Zhu Nao

Although Lao Mao Pan had a twitch in his heart, he didn't back down.He continued to poke his neck and said: "So what about your five taels a year? My jade pendant is worth five or sixty taels of silver, which is worth your ten-year military pay! You must have taken it away because of the money, so hurry up and return it to me!"

The soldiers were also taken aback when they heard that Lao Mao Pan had lost such a valuable thing.They were even more determined: "Since it's such a valuable thing, let's report it to the authorities as soon as possible, so as not to find out if the thing is lost for a long time."

But Lao Mao Pan said: "Don't lie to me there. If you report to the government, the government will definitely protect you. They say that stealing is a capital crime, and it is used to bluff people! You take people's money unscrupulously, just say that you have strict military discipline. , those who are stolen by you can only suffer from being dumb, how can there be such a reason in the world?"

It's a bit of a nonsense for him to say that.The soldier still explained to him patiently: "Don't worry, there is absolutely no cover-up. All cases involving us as soldiers will be tried in public. After the trial, the details of the case will be posted outside the government. It is clear. If there is injustice, the whole city will be witnesses. And if it is really our fault, you can report it to the government, and you can still get a reward!"

Seeing what they said so righteously, Lao Mao Pan felt even more guilty, and began to doubt his own judgment.But with so many eyes watching, his jade pendant was indeed gone. If he admits to cowardice at this time, not only will he not be able to find the jade pendant, but he will also be ashamed.

He could only insist: "You guys stole it, return it to me quickly!"

When the incident got to such an extent, the onlookers couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and immediately interrupted.

"The soldier is right. The case is really open to trial. I watched it once. I believe the government will handle the case impartially."

"That's right. What's the point of your entanglement here. If someone said they didn't take it, you insisted that they took it. If you don't report it to the official, can you still force someone to conjure up a piece of jade for you?"

"You insist on refusing to meet the official, isn't it because you have a guilty conscience and want to blackmail him?"

Among the people who spoke, there were very few who helped Pan Laomao, but most of them were helping the soldiers.If this were to be placed somewhere else, that would be a rare thing that couldn't be more rare.It can be seen that what Langzhou soldiers did during this period of time is obvious to all.

Pan Laomao couldn't hold back his face when he was talked about, so he could only blushed and said: "Go, then report to the officials! Since so many eyes are watching, I want to see what the officials say! They If you dare to protect you, wait to be drowned by the spit of the whole city!"

So a group of people surrounded Pan Laomao and several soldiers and entered the government.Right now, the case-handling hall happened to be empty, and as soon as the officials heard that someone had come to report the case, the trial began on the spot.

Pan Laomao's family also followed, standing outside the hall worriedly watching.

Pan Laomao and several soldiers involved in the incident stood in the hall, and the officer who tried the case asked: "Who is the reporter? What is the matter?"

Lao Mao Pan hurriedly said: "I, I, I, I will report to the officials. I am Pan Yujiang from the west of the city. I want to sue these Qiu... these soldiers, they have malicious intentions and deliberately approached my son. When I was not at home, I ran to my house under the pretext of repairing the door for my house, and stole the mutton fat jade pendant I was carving for someone. It is a high-grade mutton fat jade!"

When the soldiers heard this, their noses twisted with anger: "Your son came to ask us about Langzhou, why did we have bad intentions? Is there such a bloody mouth?"

Old Mao Pan glared: "What does my son know? If it weren't for your malicious intentions, could he be deceived by you?"

The sons and daughters of the Pan family standing outside the hall are almost invincible.

The trial officer said, "Pan Yujiang, is your son here?"

Pan Dachun could only bite the bullet and stand up: "I am, my name is Pan Dachun."

The official asked: "Pan Dachun, who is telling the truth about your father or the soldier?"

Pan Dachun is young and thin-skinned, so he will not lie: "I invited some soldiers to come to my house to repair the door, and they never lied to me."

Old Mao Pan was furious, and he raised his hand to slap his son: "You bastard, you eat everything, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a thud, and a piece of round jade pendant rolled down from his sleeve.The jade pendant rolled all the way until it reached the center of the hall before stopping.Now, no matter the people standing in the hall or outside the hall, everyone can see clearly.

Lao Mao Pan was stunned for a moment: Isn't this the mutton fat jade that he couldn't find? ?

