Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 291: Driving in the gutter


Chapter 291 Driving in the gutter

In fact, relatively speaking, there were relatively few corrupt officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was mainly due to the fact that their own welfare was very good.

Secondly, it is very important not to suppress land mergers, because high officials have a lot of privileges, they can legally buy a lot of land without paying taxes, it is difficult for ordinary landlords to play against them .

In the end, business is prosperous, and business-minded officials are all wealthy.

So, to judge whether an official in the Northern Song Dynasty has money, it does not depend on the size of the official position, but on business acumen and desire for wealth.

A group of prime ministers like Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, and Zhao Bian didn't have much money in their families. It's not that they don't know how to make money, but they are not interested in these things.

They are not even willing to take advantage of the advantages that the imperial court gives them.

However, Gu Ji, who is in charge of Taifu Temple affairs, is really rich. In terms of official position, he is not very high, and Taifu Temple is currently in charge of some sacrificial supplies, and it is not a super oil and water department.

But Gu Ji's family is very rich.

Because his family was originally a family of officials and officials, and engaged in many businesses, such as silk and satin, wine, sugar, grain and so on.

These people are the most opposed to reform, because they have played through the current system, and their interests all come from it, so of course they are unwilling to make changes.

At noon that day, a luxurious carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of Gu Mansion.

I saw that the housekeeper immediately came out with two servants and four maidservants, carefully helping Gu Ji get off the carriage.

Entering the hall, tea and candied fruit are all available.

Gu Ji took a sip of tea and suddenly remembered something, "That's right! Have you got our license plate yet?"

The old man replied: "Currently, the police station has not relaxed the number of quotas. In addition, the young master asked what kind of license plate he wanted, so the villain didn't ask about it."

Gu Ji was stunned for a moment, "What kind of license plate is it?"

The old man replied: "For example, consecutive numbers, such as one, two, three, four, or the same number, such as four threes, four twos. Moreover, the carving process and paint of this beautiful number are different from ordinary license plates. Different, the villain also feels that the status of the master is so noble, but he can't be the same as the common people."

Gu Ji nodded slightly, "That's right, but they are still unwilling to relax the quota. Not only did they not give us privileges, but they also allowed those merchants to be ahead of us. It's really disrespectful and unreasonable."

The old man asked cautiously: "Master, do we still want this pretty number?"

Gu Ji pondered for a while, and said: "Let Qing'er handle this matter, anyway, this does not prevent us from exerting pressure on the Zhengshitang."

"Yes, the villain remembers."

The old man said again: "By the way, our shop in Embroidery Alley was hit by someone this morning, and it happened that the other party was a carriage transporting paint, and a lot of embroidery was lost."

Gu Ji frowned when he heard that, looked at the old man, and said dissatisfiedly: "Just let them deal with this trivial matter, is it worth asking the old man?"

The old man hurriedly explained: "But master, it was the policeman's carriage that hit our shop."

"Patrol?"

Gu Ji was startled.

The old man nodded.

Gu Ji pondered for a while and asked, "What's the situation now?"

Zhai Laodao: "Currently, shopkeeper Gu is still negotiating with them in the inspection department, and the result is not yet clear."

Gu Ji frowned, "They put up warning signs and overpass regulations everywhere, but now something happened to them themselves, so we can't let them go easily."

He stroked his beard, and then ordered: "Go and have a look, no matter what the situation is, let shopkeeper Gu not agree."

"Yes."

The inspection department in the left compartment.

Because the General Police Department has just been established, it is still in the process of construction, and has not yet been officially listed, so for now, the patrol police are still staying in the military patrol shop.

"It's unreasonable!"

Cao Dongdong slammed the table.

The shopkeeper Gu Yiyuan, who was ten miles away from the spring breeze, suddenly trembled, and said tremblingly: "Yanei, the villain is innocent, it was your carriage that hit the villain's shop."

Cao Dongdong glanced at him, "What are you afraid of? I'm not talking about you."

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at the trembling patrolman next to him, "How did you drive the car, leave the road on the road and run to other people's shops, this yamen's face is completely humiliated."

The patrolman said: "Forgive me, I can't blame me for this. It was a corner, and I happened to meet a carriage. I just ran into it because I couldn't avoid it."

"Are you still quibbling?"

Cao Dongdong glared at him angrily.

The patrolman bowed his head.

Cao Dongdong asked Na Gu Yiyuan again: "What do you want to do?"

Gu Yiyuan tremblingly said: "Yamen, you see, I also do things for others, those good embroidery are all ruined now, if we don't pay us, we can't explain to the proprietor."

"Do you want to lose money?"

Cao Dongdong's eyes bulged, and he was aggressive, "It's not a big deal, just apologize."

"Huh?"

Gu Yiyuan is stupid, if you pay me money, I can apologize to you, "I'm afraid this is not acceptable."

"What did you say?"

