The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Lang Shaodong couldn't remain indifferent. The Su Jin in front of him was far from the Su Ji Shaodong's family in his impression. If the extermination of the bandits in Bagong Mountain had an element of luck, then the series of deeds in Yangzhou could not be explained by luck. .

Especially when it comes to the administration of officials, it is a life-and-death fight. If what he said is true, to be able to fight a bloody way out in such a situation, this ability cannot be summed up by simple admiration.

The competition between this person and himself is no longer at the same level. It is easy for him to kill himself. This is probably the reason why he came here alone today, because he no longer despises himself as an opponent.

"Master Su..." Lang Shaodong uttered a few words with difficulty in a hoarse voice: "Forgive me for my stupidity, but my lord's return this time may not be as simple as taking a vacation to visit relatives."

Su Jin smiled and said: "Don't call me your lord, as I said, I'm here to visit you today as the owner of Su Ji; but you guessed it right, of course you have to take a vacation, but you still have to do some errands." done."

Lang Shaodong said: "But my lord came to see me, how can I help you?"

Su Jin waved his hand and said: "You are wrong, I am not here to ask you for help, I am here to show you a way out."

"The way out?"

Su Jin nodded and said: "Yes, it is a way out; that is to say, although I, Su Jin, am not the one who will take revenge, I still remember what anyone has done to me; some people have revenge on me for killing their father. Some people want to frame me with a murder case to kill me, and some people want to overthrow me, Su Ji, so that I can monopolize the Luzhou market. I remember everything clearly; What’s more, these accounts always need to be settled one by one, if there is a grudge, if there is a grudge, if there is a grudge, there is no way to do this, what face do I have to stand between heaven and earth.”

Lang Shaodong sweated profusely, and he said helplessly: "Su Dong's family, I have nothing to do with you, there is only a little friction between us."

Su Jin smiled and said: "I know, you are just some people's idiot, but you are not a fuel-efficient lamp. After I accepted Su Ji, several things happened because of you. Don't think that I don't care about everything. I don’t know, people who treat others as fools are themselves fools.**”

Lang Shaodong wiped his sweat with his sleeves and said, "Su Dong's family, those are just business battles. I, Lang Yongping, swear to heaven that I have nothing to do with your father's death, and I never thought of killing you; Lang knows he is not a gentleman, but I am by no means a villain, I still have a bottom line in my actions."

Su Jin said: "Of course, if that wasn't the case, do you think you can still sit here with me today to drink tea and chat? I said I want to show you a way out, precisely because you haven't committed any crimes, trivial things are up to me It’s not worth seeing here at all, and you still have a chance to make meritorious deeds.”

Lang Shaodong was shocked. It seemed that Su Jin had made up his mind to do something in Luzhou. How could it be good to be targeted by this kid?

Su Jindao: "Lang Shaodong, Ming people don't do secret things, so I might as well tell you clearly; I'm going back to Luzhou this time to handle both official and private matters. Naturally, I have to check the grain affairs on official affairs. You and I know it well, but the grain affairs are not the same. The surface is monolithic; you should be very clear about this, whether it is the date and price of the grain, there are tricks in it, all the glamorous appearance is for me to see, and I am not interested in the appearance, but I like to look inside In private matters, I am not afraid of people saying that I am doing business for my own benefit. I just want to use the opportunity of office work to completely beat some people down, and then step on one foot. I will send you to the big prison, and I will not let anyone who is trying to bring down my Su Ji."

Lang Shaodong rubbed his hands and said: "Su Dong's family, although Lang wants to help you, I really don't know the inside story of these things."

Su Jin said: "It's very simple, there is no inside story to check, you just need to follow my instructions."

Lang Shaodong shook his head like a rattle, and said repeatedly: "No, absolutely not; although I understand what you mean, but you have also seen that I am actually just a small person, and I can't get valuable information at all."

Su Jin lowered his face and said: "Of course I know that you are a small person, and they hide many things from you. From the fact that you were beaten, we can know that they don't regard you as their own at all; why should you bother?" Hold on to their thighs tightly; regardless of whether you can find strong evidence for me, even if you can't find evidence, I can still bring them down; compared with the incident in Yangzhou, the incident here is simply not It's a matter; the reason why I asked you to help me is because I want to understand the matter as soon as possible and return to Beijing to return to my life, and secondly because you don't do much evil, and you are two people with them."

Lang Shaodong's face was sombre and he remained silent. Although Su Jin's words made him feel reasonable, they were by no means to the point where he would willingly agree.

