Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Of course Bao Zheng couldn't afford to support the guards, and Bao Zheng almost couldn't even support himself.

With his salary alone, he needs to rent a house in Tokyo, and also provide food, clothing, housing and transportation for himself and Bao Xing.

The houses in Beijing and the houses close to the imperial palace are expensive, and he can't afford to rent them, so he rents a house near the outskirts of the city.It is far away from the government office, and commuting is inconvenient, so you need a means of transportation.

He couldn't afford a horse, let alone a carriage, so he had to buy a vigorous and stubborn donkey from the old man who grinds tofu next door for a huge sum of two pennies. Bean dregs, one penny and one bucket.

Rao is so frugal, life is still tight.

Bao Zheng's family relationship is quite complicated. His mother gave birth to him when she was about to be in her 50s. His father was worried that his mother would give birth to an accident at an advanced age, so he didn't like to see him as an old man.After finally giving birth, his father was worried that his mother's old arms and legs would not be exhausted from taking care of the child, so he asked Bao Zheng and his second brother to throw Bao Zheng into the mountains, and lied to his mother that Bao Zheng died after birth .

It happened that Bao Zheng's elder brother saw it, and his elder brother told his sister-in-law about it when he got home.When the sister-in-law heard that it was okay, she hurriedly asked her elder brother to pick up the child.

It stands to reason that such a naked baby would be gnawed by wild beasts to the bone within 5 minutes if thrown into the mountains.

But Bao Zheng is not an ordinary baby, he is the reincarnation of Wenqu Xingjun, ordinary beasts dare not bite him, let him live until the elder brother comes to save people.

The eldest brother took him home, and it happened that the elder sister-in-law also gave birth at this time, so the elder sister raised Bao Zheng as her own son and sent her own son to the neighbor's house.

This unlucky boy who was sent to the neighbor's house was Bao Zheng's nephew, later the famous Bao Mian, the one who was righteously exterminated by Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng didn't recognize his biological parents until he was seven years old.

As the two soul figures in the Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses, Bao Zheng and Song Renzong's life experiences echo each other and complement each other.

Bao Zheng is Wenqu Xingjun who went down to the earth to assist Song Renzong, and he made great efforts to make Song Renzong's mother and son recognize each other.

Song Renzong gave Bao Zheng all the trust that a feudal emperor could give. If Song Renzong, a benevolent and generous emperor, did not exist, Bao Qingtian's legend would not have been passed down for thousands of years.

Thinking back to the Li Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin also had Wei Zheng who was outspoken and dared to remonstrate, but when later generations mentioned Wei Zheng, what did they think of?It is Li Shimin who takes people as a guide, and it is Li Shimin who ignores past suspicions. Wei Zheng himself is like Li Shimin's shadow, and he is quite a bright one among the flowers of the Zhenguan Reign.

And Bao Zheng is Bao Qingtian, he himself is the legend itself.

Song Renzong's wide benevolence is more like the background of a legend.

There is nothing more than this for the monarch and his ministers to get each other.

At this time, Bao Zheng was not the later Longtuge scholar and governor of Kaifeng. Go home partly to support parents.

Due to his complicated background, he has two sets of parents.

Biological parents have the virtue of life, and elder brothers and sisters-in-law have the grace of nurturing, so one cannot favor one over another.Either you don't send a penny home, or you have to send two copies home.

Bao Zheng deserves to be a Wenqu Xingjun with full moral values, he chose to send three shares of money to his family.

After all, his nephew Bao Mian was studying, so it was time to spend money.

After a few attacks, Bao Zheng is now a proper moonlight clan.

Coupled with the foreign debts incurred by Yangzhou this time, the assets are about to break through the negative 100 mark.

Now the most valuable thing on his body is the head of this necklace worth ten thousand taels of gold.

If the Yamen does not reimburse the travel expenses after returning to Beijing, Bao Zheng will have the cheek to go to someone else's house for a long time as a guest.

Hope it doesn't go this far...

Bao Zheng thought uncertainly.

Master Fan doesn't look too rich either, so it's better not to bother him all the time.

Half an hour later, the carriage carrying two hundred catties of tea finally arrived at Yunniang's private house.

Bao Zheng's banquet was held in the evening, and it was past noon at this time, and all kinds of drinks and dishes had been prepared.

Jiang Ping had already sent people to deliver invitations to all the houses. For Yunniang's sake, those big businessmen really expressed that they could attend on time.

Seeing Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao coming in carrying a big basket, the servants in the private house hurried forward to take the basket and carried it to the main house.

In the main house, Jiang Ping and Yun Niang were discussing the dishes for tonight. Seeing such a big basket brought in by the servants, Jiang Ping smiled and said, "What is this? What did you buy?"

Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao found chairs and sat down, took the tea brought by the servants, moistened their throats, and then had the strength to speak.

"I went to the black market with Yishi Zhan and bought some tea."

"Because Mr. Bao doesn't know how to bargain with others, he was almost locked in and couldn't get out."

Jiang Ping raised his eyebrows: "How much did you pay for this basket of tea?"

