"Oh, no...... It's nothing...... It's the name that's so familiar. Besides, he was a little dazed, and his expression was like laughing and crying.

He thought in his mind: Zhu Zhishan, I should know this person, and it seems to have a lot to do with him. But why did you forget? Why did you suddenly hear this name and make me have a splitting headache?

"The younger brother also has a false name in the capital, and I don't want my brother to know it, ashamed, ashamed. Zhu Yunyi couldn't help but say proudly.

"Poof. ”

The mouthful of fragrant tea that Pomegranate had just drunk into her mouth squirted out, but fortunately, she lowered her head in time and sprayed it on the ground. She held back her laughter strongly, but her stomach ached, and it took a while for her to return to normal.

The rest of the people could barely hold back their laughter, and only Chen Musa was unmoved.

"If you dare to tease me like this again, I'll spray you all in the face next time. Pomegranate whispered to the situation and said viciously.

She also thought that the pain of Shicai was pretended, in order to lead to Zhu Yunyi's words, so as to make everyone happy. Not to mention him, even Zhou Wenbin and others thought that it was intentional.

Only Chen Musha observed his words and looks, and knew that he had no such intention at all, his pain was real, not pretended, and the reason was naturally only known to him.

In fact, I don't know, at least not much.

"Brother Zhu once made a Xijing Fu at the age of fifteen, which was deeply appreciated by some Confucians, and became famous, which was the last time I went to the capital. Zhou Wenbin was busy playing the round.

"Yun Yi's calligraphy is also quite good. Chen Musa also praised it.

"How's it going?" Wen Jie asked.

"This ...... Each has its own merits. Chen Musa replied.

"Besides, my brother also likes calligraphy, let's have a good discussion another day. Zhu Yunyi's tone was relaxed, and he seemed to be confident.

"If you want to learn calligraphy, let's find Brother Zhengming and Brother Bohu, and the younger brother is willing to bow down. Besides, my mind is still trying to search.

My intuition tells me that this matter is very relevant and must not be let go easily, so I don't take what everyone says to heart, but just react instinctively.

"What the hell are you thinking, don't be weird. Pomegranate gently kicked him with her toes underneath.

"Didn't think about anything, really. Besides, he replied quietly.

He really couldn't think about it for a while, so he had to stop thinking about it, and he didn't want to talk to Zhu Yunyi more, so as not to cause any accidents, after all, in front of the teacher, it was still important to be solemn and solemn.

So, he quietly changed the topic: "By the way, Brother Zhengchen, Brother Zhengming's garden will be built soon, guess what, do I see him first or the garden first?"

"You still said, I came with Zhengming and went to your house, but unfortunately, it was said that Master Lian invited you there, and I was going to come here to see you together, but I was arrested by Brother Bohu halfway. You find it difficult to meet him, and so does he. Wen Zhengchen said with a smile.

"My fate with Brother Zhengming is so shallow?" and was surprised.

"It's true, I just came with them. Zhou Wenbin testified.

Chen Musa was also curious and asked, "Is that garden designed by Bohu or Zhengming?"

"The name should be Brother Bohu, but in fact, the work is done by Zhengming. However, Brother Bohu also said that he would never plunder the beauty of people, the design of this garden was Zhengming, he just drank and played. Zhou Wenbin said with a smile again.

"I think it's the same, Zhengming is pragmatic, but Bohu is still a little floating. Chen Musa commented.

"Brother Bohu just likes to draw on paper, and the appearance he paints is simply the best in the painting, but it can't be built at all. Wen Zhengchen said with a smile.

"No, the pictures of the maids he drew are also very beautiful, but you can't find a maid in this world like the one he painted. "Pomegranates are also involved.

Besides, trying to recall Tang Bohu's picture of the maid, there is indeed this problem, or it is a major feature of his personal characteristic, maybe everything he painted can only exist in his imagination, not in actual life. That's why he couldn't draw a plan that could be built in the same way.

"The salt merchants in Yangzhou like Brother Bohu's maid the most. Shen Bo, who had not spoken, became interested, and there was a hint of affection in his eyes.

