Water Margin people

Chapter 370

"Sun Lei is trying to reshape the order of the rivers, lakes and green forests!"

Song Jiang thought quickly about Sun Lei's purpose.

The rivers, lakes and green forests have always been an extremely loose group from ancient times to the present. Many people only hear their names but don’t see them. Each region has its own network of relationships, and they all play behind closed doors.

There has never been anyone in the Jianghu who has really convinced the whole Jianghu. He Song Jiang has done so many things, donated money, helped the poor, and in the end he only wanted to be famous in Shandong.

"We can't let him go on like this, otherwise he, Sun Lei, will have the final say in the world from now on!"

Holding the wine glass, Song Jiang thought to himself, Jianghu is just like a dynasty, everyone has a chance to be emperor, but once the dynasty is established, it will be extremely difficult to replace it, and after the dynasty is established, the loose people in the Jianghu will be liquidated and suppressed.

Song Jiang paid for the drink and went to Taishi Mansion. He was going to ask one last question. If there was no response, he would find an excuse to go back to Jeju first.

Along the way, Song Jiang thought about how to stop Sun Lei, but finally found that Sun Lei was no longer something he could deal with. To stop Sun Lei, he had to rely on the power of the court.

"Gao Qiu and Sun Lei have a deep blood feud. This time Sun Lei made such a big noise, there should be reactions."

Song Jiang suddenly thought of Gao Qiu. The fact that Sun Lei killed Gao Yanei has never been forgotten by Tokyo people, so how could Gao Qiu forget it.

"Isn't this Song Privy Councilor? It's just in time. I'm still going to look for it. The grand master summoned me!"

Seeing Song Jiang approaching, the doorman at the gate of the Grand Master's Mansion had a smile on his face. He was lucky today, so he didn't have to find someone to run errands.

"The grand master summoned?"

Song Jiang was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly handed over a piece of silver.

"The villain is vulgar, the first time I see the grand master, I look to the high school for advice, so as not to collide!"

Song Jiang bowed his hands to his disciples and said, even if he was a third-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate, he would not dare to be careless.

"Private Song is polite. Grand Master just came back from the court meeting and seems to be in a good mood. Privy Song doesn't need to be too nervous. Grand Master treats subordinates very kindly. Privy Song can answer truthfully."

Menzi smiled and took the money and said to Song Jiang that he was very satisfied with Song Jiang, a small foreign official. Song Jiang didn't have the rustic style of a foreign official. This is the first time he has seen it.

Under the leadership of Menzi, Song Jiang walked through the outer garden and entered the study room. As soon as he entered, he saw a spiritual old man with snowy hair, a cap facing the sky, and a black brocade round-neck robe, standing in front of the desk. Swipe and splash ink.

"Song Jiang, a petty official from Jeju, kowtows to Grand Master Cai!"

Song Jiang knelt down directly to Cai Jing, with his head on the ground and his hands in front of him, extremely respectful.

Cai Jing didn't speak, but just wrote vigorously, and when he finished writing a word, he put down his pen and nodded in satisfaction.

"Get up!"

Cai Jing didn't even look at Song Jiang, but just admired his writing.

Song Jiang just got up, but he didn't dare to look up at Cai Jing, he looked down at the ground under his feet and took two steps back, with a low eyebrow and a pleasing look.

"Send this letter to the palace and dedicate it to His Majesty!"

Cai Jing said to the servants beside him, Zhao Ji asked him for calligraphy again today, since the emperor asked, then he, a courtier, will go all out, this is the foundation of his life.

"You are Song Jiang?"

With the help of the maid, Cai Jing sat on the soft couch. He looked old-fashioned, and completely lost the spirit of splashing ink just now. Cai Jing sat for a while and took a sip of tea, then looked at Song Jiang who was standing with his head bowed and opened his mouth.

"Song Jiang, a petty official in Jeju!"

Song Jiang replied.

