The official from Sipin is indeed not small, but in Bianliang City, Tokyo, the political and economic center of the Northern Song Dynasty, he can only be regarded as a sesame mung bean official, so the house of this counselor looks small and shabby, and it is also located near the Chenghuang Temple in the northeast corner of the relatively remote outer city.

After Wang Zhong told Menzi the news that he had encountered the murder of the bandits' family on the road, his own family members ran in quickly to report it, and Li Ge, who was resting at home, was suddenly shocked and hurriedly came out with his family.

After briefly talking about the murder of his master, Wang Zhongsheng was afraid that he would snub Li Nan, so he hurriedly introduced: "Master Qiqi, this good man Li Nan is the father-in-law who saved me and the little lady Shu'er!" ”

"Oh?" Li Ge looked at Li Nan, who was extraordinary, and Zhang Hao and other soldiers standing behind him, and asked: "Then thank you for this strong man drawing his sword to help, I don't know if you have an official position?" ”

Although he didn't understand why the other party asked like this, Li Nan still said truthfully: "I don't have an official position, and I'm just a white body at present." ”

Hearing Li Nan's reply, Li Ge Yes's face showed a slightly disdainful look, and he said to the housekeeper beside him: "Go to the account and get two pieces of money." ”

After a while, the housekeeper came to the door with two pieces of money, and after Li Ge handed the money to Li Nan, he said lightly: "This is a reward for you, since you have nothing to do, please go back." ”

Seeing Li Ge's actions, Wang Zhong, who had seen Li Nan's ruthlessness, was frightened and said: "Master, don't be lazy......"

Zhang Hao held the handle of the knife in his hand and said angrily: "The old dog dares!" ”

Many of Li Nan's personal soldiers held their knives in anger, and a murderous aura filled this piece of heaven and earth, Li Ge is and the others suddenly felt a chill on their bodies, and looked at Li Nan and the others in fear.

Li Nan has never suffered such humiliation since he came to the Northern Song Dynasty, if he had been placed elsewhere, he would have let people clean up this snobbish old bastard a long time ago, but seeing Shu'er being held in her arms by her aunt and crying bitterly, she still endured this breath for the sake of the little girl's face, otherwise she would not have a good time in this family in the future.

Waving his hand to signal Wang Zhong and Zhang Hao without saying much, Li Nan took out the parting gift that had been prepared for Shu'er from Pan Jinlian's hand, came to the little girl's side, and put a beautiful pure gold collar on Shu'er's neck.

Touching the little girl's head, Li Nan squatted down and said with a smile: "Shu'er, you live well in the uncle's house, and Brother Li will send you here." ”

Seeing that Li Nan, who had saved himself twice and could give himself a huge sense of security, was leaving, Shu'er was reluctant to hug him tightly and said with a sob: "Brother Li, can't you not go?" ”

"Huh."

Li Nan glanced at the snobbish old bastard who was frightened by the actions of Zhang Hao and the others, and said softly: "This is your relative's home, not mine, but I still live in Tokyo during this time, if you are free, you can go to the best inn in Tokyo City to find me." ”

After saying that, Li Nan ignored the butler who was holding two pieces of money in his hand, and rode away with his soldiers.

Li Ge is wife and wife, touched the exquisite gold collar around Shu'er's neck, and said in surprise: "I'm afraid there are seven or eight taels, could it be that this hero is still a rich businessman?" ”

Shu'er shook her head and said, "Brother Li is not a rich businessman, but he has a lot of gold and silver, and it seems that he is here to buy an official this time." ”

Li Ge is an official of the imperial court, and his job on weekdays is to collect accusations and go against Cai Jing and other traitors, and this evil thing of selling officials is even more hated by people like him who are born on the right path of Jinshi.

Now that he heard that Li Nan had come to Tokyo to buy an official, he immediately waved his sleeves and complained to Shu'er and Wang Zhongdao: "Let's all go in, and you are not allowed to contact such inferior people who do not learn and have no skills in the future!" ”

Looking at the surging crowds of people in the market, Li Nan gradually forgot the unpleasantness just now, and casually beckoned a more clever traveler to ask, "Where is the best inn in Tokyo?" ”

As soon as this traveler heard Li Nan's tone was so big, he asked the best inn when he opened his mouth, and knew that big business came to the door, so he hurriedly replied with a smile: "If you want to talk about the best inn, it should be the Qingfeng Building at the east gate of Xiangguo Temple!" ”

Li Nan casually threw him a piece of broken silver, and said with a smile: "Okay, then you will lead the way in front, and I will ask you something later." ”

These local travelers in Tokyo, the reward money they get on weekdays are copper coins, and when they meet more generous guests, they only give a small amount of money, and they have ever seen a high-roller who throws silver with a shot, and immediately responded excitedly, and led the way in front of him with brisk steps.

