Chapter 28: The Calculated Bao Zheng
For the first time in his life, Bao Heizi blushed, really red, feverish, and hot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info When he first became the county magistrate, he recruited Gongsun Ce, a wealthy local businessman, as a guest, relying on Gongsun Ce's help, Bao Zheng got started quickly, and his political achievements were outstanding, and he continued to be transferred since then, Bao Zheng also looked for a lot of people, such as Wang Dynasty and Ma Han were the warriors who escorted him to Daliao.
When he arrived in Cangzhou, Bao Zheng also wanted to repeat his old tricks, but he knew that he was completely slapped!
Wang Liangxun is simply wonderful, if you want to say that he is not smart, right? can bully his family, turn his face than turn the book, and be a master for two months, and he has been holding a lot of money. But to say he's smart? I don't know the sense of proportion at all, I took refuge in Bao Zheng, I thought that I had a backer, and I couldn't even figure out how much people believed you, so I dared to come casually. As long as you have money, you dare to take it, and you are not afraid of setting yourself on fire. I don't know what the consequences will be.
In addition, he didn't even need torture, he confessed directly, and he didn't even have a bone.
To sum up, Wang Liangxun is a stupid, stupid, greedy, shameless and boneless waste, who has not achieved enough and has more than enough failures! Bao Zheng didn't mention how much he regretted it.
Wang Liangjing on the side saw his second brother paralyzed on the ground like mud crying, and he felt uncomfortable, after all, he was his own brother, he hated Wang Liangxun, hated him shamelessly, hated him ignorant! But seeing him like mud, paralyzed on the ground, snot and tears flowing together, Wang Liangjing didn't feel a good feeling in his heart.
"My lord, my second brother is greedy for more than 1,000 stone of food, and the villain is willing to find a way to repay it for him, I just ask the adult to be extrajudicial and give him a light hand!"
Bao Zheng was interested, looked at Wang Liangjing, and chuckled: "Your second brother was still scolding you just now, and his wife was looking for someone to go to your restaurant to make trouble, don't you resent it in your heart?" ”
"Can you not complain? But there is nothing to do about the villain, my mother is not in good health, her eyes are about to cry blind a few years ago, my grandmother is over seventy years old, if something happens to Wang Liangxun, what can the two old people do! Wang Liangjing said emotionally.
Qing officials don't dare to say much, it's also a lot, Bao Zheng can stand out, largely because of his filial piety, in order to take care of his elderly parents, after Bao Zheng was a jinshi, he spent ten years at home and sent the second elder away before he became an official. Therefore, the name of Bao Zheng's pure filial piety is well known.
In fact, unlike Bao Qingtian, who is like a god and resourceful and decisive in later literary works, the real Bao Zheng has only been an official for more than 20 years, and he has been the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion for a short time.
For most of the time, Bao Zheng is a counselor, to put it bluntly, he counts mosquitoes, and specializes in biting people!
Bao Zheng's ability to become famous in future generations is more about his character and integrity, but not his political ability......
Seeing that Wang Liangjing can understand the situation of his mother and grandmother, it shows that he is a filial son, Bao Zheng sighed with emotion, two brothers, it is really different at all.
"Wang Liangjing, the old man admires your filial piety very much, but the national law is ruthless, your second brother is not just greedy for food." Bao Zheng glanced at Gongsun Ce.
Gongsun Ce took out a confession, "This is the confession of a porter of the carriage and horse shop, and after the grain was transported from Changping, it was sent to Cui's house in the west of the city." ”
The Cui family?
Wang Liangjing's face changed, he had not been in Cangzhou for a long time to do business, but he could hear the name of the Cui family almost every day!
The merchants outside the small south gate, in addition to paying taxes to the imperial court, also have to take out a share and pay filial piety to the Cui family, even Haifeng Restaurant is no exception. If you dare not pay, don't think about running a business.
This Cui family is a big family in Cangzhou, and it is said that they have lived here since the Tang Dynasty. The family is big and the strength is extraordinary. At present, the Cui family has the final say in his name Cui Yu, and in private, people say that there are two Zhizhou in Cangzhou, one sits in Dongcheng - Bao Zheng, and the other sits in Xicheng - Cui Yu!
In the hearts of ordinary people, the Zhizhou of Xicheng is even more powerful than that of Dongcheng!
Bao Zheng is a strong dragon here, and the Cui family is the head snake, if Bao Zheng wants to make a difference, he must take the Cui family to the knife. Wang Liangxun is so good that he will not die, but in front of Bao Zheng's master, he does business with the Cui family in private.
It's not such a way to find death!
It is said that money can be blindfolded, Wang Liangxun's heart is blindfolded, and it is simply incurable.
