Chapter Seventy-Four: A Commoner's Bizarre Promotion
Shangluo, in the palace of the lieutenant of Sili.
Lei Xu, the newly appointed captain of Sili, sat on the chair in the study with a sad face and sighed. After Emperor Fulun of Zhao ascended the throne, Shen Xiu became a servant and a secretary. The lieutenant he had originally led was vacant. This crucial position has always been coveted by many.
Saying that Lei Xu can become the new lieutenant of Sili, it really shocked everyone in Shangluo who knew about it. You must know that this Lei Xu is a person from the north of Yongzhou, a commoner, and his business on weekdays is to sell some horses from Yongzhou to Shangluo City. Although he has made a lot of money over the years, how can this kind of person get into the eyes of the state and county. However, Shen Xiu's son Shen Hui was keen on this business to make money a few years ago, and Shangluo, who had a little status, disdained to do such a pickled thing. This time and back, Lei Xu and Shen Hui were hot.
When Shen Xiu transformed into the most powerful person in Shangluo, Lei Xu was just happy at first that the business partner he had made had such a strong background, and he didn't expect that he could be an official at all. But slowly, he saw that those fox friends around Shen Hui no matter what their background, whether they were moral character or ability cultivation, as long as they gave Shen Hui enough money, they could get a big or small official position.
Seeing this, Lei Xu was also moved. He was able to change from a civilian with no background to a rich man who is now a little wealthy in Shangluo, and he is decisive in killing. Regardless of the opposition of his family, he took out almost all of his net worth and gave it to Shen Hui to get an official position.
He has always been a very gambling person. When he sees what he thinks is a big chance to win, he never hesitates to gamble. This time, he decided to make the biggest bet of his life last time.
As before, he was extremely confident in his eyes and judgment, and he won again, and the high stakes he won were so high that he almost fainted.
Lieutenant Sili!
Even if he had the best dream in the past, he would never have imagined that this official position would one day fall on his head.
This is a dignified lieutenant!
Not to mention the captain of Si Li, not even those subordinates in the house of the captain of Si Li, it is a small soldier under the captain of Si Li, he had to bow his head and bow his waist when he met him in the past, and he did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Even if he knew Shen Hui, even if he was very familiar with Shen Hui. But he is a businessman, and he knows everything about these rivers and lakes. The county magistrate is not as good as the current management. really offended those little soldiers under the Captain Si Li's house, people want to clean him up in such a remote area of the frontier, there are really a thousand ways to clean him up.
One is a lieutenant and one is a Luo Ling.
For these commoners and even ordinary monks, the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries were not as majestic as these two official positions.
He originally staked almost all of his net worth, and the condition he put forward to Shen Hui was to go to Luo Ling, and even this request was already used by his usual means of doing business.
The sky-high asking price, landing to pay back.
He actually just wanted to be a southern lieutenant under Shang Luo Ling.
In his heart, if he can become the southern lieutenant under Shangluo Ling, then the property he sent out can be retrieved within a year. Those who do business in Luonan City alone, which one does not send a large amount of property to this southern lieutenant every year, and which one does not provide this southern lieutenant as a grandfather.
When Shen Hui informed him of the news, his first reaction was that there was something wrong with his ears. After Shen Hui repeated it again, he thought it was Shen Hui who was joking with him.
What a joke!
In Lei Xu's previous understanding, the official position of the imperial court was so sacred. Although most of the small soldiers and officials below are also eating cards and bullying others, the image of those officials is quite tall in Lei Xu's mind. Every time he saw those officials passing by, Lei Xu, like countless civilians, respectfully bent over and stood on the side of the road, not daring to take a breath, let alone look up.
He was just an ordinary monk born into a commoner's home!
Almost all of his ancestors have been civilians for generations, that is, when he came to him, after he made some money, he spent a lot of money to let people test his spiritual veins, and found that he also had spiritual veins, and he had three spiritual veins.
He was twenty-six years old. From then on, he began to spend a lot of money to buy some spiritual valleys, and spent a lot of money to hire a nine-rank white-clothed monk to be his master.
When he first ate Linggu, he cried a lot because he had been strong since he was a child.
When he felt the aura in his body for the first time, and the spiritual power in the sea of qi for the first time, he immediately ran to the ancestral hall of his home like crazy, crying and laughing and chattering about the ranking of his ancestors and ancestors for a night.
When he returned to Beidi County, passed the Beidi County Zhongzheng test, officially became a nine-rank white-clothed monk, and received the brocade robe symbolizing the monk's identity from the Zhongzheng hand, he trembled with excitement.
From a commoner to a monk, this is the biggest dream of countless civilians in Dajin, and this is the most beautiful thing Lei Xu can imagine since he was a child.
Ten years have passed, and now Lei Xu is already an eighth-grade gray-robed monk, but the awe of officials in his bones on weekdays is still like imprinting on him. Whenever he saw an official passing by, he subconsciously had to run to both sides of the road and bend down to stand. It was always the slaves he bought who grabbed him and reminded his master that you were a monk and that you were no longer a commoner.
Every now and then, he would hide his embarrassment by laughing out loud and take pride in his status as a monk. After he became a monk, he spent a lot of money to ask the senior monks to explain to him the style and elaboration of the so-called monks. The businessmen who used to deal with him all the year round in the city of Luonan must have been a monk when they met him after he became a monk.
What are you kidding, how can a monk greet a civilian?
On an equal footing? That's even more impossible. Those businessmen who knew each other in the past must have full etiquette every time they see Lei Xu. You have to bend down to talk to Lei Xu when you speak.
No one dared to say that Lei Xu was wrong to do this.
Even these people were even more affectionate when they saw Lei Xu, and their eyes at Lei Xu were even more eager.
Therefore, after repeatedly confirming that the letter of appointment in Shen Hui's hand was not a joke on him that day (Lei Xu was illiterate), poor Lei Xu poured a mouthful of old phlegm on the spot, and he fell straight down like that.
Thanks to his brother's vigorous pinching of his chest, he woke up slowly.
From that day on, he woke up every day and pinched himself several times to make sure if he was dreaming.
But it's just a dream, and this dream is too outrageous.
It's a dream, and it's best to never wake up from this dream, so that he can live in this dream forever.
This is the lieutenant of the division, and this is the position in charge of the life and death of countless people in the division.
Moreover, this position can often meet the emperor and his old man.
Emperor!
Emperor!
Every time he thought that he could one day see with his own eyes the legendary reincarnation of the true dragon, Lei Xu's old phlegm couldn't help but rise, and it always made him cough.
It seems that the feng shui gentleman I invited last time is really a master. Since moving the ancestral grave, his fate is simply lucky.
Well, no. This is not enough. One day, I will go to the Qingyun Taoist Temple on the top of the mountain, and ask for some magic weapons, so that I can pay tribute to my ancestors and ancestors, so that their spirits in the sky can bless them to continue to be promoted and make fortunes.