"That's different. The year before last, the Director didn't even come to Baoji. He didn't even go to Chang'an. He just went up the river to the north."
"That's true."
"We have to go see the Magistrate. If he hadn't given us some land, we wouldn't even be able to eat now."
"Let's go, let's go."
The area near the town entrance suddenly became empty, and many people ran to the entrance of the official road.
Compared with Fan Zhongyan and Zhao Zhen, Zhao Jun's prestige among the people is actually higher than theirs, because Zhao Jun has traveled around the world twice.
Traveling around the world is not just about conducting research at the grassroots level, but also about understanding the situation of local people and solving their immediate problems.
The most direct way is to crack down on local corrupt officials, deal with local tyrants and evil gentry, and speak up for the local poor people.
They also seized land from these lawbreakers, turned it into government farmland, and rented it out to poor peasant tenants at low prices.
Like many local officials, they not only embezzled and abused their power, but also colluded with wealthy local gentry to oppress the people and exploit the villagers. They were worse than bandits and bullies.
But these officials also have absolute power and do whatever they want in the local area. The people have no way to appeal and can only swallow their anger.
Things are different now that Zhao Jun is here.
No matter how high-ranking an official you are, even if you are just a transport envoy, as long as the people file a complaint and the investigation finds that such a situation does exist, you will be immediately arrested and imprisoned.
Therefore, to some extent, no matter how many technologies Zhao Zhen invented or how many victories Fan Zhongyan won, they were all empty talk. Only by removing the mountains from the people's heads and distributing farmland to them could they achieve real results.
Therefore, people in many places were looking forward to Zhao Jun's arrival. Only when Zhao Jun came could they file a complaint, dare to file a complaint, and gain benefits from it.
This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Jun insisted on traveling around the world every ten years.
At this moment, as the news of Zhao Jun's arrival spread quickly in the town, it didn't take long before hundreds of townspeople heard the news and flocked to the town, blocking the official road.
For this reason, Qinfeng Road Transport Commissioner Fan Xiang had to send soldiers to maintain order, otherwise the entire road would be impassable.
Soon, about half an hour later, a large convoy appeared on the official road in the distance and slowly approached.
Because there were too many people watching the excitement, the government had to block the road. At this moment, the people were all at the back, and the Qinfeng Road officials headed by Di Qing and Fan Xiang went to meet the convoy.
"This humble official pays homage to the prefect."
Everyone shouted.
The team slowly stopped, Zhao Jun lifted the curtain, and the first person he saw was Di Qing, who was 42 years old this year, with a slightly weathered and dusty face.
Di Qing used to have a very white face and was very handsome, a bit like a young Louis Koo.
But now his face is very dark, a bit like Louis Koo after being tanned.
Seeing him like this, Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Han Chen, the Northwest is indeed a very trying place. You've only been here for two years, and it's already like this?"
Di Qing smiled and said, "It's true that the northwest is exposed to the wind and sun, but I think this is good too. I don't have to wear a mask anymore."
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded slightly, then looked at the huge crowd in the distance and asked in slight surprise, "Why are there so many people?"
Fan Xiang explained, "The townspeople heard that the Magistrate had arrived, and they all came to see him."
"It's getting late, let's go to Baoji County first."
Zhao Jun then said to Jiang Dalang beside him, "Just like before, take people to ask the local people. If there are any grievances, record them."
"yes."
Jiang Dalang agreed and then led his men towards the people.
The local officials nearby were sweating profusely.
This is how Zhao Jun does things. Whenever he goes to a place, he encourages local people to file complaints.
As mentioned before, the people have the most say in the environment of a place.
The people know best whether local officials are fair, whether there are any unjust, false or wrongful cases, whether confessions have been made under torture, or whether there is collusion between officials and gentry.
And there is no need to worry about bold and unruly people making false accusations.
Because before doing anything, Zhao Jun would always tell the people that there would be punishment for false accusations, and there was no such thing as zero-cost frame-up.
After confirmation, Zhao Jun will order a thorough investigation.
The criminal methods used by ancient officials were not advanced, and many things were not difficult to detect.
If there is, there is; if there is not, there is not.
Therefore, many times Zhao Jun was able to quickly deal with local evil forces and their upper-level protectors, and solve the problem of poor ecological environment in local officialdom.
He traveled around the country twice, and using this method, he killed hundreds of officials, implicated but not killed more than two thousand officials, and the number of other non-official accomplices added up to tens of thousands.
In the afternoon, near dusk, the convoy crossed the Weishui River and arrived at Baoji County on the other side of the river.
Just like before, Zhao Jun did not move into the local county government office, but lived in the local post house. The post house in the county town was not big and could not accommodate so many people, so the guards stayed in a nearby inn.
To some extent, Zhao Jun also boosted the local economy. Every time he went to a place, he had to spend a lot of money on food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Although there was suspicion of wasting national finances, the benefits definitely outweighed the disadvantages.
After Zhao Jun stayed at the Baoji Posthouse, Di Qing, Fan Xiang, Yang Zheng, Song Shouxin and other senior officials from Qinfeng Road came to see him. Zhao Jun exchanged greetings with them, and seeing that it was getting late, he kept Di Qing to talk with him in detail.
The weather was not very good at night, with dark clouds covering the sun and it looked like it was going to rain or snow.
A howling cold wind blew, and the inn took out charcoal. Zhao Jun and Di Qing sat in the inn, warming their cold hands on the charcoal fire while chatting.
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