Although the officialdom of Dachu is very popular, there are really few people like Zhen Laosan who are groveling and servile, this is giving up his own personality and dignity, and in order to climb up, he is willing to be someone else's dog.
Liu Chen smiled and helped Zhen Laosan back to the bench, and said, "When you are successfully transferred to the capital, you will prepare another generous gift, and the old man will introduce you and let you show your face in front of Qin Xiang." ” "Thank you, Lord Liu!"
Zhen Laosan wanted to bow down again, but was stopped by Liu Chen raising his hand.
"Eat, eat, and if you don't eat, the dishes will be cold."
"My lord, the student poured you a drink."
Zhen Laosan lifted the wine jug to help Liu Chen pour wine, and when he put down the wine jug, he asked tentatively, "Lord Liu, the student heard that Zhen Jian was awarded the title of court doctor by the emperor because of his meritorious service in relieving the siege of Xiangyang?"
” "Well, that's right."
Liu Chen took a sip of wine and asked, "What, is he your relative?"
” "Huh."
Zhen Laosan pretended to be very indifferent and said, "He is my nephew, but he has a deep hatred with me." ” "Oh?"
Hearing this, Liu Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at him, and asked with curiosity, "Your nephew and you have a deep enmity like the sea?"
Why is that?
” Zhen Laosan raised his head and sighed, and said with sadness: "The student has a fourth brother, who was beheaded last year because he committed homicide, Zhen Jian fanned the flames in front of the student's father, saying that the fourth brother made a mistake at my instigation, and also said that the student did not save the fourth brother after the incident, and the student's father and mother were too sad because of the loss of their beloved son, so they actually listened to him, scolded the student, and even smashed the student's head, and then kicked the student out of the house and broke off the father-son relationship with the student. ” "There is such a thing!"
Liu Chen frowned when he heard this, and said in disbelief, "Your father and mother are too confused, they actually listened to Zhen Jian's words, it is reported that this son is very cunning and clever, otherwise he would not have been able to deceive Chaharhan into rebelling." ” "Alas......"
Zhen Laosan pulled his nose hard, making his eyes red, as if he was about to cry, and said with a sad face, "At that time last year, the student was just a candidate, Zhen Jian already had a lot of money, and his father and mother were naturally partial to him. ” Liu Chen nodded and sighed: "This is your family matter, and this official can't help you with anything." ” Zhen Laosan said in a panic: "The student's family affairs, how dare you bother Lord Liu, the student just wants to say that the student and Zhen Jian's enmity is as deep as the sea, and one day, the student will break him into pieces!"
” Liu Chen was surprised when he heard this: "You must not mess around, since Zhen Jian has made great contributions, Jian is in the heart of the emperor, and he is very favored, and he is the only one in the entire Tai Hospital who can cure the emperor's head disease, just based on this, Qin Xiang does not dare to take action against him easily." ” Zhen Laosan was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Qin Xiang also had a holiday with Zhen Jian?"
” "It's not a big holiday."
Liu Chen said, "Zhen Jian once accompanied King Qi to attend Qin Xiang's birthday banquet as King Qi's guard, and at the birthday banquet, he competed with the doormen of the Xiangfu and defeated the doormen of the Xiangfu, which made Qin Xiang lose face, so Qin Xiang didn't like him very well. ” Zhen Laosan didn't say anything when he heard this, and secretly thought in his heart: "Don't dare to do anything to Zhen Jian?"
Then you can get his restaurant, Zhen Jian relies on the restaurant to make money, as long as he sends someone to make trouble in his restaurant, so that he can't do business, it can also make him upset and can't sleep at night.
Of course, he only thought about these words in his heart, and did not say them.
At this time, Liu Chen suddenly pushed open the window, pointed to the shop under renovation across the street, and said: "Look at it, the three shops on the opposite side have all been bought by Zhen Jian, and he is now opening up all three shops, almost rebuilding, is planning to open another restaurant here, the dishes of the Spring Breeze Proud Building, the old man has also tasted it, it is indeed worthy of its reputation, no wonder his business is so good." ” Zhen Laosan turned his head to look at the three shops that were being renovated opposite, frowned slightly, and said slowly: "There are already two restaurants here, and Zhen Jian has opened a restaurant opposite, isn't this clearly arguing with these two restaurants?"
” "Who's to say it isn't."
Liu Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "Since he opened the Spring Breeze Smug Building in the capital, it is really the Spring Breeze Smug, and the business of other restaurants has plummeted, and more than a dozen restaurants have closed their doors, so they really can't compete with him." ” Zhen Laosan stared out the window, his cheek muscles twitched slightly, obviously gritting his teeth, and his eyes were full of hatred.
Liu Chen said at this time: "Zhen Wen, after eating this meal, you can go back to Jiangdu, if someone finds out that you are in the capital, you will be punished for dereliction of duty, and then you will not be able to eat and go around." ” "Yes, sir!"
Zhen Laosan hurriedly agreed. ……………………………………………………………………………… The New Year is over in a blink of an eye, on the twenty-seventh day of the first month, five local officials who were raised in the middle of last year were transferred back to the capital to serve, one of them is Qin Huan's second son Qin Xuan, all civil and military officials know that in fact, Qin Huan just wants to transfer back his son, as for the other people, it is just for Qin Xuan to cover up, if only his son is transferred back, it is too attention-grabbing.
