Master Lin of the Red Chamber

"Since you have such a big difficulty, it will be unreasonable to embarrass you any more. Being an official means making decisions for the people, right? All right, just do as you say!"

Stuffing the banknote in his hand into his sleeve, the leading yamen servant pretended to think for a while, and then pulled out two elegant words, then waved his hand, and agreed to these for the sake of the banknote. Merchant's request.

This yamen servant is also a shrewd person. If the request of these merchants is to make him disobey the order of the magistrate, then he will definitely not obey, but like now, it is no problem to play a side ball or something.

When the time comes, share the bank notes among the brothers again, and there will be no one who makes small reports in safekeeping. You can earn some money and gain the gratitude of the brothers. Such a good thing is not easy to find.

Don't look at them, they are all yamen servants in Fucheng. They look quite majestic, but it is not so easy to hang around in Yangzhou city. If they rely on their salary alone, they can't even afford a house.

"The officer is right, I would like to thank the officer for taking care of me a little bit!"

He bowed his hands and thanked him with a smile. Although he felt disdain for the little boss's pretentious behavior in his heart, the middle-aged businessman didn't dare to show it on his face, and had to smile gratefully.

No way, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are at the bottom of the list. Although the family is rich, even those muddy legs rolling in the land look down on them, and their social status is quite low.

In particular, the imperial court's regulations stated that if there are merchants in the family, the imperial examinations are not allowed even within three generations. This all of a sudden lowered the status of merchants and even restricted the future of their descendants.

Therefore, as long as the farming can support it, few will choose to do business. Although it is said that the possibility of a poor family giving birth to a noble son is very small, there has never been a lack of poor family Jinshi in the scientific examination every three years.

I don’t know how many poor families and scholars there are. Although the overall proportion is actually very low, but there are so many examples, everyone will have some hope in their hearts.

And if you go into business, you will be regarded as a child prodigy in your family, and you don't have the qualifications. Don't think that spending money can make connections. The imperial court has very strict regulations on this aspect.

Once something happens, it won't even be the result of being beheaded, and the whole family will be implicated. After becoming an official, there are many places to make money, and no one will hang to death on this tree.

This has also led to these businessmen, even if they have money in their pockets, they still have to keep a low voice when facing these officials. Even every time they change a magistrate, they have to take out their hard-earned family wealth to manage.

Of course, this is the situation of small merchants like them. For example, those big merchants, such as the imperial merchants, have climbed into the relationship with the royal family. Don't dare to offend easily.

For example, the Xue family in Jinling, even if there are no four big families with the same spirit, if they take out the identity of the emperor merchant alone, they are still a local tyrant.

But if you want to become an imperial merchant, it is really too difficult. You must become the top figure in an industry, and you need to have some contacts. Spend more money to manage it. That's possible. Small merchants like them , don't have to think about it.

"Hey, why are you being polite? The government and the people are family members. They should take care of each other. After all, it's not easy for everyone..."

With such a large sum of extra money, the little boss's mood instantly became extremely good. Even looking at the river, it turned into azure blue, and he said nice things without money.

"Yes, yes, what the official said is right. Look, can you release a batch first?"

Seeing that after the bastard took the money, he said a lot of nonsense here, but there was no movement all the time, the middle-aged businessman couldn't help cursing secretly, and reminded him cautiously on his face.

Since ancient times, although there are few people who take money and do nothing, it is not uncommon. Don't let him do it today, it is really unlucky to go out and not read the almanac.

"It's only a little while, why are you in a hurry, you're rushing, the most important thing in business is patience, you are so impatient, how can you make your business bigger!"

As soon as he got excited about talking, he was about to imitate their magistrate, and was giving a speech full of emotion, when he was interrupted by the middle-aged businessman. The little boss suddenly said a little displeased.

He only said a few words, but this man lost his patience and reminded him specially here, what, do you think he would play tricks and not keep his promise?

"No, I don't mean that, you go on, go on..."

Glared by the little boss's eyes, the middle-aged businessman quickly said with a smile on his face, he was afraid that this yamen servant would mess up the matter with the excuse of being rushed by him, being in a bad mood, etc. But I gave it all.

"What are you talking about, why are you so interested! All right, Xiao Yuan, go call your brothers, speed up, search those cargo ships first, and let them go straight away!"

Cursing his lips, he glanced at the middle-aged businessman impatiently. The little boss patted the shoulder of a government servant who was following him, and said to him with a smile. is completely different.

This is Xiao Yuan, but he is the nephew of the master of the yamen, although he is not particularly loved by the master, but he is a relative, the relationship is different, otherwise, he would not have been assigned to this position.

After all, the yamen servants in this prefecture city have one position and one nail. Although the salary is not high, they have a lot of gray income, and wearing this kind of clothes, when walking on the street, others have to detour.

This Xiao Yuan is only in his teens, he has no experience, and he doesn't know how to deal with the world. If it weren't for having a master as the backstage, how could he get such a good job, even the leader, himself. Do not take special care of one or two.

