Chapter 066: Pragmatic Return to Beijing (II)
As for the third faction under Gao Shishi's command, the original Sanshenyuan faction also felt great pressure. At the beginning, it was a little better when there were only two people, Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo, at least although they were each responsible for a major matter, but after all, in the eyes of the three major stewards at that time, there were only two people in these two people, and they had no foundation in Sanshenyuan, although there was a threat, but it should not be fatal.
But after Cao Gan took the entire Baili Gorge and threw himself into the Gao Pragmatic Sect, the situation was very different. Baili Gorge brought a large amount of cash at one time, not to mention, all kinds of livestock and materials were so shocked that the jaws of the three major stewards were almost closed, and what was particularly terrifying was that Cao Gan said that this was only sent temporarily, if the young master was in need, there were more on the other side of Baili Gorge......
The three major stewards still don't know that the Xinzheng faction will come with a large number of people in the next few days, and although they are wary of Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo, they can finally pinch their noses and admit it. However, for the Bailixia faction, they had to be 120,000 percent cautious - not to mention that this group of people was originally from Xiangma, and it was easy to get the approval of the Sanshenyuan faction, even if they didn't care about this, the strength of Bailixia made them feel deeply threatened.
Who knows if the young master will give up taking Sanshen Garden as his main residence because of the rich side of Baili Gorge, and go to Baili Gorge to live permanently? Who doesn't know that only the closer you are to your owner, the more likely you are to be favored? In the past, in the Zhang family's era, the family advocated that Siwei was a prominent figure in the imperial court after all, and only regarded Sanshenyuan as a separate courtyard, so there was nothing to say; Zhang Sijiao, who is in charge of the Zhang family's commercial power, is a generation away in Yangzhou, and it is impossible to pay attention to a mere Sanshen Garden, which has no way.
However, when Sanshenyuan changed hands to Master Gao Pragmatic, the situation was different, at least in their opinion, the situation should be different.
The young master is young, and he is obviously still in the stage of studying seriously to prepare for the future examination, if he thinks that Beijing is noisy, then Sanshenyuan should be the most suitable residence for him. As long as the young master stays in Sanshen Garden for a long time, he is a small child's family, are the three of them afraid that they will not have a chance to win his favor?
However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. The three stewards never expected that this young master was not an ordinary young master at all! At a few years old, he not only made the thing called soap, but also made up his mind to put it into production, and seemed very optimistic about its commercial prospects; At the same time, he selected personnel from the original young Ding Kou of Sanshen Garden to form his own family guard; What's even more amazing is that he can actually say that the famous Baili Gorge group of thieves in the northern land dragged his family and put all his belongings into his service!
The three stewards finally realized that although this young master was still young, he was by no means an object that could be at the mercy of the servants around him.
Needless to say, Wei Ximin, who was already the most "cut power", in addition to cooperating with Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo's errands all day long, he couldn't wait for the tall young master day and night.
Shen Li'an and Peng Shaocong also began to get nervous, in addition to carefully handling every errand that Gao Pragmatic explained, they also liked to find ways to appear in Gao Pragmatic's field of vision, as if they were afraid that the tall young master would forget them when he had any new instructions.
This is also impossible to do, as a steward, the errand in the hand is the proof of status, and the errand in the hand is the embodiment of the master's recognition of their ability. At present, there are more and more competitors and their strength is getting stronger and stronger, and they deeply feel that if they don't quickly establish a good image of being capable and willing to work in the young master's heart, they will inevitably be gradually marginalized in the future as time goes by, and eventually become insignificant and dispensable small roles.
Among the three of them, the eldest Shen Li'an is only in his early forties, as a steward, it is the time when he is experienced and in the prime of life, how can he be willing to "take a back seat" so early, of course, he must find a way to let the young master see his ability and loyalty, and strive to be reused.
Gao Pragmatic was indeed satisfied with their performance, and had already made arrangements for their next period of errands, but he had to wait for the people he invited to the letter to be in place before announcing it, so during this time, Gao Pragmatic just pretended to change his attitude towards them little by little, so that they could slowly feel that "the young master's attitude towards me is getting better day by day." This is a performing art that Gao Shishi mastered very skillfully in the town in his previous life, and there is no need to repeat it.
On February 19 of the fourth year of Longqing, Gao pragmatic received a letter from Gao Gong, in which he did not mention anything, but only wrote one sentence: "My business is over, you can return quickly." ”
Gao Pragmatic knew that the "Prince Playmate" incident, which was formed by his suggestion, Gao Gong's secret push, and Longqing's cooperation, was about to come to an end and enter a new stage of development.
Now, it's time to return to Kyoshi and make his debut.
Although the Zhang family's guards had returned to Beijing for more than ten days at this time, Gao Shishi's team returning to Beijing this time was far more majestic than when he came. In addition to the fifty family guards and sixteen cavalry guards led by Gao Mo, Cao Gan, who had made up his mind to hug the young master's thigh wholeheartedly, also sent another fifty family members of the former Baili Gorge Xiangma and the current Sanshen Garden, wearing the uniform clothes of the armed family members of the Sanshen Garden, to escort Gao Shishi into Beijing. At the same time, he was accompanied by Wei Ximin, the steward of Sanshen Garden, and several errands under him.
In addition, Liu Xian and his entourage also saw the light of day and went with Gao Pragmatic - he had no residence in Beijing, but he definitely couldn't live in Gao's house, so he could only live in Cheng'en Temple near Wang Gongchang, and waited for Gao Pragmatic to persuade Gao Gong and Zhang Siwei to speak for him in the court, so that he could be reinstated as soon as possible.
In the carriage where Gao Pragmatic was, in addition to the two little maids who admired the moon and listened to the qin, there was also a little guy Cao Ke, who was taken by Gao Wu as a scholar.
Of course, in fact, this little guy is no better than the ghost elf little Lori of Liu Xian's family, and he can't do the work of a scholar at all, but there is no way, Gao Xiaozhuang, a high-level and pragmatic genuine scholar, has actually become the acting director of the soap factory - the internal position is called "Jinghua Soap Factory in charge of factory affairs" - so he can't go back to Beijing with him, so he has to make up the number first. To some extent, Cao Ke may have broken the record for the minimum age to enter the glorious profession of a scholar.
Facing the sunshine of early spring, Gao Pragmatic poked his head out of the carriage, looked at his horse team of nearly 200 people back and forth, and felt a pride in his heart: Da Ming, Da Ming, in a few days, my Gao Pragmatic name will begin to appear in your history! And from then on, the frequency of this name will definitely increase every year!
Kyoshi, I'm back!