang Zhong, the servant of the king who had a relationship with Zhong Wen several times.

Following Zhong Wen's statement, the original ceremony of welcoming the mission began to go a little off.

Who told Zhong Wen not to pay attention to these useless ceremonies, not to mention that it was just a mission. If these missions had come to remove him from the post of governor, Zhong Wen might still be happy in his dreams. Zhong Xiao woke up.

It is not easy to be a governor, and besides the normal daily meditation and morning exercises, Zhong Wen has had little time to practice martial arts in the past few months.

What kind of assassin is a Taoist, and now, if it wasn't because of the Lizhou incident, Zhong Wen might really leave it alone.

"Are you all right, Inspector Zhong? You and I haven't seen each other for seven or eight months, are you okay?" Wang's servant saluted Zhong Wen and said.

"It's okay, it's okay, this place is not a place to talk, all envoys, please, please go to the government office first and then talk." Zhong Wen didn't know what other people called them, but the king's servant had to be like a man among them. Like a familiar person, he greeted everyone and went to the government office.

As for those forbidden soldiers, they were led to the Tongjun Mansion. They just escorted these envoys to Lizhou. When they arrived, they naturally had to go to the local Tongjun Mansion. Members will welcome these imperial troops according to the regulations.

And the king's servants and their group, including officials of all sizes, totaled 17 people.

In terms of rank, of course the king's servant is the highest rank, but he is a servant. Zhong Wen doesn't know why there is a servant in this mission.

After all, when the missions inspected various places, there were very few internal servants among them. Now, the inspection mission that came to Lizhou has an internal servant, which can be regarded as a precedent.

And the next one is the doctor of the Ministry of Officials, who is an official from the fifth rank, and he is an important person for this inspection.

As for the supervisory censor, although his rank is relatively low, he is only an official position of the eighth rank, but he has a lot of authority.

Anyone who sends a memorial to Chang'an can attract the government and the public, not to mention that he still has the duties of supervising officials, inspecting prefectures and counties, and correcting prisons.

As for other officials, most of them are just accompanying or recording some things, and they basically have no right to speak.

Afterwards, under the auspices of Zheng Zhi and Zheng Biejia, the ceremony to welcome the mission officially began.

All the officials of the Lizhou government office were among them, not a single one was missing, even the officials of the Miantu county government office all came over.

"According to the order of the sage, I will come to Lizhou to inspect and perform the inspection and examination of merit..."

Afterwards, that Zheng Yushi, holding a silk imperial decree, started the ceremony.

The ceremony was not complicated, and after only half an hour, it was over.

According to the imperial decree, Zhong Wen arrived and understood why the mission came to Lizhou this time.

"Everyone, my Lizhou government office has prepared a soup bath, so that you can wash away the fatigue and hardships of the journey, and after you have finished taking a bath, I will take the wind for you." Zheng Zhi said An old official, you can be said to have a clear understanding of these ways.

The reception of the mission was handled by Zheng Yi, but Zhong Wen, the governor, knew nothing about it.

Even if it's the ceremony or the procedure to go through, it's basically like a fool.

"Thank you." After Wang's servant responded to Zheng Zhi, under the leadership of Zheng Zhi, he went to the backyard of the government office and began to take a bath.

"Inspector, why did this mission come to Lizhou all of a sudden? Could it be that something big is about to happen?" Zhang Zhi, the county magistrate of Miantani, asked Zhong Wen.

"I don't know, maybe because of some recent incidents in Lizhou, I was reported to Chang'an by someone with a heart, otherwise, there would not be a mission that suddenly came to visit our remote Lizhou, but you can rest assured No matter what, they don't dare to make trouble in Lizhou at will."

Although Zhong Wen didn't understand why the mission suddenly came to Lizhou for inspection, but after thinking about it carefully, he could guess some clues.

Recently, things in Lizhou can be said to be many and chaotic, and they have caused so much turmoil, which will always attract the anger of some unhappy people.

Although the digging of wells in the counties of Lizhou has long since ended, even the wells in Yejia Village, Yiqing County have almost been dug.

Moreover, even the staff of the staff department have returned.

During the recent period, Zhong Wen and the staff of the staff department have been discussing the development of the counties in Lizhou. The recent affairs in Lizhou have basically stabilized, and there are few incidents.

After half an hour, the officials of the mission finally finished their bathing.