The appearance of the jade pendant also brought back his forgotten memories: it turned out that he was halfway through the sculpture yesterday, when suddenly someone came to talk to him about something.He didn't have time to put the jade into the box, and thought he would be back to continue engraving immediately, so he stuffed it into his sleeve pocket.Who knows that after talking about something, I will run into other things, and it will be dark after a busy meal.He also forgot about carving jade and went straight to bed.As a result, the jade has been stuffed in the sleeve pocket and never taken out again.

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and the officer adjudicating the case asked, "Is it possible that the jade you mentioned could be made into this piece?"

Lao Mao Pan's face became hot, he was so ashamed, he hurriedly denied: "No."

However, Pan Dachun said almost at the same time as him: "Yes, this is it!"

The official looked at the father and son and asked, "Is that right?"

"no!"

"Yes!"

The father and son answered at the same time.

Pan Dachun immediately scolded his son who was eating inside and out in his heart.

The official glanced at them, and said, "It's easy to verify. Pan Yujiang, you carve jade for others, who entrusted you to carve suet white jade recently, just ask."

Speaking of this, Lao Mao Pan knew that he couldn't let it go, so he could only bite the bullet and hum in a low voice: "Yes, yes...it seems to be this piece..."

The people watching outside the hall suddenly booed.

"What, the soldier was kind enough to help him repair the door. He falsely accused him of stealing his jade, and said that he approached his son with ill intentions. This soldier is also too good-tempered. If it were me, I would have beat him up Already!"

"That's right, is there anyone who slanders others like this? Do you think soldiers are easy to bully?"

"Could it be that he knows that Zhu Yushi is generous and that the officers and soldiers of Langzhou love the people, so he deliberately thought of this blackmail?"

"Jade fell out, and he still wanted to deny it. It was clearly a scam. There is such a shameless person!"

Pan Laomao was so hot-faced by others, he picked up the jade pendant and wanted to leave, but was stopped by the officials.

"Don't go, since the government has opened the court, this case has to be recorded and kept on file, so as to avoid any injustice in the trial of the case, and it can be reviewed in the future."

Old Mao Pan said anxiously: "Yu has been found, I will not sue, isn't the case already closed?"

The official said: "Since the case is closed, you can listen to the summary of the case. After confirming that it is correct, you can leave after drawing a bet."

Lao Mao Pan had no choice but to bite the bullet and listen.

The official said: "On June [-]th, Pan Yujiang accused the soldiers Wang, Liu, and Zhang of misconduct, approached his family, and sneaked into his home to steal jade pendants when he was not at home. After investigation by the government, Wang, Liu, and Zhang I was entrusted by Pan Yujiang's son to help repair the door of Pan's house. The theft of the jade pendant is purely false. Pan Yujiang has found his jade pendant, and the case is closed—is there any problem?"

Lao Mao Pan had nothing to quibble, so he quickly took the pen and drew a circle, pushed aside the crowd and ran out.

……

After two days, Lao Mao Pan finally carved the jade pendant and sent it to the Li family.

As soon as he went to the street, people on the street immediately pointed at him.

"Is this person Pan Yujiang?"

"That's right, it's him."

"Tsk tsk, someone kindly helped him repair the door, but he falsely accused him, how can there be such a person?"

Lao Mao Pan was shocked, not knowing how things spread so quickly, he lowered his head and ran all the way to Li's house, there were many people pointing at him on the way.

After entering Li's house, Lao Mao Pan found Li Gong and was about to send Yu there, but he didn't want Li Gong to ask questions first without asking Yu, "Pan Lao Mao, did you falsely accuse his soldiers two days ago?"

Old Mao Pan turned pale with shock: "Mr. Li, how do you know about this?" Even if there were people watching outside the hall that day, there were at most dozens of people watching.How could he, Old Mao Pan, spread the news so quickly throughout the city?

Li Gong said coldly: "Zhu Yushi trained his soldiers well, and his actions are open and aboveboard. All cases involving soldiers will be announced outside the government after the trial, and everyone can see it."

Old Mao Pan was dumbfounded.The soldier he falsely accused of saying this seemed to have told him the day before yesterday, but he didn't take it to heart.Didn't expect it to be true?

This, didn't everyone see this? !

On second thought, I felt lucky again.What about posting a list?Most of the common people can’t read the characters, and probably not many people can understand it... It’s okay, it’s okay...

