Chapter 918: Weng Son-in-law Talks at Night

Du Zhenren has a lot of things to do in the cabinet and is busy, at this time he has not yet returned to the house, Du Juan is still sitting on the mattress, Xiao Wu is there to help take care of it, and as soon as Wan Shijie comes back, he first went to the military department, and then went straight here, Du Fu's family and others were all surprised, but then happily welcomed the two aunts in. Although there was no young master in the Du Mansion, they all walked out with their heads held high. The reason is very simple, if you want to talk about the two sons-in-law of Du Fu, it is difficult for the young people in the capital to pick out the ones that can be compared.

At this moment, Qiu Shi, who heard the news, looked at the two sons-in-law in front of him and bowed, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and hurriedly pulled up. After all, Zhang Yue is in the capital these days, and it is common, she pulled Wan Shijie to ask with great concern, seeing that he had frozen gaps on his hands and face, and he was darker and thinner than when he left, she couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but seeing Wan Shijie looking like a nobody, she thought that her husband often said that men are ambitious in all directions, so she can only hide that emotion.

After laughing for a while, Wan Shijie looked east and west, and then sighed regretfully: "Originally, I thought that today's Jingshi was suitable for drinking and chatting in the courtyard at night, and wanted to get my father-in-law and Yuanjie drunk, but I didn't expect my father-in-law to come back!" I was originally only half-baked in the amount of alcohol, but in the more than half a year that I spent in Nu'er Gandusi, it turned into a wine barrel. Mother-in-law, don't you know if there is alcohol at home? If not, just find a tavern and sell it for seven or eight catties! ”

Qiu Shiyuan felt distressed when he looked at Wan Shijie like that, and when he heard him say that he wanted to drink, and his mouth was seven or eight catties, he was immediately startled, and then said angrily: "If you are still doing everything in that slave, I don't care how much you drink, but now that you are back, you have to take good care of your body." Cold wine hurts the liver and hot wine hurts the stomach, so you should drink less of this kind of intestinal poison...... That's it, you men just love the things in the cup, I also have an urn of osmanthus wine brewed by Xiao Wu himself, which has a lot of nourishing herbs, but it is the best for self-cultivation, just drink this! ”

The wine brewed by Xiao Wu?

Wan Shijie knows his wife's ability, his cooking skills are still passable, and his housekeeping skills are not bad, and he can even settle accounts with one or two hands, but he has never seen winemaking. But before he could open his mouth to find a reason to prevaricate, Qiu Shi turned around and left, and he had to look at Zhang Yue with a distress look. Zhang Yue and Wan Shijie are not only brothers-in-law, but also friends and colleagues in the same year, who didn't know how many roundworms this guy had in his stomach, so he coughed dryly and said: "Although Xiao Wu's winemaking skills are beginners, they are quite handy, you will know if you taste them." Even my father and mother at home like her osmanthus wine. ”

With Zhang Yue's assurance, Wan Shijie breathed a sigh of relief. Soon, someone came up and asked whether to set a table outside or a meal in the hall, Zhang Yue saw Wan Shijie's eyes rolling, so he ordered it to be placed in the courtyard, and someone went there to light the street lamp. When the two of them went outside together, Qiu Shi had already brought the girl to deliver wine. However, it is different from the ordinary clay pot wine urn, but a delicate and unique ruby red porcelain urn. Wan Shijie looked at the porcelain vase and was taken aback, looked at it for a while, and then looked up and asked, "This looks like the new porcelain of the official kiln, right?" ”

"It is a new official porcelain, which is commonly known as Xuande kiln. This is ruby red, because the color is like the color of the rain after the rain, so it is also called the red of the sun. This porcelain urn is so uniform in color that it should be of the highest quality. ”

Zhang Yue replied with a smile, but his gaze at the porcelain urn was a little strange. There are five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, and the one known as the first in the Ming Dynasty is the Xuande kiln, which is a first-class treasure in any auction house, but now they have a lot of ministers' homes, and Xiaowu is even used to make an urn for wine, which is the experience of life.

