The Daily Life of a Rich Peasant's Boy in the Imperial Examination

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’s the point of him as the leader?

County Magistrate Wang thought that this was how his life would be. With limited conditions and abilities, there was no way for him to move up.

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, it’s easy.

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 extremely 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 were actually from the Chenzhou Prefecture Guard. When Sun Shan first heard what Master Zhang said, he was also surprised.

According to the information I have heard these days, bandits often appear in the Wuling Mountain area, and an army was sent to suppress them not long ago.

Now that the garrison has arrived, this news is further confirmed.

These bandits from Wuling may have escaped the suppression campaign of the garrison and fled to Niujiao Mountain in Yuanlu to commit crimes.

Sun Shan guessed that this group of "remnant soldiers" got the news from somewhere and found out 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 even 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 the army.

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, named Hao Bin, who came forward to greet Sun Shan. "Sun Magistrate, I'm 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 completely two 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 any attention to him when they meet. Civil officials often look down on military officials.

Of course, Sun Shan was not such an official, whether to his superiors, subordinates, or the middle class.

Modesty, prudence, gentleness and courtesy have always been 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.

First, he apologized for being away on patrol and delaying Captain Hao's work: "Captain Hao, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I've been out inspecting the farmland these days and not at the government office, so you've been waiting for nothing and have been delayed for a long time. I apologize for this."

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 is so polite, Captain Hao, you should feel embarrassed to get angry.

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 also 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 yamen 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.

Captain Hao then 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 process so that they could report back.

Sun Shan has always been upright and honest. The so-called bandit suppression means that he has to suppress bandits.

Of course, Sun Shan would not do as the rumors said: County Magistrate Sun could not bear to see the people of Yuanlu suffer from the harm caused by bandits, so he had planned for a long time before he took office. 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 half-seriously said, "Captain Hao, I encountered bandits on my way to take up my post. They were robbing a passing merchant. It just so happened that the merchant was a native of Yuanlu, and the place they were robbing happened to be in the area of ​​Yuanlu.

As the governor of Yuanlu, I couldn't just stand by and watch. I arranged for my guards to go forward and fight the bandits. Fortunately, there weren't many bandits this time, so we managed to win.

Sun Shan recounted the entire process of suppressing the bandits in detail, using various 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 the bandits.

Sun Shan's version of the story was different from the rumors outside, but in the end, they all said that he happened to encounter the bandits on his way to take up his post, and when he saw the bandits killing and looting, 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.

Instead of 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 afraid of death and would never 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, while those with irresponsible hearts would just muddle through and pretend not to see the bandits as long as they didn't 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 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 garrison was stunned.

They never expected that the escaped fish they had been searching for these days - the leader and second leader of the Black Water Nest - would appear in Yuanlu County and be killed by the magistrate of Yuanlu County.

So what kind of bandits were we suppressing before?

A lot of small soldiers and crab generals were caught, but in the end the leader escaped. What kind of bandit suppression is this?

They have been searching hard in Wuling Mountain these days, but they can't find the boss of Heishuiwo, so it's difficult for them to go back and report.

Who would have thought that the bandit leader would escape so far and be caught by a newly appointed so-called county magistrate, who also killed the main leaders of the Heishuiwo 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?