Civil servants of the Tang Dynasty

"The envoy said... the judge... is so energetic."

"Oh!" Tang Cheng smiled silently when he heard the words, patted Deng Jiachun on the shoulder, and walked out.

Seeing Tang Cheng walking out quickly, Deng Jiachun who just opened his mouth smacked his lips dryly, but finally said nothing.

Holding the official document, Tang Cheng went straight to the east courtyard to meet Sima Zhang Zishan.

"Tang Cheng is here, sit down." Zhang Zishan raised his head from the document, waved his hand for a while, looked at the official document in Tang Cheng's hand and said, "What's the matter, what do you say?".

"The subordinate would like to ask the adults to dispatch a team of officials to quickly inform the people involved in the land expropriation of the contents of this official document." While handing over the official document, Tang Cheng thought for a while and added: "Please."

"Oh, the land acquisition has started, um, it's going well." Zhang Zishan took the official document and praised it casually. Then, his expression slowly changed as he looked down at the content of the official document, "Buy at the market price!", suddenly raised his head and looked at Tang Cheng's Zhang Zishan is just like Deng Jiachun just now, his face is full of disbelief...

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After copying a copy of the official document and leaving it at Zhang Sima's place, Tang Chengcheng, who went home from the government office, saw Zhang Xiangwen's fourth uncle and a group of people from the Yunxi tung oil shop waiting there.

"Fourth Uncle, I'm going to trouble you again this time." Zhang Xiangwen's fourth uncle was a middle-aged man with a slight stature and a gentle expression.

You don't have to be too polite to those people transferred from the Yunxi Tung Oil Shop. After Tang Cheng smiled at them, he opened the geographical map of mountains and rivers he brought back with him, and pointed to the red line on the geographical map of mountains and rivers. "This time I am in a hurry to find everyone, just to ask everyone to help me buy half an acre of land on the left and right sides of this road as soon as possible, the sooner the better."

"On the left and right sides?" Zhang Zichuan stretched out his slender fingers and pressed the red line to confirm.

"Exactly, the state government has dispatched officials to inform the local people about the land acquisition for road construction. They are leaving this afternoon, and we will leave early tomorrow morning. The sooner the better," Tang Cheng said in his mouth. The file was handed to Zhang Zichuan, "Fourth Uncle, please leave this matter to me. How to deploy personnel and how to act is up to Fourth Uncle."

Zhang Zichuan looked at the people who were transferred from the Yunxi tung oil shop, then lowered his head and flipped through the document that recorded the details, "Ah Cheng, this is not an easy job."

"If things are too easy, I wouldn't dare to bother my fourth uncle." Zhang Zichuan was the one who handled the peach petal fish for Mrs. Sun Shijun before.Tang Cheng has no doubts about his ability to handle affairs.

"You, it's broken following Xiangxue." After listening to Tang Cheng's rascally words, Zhang Zichuan smiled and pointed him with his finger, then turned and said to the people in the tung oil shop: "Others have gathered in Wanfu Building, let's go!" , let's go too."

After holding the detailed document and the thick stack of flying tickets that Tang Cheng handed over, Zhang Zichuan walked out first.

Tang Cheng sent them to the gate, and after seeing Zhang Zichuan's figure drifting away, he let out a long breath.

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Ma Biejia didn't go to the office at all the afternoon before, so he didn't hear the news that caused a sensation in the entire state government until the next morning, "What, buy at market price?".

"Yes", Sitian Cao judged Si Niu Gongming also had a puzzled expression on his face, "I didn't believe it after hearing it yesterday, because I asked on purpose. Signing and stamping, the east courtyard also sent a group of eight tolerance officers yesterday afternoon to announce the content of the official document."

"Market price redemption!" Ma Biejia stood up from the case, paced the room with his hands behind his back, thinking, "Where did Tang Cheng get so much money? What does he mean? Buying people's hearts? It's not up to him... ".

