You think you’re a general? You think you’re a military general, but you still come to the armour in the body is inconvenient to salute this set!
Lord Tongzhi looked at the county magistrate standing straight in front of him, simply want to slap him in the face.
Although the ancestral system of the Great Ancestor stipulates that the subordinate officer to see the superior officer does not have to perform a kneeling ceremony, only bowing ceremony can be, after all, we are all people with the status of merit, but then the subordinate officer to see the superior officer, lowered his voice to kneel to meet, has been accustomed to it.
Jiajing early years of the Ministry of War Secretary Hu Shining had said: “the first dynasty examination, the constitutional outline of a book, thought reserved style. It and the three departments of the governor and other officials to meet, each has a fixed ritual also …… now below the governor. The first time I saw you, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. The following Buzheng. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the work. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the work. I’m afraid to bend my head to my knees. The name is arching hands. And the truth is bent over like kneeling.”
The subordinate officials, especially the subordinate officials to see the superior officer has almost become a customary practice, of course, if it is according to the ancestral system, and can not say that the county official what. If one were to pick a fight, one could not do anything to him. That’s why this co-conspirator will look at this county magistrate so unhappy.
“Clear a waterway out of the river’s fishing nets so that this official can pass through first.”
Lord Tong Zhi didn’t bother to pay any more attention to this Qing Song Zhi Xian, posed and gave the order to the governor, then turned around with great confidence and prepared to board the boat.
Just as the Tongzhi Lord took his official steps and turned around to board the ship, he suddenly heard a well-worded, low and mellow voice coming from behind him, causing the Tongzhi Lord who was walking with a documented gait to involuntarily stumble for a moment.
“Forgive me for not being able to do anything.”
What? Did I hear wrong? Surprisingly, he refused? A small governor dares to disobey my official’s orders? Has he eaten a bear’s heart or chewed leopard’s gall?
Lord Tongzhi’s face darkened then, turning around with a black face to look at the governor who made the noise, narrowing his eyes slightly, “Do you know who you’re talking to?”
“Please forgive me, Your Honour, there is a murder in my jurisdiction, and I am duty-bound to do so. The arc of the waterway here is obvious, the next official asked fishermen familiar with the water, checked the hydrological situation, if someone fell into the river is the easiest here to salvage, in order to prevent water current to wash away the corpse delayed case, special stop fishing nets in the bottom of the river. The next official has asked Dangtu County Zun cooperation, in the various traffic routes to deploy the police to prevent the suspect to escape, so the suspect is likely to be in the vicinity of the …… also please cooperate with the adults.”The magistrate arched his hand and returned unassumingly.
“Asshole, are you saying that this official is also a suspect?”Lord Tongzhi was on fire.
“My humble official wouldn’t dare. It is the responsibility of the guardians to protect the people, and I ask for your cooperation. If we set a precedent for Your Excellency, on the one hand, my humble servant is afraid that it would be unfair to these people, and on the other hand, I’m also afraid that if we set a precedent for Your Excellency, my humble servant won’t be able to bear it if he wants to collect.”
In the face of Lord Tongzhi’s anger, the magistrate’s face was as calm as ever, unaffected in the slightest, not even blinking an eyelid.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Pingan was glad that he had not touched his official ultimatum to let Hai Rui make things easier for the scholars who were rushing to take the exams as well as the sick old people and so on, or else he would definitely be embarrassed.
Just look at what happened to this fifth-ranked Tongzhi! Not to mention that he is still only a sixth grade. Although the governor is only seven or from the seventh grade, but people do not even sell the face of the fifth-grade officer, not to mention their own sixth-grade officer.
No favouritism.
No fear of power.
This is Zhu Pingan’s second sense of the magistrate, the first sense is from his official uniform with patches of integrity and frugality. Of course, the first sense may also be wrong, after all, in modern Guangxi, wearing worn clothes old belt broken sandals but bribery enrichment of tens of millions of a double-faced corrupt officials, can be said to be “others laugh at me too crazy, I laugh at others do not see through”.
However, judging from Zhu Pingan’s second sense of him, his first sense of him should be correct.
Humble and arrogant.
