Return to the Qing Dynasty (58)

The Fourth Master had a deep resentment towards the late emperor for the first time.

Why?

Nothing else is done, only for these women she gave, such as Niuhulu and Geng.

Why do they just say it?

It is really the children born by these two people, which is hard to describe.

Hongli and Hongzhou, are they smart? Actually, they are quite smart. Let’s talk about Hongli. No matter how many problems he has, after becoming Emperor Qianlong, he can rule for 60 years, so his brain is in vain? Let’s talk about Hongzhou, and it’s fun to survive in the cracks. You said he has no brains? His brain is not slower than anyone else’s.

From this perspective, the advantages of these two children are quite outstanding. The Fourth Master thinks that this is because the influence of being a father's genes has produced good results.

But what's wrong? It's a headache to talk about. This disadvantage is more intermittent than the advantages.

When I was in the lineup in Kaoshantun, I didn’t know which breeder said: Let’s see the sows pick piglets.

This is actually a rough word or not.

Dad, that's half good. The other half must have inherited from his mother.

Looking at Hongzhou who was kneeling down and dared not look up, his frown was so furrowing that he could kill mosquitoes. This was a bit of the confusion recorded in history that he dared to beat the imperial officials in the Golden Palace. Just like what Tongtong said, maybe he would rush his mind at any time.

The pullback is still too loose, and it gives too many good faces.

As soon as the Fourth Master thought that if there was no Tongtong, the last choice he gave him was these crooked dates, and he wouldn't be able to sleep at night. No one would suffocate him to death.

Hongzhou moved slightly, not daring to speak, but Emperor Ama didn't speak, he couldn't hold on if he didn't speak, "... my son didn't mean it... my son was drunk..."

Do you lose your moral character after drinking?

Seeing that Emperor Ama's face was still wrong, Hongzhou didn't even dare to argue. In fact, he was really drunk. As for the newlyweds, the cousins ​​and the various geniuses who made friends outside all pulled him to congratulate him. He drank too much and was fine outside and didn't dare to talk casually, but if he got drunk, wouldn't he be unable to help himself? Otherwise, he would have been stuck in his brain and dared to talk to the emperor's mother about that? He was shameless? He was crazy about money.

But Wu Zhaku is the same, why is he so stupid? Just call him and go? It's about 25.

The Fourth Master was not idle, so he looked up at Hongzhou occasionally, "...You are not just drinking, right?"

Drinking and gambling cards.

This is something that everyone often plays.

Hongzhou was about to respond, and immediately lowered his head, "My son won't play like this again in the future."

"You can use a big bowl to fight for wine." The Fourth Master asked again.

Hongzhou only felt that all the hair was blowing up, and there was nothing Emperor Ama didn't know about.

"What? It's not fun to soak wine with snake gall. I heard that I've asked someone to look for you recently. Why? I want to soak wine with python again?" The Fourth Master put down the pen in his hand, "Hongzhou, can you stop playing outside and do some errands for me?"

Make money in your pocket, and don’t care about anything else. Just make a fortune.

One advantage of Hongzhou is that he listens to whatever you say. Now that he says he is wrong, he immediately admits his mistake and says he is calling him what he is doing. He immediately responds, "Everyone listens to the emperor."

The Fourth Master did not mean to scream, nor did he ease his tone because of his better attitude. "I heard that you have made many friends outside recently."

Don't you know everything?

I thought so in my heart, but nodded honestly, "Yes! I made friends with a few."

several?

The Fourth Master snorted, "How many?"

Hongzhou shrank his neck, "It's that...they don't know who I am..."

Yes! He was dressed in a torn clothes when he left the house. He brought Yu Liang whom he had known earlier and bought a shabby house in a remote alley in the capital. Under the banner of Yu Liang's distant relative, Zhou Hong was very prosperous outside. Whether he was a cart puller or a manure picker, he had a resounding title at the bottom - Master Zhou Wu!

Who is Master Zhou Wu? He is so anxious and righteous, and he can be called timely rain.

Hongzhou knew that he couldn't hide it, so he whispered honestly: "All of you are friends in the world."

Friends in the world?

Have you read too many movie books! I'm still a friend in the world? Where can I tell you about the world? I can't even do my job well, so what can I find when I go out?

After hearing from Lao Qi, he had some friendship with beggars on the street.

Tell me, why did you give birth to such a thing?

"What do you want to do?" The Fourth Master knocked his finger on the table, and his eyes became stern when he looked at Hongzhou.

Hongzhou was so scared that he stuttered, "Son... I didn't want to do anything... I just watched The Legend of the Condor Heroes before, and Rong'er became the leader of the Beggars' Sect. I just wanted to go out and find the Beggars' Sect. But now I'll look ugly..." His face looked a little ugly, "Beggars are indeed from the gang, but they are completely different from the kind of Beggars' Sect I think..."

He took Yu Liang to mix and match outside, wearing ragged clothes, and touched the bottom of the pot on his face, pretending to be a beggar and trying to approach the so-called Beggars' Sect. What happened? He was driven out by the grandsons with dog-beating sticks for several miles.