"Tang Cheng seldom goes to the yamen these days, so it's hard to guess what he means. There was a whole afternoon of discussion in the yamen yesterday, but he didn't have a clue." Niu Gongming moved closer to Ma Biejia and said: " But there is one thing I am sure of."

"What?" Ma Biejia stopped pacing, turned around and looked at Niu Gongming, "Say it".

"What my subordinates confirm is that this official document has the signature and seal of the envoy, and the location has been known by Lubu through the tolerance officers. Once Tang Cheng fails to honor the contents of the official document", Niu Gongming looked at it here. Don't drive the horse and said with a smile: "This is a felony!".

"What if he's rich?"

"It's absolutely impossible," Niu Gongming shook his head vigorously, "Tang Cheng has absolutely no such family background."

When it came to family background, Lao Ma suddenly became enlightened, "That's right!".

"grown ups?".

"I want to go to Mr. Yao, you go down first, if there is any new news from Tang Cheng, please report to me, um, Gong Ming is good", the old horse said, and the man had already walked out the door first go.Followed by Niu Gongming who looked puzzled.

Although there was a lot of dissatisfaction with Ma Biejia in his heart, Yao Rongfu didn't show any expression on his face. He got up affectionately and welcomed him into the office, "Dongyang, it's a coincidence that you came, I was just about to look for you." .

"Oh? What is your lord looking for from me?".

"It's not about road construction." Yao Shijun took the teacup from the handyman and handed it to Ma Biejia himself, "Dongyang, I know that your tightening of money, food and corvee quota is for the sake of the state government. In the past few days, I didn't ask about this matter. I just saw that the road construction was coming to an end, and the state government had to express it anyway, otherwise Tang Cheng would have to shirk responsibility in the government office after his failure. The military order is here, but you and I can't get over this matter. After all, Mr. Yu wrote in the official document that the state government raised money for himself, and you and I are the governor, don't be a driver. In my opinion, it is more or less less than him, but also to shut his mouth."

"My lord, I heard that Tang Cheng made an official document of 'purchasing at market price'."

"He's taking a risk, but I won't take the blame for him." Seeing the horse don't understand, Yao Shijun explained: "This kind of thing happened in Hebei Province before, buy it! It sounds good to say that what the people can hold is just a piece of paper, and it may not be possible to give money. Tang Cheng is now thinking about using this piece of paper to fool the people and get the land as soon as possible. As for when to pay the people for the land Money... hum!".

"My lord, do you mean that Tang Cheng's move is to grab the land by deceit?".

"It's not a fraud. After all, the paper he gave to the people will have the signature of Tian Cao, the governor of the state government. Besides, this land is also used for road construction. Well, this calculation is really shrewd," Yan said. At this point, Yao Rongfu smiled: "Using the entire state government as a guarantee for himself, this Tang Cheng is young, courageous and wise, but he never thought that this matter would most likely cause civil uprisings. There was a car in front of Hebei Road, but I really let him get over it."

"Hebei Road...".

"The one who happened in Hebei Road was also a recorder who joined the army. His routine was almost the same as that of Tang Cheng, and finally caused a civil uprising." At this point, Yao Rongfu no longer had the slightest smile on his face. Although he was killed in the middle of the city when he joined the army, the governor of the state, Bie Jia and Sima were not spared, and they were all cut to death."

"Ah!", the old horse shuddered suddenly when he heard the words, "Then why did Mr. Shijun still sign and seal his official documents?"

"This farce of road construction should be over, but there must be a reason to end it, so that it can not only give the adults a job, but also stop the observation of the adults in Jinzhou to build roads." Yao Shijun While pacing, he went back to the official case, raised his sleeves and sat down, looked at the horse and said, "If Tang Cheng has no problems at all, how could he have made a fuss? How should he explain to Mr. Observer that he stopped road construction rashly? Road construction is important, but compared with possible civil uprisings, this is nothing!".

It turned out that Lao Yao's signature and seal were deliberately urging Tang Cheng to commit crimes!I'm afraid that the people he sent have already gone down, and they can collect the net immediately after Tang Cheng signs the "white note".After the old horse understood, he cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Your Excellency acts steadily, which is really admirable."

