Early in the morning on the fifth day of the tenth lunar month, Shen Rui went out in a carriage early, first went to several prestigious dim sum shops in the capital, selected a few signature dim sum, and got rid of people with ulterior motives.

Previously, Zhang Hui had made an appointment with him to get together on September 26, but at the end of the 24th Birthday Hall, Zhang Hui sent another post, saying that he was riddled with trivial matters in the past few days, and changed the appointment to the fifth day of October.

Shen Rui also confirmed from this that it was Brother Shou who wanted to see him - and the thing that stumbled Brother Shou, he also heard about it in Xu's mouth.

When the mother and daughter of the Yang family came back from the palace, the Yang family sent their henchmen over to explain the situation.

Yang Tian and Uncle Guo's daughter's daughter, it is always good to let the Shen family know the reason, otherwise who knows what gossip will be born outside, and it will be difficult for the Shen family to deal with it when the time comes.

When Xu and Shen Rui mentioned it, they praised it: "In the end, it is a scholarly family, and it has its own proud bones." But he also sighed: "I'm still young, and I don't think about it enough." But in that case, it's hard for her. ”

Shen Rui also understood that if there was no eldest princess of Chun'an that day, with the temper of Empress Dowager Zhang and the domineering of the Zhang family, Yang Tian was afraid that he would suffer.

But then again, if the so-called "taking care of the overall situation" at that time endured, it would not only lose face, but also affect Yang Tinghe's prestige in the imperial party and even in Shilin.

A Hanlin lady who is upright and not afraid of the powerful is much better than a cowardly and timid official daughter who succumbs to her relatives!

This not only reflects the upbringing and heritage of the Yang family, but also reflects Yang Tinghe's position.

It's a little riskier now, but it's still very beneficial in the end.

As far as Shen Rui's heart is concerned, he originally thought that his little fiancée was soft and sweet, and he didn't think that he would spoil his wife like a daughter in the future, but due to the influence of his previous life, there are positive examples such as his biological mother Sun, his heir mother Xu, and his aunt Guo, as well as Shen Zhou's wife Qiao's typical negative teaching materials.

So now that he is impressed by Yang Tian, Shen Rui is a little surprised.

Then, there was a little sweet annoyance - in the face of Yang Tian, who was no longer a "little girl", probably, in the future, he could no longer give children like Afu dolls, but what did the big girl like? Shen Rui couldn't help but wonder if he wanted to use Brother Bao's rouge set......

On the day of Wanshou Hall, the conflict in the East Warm Pavilion of Kunning Palace also began to ferment the next day.

There were many and miscellaneous people present at the time of the conflict, and it was inevitable that news would flow out, and all parties had speculations, and Mrs. Jin went out of the palace with the Zhang family, and then the foreign women were all received by the Empress Dowager, which also confirmed this conflict from the side.

As the foreign women returned home, the matter also spread in the capital.

The next morning, suddenly there was an impeachment of the eldest princess of Chun'an in the imperial history and forcibly seized the people's land.

Cai Zhen has always been cautious, and the eldest princess of Chun'an is also very strict in governing the family, and Chun'an has been given land in the Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties, and the family property is abundant, which is a pure joke. Both the DPRK and China regarded this move as Zhang Heling's counterattack against the eldest princess of Chun'an.

Chun'an don't accept the horse, the imperial history can indeed "hear about the matter", but there is no empirical evidence in the end, this kind of thing is to lose face, Chun'an don't pay attention to it, it is the biggest contempt for them.

Fortunately, the emperor also knew it in his heart, and he didn't send the excerpts.

As the Zhang family, who never felt that he was wrong, was actually annoyed that "Miss Yang was troublesome", but despite such a domineering logic, Zhang Heling, who was in charge of the family, was still measured, knowing that he was not responsible for this matter, and he did not dare to rashly deal with the Zhan Mansion, especially now that Brother Shou's attitude is unclear, he will not act against the Yang family.

And there are many people in the court who are looking forward to the Yang family and the Zhang family facing each other again, and it is not that no one has come to woo Yang Tinghe.

Yang Tinghe only used the words "for His Holiness" to express his position.

As the emperor, Yang Tinghe wants to be a secret for His Holiness and not worry about the Queen Mother's mother's family, which is impossible for anyone to find out.

The Yang family didn't make a move, but there were many people in the civil service who didn't look down on the Zhang family.

On September 27, Liu Yu, who supervised the imperial history, used disasters to disagree with the six things, and ruled the root cause, Qinghua Yuan, pro-ministers, Li Shu officials, selected internal servants, and suppressed foreign affairs.

In addition to the matter of Xuanda's management of the army, the rest of the articles proposed that it is advisable to be close to Confucian ministers, to trust cabinet ministers, to carefully select concubines, and to carefully choose internal servants, which is self-evident who is aimed at.

