Cherish ink like gold, cherish pen like a knife.
Before the Qing Dynasty, there was a general in Zhejiang who was at odds with the governor. The general is narrow-minded and always wants to find fault with the governor, but he has never found it.
On one occasion, they were all ordered to go to Beijing. The business is not finished, it is already the twelfth lunar month. At this time, it happened that the imperial court was going to send a magistrate to Zhejiang, so as to give the governor a face-to-face order and let him take it back for use. The governor is the immediate superior of the county magistrate. Natural magistrate of a county has much contact with him. In contrast, the general is not so enthusiastic. Now, the general put the blame on the governor, and the governor was even more bitter.
After New Year's Eve, it's New Year's Day. Every year on New Year's Day, all the officials in Beijing go to the Golden Temple to pay their respects to the Emperor, and if there are foreign officials in Beijing at this time, it is no exception. That day, after the celebration, the general returned to his apartment and had a brainwave. He wrote a note and presented it. It is a great sin to say that the magistrate of a county is disrespectful to congratulate him, and that the governor has both oversight before and shelter after. The emperor was so angry with the play that he severely reprimanded the governor and ordered him to reflect on his crimes. The governor has been wronged, but it is hard to argue.
The governor's entourage had nothing to do that day. He went to the teahouse to chat with a good friend, and it was difficult to talk inadvertently. A Shaoxing bag sitting next to him stroked his beard and said, "What's the difficulty? If you want to reverse your conviction, you don't need much. Eight words is enough. "
The waiter asked him which eight words. Shaoxing touts said, "This is no place to talk. You tell your adult that I am here. "
When the attendants came back, he told the governor truthfully. When the governor heard that it was Qi Sanshan, alas, he was my young classmate! So he ordered his entourage to lead the way, personally invited Qi Sanshan to the apartment, and immediately set the wine and wine.
After three rounds of drinking, Qi Sanshan picked up a pen, wrote eight words on the paper and handed them to the governor. The governor looked at it and it said, join the previous class,
How dare you look back?
Faced with these eight words, the more I read, the more reasonable I feel. Every word is like a knife. When I cut in, I touched my scalp and said, "Yes, yes, alas, why didn't I think of that!" My brother is brilliant, and my foolish brother is willing to bow down! " So I immediately wrote a note on which I used the words "Join the first class and dare to turn back". Sure enough, the emperor changed his attitude when he saw the recital-the governor had nothing to do with it, but the general was found guilty.
So why do these eight words have such a big effect? It turns out that both the governor and the general have higher official positions, kneeling in front when congratulating each other, while the magistrate of a county is a small official with seven products, kneeling behind when congratulating each other. Worship the emperor, regardless of the size of officials, should be respectful, no one can look back and forth. Now the general has seen the county magistrate behind him, which just proves that he acted rashly and disobeyed the emperor when he congratulated the DPRK. In this way, he can't escape the crime anyway: either you honestly admit that this is a false accusation, or you will be charged with "disrespect." -this is the power of Shaoxing touts to use pens.
Stop sorting
Persuade Chen Gelao
Chen Ge retired and went home. The Qing emperor gave him a white goose, weighing 23 Jin, and told him to rest at home. Chen Ge always brings the Royal White Goose back to Haining.
In order to show that the white goose was given by the emperor, Chen Ge hung a gold medal on the head and neck of the white goose, engraved with the words "23 Jin of white goose given by the emperor". From time to time, he puts the goose at his door and lets it walk freely.
One day, the white goose "Cleisthenes, Cleisthenes" walked slowly into the street, stretched its head and neck in front of a tofu shop and ate all the tofu on the counter. The tofu shop knew that the goose belonged to an old house, so it didn't dare to rush and had to eat it. Who knows that from that day on, the white goose will eat tofu every day. The good-hearted man next to him said to the manager of the tofu shop, "How can you, a small agent, throw a plate of tofu every day?" A man with a little more courage, seeing that the tofu shop was poor, went to the old house to tell him about human feelings. The accountant listened and said, "How much tofu have you eaten before? Pay whatever you want. Give it a plate of tofu every day and collect money every month for 30 months. " The tofu shop is relieved.
However, someone in the neighborhood said, "What kind of world is this? People are worse than animals!" "
The good times didn't last long. One day, the white goose was swallowing tofu, and suddenly a flower dog came to grab the white goose's food. The white goose went to bite the dog, but the dog bit the white goose's head and neck. After a while, the white goose died.