"This is also a last resort," Yao Rongfu sighed, "Dongyang, you should also speed up there, and give him the money, food and corvee quota that should be allocated. Don't worry, maybe he can really use it?".

"Maybe he really used it, but I don't know."

"Oh, what does Dongyang mean by this?".

"I don't know that my lord came late." Ma Dongyang stood up and walked a few steps towards the case. "At the end of last year, Tang Cheng and his predecessor Sun Shijun did a tung oil business in Yangzhou. How did he get the share?" Although I don’t know how much, everyone in the government knows that shortly after he returned from Yangzhou, he bought more than 400 mu of official land at one time, spent a lot of money, and paid it immediately. Tang Chengzhi was just a farmer’s son.” .

Hearing this, Yao Rongfu stood up suddenly, "Oh, there is such a thing!".

"It's true, everyone knows it."

"That's Tang Cheng." After a long silence, Yao Rongfu sighed, "What a deep thought, what a gambler."

"What do you mean by this, my lord?"

Yao Rongfu didn't go into details, and said with a smile: "Dongyang, I will leave it to you to allocate money, grain and corvee quotas. You must take care of this matter in the near future. I will not relax here. As for his result, Let's wait and see."

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Indulah, Zhang Liang, and Zhou Jun did not visit the state government after they arrived in Jinzhou, so Yao Rongfu and others did not know that there were two first-class big businessmen who came to their one-acre three-point land and were While they were guessing Tang Cheng's thoughts, the guessed Tang Cheng was busy writing invitations.

"Ah Cheng, I wrote it early in the morning. It's been a long time. I'm tired of my eyes. Let's have a bowl of soup." : "Who do you want to invite? Isn't this enough?".

"I'm very busy these days, you should pay more attention to your body." After putting down his pen, Tang Cheng rubbed his wrist, and then he pulled Li Yingwan over, and then he put his ear on Li Yingwan's stomach while sitting, I closed my eyes and listened carefully. After a long time, I sat up again in disappointment and picked up the soup bowl, "I invite the God of Wealth!".

Li Yingwan didn't have the mood to ask any more after hearing the words, and stretched out her hand to knead Tang Cheng's shoulder, and said softly: "Ah Cheng, our family has enough money now, you don't have to work so hard, you should take care of it." Only in good health."

"Well, I know, I'll take a break after I'm done with this road," Tang Cheng patted Li Yingwan's hand after drinking the soup, and smiled expectantly: "Our children should also be busy with this road." After I was born, I would not pick up the gold floating in the big river. I have no time to spare! As a father, I have to play with the child.”

"Well, I believe." After three short words, Li Yingwan didn't say anything, but stretched forward with the hand pinching the man's shoulder, and pulled Tang Cheng into his arms. The top of the head was grinding, and for a moment, the whole room was extremely warm.

After warming for a while, Li Yingwan went out with the bowl. After Tang Cheng watched him out of the room, he continued to work hard.Well-known merchants from all the prefectures in the eastern province of Shannan, whether they are silk merchants, tung oil merchants, or even big wine merchants, are all among the top figures in their invitations. The workload is not light!

After Tang Cheng wrote the names of the three co-inviters "Zhou Jun, Du Lahe and Zhang Liang" in the lower right corner of the last invitation, it was already dusk.

Tang Cheng put down his pen and got up, swung his arms and twisted his waist, and after a few more squats to move his stiff bones, he reached out and patted the thick invitation card, turned and left the room.

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Liu Heizi, an employee of Wanshun Automobile Co., Ltd. in Jinzhou, looked at the large pile of invitations in his arms, and said in shock, "Good guy, who is this? You have to send so many invitations at once, and every state has them."

"Heizi, I forgot about eating the board last time. Why do you ask so much?" Hearing this, Mr. San, who is in charge of letter delivery in the car dealership, turned around and said unhappily: "Don't ask if you shouldn't ask." Don’t watch what you shouldn’t, if you don’t learn this, you will never be able to become a teacher and receive a full monthly salary.”

