The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Li Zhihe began to seriously consider the countermeasures. It's not that he doesn't want to drag Su Jin into the water, but who is Su Jin?Will pulling him into the water bring disaster to himself and others?These are all worthy of careful consideration.Once the matter in Weizhou City is exposed, it will be a heinous crime. Even the immortal Laozi can't keep this head on his neck.

Since the imperial court decided to implement Fan Zhongyan's policy last year and moved all the residents outside the city into the city to clear the walls, food has become the most precious thing in Weizhou City; Ze, the supply was greatly insufficient. Under such circumstances, the wealthy families trapped in Weizhou City began to open up relationships in private to find Weizhou Tongju Xu Wei to buy grain at a high price.

Xu Wei didn't dare to make decisions by himself, so he quietly discussed with Li Zhihe. Li Zhihe originally reprimanded Xu Wei for being bold, but Xu Wei's remarks moved him.

"Li Jianjun, according to the current situation, there are more than [-] people in the city, so a little food is still not enough to eat, and sooner or later they will starve to death. If it is a sin to starve to death according to Master Fan's order, then let's go on the Jingyuan Road. The lower officials will be convicted sooner or later; if this is the case, why fill such a bottomless pit with precious food? It is better to keep the general food, and let us find a way to exchange the remaining food for something useful. Or get demoted, and still live a good life?"

Li Zhihe's heart was greatly moved. For him, among the three things of money, power and sex, the word sex is out of the question, because he was cut off from his eggs when he was a child and entered the palace as a servant.

The way of power is also worrying now, and Fan Zhongyan's order is also very clear: "All the people in the cities and the local officials must guarantee the basic survival food, which cannot be sold in the form of coins, but can only be exchanged for labor. If there are measures Those who inappropriately starve the people in the city to death will be relegated if they are mild, or dismissed from office if they are serious, and will be handed over to a supervisor. '

Fan Zhongyan has always followed his word, and now that the imperial court has adopted his policy, it is the time when he is popular, and at this time he will definitely follow his word, so with this order as a premise, he will be convicted sooner or later. Some rights will also be lost with the starvation of the people in Weizhou City.

Now that "power and sex" can't be touched, the only thing left is to make money. With money, even if you are punished in the future, you can still live a good life, provided that all of this cannot be noticed.

After some calculations, Li Zhihe ordered Xu Wei to categorically reject and reprimand those who wanted to buy grain at a high price, not because they changed their minds, but because it was too dangerous to do so, and those who bought grain would be a ticking time bomb in the future. It will detonate at any time, and Xu Wei will be pulled out. Xu Wei will not be able to run away even if he is pulled out, so even if it is done, it must be done secretly.

Li Zhihe thought for a whole night, and finally came up with a more secret way.

The first is to stop the labor of the common people. The city walls and turrets were being built in the west city. These are the fortifications that must be built to defend against the enemy. Since we don’t want the common people to consume food, we can only stop the construction. This is justified For some, there is food to eat for government labor, and it is a matter of course if there is no work and no food.

Then they dispatched capable and reliable subordinates to transport the food other than the military food out of the warehouse and hide it, and then quietly set up a black market to sell the food from the black market, so that the government could pretend to be ignorant, and if someone reported it, it would be fake Going to check it in a fake way, and the copied food is sent back to the black market for sale again, which not only calms the anger of the people, but also does not bear the reputation of inaction, but the black market has been repeatedly opened and banned. The government has limited energy and cannot check the black market around the clock. .

In the end, it was an act of concealment. In the name of the Weizhou government, several porridge sheds were set up to serve a meal of gruel every day, so that the people could receive the relief that the government was doing their best, instead of just sitting back and watching the people starve to death.

These three items can be said to be deliberate. If it is not for the discerning people, they will not know the inside story here. Xu Wei and Li Zhihe are worthy of their resourcefulness, but this resourcefulness is not used in ideas, but in making money for the country. .

For the sake of safety, Xu Wei did not hesitate to wear a cuckold. Wang Yan, an old guy, is as cowardly as a mouse, and he would never participate in it. When he came to drink at his own home, he poured some acacia powder into Wang Yan's wine glass, and when the effect of the medicine took effect, he asked his concubine to go up and tease him, and finally hooked the old guy into a trap; At that time, Xu Wei brought someone to show up to take the traitor, and Wang Yan was so ashamed that he almost hanged himself, and finally had to admit that he was unlucky.

Xu Wei felt that it was not safe, so he sent a lot of stolen money to Wang Yan, and forced Wang Yan to give a receipt. As a result, Wang Yan was completely unable to move, and he turned a blind eye from then on. In the name of inspecting the defense of Jingyuan Road, he handed over all the affairs of Weizhou to Xu Wei, while he took advantage of the imperial order and hurriedly escaped, leaving this place of right and wrong. Xu Wei and others were not afraid that Wang Yan would reveal the matter. .

The more difficult thing is Ge Huaimin. This guy is a martial artist with a very hot temper. Although he is also a greedy and lustful person, it may be counterproductive to deal with him in the same way as Wang Yan. .

However, Li Zhihe has a solution. He knows Ge Huaimin's weakness. In a battle a few days ago, Ge Huaimin refused to obey Wang Yanjun's order and was defeated. At that time, only Li Zhihe was present. He said that his subordinates did not try their best, which resulted in General Ge's order not being carried out. Ge Huaimin was naturally grateful to Li Zhihe.

