Chapter 40: First Encounter with Yang Sichang
Li Weier's beautiful face smiled apologetically at the middle-aged man. Li Yue'er next to her also showed the same smile. The two seem to be the same person, and there is almost no difference in time before and after the appearance of their expressions. The couple looked a little stunned for a while. The second daughter was surprised by the fact that others were completely identical in their appearance, figure, expression, and surprise.
"I'm very sorry that you didn't win any prizes." Li Weier said, placing the unfolded paper ball in front of the couple. The paper reads, "Thank you for your patronage."
"Hahaha, interesting, although I didn't win the lottery, but it's still quite interesting, thank you two girls" said with a smile.
"Xianggong, why don't I try it, there is still a chance," said the lady.
Seeing the middle-aged man nodded. Li Weier pushed the cardboard box forward on the table. The lady reached into the cardboard box, took out a paper ball, hurriedly unfolded it, and saw that there was a "B" written on it.
Li Weier smiled and said: "This lady's luck is really good, you are the second guest of honor in today's lottery, and you actually won the second prize directly." Congratulations, congratulations," he said, arching his hands with both hands.
The lady's cheeks flushed with joy, and she said happily: "Look, Xianggong, I'm hit, I'm hit," and shook his arm vigorously as she spoke. Not only did he smile bitterly, he was the mother of five children, and when he won a prize, he was as happy as a little girl. It's been a long time since I've felt like I've been able to do so, and it seems to go back to the two years when they first got married.
"Dare to ask the two girls, I don't know what this award is." He didn't really care too much about the prizes, just as a happy entertainment for the New Year.
Li Yue'er put the sign in the back to the front, and the younger brother called this brand a water brand, and he didn't know why. "Distinguished guests, please see, this is the prize details of this lottery. The winning rate is about one-third. There are only 10 winners in the first word award, about 100 in the B word award, and the rest are all C awards. ”
The middle-aged man fixed his eyes and saw that the award of the first word was actually a piece of homespun cloth, the second word award was half a piece of homespun cloth, and the C-word award was a foot of homespun cloth. Not only stunned, this award is really very, the homespun cloth is thick, although it is not stiff, easy to fold, not suitable for the government and to attend important occasions to wear, but it is still good to make clothes for children, especially in this season, plus cotton to make cotton clothes is very thick and durable.
Li Yue'er said: "This lady, we have a presumptuous request, because my little brother proposed, winning the lottery should be fair, just and open. You are the first person to win the lottery, can you leave your name. It is also good to let other people who did not win the lottery know that the lottery is honest and fair. ”
The lady hesitated for a while, and said slowly: "What the two girls said is indeed reasonable, but the concubine is a female generation and a married person, so it is inconvenient to leave a name, so it is better to leave the name of my father-in-law." ”
Li Weier said: "Madame, don't worry, let me ask my little brother." As he spoke, he asked Xiaolan to call Li Jing. Soon Li Jing came over and complained to Li Wei'er: "Sister, I'm busy, you two can't handle the lottery, it's really stupid."
As soon as Li Jing came out, the couple's eyes lit up, and they couldn't help but praise in their hearts, what a handsome young man. I saw that this young man was extremely similar to these beautiful-looking twin sisters, and they looked like a family.
Before he finished speaking, Li Jing was pulled by Li Weier's ears. scolded: "Blame me, what kind of rules you set yourself, let the winner leave his name, and what is fair, just, and open." Now the first one to win the lottery is a lady, how to leave a name. You stupid pig blames me. ”
"Ah, it hurts, sister, it hurts, my ears are torn off" Li Jing hurriedly begged for mercy.
The couple couldn't help but look at each other, but they didn't expect that the boss behind the opening of 55 Wumart department stores in Jinling City today was actually this young man who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old.
"The student is polite, two, it is true that I was not thoughtful and abrupt. Please don't be surprised by the two distinguished guests," Li Jing said with a deep salute.
The couple also saluted at the same time, and the middle-aged man smiled and said: "A wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, not to mention that I am a mortal, the little boy doesn't have to mind." ”
"Thank you Mr. for your generosity, Mr. and Mrs. are one, and our store will give a small barrel of rum brewed by Mr. and Mrs. Franco, as an apology." With a wave of his hand, Bai Yu immediately took out an oak barrel with a height and a half foot diameter from the store, the barrel was pitch black in color, and it looked like it was some years old.
"Please also sign the name of the recipient of this prize," Li Jing said.
Then he turned back to the second daughter and said: "If there is another woman who wins the lottery, the husband and wife will write the husband's name, and if it is a single woman and a girl who has not left the cabinet, write a surname, such as Mrs. Zhang and Miss Li." ”
"Well, this method is feasible, and you should sign to receive the prize, and at the same time, it also avoids affecting the reputation of the girlfriend. It's a good way to have the best of both worlds," said the middle-aged man with a smile. Wine generally comes from the Western Regions, transported from Shaanxi and Gansu to Beijing by a pack team, or imported from the trench mirror by the Francois man, which is a very rare treasure. I didn't expect this little owner to be generous.
Li Jing opened the registration book and handed the brush to the gentleman. looked at this gentleman, picked up the pen on the first list of award recipients, and neatly wrote the three words Yang Sichang. The three characters are quite muscular, and there is a faint meaning of obscurity and introversion. Li Jing was not only stunned when he saw these three words, if this Yang Sichang was the Yang Shoufu in history, he would be the heavyweight of the entire Ming Dynasty for the next twenty years.
