The capital welcomed another heavy snowfall.

The roof of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites was covered with a thick layer of snow, and only one cleared aisle remained in the courtyard, and the officials and scribes went about their affairs in a step-by-step manner.

As the end of the year is approaching, except for some work that needs to be dealt with urgently, everyone has postponed some less important things to the beginning of next spring, and many officials and scribes have already put their minds on the purchase of New Year's goods.

For many ordinary people, the Spring Festival is more important than anything else, especially the scribes and officials who can go home to meet their families, which makes them look forward to this day.

As soon as the time for the lower government arrived, a large group of officials took advantage of the wind and snow to stop and hurried in the direction of their homes, or went to the streets to buy some New Year's goods.

Li Chunfang's sedan chair was the first to leave the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and tonight it was his turn to enter the West Garden, and he hurriedly ate a donkey meat and burned it and got into the sedan chair and rushed towards the West Garden.

The high-arched sedan chair was the second to leave, his beard was still so black and thick, and he had been the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites for half a year, which made him understand that the two on his head were not simple characters.

Li Chunfang is a well-known good man in the court, because he was ordered to enter the West Garden, he has less and less questions about the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, but openly and secretly he is following Lin Haoran to tacitly suppress and reject himself.

Although Lin Haoran seems to be young, he is more spicy than any official in the DPRK and China, and he has not been able to get any bargain from Lin Haoran since he took office, on the other hand, the other party has won the support of the Ministry of Rites. Especially when the New Year was approaching, Lin Haoran got a sum of silver from private channels to distribute the annual fee, which completely won the hearts of the people in the Ministry of Rites.

It's not that Gao Gong doesn't want to implicate the entire Ministry of Rites, but he is trying his best to curry favor with today's saints, and he handles the affairs of the Ministry of Rites thoroughly, and does not give him the opportunity to intervene in the Gao Xinzheng at all, and even he, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, has become a dispensable role.

But those days seem to be changing soon. It is rumored that the cabinet intends to expand the cabinet ministers, Wu Shan, the secretary of the ministry, and Yan Ne, the secretary of the household department, entered the cabinet, and Dong Fen took over as the secretary of the ministry, and Lin Haoran had great hopes of becoming the secretary of the household department.

In the midst of heavy snowfall, the air is very fresh.

As the two sedan chairs left one after the other, the main hall of the Ministry of Rites and the big gang of officials from the right attendant left one after another, and because the New Year's fee had been settled, there were many more smiles on their faces.

After a while, Lin Haoran also walked out of the Left Waiter's Office.

Although he was wearing thick clothes inside, compared to the signing room where the charcoal fire was burning all the time, the temperature outside was unbearable.

It's just that there is a tough side in his character, and in order to take care of his own decency, even if he shiveres with cold, he can't show embarrassment.

He walked quickly towards the sedan chair waiting here, but he had a thought in his heart to take the sedan chair back to his warm house earlier.

"Uncle Nineteen, there was news from Suzhou just now, the Yan family who rescued Yan Shifan failed!" Lin Fu stepped forward and reported an intelligence report softly.

Lin Haoran's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, this was not good news.

The sedan chair man opened the sedan curtain, and Lin Fu handed Lin Haoran a hand heater.

Lin Haoran took over this delicate hand stove and got into the sedan chair and sat down, and the sedan chair was slowly lifted.

Although the capital is still very cold, but with my hands on the stove and roasting, I have found a snuggle and not be too uncomfortable. His eyes closed slightly, and his mind began to think about something.

Yan Song has been in the field for two and a half years, and it is impossible to pose a threat to Xu Jie, and even Yan Dang has already existed in name only. It's just that with Lin Run's two consecutive performances, the matter related to Yan Song's father and son has become very loud again.

It's just that he can't judge whether this is Lin Run's attempt to step on the corpses of Yan Song's father and son to speculate, or whether Xu Jie wants to retaliate against Yan Song's father and son.

If it was the former, Lin Run, a Nanjing imperial historian who was ordered to inspect the Jiangnan River Defense, went to Yuanzhou Mansion to complete so many actions, it seemed that it was not something he could easily do.

If it is the latter, Yan Song will immediately be an eighty-five old man, and the Yan and Xu families are both in-laws and good allies in the past, why does Xu Jie still refuse to let go of Yan Song's father and son?

In particular, the Yan family's rescue of Yan Shifan failed, proving that things could not be done only by Lin Run, a poor-born seven-rank Nanjing imperial historian, and there was already a third force.

Faintly, Lin Haoran always felt that there was another article on this matter, and maybe there would be something he could use here.

As soon as he thought of this, he called Lin Fu to the sedan chair and asked him to ask the people over there in Nanjing to investigate the situation of Lin Fu and his family in Nanjing.

