Chapter 144: Shocking Case (2)
Slowly opened his eyes, as a supervisor of the imperial history, Dugu Jun, who came to Shazhou to investigate, found that there was a naked Miaoman girl lying next to him, with millet hair, fair skin, and tears in the corners of his eyes.
Dugu Jun vaguely remembered that yesterday he and Fang Chongyong were together for a long time and drank together, and after drinking too much, he fell asleep with a Huren girl who played the pipa, and then had a spring dream.
Very comfortable experience.
The fatigue of the journey is swept away.
This kind of thing is too normal in officialdom. Only Fang Chongyong regarded the orchid next to him as a treasure, and the others were not like this.
Yesterday, Dugujun did not mention the real purpose of his coming to Shazhou this time, because it didn't feel appropriate.
Fang Chongyong has a high reputation in Shazhou, and it has reached the point where women and children know it. Dugu Jun asked passers-by about Fang Chongyong in private, and those people would show extremely vigilant eyes, but instead knocked on the side to inquire about his own identity.
Therefore, Dugujun, who has been an official for many years and is careful in his work, has not acted recklessly. As for the situation in Shazhou, he only knows a little bit about it now.
"The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, and Brother Dugu was a blessing last night."
The door was pushed open, and Fang Chongyong came in laughing and clapping. The young orchid woke up when she heard the movement, and immediately wrapped her body in a blanket and retreated quietly, leaving space for Fang Chongyong and Dugujun to talk.
"Brother Xian, alas, don't talk about me, now you are about to make trouble!"
Dugu Jun couldn't help but sigh.
On the order of Li Linfu, he deliberately set off from the Anxi Protectorate and came to Hexi a month in advance to investigate the situation in the five prefectures of Hexi.
The first stop is Shazhou.
Li Linfu specially instructed that for the Shazhou Mansion, Fang Chongyong, and Doulujun, it is necessary to "investigate carefully" and "investigate well".
As for what this means, I can only say that everyone who understands understands it.
"Brother Dugu, it's no problem for you to check me, I don't have private property in Shazhou. There are several servants, all of which are clearly displayed. It's just that Shazhou and Doulu Army, can't be checked, can't be checked! ”
Fang Chongyong admonished bitterly.
Dugu Jun was stunned for a moment, and then asked in confusion: "Why can't you find it?" ”
"Brother Dugu, do you know who the woman you spent the night with last night was?"
Fang Chongyong asked with a smile.
Dugu Jun was stunned for a moment, and then blurted out: "Who else can it be, the orchids that can be seen everywhere in the Western Regions, you can buy one of a dozen silks, and you can choose fifty silks at will, who else can it be?" ”
"No, she is Wang Huailiang, who just served as the assassin in Ganzhou this year, the adopted daughter of this envoy. Last night was unfortunately defiled by you, and there were more than dozens of witnesses. ”
Fang Chongyong said expressionlessly, according to the script that had been arranged, and there was no fluctuation in his heart.
"It can't be!"
Dugu Jun screamed, he had already lost the demeanor that he should have when he supervised the imperial history.
"This orchid was not the daughter of the assassin before, but from this day forward, she is. The adoption formalities, paperwork, and witnesses are complete.
The guarantors for them are all local big families, and the documents in the government are last year.
Moreover, outside this courtyard, there are several family members of Doulu soldiers who are not afraid of death, who have come to accuse you of robbing people's daughters, but they have seen it with their own eyes.
In order to prove that their words are true, they are willing to go to Chang'an to confront you on the spot, and bite their tongues and kill themselves after gouging out their eyes on the spot in Dali Temple, so as to die Mingzhi.
The specific details of your robbery of the people's daughter, someone has already made up the story. Within ten days, whether it is a restaurant or post station in the five states of Hexi or Chang'an, someone will describe this incident vividly and widely.
The orchid just now will also beg her adoptive father, Huailiang, the assassin of Ganzhou, to report your misbehavior to the imperial court, and to violate the law and discipline in the local area, and even dare to defile the daughter of an official.
Even if this is the case, does Brother Dugu have to resolutely investigate? ”
Fang Chongyong asked helplessly.
I pedal a horse!
Dugu Jun was asked speechlessly, if the game is like this, how can this be done! What a deal!
"You're amazing......"
Dugujun sighed.
"The business of the Western Regions, the officialdom of the five states of Hexi, including Qiu Ba, everyone has a share. I'm the only one who doesn't take money.
Brother Dugu is here, if there is anything, let's just say it. ”
Fang Chongyong's face was soft, and Dugu Jun said with relief.
He was really worried that this Dugu brother was done by the Qiu Ba people in Hexi, and dozens of officials of all sizes had died in the past few years, and he didn't care about one more death.
"Right Prime Minister just thinks that the situation in Hexi is not quite right, but he didn't expect you to play so crazy."
Dugu Jun sighed lightly and said. handed the handwritten letter in his arms to Fang Chongyong, which was written to him by Li Linfu.
"Right phase?"
Fang Chongyong was slightly stunned, what did Li Linfu do with him?
