readx; Zhao Xin thought about it, and suddenly reacted, isn't Yang Wang the son of Yang Quan? The son of the Yang family, the first powerful person in Chang'an, what will he do to find him?

He didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went out to salute: "It turns out that Yang Yuanjun, I don't know what to do with me?" ”

Yang Wang glanced at the Zhao Xin in front of him, he was thin, with a small nose and small eyes, a hard-working face, and a wrinkled face, Yang Wang couldn't help but look down on him in his heart. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's nothing, I want to ask Zhao to order me to drink a glass of water and wine, I want to ask for help for a small matter, give me face!"

The official positions of the two are all orders, but Zhao Xin is the eighth rank up, and Yang Wang is from the seventh rank down, from the official position, Yang Wang is half a level higher than Zhao Xin, but this is not the difference between them, the real difference is: Yang Wang is the nephew of the Yang family, the first powerful man in the dynasty, only twenty-six years old this year, with a bright future, while Zhao Xin is poor, he is fifty-four years old this year, and there is no hope for promotion.

Zhao Xin really didn't understand why Yang Wang came to find him? But since people have already said what they want to save face, if they don't go, they really won't give face.

"Oh well! I would like to accompany Yang Yuanjun and his party. ”

At this time, it has been the time of the next dynasty, the small wine shops around the imperial city are crowded with officials who come to drink from the next court, this is the tradition of the Chang'an court officials, after the next dynasty, they are not in a hurry to go home, first come to the wine shop with their colleagues to drink a few glasses of wine, there are also local officials who invite the Beijing officials to drink and ask for things, high-grade and powerful officials go to the high-grade orchid wine shop, and the officials who are humble and humble come to the low-grade wine shop.

Yang Wang and the two came to a small wine shop called Baqiao Qiuyue, located in Wubenfang, Yang Wang is an old customer here, and when the guy saw him coming, he hurriedly invited him inside.

As soon as she entered the wine shop, the noise and noise came to her face, and the small wine shop was crowded with drinkers, and a decrepit orchid carried a wine jug to sell wine in the guest hall, ten cents for a glass of wine, of course, the buyers could also rub oil on her at will.

"Master Yang! Your seat is reserved for you, and no one will sit but you. ”

"No! I want to sit in a private room today, do you have one? ”

"Yang Ye, I'm sorry, I really don't have it."

"Oh well! It's still the old seat. ”

Yang Wang was helpless, so he had to take Zhao Xin to a window seat and sit down, at this time, there was also a person behind them, very young, full of energy, and very burly, this person sat down very close to them.

Yang Wang ordered seven or eight dishes and asked for two pots of wine, Yang Wang poured Zhao Xin a glass of wine and said with a smile: "I heard that Zhao Zhiling hasn't come out to drink for a long time, right?" ”

Zhao Xin didn't have time to answer, he picked up his wine glass, 'Squeak!' I drank it in one gulp, squinted my eyes and smacked my mouth, what a wine! He hasn't drunk for a whole year, his old wife is not in good health, he is a medicine jar, and his younger son is not good, he is addicted to gambling and drinking, his wife wants to drink medicine, so he can only stop drinking, this mellow taste of wine makes him look forward to it for a long time.

Zhao Xin drank three glasses of wine in one go, and then said with a wry smile: "Don't hide it from Yang Yuanjun, my family is in dire straits, and I haven't drunk for a year." ”

Yang Wang raised his wine glass and raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhao Zhiling is an eight-rank Beijing official, why is it so bad?" ”

"Hey!" Zhao Xin sighed, shook his head and said nothing, Yang Wang smiled when he saw this: "Come on!" Come! Don't say these bad things, eat vegetables, drink! ”

The two drank a few more glasses of wine and ate some dishes, and Zhao Xin remembered that he had never known the Yang family in his life, why did he invite himself to drink? What would it be to say that there is something to ask for yourself?

"Yang Yuanjun, you just said that you have something to look for me, what's the matter?"

