A knife in love

Chapter 830

When it comes to knowledge of martial arts, Li Qiufeng is naturally far above Master Feng.However, Master Feng has dealt with these market thugs almost every day for decades, and the county government is even more of a dragon's pool and a tiger's den for fame and fortune. Practice to be invulnerable to all poisons, invulnerable to swords and guns.Therefore, when it comes to insight into people's hearts, Master Feng does not know how many times better than Li Qiufeng.After Li Qiufeng heard what he said, he could only admire him.

Yu Fan smiled and said, "Brother Li, just listen to Master Feng's arrangement. These rascals are extremely cunning, if you want them to work for you, you have to listen to Master Feng's advice more."

Li Qiufeng bowed his hands to Master Feng and said: "Listening to your words is worse than reading ten years of books. I can only admire Master Feng. How about Master Feng to lead Wan Congyun and others instead, so as not to miss Master Huang and Master Yu? event."

Master Feng's complexion changed drastically, and Yu Fan's heart also trembled.The two thought that Li Qiufeng was displeased with what they said just now, so they wanted to pick one another and quit.Therefore, Master Feng hurriedly said: "Hero Li is joking. Feng has no power to restrain a chicken, he just knows how to play tricks, how can those gangsters subdue me? If I restrain these guys, I'm afraid they won't One day, he will be humiliated by them and die. Feng Mou gave advice to Li Daxia, because he was afraid that Li Daxia would be deceived by these villains, and absolutely did not intend to replace Li Daxia, please don't think too much about Li Daxia."

Only then did Li Qiufeng realize that Master Feng would be wrong, and hurriedly said: "Master Feng, you think too much. I really admire your high opinion, not because of a dispute between emotions. Master Feng is a hundred times more resourceful than others. He is the right person to be the leader..."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Fan said from the side: "Brother Li, don't refuse any more. Although these common people are cunning and greedy for small profits, they are good in one thing, that is, they are most convinced by heroes. Although Brother Li You are young, but your martial arts are strong, your actions are fair, and you are proud and courageous. Everyone admires you. Even if you will be deceived by a villain, but in time, only brother Li can convince these ordinary people. Master Feng is full of wisdom, you You can discuss with him if you have anything to do. It's just that brother Li has to do it himself, and show kindness and power to Wan Congyun and others, these things can only be done by you, but Master Feng and I can't do it."

Seeing that neither Yu Fan nor Master Feng agreed to his invitation, Li Qiufeng had no choice but to give up.Master Feng persuaded him a few more words, then took Li Qiufeng to say goodbye to Yu Fan, went back to the house where he handled official business, found the little official in charge of the treasurer, and asked him to allocate 100 taels of silver to Li Qiufeng.The little official checked with Master Feng, and then took the two of them to the back warehouse.I saw six tolerances standing outside the room that served as a warehouse, each holding a steel knife and fully on guard.The small official explained the reason to the head of the tolerance. After the head of the tolerance inspected the Kanhe in the hands of the small official, he was accompanied by a tolerance and brought the small official, Master Feng and Li Qiufeng into the house.

The house is quite spacious, with eight huts separated by arm-thick iron bars, and the things stacked in each hut are different.Some are piled with cloth and silk, and some are piled with wooden boxes.The little official opened the iron door of a hut and took out a wooden box from inside.Although the wooden box wasn't very big, it seemed that he had a lot of trouble holding it out.After he put the wooden box on the ground and opened the lid, he saw dozens of ingots of silver ingots neatly stacked inside the wooden box.The little official took out five ingots of silver ingots, wrapped them in a piece of red cloth, handed them to Master Feng, and said, "Each ingot is 20 taels, and the total is 100 taels. Please check with Master Feng. This is the depletion of the land tax collected last year." , It was all broken silver, which was re-burned and refined into ingots, which will be counted as the county's surplus, Master Feng, please keep the silver. After returning to the front, I have to trouble Master Feng to write a receipt."

Master Feng took the package, but opened it, took out three ingots of silver from inside, and said to the little official: "Old Han, please exchange these three ingots of silver for scattered silver taels."

As soon as he said this, the little official showed embarrassment, and said in his mouth: "Master Feng, since you want to use the silver, how convenient is it to carry the silver ingots? We don't have scissors or scissors here, so we have to break the silver into pieces." I'm afraid it won't be easy for two pieces of silver."

Master Feng smiled and said, "Old Han, don't fight me. I know you have scattered silver taels here, but you don't want to take it out to save trouble. The 100 taels of silver are assigned by the county magistrate and distributed to those who work outside. Brother, the 20 taels of silver were taken out, and the guys from the money houses in the city saw that it was official silver, so they might not dare to exchange it, so I will trouble you."

The little official had no choice but to put the three ingots of silver back into the wooden box, and then carried the wooden box back into the small room. While rummaging through the wooden boxes in the small room, he said, "That's you." Master Feng, I wouldn’t be too lazy to make such a fuss if it was someone else. A few days ago, Zhang Baixing, a bastard, asked me to bring up the money. I said that I didn’t have any silver, so I exchanged it with copper coins. This bastard gave me a face, In the end, didn’t you leave with two large wooden boxes of copper coins? Or maybe you, Mr. Feng, are very popular and have a high vision. But our magistrate, the magistrate, just got Zhang Baixing, a bastard, by his side, alas.”