"Only then my son realized that beggars also have territory." Hongzhou said a little angry, "Not only have territory, but also bullying. Some old beggars can live a decent life, and even bought houses outside the city, married wives and gave birth to children. Where did the money come from, they were all obtained by bullying the little beggars. Some children were lost by their families, some were abducted, and some were in trouble at home. Anyway, they were all different.

There are all kinds of misfortunes. If these children want to beg for food on their territory, they have to share half of it. This has to be good. If it is not good, they will be beaten up when they go back. There are also regular money for filial piety. Where can be given money to be given to beggars? If they can give food to a bite, they are already good people. Who can pay for beggars? Where does the money come from? Steal! Just rob! Emperor Ahma, you said that this capital is like this, and there must be... "

"Talk about the key points." The Fourth Master interrupted Hongzhou and pointed directly at the core, "Talk about the key points, you can't get up early without profit. What do you want to do?"

Hongzhou's neck shrank again, "Does Emperor Ama know about the Cao Gang?"

The Fourth Master narrowed his eyes slightly, how could he not know about the Cao Gang? Later, he even dealt with the Cao Gang. At that time, the Cao Gang was not called the Cao Gang, but the Qing Gang.

Seeing that the Fourth Master did not speak, Hongzhou changed his kneeling posture and made him feel more comfortable. Then he said, "My son has not been idle for this time. He has learned some things outside that he cannot understand in the study and sect. Let's talk about the canal transportation first. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, both dynasties relied on the canal to transfer grain from south to north to supply the capital and border defense. In this way, the canal transportation has been maintained for nearly six hundred years. For such a long time, a set of mixed hidden rules have been growing around the collection and transportation of grain. They call this "canal"

Rules’. What are the rules of canal? Rules are the private changes of the law, which involves a very complex relationship of interest distribution. The first one is the farmers who are impacted. They can scrape the farmers a few more times through "floating harvests"; then adjust the internal relationship and try to divide the spoils fairly and reasonably. It is also because of this that the rules of canal have been banned in all dynasties. It is also because of this that the "Caokou" cleverly grasped this handle and made a living. Caokou is familiar with the information channel, and they are a mouth that can hurt the canal. Caokou earns money from gags."

The Fourth Master nodded. What Hongzhou said was basically all about ideas. This is the fact.

When Hongzhou saw the Fourth Master, his momentum was two points at once, and his speech was much smoother than before. "Why can the notch be so fast when he only relies on information? His son often drinks and plays with those who are all from all walks of life. After listening more, he can know a little bit in his heart. Let's talk about this small household. They think Caokou can provide □□, and the thighs of the strong hope to be protected, so they all surrender to them. After the return, they asked them to pay the grain on their behalf. This is understandable. What the common people are afraid of is dealing with officials, so they can avoid extortion from officials. Of course, Caokou is also willing to take over this matter. The benefits are quite small, and the new and old grains are all between

There are price differences, not to mention that there are more methods of adulteration. It is easy to mix a bag into ten sacks, not to mention that there is a cost, so I can pick it up here and change it a little more, and I will run out of thin air. This method is profitable, so I evolved and directly evolved to buy households. It is definitely cheaper for a small household to feed a Caokou, and it is definitely higher than the profit of a score of fat. This is a win-win situation. However, with such a bag of Caokou, the officials' blackmailing side has narrowed, and in order to maintain the original interests, I had to increase the blackmailing efforts. The small households who did not find the □□ were plundered more fiercely, which became a vicious cycle. The situation became more chaotic."

The Fourth Master nodded with certainty, which was also a matter of going out with his brain.

The facts are indeed not much different from what Hongzhou said. The canal transportation is caused by accident every year. What should we do if something happens? If the matter is big, the deadline of the canal transportation and the quality of the canal grain will definitely be affected, which means that it will cause trouble to the court. Therefore, the officials responsible for the canal transportation have to deal with the canal and calm the situation. However, the officials responsible for the canal transportation think it is unfair. The canal transportation is seriously violated laws and regulations, and they do not want to correct it themselves, and the board hits our scholar's butt. How can this be done?

Speaking of this, I have to talk about Caokou. The father and son are talking here without explanation. They both know what Caokou is for. But those who are not familiar with this process have no idea what this means. Why does Caokou talk about hitting the scholars instead?

In fact, Caokou is really a scholar. What kind of scholar are they? Those who help explain the rules set by the government. Those who can explain the rules set by the court are not all scholars. Ordinary scholars are not good enough. They must be scholars with fame, at least scholars. Nowadays, people who use their mouths to explain the rules to plunder the Caogang as their means of making a living are called "Diao Jin Xiajian". Why is it called Diao Jin Xiajian? In fact, this originally meant that the identities of these people in Caokou were Qing Jinjian students. Qing Jin said that those who passed the exam for the fame of scholars were wearing blue student uniforms. There is also a kind of person who can have the same status as scholars, that is

Supervisors. Supervisors are fame and fortune bought by money, but their treatment is the same. Therefore, they are also called Qingjin Supervisors. Because these people are exploited with great difficulty, "diao" and "imperfect" are their impressions among ordinary people, so they are called "diao Jin inferior supervision". These people have a big age difference, from teenagers to 60-year-olds, as long as they are admitted to the national schools of prefectures and counties, they will be counted. After entering school, they listen to the name every day and prepare to take the exam for the juren under the teaching and guidance of the school officials. They are from poor backgrounds, have a meager income, and have poor living status. This is destined that the interests in the Cao Rules are very attractive to them, and their "diabolic" and "imperfect" are both due to interests.

