Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 112 Refugees (4)

The governor's mansion is the heart of a state.Cangzhou is a piece of heaven for the governor to hold festivals, to act as herdsmen on behalf of the emperor, and to inspect.Therefore, the Governor's Mansion is a shortened version of the Chang'an Imperial Palace, and the county government is a shortened version of the Governor's Mansion.The emperor's front palace and back palace, the folks are the vestibule and backyard.There are six departments in the emperor, six divisions in the governor's office, six offices in the county government office, and even the six classes in the post station at the bottom!From top to bottom, the power is reduced step by step, and the airs of face are not lost, which is called having a good appearance.No matter how poor the place is, the county government must be repaired to look like it. This is bureaucracy.

Cangzhou Governor's Mansion is also well built.In front, there is a lobby facing north and south, where the governor meets with officials, receives imperial edicts, holds meetings, or meets with some important local people, which is generally not used.On the right side of the lobby, there is an inner hall, where the governor handles daily affairs and meets little people.

On the left side of the hall, sitting east and facing west, are the six divisions and scribes
of the office.At the back, there is a cafeteria for the heads of departments and scribes to eat. Inside the cafeteria, it is divided into inside and outside. The outside has four dishes and one soup, and one meat dish. The inside is cold and hot, so you can eat whatever you want.

Opposite the six-room office is the residence of the government servant Zao Limenzi who patrols some miscellaneous people.There is another cafeteria that only has steamed buns with pickled vegetables, and meat dishes are only eaten once every five days.

The front is public, and the back is private. Nuo's big back house is used by the governor alone.There are beautiful pools, rockeries, corridors and kiosks, everything that one expects to find.Speaking of which, several times of wars have been encountered, but the governor's mansion here is still not destroyed, thanks to the restoration of the previous false governors and acting governors.

The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulated that the governor could live in the governor's mansion, but it did not stipulate that the governor's family members could live in. In history, there were upright officials who did not allow their family members to live in the governor's mansion, but Xu Qing obviously did not lack that name.

The inner courtyard of the governor's mansion also has another function, which is to meet guests secretly.Miss Huang's family and Xu Qing were talking in a secret room in the inner courtyard. Huang Shimei was triumphant, and Xu Qing gritted his teeth.

"In this way, you can cut the flesh with a soft knife. Before you encounter the enemy, reduce your strength first. Governor Xu is a good planner, and the little girl admires it! It's a pity..." Huang Shimei connected and analyzed Xu Qing's government orders in the past few days one by one. Xu Qing's calculations were revealed.Xu Qing was startled, and secretly admired Huang Shimei, what a beautiful girl!If it's a man, he's really an opponent...

It's a pity that this is a woman, and she's still a pretty girl. Being so lonely and widowed...Xu Qing's thoughts are spinning: Do you want to use my big bird to conquer her? !First "barbaric" its body, and then "civilized" its spirit!Or rape first and then kill?It seems that they are not at a disadvantage... Xu Qing tilted his head and thought, a trace of obscenity flashed in his eyes.Captured by Huang Shimei, she looked at Xu Qing nervously.

——Seeing this, Xu Qing regained clarity in his eyes,

"Miss Huang, I just saved your brother a few days ago. Is this how you repay your kindness?"

"Inspector Xu was joking, how dare the little girl disrespect the governor, since I'm here, I won't bring this matter up..."

"Oh, you are here to make a deal, tell me what the conditions are..." Xu Qing nodded, spreading his hands, as if he was being slaughtered.When Huang Shimei heard the word "deal", her eyebrows turned upside down and said excitedly: "No! It's not a deal, it's cooperation..." But in a blink of an eye, Huang Shimei realized her loss of composure, her face was slightly red but her momentum remained unchanged, and she said again: "I do have A few conditions, but it cannot be counted as a transaction..."

"Miss Huang, you didn't want me..." Xu Qing buttoned his collar in surprise, looking as if he was about to bite his tongue and kill himself.

——Huang Shimei was stunned for a moment, blushing all over her face, and said coquettishly, "You...you are also the governor of a state, so you don't care about your dignity!"

"Oh, Xiaosheng is afraid..." Xu Qing said cheekily and cutely.Huang Shimei couldn't help but chuckled, and sighed again: "Brother Xu, I have three conditions, you can think about it..."

"Well... you go first..."

"First, you can't touch the vassals of the Huang family. My Huang family also promises that I won't add any more vassals..."

"Second, my Huang's family accounts for [-]% of the salt in Yanshan..."

"Third... you should consider the first two first, and I will talk about the third later..."

——After Huang Shimei finished speaking, she lowered her head and looked at Xu Qing secretly, only to see Xu Qing smiled slightly, and said, "You can do whatever you want with the second one, I agree, but the first one, I don't agree..."

Huang Shimei said anxiously: "Why?"

Xu Qing said slowly: "People can't stand without trust, and things can't do without trust. Once I start to clean up a large group of aristocratic families in Cangzhou, I will do it to the end. All the land will be used for the people, and all taxes will go to their warehouses. One person, one person The grains of rice also need to be checked..." Actually, Xu Qing's words were also meant to scare people, how could he not know that when the water is clear, there will be no fish?The idea in Xu Qing's heart is that the big aristocratic clan must be cleaned up, and the small landlord can be a pastor.Pigs need to be fattened before slaughtering...

"Here, brother Xu, those vassals are our lifeblood. Once the vassals are gone, what kind of aristocratic family will we be?" Huang Shimei said sadly, she really couldn't balance the sweetheart and the burden on her shoulders.