Li Qiufeng listened to the little official's rambling, and felt strange, so he whispered to Master Feng: "Which one is Zhang Baixing?"

Master Feng smiled slightly and said, "Zhang Baixing is Master Zhang."

Tolerance, who brought the three of them into the house, stood aside, and when he heard Li Qiufeng's question, he said in a rough voice: "We Henan people say a hundred, but it's a bit similar. They don't call him Zhang Shiye or Zhang Baixing behind his back, but call him 'Zhang can't do it', hehe, hehe."

After a while, the little official came out with a tray of broken silver, wrapped it with the two previous ingots of silver, and said in his mouth: "We don't have shards here, but I can guarantee that these broken silver will definitely not be less than 60 taels."

Master Feng took the burden, handed it to Li Qiufeng, and said: "That is, that is. Your old Han claims to grasp it with one hand, and you can find out whether the money is more or less with your eyes closed. There are many things these days. After a few days, I will treat you to a drink."

The little official surnamed Han said with a smile: "Okay, after drinking, go to Qingyun Tower to have fun. Don't make excuses for your old Feng. Hehe."

After the four of them left the house, the head of the tolerance searched Li Qiufeng and the three of them carefully, and then let the three of them leave.After returning to the front room, Master Feng wrote a written statement and left it to the little official, and then sent Li Qiufeng out of the county government office.Li Qiufeng said as he walked, "I didn't expect to transfer money, but it is so cumbersome, and it is not easy to work in the Yamen."

Master Feng nodded and said: "That's true. The bigger the yamen, the fewer things to do. The smaller the yamen, the more things are more, and the more troublesome." He glanced at Li Qiufeng at this point, and then said: "Brother Li Daxia needs to keep the ingots of silver. He only carries some scattered silver taels with him every day. If those local ruffians are able to do things well, they will reward them with one or two coins, and discipline these guys to help you do things with red eyes."

Li Qiufeng said: "Thank you, Master Feng, for your guidance. If Master Feng hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of exchanging large ingots of silver for scattered silver taels just now. I just caused trouble to that brother surnamed Han, and I feel a little sorry." .”

Master Feng chuckled, glanced at Li Qiufeng, and said, "Hero Li, you don't have to feel sorry. I'm afraid it's too late for Lao Han to thank you now."

Li Qiufeng was taken aback, and said, "How do you say that?"

Master Feng said: "Old Han is a treasurer, and every day the money is spent in his hands. Is there any reason not to pluck the hair? If you only take large ingots of silver, it is not easy for him to play tricks on it. If so If it is replaced by loose silver taels, he can take some of it and write it in the account book, and only say that the scattered silver taels are depleted, so he can cover it up."

Li Qiufeng didn't expect this little official to have such a means to make a fortune, and he was surprised.Master Feng said: "Those high officials and generals can pocket hundreds of thousands of taels of silver without having to think about it. We low-level officials can only be ingenious and make a living with some silver. As the saying goes, there are dragons If Feng’s guess is correct, I’m afraid Lao Han is now sharing money with those guys guarding the treasurer.”

Li Qiufeng smiled wryly and said, "I never imagined that the magistrate's yamen would have such famous halls inside. If everyone is like this, how can the world be safe tomorrow?"

Master Feng sighed, and said: "Even if everyone is not like this, will Da Ming be safe tomorrow? Right now, Da Ming is full of dangers, maybe one day something big will happen. Hero Li, you are a member of the Jianghu, so there is no need for Feng to hide it from you Feng has been in the Yamen for nearly 30 years. From what he has seen and heard, it can be said that there are no officials who are not corrupt. Our Huangzhi County is already considered a rare good official, and everyone says that he is very clean. But if he is really clean, I'm afraid that the old man can only go to drink the northwest wind. Among other things, he will have a big banquet tonight, which will cost at least three or forty taels of silver. This money is not paid by him, it is all converted into the annual expenditure of the yamen The magistrate's family's food and clothing expenses, which item is not paid by the yamen? It's not that the magistrate is clean, but he doesn't have to spend money at all. Food and clothing expenses, and even travel expenses, he doesn't have to pay a penny. In exchange for any One person only needs to receive a salary, which is enough to make a living, and he can save a lot of money. It's just that people's hearts are not enough to swallow like a snake, and most corrupt officials use the money from the yamen, and they have to search for the people's fat and anointing. In Feng's case See, all the officials in the world, there is no such thing as a good official or a bad official, they are only divided into those who are more greedy or less greedy."

Li Qiufeng was terribly shocked when he heard Master Feng's high opinion.But after thinking about it, when I was on duty in the Jinyiwei, according to the law, the clothes and weapons were allocated by the imperial court to find someone to make and build.But later there were workshops in the palace, making clothes, boots, socks, and even hidden weapons for Jin Yiwei.Although it was said that everyone was required to pay silver taels, they did not accept it later.Therefore, Li Qiufeng did not go outside the palace to spend money on sewing clothes, forging and repairing weapons, but handed them all over to the workshops in the palace, saving a few taels of silver every year.He never thought about what was wrong with doing this before, but now that he thinks about it, what is the difference with those corrupt officials?It's just more money and less money.

(End of this chapter)