Yang Wang smiled and said, "I actually want to ask Zhao to order me to get a few weapons." ”

"Get a weapon!" Zhao Xin shouted.

"Shh Yang Wang sighed and looked to both sides, everyone around was drinking and chatting, no one paid attention to them, there was a young man behind them, but he was also drinking desperately, and he didn't pay attention to what they were talking about.

Yang Wang hurriedly whispered, "Be quiet." ”

Zhao Xin nodded, and hurriedly whispered: "The weapons are all made one by one, not yet, when the damaged weapons are sent, I will change a few good weapons to the envoy, at least until the end of the month." ”

Yang Wang said with a smile: "Actually, I don't want weapons, I want to make an atlas of weapons, I know that Zhao has a complete copy here, as long as you lend it to me for two days, I will copy it and then return it to Zhao Zhao, to ensure that no one can see it." ”

Zhao Xin drank and was silent, his treasury was a complete set of weapons manufacturing atlases, but one of his responsibilities was to ensure that this set of atlases was not lost, not allowed to borrow, not allowed to copy, this is related to the military secrets of the Tang Dynasty, not allowed to be easily leaked to others, and now Yang Wang suddenly made this request, which made him embarrassed.

Yang Wang not only wanted to make crossbows and armor-making atlases, but also made atlases of fire and thunder, but the big cannibal couldn't tell what it was? Yang Wang was also confused, so he had to borrow all the atlases and copy them, and then let the big cannibal find them by himself.

Seeing that Zhao Xin was silent, he took out an ingot of gold weighing twenty-five taels from his pocket, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Zhao Xin, and said with a smile: "These twenty-five taels of gold are only half of the remuneration, if Zhao orders all of them to be handed over to me, I will pay the other half." ”

Zhao Xin stared blankly at the ingot of gold in front of him, his eyes showed a look of pain, didn't he want it? No! He wants, he wants it so much, twenty-five taels of gold is worth two hundred and eighty yuan on the black market, in fact, as long as he has thirty yuan, he can marry a wife for his youngest son, and two hundred and eighty yuan can not only let the younger son marry a wife in a beautiful manner, but also pay off a butt of debts, and can also buy a house for his other two sons, and this is only half of the money, and the other half of the money can be comfortably let him live the rest of his life.

Zhao Xin has been in the Ordnance Department for nearly 30 years, from a miscellaneous servant step by step to the order, he has never had a major dereliction of duty, although he also has some petty tricks, privately selling some damaged weapons, but to lend out the atlas of building weapons, he has never done it.

The pressure of life and the self-discipline of his job, the contradiction between the two made him feel deeply painful, but Yang Wang thought that he was afraid of the lack of money, so he smiled and said: "Zhao Zhiling rest assured!" The buyers of these albums are rich people, and if you get them for me, I promise to double your reward. ”

Double it is one hundred taels of gold, this is a thousand yuan of money, Yang Wang knows the dilemma of Zhao Xin's family and his urgent need for money now, he should not be able to refuse himself, he moved the gold in front of Zhao Xin again, and said with a smile: "Zhao Order, agree!" As long as you promise, this gold is yours, and all your troubles will be solved. ”

Zhao Xin took a deep breath and said, "Then tell me first, who wants these albums?" ”

"This...."

Yang Wang hesitated, he didn't want to say it, but he was afraid that Zhao Xin would inquire everywhere and reveal the news, so he had to whisper: "It's a big cannibal!" ”

"What!" Zhao Xin's eyes widened suddenly, "You, you said you are a big cannibal?" ”

"Don't make a fuss, the big food is 108,000 miles away from us! It's okay. ”

"Nope! Absolutely not! Zhao Xin stood up, shook his head and said: "Da Shi is our enemy, and giving these atlases to them is not to exchange the lives of Tang soldiers for wealth?" Yang Yuanjun, I can't do it. ”

