This vassal building with "four floors high and five floors facing each other" looks extraordinary from a distance.
It was the first ten days of the twelfth lunar month, and the crescent moon was like a silver bud hook. A lamp was lit in every tile on the eaves of the vassal building. The candlelight was shining brightly. From a distance, it looked like a golden flying dragon soaring in the Miao night sky.
Xiang.
Walking into the feudal building, from the main entrance, there is a long main corridor, about a hundred paces, with three-story wing buildings on both sides. Under the eaves of the main corridor, there are almost hundreds of geishas and dancers in full bloom.
, all waiting for the drinkers to order their flower cards. Around the north and south patios, there are small drinking pavilions. Every aisle and every pavilion is hung with crystal clear bead curtains and embroidered foreheads, which are dazzling.
"Even in Yanjing, there is no such a prosperous place." Zhang Yubo lived in Yanjing for three years in the 2nd year of Chongguan 2 before he was appointed as a local official. Every time he thought of Yanjing, he yearned for it, but he smiled and said, "
Having lived in Jiangning for a long time, I never miss Shu. I listen to Su Mei singing, and in the mist, I forget that I am a foreign country..." But he forgot that Jiangdong County is his hometown, and the capital is his foreign country.
"Speaking of Su Mei's singing, Lin Fu has some experience..." Lin Mengde laughed from the side. Although he was forced to agree to secretly help Lin Fu establish his own business in Jiangning, he was still Lin Fu's clan member.
Elders, it was just casual to make some harmless jokes about Lin Fu.
"Does Lin Juren recognize Miss Su Mei?" Zhang Yubo asked.
Xiao singing is a popular music mode in the Dai Viet Dynasty. It can be regarded as the popular music of the Dai Viet Dynasty. Su Mei is amazing in Jiang Ning with his artistic skills. He is also good at singing in a small way. He sings in a low voice and is full of infinite tenderness/
However, at this moment, Lin Fu could only smile bitterly. People who knew him and Su Mei only knew that he was embarrassing Su Mei when he took the provincial examination in Jiangning. It was really not a glorious thing.
, "During the Jiangning Provincial Examination, we actually met both sides from a distance," Lin Fu grumbled to Zhang Yubo, trying to ignore it.
Lin Mengde didn't want to let him go so easily, so he pulled the young man in brocade clothes in the feudal building and asked, "Have Miss Su Mei's flower cards been ordered away tonight?"
"He's still here," the young man in brocade clothes said, "I'm going to help the four gentlemen and ask Miss Su Mei if she has time to spare."
"Go and ask... let's just say Mr. Zuo Sikou Zhang, the owner of Jiyun Club Lin Fu and Lin Ji Jufutang Warehouse Lin Mengde are waiting for Miss Su Mei." Lin Mengde knew that even if Su Mei was idle, she would be asked to
It also depends on her mood when she comes out to sing. There are not many people in Jiangning City who have the face to definitely invite Su Mei to come out to sing to cheer up the wine. She patted the young man in Jinyi on the shoulder and told him to go quickly, and smiled at Lin Fu,
"Don't worry, I'll pay for the twenty taels of music for you."
Lin Jingzhong just smiled and followed Lin Fu, Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo into the elegant room and sat down. He also wanted to see what Su Mei, who was famous in Jiangning, looked like; Zhou Pu naturally had to be taciturn as a follower, he thought in his heart
Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo just don't have enough face. If Lin Fu is here, how can Su Mei come?
Lin Mengde and Zhang Yubo didn't have much expectation to invite Su Mei. It was true that Su Mei placed the flower cards in the feudal building. She was probably still in Baiyuan. Even if she was interested in earning the twenty taels of silver for listening to music,
There were many people with higher status than them who came to the feudal mansion to get drunk tonight, and Su Mei might not like them. A few of them sat in the small pavilion and asked the waiter to bring the wine and food. They smiled and waited for Su Mei to have a cup of tea.
, if there is no reply, I will order another flower card to accompany the wine to add to the fun.
