Chapter 592: Beautiful Girl in Blue Sky
There was a commotion among the garrison troops, and the people in the river shouted again: "Catch the county lieutenant, catch the county lieutenant, and that county magistrate is also a worthless person, catch the county lieutenant, catch the county magistrate."
At this time, two strong men came out of the team and said they would go.
Then, several more people came out.
Zhao Yulin nodded and asked Liangchen to temporarily replace Huojing County Lieutenant and reorganize the defense of Huojing. The leaders of the garrison who did not stand up just now were dismissed, and those who stood up were allowed to take over. Whoever did a good job would be the captain.
He took the iron trumpet and handed it to Hu Lan, asking her to explain it to the people.
Hu Lan raised the microphone and opened her soprano voice and said, "Elders and relatives of Huojing, my name is Hu Lan, I come from Wenjiang, Chengdu, and I am currently the governor of Qiongzhou. If you have any grievances, please go to the new Huojing County Lieutenant to seek justice."
The people around cheered and shouted: Thank you, Lord Tian.
Hu Lan was happy and looked at him with a smile on his face.
Liangchen felt that since the matter had become so serious, the news would definitely leak out, so he had to immediately block the land and water routes.
Zhao Yulin nodded and called the county magistrate and his men to the government office. He sat in the hall and told the county magistrate, who was kneeling below, that kneeling was not a custom in the new Song Dynasty and he should stand up to speak.
The magistrate stood up tremblingly and stood aside.
Zhao Yulin asked him how long he had worked at Huojing. He answered three years. Then he asked the county magistrate behind him, and he said twelve years. The county lieutenant who was beaten had worked the longest, eighteen years.
He said: It has been quite a while, and everyone should know that there is someone who dominates the fish market, and that the county lieutenant and the fishing tyrant are in cahoots with each other.
Those guys in the hall knew they could not escape the blame and were so scared that they were shaking all over.
He said that the county lieutenant was in charge of public security, and that those who knew the law and broke it would be punished more severely, so he would be put in jail for investigation first.
Immediately, the garrison team came over and took the county lieutenant away.
"Where is the county magistrate?" he asked.
The county magistrate was so frightened that he was shaking all over and even said that he was not involved.
Zhao Yulin said: No way, just now the people were cursing the county magistrate for being a den of . Even if he didn't participate, he was guilty of letting things go and doing nothing. The county magistrate fell to the ground with a plop, and then yellow liquid appeared under his feet, and a smell of urine quickly spread.
Zhao Yulin frowned and fanned himself in front of his face with his hands. He angrily asked the county magistrate to explain what this was all about.
The magistrate reported back: the county lieutenant and the county magistrate were both locals, and they were in cahoots with the thieves in the fish market. He was timid and had no means to deal with the thieves, which led to the fish market being occupied by the thieves for a long time.
Oh, it seems that this guy is too weak and not suitable to be a county magistrate. Why doesn’t he go to Qiongzhou to report and ask for help?
The magistrate said he had written it, but the prefect wrote a letter to scold him, and the county magistrate and the county lieutenant treated him with impunity.
The river flowing through Huojing County is called Baimo River. This river is seriously polluted due to the wastewater discharged from paper mills along the bank. Whenever the workshops discharge wastewater, white foam appears on the surface of the river, so people call it Baimo River.
It is also because the papermaking industry along the coast is well developed and wastewater is often discharged into the river. The plankton in the river is very rich, resulting in a large number of fish and fat fish meat. People on both sides of the river rely on fishing for a living and have a good harvest.
However, due to the abundant catch, the weak government allowed things to go their own way, which encouraged fishing tyrants to monopolize sales and prices.
The fight early this morning was caused by a fishing tyrant who forced a fisherman to buy his good fish, which led to a dispute and caused such a huge vicious incident.
Zhao Yulin roughly understood what had happened, and he told the county magistrate: Huojing needs people to do the job, and after a thorough investigation by the Dali Temple, if the suspect is found not guilty, he will be demoted to the position of chief clerk in Huojing County, and he cannot be demoted again.
The magistrate nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice as if there was a general amnesty, and immediately packed his bags and moved.
He told Hulan that from now on this place should be called Pingle Town, which means a town of peace and happiness. Huojing is a good place with treasures, so it must be managed well.
The young girl said to him with a smile: Getting rid of the fishing tyrant in Huojing today is a great achievement. I would like to thank the commander on behalf of the people of Huojing.
When Zhao Yulin saw her smirk, he knew that she was making a joke by mixing official business and sex matters together. He glared at her and said: How could a prefect be so disrespectful when talking about official business?
The young woman chuckled and said: My husband, you have the wrong idea. Capturing the fishing tyrant is only my credit, and it has nothing to do with me, right?
Zhao Yulin ignored her and patiently explained to her: Huojing County is called Huojing because there is natural gas buried underground here, and the depth is very shallow. In the past, ordinary people could dig out natural gas by digging down one hundred or two hundred feet like digging a well.
This type of gas well is often accompanied by salt wells. As long as it is handled properly, it is possible to use natural gas to make salt, greatly reducing costs, making the county worthy of its name, Huojing County.
The little girl sat in his arms like a spoiled child, and said shyly, "I know, I'm waiting for you to come and dig the well."
Damn, what are you talking about?
Why did Zhao Yulin feel like she was teasing him? He pulled Hu Lan close to his arms and tickled her hard, and the little woman soon collapsed in his arms.
In the afternoon, the governor of Qiongzhou and Zhao Yulin's guards arrived at the same time, and Huojing County suddenly became lively. The governor trembled and saluted, reporting that he had failed to govern well and the thieves were rampant.
