Qian Zheng is as his name suggests, iron-clad, which has won him praise from the Shilin government and the public, but at the same time, he has also endured the ups and downs of his career.

Born in the second class of Jinshi, he was selected as a Jishi, and then entered the six departments for the middle of the matter, and patrolled the Xuanfu and Shuntian for the imperial history, which is second only to the Qingyun Road of the Hanlin Prince, and it is likely that he will be able to jump up after a little qualification.

But successively wrote for Nie Bao and Xia Yan, Qian Zheng was demoted out of Beijing by the court staff, and a few years later, he could only serve as a general judge in Huizhou, and the road back to Beijing was far away, which made Qian Zheng add a little caution while maintaining his nature.

Although it was rumored that he tried to make the tax on Ding Sijuan equal among the six counties, Qian Zheng didn't care, as long as he came forward to clarify, the dust would settle.

But at this time, a sudden letter made him a little embarrassed.

"Yin Zhengmao, Jiajing twenty-six years of the second class jinshi." Gu Chengzhi said: "The first to be in the Ministry of War, and then to the Ministry of Household in Nanjing, last year Shen Yinglong, the squire of the Nanjing Criminal Department, was impeached by him. ”

"She county people." Qian Zheng sighed, "It's also to blame that I didn't come forward in time, now the five counties are in turmoil, and Shexian is ......."

Gu Chengzhi hesitated, recounted the conversation with Qian Yuan in a low voice, and finally said: "I checked it just now, and it is likely that it is indeed the news released by Li Yuan." ”

After a pause, Gu Chengzhi added: "In the fourteenth year of Jiajing, two Shexian people, Wang Xiang and Cheng Peng, once submitted a document to the governor of Yingtian, and they both died violently two years later. ”

"It's not an exaggeration to submit a paper for Xiangzi." Qian Zheng's mind was spinning rapidly, and after a while, he whispered, "Go and check." ”

Gu Chengzhi came back soon after going out, and said in a low voice with an ugly face: "Wang Xiang and Li Servant are in-laws. ”

Qian Zheng and Gu Chengzhi had the same feeling in their hearts, frustration.

A small official can use his strength to turn over the clouds and rain, and force up such a storm...... It's really a storm, someone in Wuyuan and Jixi has already released their words in private, if you really dare to do it with your surname Qian, see if we don't get a few thousand people to surround the government.

In real history, this kind of thing really happened, but it was during the Wanli period.

After his family temporarily moved to Huizhou, Qian Zheng began to maintain the habit of going home for dinner, but a traditional scholar would not agree to his nephew's family to sit down and eat together.

The widowed sister-in-law, niece, niece and wife are in the inner courtyard, and Qian Zheng and his nephew Qian Yuan and friend Gu Chengzhi are in the outer courtyard.

Seeing that his uncle was still frowning, Qian Yuan squeezed his eyebrows at Gu Chengzhi, who nodded slightly to indicate that his previous guess had been verified.

Qian Yuan was relieved, although his uncle used to be iron-headed, but now he knows how to weigh the pros and cons.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or modern society, as soon as a mass incident occurs, the first unlucky person must be the local official.

Presumably my uncle can think it through.

The cooks trained in the food garden are all left to the Wang family, and today's cooks are all hired locally, typical Huizhou cuisine, heavy oil, heavy taste, and especially salty, Qian Zheng and Gu Chengzhi are used to it, but Qian Yuan can't stand it a little.

"People drink wine between meals and tea after meals." Gu Chengzhi smiled: "You have cups of tea during meals." ”

"Huizhou doesn't produce salt, don't they need money to buy salt?" Qian Yuan stuck out his tongue.

"Hey, Hui merchants, at least one-third of the Hui merchants are salt merchants." Gu Chengzhi said: "It's hard to say in other places, there is no shortage of cheap salt in She County." ”

"That's right." Qian Yuan simply stopped eating two mouthfuls of rice, and slowly sipped the hot tea in his hand, "Sir, why did Clerk Li poke things out?" ”

Without waiting for Gu Chengzhi to answer, Qian Yuan said with a smile: "Don't say anything about the township, if you can collect more taxes, they can also have more oil and water." ”

"That's not right." Gu Chengzhi shook his head, "In the fourteenth year of Jiajing, his cousin Wang Xiang was also a household official, and he once submitted a document to the governor of Yingtian, but died violently two years later. ”

"There have been before." Qian Yuan muttered a few words, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Why did you choose Uncle ......?"

