Chapter 5: You and I Conspire
Liu Zheng has never underestimated the people of the world, nor the ancients, let alone underestimated him, the head-catcher father with the title of Bapinxiao Riding School Guard, after all, he understood a truth in his previous life, when you treat others as fools, you are already a fool, so he never underestimates anyone, even if this person is recognized as a fool, not to mention that his father is very good. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Dad, look at what you said, the child doesn't know how to talk about it!"
"Humph!" When Liu Chengzong raised his eyelids again, his eyes flashed with a burst of essence: "Do you think you are doing something very hidden?" If it weren't for your father and I to help you hide it, your Zhuangzi would have known about it a long time ago! ”
Liu Zheng's little finger shook uncontrollably, he knew that his Zhuangzi was probably not as unexposed as his father said, and several masters in the yamen should know about it except for the new eldest master, the second master and the third master.
I just don't know what else he did, but the people in the government know about it! If you know, it's really not good!
The brain turned rapidly for a moment, Liu Zheng suddenly figured it out, and slowly calmed down, he figured it out, in this world, as long as you don't rebel openly, you can do whatever else you want, and no one cares at all, of course, the premise is that those people don't want to care.
Here, in this land that has been plagued by disasters for many years and is now almost impossible to survive by the mine superintendent's taxes, no one will pay attention to even if there is a rebellion, not to mention that he has just made a small Zhuangzi.
"Thank you dad for your help, but my Zhuangzi is nothing, just to entertain friends on the rivers and lakes!"
Liu Chengzong snorted heavily: "Friends on the rivers and lakes? Who are those people, do you think I don't know your father? ”
Liu Zheng looked at his father quietly, and only replied after a while: "Who are they?" At least they didn't sell the people's life-saving food as their own food! ”
Liu Zheng almost choked Liu Chengzong to death with this sentence that took a long time to hold, Liu Chengzong glared at his son fiercely, and then sighed softly and said: "Alas, this world is ......."
Before Liu Chengzong could say the following words, Liu Zheng followed these four words and said: "I want to die!" ”
"What?" Liu Chengzong's brain was buzzing by his son's words: "You, what are you talking about, brute, you roll me to the ancestral hall and kneel, kneeling is not enough for two hours to see if I don't kill you!" ”
Liu Zheng is helpless, his father will use this trick as long as he is poor in words, this trump card really works for Liu Zheng, not that Liu Zheng is filial piety and reverence for his ancestors, but he lives in such an era of filial piety, he must revere his ancestors.
Reluctantly, he got up and said to his father, the child is wrong, so he went to kneel, and then Shi Shiran walked out of the hall and went to the ancestral hall.
As soon as Liu Zheng came out of the hall, the maids came up with hot dishes, and when they saw that there was only one big man in the hall, these maids were a little overwhelmed.
Liu Chengzong looked at the hot meal, sighed helplessly, waved his hand and said, "Let's all go down, put it in the kitchen to warm, and wait for the young master to come out and let the young master eat and rest!" ”
The maids timidly answered and went out with the food, and Liu Chengzong sat there in a daze, thinking about what happened today.
The fire is out, and the old man is back......
Time pushed forward, and when the sun was about to set in the afternoon, Wang Jiabin finally returned to the yamen, and on the way he already knew the news that the granary was burned.
At this moment, he sat on the main seat of the back office, looking at several colleagues sitting below with a dark face, to be honest, he really wanted to pull these people out and cut them one by one, but unfortunately he couldn't do it.
Clearing his throat, Wang Jiabin softened the expression on his face and said: "Since the thing has happened, don't care about it, after all, this is a natural disaster, we have to look forward, and now this difficulty depends on everyone's efforts and ideas to get through!" ”
Thinking about spending? What do you think? As soon as Wang Jiabin finished speaking, Tongzhi Yu Zheng said disdainfully in his heart.
Although he counted it in his heart, he couldn't say that, as the second-in-command of the Qingzhou prefect, after the first hand finished speaking, he had to say two words, so when Wang Jiabin finished speaking, Yu Zheng also followed: "Everyone has seen the current situation, now the heavy snow is pressing down on the city, the people have no surplus food, the treasury is on fire, and the only disaster relief food is also burned. ”
Qian You glanced at Yu Zheng, couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and said in his heart: "You old man, you really aren't a thing, and you still have Wusha and Xiang Shang's head is not guaranteed?" The top blames it, and there is also the old man on top, what is the matter with you? What do you think about this, and you don't understand it in your hearts? ”
Thinking of this, Qian You glanced at the governor Shi Junda, who was sitting not far away, Shi Junda nodded slightly, and Qian You spoke: "Lord Prefect, Lord Tongzhi, it's not that I don't want to serve death, but I really can't help it, last time it snowed, we have already forcibly requisitioned the grain from three rice grain stores, and now there are only two grain stores in this city that are still selling grain, this afternoon I went to this grain store to check, and found that the grain in the store is only more than 100 stones!" ”
More than 100 stones, what is enough? Wang Jiabin's face was already black, and he roared in an almost crazy voice: "Don't think that I don't know what you did, I used to be able to turn a blind eye, but now I see that there is going to be a big mess, you play these tricks for me again, beware that I will die with you!" ”
This small Ertang suddenly heard the quiet needle falling, everyone was shocked at first, and then a joy, with the knowledge of Yu Zheng and Tong Qian You, the two of them looked at each other, and they both understood what the other party was thinking, this big man is really to the point of exhaustion, it is completely out of tricks, and at this time, as long as you force it again, you can completely empty this big man.
