Chapter 58: Hangzhou Little Talent
On the shore of West Lake, there is the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau. Originally, Hangzhou Weaving was only responsible for buying silk tributes for the palace, but now its responsibilities are all-encompassing, such as Yiding antiques, secret books, mountain delicacies and sea delicacies, and even famous and high-quality specialties are among them to buy.
Of the three major weaving bureaus in the south of the Yangtze River, the location of Hangzhou manufacturing is very large, and the eunuchs in charge have a prominent position in Hangzhou, almost controlling the livelihood of the seventeen large commercial houses in Hangzhou.
The main responsibility of weaving is to buy, for the imperial merchants, take a high price to buy, that is, ten taels of silver tribute, the admiral weaving eunuch to take out twenty taels, the excess ten taels are naturally the admiral weaving eunuchs and big businessmen into the private pocket, and for the small merchants is to adopt a policy of forcible seizure.
In addition, the goods of the Weaving Bureau are not subject to the inspection of the waterway checkpoints along the way, and they do not have to pay taxes and fees at any checkpoints along the way, so the Weaving Bureau's admiral eunuch has greater authority than the town guard eunuch.
A wharf on the shore of West Lake is close to the weaving bureau, but it is extremely lively, the weaving eunuch has set up a tribute market here, if anyone has any treasures and curiosities can be traded here, most of them are purchased by the weaving bureau.
Xu Qian walked on this tribute market, shaking his fan all the way. In fact, this tribute city is not lively, when the tribute city was set up, it was able to fool a few people, but now, there are not many businessmen and people who are fooled, but there are still some people who have illusions, thinking that there is any treasure in the family that will be bought at a high price by the Zuo Bureau.
After a short stroll, the excitement came.
But not far ahead, a person with a Ninghai accent was surrounded by several messengers from the Bureau.
"A few officials, this painting of mine is really an ancestral heirloom, and it is by no means stolen ......"
"Scared! Ancestral? A small family like you can also inherit An Xianggong's handwriting, this must have been stolen by you, and you dare to deny it? ”
This small businessman in Ninghai County was taken aback, he originally wanted to sell a painting, thinking that this was a tribute market, a place for royal purchases, and the price would always be higher than other places, but who knew that he was slandered as a thief.
"The official is a good man, how can he make a living stealing? This painting is indeed in my father's collection, but I can't keep it in hand for a while, so I ...... So ......"
A few poor people couldn't take care of it anymore, and some people wanted to go up and grab the paintings, but this little businessman was willing to protect them desperately, and the other poor man was furious and wanted to draw his saber.
There are a lot of people on the side, including both businessmen and some scholars, after all, this is a tribute market, and most of the things bought and sold are rare playthings.
In front of the poor people, no one dares to talk about it, this kind of thing is very common in Gong City, this small businessman has no background and is a foreigner, he dares to do business in Gong City, and he deserves to be unlucky. Therefore, some people show a little contempt, and some people are a little unbearable.
The small trader couldn't help but wail and said, "If the official wants, just take a few taels of silver, why ......"
"Bold, this is what the emperor wants, you want something from you as an uncle? It's stolen goods, and you still want silver? Let go quickly, or I'll take you to make a game......"
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Let go of that painting!" ”
A loud shout, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, but it is very rare in this tribute city, and I saw a young man coming out of the crowd, with an awe-inspiring righteousness in his eyebrows, like a fairy child descending to earth.
A few poor people immediately looked over, but saw that it was just a teenager, and they were stunned at first, and then laughed.
It is the onlookers, some people feel that the people who come are not familiar with the world, and some people are secretly worried about the people who come.
The person who came was Xu Qian, Xu Qian crossed his hands, and said awe-inspiringly: "In broad daylight, you dare to take it by force, whose power are you relying on, and you are so bold?" ”
"Boy, who are you?" A leading messenger looked Xu Qian up and down.
