The officials of the General Administration Department are not of high rank, and they are not visible in Gyeonggi, where high-ranking officials are gathered. However, the authority of the General Administration Department is extremely heavy, and it is in charge of the orders of the cashier, the understanding of the lower information, the investigation and coordination of official documents, the report to the ministers of the Quartet, the feudal dialect of the people, the appeal of the situation, the military situation, and the disaster and other things.

In the words of Shen Rui's scholars in his previous life, it was the country's highest news and communication agency and the central petition department directly controlled by the emperor.

The Department of General Administration is under the jurisdiction of the Experience Division, which is responsible for sending and receiving documents and using the seal of the government department.

First, there was the destruction of the scroll paper by the Qingzhen Quangongshi, and then there was the danger of the anonymous book of the Imperial Road to relieve the kneeling punishment of hundreds of officials, this Shen Rui was promoted from the seventh grade of the Hanlin review to the Tongzheng Division, but the first order, naturally no one had any objections.

It's just that clear-eyed people also know that Shen Rui is going to be reused.

Since the little emperor ascended the throne, the personnel of the General Administration Department have changed greatly, Lu Heng is the secretary of the Taichang Temple in Nanjing, Zhang Lun is the right governor of the Imperial Palace, Huang Bao is the Yin of the Ying Tianfu Mansion, Xiong Wei has been promoted all the way from the right senator to the left senator and the right general administration.

In the second year of Zhengde, in addition to Li Hao and Cong Lan of the headquarters who were promoted step by step, they were also promoted to Ren Liangbi in the middle of the matter, Li Zan Ju, a member of the household department, Luo Qinzhong, a member of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Da, the director of the Criminal Department, and the right Senator of the right temple of Dali Temple.

This is also the reason why Shen Yingding was worried about her recovery, and it was difficult to reinstate her post to enter the General Political Department, and finally only returned to Zhan Shifu.

The "battleground for soldiers" in the General Administration Department is closely watched by several cabinet elders, and there are two Liu Jin people, Liu Da and Wei Ne.

Liu Jin's actions are bigger, not only inserting his own people, but also further squeezing out outsiders, just in June and July of the third year of Zhengde, Li Zan and Ren Liangbi, who have only been in the General Administration for a year, have been demoted!

Li Zan was demoted because of his old affairs in the household department - Wengui asked the household department for Taicang silver on the grounds of trimming, and Gu Zuo, the secretary of the household department, said that the salt price and silver had not been made up, and there was no money to give. Liu Jin was dissatisfied, so he naturally wanted to ask the emperor to investigate, and the officials in charge were punished. Li Zan was sentenced to Rao Prefecture for the crime of delaying his performance.

And Ren Liangbi is even more wronged, he has always been upright, impeachment does not avoid the powerful, can be promoted to the fifth rank of the senator in the matter, and even promoted to four levels, which can also be seen in his ability and holy family.

Such a person naturally would not buy Liu Jin's account, and because of some issues about whether the impeachment of Liu Jin was handed over, he clashed with Liu Jin's people, and was hated by Liu Jin, and finally was sentenced to Jiangxi Jianchang Mansion for being unscrupulous.

Shen Rui's entry into the General Administration Department this time, although it was only a small experience, and he was pressed by the top cadres, but he was still called by Wang Hua, Yang Tinghe, Yang Zhen and other relatives one by one and told him again and again.

In particular, in this Yudao Anonymous Book incident, Shen Rui had a conflict with Liu Jin in the end.

Liu Jin made the hundred officials kneel in Fengtianmen, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the hundred officials, but because Chen Kuan and Shen Rui arrived in time and stopped early, except for a few old people who were unwell, there were no bad consequences of people dying of sunburn and thirst like Shen Rui in his previous life, and the anger of the hundred officials did not fully explode.

Moreover, in the end, the "edict" is a rumor spread in the inner court, and there is no real evidence, and no one dares to impeach it rashly.

In particular, the little emperor didn't admit it, he didn't hold him accountable, on the contrary, he gave melons and ice, which seemed to be in the aftermath.

Later, the little emperor approved the establishment of the Neixing Factory, which was personally controlled by Liu Jin, and the power was far above the Jinyi Wei and the East and West Factory.

The ministers also had a new understanding of the little emperor's favor and trust in Liu Jin, and Liu Jin also seemed to rely on this favor and began to be lawless.

The matter of the grange in Fengrun County is still being investigated, because it involves too many clans and relatives, and it is not clear, but there is a line that the village appeared on the original homeless people who should be repatriated to their hometowns is accurate, Liu Jin took this to take in the homeless people to make an article, and suddenly issued a decree to rectify the Beijing division: all the guests and maids of the Beijing division, so that the widow is married, and the funeral is not buried.

The practice of the expert factory is particularly fierce compared to the second factory in the east and west, and the unemployed people in the capital such as bartenders, grinders, and water cooks are expelled, causing chaos all over the city, and the chickens and dogs are restless, and more than 1,000 people are expelled in one day.

There are more than 10,000 domestic servants in the capital! Sijiu City was in turmoil for a while.

How willing were those who were expelled, many people gathered in the eastern suburbs and threatened to stab Liu Jin to death. Some people are bold enough to rob on official roads, or loot villages on the outskirts of Beijing, and the order is greatly damaged.

And the marriage of widows touched the bottom line of etiquette, and many courtiers had widows and sisters-in-law, and this behavior immediately made the ministers write to impeach Liu Jin.

Liu Jin was not afraid of impeachment, but he was probably afraid of assassination - sure enough, a group of small people in the market ambushed him with sharp blades, although he was escorted and ran away, but he was really frightened, and then he panicked and asked for a decree to repeal these three decrees.

Most of the people who made trouble before were the middle and lower classes in Beijing, but in this chaos, there was new progress in the land case in Fengrun County, but it shook the upper circle of the Beijing Division, and there was an uproar in Sijiu City.

As soon as the Empress Dowager passed the Holy Dan, she ordered King Rong to become a vassal. King Rong in Fengrun County nearly 500 dumps of Zhuangtian all returned to the imperial court, changed to Changde Mansion Xiangluzhou and other places of Zhuangtian seven places a total of more than 630 hectares and King Rong, and gave Changlu salt 300 salt.

What is the price of land in Huguang Changde Mansion? How to compare with the surrounding areas of the capital! What is the value of 300 salt citations, not to mention, it is said to be given, but it is difficult to fulfill.

King Rong went out of Beijing this time, and there was no dignity at all.

Although the little emperor has been beating the clan since he ascended the throne, especially to King Rong, he has never been soft, but this time he really didn't give King Rong face.

The courtiers were worried about the reaction of the clan, but soon all the princesses led by the eldest princess of Chun'an played in unison, asking for an inventory of the Zhuangtian under their names, so as to prevent the villains in the house slaves from betraying their masters, disturbing the people, and bringing the royal reputation; He also voluntarily donated part of the land to resettle the landless people and share the worries of the Son of Heaven.

The eldest princess of Chun'an did this is not unexpected, she has always been on the side of the little emperor, and once picked a relative of the Zhang family, this time the empress dowager Shengdan, I heard that she entered the palace to congratulate and stayed in the palace of the empress dowager for a long time, and then visited the princesses' mansions with the eldest princess of Deqing, and finally had this result.

It was the eldest princess of Yongkang, who had frequently entered the palace to find Empress Dowager Zhang to cry, and secretly connected several "involved" families, and found some imperial history scripts to excuse them, but she refused to let go of the meat that she bit to her mouth.

But when the eldest princess of Chun'an came to the door, especially after King Rong left Beijing in embarrassment, she suddenly changed her sex, and happily spit out the land occupied by Fengrun County, and also studied the British government, which was double the repayment, and made up for the accumulated tax arrears.

