In the slanting sun, Jiang Anyi finally returned to his residence in Taipingfang. It is said that the capital is like a quagmire, and it is extremely difficult to walk during the period, sitting on the chair in the study, Jiang Anyi stretched out for a long time to drive away the fatigue on his body.

Fan Shiben and his wife had moved away before Fan Zhichang got married, and they lived together in Taipingfang, only 30 zhang away from Jiang Anyi's residence. Fan Zhichang was recruited as a concubine, the father and mother of the concubine must not be too shabby, Fan Shiben did not treat him badly in Jiang'anyi, Huazhou, what kind of rich business by the way, Fan Shiben accumulated a net worth of 50,000 yuan in three years.

Rich and courageous, it is not good for the couple to always live in the junior brother's house when they discuss, and Princess Xinle and her son can't go to someone else's house when they come back. Six thousand taels of silver found a residence nearby, the same size of the second house, more expensive than Jiang Anyi when he bought it, this is still in the face of Fan Zhichang, the master of the horse, the seller intends to make a good hand and does not take more silver, compared to three years ago, it is more and more difficult to live in the capital.

Although he moved away, Fan Qiaoshi left a few servants to clean the courtyard for Jiang Anyi, guarding the house, and after getting the news, Fan Shiben hurried over, this household member Wailang was a little fat, his round face was full of wishful thinking, and his stomach was slightly protruding.

Jiang Anyi teased: "Brother Fan, in a few years, you will be able to call Guo Huaili a brother." ”

Fan Shiben patted his stomach self-deprecatingly and said with a smile: "Everyone sees me and says that the household is full of oil and water, how do you know that your sister-in-law's cooking skills are good, and the dishes she learned to cook with you are already blue." Go, come with me, your sister-in-law will pick up the wind for you. ”

There is no need to be polite, Jiang Anyi asked the guards to go to the restaurant to solve it by themselves, and followed Senior Brother Fan to his Fan mansion. The golden pillar gate is very magnificent, there are red lanterns hanging high in front of the door, and the black plaque in the middle is the golden word "Fan Mansion", Fan Shiben explained with a little pride: "Zhichang recruits as a concubine, and the door given by the Son of Heaven is a flower shelf." ”

"Is Zhichang good in Kangshan County?" Jiang Anyi asked casually. He is proud of this disciple of his own.

"It's okay, I got an evaluation last year." Speaking of his son, Fan Shiben was full of smiles, but complained in his mouth: "This stinky boy, he hasn't written a few letters in a year, and his mother always wants to take a look, but Wen'er is still young and can't get out." ”

Fan Shiben added a daughter Fan Zhiwen in August of the second year of Jianwu, Jiang Anyi was reminded by words, stopped and shouted: "Alas, I forgot to prepare a gift for my little niece." ”

"My family is so exquisite." Fan Shiben pushed Jiang Anyi and asked him to continue walking, and said with a smile: "Otherwise, I'll make up for it next time." In your letter, you said that you have added four more children, and that your family has a great cause, and no matter how many children and grandchildren you have, you will be able to divide it. ”

The style of the house is similar to that of the Jiang family, Fan Qiao's family took his daughter to the door to greet him, and after the two sides met, Jiang Anyi squatted down and looked at the little man and said, "Xiao Wen'er, call uncle." ”

"Hello uncle." Fan Zhiwen was not afraid of life, and shouted in a milky voice, looking at Jiang Anyi with dark eyes, and stretched out her hand to hug her. Jiang Anyi was overjoyed, picked up Fan Zhiwen, took out the bag from his arms, poured out a ruby and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "This is a meeting gift from my uncle." ”

This ruby is the size of a quail egg, and its color is bright and bright, and the delicate little hands make the gem even more dazzling. Fan Shiben had seen Hu Shang carrying this kind of gemstone called "pigeon blood red" in Hecheng County, and he knew

Such a big one is at least more than 10,000 taels of silver, and immediately said: "Anyi, this gift is too heavy, the child can't afford it, you better take it back." ”

