When Qi Tai came home from work, his six-year-old daughter, Pin'er, greeted him and said in a milky voice, "Father is back." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Qi Tai became happy when he saw his daughter, touched her little head, and said, "Well, I'm back." ”

Then Feng'er saw the bag of pastries that Qi Tai was carrying, and her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Daddy bought snacks." ”

Qi Tai let out a "hmm" and said, "I'll give you a taste when I've tasted it for your grandfather." "Hmm".

When he entered the house, his father Qi Yu was sitting drinking tea, and his brother Qi Jingzong was not there, so he should be chopping firewood in the backyard; His wife was busy in the kitchen.

Qi Tai put down the bag he was carrying, took out the pastries, and before he could speak, his father Qi Yu said: "Why did you buy dim sum today, although it is a festival, but the family is not a rich and noble family, why bother about this." "The Qi family is just an ordinary homesteader in ZS County in the east of the capital, and they can't even afford two scholars, because Qi Tai has been smart since he was a child and is good at reading, so the family finally decided to provide Qi Tai with a study, and his brother Qi Jingzong can only farm at home. Fortunately, Qi Tai was still competitive, and at the age of twenty, he was admitted to the Yuan, and the following year he was promoted to the Jinshi. However, the salary of officials in the Hongwu Dynasty is not high, and Qi Tai does not take bribes to take benefits, although he has a tax-free land quota as an official, but the capital is expensive, so life has been tight. It was Qi Yu who asked this question.

Qi Tai smiled bitterly: "It was the Third Highness who forced it to me. His father Qi Yu said: "You mentioned it a few days ago, the Third Highness who was sent by His Majesty to the Ministry of War?" Zitai nodded.

His father Qi Yu said: "I don't know anything about court politics, but didn't you say at that time that you wanted to keep your distance from Your Highness?" ”

Qi Tai said: "I also want to keep my distance from the Third Highness, but the Third Highness doesn't keep my distance from me!" I have a feeling that His Royal Highness is deliberately making contact with me. His father Qi Yu continued: "His Royal Highness, what is close to you, you think too much, right?" ”

"I don't know, but it seems like that's it. It's like today, I left work a little early, and I happened to meet His Highness, and I thought he was asking me why I left early, but now that I think about it, I feel like he was actually asking me if there was anything I needed help with. After knowing the reason, they gave me these snacks. ”

"Moreover, His Royal Highness is not very enthusiastic about other officials of the Ministry of War, including Shangshu Shilang, but it is really strange that he is like this to me." At this time, Qi Tai was just an ordinary, only a six-rank official, and he really felt that Yun Xi had no reason to approach him.

Of course, Qi Tai didn't know that after two years, he would be favored by Lao Zhu and change his name personally, so Yun Xi deliberately approached him. And Yun Xi didn't want to discover other cattle people, but he hadn't heard of anyone else in the military department, and it was likely that in the next six years, these officials of the military department would be in charge of the box lunch and sentenced to death, or a suspended death sentence, so didn't he pay for nothing.

Don't think it's a joke to get all the lunches. One year, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed 364 officials, and a year later, six of them were sentenced to death and another 358 were sentenced to suspended death. So being an official in the Hongwu Dynasty is really high-risk and low-reward.

His father Qi Yu said: "By the way, did you say that another Highness was also sent out to do things?" ”

"Yes, Second Highness is now working in the household department." Qi Tai replied.

"Then it's time for the two to fight for the throne! I don't know what government politics is, but this battle for the throne is the most dangerous thing, and if you are not careful, you will be crushed! You'd better not get involved. ”

Qi Tai's brother Qi Jingzong happened to walk in and heard his father's words just now, and also said: "Yes, big brother, our family is honest as this official, don't get involved in these things." ”

Qi Tai smiled bitterly in his heart, this political matter, the matter of the battle for the throne, is it something that you can not participate in if you want to participate? But there is no need to tell the old father about this.

However, Qi Tai's wife Yu Shi happened to come in with the dishes and said, "Dad, this official family's affairs can be completely avoided if you want to avoid it." Wang Qinian from the next village went to Huguang as a magistrate after winning the show. Wang Qinian is still a relative of my mother's family, I saw him when I was a child, what an honest person, and he never dared to be corrupt and bribe-taking, and his family did not have a better life after he became an official. is just such a person, a few years ago, the empty seal case lost his head because he was the main hall official. Therefore, this entry into officialdom is involuntarily. Qi Tai's wife Yu's nickname is Minyue, and her father is a former Yuan Juren (Mengyuan's Juren is much more difficult than the Ming Dynasty, because the Mongolian and Semu test papers are different from the Han people, much simpler, and the number of Mongolian and Semu people is small, but the number of admitted people is roughly the same), since childhood, he has a keen sense of current affairs, and what he says can be to the point, and Qi Tai usually sometimes discusses business with his wife. If Qi Tai hadn't passed the Ying Tianxiang test to solve the yuan (equivalent to the first place in the college entrance examination of the three provincial-level administrative units in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui), he would not have been able to marry such a good wife.

When Qi Tai's father heard this, he felt that what Yu Minyue said made sense, sighed, and didn't say anything anymore. Fighting his spirits again, he picked up a piece of dim sum and said to Feng'er: "Good granddaughter, do you want to eat dim sum?" ”。

Feng'er didn't understand what they were discussing just now, but kept staring at the dim sum. Seeing that his grandfather was going to give him a snack, he was busy and happily took it to eat. That's how the topic passed away.

At night, when Qi Tai's father Qi Yu fell asleep, Yu Minyue quietly asked Qi Tai: "Dad is here today, I don't want to ask, why will His Royal Highness give you something?" ”

Qi Tai then repeated today's words to his wife. Yu Minyue pondered for a while and asked, "What do you think of these three highnesses?" ”

Qi Tai thought for a while and said: "Your Highness's ability to do things is just a medium talent, and the reaction speed is not fast, but fortunately, he is still diligent and serious; But His Highness sees things very thoroughly, and often gets to the heart of the matter (because he stands on the shoulders of giants) and does things justly; What's even more rare is that he never speaks easily, and he doesn't easily judge the truth of things, young people are frivolous and easy to express their opinions, and His Royal Highness has almost no impetuousness of ordinary young people (how can a modern pure ** silk that has been polished by society still be impetuous). ”

Yu Minyue said: "For those in charge, there is no need to actually do things in the future, just appoint capable people to do things; I guess that after the death of the Holy One, the successor must be re-established as Prime Minister; His Highness sees the problem thoroughly, which is exactly what the superior needs; It is more important to be cautious in words, and after the world is governed in an orderly manner today, it is even more important for future generations. Therefore, these three highnesses may become a generation of masters, but it is difficult to say in the late stage. ”

Qi Tai said: "Then you mean, I took refuge in him?" ”

Yu Minyue shook her head and said, "I'm just saying that according to the current performance and your observations, the Third Highness is more suitable to be the emperor than the Second Highness, but you can make your own decisions about the rest." After a pause, he said, "No matter what you decide, I support you." ”

Qi Tai was quite moved, but he didn't know how to express his gratitude to his wife, so he could only hug his wife hard, and everything was silent.