She is like this, and the rest of the princesses are even more subordinate.

The eldest princess of Chun'an has a high rank in the clan, and Cai Zhen is in charge of the sect's mansion again, her family took the lead in expressing her position, and the princesses followed up, so that the other princes were already vassalized, there is not much land in the suburbs of Beijing, and it does not involve personal interests, and who will open his eyes for a disadvantaged King Rong, his face is calm, and it is unknown whether he is dissatisfied inside.

The princesses only played on the front foot, and the back foot of the Zhou family also reacted, and they were also disposed of like the eldest princess of Yongkang and the British government.

But his family's farm is different.

His family has 870 hectares of farmland in Fengrun County, one of which is connected to the land of Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang.

It is not once or twice that the Zhang family of the Zhou family fought because of the grabbing of the field, and Zhou Shou's younger brother Changning Hou Zhou Yu also faced Zhang Heling for seizing the grange.

Most of the time, Emperor Hongzhi will play forty boards each, but in his heart, he is actually more partial to his brother-in-law, of course, from the perspective of checks and balances, it is also necessary to use the Zhang family to suppress the Zhou family, which has been rampant in the Xianzong Dynasty for many years. Zhou Shou lost the land fight this time, and in the end, most of the acres of land were assigned to the Zhang family, and the small half belonged to the Zhou family.

However, Zhang Zhouzheng's land, in fact, was originally intended to be given to King Yong.

At that time, King Yong was in Hengzhou, and Emperor Hongzhi gave land near Hengzhou, and the matter was over.

Now King Yong has been infected with illness in the first month of the second year of Zhengde, because he has no heirs and the country is extinct, and his concubines and palace dependents have migrated to Beijing. After Princess Yong returned to Beijing, she wrote to ask for acres of land in Fengrun County. At that time, the little emperor did not let the Zhang family return the land, but gave Princess Yong to Dingxing and Mancheng two counties.

This time, the Zhou family retired from the field, and Princess Yong wrote again, but did not propose to Fengrun County Zhuangtian, but said that all the widows in their own houses were guarded, and there were no heirs to raise, so they did not need a lot of land, and they were willing to follow the example of the princesses, return the land to the people, and do their best for the court.

Xia Ru, the new abbot of this dynasty, has always been cautious, and the Zhou and Zhang families of the previous dynasty are very different, and they are a little panicked when they get the Qiantian gift, when the Fengrun County incident happened, the Xia family also wanted to donate the field, but they were afraid that Zhou and Zhang would not act, and his family would come out rashly and would be cleaned up by the two families.

At this time, seeing that the Zhou family stood up first, and the palace handed over a shocking news, the Xia family also stood up in a hurry.

Behind his family, he naturally followed the other two royal families, the Shen family and the Wu family.

Which dynasty and which generation are not the emperor's relatives rushed to ask for a reward, and when they arrived in this dynasty, they rushed to give up the field, and the officials were stunned for a while, while the people were happy, and they all said that today's sage.

The little emperor is naturally happy, the princesses, relatives and children have a certain degree of reward, and the childless princess Yong has also raised more than 1,000 stones per year.

In the midst of this wind and rain, the Zhang family, a relative, was quiet.

*

Shen Rui entered the General Administration Department, and he could be regarded as a real glimpse of the whole picture of the Ming Empire.

Every day, a huge number of military and political excerpts from all over the country poured into the General Administration Department, involving all aspects of the Ming Empire. Shen Rui couldn't help but smile bitterly, no wonder the emperors didn't like to read the excerpts, if one person read these excerpts and replied, it would really be a day when there was no time to eat and sleep.

However, Shen Rui must also admit that these excerpts also made him grow up quickly.

He had traveled all over the world with Wang Shouren, and had an in-depth understanding of the lives of ordinary people along the way from Songjiang to the capital, and thought that he had a grasp of the real life of the Ming Dynasty, but what he saw and knew was still quite a small gap compared with what was reflected in the excerpts.

What he knew was the situation in the more affluent areas of the Ming Dynasty, and this vast empire had complex and diverse people's feelings.

Therefore, he was very glad that he was still quite sensible, and he didn't have a hot mind to forcibly sell his "reform ideas" to Brother Shou from all kinds of things in his previous life.

The work in the General Administration Department is busy and fulfilling, and probably because he is too busy, although there are various people in the General Administration, the interpersonal relationship is not as bad as he imagined.

Before being transferred to the General Administration Department, Shen Ying had taken Shen Rui to visit his old acquaintance. Although many of the acquaintances who worked with Shen Ying three years ago have been transferred, many of them have also been promoted to high-level positions, for example, Cong Lan, an old minister who was also a senator with Shen Ying at the beginning, is now a right-hand politician.

This is also a capable minister, the same as Ren Liangbi, he was promoted from the military department to the general secretary in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi.

Because of the recent two incidents, Cong Lan has a very good impression of Shen Rui, and I heard that Shen Rui's Qingzhen Bookstore has been ordered to complete the printing of the palace examination record and the examination of the current department, and now is publishing the drill and military book of Jingwei martial arts, Cong Lan is also very interested, he has served as the transfer department, the military department, knows many things very well, and Shen Rui is very speculative.

In addition to the palace test records, current texts, drill classics, military books and other books printed by order, Qing Seal also printed Yang Shen and Dai Dabin's poetry collections, both of whom are excellent poets.

There are also many literati and writers who are itchy and come to Qingzhen to publish a manuscript, and there are also many colleagues from the General Political Department, which makes Shen Rui more popular in the yali.

said that on this day, Cai forgave the post, saying that he borrowed a garden from the eldest princess and invited Shen Rui and his wife to have a small gathering, and Pang Tianqing accompanied him.

Shen Rui naturally happily went to the appointment, gossiping and laughing with Yang Tian: "Maybe it's a collection of old Pang Yanre brother and Bin Zhong, and he also wanted to come up with a copy, but he was embarrassed to tell me that he wanted his eldest brother to be the host." ”

Yang Tian covered his mouth and smiled: "Pang Jian is also a great talent, what is the difficulty of publishing this episode, how can it be handled by you." You, it's better to be a proprietor and ask for the seriousness of Mobao. ”

Shen Rui joked: "The owner of the house is now also doing the first thing. ”

Shen Rui got an official position and immediately asked for a decree for his wife, and it was quickly approved, and Yang Tian is now a serious widow.

And Zhao Tong is getting heavier and heavier because of his filial piety and pregnancy, and the painting brocade hall in which they are joint shares is now taken care of by Yang Tian alone.

Yang Tian made a manly salute, and pretended to be rude: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, in the end, it's not as good as Shen Chenghuanxi's owner of Huanxi Sha Teahouse." ”

The two looked at each other for a moment, and they couldn't help but laugh.

Because of the old things about the previous banquet, Cai Liang was afraid that Shen Rui and his wife would be taboo in their hearts, and the banquet was not set in Zeyuan, but the eldest princess had a house in the city, although it was not very big, but the scenery was exquisite, and the ingenuity was shown everywhere.

Shen Rui dismounted in front of the door, and Cai Liang brothers and Pang Tianqing had already greeted him, and said with a smile: "My grandmother also came, she said that she came to have fun with the young people, and she was lazy." ”

The eldest princess of Chun'an is not the one who likes to join in the fun, although Shen Rui respectfully said that he would go with Cai Liang to greet the eldest princess, but in his heart he thought about Cai Liang's intention to invite this banquet.

Yang Tian's carriage stopped at the second gate, and Cai Liang's wife Fang, Cai Yu's wife Deng and Cai Luo's sister-in-law came out to greet her, and they generally led her to see the eldest princess.

A screen was set up in the flower hall in the backyard, Yang Tian and other female relatives entered, and Shen Rui and other male guests saluted outside the screen.