Bao Zheng said: "This case is very important, if the Cui family embezzles the grain of the imperial court, it really should die!" However, their family is not small, and it is not easy to deal with it, Wang Liangjing, this official has something to ask for, I don't know if you are willing to help? ”
was taken to the yamen in a daze, and after seeing the second brother make a fool of himself, Wang Liangjing was mixed, took a wrong step, and was ruined. He didn't dare to be careless.
"The villain is naturally willing to work for the adult, but after all, the villain drags his family and has to discuss it with his family."
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"I'm against it!" Wang Ningan listened to his father in the class room and refused without hesitation.
"Ning An, Master Bao values him as a father, how can he not know what is good or bad? Besides, ...... again"
Dad swallowed, Wang Ningan nodded and said, "Are you still thinking about the second uncle?" Want to make some merit to alleviate his sins? ”
Wang Liangjing didn't refute, but just sighed: "Even if it's not for him, and your grandmother, grandma, can you watch the white-haired person send the black-haired person?" ”
Wang Ningan knew his father's embarrassment, but he only had disgust for Wang Liangxun and no sympathy at all.
"Dad, who is the Cui family? I've heard Han Toad say that Cui Yu is a businessman on the surface, but secretly he is the head of the Tiger Society, and on the street, there are hundreds of idlers and thugs, and there are outlaws and Jiangyang thieves hidden in the house. How sure are we fighting with such a person? Wang Ningan deliberately raised his voice and said loudly outside: "The soldiers of the iron-beaten camp and flowing water, how many days can Master Bao be in Cangzhou?" What's more, he is an official of the imperial court, and no one dares to touch him. But if people dare to touch us, I don't want to worry about it every day. Dad, let's sell noodles and soup cakes honestly, don't wade into troubled waters, being used by others! ”
Wang Ningan was talking inside, and the people outside heard it clearly.
"What a cunning boy, he's telling us!" Gongsun Ce exhaled angrily, and Bao Zheng was also angry. He blamed Wang Ningan wrongly before, he felt a little guilty in his heart, and he wanted to promote this smart descendant, how did he know that he was so timid and afraid!
As soon as he pushed the door, Bao Zheng came in with a black face.
"It's the old parents." Wang Liangjing hurriedly saluted, and the Bai family also fluttered with blessings.
Bao Zheng took a deep breath and stared at Wang Ning'an, "A few days ago, if the old man remembered correctly, Wang Erlang also said to the old man, respecting Liu and degrading Cao is a loyal heart and serving the country bravely, why did he become so cowardly today, judging the two of them?" ”
Damn, another moral accusation!
This is what Wang Ningan hates most about literati, who always use some specious and dry moral norms to look at flesh-and-blood practical problems. Bao Zheng is known for his outspokenness and daring to admonish, and he naturally has a clear flow on his body, that is, he met the generous and weak Emperor Zhao Song, and put it in the Ming Dynasty, and was crippled with a court staff.
"Master Bao, just based on Wang Liangxun's confession, I can't directly take down the Cui family, so I rushed to search, I'm afraid that I will return in vain. You just want to set up a set for the Cui family, let the father act as the person who purchases grain, and lead the Cui family to take out the embezzled grain storage, so that everyone can get all the stolen goods. ”
Bao Zheng snorted, obviously Wang Ningan was right.
"Master Bao, do you think this plan is seamless?"
Gongsun Ce spoke, "What, are there any loopholes?" took down Wang Liangxun in the name of instigating the splashing skin to make trouble in the restaurant, as for the embezzlement of grain from the ink, but he didn't mention it at all, and the Cui family would not know. ”
"Wrong!" Wang Ningan said categorically: "The Cui family has been in Cangzhou for hundreds of years, up and down, and there are people from the Cui family everywhere. There are hundreds of servants in the yamen, right? They are usually silent, like wooden people, who knows what is in their hearts? Will you reveal the news to the Cui family? And why did the Cui family choose a person who was not enough to succeed and more than to lose? Are they blind? Could this be a trap? ”
Bao Zheng's pupils instantly contracted, and his fists clenched unconsciously!
He mislooked at Wang Liangxun, could it be that the Cui family also mislooked at it? Although he was reluctant to admit that he was stupider than others, reason told Bao Zheng that the Cui family could run rampant in Cangzhou for hundreds of years, and there must be something extraordinary.
Could it be that this is a trap as Wang Ningan said?
The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, thinking that you are a hunter, but you are also the prey?
Bao Zheng's head quickly turned a few times, and at this time, suddenly Wang Dynasty ran in from outside, panicked, and opened his mouth when he saw the Wang family.
Bao Zheng said angrily: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”
"Yes, just now Lord Yang caught a group of businessmen, who were privately trafficking grain from the treasury in a vain attempt to send it to Liao, and Lord Yang has already rushed back with the prisoners."
"Grain, Liao?"
Bao Zheng's face suddenly changed wildly, and he almost fell into a big trap!