Judging from Lin Run's resume alone, Lin Run and Xu Jie have no intersection, but they always feel that there will be some connection between the two, and even Lin Run is actually a member of the Xu Party.

Lin Haoran is now investigating these things, and naturally he will not think about how to rescue the Yan father and son, but many things are to be prevented.

Yan Shifan was escorted to Beijing, and the remnants of the Yan Party would certainly try their best to rescue Yan Shifan, and the situation in this court would be chaotic, and there might be some good opportunities for his father-in-law to enter the cabinet or take the throne himself.

Due to the cold weather, the road seemed very quiet.

The sedan chair stopped in the front yard of the Lin Mansion, and the two ladies also greeted them from the inner house in a regular manner.

Lin Haoran came out of the sedan chair and saw the two ladies who were beautiful and fragrant, and couldn't help but show a knowing smile on his face.

As usual, Lin Haoran greeted the two ladies, first went back to the room to change into the three-grade official uniform, and then came to the dining room to dine together.

Wu Qiuyu and Hua Yingrong have both received strict family education since they were children, but they sit upright in a decent manner, and they chew slowly when eating, which is pleasing to the eye.

It's winter, and it's hard to find vegetables, but it's not all gone.

In addition to the vegetables stored in the kiln, there were greenhouses as early as the Han Dynasty, but most of them were leeks and onions and other crops, and there were vegetables on the table.

Hua Yingrong is quite picky about eating, and the ingredients on the table are usually fresh, such as this braised fish, which is bought from a fisherman who fishes in the river.

It is not easy to live in the capital, but it is not only a problem of housing prices, but also a lot of money.

It's just that this is a headache for other officials, but Lin Haoran doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing at all.

The wealth of the United Merchant Group's various businesses, coupled with the gold mining in Luzon for a year and a half, has already reached an astonishing level of wealth in the hands of the United Merchant Group.

The biggest problem of today's United Merchant Group is not how to make money, but how to spend a large amount of money, so that in the face of the poor North Korean market, the United Business Group also smashed a large amount of Leizhou cloth regardless of returns.

Thanks to Chen Yu's great help, the United Business Group has gained a firm foothold in North Korea, and Leizhou cloth has become North Korea's hard currency, and Leizhou cloth stamps are about to be launched.

Wu Qiuyu's pretty face floated with a hint of pity, and said solemnly to Lin Haoran: "The concubine went to the north of the city with Sister Hua today, and I happened to see the people of the official government carrying out several corpses of homeless people in an alley from the curtain of the car, stacking them on the ox cart like stacks of arhats, and my heart is uncomfortable until now!" ”

When Hua Yingrong heard this, she also stopped her chopsticks and looked at Lin Haoran.

Hua Yingrong saw more of this kind of thing, but she could see it a little more openly, but Wu Qiuyu lived in the capital, and she had no intention of encountering such a situation all of a sudden, and her heart was undoubtedly panicked.

Lin Haoran sighed secretly in his heart, comforted Wu Qiuyu for a few words, turned his head and shouted "Ah Hua" to the side. It's just that as soon as the words came out, he realized his mistake and remembered that Ah Hua had officially married the new imperial examination protégé Wang Shiju not long ago.

Ah Hua left, and naturally someone filled in.

Not long after Ah Duo was sent to the capital, she was also a smart and clever girl, who stepped forward obediently and said, "Master, I don't know what to order?" ”

"When there are no outsiders, you can just call me Uncle Nineteen!" Lin Haoran emphasized a sentence to Ah Duo, and then ordered seriously: "You let Lin Fu go to the Shuntian Mansion and ask Lord Yin to come over for a while!" ”

Ah Duo answered, and hurriedly went out to tell Lin Fu.

Wu Qiuyu looked at Lin Haoran's actions, and couldn't help but feel a slight warmth in his heart.

After eating, Lin Haoran went to the study as usual, and the study had already built a charcoal fire, so that the whole room could not feel the cold of this winter.

Although "charcoal" is an important means of bribery, many high-ranking officials in the capital will not hesitate to light charcoal fires in order to avoid being teased by people behind their backs for accepting so much charcoal and silver.

Lin Haoran is not among them, mainly because he, a southerner, is really afraid of the cold, and his current wealth does not need to be unduly unduly untreatable to himself.

After a while, an old official followed Lin Jinyuan and walked in, and said respectfully: "Xiaguan Shuntian Mansion Yin Xu Gang pays a visit to Zuo Zongbo!" ”

Shuntian Mansion Yin is a very mobile position, although Yang Bo pushed his Shanxi fellow Zhang Wei to the position of Shuntian Mansion Yin, but Zhang Wei was really old and faint, and was soon transferred to Nanjing for retirement.

