Since the Zhenzong Dynasty, the customs of the Song Dynasty have gradually advocated extravagance, and officials and scholars have naturally rushed to the forefront of this trend. The officials of this dynasty all know that in this year, they talk about wealth, taste, and connotation, and no one can compare to the Hanlin Bachelor's Banquet. From the inside to the outside, this person is full of grace and luxury, but there is never a trace of the frivolity of a rich man, and that bearing makes everyone who has seen it ashamed of themselves.

The Song people have a saying that only three generations of eunuchs can know how to dress and eat. Whether it is in business or as an official, the generation is full of nouveau riche, and there is that shabby energy in their bones.

Xu Ping is a nouveau riche, but he should be at ease, eat, drink and dress according to his own temperament, pay attention to convenience and comfort, do not be vassally elegant, and do not praise the stinky feet of those noble children.

The Song people also have a saying, rich no more than three generations. Xu Ping once studied these two three generations together, and understood a truth, people in this era obviously understand that poverty and luxury are the root of the loser, and learning to dress and eat is not far from the loser's food. Knowing this, Xu Ping didn't have the heart to learn from others to talk about pomp, and it was good to do everything according to his ability without losing face.

As a very conscious nouveau riche, Xu Ping still didn't expect someone to be so rude.

He is now standing in Huang Tianbiao's study, yes, the most luxurious place in the residence of this county lieutenant who can't read a single word is the study. Along the perimeter of the walls, there are large bookcases one man high, filled with books. Xu Ping went up to see it, and in the past two years, he has printed out in Yongzhou, and there is no leakage here, from the basic readings such as "Thousand Character Text" and "Anthology", to the Buddhist "Three Tibets", and the Taoist "Seven Signatures of the Cloud Pipe", which are all in volumes and sets. You must know that the complete set of "Sanzang" is regarded as a national treasure by some small countries, but this Huang County Lieutenant is just stuffed in his bookcase and slowly eats ashes.

On the desk next to it, there are four treasures in the study, only one is exquisite, that is, expensive, what is the most expensive on the market, what he has here is what, all brand new, like samples in the store.

The vases in the room, and even the tables and chairs, Xu Ping didn't know what the origin was, but the dazzling gold threads wrapped around it were so distinct, he couldn't wait to tell the people who watched them, I was very expensive!

Xu Ping shook his head and smiled bitterly, this Huang County Lieutenant's personality is so distinct, he wants to tell everyone unabashedly that his brother has made a fortune in the past two years! That is, his status as a barbarian, no one talked to him, and he didn't care, Xu Ping came and swaggered into the most conspicuous study, and there were four errand servants standing outside at any time, and this pomp and circumstance in Yongzhou was that Cao Zhizhou and Xu Ping could compete with him. This guy simply forgot that Xu Pingtong's first duty in judging officials was to supervise his subordinate officials, and if he changed someone else, he had to rip off his official robe.

Although Huang Tianbiao has always occupied the position of county lieutenant, he does not care. In the past, he was the magistrate of the county order and patrol to manage the county border, but now it is managed by the magistrate of the county and the local soldiers, unless it is a barbarian with a special status, Huang Tianbiao does not even participate in the interrogation of prisoners. Most of the servants around him were the original clansmen, and the government did not give them a lot of money, and Xu Ping did not let them take care of things, so Huang Tianbiao tossed blindly.

After Xu Ping visited the study and sat on the chair for a while, Huang Tianbiao finally led a barbarian boy wearing a bamboo hat on his head and barefoot on his left side to come in and salute Xu Parallel: "General judgment, the lower official has not disgraced his mission, and he has brought it." ”

The young man took off the bamboo hat and saluted Xu Ping respectfully: "Little Huang Congfu has seen Shangguan." ”

"No need to be polite. County Lieutenant Huang, you go and prepare some wine and food, I have something to talk about with Xiao Yanei. ”

Huang Tianbiao touched his head and said to Xu Ping: "General judgment, just let the outside servants go to those little things, they eat and live with me every day, and they must have to do something, otherwise I will suffer too much." ”

Xu Ping sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm asking you to be busy, I have something to discuss with Huang Yanei alone, it's inconvenient for you to be here, don't you understand?" ”

"To put it bluntly, there is something that you don't want me to know! I still don't understand this, it must be some important matter in the court, I'm afraid that I know that the situation is not secret. I sent the messenger to serve tea, and you talked secretly, and I went to prepare the food and drinks. By the way, do you have my share of the food and drinks? ”

"Yes, you are the master, how can you not be accompanied."

