In Yangzhou, Zhizhou Cai Jing took a sedan chair to the dock for a walk, and returned to the state government disappointed.

The news has already been reported, and the verdict has been supplemented by Chao.

In the face of this insistent boss, Chao Buzhi had nothing to do with Cai Jing except to despise him and interrogate him in the depths of his soul. In addition, Cai Jing can't look down on Chao Buzhi, and the second official is the most hateful. There are generations of eunuchs in the Chao Bu family, how many years there are in the Great Song Dynasty, and how many years are the official eunuchs of the Julu Chao family. And there has always been the experience of the ancestors of the family serving as senior members in the court. High-ranking officials such as deputy ministers, privy envoys, and governors can produce one or two in each generation. As far as his background is concerned, Cai Jing can't compare to Chao Buzhi's background.

But if you want to talk about learning, how can Chao Buzhi be inferior to Cai Jing?

Although Cai Jing is not bad, he also has to compare with whom.

Among the disciples of Sumen, many of them are prodigies who can write articles in open crotch pants, and unfortunately, Chao Buzhi is one of them, and even Cai Jing is not as good as Chao Buzhi.

One doesn't look down on the other party's good face, is good at management, and has a bad stomach.

And what about the other one?

I don't look down on the other party because of his prominence in the court, and I don't look at him as a Shangguan in my eyes.

These two colleagues who didn't look at each other met at the gate of the state government, and Chao Buzhi glanced at Cai Jing's Tsing Yi sedan chair with a surprised expression: "Brother Yuan, are you going to the dock again?" ”

Cai Jing was stunned, and then said: "Yes, water transportation is the lifeblood of my Great Song Dynasty, and Yangzhou is the gateway to the north of the canal, together with Jianghuai, it is the lifeblood of my dynasty." ”

"It's not going to the docks to ask about the grain ship, is it?"

Chao Buzhi didn't give Cai Jing a chance to argue at all, and pointed directly at Cai Jing's purpose. Cai Jing went out on weekdays, he had to take his gorgeous carriage, the tall river horse was bought by Cai Jing at a high price, if he didn't go out on weekdays to show off, he was panicked. The brocade night walk is fundamentally attached to his values.

Only when he goes to the dock will he choose to make a sedan chair.

The sedan chair has been in ancient times, and the farthest can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and it is recorded in writing, from the "Book of Han" - the Hui Ji is too strict and helping, and the sedan chair is collared.

It's a pity that this kind of transportation, which is very stable, because it is slow, cannot show the identity of the owner, cannot show the majesty of the high-headed horse, and so on, does not shine in the Great Song Dynasty. On the contrary, in Europe, before the advent of spring carriages, sedan chairs were the standard for nobles to travel. The reason is probably very simple, there has never been a shortage of people in China, but Europe is different.

The reason that can make Cai Jing give up his gorgeous carriage is probably to go to the docks. The tall horse is majestic and gorgeous enough. But the waterways near the pier are dense, and there are many bridges, some of which are built in too high arcs, which are very unfriendly to horse-drawn carriages. Especially the arch bridge, the carriage can't go up, and you can only sigh at the bridge.

As for Cai Jing going to the wharf, the reason is very simple, although Yingzhou is not far from Yangzhou, but after all, Cai Jing can't leave Yangzhou, and if you want to hear the news of Yingzhou, it's best to go to the wharf. At the same time, he can also know how much grain has arrived in Yingzhou through the tax card on the wharf. So as to get the news he wants to know.

It's a pity that Cai Jing was disappointed again this time, he couldn't figure it out, Su Shi, who was forced by the big families to ask for help from his colleagues around him, actually stabilized the price of grain in Yingzhou without much help from food. This surprised him, and at the same time there was a faint disappointment. The unbearably unwieldy of the strategy made him restless and unthinkable.