"Yes, I understand," Liu Heizi shrank his head and agreed, and then he didn't dare to say anything, and silently took these invitations to the number room to distribute to the traveling masters who ran the routes in various states.

When the last copy was sent, Mr. Chou Gusan was not around, and Liu Heizi, unable to restrain his curiosity, couldn't help but tore open the envelope of the invitation to take a peek.

After seeing the signature on the invitation, Liu Heizi was taken aback for a moment, then sneered and muttered to himself: "It's so strange, a person from Yangzhou, a person from Xiangzhou, and a person from Dijing would get together to participate in the Jin Dynasty." State joint treat, next month 26th, um, this is a good day to treat... ".

Just as Liu Heizi, who had been an apprentice for four years and had never been a teacher, was muttering to himself, he suddenly heard a familiar footstep not far behind him, his heart skipped a beat, he quickly put away the invitation, and ran out of the room go.

In the afternoon of that day, this invitation was taken out of Jinzhou along with the traveling horses and carriages, but Liu Heizi firmly remembered the date of the 26th in his mind.

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Day after day passed like this, and as the weather became warmer day by day, when the peach tree in the courtyard of Wanshun Automobile Co. coming soon...

Chapter 1 Who is this man?What a great background!

Jinzhou, Wanshun car dealership.

Master Jin, who had just come back from a long run, walked into the numbered room and said in a loud voice: "It's so evil, why are there so many good cars in Jinzhou all of a sudden!".

"Old Jin, you have also noticed that we are talking about this." In the No. [-] room, another master who was chatting after returning soon took over the conversation and said: "The whole nanmu frame of Yishui'er can travel far and wide. You can smell the fragrance, the curtains are made of top-quality lake satin, and the horse that pulls the cart is at worst expensive, Lao Qi has seen double sets of big food horses, tsk tsk, such a cart is easy to drive. How decent is it? How fast do you have to run?" After a few words of admiration, the master replied: "This car is worth all the wealth of a middle-level family. In the past, it was difficult to see a car in Jinzhou. , I don’t know what’s going on in the past two days, I ran into no less than three cars on the way back!”.

When he said this, other masters also echoed one after another, but more or less everyone had seen so many hangings, so when calculated in this way, the total amount was huge, and then, the number room naturally began to Talk about the origin of these carriages.

Those who can afford such a good car must be either rich or expensive, what's going on?These rich and powerful people ran to Jinzhou as if they were going to the market. Such a scene was never heard of before.

Because Liu Heizi was an apprentice who hadn't graduated from the master yet, it wasn't too busy to catch up with the No. [-] room. When the masters came back a lot, he had to play the role of the second brother in the wine shop, responsible for adding water and making tea.

Those masters didn't have an accurate answer to what they said. Seeing that there is no answer to such a thing that has not been seen in Jinzhou for many years, it is really uncomfortable for Liu Heizi, who is naturally curious and uncontrollable.

After finally waiting for the masters in the number room to rest and leave, Liu Heizi beckoned for an apprentice who came later than him, and after a few words, he slipped out along the wall out of the car dealership.

As soon as he got out of the car dealership, Liu Heizi ran straight to the gate of the city. After guarding the gate for a while, he saw three carriages entering the city.

Looking at the time, it was not too long before he came out, so Liu Heizi stopped watching the excitement at the gate of the city, and followed the third carriage to the city.

Fortunately, this was in the city, and although the horse pulling the cart was a famous horse, it couldn't run fast after all, Liu Heizi managed to keep up with it.

Liu Heizi followed the carriage all the way to the best Wanfulou Inn in this state. Through the open door of the inn, he saw an extremely shocking scene. The Huaguixuan carriages I saw, there were probably no fewer than dozens of them when I glanced over. The weather is fine today, and the bright sun shines on these bright carriages that can reflect the shadows. light.

