Jianghuxing

In the second year of Zhongping, there was a fire in Beijing. In February, Emperor Ling ordered the world to pay ten yuan per mu tax to help repair the palace.

Zhang Liao was promoted to Gong Cao by Xiao Feng Xian'er, changed his outfit, and went in and out of the Assassin's Mansion all day long.

Having a drink is commonplace these days, but there are fewer and fewer opportunities to get together for a drink. They are getting busier and busier, and whenever I wander around, I often think of the days when I was alone in my childhood when I went down to the river and climbed trees.

I searched the countryside to see where there were masters with knives and guns. Jinyang City has run all over the inside and outside, and the strongest martial arts seem to be under Lu Bu's hands.

One day I had dinner with Hao Meng, he didn't go north with us last year to beg for thieves, and he was dedicated to handling military affairs in the rear, and now he has been promoted to a small leader, and his rank seems to be higher than mine.

In my opinion, a person's official position is not much about whether he can get wine to drink. Some people have a lot of official positions, but if they want to eat a bowl of wine, they have to entrust people to make connections, after all, there is a shortage of food in these years, and there is very little leftover grain to make wine. Therefore, the spicy thing was in the limelight for a while.

Hao Meng's official position is not big, but after a year of dredging up and down, he can now be regarded as the number one person in Jinyang City. Hao Meng asked his entourage to bring half a jar of wine, beat a bowl and said to me, "Don't let the master book know!"

I took the wine, smelled it and frowned: "You know that you have to do this if he doesn't let him make wine privately, isn't it looking for a fight."

Hao Meng laughed: "The master book just talked about it, and didn't really order the arrest." You haven't known him after following the master for so long, and there is no one better than our master in terms of compassion for the corporal-hey, if you don't drink it, don't spill it, give it back to me. Hao

Meng saw that I still didn't have enough alcohol to speak of, so she grabbed my wine bowl and drank it herself. I am a well-known vegetable tiger in Bingzhou, others drink and I eat vegetables, and usually others have a pot of wine before they finish the dishes on the table. Hao Meng had no choice but to hold the wine bowl with one hand and protect the plate in front of him with the other.

Speaking of famous teachers and hermits, Hao Meng snorted wine and said loudly: "Where is there a fart master and master, the most capable people in Bingzhou are in this camp, you want to learn to ride a horse to fight and find Song Xian Wei to continue them, and if you want to learn a big sword and iron knife, find Cheng Lian or Hou Cheng." But the big guy's kung fu is taught by the master book, why don't you just follow the master book to practice so well?"

I was distressed: "Feng Xian'er said that I need to go out to see and broaden my horizons, otherwise I won't be able to understand no matter how much he teaches me."

Hao Meng thought for a while, put down the wine glass and said, "Lord Bookkeeper values you very much, he didn't ask the other brothers to do this, just let us master and master a martial art."

Hao Meng felt that she hadn't thought through enough, so she stood up and walked around twice, and finally patted me on the shoulder: "Shun'er is so blessed." Then let's go out for a walk!" Before

leaving, I went to Feng Xian and Wen Yuan for a drink, and I waited in line for several days to make an appointment with them.

The wine was borrowed from Hao Meng, and he said that anyone who could honor Lu Bu would be the same. I think Hao Meng has been in awe of Lu Bu since he was shocked by Lu Bu once in the East Stone Cliff, and even a little ...... Special kind of awe, indescribable. If Hao Meng is a woman, I'm sure it's like.

The alcohol content of dried sweet potatoes is not high, but Zhang Liao is greedy for a cup, and he gets drunk after drinking it for a long time, shouting noisily.

Lu Bu rarely drank alcohol, and often read with one hand, lying on the side and reading lazily, not thinking that we were noisy. When we urged him to be in a hurry, he touched the porcelain bowl intently, symbolically raised a glass with us, and then touched his lips and fell.

Soon Zhang Liao fell drunk to the side and fell asleep riding a buckwheat pillow.

Lu Bu put down the book and said to me: "The water in the county is too deep, Shun'er, you can't react, so I asked Wen Yuan to help me." You are too real to do things in the Assassin's Mansion, and you are the only one to lead the troops to fight, but I don't want to involve you in this intriguing matter.

I took a sip of wine: "Everything is up to you."

Lu Bu said: "When the army is recruited in the coming year, I will arrange for you to come in and become a tun commander."

I asked, "How many people does the tun chief manage?"

and "There are always a hundred."

"That's not going to work! at least a thousand.

Lu Bu smiled but didn't answer, so he read again.

Soon, the Jingshi was heavily taxed, and the remnants of the rebel army gathered again to make trouble. The news of the recruitment was delayed, and Lu Bu ordered Zhang Liao to take Cheng Lian and them around to quell the rebellion.

Zhang Liao wanted me to go with him and do things under him by the way, learn how to lead troops and how to fight, but Lu Bu refused. What he meant was for me to hone and hone alone.

Zhang Liao said to me before leaving: "Feng Xian is determined to let you go out for a walk, you don't have to be idle in the state all day, now the situation is turbulent, maybe a large-scale war will break out one day, you can go early, go early, learn early, come back early, don't kung fu has not learned, let people run away a bear."

