Chapter 875 It's not easy to be an official

  When Feng Ziying entered Luanzhou City, she looked at this famous state city.

The wall is covered with blue bricks, and the moat formed by diverting water from the Luan River is about ten feet wide. The suspension bridge stands tall, the battlements are majestic, and there are even dense turrets on the top of the city wall. The vigilance of the Chahar people, perhaps more than ten or twenty years ago, is still fresh in the memory of people here.

  The Wenfeng Pagoda and the Bixia Yuanjun Temple in the south of the city are very famous in the whole Yongping Prefecture. They have heard of Feng Ziying before he came to Yongping, so Feng Ziying plans to use the time to visit.

  Yongsheng Inn is the best inn in Luanzhou City.

   Traveling privately in Weibo, Feng Ziying didn’t plan to stay in an inn. In contrast, he would rather spend some money to live in a better place. After all, he still has a woman with him. In addition, he can hear more things in such an inn.

  For him, he needs to get familiar with the situation as soon as possible through various methods, so that he can get started with all aspects of affairs as soon as possible.

  Even if Wu Yaoqing collects information for him from various aspects, Feng Ziying still hopes to feel some things most intuitively in many cases, which will help him make judgments.

"Luanzhou is second only to Lulong County, which is attached to the state where the prefecture is located. Its land area, fertility, and population are second only to Lulong, and it is far superior to other counties." Wu Yaoqing sat opposite Feng Ziying, "Zhizhou Xie Wenli, a native of Dengzhou, Nanyang, Huguang, is quite shrewd and capable. He was born in Juren in the 33rd year of Yuanxi, but he had a bad relationship with the local gentry. Because of his cruel methods, he also caused a lot of backlash. The gentry often wrote letters Report to Beijing,..."

   "Oh? Where is the main contradiction?" Feng Ziying asked.

"One is that Mr. Xie has repeatedly cleaned up the land in the county, especially those who used the name of Wei Tun to invade the land and attack the powerful; the other is to use the county's labor to repair the river and embankment. The big gentry in the county think that we should first The embankments on both sides of the Luan River around the county town were built, but Mr. Xie insisted on building the line from the south of the city to the intersection of the Hulu River and the Dingliu River first, because this embankment is in the worst condition, and most of them are self-cultivating farmers, while the upper reaches are mainly big households. soil of,…"

The Zhizhou has the right to determine the direction of labor and work-for-relief every year according to the situation. If you want to maintain a stable situation in the state and try to avoid the emergence and outflow of refugees, then you must focus on repairing the areas dominated by ordinary farmers. Otherwise, once you encounter floods However, these people's ability to resist disasters is much weaker than that of the gentry and big households, and if they fail, they will end up with a turmoil.

   "So Mr. Xie is a good official who loves the people like a son." Feng Ziying laughed.

"That depends on how you look at it." Wu Yaoqing shook his head, "This person has a stubborn and harsh personality, and he is especially harsh on the big gentry, even to the point of being critical, so the big gentry in the county hate and fear him. The news is that some people even want to take the risk, . . . "

  Wu Yaoqing's words made Feng Ziying tense all of a sudden, and I didn't say anything before. If she took up the post as a co-prefect, and if something happened to an official like Zhizhou, it would really be a slap in the face again.

   "Yaoqing, is this true?"

"It's just some rumors. We think it's unlikely. Although there are some contradictions, it shouldn't be a point of confrontation. Killing officials and agreeing to rebel will punish the three clans!" Wu Yaoqing shook his head, but hesitated for a while. "But the information obtained by the informant is said to be accurate, which makes me a little uncertain."

Wu Yaoqing began to consciously spread informants half a year ago. Although Feng Ziying said that the northern Zhili prefectures were the main ones, he still hinted that Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion would be the focus. Shuntian Mansion is where the capital is located. Needless to say, But the specific mention of Yongping Mansion naturally has deep meaning, so not only did he find some manpower through various channels, but he also asked for many people from Ni Er who were originally from various counties of Yongping Mansion and only came to the capital in recent years. Among them, some astute people were selected and sent back to their hometowns in various identities.

According to Wu Yaoqing's request, these personnel must have proper professional cover, such as county government officials and inspection department personnel, such as businessmen, such as Lizheng, such as a large gentry helping to clean up customers. This is also a very grand plan. project.

But fortunately, Feng Ziying said before that there are no restrictions on money and silver, the key is to be able to play a role. Once you take a job in Yongping Mansion, you must be able to quickly inform yourself about the situation of each state and county from another channel other than the government. After collecting it, you can't let yourself only rely on the line of the government to grasp the situation.

Feng Ziying is very worried about the reporting channel of the government's situation. If he has enough time, it will not be a problem to spend three to five years slowly running the business, or he just wants to be gilded and follow Zhu Zhiren's example. , or let go, or mix for two years.

Anyway, the identity of this co-prefect is a very delicate role. If you want to take care of things, you can get involved in anything. There are officials from the Experience Department, the Zhaomo Institute, the Prison Department, the Taxation Department, the Miscellaneous Bureau, and the Confucian officials.

  But Feng Ziying's coming to Yongping Mansion is not as simple as coming to gilt, he wants to show his grand plans here.

  This is the throat hub from Liaodong to the Central Plains, and it is also a solid backing to ensure the safety of Liaodong.