The current Shuntian Mansion Yin Xugang is a 23-year jinshi of Jiajing, although his qualifications are relatively shallow, but his official reputation is very good, and he is an official who really dares to do things for the people.

"Xu Fuyin, please take a seat!" Lin Haoran didn't hold it up, and raised his hand to say gently.

Xu Gang gave another salute, and then sat down in his position.

Lin Jinyuan gave the two of them a tea cup and quietly withdrew.

Lin Haoran had dealings with Xu Gang, and he didn't beat around the bush, so he directly spread out the matter and said it again, and at the same time said his plan: "Xu Fuyin, I wonder if the government can contain these homeless people?" ”

Even in previous years, people would freeze to death in the cold winter, but this year's weather is significantly colder than usual. If the Shuntian Mansion is so inactive, then these displaced people are afraid that there is no way to live.

Xu Gang picked up the teacup and put it down again, and responded helplessly: "Uncle Zuo, the lower officials also want to help settle them, but now that there is no silver in the treasury, they are really powerless!" ”

"Why is there no silver?" Lin Haoran's brows furrowed slightly, and he asked rhetorically in puzzlement. He served as the governor of the Shuntian Mansion, and he was very clear about the situation of the treasury, and the treasury was always very sufficient.

Xu Gang sighed heavily, and said honestly: "This matter has to start with the matter of raising the silver!" ”

"I want to hear about it!" Lin Haoran picked up the teacup and nodded quietly.

Xu Gang nodded lightly, and said the matter one by one.

Lin Haoran asked to reduce the silver of Shuntian Mansion, but the boss agreed, but in order to meet the various cultivation expenses of the Holy Lord today, every time the household department encountered something that was in a hurry to use silver, he still stretched out his hand to the treasury silver of Shuntian Mansion Yin.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!

As soon as the silver of Shuntianfu was opened, it was already difficult to close it again. Especially in front of the household department, in front of the old household department Shangshu Yan Ne, how can Shuntian Mansion Yin have the ability to refuse?

Xu Gang was undoubtedly a qualified Shuntian Mansion Yin, although he failed to stop the greedy hand of the household department, but first used the treasury silver of the Shuntian Mansion to replenish it, and then levied additional silver from the people with the lightest force.

It is precisely because of this that the Shuntian Mansion is indeed unable to settle the displaced people now, but it has entered a small cycle of death.

On the surface, this is because the Shuntian Mansion has overemptied the silver treasury, resulting in the inability to settle these displaced people, but if the Shuntian Mansion does not empty the silver treasury to fill it, it will definitely collect more silver from the people, and the number of displaced people who run to the capital will only increase unabated.

Sometimes the imperial court felt that it would cost tens of thousands of taels more, and each common man only paid a dozen cents on his head, but it may be that it was these tens of cents that made them have to live in the capital.

The crux of the current problem still originates from the right to compile.

Lin Haoran sighed secretly in his heart, and found that it was really a long way to go to change this decaying dynasty by himself.

Lin Haoran is not a person who only knows how to complain, after taking a sip of tea, he said to Xu Gang: "I will say hello to Li Yunhu of Shuyazhai and ask him to advance the advertising fee of 5,000 taels for next year to Shuntian Daily!" You go to Shuyazhai tomorrow to directly transport back the silver taels, of which 3,000 taels will be used to settle the displaced people, and the other 2,000 will be given to the government for a festival! ”

"The subordinate obeys!" Xu Gang's eyes flashed with joy, and he immediately solemnly saluted.

Lin Haoran sent away Yin Xugang of Shuntian Mansion, and someone came to visit, it was Yu Dayou, the chief soldier of Liaodong.

In the face of this famous general in later generations, Lin Haoran did not put on the stand of the left attendant of the Ministry of Etiquette, but also invited people in, and learned about the situation in Liaodong through Yu Dayou.

Time quietly came to the end of the month, and the forty-three years of Jiajing were about to pass.

Just two days before the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve, a military situation suddenly came from Guangxi: Wei Yinbao led a team to attack Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, and took advantage of the dead of night to climb the wall and enter the city, reaching the treasurer of the clan, seizing more than 40,000 taels of silver, and killing Li Minxin, a member of the Guangxi government. Then, he attacked Jingjiang Wangfu City, causing many Jingjiang Wangfu Sect members to die.

Wei Yinbao is undoubtedly a thorn in the Ming Dynasty, starting from his father Wei Chaowei, their father and son led the Zhuang people to raise the anti-flag. However, the Wei family's father and son have quite military talents, so the Ming court has no way to deal with them.

But no one thought that Wei Yinbao would play such a trick when this New Year came, which directly added to this dynasty of singing and dancing.