Speaking of which, this Liu Yu and Liu Yushi are also legendary figures with outstanding achievements in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his biggest feature is that he is specifically staring at Zhang's bite.

In June of this year, he had just impeached and removed Zhang Heling's in-law Hu Zhen from his position as commander of the Tongzhou Bureau.

At the beginning, Hu Zhen also followed the path of Zhang Heling, and was approved by Emperor Hongzhi to take the throne. Liu Yu folded the impeachment several times, but finally caught the evidence and knocked Hu Zhen down in one fell swoop.

Time pushed forward another half a year, in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, he also impeached Jin Qi, the nephew of Mrs. Jin, and turned him from Jinyi Wei Qianhu into a small banner......

This is not the most powerful, the most powerful thing is that Liu Yu not only swept all the relatives of the Zhang family into the impeachment of Hu Zhen before, but also brought a person who most imperial historians dare not mention - "As soon as the fortunate door is opened, the group will advance in vain...... In recent years, Xingmen has been reopened, and Sun Bojian and others have both preached and revived; Jin Qi and others are also used to preach and serve as military ......"

This Sun Bojian is the ex-fiancé of Empress Dowager Zhang.

Yes, Empress Dowager Zhang had a marriage contract before choosing a concubine, but on the eve of choosing a concubine, her fiancé suddenly became seriously ill. At that time, the Zhang family wanted to send their daughter to be selected, but the Sun family didn't say a word, and happily withdrew from the marriage under the pretext that their son was seriously ill.

The famous girl of the Zhang family entered the palace gate in this way, all the way from the crown princess to the queen, and finally the queen mother.

Not long after the girl of the Zhang family entered the palace, her fiancé Sun Bojian miraculously recovered......

After Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, the Sun family won three officials with the Shouning Hou Wan Party - Sun Bojian was awarded the official Zhongshu Sheren, and his brother Sun Boyi was the Honglu Temple Sibin Bureau, and Boqiang was the Master of Ceremonies.

At that time, the officials thought that it was impossible, and begged to take back their orders, but Emperor Hongzhi did not allow it.

When Shen Rui heard this gossip, he was extremely shocked, and his first reaction was the modern joke, thank you for not marrying back then......

At that time, there was an uproar inside and outside the court, but because the officials had not resisted Emperor Hongzhi, no one could figure out the emperor's mentality, and it involved the queen's privacy, and no one dared to criticize it anymore, and no one even dared to mention this matter again.

Only Liu Yu dared to mention it, and although Emperor Hongzhi did not respond to his invitation, he did not punish him for his words.

With such a fierce imperial history, the Zhang family is naturally eager to frustrate the bones and scatter ashes.

But behind this person is Liu Jian and Xie Qian, the shadows of the two elders, and he is also upright and honest, and he has no handle to grasp, and the emperor also needs such a stunned figure to beat Xun Qi, the Zhang family has failed to do it several times, and can only pinch his nose and admit it.

This time, Liu Yu folded up again, without naming names, but swept a piece with a stick, and the little emperor's reaction was also intriguing.

For Liu Yu's excerpts, he also stayed in the middle and did not send them, but on the same day, Hu Ke gave Xue Jin a redundant waste of money to the officials of Guanglu Temple, but the little emperor quickly approved it, and ordered the Guanglu Temple to add new wine-making officials Yang Jun and Guo Wen, so that they could still return to the prison to serve the matter.

The foreign ministers may not know why, but the internal officials all understand, and the two people who were dismissed were the godsons of Liang Gong, the great eunuch next to the Queen Mother.

When the news came out, all parties inevitably had their own thoughts.

Immediately afterwards, on September 30, the little emperor approved the request of the Ministry of Rites, and gave Yang Ting, the young Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and his parents four orders.

Originally, Yang Tinghe's father, Yang Chun, was ordered by Huguang to receive the order of the five grades according to the judge, and the parents generally received the order from their children with high official positions, so now they have changed the four grades with Yang Tinghe.

It takes a lot of process to ask for the edict itself, and the excerpt of this please seal should not be a day or two in the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites suddenly chose to hand it over at this time, which is naturally not the world of peace.

Sure enough, after the emperor's permission, on the first day of October, Kedao Jiaozhang Yan Shou Ning Hou Zhang Heling pleaded with salt, giving the original price of the material theory slightly flat, and Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou and businessmen Tan Jingqing, Ma Heng and other buyers did not see the cut.

The civil officials were almost about to cheer and celebrate the victory, and then the household department took advantage of the victory to pursue, and immediately repeated that Tan Jingqing and others pretended to be the emperor's relatives, and invaded the main class because of buying and supplementing, which was really a loss of national interests. I want to do it in one go, and ask the emperor to exempt all the salt introductions everywhere.