Fan Zhiwen heard that her father wanted her to return the toy in her hand, her mouth flattened, and she was ready to sacrifice the magic weapon. Jiang Anyi said with a smile: "A stone is nothing, I didn't attend Wen'er's first birthday party, so I should make up for it." Wen'er, don't cry, hide this stone, don't let your father take it. ”

Fan Shiben shook his head, stopped talking, and entered the house side by side with Jiang Anyi. I haven't seen each other for three years, and the brothers are chatting while drinking, and when they get drunk, they both get a little drunk.

Listening to Jiang Anyi talk about the anger of the Son of Heaven at the Yuanhua River bursting the embankment during today's pilgrimage, Fan Shiben sighed: "The river work costs a lot, but the results are very small. ”

Jiang Anyi had to strengthen the river embankment, build the canal, and clean up the river in Huazhou every winter, and in the six years he was in power, there was no major danger of the river embankment in Huazhou, and he did not know much about the maladministration of river engineering. Jiang Anyi said: "Brother Fan, the Ministry of Imperial Court Industry has set up a capital water supervisor to manage river workers, and has a Jiangnan transfer envoy and a Huanyang transfer envoy to govern the Yuanhua River and Huanyang River. ”

Fan Shiben said: "It's not that simple, it's intricate, and it's hard to explain. River work is divided into four categories: annual repair, emergency repair, separate case and large work. The annual repair refers to the regular reinforcement of both sides of the river embankment every year, and the court allocates 800,000 taels of silver from the household department every year, of which 400,000 taels is for the Jiangnan transit envoy; Emergency repair is in the event of a disaster or flood season, it is necessary to prepare more materials and materials, and send people to patrol day and night to prevent and protect, Fengle's five million taels of silver to govern the Yuanhua River in seven to nine years belong to this category, which does not include the manpower and material resources of the local counties......"

"The river work money is managed by the transfer of the yamen, the local state government supervises the use of the river work funds, in case of this year's situation of the lower reaches of the Yuanhua River bursting, the local state government and the transfer of the yamen jointly asked the court to add funds, another case and the big work is a sudden **, generally by the local state government through donations and other means to raise funds, but the larger amount also needs to be paid by the court, I remember the second year of Jianwu, Lingzhou Guancheng County Huanyang River flood caused diversion, flooding Guancheng, Ningping seven counties, the court urgently allocated 1.2 million taels for disaster relief."

Jiang Anyi listened carefully and asked: "Listening to Brother Fan's words, the disadvantages of river engineering lie in the corruption of officials, the comprador of materials, the management of husband and wife, and the implementation of the project, I don't know if it is?" ”

"Not only that, but there are also the huge and complicated yamen, the deduction of the officials, and the lying about the disaster, and the list goes on." Fan Shiben sullenly drank all the wine in the cup and fell drunk.

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Back at home, the guard Huang Zhu presented an invitation. Huang Zhu was the first group of guards, Yuan Tianjiao followed Jiang Anyi when he robbed and killed Jiang Anyi to show his loyalty, this time Jiang Anyi gave up Park Tianhao to his younger brother, and Huang Zhu, as the vice captain, took his place.

The invitation was sent by Deng Huaisu, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, with a brief letter attached to it, and on the evening of the tenth day of the first month of April, he was looking for a classmate of Lou Zechang in Fengle Fang to pick up the wind for him. Throwing the letter on the table, Jiang Anyi thought to himself that Ze Dang's hand was so fast, he had only finished the pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven today, and the letter was delivered to his home.

Jiang Anyi did not have much sense of identity with the Ze Party, and at the invitation of Li Shicheng, he participated in two Ze Party gatherings. Later, he went to Huazhou, and had correspondence with Deng Huaisu and others, and learned some about Beijing from them

The situation in the city is tight, and this party can't be postponed.

