Chapter 1097: Wei Suo Hao Hu
County Magistrate Wang returned to his office, eating melon seeds and drinking tea while waiting for news from his nephew.
It’s not that he doesn’t work, but he has so many subordinates. If he doesn’t let his subordinates work, what is he doing as a leader?
County Magistrate Wang thought that this was how his life would be like. His conditions and abilities were limited, and there was no way he could move up any further.
The future of the Wang family depends on the eldest nephew in the capital.
The sons of County Magistrate Wang were much inferior to his younger brother's sons, so they had to work in Yuanlu County or go to Chenzhou Prefecture to live with their aunt.
When Wang Jiaxing saw his uncle's disappearing back, he immediately ran to the study, thinking about how to write the letter and how to pass the message on.
Hehe, while eating, I sneaked out and found one of my uncle's confidants to deliver a letter.
Hehe, the yamen is full of my uncle’s people, so it’s a piece of cake.
Sun Shan was having breakfast at this moment, and he knew that County Magistrate Wang had come early in the morning to meet his nephew.
With the Sun family guards watching over him, Sun Shan guaranteed that Wang Jiaxing would stay in the inner courtyard and study obediently. It would be very difficult, if not extremely difficult, to leak the news out.
After breakfast, we officially go to work.
People from Chenzhou Prefecture came to the county government office early to look for Sun Shan.
He was shocked when he saw Sun Shan. He never thought that such a simple and ordinary Sun Shan could kill more than a dozen bandits?
Being so short and thin, it's good enough that he can run.
The people who came this time turned out to be from the Chenzhou Prefecture Guard Station. When Sun Shan first heard what Master Zhang said, he was also surprised.
According to the information we have heard these days, bandits often appear in the Wuling Mountain area, and an army was sent out not long ago to suppress them.
Now that the garrison has arrived, this further confirms the news.
These bandits from Wuling may have escaped the anti-bandit campaign of the garrison and fled to Niujiao Mountain in Yuanlu to commit crimes.
Sun Shan guessed that this group of "defeated soldiers" got the news from somewhere and knew that there was no county magistrate in Yuanlu County, so they ran over to rob people on the road.
It was just a strange fate that they met Sun Shan who took office, and were completely wiped out by him.
The fact that the army was dispatched to suppress the bandits shows how numerous and rampant the bandits were in Wuling. Gao really couldn't tolerate it any longer, so his superiors had to send troops.
It is still possible to deal with a few petty thieves by relying on ordinary local forces.
It is wishful thinking to deal with bandits in the mountains.
Only the army has the ability and courage to go into the deep mountains and forests to dig out the bandits.
This time, the garrison sent a captain, whose surname was Hao and whose name was Bin. He came up to greet Sun Shan and said, "Governor Sun, I am honored."
Sun Shan quickly returned the greeting: "Captain Hao, nice to meet you, nice to meet you."
In the Wei Suo system, a Qianhu commanded about 1000 soldiers and was a mid-level officer.
Qianhu was a fifth-rank military officer, higher than the county magistrate (seventh rank) but lower than the prefect (fourth rank).
Logically speaking, Sun Shan’s rank is lower, so he should be more humble.
It’s just that civil servants and military officers are two completely different systems, and civil servants are often more important than military officers.
Even though Captain Hao is of a higher rank than Sun Shan, Sun Shan may not necessarily pay attention to him when they meet. Civil officials often look down on military officers.
Of course, Sun Shan was not such an official, whether to his superiors, subordinates, or the middlemen.
Modesty, prudence, gentleness and courtesy are always Sun Shan's code of conduct.
It is always easier to make friends and less likely to offend people by smiling than to keep a tense face.
Sun Shan invited Captain Hao to take a seat and bowed.
He first apologized for delaying Captain Hao's work because he was out on patrol: "Captain Hao, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I was out on patrol these days, not at the government office, so you missed out and were delayed for a long time. I apologize here."
