Chapter 13: The Mystery of the Official (I)
Chongzhen gave a warm persuasion to the Liu family who woke up, which made Li Banghua and his wife grateful, and at the same time said that he was hiding it from Li Jian, and only said that it was a relative to borrow it.
Imperial power still occupies a lot of weight in the hearts of the people, even if Chongzhen is a monarch who has died in the country, a woman like Liu is also in awe, so she immediately unconditionally supports Li Banghua's restoration of the country.
Feng Xiaowu was a cultivator, and he didn't care much about the insults of mortals, and he also persuaded Li Tian not to trouble Liu and Li Jian again.
Li Tian was just worried that the Liu clan would be pursued by the Shun army, and even if he became his own personnel, he didn't care about her, and went out early the next morning to collect intelligence.
He found that the streets of the capital were bustling, and when he inquired, he learned that Li Zicheng had recruited high-ranking officials from the former Ming Dynasty to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials for examination, and those who passed could become officials in Dashun, and many high-ranking officials and ministers ran to find opportunities.
Li Tian was not interested in this kind of thing, and walked straight in the direction of the city gate, who wanted to hear many people talking loudly when passing by a restaurant called Drunken Qingfeng, it was about the topic of current affairs.
It was also important to gather information from the chatter of the civilians, so he walked into the restaurant and went straight up to the second floor, and when he looked around, he saw that the entire second floor was full of scholars, so he found a corner and sat quietly and listened.
The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man with a simple appearance, who is very enthusiastic about Li Tian, the gold owner, and greets him respectfully and carefully, not daring to be careless.
He quickly set a plate of melon seeds and a bowl of tea on the table, and said to Li Tian, "This uncle, do you want to have some wine, the Tai Chi Shili incense in this store is famous far and wide." ”
Li Tian said lightly, "I won't eat for the time being, you can go down first." ”
The shopkeeper nodded and retreated downstairs, sighing in his heart that he had never seen such a handsome rich man, and he didn't know where he came from.
Because Li Tian's status is not low, Li Banghua gave him a good outfit of a rich son, and he also carried dozens of taels of silver with him, and anyone would only think that this was a handsome young master.
If it weren't for Li Banghua giving him a hat, Li Tian, who had short hair, would be even more eye-catching.
The scholars on the second floor just glanced at Li Tian. Then he continued to talk about it disapprovingly, and the most was actually the deeds of Zhou Zhong and Zhou Dacai's Yuelongmen, and there were both envy and disgust.
Li Tian listened to it for a while, and felt that except for a few scholars who really hated Zhou Zhong, everyone else was sour grapes, and the sour taste in his tone drifted to the street.
He felt that he couldn't hear any useful news here, so he took out one or two pieces of silver to pay for the tea for the shopkeeper, and prepared to go downstairs without a sip, until the shopkeeper was so happy that he almost climbed on the ground and sent him downstairs.
Li Tian did not understand the value of silver in the Ming Dynasty, and thought that a silver ingot was pocket money like a dollar. So I gave it out as a tip, and complained in my heart that the money of the Ming Dynasty was too inconvenient to use.
He didn't know how exaggerated his own ruined behavior was, which instantly aroused a burst of contempt and jealousy from the scholars on the second floor.
A madman suddenly stood up, pointed at Li Tian and scolded, "You are really generous, your family must be a high-ranking official or a wealthy businessman, and now you will have silver to show off your wealth. ”
Li Tian was unhappy, he didn't have a scolding masochistic tilt, didn't he give a tip of one dollar.
He felt that Li Banghua was stingy and gave such a little pocket money. If you are not too happy in your heart, even if someone provokes you, then you will be angry.
Li Tian stopped his movements and sneered at the madman, "Why is there a mad dog barking in the restaurant?" Lao Tzu took a little money to reward the waiter, do you have any opinions!"
The scholars on the second floor were in an uproar, and they were even more angry and raised the bench under their feet, but twisted their hands when they wanted to throw it at Li Tian. The rest of the readers only dared to shout two sentences from afar.
Li Tian shook his head, these ancient scholars were just frail, and they had no interest in teaching people to be angry. Prepare to go elsewhere to gather intelligence.
Those scholars found Li Tian's disdain, and scolded the street passionately.
"These god-killing dog wealth is really hateful, when the emperor was still there, he raised money from ministers and rich businessmen to resist the king, but one by one they didn't pull a dime like an iron rooster, and the Ming Dynasty died in the hands of this kind of person!"
"Who said no, the emperor died for the Ming Dynasty, and those courtiers were already in a hurry to take refuge in Dashun, what a group of national moths!"
"It's not that there are no good officials, yesterday the children were buried, and several ministers committed suicide with their families. ”
"I heard that when Shi Guangyao, the deputy envoy of the right vice-capital, committed suicide to follow the emperor, he left a legacy to me. ”
"Daming still has loyal ministers, and the saint is also a Ming monarch, pitiful, sad and lamentable......"
Li Tian listened to the emotion of these scholars, and his heart moved, and he was suddenly very curious about what happened to the current ministers, especially after some ministers committed suicide with their families to follow the old master, their thoughts were even stronger.
He went downstairs to ask Mingdian Xiao Ershun where he was heading towards the officials, and walked straight to the place where the Mingchen gathered.
From a distance, I saw a large group of old, middle-aged and young elites guarding in front of the yamen of the Ministry of Officials, and counted them and found that the number of people was no less than 3,000, all of them in green clothes and hats shrunk their heads, and they were honestly waiting on the street.
When Li Tian approached, he found that it was very lively, waiting for the Ming ministers who were officials in Dashun to be divided into groups according to their official positions, and faintly centered on a group of people with imposing and arrogant faces.
He felt that he should be able to hear more news from the high-ranking officials, so he deliberately approached the past, and through the conversations of these people, he also learned about their respective official positions.
Qian Weikun, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, said proudly, "I have opened the door of Lord Song Jinjiao of the official hall, just wait for the official position documents to be sent, and I will no longer be a wasted person without official positions in the future." ”
Shao Zhan Shi (Prince's Counselor) Xiang Yu shouted in high spirits, "Even if we can't keep our reputation, then let's do a career like Guan Zhong and Wei Zheng, under the leadership of the Great Shun Holy Emperor, we will definitely give full play to our talents." ”
"Yes, it's not safe to do things under the former emperor, I don't dare to say anything I think, and I can only do things well in the Dashun Dynasty. ”
"Hehe, those officials are all fools, they lost their lives for Chongzhen's blind work, I really don't think they're worth it. ”
"Who said no, there is actually a family suicide ......"
Li Tian saw that these ministers were just laughing at others, or they were confident that they could be high-ranking officials and were arrogant, and there was no information to collect at all, so he prepared to leave.
These arrogant ministers talked livelyly in private, but they were very polite to the Dashun officials who passed by to do business, and everyone was busy bowing their hands, and their expressions were as respectful as if they were worshipping their father.
The soldiers of the Shun army guarding the yamen were amused by these big officials, it turned out that the minister who was high up and needed to look up to was this virtue, and a soldier couldn't help but come out and point to the high-ranking officials of the former Ming Dynasty and scolded, it turned out that when he was a peasant, he was dishonest and received a board for worshipping the county officials. (To be continued......)
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