Super Mom System

Chapter 76 The King Called Me to Patrol the City

Magistrate Fan of Wu County was a little unhappy when he heard that an official had come to report to the county government this morning.I don't know where the bird man came from, and he doesn't know any rules. Before he took office, he didn't go to Fan's private house to pay a visit, so he dared to go directly to the county government office?
So Magistrate Fan asked the official to be brought to the lobby and all the extra chairs were removed.

When County Magistrate Fan put on his official uniform and Shi Shiran came to the lobby, Zhao Ritian was sitting on the county magistrate's seat shaking his legs.The little prince was wearing the green official robe of an eighth-rank official, and the black gauze on his head was all crooked.

In the lobby, the two rows of yamen servants on the left and right were all in a daze with their killing sticks.

what's the situation?Where did this stupid guy with triangular eyes come from?How dare a mere eighth-rank official take my seat?
County magistrate Fan was furious, Xiao Yang, you don't know why the flowers are so popular if the tiger doesn't show off its power.

"Bastard!" County Magistrate Fan shouted angrily, and was about to call on the government officials to take this person down.

But the young man took out a yellow token and played with it in his hand.

"Who is the bastard scolding?"

County Magistrate Fan recognized at a glance that it was the token of the Huainan Palace, seeing it as if the Huainan King had come in person.In the territory of Huainan, this thing is more effective than imperial edicts.He had seen it at the prefect's mansion before.

County Magistrate Fan is tactful and is best at flattering the prefect.It is said that three lives do evil, and the prefectures and counties are in the same city.The county government of Wu county and Suzhou prefect's mansion are in the same city. Under the majesty of the prefect, Fan county magistrate is basically a handyman.This allowed him to develop a flexible temperament.

County Magistrate Fan turned around and kicked a yamen servant's leg, scolding: "Bastard, how can you stand so loosely!"

Then he smiled all over his face, and said to the young man: "This county has eyes that don't recognize Mount Tai, so I don't know if it's someone from the Huainan Palace. My lord, what's your business?"

Zhao Ritian cleared his throat and said, "I am the newly-appointed eighth-rank patrol envoy of Wu County, Liu Angxing! I am here to report to the county government office today..."

Huh, there seems to be something wrong.

Zhao Ritian tilted his head and thought for a while. The county magistrate seemed to be in the seventh rank. He didn't look good while I was sitting.Oops, I didn’t do my preparations seriously.

This can't be blamed on Zhao Xiaowang.A mere county magistrate is not qualified to talk to him on weekdays.Besides, who let there be only one chair in the lobby.

"Sorry!" Zhao Ritian sincerely apologized, "This seems to be your seat, come and sit."

County magistrate Fan burst into tears, sir, you finally remembered.But now he didn't dare to sit down.

"Let you sit and sit, what are you dawdling about, are you pregnant?"

Magistrate Fan blushed with anger, took a few deep breaths to adjust his mood, walked over and sat down.

"Come on, bring a chair for Master Liu."

After Magistrate Fan finished speaking, he found Mr. Liu sitting cross-legged on the public case, looking down at him.

Magistrate Fan collapsed, what kind of trouble is going on?
"Don't bother, this is the appointment document of the young master. You hurry up and make a book, so that I can start work immediately."

County magistrate Fan took the document with a sullen face, only to see that it said the duties of the city patrol envoy: patrol the whole city, and do it cheaply.

"???"

What the hell is this cheap business?Could it be that this eighth-rank petty official can take care of everything?
Zhao Ritian's condescending posture brought great psychological pressure to Magistrate Fan. He quickly called the clerk and registered on the spot.

Zhao Ritian nodded: "Lao Fan is not bad, he's very face-saving. I'm new here, sir, and I don't have anyone under my command. Brother, can you lend me a few people?"

County magistrate Fan couldn't keep up with his train of thought: "Important person? The county government is short of manpower recently, why don't you choose some of the servants in the hall?"

"Okay!" Zhao Ritian turned over and jumped off the public case, walked to the hall, and pointed at the man who had been kicked by Magistrate Fan just now.

County Magistrate Fan was overjoyed: "Only one?"