No matter whether it is reasonable or not, apologize first and then talk about the matter slowly.
This will make the atmosphere much more harmonious.
Sun Shan has been so polite, Captain Hao, you should feel embarrassed to lose your temper.
Captain Hao was indeed not angry. Sun Shan's reasons were very legitimate and he could not find any reason to be angry.
The magistrate cannot stay in the county government office all the time, and going out for inspection is a normal part of his work.
What's more, Sun Shan was really polite and apologized to them right away.
Moreover, I have been staying in the government office these days, being well fed and well served, so I feel embarrassed to get angry.
Captain Hao quickly waved his hand and said, "County Magistrate Sun, I understand."
This means that the matter of "Sun Shan was not in the yamen and kept them waiting for a long time" is over and there is no need to mention it again.
So Captain Hao got straight to the point: "County Magistrate Sun, could you please tell us where you suppressed the bandits?"
This was to let Sun Shan explain the whole cause and effect so that they could report back.
Sun Shan has always been an upright person, and the so-called bandit suppression means that he has to suppress bandits.
Of course, Sun Shan would not do as the rumors went: County Magistrate Sun could not bear to see the people of Yuanlu suffer from the harm caused by bandits, so before he took office, he had planned for a long time. He first went to Niujiao Mountain to kill all the bandits who were causing trouble in the area, and then brought the bandits' bodies back to the city to serve as county magistrate.
Sun Shan said half-truthfully, "Captain Hao, I encountered bandits on my way to take office. They were robbing a passing merchant. It just so happened that the merchant was a citizen of Yuanlu, and the place where they robbed happened to be in the area of Yuanlu.
As the chief official of Yuanlu, I could not just stand by and watch, so I arranged for my guards to go forward and fight the bandits. Fortunately, there were not many bandits this time, so we barely won. "
Sun Shan recounted the whole process of suppressing the bandits in detail, using only a few omissions.
In short, the focus of the topic is that he knew nothing, but just encountered bandits killing people, and the killing was carried out in Yuanlu County.
As a local official, he could not tolerate this, so he arranged for his guards to go forward and fight with the bandits.
Sun Shan's version of the rumor was different from that outside, but in the end they all said that he happened to meet the bandits on his way to take up his post, and when he saw them killing people and robbing, he ordered his guards to go forward and suppress the bandits.
Sun Shan spoke in a calm tone, highlighting his need to suppress the bandits.
Rather than the long-planned bandit suppression as rumored.
Captain Hao thought about it and finally accepted Sun Shan's statement.
Civil servants like Sun Shan are greedy for life and afraid of death, so how could they really go to suppress bandits?
The civil officials on the other side of Wuling Mountain saw the people's resentment boiling and could no longer tolerate it, so they asked the garrison for help.
A civil servant like Sun Shan, who has no fighting power, would never risk his life to suppress bandits.
Those with good intentions would tell the people to stay at home less, while those with irresponsible hearts would just muddle through and pretend not to see the bandits as long as they did not break into the county government office.
Sun Shan went to suppress the bandits because he had to. If you don't step forward to fight the bandits when you meet them on a narrow road, you will be killed by them sooner or later.
When they first received Sun Shan's report, the guards were stunned.
They never expected that the escaped fish they had been searching for these days - the big boss and the second boss of Heishuiwo - actually appeared in Yuanlu County and were killed by the magistrate of Yuanlu County.
So what were the bandits that were suppressed before?
A lot of small soldiers and crab generals were caught, but in the end the leader ran away. What kind of bandit suppression is this?
They have been searching hard in Wuling Mountain these days, but they just can't find the boss of Heishuiwo, so it's impossible for them to go back and report.
Who would have thought that the bandit leader would escape so far and be captured by a newly appointed so-called county magistrate, who also killed the main leaders of the Heishui Den one by one. This made them feel devastated.
If the civil officials of the court knew about this, wouldn't the military officers be completely embarrassed?