Dong Xiaowan's heart was desolate, and the gentle and understanding impostor boy in the past was gone. Suspicious, mean, narrow-minded, hideous like a stranger.

Dong Xiaowan's maidservant looked distressed, but she didn't dare to say a word.

Seeing that Dong Xiaowan still refused to tell the truth in the end, his face was full of pain, he shook his hand and strode away.

The maid wanted to chase, but she didn't dare, so she hurriedly helped Dong Xiaowan up.

Dong Xiaowan cried into tears, sitting on the edge of the bed, still crying.

The maidservant wiped Dong Xiaowan's tears and said softly: "Girl, don't cry, Miss Liu is coming tomorrow, we can't do this." ”

The 'Liu girl' in the maid's mouth refers to Liu Ruis, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai River, she and Qian Qianyi are very close, the two often correspond, and each other is already a 'friend who forgets the year', and Qian Qianyi intends to marry Liu Ruyi. This time when he entered Beijing, Liu Ru was invited by Qian Qianyi to participate in the Peony Flower Festival.

Dong Xiaowan hurriedly wiped away her tears and said, "Sister Liu may arrive early, you go and prepare, and you are not allowed to tell Sister Liu about today's matter." ”

The servant girl pursed her lips and nodded lightly with a distressed expression.

After Dong Xiaowan said this, and then thought of Liu Ru is and Qian Qianyi, who was in his fifties, she couldn't help but feel sad again, and cried: "Why do we women fight so hard......

The maidservant girl hugged her and comforted her again and again, but there was no good way.

Dong Xiaowan and Mao Bijiang are in love, and they have already talked about marriage, although they are just concubines, but for a dusty woman, joining the official family, and being a man who is happy with each other, what luxury does it have?

Even so, there are still many twists and turns, and it is difficult to achieve it.

took the liberty of Dong Xiaowan's show building, and went straight to a familiar green building, and didn't care if others came to ask, just drinking, and occasionally laughing.

However, at noon the next day, there was a rumor in the capital that he was in love with a famous prostitute in the capital.

The literati are not strange, but they are spread as beautiful talks.

It's just that after Dong Xiaowan heard it, she cried again and fell ill all of a sudden.

Liu Ru arrived in Beijing at noon, and when he heard about it, he was furious, but he had no other choice, so he had to write a poem to satirize Mao Bijiang.

One of the sentences is: 'Amorous foreign show female guest, widowed new branch Shiro'.

Mao Bijiang consciously has a word of suffering, does not know the same as the little woman, and hides in the gentle township of the Qinglou.

This seems to have done a solid job of 'beginning chaos and end abandonment' and 'unkindness', which spread all over the capital for a while.

The day before the list was announced, Zhou Yanru, Zhou Zheng, Qian Qianyi, and Li Banghua were in the small hall, discussing and confirming the specific ranking.

Before the second ranking, Zhou Yanru took the lead in making trouble, picked up the pen, ticked off the names of some people one after another, more than a dozen in a row, and then pushed them to Zhou Zheng, saying: "These, I want to tick them, you all take a look." ”

Zhou Zheng was surprised, he didn't expect Zhou Yanru to make a move so simply, he swept his eyes, and found that the names of some of the backbones of the Restoration Society, such as Hou Fangyu and Hou Fangyu, were hooked, but Fang Yizhi and Chen Zhenhui were retained.

Zhou Zheng looked at it for a while, thought about it, ticked off a few activists who were determined to oppose the change, and then pushed it to Qian Qianyi, and said with a smile: "Qian Ge Lao also take a look." ”

Qian Qianyi took it, and immediately frowned slightly, almost half of the people on the list were hooked, and he couldn't help but hesitate.

He really felt that the tail of the resumption of the society was too big to fall, and he wanted to suppress it, but he didn't want to restore the society and hurt his muscles and bones, so he couldn't do things for him.

Without waiting for Qian Qianyi to speak, Zhou Yanru said lightly: "That matter of venturing the frontier, Qian Ge Lao knows, right?" ”

is talking about Mao Bijiang and Dong Xiaowan, but in fact, it refers to the bald donkey scolding the monk. The matter of Qian Qianyi and Liu Ruyi, no one in the Ming Dynasty did not know, and it was rumored to be a 'beautiful talk', but when it came to the court level, it was not so beautiful when it was talked about between big people.

