"Sir, my boy has been filling my vacancy since the 27th year of Hongwu. It has been six or seven years now."
Wang Lvma lowered his head and sighed, "I've told him a long time ago that Jingcang is a rich place. Even if you are not greedy, you can still live a decent life!"
"Just the profit sharing from top to bottom every year is a good sum of money..."
Chang Sheng was impatient with his nagging and said angrily, "Tell me, how greedy you are!"
"There should be 70,000 to 80,000 silver dollars!"
"How much?" Chang Sheng stood up awkwardly, grinning from ear to ear, "Seven or eighty thousand?"
"Sometimes my kid can't help it. You don't know what's going on here!" Wang Zuma said quickly, "Everyone else takes everything, and he doesn't get along if he doesn't take it. Other colleagues do some tricks, and he pretends
Tsukuru didn’t see it, but others will definitely give it to them afterwards, wouldn’t it offend others if they don’t?”
"And those superiors in Jingcang... know that my family is quite a bit hefty, and they are used to taking my boys with them when they do bad things."
"In the early years when I was on duty, Jingcang was managed by Mr. Guo Laohou... Later, it was managed by Cao Hou... They managed people just like leading troops, without so many twists and turns.
"
"The benefits that should be given to the brothers will not be less, and those who should not be given will have their hands cut off! But now the people in the yamen are not old and the atmosphere is bad, and everyone is trying to make money from top to bottom..."
"Seven or eighty thousand?" Chang Sheng was speechless again, "My hereditary and irreplaceable prince, my annual salary can be converted into only two thousand silver dollars. Your kid can do six or seven things to me in one year, whether he is greedy or not.
Year’s salary?”
Saying that, Chang Sheng suddenly sat down again, "You also said that your boy is not the most greedy, so how much money does the one who is the most greedy have to be greedy?"
"It's not all due to greed, the bulk of it is divided between the top and the bottom..."
Chang Sheng sneered and interrupted Wang Zuma, "Sharing profits? Do you think I really don't understand what's going on? What do you mean by sharing profits? Where does it come from?"
Wang Zuma said anxiously, "Actually, not all of this money has been put into my boy's pocket. During the holidays, just giving gifts to Shangguan takes up a lot of it..."
"Okay, okay!" Chang Sheng waved his hands in disgust and glanced at Wang Lvma, "You used to be a man who ran horses on his arms, but now you have learned to avoid the important and take the easy, and learn to tell lies!"
"Master, I know I can't cause you any trouble, but now I really have no choice..."
"I know!" Chang Sheng interrupted Wang Zuma again, stood up and walked out, "Go home and wait for the letter!" He said, suddenly stopped, "I tried my best to save his life! But,
Your family must take out the stolen money earned over the years. Not only must it be taken out, but you must also take the initiative to hand it over..."
"As long as people live, I will sell my house and land... and pay it back!" Wang Zuma looked at Chang Sheng's back and shouted.
~~
But he said that Chang Sheng went back to the backyard first, entered the bedroom and started to change clothes.
He looked very sad, with frost on his face.
While helping him unbutton his military uniform, the lady murmured, "Why don't we help Wang Luma? He used to be a member of our family, but now he has been separated..."
"What do you know!" Chang Sheng said, "Our family leads soldiers. If our own soldiers don't help us, what will others think?"
"This thing about donkeys and horses is hateful, but he and his father, one died for our family, and the other lost his arm after me."
"The Chang family is what it is today because of the help of these Pao Ze. Now you don't care about him. If you lead the troops out in the future, who will help our family bleed and sacrifice their lives!"
Madam rolled up Chang Sheng's changed clothes and rolled her eyes at him, "Yes, yes, yes, you are right! Your Chang family is very particular about kindness and righteousness... Humph, there is so much bloodshed and sacrifice in the peaceful world.
....”
As she said that, she suddenly saw Chang Sheng, who had changed his clothes, walking out, "Where are you going? Are you not going to eat?"
"Go out and do errands!"
~~
"Seventy-eight...seventy-nine...eighty..."
