The Silent Reforms of Eldridge Chapter 15

Not only did Duo Rui not repay the debt left by Magistrate Lin, but he also refused to spit out the stolen land and silver, and his superiors could not do anything to him. Xu Daxun then reported the shortfalls of Lin and Duo to Jiang Daotai in detail, asking for instructions to distribute the shares in twenty-two years. As for the gap in Jiexiu County, he could no longer inquire. In this case, a group of villains are fighting each other, you bite me, I bite you, who is the mantis and who is the oriole, it is dazzling. The decline of officialdom is irreversible. If it continues, I don’t know where it will go.

I was also ordered to investigate the robbery case of Yao Wu, the thief in Ningyuan Hall, which was also sent back to Shanxi for trial after the participation of Yan Guan in Jingli. Tsikri Norbu was sentenced to death without asking for authenticity, and more than a hundred people were arrested and imprisoned. Although his superiors warned him many times, Tsikri Norbu was stubborn and unwilling to obey. I dare not join him in causing injustice and harming my descendants. I can only go to the police and interrogate them, and after distinguishing right from wrong, release these people to go home to farm, without any further investigation.

This year, another bad news came to the family. The two sisters born to his Concub!ne, Mrs. Chen, died in infancy one after another. The compassionate Zheng family is extremely sad. I sent someone back to my hometown to pick her up and bring her to Shuoping Mansion to support me, but she refused to come.

When my eldest brother Songshan was in Tongzhou, I sent twenty-five taels of silver as support every month. I had never stopped since I became a local official. I have always wanted to donate to upgrade him to a higher level, or buy a few acres of land for his long-term livelihood. It's just that the place is bitterly cold and the family burden is heavy. I don't know when I will be able to save such a sum of money to fulfill this wish.

1840, the 20th year of Daoguang's reign