"This is Lei Gong bamboo shoots, this is the south kill, this is Linen, this is 'Shanlan wine' also known as 'sweet dregs'... These are all the special dishes of my Li family, which are really shabby. Today (rì) I, Li Sanjian, only entertain all the brothers with this, and a little wine is not a tribute. ”

In the living room of Li Sanjian's residence, a large wooden table was placed, and various Li family dishes and rice wine were placed on the big wooden table.

"This is a family feast." Li Sanjian pointed to the sumptuous dishes and continued: "Most of the dishes are cooked by my mother and the Hun family. ”

"I'm waiting to thank the official and the minister, and I'm tired of the old lady and the lady." Liu Anjie, Zeng Gongming, Yao Yu and others got up together (shēn) when they heard the words, and bowed (shēn) to thank them.

In the past, it was better, everyone was still more casual when they were with Li Sanjian, but now it is different, now Li Sanjian is the doctor of the Liupin Left Dynasty, and the scarlet robe is the official of the right hall of the Kaifeng Mansion, as if he is the No. 2 person in the Kaifeng Mansion, and the big celebrity in front of the new emperor Zhao Ji, so everyone does not dare to be disrespectful and dare not be too casual.

"Push the official?" Li Sanjian was a little unhappy when he heard this, waved them all to sit down and said: "Brothers, you already know that my Li Sanjian's mother is a Li person, and in the eyes of the Han people, she is a Yidi person, and I, Li Sanjian, have never shied away from this matter, I have the blood of Li people in my veins, I am both Han and Li. ”

Li Sanjian paused for a moment and then said: "I, Li Sanjian, a native of Danzhou, Qiongtai, out (shēn) micro (jiàn), not a family with a prominent family, before I got married, there was only one old mother in the family, and I depended on my mother for my life, and there was no one else in the family. However, when I was in Lingnan in the past, and now in the capital, I Li Sanjian has some more brothers, that is, you, Zeng Gongming, Shan Kui needless to say, since childhood, they have been brothers in life and death, best friends, Xu Biao is not a fighter, he is also my brother, Liu Anjie is a person of the same year, since we met, we have nothing to talk about, like-minded. ”

Li Sanjian's voice (qíng) is full of luxury, which makes everyone secretly moved, Zeng Gongming and Shan Kui, needless to say, have long known that Li Sanjian is a person who values righteousness (qíng).

Therefore, at this time, the corners of Zeng Gongming and Shankui's eyes were already moist.

One is that their own brothers are promising, how can they not be happy? Why don't you get so excited that you burst into tears? The second is that Li Sanjian is proud and does not forget his form, he is proud and does not look down on his brother, and always remembers the righteousness of brother (qíng).

"Therefore, they are all their own brothers here, there are no officials, there are no officials." Li Sanjian then glanced at Yao Yu and added: "Except for Yao Yu, all of you here are your uncles and uncles." ”

Yao Yu suddenly rolled his eyes when he heard this, it was simply eyeless, let himself be such a senior uncle... Yao Yu lamented in his heart.

Yao Yu is older than anyone here, but when he reaches the seniority, he is the lowest... made Yao Yu's heart so depressed that he almost went crazy.

At this time, Yao Yu had been brought to the Kaifeng Mansion by Li Sanjian, and was appointed as an official in the left wing of the Military Patrol Institute of the Prefecture, referred to as "being an official", in charge of investigation and arrest.

Yao Yu's official rank is a righteous general, a military minister with no rank, although the official of Jilu has not changed at this time, but he has been sent from a patrol lieutenant of the inspection department to the official of the military patrol institute, it can be said that Li Sanjian promoted Yao Yu, and Yao Yu is still grateful for this.

At this time, Li Sanjian was deeply favored, and he can be said to be a popular person in front of (diàn), plucked

promoted a small official, the Ministry of Officials and the Governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, Lu Changheng, of course, are Shunshui people (qíng), and at the same time, the Inspection Department did not stop them and gave them up.

The governor wants a little patrolman, so why should they stop him? At the same time, for a little patrol captain and (diàn) the former big red man has a grudge? How can such a foolish thing be?

"Haha" Liu Anjie was suddenly very happy when he heard this, patted Yao Yu's shoulder and said with a smile: "Good nephew, hurry up and shout out to Shi Bosa." ”

Liu Anjie Jinshi and the second, served as the chief bookkeeper of Xiangfu County, and at this time was also brought into the Kaifeng Mansion by Li Sanjian, and was appointed as the judge of the Military Patrol Court, in charge of criminal litigation, and was Li Sanjian's subordinate official and Yao Yu's top boss.

Liu Anjie's official rank is Xuanyi Lang from the eighth grade.

"Phew, is it Uncle Shi?" Yao Yu's shoulders shook slightly, unloaded Liu Anjie's hand, and said hatefully.

Liu Anjie is slightly younger than Li Sanjian.

Everyone laughed.

"Haha, Uncle Shi will be Uncle Shi, hurry up and shout, shout better." Liu Anjie was even happier when he heard this, and laughed.

Yao Yu gritted his teeth with hatred, and took a sip of wine when he picked up the wine cup, but the wine cup was empty, and the wine had not yet been poured...

"Shan Kui pours wine for the brothers." Seeing this, Li Sanjian said to Shankui with a smile.

"Yes, master." Shan Kui answered, hugged the wine jar and poured the wine cup in front of everyone.