The highest institution of the salt administration in the south of the Yangtze River is the imperial court stationed in the imperial court to patrol the salt capital, and the yamen is located in Yangzhou, so the big salt merchants also gather here.

During the imperial period of China, the strictest monopoly system of salt was implemented, from which the imperial court extracted heavy taxes, which became the largest annual revenue of the state treasury, followed by tea. This is followed by other tax revenues.

Huang Chao in the Tang Dynasty was a smuggler of salt, and the leaders of the peasant army of the same period, Wang Xianzhi and Shang Junchang, were also relatively large smuggler salt dealers, and later formed a gang and became a salt gang. At first, they did not resist the high salt tax imposed by the imperial court, and then gradually swept the country, costing most of the lives of the Tang Dynasty.

The influence of the salt tax on the country can be imagined.

The Ming Dynasty controlled the salt industry no less than the Tang Dynasty, but the big salt dealers were good, and they got the quota of salt from the imperial court, called the salt introduction, and a citation represented how many catties of salt, which could justifiably sell salt, and could earn huge profits.

Therefore, there were some smuggler salt dealers in the Ming Dynasty, but they did not resist the salt gang of the imperial government.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the richest businessmen were the salt merchants, and the officials who managed the salt merchants inspected the imperial history of the salt capital, and the natural oil and water were the largest, followed by the imperial history of the river capital, because the project of governing the Yellow River and the Huai River was huge, and the imperial court could not check and verify the entry and exit of the money one by one, and the corruption of officials became inevitable.

It is said that Lin Daiyu's father in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is the imperial history of the salt capital, and some red scholars think that Jiafu swallowed the huge wealth of Lin Daiyu's family, and the idea of torturing Lin Daiyu to death, the logical inference is completely valid, but Cao Xueqin did not write it like this explicitly.

When it comes to salt merchants, no one in the audience speaks, and the salt merchants have a bad image in the eyes of the world, just like the Jewish merchants in "The Merchant of Venice", nouveau riche, tasteless, extravagant and unruly etiquette.

Don't say that people like Chen Musha and Wen Zhengchen look down on salt merchants, and the Zhou family, who is a businessman, also scorns salt merchants and is ashamed of them.

The reason why Shen Bo mentioned the salt merchant was because his family had a lot of ancestral calligraphy and paintings, and whenever he was financially constrained, he sold it to the salt merchant at a high price and had some dealings with them.

The salt merchants also knew their own shortcomings, and they spared no expense to buy famous calligraphy and paintings, antiques, and Song books to vassal elegance, but even if the literati made their money, they still did not buy it.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, although the imperial examination was also respected, the literati of the Ming Dynasty had a high status, full of confidence, and were very proud, they were the managers of the country, and they were the real masters. This was not the case in the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Qianlong once said to Ji Xiaolan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in a contemptuous tone: "I have raised your generation, but I am not a good animal." "What does this mean? He even compared the book of Shangshu, who manages the world's rituals and religions, to the clown voice of the palace raised.

In the Ming Dynasty, even the most powerful Taizu and Chengzu did not dare to say this, and if the subsequent emperor dared to be "so rude", the Wenchen would rebel collectively, and it would be strange if the operation of the court was not paralyzed.

Qianlong regarded Wenchen as a haiyou, and as soon as his voice fell, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that slapped his face came, and the military generals were brave, but the result was not the same as the civil officials, fleeing and surrendering, and no one worked for the court. In just a few months, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept across the Yangtze River. If there was no incident of Hongyang's infighting, the life of the Qing court would really be in danger.

Fortunately, there is a Zeng Guofan, this person is also a great literati, he went into battle shirtless, led a group of literati to form a group of exercises, and after hard fighting, he was finally lucky to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

If you want to say that Zeng Guofan, if he wanted to seize the throne at that time, it was not impossible, but he felt that the goal had been accomplished, and the literati of the Xianghuai Department not only regained the status of the masters, but also divided the provinces and formed their own spheres of influence.

This is the price paid by the Qing Dynasty for not studying the Ming Dynasty well!