Zheng Zhi took all the officials of the mission out of the gate of the government office and headed for Zhong Wen's County Marquis Mansion.

Speaking of which, to welcome the officials of these missions, they should have been in the mansion, but now, they are going to Zhong Wen's county mansion.

Those rooms in the backyard of the government office have long been vacated by Zhong Wen for office work, so there is no place for living.

However, the kitchen and the bathing place are still preserved.

After all, this is the backyard of the government office, not the place where officials work. Even though Zhong Wen has changed it now, it still maintains the original appearance. There have been no major changes, but a lot of rooms have been vacated. Just as an office space.

Even if there is no backyard of the mansion office, it would be more convenient to go to a certain restaurant for the banquet, but Zhong Wen felt that it would be safer to receive this matter in his county lord's mansion, You can't really go to a restaurant to hold a banquet, then you will lose face.

"County Marquis's Mansion?" When Zheng Zhi brought all the officials to the County Marquis's Mansion, he found that the place they came to was a Marquis's Mansion, which made people who didn't know where it was, very puzzled, and even more confused. You know, there is another honorable man in Lizhou.

"This is the Marquis of Miantu County granted by the Holy Majesty, that is, Zhong Cishi." Wang's servant looked at the signboard hanging on the gate of the County Marquis Mansion who did not understand, and after explaining something, he raised his legs and walked into the mansion.

……

After the banquet was over, everyone sat in the hall and drank tea.

Although the reception banquet was not a big banquet, fortunately it entertained the officials of these missions, so that these people would not go back to Chang'an to gossip.

"Inspector Zhong, we came to Lizhou on this trip, you already know that I am the supervisory censor, so I would like to ask a few questions to Inspector Zhong. Regarding the well-digging order in Lizhou, according to As far as I know, this Lizhou is surrounded by water on three sides, so there will never be a shortage of water due to the coming of the dry season, right? Don’t you know that the well-digging order issued by Governor Zhong is a waste of money and people?"

The one who broke the dullness was naturally the Supervisory Censor named Zheng Tong. He was the Supervisory Censor and could intervene in many things.

"Zheng Yushi, I don't know if you know the counties in Lizhou? If you don't know, you can ask the clerks of our government for some state chronicles to take a good look."

"Although my Lizhou is surrounded by water on three sides, you know that in the past two years of the Great Ye Dynasty, our Lizhou had a severe drought and no crops were harvested. Now that I have been in Wude for five years, my Lizhou has a severe drought and no crops have been harvested again. May I ask Zheng Yushi, when you came to Lizhou, did you notice that the drought has begun? If I don’t carry out the well digging order, and if a severe drought comes next year, how will the people of Lizhou survive the severe drought? "

Zhong Wen looked at Zheng Tong and Zheng Yushi, and responded loudly.

I don't know what's going on in Lizhou, and the censor is about to start exercising his supervisory duties, and what he's blaming is the well-digging order issued by Zhong Wen.

"Well, I don't have a complete understanding of Lizhou's affairs. As Zhong Cishi said, I will definitely read the Lizhou annals tomorrow. However, if the well-digging order is issued, hundreds of thousands of people will miss the farm work. Shouldn’t Zhong Cishi think about it carefully, this waste of money will inevitably cause the people to complain.”

After hearing Zhong Wen's words, Zheng Tong's heart tightened, but he still insisted on the well-digging order, so as to deal a blow to Zhong Wen, the governor.

"From what Zheng Yushi said, he should be the heir of the Zheng family, right?"

"What's wrong with the heirs of the Zheng family? Does Governor Zhong think that the heirs of the Zheng family can't be officials in the court?"

"Of course the heirs of the Zheng family can serve as officials in the court. However, what Zheng Yushi said must have never been in the fields. He was born with rich clothes and fine food, right? Otherwise, he would not even know the work of farming in this season. , the governor is so suspicious that you, the supervisory censor, were bought with money."

"You... this official is sealed by the Holy Majesty, why would you spend money to buy an official? If the governor of Zhong wants to smear my name, don't let me read your copy."

"Participate in me? If you don't participate in me, I will join you. When a supervisory censor arrives in Lizhou, he doesn't know the history of Lizhou, and he bluntly says that there is no drought in Lizhou, and he doesn't know that it is autumn. In the festival, beans are planted in the field, and there are few jobs. The matter of digging a well is just a matter of convenience. And you, the censor, tsk tsk, what you do is really bad enough."