Li Jinglong gritted his teeth, and the sweat on his forehead trembled along with the muscles on his arms.
The soldier next to him, Li Xiaowai, stood cautiously, fearing that the stone lock in the grandfather's hand would fall.
"Um...ah..."
Li Jinglong trembled all over, his teeth were about to be broken, and the veins on his neck were crisscrossed, "One hundred!"
Plop! Two stone locks weighing more than 100 kilograms fell to the ground, creating a crater.
"Master!" Li Xiaowai quickly stepped forward with a towel.
"I'm getting old after all... Huh... Huh..." Li Jinglong breathed heavily, "It used to be no problem to get two hundred in one breath, but now it's just a hundred."
It’s time to die!”
As he said that, he looked at his right hand with some resentment.
Really old?
My arms and hands have still not recovered to what they were before I got sick.
"Master!" Li Xiaowai whispered from the side, "Don't be too tired. Xi Shenxian has said that you should recover your limbs step by step..."
"Step-by-step is for those who have no perseverance!" Li Jinglong said sternly, "As long as you do anything step by step, you are guaranteed to fail! When a man does something, he must be brave and diligent."
As he said this, he moved his legs that were a bit unresponsive and said, "Come on, let's practice the legs after the arms are done!"
Li Xiaowai quickly leaned over and tied heavy sandbags on Li Jinglong's legs.
At this moment, the second housekeeper suddenly came over in a hurry, "Master, a guest has arrived!"
Li Jinglong kept kicking his legs in the air and said, "He Guangyi or Bao Zhao? Zhang Yan?"
"It's Duke Zheng who's here!"
"He...?" Li Jinglong stopped in confusion.
~~
"It's a rare visitor!" Li Jinglong laughed and entered the living room from the outside.
Chang Sheng put down the tea cup in his hand and looked at it, "Are you practicing martial arts?"
"You have to move your hands and feet if you don't have dexterity!" Li Jinglong waved his arms, "Hey, time is not forgiving, you are old!"
"Oh, how old are you!" Chang Sheng smiled and then went straight to the topic, "I have to trouble you about something!"
"Seek an official position for the scholar you mentioned?" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "The documents from the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be coming out in the past few days..."
"No, things are more difficult this time..."
Li Jinglong immediately became serious, "How difficult is it?"
~~
As Chang Sheng told the story, Li Jinglong's expression changed from serious to solemn.
Today is a troubled time. First, hundreds of officials knelt down and cried, then the Yangzhou Guancang case, and then the Jingcang corruption case.
Thinking about the behind-the-scenes of these cases, even if the person involved is an inconspicuous little character, we should still treat it with caution.
"He was arrested by Bao Tietou. We are just acquaintances, but I know you have some friendship with him!" Chang Sheng sighed, "So I can only trouble you about this!"
Then he added, "We are all leaders of troops. I must feel the same way as you..."
"I feel the same!" Li Jinglong said, "If something like this happened to someone in my family, I would have to take the lead. If you don't even have loyalty to lead troops, then what kind of soldiers can you lead?"
At this point he frowned and said, "But it's no use having a relationship with that guy Bao Tietou! He's got such energy that even his own father's words have no effect!"
As he said that, he glanced at Chang Sheng and said, "We really can't go to Bao Zhao for this matter!"
"Then who to look for!"
"I'm going to find He Guangyi!"
When Li Jinglong said this, Chang Sheng felt that the matter was settled.
He Guangyi is the leader of the Jinyi Guard, and he can protect individuals with a pinch of salt. Maybe he won't protect others, but he will definitely protect the emperor's uncle's people.
He can't be that blind!
But the biggest problem in this matter is that as the emperor's uncle, Chang Sheng cannot find He Guangyi on his own, so he needs a middleman like Li Jinglong.
"Please!" Chang Sheng sighed and said with a wry smile, "The older you get, the more troublesome it becomes to do things! What does this mean when you are young?"
"It's not a moot point, it's a thorough one!" Li Jinglong smiled, "What's the name of the person you want to protect?"