Yang Wang was a little annoyed, and he whispered viciously: "Don't be ignorant!" ”

"Nope! I don't do it! ”

Zhao Xin's voice suddenly became louder, causing everyone in the wine shop to look at him, and Zhao Xin said resolutely: "I'm sorry!" Yang Yuanjun, although I need money very much, but I am a court official of the Tang Dynasty, I can't betray the Tang Dynasty, I can't lose this minimum official morality, and I leave! ”

Zhao Xin turned around and left the wine shop, the wine shop was full of whispers, Yang Wang's eyes glared at his back fiercely, his eyes were about to erupt fire, 'Bang! With a thud, he slammed his fist on the wine table.

．．．．．．．．．． Zhao Xin found a tavern alone and drank a few glasses of stuffy wine, thinking of Yang Wang's yellow gold, thinking that he would have to take out more than 20 yuan of money the day after tomorrow, but he didn't even have a place to borrow money, Zhao Xin couldn't help but regret it a little, he was extremely depressed in his heart, a few glasses of wine, he was a little drunk, and he took out more than a dozen coins and threw them on the table, so he staggered and walked home. Zhao Xin's home is in Changle Fang, which is the old house left by his father, seven or eight dilapidated houses have no money to repair, half of them are leaking, his two sons have no money to buy a house, they are crowded with him, the eldest daughter-in-law also gave birth to a grandson, the second daughter-in-law has a big belly, and it seems that it is going to be the rainy season, and this house can not be repaired anymore.

Zhao Xin didn't have the money to hire an ox cart, so he walked for nearly an hour to get home, it was already dark, his house was in a dark alley, and he heard his drunken singing from afar: "Mengxia is late, and the grass and trees in Hu Country are long." The horse gallops past the birds, and the sky is poorer than the sunset...."

As soon as he walked to the mouth of the alley, a person suddenly rushed out of the darkness, stopped him and hugged him, "Lao Zhao, you should pay back the money you borrowed from me!" ”

"Second Brother Luo, I really don't have any money, you touch it, I only have a total of two pennies left."

"I don't care, do you have the money to marry your youngest son, but you don't have the money to pay me back? I've been borrowing it for two years, so be it! I will charge you half less interest, and you will pay me back tonight, for a total of 12 yuan with interest. ”

"Hey! Second Brother Luo, it's not that I don't want to give you money, I'm still an official, so be it! You go to my house and take what is valuable. ”

"You fart! Your valuable things have already been sold out by you, and the most valuable cupboard in your house is still my family, don't give it to you, you won't give it to me to pay off the debt! ”

"Second Brother Luo, if you are tolerant for a few more days, it really won't work, I will persuade my son to sell Yongye Tian and repay the debt to you, okay!"

"Well, I'll come back to you in two days."

The creditor left, Zhao Xin dragged his sore old leg to the door of the house, and knocked on the door weakly: "Lady, open the door, for the husband... It's back! ”

Door 'squeak'! As soon as he opened, his wife hurriedly came out to support him, "Why did you come back, you are still drinking!" ”

"Drank two glasses, what! Won't you give me a drink? ”

"It's not! Someone at home is waiting for you. ”

"Who! Do you have any debts? Zhao Xin waved his hand and said angrily: "Tell them that I don't have any money!" ”

"No, it's an officer, the officer is not small, you go and have a look! They've been waiting for you for a while. ”

Zhao Xin was stunned for a long time, and walked into the house in confusion, he only lit a broken oil lamp in his house, and the bean-sized lamp suddenly jumped, illuminating the room flickering, although his hall was spacious, but empty, there was no furniture, dozens of sergeants stood in the hall, and the black pressure stood in a room, which looked quite strange in the dim light, and in front of them sat an officer, who couldn't see his face clearly in the dim.

"You are Zhao Xin, the commander of the Ordnance Administration?"

The seated officer spoke, his voice deep and with an invisible majesty in his tone.