What you say and what you say, the two of you can be said to be tit for tat, and neither of them wants to fall behind the other.

But as Zhong Wen's dislike started, he directly hit the point, which made Zheng Tong not know how to deal with it.

A supervisory censor, who didn't know anything, came here to spray. Zhong Wen really doubted how many of the officials in the court had real skills.

"Inspector Zhong, let me ask you, do you recognize the siege of Yiqing County and Yejia Village?" Zheng Tong felt that he couldn't argue with the young governor in front of him, because he really didn't understand Zhong. What Wen said, otherwise, Zhong Wen would not have been blocked by the corner.

"I admit it, I never said that I don't recognize it, and Yejia Village at this time has not lifted the siege until now." Zhong Wen heard Zheng Tong talking about the siege of the county town and the village. I was also thinking in my heart, this censor would not be the starter who wanted to fight for Yejiacun

Whether he admits it or not, he himself has already written a report and went to Chang'an. This matter is a certainty, and Zhong Wen will not deny it.

The report clearly stated the matter of resisting orders, and of course, the matter of serious illness was also written, but it was not written, it was false, and it was written completely seriously.

As for whether the person in Chang'an believes it, I believe he can understand.

"Since you, Inspector Zhong, admit it, it's fine. You, the Inspector, have the right to besiege the county town and encircle the village, but you slander the Ye family village with a serious illness. Don't you, Inspector Zhong, treat the villagers of the Ye family as you?" The people of Lizhou? Or do you want to use this method to retaliate?" Zheng Tong didn't expect that Zhong Wen would admit to the siege.

But fortunately, Zhong Wen recognized it, so he started spraying immediately.

"Zheng Yushi, if you want to find out the reason, I can send you to Yejia Village. Anyway, Yejia Village is still under siege, and the serious illness in the village is spreading. If Zheng Yushi is not afraid of death, this The governor can send someone to take you there right now, so that you can check it out, I wonder what Zheng Yushi thinks?"

Zhong Wen narrowed his eyes, wanting to laugh.

At least, Zhong Wen doesn't believe that there are many people in this world who are not afraid of death, and they are still in the village where serious illness spreads.

Although, in this era, there are still some people who are not afraid of death.

But not being afraid of death does not mean that he is really not afraid of death.It's just that it's not the time to gain fame.

If Zheng Tong really dared to go to Yejia Village, Zhong Wen would definitely agree, and maybe he would personally send Zheng Tong to Yejia Village.

At this time in Yiqing County, all the people know that Yejia Village is seriously ill, and the doctors in the medical clinics in Yiqing County, after seeing the wounded in Yejia Village, say that they are also seriously ill. .

They could choose not to believe the county government's decree, but they had to believe the doctor's words.

Such a big event, the whole Lizhou is rumored, who would not believe it?Who has the guts to go to Ye Family Village to investigate?What's more, there are government soldiers guarding there.

Listening to Zhong Wenzhi's words, Zheng Tong was also thinking about whether what Zhong Wen said was true or not.

But according to the news he got, this serious illness seems to be slander, something made out of nothing.But regarding this matter, before he came to Lizhou, someone had sent a message to him, asking him to investigate and find out, so as to prove that Ye Family Village was innocent, and through this matter, he could suppress Zhong Wen, the governor. In the future, the state may be re-official.

3 Chapter [-]

When Zhong Wen's words fell, Zheng Tong wanted to refute, but he was speechless.

Even the other officials who were sitting shrank their necks in shock from Zhong Wen's words.

Who dares to go to that Ye Family Village?

At least, they didn't dare, even Zheng Tong, the troll in front of him, was afraid in his heart at this moment.

Even if the news he got was slander, he didn't dare to put himself in danger, as Zhong Wen said, he, the supervisory censor, might be buried in Yejia Village.

"Inspector Zhong, don't provoke me either. No one in the world knows about Ye Family Village's serious illness when you slander Yejia Village? Isn't the governor of a state afraid of being scolded by the world for doing such a villainous thing?" At this time, Zheng Tong, still erupting vigorously, but he didn't know that the governor in front of him was a murderer without batting an eyelid.

"Come here, send Zheng Yushi to Yejia Village." After hearing Zheng Tong's words, Zhong Wen didn't even want to answer, and directly shouted to the outside

As soon as Zhong Wen's words fell, several members of the law enforcement team rushed in.