So Li Zhihe took advantage of Ge Huaimin's gratitude and deliberately sighed and frowned all day long. When Ge Huaimin asked, Li Zhihe said that he had done a wrong thing, and he might be dismissed for questioning; Li Zhihe asked Li Zhihe to say the slogan, and he tried to find a way to accommodate it, but when Li Zhihe said it, Ge Huaimin was dumbfounded; but this bastard actually agreed to keep it secret for Li Zhihe in order to repay his favor, and after many rounds, he finally couldn't resist Li Zhihe's hard work Bubble, also pulled down the water.

So far, the four officials in charge of the city have all been in the trap, the big thing is settled, no more scruples, the food that was supposed to relieve the people has been turned into thousands of coins and flowed into everyone's pockets; as for other small officials, it is naturally easier to drag them into trouble , Until the important people get benefits of varying sizes, their mouths are all blocked.

Li Zhihe felt a little sweating when he recalled these things. The current situation was really vague and difficult. This Su Jin seemed to be implying intentionally or unintentionally that he wanted to join the gang, but he always had an indescribable defensive mentality towards him.

This person is also Yan Sansi's niece and son-in-law, planning to kill him will cause even greater disasters. If it is said that killing him is the safest way before knowing Su Jin's background, now it seems that pulling him into the water That's the best way, not to mention that this guy looks like he is ready to jump into the water voluntarily at any time; as long as Li Zhihe opens his mouth, he will surely agree with a smile on his face.

But the more this is the case, the more cautious Li Zhihe is. He has to test Su Jin's true thoughts before making a decision. Once he finds out that Su Jin really knows a lot, and he is not sincere in joining the group, he can only take risks and kill him. He said again, we will talk about it later.

"Master Su, how about taking a step to talk?" Li Zhihe finally spoke with a hoarse voice.

Su Jin was overjoyed, and finally had a clue. Li Zhihe wanted to talk to him alone, which was a signal that he was ready to accept him.

Su Jin cupped his hands and said, "Dare not to obey."

Li Zhihe turned and went downstairs, and came to a private room on the fourth floor of Jieyue Building. Su Jin stepped into the private room and closed the door smoothly.

The two sat down facing each other, Li Zhihe looked at Su Jin for a long while, then Fang said slowly: "Master Su, since you are Yan Sansi's nephew and son-in-law, how could you say today that being an official means making money? Wouldn't it embarrass Yan Sansi if it got out?"

Su Jin shook his head and said, "Is he embarrassed? I'm still embarrassed."

Li Zhihe said: "How do you say that?"

Su Jin poked his head out to look around, looking like a ghost, and only after retracting his head, he said in a low voice: "Jianjun Li, this is a private conversation between the two of us, I don't want others to know what we are talking about."

Li Zhihe frowned and said: "Don't worry, our mouth is the strictest, just listen to it, if there is a third person who knows, you are the only one to ask."

Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'll just say it straight, why do you think I love money so much? It was forced by Yan Sansi."

Li Zhihe shook his head and said with a smile: "This is so unreasonable, how could Yan Sansi let you become an official for money."

Su Jin pointed at the sky and said: "Don't believe it, do you know how I hooked up with Miss Yan's family?"

Li Zhihe was amused in his heart, as soon as he uttered the word hook up, it showed that the number one scholar was a parallel importer, and it was probably Yan Shu who put his strength into it.

"When I visited Bianshui for the third time in March this year, I wandered by the Bianshui River and met Ms. Yan by accident. At that time, I didn't know that she was Yan Sansi's niece. Ms. Yan and I talked about speculation. The two of us Once people come and go, it becomes like glue."

Li Zhihe frowned and said inwardly, "It must be your golden skin that helped, and this Miss Yan really has no vision, and she will be as close as glue to you."

Su Jin continued: "It was only later that I learned that Miss Yan is the niece of Yan Sansi. Do you think I should let go at this time? Or should I hold on tight?"

Li Zhihe thought for a while and said, "I can't guess, I'm not the roundworm in your stomach."

Su Jin rolled her eyes and said, "Then you're a bit... that stupid, I'm married to Miss Yan, obviously I chose the latter."

Li Zhihe was embarrassed, and secretly scolded himself for being stupid, isn't this obvious?

"Originally there is no prospect of a person like me getting ahead, how can I let go of this good opportunity?" Su Jin laughed.

Li Zhihe scratched his head and asked, "May I ask, who is Master Su's son? What kind of officials did your ancestors do?"

Su Jinha smiled and said, "Official? No one in my family has been an official in eight lifetimes."

Li Zhihe Wen Yan said: "That's okay, most heroes come from the reckless, even the families of ordinary people, as long as the family background is clean, it's okay."

Su Jin smiled and said: "I am the son of a merchant, and my family opened a small business in Luzhou City, selling some miscellaneous things."

Li Zhihe was speechless for a moment, the common people were nothing but a merchant who was not as good as ordinary people, so he couldn't help asking: "Then how can Yan Sansi agree to you and Miss Yan?"

Su Jin said: "Yes, I am also very worried about this matter, but soon I figured it out, so what if Yan Sansi disagrees? I forced him to agree."

Li Zhihe said in astonishment: "How did you force Yan Sansi?"

Su Jin lowered his voice to Li Zhihe's ear and said, "Do you really want to know?"

Li Zhihe pretended to be indifferent and said: "If it is inconvenient for Mr. Su to say it, just let it go."

Su Jin smiled lightly and said: "It's not inconvenient, so I just said it's okay to listen to you. Who told us to hit it off? My solution is..."

Li Zhihe pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"It's just...cutting first and then playing. Cooking raw rice and cooked rice made Ms. Yan's belly bigger..."

Li Zhihe was dizzy and dizzy for a while, quickly supported the table to stabilize his body, took a few breaths, and then recovered.