Some such people, who were explicitly helping the imperial court to manage the Cao Gang, have actually become a link in the interest chain of the Cao Gang. For example, the Cao Gang incident has gone on, and the solution is nothing more than an imperial decree, reaffirming the canal transportation discipline, and requiring serious handling of Caokou. The expansion momentum of Caokou was set and the ecological balance was restored. Then, after a year and a half, another cycle began.

This is the so-called Cao Gang. It has been operating like this for six hundred years.

In terms of identity, the Cao Gang belongs to a gray area without being black or white, and is a purely gray area.

The Fourth Master took out a memorial from under the imperial case, which was a memorial on Tian Wenjing about the rectification of the grain service. This memorial has been suppressed here for half a year. He threw it to Hongzhou, who was kneeling below, "Look at this."

As soon as Hongzhou stretched out his hand, the slash flew into his hand. He couldn't help but glance at his own emperor, saying, "This is so accurate, it's so tall."

I retracted my thoughts and opened the note, looked at it carefully twice from beginning to end, and then closed the note and stopped kneeling. I just sat cross-legged on the ground, but my mind turned around.

This comment was written by Tian Wenjing. I have to say that Emperor Ama really reads it wrong. The water transportation is so difficult, not everyone dares to reach out to this trouble. The comment said that Weng Yan, Qian Jian and Pan Qing were recommended to rectify the water supply. The comment also made a brief statement about the three of them, saying that the three of them asked the court to help the court to rectify the food supply.

This idea will certainly work in the short term.

"But I'm afraid that I'm afraid I won't lose my tail." Hongzhou frowned, "My son has been thinking about this for a while. It's okay to set up a gang, but this gang cannot be controlled by others."

The Fourth Master waved his hand, "Go back and think about it first, let's talk about it later."

Hongzhou looked back and saw the child's humming sound in the back compartment. It was probably Hongjing who woke up. Otherwise, he could not have beaten himself back so quickly.

Thinking of this, I stood up, my feet were a little numb, and I had been kneeling for too long.

I didn't dare to delay and put the note on the table, so I carefully withdrew.

Hongjing woke up, and the Fourth Master directly carried the child to the back and asked Lin Yutong to feed the child.

"Did you scold Hongzhou?" Bitao just came back and said that he saw the fifth prince limping away, thinking that he was scolded.

The Fourth Master reached out to touch Hongjing and had his urine urinated. He told Lin Yutong about this, "...I've had a little trouble recently, but I'm still very smart. I've heard too much and I've been picking it up in my heart. I know the importance..."

I often make things confused about small things, but I never dare to be careless about big things.

Then he took the opportunity to talk about the Cao Gang that he just mentioned.

Lin Yutong's first reaction was: "Qing Gang?"

The Qing Gang had a deep impression on Lin Yutong.

"The Qing Gang has not been established yet." The Fourth Master explained to him, "Now Tian Wenjing's memorial is about the fact that Weng, Qian and Pan asked for an order to establish the Qing Gang."

Oh! By the way! The Qing Gang is also called the Qing Gang. During the first period of time, it was a private gang organization with a legal status.

This is a matter.

No! Later, Zhan couldn't get rid of it anymore. There are folk legends that Qianlong joined the gang, and there was even a saying about Panlong stick in the gang. The truth is unknown. But these are enough to show the size of his power.

The Fourth Master snorted and laughed, "There are some things you don't know. The Weng, Qian and Pan are all backgrounds of the Tiandihui..."

Lin Yutong was stunned for a moment, "Really?"

real!

I used to carefully check historical materials, and the book recorded it like this. In the past six months, Lao Qi also asked me to carefully check these three people. Yes, they are members of the Tiandihui Society.

"The three brothers recommended by Tian Wenjing are opposite sex, divided according to age. The elder's surname is Weng Dan's name, Yan, Fuming, and the Taoist name is Dehui, from Changshu, Jiangsu Province. He was originally from Gulou Street, Liaocheng County, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong Province. He was a scholar. Later, he abandoned literature and martial arts and practiced arts in Shaolin Temple, Henan Province. In the second year of Yongzheng, he joined the Tiandihui. The second year of Yongzheng, Qian Dan's name is Jian, Fuzhai, and the Taoist name is Dezheng. He was originally from Liaocheng County, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong Province. He moved to Henan Province and did business. In the second year of Yongzheng, he joined the Tiandihui with Weng; the youngest person was Pan Dan's name, Qing, and Xuanting.
To be continued...