Even sitting in the living room, he didn't even have a cup of hot tea all day, and he didn't even have a bite of rice. No servant came to remind him, and he ran out with the servant who reported the news without even having time to reprimand him for such a major mistake. When he discovered that the soaked corpse was really his son. He, who was already exhausted mentally and physically at this moment, collapsed immediately.
Although this son was a bit cowardly, he was the only surviving son among the three sons and two daughters born to his wife and concubines. Although they are married now, they don't even have a grandchild. He had been complaining that his daughter-in-law had not even given birth to a child after more than two years of marriage. I originally planned to give my son two concubines in order to continue the family tradition.
I also plan to take in a few more concubines after being promoted, and work hard to have more sons, so as to expand as many branches as possible for the old Liao family. As a result, the situation is now overwhelming. Not to mention a few new concubines, even the original wives and concubines are nowhere to be found. His own son disappeared without even a word, so how could he not collapse?
After all, it was the Chang'an Mansion in Xijing of Da Qi Dynasty where high-ranking officials and dignitaries gathered. For this kind of murder case, which was not very difficult to investigate, the efficiency of this official was not high. In particular, this murder case also involves a deputy envoy of Jiedu, a current official who is not high, but certainly not low. The officials of the Chang'an Mansion worked very diligently in the investigation and quickly found out the facts of the case.
When I rushed over after receiving the news, I didn't know whether it was to comfort this middle-aged old colleague who had lost his son, or to laugh at his colleagues in the Chang'an Prefecture. I learned that my son had probably slipped and fallen into Qujiang River and drowned after drinking a lot of alcohol last night. Mr. Liao, who knew very well why his son, who was not good at drinking, drank so much yesterday, could only suppress the pain in his heart.
Carrying his son's body back to the mansion, he could not find his daughter-in-law, who should be mourning. Even his son's mother and sister disappeared together, making it impossible for him to even hold a funeral. He was afraid that the news that all the women in his family had disappeared would spread, and he would be embarrassed to see the world. He could only buy a coffin, hastily bury his son without even choosing a date.
As the saying goes, misfortune never comes singly. Before he could lose his son, his wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, and two concubines all disappeared, and his dignified third-grade Jiedu deputy envoy almost became a joke in Chang'an City. Slow down. A transfer order from the capital made him even more painful. This transfer order asked him to hand in the seal immediately and transfer him to the deputy envoy of Henan Road Jiedu.
I paid the price of almost losing my family and my life, but in the end I just moved from the shit hole to the urine hole. He was the deputy envoy of Jiedu in Shaanxi Road, but he was still the deputy envoy when he was transferred to Henan Road. Even your rank has not changed. You were a third-grade official at Shaanxi Road, and you will also be a third-grade official when you were transferred to Henan Road. There should be no real power, and there is still no real power. Even if I get to Henan, who will take care of me?
The only good thing is that he no longer has to face the jokes of the people in Chang'an City. But without real power, there is no way to make a fortune. If you can't make a fortune, what's the use of having a higher grade? I have been a poor official for half my life. Naturally, Deputy Envoy Liao was not dissatisfied with this result. He opened his mouth and shut up to see the King of England, and repeatedly stated that he would never take office without meeting the King of England.
This made several officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Privy Council who came to announce the decree very impatient. The next actions of these people did not look like they were reading out his transfer order, but instead seemed like they came specifically to escort him to take office. Although he was very impatient with his complaints. If you talk too much, you will become cold-eyed. He thought about delaying it for a while, saying that when he found his family and went to Bianzhou to take office, no one would pay attention to him at all.
He had no choice but to pack his luggage and hit the road with his only remaining daughter. But before he reached the capital, another order came from the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War. The reason is that the Miao border area has been experiencing unrest recently and is in urgent need of capable officials to pacify it. He was asked to transfer from Wu to Wen, and he was immediately transferred to Fuyi Tongzhi of Qianzhong Road with the rank of third grade, and concurrently served as Tea Horse Salt Road of Qianzhong Road.
After receiving this transfer from the official department, this guy who had been frowning all the way immediately beamed with joy. Without him, although it is a pity to switch from a military attaché to a civilian official. In any case, he had never been a civil servant and was very unfamiliar with local government affairs. Moreover, during that whole day, the Fuyi Tongzhi of the Yi tribe was either involved in tribal fights or internal strife.
Although he is in charge of the affairs of the Yi tribes throughout central Guizhou, he is also in charge of the tribute paid by these tribes. The Zhengzheng envoy has always been concurrently held by the Qianzhong Road pacification envoy, but he is actually the deputy envoy responsible for overall affairs. It seems that he has quite a lot of power, and can barely be considered a wealthy person. But in his opinion, this job, dealing with the Yi tribes in the deep mountains and forests all day long, was a complete chore.
But the Tea Horse Salt Road, which was in charge of the entire Qianzhong Road and the tea horse salt trade tax, was not an ordinary job. Although he has never been an official in any field, he has served as a military envoy on West Sichuan Road. But he knew it very clearly. In the southwest region of Da Qi, especially in the areas where barbarians are mixed, the most abundant shortage is not the prefects or prefects in those areas, let alone officials such as chief envoys.
It was the tea and salt road who were in charge of the tea-horse salt trade and taxation. When these people open their mouths, a large amount of money comes into their accounts every year. Qianzhong Road does not produce salt, so all the salt needs to be transported from the two rivers that produce salt. Therefore, there was no special salt road yamen, but the three affairs of tea, horse and salt were centralized into one yamen. Every year, not counting the tea horse, I have to pay a salt tax.
