Chapter 8 Problems arise ()

After leaving Taibailou, Tang Feng and Jiefu left the Taibailou and went into a nearby restaurant and ordered some food. After the food came, Tang Feng said, "Listen, it will make you hungry. Let's eat some first before going back to the county government."

He nodded gratefully and started eating with a big mouthful of food. When he was eating with relish, he heard Tang Feng ask, "What did you think of the soup just now? Why did it suddenly spill on the face of Master Wang?" He was stunned at first, but he still honestly said, "If you say goodbye, I made it. They wanted to plot against the young master first. I broke it, so I couldn't help but take action. Please punish me."

Tang Feng just heard a slight sound from behind him, and then the basin jumped up, so he suspected that it was the hand that stood behind him to solve the problem. Now he asked. However, he didn't look angry at all, and just asked, "You said they were plotting against me first? So what do you say?"

After solving the problem, he told Wang Dedao's behavior just now, and then said: "I found that they had a bad intention, so I was careful. When he shot out the hidden weapon, he also shot a needle to shoot it down. But I still couldn't swallow this, so I used the hidden weapon to hit Wang Dedao with his teeth, but I didn't expect that he didn't understand martial arts at all, so..." As he said that, he looked at Tang Feng timidly, for fear that he would get angry.

But what he couldn't guess was that Tang Feng was very happy at this time. He was not the kind of person who only knew how to calm things down and swallowed the loss. He had long seen that Wang Dedao was a little disliked. He just endured it because of his lack of identity and ability. Now someone vented his anger on him is of course a good thing. So he just smiled and said, "You are quite sensible in your actions, and I'm very satisfied. Just..." I was surprised to hear him speak like this.

Knowing that his young master has always been kind to others, why do he still say he is satisfied if he hurts others? Looking at Tang Feng who has turned his sexual intercourse, he felt very unreal. Until he heard Tang Feng say the word "just", he guessed that the words behind the young master were to teach him, so he lowered his head with shame. But Tang Feng's words raised his head again, and the surprise on his face was even more serious: "It's just that if you can teach me in your spare time, so that I can also have a way to defend myself."

"Of course, as long as the young master is willing, I will teach you everything I have learned." Jiewei agreed immediately.

After Tang Feng explained the truth, he thought of the hot current he felt when he just woke up. After reading too many novels, he certainly guessed that this was internal force, which means that he could use internal force to save himself. This made him curious about this originally mysterious thing, and he thought that he could learn to make his body better. Now that he had agreed without any trouble when he answered the problem, he was even more happy.

After using the meal, the two returned to the county government office. As soon as they arrived at their residence, Tang Feng hurriedly asked how to practice internal skills. After solving the problem, he told Tang Feng some tips for getting started. He was very strange in his heart. Didn’t the young master pay much attention to martial arts before? Why did he have such a great interest today? Then he guessed that it was because he saw that his move made the young master interested after he took action, so he did not go into it.

Tang Feng tried to adjust his breathing as he said about solving the problem, but he didn't feel anything. He knew that this thing was not achieved overnight, so he didn't take it seriously. However, he didn't expect that his age actually had the best time to practice martial arts. It was really difficult to achieve something. It would only result with twice the result. Of course, he would not pour cold water on his excitement. So after working hard for more than half an hour, Tang Feng had to go to bed.

The next morning, everyone in the yamen arrived. Tang Feng wore the county magistrate's uniform for the first time and met everyone in the second hall. After saying some high-sounding words, Tang Feng said again: "From now on, I will work with you again. I am not someone who can't hear different opinions. You can report any opinions in person. There is only one thing you should remember, that is, you must do your job well in your own duties and be worthy of the salary you receive." Gao Ming and others all said yes. Seeing that the hanger had nothing to say, Tang Feng said: "Then you can go and do your own business. Just keep it for the two of you, Master Tian and Prince Gao."

After the others left, Tang Feng said: "This county was also the first official for this matter, and we have to rely more on the help of the two. I believe that both of them know the big and small matters in this county, and I will tell me about the situation last year so that I can have a clear understanding of the situation and see if I can manage the county well."