Bao Zheng hurriedly said: "This basket of tea leaves weighs two hundred catties, thirty Wen per catty, a total of six coins."

Zhan Zhao said, "The ingot of silver I gave was five taels."

Jiang Ping lifted the felt cloth covering the basket, inserted his hands into the tea leaves, stirred them, grabbed a handful out, rubbed them, sniffed them under his nose, and shook his head: "It's a loss."

He kicked the basket lightly with his foot: "The weight is about right, it is indeed two hundred catties. The things are also good, but they are not worth thirty yuan a catty. You bought them on the black market. You bargained for [-] yuan. The text will come down. Nanxia gave five taels of silver, and silver is much rarer than copper coins, so it is even more worthless."

Bao Zheng said: "The government buys tea at 25 Wen per catty, why is it only sold at [-] Wen per catty on the black market? It's not as good as sitting in the mountain farm and waiting for the government to buy it, so why bother? Is it because the government has been slow to buy it this year, making the tenants anxious to sell it?"

Jiang Ping smiled and waved his hand: "Not at all. It has nothing to do with when the government purchases. Even in previous years, when the government purchased normally, the price on the black market was also the same. This year's rain is not good, and less tea is harvested. More More expensive. In good times, you would have to buy two hundred catties of tea that was better than this one, and you could even get the price of sixteen cash."

Bao Zheng was shocked, for a long time, he let out a long sigh.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Why are you sighing?"

Bao Zheng said in a low voice: "I lament the suffering of the people's livelihood!"

Yun Niang rested her chin on her hand and asked with great interest, "How do you say that?"

Bao Zheng said: "Tea farmers are ordinary people. They are classified as garden households by the mountain farms. They can only make a living by growing tea for generations. The government treats tea as a patent and prohibits it. Private sales are not allowed. The garden households also How can you not know that the government prohibits private tea? How can you not know that buying and selling private tea is a dead word if the government finds out?

"Such a risky move can only be for profit. The government's purchase price is 25 Wen per catty. If you want to profit from private tea, the price must be higher than 25 Wen, and it is much higher.

"In my opinion, only when the price of private tea is more than 35 renminbi is it worth tea farmers to take the risk. But the tea farmers even sell it for 25 renminbi and [-] renminbi, and the official buys it for [-] renminbi, which makes them happy." Self-winner. If the government can properly hand over the [-] Wen a catty of tea money to the tea farmers, why would the tea farmers need to sell tea at such a low price on the black market? Why should it be so?

"It must be that the officials who discussed the goods were corrupt and broke the law. The tea money originally sent to the tea farmers made them greedy for ink, so that the tea farmers were willing to take risks to sell private tea on the black market, and they were unwilling to sell tea to the government.

"And the government has to buy a large amount of tea every year to subsidize the money and grain. Tea farmers who want to sell private tea to subsidize their households have to supply it to the government first. The situation of these tea farmers can be imagined. The court hates it every year. The tea administration doesn’t get enough money. Now it seems that the money was filled by corrupt officials. A beast of a ghost. How unreasonable it is!"

Speaking of anger, he slammed the table down hard.

Zhan Zhao clapped his hands and said, "Well said!" He showed the giant sword in his arms, "I'm going to kill all these corrupt officials!"

Jiang Ping hurriedly stopped him: "Nan Xia, wait a minute, let's listen to Master Bao's words."

Bao Zheng took a deep breath: "Now is not the time to take their lives. After I finish dealing with these big grain merchants today, I will report to the court and ask the emperor to decide."

Yun Niang nodded slightly, smiled without saying a word.

Well, Nan Xia is full of vigor, but he is still young, too impulsive, afraid that he won't hurt others.

Jiang Ping is steady, but too slippery and lazy, I'm afraid he won't please the little girl.

This Bao Zheng...

Although he is a scholar, he has a chivalrous heart, his heart is red and his blood is hot, but he will not be blindly impulsive, and he can judge the situation. He is a character who can advance and retreat.

And it looks good too, the nose is the nose and the eyes are the eyes.

It's just a little poor...the official is also a little small...

Poverty is not a big deal. Although it is said that marrying a Han, marrying a Han, clothes and eats, but if you are affectionate, drink enough water. Besides, how can a family like theirs lack that little money.The official is fine, he's still young anyway, so he's going up slowly.

The more she looked at Bao Zheng, the more she felt satisfied. Isn't this a rare and good match!

It's just that I don't know if Bao Zheng is married, if he already has a wife at home, it's really tricky.

How can I ask if he is married or not...

Yunniang looked at Bao Zheng in a daze, and Jiang Ping found out by accident, and immediately sweated for Bao Zheng.

It can't be that it's really fancy... No way...

Ancestor, wake up, the sixth-rank official is also registered in the imperial court, so he can't drag his hands and feet to the boat like before!

Ancestors!

Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao were filled with righteous indignation and didn't notice the eyebrows and lawsuits between them.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the time when the lights came on, the banquet had been set, and the guests had already arrived one after another.

Bao Zheng didn't invite many people this time, only twelve people.Including Yunniang, Zhan Zhao, Jiang Ping and himself, there are sixteen people in total, which can fit a round table.