"The waist is slender. The age is the only way to be old. Just been touched by the romance, and the weeping poplar bun. Beginners learn strict makeup, like a depiction of a shaved figure, timid rain and shy cloud affection. How coquettish the move is.

Fighting for Nai's heart, he will not pity his son-in-law first. It's long and late at night, and if you don't want to go into the mandarin quilt, you will be undressed, and Yingying will stand on her back, but you will sleep first. ”

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old little prostitute, her body has just begun to stretch, and the corners of her eyebrows are full of spring. Swaying left and right, showing off the slender waist like a weak willow in the wind, the slender fingers that are as white as jade, and gently brushing the black hair on the sideburns, a look flashed, like resentment.

Xu Chang and Sun Wanglou walked out of the hall, and they were led into this curtain, just like the people they saw before, they came up with wine and food in a moment, and there were three charming little ladies who walked in with a cloud board and a hole flute.

Sun Wanglou poured wine for Xu Chang, and the youngest prostitute began to sing. sang Liu Sanchang's new word "Dou Baihua", which is about the shy and timid spring love of the little lady who has just solved the situation.

Although it is still a cold winter, there is no cold in this curtain, but there is a strong sense of spring.

Xu Chang's mind was still sober, and he knew that the things he encountered today were unusual, and he dared to slack off in the slightest.

was raised by the Zhang family since he was a child, and later with Zhang Sanniang entering the Xu family, Xu Chang saw a lot of tricks in the business field, and his heart was the same. Today, these people must be here for Xu Ping, they have a few catties and a few taels, Xu Chang knows in his heart, and it is not worth the trouble of others to take the bones together to extract oil.

After drinking a glass of wine, Xu Chang looked at Sun Wanglou and said: "Sun Yuanwai, if there is anything that can be done with me, even if you speak, as long as Xu Chang can do it, you will not dare to refuse." But when it comes to the front, if it involves my family officials, please forgive Xu Chang for not being able to do anything. Our family official is a person with ideas, don't talk about our subordinates in official affairs, even the old courtoon and Mrs. Tai never talk about it, that is not to interfere. ”

Sun Wanglou had a smile on his face: "Don't say these words, let's just get together today, talk about some wind and moon, and don't talk about anything serious." On New Year's Day, women don't become female celebrities, why can't we take a break when we make money to support our families. Although the squire is relaxed, he enjoys himself. ”

Xu Chang's face did not change, and he continued: "Not only today, but also the affairs of officials in the future." ”

Sun Wanglou smiled mysteriously, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said to Xu Chang: "Relax, as long as the waiter is unwilling to talk, he will never force you." However, if one day the squire wants to talk about it, he can't stop it. ”

Xu Chang's heart tightened: "How do you say this?" ”

"Taishi Liu also said just now that there are all kinds of difficulties in being a subordinate in the official eunuch's family. For example, if the host asks for money to use, he will give you the capital and ask you to pay a certain amount of interest a year. This money is not a tile and stone in the street, where does the money come from? For example, if you have any relatives and friends in the host's family, you want to find a satisfactory errand in the capital, and you have no way, so you can go everywhere, can you find the door of the housekeeper to open to? ”

Speaking of this, Sun Wanglou smiled all over his face, shook his head, and went to serve his wine glass.

Xu Chang asked in a deep voice, "What does this mean?" ”

Sun Wanglou picked up the wine, drank it dry, smacked his lips, and said to Xu Chang: "Squire, although we people are shouting like this, and everyone else shouts Taiwei Situ, if you shout the official a little lower, you will be angry." But in the master's house, the subordinate is still the subordinate, and he does not really become a member of the court. What the master commands, do everything possible to do the subordinates, if you can't do it, you will be blamed or punished, and you will never have a good life. But where are things so easy to do? The master's family is either a scholar who has read poetry and books since he was a child, or he has grown up in wealth since he was a child, and he is a master with low eyes, and he doesn't know anything about worldly affairs, and he has no place to talk about reasoning. What to do? I have to help everyone, you help me, I help you, and the errand will be easy to do. ”

Only then did Xu Chang understand why there were so many housekeepers and officials from the official eunuchs gathered here, it turned out that they were to help each other after getting acquainted, and it would be easy to do errands in the future. This also makes sense, many subordinates who are trusted by the master can be half the master at home, and some small things can be done without alarming the master's family.

"You say that, and I understand." But is that alone worth the price? Wine and food, soft and tender little lady, Xu Pingguan is the deputy envoy of the third department, and I have never seen such a big deal with my colleagues.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Xu Chang asked Sun Wanglou: "So, what is the identity of Taishi Liu and the others in the hall?" Could it be that they are also the descendants of some rich and noble family? In Kaifeng City today, I'm afraid that even Lu Yi, Jian Xianggong and the Eight Kings don't have that tone, and there is nothing in the capital that they can't do. ”

Sun Wanglou smiled mysteriously: "Of course not, but the identity of the subordinate of the official eunuch is similar." ”

Xu Chang's face was solemn: "Who is it?" ”

"There's nothing to hide from the servants, they're all the public in the yamen."

Listening to Sun Wanglou's answer, Xu Chang was taken aback: "What kind of public person in the yamen can have such great energy?" Even the chamberlains in the palace have seen it, and since the Empress Dowager Liu went, they didn't dare to say such things! ”

Sun Wanglou said: "I won't tell you, which yamen they are, I can't say everything." I only know that Liu Taishi was originally the household department in the three divisions, and his ancestors were public servants, and they were passed down from generation to generation, and I don't know how many generations Liu Taishi has passed on. And the children and grandchildren of Taishi Liu have also inherited his mantle. Let's put it this way, we have the yamen in Kaifeng City, from the Zhongshu Dutang, to the Privy Council, to the Sansi Yushitai, the Sanban Court of the Inquisitor, and even the Kaifeng Mansion, there are people from Taishi Liu who are working in it. What else do you have that we Taishi Liu can't do? ”

Xu Chang snorted coldly: "No matter how many people you know, you just know the officials." In the end, it is the officials who take the decision, where can ordinary officials be the masters? ”

"Haha, haha......" Sun Wanglou looked at Xu Chang, shaking his head and laughing. Xu Shilang, have you ever heard a word? We are in the Great Song Dynasty, but we are in the world of public people. Those officials who took ideas were transferred to this yamen in three days, and then to that yamen five days later, and they couldn't even understand the documents in the yamen, so why did they get ideas? Speaking of which, aren't you at the mercy of the officials who do things below? ”

Xu Chang has naturally heard the saying of the public world, and many officials are also complaining, but he has never heard Xu Ping mention it.

To put it bluntly, many officials still do not have the ability to deal with specific affairs, and their tenure of office is too short, so they must rely on their subordinate officials. Most of those capable officials only adopted some means to make their subordinate officials dare not deceive, and as for really understanding the specific work handled by public officials, it is absolutely rare in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty.

Hearing this, Xu Chang finally understood a little. The public officials in the yamen, the housekeepers in the homes of high-ranking officials, and the businessmen in the market, the combination of these three is definitely more powerful than the collusion between officials and businessmen. All the policies of the empire can be turned over in the hands of these people, so as to obtain financial resources beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

From the promotion of officials to the profit of business, there is nothing that these people cannot do, this is a kingdom that does not see the sun. (To be continued.) )