Chapter 34: Ambition

The small dining table was full, but at least half of the seven or eight plates were empty.

Zhang Juzheng stroked his full stomach and couldn't help but glared at Zhang San, who was waiting on the side, who glared back unceremoniously, didn't you instigate the last two chili peppers to put them in the pot the day before yesterday?

Serving the last dish, Qian Yuan wiped his hands and drove Zhang San out speechlessly, sat down and poured a cup of tea, "Uncle brother, this time it's clear, right?" ”

"Humph!" Zhang Juzheng smiled coldly, "I said that I was a cook for a month, how many times have you cooked in the past few days?" ”

"It's really embarrassing to let a show be your cook." Qian Yuan smiled and looked unimpressed.

But Zhang Juzheng was a little embarrassed, anyway, Xiucai is famous after all, and it is very rare to cook in this era.

However, Zhang Juzheng's mouth was very slippery, "Brother Xian, you haven't tried the township test yet, when the time comes, this cooking skill will be of great use, and it's really difficult inside!" ”

"Do you know the old merchant pavilion of Lianzhong Sanyuan? Back then, he had to practice good cooking skills to ......"

"Poof." Qian Yuan couldn't help laughing, and waved his hand again and again: "I haven't had any hobbies since I was a child, I like to cook, and my uncle doesn't have to mind." ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled, picked up the chopsticks and ate a few more bites, and drank all the wine in the cup, "After the Hangzhou affair, what are your plans next?" ”

"Move." Qian Yuan concisely explained the next anti-Japanese situation, "Songjiang and Suzhou must be the hardest hit areas, and I am ready to move my family to Hangzhou." ”

"No wonder you're eyeing the Jin family's mansion." Zhang Juzheng muttered in a low voice, and after being silent for a while, he asked again: "Dare to ask the ambition of the virtuous brother?" ”

Qian Yuan held his chin with an indifferent expression, and Nunu mouthed, "You speak first." ”

Obviously, Zhang Juzheng is already half drunk, originally a talking basket, and now he is even more talking, from the current political dispute between the DPRK and China to the southeast chaos, from the lack of finance in the Ming Dynasty to the clan......

In Qian Yuan's impression, Zhang Juzheng, who is known as the first politician of the Ming Dynasty, should be a tough as iron, unsmiling scholar image, at most in the history of the wild said that he climbed the dragon bed, received the Western Ji, and finally died on the sea seal.

But what Qian Yuan saw was a young man who had a lot of nonsense, a very greedy mouth, and seemed a little innocent most of the time, but he didn't see that he had the intention of indulging in flowers.

Although Zhang Juzheng has such and such limitations, for example, he repeatedly said that the Son of Heaven was deceived by Yan Song, unlike Qian Yuan, who dared to complain about Jiajing himself in his heart, but his mind to serve the country is admirable.

Qian Yuan couldn't help but think of Hu Zongxian, who would soon appear in the southeast, although they all had a dark side that was difficult to erase, they always longed for the light.

And their endings are not very good, "the sword buries the unjust prison, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds", Hu Zongxian can still die a hundred times, and after Zhang Juzheng's death, the daughters and dependents of the Zhang family were forced to be naked......

"Zhang Juzheng." Qian Yuan muttered, "You will become an amazing person in the future." ”

Zhang Juzheng, who suddenly closed his mouth, swayed in his chair and grinned: "Editing...... There are many editors in the Hanlin Academy, who are old and eighty, ......"

Zhang Juzheng stretched out his index finger and pointed "straight" to Qian Yuan's left, "Look at you...... Father and brother died tragically, went to Hangzhou alone, clever tricks, revenge, can be written into a book! ”

Unlike in front of Wang Chen, this time Qian Yuan did not show a shy smile, but nodded and said, "This time I am lucky, I am just taking advantage of the situation." ”

"Luck? How could it be luck! ”

"Taking advantage of the situation? That's what it takes! ”

"That's why you're going to be a great person in the future!"

"Seventeen-year-old boy...... People call me a prodigy...... You're a prodigy. Zhang Juzheng shook his head and poured another glass of wine, "I'll wait for you in Beijing, and we'll do something big together when the time comes...... We want to support the community, we want to ......"

"Wait!"

Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "The head of Songjiang Mansion ...... I don't dare to say that I am a Jinshi, and the title of the gold list is the proper meaning. ”

It's true that it's the head of the Songjiang Mansion, but that's not what I tested...... Qian Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "Have you heard of Xu Qingteng?" ”

"Xu Wei?" Zhang Juzheng blinked, "I know, he and Shen Lian are the same ten sons of Yuezhong." ”

"Do you know how many times he's been to the township?"

