The next day, Song Jing came to Yan's Mansion.

"This is His Majesty's gift of silver to the students, a total of one hundred taels, and I also ask the adults to help the students bring them home, and the lady grows rice and silkworms, which is very hard.

There are old people in the family, and there are children who are waiting to be fed, all by the wife alone, and the late life is really ashamed, in addition to the teacher, the most trusted person by the student is the adult. Song Jing offered a hundred taels of silver.

One hundred taels is a lot, nearly a person's salary for twenty years, where have ordinary people seen silver, all of them are made of copper plates.

Yan Chengjin was puzzled: "Your Majesty gave you a thousand taels, why is it only a hundred taels?" ”

Song Jing hesitated for a moment before he said: "Coal must be mined from the mine first, and iron ore must also be mined, and it takes five or six workers to smelt iron, which is all silver............

How does it sound familiar?

Song Jing said ashamedly: "The new furnace was built, and Changningbo asked the students to fill it, and took nine hundred taels. ”

Yan Chengjin was speechless, that's what Chang Ningbo Bo said in the main hall, he gave him five hundred taels, and grinded nine hundred taels from Song Jing.

I earned more than a thousand taels of silver in vain.

"Do you know that Chang Ningbo Bo took five hundred taels from this official and used it as a new furnace." Yan Chengjin asked.

"Young master, it's five hundred and eighty-seven taels." How can you remind.

also gave Zhou Yu eighty-seven taels of benefits.

Song Jing's eyes were as big as copper bells.

Yan Chengjin sighed lightly and said, "You don't need to pay back the official's silver, I just want to tell you that a man should be more stable when he goes out." ”

"It's a shame to say that the students have studied hard at home since they were young, and they rarely spend money, and they are all cooked by their wives, and they are born late when their wives are not around...... But don't worry, the students remembered. Song Jing nodded vigorously.

No matter which dynasty it is, when you first arrive, you always have to suffer some hardships.

Yan Chengjin couldn't help but ask more: "Do you really have a long memory?" ”

Song Jing nodded without hesitation.

Yan Chengjin said: "Then the official will test you to see if you really have a long memory, listen well, if from this moment on, you and I don't know each other." ”

"Dare to ask who Your Excellency is?"

"In the Lower Song Jing."

"Dare to ask where Your Excellency is from."

"From Fengxin County, Nanchang Prefecture."

"Dare to ask where your Excellency is going?"

"Stay in the capital, don't go anywhere."

Yan Chengjin shook his head in disappointment, "I only got one right answer, just now you said that you have a long memory, I still believe it, I really overestimated you." ”

Song Jing's face turned red with shame, and he was a little unwilling: "What did the student answer wrong?" ”

"When you meet for the first time, I don't know what the other party has in mind, how can you report your name, you should report your own words first.

I asked you where you came from, how could you answer truthfully, and if you were a person seeking revenge, wouldn't you cause trouble to your wife and children? You should first ask the other party and find out what the other party means.

Asking where you are going is to find out your purpose, and not going anywhere can be regarded as a correct answer. ”

Song Jing was dumbfounded.

Yan Chengjin said solemnly: "These three questions seem simple, life is in the world, but only three questions, if you can figure it out, in the future, Chang Ningbo Bo will not be able to cheat you of your money." ”

As he spoke, he took a hundred taels of silver.

In the past few days, Wang Busui is going south to the south of the Yangtze River, just so that he can help Song Jing bring the silver back to his hometown.

Before Song Jing left, Zhu Houzhao walked in happily.

I just went to the cave room last night, and I left the palace today.

Yan Chengjin knew that this guy must have escaped secretly.

On the second day of the cave room, the crown prince and the crown princess were going to visit the emperor and the empress, and the internal officials also had to record the situation in the cave room last night.

Zhu Houzhao was proud: "Old Gao, do you know where Song Jing is?" ”

Zhu Houzhao has never seen Song Jing.

Yan Chengjin thought about it, looked at Song Jing, and said to Song Jing, as if he was saying to Song Jing, 'Look how far you have comprehended these three questions'.

Song Jing nodded, and first looked at Zhu Houzhao: "I don't know what Your Excellency is looking for Song Jing?" ”

Zhu Houzhao noticed the scholar next to him: "Who are you?" ”

"In the lower Song Yixian."

Yan Chengjin nodded, and won the cautious true inheritance of the official.

Zhu Houzhao blinked, this person actually had the same surname as Song Jing, "Do you recognize Song Jing?" ”

Song Jing asked again: "Dare to ask Your Excellency what is the matter with Song Jing?" ”

"Look at what you said, can't you look for him if Hongu is fine?" Zhu Houzhao was not angry.