Gu Chengzhi glanced at Qian Zheng and said with a smile: "I have asked, he wants to find a boss with an upright temperament and a good reputation in Shilin to come out of Shexian County, and your uncle naturally meets this standard very well." ”

Indeed, Qian Zheng is very much in line with this standard, but it can't help but be a little simple, Qian Yuan shook his head slightly.

Tilting his head and thinking for a while, Qian Yuan asked again: "How many years has Clerk Li been in the house?" ”

"It's been a few years, at least before we came to Huizhou."

Qian Yuan sighed twice and stopped talking.

Qian Zheng glanced at his nephew, "The filial piety period will be out next month, and I won't go back to Songjiang for the time being, so I'll worship and remove clothes here." ”

"Yes." Qian Yuan bowed his head, still thinking about things in his heart.

"We need to put more effort into the craftsmanship." Qian Zheng habitually reprimanded a few words, "Yesterday's three articles still didn't make much progress, if you are lucky in the township test, you can pass the township test, and if you are unlucky, you will be on the sub-list." ”

"Yes." Qian Yuan said casually.

Qian Zheng sighed slightly, although this nephew can be regarded as studying hard, it is obvious that his thoughts in the past few years have been more elsewhere.

However, Qian Zheng also knew that once he was admitted to the Jinshi, those sour eight strands were basically useless, and the ability that his nephew had trained in the past few years was a strength.

Not to mention the rest, just relying on gossip to find suspicious points, and directly find out the inspirers behind the scenes, this kind of observation is really rare.

After dinner, according to the usual practice, Gu Chengzhi and Qian Yuan entered the study, took out the three articles and eight shares yesterday, reviewed them in detail, broke them little by little, and even explained them sentence by sentence.

After adding the oil lamp twice, the night reading was over, and Qian Yuan waved his hand to let Yang Wen, who was waiting outside the door, come in.

"Asked?"

"Young master, I asked clearly."

Yang Wen stood solemnly with his hands down, respectfully, and Gu Chengzhi on the side looked at him appreciatively.

Several times before Qian Yuan went to the mansion, Yang Wen was by his side, and an old man who had been on the battlefield in the mansion said privately that this person was extremely bloody, and he was afraid of more than ten or eight lives on his hands.

Gu Chengzhi later asked Qian Yuan and knew that Yang Wen had fought bravely in Chongde, Jiading and other battles, and the number of Japanese heads cut off was enough to make people look sideways.

In fact, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang privately asked that Yang Wen had at least one general in the military camp, but unfortunately he refused to leave the Qian family.

Yang Wen, who was standing there, remained silent, and Gu Chengzhi reacted and wanted to get up and leave.

"Mr. Gu is not an outsider." Qian Yuan smiled and stretched out his hand to nod Yang Wen, "Zhang San's guy is too arrogant, and you are too cautious." ”

Yang Wen's face remained unchanged, and he coughed twice and said: "The young master guessed correctly, Li Servant is the confidant of the former Huizhou Mansion, and it is said that he still has contacts. ”

"The former Huizhou general judge ......" Qian Yuan nodded with a smile, "Tsk, Li must have been rejected by that guy, so he chose his uncle to draw his salary." ”

Gu Chengzhi's mind turned three times before he came back to his senses, in recent years, when it comes to the fame of officials in the Huizhou government, Qian Zheng is not the most famous, and the former Huizhou Tong sentenced Zhao Zhenji to suppress him steadily.

Li Yanyuan wanted to use a well-known official to overturn the case for She County in the case of Ding Sijuan, and it was likely that Zhao Zhenji was selected before, but this famous man at home and abroad was not stupid, and then it was Qian Zheng's turn.

And Li Clerk also learned to be obedient, and tried to turn silk into silver taels by Qian Zheng's method of editing, and came to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary, trying to force Qian Zheng to the top.

However, Qian Yuan was just curious about this and didn't have any other ideas, speaking of which, Li Yuan was clever, but in fact, he could play a very limited role. Diagram of the Avenue of the Heavens