Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Chapter 264 Is this county government so poor?

Hu Daniu jumped up on the spot: "What do you mean by that look?"

Xu Jinyu took two steps back, not intending to argue with Hu Daniu: "It's meaningless."

"What do you mean by "nothing"? I just scolded Princess Tai'an, what's wrong with that?" Hu Daniu's face turned red, as if Princess Tai'an and him had some deep hatred.

[I'm just embarrassed...]

Wei An looked at the jumping man with curiosity. What kind of embarrassment could make Xu Jinyu tolerate this man? Xu Jinyu was not someone who could tolerate anger.

[After all, his mother, his wife, and his three daughters all left because of the recruitment of workers in the salted duck egg workshop, leaving him alone at home with a child who was not even five years old. The good days when this man had someone to serve him were gone forever.]

[He has to support his family and take care of his young son every day, and he is so busy. But his mother, daughter-in-law, and daughter working in the salted duck egg workshop have a better life than him. It would be fine if he didn't compare them. But once he did, this man's resentment almost broke through the sky.]

[He did not reflect on his own bad behavior towards his wife and mother, and he did not dare to cause trouble to the owner of the salted duck egg workshop, so he could only scold the Princess Tai'an who sold the salted duck egg recipe.]

[I tolerate this insult.]

Xu Jinyu smiled and stepped back. Now that the woman had the most basic living security, she had a little courage to resist.

Although it's not a divorce or anything like that, it does take some courage to just ignore your husband and son. Xu Jinyu likes this kind of excitement very much.

"this····"

Ren Changfeng thought that this was not a good idea!

As a wife and daughter, how could I abandon my husband and my immature son?

The next moment, an old peddler hit Hu Daniu on the head with a stick: "Why are you shouting? Why are you shouting? If you treat your wife and daughter well, your wife and daughter will never abandon you."

"It's all your fault that you beat or scold your daughter and wife all day long. When you're in a bad mood, you beat and scold them. Under your influence, your youngest son has no respect for his sister. If I were your wife, I would run away too. Now you don't want to think about how to win back your wife and daughter, but you're still showing off your power here. Do you really want to live like this?"

Hu Daniu was hit by a stick and ran around the street. He was still shouting unconvinced: "I am her husband and father. I beat her. That emperor is so confused that he even issued a decree that beating a wife to death is a capital crime. What the hell..."

Before he could finish his next words, the old man hit him back, "I told you to stop talking nonsense. Do we have any say over the emperor? You don't want to live anymore, but we still want to live."

"Bang bang bang!!!"

The sound of the stick hitting the head was really wonderful, and Xu Jinyu watched the show with a smile.

Ren Changfeng couldn't help but cover his face. This man really deserved to be punished. It was good of his wife and daughter to run away!

After this episode, nothing happened again, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Xu Jinyu couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this Gaoyuan County is not bad, there are no bullies or anything like that."

Ren Changfeng smiled lightly, how could a county government be without bullies? It was only because Emperor Xuan had issued a decree that he, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Inspectorate, had been conducting inspections on behalf of the Emperor. Now, all the county governments under the rule of Daqian had already been cleaned up, and the county magistrate must have warned the people in the county not to cause trouble, otherwise you would have seen it.

Thinking of this, Ren Changfeng said to Xu Jinyu: "Let's go to the gate of the county government office and take a look."

He came out in the name of inspection, but his real task was to keep an eye on the three young men, but he still had to do the inspection work on behalf of Tian.

Let all officials in the world be careful not to do whatever they want just because they are in a local position and not treat the people as human beings.

When Xu Jinyu and his companions arrived at the gate of the county government office, they were stunned. This county government office in Gaoyuan County was extremely dilapidated. The grass on the eaves was half a person tall, and most of the paint on the gate of the county government office had fallen off, revealing the color of the wood inside.

The two yamen runners standing at the gate of the county government had tattered clothes on.

“Is this plateau county so poor?”

Princess Wuyang couldn't help but point at the clothes on the yamen runner and asked.

Ren Changfeng said uncertainly: "It shouldn't be this poor!"

Even the clothes of the yamen runners were tattered. Even a county government that specialized in exiling criminals would not be in such a state.

Could it be that he was pretending? This was Ren Changfeng’s first reaction.

This kind of thing has happened before. In order to show their integrity, some officials have patches piled up on their bodies, even their official uniforms are no exception.

This caused His Majesty to praise the official for his integrity and reward him handsomely, but in private he lived an even more luxurious life than His Majesty.

Ren Changfeng moved his fingers and decided to send someone to investigate. If he was really pretending, his position as the magistrate of Gaoyuan County would be over.

Daqian does not need such officials who seek fame and reputation.

Ren Changfeng snorted heavily. Instead of using his brain on governance, he only used it on crooked ways.

[I'm not pretending. The county government is poor, the county magistrate is poor, and the yamen runners are naturally poor too. So who is rich? ]

[From what I saw just now, Gaoyuan County is quite lively! Where did the taxes go? ]

Yeah, where did it go?

Ren Changfeng was also a county magistrate. Looking at the situation on the street just now, commercial taxes were inevitable. At least there would be no problem in repairing the county government office in good shape.

Where did the money go?

Ren Changfeng looked at Xu Jinyu

【Oh~~~There is a well-known Taoist temple in Gaoyuan County. The Taoist priests in the temple have some skills. They fooled everyone in Gaoyuan County, from the county magistrate to the rich and ordinary people, and they sent all their extra money to the Taoist temple.】

[Even the various secret recipes I sold at a low price were said by the Taoist priest to be due to his sincere prayers, and the heaven sent down a Princess Tai'an to show mercy to all living beings.]

[Otherwise, I, Princess Tai'an, would go to another country. ]

[What does it have to do with him? I bought these secret recipes with real money! Real money! How did it become his credit? ]

Xu Jinyu was inexplicably angry.

All her hard work turned out to be someone else's credit.

Ren Changfeng suddenly fell silent.

He thought that Gaoyuan County was corrupt from top to bottom, but he didn't expect that Gaoyuan County was deceived from top to bottom.

It would be fine if it happened to ordinary people, but it was a bit ridiculous that a county magistrate and a successful candidate in two imperial examinations was cheated out of even the money needed to repair the county government office.