"I haven't arrived in the capital for two years, and I never thought that the changes were so great! Before, beggars were everywhere, and most of the people in the city were poor. Judging from their colors, we can tell that their daily lives were not filled with food! The streets and alleys are rare. Although they are not dirty, dirty things can be seen everywhere, and the people in the north and south cities are also dilapidated. What I see today makes me feel dazed! Just looking at the expressions of the people on the road, we know that their family situation has improved greatly. At this time when the sea is clear, our emperor will have a prosperous appearance! This is all thanks to the Holy Lord!"

Next to a street in the south city of the capital, a middle-aged man wearing a royal blue shirt and a square flat scarf was watching the street scene with his hands behind his back and the endless stream of pedestrians. His expression of emotion was beyond words. A fat man dressed in a businessman stood beside him.

"I said to Brother Ziru, don't drop your bags. We are businessmen, not those big headscarves, where do we get so many people? You have read a lot of idle books, but it sounds really awkward to quibble! It's already noon, so let's go to Mr. Wang's exterior to hand over the goods. Then we two go to a restaurant to have a drink and run around with you all morning. My stomach is empty! Ha~~~ Bah!"

After talking to the middle-aged man, the fat man opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, raised his arm and wiped a stain on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

In the blink of an eye, a man in a soap suit, a thin-soled fast boot, a dark round hat, and a shiny look. A man about thirty years old suddenly appeared in front of the two men as if he had crawled out from under the ground.

"This inexpert, I'm sorry, pay for ten cents!"

The man raised his hand and held a wooden sign as big as a palm, shaking it at the spitting fat man and then put it in his arms. Then he spread one palm and spoke at the fat man with a smile.

"What money? Why do I give you money? Look, you don't look like a beggar. Could it be that you want to rob? This is the capital! At the foot of the emperor, are you not afraid of asking the prince to catch him? Go quickly!"

The fat man was startled by the man who suddenly appeared, and then he shouted angrily.

"To be honest, I am a public official, and Li Wu, the yamen runner of the Shuntian Prefecture Municipal Appearance Management Bureau, is it! Haha! You spit everywhere and violate Article 3 of the Municipal Appearance Management Law. You are fined ten cents according to the rules! Come on, get the money!"

The man named Li Wu said to the fat man with a smile.

"What is the management bureau? I have been traveling around the country for decades and have never heard of this yamen. Is it because you, a kid, bully a child, and want to cheat someone's money? Be careful that someone will pull you to meet the official!"

The fat man said angrily.

He followed his father to do business since he was a child, and he was familiar with the relevant yamen in the court, but he never heard of any city appearance management bureau. This man must be a local household in the capital. Seeing that he was a foreigner, he specially found an excuse to extort money.

"See? This is a certain waist card. Look carefully! If you report to the official, you will be successful. If you move forward for a hundred steps, you will be the inspector of the Five City Military and Horses Office. You ask the officer next to you to report to the official and ask the inspector to come and distinguish it for you. Let's wait here, do you think it will be successful?"

Li Wu was not angry either. He held the wooden waist tag in his hand for the fat man to see it, and his face still looked like he was smiling.

The businessman named Ziru said "disturbance". He took the waist sign from Li Wu and saw that there were more than ten small characters "Li, a deputy director of Shuntianfu Municipal Adaptation Management Bureau" engraved on the front of the wooden sign, and the reverse was a lifelike image of the scribble.

After reading the waist card, Wang Ziru confirmed that Li Wu in front of him was indeed a member of the public. No one dared to forge the yamen waist card certificate these days, and the one who caught it would lose his head.

"Brother Li, my brother is really Meng Lang just now. If you have any offense, please forgive me. This is a punishment. Please take it away. Brother Li. We are a merchant in Jiangnan. We have not arrived in the capital for a long time, so we don't know much about the rules here. I hope Brother Li won't blame you!"

As he spoke, Wang Ziru took out a corner of silver from his arms and handed it to Li Wu, claiming to apologize.

Li Wu weighed the broken silver and grinned and laughed: "Not only does it not blame this fat man, but he is looking forward to more of this kind! Haha! This is funny, don't take it seriously. I think this silver must be more than one yuan. Do you two have copper coins in your hands? If not, then follow a store to pay the silver and return the copper coins to you."

