Chapter 137: Digging a deep pit, waiting for you to jump

After soaking in the bone-chilling ice water for a long time, Tang Cheng raised his face from the copper basin, pulled a handkerchief and wiped his hands and face, returned to the desk and sat down.

After breaking through the temptation of the vortex of interests, or temporarily putting huge interests aside, Tang Cheng calmed down quickly found out the unreasonableness of this matter.

Since Emperor Gaozu raised troops in Taiyuan, the imperial court has been in charge of the world for nearly a hundred years. In a century, various institutional constructions should have been completed. In this case, it is impossible to leave such a big loophole for people to take advantage of. Moreover, from the local point of view, if there is such a loophole, wouldn’t it mean that as long as someone serves in the Situation of Tian Cao, he can accumulate wealth in three or two years? This is a fat difference, but when he really wants to be rich, it is obviously a bit inconsistent with common sense.

When I thought of this from the two aspects of the court system to the world and human nature, Tang Cheng then remembered Lao Liang's mysterious appearance. After these three things were entangled together, Tang Cheng already felt that there should be some problems here.

If there is really a problem, where is the problem? After carefully sorting out the memories Lao Liang had just mentioned, Tang Cheng did not find any abnormalities. After all, he had been to the yamen for too short time. Although he was familiar with the basic process, when such a thing was involved, his professional knowledge was lacking, so he could not make an accurate judgment at all.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Tang Cheng put this suspicious point aside for the time being and then began to think about Lao Liang.

The temptation he put in front of him just now. If Lao Liang, who is a weird behavior, has problems, what is his purpose? Is he trying to get a share of the pie and get some benefits from it? Or...

The more I thought about it, the deeper I felt, and when I thought of the worst possibility, Tang Cheng was shocked.

Thinking about the scene just now, I couldn't help but want to go to the door to pull the door a few times. In the cold weather, a layer of fine beads of sweat quietly leaped out from Tang Cheng's forehead.

It is not because people are not smart enough, but because they are stimulated by huge interests, or they are subconsciously unwilling to think of the consequences that are contrary to their own interests.

When poppy flowers bloom, the biggest poison is always hidden under the most beautiful flowers; and vigilance is the poppy in the hearts of people.

Tang Cheng, who poured the cold tea and returned to peace of mind, prepared a cup of hot tea. While siping in small mouthfuls, he continued to look at the book that had not been finished before. Now, at least in front of Lao Liang, he was not going to ask about the details.

Seeing that the sanya was about to arrive, Lao Liang walked in again, saying that he had something to report, but what he was talking about was obvious and inconsequential.

"Sir, then Mr. He..." Under Tang Cheng's gaze, Lao Liang licked his lips that were somewhat cracked in winter. He smiled and said, "I see that the New Year is coming, and I need to report this to the Daoya as soon as possible. It has been urged several times."

"Well, this matter is very important, let me think about it. I will give you a reply tomorrow morning." Looking at the disappointment flashing between Lao Liang's eyebrows, Tang Cheng's heart was deep, but he still smiled warmly and said, "Lao Liang. You are Lao Sitian. I believe you should know that there is a whole piece of land in this province that is easy to take action."

Lao Liang, who turned around and was about to have a business room, turned around and said, "What sir means..."

"It's not interesting, hehe, just ask casually." Tang Cheng turned his teacup in his hand and smiled on his face, "I'm talking about the official land, the slopes in the official land."

"Wangjiazhuang". Lao Liang looked excited and reported the place name without thinking, "Sir, this Wangjiazhuang is not far from the city of Zhou. Although it is a slope, it is very convenient to get water. Another piece of land is also neat and more than a thousand acres." At this point, Lao Liang looked back at the closed business door and gestured and whispered: "The market price of this piece of land has now reached 50,000 jin. If it is sold in a unified manner, Liuguan will do his best to find a buyer."

"Wangjiazhuang! OK, I've recorded it. Lao Liang is good, not bad!", laughed, put down the teacup and stood up. Tang Chengte opened the door of the office for Lao Liang, "By the way, who is in charge of the mountain and river geography map in this province? Oh, it's Feng Haizhou. Lao Liang, go out and greet him and ask him to bring the mountain and river geography map in and let me see. Wangjiazhuang, a good name!"

"Oh, oh", Lao Liang's expression moved, "I'll go now."

As he was just waiting for him to go out, the bell of the scattered yamen rang slowly.

After a while, Feng Haizhou walked in with a mountain and river geography map.

When Feng Haizhou came in, he did not keep the door of the office according to Tang Cheng's habit. Tang Cheng looked through the open door. Old Liang, who was the most active in the past, was a little abnormal today. He was tidying up something on the desk, and occasionally glanced at the room.

"Haizhou, go first, go to Wanfulou and wait for me after leaving the yamen. Let's have a drink for two drinks in the evening." After glanced outside, Tang Cheng shook his hand without waiting for Feng Haizhou to say refusal, saying, "Well, that's it, you go."