What excites him most is that because Qianzhong Road borders the Dali Kingdom, the Tea Horse Salt Road not only manages these three matters, but also actually manages the trade taxation with the Dali Kingdom. Therefore, in the eyes of Mr. Liao, this Tea Horse Salt Road has become a good thing. After receiving this transfer, I thought it was the King of England who was secretly helping this guy.
I was so happy that I stopped looking for my wife and didn't care about anything, not even the pain of losing my son. It's different from going to Henan Road to take office and dilly-dallying along the way. After receiving this transfer order, this guy didn't wait this time. The officials who were actually escorting him urged him. He immediately turned south in a hurry, took the voucher issued by the Ministry of Personnel, and rushed to Qianzhong Road to take office. went.
As a result, when he arrived at Qianzhong Road, he discovered that what he regarded as a top and a fat position was the tea and salt affairs in the Tea Horse Salt Road. Because of this shortage, it has been vacant for five or six years. And this tax is the main annual revenue of Qianzhong Road, which is not even three feet flat. Therefore, at the moment, Qianzhong Road has always been in charge of the Zuo Shenzheng, which is affiliated with the Pacifying Envoy. The matter of trade with Dali is under the charge of You Shenzheng.
Moreover, except for himself, everyone in the Tea Horse Salt Road Yamen was their confidant. He was relying on the pacifier behind his back, so he didn't like his new appointment at all. He didn't even distinguish the southeast from the northwest, and the account book was a mess. The only thing he can actually manage on the Tea Horse Salt Road is horse affairs. There are only two items, the fattest tea and salt, and you can’t even touch the edges.
It is true that Qianzhong Road produces horses, and not only Qianzhong Road, but also the surrounding Liangchuan Road, Huguang South Road, and Dali Capital opposite. However, the horses produced on Qianzhong Road are too small. It was even smaller than the donkeys he saw in Shaanxi when he was on the road in Shaanxi. It has to deal with carrying goods on mountain roads. If it is used as a cavalry war horse, it is estimated that the cavalry on it will not have to run even if it is wearing heavy armor, and the pressure will be crushed.
In addition, horses are produced in the surrounding areas. As soon as he took office, he was squeezed out and could only manage horse affairs. The Tea Horse Salt Road almost became a decoration. That yamen was also located at Qixingguan, because barbarian affairs were cumbersome and complicated, and no one was willing to touch them. Even the pacifying envoy who also served as the principal envoy, the deputy envoy to Fuyi who was avoided by all, was the position where he could really perform his duties.
Moreover, this person who is also in charge of two areas of trading with the barbarians has a little bit of profit. Only then did Deputy Liao, who had once been disappointed and even desperate, calm down. The surrounding Yi tribes are also very knowledgeable. After this guy arrived, he also prepared some gifts, which in a disguised way comforted this guy's heart, which was seriously injured after being excluded on the Yancha Horse Road.
Although most of those gifts were bamboo weavings, animal skins, medicinal materials and the like. But there are also good things like rhino horns, deer antlers, and tiger bones. After all, in this era, there are still rhinos in China. The Central Guizhou Road was the main producing area of rhinos even until hundreds of years later, before rhinos were completely extinct in China. So there is at least no shortage of rhino horns here.
What comforted him the most was that the leaders who came to see his newly appointed deputy envoy did not know about the dirty things he had done before. I saw this man taking office alone, with no one to take care of him except a young daughter. After returning, he sent him a dozen foreign girls and slaves to serve him in his daily life and help him take care of his daughter.
After getting this, he gave up and stayed at Qixing Pass honestly, enjoying raising his two concubine daughters every day. Or with those barbarian women, lingering on the bed all day long. As for the idea of getting promoted and making a fortune, it has long since faded away. He put most of his thoughts into working hard with those barbarian women, hoping to give birth to another son as soon as possible.
At the moment, his thoughts are so light that it has been less than a month since he arrived at Qianzhong Road. Just as the imperial court dispensed with his decoration, there was no fluctuation in the Tea Horse Salt Road, which he had no control over. Of course, it is impossible for him to say that there is really no fluctuation at all. However, his slight fluctuation was placed on missing his once harmonious family, his virtuous wife, and his filial children.
To be precise, it was the reason why he gave up on being promoted. It was something he wanted to understand after calming down. If by this time he still doesn't know who is plotting against him, his years as an official will be in vain. It's just that what he doesn't understand is what he did wrong. Being demoted from Shaanxi Road to Central Guizhou Road was like being silenced by the British King?
In fact, this guy didn't know, so he just did what he did in Chang'an. Not for the sake of his wife, and the daughter-in-law and daughter who later became Huang Qiong's concubine, Huang Qiong's character of not rubbing sand in his eyes would have moved his head a long time ago. After all, he almost killed the whole family's women. Even if the initiator is this guy himself.
But no matter what, Huang Qiong, who had taken advantage of it, was embarrassed to be too heavy-handed. Huang Qiong transferred him from Shaanxi to Henan, just to put him at Yu Mingyuan's place to watch him and not let him talk nonsense. As for him being sent to Qianzhong Road, it was not Huang Qiong's idea, but that he was more ruthless in terms of evildoers. Huang Qiong, who is better at going straight, has a much darker hand than Yong Wangzhi.