Su Jin continued: "You are not stupid. You can see the clues from the incident in Yangzhou. The imperial court punished those involved in the grain affairs severely and quickly. There were many people in Yangzhou who could not die, but they were all punished. Killing the matter, which is naturally the reason for the heavier punishment, and some people gave him a chance, he didn't want it, and carried it to the end to take the blame for the main criminal; for me, it was just spending more time to find out the clues. You missed the chance to live for nothing, are you stupid?"

Lang Shaodong whispered: "Stupid! Very stupid."

"You know they are stupid, but you still want to be a fool; if you think that twenty thousand shi of grain is not enough to kill you, then you are wrong; hoarding is a crime, and it is a crime to disobey the emperor's edict and not sell it for a long time; sell the price Not complying with the imperial court regulations is one crime; I simply list you and you will be charged with three crimes; in the second crime, I can charge you with the felony of colluding with government officials to obtain money from the imperial court, all of which, I can extend more than a dozen or even dozens of crimes, and I will see if you will die by then."

Lang Shaodong almost peed on his pants, and the smiling Su Jin instantly transformed into a demon who opened his mouth and bared his teeth to choose someone.

How can people be so shameless?It's fine to impose crimes on other people by making up the same crime, but it's too shameless to tell them face to face: I will make crimes to put you to death; this is too much.

"You! You! You! Is there no one to stop your indiscriminate killing of innocent people? Are you not afraid of being found out and punished?" Lang Shaodong pointed at Su Jin and trembled angrily.

Su Jin waved his finger aside, and shouted: "Don't point your finger at me, Wanfu should be pointing at you; which thing you do is more glorious than me? I just want to kill indiscriminately, but why do you want to kill me?" Talking about innocence? You scumbags are not worthy of living in this world, and if you can’t be used by me, I will let you disappear; don’t expect me to be merciful, why can you do anything wrong, and I have to restrain myself with the law of conscience, morality and kindness?”

"You...! You are a devil." Lang Shaodong sat down with a long sigh, and muttered, "Why did you choose me? Among the seven or eight merchants in the Chamber of Commerce who can talk to each other, why is it me?"

"Because I think you know the times and are a smart man."

"But you are pushing me into the fire pit. They...are they easy to provoke? Once they find out, I, Lang Yongping, will die."

"Wrong, I am the worst offender, not them; as long as you act properly and be careful, they will never discover the cooperation between you and me. As long as all the evidence is collected, I will arrest them with a thunderbolt." It's a catch; after that, you'll be prosperous, and the position of president of the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce will be yours. I will let Su Ji join the Chamber of Commerce to strengthen your momentum. From now on, you, Lang Shaodong, will be the number one person in Luzhou, and your That bit of nonsense will be written off; I won't mention you Lang Shaodong at the time of the performance, and I will ensure that you will make a fortune in peace."

Lang Shaodong said with a sad face: "Su Dong's family, although the pancakes you painted are delicious, I can't eat them if I want to."

Su Jindao: "You can eat it, you can definitely eat it. I might as well give you another news. The imperial envoy Ouyang Xiuxiu is in command of Wang Qinian on Jicha Road in Shouzhou City. This Wang Qinian is the backer of someone Zhu in Luzhou. Think about it. Under such circumstances, who will protect him? If you are really afraid, then let this matter go. You can go to the government office to inform and see if they dare to touch me. They all know the purpose of my coming to Luzhou You know it well, otherwise, how could you have suffered these [-] boards? Isn’t that just to get the grain affairs raid done well, afraid that I will find a reason to deal with them?”

Lang Shaodong scratched his ears and cheeks and couldn't make a decision for a long time, Su Jin stood up impressively and said: "Forget it, you are so timid as a mouse, no wonder you can't even hug someone's thigh, just treat it as a waste of saliva by talking to a cow and playing the piano; you just wait to die , the young master is not waiting."

Lang Shaodong quickly stood up and stretched out his hand: "Master Su, can you let me think about it?"

"Bah! You don't cry until you see the coffin. You think about it slowly, and I'm leaving!" Su Jin put his foot down and left.

Lang Shaodong trotted to pull Su Jin's sleeve, Su Jin stretched his arm, Lang Shaodong pulled it empty, the wound on his buttocks caused severe pain when he pulled hard, he couldn't stand upright and fell to the ground; Su Jin walked towards the door regardless Go, Lang Shaodong was in a hurry, reached out and hugged Su Jin's calf, raised his face and shouted: "Su Dong's family, Su Dong's family, I agree, can't I promise?"