Gao Gan and Liang Chuan were old acquaintances, and they were filled with emotion when they reunited after a long absence. With his cautious and cautious character, senior cadres have become more and more successful. Although Liang Chuan's situation is also very novel, his current situation is also very sad.
Sun Houpu said outside the door: "Third brother, there are many people here, why don't you go and sit in the Forbidden City?"
The senior official didn't have the time to think about the Forbidden City as a happy place. He was only thinking about what he had just done. Liang Chuan smiled and said, "Brother, just relax, I will take care of this matter, and everything will be fine." !”
It was the same words at the beginning that kept senior cadres from being unlucky and gave them the green light to become official. He naturally believed Liang Chuan's words. To be honest, he had heard about Liang Chuan's deeds since he came to Bianjing, but he thought he had the same name. He was still wondering if the old man from the ravine had come to Bianjing. What an unexpected encounter!
Gao Gan dismissed his men and asked Boss Zhou to clean up the shop. He took off his armor and followed Liang Chuan and others to the Forbidden City.
"It's been a long time, Lord Gao!" Back then, Sun Houpu followed his father and had lots of dealings with Gao Gan. However, Gao Gan had no impression of Sun Houpu. He didn't realize it until Sun Houpu woke him up!
"Your Sun family is a wealthy owner!" He never expected that the Sun family would develop in Bianjing several steps ahead of him, and even create a magical place as big as the Forbidden City.
He didn't know Sun Houpu, but he knew Sun Houpu's father. He thought that when he was on duty in Qingyuan, the Sun family paid him a lot of filial piety. When he came to Bianjing, he was new to Bianjing and his foundation was not stable. Otherwise, he would be a big family like the Forbidden City. Money bag!
He also heard that the Forbidden City was so profitable, so he wanted to take down the shop opposite, demolish it and build a new building. One day he would also build a gold-selling cave. Xia Song, the magistrate, was offended. Not to mention building a building, he would be miserable in Bianjing from now on!
"Your Majesty, this is a joke. I hope you will take more care of my little place in the future!" Sun Houpu said with a smile.
Gao Gan asked curiously: "How did the boy from your Sun family get acquainted with Liang Chuan?"
Liang Chuan said: "You have forgotten that when we fought against the anti-people in Xinghua, we still relied on the supplies sent by Sun Houpu. I had friends with him at that time, but you didn't know it!"
"Then you dare to love me earlier than Lao Gao. You are also a capable person, Sun family doll. You don't sell good tea, but you have a building like this!"
Sun Houpu just smiled without explaining too much.
"I told you what are you going to do in that shop?"
Gao Gan shook his head and said: "I'm not jealous of your Forbidden City's daily prosperity, but Gao Gao and I have also thought about opening a restaurant of my own. If I go back and beat your Forbidden City, all the business will become ours!"
Shitou said: "Master Gao, the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple. Fortunately, the building is still in the dirt, otherwise you wouldn't be able to steal this business from Third Brother!"
Gao Gan smiled bitterly and said: "How dare I steal Liang Sanlang's business!"
Liang Chuan asked: "Aren't you an official in Yangzhou or somewhere? When did you come to Bianjing?"
"Gaoyou regiment training envoy! Since Qingyuan soldiers and horses were all supervised, he went to Gaoyou to work as a regiment training envoy for several years."
"That place looks like it's rich as hell!"
Gao Gan smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I would also like to thank you, Sanlang!"
"no need thank me?"
"If I hadn't followed you in Qingyuan, my younger brother would still be half-dead now, earning not even enough to cover his own expenses. Ever since he followed you, he would have received a fixed amount of dividends from the Qingyuan Pier every month. My younger brother also He simply knew that I had to take care of a lot of things, so he kept sending them to me. It's funny to say that when I first went to places like Gaoyou, the big textile and silk owners had rich owners, and they paid me well for all kinds of filial piety. Gao Chun sent a lot of money."
Liang Chuan smiled crookedly and said: "Don't tell me, your brother is not that good. Your sister-in-law, Mrs. Xu, is really a great person. She is calm and quick-witted when encountering problems. She helped me solve them after you left Quanzhou." solved many difficult problems.”
"I'm not afraid of making you laugh. You Liang Sanlang is my noble one. My incompetent younger brother is my younger brother and sister-in-law, Mrs. Xu. If she hadn't been behind the scenes all these years, my stupid brother would have been sold by others and she would have helped count the money." !”
"Speaking of money, Brother Gao, I also received money from you!"
"Small money is nothing. We help each other. My brother later made a lot of money thanks to your big mountain. My promotion was inseparable from Brother Kong Fang's guidance. All this money was given to me by my brother. They all gave away tens of thousands of guan. I was shocked. I didn’t expect that Qingyuan Port, a golden mountain, had so much wealth. Even if I were killed, I wouldn’t leave. But I had to leave. I thought that since I came I'll just settle for it, anyway, if I have money on hand, I'll give banquets and send them everywhere. Finally, I, Lao Gao, have opened up connections in the Huaiyang area, and I can have both sides in the officialdom."
Gao Gan talked a lot, but did not mention how he came to Bianjing at all. Gao Gan said slowly: "If this is the case, I might also be in Gaoyou for a while, which would be beneficial. Who knows, wherever my mother-in-law, Gao, I go, there will be those who are against the people!"
