Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty-Second Long Water Hu Riding
Wang Wenshu walked up the steps of Weiyang Palace. He felt that his feet were shaking, and the hand holding the ribbon was white with nervousness. ↖,
Face to face!!!
This is something Wang Wenshu never dared to think about in the past.
And today, the dream came true!
Wang Wenshu breathed out a little, but he himself didn't quite believe that his fate had experienced such a big reversal in the past year.
In the examination last year, he finally made it to the third round, and his final results were not bad.
At the beginning, Wang Wenshu was informed that he had been assigned to Huayin County under Neishi and would be appointed as the county magistrate of Huayin County, with a rank of four hundred stones.
This position has a very high starting point.
Huayin County has always been a large county in Guanzhong, with various forces mixed together, which is very suitable for people like Wang Wenshu to display their talents.
What's more important is that Huayin County has a censor stationed by the Censor's Office, which means that every move can be heard by heaven. If there is a result, the emperor will know it immediately.
The history of governing Su Nei during the dynasty was straight. He initially made achievements as the magistrate of Huayin County and was promoted by Emperor Taizong.
It’s just that there are unforeseen circumstances!
Before Wang Wenshu even had time to put out a drink to celebrate, a bolt from the blue exploded in front of his eyes. The relevant departments of the Shaofu and the Prime Minister's Office, which were responsible for selecting officials, actually gave him a "bad facial features" after interviewing him.
'evaluation of.
This evaluation is really terrible!
You know, the Han Dynasty was a regime based on appearance.
A guy with a crooked appearance and cracked dates is equivalent to abandoning the official career. Even if he is not handsome enough, he barely enters the official career. The future is also very limited.
Wang Wenshu asked himself, although he is not a great man and his appearance is not earth-shatteringly handsome, but his face, in any case, cannot be considered as the so-called "improper facial features", right?
As for dignity, it is the foundation of being an official. How can an official without dignity suppress the officials and people below? How can he make the people obey?
After learning the results of the interview, Wang Wenshu really wanted to chop up the officials who were in charge of the interview.
But the evaluations of the Shaofu and the Prime Minister's House, let alone ordinary people like Wang Wenshu, who came from a humble background, and even the descendants of princes, probably cannot change it.
Only the Sangong and Jiuqing, the most trusted ministers of the Emperor, can make the Young Master and the Prime Minister's Mansion swallow back what they say.
Wang Wenshu naturally cannot make any waves.
Not even qualified to flutter!
Fortunately, as soon as he learned the result of the interview, someone came to his door.
The emperor's confidant and personal chamberlain, the great eunuch Wang Dao, personally came to visit with gifts, gave him the official title of embroidered robe guard, and made a promise that "you can fly freely".
If you are a scholar with a little bit of moral integrity, I am afraid that you will be chasing people away with sticks as soon as possible.
You eunuch, how dare you deceive me into being innocent?
It's a pity that Wang Wenshu has lost his moral integrity a long time ago.
What's more, the conditions offered by the other party are indeed very interesting.
The embroidered guards with a rank of six hundred stones are directly directed at the envoys. They can supervise the officials with integrity. They can also mobilize the army and do things expediently when necessary.
More importantly, the salary is very attractive!
A minister with a salary of 600 shi in the outer dynasty would have a yearly salary of 600 shi of corn. In addition to the rewards during the New Year and festivals, official uniforms and cloth given throughout the year, plus some extra money, he would only be able to survive with a thousand shi of corn.
income.
But Xiuyiwei is different.
Take Wang Wenshu as an example.
In addition to his salary and rewards, he can also receive an "embroidered clothing and guard allowance" of three pieces of cloth, more than 800 yuan, one stone of wine, and ten pounds of meat every month.
In addition, there is a monthly rent subsidy of three hundred yuan and a monthly nutrition subsidy of twenty kilograms of wheat flour.
Moreover, a senior member of the Xiuyi Guard like him also has a special fund of two hundred thousand yuan every year and three exemptions from the death penalty.
According to Xiuyiwei's regulations, he can withdraw and use the special funds of 200,000 yuan and immunity from the death penalty at any time without any conditions.
Used to recruit people and organize intelligence networks.
You only need to submit a report to the superior at the end of each year, detailing the purpose of the funds used and the process of using the death penalty immunity.
Moreover, Xiuyiwei is the emperor's minions and confidants. If he does his job well, he can enter the emperor's eyes, which is a shortcut to success.
