Emperor Hongzhi originally planned to discuss military and political matters related to the stability of the frontier in the court, but because the court was full of old ministers who were too old to walk, they did not discuss anything in the end.

After the court meeting was dispersed, the emperor left cabinet scholars Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian, as well as Zhang Mao, who was in charge of commanding the troops, and Ma Wensheng, who was in charge of the transfer of troops, to continue to hold a small court meeting to discuss, and the other ministers were considered to have completed the court affairs, and each returned to the Yamen, or went home.

For others, such a court meeting should try to avoid being in the limelight, don't be strong if you can't be in good health, and don't let yourself practice it or bother to find someone to go to steal the fun, but for Jianchang Bo Zhang Yanling, this court meeting feels very cowardly.

The emperor wanted to send someone to inspect the three sides, but he didn't even mean to ask their brothers, the others were old and old, but his brothers were young people who were not even thirty years old, and the emperor and the courtiers chose to forget their brothers?

"Brother, are you angry? Old man Zhang jumped out and said that he was old and healthy, he was only sixty years old, and he would go out to hunt every autumn and winter, and he would claim that he was old and strong outside, I really wanted to expose this old guy in front of my brother-in-law! ”

As soon as the brothers returned to the Shouning Marquis Mansion, Zhang Yanling couldn't help the anger in his heart and complained, "Even if he can't go by himself, he doesn't even mention our brother, he obviously looks down on us!" ”

Zhang Heling was a little surprised, sat down and glanced at his younger brother, with some doubts in his expression: "If you are really asked to go, will you go to serve as the governor of the three sides?" ”

Zhang Yanling was stunned, shook his head and said: "That kind of bitter cold place, I haven't been in Beijing for at least half a year, and I ...... It's not Jiangnan and Huguang, it's not even Bashu, there's no oil and water at all, what am I doing there when I'm idle? ”

Zhang Heling said coldly: "Since you don't want to go, now that you're satisfied, you're still not satisfied?" If you have the ability to tell Your Majesty yourself, just say that as Your Majesty's wife and brother, you are loyal to the country, and you want to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy bravely. ”

Zhang Yanling's face became extremely ugly, he was just complaining because he was ignored by the emperor and courtiers, but he was not ready to really go to the frontier to do drudgery.

"But if you talk about oil and ......water," Zhang Heling paused, and added, "the governor of the three sides is a fat man. ”

Zhang Yanling thought about it and was a little puzzled: "In that bitter cold place, even crops can't be planted well, except for the poor clanging soldiers, where is there any oil and water to speak of?" ”

Zhang Heling picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and smiled mysteriously: "The wool comes out of the sheep." ”

The Zhang brothers are greedy for ink and bribes on weekdays, and with just a few words, Zhang Yanling understands what is going on, but he still has a different opinion:

"My brother said before that our relatives were knighted, and he served as a deputy marshal in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which is already very eye-catching, and we must win over the generals and soldiers below, and it is not good to drink the blood of the soldiers after all, it is better to collect some filial piety from the outside as now, and live a plain life, and occasionally there may be unexpected joy."

"Let's just say that Gaoming City, the household servant who took refuge in us before, in addition to the one dedicated to the emperor's brother-in-law, didn't we also earn more than 100,000 taels of silver?"

Zhang Heling sneered: "Do you think that if we don't do anything, others will follow the rules?" That Gaoming City is not a fuel-efficient lamp, before he was transferred to the governor of Henan, he was the prefect for more than ten or twenty years, where did he covet so much silver? This time, he was ordered to go to Beiguan to appease the soldiers, and I think he will most likely be embarrassed by the generals of Beiguan and fill his pockets. ”

Zhang Yanling pondered for a moment and said: "This old boy, since we helped him ask for an errand for the household servant, he has been following the rules, and this time he went to North China and the Central Plains for disaster relief, and I didn't see any changes in him...... Could it be that this is the time to go to Beiguan? ”

Zhang Heling continued to drink tea, with a leisurely expression: "You have been in the court for so many years, and you have not penetrated the joints?" Even if Gao Mingcheng fills his own pockets, doesn't he want to obediently send the bulk of the silver to us in the end? It depends on how much food His Majesty and the household department will send to him. ”

Zhang Yanling hurriedly said: "Big brother, there is something I have to say, you see that it is now when the Tatars are committing borders, and the soldiers at the border pass are unstable...... If something happens, how should I deal with myself? ”

Zhang Heling said: "Don't worry, the Tatars want to loot, and they can't kill the capital at all." Besides, you also underestimate Gaoming City, with the age he is about to become a minister, he jumped directly from the prefect to the governor of Henan, and there must be connections in the court, but he does not show his work, and outsiders don't know his roots. If it weren't for the big flood last year, who would have known that Henan would have almost become his hall, and even our people wouldn't be able to plug in? ”

"That's right." Zhang Yanling nodded, "But Your Majesty probably also knows that Gao Mingcheng is not reliable, will he send someone to supervise him?" ”

Zhang Heling said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, the deputy envoy sent by His Majesty to assist Gaoming City this time are two new science and technology scholars, one Wang Shouren and one Shen Xi, you and I know each other, but the two juniors can't make any waves." And I have secretly told Gao Mingcheng about the assistance of the two of them, and with Gao Mingcheng's style of dealing with the world, he should know how to do it. ”

Zhang Yanling said with a smile: "It's still the eldest brother who is cautious, as long as the money is used, even if the two boys make some fame, it will be in vain." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yanling began to analyze the two deputy envoys, "Wang Shouren, I'm not very worried, this son has a flexible mind and knows how to protect himself, it is said that during this trip to Quanzhou, he found out a lot of dirt in Fujian officialdom, but he kept silent after returning to Beijing." It's just that this Shen Xi, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he has been in the limelight recently, and even the Tatars, Franc Ji and Zhang Lian have been planted in his hands! ”

"Brother, I suspect that the batch of grain in our hands last year had a problem in the end, and most of it had nothing to do with him...... I think it's better to provoke less of this person. ”

Zhang Heling smiled coldly: "How capable can a posterior boy be?" But we do have to guard against the surname Liu and the surname Ma to pull him over, didn't he help the queen treat his illness in the first few days, gave him a thank you gift, and then find someone to send some over, you handle it yourself. How dare he not give you face? ”

Thinking of the queen's illness, Zhang Yanling Wu was a little afraid, now their status in the court is completely dependent on being the queen's sister, if the queen dies, the emperor cannot not continue the string, just relying on the power of the little nephew and the prince, they can't maintain today's power and status at all.

