Chapter 616: Do things according to the rules
Kong San is the manager of the second young master and has an official position.
This official position is called the chief banner officer of the Linmiao Guardian Department. The actual position is 800 taels, and the empty title is only 300 taels.
The Linmiao Guardian Department is a serious yamen recognized by the court. According to the rules of the Holy Lord, the children of the family have been practicing abroad for a long time, and they have nothing to say to the top and bottom, so they can donate the officials of the Guardian Department.
Kong San met this rule, so he donated a general banner official a few years ago, but he thought the actual position was too much, so he only donated a false position.
But even if it is a false position, it is enough to be Kong San’s glory.
After all, the highest position in the Lin Temple Guard Department is only 100 households. According to the qualifications of the Guard Department, he is also ranked among the top ten.
The family was born as a son and was the chief banner of the Guards Department. Since he followed the second young master to Teng County, Kong San has really enjoyed his official affinity and showed off his power.
The second young master also valued him very much and asked him to do big and small things. With the banner of the Shenggong Mansion and the support of the second young master, it would be difficult for Kong San to not walk horizontally in Teng County.
Now, in three years, my concubines have asked for three, and there are a few of them. As for the person who asked him to break the melon with General Kong Qi, he couldn't even figure it out.
However, Kong San did not take advantage of the people in vain, and he always had to give them some benefits. For example, reduce some tribute, a small amount of land, or avoid your child from entering the mansion to be his companion. In short, he would not play with his daughter in vain.
In a word, in the past three years in Teng County, Kong has lived a fulfilling life and a bright future.
He followed the right person. Now the Lord has no descendants, and the one who succeeds the Lord in the future must be his nephews.
The second young master has been loved by the Lord since he was born. He likes to ask the second young master to ask the second young master to take the exam. Anyone with discerning eyes can see that the Lord is preparing to pass the position to the second young master.
Once the second prince succeeds to the throne, as the second prince’s confidant, Kong San will definitely rise.
By then, it would be no less than the general banner of the Lin Temple Guarding Office, and Kong San, who was a real household, would not take it seriously. According to the rules of the Holy Lord Mansion, Kong San had to become a deacon in the Holy Lord Mansion.
However, these days, Kong San has been in sadness.
The second young master was also very sad.
The reason is that Chen's mother, who raised the second son since childhood, unfortunately passed away. The second son is a person who values love and friendship. After Chen's mother died, she had no meal for two days and was still depressed since then.
The second young master was sad, and Kong San naturally felt sad.
Regarding Chen’s mother’s funeral, the second young master personally gave the order to follow the rules of the Shenggong Mansion, and order the tenants and temple households of the Kong family in Teng County to donate, and those who do business and pass by will also pay tribute. They will always have to handle their funerals.
In addition, the second young master specifically emphasized that within 100 days of Teng County, no family is allowed to get married, banquets, or operas. Violators, no matter who you are, will be locked up and asked.
This is a matter of course. The second young master is so sad, how can you be happy?
Kong San faithfully implemented the order of the second prince. In addition to personally supervising the tenants and the temple households' tribute, he also took his family soldiers to inspect from time to time. As long as he found that there was a secretly drunken house, he would catch him without saying a word.
Even if there were residents on the street, they would catch and beat him whenever they saw him, and then they asked the family to take money to redeem them.
The Teng County Government Office turned a blind eye to this, and no one dared to say that the Kong family had done too much. The county magistrate also quit drinking in the yamen, and did not dare to bed with his concubine, for fear that the Kong family would come to him.
It’s really helpless. It’s difficult to be an official around the Holy Lord’s Mansion.
The county magistrate is like this, and others are even more shiver and dare not say much.
Recently, all the merchants passing by Teng County have been in trouble. As long as they stop at the wharf in Teng County, no matter whether you are deducting goods or not, the people from the Kong family will come up to collect your money.
If anyone refuses to give it to you, soldiers will immediately come.
Who dares to offend officials in business, let alone the Kong family is the leader of all officials.
Even though there are people behind my home, and the background is deep, the merchants are honestly paying money.
It is better to have less trouble than to make things less. This is because you are unwilling to pay money to make things worse. If you spread it, the master behind your family will offend the descendants of the saints.
If anyone can take off this hat, I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to bear it.
Isn't that admiral Wei who was parked at the wharf of Jialou Town honestly asked someone to pay the money?
The eunuch had soldiers under him, so he was afraid of the Kong family, and others were even more at ease.
Fighting with the sky or the earth means not being able to fight with the Holy Lord's Mansion.
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It was something that Kong San was proud of to be able to get the eunuch passing by.
The reputation of the Holy Lord's Mansion is so loud.
After hearing this, the second young master praised Kong San very much and was quite proud of his words.
Only when everyone is like this can the reputation of the Holy Lord's Mansion be passed down from generation to generation.
Tomorrow is the day when Chen’s mother is in funeral. The weather is hot. The second young master is afraid that his mother’s body will be rotten, so he deliberately let someone move the ice in the ice cellar up, making the mourning hall extremely cool.
This is really a matter of effort and a great filial piety.
When the incident was passed home, the Holy Lord praised the nephew for his filial piety.
Let me ask, you can be sincere and filial to a wet nurse, let alone to his own uncle.
The funeral was arranged properly, and Kong San had nothing to do. Today, the sun was more poisonous, and Kong San was afraid of the sun, so he did not go to the city to inspect and catch the blind man. Instead, he moved a chair and sat under the locust tree by the gate.
At the door, there were tenants coming to pay donations from all over the countryside, and there were long queues of tribute households, which were two or three miles away.
The team has been lined up since the morning, and it has not been shortened until now, because there are still people outside the city rushing here one after another.
All the people who came were wearing mourning clothes, either handing over things or paying money. After the work was done, they had to go in and kowtow to Chen’s coffin in turn.
There are many people in the crowd who are seventy-year-old and eighty-year-old. If they can’t walk by themselves, they have to ask their descendants to support them.
There is no way, the Kong family's orders are not something they can disobey.
Everything is going in an orderly manner. When Chen’s mother is buried tomorrow, it will probably be almost done.
Kong San calculated the accounts and said that after this set, the government would make no less than 30,000 taels of money, but the expenses were not much. This did not include the filial piety of the local gentry and wealthy families.
In short, Chen's mother's death not only allowed the second son to be famous, but also made the second son a lot of money. After reporting the accounts at the end of the year, the Shenggong would definitely be able to smile.
He was fanning his pallets, but from a distance he saw that there seemed to be helping people in the team.
Kong San slapped his palm-leaf fan on his calves and ordered his left and right: "Go and see, what's the matter?"
Several servants rushed over and ran over to check.
After a while, someone came back and shouted, "Third Master, I'm here to help the cunning household, but I'm not willing to hand over it."
Kong Sanyi was very happy when he heard this. These cunning families were so bold that they dared to cause trouble at the gate of the Kong family.
Chapter completed!