Song Jing looked at Yan Chengjin with a pleading face, as if to say, 'My lord, this question is out of line......

Yan Chengjin sighed lightly, some people are born with it, and some people can't teach it.

It's not Song Jing's fault.

Zhu Houzhao has been fighting wits and courage with civil officials in the Zhan Mansion all day long, and he has long become an old slippery head, and he can't deal with it without the IQ and experience of his generation.

"Standing in front of His Highness, it is Song Jing." Yan Chengjin Road.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up, and then, he took out a deed from his arms, took out the red clay, and looked anxious: "Hurry up, put a handprint here, this palace has to go back to the palace to ask my father and mother to say goodbye, I will go back late, I will be beaten by my father, this palace has asked the criminal department, and I have pressed my handprint, and anything can take effect." ”

Song Jing heard it in a fog.

Yan Chengjin knew that this eighty percent was the holy decree of 'Fengtian inherited the prince's fortune and said the edict'.

Song Jing was at a loss: "Your Excellency, this is ......"

"You press it first, and this palace will explain it to you."

Song Jing rolled up his sleeves, pressed his handprint at the position Zhu Houzhao said, and then signed his name.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao rolled up the paper and ran away, "This palace is going to be beaten, I will explain it to you next time." ”

"............" Song Jing.

Zhu Houzhao told the truth, Yan Chengjin estimated that if he didn't leave, Jinyiwei would come to arrest him, and after a long time, Song Jing came back to his senses.

Yan Chengjin said: "Don't worry, he is the son-in-law of your mentor and the crown prince." ”

………………

Kunning Palace,

Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang waited for Zhu Houzhao to come to ask for good morning, time passed quietly, and the tea was cold for two pots.

Usually at this time, Emperor Hongzhi was already sitting in the warm pavilion to review the music, waiting for the prince to ask for peace, which was purely a waste of time.

Empress Zhang saw that he was in a hurry, so she advised: "The cave room spends candle nights, and it's a good thing to get up late." ”

The eunuch Wei Tai walked in, but what he reported was the matter of the cabinet: "Your Majesty, the three members of the cabinet have urgent matters to report, and they are waiting in the warm pavilion." ”

Emperor Hongzhi stood up: "The three members of the cabinet are in a hurry to play together, it must be a hundred thousand urgent, the prince's matter, there is Empress Lao." ”

Empress Zhang knew that he couldn't sit still, and maybe she would have to sprinkle her anger on Zhu Houzhao for a while, so she nodded her head and asked Emperor Hongzhi to leave first.

At this time, the three elders of the cabinet had solemn faces, and Emperor Hongzhi strode in from the side door, and before he could sit down, he asked: "The third prince is so anxious?" ”

Liu Jian said solemnly: "It is the Jianzhou Jurchen, who asks the imperial court to issue Kanhe and resume trade with the Ming Dynasty, in exchange, they are willing to return the captured Han Chinese." ”

This incident was all caused by the trading of iron tools.

The Jianzhou Jurchens, like the Tatars, were not open to the Ming Dynasty to trade iron tools.

Kanhe was a pass given by the Ming Dynasty to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and with Kanhe, they could enter the border cities of the Ming Dynasty and do some business.

The Jianzhou Jurchens lived in the Hunhe River valley, and they were not good at farming, let alone iron smelting, and even farming, they also captured Han and Chao Xian people to farm, and sometimes they also invaded the border cities.

During the time of Emperor Gao, he gave them official positions in the Liaodong region and established guards to defend them against the Tatars.

The advantage for them is to issue Kanhe, so that they can trade with the border cities of the Ming Dynasty.

But later, the Jianzhou Jurchens had bad ideas, and in order to develop their own skills, they dared to capture the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and took away a lot of blacksmiths, carpenters, and weaver girls.

In a fit of rage, the court raised an army to fight and killed many chieftains, and the Jianzhou Jurchens also retreated to the Hunhe River valley to hunt for a living.

Hunting required a large amount of iron tools, and the Ming Dynasty exported iron tools to Siam and other countries, which attracted the attention of the Jianzhou Jurchens, but they had no resources to exchange them, so they could only ask for the restoration of the Kanhe system and trade scattered iron tools from the market.

Li Dongyang said: "The minister thinks that it can't be restored!" His Majesty didn't know, according to Chen Yao, the governor of Liaodong, that the governor of Haixi was extremely restless, and even had a rebellious tendency, and had long stopped paying tribute to the imperial court, and behind it was the instigation of Jianzhou. ”