31. I'm not interested in that position
Liang Run has always been worried that his sister was bullied in the palace and had a bad life. He was also worried that Liang Zhaoyi would be killed in the palace. After all, the harem is a place where people eat people without spitting out bones.
Even if he worries, it's useless, because the Liang family has no power and influence, and can't help Liang Zhaoyi at all, nor can they protect his sister.
After Liang Zhaoyi entered the palace, she completely lost contact with her family, which made Liang Run even more worried about her safety. He always felt that Liang Zhaoyi was killed.
After losing contact with Liang Zhaoyi for two or three years, the Liang family far away in Yangzhou finally received news from Liang Zhaoyi and learned that Liang Zhaoyi gave birth to a prince for the emperor and was named Zhaoyi, which made the Liang family happy and uneasy.
The happy thing is that Liang Zhaoyi is still alive and gave birth to a prince smoothly. The uneasy thing is that Liang Zhaoyi has no one to rely on in the palace. If she gives birth to a prince, will her situation become more dangerous?
After careful consideration, Liang Run decided to go to the capital. Even if he can't help Liang Zhaoyi, it's good to get some news about Liang Zhaoyi.
He originally planned to become an official and become a support for his sister, but the Great Zhou Dynasty did not allow buying official positions. His family did not know any senior officials and could not recommend him to be an official, so he had to give up the decision to become an official. He
originally wanted to rely on his father, after all, his father was the only official in his family, but his father was just a small county magistrate, and he had not been promoted for more than ten or twenty years.
The reason why his father's county magistrate had not been promoted was because his father bought the position. More than 20 years ago, the Great Zhou Dynasty had not yet been established, and it was still the previous dynasty. In the previous dynasty, officials could be bought and sold. The Liang family had money, so they bought a county magistrate for Liang's father. Liang's father did a good job, so when the Great Zhou Dynasty was established, Liang's father's county magistrate was not removed. When the
Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, many things of the previous dynasty were abolished, including buying and selling officials. During the reign of Emperor Ling of Xia in the previous dynasty, official positions were sold at a clear price, and anyone with money could become an official. At that time, the court and officialdom were in chaos. These officials who bought official positions made money crazily, exploited the people, and made the people miserable.
This is a lesson learned from the previous dynasty, and the Great Zhou Dynasty must not repeat the same mistake.
Recommending officials to the court is generally recommended by incumbent officials. Of course, the official position of the incumbent official cannot be too low. The Great Zhou Dynasty stipulated that only officials above the fifth rank are qualified to recommend talents. There is also a special case, that is, the great Confucian scholars of the time, or people of high moral character are also qualified to recommend talents.
Even if there are recommendations from officials or great Confucian scholars of the time, they must go through layers of review. During the review process, not only the ability of the recommended person should be examined, but also his character, and the most important thing is to examine whether they have committed crimes or moral corruption.
If the reviewing official is bribed to let the recommended person pass the review. Afterwards, if it is found that the recommended person has problems, then the official who reviewed him will be severely punished.
The Liang family had thought about giving money to the prefect of Yangzhou and asking the prefect of Yangzhou to recommend Liang Run as an official, but this is bribery, and it is a serious crime if it is found out. Moreover, if they do this, it may bring danger to Liang Zhaoyi in the palace.
Liang Run and others thought about it carefully and decided not to bribe the prefect of Yangzhou.
Since he couldn't be an official, he could only continue to do business. After repeated consideration, Liang Run decided to do business in the capital.
Doing business in the capital, on the one hand, can get news about Liang Zhaoyi, on the other hand
, can also send money to Liang Zhaoyi. Liang Run felt that his sister had no power in the palace, and if she wanted to live well in the palace, she had to use silver to open the way. At the beginning, before Liang Zhaoyi came to the capital, Liang's father gave her a lot of money for her to use in the palace.
The Liang family was still a little famous in Yangzhou, but when they came to the capital, they were nothing. If this business is not done well, there will be trouble, and even life-threatening. After all, there are too many dignitaries in the capital, and they can't afford to offend them.
Liang Run felt that his business could not be too big. If it was too big, it would attract attention and then be coveted. If it was too small, he couldn't make much money and couldn't help Liang Zhaoyi in the palace. He thought about it seriously and decided to do a business that was neither big nor small.