Li Jing's eyes, which were usually a little squinted, couldn't help but open slightly, and looked at Yang Sichang carefully.
I saw Yang Sichang looking dignified, a little slightly fat, medium stature, goose egg face, some embarrassing beard, lion nose and round eyes, large ears with wheels, and thick earlobes. The heavenly court is full, and it looks like the kind of person who can be a high-ranking official as said in the photo book. Mrs. Yang looked gentle and elegant, with the demeanor of a lady, and her speech and demeanor were well-founded, and the two looked very compatible.
When Yang Sichang saw Li Jing, one of his two eyes was always a little squinted, and when he saw his name, the squinted eyes suddenly opened, and a breathtaking brilliance looked at him. I can't help but be shocked, this son has a restrained look in his eyes, looks gentle and elegant, looks delicate, and even a little too handsome, but when the squinting eyes open, there is a tiger's eye, and there is a hint of wolf-like wildness, cunning and ruthlessness. It's a ruthless character who kills and decides. Although this son is still young, he is by no means a thing in the pool.
"Childe doesn't know Yang's name" Yang Sichang's heart fluctuated, but he asked calmly on the surface.
"Dare to ask your guests, but it is Mr. Yang Wenweak, the salary manager of the household department in Nanjing."
"It's the official, what do you call the little boy." Yang Sichang said with a smile.
It's a real hammer! Li Jing's heart was settled.
At the same time, Li Jing's mind quickly flashed the overview of Yang Sichang's life in the "World Chronicles 1600--170": "The son of Yang He, the right attendant of the military department and the governor of the three sides, was a jinshi in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli (1610), and served as the secretary of the military department in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), and entered the cabinet the following year, and was deeply trusted by Emperor Chongzhen. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), he went to Huguang to encircle and suppress the peasant army as a "superintendent and auxiliary minister". In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), Zhang Xianzhong broke Xiangyang, killed Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, Yang Sichang was seriously ill, and died of fear after hearing the news (one said suicide), at the age of fifty-four. This is an important figure and a tragic figure.
His father Yang He (~1635), the word Xiuling, was a native of Wuling, Huguang (now Changde City, Hunan), and a Tujia family. During the Wanli period, he was promoted by the county to the imperial history. Successively served as the Taifu Siqing, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, and the first year of Chongzhen (1628), he moved to the left and the imperial history, and entered the left deputy capital of the imperial history. In the second year, he moved to the right of the military department, and the general capital of Shaanxi trilateral military affairs. Specializing in the suppression of the peasant rebels.
Although he was ordered, he strongly advocated appeasement, but the imperial court's finances were tight and there was no money to resettle, so the rebel army was "appeased" and then rebelled. Due to the ineffectiveness of the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng, the inspector of the imperial history Wu Fu was impeached for the master's misuse of the country, and was arrested and sentenced to death. Yang Sichang wrote a letter wishing to die on behalf of his father, Chongzhen relented for a while, and sentenced Yang He to Yuanzhou (now Yichun City, Jiangxi Province), and Yang He later died in the garrison. At this time, it was January 1621, and at this time, Yang He was either the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple or the governor of Southern Jiangxi. Yang He's appointment as governor of the trilateral was in 1631, ten years later.
Yang Sichang was born in Wuling County, Huguang Changde Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty, he is the only son of three generations of single transmission, Wuling Yang was originally from Langxi, Anhui Province, and was assigned to Wuling to fill the army during the Hongwu period for misunderstanding (being implicated by others), and the descendants gradually advocated literature and chased fame.
Under the influence of family style, Yang Sichang devoted himself to studying since he was a child, immersed himself in the imperial examination, and was promoted in the 34th year of Wanli (1606), and was promoted in the 38th year of Wanli (1610). After Yang Sichang entered the official career, he successively served as a professor of Hangzhou Fuxue, a doctor of Nanjing Guozijian, the director of the Fujian Department of the Ministry of Households, and a member of the Jiangxi Division of the Ministry of Households, and other official positions, and was promoted to Langzhong of the Household Department in August of the first year of Taichang (1620), and from December of the same year to May of the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), he served as the new salary of the Ministry of Nanjing Household Langzhong.
Li Jing thought that Yang Sichang was transferred from the Beijing Hubu Lang to the Nanjing Hubu Salary Shilang at the end of last year. On the surface, it seems that it is a horizontal transfer, and they are all five-grade officials, but fools know that Nanjing No. 6 is a place for the elderly, and there is a fart of real power. But this is also unwilling to be lonely Lord, there are six months this will be nothing to look for, in May of the second year of the Apocalypse, the book for the governor of Denglai Yuan Keli to ask the emperor for a salary of 200,000 taels, the result was almost not involved in the whirlpool of struggle between the nine thousand years old and the Donglin Party, frightened to resign and return to his hometown, to the fifth year of the Apocalypse his father Yang He also because of offended the nine thousand years old, was dismissed by Wei Zhongxian, and the father and son went home together to go home to the old corn. It wasn't until Chongzhen came to power and liquidated Wei Zhongxian that their father and son were able to reactivate.
The situation of Yang Sichang and Yang He flashed in his mind, it was just a matter of a moment, Li Jing bowed to Yang Sichang and said, "Student Li Jing, the word Zhengyi." The grandson of the Li family in Meihuawu, Chengxiang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, has seen Yang Langzhong".