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Chapter 81: Arrogant and Domineering (I)

In late September, it was still autumn and cool, and Fan Hongdao knew that it was suitable to travel even if he didn't look at the yellow calendar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He carried the cage on his back early in the morning and went to the city hall.

This hall is the government office of the imperial court, responsible for the reception of Chinese and foreign countries, and also shoulders the task of the post station. It can even be said that the Huitong Pavilion can be regarded as the main station and main hub of the Great Tomorrow.

When Beijing officials go on business trips, they all start from the Huitong Pavilion, and the Huitong Pavilion arranges manpower vehicles to be sent to the next post station. Then there is a relay from station to station until you reach your destination, which is the transfer system.

But where there is a unified dynasty, there will be a complete post network, dotted all over the country post stations and express shops, which is a symbol of national strength. If the national strength is insufficient, it will not be able to maintain the post network that stretches thousands of miles from east to west, north and south.

And the collapse of the dynasty is often a harbinger of the decline of the post network. Fan Hongdao knew that in the history of another time and space, it was a layoff who overturned the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Hongdao went to the Huitong Hall located in the east of the imperial city, and met Gao Yongchun and others in the hall. Then Gao Yushi sent another subordinate, Han Yanchang, to negotiate with the Huitong Pavilion and arrange for a vehicle to travel.

Of course, Gao Yushi couldn't come forward in person to ask for the carriage, and among the several subordinates, Fan Hongdao was young and vigorous and was afraid that he would not be able to do this kind of negotiation, so he asked Han Xiu, who looked older and calmer, to do it.

Not long after, Han Xiucai came back, and said with a sad face: "The ambassador in the pavilion said that the animal power is tight today, and he is only willing to give four carts. ”

There were more than a dozen people in their group, including their subordinates and servants, and with luggage, four carts were indeed not enough.

Hearing this, the old imperial historian also frowned and said, "Is it so difficult to do?

Han Xiucai replied: "The family of Lord Zhang Jiazheng, the head of the military department, is also there to ask for a car, even if there is a surplus in the hall, I am afraid that I will give it to him first." ”

Originally, Fan Hongdao was admiring the paintings on the wall, not involved in Han Xiucai's errands. But he suddenly heard a few words in his ears, Zhang Jiazheng, the head of the Ministry of War, and immediately became interested.

He has lived in Beijing for so long, and he is no stranger to some celebrities in the capital. In fact, this Zhang Jiazheng is none other than the eldest son of Ding Wei's first assistant Zhang Siwei, the eleventh year of Wanli Jinshi, the best in the examination, and now he is the head of the Seven-Rank Military Department.

At this time, there was also a saying that there were four princes in the capital, namely Zhang Jiazheng, Zhang Taizheng, Shen Yongmao, and Lu Xingzhou, all of whom were celebrities in the capital, especially in the imperial court.

Among them, Zhang Jiazheng and Zhang Taizheng are the eldest and second sons of Zhang Siwei, Shen Yongmao is the eldest son of the current first assistant Shen Shixing, and Lu Xingzhou is the son of the late university scholar Lu Tiaoyang.

In the words of the 21st century, these four people are all the top second generation, all of them are the sons of cabinet scholars, and they are all Jinshi in recent years. Therefore, the four of them were summarized as the four sons by the good deeds in the capital, and there is no lack of irony.

Strictly speaking, this bad precedent was driven by the former first assistant Zhang Juzheng. A few years ago, when Zhang Juzheng was still there, he did not hesitate to use his power to work in the black box and turned his two sons into Jinshi (Zhang Tongxiu and Miss Zhang's father was one of them).

Then Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, Lu Tiaoyang and others followed suit, so in the two imperial examinations in the eighth and eleventh years of Wanli, the sons of the cabinet scholars suddenly became talents collectively, and they rushed to be the first to be the Jinshi, which became a beautiful talk for a while.

Without mentioning gossip, at this time, Fan Hongdao came to the old imperial history, and asked curiously: "This Zhang Jiazheng is just a clerk in the ministry, and he usually sits in the yamen, and he doesn't have to go out to run errands, so what is he doing in Beijing?"

Fan Hongdao is not so much an inquiry as a reminder. Those who don't understand still don't understand, and those who understand immediately understand.

Zhang Jiazheng's father, Zhang Siwei, has completed his mourning period and is about to recover. Zhang Jiazheng, as the eldest son, happened to go out of Beijing at this time, and he wanted to go back to his hometown to meet his father.

Without waiting for Gao Yushi to say anything, Fan Hongdao muttered again: "Although Brother Han has tried his best, there are many people and few porridges, and the four big cars are not enough. ”

Han Yanchang had a grudge against Fan Hongdao, and always felt that Fan Hongdao was deliberately provocative, and ridiculed him for his incompetence, so he couldn't help but fight back: "You can go as you go, what's the use of being wordy here." ”

Waiting for this sentence, Fan Hongdao immediately responded: "Let's go and see it here, maybe I can gain something!" Then he pulled his legs and walked out, and he had already crossed the threshold in a puff of smoke.

When Gao Yushi raised his head, he could only see Fan Hongdao's back, and he suddenly had some foreboding, and immediately shouted: "You come back first!"

However, Fan Hongdao didn't seem to hear the old Yushi's cry and disappeared outside the courtyard wall.

The setting of the hall is rather strange, and the chief officer has the title of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, but he accepts the leadership of the Ministry of War. There are a number of ambassadors and deputy envoys in charge of various affairs.

Among them is the Ambassador, who is in charge of the management of mule-horse vehicles and is busy every morning. The demand for cars, people, and livestock from all directions really made Ambassador Yu unable to cope.

Today he just sent away a subordinate who patrolled the salt imperial history, and ushered in another house slave who he couldn't afford to mess with. Although the status of a domestic slave is lowly, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat a dog.

The owner of this slave is Zhang Jiazheng, the head of the Ministry of War, although he is not a high-ranking official, he is an official of the Ministry of War. The Huitong Pavilion is directly managed by the Ministry of War, so the officials from the Ministry of War should be given special preferential treatment and should not be offended.

What's more important is that this Director Zhang has a good father, Zhang Siwei, who used to be the first assistant, and it is said that he will come back in a month or two to resume as the first assistant. Shousuke's son, that's not something that a small ambassador can offend casually.

Today, Director Zhang wanted to go back to his hometown, and it was not enough to use it except for his own car and horse, so he came to the Huitong Pavilion to borrow a car and sent a slave to negotiate.

But the day is not unfortunate, there are many affairs today, and the hall really can't move the vehicle. This will be so anxious that the ambassador can only apologize to Zhang Liang again and again: "There are many travelers today, and the mules, horses and vehicles have been dispatched, and I hope to forgive the sin!"

Zhang Liang's slave relied on his family situation and has always been arrogant, and immediately said to the ambassador: "Nuo is a big hall, there are hundreds of mules and horses, and two carriages and horses can't be vacated!"

My uncle is still waiting in the hall, no matter what you think, you have to arrange it quickly, and you can wait to use it when you set off and return home!"

At this time, Fan Hongdao, who came to negotiate, entered the room, pretended not to hear Zhang Liang's words, squeezed in front of Ambassador Yu as if no one was around, and said in a loud voice:

"My procuratorate is on a business trip at the behest of the imperial court, and there is still a shortage of carriages and horses, so you have to arrange it, and you can't delay the official affairs of the imperial court!"

Zhang Liang was arguing with Ambassador Yu, and someone intervened coldly to snatch his words, and he was immediately annoyed, so he stretched out his hand and pushed Fan Hongdao, scolding and shouting: "Where did you come from? Didn't you see your grandfather talking!"