One Piece of Song Dynasty

Chapter 22 Visiting Cai Mansion

After the rules were set, Fan Lou's guys went down to divide the chips, and each person had a bamboo stick to represent the chips. .1After kanshu was assigned the chips, everyone began to think hard and wanted to be the winner so that they could spend a good night with Master Li.

"Brothers, why don't you take part in such an elegant thing and show off your literary talent?" Ruan Xiaoqi said jokingly

"No, no, I'm not an elegant person. I'm not good at poetry. Let's just watch the excitement."

Less than a quarter of an hour later, a scholar stood up first, and he recited in front of everyone: "It was just after the flowers were separated from the flowers that the curtains were raining, and I was speechless with a snap of my fingers. Liang Yan returned home from both sides, with long veins hanging down."

The scenery of Xiaoping Mountain is far away, and the makeup is thin and lead is light. Standing on the Yao ladder alone, wearing gold-threaded shoes through the cold. "The lyrics are good, and the speed of writing them is impressive.

At this time, someone stood up again. Someone immediately recognized this person and said excitedly: "This is Mr. Zhou Bangyan, a master who specializes in music and dance. His poetry level is extremely high. There is a good show to watch today." But I have to listen carefully to the famous poets of the Northern Song Dynasty, who will be included in textbooks for future generations.

The great poet of Zhou Dynasty wrote a poem "Magnolia": "The plum blossoms stand in a new attire, good charm, natural and exotic. We are well known to each other. Although we first met, our love matured early. The smoke of the furnace is faint and the clouds play music, and we are half asleep. Awakening, the fragrance of life shines through jade. If we meet again, if we still waste our lives, our life is not enough." He is worthy of being a great poet with excellent poems. This poem is sincere and sincere, fully expressing Zhou Bangyan's mood when he first met Li Shishi. People around him There was a round of cheers.

It seems that today’s winner is Zhou Bangyan. It’s already the second watch. We’ve seen enough excitement and drank a lot of wine. It’s time for the rest of us to go back.

After returning to the inn, we each went back to our rooms. When we returned to the room, I saw Lao Wang lying there listlessly. Maybe we had been out for a long time, and I don’t know if anyone else had fed him. Maybe he was hungry. I gave him some food. He prepared some meat and put it in his mouth, and Lao Wang wolfed it down. After eating, he yawned and fell asleep again. There was no talk all night, and I fell asleep too.

Early the next morning, I washed myself, had breakfast, and prepared to go to Cai's Mansion with Zhang Hu and other nursing staff.

"Brother Xiao Qi, Lu Zhuangshi, here are fifty taels of silver. If you two are not interested, you can go out for a walk and buy whatever you want. Just don't cause trouble. After all, this is Tokyo City. The nursing staff and I I have to go out and do some errands.”

"Okay, go ahead." They both said at the same time.

Zhang Hu, several nursing staff, and I arrived at Cai Jing's residence and knocked on the door.

"Who's knocking on the door?" A boy came out.

"Someone is from Lijiazhuang, Nan'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Road. Someone's name is Li Xin. Today he came to see Grand Master Cai. This person was introduced by Master Cai Jun, the magistrate of Hangzhou. This is a letter written by Master Cai Jun to Master Cai."

"Just wait, I'll go in and let you know." The boy took the letter.

After waiting for a while, the boy came out.

"Come in with me."

"Zhang Hu, you guys, please be careful when carrying things. These are all gifts for the Grand Master."

"Yes, son."

This Cai Jing's mansion is really big, much bigger than his son's mansion. He is worthy of being the leader of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he must be quite greedy. It is said that I am about to meet the famous traitorous official, and I am still a little nervous. After all, it is the first time to meet such a big official, and it is still such an official who has been notorious for thousands of years. This is an old fox, and I can't show my timidity in front of him. I am in my heart Tell yourself silently.

After many twists and turns, we finally entered a living room and met Grand Master Cai Jing and Cai Jing, the leader of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty. This is definitely a cunning old man, his pair of thin and long eyes seems to be able to see through everything. Regardless of his age, his superb political skills, which he has honed over decades of high officialdom, have created his own unique aura, which seems to be able to intimidate people's hearts, making people dare not look directly at him.

"Hello, Master." I said cautiously.

"Well, you are Li Xin from Quanzhou. I have read the letter written by Jun'er. I wonder what official position you want to apply for?"

"Grand Master Mingjian, I want to seek the two positions of magistrate and county lieutenant in Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture. I will take the post of county magistrate, and I will take the post of Zhang Hu, the administrator of the nursing team, as county lieutenant."

"Oh, I actually want to apply for two official positions, one for myself and one for my family. Why is that?" Cai Jing said while drinking tea.

"I'm afraid that if I take office alone, I won't have enough prestige and no one will listen to me, so I want to take a member of my family with me to take office, and I hope that the Grand Master will fulfill my wish."

"But this is equivalent to handing over the military and political power of the county to you. What if you have evil intentions?" Cai Jing looked at me with squinted eyes.

"How dare you, villain? I'm just a small landowner, and I don't have much money. I want to be an official just for the convenience of sea trade. I don't dare to have any evil thoughts. Besides, I have to earn money." Enjoy, how could you do such a self-destructive thing?" I said with trembling legs.

"Oh, do sea trade!"

"Yes, I just want to make more money from sea trade."

"I heard that you brought me a gift?"

"Yes, Zhang Hu, please quickly bring over the gift for the Grand Master."

"Yes, sir." Several people came in carrying a big box.

"This box contains six thousand taels of gold, which I specially donated to the Grand Master."

"Well, you go back to the inn and wait for news."

"Yes, I would like to thank Grand Master first, I will take my leave."

Cai Jing waved his hand and we left.

"Steward, send someone to check this person's details first. If there is no problem, I don't mind helping him. After all, he donated six thousand taels of gold to me." Cai Jing said to the steward.

"Yes, sir, I will send someone to check right now."

While we were waiting in Beijing, Cai Jing sent someone to check my details.

A few days later, the people Cai Jing sent to check on me came back.

"Master, the people sent to investigate have returned."

"Did you find anything?"

"This person's ancestor is a branch of the Li family in Longxi, but he moved to Quanzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Li family in Quanzhou has never been an official and has been doing business. This Li family in Quanzhou He has a good relationship with every local official in Quanzhou; this person's mother died three years ago, his father died last year, and he has a younger sister at home. After this person took over as the head of the family, he made a lot of achievements, starting from I opened two restaurants and several shops, made a lot of money, and recently I am building and buying ships."

"It seems that this person really plans to do sea trade. So this person is fine."

"Yes, sir, we haven't found anything wrong with this person."

"Okay, I see, you go down first."

A few days later, the Taishi Mansion sent someone to tell us that the matter had been settled.

"The Grand Master asked me to tell you that the imperial edict is on the way. You can rush back to receive it."

"Please tell the Grand Master on behalf of XX that XX has thanked him. From now on, as long as the Grand Master gives instructions, XX will go through fire and water without hesitation." After saying that, I gave the boy ten taels of silver.

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