With good salary and a promising future, Wang Wenshu barely hesitated before abandoning his moral integrity and agreed to join the embroidered clothes guard.
Afterwards, Wang Wenshu found out that the reason why his Huayin County Wei Cheng was expelled was because he was recommended to Wang Dao. As Wang Dao, he could easily make the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Young Master's Mansion treat a deer as a horse.
, open your eyes and tell lies.
However, now Wang Wenshu no longer has any grudges in her heart.
On the contrary, I feel that this embroidered clothing guard is where a husband like him can show his strength.
In just three months at Xiuyiwei, Wang Wenshu has already made great achievements.
Three powerful families were uprooted, and more than a dozen Beijing officials with more than 600 shi were thrown into Tingwei Prison. Even in Chang'an City, the name Wang Wenshu gradually gained some weight.
"This is not enough!" Wang Wenshu said in his heart: "When a man is born in this world, he should make contributions and make a living!"
And today, the emperor’s summons is a good opportunity!
While thinking about it, Wang Wenshu was led by the eunuch to the door of the Greenhouse Palace. Without anyone else's guidance, Wang Wenshu immediately knelt at the door and bowed: "I, the embroidered guard, pointed directly at the envoy Wen Shu to see Tianyan!"
Not long after, a eunuch walked out of the palace, it was Wang Wenshu's current boss, Wang Dao.
"Your Majesty orders you to enter the imperial court!" Wang Dao said expressionlessly.
"No!" Wang Wenshu quickly kowtowed again, and then followed the king's way into the greenhouse hall.
As soon as he entered the greenhouse hall, Wang Wenshu immediately knelt in the hall, prostrated on the ground, and said: "I pay homage to your majesty, long live my emperor!"
"Get up..." I heard a male voice ordering kindly.
Only then did Wang Wenshu dare to stand up and stand in the palace. He secretly glanced at the emperor sitting at the top with his peripheral vision. Then he quickly lowered his head.
In Wang Wenshu's eyes, the emperor was very young, but extremely majestic, and his eyes seemed to be able to see through people's minds. After just one glance, Wang Wenshu no longer dared to look at him again.
"As expected, he is indeed the successor designated by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who was appointed by Heaven and born as a divine Son of Heaven!" Wang Wenshu sighed in his heart.
Only a person like him, who comes from a lower-middle-class background, has suffered many hardships, and has hopes and ideals, would believe that rumor among the people.
The reason is very simple. These are the few fantasies and hopes of most people who are from a poor background and want to make a successful career.
Everyone longs for a wise king and wise master, and then they will be appreciated and promoted.
Under such psychological expectations, Wang Wenshu would naturally deify and idealize the emperor subconsciously, and automatically made up a lot of things in his mind before meeting him.
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Liu Che didn't know Wang Wenshu's mentality at the moment. He looked at this cruel official who was famous in history books with curiosity.
Wang Wenshu's cruelty and bloodlust will make anyone who knows this person's methods take a breath of cold air.
Other cruel officials, like Zhang Tang, are righteous, murderous, and can also talk about politics. They are principled, and the attack area is basically only part of the attack.
But Wang Wenshu kills people, no matter the background of the person. Once he opens the attack, a large area will be implicated. It is like firing a map cannon!
The most famous deeds of this person are what he did when he served as the captain of Guangping and the governor of Hanoi.
The most typical example is when he took office in Hanoi County. As soon as he took office, he dispatched fifty capable officials from Hanoi County to ride on horseback to every post station leading to Chang'an.
At the beginning, no one knew what he was going to do.
But when winter comes, everyone knows what tricks this guy is going to play.
He arrested all the powerful landowners in Hanoi County in one go, more than a thousand in total!
Then, he quickly reported to Chang'an.
The officials who stayed at various stations conveyed orders from Chang'an to him as quickly as possible.
As soon as the order came, he started killing people.
The killing lasted for three months and blood flowed for more than ten miles. All the more than a thousand powerful landlord families were killed.
As for bandits and civilians in Hanoi County, as long as they fall into his hands, they will basically be punished with death.
It seems that in Wang Wenshu's place, there is no other punishment except the death penalty...
However, Wang Wenshu at this time still looked very young, and he seemed extremely nervous as he stood there. He did not look like a murderous demon, but rather a shy young man.
Liu Che looked through Wang Wenshu's file at Xiuyiwei.
Good guy, this guy is really born to do KGB!
After staying in Xiuyiwei for three or four months, he sent to the guillotine thirty or forty murderers, three powerful families with millions in wealth, and a dozen officials, large and small...
