After a cup of tea, Liu Yanzhi went down to the Wangyue Tower. He took the last step too high and a silver note with a face value of one hundred taels of silver fell out of his sleeve. Liu Yanzhi pounced on the note like a vicious dog pouncing on its prey and grabbed it before it hit the ground. His head almost hit the pillar in front of him.
"Hey, you naughty boy, you're in my hands and you still want to run away? You're dreaming."
After Liu Yanzhi grabbed the banknote, he stood up, chuckled, flicked the banknote lightly, and stuffed it into his sleeve again.
"Hey, what are you looking at? This is my banknote. You, a poor guy, will never earn that much in your lifetime!" After Liu Yanzhi put away the banknote, he found that the waiter was looking at him in astonishment. He couldn't help but stepped forward and kicked the waiter, cursing.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The waiter was kicked and bent down repeatedly to apologize to Liu Yanzhi.
"A good dog doesn't block the road!" Liu Yanzhi scolded the waiter, flicked his sleeves, and walked out of Wangyue Tower leisurely.
After Liu Yanzhi left, in the private room on the second floor of Wangyue Tower, Ouyang Zishi frowned and looked at Luo Longwen in confusion, "Brother Luo, at this time, why do you still insist on staying as the magistrate of Jingnan County?"
"Haha, this county magistrate is a gift I carefully selected for Zhu Ping'an. How could he be snatched away by others?" Luo Longwen smiled sinisterly.
"Brother Luo, are you so confident that you can bring bad luck to Zhu Pingan?!" Ouyang Zishi looked at Luo Longwen in confusion, and the topic returned to the topic before Liu Yanzhi came. However, before Luo Longwen could answer, Ouyang Zishi spoke again with a painful look on his face, "But before that, I have another question, Brother Luo, since you have moved out of my cousin's East Tower, why do you still have to give Liu Yanzhi another 100 taels of silver. Could it be that Liu Yanzhi dares not give face to my cousin in the East Tower?!"
Ouyang Zishi felt very sorry for the one hundred taels of silver. Although the silver was paid by Luo Longwen, he still felt the pain.
"Haha, that's why you are still young, Ouyang." Luo Longwen laughed when he heard that.
Um
Ouyang Zishi was puzzled.
"Ouyang, let me ask you, in our era, if you want to become an official, what are the channels?" Luo Longwen asked Ouyang Zishi.
"To select scholars through the imperial examination." Ouyang Zishi opened his mouth without thinking.
"What else?" Luo Longwen asked again.
Ouyang Zishi thought for a moment and said, "There is also hereditary succession. Wait, Brother Luo, what do you want to say?"
"Ouyang, be patient. In our era, there are only four ways to become an official. The first is to take the imperial examination; the second is to inherit the throne; the third is military merit; and the fourth is buying and selling officials. Haha, don't be surprised. Buying and selling officials is not a secret. It is almost an unspoken rule. Brother Donglou is... Never mind, I'll tell you about this later. As the saying goes, it's difficult to make a square without rules. Buying and selling officials is all about money and power transactions, and this rule cannot be broken by us. By bringing up Brother Donglou, Liu Yanzhi and the Ministry of Personnel can keep the post of magistrate of Jingnan County, but they will definitely be unwilling to accept it. In the future, there may be obstacles such as lip service. It's easy for the King of Hell to see the little ghosts, and sometimes these little ghosts are also very important. By bringing up Brother Donglou and supplementing him with money, they can be convinced and it's foolproof." Luo Longwen took a sip of tea and explained slowly.
In fact, Luo Longwen did not tell Ouyang Zishi about the deeper things. When it comes to buying and selling official positions, Luo Longwen is very familiar with it, because one of the big bosses behind this industry is Yan Shifan. As Yan Shifan's lackey, Luo Longwen is naturally very familiar with this. As a vested interest in the rules of this industry, it is too late to maintain the rules of this industry, so how can he break the rules
"But one hundred taels is a bit too much..." Ouyang Zishi still felt a little distressed about the one hundred taels of silver.
Luo Longwen smiled but said nothing. What was a hundred taels of silver? Ouyang was still short-sighted. He was far inferior to Brother Donglou...
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Brother Luo, why are you so confident that you can bring bad luck to Zhu Pingan?"
