For the two brothers, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, these days can be described as a lot of anxiety.

After the prince went out of the pavilion to study, he often ran around, contracted the disease, and the fever did not go away in the first few days.

Zhu Youzhu herself was convinced of Taoism, and Empress Zhang was somewhat influenced by her husband.

The hopes of the Zhang family are pinned on Queen Zhang and the crown prince, and whether they can be rich in the future depends on whether the prince can grow up healthily and inherit the throne in the future.

It's bad enough for the prince to be sick, and in the past two days, Liu Daxia has set up secret warehouses inside and outside the capital to hide stolen grain, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling have suffered heavy losses, you must know that the money made by the two brothers is not just for their own enjoyment, and there are many of them who have honored Zhu Youzhu and his wife.

Although the emperor is rich all over the world, the court expenses are all accounted for and fixed. Zhu Youzhi doesn't want to be too mean to his family, so he won't have the idea of throttling, but how can he open up the source when he is the emperor? The filial piety of the Zhang brothers solved Zhu Youji's big problem.

The Zhang brothers took advantage of the power given by the emperor to steal grain from the treasury and sell it, and then sent most of the money they earned to the palace. Therefore, if you want to talk about the leader behind the grain theft case in the treasury, it is actually the Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youji.

It can't be said that the Zhang brothers were pushed out to carry the black pot, they want to please Zhu Youzhang, they can't do it without a little effort, they all think they are very beautiful, in fact, they have their own hardships, for their sister, for their brother-in-law, and for the prince, they will be criticized constantly by the outside of the pool.

To be a relative who is not accused of being blamed is a profound knowledge, at least the Zhang brothers, who are still very young, can't do it.

I have power, even the emperor is directed towards me, why don't I be corrupt and pervert the law and use power for personal gain?

Before Zhang Heling decided to hold this banquet, he made it clear to his cronies that if there were any trustworthy people who wanted to be officials, they just recommended them, regardless of whether they could be put into real vacancies in the end, and then they would collect the money first, and then the emperor had become more and more nervous in the past two years, and he relied on the help of the Zhang brothers to collect money.

The subordinates are very good at doing things, and the people invited today have prepared more money and gifts, in the name of congratulating the new branch jinshi, in fact, they are paying tribute and bribing the Zhang brothers.

Roughly calculated, a banquet has almost thousands of taels of silver in the account, as well as a large number of invaluable jewelry, calligraphy and paintings.

The eunuch who had just sent away the East Palace to pass the word, Zhang Yanling looked at Zhang Heling and said, "Brother, what do you say now?" The prince is sick, we just wait stupidly and it is not a solution, why don't we go to the people to recruit some capable people and exorcise demons for the prince, maybe we can make the prince turn the corner? ”

Zhang Yanling was named Jianchangbo, with the title of "Governor Tongzhi", a military general from the first rank, but he actually had no military power, and Zhu Youzhi also knew that his brother-in-law was not the material to lead troops.

When the Zhang family was born, Zhang Yanling was only in his teens, and he was only in his early twenties, and his talent and cultivation were far inferior to his brother Zhang Heling.

Zhang Heling did not answer his brother's question, but asked Xu Qiong, who was sitting on the side: "What do you think of my brother-in-law?" ”

At that time, Zhang Luan, the father of the Zhang brothers, was just a prisoner of the country, and he was a small official in the court, but Zhang Luan knew how to invest in politics very well, and his eldest daughter was beautiful.

However, Xu Qiong soon reciprocated, and when Chenghua chose a concubine for the prince in the twenty-third year, Xu Qiong secretly helped, so that Zhang Luan's daughter was elected as the crown princess, which laid the foundation for the rise of the Zhang family, and then Zhang Luan and his two sons were knighted, and Xu Qiong also secretly helped, so even if the sister of the Zhang brothers was only Xu Qiong's concubine, the two of them were obedient to Xu Qiong.

Xu Qiong's performance is in stark contrast to Wang Wei, the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shi and a bachelor of Hanlin Academy.

According to Wang Shizhen's "Chibei Occasional Conversation", Wang Wei married Zhang Luan's daughter and was the sister of the Zhang brothers, but after Zhang Luan became noble, Wang Wei immediately broke off contact with the Zhang family, and even Zhang Luan's initiative to show favor was rejected by Wang Luan.

Xu Qiong is also the prince's "uncle" no matter what he says, and now that the prince is seriously ill, he can't sit idly by, so he immediately suggested: "The prince is protected by the gods, and he will be able to turn the crisis into safety." But if you listen to the words of the warlocks and pretend to be ghosts, you are afraid of disaster, and you should visit famous doctors all over the world. ”

Even if Xu Qiong is facing the Zhang family in some things, but he is a scholar in the end, he has climbed to a high position step by step by relying on his own efforts, and he has always been resistant to the emperor's belief in Taoism, and he was the first to disapprove of the Zhang brothers' recruitment of Jianghu warlocks to open the altar.

Zhang Heling didn't want to refute her brother-in-law's face, so she nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

This "maybe" was not clear, Zhang Yanling was a little confused when he heard it, but Xu Qiong knew that Zhang Heling did not intend to listen to him, but continued to go his own way to invite the warlocks.

From the large number of Taoist priests who enter and leave the Shouning Marquis Mansion on weekdays, it can be seen that the emperor has a bad problem with the Zhang family, that is, he believes in Taoist nonsense too much.

Xu Qiong's face was not very good-looking, but he didn't argue with the two brothers-in-law, after all, it was Empress Zhang's order to ask the warlock to save people, and the Zhang brothers would only follow their sister's wishes.

A man in his forties next to him said, "It's early to start the table outside, so you have to take care of it......