"I'm Zhao Xin, may I ask Your Excellency?" Zhao Xin was a little uneasy in his heart.

"I'm Li Qing'an, the envoy of the Anxi Festival."

"Ahh Zhao Xin was taken aback, his mind was blank, and he stepped forward almost without thinking and bowed deeply: "See the general!" ”

"Zhao's order is not polite, I came uninvited to disturb Zhao's order."

Li Qingan gave the pro-soldier next to him a look, and the pro-soldier immediately laid out a mat and said with a smile: "Please sit!" ”

Zhao Xin sat down uneasily, a little at a loss, and didn't even know where to put his hand.

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "Don't be nervous, I'm here to reward you." ”

"General, I don't understand what you mean!"

"You should understand what I mean, didn't you drink with Yang Wang in the afternoon in a wine shop called Baqiao Qiuyue?"

Zhao Xin stood up in fright, how did Li Qingan know? He seemed to vaguely understand something in his heart, so Yang Wang said that he sold the atlas to Da Shi, isn't that Da Shi related to the Anxi Army?

Li Qingan waved his hand and smiled: "Zhao Zhiling, don't be afraid, please sit down!" ”

Zhao Xin sat down tremblingly, he was very worried in his heart, he didn't know what that incident would bring to him?

Li Qing'an pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "What I'm talking about is that the big cannibal wants to steal my Tang Dynasty military secrets, I have been paying attention to this matter, Yang Wang wants to sell military secrets for money, and his heart is punishable, but I appreciate Zhao Zhao's order for not losing his integrity and not being moved by money, especially Zhao Zhao's family is in difficulty, which is even more commendable, but I also want to tell you clearly, if you promise Yang Wang today, then I will kill you tonight." ”

Speaking of this, Li Qingan saw that Zhao Xin was extremely nervous, so he smiled and said, "But you didn't do that, so I want to reward you!" ”

"Nope! I don't want any awards. ”

Zhao Xin didn't have any confidence in what he said, he muttered: "Actually, I don't have the kind of integrity that the general said, I refused when my mind was hot, and I regretted it a little afterwards." ”

"This is human nature, after all, the twenty-five taels of gold that Yang Wang gave you are also a charcoal in the snow for you, I can understand your feelings."

Zhao Xin heard that Li Qing'an actually didn't even say that the amount of gold was not bad at all, and he was even more scared in his heart, how could he know? At this time, a personal soldier beside Li Qingan smiled at him, and in the dim light, Zhao Xin recognized it at once, this personal soldier was actually a young man drinking behind him and Yang Wang, and he suddenly realized that Li Qingan had already been staring at them, and he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, fortunately he refused, otherwise he would not only lose his life, but also ruin his reputation.

Li Qingan smiled and nodded to the pro-soldier, who put the usual money in front of him.

"This is my reward for you!"

Only to give consistent money! Zhao Xin's mouth couldn't help grinning, Li Qingan knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Zhao ordered to take a look again." ”

Zhao Xin also found that this money seemed to be a little different from ordinary money, he looked at it carefully, and saw that these coins were shining gold, and they turned out to be money, he was stunned for a moment, always money! A piece of money has a consistent value, and it is always money, that is, a thousand yuan.

Zhao Xin was a little dizzy, when did he have so much money in his life?

"It's... He couldn't say a word for a long time.

Li Qingan smiled: "I know that your rejection of Yang Wang has cost you the opportunity of a hundred taels of gold, so I want to compensate you, and you will do one more thing for me." ”

The dizziness in Zhao Xin's mind slowly disappeared, he restrained the excitement in his heart, bowed down and said, "Please command, General!" ”

Li Qing'an took out a booklet, handed it to him, and said: "This is the fire thunder recipe and atlas that the big cannibal dreams of, you can sell it to Yang Wang, and then you tell him that the formula of this fire thunder is the top secret of the Tang Dynasty, don't sell it too cheaply, other crossbows and armor are not worth much." ”

(To be continued)