When the white goose was killed by a dog, the manager of the tofu shop broke out in a cold sweat and immediately went to my old house to report the case. Chen Ge was very angry and said, "What?
I take care of you every day, and you don't even care if the dog bites the goose. You are obviously an unruly person! "Call Haining purlin tofu shop immediately and say it's going to be locked up.
Unexpected trouble was left in this small tofu shop: the man was locked up and the business could not be done. The wife was crying sadly at the door.
At this moment, a Shaoxing tout passed by and saw her crying sadly. He asked the reason, and then comforted: "Don't cry. I will help you after a month's rest, and I will definitely get your husband back. " The wife of the tofu shop listened with a grain of salt.
A month passed quickly, and Shaoxing kept his word.
He invited his wife at the tofu shop and said, "Go to my old house." She had to bite the bullet to save her husband. What did the invitation say? It initially said:
Goose hangs gold medal, but dog can't read.
Animals compete with each other, what does it have to do with people?
Wise old man, please release Fu Nu.
Old Chen Ge saw the post and knew that he was wrong. He thought: If he doesn't publish it, it will definitely cause public outrage. It's better to follow the current and get a reasonable name. So he told Haining Tang Zheng to let the tofu shop leave.
Later, someone asked Shaoxing why he had to rest for a month before pleading for release. Why not make it earlier? Shaoxing touts smiled and said, "He is Chen Ge! At that time, posting would add fuel to the fire and could not save people, so we had to let him score three points first. Only when he loses his temper can he be defeated by reason. "
Wu Benchu collected and arranged.
A piece of paper to commemorate the waste scale
It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, salt could not be transported from the south to the north of the Yangtze River, nor could it be transported from the north to the south of the Yangtze River.
One year, the salt harvest in the south of the Yangtze River was not good, so it could not be supplied for a while. The magistrate of Hangzhou secretly sent a group of salt merchants to transport salt to Jiangbei. Unexpectedly, when crossing the river, I was accidentally intercepted by the other side.
The salt merchant returned to Hangzhou dejectedly and told the magistrate the details. The magistrate of Hangzhou wrote a letter and sent someone to deliver it quickly, pleading for truth and care. I didn't expect the other party to show no respect at all, saying that this is a decree handed down by the court of first instance, and no one can overstep it. The magistrate worried about this all day, and his subordinates were at a loss.
One day, the adjutant suddenly remembered a book friend named Li. This book friend was born and lived in Tieyeling Garden. He was well-read and versatile. He is a first-class "knife and pencil", but he usually doesn't want to shoot easily. If he is willing to make a move, he will succeed immediately. Therefore, the staff recommended Li Xiucai to the magistrate. The magistrate prepared a post and asked him to invite it.
The adjutant went to Tieyeling Park to find Li Xiucai, and explained his purpose directly. When Li Xiucai heard that this matter was related to the lives of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, he readily agreed.
Two people came to the magistrate yamen, magistrate personally received. Li Xiucai said: "If we want to solve this problem, it will definitely reach the sky. But it is not easy to get rid of the old rules. The emperor must fight, of course, can benefit the people; If it is not allowed, it will be seriously strange. I wonder if adults are willing to take this risk? "
The magistrate thought about it and said, "It makes sense to travel all over the world. As long as I stand up straight, I will take the risk! " Li Xiucai said happily: "Frank, frank." He wrote a memorial on the spot. There are two main words:
Countries struggle, but immigrants move millet;
The reunification of the Qing Dynasty, how can it be divided into Jiangnan and Jiangbei?
The magistrate was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to send the letter to Beijing.
The emperor saw it and approved it to the Ministry of Housing. The Ministry felt that the sentence was reasonable and indisputable, and the ban was lifted below. From then on, salt can be transported from the north to the south.
Jiang Feng dictated.
Zhuge Pei collects and arranges
Three sesame cakes buy "gold"
The Hangzhou magistrate wanted to ask Xu Wenchang to write "Worship the Golden Gate" in three Chinese characters to decorate the garden. In fact, I want to use Xu Wenchang's fame to improve my social status. He asked acquaintances and relatives to bid Xu Wenchang several times: "I am willing to pay three hundred and twenty pieces of silver." Unexpectedly, he hit a wall again and again, but Xu Wenchang refused to write anything.
