Glorious Summoner

“mother…”

“Stone, stone, come and let mother see, let mother see…”

That way The complaining woman held her child tightly, crying with rustling sound, and kowtow to Xia Pingan while holding the child, “Thank you, sir, thank you…”

The crowd and people outside the villa It’s already boiling.

I heard the news that the people in Dao Province rushed to Changyun Mountain Villa. The scenes where the looted children met their relatives were a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Also, the time interval is too long. Those relatives who come here can no longer recognize their own children, because those children, not seen for many years, have been destroyed into dwarfs, physique and The appearance has changed a lot, and you can only recognize each other slowly.

Xia Pingan asked Zheng Ji to drive the carriage to send the child and the woman home, and leave the affairs of the villa to his subordinates.

I just came to Dao Province city today to solve the Changyun Mountain Villa, which is considered a victory, but Xia Pingan knows that this is just the beginning. Whether I can succeed in Dao Province city this time depends on the connection. Go down and play the game between the Imperial Court and the officialdom. Once the next game fails, the Imperial Court and the people above may change to a Provincial Governor at any time, so that Dao Province City will resume the Shang Gong dwarf figurines.

So, this matter is not over yet.

Xia Pingan recalled the various recorded deeds from Yangcheng to Dao Province in his head, while returning to the Provincial Governor Mansion with the officials in the Provincial Governor Mansion.

When I returned to the Provincial Governor, the entire Dao Province city was a sensation. Along the way, there were people who called Dao Idol and called the sky blue. It was completely different from the situation when Xia Pingan first came.

The Provincial Governor Mansion in Dao Province is not big. It is just a government office with a few courtyards. It is divided into the front hall and the back hall. The front hall of the Provincial Governor Mansion is the office of the Dao Province Provincial Governor’s office, while the back hall is It is the official residence of Dao Province Provincial Governor.

After traveling in and out of the city for so long, I returned to the Provincial Governor House, and it was already evening.

The officials of the Provincial Governor had already prepared the reception banquet. After having eaten the reception banquet hastily, Xia Pingan returned to the back room and went to the study to write memorials to the emperor.

Now the emperor of Chang’an City is Tang Virtue Sect Li Shi. In all fairness, Li Shi is ambitious. He always wants to make some achievements and wants to make great efforts to create a new era for Great Tang. In such a situation, it is a bit wrong to say that he was fainted, but Li Shi was a bit untimely, there were feudal vassals outside, and he didn’t know how to use people inside. He didn’t know people. He wanted to be a holy son. Let Great Tang regain its glory, while tossing about some things, many loyal ministers were driven out of Chang’an by him, and in the end they even began to rely on eunuchs to rule, which is really amazing.

Xia Pingan knows that Yangcheng in history wrote a memorial to Li Shi because of the tribute, but he hasn’t seen how the memorial was written, and he doesn’t know. At this time, Xia Pingan I can only write on my own.

Xia Pingan thought for a long time in the study, and finally decided to start with love first, and then reason, persuading Li Shi to give up the dwarf tribute in Dao Province.

Thinking about this in my heart, Xia Pingan took the pen and started to write shua~ shua~ shua~.

“…When the minister first arrived in Dao Province, there were women who knelt and cried out for injustice, saying that their child had been taken away, and the separation of mother and child was a tragedy on earth. The woman cried and robbed the ground, tearing up tears. All down, the sound is like weeping blood, and the situation is very miserable. Mencius said, compassion, the end of benevolence, everyone has it, and the minister can’t bear to hear it.

Two years old, the rebellious minister, the thief Siming, led the army to capture Luoyang. Your Majesty’s birth mother, and the Great Tang Empress Ruizhen disappeared in the chaos. Your Majesty lost his mother before he was weak, and separated from his birth mother. It was a tragedy on earth. , The country’s misfortune, the descendants ascended to the throne, and were unable to find the Queen Mother Ruizhen for more than ten years. Your Majesty is the most filial piety, and the heart of thinking about the mother is well known in the world. p>Although Your Majesty is the prince of the world, can it be seen that the mother of the world loses her son, and the child loses her mother? In the mountains, the isolation of mother and child often violates the holy way, let alone the human? The minister is the minister of Your Majesty, why? It can be seen that this tragedy took place in Dao Province and turned a blind eye. The minister asked him to find out that the son of the woman had been taken away by the cruel gentry. He should be placed in an urn, and he would become a dwarf as a tribute to Your Majesty after more than ten years. ……

