Chapter 497 Small conflict
To be honest, Ma Zhou is still very grateful to Li Hao.
Even though he had not learned anything from him, he might have bowed his back for ten or eight taels of silver, but now..., he could not catch his eyes on his magic at all, and his heart would no longer be beaten with thunder when he piled up thirty or 50,000 taels together.
This is all thanks to the construction of the warehouse center and the Qizhou project. A lot of money has changed his vision and insight. Although money still has temptation to him, it will not make him look at him incomparably.
Shaking his head, Ma Zhou said, "Let's go, stop watching, the matter here has nothing to do with us."
"Why don't you look at it? As a censor, we have the power to supervise the world. How can we ignore it?" One of the censors, who was in the same censor, said proudly: "Now, the Japanese envoy wants to see how the Taigu County Magistrate will handle this matter."
Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and said to the censor: "Brother Wen Zhen, let's forget it. Such a thing cannot be a result. If you haven't seen the county magistrate, you will take cold measures. Have you avoided these people?"
Wen Zhen, the son of Wen Yanbo, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, really, among the second generation of Chang'an officials, his status is almost the same as that of Fang Yi.
He put him in the Censorate, intending to let him learn more worldly style. However, he did not expect that under the influence of Wei Zheng, Wen Zhen not only did not change worldly style, but instead learned a stubborn mind. Anyone who saw something that was not in line with the law would go up to argue with Ziwu Yin and Mao.
For this reason, his son Wen Yanbo made up his mind and used this opportunity to stuff him into the team of officials going to Bingzhou, intending to let him go out to experience the storm and see the world. It is best to be beaten by society. Only in this way can this honest young man realize what it means to be a foot taller and a demon is a foot taller. He can't survive in this world by just being stubborn.
"Avoiding without seeing can solve the problem. That is because the county magistrate is incompetent. If he doesn't come out today, I will write a letter to impeach others for being indifferent and ignore the people..."
"Brother Wen, don't be anxious." Changsun Chong Wen Zhen said more and more excitedly, and secretly pulled him: "In my opinion, this kind of thing should not be an isolated case in Bingzhou. Why don't we go to the next prefecture and county first? If there is such a situation, wouldn't it be easy to impeach these guys who are in trouble together?"
The arguments of several people became louder without realizing them, which gradually attracted the attention of the cried gentry. Hegan Chengji was afraid that he would be surrounded by those people and could not get out of it. He nodded and agreed, and turned around and squeezed away the crowd and pulled everyone out: "Young Master Changsun's words are reasonable, so let's settle down. Let's go back quickly. It's important to hurry up."
Wen Zhen originally wanted to say something else, but he was alone and was surrounded by people without waiting for his words. When he realized that he had already gotten on the carriage.
"You, you..."
"Brother Wen, don't blame me, we have no choice." Seeing that Wen Zhen's face turned blue, Ma Zhou quickly smiled and said, "If he was surrounded by those people in front of the county government, he would have to spend some time. It would be fine if he delayed his itinerary. If he was used by someone with ulterior motives, wouldn't his relatives suffer and his enemies?"
"Hmph, it sounds nice. I think you are just timid and afraid of things." The carriage kept moving forward. Wen Zhen wanted to get off the car, but there was no way. He stared at Ma Zhou and looked down on him, and refused to give up: "Well, I can put the matter here first. When I arrive in Taiyuan Prefecture, if Li Dejian doesn't give me an explanation, I will write a letter to impeach him."
Changsun Chong smiled and called out: "Haha... OK, when you arrive at Taiyuan Prefecture, everything will be up to you!"
...
Li Hao has been very busy all this time. In the words of ordinary people, his feet do not touch the ground and the sun cannot be seen on both ends.
I finally had time to take a break this day, but as soon as the sky was dawn, the door was slapped and the mountain sounded. A voice shouted like a soul: "Dejian, Li Dejian, open the door!"
"Your uncle, can you let me sleep?"
Li Hao turned over and sat up from the bed, pulled his shoes and rushed towards the door with sleepy eyes. He pulled them away viciously before he could speak, he was hugged tightly by a figure wearing a snow-white fox fur: "Hahaha... Dejian, I haven't seen him for many days, I miss you so much."
The cold air hit my face, and Li Hao woke up instantly and struggled to shout, "Changsun Chong, your uncle, I'm frozen to death! Fuck, let go of me quickly!"
