Chapter 370: Look at me laughing at you
The prefect smiled and said that he came here specifically to thank the boy for helping to build the road in Luzhou.
The imperial court implemented a two-level tax-sharing system at the central and local levels, and the Ministry of Works allocated funds for the construction of national highways. The construction of roads and docks in Luzhou was rapid, making it easier for people to do business and their income grew rapidly.
Immediately, the prefect proposed a plan to build a road to Kuizhou Road and asked him to help speak in the court.
Zhao Yulin thought for a while and said that although Sichuan is mountainous and travel is difficult, travel in those prefectures and counties that have just been recovered is even more difficult than for us.
Your Excellency's plea for the people shows that you love the people and are willing to do things. You can go to these places to plan transportation so that more people in Xinsong can walk on comfortable roads.
Zhao Yulin considered that Cao Youwan was going to march into Guangnan East Road, and Guangnan West Road would be unattended. He planned to let him be the pacification envoy of Guangnan West Road and continue to repair the national road into Guizhou, which was the most urgent thing to do.
Shi Ruyu was unhappy when she heard this.
It feels a bit like I'm teasing him, making fun of him.
What does Zhao Yulin mean?
Are you going to relinquish his official position and stop letting him do his job?
He did not explain much to the prefect. After drinking, he said goodbye and got on the boat, leaving the prefect alone in a daze on the dock.
The fortune teller said happily: Congratulations to Shi Gong, congratulations to Shi Gong, Shi Gong is going to be promoted.
What the hell? Shi Ruyu was upset. He looked gloomy and said coldly: What are you congratulating me for? You are obviously making fun of me.
The grain transport envoy smiled and said, "How dare we? We are not here to watch a joke. We guess that Shi Gong will be promoted soon."
The Third Young Master wants you to plan and build roads for more people, which must be more than the people in Luzhou. Maybe you will become a frontier official in charge of a region.
The prefect was still worried that Zhao Yulin would cheat him, so how could he think about building more roads? What kind of governor was he? He waved his hand and told them to stop talking about these useless jokes and go back to the prefecture.
Zhao Yulin sneezed twice in succession in the cabin. How could he know that these people were still gossiping together?
Chu Yuxuan brought him a quilt and said that the wind in the river was too strong and the young master caught a cold.
He pulled the quilt over him and asked where Xiao Chu was.
Xiao Chu told him that the water level was low in winter and it would probably take half a day to get home.
Zhao Yulin wrapped himself in the quilt, closed his eyes and dozed off.
The desert is filled with smoke. In the northern grassland royal court, the Khan's health is deteriorating. Everyone knows that the Khan is about to die, so the princes have begun to seize power.
Faced with the bloody fight between his own sons, the Khan of the grassland felt overwhelmed and a little tired. He summoned the old prime minister Yelu Chucai to talk.
The old prime minister felt very uncomfortable seeing the Khan walking unsteadily and trembling, unable to hold the golden bowl of mare's milk steadily, so he subtly suggested to him that he should quickly choose a successor to transfer the real power to form a strong leadership core for the next generation, so as to avoid the curse of bloody killing and power grab when the Golden Family regime changed.
The Khan's eyes wandered, as if he was thinking about something but did not express it.
He was unwilling to give up and still dreamed of living another 500 years.
The old prime minister saw that there was no point in talking any more, so he stood up, said goodbye, and walked out backwards.
At this time in the Mongol Empire, the sons of the Great Khan of the Steppes had already formed factions and were planning to ascend the throne. Not only did his sons have ideas, but his wife, the queen and the imperial concubines in the palace also colluded with their sons and relatives to plan for the aftermath of the Khan's death.
Zhao Yulin had been on the boat for a whole day and returned to Cuiping Mountain in Yibin in the evening. He had just come out of the water after bathing and changing clothes, and before he had time to drink a sip of tea, Cui Hao, the governor of Xuzhou, came outside to ask for a meeting.
The two of them sat down in the small living room. He asked the prefect what he was doing across the river in such a hurry, because not many people knew that he was going back to Cuiping Mountain.
Cui Hao hesitated for a moment and told him: Someone has reported his brother Zhao Yuqing.
Zhao Yuqing and Chen Siyuan, a wealthy businessman in Jiangbeizhou City, were competing for the business of the North Gate. They actually sent a guard to sneak into the man's yard to launch a sneak attack and broke the man's son's leg. The guard did not escape and gave away his elder brother Zhao Yuqing, the mastermind behind the scenes.
Originally, the government wanted to arrest Zhao Yuqing and punish him, but his aunt asked his father to ask Cui Hao to bail him out, and would rather spend money to settle the matter than save Zhao Yuqing from imprisonment.
However, the victim, Chen Siyuan, thought that Zhao Yuqing was bullying him by taking his business step by step, and refused to accept mediation. Not only that, he also asked his two wives to cry about Zhao Yuqing's crimes in the government office and at the dock, saying to everyone that he was the eldest brother of the Third Young Master of the Shenwei Army, and that he must have the support of the Third Young Master to be so bold.
Zhao Yulin was furious when he heard this, and asked Cui Hao why he didn't deal with it severely if he had verified the facts.
Isn't this a slap in his face in public, making the new society he advocates, where everyone is equal and treated equally before the law, become nonsense?
This made Cui Hao nervous. He took a short break and then said that after the incident, he immediately persuaded the man to go to the yamen and promised to ask the third young master to seek justice, thus calming the incident.
Zhao Yulin asked harshly why they had to wait for him to deal with it. A prince who breaks the law is guilty of the same crime as a commoner, so he should be dealt with as he should be.
Seeing that Cui Hao was already very frightened, he sighed and said that he was in a bad mood recently and had lost his temper, and asked Cui Hao not to take it to heart.