"Order—"

Huang Tianbiao staggered out of the door and arranged for someone to go.

These days, he and Gao Daquan have also listened to a lot of stories about the Three Kingdoms, learned some novelties, and talked and acted upside down. The world of the storyteller has always come from a fantasy place that no one knows about, and the story of that world seems to take place in this world, but it is much more fun.

Huang Congfu stood respectfully to the side, peeking at the things in the room, this rich and compelling aura made him dare not even breathe. Huang Tianbiao is very familiar with him, the head of a small group of barbarians, but he didn't expect that now that he is rich and noble, this small study is about to catch up with the wealth of Zhongzhou.

Since Xu Ping arrived, Huang Tianbiao is specifically responsible for the trading of nearby products and the surrounding barbarians, and he has no consciousness of fair trade, according to the rules of the barbarians, the money earned by the clansmen is his, and he feels very generous with any reward, and the family business has been blowing like a blow in the past two years. How can the money earned from trade be compared to the Huang family's collection of local production capacity in Chungju, and now he is already a local tyrant among the surrounding barbarian chieftains, and in recent days, in addition to messing around with Tan Hu, Gao Daquan, and Sun Qilang, he is in the barbarian chieftain circle.

Seeing Huang Tianbiao go out, Xu Ping said to Huang Congfu: "Xiao Yanei, let's sit down and talk." ”

Huang Congfu hurriedly said: "What is the identity of the little one?" Where is the reason to sit in front of Shangguan. ”

It's not that Huang Congfu is polite, according to the rules, he is a barbarian petty local official, and he can't sit and talk to the general judge of Benzhou, and there is no place for him to sit in front of the magistrate.

Xu Ping smiled: "Let's talk in private, don't worry about that much, just sit down and talk." ”

Huang Congfu was cautious at this time, sat down in the guest seat, and arched his hand: "Little courage." ”

Xu Ping said: "I came to you this time, do you know what it is for?" ”

Huang Congfu hurriedly stood up and replied: "County Lieutenant Huang just let the little one come in disguise, and he can't let others know the news, and he really doesn't know what Shangguan has to tell the little one." ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "You just sit down and say." ”

Huang Congfu sat down, and Xu Pingcai said: "As for me, I don't like to talk nonsense, and I don't want to go around in circles with you." Frankly speaking, since the last time I met in the inspection village, you have a heart to the court, you do things and speak in a measured manner, and you are a rare talent, I have kept it in my heart. Now Huang Chengxiang, the governor of Chungju, is too domineering and disturbs the local peace. And in the past two years, you have also seen that for example, there are thousands of new household registrations in He County, and agriculture and industry have improved. ”

Speaking of which, Huang Congfu also guessed something in his heart, but he couldn't believe it, his heart was beating hard, he just looked at Xu Ping nervously, and didn't dare to answer.

Xu Ping paused, looked at Huang Congfu and said: "The government is not satisfied with Huang Chengxiang, and wants to change someone to be the governor in Zhongzhou, I think you can?" What do you think? ”

"How can the little one be deed! Shangguan killed the small one! ”

"I only ask you, if we remove Huang Chengxiang, would you like to sit in the position of Zhizhou?"

Huang Congfu lowered his head, his two hands were rubbing together, and he struggled hard in his heart. Of course he wants to do it, and he even dreams about it. It was originally his father's position, but he was robbed by his uncle, and their father and son couldn't hold their heads up for one or two decades. It's one thing to think, the key is whether you can sit on it. Chungju is a Tuzhou, and it is not as good as a place under the direct control of the imperial court, so Zhizhou can change it if he wants to. According to the usual practice, the governors of Tuzhou were chosen by themselves, or they were argued, and the imperial court issued a complaint, and they did not interfere before. can let him deal with his uncle, he has the courage to have that heart, and he doesn't have the ability to be brave!

