After the taciturn messenger handed over the letter, he stood aside respectfully, his gaze resting on Xu Jie's face.

Xu Jie read the content of the letter, his face first appeared shocked, then his face sank like water, and finally his face was full of gloomy appearance.

As if the whole person had been struck by something to the soul, he put down the letter halfway through, and sighed leisurely: "They have been playing this move since last year!" ”

In the end, he sighed softly again, and slowly closed his eyes helplessly. Coupled with his sideburns full of white hair, the whole person added a bit of depression.

The messenger looked at Xu Jie's abnormal reaction and asked with concern, "Master, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine!" Xu Jie raised his palm and waved it lightly, and commanded weakly: "You go to Yan's mansion, let Yan Ne go to the mansion tonight, and say that I have something important to discuss with him!" ”

"Yes!" The messenger saluted respectfully, but could not help but glance at the mysterious letter, and then turned and hurried away.

Xu Jie quickly cleaned up his mood, put the letter back in the envelope, and continued to draft the notes that had piled up on the case. Originally, he had always been happy with the ticket mimetic, but today he felt a little bored.

Whether it was the news that Wu Shan had taken over as the secretary of the ministry, or the truth contained in Yue Yan, it made him feel a little uneasy, and even felt that the position he was sitting in now was threatened.

Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory, I thought that sitting in this position was a peace of mind, but now I have to guard against the Jiangxi Yankees counterattack, and I have to worry about these latecomers.

In particular, this one who has emerged is Wu Shan, whom he has always regarded as the biggest threat, and now that Wu Shan has been appointed as the secretary of the ministry, he can't replace him in the future.

It was also today, Xu Jie's unprecedented palace gate was not locked, and he left Xiyuan after hurriedly dealing with the pile of notes and returned directly to his home.

There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.

The court of the Ming Dynasty is changing all the time, although Guo Pu, the former secretary of the Ministry of Officials, has gone to work, but Wu Shan, the original secretary of the Ministry of Households, has filled his vacancy, and this day is destined to belong to Wu Shan.

Wu Shan himself is a powerful member of the imperial court, and now he is the secretary of the ministry, which is simply like a tiger with wings. Not to mention Dong Fen, Yan Ne and others, it is completely possible to directly argue with Xu Jie.

The most important thing is that he is about to preside over the Beijing Chacha, and he holds the power of life and death of hundreds of officials in the capital, which naturally makes many officials choose to change their doors and want to join him.

Unlike the turmoil in Beijing, the Jingcha in Nanjing went smoothly.

The investigation of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has yielded results: two people such as Qiao Yi in the Ministry of Langzhong are not careful, 31 people including Xie Feng, the director of the Ministry of Officials, are weak and inactive, Xu Boxiang, a member of the Ministry of Households, is impetuous, 13 people such as Tang Rixin, the right senator of the General Political Department, and 14 people such as Huang Chaopin, who are old and sick.

Now, if they don't want to follow in the footsteps of those unlucky people, then they have to do everything possible to make a good impression on Wu Shan, so as to successfully avoid this catastrophe that occurs once in six years.

"This is my family's gift list!"

"My family will have a banquet tomorrow, this is the post!"

"Xia Guan and Wu Shangshu are cousins, so I came to ask to see them!"

……

After learning the news that Wu Shan was appointed as the secretary of the ministry, they rushed to the door of Wu's mansion one after another, scrambling to give gifts, banquets or ask for meetings, etc., so that the housekeeper of Wu was too busy to find the north.

"My daughter has seen Daddy!"

Wu Qiuyu was dressed in the costume of a lady, and the whole person became more and more of a woman's temperament, and she greeted her decently and saluted.

After Wu Shan explained some of the work at hand in the household yamen, he planned to understand that he would officially take office in the official ministry yamen, but when he came back, he couldn't see his wife, so he asked suspiciously: "What about your mother?" ”

"Back to Daddy, my mother is talking to Mrs. Yang, and now I can't leave for a while, so my daughter came out to greet Daddy for my mother!" Wu Qiuyu gave another gift, and his beautiful eyes were full of joy.

Now that her father is the secretary of the ministry, her family is more beautiful than in the past, and her mother is very happy today, and she is also happy for her mother and father.

"Hmm!" Wu Shan nodded lightly, and planned to walk towards the back garden.

Wu Qiuyu reminded him: "Dad, today there are a lot of ladies who have ordered them to visit their mothers, and their mothers have led them to the back garden to entertain, and even my father-in-law can only hide in the study!" ”

When Wu Shan learned that his son-in-law was also here, he was immediately slightly surprised, and turned to go directly to the study.

Walking through the quiet courtyard, he saw that the door of the study was open, and he walked directly into the study, but saw Lin Haoran, who was dressed as a scholar, practicing calligraphy.

"A lie written in ink cannot hide the fact that it is written in blood!"

"If you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence!"

"In fact, there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road!"

……

Wu Shan came to the front of the case, but saw Lin Haoran scribbling here, sometimes writing uprightly, sometimes looking extremely arrogant, and the content was some strange words.

"I've met my father-in-law, congratulations to my father-in-law for being in Dazai!" Lin Haoran suddenly found that Wu Shan was coming, and immediately put down the pen in his hand and saluted respectfully.

Wu Shan knew that this son-in-law's poems were shocking, so he picked up a piece of loose paper and asked casually: "You didn't stay in the Shuntian Mansion, why did you run here?" ”

"My son-in-law can't sit still!" Lin Haoran replied honestly.

Wu Shan nodded lightly, but he understood Lin Haoran's restlessness today, just looking at the content on the paper, he shook his head and said disappointedly: "I thought there would be something amazing, but it turned out to be nonsense!" ”

Lin Haoran listened to the famous words of the Lu family and got this evaluation, and couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face.

Wu Shan suddenly let out a "puff", but picked up one and said in surprise: "This is also what you wrote?" ”

"Sort of!" Lin Haoran glanced at the content on it, touched his nose awkwardly and replied.

"Heng Mei coldly pointed at Qianfu, bow his head and be willing to be a son of a cow!" Wu Shan read it carefully, and he made the mistake of a literati, and immediately analyzed: "This thousand fingers, I'm afraid it's those officials, right?" Ruzi Niu comes from "Zuo Biography", which has the meaning of overly doting on children, combined with the love of the people like children in "The Book of Rites", so it refers to the people, right? ”

"Everything can't escape the eyes of my father-in-law, and my son-in-law is deeply admired!" Lin Haoran stiffened his head and complimented.

"It's good that you can have this kind of energy, and I'm not as good as you in this regard!" Wu Shan looked at Lin Haoran with complicated eyes, and he was very ashamed of himself.