The eldest princess smiled and asked everyone to be polite, but she just said that she was here to have a good time, and she didn't have anything else to say, so she let Shen Rui and the others go to have fun by themselves, and she left Yang Tian to come down to talk, and then let people go to enjoy the garden.

Shen Rui was even more confused about the eldest princess's intentions for a while.

Until he followed Cai Liang through most of the garden, stepped on the plank road in the lake, and saw the uninvited guests in the water pavilion from afar.

The banquet in the water pavilion was set up, and there were a few singers with pipa in their arms standing in the banquet, their red dresses reflecting the blue water, which was particularly eye-catching, but Shen Rui's eyes did not fall on them, but looked at the person who stood up at the table and greeted them.

Although he has only met once, because he is an "enemy", Shen Rui remembers this person too well.

That person is Zhou Xian, the only grandson of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and the only bloodline of the eldest princess of Chongqing.

That is, his cousin killed Shen Luo, and he quickly let his cousin "fall into the water and die" and lose his life.

But this account is not a life for a life.

If Zhou Xian hadn't stood on the Zhang family's side, and thundered his brother Zhou Mao to finish up for the Zhang family, the Shen family would not have known the truth about Shen Luo's death for many years, and they would not have been able to seek justice from the Zhang family.

And this truth broke out by coincidence, just when Shen Zhou was relegated back to Beijing, the Shen family's uncle and nephew learned from different mouths that the real murderers were Zhang Yanling and Qiao Yongde.

After the Shen family and the Qiao family fell out, the Qiao family brothers' dispute over property became a farce in the market, and it was rumored on the street that the Qiao family went crazy because they missed their son who died early, and shook out the real cause of death of this son Shen Luo, and pointed the finger at Zhang Yanling.

At that time, it was also the time when the emperor first revealed his dissatisfaction with the Zhang family.

If you want to say that there is no Zhou Xian's means here, Shen Rui will not believe it.

Now, Cai Liang has brought Zhou Xian and Shen Rui to drink and talk, and the eldest princess has swept the formation.

The usual gentle smile on Shen Rui's face also disappeared, he pulled the corners of his mouth, stared at Zhou Xian over there, and asked Cai Liang softly: "Could it be that Fifth Brother is going to hold a Hongmen banquet?" ”

Cai Liang looked helpless, turned around and drove his younger brother and brother-in-law and Chang Sui away, standing on the plank road in the center of the lake, looking at the vast water, sighed, and said in a low voice: "Hengyun, we haven't known each other for a day or two, I think you are the same as your own brother, how can it harm you?" To tell you the truth, I have a quasi-letter, and the emperor wants to hand over Jingwei martial arts to Zhou Xian.

He looked at Shen Rui's face as he spoke, and said, "Although his brother-in-law has a black conscience, in the end, he has already repaid his life, and the Zhou family is not disrespectful to the Shen family. That winter, I think you've heard about it on the street, but the real culprit is ......"

He said the word "Jianchang" very lightly and quickly, and then said: "He wants to manage Jingwei martial arts for at least a year, and your bookstore still prints the book of drill and soldiers, won't you really deal with him in the future?" In the future, he will also work for the emperor, he can be regarded as his own person, he is smart, and he also has an enmity with that person, in the future, he may not be able to avenge the revenge with you......"

The last few words slowly fell into a low voice, and finally they were almost inaudible.

Although the eldest princess's mansion is not in harmony with Shouning and Jianchanghou Mansion, there are some things that cannot be said casually.

Shen Rui turned his head sideways to look at Cai Liang, and only asked lightly: "Is it because the Zhou family retreated from Zhuangtian, and the emperor wants to reward the Zhou family?" ”

This result, although unexpected, is also reasonable.

Cai Liang hesitated for a moment, and finally became ruthless and said bluntly: "Don't say secret words in front of the Mingren, you are also a close person to the emperor, and you should also know what the emperor is going to do." This Fengrun County is just the first step. Now, the clans, the Zhou family, the Xia family and Shen Wu are gradually forming a trend of encirclement, just to drag the Zhang family in.

"Actually, although the land in Fengrun County is good, but the idea is really a trivial matter, the real plan is to wait for the clans, relatives, and nobles to ask themselves to investigate, and the emperor will be able to take advantage of the situation to push the acres of land to the world, which is a big deal. But with the Zhang family in front, the local people will inevitably have to wait and see and refuse to move, so it is inevitable to move the Zhang family away. ”

Shen Rui listened quietly, but sighed in his heart, Brother Shou did not give up the idea of clearing the world. Now we can only hope for a slightly more moderate progress.

Hearing this, Cai Liang said: "Now that the Zhou family is taking the lead, how can the emperor not reward this first work?" How can a shady brocade guard be more honored than rewarding a real job? Isn't this also an example for relatives? Where is the Zhou family still able to afford to raise their children? Zhou Xian's nephew of the Zhou family is also the royal nephew, if the emperor wants to use him, do you still treat him as an enemy and refuse to work with him? ”

After saying so much in one breath, Cai Liang couldn't help but be a little frustrated when he saw that Shen Rui was still cold, patted his arm, and said in a very sincere and heartfelt tone: "Second brother, listen to my brother, my brother invited you over today, I don't really want to be a peacemaker, this matter is not smoothed out by my brother's empty words and white teeth, and my brother doesn't say this with such a big face."

Shen Rui seemed to have really listened to it, and stared at Cai Liang with good eyes.

Cai Liang smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Brother just thought, if you drink this wine today, can we get along with each other?" so that the emperor may know your loyalty. We are all the emperor's people, who does the emperor want to use, we have to help, right? In the future, it's a big deal to return to the bridge and return to the road, and you don't have to help him like you did with Zhang Xiaoer, so it is good not to make the stumbling block hurt the emperor's affairs. If there is anything, wait for the emperor not to say anything about him. How is it? ”

Shen Rui lowered his eyelids, and his gaze swept over a lotus field on the water, at this time it was past the peak flowering period, and many flower pots had already bloomed and failed.

Prosperity and decline, just like the Zhou family.

Without the Empress Dowager Zhou, the Zhou family is a tiger with teeth extracted, and the emperor can use it at will.

The emperor wants to use Zhou Xian, in addition to this person is indeed capable, he also hung a carrot in front of these donkeys.

Of course, Shen Rui understood the emperor's choice.

But should the emperor's choice be the Shen family's choice? Is this a way to show loyalty?

Politics is the art of compromise. Shen Rui suddenly remembered the words of his previous life.

He smiled suddenly, raised his hand to Zhou Xian, who was bowing to him, and returned the salute, turned around neatly, and said to Cai Liang: "Rui's loyalty, the emperor knows everything, and the fifth brother also knows everything." If the emperor has an order, Rui should cooperate and dare not ignore it in the slightest. This is a public matter, and Rui will not abolish the public business for personal reasons. As for personal relationships, the fifth brother forgives his sins, and the Shen family is unwilling to make a false accusation. ”

The Shen family can choose not to compromise.

*

In the inner courtyard, Yang Tian had not been to the garden yet, so he chatted with the eldest princess for a while, and someone sent a letter in front of him, and Shen Shi invited the widow to return home together, but he did not mention that "there is an urgent matter at home".

Yang Tian couldn't help but be surprised, but he didn't want to ask, so he only said goodbye to the eldest princess of Chun'an with an apologetic face.

The eldest princess had no different color on her face, and only smiled and invited her to come back another day.

Fang's Deng smile was somewhat reluctant.

Cai Luo was the only one who didn't know why, and he was still pouting, muttering in a low voice that he hadn't had time to play yet.

Cai Luo's family affairs are scheduled for October 16, and now the Cai family has detained her in accordance with the customs and etiquette to prevent her from going out, so it is rare to have such a chance to have fun, but she can't help but be disappointed, when she sends Yang Tian out all the way, she can't help but hold Yang Tian's hand, and she has to let her come again next time.

