Pinggu County
Magistrate Lou has a habit of waking up very early every day, and then first opens the secret room and walks into his own vault to take a look at the gold, silver and jewelry in that room. He was already the county magistrate in Pinggu County when the Sui Dynasty was still strong, but after the world was in chaos, he was still stable in this position, not because he had any great backing, but because he was smart enough .
Some officials are greedy for money, and when they are greedy, they are reluctant to spit it out.
But he never did this. Although he would feel distressed when he took out the money, he knew very well that if he was reluctant to take out the money at a critical moment, he would lose more. His secret room was built in the bedroom. After the closet door was opened, there was a baffle, and when the baffle was pushed open, a stone room was inside.
This house is the wealth he has accumulated over the years as an official. To be honest, if he decides to resign now and find a place to live, the money will not be spent in several lifetimes.
Magistrate Lou also has a habit, that is, when giving gifts, he will never give real money, but silver notes. In his opinion, things like silver tickets are far less real than real gold and silver held in his hands, but if someone gives a silver ticket as a gift, he can't refuse it. After the collapse of the Great Sui Dynasty, banks all over the country were more or less affected, and many banknotes could no longer be exchanged.
Every morning, he would go around the room without washing up.
To be honest, maybe he already knew by heart where every silver ingot was placed.
The bank note he sent out yesterday was the exchange bank note of the Jinjun Bank built by Hutong Tianxia Bank in the southwest, so it was not much different from sending real money. No matter how chaotic the world is, the strength of Hutong Tianxiaxing is still there. Moreover, the current Jinjun Bank is considered to have the official background of the Black Banner Army, so there is no need to worry about not being able to withdraw the money deposited in it.
"A full three thousand taels."
County Magistrate Lou sighed, thinking that his useless brother-in-law had offended the people from the Xiao Riding School at the gate of the city, and he was a little worried. In fact, he doesn't have much backing. Since the chaos in the Sui Dynasty, where is there any stable mountain to rely on
Just take those big figures in the imperial court who were once prominent, Pei Yan? Even Luo Yao used to rely on him to inquire about the news of the court, but when Emperor Tianyou came back, the first thing he did was to chop off Pei Yan's head. As for the so-called big men in the imperial court, they are not worth mentioning at all. In Lou County Magistrate's view, even though those big figures were wearing red and purple high-ranking brocade robes, they were really not as comfortable as he was from Qipin County Magistrate.
His brother-in-law is an idiot, acting impulsively and recklessly, if it wasn't because he really couldn't get on the stage, he wouldn't have let his brother-in-law guard the city gate.
But he didn't dare not arrange some things for his brother-in-law. Having a shrewd wife in the family is also an extremely annoying thing.
He picked up a soft towel, opened a box, took out a gold ingot from it, and wiped it slowly and carefully. He wiped it every day. In fact, there was no dust anywhere.
"grown ups!"
Suddenly there was a shout from outside: "It's bad! Feng Yi was being beaten at the gate of the city!"
When Magistrate Lou heard this, his expression changed, and a burst of anger rose in his heart. Although his brother-in-law Feng Yizheng was incompetent, who would dare to bully him in this three-acre land in Pinggu County? Not to mention that Feng Yizheng's wife would be furious if he bullied Feng Yizheng, this also completely disregarded him as the county magistrate.
The county magistrate Lou put the gold ingots back to their original places, meticulously.
Then he went out, changed into official uniforms, and hurriedly led a few yamen servants to the city gate. After leaving the gate and not making progress, I saw the chaos on the street.
After seeing the situation on the opposite side clearly, Feng Yizheng's face suddenly changed, and his legs lost strength in an instant. If it wasn't for one of his subordinates who quickly supported him, he would have already sat down on the ground.
A group of Xiao cavalry school wearing dark blue brocade clothes and bright red cloaks came galloping from the street. The leader of the Xiao cavalry school's hundreds of horses was pulling a stumbling man behind him, whoever it was if it wasn't his brother-in-law Feng Yizheng. From the looks of it, his brother-in-law was dragged all the way here with his hands bound and roped. Even if he wasn't dead, he might have already died.
"My lord... these are the guys."
A yamen servant had never met anyone from the Xiao Riding School, so he still didn't understand the seriousness of the matter: "Early this morning, these people rode to the door and asked who was the chief who was on duty yesterday. Feng Yizheng stood up and asked what was the matter. The person who spoke beat his head and face with the whip and whipped Feng Yizheng to the point of crying and howling. This is not over yet, those people got off the horse and beat and kicked Feng Yizheng until he lost his shape... "
The yamen servant said with lingering fear: "So this subordinate hastened to report to you."
The leader of the hundred households of the Xiaoqi School saw a man in a seventh-grade green official uniform leading someone, his face turned cold, he reined in the horse and jumped off the horse, and dozens of Xiaoqi School behind him dismounted in unison , striding towards this side.
"Are you the magistrate?"
The hundred households asked.
County Magistrate Lou answered in a haunted voice, "Exactly... what are you going to do?"
Hundreds of households from Xiaoqi School raised their hands: "Take it, first slap fifty."