But you can't force it too hard, if you really want to break the net, the big man will not be able to protect his head, and they will be implicated to some extent.
Qian You groaned slightly, then got up and said: "Lord Prefect, your words really chill our hearts, the great calamity is at present, to put it mildly, we are all grasshoppers on a rope, the emperor blames it, you can't stand it, we can't afford to eat it too!" ”
Yu Zheng also stood up and said, "Yes, Lord Prefect, when this time comes, do I dare to be ineffective?" In this way, I have thirty stones of grain at home, and I have donated them all, and I will have someone bring them in a moment! ”
As soon as Yu Zheng set an example, the people below spoke one after another, you twenty stones, I will donate ten stones, and in the end, a total of 100 stones of grain were donated!
"Humph!" Wang Jiabin snorted heavily in his heart, what he said before was half-true and half-true, but at this time, he really had the intention to break the net with these mermaids, he really thought he was blind and deaf, thirty stones, your Yu Zheng family is really not much, but how much food have you saved in the Zhuangzi outside the city, let alone ten thousand stones, you only donated thirty stones, you should send it away?
Besides, what do you mean by donating these thirty stones now, don't you just think that when the time comes, the court will blame it, so that you can have an excuse to get out? If you want me to be alone, no way!
Thinking of this, Wang Jiabin's eyes narrowed suddenly, he stood up and said fiercely: "I'll give you one night at most, and if I can't see three thousand stone of grain tomorrow, don't blame me for a letter to Your Majesty!" ”
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Liu Chengzong was thinking about what happened in the afternoon at home, in an inconspicuous courtyard in the west of the city, except for the prefect Wang Jiabin, the pusher Lu Zuo, and the head catcher Liu Chengzong did not come, it can be said that the lord of the entire yamen has arrived, in addition to these people, there are three rich middle-aged men dressed as outsiders.
Everyone was eating and drinking while talking about what happened today, and after the dishes and the five flavors of wine had passed three rounds, Yu Zheng called two beautiful women in, and the two women cleaned up the scraps on the table, and served tea to the masters before quietly withdrawing.
Yu Zheng took two sips of the teacup and put it down gently, and after inspecting the circle, everyone said: "The eldest lord wants me to wait for tomorrow to hand over three thousand stone of grain, how do you think we should deal with it?" ”
Qian You glanced at the rich man who was sitting in the farthest place, and the man immediately got up and said: "Second master, if you don't like it, the matter has come to this, we must not cooperate with the eldest master, once we hand over the food, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”
The man's voice fell, and another man dressed as an outsider said: "Yes, what Zhang Yuanwai said is very right, if we really hand over the grain, it will prove that we have food in our hands, these three thousand stone grain, even if it is used tightly, it will not take a few days, once the grain is used up, the lord will definitely reach out to us!" ”
The last man dressed as an outsider also followed: "Second master, we must not compromise, everyone has been planning for so long, isn't it just to earn more silver?" Besides, in these years, we are not the only ones who have suffered disasters, some time ago, my family came back from Hebei, and the Hebei side suffered more disasters than ours, and the dead were everywhere, and I didn't see the court do anything! Since the court is inactive, why should we be that good person? ”
Governor Shi Junda smiled and said: "Second master, what a few outsiders said is right, I will transport all the food at home to the yamen tomorrow, and I will already have an explanation, even if the court blames it, it is he Wang Jiabin who eats the crime, what do you have to do with me?" ”
Shi Junda's words are no longer disrespectful, but quite scolding, in ancient times, colleagues must not be called by their names, no matter how good the relationship is, at most it is called the table word, such as Wang Jiabin, the word Yanzhi, a person with a good relationship, will call him Yan's brother, and a person with a bad relationship will call him an official, and at most Wang Yanzhi will be called behind his back, and he will be called Wang Jiabin when he scolds.
Ju Zhengye, who has never spoken, glanced at Shi Junda and said with a smile: "Brother Bai Ting, what you said is bad, the court blames it, it really has nothing to do with me, but have you thought about it, even if the prefect Wusha is not guaranteed, it is impossible for the court to let the second master sit in the position of the prefect, after all, the court also treats the second master and the third master for the crime of incompetence!" ”
This is very reasonable, if there is really a mess, the court will definitely send someone else to take over, and then they can only be bamboo baskets to draw water.
Yu Zheng pondered Ju Zhengye's words carefully, and said: "Then according to Weifeng, what do you mean, how should we deal with it!" ”
Ju Zhengye smiled slightly and said, "We don't just have food in this yamen!" ”
Everyone looked at Ju Zhengye in confusion, and Ju Zhengye didn't take Qiao, and immediately said: "Aren't there still two grain stores in the city selling grain?" ”