Cao Dongdong glanced sideways, as if, if you say it again, you won't be able to get out of this door.

If it were a serious official, Gu Yiyuan would dare to say a few words, but this Cao Dongdong is very nervous and moody.

"Ya Nei!"

Zhang Fei on the side suddenly said: "We have to pay for this."

Cao Dongdong squinted at him, hesitated for a while, "I'll leave it to you."

Zhang Fei immediately said to Gu Yiyuan: "Gu shopkeeper, we can compensate, but we have to pay at cost price, not at market price.

In addition, we must sign a settlement agreement, and at the same time, you must also explain to the outside world that we have compensated you in full, but we did not say that we forced you, or anything. what do you think? "

This is much better than what Gu Yiyuan expected. If the government destroys your goods, you can still compensate them in full. This is really nothing to say, but he was just about to nod and agree.

I only heard someone shouting outside: "Is the shopkeeper Gu inside?"

Cao Dongdong frowned: "Who?"

Ma Xiaoyi ran in, "A clerk in his shop said he needed something urgent."

Gu Yiyuan's expression changed slightly, and he said: "Yanei, villain, go and have a look first."

Cao Dongdong nodded and said, "You go."

After Gu Yiyuan left, Cao Dongdong immediately whispered to Zhang Fei: "He really won't agree?"

"Don't worry, he can't decide this matter, and it doesn't matter whether he agrees or not."

Zhang Fei chuckled, "The Gu family is not short of these few dollars. Is there anything more worthwhile than using this few dollars to disgust us?"

Cao Dongdong was still a little apprehensive, after all, Gu Yiyuan's expression just now made him a little flustered, and said: "If the other party agrees, then our busy work will be in vain."

"Don't worry, don't worry!" Zhang Fei laughed.

Ma Xiaoyi whispered: "Third brother, why don't we just sue directly."

Zhang Fei said: "In that case, it may appear to others as a bully. You must not give this impression to the common people."

After a while, Gu Yiyuan came to the hall again, cupped his hands towards Cao Dongdong and said, "Yamei, the villain can't be the master of this matter, you have to go back and ask the proprietor."

Cao Dongdong wondered: "You can't even decide on such a small matter?"

Gu Yiyuan said awkwardly: "This business does not belong to villains, villains can't make decisions!"

Cao Dongdong waved his hands impatiently and said, "Okay, okay, go back and discuss it quickly, it's best to give me an answer today, otherwise, be careful of changing your mind in this office."

"Yes yes yes."

Gu Yiyuan left the inspection department and did not go back to the shop, but went directly to Gu's house.

"Returning to the master, Cao Yanei was a little reluctant to lose money at first, so it was Zhang San who came out and said a few words."

"Zhang San?"

Gu Ji immediately asked: "What did Zhang San say?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "Zhang San said that they have to pay the money, but he demanded that they can only pay at the cost price, and also asked us to explain to the outside world that the police station paid us the full amount and did not force us."

Gu Ji smiled when he heard the words, and asked again: "How much is our goods lost?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "All the goods placed under the shed have been destroyed, but the severity is different. If we count them all, it will cost about seventy or eighty guan, but if the other party cares about it, even if we pay 60 guan, we There will be no loss."

Gu Ji asked: "Do you count the cost price or the market price?"

"Of course it's the cost price. If it's the market price, it's okay to pay a hundred guan."

"Only a hundred dollars?"

Gu Ji frowned, and suddenly asked: "Did you hit anyone?"

Gu Yiyuan hurriedly said: "Speaking of which, it's really lucky that the guy at the door just came to help in the room and didn't hit anyone."

"What a pity."

Gu Ji showed a look of regret, and said again: "You calculate, if you calculate too much, you can't let go of a little loss. In short, try everything possible to calculate more money for the old man."

"Master, this."

"Didn't you understand?"

"Yes, I know, little man." Gu Yiyuan nodded repeatedly.

Gu Ji looked at him with a disturbed expression on his face, he couldn't help but frowned, pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "You are not good at this kind of thing, you go to Lushi Lane to find Li's family, let them talk, if you lose a penny, I will do it too Sue them."

"Yes."

After hearing this, Gu Yiyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Go ahead and do it."

"The villain resigns."

After Gu Yiyuan went out, the old man said: "Master, this will make things worse."

"The old man just wants to make things big."

Gu Ji snorted: "How did Zhang San deal with Wang Wenshan and Wang Hong before? Didn't it all rely on this lawsuit to make things worse and force the court to calm down.

Recently, their general police station made various traffic regulations, but they overturned the car first, hum, this time the old man wants to deal with him in his own way. "

The next day.

Inspection Division.

"Three hundred strings?"

Cao Dongdong slapped the indemnity bill on the table angrily, "If you haven't played embroidery in this yamen, how can it be worth three hundred guan for just that little thing?"

