The Changwen Marquis Mansion is located on the east side of the palace city, far away from the Zongmu Street to the west. Hou Mansion is located in Wenrufang, not far from Sanguantang, there is an alley to Guanglufang in the south, the west entrance is along the Changfengcang River in the Fucheng, all around are the residences of dignitaries and nobles, heavy eaves and tiles, high halls and deep courtyards, ordinary people can rarely have a place to live here, at least they have to be a family with property above the middle class, so they will consider buying a house in this kind of place where every inch of land is expensive and the house price is high.

The early morning of autumn in Fuzhou is also extremely beautiful, the Changwen Marquis Mansion occupies a very wide area, the courtyard is very numerous, the back garden leads the nearby river water to irrigate, and forms a meandering river in the back garden, rather than making the shape of a mountain stone pond like the ordinary mansion garden.

The big banyan trees have never been carefully pruned, and there are not many delicate flower trees, and the whole back garden has a vigorous and vigorous beauty.

In later generations, Fuzhou was known to have only two seasons, summer and winter, but in fact, the winter is also quite warm. At this time, Fuzhou still has four distinct seasons, and the winter is much more severe than a few hundred years later.

Hanging a swing between two trees, surrounded by fallen leaves, several maids wearing green and pink cross-collared backs stood on both sides of the swing, guarding the third lady Chen Wenjun, who was gently swaying in the autumn breeze.

This is a girl less than seventeen, slender and slightly thin, long black hair, eyes like knees, small and ruddy lips, skin color like jade, full of the alluring atmosphere of a young girl, in terms of appearance, this is a beautiful girl who will be noticed wherever she goes, and Xiuniang's temperament is different from the temperament of the sister next door, Chen Wenjun has a noble temperament, a confident look, and a spirit of wisdom, which is a unique temperament mixed between generations of nobles and gentry families......

The Marquis of Changwen Mansion was built by Chen Ruxin, the pacification of Fujian Road during the period of Wuzong, when the Japanese invaded the territory, and the pacification made Chen Ruxin defeat the Japanese many times, beheading more than 10,000 people, Fujian Road was therefore knighted by many civil and military officials, Chen Ruxin is one of them.

Different from the marquis of the clan, the civil lord can inherit five to seven times, which is a special favor of the state to reward his merits, because the civil lord is more difficult, and some of the civil lord families who have made greater contributions have their titles clear when they are conferred:

Hereditary replacement.

Two maids walked in from the moon cave door, with a thick stack of newspapers on the tray in their hands, and the other was also holding a tray, but it was the third lady's breakfast.

Chen Wenjun slipped off the swing and walked lightly to a gazebo, the autumn breeze was rising, this was the most comfortable time of the year in Fujian.

Fuzhou's newspaper industry is certainly the most developed on Fujian Road, but the novel is slightly inferior to Quanzhou.

It is said that there are at least hundreds of printed book stores in Quanzhou, such as novels, strange stories, newspaper selections, and various picture books, etc., which are quite rich in content.

There are even four books and five classics, and the classic classics of Confucianism and Taoism are also among them, as well as the laws and regulations of the Great Wei Dynasty...... The Han Chinese also needed these books in the countries of the islands of the East, and the sales were not small.

Novels were brought by sailors to relieve boredom at sea, and some strange novels were particularly popular, and many novelists made a fortune and made money every day.

Of course, Chen Wenjun will not look at those vain things, after she sat down, she took a piece of tiger's eye cake and ate it slowly, while looking at the social edition of the newspaper, after reading for a while, then reading the news edition, and finally reading the literary edition.

There are also some advertisements, including sports news such as sumo.

In addition to the Fuzhou Weekly, there are some tabloids that are published every day, and advertisements take up half of the page, and there are quite a few old military doctors who use these sections to promote some unspeakable drugs.

Chen Wenjun quickly finished flipping through the newspaper, and her beautiful face showed obvious disappointment.

