The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Su Jin sighed dejectedly: "It's so boring. Others say that the emperor treats me very well, but they don't know the key to it. In the eyes of the emperor, there are only people who can be used and those who can be used. I, Su Jin, are useful, so he treats me well." It's still polite, look at Lu Xiang's end, he has been in power for decades, and finally he was impeached by the four admonishers and returned home with the emperor's acquiescence, and finally died in depression; so we should never mention any friendship with the emperor. Already figured it out."

Xia Siling sighed lightly: "Although my husband is talking about drunkenness, it does make sense."

Yan Biyun frowned and said, "Ling'er, how can you add fuel to the fire?"

Xia Siling said: "Isn't this adding fuel to the flames of my family, my husband is unhappy in being an official, why don't we resign from the official position, and our family go back to Luzhou to live a comfortable life, wouldn't it be better?"

Yan Biyun laughed and said: "It's easy for you to say, are you a county magistrate or some small official for your husband? Leave as soon as you say? What reason do you use to resign? Besides, once you resign, all the business in the family will be destroyed. It is about to collapse, especially the Yinzhuang, which was specially approved by the imperial court. Most of the business is driven by merchants who join in because the imperial court withdraws money from the Yinzhuang. The village has no business; and most of the money saved by the people in several silver villages has been embezzled. The mines, new towns, and horse businesses have embezzled tens of millions. Now they can only return 300 to [-] million a year. How do these businesses go on? Wouldn’t all the money invested be wasted? Will the whole family drink the northwest wind by then?” [

Xia Siling said in astonishment, she didn't think so much. Seeing Su Jin's pain, she blurted out that she wanted Su Jin to resign, but she didn't expect that there would be so many chain effects.

Su Jin smiled wryly and said: "Yes, I'm on the verge of riding a tiger, I can't get out, I can only hold on; but it's not as scary as Biyun said, I just don't want to give up halfway, I have always had something in my heart. This dream, from the moment I refused several adults to participate in the New Deal, my dream gradually became clear, do you know what this dream is?"

Everyone shook their heads and asked, "What is it?"

Su Jindao: "The failure of the New Deal is inevitable, because although the New Deal looks inspiring, it is too difficult to implement and the help is too great. Not to mention others, even enlightened Prime Minister Yan can't accept it, let alone others. "

Yan Biyun said: "Are you still thinking about how to realize the New Deal?"

Su Jin shook his head and said: "I didn't like it before, but now it's even more impossible. Top-down reforms will inevitably fail in our Great Song Dynasty. Unless the emperor is not afraid of losing his throne, obviously the emperor cannot have such determination."

Yan Biyun said: "Isn't the ten disadvantages of the policy that my husband wrote down originally to correct these disadvantages?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "That's speculation. I don't tell lies about my family. The emperor liked to listen to such radical words at that time. In order to get good grades in the palace exam, I could only write like that; of course I wrote Facts, not nonsense."

Yan Biyun nodded and said, "No wonder the emperor later asked you if you could get rid of the evils. You said you didn't have that ability, but you knew that it would lead to the same failure as Lord Fan and Lord Han, right?"

Su Jin nodded and said: "That's true. With the reputation of Han Fan and others, they still failed. What's more, I was a fledgling student at the time. I didn't even think about changing the disadvantages according to the method I wrote."

Yan Biyun said: "My family doesn't understand. My husband means that borrowing the power of the imperial court from top to bottom can't bring about a new deal. Is there any other way?"

Su Jindao: "This is my dream. You say that I spent most of my wealth and more than [-] manpower. Why did I build this Pearl City with millions of dollars?"

Yan Biyun said: "Didn't you say that in order to develop Northwest commerce, attract merchants to come to open shops for business, collect business taxes, and alleviate the financial distress in Northwest?"

Su Jindao: "This is just the most basic purpose. If it is only to attract merchants to come to do business, it will take so much effort to build a new city. There are dozens of capitals in the northwest state. It doesn't matter which one is slightly improved. Attraction will have the same effect, why should I build a new city?"

"Yeah, I also found it strange. I told you about it before, but you didn't answer, and I didn't want to pour cold water on my husband, so I didn't ask again."

Su Jin patted Yan Biyun's hand and said: "You are a virtuous person, you would rather have doubts than make me unhappy, even if I did something wrong, you would not say a word."

