Chapter 355: Tang Hu
The highest goal of the Great Song Dynasty for the army is: the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers.
It is better not to know anyone, so that the possibility of mutiny will be completely eliminated, and there will never be a second Chen Qiaoyi.
Han Shizhong is naturally no exception, when he went to Li Guojian to take office, he was alone, only with Liang Hongyu, and there was no soldier.
Qin Mu specially invited him to go all the way, and he took the big boat of the Zhejia family, which was convenient for everything, and he came to Li Guojian along the waterway.
After arriving at Liguojian, Qin Mu also arranged a place for Han Shizhong's family, so that the military camp could be settled.
In the army of the Great Song Dynasty, the smallest organizational unit was the team, which generally consisted of 50 people as a team, 2 teams as the capital, and 5 as the battalion, and the leader of the battalion was called "commander". There were five hundred people under the "command" of a battalion.
Han Shizhong was such a commander, commanding five hundred people.
These 500 people also came to Li Guojian, and Qin Mu placed them in the barracks to facilitate Han Shizhong's management.
In addition to Han Shizhong and his army, some civilians also lived in this military camp one after another. This made Han Shizhong a little strange - how could there be outsiders in the barracks?
However, he was not familiar with the life of Li Guojian, and everything was arranged by Qin Mu, so although he had doubts, it was not easy for him to object.
Liang Hongyu is a shrewd woman, and there are outsiders in the barracks, which naturally affects her own officials, so she went out in person and quickly found out the details of these people.
They are all local people in Liguojian, and they want to sue the local gentry Zhang Yi.
After Han Shizhong and the others understood this situation, their hearts immediately hung in their hearts. They all realized one thing, they were used as a gun by Qin Mu.
The fact is indeed as they thought, Qin Mu borrowed their momentum once.
These people are all the people of Li Guojian, and they are all bitter masters, and they are all oppressed by the Zhang family and can't live anymore. It's just that before Qin Mu came, no matter how Yan Qing persuaded him, these people were afraid of the Zhang family's obscenity, and none of them dared to come forward.
They all know very well that the Zhang family is well-informed on the ground, and as long as they nod their heads, they may have to be killed by the Zhang family that night.
Little lives matter, so no one was willing to come forward to testify against the Zhang family.
However, after Qin Mu returned to Li Guojian, the situation immediately changed.
There is a garrison in the Liberty Prison. Although the reputation of the people of the court is not good, after all, the court represents the royal law, and the army represents the court, if the people don't even believe in the court, they will have rebelled a long time ago.
Moreover, General Han is a general from the west, and he has nothing to do with the local area, which makes the people feel a little relieved.
Qin Mu made two promises. First, to ensure the safety of the life of the whole family of the bitter master, as long as they agree to testify against the Zhang family, they can immediately enter the barracks and be protected by the imperial court in all aspects. At the same time, a large amount of money was also given. Second, after denunciating the Zhang family, no matter what the outcome of the matter, they will get another huge amount of money and can go to other places to make a living.
With a knife in one hand and money in the other, most of the sufferers of Li Guojian were moved. It's safe, it's rich, and the key is that it can take revenge, it's worth doing!
So under Qin Mu's carrots and sticks, most of the bitter masters dragged their families to live in the barracks.
Only Tang Hu has no family, he is alone, and there are no relatives in the world.
Qin Mu personally met and interrogated every bitter master, and most of their cases were relatively simple - as the identity of the Zhang family, there was no need for complicated means at all, just rob it. If you don't accept it, you will be beaten, and if you are killed, you will be convinced.
These people and the Zhang family basically had a dispute over land. They have to borrow money every year to farm the land - how can they farm without borrowing money and not even being able to buy seeds. This is also the most fundamental of Wang Anshi's reforms.
The Qingmiao Law is to replace the local gentry with the government, collect the profits of this piece to the imperial court, and at the same time reduce the oppression of the people. But now, with the coming to power of the old party, Wang Anshi's new laws have been abolished, so that the people have fallen into the exploitation of the local gentry.