Ma Xiaoyi chimed in and said: "Brother is right, we are going to do embroidery business, what can we do for you, in my opinion, that little bit of embroidery and satin is only worth a few dozen pennies."

Gu Yiyuan glanced at Ma Xiaoyi, and murmured in his heart, these dandies are really smart!

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "The yamen please calm down, the account can't be calculated like this."

Zhang Fei on the side asked coldly: "Then how should it be calculated?"

Li Guozhong glanced at Zhang Fei, hesitated for a while, and said immediately: "Look, this car was hit by paint, and it will take several days to clean it up. There is no way to do business these days. The loss must also be included in it."

Zhang Fei sneered, "Did the paint spill into the store?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "Although it didn't spill into the store, who would want to come in and see it like that outside, it will also hurt the reputation of the store."

"What did you say?"

Cao Dongdong glared angrily.

Gu Yiyuan immediately dared not speak.

Li Guozhong immediately said: "The shopkeeper Gu is telling the truth. Opening the door without cleaning the outside will leave a bad impression on customers. What's more, the price can't be calculated according to the cost price.

Because many of them are embroidery, embroidery takes time, so it must be calculated according to the market price, and these embroidery rights should be sold to your police station. Also, the cleaning fee, as well as the tables where the embroidery is placed, must also be included in the compensation. "

"Boom!"

Cao Dongdong slapped the table, jumped up suddenly, and said with a ferocious expression: "It's unreasonable, it's always been blackmailed by this yamen, ahem, how dare you blackmail this yamen. Come on!"

"The yamen please calm down."

Zhang Fei quickly stood up, stopped Cao Dongdong, and said to Li Guozhong: "It is impossible for us to agree to this condition. The most we can agree is to compensate at the market price."

Ma Xiaoyi jumped up and down on the spot, excitedly said: "Third brother, they deceive people too much, how can you promise them?"

Cao Dongdong also pointed at him angrily, "Zhang San, I didn't expect you to be a moron."

Zhang Fei frowned and said in a low voice: "Please also take the overall situation into consideration, if you let your father know about this..."

"Huh!"

Cao Dongdong turned his head: "Little Ma, let's go, it's really embarrassing."

The two left angrily.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Li Guozhong: "You have also seen it, this is our final condition, and it is impossible to add a penny."

Li Guozhong said very apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I can't afford a penny."

Zhang Fei said: "If we don't agree, what are you going to do?"

Li Guozhong said: "Then we can only appeal."

Zhang Fei sneered, "Appeal? Are you sure you want to do this? I, Zhang San, assure you that after this lawsuit, the cost price will be compensated in the end. If there is an extra penny, I, Zhang San, will never go to court to argue."

Li Guozhong said embarrassingly: "I was also entrusted by others, sorry."

A flash of panic flashed in Zhang Fei's eyes, "Why don't you discuss it with your employer again, and we are willing to compensate you at the market price, which is already a very good condition."

Li Guozhong thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll ask."

"It's time to work."

Just as Li Guozhong and Gu Yiyuan left, Cao Dongdong and Ma Xiaoyi slipped in again.

"Zhang San, how did we perform just now?" Cao Dongdong asked with a look of embarrassment.

"Wow that's awesome."

Zhang Fei said: "Yanei, I never thought that your acting skills have reached the point of perfection."

Ma Xiaoyi hehe said: "It goes without saying, elder brother has to lie to his father, and also to lie to the queen mother, the method is sure, but unfortunately I can only lie to my father."

"Ahem!" Cao Dongdong glared at him, then quickly changed the subject and said, "Zhang San, let's take another step back, won't they agree?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "You can just rest assured, the more we retreat, the less they will agree, and they will definitely bite us to death."

Gu Fu.

"Zhang San is willing to compensate at the market price?" Gu Ji asked with a little joy.

Li Guozhong nodded and said, "Not bad."

Gu Ji stroked his beard and said, "I don't know what method Li Xingshou used to make them willing to take a step back."

Li Guozhong said: "I didn't use any means. In my opinion, they didn't want to make things big, so they were willing to compromise."

As expected. Gu Ji suddenly looked at Gu Yiyuan and said, "Master Gu, didn't you tell Li Xingshou what the old man asked?"

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "The shopkeeper Gu has already told me, but Zhang San is not easy to mess with. If there is a lawsuit, I reckon that at most it will be compensation for the market price, but if the other party performs well, it may still It will be reduced to the cost price, and now the other party..."

This person is really ignorant, the old man will care about those dozens of money? As long as the reputation of this police station can be tarnished, it doesn't matter if you don't lose money. Gu Ji waved his hand: "Li Xingshou, hurry back and write the pleadings."

"Okay."

Li Guozhong stood up, bowed his hands and said: "I will take my leave."

Gu Ji asked the old man to see him off, and when they left, Gu Ji sneered, "This time, I want Zhang San to experience the pain of a lawsuit!"


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