It's hard to see such a good car on weekdays, but now it's getting together, and it's in such a weather, it's even more shocking to see.After Liu Heizi sucked his lips and rubbed his eyes, he turned his head and looked at the entrance of Wanfulou. Among the few people who were welcoming guests at the entrance of the inn, the one who caught his attention the most was the old barbarian with deep eyes and high nose.

Poor Liu Heizi has not been able to be a teacher, because he has no way to go on a long-distance business trip. Speaking of which, he has been at Wanshun Automobile Co., Ltd. for four years, but in fact he has been living in Jinzhou City. This place is small, and it is really not as good as Yangzhou. Dacheng, so although Liu Heizi has heard too much about the weird looks of barbarians from his masters, this is the first time he has seen a real person.

Well, that's right, the masters are right, these Hu Ke really have deep eyes, high nose, damn, the same rice feeds two different people, I don't know how they grow?In addition to his appearance, there is another point that this Persihu is indeed a rich man, just as the masters said. Take a look at his attire, not to mention what he is wearing, and the jewels on his waist are dazzling. The little beard comb hanging around his neck is golden and bright, and it must be pure gold at first glance, mother!This little comb must weigh at least two ounces, and such a small item on his body alone is worth most of the belongings of an ordinary person.

It seems that what the masters usually said is true, these barbarians have a pair of noses that are smarter than dogs, and they can smell the smell of gold and jewelry, otherwise how could their noses be so big?

When Liu Heizi was thinking wildly, more and more people gathered around to watch the excitement on the street. While admiring the row of dazzling carriages inside the inn, these people pointed at Du Lahe, Curiously guessing why there are people who look so good, why is his nose so high?

"A group of bumpkins don't even know the nose that specializes in sniffing babies." Hearing the discussions around him, Liu Heizi suddenly felt a sense of superiority. At this moment, the old Hu Ke seemed to be looked down upon Nai, turned around and went into the inn.

Seeing this, there was a disappointed sigh from the crowd who had surrounded half the street to watch the excitement, which also made Liu Heizi, who had had enough of the excitement, less interested.After looking up at the sky again, Liu Heizi yelled strangely, turned around and ran towards the Wanshun car dealership, thinking about the old Hu Ke while running, he suddenly understood, "" By the way, that old Hu Ke must be Du Lahe! This is not the 26th, it turns out that these rich and expensive customers were all invited by that invitation."

Liu Heizi, who found out what was going on and his curiosity was satisfied, was in a very happy mood.But the horse don't drive in the Jinzhou government office is different.

At this time, the old horse was in his office, staring in a daze at the famous thorns in front of him. These famous thorns were sent over in such a short time in the morning, saying that they wanted to visit him either tonight or tomorrow.

It is very normal for Ma Biejia to have someone pay a visit, but what is abnormal is that all these famous thorns in front of him are covered with lacquered gold, among other things, just this famous thorn itself, every copy is at least worth its own weight. With the money, this is enough to reveal the identity of the famous assassin's owner.

Looking at the famous thorns, Ma Biejia was not interested in the owners of these famous thorns. As a Jinshi of Mingjing, he had never had a good impression of merchants, but it was one thing to be uninterested, and he had to socialize. It's another matter. After all, the owners of these famous assassins are no better than those small merchants. General Zhongzhen or something, and the more difficult ones can go all the way to the observation envoy and the marching ambassador's yamen.

Lao Ma can't compare to Yao Rongfu who just arrived from Beijing. He is an out-and-out Shannan Dong Taoist. He has been in this Tao for decades and has not moved anywhere. After a long time, he has established contact with other states in this Tao. , but he could not ignore these connections.

The question is, how should the time be arranged when there are so many famous assassins coming to meet at once?It wouldn't be enough to cut him in half.

After such troubles lasted for a while, Lao Ma then thought of a question: How could these wealthy people from different states suddenly come to the Golden State together?This was simply unimaginable in the past.