Yan Biyun said in a low voice: "You are the head of the family, and the slave family and all the sisters are naturally the only ones to look after you. Do whatever you say, and everyone will support you."

Su Jin said gratefully: "How lucky Su Jin is, even if he exchanged all the wealth in the world with me, Su Jin would never give up on you, you are my greatest wealth."

The wives and concubines were all moved, and Su Jin's love words always moved them, although sometimes they knew he was just coaxing themselves. [

"Don't be hypocritical, tell me about other reasons why you put so much effort into building the Pearl City." Yan Biyun poked Su Jin on the forehead.

Su Jin took a sip of wine from his cup, tilted his head and asked, "Do you think I'm different from others?"

Everyone was stunned. Although everyone had this feeling for a long time, no one had ever seriously thought about this issue.

Su Jin smiled and said: "I believe you must have this feeling, but if I ask you what the difference is, you may not be able to say qnghu; that is because, although the food I eat and the clothes I wear are different from other people's. There is no difference, but my way of thinking makes you feel strange. This is the reason why many people say that I, Su Jin, "acts unexpectedly, always surprises", because I think differently from them, so I do things Naturally, it was unexpected."

Yan Biyun nodded and said: "It seems to be true. I first met my husband at the ready-to-wear exhibition in Luzhou. At that time, my husband hired a group of brothel women to walk on the street and set up a stage. He even organized a lottery, which opened my eyes. No one has done this before, it was really beyond my expectations.”

Su Jin smiled and said: "However, this has deeply attracted Sister Yan, so you are most likely to throw her arms around me?"

The girls laughed endlessly, and Yan Biyun spat with a red face: "What nonsense are you talking about? The slave family was just surprised, but I didn't think you attracted me at all."

Xiao Xian'er rolled her eyes and said: "Miss, do you want this little maid to reveal something? Don't hold back, Hu'er is already this big, there is nothing to be ashamed of."

Yan Biyun spat: "Do you want to die? Didn't you dislike him back then? You even beat his forehead until blood came out."

Xiao Xian'er spoke immediately, and looked at Su Jin with a blushing face, Su Jin smiled and said, "Xian'er loves me so much, I understand that beating is kissing and scolding is love."

The girls laughed endlessly, Xiao Xian'er blushed and picked up a wine glass and wanted to smash it, Su Jin calmly stretched out her head to accept it, but Xiao Xian'er couldn't let go, stomped her feet aside and fell silent.

Huanniang said with a smile: "Thinking of that time, it was really sweet and funny."

Su Jin nodded and said: "Yes, let's talk about the business, let's recall those things in bed." Amidst the laughter and cursing, Su Jin continued: "Do you feel that after following me, some of your thinking or living habits have changed? many?"

The girls nodded and said, "That's natural. After staying together for a long time, they will naturally affect each other."

Su Jin said: "It's not all because of this reason. Many of the rules of our Su family are different from those of the outside world. At first you felt awkward, but later you got used to it; They ate at the same table as me, and they always felt awkward, even if they were forced to sit together, they kept their heads down and turned sideways, and didn't speak; but now, they naturally sit together when it's time to eat, although they still wait Seeing that I eat first and everyone does it first, but I also talked and laughed during the meal and stopped being coy, has this been changed by me?"

Xia Siling covered her mouth and said with a smile: "That's because they are all yours... yours, who is still so reserved."

Rou Niang made a gesture to pinch Xia Siling's face, Xia Siling laughed and jumped away.

Before Su Jin could answer, Xiao Sui'er shouted: "My lord, please don't rely on your maidservant. If you didn't insist on having everyone eat at the same table, as a maidservant, how would you dare to eat at the same table as your master? My lord, the rules are loose. We still follow the rules when we get out of the gate.”

Su Jin smiled and said: "I don't blame you, I just said the power of this subtle effect, the habits developed over the years, even the rules of the world in my mind, are not unchangeable."

Yan Biyun said: "What exactly is your husband going to say? Why is it that the more I listen, the more confused I become?"

Su Jin said: "Don't you think that changing old habits is similar to the new coup?"

The girls were still at a loss, and they didn't understand why Su Jin linked this matter with the New Deal that had just been abolished. [

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