Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 113 Changjiong Official Records ([-])
Changan
Dungeon
"Sima Qian, Your Majesty is so magnanimous that you have been exempted from the death penalty and changed to a corruption sentence." A prison official came and said to Sima Qian who was locked in the prison.

"Punishment of corruption?" Hearing this punishment, Sima Qian was completely desperate: "Please let Your Majesty order me to die. I, Sima Qian, would rather die than suffer such humiliation."

Corruption is castration, a symbol of cutting off a man.

"It's not up to me to decide whether to give death or not." Prison Shi replied lightly, then took out a dagger, roasted the dagger in the hot coals, and said to Sima Qian: "You are lucky, these years the treasury There is a lack of money, so His Majesty changed the law, all criminals can atone for their crimes as long as they pay money, and they don’t have to go to jail.”

"The ransom money for corruption punishment is fifty gold, which is not much. You, after all, are also a Taishi Ling. Like the county magistrate, the price is six hundred shi. You should still have some money, but hey, you understand. , There are rules in this prison, fifty gold is only for the court, you have to pay an additional thirty gold to us people, the total is eighty gold."

Prison Shi looked at Sima Qian greedily. With this method, they also made a lot of money.

"I may have eight gold, but I really don't have eighty gold." Sima Qian was very happy at first when he heard that he could use money to redeem his sins, but when he heard that he wanted eighty gold, he felt like crying without tears.

Sima Qian is an incorruptible official, and besides, the official position of Taishi Ling is just to write history, there is no profit at all. In Jiuqing, the one with the most profit is Sang Hongyang's Da Si Nong, and in Da Si Nong, he is the one with the most profit. His teacher, Wang Changjiong, is now serving as the Yantie Supervisor.

Being an honest and honest official is one aspect, plus he refused to write good things about others into history books, so he offended many people.

There are often some dignitaries who ask Sima Qian to brag about them in the history books so that they will live forever.

But Sima Qian refused. He may have recorded errors due to incomplete historical information, such as the biography of Chariot General Wang Changzhi.

But we will never intentionally make mistakes because of accepting threats and lures from others.

That is to say, in his history books, even though he himself knows that many places are just his own guesses, and many places may be wrong, but these are unintentional mistakes, not intentional mistakes.

As a result, many dignitaries also held a grudge against Sima Qian.

"No way, my Taishi Ling, you are reluctant to give up even eighty pieces of gold? Don't you really plan to have your own son?" Prison Shi was a little angry. You are so old, I have seen hundreds of officials, even high-ranking officials like Sangong Jiuqing. These court officials are all superficial, but they are actually greedy for wealth. I have never seen a real honest official. A few, this Sima Qian is at least a mid-level official of six hundred shi. Even if he is not a corrupt official, he should know some wealthy dignitaries. Wouldn't it be enough to borrow some money from those dignitaries he knows?
"I really don't have [-] gold, can you let me go out first, I will live frugally in the future, use my salary to raise money, and after more than ten years, I will slowly make up [-] gold for you." Sima Qian begged road.

"Are you crazy!" Prison history was furious: "You want me to let you out without paying me, whoring for nothing?"

After all, the prison official took the dagger that had been roasted by fire and prepared to corrupt Sima Qian.

"God, why do you want me, Sima Qian, to suffer such torture?" Sima Qian was desperate, and could only close his eyes and wait for the fate to come.

His hands and feet were chained to the torture rack, and he could not resist at all.

Right at this moment...

"stop!"

A nearly 60-year-old white-haired old man walked in and sternly stopped the prison history.

"Huh?" Prison Shi stopped what he was doing, glanced at the white-haired old man behind him, and after seeing the token in the white-haired old man's hand, he quickly smiled and said respectfully: "So it's the Yantie prison, I'm sorry. "

"teacher?"

Sima Qian was overjoyed, it seemed that he should be saved.

"I'll pay the ransom money for Taishi Ling." Wang Changjiong never dared to stand out, for fear of offending others, but today he had to be tough for his favorite student.

Although the Liaodong Wang family is a poor family, they really have a lot of money, and they belong to the top poor family among the poor families.

Ordinary Gongqing Shihou's family dare not say that they are richer than the Wang family.

八十金，对于为官清廉的司马迁来说是个天文数字，但对于天天搞走私贸易、拥有50万亩良田、2万多佃农、100多座豪宅、50多艘商船、几十个海外岛屿、4万多农奴、好几个酿酒作坊、好几个冶铁厂、好几个盐场、好几个渔场、数不尽林场的辽东王家而言。

The eighty gold is just a small amount of money, and the daily food and clothing cost more than eighty gold.

The Wang family's political status is almost entirely obtained by spending money, using money to open the way for the family's children, so that they can have smooth sailing in their official careers.

The prison official knew that the Yantie prison was a lucrative job, so he took advantage of the fire to rob him: "The ransom money for Taishi Ling Sima Qian is [-] gold!"

He temporarily added another twenty gold.

"It was still eighty gold just now!" Sima Qian was furious. Wang Changjiong came to save him, and he couldn't let his teacher waste more money for nothing.

"No problem!" Wang Changjiong smiled at Sima Qian, and then said to Prison History: "One hundred gold is too heavy for me to carry with me. You can come to my Wang family's mansion to get it later."

After all, he added: "During this time, you must not abuse Tai Shiling, and serve him as a good student."

"Okay!" Prison history is very happy, as long as there is money to make.

Afterwards, the jailer yelled at a group of jailers to bring tea and water to Tai Shiling Sima Qian, and ordered a jailer to go to the Chang'an market to buy some good wine and food.

At this time, Wang Changjiong also went to Sima Qian's side and comforted him: "Zichang, you have to suffer in this prison for a few days first, and you will be able to come out after a while."

"Teacher..." Sima Qian was very moved.

As the saying goes, a man does not cry lightly, even if he was about to face the punishment of corruption just now, he did not shed tears, but now, at the most desperate moment, seeing his teacher come to rescue him in person, as a big man, He actually started crying.

"You are also 50 or [-] years old, why are you still crying?" Wang Changjiong smiled and wiped away Sima Qian's tears himself.

"Historical Records - Biography of Wang Changjiong"

[Wang Changjiong, courtesy name Guangming, was born in Tashi County, Liaodong.Since he was a child, he was smart and eager to learn, knowledgeable about the ancient and the present, filial to his parents, and caring for the people.He was first promoted as Xiaolian, and he ruled the Spring and Autumn Period, and he was a doctor of literature.

Later, he was a professor of Taixue. Because of his compassion for the suffering of all living beings, he offered the strategy of farming.

……

In the winter of the second year of Tianhan, Emperor...

Mr. was alone in prison, the prison history was greedy for money, Mr. regards money as dung, laughs and discards gold, has the style of ancient sages, and the rebirth of Confucius and Mencius is nothing more than this. 】

In his own historical records, Taishi Ling Sima Qian spoke highly of Wang Changjiong, and listed him as the three sages of Confucianism along with Confucius and Mencius.

Since the chariot general Wang Changzhi returned to the teacher with tears for the people in Huainan who were eating each other, the Wang family has another sage Wang Changjiong who treats money like dung.

Liaodong Wang's two noble men, one literary and one military, will live forever and be praised by generations of literati, scholars and common people.

(End of this chapter)