Lingquan County Zui Chunfeng Teahouse, elegant room on the second floor.
A group of officials looked at Yang Zhen with fear in their eyes. They knew clearly that this was the Hongmen Banquet, but they did not dare not to come.
Not everyone has the courage of Jia Li, and not everyone like Jia Li can be appreciated by the little saint.
Yang Zhen convened a group of classics and historians to discuss the matter. The content was that the government requested that Chidao be built according to Qin Shihuang's method.
Yang Zhen was very happy now. It turned out that Jia Li, who was against him, had been kicked out of the team of code officials, which established his authority among a group of code officials.
He glanced around, full of majesty, coughed, and put down the tea cup in his hand: "Everyone, now the government requires that the track be added. This is a necessary requirement of the government. Now we should get on the track."
His tone was no longer a discussion, but a direct order on behalf of the government.
Yin Zhen turned out to be a miscellaneous clerk who gave Yang Zhen heavy gifts and was recommended by Yang Zhen as Xu Yue.
After Xu Yue accepted Yin Zhen's generous gift, he wanted to promote Yin Zhen to the clerk of the miscellaneous room.
In addition to the support of the chief registrar Chen Qin, this move was strongly opposed by the county magistrate Cheng Liang and the registrar Li Zhihao of Taoyuan Town.
Their reason is very strong, that is, the original house inspector, Jia Li, passed the scholar examination. If Yin Acupuncture can pass the scholar examination, they have no objection.
Xu Yue had no choice but to hate Zhao Ping deeply.
Zhao Ping was blocking his way of making money, preventing him from appointing officials as he wished.
Although Yin Zhen could not be directly appointed as the official, Xu Mou gave him a compromise.
Although Yin Zhen is not the official of the house inspection, he presides over the house inspection affairs on behalf of the government.
In other words, Jia Li's interrogator was originally a formal official, but now Yin Zhen is a temporary official.
Yin Zhen was a little disappointed, but he also knew that Xu Yue had tried his best. After all, he was the boss in the interrogation room.
As long as Xu Yue is still in Lingquan County, Yin Zhen will always be the boss of the house inspection.
At this time, Yang Zhen turned his eyes towards the Yin Needle after saying that the government asked for additional tracks.
Yin Zhen's expression changed drastically. He spent a lot of money to become a temporary pian from a minor official.
Although his father was a businessman, he had already spent almost all his money to become a pawnbroker.
Now Yang Zhen is looking at him, hoping that he will take the lead in supporting his ideas.
He thought for a while, then said bravely: "I have no objection to this."
After saying that, he looked at the others with a helpless expression.
However, what he said was very skillful. He only agreed with himself and did not represent others, nor did he mean to persuade others.
Yang Zhen was a little unhappy when he heard this, but he had no better way.
Yin Acupuncture has made great efforts to express this opinion under such circumstances.
Yin Zhen actually has the lowest status among a group of officials.
Except for Yin Zhen, all the officials present had passed the scholar examination.
This is like the imperial examination. Except for whether Yin Zhen is taking the imperial examination route or donating an official position, the rest are all taking the imperial examination route.
Although Zhao Ping's scholar examination was not an upright scientific examination of the imperial court, it was recognized by the imperial court.
Isn't it? The top three scholars in the examination were also awarded the qualification of Jinshi by the imperial court.
In fact, Zhao Ping's scholar examination was no less difficult than the Jinshi examination, and in some aspects it was even more difficult than the imperial examination.
If the imperial examination was focused on theory, Zhao Ping's examination was more practical.
If you just read the Four Books and Five Classics familiarly without any practical experience, you may even be eliminated at the first level.
Zhao Ping's examination not only included knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, but also knowledge of how to deal with it at the grassroots level, which completely made up for the shortcomings of the imperial examination, so it was recognized by the imperial court.
The reason why Jia Li was fired by Xu Yue was because he publicly confronted Xu Yue, and finally he was dismissed by him for his great righteousness of accumulating good deeds.
Except for Jia Li, the other seven houses were not involved in this aspect, and Xu Yue did not fire them again.
At this time, Qin Xian took out his abacus and flicked it for a while.
He glanced at everyone, and finally turned his attention to Yang Zhen: "Yang Dianli, if we build the track painted with tung paint according to the government's requirements, the cost will almost double."
The expressions of everyone present changed drastically, including Yang Zhen.
But when Yang Zhen saw everyone looking at him, he knew that his expression had been noticed by others.
He quickly calmed down and said hurriedly: "Everyone, this is a rare opportunity to accumulate good deeds and go down in history."