Yang Tian was so entangled by her that he couldn't do it, so he had to laugh and come to see her another day, and promised to bring snacks from several famous food shops in Xiyuan, which was let go.

After getting into the carriage after getting out of the second door, seeing that Shen Rui was not riding a horse, but also sitting in the car, his face was sinking like water, as if he was unhappy, Yang Tian was confused in his heart, and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Shen Rui waved his hand, and when the car drove far away from Cai's house, Fang said: "Zhou Xian, the son of the eldest princess of Chongqing, is also at the table, so I will turn back directly." ”

Yang Tian knew a lot about this grievance, and couldn't help but change his face, and blurted out: "What does the eldest princess's mansion mean?" ”

Shen Rui grabbed her hand and pulled her into his arms, patted her comfortingly, and said, "It's a matter of the court, you don't have to worry too much." ”

He never concealed it from Yang Tian, so he simply told the matter, and said: "It's really a holy will, smart now, I will never explicitly mention the public case between our family and the Zhou family and the Zhang family, so I pretend to be confused." Zuo is not delayed, and the emperor will not blame. Besides, it may not be the emperor's intention. ”

Yang Tian frowned for a long time, finally sighed, and said, "When we were still in Xiang'an Village, do you remember that once, Sister Cai Qi brought Wu Niangniang, who had not yet entered the palace, to the village. ”

Of course, Shen Rui remembered that Brother Shou also happened to come over that time, and he saw the Wu girl from afar on a whim.

However, Shen Rui did not have the slightest interest in this Wu Niangniang, who heard that she was the best in the world and the city government was also very deep, what he remembered was that Brother Shou finalized the Liaodong affair.

Thinking of Liaodong and the inventory of Juntun, it is naturally inevitably associated with the Qingzhang Tianmu this time.

This Ming Empire, there are not too many moths. Shen Rui was slandered in his heart.

Hearing Yang Tian's quiet words: "At that time, the sixth sister told me, telling me not to blame Qi Niang, saying that these clan nobles are different from civil and military, and the clan will inevitably take into account the meaning of the palace......"

Shen Rui was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the little wife was persuading herself in disguise.

He couldn't help but snort, tightened his arms again, lightly incensed the corners of her forehead, and said: "I also remember the eldest princess's care for you, and Cai Wu set up a banquet today, whether it was the emperor's hint, or his own family wanted to cater to his wishes, and he could talk openly about this, he is a friend, I still recognize him." ”

Yang Tian glanced at him, "Am I not divided between inside and outside?" He sighed again, "I didn't expect them to do this for this." The eldest princess kept asking me about the birth of my sister in the You family that day, and called Guizhi's mother to come and ask her a little about medical skills. I was still wondering if the seventh sister of the Cai family had a body, and the eldest princess cherished her granddaughter, so she asked me to come over and ask a few more words. ”

Due to the difficulty of childbirth, the British princess's grandson You sat for two months after giving birth, and Yang Tian kept Guizhi's mother there to help.

Although there was the impeachment of the British government in the middle and the involvement of the previous son, which made the You family a little angry, but in the end, there was no danger to come, and there was the unexpected joy of separating the family, and the You family was also recuperating well in this month.

Now that she is out of confinement, You's mother and son are safe, and Guizhi's mother invited herself to return home, followed Yang Tian, and took care of her body wholeheartedly, hoping that she would get pregnant as soon as possible.

The British government naturally prepared a generous gift to pay each other, and also gave gifts to the Yang Mansion and the Shen Mansion.

Yang Tian also has a heavy reward here, and this time he brought Guizhi's mother over to give her a chance to come out and have fun. I didn't expect Guizhi's mother to be called by the eldest princess for questioning and rewarding things.

Shen Rui didn't pay attention to these trivial matters in the back house, but responded casually: "Miss Cai Qi married Nan Zhili, I think it is the eldest princess's concern to be a grandmother." So he put the conversation aside.

Unexpectedly, the eldest princess later came to borrow Guizhi's mother, but not for Cai Miao......

Let's say that Shen Rui and his wife returned to the Shen Mansion and asked the Xu family for peace, and Shen Rui retired from everyone and told the Xu family about today's events.

Xu nodded and said, "That's it." After a pause, he said: "You are now in the General Administration, but you are not as good as the Hanlin Academy, and you don't have good friends with some important yamen." ”

Shen Rui nodded again and again, Jingwei martial arts is also a critical place, he and Zhang Hui are young friends, it doesn't seem to be anything, if he really gets along with Zhou Xian to get abandoned, he can't keep what Brother Qi Shou thinks.

As a general secretary, it is time for him to consider avoiding suspicion.

Xu sighed slowly: "This matter...... Or tell your second uncle. ”

Shen Rui also sighed, answered yes, and said: "The second uncle has been in the academy outside the city two days ago, and the last time my son and mother mentioned the things about the academy, I haven't discussed it with the second uncle, and now I tell the second uncle, I'm afraid it's just right." ”

Xu smiled bitterly: "It may not be right. Your second uncle, although he is not your third uncle's idle cloud and wild crane temperament, but he also does not like to take care of trivial affairs. Let's ask, if he has a heart, it is a good deed for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

What Shen Rui wanted to talk to Shen Zhou about was the establishment of the Agricultural School, the Business School, and the Craftsman School.

As he reported to Brother Shou before, he wanted to establish these schools in Shenzhou's academy, where the place is abundant, the scenery is good, and there are Zhuang Tian as experimental fields, it is really good to be a university town like his previous life, and it is also convenient for unified management.

A few days ago, he happened to see a part, the rain and hail in Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture were like chicken eggs, and the storm was overturned, destroying more than 200 hectares of Qiuhe and destroying more than 100 ships. Natural disasters are prevented, but they can be remedied, at least, there is a shortage of good shipwrights to repair ships.

This is the time to promote the agricultural school and the craftsman school.

If the emperor wants to push the world to clear the acres of fields, there should be a shortage of people who are proficient in arithmetic in all places, and the business school can also be erected.

For the time being, he didn't want to pinch these schools and academies into a comprehensive university, because the world was still dominated by the argument that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", and merchants and craftsmen were looked down upon by scholars.

Each school also has its own particularities, and it is more appropriate to separate and manage them separately. However, it still needs to be managed by one person, and Shen Rui of course listed Shen Zhou as the first choice.

When Shen Rui arrived at Shen Zhou's study, he saw a room of little radish heads standing in a row to write big characters, but it was Shen Zhou who was taking a test on the homework of several children in the family.

These days, the academy was newly built, and there were a lot of problems, so Shen Zhou simply lived outside the city and cooked them one by one, saving the effort of going back and forth, and he had no time to take care of a few children.

Seeing that Shen Zhou was holding Brother Xiao Nan's hand to teach him how to move the pen, he circled a few passable words such as Fourth Brother Er, Lu Taotao, etc., with a loving and peaceful face, but Shen Rui suddenly felt sad in his heart.

It wasn't until the children had written a big character that Shen Zhou let them go.

However, Shen Zhou's eyes have been following the children, and when he saw them saluting in a proper manner, he came out one by one, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he reverted to his old ways, laughing and laughing, he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh: "This group of leather monkeys." ”

It wasn't until the children's laughter faded away that he retracted his gaze and asked Shen Rui with a smile: "Is there something wrong with Brother Rui?" ”

Shen Rui felt choked in his throat for a while, and he was a little speechless. He stabilized his emotions before slowly mentioning today's matter.

The smile on Shen Zhou's face faded inch by inch, like a wood carving clay sculpture, without any reaction, and his face was a little gray, and there was no brilliance of Fang Cai.

