Hearing Jiang Shi talk about the helpers, Li Jing couldn't help but think of the modern urban management brigade and the public security brigade, how similar they were.

"It turns out that the head of the team is a fake." Li Jue glared angrily, and his fists were clenched, as if he wanted to smash the fake team leader's face.

"It's really a fake, but he still has a lot of ways to fix the common people. Later, I'll go to find that Sun Bankuai, so that he doesn't embarrass your family. ”

Jiang Shi took a sip of tea and said very angrily.

Li Jue was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked this Jiang Shibo.

Li Jing frowned, although Jiang Shi's words might make Ergouzi quiet for a while. However, it's hard to guarantee that the kid has played some kind of framing trick. You must know that this is the Qing Dynasty, and there are too many ways to kill a person, unless he also relies on the official mansion.

Thinking of this, Li Jing said to Jiang Shi: "Jiang Shibo, can you find me an errand in the yamen?" ”

Jiang Shi rolled his eyes, "You can enter the yamen as a vegetable market if you want to, how many people are waiting in a long line." ”

Li Jing retreated and said, "Then can you get a chief security officer?" ”

Jiang Shi thought for a while, "Generally, the chief of the armor is not allowed to serve as a well-known squire within the armor, but as long as you have enough silver, it is not impossible." ”

"How much silver?" Li Jing's eyes lit up, if he could really be a security chief, he would be able to recruit talents openly and honestly, and he would be able to take a step forward on the long road of rebellion.

Jiang Shi glanced at Li Jing suspiciously, and said in his heart that he didn't know what this sixteen-year-old baby was thinking in his head, he couldn't eat a few meals of meat a year, and he also wanted to make Yinzi a security chief?

I thought so in my heart, but because of the face of my dead friend, I had to say, "The first chief has to make thirty or fifty taels of silver every year, and as for the chief of the guard, the imperial court changes once a year, so at most he can only serve one term, and the price is more than one hundred taels." ”

"Well, within seven days, my nephew will give Shibo a hundred and fifty taels of silver. Shibo must help his nephew with this matter, and the nephew will repay him otherwise. ”

Since the Qing Dynasty came to China, there has been a trend of selling officials, and almost half of the officials are bought with money.

When He Shen was in power, the official positions below the third grade were clearly marked. After paying money to obtain an official position, there is not necessarily an official to do, but only an alternate official with a grade, and the corresponding official position has to be vacant. For a corresponding official position, there are at least a dozen alternate officials waiting. Therefore, if you want to be short, if you don't buy a vacancy with a sum of silver, you will still be a candidate when you enter the coffin.

Originally, it was a hard and tiring job to protect the armor, and if it was within the jurisdiction of the armor, the money and grain stipulated by the imperial court could not be collected, and the chief of the armor would have to pay for the grain himself. Therefore, the armor chief must have a certain economic foundation as a guarantee. Since the emergence of the armor protection system, there have been many examples of armor chiefs who have lost their wealth because they could not receive the taxes stipulated by the imperial court.

However, for a ruffian like Ergouzi, there is no problem of not being able to collect it at all. No money? Harvesting the fields. No field? Collect the house. What the? The house is rented, mother, then take the daughter. No daughters? Where's your wife? In short, they will squeeze every drop of blood out of Xiaomin's body to the greatest extent.

The conscientious squires are unwilling to be the chief of the armor, and the unconscionable ruffians are less evil, and they are vying to be the chief of the armor, so that they can be honest and honest in the country.

As a result, in the Qing Dynasty, when selling officials became commonplace, the position of chief of the armor also became a gray income in many county offices. Many counties also divide the armor protection into the rich, the rich, and the poor, and the price of the armor is different in different places.

It was precisely because of the collusion between these ruffians and the government that a large number of civilians lost their land and houses and were forced to move to the Nanshan and Bashan old forest areas at the junction of Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi to make a living. Later, these people became the fuse of the nine-year-long White Lotus uprising during the Jiaqing period.

