Wearing a county magistrate to build infrastructure

Having encountered Xu's house during the day, Tang Zisheng was inconvenient to stay for a long time. After knowing that Gong Shu hadn't been lazy and really went to the field to check, he asked Tang Mo to drive the carriage back to the county.

Now that the money is in hand, but the person in charge of the money is not his own. If he wants to embezzle the money, he has to make careful preparations, at least to pull out all the dissidents from the six rooms.

"My lord, Zhou Xiancheng sent someone to look for it." Shuqi had been waiting at the door for the first time to tell Mr. Tang what Zhou Xiancheng sent someone to pass on.

"Yeah." Tang Zisheng entered the front hall from the back mansion. Zhou Nanchuan was watching a play while he was cleaning up the clerks in the sixth room these days. If he is looking for him today, I'm afraid there will be nothing good. "Tang Mo, wait I will go to see if inspector Miao is finished, if they are finished, let inspector Miao wait at my office."

"Yes."

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"I heard you were looking for me?" Tang Zisheng walked into Zhou Nanchuan's office and looked at the pile of paperwork on the desk. He felt a little headache. Cang'er County is sparsely populated, and Zhou Nanchuan holds three positions, which seems to be more important than him. It's much busier to throw away the shopkeeper.

"Of course I'm looking for you. The county magistrate of Cang'er County was vacant before. As the county magistrate, I have the duty to act as the county magistrate temporarily. But now that Mr. Tang has taken office, it's time for the county magistrate to return. It's gone." Although Zhou Nanchuan couldn't hear the joy in his words, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and he was probably very happy in his heart.

"Thank you for the reminder. Recently, I only thought about how to control a few disobedient thorns in the county, but I ignored this matter."

Tang Zisheng picked up a book and flipped through it. He is not an emperor. He has to read a lot of state affairs every day, and he has a lot of people to help him. There are actually not many things to deal with every day. The number of documents is probably the accumulation of a long period of time.

"These documents are important events that I have dealt with after the former county magistrate left, and now they have all been sorted out and regarded as handover."

Zhou Nanchuan may be more thoughtful than he thinks in handling affairs without leaking water.Although they are not enemies in the county government, what he is going to do has to be hidden from this person for the time being.

"Okay, Zhou Xiancheng will be delivered to my house later, and I will read it as soon as possible." Tang Zisheng closed the document, "Is there anything else Zhou Xiancheng has to do now?"

"No, I won't waste my lord's time by being an official." Zhou Xiancheng gave the ceremony of seeing off the guests, and naturally Tang Zisheng would not continue to hang around.

The place where he works is not far from the one in Zhou Nanchuan. Tang Mo is guarding the door. It seems that Miao inspector has come.

"Master Tang, you came back so early today, did you receive any good news?" Inspector Miao was sincere, knowing that Tang Zisheng was not a rigid person, and he was not restrained in his actions. The pride of drinking three bowls of wine.

"Good news? The one copied today is more than yesterday's?"

"Exactly, Mr. Tang, you really know that I thought it was enough to steal so much silver from those two families yesterday. But today's house didn't get the most of it. There were several boxes of gold ingots in the warehouse. It made us brothers very happy."

As soon as inspector Miao thought about seeing the gold at that time, he wanted to continue talking endlessly.

"Well, inspector Miao has been in the Cang'er County Yamen for a few years?" Tang Zisheng is not interested in money for the time being, because he can't fill his own pockets now, and at most he can recruit some well-known people in the county government.

"Me? To be honest, my lord, I have been in the Cang'er County Yamen for more than ten years. Don't say that I am bragging, except for me in the entire county Yamen, it is the soldiers who follow me and some people in the third squad of the military room and me. They stayed for the same amount of time, so they can be counted as veterans.”

Inspector Miao is not boasting, but he is indeed proud of this point, and there is no one who can survive so many county magistrates.

"Then do you know the origin of Zhou County Prime Minister?" Tang Zisheng only found out that Zhou Nanchuan had a good family background, but he didn't know which family he belonged to.

What he is going to do can be hidden from Zhou Nanchuan now, but he will not be able to hide it in the future, so the situation is very clear, either to win Zhou Nanchuan into his camp, or to drive Zhou Nanchuan out of Cang'er County.

Whether Zhou Nanchuan will stay or not depends on whether there is someone behind Zhou Nanchuan. If there is someone from the imperial court behind Zhou Nanchuan, he can't keep this person no matter what.

"Zhou County Prime Minister." Inspector Miao smacked his lips, seeming a bit embarrassed.

"What? Is there something wrong with Zhou Xiancheng?" It was still rare for Tang Zisheng to see Miao inspector like this.

"That's not a problem, except that he doesn't make friends with other people in the county. At first I thought he was a good official, but after he took office, he didn't stop other people in the yamen from doing evil, so I didn't think much of him. "

Inspector Miao said something straight, of course he still has brains, so it's fine to say such things in front of Tang Zisheng.

If it got to Zhou Nanchuan's ears, and the first-level officials crushed people to death, wouldn't this be waiting to be dealt with?

"Then do you know his identity and background?" Tang Zisheng didn't say that the reason why Zhou Nanchuan did nothing was not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't.

Therefore, the fact that inspector Miao looked down on Zhou Nanchuan was the reason why Tang Zisheng felt that Zhou Nanchuan could be used for his own use. If Zhou Nanchuan really had someone behind him, wouldn't a small Xan'er County be able to deal with it?

And judging from what Zhou Nanchuan gave him at the beginning, this person may not have great ambitions to do something big, but he suffers from the lack of help from the people behind him, and he does not have the courage to make dangerous moves like him.