"Zhong Cishi is not allowed." At this moment, Qi Hui, who was sitting on the side, hurriedly dissuaded him.

Although he also heard that there were false rumors about the serious illness, they had just arrived in Lizhou, and they didn't know anything about it, so the supervisory censor in front of them made the atmosphere too tense.

Moreover, he could also see that the governor in front of him was burning with anger at the moment, with a serious expression that whether you die or not has nothing to do with me.

Sending a supervisory censor to the seriously ill place is not a joke, so he, the envoy of the mission, hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him.

"Why not? Didn't this Zheng Yushi say that I was slandering? Since he said that I was slandering, you have to show evidence? If there is no evidence to talk nonsense here, then I will send him directly to Yiqing Isn't the county better? In this way, he also has evidence, doesn't he, why are you still in a daze, didn't you hear what I said?"

Zhong Wen looked at the official named Qi Hui who dissuaded him, and then responded.

Although the response was a response, in the end, the law enforcement team members were once again ordered to take Zheng Yushi to Yiqing County instead of Yejia Village.

Speaking of which, Zhong Wen also didn't want to end up with the reputation of killing an envoy, so what he said just now still has some hidden tricks.

"Inspector Zhong, absolutely not, Zheng Tong is the inspector censor, so don't mess around." Qi Hui stood up nervously, and tried to dissuade him again.

"Qi Langzhong, listen to Zhong Cishi." At this time, Wang's servant, who had never spoken, stood up and said.

"This……"

"Your surname Zhong, don't think I'm afraid of you. When I go to Yejia Village, if I find out that you have slandered Yejia Village's serious illness, I will definitely announce it to the world, so that people in the world can take a good look at it." How does your surname Zhong treat the common people, hahahaha."

Before that Zheng Yushi was sent away, he still left a message, which made the people present realize that their visit to Lizhou this time seemed to have poked a huge hornet's nest.

Zheng Tong was sent away just like that, and was sent to Yiqing County overnight.

Who are the members of the law enforcement team?Of course, only Zhong Wen followed suit.

As long as this Zheng Tong is sent to Yiqing County, he will report to Lu Lindong what Zhong Wen said just now. As for whether he will be sent to Yejia Village in the end, or what, they basically know it in their hearts.

When it was time to send someone into Yejia Village, Zhong Wen would definitely go to Yiqing County, not to mention that he was a supervisory censor in a mission, so he couldn't really cause trouble.

Of course, as long as Zheng Tong arrives in Yiqing County, he will definitely pee his pants in fright.

After all, the people in Yiqing County were already in a panic. As long as they heard that it was Yejia Village, no one dared to go there, let alone inquire about the news.

Because, just a few days ago, there were rumors that five people died in Ye Family Village, and there were also rumors that they had actually seen them.

As for whether it is true or not, it is hard to say.

The collision with the officials of the envoy of the mission came to an end after Zheng Tong, the supervisory censor, was sent away.

Afterwards, all the officials were sent to the post house to rest, but the king's servant stayed and lived in the county marquis' mansion.

Under the night, when the moon was rising, in the Octagonal Pavilion in the garden of the County Marquis Mansion, Zhong Wen and Wang's servant sat facing each other, drinking tea while admiring the night scene under the moonlight.

"Jiu-shou Xiaodao, although your actions will be criticized, but in your Lizhou, there is no need to be afraid. The Holy Majesty has told me that if this Zheng Tong wants to make trouble, he can be executed on the spot."

At this time, Wang's servant said to Zhong Wen while drinking tea.

"Criticism is something later. Let him go to Yiqing to stay for a few days first, so I can be quiet and quiet. I don't want to be annoyed by this person every day. By the way, Wang's servant, it is said that this mission is not just a random person. Is it okay? Why are you here this time?"

Zhong Wen really wasn't worried about Zheng Tong, the supervisory censor, he just thought this person was too annoying, so he turned to the matter about the mission.

"The Holy Majesty sent me to Lizhou to tell you something important, otherwise, I wouldn't have come." Wang's servant replied.

"Why do you need a servant like you to come over for something important? Does the Holy Majesty not believe me?" Zhong Wen was a little puzzled.

"Nine-shouldered Daoist, don't think twice, the Holy Majesty sent me here because of the three major sects of Zhongnan Mountain."