Wang Shizhong, a native of Liao.

To be precise, he is a Han of Liao, and he was formerly the governor of Yingzhou in Liao.

There will always be countless coincidences in history, especially in the late Song Dynasty.

Traditionally, the decline of a large unified dynasty in the vast land of China often represents the rise of its rival, another dynasty.

However, at the end of the Song Dynasty, the Song and Liao, the feudal dynasties that had coexisted in the north and south for hundreds of years, coincidentally violated this historical law, and they fell into decline almost at the same time.

The decline of dynasties often has a typical characteristic, that is, the corruption of officials and the rampant corruption of corrupt officials.

At present, the civil officials love money, and the military attaché is afraid of death because of Song Liao's disease, ah no, in terms of the military attache's fear of death, the Song State is naturally slightly better than the Liao State, at least the latter can still burst out of a group of defeated generals who are not afraid of death, do not surrender, and are not stupid civil officials.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

There is no doubt that Wang Shizhong is a corrupt official, but it is commendable that he is rare among the thousands of corrupt officials in Liao, and he does not forget that he is a corrupt official of the Han people, so after the incident, he chose to go abroad.

From Yingzhou in the Liao Kingdom to Dengzhou in the Song Kingdom, Wang Shizhong's clothing and diet have changed greatly, but his hobbies are still the same.

"Six thousand kans!"

"Buy the lives of two flat-headed people?"

Maybe it's because of his age, Wang Shizhong feels that he is a little behind his ears.

Although the family members who came to report were surprised, they still repeated it again without hesitation, and at the end, they also said, "The red guy surnamed Sun is still waiting outside, see each other or not?" ”

Red Guy, the Song Dynasty's contemptuous name for soldiers, and the Ming Dynasty's Qiu Ba roughly mean the same thing.

The Song Dynasty was noble and lowly, but from the inside of the military attache system, the military attache who entered the rank can already be called noble. Because it is too difficult for military attachés to enter the product, Han Shizhong, who was famous in later generations, since the beginning of the army, has experienced the battle of Yinzhou to go to the head of the city to kill the enemy general defending the city, and the battle of Artemisia Pingling to kill the horses of the Western Xia Supervision Army.

Then, he was beheaded several levels in the Battle of Chengde Army and Tianxia Mountain, and three levels in the Battle of Zangdi River City, so many real merits, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant of Jinwu...... Well, the lieutenant of Jinwu sounds like a big name, but in fact he still has no grade, just a little salary increase......

Many years passed, during which Han Shizhong made countless military exploits, and it was not until the Battle of Jiangnan that our General Han captured Fang La, and he became a Chengjielang...... Well, from Jiupin, it is the same as the current Sun Li.

Taking Han Shizhong's resume as a reference, you can say that Sun Li is not awesome.

But such a powerful military attaché, in the eyes of the Zhizhou family, is still a lowly red guy. If he hadn't stuffed a lot of money into a door bag when he came up, and promised a sky-high price of 6,000 yuan very seriously, this family was afraid that Sun Li would not even let Sun Li in at the back door.

Don't ask, asking is Zhizhou's family.

Unlike the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Song Dynasty strictly forbade officials who did not reach the relevant grades to hire staff members without approval during their tenure, to put it bluntly, the Song Dynasty did not have the role of "master" that was common in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their role of "family" would inevitably assume some of the functions of the master. Therefore, the great families of the Song Dynasty often put a lot of effort into teaching their servants and subordinates, in order to have reliable people around them to assist their sons and nephews after they became officials.

Therefore, Wang Shizhong gladly adopted the advice of his family and instructed the servants to light lamps to meet guests.

Sun Li saw Zhizhou for the first time.

Three strands of long hair, thin eyebrows and long eyes, and a straight-necked silk robe often worn by Yan Ju after retiring from the government, this belongs to the typical civil official dress in the officialdom of the Song State, and it seems that this civil official from the Liao State has been completely integrated into the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty.