"Identity?" Miao inspector scratched his forehead and thought for a while, "I seem to know something, but this is also when I went back to the yamen to do business, I heard a few clerks chatting in the sixth room, saying that Zhou Xiancheng's family is very rich. , it’s just that Zhou Xiancheng’s status is not very good, he seems to be born in an outside room, and he was taken back to his family afterward, and his life was not very good.”

"So Zhou Xiancheng is not a local?" Tang Zisheng felt strange. After all, he had never heard of a rich family named Shang in Cang'er County, and the county magistrate was not a local because of the imperial court's rules and regulations.

However, the county magistrate is just a small sesame official. Generally, the titles of Juren, Ngong, and Bagong Fugong are removed from the examination. Therefore, the county magistrate is generally held by people from the county.

"No, Zhou Xiancheng and Mr. Tang are both from Nanzhou. There are many rich businessmen in Nanzhou. Mr. Tang, you think we are poor in Xizhou, so how can we support a concubine?"

"That's not necessarily true." Does something like a breeding room have something to do with the place?At most, it can be said that there are many rich people in Nanzhou, so there are many people who spend their time thinking about it, but if he said that there is no one in Xizhou, he would not believe it. , how many people do you have?"

Essentially speaking, a county government office with a population of 100 people needs about 68 people, and Cang'er County has [-] people less. It's just that Tang Zisheng hasn't found the opportunity to mobilize the original people in the county government office, so he can only play tricks on recruiting people. .

"My lord really wants me to say it." Xunjian Miao was afraid that his aggressive attitude would disgust Mr. Tang, so he vaccinated Mr. Tang first.

"Tell me first." Tang Zisheng knew in his heart that the number of inspector Miao would never exceed 50 even if he said it boldly, and any more would exceed the number of people in the county government. act normally.

But inspector Miao can now be regarded as the first batch of people he cultivated. If he can recruit more subordinates, his ability to control the county government will be stronger in the future.

His military strength is his confidence, not like now, it takes a lot of effort to fold six wings.

"20 people." Inspector Miao stretched out his hand to make a gesture, and closed his eyes after he finished speaking, fearing that Mr. Tang would be angry.

"Yes." Tang Zisheng nodded. There were only 20 people, more than half less than the 50 he expected. Lao Miao, your situation is not big enough.

"My lord really agreed." Inspector Miao saw that Mr. Tang didn't even blink his eyelids, and wondered if he said he was missing.

"Well, but you should do the recruitment in secret first, and then go to the household room to talk about it after all the recruits are recruited."

"First cut and then play?"

"Is Hufang the county magistrate or am I the county magistrate?" Do you still pretend that the county magistrate does not exist?

"Oh, that's what it means, my lord, you also know that I'm a big bastard who doesn't understand those things." Inspector Miao smiled foolishly, trying to pass the test.

"You can also try to talk to Hu Fang first. When the time comes, Hu Shu will come to me and say according to the rules that this matter can't be done. I don't think you can recruit 20 people. Ten people can't be recruited."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Tang is very considerate, I will definitely finish this matter quietly before going to talk to Hu Fang."

"Well, remember to keep your eyes open when selecting candidates. I didn't expect that the people I recruited at that time would be all sneaky people."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, my old Miao is sure to pick the best ones at the risk of my life."

"These 20 people can be regarded as my first batch of confidantes in the county government. When you train them out, my life safety will have to be entrusted to you."

Inspector Miao blinked his eyes, Mr. Tang, does this mean that he is also Mr. Tang's confidant?There is an old saying that it is good to enjoy the shade under a big tree. After ten years of hard work, his old Miao has finally climbed a high branch.

"Is there anything else I want to ask?" Tang Zisheng looked at Miao Xunjian and said nothing, thinking that he hadn't made it clear.

"No, it's just that I, Lao Miao, always had trouble getting in front of the county magistrate. I thought you, Mr. Tang, were the same as them. The literati who passed the scientific examination looked down on us warriors. I didn't expect that I misunderstood."

"Uh..." In fact, I didn't come out of a scientific examination, I bought an official with money, "Everyone has his own aspirations, and everyone has their own specialties. There is no need to compare them. Although the court does not value military officers now. , but military officers are also soldiers, so there is no difference between civil and military."

"It's the truth that Mr. Tang said. Mr. Tang, don't worry about what you told me, Lao Miaohao will definitely handle it for you quickly and well." Inspector Miao patted his chest as a guarantee.

Tsk tsk, this attitude changed too quickly, "Okay, if you have nothing to do, go down and do business."

"Hey, I'm leaving now."

Inspector Miao came and went like the wind, and soon left the county government office.At this time, Shumo, another little brother who took care of Tang Zisheng's daily life in the backyard, brought tea over.

"grown ups."

"Is there any clue?" Tang Zisheng's current sources of news are all inquired by the few people Tang Mo bought when they went out to buy things.

It had to be said that Tang Mo was pretty good at selecting candidates.Whether it was the two sweepers who guarded the courtyard or the two brothers who came to replace them, they were all smart and reliable, which saved Tang Zisheng a lot of worry.

"Yes, there is always a caravan coming to Cang'er County every July. I heard from the bosses who have dealt with those caravans before that these caravans are in business all year round and often go back and forth between Nanzhou and Xizhou. , I have met a lot of people, and the things they sell are also very unique, maybe there will be something you want as an adult."

"July, isn't that just this month?" Tang Zisheng thought to himself, isn't this a coincidence?He will get a salary this month.

"Well, some bosses also said that when they arrive at our place, the next stop will be the border of the Northwest State, and they will do business with many foreigners, and they can also exchange some strange things."

Tang Zisheng nodded. It seems that he has a lot to do in order to buy potatoes and sweet potatoes from the caravan.