This person has been silent and seems very humble, but in fact, his status in the Zhang family is not low. This person's name is Zhang Qi, Zhang Luan's younger brother, the uncle of the Zhang brothers, born in Jinshi, and now he is the imperial history in the court. But because of his cowardly temperament, even if he was invited to such banquets, he rarely spoke.

Zhang Qi didn't mention the banquet outside, the Zhang brothers almost forgot about this stubble, the prince was sick, the stolen grain was investigated, and the two brothers didn't have much to entertain the guests outside, but the two brothers were greedy for money, even if they didn't entertain, they still had to accept the gifts they should receive.

As for the guests, just send a few cronies to cooperate with Zhang Qi to go out to entertain them.

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When I came out of the Shouning Hou Mansion, it was already the second watch.

Shen Xi sat down and discussed with Wang Shouren for more than an hour, mainly around the study of the mind to express his opinions, from Wang Shouren's attitude, Shen Xi talked about these theories quite inspired, so that when parting, Wang Shouren respectfully saluted Shen Xi, not like a colleague, but as if he treated a gentleman.

Shen Xi used Wang Shouren's future experience to teach the other party in turn, which is equivalent to pouring ready-made knowledge into Wang Shouren's brain, and missing the process of exploration and thinking.

Shen Xi knew that this was a bit of a duck on the shelf, with Wang Shouren's current knowledge and attainments, there was still a lot of way to go before the heart was completed, and Shen Xi just asked him to take fewer detours.

But Shen Xi is a little puzzled, since these theories of mind come from himself, is the future theory of mind Wang's or his Shen's?

In the past, it was mentioned that the study of mind was "Lu Wang Xinxue", and if I mentioned it in the future, it would become "Lu Shen Xinxue"?

Shen Xi is still young, he has no idea about learning and fame, he doesn't mind returning the ideas that should belong to Wang Shouren to the other party, in the era of the budding of psychology, in fact, there are many people like Wang Shouren who are silently exploring the mysteries of psychology, but Wang Shouren is in front of everyone.

If Wang Shouren really succeeds in his study of the mind, I am afraid that he will add in his "Biography" the allusion of discussing the study of mind with Shen Xi, the champion of the new department, in the Shouning Marquis Mansion.

At the end of the banquet, Shen Xi almost "escaped" from the Shouning Marquis Mansion.

Fortunately, the prince was ill, and the Zhang brothers had no intention of presiding over the banquet, which made him miss the opportunity to meet and communicate with the treacherous relatives.

If the Zhang brothers had to force the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce to use it for their own purposes, Shen Xi really couldn't refuse, could Shen Xi be the enemy of the queen's mother's family? Not to mention that he has no official position now, even if he is a high-ranking person such as Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, he can only turn a blind eye to what his relatives and the party do.

Shen Xi left the Shouning Hou Mansion, did not go to find Yu Niang, nor did he go back to the Dongsheng Inn, but trotted all the way, through the streets and alleys in the dark night, and went in the direction of his own courtyard.

After being watched by Yu Niang for more than two months, Shen Xi felt like a prisoner. Now that Liu Daxia has begun to clean up the thieves who stole grain, he is already a dispensable person, so it is better to take this opportunity to get out of the control of Yu Niang.

This feeling of being played with by others made Shen Xi unhappy even if he won the champion and the real carp jumped over the dragon gate.

But even if Shen Xi has a good anti-tracking ability, after getting rid of it several times, he just made sure that no one was following him, and when he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly found that the excuse in front of him was Yu Niang's slender figure.

"Childe doesn't go back to the inn, where is this going?" Yu Niang smiled and stopped in front of her, and her appearance made Shen Xi feel the urge to go up and strangle her to death.

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and spread his hands, but did not speak, but showed that he wanted to go home. Yu Niang smiled: "If you come late, or you really can't find the son." Mr. Liu, please...... Childe still went to see Lord Liu first and consulted his old man's opinion, what do you think? ”

Shen Xi frowned and thought about it, since Liu Daxia wanted to see him, it meant that Liu Daxia already knew about his coming to the Hou Mansion of Shouning for a banquet tonight, but if Liu Daxia took all kinds of countermeasures because of this, if he had an accident in the Hou Mansion, he would take the initiative to rescue him, Shen Xi still didn't believe it very much.

When he and Yu Niang went out of the street, there was already a carriage parked there.

The carriage didn't even have windows, it was like a dim cage, and Shen Xi sat in it and bumped for almost a stick of incense before the car stopped.

Shen Xi jumped out of the car and looked around, the place he went to was not like a yamen, nor like the secret stronghold of the factory guards, it was an ordinary alley, and in front of him was the gate of a small courtyard.

The courtyard of the small door, into the inside, vaguely saw the lights in the front room flickering, Yu Niang led the way, to the door, Yu Niang no longer went inside.

Shen Xi crossed the threshold, and at a glance saw the desk facing the window on the right, Liu Daxia was splashing ink, and Jiang Liwei was standing aside with a candlestick.

Hearing the sound of Shen Xi entering the door, Liu Daxia glanced up at Shen Xi slightly, and greeted, "Coming?" ”

Shen Xi didn't dare to slack off, and stepped forward to salute: "The student has seen Liu Shilang. ”

Jiang Liwei glanced at Shen Xi coldly, and said, "It's time to change your name to Liu Shangshu, Your Majesty has just issued an order to use Liu Shangshu to lead the household department." ”

Shen Xi thought about it, Zhou Jing was still a marking officer when he took the palace exam, why was he dismissed in just two days? But it's right to think about it, there is such a big case in the household grain depot, and tens of thousands of stone grains are missing, and Zhou Jing, as the secretary of the household department, has an unshirkable responsibility.

But in this way, history can be skewed again.

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