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Chapter 22: Master Qingtian (Repair)

The national teacher in the court turned out to be a monster!

Such strange stories instantly spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital. At the same time, the top scholar Chen Mang, the star Wenqu, came to earth, and the story of killing monsters spread.

The people had just met the top scholar paraded the street the day before. The next day, they learned that he was the reincarnation of a god, and suddenly felt a glorious on their faces. Many people went home to worship Chen Mang's tablets, begging themselves or their sons to get some literary talent and achieve a fame and glory in the family.

While the people were burning incense and praying, the emperor and ministers were worried about the stay and leaving of the top scholar.

According to convention, the top scholar must stay in the Hanlin Academy and stay for a few years, and then take up an official position in the middle of the capital.

But many ministers were present at yesterday's banquet and had witnessed the scene of Chen Mang showing his might.

They didn't want to leave such an ancestor in the court, and if anything made him unhappy and was slapped to death by him, the emperor would not do anything to him, and he would have nowhere to seek justice!

Finally, after some discussion, several officials from the Ministry of Personnel proposed to release Chen Mang as an official and sent him back to Jiangnan to serve as the prefect of Hangzhou, which was unanimously recognized by the emperor and officials.

After the place where the top scholar was settled, it was the second-level Ning Caichen's turn.

This person is not a good person. He not only has a righteous spirit, but also has a knife under his crotch. He is a cruel person who is no less than the top scholar. He must not keep him by his side!

The emperor made arrangements for him, and appointed him as Minister of Revenue and the Censor of the 28 provinces in the world, and went to various places to supervise and rectify taxation of agriculture and sericulture.

Although there were some oppositions in the court and felt that the power given to Ning Caichen was too great, he could not withstand the support of the emperor. In addition, some great scholars in the court and officials under Chen Mang also stood up to speak for Ning Caichen, which easily overshadowed the opposition.

As a result, the new Jinshi in this scientific examination became the highest official position in history.

Among the top three, one is a second-rank senior and the other is a fourth-rank prefect. Even Tanhua went to the Hanlin Academy to serve, which surprised the people.

A few days later, Chen Mang handed over the specific plan for rectifying the land and taxation to Ning Caichen, gave him some instructions, and accompanied by Manager Lu and Hongyu to take office.

After completing the process of taking office and meeting the officials of the government office and representatives of local gentry, Chen Mang returned to the back office in a hurry, threw his official hat on the table, leaned on the bed, and said, "Where is the gift list!"

Manager Lu stepped forward with his eyes wide open, presented the gift shop with both hands, and smiled and said, "Young Master, we are rich this time! I just calculated that the things on this gift list can be equivalent to 20,000 taels of silver. In the afternoon, I will use it to the pawnshop for silver!"

Chen Mangteng straightened up, took the gift list and glanced at it, and threw it on the ground angrily: "These fish and people's dog things!"

Manager Lu's heart skipped a beat and said quickly: "If the young master doesn't like it, the young man will return these gifts!"

"What a fuck!"

Chen Mang glared at Manager Lu and said angrily: "Just give me such a little money and send me a beggar. I obviously don't take me seriously! According to the name on the gift list, I came to me from door to door and ask them if they want to bring the silver into the coffin!"

Manager Lu's big eyes rolled and he became excited in an instant: "This kind of thing is so familiar! The little one will dig three feet into the ground and take out all their money!" As he said that, a deer jumped into the yard, ran away from the government office.

Chen Mang watched his back disappear at the entrance of the government office, then turned his face and ordered Hongyu who was standing beside him: "Go and find some chefs and set up a flowing mat on the street outside the government office for three days. There must be fish and meat on each table so that the people can know that a master Qingtian has come to Hangzhou Prefecture."

"Oh, I understand, this is the legendary fish and meat people."

Hongyu glanced at Chen Mang with a smile, and hurriedly ran out to handle the matter under his murderous gaze.

In the afternoon of that day, people who hadn't seen meat and fish for a long time gathered on the streets, and they didn't sit on the bench, and their eyes were shining around the table. They cleared a plate with a dish. When the dishes were served, the people had already left the table one after another, leaving only some clean plates and empty streets.

