The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Gou Dasheng's thoughts changed, and he kept weighing the pros and cons. Since Su Jin dared to take the risk, he would never be soft on himself. Relying on the gold medal in his hand, if he didn't choose the second way, he would not hesitate to make the gold medal public. Ask yourself on the spot.

But relatively speaking, the consequences of the first way do not seem to be out of control. Losing an official and being convicted can save one's life.And the second way is to take the risk of desperation, either to retreat unharmed, complete the relief work, and be rewarded by the court, or be implicated and die with Su Jin.

Of course Su Jin knew what he was thinking, and said with a soft sneer: "Don't even think about any compromises. If you choose the first path, I guarantee that you will lose your entire family and property. If I don't sweep away all your belongings, wives, children and servants. Clean and tidy, the gold medal bestowed by the emperor was given to me for nothing."

Gou Dasheng said in a trembling voice: "The emperor did not give you this badge to deal with me. Are you afraid that the emperor will blame you for abusing the imperial gold medal like this?"

Su Jin gritted his teeth and said, "Do you think I seem to be afraid? What's the use of being afraid? If the city of Yangzhou doesn't open a storehouse for relief, I'm afraid there will be a catastrophe. The people's upheavals have been going on for so many days. What have you done? Lao Tzu I came to help you quell the civil uprising at the risk of beheading, but you came to obstruct me. In this case, everyone broke up. Anyway, I also moved the army rations and committed a capital crime. Wouldn’t it be a loss if I didn’t pull a few backs? death; in a word, if you don't stand by me, I will make your life worse than death."

Gou Dasheng hated his teeth so much that he begged in a low voice: "Special Envoy Su, why don't you let me go? I promise I won't obstruct your errands anymore. What do you like to do has nothing to do with me; I rushed back to the camp overnight , how about this thing never happened?"

Su Jin sneered and said: "You think so beautifully. You have also seen the gold medal. You have mastered all my secrets. If you want to withdraw now, there is no door. You can pretend that you don't know and leave, but you must Write me down the written evidence, we can also be regarded as an offensive and defensive alliance, if there is nothing wrong on the next day, let it go, if there is any trouble, I will drag you into the water together."

Gou Dasheng begged bitterly: "Lord Su, I have worked hard for most of my life to get into such a position. Dozens of people in my family count on my salary to support them. If your matter today does not involve my authority, I will Even if you don’t want to come to this muddy water even if you do good deeds, how about letting me go? I promise to keep my mouth shut.”

Su Jin said angrily: "Don't lie to me, do you think I am a three-year-old child? You said that you are indifferent to the world, and I know that you are not a kind person just because of your attitude towards the people just now, maybe I shouldn't be bothering you at all, taking you directly is the greatest good deed; if you don't understand the situation clearly, you are still bargaining with me here, and you don't even think about it, what I did was to kill the whole family Son, you are afraid that your family will be implicated, so I am not afraid? Forget it, I will make a fuss about you, and things have to be done anyway. "

After Su Jin finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave. Gou Dasheng knew that he was going to show the gold medal to mobilize the soldiers by turning around, but there was no room for maneuver, so he simply said: "Special Envoy Su, wait a minute."

Su Jin turned around and said coldly: "What else can I teach?"

Gou Dasheng suddenly shouted: "Continue to open the granary to release grain! This official and Special Envoy Su had some misunderstanding just now, and this misunderstanding has been cleared up. In fact, what is stored in this official granary is only relief grain. It was originally intended to help the people as a last resort, but Since the Special Envoy thinks the timing is just right, I certainly agree."

The crowd roared with joy, Pan Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly ordered the soldiers to hurry up and distribute the food. Although the envoy slapped him a bit, he was already enthralled by the envoy's methods. Who didn't know that Cang Sigou was The most difficult character on Huainan East Road was actually subdued by him, and he didn't know how he did it; as for why the military rations suddenly became non-military rations, that's not what I cared about.

Su Jin smiled all over his face, turned around and said with a smile: "Sure enough, you can afford it and let it go, Mr. Cang Si has a limitless future."

Gou Dasheng said angrily: "It's good to keep this life, can you ask your subordinate to let me go or not, it's not a problem to keep grabbing my neck."