"Xiao Wu likes it, her father said that these are also put away, it is better to take them out and use them, otherwise they will be wasted if they are left in the library." Qiu's family was born in a scholarly family, although it can't be said that there are a few treasures of those famous kiln porcelain, but the quality of the things can still be seen, when Du Zhen got those porcelain, Xiao Wu clamored for this porcelain urn to hold wine, she was still a little hesitant, but she woke up when she thought about it, and saw Wan Shijie smacking her mouth and breaking her fingers, she smiled again, "Things are used, and they are not used for offering." ”

It's not that Wanshijie really feels sorry for things, and when I get used to living a poor life, I always have some bad habits, such as thinking in my heart about how much money I can exchange for this good thing for an ordinary wine urn, and then take it out and sell it. But as soon as Qiu Shi said that, he saw Zhang Yue looking at him with a smile, so he hurriedly put away his face and took it with a smile. He wanted to ask his mother-in-law if she stayed to drink together, but Qiu shook his head and said, "I'm making a pair of shoes for my master there, and besides, I've eaten dinner early, so you two can use it slowly." Only drink slowly, although this wine is healthy, and the strength is small, it must also be tempered. ”

Seeing off the smiling Qiu family, Zhang Yue and Wan Shijie sat down again. At this time, only the two of them were left in the courtyard. The subordinates of Du Mansion are the same as their masters, although they know that the two uncles have a great future, they will not follow behind and flatter, and they will only do what they need when they need it, so they don't have to worry about what the walls have ears. After three glasses in a row, seeing Wanshijie's grinning appearance, Zhang Yue smiled and said: "What's the matter, I'm used to drinking the spirits in the north, and I'm not used to this soft mash?" ”

"You're right, I'm really not used to this sweet mash, I should have known that osmanthus wine was this thing!"

Although there was a not very smug expression on his face, this did not prevent Wan Shijie from holding a small wine bowl and taking a small sip of Xiao Wu's craftsmanship, and it took a long time to breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Zhang Yue: "You also know that I am from Fujian, but after all, I have been in Beijing for several years, and I think I am used to the cold of this winter, but when I got there by boat, I realized how cold it was there." The water is all ice, and even a large stone hammer can only make a few white marks on the frozen soil, and in addition to growing food, most of the tribes hunt in winter. Don't you know, on such a cold day, many of them can wrestle bare-chested, and the fight is completely fatal. Somehow, I just remembered an old saying. ”

Zhang Yue knew that Wan Shijie would definitely have something to say when he came back from Nu'er Gandusi, so he asked with a smile: "What old saying?" ”

"The Jurchens are invincible." Wan Shijie saw Zhang Yue stunned, so he raised his head and drank the wine, and then sighed, "I know that since the rise of Meng Yuan, no one has said this for a long time. Today's Jurchen tribes are also scattered, and there are no extremely outstanding characters, but their lives are not as good as those Mongols, so they have restored their former situation in terms of fierceness. I'm just thinking that no matter what dynasty it is, there has never been a shortage of foreign enemies. The Qin and Han dynasties had the Xiongnu, the Wei and Jin dynasties were followed by the Wuhu Chaohua, the Tang Dynasty had the Turkic Hui Khitan, etc., the Song Dynasty had the Khitan Xixia Jurchen Mongols, the Yuan Dynasty was a foreign race and needless to say, to our dynasty, it was difficult to destroy the Mengyuan Dynasty. In this situation, he blindly sends money to seek peace, but he can't do it without training; Blindly fighting wars will result in the treasury being poor, and the middle degree is precisely the most difficult to master. ”

Zhang Yue and Wan Shijie had originally surrendered, but at this time, they found that he went around outside, and saw that the problem was sharper and deeper than before, so he nodded and said, "You are right." Speaking of which, what I asked you to check, have you already found out? ”

