Chapter 11: Banditry
Although it was said that he made money, Lin Yunxin did not let the carriage go to the trading houses and markets where the most money and goods were gathered, but ordered the little servant to drive the car to the side of the street outside Jingzhao Mansion, and got out of the car with Lin Shen'an.
"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be suing the official to sue the Jiang family for embezzlement of family property? Lin Shen'an joked.
Lin Yunxin paused, lowered her head and pondered: "It makes sense." β
"Huh? Really? Lin Shen'an was a little dizzy.
Lin Yunxin smiled: "Of course not, did you see the billboard over there?" β
There is an open Ming Hall outside the gate of Jingzhao Mansion, there is a wide avenue on the left and right, the bulletin board on the left publishes all kinds of rules and regulations and some major events that have happened in the city recently, and the bulletin board on the right often publishes some less important tasks to the outside world, and there is a small building next to it, where a group of low-level officials are stationed to undertake all kinds of lawsuits and deal with people's livelihood issues at different levels.
Lin Yunxin and Lin Shen'an walked around the billboard and found that there were many notices with bounties posted on it, most of which were to catch Jiangyang thieves or find lost people, and even some nobles offered bounties to buy rare pets.
"You don't want to take on this kind of work, do you?" Lin Shen'an's face was strange.
Although the Lin family has lived in the mountains for eight years, in general, it is still a big family, and Lin Shen'an grew up in such a family, and is essentially a standard noble son. Although he usually behaves outstandingly and dislikes conformism the most, it is still difficult to accept it if he completely lets go of his identity and enter the role of a small citizen in the market to be a fast catcher or a small official.
Lin Yunxin didn't respond, stared at a notice in front of her, turned her head slightly and said: "Shen An, come and see this, the notice says that bandits have been rampant near the imperial capital recently, and a curfew has been implemented in the city, so that the people can pay attention." β
She bowed her head again and said to herself, "Bandit ......" is good, she remembered that there was indeed a bandit disaster in the first year of Daqing, and the impact was far-reaching, and the implication was extensive, and the dynasty even restarted the war for this, and the war lasted for several months.
"No, you're really going to do this?" Lin Shen'an's face was a little entangled, he glanced at the notice and asked, "What is this to arrest bandits and stabilize people's livelihood, it's not something you can do, right?" β
Hearing this, Lin Yunxin glanced at him with disgust.
"Hey!" Lin Shen'an was unhappy.
"Shen'an, you are too impatient, but when you do things, you must first investigate and collect information from many parties, and you can't blindly run around, you are impatient at the beginning of things, what else will you do in the future?"
"Then you have to choose the right direction to do things, what you see now is completely not suitable for you." Lin Shenan was not convinced.
"How do you know it's not suitable? How do you judge? Lin Yunxin was interested and wanted to consider her brother's opinion.
"Needless to say? Even if an ordinary noble lady is in business, she chooses several kinds of businesses that she is good at to make a living and open a store, which one will participate in the fight and killing? What's more, even if you want to do it, you don't have the ability. β
Lin Yunxin couldn't cry or laugh: "Who told you that I want to fight and kill, and make nonsense." β
"So what do you think of this?"
Lin Yunxin squinted at him, smiling: "Don't you look at the general environment when doing business?" If there's chaos outside, wouldn't it be a robbery for you to run to open a store? Assuming that there is really chaos, what kind of business do you think is the best way to make a fortune and avoid disasters in troubled times? People's livelihood has always been closely related to political affairs. β
Lin Shen'an was stunned, and suddenly felt a sense of empowerment, and instantly looked down, and nodded while pondering.
After all, Lin Shen'an is only a thirteen-and-a-half-year-old teenager, although he is smart, he still has many things that are not transparent enough. And these need to be filled in slowly by life experience.