Ouyang Zishi then asked, this question was his biggest puzzlement today, how could Luo Longwen be so confident that he could bring bad luck to Zhu Ping'an that he was willing to pay a hundred taels of silver to "help" Zhu Ping'an retain his position as the magistrate of Jingnan County? !
Although Ouyang Zishi wished Zhu Ping'an bad luck, but really, after knowing the content of Zhu Ping'an's memorial and how it pleased Emperor Jiajing, Ouyang Zishi had to admit that with this memorial as a talisman, the little thief Zhu Ping'an had become free from all taboos, immune to all poisons, and able to ward off evil and avoid disasters.
Therefore, he really couldn't understand why Luo Longwen was so confident that he could bring bad luck to Zhu Ping'an.
"Ouyang, do you think that Zhu Ping'an's memorial gave him a talisman?"
Luo Longwen picked up the wine jug and filled Ouyang Zishi's glass with wine, then held up the glass and asked with a smile.
"Isn't it? This is the cunning and treacherous part of the little thief Zhu Ping'an! If he had only pleaded for the traitor Yang Jisheng in his memorial, then Zhu Ping'an would have been in great trouble and disaster; however, he was so cunning and treacherous that he pretended to be a eclipse and flattered the emperor, making him very happy. The emperor has given him a lighter sentence for pleading for the traitor Yang, so what can we do to him?! If he is demoted to the magistrate of Jingnan County for this matter, wouldn't it be a counter-performance with the emperor and a loss of face for the emperor?! Even if the imperial inspection is about to begin, we have to take into account the emperor's feelings and cannot suppress Zhu Ping'an at will. However, as far as I know, Zhu Ping'an is now a fifth-rank official, and the magistrate of Jingnan is a seventh-rank official. Unless he has committed a serious fault, how can he be demoted from a fifth-rank official to a seventh-rank official?!"
Ouyang Zishi raised his question. In his opinion, relying on that memorial, Zhu Ping'an was almost invincible.
"Haha, Ouyang, rather than saying that Zhu Ping'an's amulet is that memorial, it's better to say that it is the emperor's favor." Luo Longwen smiled slightly.
"That's what I meant just now." Ouyang Zishi nodded. "With the emperor's favor, this damned little thief won't even have time to get promoted or make money, let alone suffer such bad luck. Of course, I dream about it!"
"Haha, what if the Holy Lord is no longer with us?" Luo Longwen smiled sinisterly, a typical villain's face.
Ouyang Zishi was moved at first, but soon shook his head and said dejectedly: "Whether the emperor is favored or not is not something you and I can control."
Ouyang Zishi knew that whether Zhu Ping'an had the favor of the emperor depended on two people, the emperor and Zhu Ping'an. No one could influence the emperor, and Zhu Ping'an would not listen to us. He would lose the favor of the emperor if he committed suicide.
"Haha, you and I can't control it, but there is one person who can." Luo Longwen smiled even more sinisterly.
"Who?" Ouyang Zishi was excited and began to analyze the situation himself. "Cousin Donglou? No. Uncle? No. Although my uncle is the Prime Minister and is favored by the Emperor, I don't have the ability to do this... Then who could it be? Who has this ability?!"
Ouyang Zishi knew very well that his uncle Yan Song had no power to influence the emperor's family. At a family dinner, Yan Song, under the influence of alcohol, taught a lesson to relatives who bullied others and caused trouble by relying on the power of the Yan family: Who do you think I am? Cover the sky with one hand?! Turn the clouds and rain?! I tell you who I am, I am an old dog under the emperor's feet, helping the emperor to herd sheep and herd people. Because I am diligent and obedient, I became the head dog, but as long as the emperor says a word, my dog head will move. You all should be more obedient, don't be ignorant of the world.
"He can..." As he spoke, Luo Longwen leaned close to Ouyang Zishi's ear and whispered a person's name.
"Him?" After hearing this, Ouyang Zishi shook his head with some disdain.
"Yes, it's him. As long as he writes a memorial..." Luo Longwen nodded, then moved closer to Ouyang Zishi's ear and whispered everything in a voice that could not be heard by six ears. Then a sinister smile spread across his face, like a ghost crawling out of the underworld, very eerie.
"Ah? Hahaha... He really can do it, and only he can do it." After hearing Luo Longwen's whisper, Ouyang Zishi was stunned for a moment, then the disdain on his face disappeared, and then he frowned and thought, and in a flash he opened his eyes and mouth wide, as if he had been enlightened, and he danced excitedly and laughed wantonly.