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Chapter 306 Wu Guozhen

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    Zhu Youxiao left Li Tiezhu behind and chatted about some family matters. From the conversation, Zhu Youxiao learned that Li Tiezhu was nineteen years old and lived in Lijiapo, Jinghai County. In addition to his lame father, there was also a fifteen-year-old girl and two children in his family.  A ten-year-old twin brother!

    Li Tiezhu¡¯s mother died of a serious illness last year, so she chose Li Tiezhu to be the only pillar of the Li family. The family guarded ten acres of land, and relied on Li Tiezhu to go hunting in the mountains and fish in the rivers. Although life was miserable, it was also happy!

    Zhu Youxiao was most curious about how Li Tiezhu got his kung fu, so he asked: "Tiezhu, who taught you the kung fu you have?"

    Li Tiezhu said with some embarrassment: "I don't have any kung fu. When I was ten years old, I went to the mountains with my father to collect medicine, and together with my father, I rescued an old Taoist. He thought that we would save his life, so he taught me  He gave me a few sets of boxing techniques and a prescription for strengthening my muscles and bones, and the old Taoist taught me for two years and then left, and I have never seen him again!"

    Zhu Youxiao didn't ask too much about the origin of Li Tiezhu's kung fu. Anyway, from his perspective, he could naturally see that Li Tiezhu's kung fu was absolutely superb, and the prescription for body training was not ordinary, otherwise the effect would not be so good.  !

    You must know that Li Tiezhu is not a naturally gifted monster like Qiao Wangjin. He got this physique through a little exercise. This shows that the old man really worked hard to teach him!

    " Then Zhu Youxiao chatted with Li Tiezhu for a while, talking about some interesting local things. At this time, there was a noise of carriages and horses on the straight road. It turned out that Zhu Youxiao's guard came in a hurry with a carriage!

    Zhu Youxiao's face gradually turned cold when he saw this. Li Tiezhu also looked over there, knowing that the county magistrate was coming!

    When the carriage and horses arrived in front of Zhu Youxiao, the guards took the horses and stopped the carriage. Before the carriage could stabilize, a thin old man wearing a seventh-grade official uniform with white beard and hair rolled away.  Fell from the car while crawling!

    Zhu Youxiao saw that the old man was at least sixty years old. Not only were his eyes cloudy, his face was covered with age spots, he even walked tremblingly!

    When such a seventh-grade county magistrate appeared in front of him, Zhu Youxiao felt bad all over. He really didn't expect that he was harsh on officials, but right under his nose, something like this happened.  A person!

    The Jinghai County Magistrate was not a coward. Although he was a little embarrassed when he got out of the car, after he stood firm, his behavior was extremely regulated!

    I saw the county magistrate walking tremblingly in front of Zhu Youxiao, bowing slowly to the ground, and said loudly: "Wei Wu Guozhen, the magistrate of Jinghai County, pays homage to your majesty and wishes my emperor long live."  Long live!"

    Although the old man behaves in a well-behaved manner, because he has very few teeth, his speech is somewhat leaky, which makes people listen a little awkward!

    Zhu Youxiao was afraid that he would faint after being bent over for a long time, so he waved his hand and said: "Sit back down!"

    Plop¡ª¡ª

    Before Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground!

    It¡¯s not that the old man Wu Guozhen really fell down, but that Li Tiezhu next to Zhu Youxiao sat down and squatted!

    "Youyouyou are the emperor?" Li Tiezhu screamed as if he had been castrated, obviously frightened by Zhu Youxiao's true identity!

    Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes at him and said, "Didn't you want to compete with me just now? Why are you so timid now?"

    Before Li Tiezhu could speak, Wu Guozhen had already straightened up and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this little brother just didn't know that you were the True Dragon Emperor, so naturally he dared to compete with you. Now he knows that you are the Lord of the Ming Dynasty.  , I lost my courage, and I should be so frightened!"

    Then Wu Guozhen said to Li Tiezhu: "You, a small farmer, are lucky enough to see the beauty of the sky, why don't you quickly bow down and pay homage?"

    Only then did Li Tiezhu react. He got up and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly and said: "Kowtow to the long live Lord, long live the Lord! Long live the Lord to the young boy!"

    Wu Guozhen said with a straight face again: "Nonsense, Long Live Lord is a title in the play, how can you call me your emperor like this? You should bow three times and kowtow nine times, and call yourself Your Majesty!"