Hongyu stood in front of the government office in a daze, looking at the scene of locusts passing through the border in front of her, murmured in disbelief: "This is Hangzhou Prefecture..."

Chen Mang glanced at her faintly, touched the fox in his arms and said, "So you who are practicing do not know the sufferings of the world. If everyone can eat and wear warmth like you, I, the Master Qingtian, will not be considered a master. In this world, whoever can let them have a meal will be the Master Qingtian."

Hongyu said with a solemn expression: "I understand that practicing in the world is to benefit the people. Only by earning enough merit can one become an immortal. Only today can I finally understand the good intentions of Master to let me go down the mountain."

"You understand again? I think you just call it a change of name, King Dong."

Chen Mang smiled unanimously, walked down the steps at the yamen gate and walked towards an alley opposite the yamen gate.

In the alley, there was a burst of joking laughter and scolding mixed together, very noisy, as if someone had a conflict.

When we arrived at the entrance of the alley, we saw several young men in luxurious clothes fighting around a yamen runner. The yamen runner was beaten to the point of bruising and swollen face. Although he was gritting his teeth and staring at the person who beat him, he did not dare to fight back. He just opened his arms and held his body behind him.

Behind the yamen runners, a 15 or 16-year-old girl was carrying a basket with food in her basket. She was holding a five or 6-year-old child in her hand, with tears in her eyes, and looked at the yamen runners who were protecting them in front of her with concern, begging for mercy: "Stop hitting, please stop hitting..."

Hongyu walked up angrily, knocked several playboys to the ground with three punches and two kicks, and said sternly: "Who are you? Do you dare to commit crimes in front of the government office? Do you want to die?"

"Oh, it hurts quite a bit!"

A handsome young man rubbed his cheek and stood up. He saw Hongyu standing in front of him clearly and couldn't help but show a surprised expression: "My little lady is good at kung fu! I am Li Xiuyuan, the son of the richest man in Hangzhou. It's better for a young lady to go home with me to teach me kung fu. I will never treat her badly!"

Several other playboys also got up at this time. When they heard Li Xiuyuan say this, they burst into laughter.

"Brother Li, do you want this little lady to teach you what kind of kung fu? Is it on the bed or under the bed?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Brother Li hasn't tried this little lady's bed kung fu. She has to try it first to know if she can teach Brother Li!"

Listening to the dirty words of several people, a murderous intent suddenly rose from Hongyu's body, and the sword energy penetrated out, leaving sword marks on the walls on both sides of the alley.

Several playboys immediately had their clothes cracked, and their clothes were cut out by sword energy. They were so scared that their faces turned blue and their legs were trembling behind Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan was also scared, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and pointed at the girl behind the constable: "You are not reasonable, this woman sprinkled the vegetable water all over me first. I just want to get justice!" As she said that, she lifted up the hem of her clothes and gave a large piece of stain to everyone to see.

The girl said with tears in her eyes and a stubborn look on her face: "I said I will wash you clean, but you still have to hit someone!"

Li Xiuyuan secretly glanced at Hongyu and defended in a low voice: "I didn't do anything, they beat the person..."

From their words, Chen Mang had already learned about the matter. He looked at Li Xiuyuan with interest and said, "I am the newly appointed governor of Hangzhou Chen Mang. You beat my subordinates on the first day of your new term. This is not giving me face. Let's do this. Each of you will take out 10,000 taels of silver as my subordinate's medicine fee. I have made this happen before."

The expressions of a group of playboys changed drastically and they immediately started to argue.

"We just fought a yamen runner, so why don't we pay so much money!"

"Yes, even if you kill him, it's not worth so much money!"

"Sir, how about we each pay one hundred taels?"

"Master, we are wronged!"

Li Xiuyuan listened to the shouting of her companions behind her, stared at Chen Mang with a smile for a while, then suddenly realized, widened her eyes and said, "Do you want to blackmail me?"

Chen Mang was furious: "What kind of blackmail? Can scholars be called blackmail? The yamen runners, put them in prison and wait for my official to give up!"

"Yes, sir!"

Hearing Chen Mang's order, the yamen runner next to him who was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen, felt a backer, and a fierce smile appeared on his face. He clenched his fists and rushed towards Li Xiuyuan and others.
Chapter completed!
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