"Bah, in order to climb up, you used me to give you a stepping stone." Qin Xian wanted to open his mouth and curse, but in the end he forced himself to keep the words in his heart, "Your family has money, but my family has no money. .”
"Yang Dianli, we can't open the pot anymore at home." Qin Xian thought for a while and said with a bow.
He simply cried about poverty, but in fact, his family was really in trouble.
Last time they and the clerks pooled money to give Xu Yue a golden rat, and then each of them donated one month's salary.
After two sweeping searches by Xu Yue, Xu Yue swept away all the benefits Zhao Ping had given them.
Now they can't help but miss the little sage and his former magistrate Liang Shanqiu.
This Xu Zhixian is indeed a scholar. He can't wait to get on the horse before he has thought about the standards for Chi Dao.
As a result, when Chidao was halfway through construction, he suddenly asked to rebuild it. Didn't he slap himself in the face?
It doesn't matter if he slaps himself in the face, but it's a pity that a group of officials working at the grassroots level will suffer the same fate.
With Qin Xian taking the lead, the other five families also followed suit, bowing their hands to Yang Zhen and saying, "Yang Dianli, we can't open the pot at home."
"Everyone, this is the intention of the two ministers of the imperial court." Yang Zhen's expression changed greatly, and he simply carried the two ministers of the imperial court out.
There are eight houses in Lingquan County, and except for Yang Zhen and Yin Zhen, everyone hates Yang Zhen deeply.
Seeing that Yang Zhen still refused to let go, Jiang Mingli bowed his hand and said, "Yang Dianli, I'll go and relieve myself."
Yang Zhen took them to the teahouse today and made up his mind to let them go if they didn't agree.
But Jiang Mingli asked for urination, so he had to agree. After all, everyone has three emergencies.
Jiang Mingli came to the hut, just to relieve himself.
But he came out immediately, went to the tea room on the first floor, and asked a waiter: "Waiter, is there any news?"
"Master, the shopkeeper won't let the waiter leave." The waiter looked a little aggrieved.
Jiang Mingli felt a little heartbroken, so he took out ten copper coins from his sleeve and handed it to the waiter.
After the waiter took it, he immediately put it in his pocket: "Master, just now the waiter took the risk and sneaked out to inquire about the news."
"What's the news?" Jiang Mingli couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This was all the fault of the new county magistrate, forcing him to ask me for travel expenses. Little did he know that I would soon be unable to reveal the blame.
The waiter put his hands together in the shape of a trumpet and whispered: "The Su family and the Chen family agreed to the renovation, but asked the government to compensate. The reason is that the government has not formulated unified standards, and they have already repaired half of it."
"Waiter, the barbarians in the elegant room want to serve tea." The shopkeeper shouted when he saw that the waiter had not served tea to the guests in the elegant room.
The waiter bowed his hands in a bow, expressed his humility and left, carrying a teapot to serve tea to the guests in the private room on the second floor.
This news was enough. Jiang Mingli was overjoyed and hurried up to the private room on the second floor.
After Jiang Mingli left, the room fell into silence, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Jiang Mingli said he went out to relieve himself, but why didn't he come back after a cup of tea?
Everyone looked at each other. Could it be that Jiang Mingli used urination as an excuse to escape?
Qin Xian couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was a good idea.
He bowed his hands to Yang Zhen and said, "Yang Dianli, I need to relieve myself."
Yang Zhen couldn't help but get furious. You guys wanted to run away with this excuse, but there was no way.
You can escape the first grade of junior high school, but can you escape the fifteenth grade?
Thinking of this, he made up his mind and had no choice but to agree.
Qin Xian just opened the curtain and went out when he met Jiang Mingli.
Qin Xian couldn't help but be stunned. Didn't Jiang Mingli leave with an excuse? Why did he come back again? He had no choice but to follow Jiang Mingli back to the private room.
Jiang Mingli bowed his hand to Yang Zhen and said, "Tell Yang Dianli, I just met an acquaintance when I went out. He told me some news about the relationship between the Su family and the Chen family."
"Chidao news, what news is it?" Qin Xian didn't even bother to go out, looked at Jiang Mingli and asked immediately.
Jiang Mingli glanced at everyone, his voice a little excited: "The Su family and the Chen family agreed to renew."
"As expected." Yang Zhen couldn't help but be overjoyed. Now he could justifiably ask them to add a track to this section of the road.
Everyone looked pale, and Qin Xian was even more shaken.
He thought Jiang Mingli brought back good news, but he didn't expect that it turned out to be bad news.
Since it was bad news, why did Jiang Mingli rush back to tell everyone?
