Lord of the House

This "four-storey high and five-storey opposite" fan tower looks extraordinary from a distance.

At this time, it was the beginning of the twelfth month, and the crescent moon was like a silver bud hook. In this pavilion building, a lamp was lit in each tile on the eaves. soar.

Walking into the fan building, entering from the main entrance, there is a long main corridor, about 100 paces, flanked by three-story wing buildings, and under the main corridor, there are hundreds of beautiful dancers and prostitutes. , are waiting for the drinkers to order their flower cards. Around the north and south patios, there are small pavilions for drinking, and every aisle and pavilion is hung with crystal clear bead curtains and embroidered foreheads.

"Even in Yanjing, there is no such prosperous place," Zhang Yubo said with a smile after he lived in Yanjing for three years in 2 years before being placed as a local official. After living in Jiangning for a long time, I don’t think about Shu, I heard Su Mei sing, and I forgot that it was a foreign country...” He forgot that Jiangdong County was his hometown, and the capital was his hometown.

"Speaking of Su Mei Xiaosing, Lin Bie has a little experience..." Lin Mengde smiled beside him, although he was forced to promise to secretly help Lin Bie in Jiangning to establish his own business, but he was always a member of Lin Bie's clan. Elder, it is arbitrary to say a few harmless jokes from Lin Bie.

"Lin Juren recognizes Miss Su Mei?" Zhang Yubo asked.

Small singing is a kind of Qing music mode popular in Dayue Dynasty, but it can be regarded as the popular music of Dayue Dynasty. I mean, it can relieve people's defenses the most. But at this time Lin Fu could only smile bitterly, and those who knew him knew Su Mei only knew that he was entangled with Su Mei when he participated in the township examination in Jiangning, which was not a glorious thing. I've seen both sides from afar," Lin Bie responded to Zhang Yubo's desire to reveal it without mentioning it.

However, Lin Mengde didn't want to let him go so easily. He pulled the brocade-clothed servant in the pavilion and asked, "Is Miss Su Mei's flower card ordered tonight?"

"It's still there," the brocade-clothed servant said, "I'll go help the four masters and ask Miss Su Mei if she has time to spare."

"Let's ask... Let's say that it is Mr. Zuo Sikou, Mr. Zhang, the owner of Jiyun Club, Lin Fu, and Lin Ji's Jufutang warehouse, Lin Mengde, who is waiting for Miss Su Mei to drive." Lin Mengde knew that even if Su Mei was idle, she wanted her It also depends on her mood when she comes out to sing. There are not many people in Jiangning City who have the face to invite Su Mei out to sing songs to cheer up the wine, patted the brocade-clothed servant on the shoulder and told him to go quickly, and smiled at Lin Fu again, "Don't worry, I'll pay for the 20 taels of music money for you."

Lin Jingzhong only smiled and entered the private room with Lin Fu, Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo. He also wanted to see what Su Mei, who was famous in Jiangning, looked like; Zhou Pu, as a squire, naturally had to be taciturn, he thought to himself. Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo's face is just not enough, Lin Bie is here, how could Su Mei come.

Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo didn't have much expectations for inviting Su Mei, and it was true that Su Mei kept the flower cards in the pavilion. Most of her people were still in Baiyuan, even if she was interested in earning the 20 taels of money for listening to music, There are a lot of people who have a higher status than them at the fan building tonight, and Su Mei may not be interested in this. A few of them sat in the small pavilion and asked the servant to bring the wine and dishes. They laughed and said that they would wait for a cup of tea in Sumei, and if they didn't reply, they would order another flower card to accompany the wine to add to the fun.

Lin Fu invited Zhang Yubo to come to inquire about the inside story of the inspector's envoy Si Yamen. Zhang Yubo had heard Yang Pu say that Gu Wuchen intended to invite Lin Fu to enter the curtain, but Lin Fu declined. Recently, he said that after taking office, Gu Wuchen also mentioned Lin Fu many times in public in the court of the inspector. To build momentum for Lin Fu's entry into office, I thought that the dignified fourth-rank officials of the imperial court should be so dedicated to entering office for a small feat. It is really enviable. Lin Fu wants to inquire about the inside story of the inspector, and he will naturally announce what he can. The inner feelings of other people's ears are said one by one.

"When I first entered Jiangning, I took a boat along the Jinchuan River from Wumiaoshuiguan into the city. Outside the mouth of the Jinchuan River, I saw the Zanchao Envoy Si Dajing built on the river island on the river mouth. However, I never saw any mention of it in the Tangchaoyi newspaper. Is there a prison in Jiangdong?"

"The northern region is dangerous, and nine out of ten prisoners perished in exile. The Jiangning Department of Punishment requested that the sentence be changed to prison. Since the Department of Punishment in Jiangning had no right to set up prisons, the Jiangdong Police Department built a prison city in Jiangdao to detain the inmates. This proposal was rejected by Yanjing after only two years. Jiangdao Daqian was only used as an ordinary prison for the police officer. Imprisoned prisoners... So the prison outside the Jinchuan River is really a very deserted yamen, and besides, it is in the river outside the city, swaying into the sky and making trouble from time to time." Zhang Yubo couldn't help but smack his lips when he mentioned the Jiangdao prison. And shook his head.

Lin Bie smiled slightly, knowing why Zhang Yubo said Jiangdao prison was a deserted yamen.