When I opened the letter, the content on it was very simple, that is, after the autumn harvest this year, Fang Chongyong's term of office for assassination had arrived, and the imperial court would send someone to replace him. Therefore, after Fang Chongyong resigned from his official position, he could return to Chang'an to come to Pingkangfang to meet him, the right of the Tang Dynasty.
More, I won't say anything.
"What's strange about Hexi?"
Fang Chongyong asked puzzledly, it is said that in the past three years, Hexi has developed very well.
After all, the price of luxury goods in Chang'an has slowly risen, more than double that of before. With so many additional resources, how could Hexi not develop well!
"The five states of Hexi and the armies of Hexi didn't even ask the court for food! Li Xiang was puzzled, and after a little investigation, he found that the source of the problem should be Shazhou, so he asked a certain person to come over to investigate. ”
Li Linfu may not quite understand Fang Chongyong's game mode, but he also senses that something is wrong with Hexi's side.
The child who lacks milk should cry and call his mother to feed, and now the child does not cry or make trouble, and is not hungry and thin, then he must have found another "mother".
Hexi Jiedu Mansion, which has always urged wealth and earth-shattering sounds, actually stopped calling, Li Linfu, as the right minister of the Tang Dynasty, can he just ask?
"yes, I see. Does Brother Dugu want to know? If you don't want to know, I won't talk about it. ”
Fang Chongyong said in a deep voice.
Dugu Jun thought about it, but nodded slightly: "I have been dragged into the water by you, you might as well speak up." ”
"Okay then."
So Fang Chongyong told Dugu Jun about the operation mode of the five states in Hexi.
To put it simply, it is to set up an organization similar to an "import and export foreign trade company" to carry out monopoly transactions, and then control the pricing power of luxury goods in Chang'an! As for the commercial taxes and customs duties that should have appeared in the imperial court books, they have all become "false standards".
That is, to take out a part of the profits from this giant caravan and show it to the auditors of the imperial court.
The Hu merchants who controlled the supply of goods in the Western Regions and further West Asia in the upper reaches, and the merchants who sold goods in the eastern city of Chang'an in the lower reaches, were all people in this chain of interests. The disobedient ones all went bankrupt inexplicably, couldn't stand the poverty and "committed suicide".
Those who bypass this system are all finished. Behind the downstream businessmen, there are some Chang'an magnates, they are also covering for this, among which the shop run by the richest man in Chang'an, the Wang family and his son, is also involved, and behind them is Brother Ji, but Brother Ji doesn't ask too much about similar trivial matters.
Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Shuzhong in the Tang Dynasty are all sales places where Hu merchants and Han merchants have divided the region, and one radish is a pit.
Every military envoy of the armies in the Hexi Corridor, the subordinate officers below, and the ordinary Qiu Ba below all directly or indirectly share the profits from it. The pensions for the wounded, the spring and winter clothes for the soldiers, the funds for the bridging and even the salaries of the government officials all came from here.
Those who disobey have died quietly.
In the entire five states of Hexi, the government is the people, and the people are the government, all on the same rope. Originally, the proportion of military families here was more than 95%. Therefore, this chain of interests is extremely strong, and those who try to challenge in vain have not ended well.
This is where the horror of the army's business comes in. When Wang Zhongsi served as the envoy of the Hexi Festival, he also took money from it, but he used the money to support the generals of the Qu family, and wherever he was transferred, these people would go with him.
Fang Chongyong's role in this interest chain is that of organizer, manager, blueprint planner, and speaker who balances the interests of all parties. Among them, he didn't take a penny of gold and silver, and no one was willing to challenge his status.
After listening to Fang Chongyong's introduction, Dugu Jun was speechless for a long time, he no longer knew how to investigate this case.
Even Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty emperor of Chang'an, indirectly intervened in it!
In fact, what is the harm of playing like this, Fang Chongyong understands in his heart, Dugu Jun can't understand it, but Fang Yanei won't tell the other party.
The harm of playing like this is that it greatly pushes up the price of Chang'an.
Then the magnates of Chang'an must desperately squeeze other places in the Tang Dynasty and traffic low-priced goods from other places through the canal to stabilize the prices of Chang'an.
In essence, it is still to use materials from other parts of Datang to make up for the gap in Hexi!
Commodities are the crystallization of human labor, they will not be conjured out of thin air, more here, less there, how can there be a truth in the world that you can get without hurting others?
Where in the world is there any magic trick to make money, it is essentially plunder.
Fang Chongyong couldn't manage it so much, he just wanted to spend his term of office as an assassin, and not to make any mutinies, enemy attacks, or the like in the border towns, and the prestige of the government was discredited.
If you can't do anything else, you won't do it.
Anyway, Fang Chongyong didn't take a penny for himself, he had a clear conscience, and he dared to pat his chest and say cruel things in front of Brother Ji!
"Brother Xian, you are not taking the usual path."
After a long time, Dugu Jun held back such a sentence.
If you want to clear up this case, not to mention how dangerous it is. In the end, after checking and checking, Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, will find that the foreign dynasty seems to have moved his own money bag!
In the end, the board may not be able to hit Fang Chongyong, who will be unlucky, it will be difficult to say.
