Chapter 43 Night Tour
Chapter 43 Night Tour
Guo Zhuang's head and arms were still wrapped in gauze. He held the newly received appointment document and could not help waving it vigorously, regardless of the pain in his wounds.
It has to hurt to know that he is not dreaming!
He finally became the head of the police.
It was not easy to "invite" Mr. Xu back this time.
After Guo Zhuang received the order from the county magistrate, in addition to calling Guo Li, he also immediately called his brothers in the clan who were doing unpaid labor under him.
Since he called these brothers to work in the police station, they were all fierce and aggressive people in the village. They used to go hunting in the mountains and were not afraid of leopards or lone wolves.
Very brave!
Fortunately, he brought these clansmen with him and was able to "invite" Mr. Xu back.
After all, Mr. Xu brought guards with him.
However, he came from Songzhou Prefecture and did not dare to bring a strong bow or crossbow.
If you hide these things privately, it's fine as long as you don't get caught. But if you take them out of your territory and encounter a checkpoint inspector who doesn't want to give you face and searches them out, you will immediately be charged with treason.
Even so, the two guards around him are usually troublemakers in the village.
They managed to cripple three of Guo Zhuang's group members, and even Guo Zhuang was seriously injured. If Guo Zhuang had not relied on his numbers, it would have been difficult to subdue the enemy.
As for the servants around Mr. Xu, they had little fighting power and were all "invited" back to the county government.
After arriving at the county government office, the two guards had their joints broken and were thrown into jail.
Guo Zhuang must treat the other party well.
The hatred has already been formed, even if the opponent is released later, he will not be able to let him have any fighting power.
He had just finished his work and applied the medicine when the appointment document from the chief constable arrived immediately.
After all, the appointment of a lowly constable was just a matter of a word from the county magistrate, and at most a formality would be added afterwards.
In fact, the county government is a smaller version of the imperial court, and the county magistrate is the local emperor.
But the problem is that if the county magistrate doesn't know who to trust, there is no point in appointing or dismissing the head of the police.
The reason why County Magistrate Wu did not touch Zhao Xiong before was because he could not tell who he could trust.
Moreover, Zhao Xiong had been running the county government for three generations, and Magistrate Wu would not touch him until he was sure. Otherwise, if he did, the government office might catch fire that night.
When Guo Zhuang received the appointment document, even though he was usually calm, he was ecstatic at this moment.
For a yamen runner of low status, becoming a constable was equivalent to a scholar passing the imperial examination.
This is something that many yamen runners would only dare to dream of.
He couldn't wait to put on the captain's uniform and go to the police station.
News spreads quickly in the yamen.
As soon as Guo Zhuang's appointment document came down, the entire county government knew about it.
The county constable can be said to be the fifth most important person in the county government. Although he cannot be called a master, everyone in the whole county who has no official title will be scared when they see him.
The chief constable is a lackey, but he is also a lackey of the imperial court!
However, Guo Zhuang does not consider himself a lackey of the imperial court.
These days, he tried to curry favor with Xu Qing, and many yamen runners secretly called him Xu Qing's dog.
Now he appeared in the police station wearing the captain's uniform, just to tell those who secretly looked down on him, what's wrong with being a dog of the young master?
In the past, many of these people were Zhao Xiong’s dogs.
Can you become a captain of the police if you are Zhao Xiong's dog?
Guo Zhuang looked around at the detectives.
They lowered their heads, not daring to look at this former ordinary squad leader.
At the same time, an absurd idea came into the minds of many people.
Li Dianshi was also a yamen runner before, and so was Guo Zhuang. But because of Xu Qing's relationship, one became Dianshi and the other became a police chief.
For a moment, they couldn't help but wonder, who is the big boss of the county government?
The experienced old clerks have deeply realized that no matter who the next county magistrate is, Xu Qing already has a huge influence on the county government, more than Zhao Xiong did in the past.
Because Xu Qing was a 14-year-old junior scholar, the magistrate could do nothing to him as long as he did not make any mistakes, and generally speaking, he would not offend such a young talent. After all, the magistrate was a turbid official, and most of them were juren and jinshi.
With Xu Qing's talent as the top three scholar in Zhili Prefecture, he has a great chance of becoming a second-class Jinshi in the future.
If there is no need, there is no need to make enemies with such a young talent.
The governor who prevented the prime minister from passing the imperial examination now has grass growing on his grave, and no descendant of his family has entered the court to this day.
There is no way, the Minister of Personnel is now in the Prime Minister's faction.
This is also reasonable.
If the Ministry of Personnel can’t get it, who dares to carry out reforms?
When doing big things, personnel power has always been of paramount importance.
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Xu Qing didn't know that his authority had penetrated deeply into the county government, but he was quite happy now because Mr. Xu was really invited back to the county government.
Only a trace of black energy remains in one's destiny.
His thoughts were quite insightful.
A gentleman's revenge is never too late.
But if revenge can be taken overnight, who would be willing to wait ten years?
In any case, Mr. Xu will suffer a great loss this time.
"Unfortunately, we can't eradicate the problem completely for now. After all, he is the head of the Xu family in Songzhou and a juren." Xu Qing was not afraid of the other party's revenge.
This is Qingshui County, and the Xu family of Songzhou can't do anything to him.
What's more, compared to offending Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu should just wish himself good luck.
His plan was exposed by Xu Qing through County Magistrate Wu. How could Zhou Tixue let him off?
In fact, people like Mr. Xu have been like pawns crossing the river since they approached Xu Qing, and they have no choice.
"No wonder everyone wants to climb up the social ladder. As long as there are people above them, one day they will inevitably become pawns and have no control over their own destiny."
"So, even if you have an immortal body, if there are people on it, it is difficult for you to be free and at ease. You may even be kept in captivity and bled..."
While Xu Qing felt happy, he also reflected and sighed in his heart.
This kind of restraint while feeling refreshed made the "crane cry" breathing in his soul come out spontaneously.
It was midnight and the yard was quiet and deserted.
Xu Qing's mind was filled with the sound of "crane cries".
The spine rose and fell like a dragon and snake, and the qi and blood surged, all rushing to the top of the spine, which was the back of the head.
In a trance, the moonlight attracted by the old phoenix tree turned into a beam of light and came to Xu Qing's head, pouring into it inch by inch.
Suddenly, Xu Qing felt as if he was bathed in a cool breeze. He felt as if he was floating in the air and was actually "flying".
He really "flew" up and saw himself!
"I am in a trance state now."
Xu Qing floated to the water tank and saw his "soul" wrapped in a layer of faint moonlight, his figure looming on the water.
In the past, when his soul left his body, if it was not wrapped in incense, when it arrived in the yard, the cold wind around him would blow his soul as if it were cut into pieces by thousands of knives, which was very terrifying.
Now he is not afraid anymore.
The soul was wrapped in a layer of faint moonlight, seeming to be there and not there, coming and going freely in the yard.
The cold wind still exists around, but its harmfulness is greatly reduced.
He focused his attention on the bronze mirror in his soul, and sure enough, the evaluation in the Dao column changed:
Night tour!
(End of this chapter)