Xu Qian said: "My surname is Xu, but after being loyal and good, the ancestor Xu heard that Xu Xianggong!" ”
"Haha...... "Where do these poor people know what Xu Xianggong, seeing this kid report his ancestor, he couldn't help but want to laugh, is this person crazy? Seeing him report his ancestors, he must have no background, and if he has a background, he will probably report who his father is.
A few messengers suddenly became arrogant, and the person who spoke before said: "Blind your dog's eyes, the Bureau of Fabrication is doing errands, and you dare to stop it!" We are on the orders of Gonggong Liu to buy tribute for the palace, do you want to die? ”
Xu Qian sneered: "I don't know Gonggong Liu, just a dead eunuch, but he is referring to you minions to do evil!" ”
This sentence suddenly made several bad officials change their colors, everyone looked at each other, and one of them sneered and said: "This person dares to slander Gonggong Liu, he is bold, come, take him down." ”
"Wait!" Xu Qian stopped with his hand.
The figure of the errand officer was stunned, and he thought that this kid had some background, and wanted to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, so he had to report to his family at this time. Although it is said that the admiral is the minion of the eunuch, if he encounters some great big family, he has to have some scruples.
Who knew that Xu Qian said: "Can you let me write a poem and take me again!" ”
The officials were stunned......
Then an errand officer was furious: "Boy, you dare to entertain the uncle, come, take this thief and this boy away." ”
Several burly officials came up and directly lifted Xu Qian, Xu Qian had to recite a poem in his mouth: "You wait for eunuchs, tyrants, I have been in Hangzhou for a long time, and today I have a poem to make you notorious: green waters and green mountains are in vain, and Hua Tuo is helpless and insectic." Thousands of villages and Xuli people left arrows, and thousands of households sang songs. Sitting on the ground and traveling 80,000 miles a day, surveying the sky and seeing a thousand rivers from afar. The cowherd wants to ask about the plague, and the joys and sorrows are gone. The poet - go up the mountain to fight the tiger. ”
Several officials listened to this poem, although they didn't understand it very well, but they heard that it was a ghost, a bug and a plague god, as long as they were not fools, they knew that this was an insult to Liu Gonggong and them, so they were furious, and heard Xu Qian claim that he was going up the mountain to fight tigers, and this anger couldn't help but turn into a sneer.
They don't know what it is to go up the mountain to fight tigers, but one thing they know is that this sour scholar is really stupid to read, and he even reported this at this time.
The officials carried the little trader and Xu Qian straight to the Bureau, but the spectators left behind were shocked.
A few of them were even more surprised, could it be that kid really went up the mountain to fight tigers? The famous Linjiang Immortal in Nanjing and Hangzhou was also made by him? This kid is so young, this ...... This......
So many people think of Xu Qian's impromptu poem, this poem is actually more popular, and the battle is neat, but the irony is overflowing, it is nothing more than a satire of Liu Gonggong and his minions bullying the people, but a young man can improvise poems, and his poetry attainments are also quite high, who else will this person be except for the talented man who made Linjiang Immortal to go up the mountain to fight tigers?
"Going up the mountain to fight the tiger was taken by Father-in-law Liu."
"I look at him, but he looks like Xu Qian, who has recently won the first place in the government exam."
"Really? This person is so young? ”
"Isn't this person a prodigy? It's just that being a man is too reckless, Gonggong Liu is buying by order, he is dying, and he dares to make trouble, which is really bold. ”
"It is said that this person not only offended Gonggong Liu, but also offended many people, it is said that there are still many scholars on the side of the prefect's yamen who are making trouble, and they are all asking the prefect to remove his reputation, saying that he was involved in cheating in the government test."
"Cheating? Only others can make such poems, and that Linjiang Immortal, do you still need to cheat in a small test? ”
"And no matter what, I'm waiting to watch from the wall, but you don't know, this year, many gentry families are named Sun Shan, but this surname Xu has sprung up, I don't know how many people are jealous, the prefect governs the place, and naturally has to rely more on the local gentry, so ......"
"Let's go, let's go to the bureau to see the excitement."
"Go together, go together."