"Thousands of miles for officials, just for food and clothing. So-and-so is a bastard, who wants to fill his term in the border town, and then that's it, I really don't think about it so much. I didn't take anything that wasn't supposed to be my take.
What else can I do? ”
Fang Chongyong sighed helplessly.
Is he wrong?
Who threw him, a half-grown child, to Hexi!
He's such a ghost, how can a half-grown child govern the place?
If you don't make some off-the-market moves, how can you fight the intertwined local forces here in Shazhou?
What else could he do!
"I have been an official for many years, and listening to the words of the virtuous brother, I can only say that it is an eye-opener, and the past days have lived to dogs, alas."
Dugu Jun also sighed, regretting why he wanted to listen to such words.
It's okay if you don't listen, but if you listen to it, you'll be with Fang Chongyong's gang!
After returning to Chang'an, he also had to cover for these Hexi Qiu Ba, and Dugujun guessed that he should have many "comrades-in-arms" in the court.
"So-and-so, then, I took my leave. When I return to Chang'an, let's have a drink with Brother Dugu again. ”
Fang Chongyong saluted Dugu Jun and said goodbye.
He slapped his chin, and the beautiful orchid who had been with Dugu Jun's spring breeze last night entered again and bowed.
"Serve Dugu Yushi well, don't slack off."
Fang Chongyong threatened with a tiger face, and then leaned into Dugu Jun's ear and lowered his voice and said, "Brother Dugu can be free to take it away if he likes." This one was a virgin before last night, and Brother Dugu doesn't have to dislike it. ”
With that, he turned and walked away, closing the door lightly.
After waiting for Fang Chongyong to leave, Dugu Jun was ashamed and annoyed, and when he saw the beautiful face of the young orchid in front of him, he threw him on the bed like a beast, and then vented the anger in his heart!
Growing up so big, Dugu Jun has never felt so incompetent as he does today! He wants to regain his dignity in a woman!
……
After dealing with the problem of supervising the imperial history, Fang Chongyong returned to the backyard of the government office exhausted and received a massage from Anaye.
In the past, the massage was an all-age version.
The current massage is not suitable for children.
After getting tired of playing, Fang Chongyong and Anaye lay naked on the bed, wrapped in a thick blanket.
"After a while, we may have to go back to Chang'an."
Anaye was snuggling up to Fang Chongyong's arm and was about to fall asleep, but she didn't want her man to coldly burst out a sentence that she had been looking forward to before, but now she didn't care much about.
"Go back to Chang'an......"
Anaye dragged out her voice, remembering the incident half a month ago, and couldn't help but sigh.
Wang Yunxiu's brother Wang Yanshu came to Hexi to join the army, and she also came with her.
Wang Yunxiu, who missed Fang Chongyong and thought of panicking, was full of pictures of Mrs. Shi's assassination, and when he came to Shazhou Mansion, he happened to see Anaye, who was hugged and kissed by Fang Chongyong, and was about to draw a knife to scratch Anaye's face!
In desperation, Fang Chongyong made a quick decision, and together with Anaye, dragged Wang Yunxiu to the bedroom, and the three of them did an unspeakable thing together.
Fang Yanei can be regarded as having a future wife.
Afterwards, Wang Yunxiu found that although Anaye's body was very obscene, she was unexpectedly serious, and she was not the kind of "motivated orchid" who would pounce on a man when she saw it.
And this girl can neither play an instrument nor dance, but is a medical student.
So Wang Yunxiu half-pushed and half-accepted the decision of the future husband to take a concubine in advance, and there was a "gentleman's agreement" between the three.
Only this once, not for example.
Those who are officials always inevitably have to go out to wave, and it is better to be familiar than to be raw. Wang Yunxiu also wanted to open it in desperation.
But this one concubine is already the limit, more women, she absolutely can't tolerate!
"Ah Lang, did we go too far with Wang Niangzi that day."
Anaye couldn't help but ask.
This kind of thing is really exciting, but it's also really nasty.
"I was in too much of a hurry to help it. She was happy afterwards, wasn't she? ”
Fang Chongyong sighed and said, women are really too difficult to withstand.
And the women of the Tang Dynasty were particularly strong and jealous. There are many cases where wives kill concubines and die with their husbands.
And what happened that day, I'm afraid the three of them will never mention it again in their lives.
It was a sweet memory that the three of them shared and ...... Completely black history.
After it was passed out, Fang Chongyong's Hexi Qilinzi character was going to collapse in one place.
Not to mention Wang Yunxiu, who is full of poetry and books, and Anaye, who is famous in Hexi. When their ugliness spread that day, it was also a collapse of their personality.
"I'm going back to Chang'an, I really don't want to go back to Chang'an."
As soon as he thought that Li Linfu was going to have an "interview" with him, Fang Chongyong was completely unhappy. How Chang'an is now, he probably heard about it.
To put it simply, it's a group of demons dancing far beyond imagination!
Fang Chongyong silently made a decision in his heart, he wanted to live well and live a low-key life in Chang'an.
The second update, I'm going to slow down, I've been so tired lately.
(End of chapter)