Li Jing's Baiyi Nunnery can only be regarded as the standard of the rich in Donghu County, but Jiang Shi reported the standard of the rich, and the price was almost twice as expensive. However, he just wanted to scare and scare Li Jing and make Li Jing retreat. However, this kid is like an official fan, so he agreed without thinking about it.

Jiang Shi didn't expect Li Jing to have so many taels of silver, so when he answered Li Jing, he only said perfunctorily, "I am friends with Chen Dian, the official of the bureaucracy, as long as you can get one hundred and fifty taels of silver, next year's position as chief will definitely be yours." ”

Li Jing was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Jiang Shi.

The three of them drank tea for a while, and Jiang Shi and the two juniors didn't have anything to talk about, so they used the excuse that the yamen had something to do, paid for the wine and food, and left.

On the way home, Li Jue couldn't help but ask Li Jing, "Big brother, do you really want to be a security chief?" ”

Li Jing put his arm around Li Jue's shoulder, "What?" You don't want to have a big brother who is an official to cover you? ”

Li Hui's shoulders were hooked by Li Jing and he was a little uncomfortable, and his body trembled, "Of course I think about it, but how can our family have so much money to donate an official office." ”

After a pause, he said, "Big brother, you shouldn't expect the one thousand taels of silver on the IOU that forced Ergouzi to stand, right?" ”

Li Jing pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Ergouzi, he has 1,000 taels of silver, he himself has already donated an official position, and he is still a small squad leader who only manages ten households." Don't worry, I have my own way, I'll talk about it when I get home. ”

Hearing the word 'little squad leader', Li Jue didn't react much, since the eldest brother was broken by Ergouzi's gang of ruffians, and after waking up from his injuries, he often said some inexplicable words and sentences, he was used to it.

The two returned home and called several times before the third sister came to open the door.

The third sister opened the door and waited for the two to enter, and quickly closed the door again.

"Big brother, second brother, have you eaten?"

The third sister usually speaks very playfully, and the above sentence is soft-spoken, obviously not back to normal.

Li Jing wanted to comfort the third sister for a few words, but she didn't know where to start, so she hummed and walked towards Li Liu's room.

"I've eaten, today my eldest brother and I ate a lot of good things that we can't eat during the New Year, and we also drank good tea to relieve the taste in our mouths, sister, you smell it."

Speaking of eating, Li Jue suddenly remembered the meal he had at noon, and after speaking, he was afraid that the third sister would not believe it, so he let the third sister smell it with a sigh in his mouth.

The third sister hurriedly covered her nose, "The second brother dreamed of eating!" ”

As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face.

Li Jing and Li Jue went into the house to ask Li Liu for peace, and then told Jiang Shi about his promise to help their family.

Li Liu's pale face showed a hint of joy after hearing this, and asked Li Jing if the two had eaten. Li Jue also had to say what he said to the third sister to Li Liu's family, and he was briefly said by Li Jing that he had eaten it, and then let Li Liu have a good rest, and he pulled Li Jue out of the house.

Li Jing pulled Li Jue to his room, closed the door, asked Li Jue to sit down on the bed, and then said to Li Jue with a serious face: "Second brother, do you believe in the eldest brother?" ”

Li Jue was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "I don't believe in big brother, who do I believe!" ”

"Do you want to have meat every day?"

"Of course, I've been dreaming about it."

"Okay, then are you willing to follow your eldest brother to do great things, eat big meat, wear silk, and be a master?"

"Of course I do."

Li Hao looked like a brainwashed MLM worker, his eyes were shining, and it seemed that white silver was floating in front of his eyes.

"Then you tell the eldest brother, which family is bad and rich in our city?"

Li Jue looked at Li Jing with a puzzled face, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"The first big thing that big brother did was to rob the rich and help the poor."

Li Jue's eyes widened, he had heard the storyteller on the riverside wharf say the word 'robbing the rich and helping the poor', it was all done by the heroes who sacrificed their lives for righteousness or the bandits who killed people and set fires in the romance, but he didn't expect his eldest brother to say this word.