"Okay, then I'll go myself." Zhang Yanling said.

At this moment, someone from outside the courtyard hurriedly entered, and when they arrived at the door of the hall they stopped, but they didn't dare to come in when they looked inside, it was Jian Changbo's servant.

"Is there anything you can't talk back about, don't you see that I'm talking to the eldest master?" Zhang Yanling looked at his servant and scolded angrily.

The servant trembled: "Master, the lady of the house...... It's awkward, saying that if you don't go back, you'll hit your head and die, or why don't you go home and see? ”

Zhang Yanling's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

Zhang Heling next to him frowned and asked, "When did my younger brother and sister become so willful and messy like this?" ”

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "It's not the yellow-faced woman, it's the ...... who just entered the door."

Zhang Heling looked at his younger brother and asked, "You have a lot of concubines, when did you have another lady?" ”

Zhang Yanling looked a little embarrassed, and he didn't want to say it, but only under the pressure of his brother did he tell the truth: "...... The people below are filial piety, and they are looking for a stunning beauty from Baoding Mansion, not a lady, that is, a girl born in a small family, and she is not even wrapped in her feet. ”

"This beauty is beautiful, her temperament is too twisted, I don't say that if I don't officially marry her, I won't enter the Zhang family, so I found some people to act, pretending that the Ming media was marrying, and welcomed her into the door ceremoniously, and reluctantly made her a wife, but it was just a name, and she was still only a concubine in the official register. I told her that she was a flat wife. ”

Zhang Heling said angrily: "Nonsense, you are now an earl, and your brother is still fighting for you to be crowned a marquis as soon as possible, if such things leak out, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous?" Since this woman doesn't know the general situation and fights wantonly, it doesn't seem that it is a fuel-efficient lamp, so send people away! ”

Zhang Yanling hurriedly said: "Big brother, it's only been a few days since I brought people back, and I haven't had enough fun, so there's no need to send them away so soon, right?" Why do you have to wait for a year and a half. Don't worry, the mouths of the people in my house are very tight, and they will never mess with the rules...... Besides, even if others know, at most they chew the root of their tongue, what can they do to me? ”

Zhang Heling said: "Don't be long-hearted, forget the teachings of your mother and the queen? Now that we are the queen's mother's family, we must know who gave the identity, and no etiquette can be transgressed, and we take a little silver from others on weekdays, and we will change hands to honor Your Majesty, no matter how much we hide, others will not dare to take us like this, that is, don't give people a handle in the etiquette system! ”

Zhang Yanling was a little dissatisfied: "Accepting a concubine, this is a violation of the etiquette law?" ”

Zhang Heling was so angry that he was a little speechless, he wanted to tell his younger brother, if you are really a concubine, it doesn't matter how much you come back, but the problem is that you gave her the title of a lady, and you married her in front of many people.

"Do you want this woman, or do you want to be a marquis, weigh it yourself!" Zhang Heling said angrily, shook his sleeves and left the hall.

Zhang Yanling had a lot of dissatisfaction in the court, but now he was reprimanded by his brother, and his mood became more and more irritable. Coming out of the Shouning Marquis Mansion, the servants behind him followed, he took a few steps, suddenly turned around, and directly kicked the unprepared servant to the ground.

"Madame is making trouble at home, just let her make trouble, why did you come to the Hou Mansion to inform me?" Zhang Yanling was furious.

"Sir...... Madame did make a lot of trouble...... "The servants of the ground pleaded aggrievedly.

"No matter how fierce it is, let her die, there won't be so much trouble if she dies." Zhang Yanling rolled up his sleeves, but because the weather was a little cold, he quickly put it down again, "This prodigal hoof, the appearance is not bad, that figure is also graceful, but the temperament is very wild, and I don't know who gave her the usual problems, I just snubbed her for a day or two and looked for life and life, see how I go back to clean her up!" ”

He is fiercer than anyone else, but he is reluctant in his heart.

This woman is a rare beauty, although she is a little savage, but she is facing Zhang Yanling's appetite, which can arouse his interest more than those honest ladies, Zhang Yanling is not a scholar, what kind of husband and wife respect each other at home is not suitable for him at all, the most important thing is that this woman is very attached to him, which makes him feel in love.

He thought to himself: "Now my brother is forcing me to send her away, but I am really a little distressed, why don't I send her out and hide outside, and when I have time, I will come to meet at the Magpie Bridge, as long as I don't say it, how will my brother and others know?" ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanling regained a smile on his face, and his mood was much more comfortable for a while.

Later, the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion of Shouning followed and reminded: "Second master, my Hou Ye asked me to inform you, don't forget to go to the mansion of Lord Shen of Youchunfang and Lord De Shen......"

"Got it, when did my brother become such a mother-in-law?"

Zhang Yanling complained in front of the housekeeper of the Shouning Hou Mansion, but he felt that his brother was a little wrong, and left the Shouning Hou Mansion in a huff.

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PS: The second update!

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