"Hahaha..." Changsun Chong didn't care about Li Hao's angrily scolding, and patted him hard on his back a few more times before letting go. He jumped onto the bed like a monkey and wrapped it in a quilt, smiling and said, "Dejian, if I were you, I wouldn't continue to sleep, otherwise beware of someone impeaching you."
Li Hao shrank his whole body in the quilt, only one head was exposed, and he said tremblingly: "Changsun Chong, you are afraid of how to hold your glass tail, so you don't know the door when you come in! Who impeached me? Who did you bring? Could it be Lao Wei?"
Changsun Chong turned around and pushed the door with a slight slightest flow, blocking the cold wind outside the door, and took off the fox fur and said, "It's Wen Zhen, Wei Heizi thinks you are a wild horse that has been rid of reins. You must add a bridle to you, otherwise God will know what trouble you can cause."
"Wen Zhen..., the second boy of Wen Yanbo's family? He hasn't been beaten to death yet?" Li Hao said in surprise.
Changsun rolled his eyes: "What you said is that Old Wen is also Shangshu Ling, and his status is similar to mine. Who is so bold to beat his son?"
Li Hao opened his mouth, but finally decided not to betray his good brother Cheng Chumo: "Forget it, I won't mention this matter for now. Oh, when did you arrive? Why don't you notify me, I'll go out of the city to pick you up."
Changsun Chong shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "I want to notify you, but that kid Wen Zhen insisted on conducting a private visit to investigate the people's situation, and was stubborn. We had no choice but to follow his wishes."
Well, it’s really no wonder Changsun Chong about this, Li Hao shook his head.
Wen Zhen’s stubborn temper is famous in the circle. He even dared to impeach his son Wen Yanbo. Changsun Chong obviously could not be his opponent.
Li Hao, who came over warmly, untied the quilt and began to put clothes on his body. He asked while he was putting on his back: "Who is here this time? You and Wen Zhen will not be the only one."
"A total of ten people came, I, Hegan Chengji, your apprentice Ma Zhou, Wen Zhen, and several masters of the Ministry of Works, Chen Qun, the Ministry of Revenue Secretary Tang Xian, and Lin Guodong."
"Two in the East Palace, two in the Ministry of Revenue, two in the Censor, one in the Ministry of Personnel, and three in the Ministry of Works." Li Hao counted with his fingers and said with a lip: "Your Majesty is so partial. You are cousins with the prince, so you must be towards the prince. The Ministry of Revenue is your father's territory. Those two must follow you. After doing so, Your Majesty is going to compete for the merits of Li Chengqian!"
"Go and go, shut up if you can't speak." Changsun rolled his eyes.
Although Li Hao was telling the truth, he could just understand such a thing in his heart, why did he have to say it out?
"Let's go out and meet these old friends." Li Hao changed his clothes and walked out of the room with Changsun Chong's contemptuous gaze.
There are more than a hundred dandy people in Chang'an City, and there is no other maid in the house except Li Hao.
I really don’t know how this guy has a brain. Do you really have any special hobbies?!
Outside the house, Xue Rengui stood at the door in embarrassment, and his entangled facial features were about to be drawn together.
Changsun rushed into this shameless guy, like a bandit entering the village after entering the mansion. He relied on Li Hao's friend's identity to rush into the mansion. Except for Cheng Yinyin's yard that could stop him, other places were no different from walking into the city gate.
Xue Rengui wanted to stop this guy, but this guy was so thick-skinned. If you stop him, he would scream with all his might. His voice was so loud that he had no choice but to compromise and let him break into Li Hao's room.
Li Hao knew what was going on when he saw Xue Rengui's expression. He patted his shoulder sympathetically: "It's okay, I'll take you to his house next time I have the chance. Let's let him try what a night owl is to enter the house."
Xue Rengui glanced at Changsun, nodded silently, and remembered Li Hao's words in his heart.
...
The living room of the mansion was warm as spring because of the coal stove. Hegan Chengji, Ma Zhou and others relieved their fatigue and sat in their chairs, chatting indiscriminately.
After more than ten days of travel, everyone was already in a state of exhaustion. They were waiting for Li Hao to come and arranged a room for them to rest comfortably for a few days before talking about other things.
Wen Zhen came back at some point, sat by the fire and roasted the fire. When someone asked him nothing, he was just so awkward.
The sound of footsteps came, the door was pushed open, and Li Hao was very beating sounded: "Yeah, where are you all? I haven't seen you for several months, how are you?"
"Have you met the teacher!"
"I've seen Hou Li!"