After a while, he said with difficulty: "Brother Rui...... The old thing is gone, and the person who did the black hand has also lost his life, your eldest brother...... Your big brother...... It's kind of blinding. As for the vicious-minded people," he was silent for a moment, and Fang said, "Qiao Yongde should die, the Qiao family, but I didn't kill them all." You don't have to delay your own career for the sake of a Zhou family. ”

He never mentioned the Zhang family, which shows his hatred. It's just that what kind of family the Zhang family is, it is difficult for him to take revenge, and he will not put this heavy burden on his nephew.

Especially, it's this, he feels ashamed of his nephew.

It's not that he doesn't want to care about the death of his own son, it's his only flesh and blood, and he is a young man, such an outstanding child, but now, he wants his nephew's career to go smoothly.

The nephew was appreciated by the emperor and reused by the general political department, Shen Zhou was really happy, and he really didn't want his late son's affairs to affect his nephew's holy family.

Shen Rui sighed: "The second uncle doesn't need to think about his nephew's affairs, the nephew is measured, the second uncle can rest assured." Brother Luo's business is the Shen family's business, and it is also the nephew's business. ”

Shen Zhou didn't speak anymore, but kept shaking his head, not knowing whether he didn't want to mention it or if he didn't have to.

Shen Rui was silent for a long time, and had the heart to mention Brother Xiao Nan. It can be seen that Shen Zhou really loves Brother Xiao Nan, Brother Xiao Nan is also a clever and lovely child, and the He family is also a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he is very dedicated to taking care of the Shen family.

Although their mother and son now have 300,000 taels of silver by their side, and they can live by the Shen family, Brother Xiao Nan always has to take the road of the imperial examination, and the imperial examination has to check the ancestors for three generations.

If it can be recorded as Shen Zhou's heir, it is still an excellent solution.

It's just that at Shen Ling's funeral that day, Shen Zhou was forced out of his heart by He's to tell the truth, it was his own demons, and he believed that he committed a bad star because of his unfilial piety and unrighteous life, and he was not worthy of an heir to send him to the end, which hurt Shen Luo, Shen Jue, and Shen Ling, so he was afraid that he would kill him again if he succeeded Brother Xiao Nan as his heir, and even said that he didn't want Shen Rui to be a concubine, for fear that Shen Rui would be involved together.

At this time, Shen Rui couldn't say too much, so he just diverted the topic and said: "I just saw that the fourth brother's words already have some looks, in the end, he followed the third uncle, and he is a seedling of calligraphy." It's rare that Brother Xiao Nan also writes well. ”

Shen Zhou was stunned for a moment, as if he had fallen into a dream, his expression changed, and he whispered: "Brother Xiao Nan, ......"

In the end, he woke up from a dream and still shook his head and said nothing.

Seeing this, Shen Rui knew that his knot was difficult to solve, so he didn't mention it anymore, but completely changed the topic and talked about those colleges.

Shen Zhou had already heard of his ideas, but now they were about to be implemented. In the end, he was the one who had been in charge of the Guozijian, and he had been teaching in Nancheng Academy for a long time, Shen Zhou was very experienced, and not only agreed to be the head of the mountain, but also gave Shen Rui a lot of advice.

At the end, he suddenly said, "Brother Rui, you just have to let go and do it." Here in the academy, tomorrow I will visit some old friends from Hanlin and ask them to go out to the mountains to teach. ”

Shen Rui was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "My nephew will also invite more students in the same year, and talk about the experience of taking the exam in his spare time." ”

From the next day, Shen Zhou really began to go out to visit his former colleagues and came in the same year.

It's just that he used to have a mediocre popularity, and he left the scene because of the lack of internal curtains, and when he returned to Beijing, it was when the Shen He family wrestled the most fiercely, and there was the Qiao family in chaos, this popularity ...... Needless to say.

Now, although the Shen family has climbed the two mountains of Wang Ge Lao and Yang Ge Lao, there are still many people who do not buy Shen Zhou's account.

Therefore, Shen Zhou's recruitment plan was quite difficult.

In particular, after the Tian family saw that he did not go back to teach, and he wanted to set up his own mountain, he was also extremely dissatisfied, and he did not stumble to intercept the people Hu Shenzhou wanted to invite.

The Tian family once asked their aunt Shen Run, the third master, to talk to him, and the third master was originally dissatisfied with the Tian family's shrinking turtle when the Qing Seal had an accident, and the two sides broke up unhappily without a few words.

Only the third wife, Tian, was caught between her mother's family and her husband, and cried from time to time.

Shen Rui is relatively relaxed here, after all, there is the favor of the Qingzhen Bookstore, and the new science and technology scholars are more enthusiastic and righteous than those old fritters in the officialdom, and many people agree to come over to give a cameo lecture when they are not in the house.

It's just that they can't be compared with Lao Hanlin in terms of fame, teaching experience, and teaching time.

Fortunately, there are not many students now, and they can barely cope with it at present.

No one expected that in the end, it was Liu Jin's new policy that helped them solve the professor's problem.

*

Zhou Xian took over Jingwei Martial Arts, which really shocked many people.

With the further inventory of the fields in Fengrun County, the Marquis of Jianchang finally relented and spit out half of the nearly 100 dumped fields that had competed with the Zhou family. Later, the Marquis of Shouning also wrote smoothly and was willing to donate land to do his best for the imperial court.

The little emperor seems to have just one attitude from the Zhang family, and he didn't investigate how much land he spit out. In the palace, the mother and son of the Empress Dowager seem to be more and more filial piety, and the little emperor also sent the Empress Dowager to the West Garden to enjoy the scenery.

Soon after, the people who cleared the fields were released.

I don't know if I listened to Shen Rui's persuasion, Brother Shou did not choose to let the West Factory or the insider factory intervene, but sent regular officials such as the Imperial History and Hubu Lang, and did not rashly check the fields and acres in the world, but still started from the military tun and piggybacked, and some of the feudal kings, dukes, earls, commanders and other people of Zhuangtian.

Such as patrolling according to the Zhili Imperial History, Zhao Bin Cha Datong, Xuanfu; supervising the imperial history Li Pucha Ganchuan Twelve Guards; Governor of Shandong, supervising the imperial history, Zhou Xiongcha, Liaodong; Cheng Gaojin, the right supervisor of the celebrant supervisor, and Feng Haocha, a member of the household department, investigated Zhuang Tian, who was invited by the king of Shandong Jing, and changed Hu Ruli, the left attendant of the household department, to the left attendant of the military department, Zha Zhili, the lord of Xuanfu and the outside of the palace, the commander, and the military attache Zhuang Tian.

Liu Jin was unwilling to give full play to his residual heat in this investigation, and he and his think tank, Jiao Fang, Zhang Cai and others, racked their brains, and finally came up with a new punishment that was beneficial to the country and the people (self-thought) and very gentle (compared to heavy flail).

In the name of "rich country", the penalty is lost.

It is said that it is a new deal, but in fact, it is also a new wine in an old bottle, and the law of punishing rice was there when Taizu was there, and it became a law when he became an ancestor, but it was probably under the capital crime, and the penalty was increased to atone for the rice, and most of them were paid nearby, and they were not lost again and again.

When it came to Liu Jin, the designated rice collection locations were all Jiubian, and the fined officials had to think of their own ways to transport the grain and rice.

The amount of fines ranges from two or three hundred to two or three thousand, and there is no very clear standard for what crime and how much to be punished, because in itself, the crimes are varied, and even crimes that are wanted to be added.

It has to be said that this strategy of punishing rice and losing to the border has indeed alleviated the problem of difficulty in transporting grain at the border to a certain extent, especially since the border customs are now under investigation, and the situation in the granary is very unoptimistic.

