Since he was attached to Yan Song and chose to be loyal to the emperor like a servant, he knew that most of his career was to stay in the Jiajing Dynasty, so he also began to live in his later years.

The first thing that came to his mind was a mansion, an all-encompassing mansion. To this end, he deliberately spent several years of hard work to find Wen Zhengming's "Wen Zhi Zhao Humble Administrator's Garden", and designed the retreat garden on this basis.

Covering an area of more than 300 acres, the garden is dominated by water, sparse and plain, almost natural garden style, and the overall layout of the whole garden is outlined with traditional brush and ink.

A few years ago, when he was preparing to deal with Yan Song, he had already started to let his third son Xu Chen take charge of the construction of the Retreat Garden.

However, this project is quite huge, and it will take a lot of time to relocate more than 100 local people, and the project is expected to take longer than the Humble Administrator's Garden, which took more than ten years.

Of course, his Xu family does not lack this bit of silver, but it is not comparable to Wang Xianchen, a small magistrate who retired from Gaozhou Mansion.

Since he made up his mind to build such a garden house, he has often kept an eye on the progress of this project, hundreds of thousands of taels are not enough, then one million taels or millions of taels will be smashed, and the garden of retreat on the painting must be built.

However, he also understands that such a huge project, especially the careful cultivation of many plants, cannot be completed in three or five years, at least ten years.

Fortunately, the dragon body of the Holy Lord is still in good shape, and he is sitting more and more securely in the position of the first assistant, and he can slowly wait for the day when the construction of the retreat garden is completed.

"The third brother has been busy with this matter, and everything is going very smoothly!" Xu Fan knew that his father attached great importance to the Retreat Garden, and responded even half-truthfully.

Xu Jie nodded lightly, he just hoped that the family would not stop the project, but he did not mean to urge.

The butler came in from outside and said that the dinner was ready.

There are not many Xu family members in Beijing, except for Xu Jie's wife and Xu Fan's wife, who are the eldest grandson Xu Yuanchun who is studying in Guozijian. Since none of the three sons were reading material, the eldest grandson, who was only fifteen years old, became the hope of the Xu family.

The Xu family's dinner seems to be very ordinary, and the family only enjoys four dishes and one soup, which is obviously inconsistent with the Xu family as the richest family in the Ming Dynasty, but this is Xu Jie's honest style in Beijing.

After dinner, officials came to visit one after another, and Xu Jie had just sent Ma Sen, the left attendant of the household department, to leave, but Zhang Juzheng actually came to the door.

Zhang Ju is fair-skinned and dignified, and he is an official who pays attention to grooming. The clothes on his body looked clean, and he had a sachet hanging from his waist, a young and middle-aged young woman killer.

The official, who was still less than forty, already belonged to the young Zhuang faction of officialdom, and he followed the butler to the study, and said in a polite manner: "The student has come to greet the teacher!" ”

"You shouldn't have come!" Xu Jie was sipping tea, and his eyes were quite complicated and said the first sentence.

Zhang Juzheng was slightly stunned, and then responded with guilt on his face: "The student knows that he is wrong! ”

"Sit down!" Xu Jie was originally a little angry at Zhang Juzheng's visit, but after seeing Zhang Juzheng's appearance, he sighed secretly and pointed to the empty chair next to him.

"Thank you!" Zhang Juzheng gave another salute, and then sat down in an orderly manner.

The housekeeper brought tea to Zhang Juzheng, and then quietly retreated, leaving only this pair of famous teachers and apprentices.

"Taiyue, how is the revision of "Chronicles of the Rising Capital"?" Xu Jie took a sip of tea and asked with concern.

He recommended Zhang Juzheng as the vice president of "Xingdu Zhi", and Yuan Wei as the president. This move can not only restrict Yuan Wei to a certain extent, but also make Zhang Juzheng gain a merit and a sense of existence in front of Jiajing.

"If there are no accidents, within a month, the revision of "Chronicles of the Hindu" will be completed!" Zhang Juzheng looked quite confident, and immediately responded respectfully.

Xu Jie nodded lightly with the teacup, looked up at him and said: "After the compilation of "Xingdu Zhi" has been completed, the teacher will take this opportunity to recommend to the emperor, and you will enter the Yuwang Mansion as a lecturer!" ”

As King Jing stays in the fiefdom for longer and longer, and King Jing has no children so far, there is no suspense in this battle for the throne, and King Yu's succession to the throne is already a high probability event.

He is now arranging for Zhang Juzheng to enter Yuwangfu to give lectures, not only for the sake of Zhang Juzheng's personal future, but also for the sake of having a person who can deepen his relationship with Xinjun in the future.

"Students are careful to follow the teacher's arrangement!" Zhang Juzheng was secretly happy, and he bowed his hand in a proper manner.

Although he entered Yuwang's Mansion as a lecturer, his personal career has been completely bet on Yuwang. There is naturally a certain political risk in this way, but judging from the current situation, his chances of winning are undoubtedly quite large.

Xu Jie gently put down the teacup and said seriously: "In the thirty-first year of Jiajing, King Yu moved from the palace to King Yu's mansion and opened a mansion to receive experience, and Gao Xinzheng was the chief lecturer of King Yu. Gao Xinzheng is not a simple person, and the requirements for King Yu are very strict, so that King Yu, who is stupid, acts cautiously, although he does not please the emperor because of his stupidity, but so far there is nothing out of the ordinary. The reason why the teacher arranged for you to serve as the secretary of the Guozijian is that he wants you to have more contact with Gao Xinzheng, so as to help you gain a foothold in Yuwang's Mansion and win Yuwang's trust more easily. ”

Zhang Juzheng suddenly realized that the intention of arranging him to serve as the secretary of the Guozijian was here, and he immediately respectfully bowed his hand and said: "Thank you for the cultivation of the teacher!" ”

Xu Jie stroked his beard a little proudly, took out a booklet and said: "This booklet records a lot of some secret things in Yuwangfu, you take it back and ponder it, but don't pass it on!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Juzheng stepped forward to take the booklet, knowing that the weight of this booklet was not light.

After Xu Jie finished explaining the matter, he said lightly: "You go back!" ”

Zhang Juzheng hesitated, just raised his eyes to follow Xu Jie's gaze, hurriedly bowed respectfully to Xu Jie, and then quietly retreated and left.

Xu Jie watched Zhang Juzheng's figure quietly disappear into the night in the courtyard, but he sighed faintly, how could he not know that his proud protégé could not let go of the temptation of the chief examiner in Liangjing after all.

Lin Haoran's move seems reckless, but it is actually very clever.

If he forcibly knocked back the list of examiners for the township examination, Lin Haoran naturally didn't gain anything, and he also offended Lin Yi and Wang Bo, the Hanlin attendants, as well as a group of old-fashioned factions.

It's just that if he does this, he doesn't necessarily have no harm at all. Not to mention offending Yuwang's teacher Yin Shidan, the students he has been carefully cultivating are afraid that they will also have a problem with him, but this is the last thing he wants to see.

"What a scourge this kid is!"

Xu Jie thought of the viciousness of Lin Haoran's move, and secretly resented in his heart.