A rebel thief, Shi Siming, separated Your Majesty from his birth mother in Luoyang. Today, Dao Province, a cool official and evil gentry named Your Majesty, let Dao Province have hundreds of mothers and sons farewell. It is a curse, and Shi Siming Compared to this, the ruthless and evil gentry deceives the people, deceives the emperor, and deceives the morals, and violates the holy way. If the Queen Mother Ruizhen is in Dao Province, she will not bear to see…”

… …

Xia Pingan wrote a small memorial, and Xue Yue knocked on the door outside, saying that an official in the mansion asked to see him.

Xia Pingan put down the memorial and asked Xue Yue to call someone in. After a while, he saw Sicang from the Provincial Governor Mansion lowered his head and his men came in with a few books of account books.

The Sicang of the Provincial Governor is a 50-year-old civil servant, tall and thin, with a cautious appearance.

“The officer is guilty, please prosecute the Provincial Governor…” As soon as the Sicang saw Xia Pingan, he knelt down, touched the ground with his forehead, and did not dare to raise his head.

“What’s your sin, stand up and talk!” Xia Pingan said in a tranquil voice.

“Yes!” The Sakura stood up cautiously, but still bowed his head, bowed his waist, and handed a few account books in front of Xia Pingan, “The crime of being an official is all here. In the account book, this lowly official doesn’t dare conceal it. Please check it out!”

Xia Pingan took the account book, opened the account book and flipped through a few pages. When I saw it, Xia Pingan frowned. , Almost couldn’t help but scold his mother again.

Let down the account books, Xia Pingan’s face sank like water.

“How long has this situation lasted?”

“Reporting to Sir, this has always been the case since the official took charge of the Dao Province Provincial Governor’s Sacang. The official had also asked the following Clerk, the following clerks also said that Dao Province Provincial Governor has been doing this all the time. Although it is not right to be subordinated to the government, there is no way to change it. They can only follow the rules of Secang and do not dare to go beyond…” The Cang official cautiously said replied.

Fuck, Xia Pingan was wondering before, why the officials in Dao Province didn’t compensate the people at all after they robbed the children of the people. The compensations had been greeted by them. It’s not that people don’t know the amount of land offerings stipulated by Great Tang’s decree, but they don’t let the people of Dao Province know.

Every time a child is looted, those people will claim 50 quasi-silk from the treasurer as compensation. The more children robbed, the more quasi-silk they receive here. These standards are on the treasurer’s account. Silk is distributed to families without children, but in fact they don’t.

Only this sum, the “subsidies” that those people take away from the treasurer each year amount to thousands of quasi-silk. This is not a small amount. We must know that in this era, a good horse is It’s only 40 silk, and the officials who distribute the money are the officials of the Provincial Governor. They are called “tribute salaries”…

and because they can take the “compensation money” from this local offering. “So the officials in Dao Province were very enthusiastic about the Shanggong dwarf, and they only caught too many children.

“What else do you know, let’s say it together!”

The treasurer gritted his teeth, “My lord, the Imperial Court only needs one dwarf each year, and Changyun The overwhelming majority of that many dwarf theater figurines, under the name of tribute, were captured from the homes of the common people. After being trained as dwarf theater figurines, they were sold to Chang’an and other wealthy families. Many dwarf theater figurines were even sold. In the Western Regions and other places, every year foreign merchants come to Dao Province to buy dwarf figurines!”

Xia Pingan took a deep breath, “how much do they get from selling a dwarf figurines?”

“Silver tael less than a thousand, as many as thousands of silver…”

“Do people in the Provincial Governor know about this?”

“Basically all know!”

“Why does that Zhuang Chao come to this point, is it that no one dares to control?”

“It is true that no one dares to control, because this matter is the same as the tribute Regarding, if there is no tribute, the Master of the Provincial Governor will have to do it, so I can only turn a blind eye. The people in the Provincial Governor’s mansion will not say much if they receive the tribute. In addition, the Zhuang Chao often talks about his acquaintance. Noble relatives in Chang’an City, rich family and relatives often come here to buy and sell dwarf figurines for him. No one knows how deep his background is. The officials in Dao Province dare not offend him. As soon as Chao said that there was a lack of people, there were people here to help him go to the homes of poor people to arrest people…”