The big girl Luzhu chuckled and said, "Are you looking for an article from Hou Shizi of Nan'an again?" ”

Chen Wenjun's face was slightly red, and he said angrily: "Do you like to talk more?" Sooner or later, it was sewn off. ”

"Speaking of which." Lu Zhu didn't care, and thought to himself: "Miss, didn't you know Shizi when you were young?" At that time, the lord was in Qizhou and Ren Zhizhou, and the old Nan'an Hou was the defense envoy, our lord and the Nan'an Hou often came and went, and the two families walked around very diligently. ”

"Yes, yes." Chen Wenjun frowned slightly, and she said, "I haven't communicated for several years, so it's not good to write directly to the past." ”

"I'll have to talk about it after he comes to visit."

"The article is a clever hand, maybe he only has this one." Chen Wenjun shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't think about it." ”

Luzhu knew that the third lady really liked that article, and she cried several times when she read it. The old man's health has not been very healthy in recent years, and the third lady has burned incense and prayed, hoping that God will bless her father and make her father's body improve somewhat. So when the weekly report came over, the young lady cried for a long time after reading it, which can be described as empathy.

After this article, the third lady has been inquiring about Xu Zixian's news, but she knows that the prince is practicing martial arts in Nan'anhou Mansion and preparing to enter Beijing to attack the lord, so she has never returned to the mansion.

Even if the prince returns to the city, it is not easy for the young lady to visit, but Chen Wenjun once went to the elegant collection of Zhao Wangfu, where he met Xu Zixian a few times, when Xu Zixian was talented and vulgar, although there were old friendships, Chen Wenjun did not talk to him. Besides, the third lady of the Marquis of Changwen Mansion is the pearl of the Hou Ye, the Marquis of Changwen Mansion has a deep family background, and the hereditary family of the civil lord is an important town of civil officials and marquis in Fujian Road. It is heavier than Zhao Wangfu in many aspects, so as soon as Chen Wenjun enters the Hou Mansion, the stars hold the moon, and Xu Zixian can't squeeze in front of him at all, and of course he doesn't have a chance to speak.

But Luzhu knew that when Changwenhou and Nan'anhou were friends, he once got drunk and promised Chen Wenjun to the only son of the old Nan'anhou, that is, Xu Zixian.

With the identity of the two marquis, even if they are drunk, this kind of joke is unacceptable.

Later, the old Nan'anhou died early, and the Nan'anhou Mansion fell again, and Xu Zixian couldn't see that he was a competitive son, so Changwenhou never mentioned it, Luzhu knew that the old man felt sorry for the third lady, and it was impossible to push his daughter into the fire pit.

But if the prince of Nan'an Hou continues to perform well, whether this family affair can be completed or not is still between the two.

After all, most of the men have a promise, and if it is possible to fulfill the promise, Hou Ye will definitely not give up easily.

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The political landscape of Fujian Road is more delicate.

The chief political officer of the first road is the pacification envoy, who is responsible for the overall management of the military political and legal department, and under him is the transit envoy, who is the person in charge of finance, then the patrol envoy, who is responsible for supervision and supervision, and then the criminal envoy, who is responsible for the judicial affairs along the way, and then the subordinate envoy, who is responsible for the military management of the whole road.

The pacification of Fujian Road made Lin Douyao, a native of Jiangxi, a Jinshi during the Wuzong period, and in the thirty-seventh year of his career, he came down to the position of appeasement all the way, and he was ambitious, and he still wanted to go further to Beijing as the prime minister. acted coldly and hard, and was supposed to cover the sky with one hand, but he met a few big people who didn't eat oil and salt, and they had a lot of constraints on him.

The one who can restrain the envoy all the way to appease the envoy, except for the big man in the Jingshi, is, of course, the highest-ranking existence in the clan, the prince.