But in essence, Liu Jin wants to crack down on the courtiers - he has picked a lot of political enemies to play the black hand, from the Shangshu and the Imperial History of the Second Rank to the Supervision of the Imperial History of the Seventh Grade, regardless of the high-ranking officials and small officials, they will all be punished.

For some incorruptible officials, the penalty itself is not much lighter than the heavy flail.

At this time, Jingcang corn costs six coins of silver, wheat seven coins, japonica rice one tael, and glutinous rice costs one tael or two coins and one stone.

Two or three hundred taels is nothing in the eyes of high-ranking officials, but it is enough for an ordinary Beijing official's family to live for a year or two, let alone a thousand taels, in the eyes of some poor Beijing officials, one thousand taels is already an astronomical amount.

More troublesome than "penalty rice" is "losing side".

It is not easy to transport grain on the nine sides, and the salt introduction is to attract merchants to transport grain to the border with huge profits. It is not easy for merchants to transport grain in an organized manner, let alone ordinary people.

It is not surprising that the cost of transportation to the border is several times higher than the price of rice. Moreover, you have to burn incense and worship the Buddha so as not to be robbed by the robbery.

Most of the officials who were fined rice complained bitterly, and many of them almost went bankrupt in order to pay the fines. This is the case with the Hangul of the Tobe Shoshu that has been sent to the Shishi.

Liu Jin's "gentle" trick, but the blow is not small.

Xie Qian's youngest son, Xie Pi, was also accused of "losing Wence", and Han Wen was generally fined 1,000 stone of rice and lost Datong, and then simply found a person who was deposed from his official position and served the people.

Liu Jin took the opportunity to liquidate Liu Xiemen, who had not been completely cleaned up at the beginning, as well as Hanlin and Yushi who shouted grievances for Xie Pi and others.

Many people who refused to attach themselves to Liu Jin and had impeached and condemned Liu Jin were also punished.

Poor Hanlin, poor Hanlin, Hanlin Yuan is one of the best Qingshui Yamen, many of them are barely able to maintain their lives in Beijing, how can they afford this penalty, many people have to go into debt.

At this time, Shen Zhou's Qingze Academy came into the eyes of these Hanlin because of the high-paid appointment of a lecturer.

Shen Rui also introduced the policy of advancing lecture fees in a timely manner, and could flexibly settle the money in various ways such as time, daily, and monthly to help the fined Hanlin relieve the financial pressure, so soon Qingze Academy no longer lacked Mr.

Some people are even willing to "break the festival" to teach basic courses and arithmetic courses in the commercial school and the craftsman school for higher income.

In the end, the Shen family and the Xie family have an in-law relationship, and Xie Di is Shen Ying and Wang Shouren in the same year, Xie Pi also had the same friendship with the third master, after Xie Pi was deposed, the Shen family invited him to stay in Qingze Academy, and Shen Rui even half-brightly and half-secretly pointed out that staying in Beijing could wait for recovery at any time.

Xie Pi has always been arrogant, even if he was hit hard, he was not depressed, refused to stay, and insisted on returning to his hometown to serve his elders.

The Shen family couldn't either, so they prepared enough gifts to send him south.

He Taizhi also followed Shen Rui to send Xie Pi that day, and after coming back, he complained to Shen Rui in private: "At the beginning, I didn't get Brother Li to go to Shandong, but now it's okay, the Xie family's door has also been served in a pot, you see, there are still a few people who come to see him, and those people might as well be left to Brother Li." ”

Shen Rui poked him and said, "You should also add a door to your mouth." Seeing him grimacing, he said solemnly: "There are many things in it, you just listen to the scales and half claws, don't think about it." Study well with Mr., these gentlemen are all talented recently, but they must strive to become a junior in three years. ”

He Taizhi nodded hurriedly, and said with a smile: "That fellow villager of Binzhong, Mr. Lin, is indeed talented, and listening to his lectures is transparent!" The article is concise and to the point, but it is wonderful! And that Lin Fuyu is also interesting. Putian is really talented. ”

He had already been allowed by his father to study in Beijing, and now he is studying in Qingze with Dai Dabin's cousin Lin Fuyu, and the Mr. Lin in his mouth is Dai Dabin's fellow villager and former Dali judge Lin Fu.

Lin Fu and Dai Dabin are considered to be friends in the world, when Dai Dabin, Lin Fuyu and others caused trouble in Xiyuan Huanxi Shakou, it was Lin Fu who came forward to take them to apologize. Later, Dai Dabin was also defended in many ways.

When Liu Jin's gossip about wanting to recruit his son-in-law Dai Dabin came out, Lin Fu also defended Dai Dabin in many ways, and there was inevitably sarcasm for Liu Jin in his words, and because of other official affairs, he was almost imprisoned after 30 years of court staffing, but Dai Dabin and Shen Ruixiang rescued him, and finally ended up with a derogatory punishment.

Lin Fu was angry, and refused to accept the petty official in the remote place, so he simply resigned and came directly to Qingze Academy to teach.

There were still many officials like Lin Fu who came to Qingze, and Qingze Academy became famous in Beijing for a while, and many scholars came to study.

At the same time, because of its great fame, it has spread all over the market, and many families can't afford to provide for their children to study, and those who want to find a job have heard that in addition to Qingze, there is also a Qingyi School, which is divided into commercial affairs and craftsman schools, and you can go in to learn crafts.

This Qingze means moisturizing things silently, ordinary people don't understand, Qingyi means like a tiger with wings, but it is what the people like to see.

I heard that it is different from working for three years on the counter, this school includes students' room and board, and after the work "internship", there is a small amount of monthly silver to take.

The common people also want to send their children to save their mouths, not to mention that they can also take the silver back to supplement the family, and they can't help but be overjoyed and send their children over.

Therefore, the business and craftsman schools of Qingyi School are unexpectedly popular, not only are the students not worried, but Shen Rui also has to worry about whether to expand the school, or build a branch school, and classify craftsmen in more detail, such as carpentry and blacksmiths.

After the new policy of punishing rice came out, not only Qingze and Qingyi got a good opportunity for development, but Shen Rui also took the opportunity to develop another business - standard.

Tian Feng originally followed Shen Rui's idea, borrowed the name of the Kaifeng Dart Bureau, and together with Du Laoba, set up the "Shunfeng Marker".

At the beginning of the year, Tian Feng went to Shandong and paved the route there, and many "sites" were still under construction, so he was transferred and followed Zhao Hongpei to Shanxi.

This way is also to open up the relationship between the rivers and lakes, recruit some good players, and prepare for the Shanxi line that will be marked by the wind in the future.

Now that there is a rice penalty, and many officials are punished for losing rice to Datong's side, Shen Rui started the Shanxi line of the standard line in advance - Tian Feng took the lead and took care of the relationship along the way, and Du Laoba controlled the dart of the Shunfeng standard line in Beijing to accept grain and rice.

Only charge one-third of the cost of their own food, but there are special dart masters all the way to Datong warehouse to ensure that all the formalities are complete, and if the dart is lost, the standard bank is also responsible for compensation.

Such conditions are considered excellent.

For a while, Shunfeng Marker was also very popular in Beijing, and the transportation network to Shanxi was initially established.

Shen Rui also privately suggested to Brother Shou that although the penalty of rice can alleviate the shortage of grain in the nine borders, the simple punishment of rice is also easy to cause the price of rice in a place to rise, especially the punishment of those officials who cause the loss of grain and grass in the border passes.

If they are punished for sending rice and grain to the local area, they will naturally not choose to buy grain from Jiangnan, but will only raise grain locally. There was already a shortage of grain in the local area, and because they raised grain, the price of grain soared, and it was the people who suffered, so they lost the emperor's benevolent intention.

Why don't you let them do "good deeds" to atone for their sins, such as building bridges and paving roads, or if there is a drought in the mountains, you can let them dig wells.