Feng Haizhou turned around in confusion and went to the office room. Shangguan invited him to have a drink alone. After all, it was difficult to tell others about such things. So he left the office room after he went out.

After Feng Haizhou entered Tang Cheng's office, he basically put down the mountain and river geography map and came out. As soon as he left, Lao Liang's speed of packing the book case was much faster. Then, after finishing his work, he called a few other colleagues who were somewhat delayed to leave together. For a moment, Tang Cheng was the only one left in Sitian Cao.

After Lao Liang and others left, Tang Cheng waited for a while before Shi Shiran got up and left the yamen.

After leaving the state yamen and turned to the street in front, Lao Liang slapped his head suddenly, "Oh, look at my memory, why do you always put things in it?" After saying that, he smiled and bowed to his colleagues around him, "Everyone left first, I have to go back here to complete it."

Several colleagues teased him for a few words and then left. After watching them walk away, Lao Liang turned around and entered a small alley next to him, followed the side door that was open at the end of the alley and returned to the state yamen.

In the office of Chen Liang, the director of the military officer, Lao Liang reported the afternoon matters one by one.

Chen Liang, sitting behind the desk, listened quietly. After listening to Lao Liang's words, he pondered for a long time. He began to ask questions, one question after another, and these questions were more detailed.

"It seems that he is really moved! Well, tomorrow morning, you will be careful to get this done. First, send the document with his signature and seal to me. More importantly, once you find out that he has contacted the buyer, come and report it to me immediately." Chen Liang's fingers gently tapped the desk, making a crisp sound that matches the rhythm. There is a sense of confidence in the sound. "Speaking of the fact that our Jingshi Jin from Chang'an is now very idle and his forehands is itchy."

"Yes!" Chen Liang agreed, but did not leave, looking at Chen Liang with a gaze.

"Don't worry. As long as this matter is done well, don't treat you badly." Chen Liang got up and went to the middle of the house, reached out and patted Lao Liang on the shoulder, "I know you have a good relationship with Xiao Li. You must have known the news he brought back yesterday. The state yamen will undergo a major change. Lao Liang, you are seizing the opportunity this time."

"It's all thanks to the support of the military." Lao Liang's face turned red, and his waist was bent even more powerful than Chen Liang's half head taller, so that it would be more convenient when Chen Liang patted his shoulders. "If his subordinates really can do that position in the future, they will definitely thank him again."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say..."

In the accord at Wanfulou Restaurant, Tang Cheng put Ou Tianjiu in his wine, looked at Feng Haizhou with a surprised look and asked, "Haizhou. What's wrong?"

"Oh, thank you sir." After Feng Haizhou bowed and gave in, he smiled and said with a loss: "I didn't expect that sir would ask me about this. There are many disadvantages in this. The previous judging department has kept secrets. The first one is to ask for it like sir."

"Yeah, tell me." Tang Cheng picked up a few beans and threw them into his mouth. While chewing a piece of "gaba" sound, he raised his hand to let Feng Haizhou eat it too. "Tell me carefully."

"This is the most oil-water part of Sitian Cao, and it is also the most likely part to have an accident." Feng Haizhou also picked up a bean and threw it into it and chewed it slowly. "I was 21 years old and this year it was exactly 16 years. In the past 16 years, three Sitian Cao judges were trapped on this."

Tang Cheng became interested, but he did not interrupt his words. After taking a sip of wine, he listened quietly.

"Since I think of asking this question, I have already known the benefits in it, so I don't need to say more; now I'm talking about risks," Feng Haizhou put down the chopsticks in his hand and sat upright: "This risk comes from two points, a loss of 50,000 yuan a year. The Minister of Personnel's attitude towards this loss is endless, but it must not exceed it. There may be a reward for less loss, but if it exceeds a little, it will be strictly pursued."

"The Han River passes through Jinzhou. The so-called unpredictable storms in the sky. If the river flows smoothly in the past two years, it would be better. But once the water rises, the number of official land destroyed in the entire territory will be far more than 50,000 yuan. What will happen when the time comes?" Feng Haizhou shook his head, "It is easy to report to the Ministry of Revenue to add new official land, but it is difficult to report disasters and damages. At this time, Si Tian Cao can only use the losses accumulated over the years to fill this hole."

"Well, it makes sense," Tang Chengshen nodded with approval, "You continue to say."

"The second point is that the Lord only knows the losses the Ministry of Revenue has given us. I believe I don't know that this Cao also has added tasks to the official land. This task is summarized every five years. Whether it is new official land, no matter whether it is new official land, no property of the prisoner, setting fire to reclaim land, or even some local governments organize civil servants to occupy the cost of labor service to level new land, etc., regardless of the means used in the local area, in short, when the joint report is reported every five years, the number of new official land cannot be reduced by a mu. This is also the most important standard for measuring the achievements of our Cao Cao in the field of our capital."

