"The Empress of the Heavenly Queen has an order, Tian Zihua, a famous scholar in Qingzhou, has outstanding talent and knowledge, is well-informed... He is a member of the country and is appointed as the magistrate of Wanxian County. He takes office immediately and cannot refuse!"

After the eunuch read out the imperial edict in a sharp voice, Zhou Ming was so amused and helpless.

I thought he could make a fame comfortably in this imperial capital, but after just one month, the unreasonable imperial edict came over. Judging from the tone above, if he did not take office as the county magistrate of Wanxian, he would probably be punished and be punished for "disrespectfulness of the imperial edict".

Maybe even your head will fall off.

"All evil people rule society. How can there be any personal will in front of the monarch? Absolute freedom can only be exchanged for your head."

Zhou Ming complained in his heart, knowing that he would never be able to disobey this imperial edict issued by Wu Mei, and offend women, especially those with overwhelming power and a little petty woman, no matter who she is, she will die miserably.

"Brother Zihua, just go, just a small county magistrate. It won't hurt you. Show your real talent and knowledge and make everyone convinced you, wouldn't it be nice?"

Many friends also suggested that Zhou Ming join the officialdom and show his political talents to shut up those who question him behind his back.

Zhou Ming thought about it and it would be better to be an official for a while. The so-called integration of knowledge and action, and doing some practical achievements to others, can also improve his image in people's hearts again.

Of course, he would not keep rolling in the officialdom all the time, otherwise he would only get deeper and deeper and unable to extricate himself. At most, he would find a way to escape unscathed for one or two years.

However, after searching for some information and learning some details about Wanxian, Zhou Ming frowned and entered the palace to meet the saint on the same day. He made a request in front of the queen Wu Mei:

"If Caomin is to be appointed as the magistrate of the Wanxian County, Caomin needs to make a promise."

"What promise?" Wu Mei asked with a frown.

"The promise of doing things cheaply. No matter what Caomin does, after taking office, as long as Caomin has not dereliction of duty, has not embezzled bribes, or has not neglected his duties... Caomin must not be imprisoned and punished as a death row... Otherwise, Caomin will never agree and take office as the magistrate of Wanxian County!"

Zhou Ming was straight to the point.

"Can!"

Queen Wu Mei frowned for a while, thought for a while, and agreed to the request.

Because officials who can do not dereliction of duty and illegality, do not embezzle and accept bribes, and do not neglect their duties are basically good officials. If such officials are punished as death row, the court may have become hopelessly corrupt.

Therefore, Wu Mei was a little angry. Tian Zihua actually distrusts this in the court.

After receiving the verbal promise from the queen Wu Mei, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Three days later, he took his group to Wanxian, seventy miles west of the imperial capital, to take office.

...

Wanxian, in the lobby of the county government office.

Wearing a black hat and a seventh-grade brown official robe with pine cranes on his chest, he sat upright on the main seat of the lobby, playing with the token in his hand... Zhou Ming, who was in deep thought, knew that the queen Wu Mei had posed a big problem for him.

A big problem with being an official.

Where is Wanxian?

It is a place close to the county city of Bianzhou and the imperial capital Luojing and other power centers. It is the place where officials are most reluctant to take office since ancient times.

Because in Wanxian, there are not only many aristocratic families and powerful families, but also countless people with deep backgrounds live here. Even dozens of royal relatives and nobles enfeoffed here.

To describe it in one sentence: Here in Wanxian, there are small flies and big tigers everywhere. Even an ordinary old man on the street may be the father of a high-ranking official. Any brick that can be thrown into the housekeeper of a royal mansion.

Therefore, in Wanxian, where there are many powerful people, the county magistrate cannot even be considered a kitten, and few people buy the county magistrate's account. Some cases related to the powerful people have occurred. Not only can the county magistrate not take care of it, but sometimes they have to help cover it up and make big things smaller, so as not to lose their black hat after the matter is over.

In the archives of Wanxian County Government, Zhou Ming saw that the unjust and wrong cases on the archives were piled up like mountains, and he read a few files at will. The cases recorded on it were shocking. The crying sounds of the lower-class people and the domineering faces of the upper-class powerful people happened vividly before his eyes, making people angry.

The judgment result of these files is not that justice is upheld and evil is severely punished. On the contrary, the people's crying is even more terrifying and the powerful are even more arrogant.

It can be said that the people of Wanxian live in dire straits and hot places; the powerful and nobles of Wanxian live in heaven.

How to resolve the people's upside down, uphold justice, and at the same time limit and suppress the powerful and powerful, and make them abide by the law and discipline have become a major problem facing Zhou Ming.

"The management of a city has been nothing more than public security, hygiene, market, legal system, culture and education, and taxation... And this era is essentially an era of rule of man. It is impossible to achieve rule of law. It can only be easy first and then difficult. Start with public security, hygiene, market and other places. Once it has achieved results, then consider other things."

A few days later.

Zhou Ming, who formulated a "Public Security Administration Ordinance", invited the most powerful and powerful gentry in Wanxian County to the county government and held a meeting, saying that Wanxian's public security was chaotic, there were many criminal gangs of cheating, and there were still many trafficking phenomena. He had just taken office and wanted to improve the public security situation in Wanxian County, hoping to get the understanding and support of all the gentry...

