Chapter 004: The Troubled British Duke
The little fat man recommended Zhao Xing as an official, but was rejected lukewarmly by Zhao Xing, and his mood was also very depressed at that time. When I returned to my Guogong Mansion, my sister was not there, so I went to Zheng Guogong's house for the little fat man who he had just beaten the day before yesterday, and cleaned up the follow-up for the little fat man, and he hadn't come back at this time. So, the little fat man went directly to his father's study, and shouted from afar: "Dad, I'm back." ”
Zhang Weixian, the current British prince of the Zhang family, has always played a pivotal role in the sinister politics of the late Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, the three major cases of the palace transfer case made great efforts. When Tianqi ascended the throne, adhering to his absolute loyalty to the Zhu dynasty, with the help of Wei Zhongxian and others, he personally carried the Emperor of Tianqi from the Qianqing Palace to the Wenhua Hall to inherit the throne, which won the trust and reliance of the Apocalypse. He was appointed by the Apocalypse as the Governor of the Military Capital and was in charge of the Beijing Forbidden Army. Even when Wei Zhongxian was in power, he couldn't do anything with Zhang Weixian.
After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he entered the palace at the behest of the empress to accept the edict of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, thus exposing Wei Zhongxian's conspiracy to keep it a secret. It protected the precarious Ming Dynasty and created conditions for Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne.
In the process of Chongzhen's accession to the throne this time, it was also the British prince who first went to the palace of King Xin to greet him. It's a pity that he went a step late and failed to become a great achievement in supporting the third generation of emperors, but his actions are still grateful to Chongzhen, and he is even more favored, in this era of emphasizing literature and light on martial arts, he is simply an outlier existence.
Despite his deep political background, the British public is more cautious. Usually, the prince of the country is in the military camp, but he is not often at home, and the family is his sister and the little fat man, with a group of slaves and maids to take care of it. But because starting tomorrow is the day when officials take a break on three days, even Chongzhen, who is diligent to the point of perversion, cannot break this convention. Therefore, after the morning of this morning, the British public Zhang Weixian went home and gathered with a pair of children to enjoy the joy of family.
As a result, as soon as I went home, I looked at this pair of children again.
His old wife died, leaving behind a pair of children, Zhang Weixian was afraid that his continued marriage to a concubine would make them suffer, so he did not marry again.
Fortunately, the sons and daughters are angry, and the son adheres to the principle of drawing a clear line between himself and other nobles, and takes a group of so-called evil slaves every day to roar around in this capital, specifically fighting and brawling with the sons and daughters of the nobles, which is really to the point where everyone shouts and beats the nobles. And under the continuous self-promotion, he has become the first gentleman in Beijing.
But fortunately, his son is pure-hearted and only fights with the sons of Xungui, but he never provokes the people, but extends his hand to help from time to time, which makes Zhang Weixian have a big piece of his arms.
And the daughter is shrewd and capable, and she runs between Xungui every day to clean up the mess for her brother, so as to ensure that although she keeps a distance from Xungui Group, she does not have a delicate relationship with the enemy.
But it is precisely like this, although the daughter is as shrewd and capable as a flower, but she has not been married so far, mainly because the daughter has high eyes and looks down on those noble children, and because of her shrewdness and ability, she was liked by the first emperor Empress Zhang, made a handkerchief, and was named a county lord.
This is even worse, not to mention that a young talent with a little upward heart will not marry, even the family of businessmen will not dare to accept it.
Why? Because there are too many rules for marrying a woman with a royal title, in fact, a man is a widower, and a widower will have no future, and a daughter is equivalent to a widow.
Who said that the emperor's daughter didn't worry about getting married? I'm scared to death.
The result is like this, the woman can't get married, the son can't marry, and I watched other people's grandchildren go to the street to make soy sauce, but I am a family of three singles. Zhang Weixian could only cry out in vain, and he was always reluctant to marry his daughter out of his grievances, and his son didn't do it.
When I got home, I was worried. But leaving home is even more worrying, especially lately.
The new emperor ascended the throne, although he has the same as the dragon and the saints, but the companion is like a tiger, the heavenly family is the most ruthless, today to undress and push food, tomorrow on the head of the example of an endless stream, Shenzong borrowed the white mountain to fight, the two generations of Hongwu and Chengzu the founding nobles of the net can be seen means and heart, how dare not tremble?
The new emperor is a good emperor who is diligent and admonishing, but he is still young, and he is a little too eager to do it. Especially those Donglin Party members who were suppressed by the eunuch party, once they turned over, they immediately controlled the entire court, and the bad habit of emphasizing literature over military force was taken to the extreme by them at once, even if they were people of their own status, they were slowly being marginalized.
Today they will come up with this method of governing the country, and tomorrow they will come up with that strategy to rectify the situation, knock down and overthrow all the things they look down on and what are not beneficial to them, and make the entire court a miasma, in fact, it is not as good as when the eunuch party was in power.
