Qin Meng waited for Nafu to go far away, and asked, "Brother, where did this ghost-looking guy come from?" ”

Li Feibai was so happy that his eyes narrowed into a slit and said, "This is the God of Wealth I invited!" ”

Qin Meng wondered, he had also seen the portrait of the God of Wealth. Zhao Gongming, who is magnificent, and Guan Yunchang, who is majestic and majestic, when will there be a fierce ghost like a fierce god again! However, he has a dull personality, and even if he has doubts in his chest, he doesn't ask much.

Li Feibai said: "From today onwards, you give me a good look at this God of Wealth, don't let him run away!" ”

Qin Meng nodded and said, "Hmm! "Get up and get out of the house!

On the morning of the second day, Li Feibai, Yang Zhen and Wang Yaojian drove the carriage to the political envoy's yamen to pull silver.

In addition to the four men sitting at four tables to wait in line for the registration of entering the yamen, there are also two teams of soldiers with guns and knives guarding at the door.

Yang Zhen made a gesture and said: "Lord Li, yesterday I gave gifts to Brother Wang according to the list, one of them was an official in the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department in the same year, and he knew that we came to raise the silver today, so he specially instructed us to come to him today, and with him to take care of it, the silver will be raised faster." I'm going to go and get the adult out and lead us in. ”

Li Feibai nodded in agreement!

Yang Zhen came to the door with few people, and said with a smile: "Cousin, I haven't seen you for a long time, my cousin is so polite!" ”

That disciple looked at Yang Zhen as a stranger, and he didn't look like he knew him, so he was obviously stunned. It can be seen that Yang Zhen was respectful, courteous and thoughtful, and said that he was his distant relative, but he didn't recognize it for a while, so he quickly got up and returned the salute. Before the gift was returned, his hand was suddenly grabbed by the other party, and then there was an extra thing in his hand. He didn't have to look at it, he knew it was silver. He didn't need to weigh it, he also knew that it was a small ingot of silver weighing one or two.

All the doors in the world have door bags to collect, except for the doors of the political envoy yamen. It's not that they are incorruptible, but that the ancestor of their boss's boss is Zhang Xianqing. Zhang Xian had a strict order early in the morning, and those who collected 50 wen would wear a flail for 10 days. Whoever receives 500 literati will be punished with a hundred rods. Those who receive five taels of silver will be imprisoned for questioning.

There are policies and countermeasures, and there are many people at the yamen, and they don't dare to collect the door bag openly, so they collect it behind their backs. For example, if an official wants to go into the yamen to run errands, and learns which man will be on an errand at the yamen the next day, he will visit the door the night before and deliver the bag.

But there are very few people who know this unspoken rule, and Menzi's income can't support their lives at all, so they think of a countermeasure. Make it difficult for those who want to enter the yamen to do things, either to shirk the absence of the officials and gentlemen, or to say that the officials and lords are busy, anyway, they just let you wait outside the yamen. An errand that could have been done in an hour had to be delayed for two or three days. If you wake up, you go to Menzi's house at night and stuff the door bag, and the next day you will go to the yamen to do things. If you don't have an open mind, then wait one more day, and then enter the yamen to do your business on the third day! Things will definitely be done for you, it's just a matter of how long it takes.

Menzi glanced left and right, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to this, he put the silver in his sleeve and said with a smile: "Cousin, why are you here today, you want to go to the yamen to do business?" ”

Yang Zhen nodded and said, "Yes!" There is a case I want to see Zhang Liwen. ”

Zhang Liwen was the same year as Zhao Xuefei. Yang Zhen said that he would go to see Zhang Liwen, but not go to the silver treasury to withdraw silver. First, there is Zhang Li to take care of it, and it is convenient to do things in the yamen. Second, if you say that you are going to pick up the silver, the door will see that the oil and water are large, and you will not be able to send away one tael of silver, maybe it will take ten taels or eight taels to send it!

Menzi smiled: "It's easy to say! You stay here for a while, I'll ask Zhang Li if he's free! With that, he got up and let a doorman standing next to him sit down at the table, and he went into the yamen to report. After a while, behind the door was an official in a seven-rank official uniform, and the two came to the door together.