Prisoners of this dynasty were sentenced to prison and could be redeemed with money. Four thousand money could redeem one year in prison. The criminal law of this dynasty had a maximum of five years in prison, and if they exceeded five years, they would all be exiled.

Jiangdao Prison only detains prisoners who have been sentenced to prison. Just imagine, the rich take money early to launder their crimes, and only the poor who have no money are honestly imprisoned in the prison and serve hard labor. They can't get much oil and water, and they even have to pay for meals to these poor prisoners.

The urban jail is different. The urban jail mainly detains suspects awaiting trial. Even the witnesses of the case are detained in the urban jail awaiting trial. The suspect wants to live a comfortable life, so he can only pay bribes to the jailer. Not to mention the suspects awaiting trial, there are a lot of those witnesses who blackmailed the prison guards.

"But it's hard to say. The one who proposed to build a prison city was Yang Ye, the head of the Ministry of Punishment in Jiangning, and now Mr. Yang has been transferred to Yanjing as the head of the Ministry of Punishment. Maybe he will re-adjust the prison city in a few days. All the exiles are imprisoned in the Jiangdao prison outside the city..." Having said that, Zhang Yubo smiled, patted Lin Bing's shoulder and said, "Master Gu appreciates you so much, you don't need to take this risk, even if If you can't get a seat in the great prison in the city, there is also a fat shortage in the yamen, the inspector!"

Lin Fu also looked at each other and smiled, which meant that silence was better than sound here, but he was disdainful in his heart, but there was nothing he could do about it. Zhang Yubo was born as a jinshi for Qingliu. The idea of ​​"wealth" penetrated into his bones.

According to the practice of this dynasty, for the first time entering an official position from the eighth rank or above, one must be a jinshi, a lord, and a person who has obtained an excellent grade in the national school examination. Gu Wuchen promised to let Lin Fu choose according to the position of inspector and subordinate official, but in fact, he could only choose the official position of the ninth-rank and unranked officials.

Lin Mengde sat by the side and listened for a long time, and slowly he heard some clues, thinking that Lin Fu's house is really a good future, and Jiangning City is waiting for the candidates to become officials and the students of the Imperial College. I don't know how many, wait until the beard He didn't even have any hope of going white, but Lin Bie had a play just after he arrived in Jiangning. Hearing the tone of his conversation with Zhang Yubo, it seemed that there was still room for him to choose the official position in the yamen, the inspector.

These days, the people are afraid of officials, and even more afraid of cruel officials, and this prisoner has the worst reputation among the officials. As the saying goes, "A fat belly with both hands will go to prison and become a thin monkey". This prison guard's reputation is one thing, but he is a very oily dispatch. Lin Meng thought to himself: Does Lin Fu want to be a prisoner? I can't really offend him in the future.

Lin Fu was the prisoner of Jiangdao prison outside the city, and he was a junior officer of the ninth grade.

Prison superintendent was originally a military post. Emperor Renzong was sympathetic to the prison and prudently punished. He re-selected Confucian ministers to manage the prisons in the prefectures. It has become a practice for nearly a hundred years that the post of prison superintendents is only used by civil ministers. Emperor Renzong did not know that the Confucian scholars and civil servants used torture to blackmail prisoners several times more vicious than military positions, and they used many tricks.

Lin Fu liked this position, but he did not want to extort huge sums of money from prisoners and their families. He wanted to build a warehouse at the mouth of the Jinchuan River. The Dao Dao is facing the Jinchuan Estuary. Once he is appointed as the prisoner of Jiangdao Dao, he can use the force of the guarding prison to guard the estuary, so as to protect the safety of the Jinchuan estuary warehouse.

Lin Fu was worried that someone would come and compete with him for this position~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After listening to Zhang Yubo's analysis, Jiangdao Prison is really a mission with little money to be gained, a lot of responsibility and a lot of risks, so he felt relieved and thought about tomorrow Go and ask Gu Wuchen to allow him to go to Jiangdao Prison as a prison officer.

The time for a cup of tea had passed while drinking and talking. Zhang Yubo looked out of the curtain and complained, "Even if Miss Su Mei doesn't come, she should write a reply..."

Lin Fu knew what Zhang Yubo meant, and said to Lin Jingzhong, "Call someone to come in, and let them bring the plate of flower cards, or let them find a few girls that Mr. Zhang is familiar with and let Mr. Zhang choose..."

Just as Lin Jingzhong was about to get up, he heard Su Mei say at the door, "Is this going to drive me out?"

Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde heard Su Mei's clear and charming voice, and hurriedly stood up and greeted the door: "Who will drive everyone away from Su?"

Only then did Lin Fu see the scenery of Su Mei in Jiangning. Zhang Yubo was a soldier in Jiangning Prefecture, and he joined the army. Lin Mengde was also a wealthy businessman in Jiangning City. Su Mei could make Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde stand up and greet each other. people. Lin Bie smiled, and also stood up and walked behind Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde, and said, "If everyone in Su can admire your face, Lin Bie can't ask for it..." He watched Su Mei Luoyi fluttering, and Pei Cui fought. His sleeves showed his bright wrists, his ten fingers were slender, looking forward to the brilliance, his eyes were pure and pure like a baby. Down, there was a bit of heart shaking.

Su Mei ignored Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde, and only said to Lin Fu, "Lin Juren sees Su Mei like this, doesn't he recognize Su Mei?"

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