Chapter 410: What About the Face?
On the surface, this incident seems to have nothing to do with Lin Sen, so he can play with his wife and children at home and watch the play at the same time.
After this period of continuous development, the special team members have better penetrated into all aspects of Chang'an City, and the investigation of the people in the family is naturally more comprehensive.
Their seemingly calm but panicked appearance also fell in Lin Sen's eyes, making his mood feel comfortable and comfortable.
The impact of this incident is still fermenting and gradually expanding, especially under the promotion of Li Chengqian, intentionally or unintentionally.
Li Chengqian personally came forward to commend Wannian County and ordered them to be finished, and called several of their meritorious ministers and the representatives of merchants who donated the most money into the palace, and not only cordially received them, but also gave them a banquet and hospitality.
A businessman like a wealthy businessman surnamed Li who received such courtesy for the first time almost fell over happily.
After returning home, he talked about it even more when he met people, and of course he must praise Li Chengqian for being rare in the sky and unparalleled on earth.
Realizing the change in his current situation, the county ordered them to greet these officials with a smile when they met, and the others had to give him a thumbs up when they saw him, making him feel that the five thousand yuan was indeed worth it.
Lin Sen figured out a little thing from it, such a place to open a breakthrough, and such a good opportunity to show his face, these few people who can be named and praised, even if they are not all Li Chengqian's people, at least one or two of them must be his cronies, such as the Wannian County Order, there is a great possibility.
Because the contrast between before and after is also the most obvious, of course, offending the family is also the most ruthless. However, the effect of this is also immediate.
Affected by these things, especially after the release of favorable conditions in all directions, businessmen in other places saw the head.
After all, there are wealthy businessmen surnamed Li, and their treatment is compared, and the donation is called an enthusiasm, and it can even be called turbulent.
In order to fight for the few who set up a monument for themselves, as well as the places to send their children to school, those wealthy businessmen almost didn't fight.
The money used to build the academy has grown as rapidly as a snowball.
Especially after the measures of updating the list at any time have been introduced in various places, the amount and ranking of the donation honor list that is updated every morning will change a lot, which shows how persistent those businessmen are about these things and how eager they are for those benefits.
And the people of the family can't sit still, the more the businessmen donate, the more they will be spurned, and there is no harm if there is no comparison.
In the past, they thought that their influence could be achieved, so that everyone could just send a little bit of work like them, but who would have thought that Li Chengqian's side would actually give this kind of policy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle.
Moreover, with Li Chengqian's care, it is impossible for them to do anything to those rich businessmen, and the law does not hold the people accountable.
Even those merchants who need to rely on their snorts or shelter are involved, and they can expect all the merchants to change their minds for the sake of their face?
People dared to try this when they saw that they were not as single-handedly covered as they imagined, which was already a kind of damage to their prestige.
And with the matter of donations, it has become the focus of more and more people's discussions, and their prestige is getting worse and worse.
Even if they sent people out in private to try to reverse the trend of public opinion against them, they said, "I can't afford to donate money to build a college, what good can I do?" "It's blocked.
Because if you think about it, while they are enjoying their good reputation as a matter of course, they really haven't done anything good for the people around them.
Most of the bridges and roads are paid for by other businessmen, and ordinary people want to learn knowledge, but they can't ask them for it.
On the contrary, they have done a lot of things to bully people, intentionally or unintentionally, otherwise where would there be so many tenants and slaves under their hands, and they would not all be squeezed by them.
Thinking about it this way, they really can't come up with any strong evidence and fight back confidently.
Therefore, in the end, scolding them has become a trend, and if you don't scold them, it is easy to become a class enemy, and it is easy to be seen as the lackeys under the hands of these big families who have grown up with the fat of the people.
It's polite to be surrounded and scolded, but I didn't reason when I was beaten by a group.
There are really family members who ran out to excuse the main family, and were recognized and beaten by the group.
As a result, the official came to watch the play first, and waited for the beating to be almost done, and then he was out of breath, and then he shouted to drive the people away.
As for arresting people? I'm sorry there are too many people to catch. By the way, I probably had to send a contemptuous look and leave.
Go to the Wannian County Order for this? I am afraid I haven't forgotten the humiliation I gave people before.
Even if you really get it back, one hundred and eighty people will come to you every minute and sue your subordinates for taking the initiative to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, believe it or not?
Everyone is purely out of public intentions, helping to teach these bullying subordinates a lesson, and if you don't give a commendation for righteousness and bravery, can you still want to beat a rake? What about the face?
Of course, the family members also thought of a way to find someone to come out and shout that there were all kinds of unreasonableness in the donation of the academy.
Erecting a monument and biography, letting the son of a merchant go to school, these are all out of line.
If the son of a merchant goes to school, no one will go to school, and this threat is also said.
But Li Chengqian said with a smile, if you don't let the son of a merchant go, will you send all your students to the academy?
Or can you pay for the construction of the academy? I'll guarantee a future for your children, and they'll all be dumbfounded.
Their children are trying their best to send them to the private schools of each family, and they will not come to this kind of civilian academy for universal education at all.
As for paying for it, even if they can pay it out, do they dare? I'm afraid I won't be sent to prison on charges of corruption.
Later, there were those who came out to stab them, and Li Chengqian simply pressed them down, and asked the people who took the merit examination to write down all these people, in fact, he himself was probably trying to write down the appearance of these people.
There is no doubt that these are the lackeys of the family, even if some are simple old pedants, it is obviously not suitable for reuse in the future, so it is better to teach and educate people honestly.
Anyway, I don't know how long these people can bounce in the Zhenguan Dynasty, and after he Li Chengqian came to power, his future is basically bright.
In the end, the family saw that there was no good trick for the time being, and the day of donation was coming to an end, so let's spend money to buy a good reputation, and we should be ruined and avoid disaster.
Let's donate more, as for face, in the face of major events related to the rise and fall of the family, a little face is nothing, and it is not that we have not done shameless things, as long as we can maintain our prestige, no one can give us face.
So the people of several major families discussed, it is better to advance and retreat together, and the family will donate 1,000 yuan, and pay it on the last day of the deadline.
It can not only show the sincerity of his family, but also show that his family is relatively incorruptible, and he is not like those businessmen who are full of copper smell, so he knows how to make money.
We are frugal and have managed to squeeze out this money.
For this reason, we stopped sitting in the carriage and changed it to an ox cart, what a big heart.
As a result, they were still scolded, and they were scolded even worse.