Lin Luoyao stroked the horse's cheek and said, "I can't see it, this post officer is a good person, this horse has a bright coat and is fat and strong." This sea bowl is the size of a horse's hoof. There is definitely the blood of horses from the Western Regions. This horse-drawn cart is twice as fast as a regular horse. ”

Lou Yun looked at the carriage and said, "That Luo Yao, I don't know how to drive." ”

Lin Luoyao was not surprised by his words and said: "I know you can't, you can't even swim at the most basic level, let alone drive." But you won't will, the master is familiar with the six arts of Confucianism, not to mention driving, even riding and archery is nothing. It's the least good thing in the six arts is music, I can only play the flute, and other instruments can't. ”

Lou Yun admired Lin Luoyao more and more, obviously she was about the same age as herself, and she knew so many things, and she didn't seem to know anything except the Four Books and Five Classics and martial arts.

Lin Luoyao urged: "Get in the car quickly, it's almost noon now, we have to rush to the next town before dark, otherwise we will sleep in the car." ”

Lou Yun jumped lightly and got into the car. Sat in the car.

Lin Luoyao sat in front of the car, and with a flick of the reins, the horse walked ahead. The sound of a bowl-sized horse's shoe on the street was loud. The carriage drove slowly on the streets of Chang'an City, and no one stopped the carriage even when it went out of the city gate. Because this is the official car of the post station. And even if someone stops it, it will be released immediately, and one of the documents given to Lin Luoyao by the post officer is for taking the carriage and horses, and the other is for passing through the pass.

This saves her a lot of trouble and time, and with this paperwork, she can put her horses at the local post house at will, and she can use the paperwork to retrieve them whenever she wants. Moreover, if you pass through any pass, you can pass through at will as long as you show the passage documents of the post station, and you don't need to rely on the official road. Renting a car is only fifty taels at most, which is why Lin Luoyao is willing to spend two hundred taels of snowflake silver to bribe the post officer.

Lin Luoyao drove the carriage on the official road, and Lin Luoyao said to Lou Yun in the car: "How about it, this is the benefit of having money and status." ”

Lou Yun said: "We drove this carriage, how can the post official explain it?"

Lin Luoyao said: "You don't have to worry about this, this car plus the horse is only one hundred and fifty taels of silver at most, I gave him two hundred taels, if he wants to settle the matter, he can make up for it at any time, if you don't want to, then do as I say, the horse died of illness, and the car fell into the cliff." This kind of thing happens every year, and even if we don't take it away, they will kill horses and smash carts. If there is no loss, how can the officials of the post station reach out to the top to ask for money. They are not starved to death yet. ”

Lou Yun said puzzledly: "Want money?"

Lin Luoyao said while driving the car: "Yes, this is the same as those local officials in the imperial court to control water, in their words, water is wealth, as long as water is distributed every year, then they have a reason to ask the court for silver." Otherwise, if there is no flood for decades, the officials of the yamen will not starve to death, and if there is no disaster, how can they get political achievements for disaster relief, and how can they be promoted without political achievements?"

Lou Yun was puzzled and asked: "This! Isn't this corruption? Could it be that they don't care about the lives of the common people?" ”

Lin Luoyao replied: "You don't understand this, if they don't do this, what kind of officials do they do, the money it costs to be an official is much more than that of us, don't look at your clothes for more than a hundred taels of silver, but in the eyes of the officials, it's just a drop in the bucket, don't look at that post official is just a nine-grade sesame official, but he has a lot of silver." Officials from all over the country have to live there when they are sent there, and if they are second- or third-class officials, where to eat a meal will cost hundreds of taels of silver. ”

Lou Yun exclaimed: "What!?a few hundred taels?"

Lin Luoyao said still very calmly, and she replied, "Yes, there is nothing strange about this. ”

Lou Yun said: "A few hundred taels! What do they eat? It takes so much to spend." ”

Lin Luoyao said: "You really don't know anything about these things, are those officials all coming alone? You should know the honor guard, a seven-rank magistrate is a sedan chair carried by four people, not to mention a second- and third-grade court official." They traveled once, counting three sedan chairmen. The honor guard, the relatives and guards, let alone hundreds of people, so many people spend a few hundred taels of silver for a meal?"

Lou Yun didn't speak, because he didn't know what he should say.

Lin Luoyao saw that Lou Yun did not speak, and then said: "And where does the money come from for these post stations to receive officials? Of course, they all come from the government offices and county offices. A magistrate's annual salary is less than one hundred taels of silver. If these officials had all relied on those meager incomes, they would have drunk the northwest wind a long time ago, and do you know how many things a county magistrate has to manage? Even if there are those counties that are supplemented by knowledge, they are not busy, and do you know how many people there are in a county? There are tens of thousands in large counties and thousands in small counties. Count the township protection, land protection. The officials of the government together are less than a hundred. There are only a few dozen people in a small county, but a county is so big, they have to take care of it all, don't be tired to death. Moreover, if the official money issued by the imperial court is used in the hands of the people, it can be used for two-tenths, and if it is used, it is already a good official. ”

Lou Yun asked again: "Don't they know that they are the supervision of the imperial history of the imperial court?"

Lin Luoyao then explained: "Of course he knows this, and he knows everything, but the hardships of being an official, the rules of officialdom, Lord Yushi also understands, as long as the trouble is not too big, most of them will turn a blind eye, after all, he can't bring down all the officials at once, if the officials are overthrown, who will govern the country, if a prefecture and county have no officials to manage, then it will become a chaotic place without rules." You see that your road guide is not there, if you don't have the county master to do it for you, you won't even be able to get out of the house. Although some officials are dirty, they are not entirely bad. My father once said that a diligent official is a good official. Even if you are not greedy or bribery, as long as you ignore government affairs, you will be a mediocre official. And everything has two sides, as far as you are concerned, a good person is too simple, your kindness caused you to be framed and blackmailed, but your kindness also saved your life. The same is true of being an official, those who are officials must think about the overall situation, and if they want to safeguard the interests of some people, they must sacrifice the interests of some people. After all, the current emperor does not have the momentum of Emperor Taizu, and Emperor Taizu killed tens of thousands of officials with an empty seal case, but if the emperor also comes like this now, the whole world will be in turmoil, and then the country will be unstable and unstable, and foreign races will be eyeing each other, and even the entire martial arts will have people taking the opportunity to make trouble. ”