Chapter 3 Buying an Official Dangdang
Two days later, in Luoyang City, Xue Tian sat quietly in a tavern, listening silently about the rumors about the sudden fall of the gambling house in a swamp.
The tavern was full of people from all walks of life. It can be seen from their clothes that most of the people sitting here were martial artists and middle and lower classes. I saw a steaming mouthful of steaming, and there were more than a dozen people who were curious about inquiring about the news. The "speakers" who were so excited that they spit out starry skyward were intoxicated: "You know, that rich gambling house is a place where all evil things are done on weekdays. They are so cruel that they can't pay the debt, so they ask people to sell their children and daughters. Last time, a neighbor of mine just borrowed three thousand yuan from them, and was forced to die in the family.
Scatter... This time, God must have been unable to bear it, so he lowered the punishment of heaven, and made the gambling house completely disappear!..." "That's right," another strong man with scars on his face took the conversation, "I was at the scene that day, and the sudden swamp swallowed the gambling house in an instant. I still remember those desperate shouts." When he said this, his body suddenly shook, and everyone seemed to be infected, and he swallowed unconsciously. "The most amazing thing is that the swamp suddenly appeared and disappeared. The adults in the city are still digging there! Unfortunately, they can't dig anything!"
Everyone's expressions became bigger and bigger. Xue Tian read from their eyes that greed, fear, piety... in a wide range. Obviously, they regarded this as a miracle...
Is it a miracle? Maybe. But this is no longer what Xue Tian wants to consider. He is considering how to develop in the future so that he can make huge profits as quickly as possible. After all, he is not strong enough at present. If he is compared with Zhang Jiao, a stinger who has made peace, he is just a little shrimp. Should he learn to revolt like the Ming Cult resisting the Yuan Dynasty? Or learn from some time travelers who bought an official position, and compete with him when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and replace it. In this way, the process of the Three Kingdoms will be greatly accelerated.
He did it as soon as he said, and Xue Tian did see the God of Protecting the Country. If he could swallow it, he would probably reach the height of a legendary wizard in an instant. "Waiter!"
"Customer, please give me your order." The waiter walked over quickly. He was not old and looked in his twenties. He bent slightly and looked at Xue Tian with a smile on his face.
"Where is this official yamen?"
"Celebrity, the yamen is in the West Garden. It will take more than half an hour to get there from here. Do you see if you hire a carriage for you?"
"Well. You are not bad. Are you interested in being a follower for me?" Xue Tian felt that he really needed some people to serve him, and there was no need to do many things himself.
"This is the honor of the villain! The master is here, and I am a little respect!" The waiter knelt down excitedly without hesitation. In his opinion, the young master who had been hovering for two days made a fortune and rewarded him with a lot of money in just two days. He came to buy an official again. His future is limitless, so he is naturally very happy.
"Well, then you go and hire a carriage." Xue Tian handed him a purse, filled with Wuzhu coins. "By the way, what's your name?"
"The little one is Li, and his name is Goudan." The waiter shyly said his name.
"This name is not good, so you can call it Li Yuan in the future." Xue Tian had some bad taste.
"Thank you for your name, lord." Li Yuan knelt down again and said thanking him, and then made great strides to do business. Xue Tian closed his eyes and rested for a while, and then he came to inform Xue Tian that the carriage had arrived and asked Xue Tian to get on the carriage.
"You find a few people to go to my room, move out the boxes together, and load them into the car together." "No, lord!"
The boxes were too many and too big, and in the end, they hired five more carriages to barely load them. Then the group set out to the West Garden in a mighty manner.
The carriage took half an hour to reach the gate of Xiyuan. Xue Tian and Li Yuan got off together. Of course, Li Yuan was responsible for looking at the boxes, and Xue Tian went to buy an official by himself.
"Stop, what are you doing?" The man wearing a leader at the door shouted softly.
"This general, kid is here to buy an official, please make some convenience." Xue Tian winked at Li Yuan, who understood and immediately handed him a wallet to the other party.
"Well, you kid is filial, go in." The little boss got the benefits and was naturally happy to let go.
Xue Tian thought in his heart that if you want to buy, buy a provincial governor directly, so that he can quickly accumulate strength. The provincial governor was originally called the governor. As the main chief executive of a state, the governor had a considerable power and had the power to "six articles to investigate the state under the imperial edict", including restricting local clans from annexing land, opposing them to rampant villages, cracking down on illegal acts of local local officials using their power for personal gain, correcting and cracking down on law enforcement by local officials, stopping officials from following their own personal advice when referring to scholars, using their power to abide by the law and not tolerate traitors, and cracking down on collusion between local officials and local clans.
Shortly after Emperor Cheng of Han established the prefecture, this position was suspended again. During the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, the Yellow Turbans were rampant and the world was in chaos. In order to suppress the peasant uprising, the prefecture was restored and the status of the state was greatly improved, and he became the chief executive who was above the county magistrate and in charge of the military and political power of a state.