After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Tianfu gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you want to be small?" But even if the general judgment promotes me, Zhizhou will never have a reason to give way to himself, isn't it a pipe dream? ”

Xu Ping smiled and said to Huang Congfu: "It's up to you." As long as Huang Chengxiang does something that he shouldn't do, there will naturally be the imperial court to clean him up, and when the time comes, he will help you on the horse and send you another ride, I don't know if you can sit firmly in your seat at that time. ”

Huang Congfu blurted out: "As long as my uncle is not there, of course our father and son in Zhongzhou can be the master!" ”

Seeing that Xu Ping looked at himself with a smile, he asked ruthlessly: "Forgive the little ignorance, I don't know what I shouldn't do?" Please teach me! ”

"For example-trespassing-"

Huang Congfu shook his head impatiently: "Although my uncle is domineering, he doesn't have the courage. ”

This crepe word barbarian sounds unaccustomed, but as a child of an official family, no matter how unaccustomed he is, he understands the meaning of these two words, that is, to die, who would dare to do it if his brain is not bad?

Xu Ping was a little disappointed, these barbarian chiefs have always been bold, how can they be so disciplined in this kind of thing? After thinking for a while, he said to Huang Congfu: "Then it's simple, just let him go out and make trouble." For example, Shendong has recently made a lot of money growing sugarcane, and he is not tempted? As long as you dare to come out and grab him, take him down! ”

Huang Congfu suddenly came to his senses: "This is feasible!" These days, their father and son talk about Shen Dong every day, especially Shen Dong has some land that is set aside from Chungju, and they want to ask Shen Dong for money! ”

Xu Ping let out a sigh of relief, and sure enough, when it comes to money, no matter how smart a person is, he is confused. For these barbarians, the closest thing in the world is money, and if you have money, you can exchange it for all kinds of rare treasures in the Han land, and you can buy everything you want. When the number arrives, you will never frown when you grab it with your head.

For thousands of years, the days in the mountains have been like this, the strong robbed the weak, grabbed money, grabbed land, and grabbed people, and grabbed whatever they liked. Those small forces have only been passed down from generation to generation thanks to the harsh terrain in the mountains, and all the areas that are connected have basically become a big family.

The Song Dynasty was quiet on the frontier, and the two dynasties of Taizu and Taizong were more strict, and from the Zhenzong Dynasty, the barbarian affairs of the court did not interfere, and it was called peace. Even if the two gangs of barbarians break the sky, they will make trouble in the official mansion here to make peace and persuade both sides to stop. If you don't obey and go back and continue to fight, the government will watch from the side, and when you can't fight anymore, you will come to the government to talk about peace, and the magistrate will play a chapter as his own credit.

Xu Ping wants to change this rule here, Huang Chengxiang is afraid that he has not yet realized it, as long as he pouts, he may take his hundreds of Ding soldiers to Shentong to kill.

Huang Congfu's eyes were shining, and something that he originally thought was out of reach could suddenly be touched as soon as he stretched out his hand, and that excitement came out of his heart, and he felt that his chest was about to explode.

Xu Ping did not speak.

Huang Congfu sat stupidly, looking at the ground under his feet, and countless thoughts turned in his mind about how to add a fire, and as soon as he went back, he asked Huang Chengxiang to lead people to find trouble with Shen Dong. Never looked back, and sat in the seat of his dreams. His cousin, who bullied himself since he was a child, looked down on himself, and humiliated himself for more than ten years, Huang Conggui, the little bastard, knelt on the ground tremblingly, trembling all over, and didn't even dare to look up at himself.

That little bastard, what should he do if he begs for mercy to himself? Whatever, he must not agree, he has been holding back his breath for nearly 20 years, and he must have enough. beat his ass to bloom, stepped on one foot again, and asked him well: "Which of the two of us took the position of Zhizhou?" Which one is waste? I'll stomp you to death! ”

The more Huang Congfu thought about it, the more excited he became, and his body trembled involuntarily.