Everyone was shocked. They were all from Xinghua and had experienced the rebellion. It was actually caused by the government's tight pressure. The water network in Huaiyang is densely covered, and Suhu Lake is famous all over the world. The people in this land of plenty can still live happily even if they don't farm and go to the city to make a living. Why can't the people here survive?
"Are you kidding me? There were so many rebels during our government period?"
Gao Gan said bitterly: "More! These two years have also been good years, but what the hell has happened. From south to north, there have been more than a dozen riots and rebellions, large and small, in Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, and in Guangdong and Guangdong in the north. There are two lakes in Shu, and even Huaiyang there are people who dare to make trouble with the imperial court!"
"Why did you Gaoyou rebel?"
"No one can explain the rebellion of the mulberry farmers, and it's not that they can't survive. These people are just more hypocritical than us people in the south!"
Liang Chuan asked: "Is it possible that you were promoted to official after pacifying this rebellion?"
The old cadre's face turned red inadvertently and then disappeared without a trace: "Hey, the only ones we can fight in the Song Dynasty are the Western Army. We have to hope that the local Tibetan soldiers can defeat those anti-people, sows can climb trees. Got it!"
Gao Gan gave up and said: "The folk customs in Gaoyou are also strange. The people do not believe in gods, Buddhas, ghosts and evil spirits. They only talk about money in everything. When the rebels came, Zhijun asked me what to do. I thought If we can’t fight again and again, we just spend money to eliminate the disaster, and this Zhijun actually agreed to it!”
The three people were stunned and couldn't believe this operation.
"Successful?" Shitou asked curiously.
"It must have been successful, otherwise Lao Gao and I would be dead now. Grandma, you have never seen that scene, and we didn't even need to be mobilized as officials. The local wealthy households were scared to death themselves, and the neighbors in the countryside all spontaneously The locals organized themselves to donate money to the army, and in one day they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars!"
Liang Chuan said: "Aren't you afraid that these thieves will take your money and be greedy, and they will continue to attack Gaoyou? What if they have money, their wings are hard, they buy food and weapons, and they turn around and attack Gaoyou again, won't you? Have they all become capital thieves?"
Sun Houpu said: "Yes, this is just like gambling with the lives of the people in the city, isn't it? Although the bet is won, it does not mean that this approach is right?"
Gao Gan said: "You don't understand this. The people in Gaoyou have not been able to rebel for three years. They started it just to make some money. Now that they have the money, most of the thieves put down their weapons and went back to farming honestly." , they can't make any waves. To the north are the Liao people, to the south are Suzhou and Hangzhou, and a little further west is almost to Bianjing. There are dead ends everywhere, and the smartest people are those who take the money and leave!"
Liang Chuan said: "This trend cannot last long. If there is chaos somewhere in the future, other officials will follow your example and use money to settle the situation. It will only become more and more difficult to suppress the rebels!"
"Then there's nothing we can do. In our Song Dynasty, the husband is in charge of the world. It's good if the general can survive. Where can there be a warrior? Is it right to be defeated?"
Liang Chuan sighed and said, "So you used this dishonorable method to repel the rebels in Gaoyou, so you still took advantage of it and got promoted?"
The senior officer chuckled and said: "I'm ashamed to say that I spent a lot of money to send me to Bianjing. I followed the right Master Yang. Master Yang took advantage of Gaoyou's withdrawal from the army and promoted me to Bianjing as a patrol officer." Checked!"
He paused and said, "There were many people in the imperial court who actually wanted to kill a few of us. Fortunately, Mr. Lu came forward to help them break the siege and save us!"
"Lu Yijian?"
"Yes, Mr. Lu advised the officials that our approach was not advisable, but if our troops were strong enough to resist the traitors and we bribed them, then according to law we should be executed. However, Gaoyou had been at peace for decades at that time, and its armaments were Loose weapons are even more inadequate. The people themselves are willing to spend their money to eliminate disasters and buy peace. If we are punished in this situation, it is obviously contrary to the law!"
Liang Chuan said: "Master Lu's departure is a loss for the imperial court. Master Lu's reasoning is certainly to convince the officials, but I'm afraid there are deeper considerations. Have you noticed that rebellions in the world have become more and more frequent in recent years? ?”
Everyone nodded.
"Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, we have had a tradition of not killing scholar-bureaucrats. If we kill these princes today because of strategic mistakes, then the butcher's knife can be freely extended to any official in the future. This is the trend that these scholars least want to see. Arrived!"
The three people believed that the literati were also afraid of their lives. This precedent of killing a scholar-official must not be set!
"You have become a legend all the way, so let's follow the old method. You beat the manager of Xia Song's family. This is a mistake. If you make a mistake, you must make up for it. Get some money out of it. , even if you pay for Qiu Fu’s soup and medicine!”
"How much is appropriate?"
"The more money, the better!"
"Is one hundred thousand guan enough? I can give the boss of the Xia family a 'Tang Yao Gang', which can be regarded as a token of appreciation!"
Liang Chuan said: "That's enough, that's enough. Lao Gao, you are indeed a generous person. This matter will be taken care of by me. But what I want to talk to you about now is about that shop. To be honest, I have a crush on that shop!"
Gao Gan waved his hands and said: "Brother, it's too late for me to give you what you like. If you like it, just take it. Brother, I'm not a businessman. Now I'm still trying to make such a big deal, and I don't want to argue with the Xia family anymore. It’s too short!”
"Okay, then I will send this shop and Tang Yao Gang to Xia Mansion together!"