Liu Che didn't know whether he should use such a person or not.
The current situation in the Kanto County really requires such a demon king to clean up the situation.
But if you use it incorrectly, you may cut your fingers.
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Che laughed and thought to himself: "What's there to worry about? If a pig can handle it, I can do it too! Besides, Xingyang really needs to be cleaned up..."
"Others may be wary when going to Xingyang, but this person is just right!"
When he thought of this, Liu Che said: "Wang Wenshu, right?"
"The minister is here!" Wang Wenshu immediately bowed and replied.
"I have read your report and resume on Xiuyiwei. They are very good..." Liu Che said while holding Wang Wenshu's file.
Wang Wenshu is really good at dealing with powerful men, knights and bandits.
Maybe it's because Wang Wenshu once worked as a ranger and walked between black and white. The files show that he seems to know the actions and practices of all powerful people, middle and lower-level officials and bandits. Once he takes action, he can seize the opponent's fatal point.
, find conclusive evidence.
There were several cases that the Nei Shi Yamen had been investigating for several years but could not do anything about. As soon as this person took action, he quickly found the evidence and brought the criminal to justice.
"Your Majesty, Miao Zan, I am so ashamed!" Wang Wenshu said modestly and slightly proudly.
"You are very confident?" Liu Che looked at him.
"It is the duty of an minister to be loyal to Your Majesty and share your worries for the Lord..." Wang Wenshu seemed to be less nervous and started talking eloquently.
"Good!" Liu Che stood up and said, "I have something to do and leave it to you to handle..."
Liu Che looked at Wang Wenshu and said: "Go to Xingyang. Uproot the Ren family and arrest the relevant officials. Whoever is involved will be arrested. But we must get real evidence, evidence that everyone in the world can believe!"
"Do you understand, sir?"
Wang Wenshu looked up at Liu Che, his mouth slightly open.
Anyone who hears about the Ren family in Xingyang will probably be surprised!
Because the Ren family is not an ordinary family.
Their base camp is in Xuanqu County, which was a fief granted by Liu Bang to the ancestors of the Ren family.
At that time, Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, and the Han and Chu armies were locked in a stalemate in Xingyang. The wars continued and the price of goods in the world was boiling. A stone of corn was sold for 10,000 yuan.
In this war fortune, the person who gained the most was the Xuanqu Ren family.
It is conceivable that without force and the protection of guns, would the Ren family dare to make this war fortune?
Anyone with a little common sense knows that the ancestor of the Ren family was a warehouse official in charge of the Qin Dynasty's warehouse in Xingyang.
During the collapse of the Qin Empire, the Ren family swallowed up almost all of Qin's warehouses and reserves in Xingyang.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, the Ren family went against the trend. Other powerful people were hoarding gold, silver and jewels, while the Ren family purchased grain and saved money.
This kind of thing is just for a three-year-old child...
What is most important in troubled times?
Of course it's food.
Especially during the wars at the end of the Qin Dynasty, heroes appeared all over the world. At its peak, there were hundreds of independent forces in China.
Almost all cities and grain-producing areas are in flames of war. You want to buy grain. Have you asked the hungry refugees and soldiers who are rampaging across the country?
Do you really think others are mentally retarded?
Moreover, the Ren family raised the price of grain to one stone and ten thousand yuan, and even sold it.
With normal thinking, this matter itself is abnormal.
When Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, neither the Han army nor the Chu army were good men and women. Do you really think that it was a supermarket of the Celestial Dynasty, clearly marked and no credit allowed?
The soldiers are going crazy, buying and selling by force, who dares to say a word of nonsense?
The fact is that the Xuanqu Ren family has a strong armed force.
Han Dynasty archives show that this was an armed force composed of cavalry.
This was the reason why the Xuanqu and Ren clan dared to sell grain at a sky-high price of ten thousand yuan per stone during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony.
Moreover, this armed force is terrifying!
In history, Xiaozhu organized and trained the famous new army of the Eighth School Lieutenants of Shanglinyuan. One of these eight elite armies that later spread across the world and galloped across the battlefield was called the 'Changshui School Lieutenants'
The personnel of this Changshui captain are all composed of the "Changshui tribe".
The Changshui people are a branch of the Qiang people and have been Hanized for a long time.
In the Han Dynasty, when people from Changshui were mentioned, they were usually called "Xuanqu Hu people from Changshui".
After seeing this, everyone should understand what kind of monster the Ren family is.