Liao Yan played the emperor because of this matter, impeached Qin Huan for public and personal gain, and the emperor ignored it, in fact, the emperor knew in his heart that the transfer of these officials back to Beijing this time was all manipulated by Qin Huan, and he also acquiesced, this is his favor and grace to Qin Huan, and Liao Yan is too calculating and making a big fuss.
Zhen Laosan is also among the five people who returned to Beijing, after returning to Beijing, he served as the head of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War, from the seventh product, when he was in Jiangdu, he was the county commander, a parent official, and he had the final say in the entire Jiangdu, but now, in this huge capital, such a position is like the lowest ant, even so, Zhen Laosan still has to come to the capital, because he knows that only by staying in the capital, he can climb up, he is from a serious imperial examination, as long as someone carries him, it is easy to climb up, and the head of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War is a fat poor and can make money.
Zhen Jian heard the news of Zhen Laosan's return to Beijing, he was quite surprised, he didn't think that Zhen Laosan could be a good official, and he could actually return to the capital, could it be that he really had outstanding political achievements when he was in Jiangdu, he didn't believe it, so he sent Wei Song to Jiangdu to check to see if Jiangdu under Zhen Laosan's rule was really so good, and at the same time, he sent Li Fei to watch near Zhen Laosan's house to check his every move.
Half a month later, Wei Song came back from Jiangdu, and the news reported was not at all unexpected by Zhen Jian.
There are more Qinglou and gambling houses in Jiangdu, and these two industries are quite fast, Zhen Laosan is very brainy, and he started with Qinglou and gambling houses, asking for filial piety silver in various ways, and there are seven Qinglou and twelve gambling houses in the small Jiangdu, and the filial piety silver offered is as much as 15,000 taels.
Not only that, last year, 300,000 yuan of canal water conservancy funds were allocated to Jiangdu, and this water control money was directly allocated from the household department to Jiangdu, without going through layers of exploitation, it stands to reason that the canal control project should be very large, but Zhen Laosan also got a group of people to do a face project, and a few dikes just built last year have cracks just after the winter, so Zhen Laosan is very likely to be greedy for water control funds.
In the study, after listening to Wei Song's report, Zhen Jian couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, he didn't expect Zhen Laosan to become a national silverfish as soon as he became an official, this is just the first year in office, and he is so lawless, it is outrageous.
Zhen Jianjian said: "You go and call Li Fei over, I have something to ask him." ” "Yes!"
Wei Song turned around and walked out of the study.
After a long time, Li Fei came to the study out of breath and saluted with his fists: "What did the shopkeeper call me?"
” Zhen Jiandao: "I've been staring at Zhen Wen for half a month, tell me, how are you doing?"
” "Zhen Wen got married the day before yesterday."
Li Fei said, "I married the daughter of Wang Jin, the right attendant of the Criminal Department." ” Zhen Jian asked suspiciously: "He is just the head of the treasury department of the military department from the seventh grade, and he is in his thirties, and the squire of the criminal department is willing to marry his daughter to him?"
” Li Fei said: "The daughter of the waiter of the criminal department has a pockmarked face and a fat body, I heard that on the day of the wedding, she used a four-lift sedan chair, and after carrying the bride to Zhen Wen's mansion, the four sedan chair men actually took off their clothes in the cold weather, and they were covered in sweat, complaining there, saying that the bride was too heavy. ” Ye Qiu, who was on the side, couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, Zhen Jian glared at him, and he hurriedly forcibly held back his laughter.
Li Fei continued: "It is precisely because this Miss Wang has a pockmarked face and is extremely fat, she is twenty-five years old, and she has not yet married, Zhen Wen and Wang Shilang's son are friends, and they will be on the list together when they will try, so they climbed this line and became Wang Shilang's son-in-law." ” Zhen Jian suddenly remembered that when Zhen Laosan bribed Liu Chen, it was Wang Shilang's father and son who pulled the thread, but when he thought that Zhen Laosan was willing to marry such an ugly woman in order to drill the camp, he couldn't help frowning and said: "In order to climb up, he is really unscrupulous." ” Ye Qiu said leisurely: "Such a person is very scary, he is so cruel to himself, not to mention others, if he climbs up, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit for you to eat." ” Zhen Jian didn't say anything, and asked Li Fei again: "Is there any other useful news?"
” Li Fei said: "Yes, whenever he has spare time, he invites the sons of those officials to eat, drink and have fun, and in his capacity, it may not be enough to invite those officials to dinner, but the sons of those officials are all gentlemen, and with him to entertain them, those gentlemen are naturally disrespectful." ” "Interesting."
Zhen Jian grinned coldly and muttered, "My third uncle......
It's a bit of a brain. ” After pondering for a moment, Zhen Jian said: "Wei Song came back from Jiangdu and brought back the news, saying that Zhen Wen was in Jiangdu to fish and eat the people, and he was greedy for public funds to govern the river, he couldn't do all these things personally, he had to have his own cronies and minions, who were his cronies and minions?"
” Li Fei said: "It's his housekeeper, Wang Ping." ” Zhen Jian spread his hands and said: "Tell me what kind of person this Wang Ping is." ” Li Fei said: "I only know that he likes to stay in the Qinglou, as for his past, I don't know very well." ” Wei Song suddenly said: "He is a dog who is not even as good as a beast." ” Zhen Jian looked at Wei Song when he heard this, and asked suspiciously, "What bad thing did this Wang Ping do?"
How do you say that about him?
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” Wei Song said: "Filial piety comes first, this Wang Ping actually killed his own father." ”