After that, the Qing court learned to be obedient, and played a balanced strategy between Xianghuai and several other factions of civil servants, and played it quite skillfully, so that it could survive.

Among the Manchus, only Su Shun is an understanding person, and he constantly warns his fellow clansmen: literati are not to be provoked, and the pen is much more powerful than the knife handle!

There was no such spectacle in the Ming Dynasty. In the 270-year history of the Ming Dynasty, there was not a single case of military attaché rebellion, and until Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, there was no surrender of Wenchen, let alone a case of eunuchs and soldiers.

Later generations only heard that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty often played the board of Wenchen, and they must think that such a dynastic system is so corrupt and dark. That's a misreading, the Ming Dynasty system is not backward and dark, but too advanced.

The Ming Dynasty comprehensively established a civil and military system to manage the country, without the consent of the criminal department, the emperor could not convict people, without the consent of the military department, the emperor could not send troops to fight, and without the consent of the cabinet, the emperor could not issue edicts to govern.

Yes, it's very much like the United States, it's really about the same, and the separation of powers, judicial independence, and so on that later generations discussed, in fact, had already been realized in the Ming Dynasty.

If there is any difference, it is that the Ming Dynasty implemented this system six hundred years earlier than the United States!

Emperor Kangxi famously said after studying the history of the previous generation: As for Hongwu and Zhu Xi in the Four Classics, the system is perfect, and it cannot be added. As a result, the Manchus inherited the Han people's statecraft in their entirety.

Emperor Kangxi later went to Nanjing to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang, knelt three times and bowed nine times, and called himself a minister, although he was suspected of putting on a show, but it was not necessarily just to appease the people.

It can be seen that the literati of the Ming Dynasty had a good life.

"Brother Shen only went to Yangzhou last month, but he went to Slender West Lake. Zhou Wenbin deliberately quipped.

"Going to Yangzhou and not going to Slender West Lake is not the same as going for nothing, of course. Shen Bo said with a smile.

"It's good for you to stop, it's not the Sui and Tang dynasties, why bother not leaving Yangzhou in three sentences, the current paradise is Suzhou and Hangzhou. Pomegranate interjected, she was afraid that if she continued to talk about it, something might happen that would embarrass Shen Bo.

Although Pomegranate likes to play tricks on people on weekdays, today is different, she is the owner after all, and she doesn't want unpleasant things to happen in her own home.

"Yes, Brother Zhu is from Beijing, tell us about the recent news in Beijing, and it's good to have interesting anecdotes. "Besides, let's change the subject.

For a moment, Zhu Yunyi felt that he had been despised and failed to become the focus of this gathering, and he was muttering in his heart, when he suddenly heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, thought about it, and sure enough, he told a few interesting stories that had happened recently in the court.

Besides, he said: "Brother Zhu has always been by Mr. Taiyue's side, let's talk about two things about Mr. Taiyue." ”

Chen Musa nodded after hearing this: "Very good, Taiyue and I haven't seen each other for a few years, and it was the last time I went to Beijing, and we met in a hurry, but we couldn't talk in detail." ”

Zhu Yunyi really said an interesting story about Zhang Juzheng at the moment.

It is said that back then, the father and son controlled the government, and Xu Jie and other prime ministers could only protect themselves.

The emperor gave a huge reward to the princes' mansions every year, but Yan Song heard that King Yu was quite disrespectful to him, and often scolded Yan's father and son in the palace, so he ordered the reward to be withheld, and it was not issued to the Yuwang Mansion for two years.

It is said that as the crown prince, King Yu has every reason to appeal to the emperor, but Emperor Jiajing believed the words of the Taoist priest and said that it was not suitable for the two dragons to meet, so not only did he not meet his son for many years, but even King Yu's title of crown prince was never officially canonized.

Yuwangfu is a first-class prince's mansion, and the annual income of Zhuangtian is huge, of course, the expenses are also very large, and gradually he can't make ends meet, and he actually makes a fuss. Yuwang's two teachers, Zhang Juzheng, discussed with Chen Keqin and decided to go to Yan Shifan, because Yan Song's affairs were all decided by his son Yan Shifan.