This is Zhu Pingan’s third sense of this governor, Zhu Pingan closer to the governor to see more clearly, this governor face has serious stubbornness left behind the brow lines, giving a feeling of loneliness, and from his style of action today can also be seen. Whether it’s a fellow governor or a sick old man or a student rushing to take the exam, this governor is insisting on this.
“Good! Good! Good! Tell this official where you govern?”
With a black face, Lord Tongzhi said three good words in a row, and then grimly asked the magistrate where he served.
The meaning was self-evident.
Dare to make things difficult for Lao Fu, have the guts to leave your name! See if I won’t clean you up later!
“I am the governor of Chun’an.”Chun’an governor is not scrupulous at all, frankly and openly will put his own office said out, not the slightest concern will be later to settle scores.
“Then this official will see how you handle the case!”
Tongzhi adults heard, and make a strong look at the Chun’an governor a few eyes, deep memory once, and then drilled into the subordinates carried in the sedan chair, instructed the subordinates to carry to the shade of the riverside trees, lifted the window screen, sitting in the sedan chair to see this rash governor to do the case.
“The subordinate obeyed the order.”Chun’an county magistrate bowed his hand and said goodbye, turned around and went back to the river to preside over the case work.
This Chun’an magistrate is hard and soft, so he can only find the corpse as soon as possible, or solve the case in order to pass as soon as possible.
Zhu Pingan is like watching the same, not at all noticeable with the governor came to the first scene, carefully viewed the scene, for the parties involved in the crime also pay close attention to a moment, and listened to the surrounding people for the case comment comment, as much as possible to get under the case information.
Chun’an governor arrived at the scene, commanded the police in the Yangtze River and pulled the net again, or nothing, slightly frowned and pondered for a moment, instructed the police to report the case will be called over.
There are mainly two people who reported the case together. One is dry just in the riverside heartbreaking crying young woman, but also the accident may have been killed in the wife of Master Zhang, the young woman is the renewal of Master Zhang married to the young wife, in the original Master Zhang after the death of the original wife, by Master Zhang married into the family. The young woman is in her early twenties, more than twenty years younger than Master Zhang, who married into the family five years ago.
Another report is a boatman surnamed Wang, a small boat on the river is his boat, can only sit five or six people. Wang boatman and Master Zhang is about the same age, since childhood in the Yangtze River to make a living, driving boats to transport people to make money.
Master Zhang is a businessman with several shops under his command. Three days ago, Master Zhang had to go to Yingtianfu to buy goods, and the boatman he hired was this boatman surnamed Wang. They agreed to rendezvous here on the river at a quarter past dawning this morning, and then go to Yingtianfu to buy goods. I didn’t expect something to happen this morning.
“You guys tell this official the original story again, Zhang Wang’s you first.”Chunan governor said to the two.
“Oooooooo ……Obey Qing Tian Daoliang, you can do it for the people’s wife.”The young woman cried a few if she could not stand up, by her maidservant help to barely stand up, then cried and begged Chunan governor to do the Lord.
“This official will do it for you, you speak first.”Governor Chunan nodded.
While the young woman was crying, many people around her pointed up at the young woman, whispering some gossip.
“Look, Grand Master Zhang has had an accident, and she’s still dressed so colourfully and smeared with grease, alas, Grand Master Zhang is planted on a woman.”
“That’s right, that’s right, I know this Grand Master Zhang, he’s a good man. But, alas, good people don’t live long. I’ve heard that Zhang Wang, who married the new wife of Master Zhang, had a lover when she was a girl in her mother’s house, a poor boy. It was her parents who decided to betroth her to Master Zhang.”
“Yes, I heard that this Zhang Wang’s on the palanquin, crying can be miserable, dead refused to get on the palanquin it.”
“Look at her appearance, I know, I heard that after marrying Master Zhang, she also ……”.
“She also what? You quickly say ah.”
“Come, you lean over, I will tell you …… quietly.”
For a while, the gossip of the surrounding onlookers reached Zhu Pingan’s ears as if they had turned on countless trumpets. The more people talked, the more lively and energetic they became, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
“Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, what nonsense are you guys talking about, my lady is not like what you guys are saying, my lady and master are in love.”
The maid beside the young woman, hearing the gossip of the people around her, was so angry that her face was red and trembling, and spat hard towards the onlookers.
“Silence!”
Seeing this, several officers stepped forward and loudly rebuked the crowd, before the scene calmed down a little.
