An Lan felt that she must be the most unlucky person in the world.

As the last place in the second class of the imperial examination, An Lan was not very smooth in the officialdom, as a fighter in the Jinshi, he naturally did not have his share, as a Jinshi in Chongzhen for seven years, An Lan was first lucky to be sent to a place like Heze, Shandong Province to do a county order for three years, these three years are obviously the longest three years of An Lan's life.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were so many characteristics, it seems that there were many peasant uprisings, but in fact, what really affected the core area of China, that is, the thieves in Shaanxi in the northwest, and other places were actually relatively quiet, but they were just made up by these people in Shaanxi.

However, as the saying goes, the world is not chaotic, Shandong is the first to rebel, since ancient times, the Shandong Han are not easy to mess with, can be called a fierce existence, especially the Kong Zhongni family who dominated Qufu in Shandong in that era, that is really the first big landlord in Shandong, and Heze is the first station of the Yellow River into Shandong, and the pressure of flood control every year is great.

An Lan himself is just a literati who reads sage books, although he has read a lot of books on persuading farmers and repairing water conservancy, in the end it is still on paper, and the specific work still depends on his master, as well as a few family members who have taken refuge in his hometown, so to speak, An Lan was caught between the chaotic people, the people, the heroes, the boss, the Yellow River flooding, the corrupt master and the family, and spent the frightened three-year performance appraisal time.

After three years as a county magistrate, he suddenly caught the same year of the imperial examination that year, and Liu Lishun, the Hanlin Academy, was the exam he participated in three years ago, but he won the championship at once, and he could directly enter the training camp of the future cabinet chiefs of the Hanlin Academy, and he spent some money to sell his wife's dowry, and dredged up some large and small relationships, especially the 5,000 taels for the first assistant Lord Wen Tiren, which played a big role, and he was promoted to a director of the Ministry of Rites. The fat shortage in the fat shortage, but before he took office, he caught up with the dismissal of Lord Wen Tiren, and too many small actions were directly taken down by the emperor.

However, during this period, that is, when Huang Taiji invaded the Ming Dynasty for the fourth time, he conquered Jinan Prefecture, 3 prefectures, 55 counties, killed two governors and more than 100 generals above the garrison, captured Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany (escorted to Shenyang), Zhu Ciying, the king of the county, Zhu Cisheng, the general of Fengguo, and Feng Zhu, the eunuch of the supervising army, etc., and obtained 462,300 people and animals, 10,000 taels of gold, and 1 million taels of silver.

"Good luck" is that Qingzhou is not within the scope of the attack, so he went on a twist, on which, naturally many officials and captured strong men, "Feeling the kindness of the Holy Emperor, Zhizhou commanded Ruo Ding, and the soldiers used their lives to repel the siege of the Tartars day and night, and won a total of XX heads." "As for where these heads come from, don't care.

Relying on this credit, An Lan was finally able to be evaluated as a "middle and upper" evaluation, and then directly entered the ranks of the head of the Ministry of Rites, of course, it cost him a lot of money.

Another three years have passed, this time, it was the rebellious minister and thief Li Zicheng in the northwest who killed him, An Lan was in panic at home every day, and ordered the family to inquire about the situation in private every day, urgently bought food, hid it, and the family also complained.

Although his "younger brother", that is, Liu Lishun, who was admitted to the imperial examination together, committed suicide with his family after the Shun army entered the city, but An Lansi still survived after thinking about it, after all, in his opinion, the most terrible thing is not suicide, but being complained by his wife after death, it is really better to die than to live.

The good news is that the army entered the city, and it was really not guilty in the autumn, although the price of grain in the city has risen to a hundred dollars a bucket, but at least it can still be bought, An Lan waited for a few days, and after many inquiries, relying on the relationship between his mother family is a Henan person, he took the relationship between Niu Jinxing and Li Yan who stayed in the city, and the two adults said for a long time, to the effect that they were willing to donate money to the Dashun court to alleviate the crisis, and when King Chuang returned triumphantly from Shanhaiguan, he would be rewarded for meritorious deeds and qualified for official positions.

And such a good thing? An Lan gritted her teeth and went home and thought about it, and after a good discussion with the tigress at home, she packaged and sold her official bags and savings to the pawnshop, and found a way to borrow a lot, and handed over a total of 10,000 taels of silver to Niu Jinxing.

Zhengmei Zizi thought at home, after King Chuang returned to Beijing, he would be promoted to the fat shortage of the Ministry of Rites, and when the time came, it would be the coming of good days, although he won the unequal treaty with his wife, and he was not allowed to take concubines after being promoted, however, it is not difficult to have policies and countermeasures, An Lan knows that some palace maids in the palace, because they escaped from the palace, did not understand the world, and were lured by the hooligans in the market to sell into the Qinglou, An Lan made a good idea, the Ministry of Rites and the waiter, he is fully qualified to find a big house and raise a small mansion, Raise a little beauty in it, you know, the more chaotic it is, the more the appearance and number of little ladies in this green building will continue to rise, and those "old bustards" will not let go of this opportunity to lure them to sell their daughters while the people are in trouble.

However, in the morning, a family member who went out to buy vegetables came back with a bad news, early in the morning, the city gate rushed back a few defeated soldiers of the Dashun army, saying that King Chuang encountered a sudden attack by the Eight Banners in Shanhaiguan and suffered heavy losses, so they ran back first, and what else to say, heard a strange voice, as if the heavenly soldiers and generals suddenly killed out.

Zi Bu is strange and confused, An Lan naturally doesn't care about the nonsense of these collapsed soldiers, when he was in Shandong, he also saw a lot, it was all nonsense, but obviously, the Shun army was defeated in Shanhaiguan, this is for sure, what can I do!

My waiter, my little lady in the outer house, my ......

An Lan couldn't care about eating, so she hurriedly shouted: "Prepare the sedan chair, I want to go out, go to Lord Niu's house, go quickly." ”

After Niu Jinxing entered the city, of course, he had a relatively good big house, it was the house outside the Xuanwu Gate that Zhang Ju was waiting for, and An Lan kept urging the sedan chair drivers, hurry up, hurry up, when he arrived outside the house, there was already a row of sedan chairs outside, all of which were big sedan chairs made of good wood.

The relatives soon came back and said that Menzi had collected the door bag, but he just asked them to wait, and when Lord Niu saw it, he would naturally meet you.

For An Lan, his official position as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites has not yet arrived, and now is the time to suffer from gains and losses, for fear that this matter will be yellow, so he is uneasy, he has his own identity, he can't get off the sedan chair, he can only do it in the sedan chair in a hurry.