Li Gong seemed to see through his thoughts, and sneered again: "You don't think that people don't know what's on the list if they don't know the characters, do you? The officials who make the list will read all the announcements every hour. I heard!"

Old Mao Pan changed his color again: "What?! I, I just made a wrong complaint once. Why does he want everyone to know?"

Li Gong said with a smile: "Do you think people are targeting you? This is Zhu Yushi's intention to let the common people see that his new law is implemented seriously, and it is by no means a bluff. Blame someone else!"

Pan Laomao immediately turned embarrassing.No wonder he came all the way, and everyone pointed at him.Now he is really ashamed...

Li Gong gloated: "You have always been unreasonable, and you are used to messing around with others to take advantage of it. I have long since wanted to find you a job, just to give you a chance to make money for the sake of your skills and the need to support your children. Now that you have suffered this loss, you should keep it in your heart."

Pan Laomao remembered the eyes of everyone laughing at him, and wished he could dig a hole in the ground to get in.He hastily presented the jade pendant, covered his face and went back.

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In the evening, Xu Yu sent the newly sorted files to Zhu Nao.

"Zhu Yushi, in the past three days, there have been two other cases of civilians suing soldiers."

"Oh? Let me see." Junao took the file.

Xu Yu smiled and said, "It's just false accusations and false accusations. Commander Zhu Yushi and Commander Yu lead troops well. This is the first time I've seen such well-mannered soldiers."

Zhu Nao was not happy when he heard it, and his tone was somewhat helpless: "Oh, it seems that everyone still has a deep prejudice against soldiers."

Xu Yu was slightly taken aback.It is inevitable that the common people have deep prejudices against being a soldier.Although recruiting has been opened now, it is only the beginning after all.Prior to this, there were only two types of soldiers: one was military households, and the other was criminals who were exiled into the army.

The so-called military households are military registrations.All those who join the army must be naturalized, and once they become a military member, they cannot be changed forever, and their children and grandchildren born from then on must still serve as soldiers.This system of military households was established when the world was at peace. The imperial court did not want to repeatedly recruit soldiers, so it set aside a group of military households and a few pieces of military land. The original intention was to facilitate management and save military expenses.

But once anything is innate, it will definitely be classified into high and low.Due to the lack of war, military land was gradually annexed by local tyrants, and the status of military households was gradually reduced.Gradually, the soldiers began to be inferior to others.And these inferior people will not do superior things, and the conflict between the soldiers and the people has become increasingly serious.

After reading the case, Jun Nao pushed the file aside.Xu Yu also changed the subject and asked, "Censor, when will the changes we agreed upon be implemented?"

Zhu Nao said, "There's no rush. I'll talk about it later when I recruit some soldiers."

Xu Yu was taken aback for a moment: "You also want to recruit soldiers?"

Zhu Nao lazily said, "It's not possible if you don't raise money."

Xu Yu understood immediately.Any change will always touch the interests of some people, and these people will naturally resist.Zhu Nao now has 2000 people, which is not enough after all.Recruiting soldiers is not necessarily for war, but it can be used to be close and deterrent.

Xu Yu asked: "Then, when will the recruitment start?" It is said that the recruitment should be done quickly, but he has not seen Zhu Nao make any moves until now.

Zhu Nao still said: "No hurry, just wait a while."

Xu Yu was confused: "What are you waiting for?"

Zhu Nao elbowed the dossier he had just read: "Let's wait until there are no more cases."

Xu Yu was puzzled: "Huh?" What's the matter with these cases?

However, after only a moment, he was immediately enlightened.

——At that time, Yuan Jilu had difficulty in recruiting soldiers. Apart from the problem of insufficient military pay and rations, the biggest reason was that the common people discriminated against soldiers and treated soldiers as if they were going to die. These ordinary people would never join the army unless it was absolutely necessary.So no matter how Yuan Jilu had increased his military pay, he could only arrest people by means of compulsory conscription.

But Zhu Nao chose another completely different path...

Wanting to understand this, Xu Yu immediately looked up at Zhu Nao.

At this moment, Zhu Nao took another account book and flipped through it, his eyes were light and light, and his expression was calm, as if he didn't care about anything.

Xu Yu felt itchy in his heart.He has always been very accurate in guessing people's thoughts, but he has not guessed Zhu Nao's thoughts correctly several times so far.If when he can learn the art of mind reading, he really wants to hear what is going on in Zhu Nao's mind.

It should be very scary, but it should be very interesting...

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