The personnel of the third department were still being adjusted, and Kou seemed to have identified Xu Ping, and even the candidates for deputy envoys of each department also consulted him.

Wang Weizheng replaced Wang Yan as deputy envoy of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhang Cun was the judge of Duzhi, and Xu Ping had known civilian officials on Guangnan West Road before, and almost all those with suitable qualifications were transferred to the Sansi. Originally, Zhang Pin had already left the transfer envoy from Guangnan West Road, but unfortunately he was too old and had to let him apply for retirement.

After colliding with Xu Ping once for Xu Shen's money minting, Lu Yijian once again showed kindness and transferred Xu Ping's father-in-law Lin Wensi to Beijing in the name of the Secretariat, and changed to Beijing official, and served as a doctor of the "Spring and Autumn Annals" in the Imperial College.

It is hard to say who Lu Yijian has a grudge against. He is a typical bureaucrat in a special era. He cares very much about his status and power. Over time, a group of people have gathered around him. As long as it does not affect Lu Yijian's status, he will not actively attack someone or force in the court. This is true for Xu Ping and Li Di.

However, Li Di is different from Lu Yijian. He has political ideals. He can't stand the bureaucratic style of step by step, and he can't stand the practice of caring too much about his power and status. Li Di's temper is stubborn, rough-minded, and has a background as an imperial teacher. His qualifications are much older than Lu Yijian, and the conflict between the two gradually becomes intense.

Xu Ping was too young and had too little experience. Even with Kou Yu's wholehearted assistance, he would at most be a struggle in the Sansi, which would not pose any threat to Lu Yijian. Sansi was originally the department with the strongest bureaucratic atmosphere in the Song Dynasty. Lu Yijian and Xu Ping had disputes on some matters, and the two cooperated in the general direction.

Lu Yijian was at the forefront of this era, not because of his people, but because the huge bureaucratic machine represented by him became a target, and was gathered by waves of outstanding political figures, but eventually stood firm. Lu Yijian's biggest mistake was that he was too stubborn. No one could knock him down when he was alive, so he naturally had to settle the accounts behind him.

However, when the conflict between Lu Yijian and Li Di gradually emerged, Xu Ping's life suddenly became easier.

On that afternoon, Xu Ping was discussing other personnel matters with Kou Yu in the Third Director's Office. Zhang Cun hurriedly ran in from outside and gasped and said, "There is a big deal, civil changes have occurred on the Bian River in Kaifeng Prefecture!"

Kou Yu stood up and said, "What's going on? Cheng Tianqiu had just changed his mind to Kaifeng Prefecture, and there was a civil rebellion. What did he do to cause such a big mess? At the foot of the emperor, civil rebellion was relentless!"

Zhang Cun said: "The matter has little to do with Mr. Cheng, and it is still the problem that the price of charcoal is inappropriate. Since we and Kaifeng Prefecture set the market price of charcoal to 100 yuan per person, the merchants of the charcoal shop pretended to accept it, but secretly instructed people to buy out the charcoal sold by the charcoal shop every day and sell it for 40 yuan per kilogram in the market. Yesterday, a hawker selling charcoal arrived near Caihe and used a basket of charcoal to seduce the woman's wife. It happened to be blocked by the husband of the woman. The man was a coolie on the dock, and was picking ice on the river with people. After catching the adulterer, a group of coolies rushed up to beat the vendor to death on the spot."

Xu Ping said: "Don't coolie have toothworks? Why don't you stop the outfit and make a life come out?"

"At this time, coolies have no food and clothing, and their teeth are all smart. How can they cause trouble?"

Kou Yu was the prefect of Kaifeng. After hearing this, he frowned and said, "The left and right are just a lawsuit for life. It's understandable that the coolies are forgiven. If they are sentenced to death, it's fine if they are sentenced to exile. Why are they still causing civil wars?"

Zhang Cun sighed: "Because the coolies discovered that this vendor was hired by the charcoal shop and specializes in selling charcoal. At this time, the poor families couldn't afford charcoal. In this way, they would just sprinkle oil on the hot pan and fry it in an instant!"

Although the three people present were middle and senior officials and there were charcoals in their postal subsidies, they were not people who were ignorant of the sufferings of the people. After hearing Zhang Cunyi's words, they all understood it.

If you just cheat and rape a good woman, you will naturally be dealt with if you beat her to death. Now that the illegal affairs of the charcoal business are involved, the nature of the whole thing will change. The poor people have nowhere to burn the fire during the cold weather, and there is a lot of complaints. Many people even demolished the beams of their houses and roasted the fire. If you spread such a thing in the sun, it would be a storm.

At the foot of the Emperor of Kaifeng City, what he wanted was to sing and dance to decorate the prosperous world. What would be worse if such a thing happened? The Kaifeng Mansion could not suppress it. In order to show that the emperor was concerned about the suffering of the people, the Censorate had to intervene in this case. As soon as the officials of the Censorate intervened, they had to rely on impeaching officials for a meal, but they were afraid that a large number of officials from the top to the next would be unlucky. Now, the Censor Central Chief Kong Daofu is impatient and has never dealt with the subordinates of the Zhongshu. I don’t know how many people they have to deal with by using this matter.

