Faced with the sudden scene, Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly, and Xie Heng and the others also showed displeasure, dissatisfied with the white-robed boy brother who interrupted their interest in listening to the music. Reading artifact

"Don't think that your father is the left servant of the Criminal Department, so he is afraid of you, our right army governor's mansion is easy to bully?" Before the white-robed boy took a few steps, a powerful blue-robed young man chased after him and pushed him to the ground.

"Don't be afraid, Miss Lianxiang, he has this experience, he doesn't want to be rude to you." Then, the blue-robed young man came to Lianxiang's face, protected him, and looked coldly at the white-robed boy who was sitting on the ground and couldn't get up.

"Childe!" Soon, several subordinates-looking entourage rushed in outside the door, and they helped the white-robed boy up from the ground.

"I dared to do it to my son, I really ate the guts of a bear's heart and a leopard." The white-robed boy felt that his face was gloomy, and he pointed at the blue-robed young man with some anger, "Beat, teach this boy a lesson." ”

The blue-robed young man sneered disdainfully, and looked at the entourage with his chest crossed, and several of the entourages seemed to know that he was not easy to provoke, so they couldn't help but look at each other, and no one dared to act rashly.

"Rubbish!" Seeing this, the white-robed boy couldn't hold back his face, and reached out to slap the heads of the entourage, "This boy has raised you for nothing, something embarrassing." ”

"Childe, he is the experience of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, if we do something to him, we will have to suffer a lawsuit." One of the attendants covered the beaten head and said with an aggrieved expression.

While speaking, two groups of people entered the room one after the other, each standing beside the white-robed boy brother and the blue-robed young man, facing each other tensely, ignoring the existence of Li Yuntian and Xie Heng and the others.

"Zhang Experience, since you are here, it is better to sit down and drink a glass of water and wine." Li Yuntian felt that the blue-robed young man was a little familiar, and it wasn't until the entourage of the white-robed boy pointed out that he was the experience of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, and then he remembered who the other party was, so he broke the calm of the scene and arched his hand at the blue-robed young man.

"Your Excellency is ......" Hearing this, the blue-robed young man turned his head to look at Li Yuntian, looking at him suspiciously, and couldn't remember where he had seen Li Yuntian for a while.

"In Xia Li Yuntian, he and his father-in-law Zhongyong Marquis visited the Guogong Mansion last year." Li Yuntian saw that the blue-robed young man couldn't remember himself, so he smiled and reported his identity.

"You are Yuting's husband!" After Li Yuntian's reminder, the blue-robed young man remembered now, and said quite unexpectedly, "You are not serving as the magistrate of Hukou County, why did you come to the capital?" ”

"I have been transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and my colleagues have given me the wind here." Li Yuntian explained with a smile, then glanced at the white-robed boy brother quietly, and asked pretending to be puzzled, "Zhang Experience, what's going on?" ”

"This kid relies on his father to be the left waiter of the Criminal Department, and wants to forcibly redeem Miss Pianxiang, and he doesn't pee and take pictures, so he is also worthy of Miss Pianxiang!" The blue-robed young man is Zhang Kedi, the second son of Zhang Hao, the Duke of Yiguo, and the current Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, and he sneered and looked at the white-robed son.

"The surname is Zhang, don't think that you are from the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army and want to play tricks here, sue you, this is the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, this son has money, and he is willing to redeem the girl Xiangxiang, you *** are pure dogs and rats." The white-robed boy brother is Qin Dingbang, the eldest son of Qin Yongxiang, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, glared angrily at Zhang Kedi, and said with a scolding in his mouth.

"If you want to redeem yourself, you also want to see if Miss Lianxiang is willing, I can't get used to those bullying dogs in this experience." Zhang Kedi looked at Qin Dingbang coldly, with a trace of disdain in his eyes.

"Pity Xiang girl, you sue sù this vulgar puppet, do you want this son to redeem you." Hearing this, Qin Dingbang looked at Lianxiang, patted his chest and made a promise, "As long as you redeem yourself, this son will accept you as my son's seventh aunt, and you will enjoy endless glory and wealth from now on." ”

"Miss Lianxiang, as long as you don't want to, no one can force you." Not to be outdone, Zhang Kedi looked at Lianxiang and said in a deep voice.

"Gongzi Qin, Lianxiang Xie Gongzi's love, but Aunt Hong treats Lianxiang kindly, Lianxiang once promised Aunt Hong to practice art in the Drunken Moon Pavilion for three years, so I hope Gongzi will understand." Under the gaze of everyone, Lian Xiang put the pipa on the table beside her, blessed Qin Dingbang, and said quietly.

"Did you hear that, Miss Lianxiang is going to stay in the Drunken Moon Pavilion for three years!" Zhang Kedi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and looked at Qin Dingbang with a mocking expression, "There is a kind of concubine that you don't take a concubine for three years, and leave the seventh aunt to Miss Pixiang." ”

"Let's go!" Qin Dingbang's face suddenly became ugly, he had been crisscrossing the sea of flowers for many years, how could he not hear the perfunctory meaning of Lianxiang, repaying the favor was just an excuse, so he glared at Lianxiang viciously, and angrily led the people around him to leave.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for Li Yuntian and Xie Heng and others, Qin Dingbang would definitely make a big fuss, he was not afraid of Zhang Kedi, the Right Army Governor's Mansion couldn't control local affairs, and when the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division came, he wanted to let the uneducated Lian Xiang taste the taste of the prison.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division of the Ming Dynasty was subordinate to the Criminal Department, and Qin Dingbang was the son of Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department, and the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division would definitely handle cases against him.