Four wolves-like cavalry schools rushed over, frightening the magistrate Lou's servants and hurriedly backed away. Two Xiao cavalry schools held the magistrate Lou's arms, and the other stabilized the county magistrate's head from behind. A Xiao cavalry school took out a thick mahogany board from the buckskin pouch at the waist, and began to slap Lou County Magistrate's face cracklingly. Within ten blows, Lou County Magistrate's face was covered with blood and blood.
"By the order of the Lord!"
Hundreds of households from the Xiaoqi School shouted loudly: "Take the whole family of County Magistrate Lou to Suzaku Mountain for trial!"
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Xiang Qingniu kept looking at Fang Xie's face along the way, he didn't know if Fang Xie would be very angry because of this trivial matter.
"What did you ask?"
Xiang Qingniu asked Fang Jie: "Are some important people in the Zhuqueshan camp involved?"
"without."
Fang Jie shook his head: "I said that there are a few big fish in Zhuque Mountain, not because of their high status, but because their positions are very important. Officials who are responsible for random inspection of local officials, officials who are responsible for assessing political achievements, these People, if it's not because of something, even I don't think about it often. But it is precisely because of this that these people will gradually become rampant. The incident in Pinggu County is by no means an exception. These people dare to accept that Lou from Pinggu County The county magistrate's money, dare to accept other people's money."
"It's actually easy to check."
Xiang Qingniu said: "Now the largest bank in the Southwest is opened by you in the name of Sanjinhou, and those small banks are not safe at all, so few people dare to go. Just check the money store In the account book, it is clear how many people have money from improper sources. Even if they use someone else's name, the people who have saved will leave their names and addresses, and they will follow the vines, and no one will be left behind."
Fang Jie nodded, "I'll do it after I go back."
"Don't think so much, you are going to be a father now."
Xiang Qingniu persuaded: "After you go back, leave this matter to Chen Xiaoru, and you can concentrate on taking care of Sang Sasha."
Fang Jie was a little dazed and said: "This is still a period of competition, and such signs have already begun to appear. I can now understand why such things will intensify in the past dynasties. When fighting for the world, most people are focused on fighting for the top. .And when governing the world, most people’s thoughts are no longer on governing.”
"You are not a god."
Xiang Qingniu found that Fang Jie's thoughts seemed a little extreme, which was not a good thing. Sometimes people's thoughts are like practice. Once they get into a dead end that they can't get out of, some people will go crazy to the extreme. The smarter the person, the more this happens.
In the arena, those who are obsessed, nine out of ten are talented. Stupid people seldom do that.
If Fang Jie's thoughts got into that dead-end, no matter where he went to think about it, he couldn't get an answer. Xiang Qingniu was worried that something extreme would happen. Walking in the rivers and lakes these years, it's not that Xiang Qingniu has never seen someone who drives him crazy.
"Even if you are a god, you can't control people's thoughts."
Xiang Qingniu said.
Fang Jie's eyes were a little confused, and he seemed to be muttering to himself: "Why can't there be a cure for this kind of thing? What method can be used to restrain people's greed? High salary to raise honesty? Is it the one who raises honesty?" ? Or more greed? Severe codes? Even if you are greedy, you will be killed? Then you won’t be able to kill them all until the end.”
"Fang Juexiao!"
Xiang Qingniu suddenly yelled loudly, startling Fang Jie.
"Hey!"
Xiang Qingniu smiled at him: "Didn't you say that Sang Sasha named the child Fang Ning? I thought about it, and this name is really good. It can be used by both boys and girls, and it has a good meaning!"
Fang Jie suddenly woke up and realized that he had just slipped into a very dangerous place. He is too smart, too thoughtful, the bottle of thought just now has been opened, and he has already got halfway into it. If he can't get it back in time, no one knows what the consequences will be.
Fang Jie has encountered countless great dangers, but this is the first time he has encountered such a danger.
This is not to face the danger brought to him by foreign enemies, but to bring himself to a desperate situation.
"Do your best."
Xiang Qingniu saw that Fang Jie's face recovered, and said with a smile: "I remember when I was studying art on the mountain, the most common sentence my master said was that I have no regrets. In the face of some injustice, if you don't do anything, then you are A coward is a walking dead. But if you are annoyed, ashamed or even hopeless because you can't bring peace to the world by yourself, you are still a fool, even if you have good intentions."
"Thanks."
Fang Jie said these two words emphatically, and then laughed too: "Thank you for pulling me back from the time when I was on the road of being an idiot."
Xiang Qingniu laughed tremblingly: "I am for myself, if my best friend becomes an idiot. And I don't want to lose this friend, so I can only turn myself into an idiot, right? Look, this How bad things are, if the Duke of the Black Banner Army Town is an idiot, Dao Zun will also be an idiot... I can't tolerate it."
Fang Jie smiled at first, but suddenly his face became a little sad, he looked at Xiang Qingniu and said, "Suddenly thought of the two brothers Chen Heng and Chen Ha."
Xiang Qingniu also fell silent: "Those are two... good friends. It doesn't matter whether they were good or bad before, but they are friends enough."
Fang Jie nodded: "It's better for friends to be alive."
Xiang Qingniu hummed: "My friends are still alive."