Li Jing waited for a while, but didn't see Li Jue reply, so he said again: "Why don't you answer what the eldest brother asked you?" ”

Li Jue came back to his senses, "Big brother, are you playing with me?" ”

Li Jing said with a serious face: "You see that the eldest brother seems to be joking!" ”

Li Hao stared at Li Jing with those bull's eyes for a long time, and then he was sure that his eldest brother was not joking, so he said: "The eldest brother wants to kidnap the son of a wealthy merchant in the city and then extort money from their family, right?" ”

"Second brother, seeing that you are very proficient in business, have you done it before?" Li Jing was said to be in his mind, coughed lightly twice, and used words to cover up.

Li Jue basically didn't understand the first sentence, but in the second sentence, he understood what it meant, and replied: "Big brother, don't be joking, you will be punished for doing such a hurtful thing." Besides, if you don't get it right, you'll lose your head. That's all something that only outlaws like Luzi can do. Ordinary people like us are still living a good life. ”

Li Jing walked up to Li Jue, took out the frame of the previous instructor to do ideological work for him, and persuaded bitterly: "In the morning, our family offended all the ruffians and bullies on the street of Baiyi'an. In case the Jiang family is dismissed, our family will not be ruined. It's just that the Jiang family is still in the yamen, let's fight for this vote and get some money to buy an official as a talisman, and no one will dare to play our brains crookedly. ”

After Li Jing's crooked language bombardment, Li Jue finally compromised.

Li Jing was very happy, and suddenly remembered what Li Jue had said about the purr, so he asked him what the purr was?

Originating in Sichuan, it is known as the three major folk societies of the Qing Dynasty together with the Tiandihui and the Cao Gang, and many scholars believe that they are the predecessors of the Elders' Association, the Hong Gang, and the Qing Gang.

It was formed in the Kangxi period, mainly composed of homeless people from other provinces who flowed into Sichuan, poor people who had no land and no money in the province, and unemployed sailors and slender men on the Sichuan River.

However, since Qianlong used troops in Jinchuan, a large number of deserters and husbands fled into Sichuan to join the business of Lulu, upgrading and expanding this trade. Murder, arson, plunder, ransom and ransom are all evil. The area where the crime was committed expanded from Sichuan to Hubei, Hunan, and Shaanxi.

From Chongqing in Sichuan Province to Yichang Province in Hubei Province, the main activity is on the Yangtze River, and there are about 18 'hat tops' active in this area. The top of the hat is the meaning of the big boss in the gang.

Among them, Zhang Haiwang and his son are the most powerful and famous, specializing in big business, and have committed several major cases in Donghu County. The prefect also asked the Yichang general army to send troops to encircle and suppress it, but nothing was found.

Li Jue often works at the riverside wharf, and he is very clear about the top of the 18th Road, and tells the general situation.

After Li Jing listened, he patted his thigh, "God really helps me, I'm really worried that I have tied up a rich businessman and no one to blame, now it's okay, everything is in place, only the east wind is owed." ”

Li Jue heard what Li Jing meant, as if he wanted to blame Zhang Haiwang and his son for this kidnapping, and couldn't help but say with some worry: "I heard that Zhang Haiwang and his son escaped from Jinchuan, and they are extremely fierce. If they knew, our family would really have no way to live. ”

Li Jing patted Li Jue on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't worry, the world is big, how do they know that we borrowed their name." ”

After some brainwashing by Li Jing, Li Jue finally followed him, the fake big brother, on a dark road.

Note: The "General History of Sichuan" records: Local bandits are rampant, murder in the city, and cases of looting and ransom are unscrupulous, approaching the provincial capital, and unscrupulous.

"Qing Historical Manuscript Yingshan Biography" records: Sichuan since the defeat of Jinchuan Muguomu, deserters, unemployed husbands, rogue vagrants scattered and plundered, known as bandits.

According to various historical records, many people in Donghu County, Yichang Prefecture who do pusher physiology are all lurs.