But the new emperor liked this tone, and he didn't dare to say anything against it. The so-called loyalty actually means that everything is unconditionally followed by the emperor.
As a result, now the Donglin Party has proposed to abolish the Jinyi Guard, the Dongchang and the eunuchs and eunuchs left behind in various places, and this time, the British public feels a huge crisis.
The purpose of Jinyiwei was actually the emperor's eyes and ears, which was equivalent to the emperor personally monitoring officials at all levels, of course, he was hated by Donglin, so he took advantage of the opportunity to defeat the liquidation eunuchs and Donglin to stand in the court.
The reason why Zhang Weixian feels the crisis is not that he and Zhao Xing think the same, but that he absolutely considers his own interests and status.
The Jingying forbidden army under his control is the emperor's pro-army, and the Jinyiwei is also the emperor's pro-army. At this time, Donglin was arrogant and reckless, Zhang Weixian was deeply worried, it was his forbidden army that was deterred, and Jinyiwei suppressed it, so that when the court was balanced, it would not be more Donglin Yiyantang, once Jinyiwei was abolished, he would be alone. At that time, the civil official Donglin will dominate the party, and that will be the most dangerous situation, so how can it be obtained.
But I argued several times, how can a military general fight Donglin, who is the most playful in the Manchu Dynasty? Behind his back, he said to the emperor, but the emperor always stood in the thinking that he was fighting for power and profit, and did not adopt it.
Jin Yiwei is gone, and there is no more support from himself in the court, and his status will not be guaranteed.
Just when the British prince sighed, his precious son returned.
The little fat man walked into his father's study, and after giving his father a casual gift, he sat on a chair with his ass, and directly put the two big-footed girls on his father's desk, and poured his father's teapot mouth to mouth.
Zhang Weixian shouted again and again: "Slow down, slow down, be careful of burning." ”
The mouth did not leave his mouth, and the little fat man nodded, with a hmm in his nostrils, but when he took it down, he had already drunk it and wiped it clean. wiped his mouth and said to his father: "The dumplings I ate tonight are salty and thirsty." ”
Zhang Weixian taught dotingly: "Do you say that the salty and the shopkeeper are not small, does this still need to be taught?" ”
The little fat man showed a happy smile: "My good father, I dare to pick and choose with her old man?" I won't be able to eat her old man's meal tomorrow. ”
Zhang Weixian suddenly said: "Are you going to your friend Zhao Xing's house for dinner again?" That old lady will have to thank her one day, and it will not be in vain for me to promote her son. ”
His son himself knows that because he adheres to the family creed, he does not have a friend in this world, and he finally made one, of course he is happy for him. also sent someone to carefully investigate Zhao Xing's identity and character, and reported that he was a peaceful and peaceful person, and his heart was also kind, and he did not use his Jinyiwei's identity to fake the tiger, which was reassuring. Especially Zhao Xing's mother, she is very kind, so that the son who has lost his mother feels the warmth of maternal love, this is the reason why Zhang Weixian promised his son to ask for an official for him, made an exception for himself, and directly gave a thousand presidents.
As a result, when Zhao Xing was mentioned, the little fat man was directly in his arms, and threw Mr. Qian's body and the forbidden army's waist card directly in front of his father: "My brother returned these things, and it is not uncommon for people to do so." ”
When he saw the things in front of him, and then heard the little fat man say that Zhao Xing refused his grace promotion, Zhang Weixian was displeased at that time. His son can be done in front of him, but except for the emperor and empress, who else in this world dares to disobey his grace so much, and said coldly at that time: "Hmph, full of wind bones, what a bastard who doesn't know the times." ”
As soon as he heard this, the little fat man became nervous at that time, put away his feet, and begged for mercy to his father: "Dad, you misunderstood me Brother Zhao Xing, things are not what you think." ”
"What's going on, let's talk about it." Zhang Weixian asked with a cold face.
The little fat man sat up straight, and told him and Zhao Xing about the matter of Jinyiwei going to stay in 1510.
Zhang Weixian was stunned for a while, and after a long time, he muttered slowly: "I didn't expect that a person who looks peaceful and peaceful has such a deep insight." Rare, rare. Then my heart couldn't help but move. Stand up, put your hands behind your back in the study, and slowly pace with your head down.
When the little fat man saw it, he immediately praised Zhao Xing as a talent that was not in the sky and difficult to find underground, and said that his mouth was dry, only to find that his father was just absent-mindedly perfunctory, but he was in deep thought and didn't listen to what he said at all.
Just when the little fat man was dissatisfied with his father's snubbing of him, Zhang Weixian stood fiercely: "Yes, just change the angle and change the person, and then talk about this retrenchment." Then he walked out directly, and instructed the housekeeper who ran over as he walked: "Prepare a sedan chair and enter the palace immediately." ”