In this way, the magistrate can do nothing. A peddler said to the magistrate, "Xu Wenchang used to be a member of our profession, but now he is very familiar with it. This man is too clever to be fooled. However, he has a strange temper. If you don't invite someone he likes, he will write a couplet or draw a picture for you. Otherwise, even if Jin Yuanbao holds it in front of him, it will be difficult to get his half-star ink. Adults don't have to worry. As the saying goes, as long as you know yourself and know yourself, you won't be defeated! "
The magistrate in Hangzhou listened to the tout and asked him for advice. Bao heard: "There are ways. However, it should not be publicized. It may take longer. This is called' urgent delay'. "
The magistrate nodded and smiled, and invited the master into the back room to discuss countermeasures.
A few days later, a baked wheat cake stall opened at the entrance of Qianguan Lane in Shaoxing.
The master of sesame seed cake, surnamed Jin, specializes in making lard and chopped green onion cakes, which are really fragrant and crisp, cheap and good. Xu Wenchang likes to eat these cookies, three yuan a day, and buy them every day.
A few days later, Xu Wenchang felt a little strange: the baked wheat cake made in Jin Shifu was much bigger and tasted much better than other stalls. Why is it not expensive? Two pence is not afraid of loss. So I asked Jin Shifu.
Jin Shifu said, "I have small profits but quick turnover, and I can profit from many things. Besides, most of the people who come to buy sesame cakes are poor brothers, and they don't earn much hard-earned money. "
Xu Wenchang thought that there are many people doing business, but such kind people as Jin Shifu are really rare. So he began to care about his livelihood: "Jin Shifu, why don't you rent a small house on the street?" How inconvenient it is to move around every day. "
Jin Shifu said, "Sir, I have just arrived in the treasure land and I am a stranger. How can I rent a house in this street? "
Xu Wenchang said, "It's easy. I will find a way for you. "
Jin Shifu said, "Then I must thank you very much."
Xu Wenchang really rented a small house for Jin Shifu in Banwen Street. Jin Shifu painted the house and moved there to do business.
The next day, Xu Wenchang came to buy sesame cakes again. He looked inside and outside the new house and said happily, "This is much better, much better. Unfortunately, there is still a signboard missing! " Jin Shifu said gently, "This must be forgotten. Find someone to write a signboard, I don't have the strength yet! "
Xu Wenchang said quickly, "I am willing to help, I am willing to help."
Jin Shifu scratched his scalp and said, "I'm sorry to keep bothering you."
Xu Wenchang said with a smile, "This is a trivial matter, so why worry?" . Tell me your name. "
Jin Shifu pointed to the powder basket with the word "Yongji" written on the ground and said, "The nickname is Yong, which is very vulgar."
Xu Wenchang said, "OK, I'll write it for you right away." Turn around and walk.
Jin Shifu grabbed three pieces of lard and chopped green onion cakes and ran after them. As he chased, he shouted, "Mr. Xu, I can't bother you any more. I'll go to your house to get it myself. "
When Jin Shifu arrived at the "Ivy Bookstore", Xu Wenchang had already written a signboard-"Jin Yong remembers crispy sesame cakes, and the goods are exchanged. Xu Shuwei "
Fourteen big characters, dazzling. Jin Shifu squinted happily and thanked him again and again. As he handed me three biscuits, he panted, "That's very kind of you, sir. For me, even the biscuits are left in the store. " Say that finish, quickly took the gold-lettered signboard, thousands of Xie Wan Xie to retire. He walked out of the "Ivy Bookstore", quickened his pace and came to Hangzhou without packing anything.
Xu Wenchang watched Jin Shifu go out, just feeling a little hungry, picked up a piece of cake and took a bite. Jin Shifu came and went in a hurry, he thought. what should he do ？ ..... Looking down, I thought, well, no, the water washed down the Longwang Temple-I was trapped by the Hangzhou government touts, and the word "worship of Golden Gate" was cheated away!