First, who can afford prostitutes? Hanging the title of a famous prostitute is not only not famous, but it makes them even more disgusting. Second, the ancestral system does not allow officials to marry lowly women, let alone a cabinet minister.

Qian Qianyi obviously heard Zhou Yanru's warning, his expression froze, and he didn't speak.

Zhou Zheng smiled in his eyes, and said in a flat tone: "I won't talk about those glamorous things in this pretending to open up Xinjiang, in his policy, the whole article refers to Sang scolding Huai, and lashing out at the changes of the imperial court, which is tantamount to slapping our faces, what is the use?" ”

As soon as Zhou Zhengyi spoke, he completely cut off Qian Qianyi's hope of struggling.

Qian Qianyi was silent and pushed the list to Li Banghua.

Li Banghua didn't hear the words of 'Erzhou', took a look, and saw that there was no one who touched him, so he said: "The lower officials have no opinion." ”

Zhou Yanru nodded and said, "Then let's record the top three." ”

The emperor is young, and the first rank is naturally determined by them.

The so-called first class is the champion, Bangyan, and Tanhua, which are the top three in the imperial examination.

In fact, before the Hanlin Academy was sent, the ranking had already been arranged, but it needed the final confirmation of the cabinet. Naturally, the Cabinet also has the power to change, delete.

The four of them discussed it, and finally the first class was: Wei Zaode, Ge Shizhen, and Gao Eryan, all of whom were not members of the Restoration Society.

Then there were the second class, 58 people, 17 people from the Fushe Society, 20 people from the south, and the rest from the north.

The top three, 287 people, the people who have been reinstated, as many as 96 people, and nearly 200 people in the south!

This is still the result of the Hanlin Yuan and the cabinet deliberately balancing the north and the south, otherwise there will be more in the south!

At the level of the cabinet, unless it is the top three, there is no need to fight for the others, hundreds of places are enough for them to divide.

When Zhou Yanru saw that he had settled down, he picked up the first auxiliary shelf and said, "Seal it and post the list tomorrow." ”

The so-called Zhang Bang is to post the top three people on the imperial city wall and publicize them.

Zhou Zheng, Qian Qianyi, and Li Banghua had no objections, and nodded in response.

The four of them walked out of the small living room, Li Banghua and Qian Qianyi left separately, Zhou Zheng and Zhou Yanru walked side by side, still talking about things.

Zhou Yanru put his hands behind his back, bent his waist, and said with a smile: "I let out the top three, the ones I want should be given to me, right?" ”

Zhou Zheng also smiled and said: "The four squires of the six departments, the thirteen prefects such as Fengyang Mansion, Anqing Mansion, and Taiyuan Mansion, I have no objections. ”

Zhou Yanru's expression moved slightly, and he said, "So much? ”

Zhou Zhengdao: "Regarding Nan Zhili, Yuan Fu can't fight with me." ”

Nanzhili, that is the capital and grain of the Ming Dynasty, more important than the capital!

Zhou Yanru hesitated again and again, but still said with a smile: "Okay, I won't interfere with the big and small officials of Nanzhili, but you can allow me some money and food." ”

"800,000, 800,000 a year." Zhou Zheng said casually.

The total amount of money and grain from Nanzhili to the capital every year is about 1.8 million, excluding fire consumption and various losses, it is about 150.

800,000, which is equivalent to half.

Although Zhou Yanru was not satisfied, Zhou Zheng did give a lot of benefits, and immediately said with a smile: "800,000 is 800,000, enough for me." ”

Zhou Zheng paced, glanced at Zhou Yanru, and said, "Yuanfu, have you decided to make a move against the Fushe?" ”

Zhou Yanru's smile was slightly condensed, his expression was flat, and he said with a cold gaze: "The resumption of the society is too disagreeable, I have to give a warning." ”

Zhou Zheng doesn't care about this, Zhou Yanru, Qian Qianyi is still the backer behind the resumption of the society, and it can be regarded as a dog eats a dog.