The officer asked, "Are you here?" ”

Yang Zhen hurriedly saluted and said, "Yes!" He pointed to Li Feibai, who had come up and was standing beside him, and said, "Lord Zhang, this is our friend hired by Zhao County, Li Feibai and Li Gongzi." This time I came to withdraw money, and it was hosted by him! ”

Li Feibai arched his hand and said, "Lord Zhang, the villain has asked you for peace!" ”

Zhang Liwen couldn't help but wonder, he couldn't figure out why Zhao Xuefei invited such a young friend. However, he is very familiar with Zhao Xuefei, and knows that Zhao Xuefei has a great negative report and high ambition, and he thinks that Li Feibai is a capable person, so he will enter Zhao Xuefei's eyes and be hired as a friend. He arched his hand and said, "Brother Li is a friend of Xuefei, that is, my friend, don't bother!" Did you bring a car? ”

Li Feibai beckoned to Wang Yaojian. Wang Yaojian hurriedly urged the coachman to drive the horse, and hurried over to this side.

Zhang Li asked Menzi and said, "Open the side door and call the carriage and horse in!" ”

That disciple was deceived by Yang Zhen, and today he has lost a lot of income, and he is depressed? After listening to Zhang Li's words, he didn't dare to ignore it, and hurriedly smiled: "Okay! Hurriedly went to open the side door, passed by Yang Zhen's side and glared at him, and said secretly: "Boy, let's see, if you fall into my hands next time, see how I can make up for today's losses." ”

The group entered the yamen of the political envoy, and Zhang Li asked: "Let's go to the ambassador of the treasury first, and after completing the formalities, we will go to the treasury to receive the silver." ”

Li Feibai didn't understand these at all, and said, "Everything is arranged by Lord Zhang!" ”

Zhang Liwen turned around, came to a row of houses, walked to a room, and said to Li Feibai: "You follow me in, and the others wait outside first!" ”

When the two entered the room, Zhang Li asked Lang and smiled: "Ambassador Sun, it's been good lately!" As soon as he finished speaking, the laughter couldn't help but stop, because he saw that it was not Ambassador Sun, who was familiar with him, who was sitting in the room, but Vice Envoy Liu, who was at odds with him.

If you want to say that he has any big enmity with Deputy Envoy Liu, in fact, there is none. It's just that he is in charge of the lawsuit of the political envoy department, and Vice Envoy Liu was sued not long ago, and the accusation is that Deputy Envoy Liu bullied people to buy his neighbor's land at a low price. Originally, this was not a big case, the land bought and sold was only five acres, and in the middle, there was a misunderstanding caused by economic deception in order to curry favor with Deputy Envoy Liu. Deputy Envoy Liu only needed to make up 10 taels or 8 taels of silver in private, but when Deputy Envoy Liu went to make up the silver, his neighbors had already sued him.

If this matter is accepted in court, won't the entire people who undertook the proclamation of the political envoy yamen know that he is bullying others? If the envoy knew about it, wouldn't his future be ruined? So he begged Zhang Li to ask him to suppress the case first, and he asked his neighbors to come and withdraw the lawsuit.

Zhang Liwen immediately agreed, and pulled out the lawsuit against Deputy Envoy Liu, and just as he was about to put it in another pile of lawsuits that had been suspended, his boss suddenly patted someone and asked him to give an explanation. As a result, the complaint was left in the middle of the big case, and when the officials in the house came to clean it up, they thought it was an urgent case and put it into the pile of urgent lawsuits.

This is where the misunderstanding arises. Although in the end, after the trial, Vice Envoy Liu's grievances of bullying others and forcibly buying his neighbor's land at a low price were also cleared, but the estrangement between the two became deeper and deeper. One thought, I begged you, but you still made a mistake in the lawsuit, and you didn't even apologize afterwards, and you didn't take me seriously at all. One thought, my seventh-grade official has explained to you a nineth-grade official, which is enough to give you face, but you kick your nose and put a face on my face every day to show me, I owe you?