Chapter 1089: Pulling the Line
As a family, the most important thing is to ensure the survival, prosperity, and honor of the family.
Whether it is the children of Zhao Wangfu or the Di family, everyone has this mission.
Especially people with good vision like Old Taijun Zhao and Old Man Di who choose to stand on the side of the little emperor, they should also believe that they will make a difference after the little emperor comes to power.
So Di Qing will secretly help the little emperor do things, right?
Chu Xintian analyzed in his heart, and at this time, Liu Yunlong beside him spoke.
He looked at Di Qing worriedly: "Brother Di, buying and selling officials is very important. In fact, in the end, they are all concentrated in the Pang family......"
Although Liu Yunlong doesn't care about politics, he also knows it.
Because he's been a thread before.
Liu Yunlong was in the capital and often did business with nobles.
The sons of those wealthy families, there are no people they don't know.
Liu Yunlong has accumulated contacts, naturally for business.
Of course, things are never as simple as you think.
He knows a lot of people, not only in the capital, but also all over the country, and there are many business partners.
The current governor of Suzhou, Yang Jun, was Liu Yunlong's former friend.
This Yang Jun comes from a large family in Suzhou. The Yang family has been doing business in Suzhou, and the business is also very large.
Suzhou is rich in silk and Suzhou embroidery, two-thirds of which belong to the Yang family.
Liu Yunlong's luxury business is also inseparable from silk embroidery. He knew Yang Jun.
Yang's business is big. He's a rich man. He can be said to be the first-class giant in Suzhou.
However, in this world, money is not always effective.
Literati, peasants, craftsmen, merchants, merchants were at the bottom of their ranks.
The Yang family was wealthy, but they always felt inferior in front of other generations of literati families in Suzhou.
Therefore, the Yang family also wants to embark on a career in office.
As the saying goes, money makes the devil grind.
Therefore, the Yang family obtained an official position for Yang Jun through various methods of black-box operations.
Of course, in this era, the imperial examination has been practiced for hundreds of years. If you want to become an official, you must first take the imperial examination.
Liu Yunlong and Yang Jun have known each other for a long time. He knew that Yang Jun was an uneducated person. In fact, he resembles him. In business, he was a genius. However, he could not understand anything.
How can Yang Jun, who has no real talent and real learning, pass the science exam?
When Liu Yunlong heard that Yang Jun was going to be an official, he also laughed at him.
However, later, Yang Jun really passed all the exams.
Liu Yunlong also knew that this was not because Yang Jun studied hard, but because Yang Jun had a lot of wealth in his family.
There are many ways to cheat in the imperial examinations.
After Yang Jun became a jinshi, he began to work as a low-level official in the county. Later, he was promoted to the prefect of Suzhou. It only took him three years to go from a junior official of the eighth rank to a senior official of the third grade.
That's the power of money.
At that time, Yang Jun looked for Liu Yunlong and introduced Pang Wen, the eldest son of Uncle Pang Guo, to him. After that, he returned to Suzhou and made great progress.
Of course, Liu Yunlong is not stupid. Knowing this kind of thing, if someone really investigates it, they will lose their heads.
So, he's just a matchmaker. Finally, How much money did Yang Jun give Pang Wen? How does the whole thing work? Liu Yunlong didn't know. He never asked.
Later, I heard from a friend's liquor bureau that Yang Jun, the prefect of Suzhou, spent 100,000 taels of silver.
This 100,000 taels of silver, in the eyes of the Yang family, may not be much, but in the eyes of ordinary people, 100,000 taels is such a huge amount of money!
How much is the revenue of the treasury of this dynasty?
The 100,000 taels of silver naturally went into the pockets of the Pang family in the end.
This is just one example of Yang Jun.
How many people spend 100,000 taels to buy an official like Yang Jun?
If it is discovered, it will not be a trivial matter!
What's more, when it comes to such big interests, the contradiction with the Pang family is quite big!