Hundreds of people went bankrupt due to usury, so it was so easy for Qin Mu to find the bitter master. Because of the fields, the Zhang family caused a lot of lives. These people Qin Mu found were basically all family members who had been beaten to death by the Zhang family.
Only Tang Hu's family died by himself, and he and the Zhang family had no life lawsuit, but he had a very alternative lawsuit, which Qin Mu never expected.
Li Guojian has a school, and most of the students in the school are members of the Zhang family, and there are also a small number of people with foreign surnames.
For example, Tang Hu. He was an orphan who died of both parents when he was a teenager and then farmed his own land.
This person is talented and ambitious, so he took the initiative to enter the academy to study.
Li Guojian's school has a special benefit, that is, the top three can get the Zhang family's reward, which is very rich. Tang Hu can get the first place in every exam, so he can always get this reward.
With this money, he can not only pay for teaching, but also make ends meet.
This made him full of gratitude to the Zhang family. Even if the Zhang family forced the villagers to die, he felt that the people were at fault first-of course you had to repay the money you borrowed, and if you can't afford it, you naturally have to give people land.
Tang Hu was grateful to the Zhang family all the way, and it was not until he participated in the test and became a lifter that he made a 180-degree turn in his attitude towards the Zhang family.
Since then, the Zhang family has become the enemy of Tang Hu and will never die.
The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was divided into three parts, the solution examination, the provincial examination, and the palace examination. The first step is to solve the local exam, and the students who pass the exam are lifted.
If you raise people to Beijing to participate in the provincial examination, and if you pass it, you will be a tribute, and you will have the qualification to be an official. The palace examination is the interview of the Son of Heaven, and the one who is favored by the Son of Heaven is the Jinshi.
Tang Hu is smart and willing to learn, and he can get the first place in the exam of the academy every time, so he easily passed the examination and became a lifter. And he is the No. 1 local candidate, so he has an honorary title: Xie Yuan.
The first solution test is called Xie Yuan, the first provincial test is called member, and the first palace test is called the champion, which is the origin of Lianzhong Sanyuan.
Tang Xie Yuan happily returned to Li Guojian, preparing to enter Beijing next year to participate in the provincial examination, and then unsurprisingly embarked on the glorious road of becoming an official and making a fortune, but he did not expect that his Xie Yuan name was impersonated.
Zhang Yi snatched Tang Jieyuan's diploma and let his second son Zhang Jing change his name to Tang Hu and impersonate him to take the provincial exam.
As for the real Tang Hu, Zhang Yi threw him a hundred yuan of money and asked him to change his name at will, anyway, he was not allowed to call Tang Hu, let alone enter Beijing to take the exam.
How can Tang Hu stand this, why is the ten-year cold window? It's not for the title of the gold list, high-ranking officials have to do it, the Zhang family bought their great future with a hundred yuan, and no one will do it if they change it.
So Tang Hu wanted to go to the capital to complain, but he was caught by the Zhang family before he got out of the Li Guojian, and he was injured for several months by a violent beating.
Then he went to Liguo to complain again, this time it was simpler. At that time, the governor didn't even ask, but made a hasty record and blasted him out.
This made Tang Hu almost crazy. He couldn't wait to eat his flesh, gnaw his bones, and kill the Zhang family. But how can he be a scholar.
It wasn't until today, until he lived in the barracks, that Tang Hu realized that his opportunity had come.
It seems that Qin Zhijian really wants to deal with the Zhang family, otherwise he would not have brought in another army and arranged for everyone to live in the barracks.
Moreover, hundreds of people died in the yamen of the Zhang family before, and I heard that they were all burned to death by Qin Zhijian with a slight trick. Such a person is worthy of Tang Hu's trust.
Qin Mu listened to Tang Hu's story quietly, and he was really a little surprised.
Sure enough, there was nothing new under the sun. What was there in later generations was the same in the Great Song Dynasty. This kind of impostoring of the imperial examination has happened even in the 21st century.