    Li Tiezhu was taught a lesson and was about to do what Wu Guozhen said, but was immediately stopped by Zhu Youxiao!

    "Okay, okay, these are all trivial matters, let's talk about it later!" Zhu Youxiao said impatiently!

    "No!" Wu Guozhen stopped him and said, "Your Majesty! Etiquette and law are the foundation of a country. We must not take them lightly. Otherwise, etiquette and law will be completely abolished and the principles will be corrupted. This will be a big mistake!"

    Zhu Youxiao didn¡¯t expect that this person was still an old scholar, but he was extremely impatient, waved his hand and said:"Let's not talk about this for now. Let me ask you, will you live a long life this year?"

    Wu Guozhen bowed and saluted and said, "I don't dare to answer your Majesty's question. I am sixty-two years old!"

    Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "Officials in this dynasty will become official and rebel against their hometown when they are sixty. How can you still be an official when you are sixty-two? And you are a seventh-grade county magistrate?"

    Wu Guozhen's face turned red, and he said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen was born in the same Jinshi class in the 47th year of Wanli Dynasty. Therefore, this county magistrate is Wei Chen's first and last term. He will wait until this year.  After the investigation, Wei Chen will retire!"

    Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but cover his head. There is really nothing wrong with what he does as an official. He is sixty-two this year, and he was fifty-nine when he was a Jinshi in the middle of the forty-seventh year of Wanli. I think he came to the Ministry of Civil Affairs because he was really persistent. He passed the imperial examination.  A lifetime, so being given to a county magistrate can be regarded as a beginning and an end. Emperor Zhu Youxiao really can't say anything about this!

    Since there was no fault in this matter, Zhu Youxiao stopped talking nonsense and asked directly: "The imperial court issued a decree that soldiers' families should allocate land to tax-free households. Why do you, Li Jiapo, under the jurisdiction of Jinghai County, why do soldiers?  Didn¡¯t you get a share of the land?¡±

    Wu Guozhen frowned slightly and then said: "Wei Chen knows what your Majesty said about the government decree. In Xingwen Township, all the children in the family who join the army must be given land to the public. But I don't know where your Majesty heard that there was such disrespect for the law under Wei Chen's rule."  Things?"

    Zhu Youxiao glanced at Li Tiezhu and said, "Tell me about Li Jiapo!"

    Li Tiezhu recovered from the panic when he first learned about Zhu Youxiao's identity. At this time, when Zhu Youxiao asked, he said: "Er Niu, Dahuai, and Bangtou from our village have all gone to serve as soldiers.  I heard that I still work as a soldier for the emperor, but the three of them don¡¯t have even one acre of land to share, but the three of them have quite a lot of salary, twenty or thirty taels a year, which is much better than those of us who work on the land!¡±

    Zhu Youxiao looked at Wu Guozhen and sneered: "I'm afraid this matter will be proven after an investigation. What else do you have to say?"

    "Alas!" Wu Guozhen sighed, lifted his robe and knelt down in the tunnel: "I am guilty, your majesty, please punish me!"

    "Hmph!" Zhu Youxiao sneered: "You are a bachelor, tell me! What is going on?"

    Wu Guozhen knelt on the ground and said: "This matter is actually not a secret. Whenever someone recruits soldiers and leaves home, the county will receive a letter from the Ministry of Household Affairs, allocating five acres of land to a certain household registration, and indicating that the household is exempt from taxes. The county will  I will leave this matter to the township in accordance with the documents, but"

    Having said this, Wu Guozhen stopped talking!

    Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "But what? Keep talking!"

    Wu Guozhen had no choice but to continue: "But when the village receives the approval, it will often transfer the tax-free acres to the homes of the gentry or Li Zheng in the village. As for the labor service, they will also be exempted from their own homes, so that"

    "That's enough!" Zhu Youxiao interrupted Wu Guozhen and said angrily: "These people ignore the national law. Don't you, the county magistrate, just ignore them?"

    But Wu Guozhen smiled bitterly and said: "Does Your Majesty know that the national law does not go to the countryside?"

    Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that this is a major feature of China. The so-called national law does not go to the countryside, which means that officials are only managed at the county level, and the villages below are managed by village elders and gentry. Therefore, military personnel are divided into fields.  It seems that Wu Guozhen cannot be entirely blamed for being divided privately!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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