Lin Fu invited Zhang Yubo to come because he wanted to find out the inside story of the Yamen of the Inspector General. When Zhang Yubo was at the Dongyang Guild Hall, he heard Yang Pu say that Gu Wuchen intended to invite Lin Fu to join the yamen, but Lin Fu declined. Recently, it was said that Gu Wuchen was working in the Inspector General's Office after he took office.
The yamen also mentioned Lin Fu many times in public, probably to build momentum for Lin Fu to become an official. He thought to himself that it was really enviable for a high-ranking fourth-rank official in the imperial court to work so hard for a small job.
Lin Fu wanted to find out the inside story of the Inspector General, so he naturally told everything he could to other people's ears.
"When I first entered Jiangning, I took a boat along the Jinchuan River from Wumiao Shuiguan into the city. Outside the mouth of the Jinchuan River, I saw the Inspector's Office built on the island on the river mouth. However, I never saw it mentioned in the Tangyi newspaper.
Is there a prison like this across the river east of the Yangtze River?"
"The Northland was dangerous, and nine out of ten exiled prisoners died. The Jiangning Criminal Department requested that the punishment be changed to imprisonment because the punishment was too severe. Since the Jiangning Criminal Bureau had no authority to set up prisons, the Jiangdong Procuratorate built a prison city on Jiangdao to detain the exiled prisoners.
This proposal was vetoed by Yanjing only two years after it was first proposed. Jiangdao Daqian was only used as an ordinary prison for the prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office originally had a prison in the city, and the prison outside the Jinchuan River was used only for prisoners.
Prisoners who have been imprisoned... So the jail outside Jinchuan River is really a deserted yamen. Besides, it is in the river outside the city, and there are river bandits from time to time." When Zhang Yubo mentioned the Jiangdao jail, he couldn't help but click his tongue.
And shook his head.
Lin Fu smiled slightly, knowing why Zhang Yubo said that Jiangdao Prison was a deserted yamen.
Prisoners in this dynasty who have been sentenced to prison can use money to atone for their crimes. Four thousand coins can redeem their sentences for one year. According to the criminal law of this dynasty, the maximum prison sentence is five years. Those who exceed five years will be exiled. In other words, twenty thousand coins can be exempted from all prison sentences.
Jiangdao Prison only houses prisoners who have been sentenced to prison terms. Just imagine, the rich have already paid to wash away their crimes, and only the poor people without money are honestly imprisoned in the prison to serve hard labor. The jailers and jailers will naturally learn from them.
There was little money to be made, and they even had to give food money to these poor prisoners.
The city jail is different. The city jail mainly holds suspects awaiting trial. Even the witnesses of the case are detained in the city jail waiting for trial. If the suspect wants to live a more comfortable life, he can only bribe the jailer. Don't say that.
There are many suspects awaiting trial, and there are many witnesses who have been blackmailed by the jailer and bankrupted their entire fortune.
"But it's hard to say for sure. It was Yang Ye, the doctor of the Jiangning Ministry of Justice, who originally proposed building the prison city. Now Mr. Yang has been transferred to Yanjing as the doctor of the Ministry of Justice. Maybe the prison city will be discussed again in a few days. If Jiangdong County is
All the exiled prisoners were imprisoned in Jiangdao Prison outside the city..." At this point, Zhang Yubo smiled, patted Lin Fu on the shoulder and said, "Master Gu appreciates you so much, so there is no need for you to take this risk, even if
If you can't get a job in the city's prison, there are still plenty of good positions in the Yamen of the Inspector General's office!"
Lin Fu also looked at each other and smiled, which meant that silence was better than sound, but he was disdainful in his heart, but there was nothing he could do about it. Zhang Yubo was still a Jinshi, and he was a clear stream. These so-called "clean streams" had long been given to "officials only for seeking benefits".
The thought of "money" has penetrated into my bones.
According to the practice of this dynasty, those who first enter an official position from the eighth rank or above need to be a Jinshi and a noble, and those who have entered the Guozixue examination and obtained excellent results. Gu Wuchen promised to let Lin Fu choose the position of inspector and envoy, but in fact he could only choose the ninth rank.
and official positions that have not yet entered the mainstream.
