In March, the peach blossoms and willows are green, and everything is thriving.

After many days, Li Ling entered the county government again. From the beginning of entering the door, all the officers and clerks who saw him stopped doing what they were doing and bent down to greet him, saying that they were a clerk, and they looked completely obedient and respectful.

Although Li Ling had not been to work in the county government for half a month, his colleagues and subordinates were becoming more and more respectful to him. Because the county government today was very different from the previous year, and even a few months ago, not only were the people who were loyal to Zhuang Hong expelled, but also the people who were the county magistrate Feng Ping were also dismissed, so that the Wei County Magistrate truly controlled all the power of the county government, which made the entire county government aging.

Everyone knows it well that the root cause of all this - the extermination of the county magistrate, Zhuang Dianshi has been convicted of his family and is executed after the autumn - is that the magistrate of Wei received the assistance of Li Dianli from the side. So even if he is half a month later, his reputation in the hearts of everyone will not decrease but increase, and everyone is in awe. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the second-ranked figure in the county now.

However, Li Ling did not show arrogance because of this. When he saw people saluting, he would stop to greet him. Sometimes he would talk to others, so he entered the second hall. He did not transfer to the household house, but went straight to the county magistrate's public house, because today he was specially called by Wei Liang.

Standing in front of the open door, Li Ling looked at Wei Liang who was lying on the desk and smiled, tidied up his clothes and said, "I have met the county master."

Wei Liang then looked up and looked at Li Ling and laughed: "You are here, come and talk." When Li Ling came in the door, he looked him up and down a few more times, especially his right hand, and said with concern: "How about it, has the injury on your right arm been healed?"

"I am almost done thanks to my concerns."

"That's good." Wei Liang smiled and said a little. "Don't stand, sit down and talk. I'm asking you to come here today, there are a few things I want to talk about."

"Sir, please tell me." Li Ling was not polite, and immediately picked the chair closest to the other party and sat down.

"Just yesterday, the government office had sent official documents to confirm Zhuang Hong's various crimes and reported to the governor's office. I think it will take not long before Zhuang Hong's death penalty will be confirmed. At that time, you only need to submit it to the court, and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Justice will be finalized after review."

Li Ling nodded and also breathed a sigh of relief. When he was working in the yamen, he had a good understanding of the process of determining the death penalty. Now the Dayue Dynasty still attaches great importance to the death penalty. For example, the death row prisoners designated in the county town must be reported step by step, and finally the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Justice will make the ruling.

Of course this is a bit troublesome, but according to the rules of the officialdom, as long as the officials at the level of the government office are correct, there will be no major variables to allow the subsequent yamen to pass the death penalty. After all, the world is so great that there are hundreds of serious crimes for death alone every year. If they are really tried by the Ministry of Justice of the Dali Temple, they will not do anything else a year.

Wei Liang also smiled, and then his face turned solemn: "In addition, Zhuang Qiang's sea captain's documents have been sent to all parts of the prefecture. Five days ago, someone had seen him in Jiangbei County. The local county government searched for a while, but he escaped. However, one thing can be confirmed that he had the intention to escape from Hengzhou Prefecture this time, so you don't have to worry too much."

Li Ling narrowed his eyes. Zhuang Qiang was really capable. The government even let him escape because he was so embarrassed. But he still smiled and said, "It's only a matter of time to hold him and do it. He is very confident in this humble position."

"Haha, I think so too. After all, this case is very involved. Do you know that the matter of donating jute has spread all over the country in our administration, and even the governor's yamen has been alarmed. Maybe when will the Futai Lord be involved in this matter?"

"This..." Li Ling twisted his lower body uneasy, "This will not affect adults, right?"

"What impact can I have? Even if there is, it is a good thing. People will only say that I plead for the people and do things carefully." Wei Liang said with a smile.

Li Ling lowered his head and grinned. It was because you had a strong backer, so the people above didn't dare to take your anger on you. If a local official without background dared to make such a trouble, see if those bosses would wear it for you!

Whether as an accountant or a household resident today, Li Ling knew very well how troublesome it would be to solve the problem of donating jute. It was not a problem of thousands of taels of silver a year, nor was it a problem of several people taking responsibility, but a major fraud case that may involve the entire Hengzhou Prefecture bureaucratic system and even involve the officials in the court and opposition in the court.

Just doing a search may take a lot of energy and time, not to mention how to arrange and compensate later - the people of Jiangcheng County have paid an extra jute donation of 18 years. So should this money be paid, and how should we pay it? And how should we pay this donation in the future? Who will pay it...