The outside is majestic, known as the first in the Dengzhou army, Sun Li, who is an official with his mouth open and a decent court with his mouth closed, has a face that is not angry and self-assured, and his straight and broad waist is instantly paralyzed.

Sun Li couldn't wait to kneel on the ground when he just stepped into the living room, buried his head deeply, and didn't dare to look directly at Wang Shizhong, who was still more than ten steps away from him, and reported his official position and name in a trembling tone and as moderate a volume as possible.

Wang Shizhong stroked his beard and nodded imperceptibly.

The Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette in the end, look, how sensible this military attache is, even if the imperial court stipulates that the military attache only needs to salute first when he sees a civil official, but this person pounces and kneels, which is like Da Liao, ah no, which is like that Liao foreign state, those martial artists are very domineering, and they don't take the civil officials in their eyes at all.

Well! This Song Kingdom is here for the right time!

"Get up." Wang Shi was very satisfied, so he said with a little doubt: "I heard that you want to pay 6,000 yuan to buy the lives of two ordinary people?" ”

Sun Li is Sun Li, what stands out is that he can bend and stretch, even if Shangguan has already told him to get up, but he only straightens up himself, and his lower body is still firmly kneeling on the ground to reply.

"If you go back to Xianggong, it's not that you have to spend 6,000 yuan on your humble position, but that the thieves who climb Yunshan don't have so much cash, and they are willing to pay it every month, and they will pay 300 stone of sea salt to Xianggong every month. The thief said that as long as the prince was in office for one month, he would pay one month, and he would not be in arrears. ”

Corrupt officials often have some advantages, such as being pragmatic and not pragmatic.

The pragmatic Wang Zhizhou did not bother with the thieves who climbed Yunshan with one article and one martial art, and closed his mouth for six thousand times. For him, earning money is the most important thing, after all, running all the way from Liao to Song, although his personal safety and status have been guaranteed, most of this thing outside his body has remained in Liao.

And without anything outside his body, an outsider like him who has no heels will inevitably be unable to sit in the official chair under his buttocks, so it is not chilling to make money.

Similarly, he was not stupid enough to ask Sun Li what if he let go of the thief who climbed Cloud Mountain, but the thief did not keep his promise.

This is a question that does not need to be put into words.

First, who is in his royal division? It is the governor of the state who holds the military and political power of a state! A gang of thieves dare to be disobedient? Not to mention whether he wants to do his private salt business or not, let's just say that with his order, thousands of troops can go up the mountain to exterminate this gang of thieves, so if you have the power in your hands, even if you don't sign a contract, are you afraid that others will dare to break the contract?

Second, Wang Zhizhou has every reason to believe that the so-called words of exchanging money for the two prisoners are just rhetoric, and that the thief just wants to use this to attach to his relationship with Wang Dazhizhou, so as to pave the way for the subsequent sale of illicit salt in Dengzhou.

Besides, even if this gang of thieves is really bold and dares to defy the condemnation of the world, isn't there still this Qiu Ba kneeling at the bottom. There is a way to run away from the monk, afraid that he can't get rid of the temple, don't think that he Wang Dazhizhou doesn't know the relationship between Sun Li and the prisoner, as well as his younger brother's illegal and forbidden business, if the prisoner is really released, and the money is not returned, this Sun Li's family property is definitely worth the lives of two insignificant, ordinary people.

As a result, a deal with each other's ghosts, unsightly, but often uncommon, was reached.

Wang Zhizhou obtained a long-term source of wealth, and also got his wish to achieve the original intention of killing chickens and monkeys and beating all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods. And the reason why Sun Li is willing to go this way is that in order to protect his relatives, it is false, and he wants to use this to cling to Zhizhou.

As for Zou Run, he didn't expect that there would be such a big benefit from idle chess.

It can be described as the best of all worlds, and everyone is satisfied.