"I heard that you are very famous among the bandits in Shandong?"

Cai Jing put down his teacup and looked at Song Jiang and said.

"Grand Master, it's just a rumor that Song Jiang's family has been kind for generations, and Song Jiang has also studied the criminal law, so he dare not violate it!"

Song Jiang's complexion changed and he quickly knelt down to explain. He didn't expect that Cai Jing would reveal his old background when he opened his mouth. Gangsters are the most despised by senior officials.

"Since there are rumors, there must be a reason. I don't ask about your background, but whether you are familiar with the thieves from the capital and the east?"

Cai Jing raised his hand and said.

"Because the small official handles official documents with a knife and pen, he does know many offenders."

Song Jiang didn't understand what Cai Jing meant and said ambiguously.

"Not bad!"

Cai Jing was very satisfied with Song Jiang's answer, and nodded with a smile.

This reaction made Song Jiang even more nervous. He didn't understand what Cai Jing was trying to do.

"Song Jiang, are you willing to vote for me?"

Cai Jing looked at Song Jiang who was kneeling and asked with a smile.

"Song Jiang greets Enxiang!"

Song Jiang was overjoyed, and without any hesitation, he immediately bowed to Cai Jing with all five bodies.

After this bow, Song Jiang didn't realize that something was wrong, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, as if it was about to jump out of his chest, he couldn't believe his ears, Cai Jing actually wanted to take him in?He will be Cai Jing's disciple in the future?Isn't this a pie in the world, and it just fell into his own mouth?

Song Jiang's legs were a little weak, and his whole body was weak. The kneeling just now was a subconscious action of his many years of experience in the officialdom. If it wasn't for this experience, he would have been in a daze.

"Get up!"

Cai Jing was very satisfied with Song Jiang's attitude and reaction. He had no shortage of disciples. As he wanted disciples, the people who came to vote would fill up Tokyo.

"Do you know why I accepted you?"

Cai Jing looked at Song Jiang and asked.

"The little guy doesn't know."

Song Jiang shook his head.

"There is no shortage of officials under my family, no matter whether they are high-ranking officials in the court or the magistrates and county magistrates who have been sent out, there are as many officials as there are, but there are no local subordinates, and no one who is familiar with those gangsters."

Cai Jing looked at Song Jiang and said, he noticed that Song Jiang was also a coincidence, when he returned to the mansion that day, he happened to see Song Jiang talking with the gatekeepers and guards. The gatekeepers and guards in his mansion have always disdained foreign officials, but this time they were able to talk to a young foreigner. The officials talked very happily, so he asked someone to check Song Jiang, only to find that Song Jiang was not an ordinary official, but was very famous among the bandits in the Jingdong area.

As Cai Jing himself said, there is no shortage of officials in the Grand Master's Mansion. He is a veteran of the three dynasties and several prime ministers. .

In the Song Dynasty, the officials were strong and the officials were weak, and the transfer of officials was extremely frequent, ranging from a few months to no more than three years, but the subordinate officials were always in the local area, and officials had to rely on local subordinate officials for many things.

"The villain doesn't understand, please be kind and enlighten me!"

Song Jiang didn't understand even more. The subalterns in this place dreamed that one day they would be able to enter the official status and formally enter the imperial court. They would no longer be "non-staff personnel". How come senior officials like Cai Jing are still interested in subalterns.

"You are from Yuncheng, so you seem to be close to Liangshanbo!"

Cai Jing looked at Song Jiang and asked.

"Yuncheng is under the rule of Jeju, and Liangshanbo is also under the rule of Jeju. The distance between the two is about a hundred miles."

Song Jiang quickly said that when Cai Jing asked about Liang Shanbo, he probably guessed Cai Jing's purpose, and it must be because of Sun Lei. For a high-ranking official like Cai Jing, only Sun Lei can register on the entire Beijing East-West Road.

(End of this chapter)