Liang Run has always been worried that his sister will be bullied in the palace and live a bad life. He was also worried that Liang Zhaoyi would be killed in the palace. After all, the harem was a place where people could eat people without spitting out their bones.
No matter how worried he was, it was useless, because the Liang family had no power and power, and could not help Liang Zhaoyi at all, nor could they protect his sister.
After Liang Zhaoyi entered the palace, she completely lost contact with her family, which made Liang Run even more worried about her safety. He always felt that Liang Zhaoyi was killed.
Two or three years after losing contact with Liang Zhaoyi, the Liang family in Yangzhou finally received news from Liang Zhaoyi. They learned that Liang Zhaoyi had given birth to a prince for the emperor and was named Zhaoyi. This made the Liang family happy and uneasy.
Fortunately, Liang Zhaoyi is still alive and gave birth to a prince successfully. What is uneasy is that Liang Zhaoyi is helpless in the palace. Will her situation become more dangerous if she gives birth to a prince?
After careful consideration, Liang Run decided to go to the capital. Even if I can't help Liang Zhaoyi, it would be good to get some news about Liang Zhaoyi.
He originally planned to become an official and become his sister's support, but the Zhou Dynasty did not allow buying an official position. Their family didn't know any senior officials, so they couldn't recommend him to be an official, so he had no choice but to give up on the decision.
Originally, I wanted to count on his father. After all, his father was the only official in their family, but his father was just a small county magistrate, and this county magistrate had not been promoted for more than ten or twenty years.
The reason why his father, the county magistrate, has never been promoted is because his father, the county magistrate, was bought. More than twenty years ago, the Zhou Dynasty had not yet been established, and it was still the former dynasty. In the previous dynasty, it was possible to buy and sell officials. The Liang family had money, so they bought Liang's father a county magistrate. Father Liang's county magistrate did quite well, so when the Zhou Dynasty was established, Father Liang's county magistrate was not removed.
When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, many things of the previous dynasty were abolished, including buying and selling officials. During the reign of Emperor Xia Ling of the previous dynasty, official positions were sold at clearly marked prices, and anyone with money could become an official. The court and officialdom at that time were in chaos. These officials who bought their offices crazily amassed money, exploited the people, and made the people miserable.
This is a lesson learned from previous dynasties, and the Zhou Dynasty must not repeat the same mistakes.
Recommending officials to the court is usually recommended by serving officials. Of course, the official position of this serving official cannot be too low. The Zhou Dynasty stipulated that only officials of fifth rank or above were qualified to recommend talents. There is also a special case, that is, the great scholars of the time or people with high moral standards are also qualified to recommend talents.
Even if there is a recommendation from an official or a great scholar of the time, it must go through layers of review. During the review process, not only the ability of the recommended person must be examined, but also his character. The most important thing is to examine whether they have committed any illegal crime or moral corruption.
If the reviewing officer is bribed, let the recommended person pass the review. Later, if it is found that there is something wrong with the recommended person, the official who originally reviewed him will be severely punished.
The Liang family had previously thought of sending money to the governor of Yangzhou to ask the governor of Yangzhou to recommend Liang Run as an official. However, this was a bribe and was found to be a felony. Furthermore, if they do this, they may bring danger to Liang Zhaoyi in the palace.
Liang Run and the others thought about it carefully and decided not to bribe Yangzhou Prefect.
Since I can't be an official, I can only continue to do business. After careful consideration, Liang Run decided to come to the capital to do business.
Doing business in the capital, on the one hand, you can get news about Liang Zhaoyi, and on the other hand, you can also send money to Liang Zhaoyi.
Liang Run felt that his sister did not have any influence in the palace. If he wanted to live well in the palace, he had to use money to clear the way. Before Liang Zhaoyi came to the capital, Liang's father gave her a lot of money to use in the palace.
The Liang family was somewhat famous in Yangzhou, but when they arrived in the capital, they were nothing. If this business is not done well, there will be trouble and even life-threatening. After all, there are too many dignitaries in the capital and they cannot afford to offend.
Liang Run felt that his business should not be too big, otherwise it would attract attention and be coveted. If you are too small, you won't be able to make much money, and you won't be able to help Liang Zhaoyi in the palace. He thought about it seriously and decided to start a small or medium-sized business.