Qin Xian wanted to beat Jiang Mingli severely, but he had no courage, and only had anger in his eyes. Jiang Mingli didn't care what everyone thought, but continued according to his own thinking: "But the Su family and the Chen family have conditions, and this condition is that the government must compensate."
"Compensation from the government? How is that possible?" Yang Zhen couldn't believe his ears.
Jiang Mingli also felt strange, but he continued: "The two families also have their own upright reasons. That is, the government did not publish unified standards at first, and they have already repaired half the mileage according to their own standards."
If the Su family hadn't taken the lead, the Chen family would have lost their teeth.
Now that the Su family is taking the lead, the Chen family is naturally unwilling to suffer unexpected losses.
"Yang Dianli, we can't uncover the pot anymore. If we want to add tracks, I'm not afraid of losing the government's face, so I have no choice but to go out and beg." Seeing Yang Zhen's hesitation, Qin Xian immediately expressed his attitude.
After Qin Xian expressed his stance, several other officials also expressed their stance, and they had no choice but to go out to beg.
In fact, Qin Xian didn't say anything yet. He might not know how to beg. He might bring his family to Yang Zhen's house to beg.
Rabbits are timid enough, but they will bite people when they are in a hurry.
Jiang Mingli suddenly laughed at himself: "Even if we are quite beggars, I am afraid that no one will give us money. Who is not extremely poor now?"
Jiang Mingli said this to Qin Xian on the surface, but in fact he meant it to Yang Zhen.
When Yang Zhen heard this, he couldn't help but feel his face burning.
If these people come to his house to beg, what should he do? Should he give it or not?
"Since the Su family and the Chen family demand compensation, we will wait and see what happens." Thinking of this, he had no choice but to say this.
Everyone was a little disappointed. They didn't expect that Yang Zhen was so timid and didn't dare to mention compensation.
But if they can get Yang Zhen to make concessions, they have mostly succeeded.
There is another private room in the teahouse.
Qian Duoduo was anxious and kept circling the coffee table.
The accountant Qian Cheng, who was around fifty, did not dare to talk to him, so he could only concentrate on drinking boring tea.
Seeing the waiter coming up, Qian Duoduo gave him a handful of copper coins and stuffed them into his hand.
The boy weighed his hand and said, "Sure enough, the businessman is rich, much more than Mr. Jiang."
With a smile on his face, he repeated what he said to Jiang Mingli.
Qian Duoduo bowed his hands to Qian Cheng and said, "Uncle Clan, what should we do?"
"Let me think about it." Qian Cheng fell into thinking while drinking tea.
Qian Duoduo didn't dare to disturb Qian Cheng and looked at Qian Cheng while drinking tea.
Qian Cheng thought for a while over a cup of tea, then finally raised his head and said slowly: "We are businessmen and are not qualified to negotiate terms with the government. Just wait and see what happens."
"What if the government doesn't agree?" Qian Duoduo blurted out in a hurry.
Qian Cheng thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "If there was only the Su family, it might be nothing this time, but there is still a force this time, and Xuzhi County has to consider it."
"What kind of force is it that makes Xuzhi County so afraid?" Qian Duoduo didn't understand for a moment and felt a little baffled.
After all, Xu Yue had an extraordinary background, and he had two husbands from the current dynasty as backers.
Qian Cheng pointed in the direction of Jintang County: "There is also a little sage. Didn't the little sage say through the "Da Song Zhonghua News" that there is a big problem with Qin Shihuang's Chi Dao?"
"What's the problem?" Qian Duoduo couldn't help but be overjoyed. He bowed his hands and asked, "Why doesn't my nephew know?"
"Qin Shihuang's horse racing must require carriages on the same track. Xuzhi County agreed to this, but the people did not agree. Does he dare to require all passing carriages to ride on the same track?" Qian Cheng shook his head and sighed, " This is against the people of the world."
"Yes, yes, the trains are on the same track. No one in the world can do it except Qin Shihuang." Qian Duoduo couldn't help but be overjoyed and bowed to Qian Cheng, "Thank you, uncle."
Lingquan County Yamen.
Xu Yue swept the official documents on the desk to the ground, pointed in the direction of Su, and yelled: "Su, you are a villain."
"Sir, please calm down." Xu Mou kept persuading while cleaning up.
"He's just a villain." Xu Yue's chest heaved up and down, pointing in the direction of the Su family, still yelling, "Uncle, the Su family is really ungrateful, forgetting the Xu family and Xie family's care for him, and actually dare to make conditions? "
"Sir, this is a government office, so be careful about the impact." Xu Mou looked outside and said cautiously.
After Xu Yue vented his anger, he felt calmer and his voice changed.
He bowed his hands to Xu Mou and said, "Uncle, what should my nephew do now?"