Lin Mengde sat and listened for a long time, and slowly got some clues. He thought that Lin Fu had a good future with Gu's family. There were countless candidates for official positions in Jiangning City, including scholars and Imperial College students.
There is no hope even if he turns pale, but Lin Fu has already made a fortune as soon as he came to Jiangning and joined the officialdom. Listening to the tone of his conversation with Zhang Yubo, it seems that he still has room to choose the official position in the Yamen of the Inspector's Office?
These days, the people are afraid of officials, and even more afraid of cruel officials. This jailer has the worst reputation among all officials. As the saying goes, "A fat belly held in both hands becomes a monkey in prison." It is one thing whether this jailer has a bad reputation, but he is.
It was a very lucrative job. Lin Mengde thought to himself: Is Lin Fu going to be the prison warden? I will never offend him in the future.
Lin Fu was interested in the position of jailer in Jiangdao prison outside the city. The inspector was a junior official from the ninth grade, so it was suitable for him to enter the official position with the title of imperial examination.
The jailer of the Dalao was originally a military position. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, in order to commiserate with the prison and be cautious about punishment, he chose Confucian officials to govern the prisons of the county. In the past hundred years, it has become a practice that only civil servants are used for the post of jailer. However, Emperor Renzong did not know that Confucian scholars and civil servants used torture to extort money.
Prisoners are many times more vicious than military officers, and they are full of tricks.
Lin Fu took a fancy to this position, but he didn't want to extort huge sums of money from the prisoners and their families. He wanted to build a warehouse at the mouth of the Jinchuan River. The biggest difficulty was that the Chaotian River at the mouth of the river was frequented by river bandits and lake bandits. He was interested in Jiang.
The Dao Prison is directly opposite the Jinchuan River Estuary. Once he is appointed as the Commander of the Jiangdao Prison, he can openly use the force of the Jiangdao Prison to guard the river mouth to protect the safety of the Jinchuan River Estuary Warehouse - he is doing it for both public and private reasons.
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Lin Fu was previously worried that someone would compete with him for this position. After listening to Zhang Yubo's analysis, Jiangdao Prison was really a job with little profit, heavy responsibilities, and full of risks. He felt relieved and thought about asking Gu Wuchen to allow him to go tomorrow.
Jiangdao Dalao served as prison officer.
The time for drinking, talking, and having a cup of tea had passed. Zhang Yubo looked outside the curtain and complained: "Even if Miss Su Mei doesn't come, she should still write a reply..."
Lin Fu knew what Zhang Yubo meant and said to Lin Jingzhong: "Call someone to come in and ask them to bring the plate of flower cards, or ask them to directly find some girls familiar to Master Zhang to come over and let Master Zhang choose..."
Just as Lin Jingzhong was about to get up, he heard Su Mei say at the door: "Are you trying to drive me out?"
Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde heard Su Mei's clear and charming voice and hurriedly stood up and went to the door to greet them: "Who will drive away the Su family?"
Only then did Lin Fu see Su Mei's reputation in Jiangning. Zhang Yubo was a soldier from Jiangning Prefecture, Zuo Sikou, who joined the army. Lin Mengde was also a wealthy businessman in Jiangning City. Su Mei could make Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde stand up and greet him.
With a smile on his face, Lin Fu stood up and walked behind Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde, and said, "It's a dream come true for the Su family to come here to show their respect..." Just as Su Meiluo's clothes were floating in the air, Pei Cui looked at him.
Fighting each other, the sleeves were lifted to reveal the bright wrists, the fingers were slender, the eyes were as clear and pure as a baby's. This was the first time Lin Fu saw Su Mei dressed up after he sent his soul. He looked at her face with a smile,
Under the eyes, there was a slight wavering in the mind.
Su Mei ignored Zhang Yubo, and Lin Mengde only opened his lips to Lin Fu and whispered: "Lin Juren looks at Su Mei like this, does he not recognize Su Mei?"
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ps: Here comes the third chapter, brothers, where are the red tickets and where are the collections?