He had to pretend that he didn't know that there was a prey coming in. If he went to search for it with great fanfare, he might be able to find Xiahou, but what if it had the opposite effect and scared Xiahou away?

But why didn't Xiahou appear?

...

...

Under Fei Qian's rule, there are areas with good development, and naturally there are areas with slow development.

As an official, you often need a lot of things to consider, but as a big gentry, you often only consider your own family.

Therefore, county-level governments formed by the gentry class are often innately incomplete. These government governments built by the gentry class have never thought about letting the people live a better life, but have thought about how to ensure that they can live a better life, not how to develop the place, but how to make their family grow...

This kind of thinking model that puts the cart before the horse has left the government model in Hedong for a long time in a very lagging state.

It is not worth mentioning that these officials are corrupt, because the economy of these areas is very poor, there is neither commercial circulation nor factory industry, so if you really greedy, they are just low-value agricultural products. Overall, the money for corruption is far lower than that of other high-development areas.

But what is interesting is that the officials in these areas are not attentive and are quite content with their own sanity, indicating that their rule is stable and stable. Indeed, if there is no good performance, there are only four words "An Ping" that can be used to do some articles, such as the word "An Ping" that can be written a book...

But unexpectedly, Xiahou Yuan's arrival slapped these officials who claimed to be "safe and stable" under their rule!

After all, Xiahou Yuan's troops will not be able to perform various tactics in an orderly manner like the elite special forces in later generations. Even if Xiahou Yuan issued an order to not leak information and kill the villages, there would be some missed fish.

The people who escaped by chance reported the information to the local government...

In the beginning, the transmission of information was biased.

"There are thieves?"

The clerk asked.

That's right, the first thing you come into contact with this kind of thing is often just clerks.

Clerks are generally not within the system.

The ninth-rank sesame official is still an official, and there is no clerk even a ninth-rank official.

Of course, there was no concept of ninth rank in the Han Dynasty, but the clerks were still clerks. Most clerks would be stuck on the stairs of officials all their lives. Seeing the officials on their heads changing one after another, they just couldn't get up!

But these clerks are the key links for local governments to manage local governments.

Taxes are collected, public order is maintained, and the public is uploaded and issued. Ordinary people generally cannot see the county magistrate, and they can only contact these clerks.

The authority of clerks is not very great, and it is just a fart to leave the area under its jurisdiction. But this clerk who is as big as the fart can form a mixture of parasitic and symbiotic with the county magistrate, controlling the thousand-year local regime of the Chinese feudal dynasty.

"Thief? You're not wrong?" The clerk frowned, "This season, it's cold and cold, why are there suddenly thieves?"

The clerk is unwilling to believe the facts.

Even if you know this in your heart, you still don’t want to “believe” because “believe” will become very troublesome.

Most clerks have no room for promotion. These clerks are gloves, urinals, brooms, and tools that can move. Who would give you much respect? After using it, throw it aside, which is a tradition that has always been.

Therefore, for clerks, doing their duties is not a good choice.

To be conscientious means that he needs to fight against many people.

The people below are not satisfied because the duty and responsible clerks took away tax calculations and could not delay or adapt. Therefore, the people would scold such clerks, who are not humane and cruel and cruel.

The officials above are not satisfied, because the conscientious clerk will bring more things to deal with, and you cannot be careless or pretend not to know, so the officials will hate such clerks, who do not know how to advance or retreat, and will cause trouble.

Therefore, those who are in the clerk class, those who are dedicated and responsible will be killed soon.

Then the clerks realized that it was not cost-effective to remain honest, because no matter how honest they were, they would not receive any honor. At the same time, they were not cost-effective to work diligently, because there was no room for promotion, and no matter how hard they tried, it would be ineffective.

Therefore, only cheating is the most cost-effective.

People can have poetry and dreams, but salted fish and porridge are the things that can fill their stomachs.

So the clerks naturally became more and more cunning.

Whose fault is this?

When facing the information of "thief", the clerk has two choices. One is to report it immediately, and the other is to report it delayed, or not. Obviously, choosing to report it delayed, or not reporting it is in line with immediate interests.

The descriptions of the villagers are unclear and cannot be clear.

I hope that a villager who can't even count and get lost after more than ten can clearly express the difference between Cao's army and bandits?

So when the clerk reports, it is also so unclear?

So if you want to be clear, it means that he needs to investigate and understand. Then who will do what he has to do for him? If it is just some bandits, they will naturally escape after robbery. What is the purpose of his going now? Will the government collect the corpse for those people? Will the money for collecting corpses be reimbursed? If the corpse is not collected, what will he do there? Waiting for scolding and beating? The people will always find someone to vent their anger...

"Yes, it's a thief!" The village man naturally hopes that the clerk can now lead a large group of people to save people.

"Impossible! You are lying!" The clerk was furious, shook his hands, browsed, and angry, "How can there be a bandit under the bright world? How can a cavalry have an evil person who is unparalleled? You are slandering the cavalry and humiliating the great man! Come on! Keep this person with ulterior motives!"

The big man on the side rushed up, pressed his mouth down and tied up a dragon, very skillful.

Seeing the man dragging the village man down, another clerk who was watching the show came over.

"I said, this...if it is...

『What is it really?』

『You know...』

"I have no idea……"

"Okay, I don't know...

『You'd better not know...』

"Don't worry, I don't know anything, I don't know anything, I don't know anything..."

『This is of course the best...』

The sound gradually became smaller.

The two walked away.

Ah, it's another peaceful day.

Happiness and well-being.
Chapter completed!