In history, the reputation of Changshui Huqi shocked the world.
The Ren family in Xuanqu was just like the chieftains in the southwestern region of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Relying on their huge wealth, they were like local emperors.
As for local officials?
Just look at the current reputation of the Ren family in the Han Dynasty.
He must have been in cahoots with the Ren family a long time ago!
The Ren family has money, status, reputation, and a certain amount of military power. They are also very smart and good at disguising themselves.
This is the reason why he has always been able to dominate the local area.
Originally, according to the script, the Ren family should still be prosperous for another thirty to fifty years.
but……
"You are committing suicide..." Liu Che sighed in his heart. If Xingyang did not commit suicide and reported Ren's name, Liu Che might not notice this freak for a while. If he didn't notice, he wouldn't go there.
Check his background. If you don’t check his background, you won’t know that in the hinterland of China, there is still a Changshui tribe that herds and raises horses for generations, and Hu Feng still has it. If you don’t know about the Changshui tribe, you won’t know that it is related to the Changshui tribe.
Liu Che would never allow elite forces like Changshui Huqi to be controlled and mastered by private individuals.
So the Ren family can only say that they are pretending to be 213.
After Wang Wenshu was slightly surprised, the look on his face immediately became excited.
Ren family?
Wang Wenshu had naturally heard of it. It was said that this was a 'benevolent businessman' who was praised by many people. He was famous for his frugality and diligence from generation to generation. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, Ren's reputation spread to the ears of the emperor, so he was praised as a home for the elderly.
Get the attention of the world.
Many of Ren's deeds have also been widely praised.
Therefore, everyone has always known that there is a rich family named Ren in Xuanqu County, which has a lot of money, land and people.
But no one touched him.
Emperor Taizong's praise was the talisman of the Ren family, and Shilin's public opinion also gave it a good-looking coat.
In the fixed thinking of most people, the Ren family is an example and role model for learning.
But, what does this have to do with Wang Wenshu?
Wang Wenshu has been at the grassroots level for a long time and has seen all kinds of people.
He knows very well that there may be good people in this world who do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and bring blessings to their hometown.
But there is absolutely no big family that has been rich for sixty or seventy years, has gone through wars and ups and downs, and still "does good and accumulates virtue".
Such people are as ridiculous as the death row inmates in Tingwei Prison saying: I was wronged.
Therefore, almost subconsciously, Wang Wenshu said: "Promise, I will obey the imperial edict!"
Don't even ask why or what to do.
Such an attitude made Liu Che very happy.
Probably only people like Wang Wenshu can deal with green tea bitches like the Ren family.
Sending Wang Wenshu there can probably be regarded as one thing being reduced to another.
No matter how cunning the Ren family is, if you encounter a guy who is unreasonable and only knows how to kill people, you will probably just lament the unfairness of your fate.
Liu Che's eyes suddenly softened.
Guys like Wang Wenshu are really the king's favorite officials. No wonder Xiaozhu is willing to bear all the pressure for him and give him a high position.
However, the Ren family has been operating in Xuanqu for decades and has deep roots.
Wang Wenshu is an outsider, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to open up the situation even if he goes there.
Liu Che then said: "I will order the governors of Henan and Zhidu to assist you. If necessary, you can ask Zhidu for instructions, and then mobilize the soldiers of Henan and Xingyang camps to assist you in handling the case..."
Wang Wenshu's attention was immediately attracted by the name Zhidu.
Everyone has their own idol.
And Zhidu is Wang Wenshu’s idol.
Thinking of being able to work with his idol, have close contact, and be taught face to face, Wang Wenshu was so excited that his face flushed red and he was speechless. He could only bow deeply and said gratefully: "Your Majesty has such great love. I feel deeply grateful to you and will swear to death."
Pay attention!"
Liu Che was stunned: "I haven't done anything, right? Have I already cultivated the bastard spirit?" (To be continued...)
ps: Where is Xuanqu County? I searched for a long time but couldn’t find it. I only found that Changshui Captain’s residence is west of Kunming Pool in Shanglinyuan.
And judging from historical records, Xuanqu County should probably be between Xingyang and Aocang.
The reason is that, first of all, during wartime, long-distance transportation of food is equivalent to delivering food. If the Ren family wants to sell food to both sides of the war, it must be nearby.
Secondly, as the Cangguan of Qin Du Dao, the ancestors of the Ren family must have served in Aocang.
If it was too far to transport so much food back to our hometown, the refugees along the way, let alone other people, would have robbed it.