Who knows, the little emperor disappointed the civil officials this time, he said, the salt is given as the previous decree, and the eyes are listened to to gradually buy and make up, but the salt inspection imperial history is strictly forbidden, and it is not allowed to pretend to be the emperor's power, and the offender is guilty.

Afterwards, I heard that the Zhou family and the Zhang family both entered the palace to thank them, and they all left the palace for a long time.

The Zhang family's relatives did not leave the palace, but the Zhou family sent their relatives into the palace, and their purpose was to accompany the empress dowager to relieve boredom......

Turn over your hands for the clouds and cover the rain, and slap the sweet dates. Although the new emperor is young, this set of imperial mental techniques has been used skillfully.

And Shen Rui, who got this series of news, has begun to consider changing his attitude towards Brother Shou, born in a heavenly family, and there are really no simple children.

Thinking about the court situation and pondering the case of the Tong Domain, Shen Rui entered the Huanxi Sha Tea House with some absent-mindedness.

The hall on the first floor was quite deserted, only a few people were sparsely seated, all dressed as poor scholars, and there were only the cheapest tea and snacks on the table, but as soon as Shen Rui entered the door, a few eyes shot over, but they quickly turned away.

It was at this moment of staring that Shen Rui suddenly came back to his senses, and he was busy gathering his mind, preparing to deal with the upcoming majesty.

The shopkeeper walked out from behind the counter, bowed his hand to the second master, and replied closely: "There are a few masters who have chartered two private rooms upstairs. The little one asked if he wanted to clear out the irrelevant people, and the little boy at the head said no. Look at the ...... people sitting over there."

Shen Rui nodded, I am afraid that there are not many real tea customers, most of them are Jinyiwei or secret agents of the East Factory, he waved his hand to signal the shopkeeper not to care, and ordered to get the snacks in the car, take the fine porcelain plates and serve them.

Shen Rui was about to go upstairs when there was a sudden sound of footsteps on the wooden stairs, as if a giant had come down, and then a tall man walked downstairs.

"Brother Shen!" As soon as the man grabbed Shen Rui's arm, his voice was like a bell, "I haven't seen you for a long time, my eldest brother has lost weight." Big brother has always been good? ”

Shen Rui patted the man's sturdy arm and laughed, "Wenhu! You're getting taller again! Walking down the street like this, I almost can't even recognize it! ”

The person who came was Gao Wenhu, he had adult height when he was a teenager, and after two years of training in Jinyiwei, he became stronger and stronger, and now he is a half-cut iron tower.

It's just that this temper hasn't changed at all, and it's still so honest.

Gao Wenhu laughed and touched the back of his head, "My mother also complained that I grew up too fast, and my clothes were terific, so I could give out big clothes in the guard, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to buy official uniforms." Laughing, he pulled Shen Rui upstairs and said, "Hurry upstairs, everyone is thinking about you." Second Brother Zhang, they are all here, and there are ......" He paused for a moment, and said with a slightly unnatural vagueness: "There are still ...... Brother Shou is here. ”

Shen Rui looked at Gao Wenhu's slightly embarrassed face, and expected that he already knew Brother Shou's identity. At the moment, he was not embarrassed by the honest man, and changed the topic with a smile: "It's really been a long time since I saw you, how are you doing?" Are you still used to being an errand now? Where to go? ”

Gao Wenhu was also relieved when he heard that he didn't ask Brother Shou, they didn't allow him to tell Brother Shou's identity to Brother Shen, he felt that this was not good in his heart, but he couldn't help listening to Brother Shou. Brother Shen didn't ask, that was the best. Now I talked about the days in the Jinyi Guard Camp.

When he went upstairs, Zhang Hui greeted him at the door, and when he saw Shen Rui, he smiled enthusiastically: "I shouldn't have invited you out at this time, I haven't seen you for too long, my brothers miss you, let's not drink alcohol but only tea, so we made an appointment here, don't blame my brothers." ”

Shen Rui also smiled: "Second Brother Zhang is polite, and I thank Second Brother Zhang for understanding me for being filial and making an appointment here." ”

The two walked into the door together, and most of the people in the private room were familiar faces, all of whom were people from Jinyiwei who had seen them before, and there was also an internal official Liu Zhong, Liu Zhong also nodded to him with a smile.

And the noble son in the middle dressed in a moon-white brocade robe was Brother Shou, and when he saw Shen Rui, he laughed like a naughty boy: "Shen Rui, you are thin!" It's as black as charcoal! ”

The attitude is as good as ever, and the playmate is close.