This Daxiangguo Temple is adjacent to Bianhe Street in the east, and there are many inns of different shapes on the side of the road, many people from the Song Dynasty, as well as people from Dongying, Goryeo, Liao, Xia, Dashi and other places who wear different costumes go in and out of it.

The Qingfeng Building that the traveler said was three stories high, standing out among the many low-rise inns.

Before and after coming to the door of the store, Li Nan asked Zhang Hao and the traveler to go in, and directly chartered the best three-entry house in Qingfeng Building for temporary residence.

Because he was afraid that a hundred soldiers walking together would attract the attention of those who cared about it, Li Nan asked them to divide them into several groups when he entered the city, and at this moment these soldiers escorted four heavy carriages into the courtyard one after another.

Bringing the traveler to the living room of the main house, Li Nan took a sip of the fragrant tea sent by Pan Jinlian and asked, "Are you a local in Tokyo?" What's your last name? ”

When the traveler saw Li Nan's style, he said respectfully: "Returning to the big official, the villain's surname is Liu Mingshun, who lives in Tokyo, and because he is familiar with the things in the city, he has a nickname called Know-it-all." ”

"Jack-of-all-trades? That's a good nickname. ”

Li Nan looked at Liu Shun and asked, "I heard that there are people in the court who sell officials, and the price is clearly marked as three gansuo, and they go straight to the secret pavilion; Five hundred times, the verdict is passed, I don't know if you know the details? ”

Liu Shun replied truthfully: "There is indeed such a thing, I have served many guests who came to Tokyo to buy officials in the past few years, could it be that the big officials are also interested in this official position?" ”

Unexpectedly, a casual traveler I met on the road knew about the sale and purchase of official positions by high-ranking officials in the imperial court, and it seemed that this was not a secret, and it was already a well-known thing.

Li Nan secretly sighed for the corrupt Great Song Dynasty, nodded and said, "I do plan to buy an official position to play, do you know the way to buy an official?" ”

Liu Shun thought for a few seconds and then said: "If a big official wants to buy an idle official position such as a judgment, then a few hundred yuan can be sold, and there are many ways, you can buy it at any time, but if you want to buy a real official who can be released, it will be a little difficult." ”

"Oh? It turns out that there is so much more to say. ”

Li Nan thought that it would be easy to spend gold and silver to buy an official, but he didn't expect this business to be quite complicated, so he immediately said to Liu Shun: "What I want to buy is naturally an official position that can be released externally, if you can help me do this, I will definitely be rewarded." ”

Seeing that Li Nan threw over another piece of silver weighing five taels, Liu Shunxi said with a smile: "The villain will definitely help the big officials to get what they want!" ”

After carefully putting the ingot of silver into his arms, Liu Shun took a sip of fragrant tea to moisten his throat, and then began to talk in detail.

It turned out that the person who sold officials in Beijing was not one, but a group of people.

The most arrogant person who sells officials is Wang Huang in the imperial history, and the highest official position is Cai Jing, the official of Wei Guogong and his son Cai You, as well as the same party Tong Guan and others, in addition to Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, Gao Yu, Prince Zhao Heng, Yun Wang Zhao Kai and so on.

Hearing that this group of traitorous ministers who have been stinking for thousands of years have betrayed their officials, Li Nan is quite understandable, but the crown prince Zhao Heng and the king of Yun, Zhao Kai, are both members of the royal family, and one of them is still the successor of the Song Dynasty, and they even sold their officials together, it is really a miracle that the rotten Northern Song Dynasty can exist until now.

Li Nan naturally didn't want to buy a useless official position, what he wanted to buy was a real official position in charge of a state in the south, so Wang Hao ruled it out first, as for the others, either they could only sell military positions, or the real lack of official positions that could be sold was not big enough, so the best trading partner was Cai Jing's side.