Gao and Tian looked at each other, and then Gao Ming introduced to Tang Feng what the Zhonggan County officials should do, such as taxation, criminal prisons, etc. Finally, he said: "With the help of the village chiefs of each township, the taxation is still very timely. Moreover, the county has always been in good weather and the people live and work in peace and contentment. No crime has occurred. At most, there is a thief. If there is a Hu captain, they can't make any big waves. So just worry."

Tang Feng listened to his words and felt that he seemed to be a redundant person. Some people would take care of all the taxes and some prisoners would handle them. So why should he do this as a county magistrate? He felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it, so he had to say, "Then I'll have some trouble."

Gao and Tian saw that Tang Feng had no other instructions and wanted to leave. At this moment, Tang Feng saw several books on the table on the side. Then he remembered what he had forgotten and said, "Wait, I forgot. Now the county account should still be in your hands. Go and get it for me to take it. Just take the account for the past three years."

The two people who were about to leave were stunned when they heard this. The reason why they did not mention this matter was to take over the power and let Tang Feng be a hand-off manager. Unexpectedly, the newly appointed magistrate knew about it. The two looked at each other and knew that they could not be rejected, so they said, "Yes!"

Unexpectedly, before they could leave, Tang Feng's second order came again: "By the way, the files of the cases that the county has cut in the past three years will be taken to me to read." The two of them looked even worse. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate understood everything. He still remembered that one money and one power were the two most important things for an official. This made the two of them look up to the young county magistrate a little, knowing that they could not fool him.

After a while, several servants walked in with a large number of books. Looking at the books several feet tall, Tang Feng realized how difficult his task was. But since the clothes hanger had made up his mind to be a competent county magistrate, Tang Feng had no choice but to bite the bullet and hope that the things he learned in school could be arranged in a level way.

A few days later, Tang Feng stayed in front of the second hall's book case and looked through the files, and even the outside of the yamen had not taken a step. Those cases had been settled, so Tang Feng only read the general idea to improve his judgment level based on the Ming Dynasty laws he had just read, but those account books gave him a headache. Although he was not difficult to read ancient documents because of the previous Tang Feng's memory, he could not fully understand these accounting methods, so he could only distinguish them bit by bit and find the rules. It took a lot of effort to see these things like this. In five days, he actually saw less than 30% of them, which made Tang Feng look straight.

But this time was not in vain. After all, he was a person with higher education. Tang Feng quickly saw some flaws from these accounts. Perhaps the account holders did not think that someone would spend a lot of effort to read these things, but did not record fake accounts like those who later did. Instead, each income and expenditure was clearly written. In this way, some of the tricks came out. The silver collected this month was 500 taels, but the amount reported to it became 350 taels. Obviously, the 150 taels of silver that were missing were divided privately.

Looking at the many inconsistent records on these accounts, Tang Feng could have confirmed that the people in the yamen had tampered with the silver. After careful calculation, thousands of taels of silver had been embezzled in the accounts he had seen in less than a year. Although Tang Feng didn't know how much they had been greedy for the past three years, he could guess that there must be a lot. He couldn't help but feel secretly hated in his heart. To be honest, what he hated the most were those corrupt officials. Now these wormworms were actually doing the job under his own hands, which made Tang Feng want to take them down immediately.

But after he got up and walked a few times, Tang Feng stopped this seductive idea. He thought of the scene when these people were talking in the yamen when he came. Now he could conclude that these people were discussing what matters. Obviously, they were afraid that the newly appointed county magistrate was not easy to deal with, so they discussed countermeasures together, that is, these people in the yamen are all involved in corruption. If they have a quarrel with these people, they will have to deal with so many slick officials alone. Can they be their opponent? And even if they can really win, after taking these people over and over, will such a large yamen be managed by themselves?

Thinking of these concerns, Tang Feng understood why anti-corruption is always the most difficult thing in ancient times or modern times. He forced himself to suppress the idea of ​​calling these people and said to himself: "I can definitely come up with a way. I have been educated hundreds of years more than them." Having said that, Tang Feng now has to admit that he has no choice but to use these people.
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