"Just don't want this. If you get kicked, you don't fight back. It's too cowardly. I want everything else."

"..."

Without waiting for Magistrate Fan to speak, Zhao Ritian took out a wad of silver notes from his pocket and gave one to each of the nine government officials, each containing 20 taels of silver.

"Brothers, follow me, Mr. Liu, from today, and you will get delicious food and spicy food."

The yamen servants stared wide-eyed, and the killing stick fell all over the lobby.

"Brothers, work is done, let's go!" Zhao Ritian greeted and walked out of the county government office in a swagger.The government officials followed closely.Only one yamen servant was left looking at Magistrate Fan aggrievedly...

Touring the city makes adults have a very high enthusiasm for work.He took nine yamen servants with him, bought ten pancakes for each of them, and immediately began to inspect the work.

They first inspected the main streets in Suzhou City, and found that there were few pedestrians on the streets, and more than half of them looked disheveled.I also randomly visited several medium-sized households, all of whom ate bran and swallowed vegetables.

Zhao Ritian asked the people around him, "Can't everyone eat?"

"Sir, I'll tell you the truth. Most of the grain stores have been closed recently, and every household is saving food."

"Yeah, I don't know where I can buy food. The big guys rely on food storage for a living."

"It's not bad in the city. I heard that there are people starving to death outside the west gate."

"Huh? Let's go and take a look at the city wall."

Zhao Ritian went straight to Ximen with the inspection team.

The city gate officer sent someone to stop them from a long distance: "What is this lord doing?"

Zhao Ritian didn't talk nonsense, and stepped forward to show the token of the Huainan Palace: "The king asked me to patrol the city!"

This thing may not be known to ordinary petty officials, and it is impossible for the city gate officials not to know it.

Sure enough, the city gate official immediately let him go.Zhao Ritian climbed up to the city gate tower and looked outside. He saw victims in ragged clothes everywhere outside the city wall, and the stench was so high.

Seeing the real victims suddenly had a great impact on Zhao Ritian.These gang of dog officials actually teamed up to lie to me a few days ago!
Zhao Ritian covered his nose and asked, "Is no one caring about this?"

The city gate officer also came up, and replied from the side: "The refugees outside the city are mainly divided into two groups, one group is the local disaster victims, and the other group is the refugees from the north. The refugees from the north are mainly concentrated at the north gate. People are sent out of the city every day to drive them away. But these people are like locusts, they drive away waves and come again. Moreover, they are cunning by nature, and they all ran to Simon to mix with the local disaster victims."

Zhao Ritian remembered Fairy Zixia's entrustment to him to take care of the victims, and seeing the tragic images of the victims under the city wall, he couldn't help feeling sorry for him.

He wondered: "Is there no Changping warehouse in Suzhou? Why isn't food released?"

The city gate officer pointed to a dilapidated shed outside the city and said, "There is a porridge factory outside the west gate. Every other day, the eunuch will pull some grain from the Changping warehouse to serve porridge, otherwise more people will starve to death."

Zhao Ritian waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go to Changping warehouse."

The inspection team headed to Changpingcang in Suzhou City.When they came to the store selling grain in Changpingcang, they saw that the door was open and there were only a few or two people buying grain.

A musty smell hits the face.

There is a bamboo stick with a price tag in the rice bucket, which says 150 Wen a bucket.The rice inside is mixed with stones and grass ash, and the color of the rice grains is also yellow.Zhao Ritian went forward and grabbed a few grains of rice, which shattered as soon as he squeezed them, leaving his hands covered in ashes.

"What the hell? This kind of food that even dogs don't eat sells for 150 renminbi?" Although Zhao Ritian doesn't know the key, he often goes wild among the people, and he still knows the basic common sense.The food sold on the street is like this, but the food for the victims outside the city is even more unimaginable.

"Master Liu, there are occasional grain stores in the city that sell rice, and the price has been as high as 300 cents per bucket."

"It's unreasonable! Where is the food in Suzhou City!" Zhao Ritian rolled his eyes, and took out a bank note from his arms: "I want all the dog food."

A group of yamen servants behind him looked at each other, wondering why Mr. Liu bought this thing.

(End of this chapter)