Please ask me to be the emperor

Li Baihu was startled and frightened when he heard Daoist Ma's words. Fortunately, Daoist Ma explained the situation to him in detail, which showed that the real dragon had no intention of rebellion, but was caught because of the government's catching wind and shadow. He only said: "Someone has already monopolized the first merit of this dragon. He destroyed the family and relieved the difficulties, and relieved the real dragon from its distress. Now there is only one difficulty. There is no one to intercede with the magistrate and release the real dragon emperor."

Li Baihu couldn't help but feel relieved when he heard that, it turned out that it was just such a matter, but it was simple. Whether it is successful or not, it has nothing to do with yourself. On the contrary, if it comes true in the future, it will leave a fortune for the descendants. Li Baihu pondered for a while, and then responded: "That's fine, I'll help him once, just say a word to the magistrate, no matter what the result is, you will never involve me again in the future." .”

Where did Daoist Ma think that this matter would go so smoothly, so he had no objection. Without waiting for Li Baihu to bring tea to see off the guests, he happily said goodbye and left.

Who would have thought that Li Baihu was indecisive, after thinking about it, he felt that the matter was too big and he needed a long-term plan, so he hesitated for a while.

Daoist Ma went back and boasted to Old Liu about how sharp his words were and how Li Baihu bowed his head in worship, but he didn't expect that there was still no movement after two or three days. Daoist Ma couldn't hold back his face, and was afraid that something wrong with him would implicate him, so he ran to look for Li Baihu again.

Then Li Baihu had nothing to say, so he had no choice but to ask the servant to pretend that he was not there and avoid seeing him. Who is this Ma Daochang? People in the world often travel around, doing business with face and mouth. Wherever he was pretended by him, he just said to the servant: "I have something important, so don't delay it. Go and make some tea for me, the old Taoist, and I will wait for him at the gate of Zhuangzi. If I don't come back for lunch, I think it's time for dinner; I won't come back today." Come back, I think it’s time to go back tomorrow.”

After the servant went in to report to Li Baihu, Li Baihu saw that he was a scoundrel, and was afraid of offending him to death, so he cursed himself with some disgusting spell. I had no choice but to go out through the back door and pretend to go back through the front door.

"Oh, isn't this Daoist Ma? What kind of wind brought you here today." Li Baihu asked enthusiastically.

"Oh, Li Baihu, you're back. I've seen through the eyes of the old Taoist. Are you going to do some business? Did the Fujun agree?" Taoist Ma said.

"Ahhh." Li Baihu only said that this matter is confidential after all, and Daoist Ma was afraid of outsiders here, so he didn't dare to mention it randomly. He didn't expect that this old man with a nose would give himself a big blow when he came up, so he couldn't help hesitating, "That mansion You have something to do today, but I haven’t seen you yet. Tomorrow! I’ll write back to you tomorrow!”

Seeing that Li Baihu seemed to owe him dozens of taels of silver, the Ma Taoist couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was most afraid that Li Baihu would be cowardly, so he reported him instead. A few days ago, he himself really lost his head, and came to scare Li Baihu in order to embezzle old Liu's money.

If Li Baihu reported on him, he would die without a place to bury him. "Law of the Ming Dynasty" Those who confuse the crowd with demonic words will be beheaded regardless of their leader or follower. The words of prophecy came from his own mouth, and it is not known whether he is the first offender or an accomplice.

So Daoist Ma bluffed: "The night is long and there are many dreams, don't leave it for a long time! Li Baihu."

Li Baihu was obedient after hearing this, and only invited Taoist Ma to the quiet room, waved away his servants, and then explained the difficulties: "I am a soft-spoken person, and I have no reason, how can I persuade this government lord?" Then Taoist Ma discussed with him again After a lot of fanfare, he finally gave Li Baihu a reassurance.

After lunch, Li Baihu had no choice but to lead Ma Daochang to Chenzhou Mansion to visit the mansion.

