Chapter 46: The Matter of the Temple
"Shibo, don't be rude." Fang Shiyi drank lightly.
Although Luo Wenpeng is the son of Mr., and his sister and brother respect him as a senior brother, he is a captain with troops and a person with official status, how can he be speechless to him!
Luo Wenpeng looked at him with interest, "Oh, there is a good candidate for Shibo." ”
"Of course." Fang Shibo was ashamed.
Luo Wenpeng became more interested, and said with a smile: "Okay, then tell me, who is he?" ”
Fang Shibo did not answer in a hurry, but frequently hinted that the other party wanted to speak with silver. It's not that he is greedy for money, but that his pocket money this month has been defrauded by Kong Fang, and he must find other inputs, otherwise there will be no money to buy a head rope for Fan Juanjuan.
But Luo Wenpeng pretended not to understand, but compared patience with him.
The two were in a stalemate for a long time, and Luo Wenpeng pretended to be helpless, "It seems that Shibo doesn't have any good talents to recommend, so I'd better hurry up and repair a book, and ask the prefect to send someone quickly." ”
"Whew, smack......"
Fang Shibo really entered, and jumped to his feet in a hurry, "Senior brother, don't be a little, I do have a good candidate." ”
"And who do you say?" Luo Wenpeng couldn't help laughing.
"My brother-in-law!" Fang Shi platinum stone is shocking. Frightened, Kong Fang screamed, as if he had been stung by a wasp and jumped up. Fang Shiyi was surprised that Fang Shibo would be virtuous and not avoid relatives.
She was even more surprised by Kong Fang's reaction, isn't the reader just an official, why does he seem to be refusing.
Luo Wenpeng smiled silently.
To be honest, he was not familiar with Kong Fang, and only knew that he was Fang Shiqing's door-to-door husband. He didn't mean to look down on the door face, but the world's prejudices affected his judgment to some extent.
"Young Master Luo, Shibo is young and ignorant, don't believe him for talking nonsense. Kong Fang is a scholar, he has no power to restrain the chicken, and he has no talent in his chest, so he really does not dare to serve as a parent official. ”
After Kong Fang calmed down, he resolutely rejected Fang Shibo's recommendation.
It's not that he is high and doesn't want to be an official. Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, Kong Fang, who was a man in two lifetimes, is well versed in the relationship and charm of money and power.
But Zhu Dachang's bloody and blurred head brought him too much psychological impact. If it weren't for Luo Wenpeng's clever plan to scare Zhu Chongjiu away, it is estimated that the big guy would still be blowing the wind at the city gate.
The ploughshare mountain bandits have not been eliminated, and the position of the magistrate of Qinghe County is like a hot potato, and a fool will hold it in the palm of his hand as a treasure.
Luo Wenpeng was noncommittal, he already had other plans in his heart. His father is a famous Confucian of the Daxing Dynasty, he lives in Qinghe County, and knows the literati of Qinghe County well, maybe he has a good candidate.
After bidding farewell to Luo Wenpeng, Fang Shiyi and his party returned to Fangjiazhuang. Dou Ying wanted to go home to take care of her father and didn't go with them, Yun Fei'er didn't want to go back to the Yun family, so she simply went with Dou Ying.
Luo Wenpeng was not good at civil affairs after all, and he didn't want to stay in the county office, so he simply used it as a temporary barracks for his own soldiers to live in. First, it can prevent the county government from being damaged by chips; Second, it solves the problem of accommodation for pro-soldiers.
After dinner, the father and son discussed world affairs in the study.
Emperor Jiaqing of the Daxing Dynasty was young, and the government was controlled by the traitors led by the prime minister Qin Hui.
In the officialdom, hundreds of officials do not want to forge ahead, bend the law for bribes, and prey on the people, resulting in the withering of the people's livelihood and the people's lack of livelihood, so the people's grievances are everywhere. The seven provinces and nineteen prefectures of the Daxing Dynasty are either bandits or military disasters, and there is almost no peaceful place.