Although Qin Dingbang acted arrogantly, he was not stupid, and making trouble in front of Li Yuntian and Xie Heng, who supervised the imperial history, was purely asking for hardship.

Not to mention him, even his father has a headache when facing the supervision of the imperial history, so where does he have the courage to provoke, otherwise his father will definitely clean him up.

Because it was close to the end of the wine bureau, Li Yuntian and Xie Heng and others had no interest in drinking because Qin Dingbang made such a fuss, so after a few words of greeting with Zhang Kedi, he got up to say goodbye, and left the Drunken Moon Pavilion with Xie Heng and his party.

"Master, a person came this afternoon, saying that he was sent by the prefect of Wuchang Mansion, and he came to send charcoal to the master, but the concubine couldn't make up her mind and didn't dare to accept it." When he got home, Lu Cao gave Li Yuntian a wide coat and told him something.

"Tan Jing?" Li Yuntian was slightly stunned, then shook his head with a smile, it seems that the other party's news is quite accurate, and he came to visit as soon as he took office.

The so-called charcoal respect refers to the fact that in winter, officials from all over the country pay tribute to their Beijing officials in the name of purchasing charcoal for heating.

There is a poem that says: "Ruixue is free to go down the nine folds, and the officials hang lanterns." Frequently knock on the Zhumen to offer the stove, and the jade is made of the fire pond to melt charcoal red".

Tan Jing is actually the elegant name of winter bribery, because there is no mention of the words "money" and "wealth", so there is no trace of copper smell, and it has a considerate meaning, which is convincing.

In winter, there is charcoal, so naturally there is ice in summer, and the so-called bingjing refers to the local officials who came in the name of buying ice for Beijing officials to cool down.

There is a poem that says: "The red sun is scorching like fire, and the brocade fan of the old man in Beijing is shaking." If you want to spread your wings in the clear sky, you can bring cold jade with your waist."

The reason why there are Tan Jing and Bing Jing is related to the meager salary of Beijing officials, and the monthly salary is converted into in-kind distribution on the basis of rice.

Therefore, the physical goods that were sent to the hands of the Beijing officials were usually much smaller than the actual money, so it became a problem for many Beijing officials who relied on the money alone to support their families.

Although the Beijing officials do not have the same additional income as the magistrates, the Beijing officials usually hold the power of supervision and evaluation of the magistrates, which can affect the evaluation and promotion of the magistrates.

So, in order to curry favor with the Beijing officials to which they belonged, and also to buy peace, the magistrate came up with the reason for sending money like Tan Jing and Bing Jing.

In addition to Tan Jing and Bing Jing, the rest of the gifts are called "don't respect", in the event of three festivals and two longevity and a certain lack of compensation, etc., all have to be gifted.

The imperial court usually adopts a tacit attitude towards Tan Jing, Bing Jing and Beijing, and must not let the capital live in poverty, in which case who still has the heart to do things for the imperial court.

However, even so, it is often difficult to meet those officials who have a lot of money at home.

It is worth mentioning that not every official of the ministry can be honored with charcoal and ice, and only those yamen who hold real power enjoy such honors, such as the Six Ministries, the Supervision Yuan, and the Hanlin Yuan.

Although the Hanlin Academy does not participate in local affairs, the people in it are the pillars of the future imperial court, and the magistrates naturally have to bother with it.

The officials of the other yamen were relatively pitiful and could not enjoy this kind of treatment at all, so it became the norm for some Beijing officials of the Qingshui Yamen to borrow money to live or pawn to survive.

After Li Yuntian took office as the governor of Huguang Dao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he was mainly responsible for the affairs of Wuchang Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion, so the prefect of Wuchang Mansion naturally wanted to send him charcoal tribute, hoping that Li Yuntian would be merciful and not make trouble with Wuchang Mansion.

Among all the officials in the capital, although the quality of the superintendent is low, but the treatment is very high, in addition to the charcoal respect, ice respect and farewell respect given by the local officials, in addition, whenever the household department sends Lu rice and other things, it is also necessary to enjoy preferential treatment than other officials.

When other officials received Shilu rice from the household department, the officials of the household department usually did tricks and feet to deduct it, and the supervising imperial history was often given more than that.

Not only that, according to the regulations, the people of the household department can deliver the distributed rice and other goods to the officials' homes, but the officials need to pay for the carriage and horses.

The supervision of the imperial history is different, those people in the household department not only diligently send Lu rice and other things to the home, but also do not charge any fees at all, it is completely for nothing.

The reason for this is naturally related to the duty of supervising the imperial history, they have the power of supervision in their hands, once they are caught by the pigtails, then the fate of those people in the household department will be very miserable, so the people in the household department should take the opportunity to slap them.

Over time, this has become a privilege to supervise the imperial history, and enjoy it with peace of mind, who is full enough to break this rule.

Now, the Tan Jing of the Governor of Wuchang Mansion has arrived, so the Tan Jing of the Governor of Jingzhou Mansion must be soon, no matter whether Li Yuntian receives it or not, they must send Tan Jing here, otherwise in their opinion, it will offend Li Yuntian.

"If they come again, tell them to send their things anonymously to the official residence in the capital." Li Yuntian knew very well that if he didn't accept this charcoal tribute, then the officials of Wuchang Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion would definitely be panicked, so he groaned for a while and ordered Green Calyx with a smile.

Not all officials in the capital can afford to buy a house in the capital, and few can live in a mansion like Li Yuntian.

Those officials who could not afford to buy a house had to live in the official residences provided by the imperial court, which included large courtyards and bungalows, and were usually crammed together for several generations in poor accommodation.

In this way, those people not only gave Tan Jing away, but also did a small favor to those officials in the official residence, which can be described as the best of both worlds. One