The two of them were lucky, and Zhizhou happened to be in the state government. So, Li Baihu led Ma Daochang, who was pretending to be a servant, to visit him. The two officials did not mention the politeness, so Li Baihu took the opportunity to speak to the magistrate: "There is a servant named Li Mingsan. For some reason, he was mistakenly taken as a prisoner by the yamen servants and taken into prison. I also ask the magistrate to show you his noble hand." , return his innocence."

What kind of person is this Zhizhou? He knows it's not a trivial matter as soon as he hears it. How can he be deceived by his words? Just ask: "Who did it wrong? What did it do wrong?"

"Mistake Zhang Shun, mistook the appearance of a nobleman." Li Baihu said sincerely.

"This is a big case of gossip, how can we let it go?" Zhizhou knew what was going on, and he was shocked, "You also joined in?"

"How would you dare? No, no, no, no, no, no." Li Baihu regretted it when he heard it, and secretly thought that this evil way really hurt me.

Zhizhouyan glanced at Daoist Ma since then. Li Baihu knew what he meant, so he waved off the horse priest and said, "I'm talking to the Fujun, you go down and wait."

When Daoist Ma heard this, he was startled and frightened, but he had no choice but to go out and wait.

Only then did Chen Zhou Zhizhou tell the truth to Li Baihu: "Do you know why I want to make a big fuss and grab Zhang Shun?"

"Nowadays the world is full of disturbances, rebels are popping up, and the emperor's heart has been disturbed for a long time. His appearance is different from the others, so I will kill him now. First, to prevent it from happening, and second, to present the head of the thief to the palace, which is a sign of auspiciousness." It turned out that the magistrate had been sleeping all night long, so he couldn't be promoted. Zhenghe heard that Zhang Shun was born out of phase, so he had to use his head to please the emperor.

Li Baihu heard this, but his mind was different: it turns out that it is true that he has the appearance of an emperor in his life after hearing the words of the Fujun. It's just that the lord of this house is not afraid of suffering from it, but I have to guard against it. Then he said: "Your Majesty, this person is different. He has something to do with our grain transportation, so it's not appropriate to pursue him deeply. Please think more about him, Your Majesty."

It turned out that Li Baihu's ancestral home was in Shanxi, and he moved to Chenzhou in the place of his dynasty. As for his father, who won the Juren, he returned to Shanxi to recognize his ancestors and returned to his clan, and became involved with the Shanxi salt merchants. Since then, his father and son have facilitated the collusion between Chenzhou Prefecture Government and Weisuo.

First of all, through the guards, they established contact with the guards in various places in Shanxi, and often transported food to the border guards. In the Ming Dynasty, there were mainly three types of food supplies for the frontier guards, one was called Tuntian, the other was called Democracy Movement, and the third was called Yanyin. Among them, the salt import system, also known as the "kaizhong method", means that merchants pay a certain amount of grain to the border areas, and the government gives the merchants a salt ticket, which can be exchanged for salt.

According to regulations, one stone and three buckets of grain can be exported to Taiyuan warehouse or one stone of grain can be exported to Datong warehouse for one quotation of Huaiyan. Later, the system gradually deteriorated, and the Ming government allowed payment in other places, and one payment in Hedong could be performed twice.

Based on this relationship, Li's father and son were elected by the Chenzhou government and guards to benefit together. Later, the Yanyin system collapsed even more, and the food transporters became more greedy. Li Baihu and others took care of food transportation and democracy movement. Grain is exchanged for salt, and democracy movement is exchanged for silver. Then, under the guise of exchanging salt for new salt, they actually bought private salt with new exchange silver and sold it. Officials in Chenzhou reaped huge profits from it.

Therefore, although Li Baihu's position is not high, he can chat and laugh happily with Cong Wupin Zhizhou, which is actually the God of Wealth in his state capital.

Therefore, Li Baihu took out this "killer mace", and Chenzhou Zhizhou hesitated for a while, not knowing which is more important, his own future or the bank in his pocket, and finally he could only say: "Go back now, let me think about it, Don't tell anyone else."