Seeing that he understood, Lin Yunxin continued: "I know what you are thinking about is waiting for your aunt to make time to help us get our mother's dowry back, and we will naturally have the capital to do business, but first, my aunt also has my aunt's business, and she is now pregnant with Liujia, so she may not be able to take care of us in time, although external forces are very important, but people still have to rely on themselves in the end." β
"Aren't the initial capital of all the families in this world slowly accumulated by those two or three people from scratch?" Lin Yunxin smiled.
Lin Shen'an's eyes moved slightly, listening to his sister Wen Ning's voice, there was a pulse of warmth flowing in his heart, he waved his hand and smiled, and said chicly: "Okay, I know, you can do whatever you want, be your brother's companion to the end, it's always okay, right?" β
"Then we'll go somewhere else."
The siblings got into the carriage and looked at other places in the city that represented the power of the imperial city and the official family, and then turned to the west street where the officials and nobles lived.
Just as the carriage passed in front of the Taifu Mansion, Lin Yunxin subconsciously lifted the curtain and looked out.
At this moment, a richly dressed middle-aged man walked out of the gate with his staff, both of whom were not very good-looking, and there was a gloomy look from a distance.
Look closely, the man in the fancy dress led by him is even more faintly blue, and there is a red color in the sky, like a snake in the fog, but it looks like a catastrophe is coming, if there is no turnaround, I am afraid that within 100 days, the official will be killed, and there will be a death penalty.
As soon as he got out of Taifu's mansion and approached his carriage, the person who looked like a staff behind the man in Chinese clothes hurriedly spoke: "Lord County Commander, what does Taifu Zhang mean, how to ...... bandits?" β
The man in Chinese clothes, who was called the county order, raised his hand to stop his words, and frowned: "There are many people here, let's talk about it when we go back." β
"Yes."
Inside the carriage.
Lin Yunxin put down the curtain and wondered in her heart.
Magistrate?
If you want to talk about the three major counties near the imperial capital, they are naturally Qi County, An County, and Rong County. Qi County has many hunters in the mountains, and Anxian County has more farmland, and Rong County occupies a convenient transportation and developed trade between the two.
But if you mention the prefectural ordinance related to banditry...... A stirring spirit in Lin Yunxin's brain is none other than Chen Baorong, the county magistrate of Qi County!
That's right, it's the Chen County Order that will be questioned by the new emperor and beheaded all over the house soon!
Lin Yunxin will know him, or once in his last life, his father sighed after getting drunk, saying that Chen Xianling has been kind to people all his life, and he is also an official who knows people and makes good use of the wind, but it is a pity that he has the same bad luck, and the city defense army of the original alliance with the imperial court captured the bandit leader, but in the process of escorting him back to the imperial capital, he was betrayed by his subordinates and let go of the bandit leader without permission.
This is a catastrophe. Just because this bandit leader is not only a bandit who occupies the mountain as the king and plunders the treasures of the caravans, but also has the figure of the rebel ministers of the old dynasty behind him, letting such a person go is tantamount to returning to the mountain.
In the previous life, this group of bandits quickly gathered and made a comeback, wreaking havoc in the neighboring two or three counties, not to mention, and also brought troops to the city to fight a guerrilla war with the new emperor, and it took the imperial court several months to eradicate them all, which made the people even more miserable.
Naturally, someone has to take the blame for all this, and Chen Xianling, who was born in the old dynasty, became the best candidate, and hundreds of people from the whole family were all buried.
Dad was also sad for a long time, saying that Chen County Ling had helped him a few times, but Chen County Ling suffered this time, but he was completely powerless, and he was ashamed of his former kindness, and he borrowed more and more wine to eliminate his sorrows.
The corners of Lin Yunxin's eyes jumped, and she ordered: "Golden boy, turn the direction of the carriage and rush in front of the dark green carriage." β
βοΌοΌβ Lin Shen'an was stunned and said vigilantly, "What do you want to do?" β
Lin Yunxin smiled: "What are you doing so nervously?" I'm not going to do anything bad. β
"You're doing a lot worse than a bad thing." After all, Lin Yunxin once had a criminal record, and Lin Shenan boasted that although he didn't figure out his sister's routine last time, now he has some understanding, "Don't you want to run away to threaten and intimidate people again?" β
"What is an alarmist threat? I'm pointing out the maze and saving the wounded. Lin Yunxin glanced at him.