The yamen servant named Xiao Yuan responded, glanced at the middle-aged businessman with disdain, said nothing, then pressed the handle of the knife at his waist, and went to the cargo ship.

He saw clearly the actions between the middle-aged businessman and the little boss just now, so he naturally knew why there was such an order all of a sudden.

Because of his good family background, he has been reading sage books since he was a child, and he always compares himself to a gentleman on weekdays. He is extremely disdainful of such behavior.

But helplessly, the current world is like this. Even if he wants to find someone to expose, he can't find anyone who can take care of these things. Basically, most people in the government office have various gray incomes, including his Master's relatives.

Under such circumstances, even a gentleman like him can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and sometimes he even has to join forces, because if you don't accept, others will exclude you.

Perhaps it was because it was easier to hide people on passenger ships. These government officials all started searching on those passenger ships, but since there were orders from above, it was the same wherever they started to search, so they moved to those cargo ships one after another.

Although, as the nephew of the government yamen master, Xiao Yuan has some privileges, so he doesn't have to work so hard. In this cold weather, he searched boat after boat like this over and over again.

But thinking of going back, he would have to face some disgusting conversations between the middle-aged businessman and the little boss, so Xiao Yuan chose to stay on the boat and help the government servants work together.

Although the rules of this world are like this, he can't change it, but at least he can be out of sight and out of mind, but he didn't expect that his escape in disguise would be appreciated by these yamen servants.

Seeing strangely, those colleagues who didn't like him at first suddenly became closer, Xiao Yuan pursed his lips, and suddenly thought of a sentence he learned in private school a few years ago, maybe this is It's called unintentionally inserting willows and willows into shadows...

Regarding this unexpected harvest, although Xiao Yuan's mood seemed a little complicated, he had to say that he was mostly happy. Originally, it was just an evasive search, but he felt energetic all over his body.

Seeing that these government servants were just searching the surface of the cargo ship, and their actions were perfunctory, Xiao Yuan thought about it, and took the initiative to undertake the task of getting off the ship's warehouse.

It's not that he thinks that Jia Liang will hide in the dark and damp basement, but that he hopes to try his best to improve the relationship with these yamen servants, even if he doesn't say it's good, at least he won't be rejected all the time.

Sure enough, when they saw Xiao Yuan being so diligent and proactive, although the government servants knew that there would be no results if they went to investigate, they still had some changes in their minds about Xiao Yuan.

Although this child was forced in through the back door, looking at it now, it should not be incapable of suffering. As for not working with them yesterday, it may be because I was afraid that this kid was inexperienced. bad thing.

In fact, the biggest reason why these yamen servants dislike Xiao Yuan is this. When everyone else is working, you just stand there without doing anything.

As for the relationship, if those present can work smoothly in this position and have not been dragged down by others, then it doesn't matter at all, at most, it is not to offend, and it is impossible to rush to compliment.

Although it is broad daylight now, the ship cabin below is still extremely dark. Xiao Yuan carried a lantern that the yamen servants took the initiative to invite him, and walked slowly to the creaking ship plank.

Smelling the fishy smell, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but frowned fiercely, and finally understood why no one came down here, probably because he disliked the smell here.

Standing on the ladder, Xiao Yuan took a glance at the ship warehouse full of seafood and fish, glanced around a few times, and after seeing nothing unusual, he didn't intend to take a closer look, and prepared to go up.

He took the initiative to check it just to show his positive attitude. If he checked it too carefully and got some fishy smell, which made others disgusted, then the loss outweighed the gain.

Moreover, this place has been checked in detail yesterday. With the amount of reward offered by Mr. Lin, he estimated that even the inside of the fish basket has been turned over. He alone, no matter how serious he is, can still compare with that. Many people have checked carefully.

Thinking of this in his heart, Xiao Yuan took the lantern and walked up with a very peace of mind, but just after walking a few steps, he heard a light sound behind him, which made him tremble all over, and the lantern almost didn't fall. on the ground.

After calming down, Xiao Yuan turned around slowly, looked at the place where the voice came from, hesitated for a while, it was still the knife in her hand, holding the lantern, and leaned closer step by step.

Although he has never practiced martial arts, the wanted Jia Liang is just an ordinary manager, not to mention he still has a knife in his hand.

What's more, Mr. Lin gave so much money, if he got it alone, he would still be a government servant, even if he had to take the exam ten times, it would be enough for him to study, and he didn't want to bow his head and obey others all his life.

Swallowing and spitting, Xiao Yuan tried his best to lean towards that side as lightly as possible, and even put the lanterns on the ground in order to avoid the possibility of Jia Liang happening, and just walked forward slowly with the help of the weak light .

Looking at the silhouette that seemed to be a person hidden between the two baskets of fish, Xiao Yuan was sweating on his forehead, his nervous heart almost jumped out of his throat, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful, perhaps, he shouldn't be greedy for that money alone. Instead of rewarding silver, you should be safer and notify the yamen servants above.

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