Zhao Yulin said: "Don't jump to conclusions whether he is guilty or not. We should seek truth from facts and act in accordance with the law. Stay here for two days to help Mrs. Hulan deal with the affairs of Huojing."
Secretly, he asked Zuo Liangchen to go to Qiongzhou immediately and investigate the prefect's backyard based on the clues obtained during the trial.
With the support of Zhao Yulin, the common people of Huojing walked into the government office to file a complaint like a volcano erupting. Hulan quickly obtained a large number of clues, and officials involved in the case were constantly thrown into jail. The guards supervised the garrison to search homes and arrest people, and seized a large amount of hidden silver and stolen goods. Clues continued to point to the governor of Qiongzhou.
Hu Lan was delighted to see the mountains of Tibetan silver , and said happily that with the money he could rebuild the streets of Huojing.
Zhao Yulin smiled and told her: The focus is in Qiongzhou, quickly collect the clues and ask Bart to send them to Liangchen.
As for these stolen money and goods, they must first be reported truthfully to Chengdu Prefecture. Chen Chen is both a sister and a prefect. Huojing County has a lot to do, and he believes that the most important thing to do is to control the pollution of Baimo River.
The paper mills along the river should have been cleaned up long ago. We cannot allow them to discharge wastewater so wantonly, otherwise the people living downstream will have to face the river without drinking water.
We need to build a three-level discharge sedimentation tank like the workshop in Cuiping Mountain to purify the wastewater from the papermaking workshop.
He told Hu Lan that most of the papermaking workshops used bamboo as raw materials. The silt deposited over the years had been carbonized. He could ask the masters of the Cuiping Mountain Mint to collect and process it to make new paper with great toughness, which was also a way to make money.
The young girl kissed him on the face with joy, and said with a smile that her husband had given her so many good ideas in a short period of time, and she didn't know how to thank him, so she could only serve him quietly at night.
Zhao Yulin ignored her, got up and told her to go out for a walk.
The streets were full of soldiers walking in formation, people carrying loads on their shoulders, people shouting and selling fish, all of them happily talking about the great earthquake in the Huojing officialdom, and spreading the good news that officials had been arrested and unscrupulous businessmen had been sent to jail.
He and Hulan came to the edge of the steep slope downstream of the fishing pier, pointed to the wide Baimo River and said: It looks a little higher here, so we can consider building a cable bridge here to facilitate traffic between the two banks without affecting navigation on the river.
Hu Lan took his arm and said: Then our army’s cable bridge squadron will come and build it.
He pinched the woman's hand and said, "Of course, I'll transfer them to the prefecture later. If the people's travel difficulties are solved, they will have more time to earn money."
Hu Lan had already found a way to get started in Qiongzhou from the communication during these days. She happily rested her head on his shoulder and looked at the river view.
Three days later, Zhao Yulin and Hu Lan came to Qiongzhou, where the corrupt officialdom had been uncovered by Zuo Liangchen: the Defense Envoy was deeply involved in the Huojing Fishing Tyrant case and gave away clues that the prefect had accepted bribes and made profits in Qiongzhou. After reading the Defense Envoy's confession, the guy collapsed to the ground.
Zhao Yulin felt very sorry that the main officials of a place were corrupt, and he began to wonder whether he should investigate the matter.
No matter whether they are county officials or high-ranking officials in the imperial court in Chengdu, as long as there are clues, they will always pull out some greedy parasites by following the clues.
Seeing that he was in a daze, Zuo Liangchen went over to refill his and Hu Lan's tea bowls with water and asked for instructions on what to do next.
Zhao Yulin then came to his senses and told his good ministers not to leave. He handed over the official duties of Huojing to his brothers and took office as the Defense Commissioner of Qiongzhou. He would sort out the unjust laws and businessmen in Qiongzhou for Lady Hulan and bring the black sheep to justice.
The next day, Zhao Yulin left a guard of 100 people to protect Hulan and returned to Chengdu.
I saw him off for a long time, and as I watched Zhao Yulin going away, he refused to go back.
Liangchen saw that the sun was already high in the sky and Hu Lan's face was covered with sweat, so he said carefully: "Madam, you'd better go back. The third young master will surely have a safe journey. There are still many things to do in Qiongzhou."
Hu Lan then turned his horse around and called back, saying as he walked, "Don't call her Madam, call her the prefect," and instructed his good minister to handle all the official business.
Zuo Liangchen immediately nodded in agreement.
This time when he came to Qiongzhou, Zhao Yulin directly asked him to fill the vacancy of defense envoy, which was no less than the promotion of the former captain Geng Feihu. The young man was excited and secretly encouraged himself to do something to live up to the expectations of the young master.
When Zhao Yulin returned to Chengdu and told Chen Chen and Shunzhidi about the situation in Qiongzhou, they were shocked. They had never expected that such a strange thing would happen in the county right under their noses.
Chen Chen asked him what to do?
The original plan was to ask the Qiongzhou governor to come to Wenjiang to take over the post, but now that he has been implicated in the case, it is obviously not possible.
He asked Zhidi to go to General Meng to discuss the matter and invite Madam Qian to go to Wenjiang to oversee the reforms.
Zhidi's face lit up and she said that General Meng would definitely approve it.
Chen Chen smiled and said that the general doted on Madam Qian, and he didn't know whether he would be willing to let her go.
Shunzhidi did what she said and immediately got up and went to the Censorate.
Chen Chen looked outside the house. The setting sun was warm and he asked him to accompany him to Tingyuxuan to enjoy the scenery. Before they sat down and said a few words, the maid came to report that Young Master Liu was back.
Then, Chen Liu and Jin Zhu both walked in.