"Come on, you're a big fool, you haven't learned enough lessons last time? Has General Xu's matter been resolved? Hey, this is a county order, and the official is not small, it's not a cat or a dog outside, you have to cause trouble and be careful that people ...... you."
Lin Shen'an pulled to stop him, but Lin Yunxin slipped under his arm with a smoke and got out of the carriage, leaving him to stare at him in place.
"Damn, this girl is so lawless!" In desperation, Lin Shenan could only get out of the car in a huff and follow up.
At the corner of the east gate of the city, the population has gradually thinned out.
Lin Yunxin stood on the road where Chen County's carriage was ridden, silently intercepting.
"Phewβ" The groom snapped his head and stopped the car, shouting in a bad tone, "What are you doing?" Looking for death? β
Lin Shen'an's face changed, and he was about to reprimand, but Lin Yunxin stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "I don't know if I will find death or not, but you are about to face a catastrophe." β
Mavden was furious: "What nonsense are you talking about? Get out of here! "After all, it is a groom of the county order, and he is very impressive.
"What's wrong?" Chen Xian ordered to open the curtain.
"Lord County Order, there are two dolls blocking the way." In the face of his own county order, the groom suddenly became much more respectful.
Chen Xianling looked up and looked out, his eyes were slightly surprised, a man and a woman outside the carriage were all beautiful and graceful, not like children raised by ordinary people, but like a pair of golden boys and girls carved in pink and jade.
Seeing that their expressions were calm and not as if they had something to sue the official, Chen Xianling paused slightly, and asked kindly, "Why did you stop the carriage?" β
When it came to the end, Lin Shen'an still wanted to struggle, so he pulled Lin Yunxin behind her back and told her to take it easy.
Lin Yunxin smiled and said, "I can't bear to see the county order in great trouble, so I stopped the carriage. β
"What?" Chen County was stunned.
"You've got enough, where did you come from! Don't hurry up and get out of the way, or don't blame me for being unkind! The groom was startled, and raised his whip to drive the man away. After all, letting such a person get close to the prefectural carriage was his dereliction of duty as a groom and guard.
Lin Shen'an's face changed slightly, and he stepped forward half a step to protect Lin Yunxin.
"Dragage." Chen Xianling's voice sank, "Don't be rude." β
Although Lin Yunxin's words made Chen Xianling unhappy and made him even more worried about the troubles, for him, she was just a little girl after all, and sighed slightly: "You better get out of the way." β
"Let's go." Chen Xian ordered the groom to put down the curtain.
Lin Yunxin continued calmly: "It seems that the county commander is not ready to arrest the bandits back?" β
After a pause in the hand of the curtain, Chen Xianling suddenly raised his head, his eyes were like lightning directly at Lin Yunxin, his expression suddenly became serious, and he said slowly: "What else does the little girl know?" β
Chen Xianling was really a little apprehensive at this time, it stands to reason that in addition to his henchman, who knew that the bandit had fled was the Taifu he had visited today, the little girl in front of him should not know, otherwise it would mean that the matter would have been exposed a long time ago, so wouldn't it be ridiculous for him to ask to go to the Taifu's door?
But where did this girl come from?
Lin Yunxin hooked the corners of her lips slightly, her eyes were clear, and she spit out clearly: "Taiyang bandits, rampant for thousands of miles!" β
Boom! Chen County's heart suddenly beat a drum.
He looked straight and immediately got out of the carriage: "Since the girl is here on purpose, I think this matter is already clear, and I ask the girl for advice." β
Chen County's order is a courtesy, solemn.
The groom was stunned, he didn't expect his own adults to salute the two and a half old children, could it be that they really have any ability?