Chapter 69: The restaurant heard

Of course, more and more people surround them. After a little inquiry, you will understand the reason why the wooden stake is standing here. However, there is no Li Meng's person explaining it here, and everyone is unsure. Moving a wooden stake once will be two taels of silver. Two taels of silver is enough for a medium-sized family in Jiaozhou City to spend a good life. It would not be a problem if they save some money for two months.

Two taels of silver are not small money, and there are not many people who are attracted to it, but everyone is unsure, especially those salt dicks all say a word and leave. Who knows if there is any problem here? What if you work hard to carry the wooden stake over for a long time and the other party doesn't pay? After all, the official is a big-mouthed person. If you say it's just a joke, you can't do anything about it.

More and more people took over the onlookers, but no one came forward to take action. Carrying the wooden stake is really hard, and it is impossible for young people to do it. And they also have to be healthy young people. These people are generally frivolous. It is almost noon. At noon, someone at the south gate of Jiaozhou City finally came forward to pull down the wooden stake and carried it up, and walked step by step towards the inspection office in the city.

It was like a frying pot. The young man in front was carrying a wooden stake and followed by no less than a hundred people. The yamen runners in the city were shocked when they saw this scene. They thought to themselves that it was a cult that was causing trouble. Fortunately, there were people who had watched the fun explain it. This was why they felt relieved. Several good officials followed behind with great enthusiasm.

The weight of the wooden stakes is not light, and the logs are not good at hand. Even the young man was strong and could not hold on when he arrived at the patrol courtyard. There were a few people who looked like salt stakes at the door of the patrol. When they watched the man carrying the wooden stakes, they were happy to welcome him. They had been bored for a few hours. Although the young man had the courage, he was still nervous after putting down the stakes, fearing that the other party would play tricks. The onlookers also calmed down and waited to see what the salt stakes would do in the patrol department.

When they saw the two taels of silver placed in the hands of the young man, everyone was surprised and said, and some young men hurriedly ran towards other city gates. There were wooden stakes there, and they were carried away by others if they were late.

Several people from the inspector's office smiled and took out the carriage, lifted the wooden stakes, and walked towards the south gate. No one noticed that Yanding grabbed the young man carrying the wooden stakes and whispered something there. The young man was stunned at first, and then he was excited and blushed with excitement, and nodded repeatedly.

In fact, although there were many people here to carry the wooden stakes, there were not many people who could actually carry the wooden stakes to the inspection office. Many people fell to the ground halfway through the road, and the salt stewards kept erecting the wooden stakes back. Anyway, they were idle. For them, life without practice was really rare.

Compared with the civilians in Zhoucheng, the young people in the garrison have a few more blood types. Anyone with strength wants to try it. Even if they can’t move the place, this is a place for Li Erlang. Who wouldn’t rely on him to make some benefits in this Lingshan garrison?

The outside of the city and the garage are very lively. The Spring Festival is about to end. There is such a lively atmosphere to watch, and everyone is very excited.

Shaohailou, on the banks of Xiaobai River in the city, opened after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Although the business is not open to business before the 20th day of the first lunar month, the owner and the client of Shaohailou are both locals from Jiaozhou and do not care about these things. Some old customers are outsiders who cannot go home for the New Year, so they can directly deal with the meals in this restaurant.

Li Meng had such a rare leisure time. He also sat on the elegant seat on the second floor of the restaurant and drank by himself. The shopkeeper of Shaohailou naturally knew him. The four dishes in front of him were all carefully prepared. It is said that the wine is also a top-notch wine, and he ate very comfortably.

The so-called second-floor elegant tower is just a partition of the Shaohai Tower with a simple screen. The conversations between adjacent and even similar elegant places can be heard clearly. Li Meng didn't say anything, drinking slowly one cup after another. He suddenly found that this place was a good news distribution center, considering whether to arrange someone to come and stare.

There was not a lot of guests in the restaurant before the first month, and the second floor seemed very empty. Li Meng had always heard a table of guests chatting and laughing loudly there. He should be a scholar who listened to their words and affairs. He had been talking about the provincial examination in Jinan Prefecture in April and May this year.

"Everyone, when I entered the city today, I saw a wooden stake standing at the city gate. The onlookers kept shouting, and I don't know what happened?"

"Brother Zhang, not only that place, but there are wooden stakes standing around the city gates today. It is said that if the wooden stakes are moved to the house of the Salt Administration Commissioner Li, you will get two taels of silver!"

When many people heard this, they could hear the amazing voices of Li Meng clearly, but then a few people said contemptuously:

"It's really a country man who does such nonsense."

"These people are all bandits and rogues. Isn't it reasonable to do such a way to show off their wealth without doing anything?"