Zhao Yulin understood the thoughts of his colleagues. When the family members of officials at his level got into trouble, it was like there was a big tree supporting them from behind. The officials involved were under a lot of pressure and it was extremely difficult to handle the matter.
He hoped that Cui Hao would treat Zhao Yuqing's case as a crime committed by an ordinary citizen, and deal with it according to the law, most seriously and quickly. He also hoped that the place where Zhao Yuqing would serve his sentence should be far away, out of the reach of the two elders.
After receiving Zhao Yulin's instructions, Cui Hao came up with an idea and immediately stood up to say goodbye and leave.
This person either did not understand Zhao Yulin's character or was worried that he would protect his family, so he delayed solving the case. This made the ignorant people think that he was as bad as those corrupt officials, and they started to imagine a lot of things.
He was still feeling depressed when Chen Zhongshun came in with his father, the old scholar, and the eldest wife's family.
Zhao Yulin quickly stood up and bowed to everyone.
After everyone sat down, Chen Zhongshun said that Yuqing was stupid and committed a crime that was unforgivable, but he could not lose the face of the Zhao family. The son-in-law should inform Cui Hao in Xuzhou to make a small matter and settle it lightly, and it doesn't matter how much silver we pay.
Before Zhao Yulin could say anything, his sister-in-law had already spoken, looking expectant: "That's right, what's the big deal? It's good that my brother is back. Chen Siyuan is simply ignorant of the current situation and too arrogant."
His aunt even instructed him in a commanding tone: Brother Yuqing has been protecting San'er since he was young, so you must make sure that nothing happens to your brother.
Only his father, the old scholar, sat on the armchair, pretending to be solemn and not saying a word.
Zhao Yulin waited until they finished speaking and shut up before saying that the New Song Kingdom did not belong to him alone, but to the people of the world, and everyone was watching him.
At the beginning of the founding of the New Song Dynasty, he emphasized that everyone is equal before the law. Even Lord Ding, who was the king of the country, felt that he was to blame for the manipulation of money by the Thirteen Shops in Chengdu, which led to bad things in the market, so he took the initiative to retire and go to Taijiantang.
Who can trample on the law and act recklessly?
No one spoke.
At ease, his aunt said with great dissatisfaction: San'er doesn't care anymore.
The old lady immediately started sobbing, crying and telling how hard her Yuqing had been through, how she had never had a good life since she was a child...
Zhao Yulin watched the first wife's maids coming up one after another, and they really had first-rate acting skills, haha.
This crying annoyed Zhao Yulin's father, the old scholar. The old scholar roared and asked what he needed when Yuqing was born, as his family's business was doing well and they had no worries about food and clothing?
He stood up and told everyone to go back to Jiangbei and be confined to their homes, and not to embarrass themselves in public.
Before the group left the house, the servants of the old house came to report and shouted, "It's bad. Cui Hao personally led the police to our house to take away the young master, and also searched the small courtyard where the young master lived."
When the old scholar heard this, he was so angry that he hit the old scholar three times with his cane and kept saying it was shameful.
When his aunt heard this, she became anxious and thought this was unacceptable. She immediately took her eldest daughter-in-law and a group of people and rushed back to Jiangbei.
The old scholar stood up and shook his body, then said to Zhao Yulin: If you have the guts, you should enforce the law impartially like this, and then he hurried out behind his aunt.
Zhao Yulin saw his family off and stood at the door with a dazed look on his face, even forgetting to go back home.
Lu Youpeng came over and saw him in a daze, and asked him what was wrong, as if he had lost his soul?
Zhao Yulin smiled faintly, took Master Lu to the study for tea, and told him about Zhao Yuqing.
Lao Lu said that he had known about it for a long time, and Cui Hao was just too worried because Zhao Yuqing and Zhao Yulin were brothers. In addition, the old scholar went to plead for them in person, so he was in a dilemma and dared not take action, and instead made the people laugh at him.
Zhao Yulin said he planned to move Cui Hao to another place.
Lao Lu said that it would not be a good idea because the officials would say that my brother was retaliating because he had not done a good job on Yuqing's matter.
He shook his head and said that he still had some magnanimity. He thought Cui Hao was not courageous enough and could not resolve the inter-official protectionism, so he was not suitable to work in Xuzhou.
If this continues, it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to him and the Shenwei Army.
However, Cui Hao still has some abilities. If he leaves Xuzhou and does things without any scruples, he may be able to do even better.
Lao Lu asked him how he planned to arrange it?
He said that Guangnan West Road was stable, and wanted to send Shi Ruyu from Luzhou there as a pacification envoy, so he let Cui Hao serve as the acting governor of Luzhou.
Lao Lu gave him a thumbs up and said that this was a good arrangement. At first, he thought that his brother was going to kill Cui Hao. Unexpectedly, his brother had made plans while he was still in Luzhou.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that it was impossible for someone to be so foresighted. Master Lu was also a pillar of the country, so he should just take the job in Xuzhou. This little thing would surely not be difficult for our Master Lu.
Lao Lu immediately said, "What? Hey, hey."
Zhao Yulin had already picked up the tea bowl and knocked it against his cup, shouting: It's settled, have some tea.
Chen Zhongshun was unable to help the old scholar and thought that Zhao Yulin did not give him face. He felt unhappy and invited Qu Zhengyang and the shopkeeper Lao Ju to his home for a drink. He repeatedly said that Yulin had grown up and he was old and useless.
Qu Zhengyang said that when Mr. Zhao brought his first wife with him, he knew that something bad was going to happen. But Zhao Yuqing has Yulin Ge'er as a big tree to take shelter under, so who wouldn't give him some face?