"The heirs of poems and books and the descendants of etiquette are the great family, which can be passed on for hundreds of generations... The heirs of the fields and houses, the descendants outside the law, are just dead bones in the tomb." Xu Qing has been in Tang Dynasty for so long, and has also learned a lot of literary words .

"Oh, how can I not know, but I'm not the only one who said about the Huang family..."

"I can give you Huang's family a lot of wealth, do you believe me?"

"Brother Xu, I..." Huang Shimei said hesitantly.

"I know you don't believe it..." Seeing this, Xu Qing laughed, and said again: "Cangzhou produces salt, and if you sell it outside the Great Wall, you can get cattle and horses. If you sell it in the middle of Sichuan, you can get Jinxiu. Go south to Jiangnan, west to Luoyang Chang'an, You can get silk, grain, and goods from the Western Regions. If all of them are shipped back to Cangzhou, let alone the entire Cangzhou, even the goods in Hebei and Shandong are in our hands, so how big is the profit?"

In the Tang Dynasty, sea salt drying was not developed, and only mineral salt was used. Boiling brine to make salt had extremely low output and high price, and the same profit was also large.

"But..." Huang Shimei said suspiciously.

"I know what you want to say, it's nothing more than being exploited by officials and strong men on the roadside, so let me say, I personally lead soldiers to protect merchants? Or, I sent out five hundred states to protect merchants, and asked for an imperial order? "

"Imperial order?!"

"Here..." Xu Qing found a piece of yellow silk behind him and threw it to Huang Shimei.Huang Shimei picked it up, opened it, her mouth was wide open, unable to close it, and saw that it read:

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:..."

After the imperial edict, it was blank, and a jade seal was stamped at the bottom, with the eight characters of "Ordered by heaven, longevity and eternal prosperity".

This handwriting, this seal, this yellow silk, is carrying a piece of imperial decree that is likely to be true!
Why is it [-]%?Because Huang Shimei didn't believe it at all!She had only heard about the imperial edict, but had never seen it. Even if she had, she would not believe that Xu Qing had a blank imperial edict. It was a priceless treasure!She looked at Xu Qing worriedly, and asked in a trembling voice: "Xu...Brother Xu, you...you dare to make an imperial decree privately?!"

"How can I? I'm very timid. Old man Li gave it to me..." Xu Qing smiled wryly in his heart. Before he left, he promised Li Yuan that he would supply the imperial court and the Northern Saibei army every year for two years in exchange for breaking his promise. After all, this is the first unequal treaty he signed with the feudal imperial power!
——Huang Shimei was completely shocked, what did Xu Qing call the emperor just now?Old man Li!What does this mean?The relationship between Xu Qing and the emperor is very close, to the point of forgetting their friendship, there is no grace!Even an imperial decree representing the highest power can be "asked", no matter how embarrassing the "ask", it should be obtained, is there anyone else in the world?No!

Xu Qing's greatest reliance is not on any aristocratic family, not on any high-ranking official, but on the emperor!The master of the Tang Dynasty, and he will soon become the master of the entire China!Huang Shimei realized that her previous thoughts were all wrong...

"What, little silly girl? Isn't brother powerful?"

"Okay, I believe you..." Huang Shimei no longer doubted, because she listened to what Xu Qing said and saw what Xu Qing did, and everything she did was about exterminating the nine clans. She would never brag about it, and she would never do it for the sake of Cangzhou to tell such lies.What's more, the words come from the mouth of the sweetheart!there will be no fake...

"Shimei... In fact, my strategy is not to cut meat with a soft knife. My strategy is to boil frogs in warm water..." Xu Qing replaced "Miss Huang" with "Shimei", and said something innocuous in order to ease the atmosphere.

"Oh? Boil the frog in warm water?"

"Ahem, you don't know, if you put a frog in a pot of water and heat it up slowly, but the frog doesn't feel the change in the water temperature, and stays in the water until it's boiled to death... ..." Xu Qing said viciously, trying to scare Huang Shimei.

Unexpectedly, Huang Shimei smiled and said expectantly:
"Brother Xu knows a lot, I will give it a try when I go back..."

"Uh, frogs are beneficial insects, so it's better not to kill them..." Xu Qing smiled awkwardly, and said again: "What's your third condition?"

"Hmph, I won't tell you..." Huang Shimei turned her mouth up, acted coquettishly, then looked at Xu Qing and said, "Do you want to know?"

The heart of a woman, the needle in the sea, if Xu Qing guessed it, she would not be single in her previous life.Xu Qing only thought that Huang Shimei wanted money and land, and didn't think about other aspects. Based on the principle of less, Xu Qing replied: "No, no, no, I don't want to know. I don't agree with it. I will give you a piece of cake." The field is rich!"

"Huh!" After hearing this, Huang Shimei stood up humming, turned around and left, muttering "Big fool..." When she walked to the door, she saw Xun Xueer pushing the door in. She knew it was Xu Qing Madam, after a blessing, she continued to leave angrily.After walking away, Huang Shimei glanced back at Xun Xueer, eyes full of envy.

——Xu Qing made an expression of "I didn't do anything" to Xun Xueer, and an expression of "Blame me".Xun Xueer asked about the whole story, and Xu Qing told Xun Xueer everything without reservation, except for the little molestation part.After hearing this, Xun Xueer smiled "puchi" and said:
"Brother Xu doesn't know much about men and women..."

"how?"

"Let Xueer see..." Xun Xueer paused: "The third condition for that Miss Huang is probably..."

"I want to marry Brother Xu!"

(End of this chapter)