Li Meng was right at the entrance of the stairs. These people were talking loudly. The guy who served upstairs could hear it clearly. Scholars were all good and not dared to take care of them. They could only run downstairs to find Manager Lin. After a while, Manager Lin rushed up with a pale face.

After coming up, he looked into Li Meng's elegant seat, for fear that the evil star would be angry. Who would have thought that Li Meng would wave his hand at him with a smile and signaled that there was no need to be too much trouble. Manager Lin was still stunned and confirmed Li Meng's intention. This was the one who went downstairs in a daze, thinking that those scholars were afraid they would be in trouble.

Li Meng was not angry. As a scholar, he always had a sour temper and could say something strange. He had seen a lot of this in modern times. Listening to these cultural people discussing themselves is very interesting, so that Manager Lin would not have to make a fuss. After going downstairs, Li Meng picked up the wine glass and heard someone saying in a deep voice over there:

"Do you still remember Shang Yang's authority? Others have wooden stakes, but he also has wooden stakes. It's because the ancients were wise!"

During the Warring States Period, Shang Yang was worried that everyone would not believe or obey his orders, so he set up a wooden stake in the city and issued a notice saying that anyone who transported the stake somewhere would get ten gold. Everyone thought this was too nonsense, so no one did it.

Later, the reward was getting higher and higher. When it reached a hundred gold coins, someone finally decided to try it and transport the wooden stakes to that place. Shang Yang paid the man 100 gold according to the promised reward. From then on, everyone knew that Shang Yang's laws and regulations were required to be issued.

Li Meng almost copied this, but everyone did not expect that a salt administration inspection was like the strong-willed Li Meng in the eyes of the official and scholars, who were just like the strong man in the grass, and he actually had this plan. Li Meng sighed and drank the wine in his glass in one go. This is a plot that has been mentioned in modern history popular reading materials and various film and television dramas. It is not uncommon to be seen through so easily. After all, scholars of this era are better at history than modern times.

After being pointed out by this person, the other side was quiet at first, and then the sound of amazement and sucking in the cold air could be heard clearly by Li Meng. After a while, someone hesitated and asked:

"Brother Zhou, what is the intention of this inspection to do this?"

"I can't see through it either. There are many rumors about Li Erlang's start. I see his every move and his daily words and deeds are definitely not the way Xiao Xiao's salt administration inspectors."

"You don't have to worry. Now that the Emperor Shengming is in power, even if there is a stingy among the people, it is a supreme problem. Naturally, someone will take care of it. Why should I worry about this?"

Hearing this sentence, the brother Zhou who told Shang Yang's allusion, sneered and said coldly:

"Is the Son of the Holy Ming?"

The scene suddenly became cold. Li Meng was so focused that he heard it. After coming to the Ming Dynasty, the people he came into contact with were quite special and grassroots. He met very few scholars. Ning Gangui was a scholar, and Hou Shan was actually a child born, and he was also considered one. The rest were the shopkeepers he met in Jining. It was a bit funny to say that if he was a businessman these days, he wouldn't be able to study. He had some identities like a scholar, which reminded Li Meng of the requirements of modern business companies for education.

However, these people said they were scholars, and they just had a title, read a few books, and knew the words, and talked about money and goods. Or they were like Ning Gangui and Hou Shan, who were full of flattery and had no character, talked about current affairs in the elegant hall on the second floor of the restaurant, which was in line with Li Meng's impression of scholars of this era.

What I was talking about next obviously changed the topic and no longer discussed anything like the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Someone said in a pleasing tone:

"Brother Zhou has excellent talent and extensive knowledge. He can pass the provincial examination and pass the provincial examination. He will have the palace examination in the future."

Everyone said yes. Brother Zhou didn't say anything for a while, and he said in Xiao Suo's tone for a long time:

"All officials come out of Donglin, and this official is full of people from Su Songchang and the second-class people need to be compensated by Hangzhou, Jiahu, and the people in the north are not responsible for us. If we pass the imperial examination and return to our hometown with fame, we will be content."

Li Meng had already finished drinking the wine in the pot and had almost the same food. The topic of scholars there gradually turned to the romance and romance. He was not interested in continuing to listen. He went downstairs to check out the bill and asked the shopkeeper Lin and said:

"Who is the shopkeeper who is here on the upstairs? "

The shopkeeper of Shaohailou felt that it was not good, but he did not dare to hide it from Li Meng. He honestly answered:

"He is the second son of Zhou Yuanwai's family in the city. His surname is Zhou Yang and his courtesy name is Yueyun. He is a talented man in Jiaozhou City. He is very enthusiastic and kind..."
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