All kinds of problems will inevitably bother countless people. This is no longer a simple financial issue, but a political issue. If you want to go deeper and more complicated, you may even be used as a weapon to attack political enemies... Anyway, if Li Ling thinks about it, he will feel a little scared and headache. Fortunately, he is just a minor official, not even an official, so no matter how troubles you have, you won’t fall on him.

Wei Liang did not bother with this matter too much, and said, "The last and most critical thing is the county examination in ten days. How are you doing recently?"

Seeing that Wei Zhixian's face was a little serious, Li Ling was nervous for no reason. Subconsciously, he thought of the nervous scenes in the school before the college entrance examination in his previous life - he wrote a countdown on the blackboard newspaper behind the class for a hundred days, changing every day. In the last ten days, he even made the number in the middle, and it was even blood-red, which looked like the countdown of a time bomb, and was particularly cunning.

I didn't expect that I could survive the college entrance examination and encountered the same pressure after traveling through time, and this time it was harder than the college entrance examination. After all, I only took the college entrance examination once, but the imperial examination was one level after another. The county examination could not even be considered the beginning.

Soon, Li Ling calmed down and replied: "I have been reviewing at home these days, and the articles have not been missed. There are twelve articles in total, and I have brought them all. I would like to ask for some advice from my elders." As he said that, he took out a stack of articles from his arms and held them over with both hands.

Wei Liang nodded slightly and said carelessly: "You write articles every day? Aren't you hurt?"

"Uh, I couldn't use my right hand two days ago, so I told the girl to help me write it."

"Oh? Ling Mei is quite knowledgeable." Wei Liang smiled, looked down at the articles, and found that the first few articles were indeed beautiful in handwriting, which was very different from Li Ling's previous ones, but they looked quite good, which made him nod again without realizing it.

With the article in hand, he no longer hurriedly said anything else, and quickly browsed it. After half an hour, he looked up again and nodded to Li Ling, who was sitting there, and said, "Now it seems that your hard work during this period has not been in vain, but your writing skills have increased. If the next county test can be as good as these articles, you will be able to win."

Li Ling was a little nervous at first, but after hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll feel relieved if I say this sir."

"However, just passing the county exam is far from enough. In fact, you are quite good at thinking about writing skills, but what you lack is some detail skills. But sometimes, if the imperial examination wants the chief examiner to win you, some allusions are very important."

Li Ling scratched his head when he heard this. This was indeed his own shortcomings, but how could it be improved for a while? Although the original owner has been studying hard since childhood, he only read the Four Books and Five Classics and related annotations, and his other books are limited. As for himself, his knowledge is naturally very broad, but that is something from later generations, which is very different from some of the current knowledge. If he uses it, it will only backfire. Therefore, this defect is really difficult to improve.

Seeing Li Ling's sad face, Wei Liang smiled again, and then pulled out several thick books from a stack of copywriting on the table and pushed them over: "If you take these books back, you must read them as soon as possible. They are all the top three imperial examinations in the past twenty years, as well as outstanding people such as Jie Yuan in the provincial provincial examinations. As long as you memorize the essence of it and turn them into your own use, I think it should not be too difficult to pass the exam for a juren."

"Ah..." Li Ling blinked his eyes, then stood up excitedly and took the booklets to read them quickly, but he forgot to say thank you. He knew very well how important these booklets were. This thing is the secret to pass the imperial examination. It is the essence of the experience of the top scorers and other top scorers. It is not possible for ordinary people to get it.

Why are poor families never able to compare with aristocratic families in the imperial examination? In addition to the difference between the vast majority of the foundation, the acquisition of this kind of information is also the key. After all, it is not the later generations of the information explosion. What are the full-score compositions and famous teachers' explanations online? Now these things are exclusive to the powerful families.

And he, Li Ling, is just an ordinary person in a small county town. If he gets such a secret, his starting point is more than one level higher than others.

"Thank you... Thank you sir." After a while, Li Ling calmed down and thanked him sincerely.

"No need to do this, this is what you deserve. I just hope that you can prepare for the exam wholeheartedly. If one day you pass the exam and become an official, you can also become a good official who is beneficial to the country and the people, then it will be worthy of my thoughts today." Wei Liang said seriously. To be honest, he really spent a lot of effort on these books, and they were all good things that only nobles in the capital could master, so they were only handed over to Li Ling today.
Chapter completed!