Shan Kui and Xu Biao were also brought into the Kaifeng Mansion by Li Sanjian, but they were just ordinary catchers of the Mansion. The two of them are soldiers of the hidden fire shop, there is no way to be an official (shēn), it is impossible to be an official, only an official, Li Sanjian does not have this ability at present, and he does not have the ability to directly promote an official to an official.

At the same time, the two of them did not have any experience or ability to investigate and arrest, so Li Sanjian's plan was that after a long time, he would have the opportunity to be promoted to the head of the trap or the cell head, and he would be worthy of them.

The most important thing is that there is the No. 2 person in the government "covered", and the two are afraid that they will have no future in the future? Are you still afraid of being bullied by others?

"I will salute you for this first drink, I Li Sanjian does not have many relatives in the world, that's all, I will do it first." Li Sanjian said, drank all the wine in the cup, and then turned over the wine cup and looked at everyone.

"I'll wait for my brother to take a cup, do it!" And the crowd drank it all.

"The cup is too small, change it to a large bowl." Yao Yu was a military minister, and he felt that it was too unpleasant for these literati to drink with a small wine cup, so he said loudly.

"Shine!" Xu Biao had long felt that it was not enjoyable, so he didn't wait for Li Sanjian's orders, he ran outside and took a few big bowls back, put one in front of everyone, and then filled the big bowl in front of him first, picked up the wine bowl and poured the wine into his big mouth, smacked his lips, seemed to feel that it was still not enjoyable, so after two bowls in a row, he picked up the wine jar and poured the wine bowl in front of everyone.

Li Sanjian glared at Xu Biao, with such a drinking method, wouldn't the several jars of fine wine treasured in his home soon bottom out?

However, Li Sanjian was happy in his heart, and he told Zhai Liu to buy some wine and come back.

"Brother, what is the matter (qíng) is the order." It was Zeng Gongming who knew Li Sanjian best, and knew that today's family banquet was by no means such a simple thing as eating and drinking (qíng), so Zeng Gongming said after putting down the wine cup.

"What's the panic?" Li Sanjian

glanced at Zeng Gongming and said, "Let's talk about it after three rounds of drinking." ”

"Yes, yes, what my brother said, brother, my brother respects you a bowl, thank you... Zeng Gongming put down the wine cup, picked up the wine bowl and smiled.

"Thank you, thank you?" Li Sanjian interrupted Zeng Gongming's words and said: "Say thank you again, you and I are not brothers." ”

"Brother, don't say anything, do it." Zeng Gongming picked up the wine bowl and touched the wine bowl in Li Sanjian's hand, and drank it all.

Li Sanjian only drank half a bowl and put down the wine bowl.

Wait a minute, there are still very important things to say (qíng), such a bowl of dry, although the alcohol content is not high, but it will not be long before they get drunk, so how can we discuss important matters with them?

"In that case." Zeng Gongming wiped the wine stains on his mouth and said, "Brother has something to say." ”

"Brother has something to say, what else can't be said in front of brother?" Li Sanjian said with a smile.

"Brother... Zeng Gongming said with some hesitation: "Brother... Can my brother do the business of farming? ”

Li Sanjian was speechless when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer.

It seems that Zeng Gongming is still obsessed with doing business.

After Zeng Gongming took the first place, he wanted to discuss life in the capital, but Li Sanjian and Zeng Gongming were not familiar with each other in the capital back then, and they had no relationship, so how could there be a reason to succeed in doing business like this? Therefore, Zeng Gongming was persuaded by Li Sanjian to return to Lingnan.

But at present, it is different, at this time everyone is the official of the Kaifeng Mansion, although the biggest official is Li Sanjian, the doctor of the left court, and the right hall is the official, but the county officials are not as good as the current management, so doing business will definitely be twice the result with half the effort.

It is not a new thing for officials in the Song Dynasty to engage in business, from the emperor's relatives, royal relatives, princes and ministers, to ordinary officials, and even generals and soldiers in the army, there are many people involved in business.

The same was true of the scholar class from top to bottom, even ordinary scholars, who were basically ashamed of doing business before the Song Dynasty, and regarded the matter of goods and colonization as a mundane matter that they disdained to do, believing that business was done by the people of industry and commerce (jiàn), but in the Song Dynasty, it was not uncommon for scholars to engage in business.

There are many officials who do business, and it is inevitable that officials, especially high-ranking officials, will take advantage of their power to seek personal gain, bully and dominate the market, and (jiàn) buy expensive and sell expensive.

Although the imperial court also stopped officials from making profits, it was more than repeated.

The imperial court (jìn) stops officials from doing business, but it can't stop their families from doing business, right? Therefore, business matters cannot be carried out at all.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was half-concealed and half-hidden, but now it is grandiose, even Zhao Ji's minister from the dragon, the minister of the hidden palace He Zhizhong Qiben (shēn) is a big businessman, with countless restaurants, wine shops, good fields and so on.

Li Sanjian is not opposed to doing business, but at this time, before Li Sanjian was about to mention the matter, Zeng Gongming suddenly mentioned this matter, and suddenly gave Li Sanjian such a problem, which made Li Sanjian extremely difficult.

There are many officials in the Kaifeng Mansion who are doing business, including Zhou Fanggeng, the Confucian official of the Right Hall, and at this time Li Sanjian is looking for trouble with Zhou Fanggeng, and is about to use Zhou Fanggeng's matter as a breakthrough to clean up the greed for ink and unjust imprisonment in the officialdom of the Kaifeng Mansion.

But Li Sanjian hadn't spoken yet, Zeng Gongming mentioned the matter of goods in advance, which made Li Sanjian (yù) open his mouth to refuse, but he didn't know where to go.