According to the system, the prince can not receive a real position, the general prince will be in Gangneung, in the Privy Council of Gangneung, the prince is indispensable for wealth and glory, but there are also many restrictions and rules, after all, the prince is noble, and there are naturally more restrictions.

The prince of this dynasty can not get it if he is not meritorious, in fact, it depends on how to say it, just like the two princes of Fuzhou The situation is more special, the ancestor of the king of Qi was originally a marquis, and he was named a prince when he made great contributions during the resistance to the Japanese, and the king of Qi himself also made great contributions, so not only the prince of Fuzhou, but also the governor of the capital, holding a certain amount of real power.

His Royal Highness King Zhao, his great achievement is to give birth to many heirs, and the eldest son was selected to be raised as the prince and inherited the throne.

The consequence was that King Zhao retained the title of prince and was arranged to retire in Fuzhou.

King Zhao and Lin Douyao, who are over fifty years old, are of the same age, and their political skills are also relatively old, and the prince Yao leads the deputy governor of the capital of Fujian Road, compared to the governor and the pacification envoy, he originally had no real power, but King Zhao has always occupied a place in the political section of Fuzhou.

Supporting King Zhao is the patrol envoy Xiao Zan, Xiao Zan is the protégé of the right minister Xu Xiashang, the system envoy Han Bingzhong is Lin Douyao's ally, the criminal envoy and the transfer envoy are more neutral, the punishment makes Zheng Liqi more biased towards the king of Qi, the transfer envoy Zhao Debang is the hardcore henchman of the king of Zhao, and Yang Shiwei, who knows the military affairs of Fuzhou Military Prefecture, was once a military member of the shogunate of the king of Qi, and his attitude is naturally biased towards the king of Qi.

There is also an undercurrent surging in the city of Fuzhou, and the battle is quite fierce.

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The autumn rain that lasted for many days finally stopped, and the sentence made Zheng Liqi's desk have a strange public letter.

A trivial matter, the head of a certain Hou Mansion was found to have embezzled money, dismissed the head of the village, and fined and confiscated the stolen money.

Zhang Tiansheng, the magistrate of Sanshan County, sentenced him to serve in the lime field for one month, and after the expiration of his service, the county government ordered Li Cheng to go back to the Hou Mansion to pay the embezzled money and grain.

Originally, it was still a trivial matter, a small case, not enough to be exiled and imprisoned, it didn't matter if Li Cheng and his son ran away, the amount of money and food was too small, and it was not worth being arrested by the government.

But the public gift of this matter was personally sent in by Li Yi, Fengchang of the Hou Mansion, and Zheng Liqi was a little curious and psychologically sympathetic to Xu Zixian because of the article in the weekly newspaper, Zheng Liqi still looked through the public gift.

Originally, he didn't take it seriously, but when he saw the words that Li Cheng might be in collusion with the Qishan thieves, Zheng Liqi frowned, feeling that this matter was unusual.

Out of prudence, Zheng Liqi decided to make the matter a robbery case, and reported the case to the pacification envoy and the control envoy yamen at the same time, so that they would have a headache.

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Seeing the documents transferred by the Criminal Division, Lin Douyao's face remained unchanged, but he snorted lightly.

Han Bingzhong has to come to visit Lin Douyao every day to maintain the relationship between the two, and at this time, he also treats this case as an interesting matter, hearing Lin Douyao's cold snort, Han Bingzhong said with a smile: "This world in Nan'anhou Mansion is really interesting, I think about it, his article is well written...... Well, I remember that he was General Sipin Xuanwei, should he send a signature from the official and order him to be careful of stealing and not make mistakes? ”

"It's okay to send it." Lin Douyao shook his head and said, "Although it is a big fuss, we can't ignore it when it comes to the report." The clan is noble, and it is impossible to be negligent and neglectful. Moreover, Xu Zixian is now famous, and when he heard about the back, he has already called him famous in Jingshi and Jiangling. ”

"Could there be someone behind this?"

Han Bingzhong's face changed, and his thinking diverged a little.