Yang Naijun collects and sorts out
The origin of "rip-off"
Nowadays people often use the word "Shaoxing touts" to describe people's meanness. In fact, the original "Shaoxing touts" were all literati who came last in the imperial examination. They are knowledgeable, scheming and sincere in their work. Later, there was an accident that made "Shaoxing touting" and "rip-off" invisibly linked together, which made the word "Shaoxing touting" derogatory.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the phenomenon of selling tobacco soil along the coast was widespread, and the Qing government set up checkpoints in various places to prohibit the sale of tobacco soil. There is a cunning Yunnan businessman who often transports tobacco soil in the name of selling homespun and yam, and travels between Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Because of his clever way of thinking, he has never been caught by the checkpoint. It turned out that when the bamboo just grew up, he secretly cut open the tender bamboo and hid it in the smoky soil. When bamboo grows up, he makes them into bamboo poles and boatswain. Therefore, the tearing outside is seamless, leaving no trace.
On this day, Yunnan merchant ships came to Shaoxing Wharf, Zhejiang Province, and the inspectors at the checkpoint boarded the ship for inspection as usual. They turned from bilge to top, from homespun to medicinal materials, and found no smoked soil. Just as it was about to be released, a Shaoxing Bao Bao, who was working at the checkpoint, suddenly came to the ship and seemed to search it again. At this time, he was smoking a long pipe cigarette, smoking, walking into the cabin, lifting the long pipe, knocking on the bamboo pole lying on the cabin, ready to knock off the ash.
Who knows that this "Benedict" is serious when it is knocked, scaring Yunnan merchants to leave the cabin one after another. He looked flustered, thinking that Shaoxing touts saw the secret of hiding forbidden things and took him as a signal.
Yunnan merchants were prepared, so they took out a packet of silver from their pockets and pretended it as "Yunnan dry cigarettes". They quietly asked Shaoxing about it and said with a smile, "This is the first-class Yunnan dry cigarettes on the package, which is mellow and different from other dry cigarettes. Please accept it. "
Shaoxing touts took a look at the merchants in Yunnan, weighed them with their hands, and knew they were silver. I think: since he gave the other party a lot of money, there must be contraband on board, but I can't find it at the moment. Now he is happy to be a personal pet, quietly put "Yunnan dry cigarettes" into his pocket and went ashore.
Later, the smoked soil transported by Yunnan passenger ship was seized by other checkpoints, only to know that the smoked soil was hidden in the ship. Since then, the word "Zaike" has been associated with "Shaoxing touts" and spread among the people.
Lu Xin collects and arranges.
Zhou sheng's set of three variables
Zhou Shengsan, the chief criminal of Hangzhou Prefecture, was originally from Huiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture. On this day, he was reading official documents and took great pains for an unjust case.
What unjust case? Because an old relative in his hometown has a daughter named Bao, who works as a maid in a big salt merchant's house in Huiji County. Bao was over 50 years old, had no children, and married a second wife in his twenties. A year later, she gave birth to a fat son, but her mother-in-law died after eating a bowl of white sugar and lotus root starch from Lan Xiang. Grandma Bao insisted that Xiao was fighting for the position with her dead second wife, and she had the heart to kill people.
A complaint brought Xiao to death, and now she is in prison. Old friends took care of relatives and sold the land of standard rooms. As a result, I still couldn't save my daughter, so I came to Hangzhou to ask Master Zhou for help. In feudal society, people who commit capital crimes are generally executed after autumn, implicating themselves, explaining the situation and recovering perjury. In this way, the culprit himself was exposed. The culprit was none other than Bao's old lady. Because she wanted to preach "incense" and pull out "eyesore", she framed Xiaolanxiang. I think, if I have a substitute, I can cross the ocean. Who knows that hurting others will hurt themselves, and eventually they will be trapped.
Xu Tao collects and arranges.
"Millennium" in name only
There is a hill by the river, which has been handed down from generation to generation by the Li family. One year, a feng shui gentleman came and said that the feng shui of this mountain is good. If the ancestral graves are buried on it, future generations will be rich and strong. When this word reached the ears of Mr. Zhang, a neighboring village, Mr. Zhang got a bad idea, saying that this mountain belongs to his family and has Zhang's ancestral grave. Since then, Zhang and Li have started a lawsuit.
Mr. Zhang feels guilty. In order to occupy the mountain, he chose an altar of wine and a pig's head and asked Shaoxing touts for help.
Shaoxing touts are extremely disgusted with Mr. Zhang's behavior. He didn't say anything, but he knew it, so he leaned down and whispered for a while, which made Teacher Zhang smile. Shaoxing touts persuaded him, and added: ...