Shen Rui also showed his previous attitude and said with a smile: "The sun is poisonous in the south, and there is no way." Brother Shou, you have also lost weight, and you look a lot taller. ”

Brother Shou loved to hear this, and high-fived: "You still have vision, I am more than two inches taller!" It may not be as tall as a tiger's head in the future, haha! ”

Everyone relaxed and laughed, greeted each other, and Zhang Quan introduced several faces to Shen Rui present: "This is Cai Liang, this is Cai Yu, and it is the eldest grandson and second grandson of the eldest princess of Chun'an." This is Liu Qi, the youngest son of Marquis An Yuan, and his eldest brother and my eldest brother are brothers-in-law. This, hey, you look at him tall and strong, in fact, he is the youngest, only twelve years old, just like when Hutou was a child, he was born tall, You Xuan, the son of Longqing Concubine, and my eldest brother-in-law. ”

The young man named You Xuan was only twelve years old, and he was already the same size as the few fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers present, and he was really a natural big man like Gao Wenhu, but he had a white face, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and was much more handsome than Gao Wenhu, but he was also as simple and shy as Gao Wenhu, and he was embarrassed by Zhang Quan's words, and his face was slightly red.

The reason why it is introduced as the son of Longqing is because Princess Longqing died early, leaving only one daughter, which was promised to Liu Wen, the son of the Marquis of Anyuan, that is, the eldest brother of Liu Qi present. The Longqing horse has never been renewed, and only the palace maid who was rewarded by the former empress dowager was carried up as a concubine to take care of the middle feed in the house.

Longqing has two generations of emperors and horses, in charge of the palace guards, responsible for the security of the inner palace, it can be said that he is a high power, and the second daughter of his noble concubine married the British government and became the wife of the grandson. For the sake of good looks, the palace promised the second girl to be recorded in the name of Princess Longqing, in fact, the second girl was born ten years after the princess's death. And although You Xuan was also born by that noble concubine, it was not recorded in the name of his mother-in-law.

However, although You Xuan is a concubine, he has a shadow official with hundreds of households in brocade clothes at a young age, and the sister of a mother's compatriot has become the grandson of the British Duke, and the future British Duchess, and no one underestimates him. Zhang Quan took him with him to maintain everywhere.

Shen Rui greeted him one by one, his heart was open, and the little emperor took the Cai family brothers out of the house, which was also to appease her close relatives, the eldest princess Chun'an. And he is also quite grateful to the eldest princess Chun'an for her love for the Yang family's mother and daughter, and is very affectionate to the Cai family brothers.

The Cai brothers are all clever people with deaf ears and eyes, and they also knew that Shen Rui was Yang Ting and Chenglong's quick son-in-law, and today they saw the emperor's attitude towards Shen Rui, so they didn't have a good relationship, and the two sides talked happily for a while.

Looking at Liu Qi and You Xuan again, Shen Rui inadvertently remembered the concubine of the Chongqing princess who married Zhang Heling's nephew, who was also the concubine of the princess's mansion, the concubine of Princess Longqing could marry into a high-ranking family such as the British princess, but the concubine of the princess of Chongqing married the son of the squire; The concubine of the wandering horse has the shade of a hundred households in brocade clothes, but the concubine of Zhou is killed as a scapegoat for Shen Luo......

Thinking of the Zhou family, Shen Rui specially glanced in the crowd, but did not see Zhou Shi, who had been inseparable from Brother Shou and Zhang Quan. This week, he is the grandson of Chang Ningbo Zhou Yu, the younger brother of the former Empress Dowager, and he is also the personal guard of Brother Shou. Shen Rui couldn't help but think, didn't Brother Shou just approve the Zhou family's salt introduction, and allowed the Zhou family's relatives to enter the palace, why did he come out this time without Zhou Shi?

His mind spun around a few times, but his mouth was cordial and greeting everyone.

Although everyone briefly asked about the situation of going south, they all skillfully avoided talking about the Shen Jiatong case, they were all top figures in the circle of Xungui's children, and they more or less knew that the case was not over, and it was still being tried in the three divisions.

Shen Rui naturally won't mention it much, but to talk about some customs, fortunately, there are many people, and you and I have been chatting for two quarters of an hour.

Zhang Quan glanced at Brother Shou, stood up for a while, and said to Shen Rui with a smile: "I still have a social service, and I have to drink, so I won't invite Second Brother Shen to go with you." Brother Shou is the same as you, and he can't drink alcohol, so I ask you to accompany him to drink tea here. ”

It's just a clearing excuse. Shen Rui responded with a smile and sent them downstairs.

Gao Wenhu glanced back at Shen Rui a few times, as if he wanted to say something, Shen Rui patted him comfortingly. Gao Wenhu hurriedly said: "I'm going to visit Brother Shen another day." Shen Rui also responded with a smile.

When he returned to the private room, only Brother Shou was left sitting in the main seat, Liu Zhong looked at Shen Rui, and also retreated silently and guarded outside the door.

Brother Shou looked at Shen Rui with a smile and did not speak.

Shen Rui accepted all his expressions, put on a solemn face, lifted his clothes and knelt down, "Knock on the emperor." ”

(End of chapter)