After thinking about the name thorns in his hand for a while, Ma Biejia picked up the thick stack of name thorns and went to Yao Rongfu's office. After a while, Yao Shijun and Ma Biejia, who were also astonished, changed their official positions. Wearing casual clothes, follow the addresses written on those name badges to Wanfu Building.

Such a group of people suddenly came to the local area, as envoys and Bie Jia had to take it to heart, since you don't understand, let's go and have a look!

"Guest officers, do you have an invitation card? I'm really sorry, this building has been occupied since the last one, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..." The waiter of Wanfulou was When explaining with an apologetic smile on his face, the servants who followed the two had already stepped forward and said a few words to him, and Xiaoer's face immediately changed when he heard the words, "Masters, please, and the younger one will invite the shopkeeper here."

Wanfu Building is the best inn in Jinzhou. This place is not cheap. Who can have such a big budget to buy it all?It's been booked since the day before yesterday!Yao and Ma, who were thinking in their hearts, stepped into the gate of the inn, and what they met was the shiny black luxury car.

Yao Rongfu withdrew his eyes from the large carriage with a look of surprise, turned sideways and looked at the horses, "Dongyang, as officials, you and I don't even know that so many wealthy people are gathered in Jinzhou. It's an afterthought."

Just at this time, the big shopkeeper of Wanfu Building came over in a hurry, with a smile on his face, he cupped his hands and said: "I don't know if you and Mr. Shijun are coming to this building, so I am far away from welcoming you, forgive me!".

"Forget it", this season is naturally a low-level question, Ma Dongyang waved his hand, and raised his hand to sweep the dazzling car, "What's going on?".

"Today, there are three guest officials in this building entertaining guests here, and these carriages were brought by the guests."

"Banquet?" Ma Dongyang exchanged surprised glances with Yao Rongfu when he heard the words. If you know the owner, if you can gather these people together, then the owner... There is no such person in Jinzhou!

Thinking of this, both of them had serious expressions on their faces, and Ma Dongyang asked in a more serious tone: "Who is the host of the banquet?".

"Returning to my lord's words, the invitations are signed by Zhang Keguan from the capital, Zhou Keguan from Xiangzhou, and the other one is Huke Dulahe from Yangzhou."

"Xiangzhou? Is your surname still Zhou?" Ma Dongyang pondered for a while when he heard the words, and then asked, "The guest's name is Zhou Jun?".

"Exactly".

"Has he arrived in Xiangzhou?" After a moment of surprise, Ma Dongyang turned sideways and explained to Yao Rongfu: "I don't know that my lord came late. This week Jun is the largest lacquerware merchant in Xiangzhou, which is incomparably rich, especially in recent years. Jin, if you look at the entire Tang Dynasty, you are also a first-class giant merchant."

"Yeah," Yao Rongfu nodded when he heard the words, but didn't speak.

"Who is Nadulah?".

"This barbarian from Yangzhou is the leader of the barbarians and sea merchants in Yangzhou." Before Ma Dongyang could ask again, the shopkeeper continued: "It's just that I don't know the origin of Mr. Zhang Liang. I only know where he came from." Imperial Capital Chang'an".

"The leader of Hu people's sea merchants!", Yao Rongfu couldn't help but change his face when he heard Du Lahe's name. He is not uninformed in his identity. Needless to say, Yangzhou's sea merchants are the richest in the world, and they have been in the imperial city for a long time. He also clearly knew that the former masters of these Hu merchants were former deposed princes, and that they were in charge of the Shibosi directly under the inner palace, and once the business reached this level, people like Du Lahe would have We can no longer simply regard them as merchants, who knows who is standing behind them now?

Thinking about the person surnamed Zhang who came from the capital, Yao Rongfu's expression was shocked suddenly, it seems that this trip is really the right one.Although it is still not sure what the surname Zhang does, the fact that he can jointly treat guests with Zhou Jun and Du Lahe is enough to show that his background is not small.

The Ma Dongyang that Yao Rongfu thought of was no exception, his face became more serious, "What are you doing inside now?".

"The guests are now having tea in the inner hall."