Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 412 Where is the face?

On the surface, this incident seems to have nothing to do with Lin Sen, so he can play with his wife and children at home and watch a movie at the same time.

After this period of continuous development, the special forces have better penetrated into all aspects of Chang'an City, and the investigation of the aristocratic family members has naturally become more comprehensive.

Their seemingly calm but flustered appearance also fell into Lin Sen's eyes, making him feel very comfortable.

The influence of this matter is still fermenting and gradually expanding, especially under Li Chengqian's intentional or unintentional promotion.

Li Chengqian personally commended Wannian County Magistrate and they were not finished. They also called several of their meritorious ministers and the business representatives who donated the most money into the palace, not only received them cordially, but also gave them a banquet. After a while.

A businessman who received such courtesy for the first time like a rich businessman surnamed Li almost didn't pass happily.

After returning home, he even talked about it with everyone, and of course he must boast that Li Chengqian is rare in the sky and unparalleled in the earth.

Realizing the change in his current situation, the county magistrate and other officials greeted them with smiles when they met, and other people gave him a thumbs up when they saw him, which made him feel that the five thousand guan was really worth it.

Lin Sen figured out something from it, like this place used to open a breakthrough, and such a good opportunity to show his face, those who can be named and praised, if not all of them are Li Chengqian's people, at least there must be some One or two of them should be his cronies, such as Wannian county magistrate, there is a great possibility.

Because the contrast between before and after is also the most obvious in him, and of course offending family members is also the most ruthless.However, the resulting effect is also immediate.

Affected by these things, especially after the all-round release of those favorable conditions, businessmen in other places saw their future.

After all, there is a rich businessman surnamed Li whose treatment is comparable, and the donation is quite enthusiastic, even turbulent.

In order to fight for those few who would set up monuments for themselves alone and send their children to school, those wealthy businessmen almost didn't fight.

The money used to build the academy has grown even more rapidly like a snowball.

Especially after the measures to update the list at any time have been introduced in various places, the amount and ranking on the updated donation honor list every morning will change a lot, which shows how persistent the businessmen are for these things Ah, what a longing for those benefits.

Naturally, those family members couldn't sit still anymore. The more the merchants donated, the more they would be cast aside. Without comparison, there would be no harm.

In the past, they thought that their influence could be achieved, so that everyone could just let go of their work just like them, but who would have thought that Li Chengqian would give such a policy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot.

And with Li Chengqian's care, it's impossible for them to do anything to those wealthy businessmen, the law does not blame everyone.

Even those businessmen who need to rely on them for breath or protection are involved, and they can expect all the businessmen to change their minds for their sake?

People originally saw that they did not cover the sky with one hand as they imagined, so they dared to try this. This is already a kind of damage to their prestige.

And as the matter of donations became the focus of discussion among more and more people, their prestige became worse and worse. It was not uncommon to see people who despised them, but they never heard a word of praise.

Even if they dispatched people to go out in private to try to change the direction of public opinion against them, they were blocked by saying, "I can't afford to donate money to build an academy, so what good can I do?"

Because if you think about it carefully, while they are enjoying their own good reputation for granted, they really haven't done any good things for the people around them.

Most of the bridges and pavements are paid by other businessmen. Ordinary people want to learn knowledge, but they can't ask them at all.

On the contrary, they have done a lot of bullying, intentionally or unintentionally. Otherwise, how could they have so many tenants and slaves under their hands, and they were all run off by them.

Thinking about it this way, they really couldn't produce any strong evidence, so they fought back confidently.

So in the end, scolding them became a fad. If you don't scold them a few words, you will easily become class enemies. It is easy to be regarded as running dogs under the hands of these aristocratic families who have grown up abnormally with the people's fat and people's cream.

It's polite to be scolded by others, but it's not reasonable to be beaten by a group.

There really were servants of aristocratic families who ran out to excuse the master's family, and were recognized and beaten by gangs.

As a result, the yamen servants came to watch the show first, and waited until the beatings were almost done, and they were exhausted, and then they yelled and drove the people away.

As for arresting people?I'm sorry that there are too many people and I can't catch them.By the way, I probably have to send a look of contempt before leaving.

Go to Wannian county magistrate for this matter?I'm afraid I haven't forgotten the humiliation I gave before.

Even if they were caught, no. 80 people would come running every minute and tell your subordinates to take the initiative to provoke troubles, believe it or not?

Everyone is purely out of public interest, just helping to teach these servants who bully others, and it’s fine if you don’t give them a commendation for their bravery, how can you still want to beat them back?Where's the face?

Of course, the aristocratic family also thought of a way in the court, and found someone to come out and shout about all kinds of unreasonable things in the academy's donations.

Erecting a biography on a stele, sending the son of a merchant to school, all these are out of courtesy.

If the merchant's son went to school, no one would go to school, and all the threats were said.

But Li Chengqian said with a smile, if you don't let the merchant's son go, will you send all your students to the academy?
Or can you spend money to build an academy?If I recommend your children to have a future, all these people will be dumb.

Their children are trying their best to send them to various private schools, and they will never come to this kind of common people's academy for universal education.

As for paying, even if they could afford it, would they dare?I'm afraid he will be sent to jail on charges of corruption.

Li Chengqian simply suppressed those who came out to stab stabs later on, and even asked the master tester to write down all these people. In fact, he himself was probably trying to write down the appearance of these people.

These are all lackeys of the aristocratic family. Even if some are simple old pedants, they are obviously not suitable for reuse in the future. It is better to teach and educate people honestly.

Anyway, I don't know how long these people can dance in the Zhenguan Dynasty. After Li Chengqian came to power, his future is basically bleak.

In the end, the aristocratic family saw that there was no good move for the time being, and the days of donating money were coming to an end. Let's spend money to buy a good reputation, and treat it as a bankruptcy and avoid disaster.

Let's donate more, too. As for face, in the face of important matters related to the rise and fall of the family, a little face is nothing, not to mention shameless things. It's not that I haven't done it before. As long as we can maintain our reputation, no one will give us face.

So people from several big families discussed it, and let's advance and retreat together. The whole family should donate one thousand guan, and it should be handed in on the last day of the deadline.

It can not only show the sincerity of the family, but also make it appear that the family is relatively clean. It doesn't smell like copper like those businessmen, so they know how to make money.

We are frugal, so we managed to squeeze out the money.

For this reason, we no longer take the horse-drawn carriage, and changed to an ox cart, what a heartfelt gesture.

In the end, they were still scolded, and the scolding was even worse.

(End of this chapter)