"It is easy to add new official land, but it is difficult to do it! The new official land is purely for heaven to collect. Even if there is one, the newly silted land is far from being destroyed by water. As for the property of a prisoner, this is not reliable. In addition to these two ways, if you want to add official land, you must mobilize a large number of people, but how easy is to recruit people? There are certain regulations on the number of days that the people need to perform labor service in a year. After being called by the court and Taoist yamen, there are very few people who can be left to the state yamen. Such a quota is not enough for other things. It is still the turn of the Sitian Cao? Even if there is one, how many days can it be? And flattening the new land is not something that can be done in one or two days. At this time..."

"At this time, the gap in the newly added official land still needs to be compensated by the loss of the land saved in the front area." Before Feng Haizhou could say it, Tang Cheng had already said this, "In this way, the loss of fifty thousand yuan is a leak-making stone. Although there are more or less left every year, there is a need to prepare a natural disaster and a summary of new official lands once every five years! I said, how could the head of the Ministry of Personnel be so generous? It turns out that he is waiting here!"

"The Lord is right," Feng Haizhou picked up the wine cup in front of him and drank it all. "Although every judgment officer understands this principle, unfortunately, few people can't help but not stretch out their hands. Everyone has luck. Many people claim to be lucky. They think that they can't encounter any major issues in their posts, so they can't help eating and losing food. The result is delicious and difficult to swallow, and they finally broke themselves in. Everyone says that Si Tian Cao in the yamen is a fat place. In fact, this place is just a fire nest. If you count the government offices all over the world, I dare to protect the officials who have the most accidents, and Si Tian Cao must be the one who has been punished the most."

"The profit is so clear!" Tang Cheng sighed, "Haizhou's words are incisive."

Feng Haizhou, who was talking about it just now, felt a little embarrassed, "Sir, I praised it."

"You understand what you understand, why is it a ridiculous praise?" Tang Cheng smiled and raised his cup to drink, "By the way, are you familiar with Wangjiazhuang?"

"According to Caoli's errands, I will take care of any changes in the land within a radius of 100 miles of the city, so it is clear." Feng Haizhou didn't think too much, put down the wine cup in his hand and sighed: "Among all the slopes of the official land, Wangjiazhuang is the best. It is convenient to get water and the fields are neat. But speaking of this, when I entered Cao, the first judge of the land was planted on this land."

"oh?".

"This land is good, but the price is high. The Tian Jueshi was thinking about it. He was really lucky in those years. Judging from the losses accumulated in his hands, he could only afford to eat hundreds of acres. What he didn't expect was that although this land was under the jurisdiction of Sitian Cao, most of the tenants were the families of the town army." Speaking of this, Feng Haizhou's voice became more and more low. "The town army's land, grain, rice and pickles are not much, and these tenants are particularly important to them. Tian Jueshi started to take up this land, but he stabbed the hornet's nest. The Zhen Jun clamored and almost did not cause a mutiny. It was precisely because of this that Tian Jueshi was beheaded outside the town army camp for "corruption and crazy". He was tragic for three days. Not only did his family property besieged as an official, but his family was even an official slave. The good family was doomed."

The Tian Jue Si was really good to Feng Haizhou who had just entered the yamen. Therefore, when he talked about this old thing, he was inevitably a little sad. After drinking the remaining wine in front of him, Feng Haizhou noticed that Tang Cheng, who was sitting opposite, looked a little gloomy and terrifying.

"Sir, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah, nothing! Come, Haizhou, let's continue drinking." Tang Cheng raised the wine cup as if nothing had happened.

Seeing that his face was the same, Feng Haizhou always had a feeling that the young Lord Speaker in front of him suddenly became a little different. He couldn't say what the specific difference was. He still woke up suddenly when he walked out of Wanfu Tower after drinking. By the way, it was cold. The feeling after Tang Speaker suddenly changed was like the cold wind blowing towards him, exuding a coldness.

When Tang Cheng returned home, it was already dark. If he had come back in the past, Lan Cao'er would have come out of the inner courtyard, but today, there was still no movement until he walked to the door of the west wing.

I was still wondering if she had gone out and didn't come back, but when Tang Cheng pushed open the door and went in and lit the candlestick, he found that Lancao was actually lying on the couch in the room.

"Why don't you light the lights in the house?" Because there was something wrong in your heart, Tang Cheng's tone was not good, but Lancao didn't answer him.

"Why?" When Tang Chengcai walked to the edge of the couch, he realized something was wrong. The orchid lying on the couch was actually crying silently.

This was the first time I saw this scene since I met. Tang Cheng felt a little nervous and had already pulled the orchid in his hand, "What happened, tell me quickly."

The orchid that was pulled up suddenly penetrated into Tang Chengdi's arms, and the silent tears also turned into sobs, "Acheng, save Xiaotao."

"Xiao Tao?".
Chapter completed!