There are not as many people in the yamen where officials are sold in Xiyuan. They are all studying the price list of official positions hanging on the wall in groups of three or three. Xue Tian was too lazy to pay attention to it, so he walked directly to the small yellow gate in the middle, and asked, "Do you dare to ask the Yangzhou master how much it costs?"
The states in the Han Dynasty were equivalent to our current provinces. At that time, there were only thirteen states in the country. Some states had very large jurisdictions, such as Yangzhou, which included some or all of today's Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian. Jingzhou had nine counties under its jurisdiction. As the military and political chief of a state, the power of the prefecture was unimaginable. No wonder there were many princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
"Yangzhou Governor, 500 million yuan!" Although she was surprised that Xue Tian asked about the price of the state governor, Xiaohuangmen still quickly gave the answer.
"Okay, my father-in-law, wait." Xue Tian walked out and asked someone to move all the boxes in. "Please check it out. Here are golden cakes worth about 550 million yuan. Please help me with the help of it."
Everyone on the field looked at the boxes of open gold, and their eyes suddenly became straight. The little yellow gate reacted the fastest, and immediately called more than a dozen strong eunuchs to come in, carry the gold away and count them one by one. Then they put on the most sincere smile and the most enthusiastic reception. They also recorded Xue Tian’s information one by one, saying that they would give it to His Majesty for reading. Of course, this was also the biggest deal he had handled in this business, and I believe His Majesty would not reward him lightly.
Efficiency in taking money is fast. In less than half a day, Xue Tian got the edict in his newly bought house. It must be easier to do it. The imperial edict not only named him the governor of Yangzhou, but also named him the Marquis of Liehou, with the nickname Wen. Hearing this, Xue Tian couldn't help but smile bitterly, is he making himself a Lv Bu?
Not only that, Emperor Ling of Han Liu Hong also asked him to meet the saint. The Emperor of Finance earned tens of millions more, and it seemed that he was in a good mood. After Xue Tian took over the official seal and the marquis' clothing seal, he gave the twenty angels who issued the order fifty gold cakes each, and they happily accepted them.
"Congratulations to lord, congratulations to lord!" Li Yuan and a group of newly bought slaves knelt down and saluted Xue Tian. Xue Tian also took the opportunity to reward each of them with a piece of golden cake and had a meal for three days.
"Well, the Holy Face, Emperor Ling of Han has only five years of life left. Should he let him leave earlier?" Xue Tian pondered. The Yellow Turban Rebellion in the recent stage must be meaningless. It was written in history that it failed in less than a year. Well, just do it. Xue Tian called Li Yuan and asked him to go to the pharmacy to buy a large amount of ginseng, deer antler, seahorse, eucommia ulmoides, Cistanche, epimedium and other tonics, and then plunged into the study to study how to make aphrodisiacs.
When Li Yuan commanded a group of pharmacies to move the medicinal materials into the backyard more than an hour later, Xue Tian had already understood the method of making magic potions. The only difference is that most Western potions are liquid, while Eastern potions are solid. Fortunately, there are also methods for developing solid potions in magic books, which solved Xue Tian’s problem.
Some beautiful maids in the mansion blushed when they saw that their master bought so many aphrodisiacs, and thought that the master was going to favor him. Even when he brought tea to Xue Tian, his face turned red. Unfortunately, Xue Tian had no idea. He asked Li Yuan to call a few servants, moved some medicinal materials into the newly set up alchemy room, and then began to refine aphrodisiacs. After practicing for a whole day, Xue Tian digested more than ten bags of medicinal materials and refined 3,500 aphrodisiacs. Fortunately, he was prepared, and a mage hand put all the medicine into the exquisite porcelain bottle, with thirty medicines in each bottle. The three words Huichun pills were pasted outside the bottle. Xue Tian cast a curse to shrink the spell and put all the medicines into his sleeves. Then he took out a porcelain bottle and walked out of the room. Li Yuan was waiting outside.
It was already late at this time, and a glimmer of sunset in the sky was dazzling. Xue Tian looked at the sky, and a group of geese flew by, everything was so peaceful.
"Li Yuan, are you married?"
"Back to the lord, the little man's family is poor, and he has not gotten married yet, only his parents are in the church."
"Well, then I'll give you the new Liu Qing and Liu Hong. You will take this medicine later, so I'll try it. Let me tell me how effective it will be."
"I thanked you for your kindness. I'm willing to be a lord!" Li Yuan became a kowtower worm. Liu Qing and Liu Hong were twins, very handsome. She originally wanted to offer her to her, but she didn't expect to get a discount. Li Yuan felt that she could no longer find him. Xue Tian watched him take Huichun Pills and led his shy two girls back to the room to make a living. He asked another male servant who was smart and was serving dinner. The name of this male servant was also very interesting, and he was called Zhu Baba. Xue Tian also changed his name to Zhu Wu.
Chapter completed!