If these people are not enriching their own pockets and inaction, they will not cause damage to the warehouse, then it is also the right thing to cut off the fat and ointment of those people from them and benefit the people.

In addition, the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs had previously mentioned that in order to fill the treasury, let the border generals fine silver to atone for their crimes, and pay silver for promotion, and they can also be allowed to pave bridges and build roads.

When the military department of the first household department wanted to sell the official mantle, the former Shen Rui suggested that Brother Shou could donate a certain amount of silver taels in the name of charity to build bridges and pave roads, and give the ancestor of the merchant Jia Fuhu five to seven grades of "honorary official position".

This article has been tried to implement in several rich places in the south of the Yangtze River, the local squire has the consciousness of benefiting the township, and often has good deeds, and now the good deeds can also be exchanged for the effect of a "hairpin house", and there are many wealthy businessmen who are willing to pay money for this.

And this road is not built indiscriminately, you can't open a mountain path to settle the account, and you can't repair it indiscriminately. This still has to be planned by the imperial court, from which section to which section, clearly marked, to what extent, to be accepted.

The amount of money donated is also implicit in the road construction project money, so as not to appear to be selling officials, and there are precedents for official ranks, the number of people who have been awarded official orders, and the amount of money.

The Jiangnan base was put into trial operation, and the financial situation and infrastructure feedback were very gratifying.

It's just that in the end, it is a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, and he will only consider the problem of the family when he has spare money and leisure, so he is willing to spend this money for a "false name".

At the border gates, the question of survival is always in front of everyone, and no one will consider those imaginary things.

Then, the road in Shanxi, please ask those martial artists who want to pay silver to atone for their sins and want to pay silver for promotion.

In this way, there are also very important strategic considerations for the construction of roads in a large area in Shanxi -- once there is a war, the speed of transportation of grain, grass, and weapons in the interior will be greatly improved.

Brother Shou was a little unimpressed when he heard the increase in grain prices before, in his opinion, it was imperative to fill the border warehouse first, and to make the border soldiers hungry, the pass would not want to be defended.

After hearing the strategic considerations later, he paid attention to it, accepted Shen Rui's notebook, and said that he would discuss it with the cabinet and the Ministry of War.

Because there is a precedent for building roads himself, Shen Rui also asked Yang Tinghe and Wang Hua for their opinions this time, and discussed with Li Yanqing the possibility of building roads and drilling wells in Shanxi and some technical issues.

In addition, in response to the Ministry of War's repetition of the case of begging students to be imprisoned and monks giving money to Dumu, Shen Rui's suggestion is to refer to the tax law of Xiyuan's "scenic spot", and open the monks and Taoist officials who are in the peak of incense and Taoist temples to pay silver, and for the businesses around key scenic spots, the commercial tax is also doubled according to the actual situation.

Brother Shou has no objection to this.

Since the last time he chatted with Shen Rui, he really set up a name for Tianliangzi in Xiyuan, Tianliangguan, and the picture is this incense silver.

In the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper, Tianliang Palace is the star of longevity, because of this good omen, many people will go to Tianliang Palace to worship in Xiyuan and pray for the elderly at home.

Tianliangzi still can't change his love of giving medicine to people, even if he is praised as a fairy master, he is not reserved. Fortunately, even if he doesn't eat his medicine well, he can't eat it badly, and occasionally he eats a few better, which adds to his name as a god.

The old ladies in Beijing are asking for longevity, and they donate a lot of sesame oil and silver.

Brother Shou, who loves to make money, blossomed for this.

*

Liu Jin vigorously carried out his changes, and of course he did not let go of the people who calculated him at the beginning.

He first recruited Shaanxi Xie Yuan Shao Jinfu as his niece and son-in-law.

This Shao Jinfu is also a young prodigy with beautiful eyebrows, two years younger than Dai Dabin, and now he is seventeen years old, and he went to Suixiang to try to win Shaanxi Xie Yuan in one fell swoop, which was also a sensation.

It's just that this year's spring season fell off the list, and he didn't get a jinshi, so he didn't enter Liu Jin's sight.

When Li Jing's affair came out, Liu Jin knew that he could no longer recruit Dai Dabin, so he ordered his staff to go to the provincial capitals in Beibang to learn about the situation of the new science and technology scholars and find a good person for his nephew.

Only then did I learn that Shao Jinfu was this person.

Because of his young age, the first time he didn't hit the game was really nothing, and he himself was in a good state of mind, not very depressed, and after trying to fail, he played for a few days, and then packed his bags and returned to his hometown to study hard.

Liu Jin sent someone to the county to spread the word, and sent a matchmaker to the door, under coercion, Shao Jinfu obediently returned to Beijing to marry Liu Jin's niece.

As soon as the negotiation over there changed Geng Ti, Shao Jinfu didn't even set off, and Liu Jin in the capital here had already let people go, saying that his niece was going to marry Shaanxi Xie Yuan and the young talent.

The marriage is scheduled for the end of the year, but the wedding card was sent early, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have received it, regardless of whether they are happy or not, they probably want to pinch their noses and make a ceremony.

First there was the fire of Dai Dabin's poetry collection, and then there was the news of this well-known wedding, and it was rumored that Liu Jin wanted to force Dai Dabin to be his son-in-law, and Li Jing died in Beizhen Fusi Prison for no reason, and no one mentioned it.

But how could Liu Jin not investigate, especially after the establishment of the insider factory, with his own team, loyal and reliable, Liu Jin ordered the insider factory to investigate the cause of Li Jing's death, as well as the Yudao anonymous book incident that day.

In the end, Li Jing has the shadow of Qiu Ju before and after this matter, and as for the anonymous book of the Royal Dao, Qiu Ju can't get rid of it.

At this time, Liu Jin was already murderous towards Qiu Ju.

And the other people who jumped out of the anonymous book of the Royal Dao, such as Huang Wei who came out to shout with the hundred officials, Li Rong who gave the hundred officials ice melons to invite them to buy people's hearts, and Chen Kuan, who ran to the palace to complain, he Liu Zuzong would not let any of them go.

Huang Wei's foundation is the shallow, and Liu Jin found a mistake and sent someone to Nanjing to be Wang Yue's companion.

Chen Kuan is an old slippery head, he is surprisingly honest, he doesn't want to be wilted, but because he is honest and does his duty on weekdays, he can't catch the wrong child for a while.

Li Rong is the old man of the celebrant eunuch, and it will take some effort to deal with him.

However, without waiting for Liu Jin to make a move, Li Rong made a preemptive move, and the inner government Jiazi Treasury collected and stored the broad white three shuttle cloth, which was originally used exclusively for rewarding internal officials, but now it was used as a civil and military attaché, so that the treasury was empty, the reward was lacking, and the beggar officer investigated.

This is also at the moment of the investigation, the emperor sent the ceremonial supervisor Zuo Shaojian Zhang Huai, Zhang Yun in the matter, Wang Zhu in the imperial history, and Dong Rui in the household department Langzhong to check the calculation and depreciation of their own support.

After this investigation, it turned out that there were more than 86,600 boils, and more than 9,500 people who owed it. The internal and external officials should inquire about one hundred and seventy-three people.

During this period, many people who piggybacked Liu Jin were dismissed from their posts for investigation and sent to the prison to suppress and fusi.

Even Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was also involved, but he was convicted of a lesser crime, and was only seized and fined 100 stones.

Because this matter is widely implicated, Liu Jin can't protect everyone, and in the end, it is useless for Liu Jin to lose his temper.

But the staff made a trick for him, asking him to use his strength to hang this matter on Qiu Ju.

Qiu Ju's business outside is not a secret, speaking of which, which big eunuch has no property in his name!

Qiu Ju stuffed Luo Xiang into the Imperial Horse Prison, and then sent Zhang Yonggong to Shanxi, but his eyes were not fixed on the Huangzhuang Huangdian.