Li Baihu didn't expect that at this point, the prefect of Chenzhou couldn't release Zhang Shun, and he believed in Daoist Ma's words even more. In desperation, he had no choice but to resign from Zhizhou, come to find the Taoist priest, and tell him that this matter is not important: "This matter is also difficult, and the governor has the idea of ​​​​sending the nobleman to the capital, misfortune and fortune are unpredictable." .”

Daoist Ma was originally a man of the world, so he didn't know anything about the court affairs, so he just asked: "Why? Naturally, what laws have I never heard of breaking? Could it be that the two have enmity?"

"No and no, the two have no enmity or grudge, but the Lord of Fu wants to please Long Live Lord." Li Baihu said thoroughly.

"Oh, so that's the case." Daoist Ma finally understood, but he asked in confusion, "Isn't this Fujun afraid that what happened to Yang He will happen again?"

It turned out that the Taoist Ma didn't understand government affairs, but he understood people's hearts. In the second year of Chongzhen, bandits broke out everywhere in Shaanxi, Governor Wu Zhiwang had no choice but to commit suicide in Guyuan Governor's Mansion. At a time when officials were afraid to take over, Yang He proposed the strategy of "mainly recruiting, supplemented by pursuit and suppression". So he was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi by Emperor Chongzhen, who was in charge of this recruitment. As a result, there was no money and no food, and the thieves who recruited surrendered and rebelled one after another, so Yang He was dismissed from office and imprisoned this year. The position of Governor of Shaanxi really came and went quickly.

Hearing this, Li Baihu's heart brightened, and he hurried back to look for the prefect of Chenzhou. Nazhizhou still wondered how Li Baihu turned back again, but he heard him whisper: "Fu Jun, the current Lord Long Live is impatient and arbitrary. If the Lord Fu can do this and please the Lord Long Live, he will definitely be able to be promoted immediately. Then everything will be over!"

"It's a happy event for my family to be promoted, so why is everything going away?" Chenzhou Zhizhou was furious. This Li Baihu himself usually praised him, but he didn't expect him to be so ignorant that he failed to do what he wanted once, so he cursed himself so viciously. .

"Mingfu, calm down! What do you think is missing now? It's just being filled by Mingfu." Li Baihu didn't dare to laugh at Zhizhou, but quickly pointed to the northwest to remind Li Lingzhi's unconscious superior.

"You mean the land of Shaanxi and Gansu?" Zhizhou was taken aback, but after thinking about it carefully, it turned out to be the case. Bandits and bandits are very common in Shaanxi, the local officials are struggling to survive, and countless people have been killed or committed suicide. If he sent Zhang Shun's head to the capital, Long Live Lord would promote him to work there to suppress bandits, wouldn't he have lost his life for nothing.

Thinking of this, the magistrate was startled into a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Okay! You are fine, Li Baihu. You really awakened the dreamer with your words. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have thrown myself into a trap."

After all, the magistrate was also decisive. He shouted directly to the left and right, and ordered in person: "There is Zhang Shun, who is suspected of being guilty of lying. There is no evidence in the current investigation. It should be caused by gossip. The government specially ordered him to be released without charge." .”

But he said that after Zhang Shun was caught in the prison, he had no shortage of food and drink every time, and there was no embarrassment for his confinement. Apart from his lack of freedom, his small life was considered to be Anshun. Except that the weather is getting colder and there are no cotton coats from relatives, it seems that there is no difference in my daily life in the countryside.

Although Zhang Shun has a lazy temperament, he has been a human being for two lifetimes, and he likes to go to the forum to pour water on weekdays. He has accumulated a pile of miscellaneous useless knowledge, bragging and farting, which no one can match, so he messed up with the forbidden people soon The roll is cooked.

It is said that when Zhang Shunzhen was very happy with what he said that day, it was impossible to imagine that a familiar prisoner walked in and shouted: "Brother Zhang, don't brag anymore, you should get out of prison quickly. Old Liu and a big The officer is still waiting for you at the door."