"I don't know."

Qian Yuan stretched out his hand and compared it to four, "It's been four times, he was appreciated by the Great Grandmaster last year, but he still failed to win." ”

In fact, Xu Wei, who was unlucky, failed in the township test eight times in his life.

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a moment and then sneered, "Baguwen pays attention to the rules, and Xu Wenchang is talented, do you have such a strong literary talent?" ”

Qian Yuan opened his mouth and was speechless, what he said was so reasonable, I didn't have anything to refute...... There is really a reason why Xu Wei can't move.

Well, I don't have literary talent, so it's possible to be promoted.

Opening his hazy drunken eyes, Zhang Juzheng carefully looked at the young man in front of him, who was already very familiar, but was actually very unfamiliar, and the other party didn't seem to have any interest in the heavy righteousness that those scholars should be born with.

Well, when the people of this era read the Four Books and the Five Classics, their world view and outlook on life were shaped, and although there were various differences later, there was not much difference in the beginning.

And Qian Yuan ...... People are traversers, pay attention to cost-effectiveness, and pay attention to enjoying life.

Sighing, Qian Yuan asked cautiously, "You asked before...... What are my aspirations? ”

Zhang Juzheng raised his glass and drank it all, glaring at him without saying a word.

"Keep your house safe, and then look at it and shop more." Qian Yuan said slowly as if he had been squeezed toothpaste: "I will write a few books such as travelogues and miscellaneous notes in the future." ”

"Look at what? Where to go? ”

"I can't say that." Qian Yuan couldn't help licking his lips, "For example, Yangzhou Skinny Horse, Datong Rouge ......"

Zhang Juzheng secretly gritted his teeth, he was a pervert at such a young age!

Needless to say, Yangzhou thin horses, the beauties of Datong are also quite famous...... Comparatively speaking, Qian Yuan is more interested in long legs.

"You can't just ......" Zhang Juzheng took a breath and said as calmly as possible: "The young man indulges in the flowers, and his life is not long." ”

"Of course not!" Qian Yuan shook out the things that he had been thinking about in the past half a year with great interest, "It is said that Yu Dayou is superb in martial arts and has been to play in the Shaolin Temple...... Uh, it's a door-to-door provocation! ”

"Xu Wenchang is also quite interesting, I am going to ask for a few paintings, maybe it will be a priceless treasure for future generations!"

"I like the "Linjiang Immortal" filled by the Rising Gong, the rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes......"

Zhang Ju listened expressionlessly, what is the rolling Yangtze River passing away...... I haven't heard of it at all, and as for Yang Shen, I don't know if he's dead now.

The more he talked, the more interested he became, and Qian Yuan almost made a mistake and said that he wanted to watch the Qi family's army...... See and see the famous mandarin duck array.

The more Zhang Juzheng listened, the worse his mood became, he knew very well that although he would take the exam once every three years, and two or three hundred people would be on the list at a time, in fact, more than half of them would not be out of office, or they would return to their hometowns and retire after a few years.

And more than half of the people who stayed behind were the kind of nerds who didn't understand the world, and there were very few people who really had the city, the means, and the ability.

In Zhang Juzheng's view, Qian Yuan is undoubtedly the kind of person who has the means, the ability, and is young, once he is admitted to the Jinshi, he will definitely be the backbone of the court in the future.

But this one is bent on thinking about the wind and snowy night...... It's a hell of a person!

Hearing that he couldn't listen to it anymore in the end, Zhang Juzheng got up, "Just now you said you wanted to see the "Yongle Canon"? ”

"Yes, back then, Ming Chengzu ordered Daoyan and Xie Jin to compile the "Yongle Canon", tsk, it lasted six years, and it is said that it was divided into more than 10,000 volumes!" Qian Yuan was full of interest, and the "Yongle Canon" was scattered in later generations, and the world added up to only a few hundred copies.

Zhang Juzheng smiled, "Do you really want to see it?" ”

"Of course!" Qian Yuan asked in surprise: "Do you have a way?" ”

"Nope." Zhang Juzheng paused for a moment before saying leisurely: "There is only one "Yongle Canon" in the world, there is no copy, and now this set of books is stored in Wenyuan Pavilion. ”

"Wenyuan Pavilion?"

"There are Zhongji Hall, Jianji Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and East Pavilion." Zhang Juzheng explained in detail: "Named after Wenyuan Pavilion as a scholar, do you understand? ”

Qian Yuan opened his mouth, "That is to say, ......"

"It's not enough to win the Jinshi, only if you are selected as a Jishi or enter the Hanlin can you be qualified to flip through the "Yongle Canon"!"