Xu Ping and Kou looked at each other and understood in their hearts that the three departments had just started to rectify, so just don’t involve it here. As for the subordinates of the Secretariat, they have a prime minister to be a big backer and can compete with the Censorate.

After a while, the eunuchs from the palace came over. It was said that Kou Yi immediately entered the palace to discuss matters.

It is difficult to guess political affairs randomly, so Xu Ping talked to Zhang Cun after Kou left.

Zhang Cun was fifty years old and was a Jinshi in the second year of Jingde. In addition to getting to know him as a judge of the Transportation Department of Guangnan West Road, he also worked in various places as an official. Before Xu Ping was brought to serve as a judge of Duzhi, he was serving as a judge of the group herder.

Like Xu Ping, Zhang Cun's family also has many daughters, the youngest is only about ten years old. The topics they talk about naturally focused on parenting.

Xu Ping's family is Lin Su Niang in charge of the children. Xu Ping plays the role of a kind father. Panpan is very elf and weird, and the couple often have a headache. Zhang Cun's daughters are well-educated and polite, which makes Xu Ping very envious.

Especially Zhang Cun's third daughter had just gotten married at the beginning of the year and had a relative of herding, Sima Guang, the son of Sima Chi, another group judge, was still a little envious. No matter how she thought of Sima Guang, she was a famous figure in later generations. She was also a very famous minister when she was alive, and she was loyal to her wife and did not take concubines. As a father, it was naturally a choice for her son-in-law, and it was impossible to choose a romantic talent for her daughter.

As for Zhang Cun's other colleague at that time, Pang Ji had been transferred to Lingnan to take over the position of Xu Ping's sugar sugar business. The eldest son Pang Yuanlu is now entrusted to Zhang Cun and Sima Chi to take care of him.

If it weren't for this era, Xu Ping would have been difficult to clarify the complex relationship between these famous figures in later generations. However, compared with the other two colleagues, Zhang Cun's sense of existence was weaker in later generations, and more daughters were not as good as sons.

Next to Yan'an Bridge in front of Xiangguo Temple, there are many official and private goods yards, and there are also many corresponding coolies.

The north wind is not as strong as the previous few days, but the wind still has a knife in its mouth, causing pain when it blows on people.

Surrounded by a servant, Cheng Lin confronted the coolies with a dark face.

Gently rubbing the sweat beads that oozed from his forehead, Cheng Lin said in a deep voice: "You only hand over the criminals who beat people to death. I won't make things difficult for you. If you take the criminals, I will report to the public. It's not the first time Cheng knows Kaifeng Prefecture, can anyone else believe me?"

A coolie shouted loudly: "The official official's voice is clear, and the people of Kaifeng will naturally remember it! However, this time the incident happened very much. We must hand it over to someone and catch the turtle who made money in the charcoal store first!"

"Everything comes one by one, you always come one by one! You gather here and attract the attention of the people in the capital. What kind of morality is it! I will take the people back, and other things will naturally be decided!"

Opposite Yan'an Bridge is Xiangguo Temple, one of the most prosperous places in the capital. A large number of people gather to make trouble. There have been long time when people who wander around here report to the palace. Cheng Lin knew very well that he must calm the matter down as soon as possible and try to avoid violent bleeding. Kaifeng is not an ordinary prefecture and county. If someone is caught, someone will punish him to death.

The coolies on the opposite side were not willing to listen to Cheng Lin's empty words. They had to arrest the people from the charcoal store first before they could hand them over. For these coolies, life was a day without any concern, and they didn't care much about the punishment. But the same thing, their lives were not worth much, so they didn't care about the Kaifeng Mansion's servants holding swords and guns. They were forced to do something in a hurry.

Cheng Lin was also a little helpless. He really didn't want to agree to the request of Kuli and sealed off the charcoal store to take the people. The various cities in the capital were naturally beneficial to the government to control the civilian business activities, but they were also in the same mood. If there was no strong evidence, they would go to the charcoal store to take the people, causing the market to be stopped in various industries, and Cheng Lin would not be able to take the money.

Staring at the leading coolie opposite, Cheng Lin said word by word: "I am the prefect of Kaifeng and have handled many cases of wealthy families. Do you actually don't believe me?"

Coo Li said: "We naturally believe in Duke Duke, but does Duke Duke in Kaifeng have the final say? Since it snowed heavily, the weather was cold every day, but the price of carbon was higher than that of day. Even if the charcoal was sold in the palace, it could not be lower than the price of carbon. How do we believe it?"

Cheng Lin's eyes became sharp and he was thinking about the pros and cons.

If a charcoal chain is violently sealed, it is easy to find out a large amount of charcoal in stock and there is evidence that the charcoal chain manipulates the price of charcoal. If there is any mistake, it may cause the market to be stopped. Relatively speaking, although the coolies gathered here are not good-looking, they are famous for their masters. Moreover, there are no one behind the coolies, and there are still a large number of people outside the city waiting to enter the city to work hard.

After thinking about it, I felt that it was best to solve this group of coolies first. As for the charcoal market they mentioned, I chose to arrest people and deal with them quickly. As long as I did it quickly enough, nothing would happen.
Chapter completed!