Not only are there rich coal and iron resources here, which will allow us to realize our ambitions in the future, and even become the foundation of our own business, but also have excellent ports for development, which are also transit links to Liaodong, North Korea, Japan and Shandong by sea. stand.

   Moreover, according to the news he got, Yongping Mansion is very unsettled. Of course there are factors of the government, the army, local gentry and pirates at sea, but there is also the biggest hidden danger-the White Lotus Sect.

   According to the news from Shandong, the people I arranged to enter a few years ago have already reported back. They have been following the vines from Linqing, and the context points to Luanzhou.

   This made Feng Ziying a little unbelievable.

Linqing is still some distance away from Luanzhou, and the information I got at the beginning was that the outsiders who played a large role in the civil uprising in Linqing were from the south, Caozhou, Yuncheng, and Juye. Now he suddenly turned to the north, and happened to be in Luanzhou under the jurisdiction of the Yongping Mansion where he was going to be the acquaintance?

   This is too much of a coincidence.

But if you have a map, you can see it. This is actually not too coincidental. From Linqing, you go up the canal, cross the counties and counties of Hejian Prefecture, and arrive at Tianjinwei, and Tianjinwei is actually far away from Yongping Prefecture. Looking at each other, there is only the coastal area of ​​Shuntian Prefecture, which is Baodi County, in the middle.

But the news from there is very certain. Although the activities of the White Lotus Sect on the Shandong side are very active, most of them here are following the instructions of the North Zhili side, and the teaching of the teachings in the early stage, the general transmission, the general The palm scriptures and others were all from Beizhi, and it was not until later that Shandong local passers-by began to be promoted and became leaders.

Thinking of this, Feng Ziying's heart became more and more heavy. According to what they said there, Luanzhou is probably the White Lotus Sect, um, it is also called the East Mahayana Sect, and now there is a core area called Wenxiang Sect, but Laoting, Qian'an, Changli There are also quite a few activities of the White Lotus Sect, and it is said that there are people from the Zhenwei Army joining in the belief.

  Although they are not sure whether the information from the other party is accurate, there is no doubt that the activities of the White Lotus Sect in Beizhili, especially Yongping Prefecture, are extremely rampant, even surpassing those in Shandong.

"Yaoqing, you arrange someone to follow up and investigate this matter. I don't want to encounter such a bad thing when I first took office." Feng Ziying realized that the various crises hidden in Yongping Mansion might be more complicated than she imagined. , is even worse, but since it has already come, I am afraid that I have to go through it with the mentality of whoever will go to **** if I don’t go to hell.

"Don't worry, my lord. The little one has already arranged for people to investigate carefully. It's just that our manpower here is still a little short. The time is too short, and many people's connections have not yet been established." Wu Yaoqing is not without regret. The layout of the past three years, with my own means and Feng Ziying's spare no effort in monetary support, will definitely not lead to the current situation of groping in the fog.

"Well, I think that even if something like this is going to happen, there should be an intensified focus. We still have some time, so you just have to hurry up." Feng Ziying sighed, "Yaoqing, Yongping Mansion has been here for a few years. I'm afraid the food is not tasty."

Wu Yaoqing smiled indifferently, "My lord, the food at the Lianghuai Salt Envoy's Yamen is not good. The private salt dealers over there are doing everything for money. My brother's ribs are broken. It was these private salt dealers who sent people to kill them."

   "Oh?" Feng Ziying didn't expect Wu Yaoqing to have such an experience, and asked curiously: "What's going on?"

"It's nothing. They noticed the dark thread they arranged, and then set up a trick for me to go to the meeting, and then it was an ambush to kill. Fortunately, I had a good heart and arranged two men to respond, otherwise I would die." You have to leave it there on the spot.”

Feng Ziying frowned. Indeed, it is inevitable to encounter such things when engaging in intelligence, but it must be very important for Wu Yaoqing to personally handle the intelligence, "Yaoqing, you can't often come out in person for this kind of thing, you have to cultivate one or two trustworthy people." Assistant, helper, you can choose the person you need to find, if you have someone you can trust in Beizhi, you can recruit them, and everything else is easy to talk about."

Wu Yaoqing pondered for a while, "My lord, I don't have many contacts in Yongping Mansion, but I still have some contacts in Shuntian Mansion. In addition, Hejian and Baoding also have a lot of contacts with Yongping Mansion. Hejian is also looking for some staff."

"You go ahead and do it. If you need me to come forward, just let me know." Feng Ziying doesn't need to hire people. After all, Wu Yaoqing is his own personal staff and has no official status. Many times, if he comes forward by himself, he is often different than Wu Yaoqing. Persuasion works much better.

Wu Yaoqing was actually waiting for this sentence. After all, Feng Ziying's identity is there. Not to mention the illustrious name written by Xiao Feng Xiu in the capital city. The identity of the 18-year-old fifth-rank Yongping mansion co-prefect can really be said to be all-encompassing.

  But no matter what I say, people will have doubts, but as soon as he comes forward, he only needs to say a few words to comfort him, and many things can be easily resolved.

   "The little one will go to do it. In addition, the adults have asked the young one to find out some news in Yongping Mansion. The specific situation is more complicated and it may take some time to sort it out." Wu Yaoqing is full of confidence.

  (end of this chapter)