He was going to do the Liang family's old business - medicinal materials business, but he didn't know the way to purchase medicinal materials in the capital. Furthermore, there were many people in the medicinal material business in the capital, and they had many good connections, so he couldn't compete with them.
Just when he was struggling with what business to do, Zhao Yao came to his door. Zhao Yao originally wanted Liang Run to start a restaurant business and make out the delicacies that Zhao Yao had eaten in his dream, which would be a big hit, but it was too conspicuous.
Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi discussed it and decided to let Liang Run do a humble business. This humble business can not only make money, but also collect information. That is selling vegetables.
Liang Run, like Liang Zhaoyi, has been fond of growing medicinal materials, vegetables, and flowers since childhood, and they are pretty good at it. Zhao Yao asked Liang Run to buy some land on the outskirts of the capital specifically for growing vegetables.
At first, I set up a stall to sell vegetables in the vegetable market in Beijing, and then delivered the vegetables to my door. Liang Run is also very business-minded. Within the past two years, his door-to-door vegetable selling business has been doing very well. At present, many officials and wealthy businessmen in Beijing have their meals sent by Liang Run.
By delivering food to his door, Liang Run collected a lot of news about Beijing. Most of these messages are very useful.
At this time, Zhao Yao was devouring hot pot.
Liang Run saw that his nephew was eating well and his appetite had improved a lot.
The nephews and uncles were eating hot pot happily while talking about recent events.
"Ever since the news of King Dai's victory in Liangzhou came back to the capital, there has been a lot of talk about his previous military exploits. Now when King Dai is mentioned, people will say that he is a great hero."
"This should be the work of Marquis Xuanping. He wanted the people in the capital to know about the various military exploits of the second brother, so that the people would think that the current peace in the Zhou Dynasty was brought about by King Dai." Zhao Yao had a small picture His mouth turned red, "Xuan Pinghou is doing this to build momentum for the second brother."
"Now the common people feel that they should add pearls to the king, and they feel that this is what the king deserves." Liang Run said, "In fact, giving pearls to the king is also a good thing for you. When you grow up and become a king, you will definitely add pearls to the king." beads.”
Zhao Yao waved his hand and said, "I'm not interested in adding beads or not." To be precise, it doesn't matter. When he grows up, he still doesn’t know what the situation is like. Besides, he has no interest in that position, and adding beads or not is of little use to him.
"I heard that adding beads will increase the size of the fiefdom and increase the salary. Are you not interested?"
"Second uncle, I'm not favored. When I grow up and become a king, my father will most likely reward me with Qingzhou." Qingzhou is the smallest of all the states, and its geographical location is not important. The most important thing is It's because Qingzhou is very poor now, and there are often pirates. "By the way, you said before that my uncle was buying a restaurant. Have you bought it yet?"
"It's on the plate, but it's just a small restaurant." Liang Run rinsed the meat, picked it up and put it into Zhao Yao's bowl, "Your uncle is renovating the restaurant now, it will take a while."
Zhao Yao's uncle is Liang Yu. Before going to Qingzhou, he first went to the capital to meet Zhao Yao and others. Zhao Yao gave him a lot of things, such as the modern food Zhao Yao ate in his dream and the drawings of the restaurant decoration.
With these things, Liang Yu's restaurant will definitely make money.
"The restaurant will definitely be able to open in the second half of the year." Liang Run continued, "In addition to being busy with the restaurant, your uncle also went to meet with local officials and wealthy gentry in Qingzhou."
When Zhao Yao saw Liang Run suddenly frowning, he put down his chopsticks and asked, "Is it difficult to deal with the officials and wealthy gentry over there in Qingzhou?"
Liang Run nodded lightly: "Although Qingzhou is small, the forces there are complicated and it is more difficult to break into them."
"Money can make the world go round." Zhao Yao said, "As long as you give enough money, you can break into them."
"You're right." His nephew is as smart as his sister. It's a pity that the Liang family has no power. Not only can't they help him fight for that position, but they may also hold him back. As a result, his sister and he did not dare to compete for that position.
With the intelligence of my sister and Yaoyao, it would be a pity not to fight for that position.