“…”
Although everyone was tired, they still stood up to say hello when they saw Li Hao, and Ma Zhou even bowed to him with a student courtesy.
Li Hao also bowed: "You don't have to be too polite, Ma Zhou, you can get up too. Now we are ministers in the same palace, and we can meet with colleagues in public."
"Yes, thank you for your teacher!" Although Ma Zhou should have said that, he stood behind Li Hao after getting up.
Be a teacher for one day and be a father for life.
Although Li Hao is younger than Ma Zhou, in Ma Zhou's heart, everything he has today was given by this little teacher. If he had no teacher, he would not have been like him today.
Seeing him like this, Li Hao didn't say anything else. He smiled and looked at Wen Zhen, who was staring at him coldly with his neck, said, "Why does Brother Wen have such an expression? But what is Li offending?"
"Li Dejian, don't be fooled by someone here. I'll ask you why there are many gentry outside crying about the government's life and death, and the cooperative poaches tenants for profit and causes them to lose countless losses. What do you explain this?"
In front of everyone, Wen Zhen did not give Li Hao any face and shouted: "If you cannot give Benzeng a reasonable explanation today, Benzeng will definitely write a letter to impeach you."
Changsun Chong glanced at Li Hao's face slightly dark, fearing that Wen Zhen, a guy who was unknown, would be beaten so hard that his father would not recognize him. He quickly tried to smooth things over: "Brother Wen, we are here today, and we are not familiar with the situation here, so we should take a few days off first and wait until we get familiar with the situation after a while before talking about this matter?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Zhen did not appreciate it at all, but shook his sleeves hard: "Changsun Chong, this matter has nothing to do with you. If you insist on getting into trouble, don't blame me for impeaching you."
If you get it, God can do evil, but you can't live if you commit evil.
Anyway, I have persuaded everything I should have. Since I am seeking death, I can't blame me.
Changsun Chong had a blue face and found a seat to sit down angrily. He closed his eyes and started to sleep without seeing each other.
The rest of the people looked at each other, not knowing whether they should speak up or persuade them.
Ma Zhou wanted to say something, but was stopped by Li Hao: "Wen Zhen, you said the gentry cried and told the government that the government ignored their lives and death. The cooperative used heavy profits to poach tenants, causing them to suffer countless losses. I wonder what basis do you have?"
"Li Dejian, do you think I, Wen Zhen, are blind? The counties under Bingzhou, including outside the current Taiyuan Prefecture Government, can't you see many crying people?"
Wen Zhen was so angry that when he passed by Taigu County, he thought that the situation only existed in one county, but unexpectedly, after entering Taiyuan Prefecture, he realized that the situation here was much more serious than Taigu County.
Countless gentry begged in front of the government office in the heavy snow, but whether it is the Taiyuan envoy or the Taiyuan County Magistrate, they all turned a blind eye to this.
In Wen Zhen's view, all this is certainly the responsibility of the officials of Taiyuan Prefecture, but ultimately it is because of Li Dejian's so-called cooperative.
The emergence of the cooperative satisfies the interests of some people, but the loss of other people is another person. In his eyes, such behavior is to seek fame and reputation.
Li Hao shook his head, and did not rush up to teach Wen Zhen a lesson as Changsun Chong thought, and sighed pity: "Wen Zhen, I must remind you that in many cases, what you see in your eyes may not be the truth, that is, seeing in your eyes may not be the truth, and hearing in your ears may not be the false.
So, I suggest you better go down and investigate carefully and see what the real faces of those guys who are crying and suffering infinite grievances look like.
As the saying goes, there is no right to speak without investigation. Since you want to be responsible for the court, you must be responsible to the end. Don’t do the disgusting things that just listen to one side and then bend the blame.”
"Okay! OK, I didn't expect that the facts are all there, you still have to argue. Since that's the case, I Wen Zhen..."
Li Hao interrupted Wen Zhen and said with a smile: "Wen Zhen, if I were you, I wouldn't have spoken here now, so as to avoid being slapped in the face one day in the future."
Wen Zhen smiled coldly: "Wen doesn't need you to teach you how to be a human being. Even if you are really slapped in the face in the future, it is for the people of the world. On the contrary, you, Li Dejian, will you not regret today's decision believing in the future. Then Wen will not show mercy to you. Chen Qun, are you going to stay or be with me?"
Chen Qun: “…”
Whoever I messed with, why did I have to take me with me? I was obviously just here to gilt.
Chapter completed!