"No, it's okay, the remaining Brother Li will take a cup of tea! I still have business to negotiate, so I will say goodbye!"

"Hey, wait and go slowly! The fine of this silver is decided by the yamen. I don't want to be greedy for your little money. Let's go and go to the butcher shop in front to weigh and find silver!"

Li Wu grabbed the fat man's sleeve and walked forward. Wang Ziru had no choice but to follow him.

After weighing and finding Yin from the butcher shop, Wang Ziru and the fat man named Cheng clasped their fists and saluted Li Wu and then headed east.

Li Wu put ten-ciete copper coins into the cloth bag tied around his waist and continued to patrol the street with his hands behind his back.

The reason why he had to drag the two people to find Yin was not that Li Wu was so honest and honest, but that he didn't dare to be greedy at all.

Some time ago, a contingent from the Municipal Adaptation Management Bureau asked the Jinyiwei to arrest him and be imprisoned. The reason was that he had fined several times and then put the excess money into his own pocket. The last time he happened to be seen by a Jinyiwei spy. He was arrested and cleaned up and then recruited all of them. In the end, even Gengmo and his salary for more than a year were confiscated, and his errands were lost. His wife, children, and the elderly lost their source of income, and the family suffered great trouble.

This incident made some of the city-like inquisitive soldiers completely put aside. Who knows where the elusive spies of the Jinyiwei guards were hiding at them? Don’t even ruin their jobs for the sake of greed for such a little money.

"Mr. Wang, are we, the foreigners, become outdated people? Since ancient times, there are all people in the yamen who are greedy, even the emperor's feet are not as good as this. I have never heard of Li Wu's trip this time! If all the people in the governments in the Ming Dynasty are like this, it can be said that it is a blessing for us civilian merchants!"

In the guest room of a three-entry courtyard in Dongcheng, Wang Ziru put down the teacup and sighed.

"Brother Wang doesn't know that this Municipal Appearance Management Bureau was newly established a year ago, specializing in the cleanliness and orders of markets, shops, residents and streets in the capital. It is under the name of Shuntian Mansion, and its power and responsibility are quite large. I heard that it was established after the emperor and the emperor issued an order. Brother Wang, Brother Cheng's things today may cause countless events in the four cities of the capital every day. It's not that Li Wu is not greedy for money, but that he dares not be greedy at all! I don't know how many eyes the convoys stare at the daily behavior! As for government officials in various places, it is not easy to be so rigorous and honest!"

Wang Song, who was sitting opposite Wang Ziru and Cheng Gan, smiled and told the whole story roughly about the cause and effect. Only then did Wang Ziru and Cheng Gan understand the reason.

"Since the Jinyiwei is monitoring these senators, aren't they afraid that they will collude and blackmail foreigners together?"

Fatty Cheng asked curiously.

"Haha, Brother Cheng is too worried. The Jinyiwei has seven thousand households in the capital, plus the North and South Governors and the Command Office, with thousands of personnel. I don't know how many casual spies are. Just imagine, if you are one of them, how many of these thousands of people can you know? Do you know if your colleagues secretly peek at you? Besides, since the previous year, the salary of Jinyi's personal soldiers has increased significantly, and with some additional rewards, these Jinyi's personal soldiers are all fat and are now all determined to make meritorious and get rewards. Who cares about these small money? Besides, the Emperor's personal soldiers are all above the top, so why have you ever taken these inmates seriously? To put it bluntly, Jinyi's personal soldiers hope that more soldiers will be in trouble, which is the capital they rely on for rewards! Hahaha!"

Wang Song lived in the capital for generations, and many of his relatives also worked in various yamen in the capital. During the New Year holidays, relatives and friends gathered to drink and chat, they inevitably talked about some interesting stories and even secrets in the yamen, so he knew some of the tricks in the yamen.

"So that's it! Everyone in the outside world is rumored to be so cruel and greedy about personal troops. Now I heard from Mr. Wang that the personal troops are not as unbearable as the rumors, but I even think they are more responsible than the censor! I hope that the general's personal troops will be stationed in various prefectures and counties! In this way, our merchants will be less exploited!"

Of course, Zhu Youjian didn't know about the small episode that happened in the capital. At this time, he was accepting the audience of King Zhu Gongye of Zhou in the Qianqing Palace.
Chapter completed!