Chapter 5: Taking Office

What if you are not willing to give money? Let's just say that there is such a shop, Fan Liang went there, and the other party was also very enthusiastic, and said: Since you are the new jinshi, you can write me a couplet and sweep the tomb of our family!

The whole is busy, and when I leave, there is nothing! Can Fan Li do this? You play with me! You really think I'm a guest, I'm busy living this day and I'm tired, why are you here, everyone else gives money, you don't give it!

But what do people say: Ouch, I don't have any money now, or I'll give you an IOU first, and after this period of time, I'll give you a red envelope, do you think it's okay?

Fan Li felt that this was scolding, so he gave the person a reprimand, and after the reprimand, he went back.

Seeing Fan Liang leave angrily, the person who was reprimanded was scared, he was afraid that Fan Liang was a person who held grudges, so he deliberately found someone to agree, personally sent the money to Fan Liang's house, and apologized or something, and this matter was over.

Okay, let's go here for borrowing money, Fan Li stayed at home for a year, walked the circle of neighbors, how much money did he borrow? I borrowed more than 1,400 taels of silver!

This is really a lot of money, this is the year when Fan Fence has to be shelved, and the consumption level is enough to buy more than 50 acres of fertile land, or more than 40,000 catties of pork.

40,000 catties of pork! Even if you eat every day, eat one meal at a time, eat four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper, eat one pound per meal, and eat four pounds of pork a day, you have to eat for 10,000 days, and you have to eat for more than 27 years to eat! (Khan, it's a big blow to me who can't afford to eat pork...... )

Using our pork price today, it is about 1.2 million yuan, and Fan Liang owes more than 1.2 million yuan before he takes office, but in other words, this money is similar to the sponsorship fee, which is the money for Fan Liang to take office and run his feet!

This money has to be exchanged for today, before Fan Liang took office, you took bribes, and you took the initiative to ask for bribes, but at that time, Fan Li's social environment was like this, and there was nothing to say, Fan Liang did this, there was nothing wrong!

Immediately after that, Fan Li had spent enough time at home, and the money was almost borrowed, so it was time to go to Beijing and take office. Entering Beijing this time is completely different from when Fan Li was a poor student before, and he went away in a gray way!

Of course not, you have worshiped so old guests at home, do you have to worship guests on this road in the capital, this time Fan Liang is going to the capital with great fanfare, and even sometimes detours, the place where he passes is like Tang Seng taking scriptures, you must worship the local parents and officials, bring some hometown specialties to others, and have their own business cards!

By the way, I will introduce who I am, where I am from, where I am going, pass by Guibaodi and make friends with you, and these local parents will come like this, Fan Li will give the parents a little specialty, and the local parents will give him some money!

Then when he walked to a foreign country, Fan Li also asked around: Is there a shop from my hometown here, if there is, I will visit it!

On the surface, it's a visit, but isn't it just asking for some money! Catching up with such a chamber of commerce, Fan Liang was in his heart, and he got a lot of money.

Visiting along the way, Fan Li borrowed more than 400 taels of silver, and before he could take office, more than 1,800 taels of silver arrived.

Why? It's very simple: poor! No money! If I don't do this, I won't be able to live in the capital in the future, I have to live first, and I can think about how to be a good official in the future, how to work hard and be loyal to the country, and how to do something practical for the people of Limin!

Well, Fan Liang officially entered Beijing as an official, entered Hanlin, and the backer is supported by Mu Shangzhi, is it smooth sailing for him to be an official?

Neither is it! Fan Li is not only unsatisfactory in the officialdom, but even his economic situation is not good, and his life is not as high as the quality and happiness of his family in the countryside.

Didn't he borrow more than 1,800 taels of silver before, how could he live as if he was asking for food? Don't look at him living in a big house, don't look at him having servants, he goes out with eight sedan chairs or something, doesn't it cost money!

You can't afford to buy a house and you can't rent a spacious courtyard, after all, you are an official, or a Beijing official, you still have to have face, you can't live in the basement like a north drifter.

If there is a yard, do the servants still have to have it, and do they have to pay for the salaries? And when you get together with friends and colleagues, can you let others pay for it every time?

So don't look at Fan Li, who looks oily and slippery on the surface, eating and drinking nonsense outside, but in fact, he is so poor that he is beating the drum in his heart!

Sometimes Fan Li even thinks in his heart: What is the meaning of my life here, it is better to go home and farm!

How is this going on? Jingguan, Hanlin, and Xinke Jinshi, the teacher is Mu Shangzhi, and Fan Liang is too bad!

In addition, Fan Li still has a lot of stinky problems, what go out to drink, participate in various banquets, and then run to play with friends, and don't go home for a night, although there were no nightclubs or anything like that at that time, but things between men and women are not nothing! These are all things that Fan Li did when he was young and frivolous.

Aside from anything else, just his degree of freedom, Fan Li's buddy is the only one, he eats enough for one person, the whole family is not hungry, and the pressure at work is not great, and he can't let go of playing after work.

However, after Fan Liang played for a while, Fan Liang found that he couldn't afford to play! Playing with those colleagues and those second-generation officials with family backgrounds, he can't afford to play!

People are people with family backgrounds, or have been rooted in the capital for a long time, and have their own various income channels, but Fan Liang does not, as far as officials like Hanlin are concerned, he himself belongs to the low-income civil servant group, he has no real power, he has no ability, he has very few channels to get money, basically the salary money that he looks forward to every month, in addition to the rent and the salary of the servants, there is still a few money left!

So at that time, there was a joke that said: on the road, that is, on the sidewalk, what is the most annoying, camels, pregnant women, old women, and Hanlin, saying that these kinds of people have a common characteristic: if they walk slowly, they must walk on the road. That means that Hanlin is poor and has no money to sit in a sedan chair.

So soon Fan Liang spent all the money borrowed from the previous visitor, and he still owed a lot of silver taels, and every month like the current moonlight clan, several credit cards took turns to swipe, tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall.

Fan Li is the same, the money owed here goes to someone else to borrow and pay it back, and the money owed over there goes to another person to borrow and pay it back, and he is poor and worried, and there is suffering!

So to sum up, the money that came to the guests before was really not enough to cover the expenses, the house needs rent, and the servants and servants not only have to pay salaries to others, but you also have to take care of food and housing. The workers who go out to help you carry the sedan chair also need to be paid, whether it is money for personal contacts, and whether you have to have two or three sets of decent clothes...... That's a lot of money! Food, clothing, housing, transportation and personal contacts alone are enough for him to be annoyed.