He was going to do their Liang family's old business-the medicinal materials business, but he didn't know the way to purchase medicinal materials in the capital. Besides, there are many people in the capital doing the medicinal materials business, and most of them have their own skills, so he cannot compete with them.
Just when he was struggling with what business to do, Zhao Yao came to him. Zhao Yao originally wanted Liang Run to do the restaurant business, and make the delicacies that Zhao Yao had eaten in his dream, which would surely sell well, but doing so would be too conspicuous.
Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi discussed it and decided to let Liang Run do an inconspicuous business. This inconspicuous business can not only make money, but also collect information. That is selling vegetables.
Liang Run, like Liang Zhaoyi, has liked to grow medicinal herbs, vegetables, and flowers since he was a child, and he is pretty good at it. Zhao Yao asked Liang Run to buy some land on the outskirts of the capital, specifically for growing vegetables.
At first, he set up a stall in the vegetable market in Beijing to sell vegetables, and then delivered the vegetables to people's homes. Liang Run was also very business-minded. In the past one or two years, his business of delivering vegetables to people's homes has been doing very well. At present, many officials and wealthy businessmen in Beijing have their vegetables delivered by Liang Run.
By delivering vegetables to people's homes, Liang Run collected a lot of news in Beijing. Most of this news was very useful.
At this time, Zhao Yao was eating hot pot with relish.
Seeing that his nephew was eating well, Liang Run's appetite also improved a lot.
The uncle and nephew ate hot pot happily while talking about what had happened recently.
"Ever since the news of the great victory of the King of Dai in Liangzhou reached the capital, the news about his previous military exploits has spread like wildfire. Now when people mention the King of Dai, they all say that he is a great hero."
"This should be the work of the Marquis of Xuanping. He wants the people of the capital to know about the various military exploits that my second brother has made, so that the people will think that the current peace in the Great Zhou is brought by the King of Dai." Zhao Yao's mouth was red from eating, "The Marquis of Xuanping is doing this to build momentum for my second brother."
"Now the people all think that the King of Dai should be given more pearls, and that this is what the King of Dai deserves." Liang Run said, "In fact, giving the King of Dai more pearls is also a good thing for you. When you grow up and become a king, you will definitely be given more pearls."
Zhao Yao waved his hand and said, "I am not interested in whether the pearls are added or not." To be precise, it doesn't matter. When he grows up, we don't know what the situation will be like. Besides, he is not interested in that position, and it doesn't matter to him whether the pearls are added or not.
"I heard that if you add beads, your fiefdom will become larger and your salary will increase. Aren't you interested?"
"Second uncle, I'm not favored. When I grow up and become a king, my father will most likely give Qingzhou to me." Qingzhou is the smallest of all the states, and its geographical location is not important. The most important thing is that Qingzhou is very poor now, and there are often pirates. "By the way, you said before that my uncle is buying a restaurant. Has it been bought?"
"It's bought, but it's a small restaurant." Liang Run shabu-shabued the meat, picked it up and put it in Zhao Yao's bowl, "Your uncle is decorating the restaurant now, it will take some time."
Zhao Yao's uncle is Liang Yu. Before he went to Qingzhou, he went to the capital to meet Zhao Yao and others. Zhao Yao gave him a lot of things, such as the modern food that Zhao Yao ate in his dream, and the drawings of the restaurant decoration.
With these things, Liang Yu's restaurant will definitely make money.
"In the second half of the year, the restaurant will definitely be open." Liang Run continued, "In addition to being busy with the restaurant, your uncle has also paid a special visit to the local officials and wealthy people in Qingzhou."
Seeing Liang Run suddenly frowned, Zhao Yao put down his chopsticks and asked, "Are the officials and wealthy people in Qingzhou difficult to deal with?"
Liang Run nodded lightly: "Although Qingzhou is small, the forces there are complicated and it is difficult to infiltrate them."
"Money makes the devil work." Zhao Yao said, "As long as the money is enough, you can infiltrate them."
"You are right." His nephew is as smart as his sister. Unfortunately, their Liang family has no power, not only can they not help him fight for that position, but they may also hold him back. As a result, his sister and he dare not fight for that position.
With the intelligence of his sister and Yaoyao, it is really a pity not to fight for that position.
Liang Run: Yaoyao is so smart, it's all because of our Liang family's incompetence that delayed him.
Zhao Yao: Even if I have ten heads, it's not enough to fight for that position. I just want to travel around and eat all the delicacies in the world when I grow up.
(End of this chapter)