Ming Dynasty Jiajing 3rd year, a small village north of Yong'an County .
There is a man named Zhang Benhe in the village. He has been smart since he was a child and is very good at doing business. Therefore, his shop became bigger and bigger. Later, he earned a lot of money and bought a large yard called Zhang Mansion.
Moreover, Zhang Benhe is kind-hearted and often sends rice and flour from his family to those poor farmers. Every year in the disaster year, he will give a lot of porridge shops. In the hearts of the people of Yong'an City, he has a very good reputation.
Zhang Benhe also made friends with some green forest heroes. Whenever these people had urgent matters, they would visit Zhang's house and borrow ten taels of silver before leaving. Zhang Benhe also agreed with all their requests.
Because of the need to do business, it is inevitable that he will run around. Once, Zhang Benhe went to the south to purchase goods. He met a poor scholar in front of a wine shop. He sold himself to his father and was priced at 2 taels of silver. If anyone can afford the price, the scholar is willing to serve for his whole life and be a cow and a horse.
However, because the scholar is hungry all year round, he is relatively thin and looks sick, no one is willing to spend 2 taels of silver to buy a dying scholar.
That day, it was snowing heavily and the temperature was very low, but the scholar was only wearing a single dress and shivering from the cold.
Zhang Benhe was kind-hearted and took out 5 taels of silver to the man, telling him, "Take it, bury your father well. Your parents are here, don't travel far away, your parents are gone, you should go to the exam for your fame and fortune and strive to bring honor to the ancestors."
The scholar buried his father. When he came back to search for Zhang Benhe, he found that Zhang Benhe had already left.
"What a good person." The scholar thanked him, and took the remaining 3 taels of silver and went to Beijing to take the exam.
号 0号号号号号号号号号号号号号 Li Qiu. He took the 3 taels of silver from Zhang Benhe to the capital. Fortunately, he studied poetry and books hard, but he was really in high school. Unfortunately, because he had no background, he was only assigned to the remote Yong'an County and became a county magistrate, which made him very unwilling.
Just three years later, he was transferred to Nancheng as the governor of , which was also due to his spending a lot of money and making some money.
One day, someone suddenly beat a drum outside the governor's yamen. Li Qiu was dressed neatly and saw a beggar kneeling under the stage, but Li Qiu still recognized him at a glance. This person was the benefactor who gave him money to him and asked him to take the exam.
Li Qiu hurriedly ordered someone to help Zhang Benhe to the backyard, brought food, and asked him what had happened.
Zhang Benhe told the whole story in a simplified way. It turned out that there was a rich man named Li Baiwan not far from Zhang Benhe's house, who was over 60 years old.
Li Baiwan fell in love with Zhang Benhe's daughter and wanted to marry her.
But Zhang Benhe knows that Li Baiwan is a complete evil person, and this person has married two concubines, both of which were stolen.
If his daughter followed Li Baiwan, she would definitely not have a good life, so she flatly rejected Li Baiwan.
Who would have thought that Li Baiwan actually spent money to bribe the county magistrate and falsely accused Zhang Benhe of having an affair with the bandits, resulting in Zhang Benhe being arrested and jailed. His property had long been divided up by the county magistrate and Li Baiwan.
htmlIt's been 2003, and Zhang Benhe was finally released from prison. After he came out, he looked for his daughter and asked around to find out that his daughter was snatched away by Li Baiwan, but because she couldn't bear it, she committed suicide by hanging herself.After hearing Zhang Benhe's words, Li Qiu was furious and said, "It's outrageous. Li Baiwan is simply lawless. Don't worry, benefactor. I will enforce the law impartially. I will send someone to arrest him and avenge him."
Li Qiu ordered people to take Zhang Benhe to the backyard to take good care of him.
However, the yamen runner did not take Zhang Benhe to rest according to Li Qiu's order. Instead, at the instructor of the master, he regarded Zhang Benhe as a scapegoat and was imprisoned in prison. He was about to take over the son of the nobleman who would be killed in a few days.
Benhe doesn't understand what's going on, and the master saw that he was pitiful and told him the truth.
It turned out that Li Qiu was the county magistrate in Yong'an City three years ago. He collected 2,000 taels of silver from Li Baiwan, arrested Zhang Benhe, and swallowed up most of his property. Unfortunately, he was beaten to faint at that time, and even the county magistrate did not see clearly.
Learning the truth of the matter, Zhang Ben looked as if he was ashamed. He didn't expect that the young man who kindly gave him money to bury his father and gave him money to go to Beijing to take the exam would be a corrupt official after becoming an official. If he had known this, he would rather starve to death in the snow and ice.
However, everything is too late. Now that it is in Li Qiu's hands, Li Qiu will definitely not let him go out alive.
A few days later, the master suddenly opened the prison door. He woke Zhang Benhe and said, "My benefactor, come with me."
Zhang Benhe was a little confused. The master said, "My benefactor, it's me."
It turned out that 10 years ago, the master was poor and destitute. He heard that the Zhang family could borrow money, so he took a try. Unexpectedly, Zhang Benhe was kind and very easy to talk to. He gave him a full meal and gave him 10 taels of silver to make money on the way so that he could go back to his hometown.
Later, because he had been studying for a few years, he worked as a master in the Governor's Office. He worked for 8 years. Although he didn't like Li Qiu's character, this was the case in the officialdom, so he turned a blind eye and made a living.
Now that he saw Zhang Benhe again, he felt very uncomfortable. He already had a wife and son. He wanted to let him go, but he really couldn't stand it in his heart, so he decided to repay his kindness.
But Zhang Benhe refused. He didn't want to implicate his master, so he wanted to let it go.
But the master said, "Benefactor, for your daughter, you can go to the capital to file a lawsuit, and you must bring down Li Qiu. "
Outside the city, the two rode their horses and ran all the way, but Li Qiu found that Zhang Benhe was missing, so he sent someone to chase him.
Master understood that if this continues, he would definitely be caught up, so he handed a account book to Zhang Benhe and said, "My benefactor, it depends on you."
He pulled out his dagger, took the initiative to stay behind the palace, and led the enemy to another fork. The consequences can be imagined. Master was hacked to death by the enemy and his body was thrown under the cliff.
On the other side, Zhang Benhe felt very painful when he saw his master being thrown down.
When he arrives in the capital, he is like a madman. However, it is not that easy to file a lawsuit against . I don’t know how many people want to file a lawsuit against every day.
books and early went to Censorate to submit an injustice. However, because he had no money to deal with it, his paper was not handed over to the emperor at all.
Poor, he waited for three months in the dilapidated temple outside the city until he became a pile of dry bones.
(Although the ending is not good, this is also a true portrayal of ancient complaining about the imperial court, because in ancient times, it was really too difficult to complain about the imperial court, and the emperor had many major issues to deal with, so he did not have the spare time to deal with the affairs of ordinary people. )