It can be seen that people are almost the same.
Qin Mu looked at Tang Hu while thinking about what crime to charge the Zhang family. If you deceive the king, you can't run away if you are bold and reckless, but who will kill this matter?
"Tang Hu," Qin Mu asked, "Has that Zhang Jing ever been hit?" ”
"Back to the prison, Zhang Jing is stupid and stupid, he only plays and frolicks all day in the school, how can he pass the exam."
"And he's back?"
"No, what the Zhang family has is money, and they gave Zhang Jing a student seat in Guozijian. I heard that he is still studying in Guozijian. ”
This lord is not at home, which is a bit difficult to do.
Although Qin Mu believed Tang Hu's words, after all, this was only his words, and the evidence was not sufficient.
"Tang Hu, since you are in high school, you have a talent to learn. I'll test you, well, you can compose a poem now. ”
"Does the governor have a problem?"
"Let's just talk about your ambitions." As he spoke, Qin Mu asked people to send the four treasures of the study.
Tang Hu heard that Qin Zhijian had set this topic, and after a little silence, he took up the pen and wrote it.
"If you don't alchemy pills, you don't sit in meditation, you don't plough the fields for businessmen. If you are idle, you will sell it in the green mountains, and you will not make evil money in the world. ”
Hey, this poem is quite cleverly written.
If you don't alchemy pills and don't sit in meditation, you don't have monks.
If you don't plough the land for businessmen, you don't do business and don't farm.
If you are free to write, you will sell it in Qingshan, which means that you want to paint and sell it for money, this is the scholar.
Not to make the world make evil money, this is full of hypocrisy. loves money, but says that other people's money is evil money, and only one's own money is clean.
It's really a proper shameless spirit.
It seems that this person is really a reserve of the Great Song Dynasty officialdom. In a few words, he expressed his ambition to be an official, and he seemed to be of noble character and different from mortals.
If it wasn't the Great Song Dynasty but the Great Ming Dynasty now, Qin Mu wondered if the Tang Hu in front of him had missed a word.
Don't be Tang Bohu.
This "Words and Aspirations" is written by Tang Jieyuan, the Bohu of Daming Hall, you are also Tang Jieyuan, he is also Tang Jieyuan, and there is a fake Tang Jieyuan in the capital.
It's a mess, it's inexplicable.
However, Qin Mucai didn't care if this Tang Hu was Tang Yin hundreds of years later. Anyway, you sue the Zhang family, which is right for my appetite. Then work harder, don't be intimidated.
"Tang Hu, the poem is good, I believe that you are Xie Yuan. So who are you going to sue this time? Zhang Yi or Zhang Jing? ”
"Zhang family father and son!" Tang Hu couldn't spare any of them.
Qin Mu nodded, this is great, sue their family at once, and save yourself trouble.
"Okay, you are ready to prepare, don't panic when you go to the lobby tomorrow to confront each other. I'm in charge! ”
Qin Mu's words made Tang Hu's heart burn.
These years of humiliation will be repaid tomorrow! He could barely believe his ears.
"Governor, did you say that I would be able to go to court with the Zhang family axe tomorrow?"
"Yes. Still have questions? ”
Tang Hu did have a problem. He wanted to confront the Zhang family, but the Zhang family was not in the yamen. People are staying well in their own mansions, how can you let me confront them?
"Governor, as far as I know, the father and son of the Zhang family can't be passed on." Tang Huxin said that so many intellectuals and prisoners came to greet people, why did they come as soon as you passed them on? Not to mention that you burned so many people to death in their family.
"Presumptuous!" Without waiting for Qin Mu to speak, Yan Qing became angry.
What the hell, dare to doubt Young Master Qin's ability.
"Tang Hu, you can wait with peace of mind, tomorrow the governor will definitely let you see the Zhang family father and son."
Qin Mu didn't explain.
What is in front of you is no longer important, what matters is later!