"The world has become a pot of porridge, and the Qin thieves have forcibly whitewashed the peace. The Yellow Horn in the north has 50,000 soldiers, known as the Black Turban Army, attacking the city and plundering the land, burning, killing and plundering everywhere it goes, doing all kinds of evil, and the northern land is full of mourning. ”
"But the Qin thieves openly said above the court that it was just a small group of mountain bandits making trouble, and refused to send troops to encircle and suppress them, saving the people from fire and water!"
"Hmph, if this thief is not removed, the Daxing Dynasty will be in danger!" The more Luo Wenpeng spoke, the more excited he became, and Mr. Luo signaled him to calm down.
"What does General Guan Sheng think about the current situation?"
Luo Wenpeng smiled bitterly, "General Guan wants to do something, but it's a pity that he still has Qi Shuai on his head." Qi Shuai's city was too deep, and no one could tell whether he was loyal to the emperor, or loyal to the Qin thief, or if he wanted to support his troops and respect himself. ”
"I made military merits, in fact, I am ashamed, I accidentally bumped into a group of mountain bandits who came down the mountain to rob merchants, and out of righteous indignation, I took my brothers to repel them."
"This was originally just a trivial matter, but who would have thought that the person I saved was Uncle Qi Shuai. He is the money bag of the Qi family, and his status is very important in the Qi family. ”
"Qi Shuai therefore instructed General Guan to promote me to guerrilla lieutenant and promote me to three ranks."
Mr. Lowe fell into deep thought.
He is one of the few great Confucians in the Daxing Dynasty, and he is naturally concerned about the rise and fall of the Daxing Dynasty; But it is useless to be a scholar, not to mention that he is far away from the court, he can't write to calm the world, and he can't go on the horse to settle the world.
I don't have enough energy to spare.
"Since your uncle was robbed, Qi Shuai is just rewarding you with a guerrilla captain, and it doesn't hurt. It seems that in order to preserve his strength, even ordinary mountain bandits are unwilling to suppress it. ”
Luo Wenpeng suddenly whispered: "Father, I once overheard some generals in the army privately discussing that the former emperor was not the orthodox royal family, and he succeeded in ascending to the throne by seizing the throne. ”
Mr. Luo's face changed drastically, "Who are the discussants?" ”
"Father, you don't care who is talking about it, let me ask if this is true?" Luo Wenpeng is colorful. "I vaguely remember that you used to be an official in the court, and then our family suddenly moved out of the imperial capital and came to Qinghe County."
"Father, is it related to this that we left the imperial capital?"
Mr. Luo quietly looked at his son in front of him, and said slowly for a while: "Peng'er, you know this, I know, God knows, and the earth knows, and you must not spread it."
"Although more than ten years have passed, Emperor Jiaqing may not know what happened back then, but those who followed the emperor back then are still active in the court."
"I've been away from the court for nearly ten years, and everything has been put down and seen openly, but people don't hurt the tiger, and the tiger is harmful to people's hearts, we need to be low-key and cautious, and don't make it public."
Luo Wenpeng nodded, "The child understands." ”
He suddenly remembered something serious, "Father, Zhu Dachang is dead." At present, Qinghe not only does not have a county magistrate to preside over the county's major affairs, but even ordinary officials and officials are vacant. ”
"I originally intended to recommend the lark as the magistrate, but I hated that he was not worthy of the position, and he was taken down by me. Do you have the right person? ”
Mr. Luo nodded. Luo Wenpeng suddenly fell to the ground in his heart, and he was relieved to solve the official vacancy as soon as possible. After all, he only has half a month of military leave, and time is precious.
"Who?"
"Kong Fang."
"Kong Fang! The door-to-door son-in-law of the Fang family? Luo Wenpeng was very surprised, he didn't understand why his father was optimistic about him. Mr. Luo did not explain further, but silently took out two objects.