The two of them found a restaurant and invited Yan Shifan to eat and drink, and they told them about it on the table, and asked Yan Shifan to allocate the reward that the palace deserved.

After hearing this, Yan Shifan was silent for a moment, and then said: "I heard that His Royal Highness has a lot of whispers about his father, and often criticizes his father in the palace, but why is this?"

The two didn't expect Yan Shifan to dare to make trouble in person, Chen Ke was loyal and honest, and he was speechless for a while, but Zhang Juzheng immediately attacked: "There is no such thing, His Royal Highness often tells us that Yan Xiang assists the saint, works day and night, and is really the prime minister." ”

Yan Shifan naturally didn't buy it, and immediately told the name of the informant, as well as the content of King Yu's insult to Yan Song, and the specific time and place, with a nose and eyes.

Chen Keqin was speechless, but Zhang Juzheng was fierce, and he lifted his beard and said: "Yan Gongzi was deceived by the villain, there is no such thing, whether Yan Gongzi believes my words or the rumors of the shameless villain." ”

Yan Shifan was extremely shrewd, and when he saw the look on Chen Keqin's face, he knew that the news he got was not bad at all, but he was intimidated by Zhang Juzheng's momentum, and after weighing it for a long time, he still borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and agreed with Zhang Juzheng's words. The next day, all the two-year rewards were allocated to the Yuwang Mansion.

At that time, the household department of the imperial court was called the civil steward of the Yan Mansion, the military department was called the military steward of the Yan Mansion, and the official department was the guest of the Yan Mansion. Yan Song's father and son almost played with the Ming Dynasty.

"This is really unreasonable, and the dignified prince's mansion will still be poor?" Pomegranate listened and smiled in surprise.

"How can the palace be like a small family, with a big pomp and a lot of people. Chen Musa also said with a smile. However, it was the first time he had heard of the poverty in Yuwangfu.

Generally speaking, it is not uncommon for the royal family below the county king, the general of Zhenguo and the general of Fuguo, to be poor, and there are even those who can't eat on the margins.

This is not surprising, Liu Bei Liu Xuande is still a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, and he is not so poor that he weaves straw mats and sells straw sandals. As soon as Cao Cao was angry, he scolded Liu Bei for being a "mat weaver and shoe seller".

Ding Changsheng, a royal member of the Ming Dynasty, and the descendants of the royal family who were propagated and spread by Zhu Yuanzhang alone, are not unaware, but shocked, a total of more than 240,000 people, not including the foreign descendants born to the princesses and county lords.

Zhu Yunyi doesn't know how to learn calligraphy, but storytelling is a first-class level, and even he is fascinated by it, he also wants to get more information about Zhang Juzheng, and he is one step closer to his goal.

"Mr. Taiyue is a well-known strength, and it is said that Yan Song's father and son were really jealous of him back then. Shen Bo interjected. The Shen family has officials in the imperial court, and some news often comes back.

"If people have no desire, they are strong, and Taiyue is rigid and lustful, and it may not be a good thing in the future. Chen Musa sighed.

Everyone chatted until the evening, Chen Musa wanted to prepare a meal to entertain these students, Zhou Wenbin and Wen Zhengchen both prevaricated something, and besides, they had been out for a day, and they also wanted to go home early. He still has a huge knot in his heart that needs to be carefully unraveled, and he doesn't want to stay.

Chen Musa didn't force him to stay, so he sent these people first, and then asked his family to arrange a bedroom and study for Zhu Yunyi in the outer house, as well as a meal and other things.

"Besides, brother, why do you want to go home, wouldn't it be better for the two of us to live together at the teacher's house, and we can also study knowledge and calligraphy every day. ”

Zhu Yunyi felt lonely in the empty outer house, and sincerely invited him.

"I wish my brother a good rest for a few days, and my brother often comes to ask for advice. "Besides, to put it mildly.

Besides, what he said is not a lie, he sincerely wants to associate with this Zhu brother, not for anything else, if he wants to mix with Zhang Juzheng in the future, this person may be a pass.

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