On the contrary, it was not embarrassing for him to be debunked by Chao Buzhi's intentions, but Cai Jing admitted in a grand manner: "Brother Xian, I really let you guess, Brother Fool went to the dock to inquire about the situation in Yingzhou, fortunately!" The bachelor Ji people have their own natural appearance, and the grain price in Yingzhou has been stabilized. The foolish brother hurried here to tell the old brother the good news. ”

Hmph –

Chao Buzhi felt that if he continued to reason with Cai Jing, he would be angry with Cai Jing's shamelessness.

Although the two of them are officials in the same place, they are incompatible in doing things, being officials, and even in life. Chao Buzhi lacks nothing, it is rumored that he is short of money, how can Chao Buzhi, who has been an official eunuch for generations, be short of money? At the beginning, in the pavilion in the capital, it was mainly because he was unhappy as an official, so he asked for an external transfer on the grounds that the pavilion's salary was meager.

But on weekdays, Chao Buzhi's life is not extravagant. On the contrary, Cai Jing is from an ordinary background, but he loves money very much and lives a very extravagant life. But he doesn't have much money left in his pocket, so he can only use some crooked brains to generate income. Many shops in Yangzhou have his inscriptions, and the fee for brushing is also quite secret. But there is no such thing as an impermeable wall. Although Cai Jing's inscription signboard can neither be tax-free nor attract businessmen, Cai Jing's words are still very deterrent to the scoundrels on the street, and it is not difficult to guess that merchants are sought after.

Of course, if you love money, a gentleman also loves it. As long as you take it in the right way, there is no big problem.

It's just that Cai Jing's eating appearance is too ugly. At the same time, he likes to be public, and he sits around in his gorgeous carriage at every turn.

In this regard, Chao Buzhi is very unaccustomed to it. I thought that other houses couldn't do it.

It has to be said that people who are greedy for wealth have a common problem, most of them have a great desire to possess wealth because of lack of money when they are young. Eunuchs love money, needless to say, they are so poor that they can't even keep their 'descendants and grandchildren', giving them a reason not to like saving money?

And some scholars from poor backgrounds, after obtaining official positions, will also be greedy for money. Throughout the ages, many big corrupt officials have had the painful experience of leading their children at home to eat sugar gourds when they were young, and they can only eat ice cream. For example, he Shen.

Cai Jing's greed for money, I'm afraid he doesn't even realize it. But it may have something to do with the fact that his family was not wealthy when he was a child.

Of course, Cai Jing's true face is that he is a capable official.

He has a great ability to do things.

But no matter how strong he is, he can't plan a conspiracy against the old party in Yangzhou, which is far away from Yingzhou.

In response to the old saying, the whip is beyond the reach of the whip.

Moreover, he said that he didn't understand anything, how could Yingzhou, which was short of grain, maintain grain prices?

Chao Buzhi can't give him an answer, there is a person who can give him an answer, and this person is his younger brother. It's just that the relationship between the two brothers has gotten worse and worse over the years, and even the correspondence has become less.

Compared with Yangzhou, an important transit terminal of the canal, Jiangning's wealth is also obvious to all in the Great Song Dynasty.

As the former capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Jiangning was not favored by the Great Song Dynasty. But a city that has been built for thousands of years is not cold, and it also has a heritage that other cities cannot match.

Climbing the palace wall of the original Southern Tang Dynasty, Cai Bian pointed to a large area of houses and said: "This is the largest treasury in Jiangning, but there are three other treasury of the same size in Jiangning. There are more than 20 smaller ones, and more than 30 smaller ones. Are you sure you don't want food? ”

Goodong, only Jiangning Mansion will transform the palace of the previous dynasty into a treasury. In this place, people may not be allowed, why rebel?

It can only be transformed into a treasury is the most ideal.

Su Guo swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to find out that Da Song was so rich.

Zhang Zhu is better, the scale of the treasury of the capital Bianjing is larger than that of Jiangning Mansion, and he has also seen it. Regarding the prefect Cai Bian's question, he said respectfully: "The food is enough." ”

What he didn't expect was that Cai Bian said mischievously: "I don't want it." ”