Zhang Liao said that he took a group of people and rode away, which was very majestic. Cheng Lian followed him with a big knife, and Song Xian Wei continued to carry the hanging man gun and the hook and intestine spear together. Wang Shihao, who had not been seen for a long time, also got a half-official position under Song Xian, and left with Zhang Liao.

I kept yelling not to be idle, so I came to the south of the city in idleness. There is a family selling brine lamb tripe here, and every month on the fifteenth day of the new year, the big market will set up a stall to sell, boiling the lamb stick bones and water in an iron pot, and the churning is so that pedestrians from the north and south have to look at it a few times.

Now that the world is not good, the big guys have tightened their belts to pay taxes to the emperor, and even this brine shop is no exception. There are a lot less big sticks and bones and water in the pot, and only the old soup is kept all day long, mixed with white water, and boiled repeatedly, and when there is less meat, you just need to scoop more soup and break open the cake and soak it to eat. The soup was so diluted that it could only vaguely smell of meat, and even such a bowl would sell for a lot of money.

Lu Bu would never accompany me to eat these things, so I often went with Ren Qiang and Li Zhong. Ren Qiang has the most treats, followed by me. Although Li Zhong took the least money, his words were never idle, across the entire Central Plains Continent, there was nothing he didn't know. I don't know where I inquired.

"Do you know, the officials in Jingshi are crazy!"

"Where do I know this, only those who are officials will understand."

Li Zhong put down the bowl and sighed: "The current new officials have to go to the West Garden in advance to determine the amount of money before taking office, and then everyone will calculate the money in 1510, so that they can go forward!"

I was puzzled: "It's so messy nowadays, where do they get the money?"

Li Zhong pointed with his chin at the old man who was busy selling brine in the back room: "It's not that these people are scraped, the surface is scraped one layer, the inside is scraped three layers, and the inside and outside are scraped down, hum." "

Does everybody scrape?" "Everybody scrapes

."

"Then why doesn't

the emperor care?" "Emperor?"

Li Zhong looked at me, wanted to laugh but didn't dare, and finally took a lot of effort to calm down his emotions, and lay down in front of me and whispered: "The biggest official seller in the country is the emperor, do you know?

I heard a faint chill, and then the old man who was guarding the wooden house, although he made brine, but the whole person was wrapped in a piece of skin and a few feet of cloth. His eyes were glazed, and although he had been busy, he looked even more confused.

Whenever I encounter something that is not confused in life, I have to make a special trip to consult Lu Bu.

Listening to me finish speaking, Lu Bu didn't lift his eyelids, still squinted and read, and let out a perfunctory "oh".

"Thirty million!" I learned from Li Zhong's strange gesture, "30 million! I only have two iron coins a month! I can't afford 30 million in a hundred lifetimes!"

Lu Bu said lightly: "Shun'er doesn't buy officials, so what do you do with it."

"I'm not going to discuss this with you.

"There's nothing to discuss.

"Big brother, you are the master book, why can't you say something for the country and the people!"

Lu Bu lowered the book: "Yo, Shun'er has grown up and begun to care about the affairs of the world." I

was a little embarrassed: "No, I just want to hear what you think."

Lu Bu smiled and sat up straight, holding the book aside.

"The official of the heart thinks, and the thought is obtained. "

What's this?"

Mencius.

"I beg you not to beat around the bush and talk about the emperor.

"I praise you. "

Talk about the emperor!"

"Okay, talk about the emperor." Lu Bu thought for a while, "What does the emperor have to say, it is nothing more than to build a Wanjin Hall in the West Garden, so that those dignitaries and nobles can pay the silver money in fear, and then take what they need, and have fun."

"But all that

money is squeezed from the common people!" "No, the money is squeezed from the officials, and the officials are the ones who squeeze the people." "

Isn't it different?"

"It's different. Lu Bu looked serious, "It is natural for the emperor to do this, but the official deserves death if he does this."

"But it's a knock-on effect!"

"yes."

"Then why are you still saying something normal?

Lu Bu laughed: "This is very normal, taken from the people for the people." However, Emperor Ling should not take the money to repair the temple, it should be used for military preparation.

I asked, "What would happen if you were the emperor?"

Lu Bu said with a smile: "Be careful when you speak, you will be killed." As he spoke, he began to read again half-lying.

After leaving Lu Bu's mansion, he pondered his words repeatedly, feeling dazed and helpless. I looked around for a while, but I didn't know where I was going.

When I was packing, Ren Qiang came and took out some money and stuffed it into my package.

"The master asked me to give it to you privately, don't let outsiders know, it's the state's money.

I was taken aback when I heard this: "Then I am not a prisoner who embezzles money and food?"

Ren Qiang smiled: "The master knows that you will say this, and specially asked me to tell you that this money is counted as military salary for your special training, and it is not illegal, but you must learn something to come back, otherwise you will be punished twice." As

soon as I heard that I was going to be punished, I was so frightened that I quickly put away the package and went out of the city with him. Ren Qiang at the city gate asked, "Is it really not necessary for me to go with you?"

I shook my head, Ren Qiang put my nine-ring goose wing knife into a cloth bag and wrapped it, I took it and then loaded lightly on the road.