Before Fang Linbin entered Beijing, Deng Huaisu seemed to have become the leader of the Ze Party, Yu Jingshan, Yu Mingyang and others helped him, and Wei Huaichao had been excluded. However, Fang Linbin entered Beijing and became the Qingzheng of Guanglu Temple, and he pressed Deng Huaisu in terms of prestige and official position, and Deng Huaisu obviously refused to give in, and the battle for the leader of the Zechang party was very fierce. Jiang Anyi smiled bitterly, this reception banquet is slow to force himself to stand in line.

The next day, Jiang Anyi first went to visit Li Lai and his wife, and had lunch at Li's house, and Li Shicheng rushed to accompany him. After spending nearly 5,000 taels of silver, Li Shicheng finally wanted to be promoted from the palm of the ninth rank to the second level, so as to temporarily handle the order from the official rank of the eighth grade. The order of good brewing is an official rank under the eighth grade, and the decree of the palm of wine can be regarded as a lowly and powerful position, and the oil and water are abundant, Li Shicheng smiled and said that he should be able to be justified after the performance appraisal next year.

The eldest brother was in high spirits, and his official promotion made his family status higher, and at the beginning of the year, he accepted his wife's dowry girl Luo Lan as a concubine, which was the time when officialdom and love were proud. Li Shicheng's topic was introduced to the reception banquet on the tenth night of the first month, and Jiang Anyi heard what he meant, this was speaking for Fang Linbin, asking him to support Fang Linbin to become the leader of the Ze Party.

Jiang Anyi was a little depressed and asked, "Hasn't Shicheng always had a good relationship with Deng Shilang, how can he support Master Fang to be the party leader?" ”

Li Shicheng showed an embarrassed look on his face, and squeaked: "I still have a good relationship with Deng Shilang, but I can't abolish the public because of personal interests, Deng Shilang is still worse than Lord Fang, if Lord Fang can become the leader of the party, my Ze party will inevitably increase its momentum in the court, and the future of the people in the same party will become more and more ambitious." ”

Jiang Anyi came to his senses, the last sentence is the key, the Liang Yu Department is a subordinate institution of Guanglu Temple, Li Shicheng's promotion is a sentence from Fang Linbin, it is estimated that Fang Linbin has already talked to him, so the eldest brother will speak for him so enthusiastically, no wonder he just hinted that he can be promoted justifiably in next year's performance appraisal.

This kind of side selection made Jiang Anyi feel embarrassed, Li Shicheng knew his brother-in-law's personality, and hurriedly finalized it, and said: "On the tenth day of the first month, I went to the banquet with Anyi, and I simply went to you at noon to have a meal. ”

Jiang Anyi was accustomed to his uncle's practice of pulling tiger skin to make a big banner, and Li Laihe spoke for his son next to him: "The virtuous son-in-law has a big face, and he helps the world to become a handful." ”

The old man spoke, Jiang Anyi could only nod and agree, and made up his mind that when he arrived at the drinking party, he pretended to be deaf and dumb, no one could be offended, and he got drunk early.

Dizzily came out of Li's house, Jiang Anyi went to Yufu. Yu Shishang was still on an errand in the household department, did not come back, and his family notified Yu Qingle to come to accompany him, and Yu Qinghuan went to Pingzhou to serve as a professor in the second year of Jianwu. Without his father by his side, Yu Qingle behaved very relaxed, crossed his legs and said to Jiang Anyi: "An Yi has not been in the capital for a long time, I don't know that there are many interesting things added to the capital, I will take you around tomorrow." ”

The fun place in Yu Qingle's mouth is nothing more than a place to eat, drink and have fun, Jiang Anyi excused himself: "I still have to wait at home, and then play with Brother Yu when I have time, is the business of the perfume shop good?" ”

"Okay, demand outstrips supply." Speaking of business, Yu Qingle smiled, as the big shopkeeper of the perfume shop, there were too many proud things to show off, and after talking for nearly half an hour, Yu Zhijie finally came back.