Su Jin hurriedly asked Ma Han to let go, but he really admired this Gou Dasheng. He wanted him to keep his mouth shut and just write a document as collateral, but he didn't expect him to stand with him openly.

Gou Dasheng actually thought very clearly about the whole matter, even if he pretended not to know, he would still be bitten by Su Jin if something happened, and he couldn't escape the responsibility; he might as well be a bachelor and openly stand with Su Jin.

If you are destined to die, you can't escape; if you have a small credit for this incident, you will obviously gain more benefits from the bright side. Go all alone.

Su Jin chuckled, leaned into his ear and said, "Master Cangsi, don't worry, I have everything to do with you. Do you think I don't cherish my head? Don't I have half the confidence in doing things with my head in my hand? This matter will be very fast." It will calm down, and within six or seven days the Luzhou grain transportation team will arrive, and then they will fill the granaries without anyone noticing; this great contribution to the stability of Yangzhou cannot be done without your Master Cangsi."

Gou Dasheng smiled wryly and said, "What else can I do? I hope God will bless you, everything will be as you wish."

Su Jin hooked his shoulder and said: "Don't worry, some things are actually scary when you think about them, but in fact he is not that scary. I don't think you need to know Huainan Road during this time, just stay here so that no one will ask Out of season."

Gou Dasheng sighed, "That's all."

While receiving the food happily, all the people looked at these two strange officials. Not long ago, they cursed and fought with each other, but now they hooked their shoulders together and whispered intimately. Fortunately, I didn't become a leader just now, otherwise these two officials might cooperate to punish people when they are in a bad mood."

Some people also saw that the fat official seemed to be forced to do nothing, but no matter what, as long as he could get the food, who would take care of these official affairs? .

The injured woman was also helped up, and received food again. Gou Dasheng found out that he gave her a sling of money to treat her injuries, and sent someone to help her deliver the food to her home.

The woman thanked Gou Dasheng thousands of times, but Gou Dasheng was a little bit overwhelmed and uneasy, Su Jin smiled and said: "It feels good to do good things, and you should do more of them, so that you can gain peace of mind."

Gou Dasheng rolled his eyes and said, "Bah! This official has always loved the people like a son."

Su Jin laughed loudly and said: "Well, he loves the people like a child, I'm afraid he is an illegitimate child."

It wasn't until the second watch was approaching that the food distribution was completely over. The remaining sporadic people who just got the news no longer needed a large number of people to work here, and it was enough to keep only one distribution point.

60 shi of military rations, nearly 9 shi were distributed, one liter of grain per capita, indicating that at least [-] people received life-saving food, and the family sent one person to receive the food, and nearly [-] people went in and out of the granary courtyard. No wonder the whole The snow in your yard has been trampled and melted, and it has become gruel mixed with the soil.

Seeing that the general situation has been settled, Su Jin felt relieved, pulled Gou Dasheng and said: "Master Gou, we should take a rest, this day is really tiring, I will be the host, find a restaurant to have a drink or two."

Gou Dasheng said: "Why don't you ask the prefect of Song Dynasty to go with you?"

Su Jin winked and said: "Prefect Song still doesn't bark anymore, I'm afraid he's still sound asleep at this moment."

Gou Dasheng said: "How is it possible, he will not take the risk of such a big matter, but he will not fall asleep."

Su Jin chuckled, and said: "He can't sleep if he wants to." Then he leaned into Gou Dasheng's ear and told Gou Dasheng that he tricked the magistrate into drinking Mongolian Khan medicinal wine at noon.

Gou Dasheng's fat face trembled, and he almost fell down. He pointed at Su Jin's nose and said, "You are a lunatic, a complete lunatic."

Su Jin smiled and said: "This time you believe that I can do anything. Congratulations for making the right choice. It's still the same sentence, everything is under my control, so you can relax."

Gou Dasheng sighed: "It's useless to say anything, I'm on a pirate ship."

The two walked out of the Guancang compound, looking at the lights of the players in the distance, and the sound of laughter, the whole Yangzhou city suddenly came back to life from the lifelessness of the past few days, and several brothels were opened, and the sound of silk and bamboo wafted to the ears. Beside, even this naughty ditty, to Su Jin's ears, also became a fairy music fluttering.