Liu Jin's expert factory suppressed the East Factory on the one hand, and investigated Qiu Ju on the other, first using Li Rong's incident to drag the silk village under Qiu Ju's name into the water, but not only found out the three shuttle cloth in the cloth village warehouse, but also the high-grade Wenqi woven by Jiangnan, and it was not a batch or two batches.

Such a thing of quality is clearly pulled out of the tribute, and it is clearly that the errand has increased the amount to ask for tribute, and the interception is to fill the private pocket.

And following this batch of Wenqi to the south, Qiu Ju once helped Cui Gao, the internal official and young eunuch, to settle the matter of salt introduction, and accepted Cui Gao's matter of bribing with tribute, which was pinched by Liu Jin.

In fact, Cui Gao was Liu Jin's person at that time, and Cui Gao's godson Tan Liang was also the first Liu Jin to beg.

But at that time, the court was staring at this matter, Zeng Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Han Wen, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, took six departments to the middle of the matter and the thirteen imperial histories, and none of them were not impeached, and even the three elders of the cabinet spoke.

Liu Jin was forced by Liu Jian and Xie Qian to be a man with his tail between his legs, where would he care about Cui Gao's life or death.

Unexpectedly, Tan Liang begged Qiu Ju to come to Qiu Ju's side, and Qiu Ju was able to use Tan Liang to trick Wang Yue's nephew Wang Rui's words, and finally bring down Wang Yue.

When Liu Jian, Xie Qian, Wang Yue and others were brought down, Qiu Ju was his ally of Liu Jin, and he didn't care what means Qiu Ju used. But now, I have to think about it, Qiu Ju's claws are so long, and he stretched out into his own entrainment to dig people at that time!

Since you dare to stretch out your thief's claws, don't blame your ancestors for chopping them off! Liu Jin was ruthless in his heart, turned around and went to the book, and tore him down from the salt.

Liu Jin first found someone to kick Cui Gao to beg for salt, but he actually got more than needed, and then revealed that Cui Gao used those salt to exchange silver for the tribute weaving gold and Wenqi were more than the amount set in the palace, but the extra part was "gone".

This was not found in the silk village under Qiu Ju's name, and the two henchmen and godsons of Qiu Ju in the silk village were arrested on the spot and sent to Beizhen Fusi Prison.

However, before Liu Jin could get the confessions of the two people, the two men hanged themselves in prison.

The defense is tight and they can still die, it can be seen that there are people in the north town of Fusi.

Then the death of Li Jing before was obviously also done by Qiu Ju.

Liu Jin was furious, and soon played, saying that he had visited Du Cheng, a merchant of the two Huai Yun Divisions in Yangzhou, and other names of the lower Gezhi salt and piled up 1.16 million in the warehouse.

Later, the palace issued a decree that the merchant withdrew the salt, and there was still no trader for three months, and he was questioned. Delay for half a year on the trader, salt leads to no official.

At one time, the land clearance had just begun to be implemented, and the inventory of salt was ready again.

This Yangzhou merchant Du Cheng is a newly rising salt merchant after the fall of the Yan family.

At the beginning, the case of the Yan family was handled by Dongchang, and Qiu Ju's people copied the Yan family. This Du Cheng was naturally supported by Qiu Ju.

He was also born in a salt run, and he repeatedly supported salt, carried illicit salt, hoarded and sold it privately in the salt shear angle, and he had never done any of it.

And these extra silver, in addition to creating another richest man in Yangzhou, naturally also flowed to the pockets of Jingshi and Qiu Ju.

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"Find someone, and do the people sent halfway." Qiu Ju's eyes were cold.

The henchman kneeling opposite him said urgently: "Godfather, that ...... That's the imperial court's ...... and imperial history."

If the palace sends someone over, it will be pulled down after killing and buried, and the seat can be vacated for the godson and grandchildren.

But if you rob and kill the officials of the imperial court, it is a different matter.

"If the court investigates it......" The henchman has a faint sweat on his forehead.

It's not in prison, if you say that you will be killed, you will be killed, and two officials died in vain on the official road, and they are under the emperor's order, how can the court not pursue it? That's a lot of cuts.

Aunt Zhen said beside her: "Then Du Cheng is done, there are many salt merchants in Yangzhou, and there is another one." ”

Her voice was as sweet as ever, but it caused a shiver to hear it in people's ears.

Qiu Ju glanced at it, knowing that she was eager to take the opportunity to destroy the Du family that had replaced her Yan family, but she still said, "It's not a bad idea." Tidy up the whole thing. ”

The henchman was obviously relieved, it was easier to be a salt merchant, even if it was to destroy the family, than to kill two court officials, and the risk was smaller. "The Son Goes to ......"

"The Du family's business is big, and it will always attract one or two bandits to covet it, and robbing and destroying the door are the usual methods of bandits." Aunt Zhen said slowly: "When it's done, I'll find an irrelevant person and submit a letter to Songjiang Xiao Shen Zhuangyuan, saying that his father Xiaozhong had an affair with the maid and gave birth, and the maid and the child are in our hands, so let him go to Yangzhou to smooth out the case of the Du family's extermination." ”

The henchman was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he couldn't stop looking at Qiu Ju.

Qiu Ju didn't even move his eyebrows.

"He is the niece and son-in-law of the Queen Mother, and the father-in-law behind him, Lao Taishan, walks sideways in Beijing, he is a champion, so there is always something to do with it." Hearing this, Aunt Zhen seemed to be a little impatient, and said, "Oh, it's his business to use what method to use." If he wants to say that he can't do it, then well, then the matter of the maid and the child will be counted on his head. After that, he didn't have to do anything. ”

The henchman looked at Qiu Ju's face, and when he saw that he bowed his head slightly after Aunt Zhen finished speaking, he pulled out a smile and praised with a smile: "Auntie is a good method." My son will do it. ”

Sent away the henchmen, Aunt Zhen helped Qiu Ju beat his back and breathe, and sighed in a low voice: "It's a pity that Xiaoshan was folded in the cell, otherwise, Songjiang's affairs were handled by him, and he could have done it more neatly." ”

Qiu Ju remembered that the hands of the people who were folded in the Fusi of Beizhen felt a pain in the flesh, first there was Li Jing's matter, and asked Liu Jin and Yang Yu to dig out the nails he buried, and this time, the bright line was damaged and the dark line was broken, and there were not many people under his command who could use it.

Liu Jin, a forgetful lamb, was overwhelmed by the expert factory in the East Factory, and now he is coming to dig up his private property and destroy his people, is this going to be wiped out?

Li Jing this waste! Worse than useless!

Also, Shen and Rui!

Qiu Ju gritted his back molars, Shen Rui is really his nemesis, he is everywhere? Li Jing's matter, if it weren't for Shen Rui's bad things, Li Jing would have succeeded, and Liu Jin would have been impeached by Yu Shi! How could the emperor still believe him!

There's also the Anonymous Book thing! If it weren't for Shen Rui and Chen Kuan running out halfway to stir up, if one or two old adults died that day, then Liu Jin's head would simply not be saved!

Counting further, the things that Shen Rui and Zhang Yong teamed up for, one by one, all made Qiu gather fire.

Shen Rui, Shen Rui, this scourge must be eliminated.

Shen Rui, Shen Rui, the affairs of the homeless people can't kill you, right? Then change to something else!

Qiu Ju narrowed his eyes, asked someone outside the door to summon his other henchman, and ordered: "You go and send a letter to Pei Yuanhe in person, when the He family was in charge, let him check the person surnamed Sun, didn't he find out something?" Let him continue to dig up ...... for Lao Tzu"

Fifty or sixty years ago, hmph, then hit that incident, Lao Tzu didn't believe it, and it won't kill you......

(End of chapter)