Zhou Ming's proposal has received the support of the vast majority of people. The public security situation in Wanxian is indeed worse now. Even the children of wealthy families have been kidnapped by human traffickers. If the public security that has deteriorated to the extreme is improved, even the powerful and wealthy people in the county live in fear.

In the next three months, Zhou Ming offered high salaries and recruited 500 strong yamen runners. After a week of training, a vigorous "critical crackdown" activity was carried out in Wanxian County. The gangs of gangs in the county that charge protection fees, street bullies and villains who bully the market, and thieves and scammers and human traffickers all became the targets of arrest... Thousands of people were arrested, and some of the criminals who were extremely guilty were sentenced to the public trial. The others were sent to the labor camp for labor camp for labor camps for labor camps.

Wanxian County, where the illegal elements were almost completely arrested, was quickly reversed greatly, and the county was full of praise.

Even Zhou Ming was given many of the bad guys who helped the evildoers and did all the bad things to help the powerful and playboys on weekdays, and dozens of them were executed in public trials, and the people were relieved.

The mud legs of the powerful and powerful have been cut off, and the unjust and wrong cases that have occurred in the people have naturally decreased a lot in the past few months.

After basically solving the public security problem, Zhou Ming established the Urban Management Bureau and recruited a group of urban management personnel to be responsible for improving the appearance of the county town, and formulated the "Sanitation Regulations" and "Traffic Rules".

The main content of the "Sanitation Regulations" is to require people to pay attention to hygiene, not to urinate or spit at will, and each family cleans the hygiene at the door of each family. The garbage must be thrown into a special trash can. You should go to the public toilet, deal with feces in a centralized manner, establish a public bathhouse, and encourage people to develop the habit of taking a regular bath, etc.

The "Traffic Rules" formulates behavioral norms such as "the road is divided into two sides, walking on the right, the car walks on the lane, people and people walk on the human road, intersection, traffic management personnel and red and green signs" for Wanxian County.

When these behavioral norms were first implemented, there was great resistance, and the yamen runners could receive a large number of fines from red card personnel every day.

But after Zhou Ming and his men were under tremendous pressure and strictly implemented it for more than a month, the advantages of "Traffic Rules" finally emerged, and the resentment sounds decreased. After enjoying the convenience of smooth transportation, the number of voices that had been made privately began to increase.

Even the imperial capital, which was deeply troubled by traffic congestion, sent officials to check the situation in Wanxian.

Not long after, the "Traffic Rules" that had almost never been revised in the imperial capital Luojing City was officially implemented in the imperial capital city and then promoted the world.

In addition, Zhou Ming also rectified the market, standardized commercial activities, went to the countryside in person, guided agricultural production, promoted new agricultural tools to farmers, provided interest-free loans, allowing poor farmers to use new agricultural tools with higher farming efficiency, rented livestock to them at a cheaper price, and then paid back after the autumn harvest... Various measures have taken by Wanxian's agricultural output that year, which increased by 12%.

Zhou Ming has achieved very dazzling results in public security, transportation, health, agriculture and commerce, but in this era, what he values ​​most is not GDP, but culture and education.

If he has not achieved obvious results in culture and education, his performance assessment will still not be able to get the highest evaluation.

Zhou Ming had to pay his own money and then called on the upper class to donate money, building eight "Hope Primary Schools", each elementary school can accommodate 200 children of appropriate age, and a considerable amount of tuition fees are also waived.

As long as these eight hope primary schools persist in running schools for ten years, the illiteracy rate in Wanxian can be reduced to a shocking 90%. The illiteracy rate can be said to be second only to Tianjiazhuang, Haiping County.

but……

In the end, Zhou Ming was allowed to be the county magistrate for less than a year, so he asked him to resign from the emperor Wu Mei in front of the emperor, but the legal system construction was the part that he offended too many powerful people.

It’s not that Zhou Ming has poor ability to judge cases. On the contrary, during his 355 days as the county magistrate of Wanxian, he made justice for 337 victims, solved 28 murder cases, and had sufficient evidence, and made all the cases.

One of the strange cases called "Eighty-Seven Girls Missing Case", which was also a major case that shocked the whole country after he led his men to investigate and deal with it for more than a month.

It is this strange case that Zhou Ming offended a heinous powerful man who he could not afford to offend.

Because this powerful man is Wu Mei's nephew Wu Sansi.

Wu Sansi is greedy and lustful, cruel and perverted. He is the culprit of the "Eighty-Seven Girls Missing Case" in Wanxian County. He ordered people to kidnap most of these girls from wealthy families to the mansion, and abuse them day and night, and then kill them all! Until all the girls' corpses were found by Zhou Ming, he was so angry that he called out a hundred warriors, trying to kill Zhou Ming and others to silence them.

After all these warriors were killed by Li Dazui, Wu Sansi himself was kicked off by Zhou Ming and captured him, presented conclusive evidence, brought him to the queen Wu Mei, and gave her two choices:

"If you kill Wu Sansi, Zihua is willing to continue to benefit the people of Dazhou; if you don't kill, Zihua resigns and becomes an idle person in the prosperous era."

Wu Mei's mouth moved, but in the end she ordered someone to punish Wu Sansi and ordered him to think about his mistakes behind closed doors.
Chapter completed!