"Checked." Wan Shijie replied lightly, and poured wine into the wine bowl in front of Zhang Yue and himself, and his face gradually became solemn, "Although there are many guards in places like Nuer Gandusi, they are aimed at restraint, so there are not many garrisons, and there are still a total of three hundred and twenty-one now, and I am afraid that it will be less when I wait for the next year, after all, Yizha also came back with me." As for the rated number, it should have been one thousand and twenty-two, which means that there were more than seven hundred people missing. And these more than 300 people were transferred from Fujian three times before and after. Because of the lack of adaptation, most people have a hard time. There are still few people over there, but Liaodong...... The soldiers of Liaodong have to recruit about three to five hundred military households from the south every year, but only a few dozen actually arrive! ”

When I was discussing the military household system with everyone in the military department in the past, what I talked about the most was not the military household, the lowly service, being discriminated against, or even fleeing, etc., but the guard house where the soldiers served. The people in the south are transferred to the far north, and the people in the north are transferred to the extreme south, which is not like a modern army that can always ensure basic life, in today's Ming Dynasty, in addition to weapons, the road expenses and even clothing of the soldiers are all paid out of their own pockets, how can no one flee on this road? When you get to the health center, you can't get used to the climate, diet, etc., and then you die a batch, and these losses alone are an extremely staggering number every year.

"Now that you're back, let's step up our efforts and see if we can break these bad rules!"

Wan Shijie looked at Zhang Yue, and then gradually smiled, and finally nodded with a grin: "It's okay, when it's done, that is, the day I roll up and leave!" ”

"This is not necessarily, when the time comes, I will leave, and you will be obedient if you stay!"

The two brothers-in-law picked up the wine glass and touched it, and drank another glass, and the sharp-eyed Zhang Yue saw someone coming in outside. Although there was only a dim street lamp in the courtyard, he quickly recognized that it was his father-in-law Du Zhen, and hurriedly dropped his wine glass and rushed forward. Wan Shijie's response was not slow, and he quickly got up to greet him.

"Father-in-law."

Du Zhen learned that Wanshijie was back, and at this time, he saw a table in the center of the courtyard, and on it was the ruby red porcelain bottle of Xiao Wu's wine, and immediately glanced at the two sons-in-law. Seeing that they were all listening respectfully, he couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect that you, a person who is not good at the contents of the cup, came back from the slave Gandusi, but you were contaminated with the habit of drinking. It's still early tonight, and I've just come back from dinner, but I've been aroused by this thing, so you can have a few drinks with me. ”

As soon as these words came out, not only was Du Zhen's teacher and student for more than ten years, and Zhang Yue, who was the son-in-law of Weng for eight or nine years, dumbfounded, but even Wan Shijie wondered if he had a problem with his ears. But seeing that Du Zhen was already sitting down there, the two of them reacted, Zhang Yue hurriedly stepped forward to accompany him, and Wan Shijie went to the house to find a chair. It was quickly settled, Zhang Yue personally poured the wine, and saw that Du Zhen's face seemed to be a little obscure under the light, and somehow a feeling of inappropriateness arose in his heart.

"Father-in-law......"

"Drink first!"

Since Du Zhen spoke, he drank it first, and neither of the two sons-in-law dared to disobey, so he raised the wine bowl to accompany him. Although this osmanthus wine is sweet and delicious, but the stamina is great, Zhang Yue and Wan Shijie just drank a lot, at this time accompanied by three small bowls of belly, naturally a little drunk. After all, Wan Shijie is no more salivating than Zhang Yue, so he looked at Du Zhen's face and asked, "Father-in-law, could it be that there is something in the cabinet today?" ”

"When Yang Mianren comes back from Yunnan, I will probably go to take charge of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate."

As soon as these words came out, Wan Shijie and Zhang Yue were taken aback at the same time. The former is just that, he didn't know much about the movements of the court after being outside for a long time, Zhang Yue came to his senses after being surprised, and immediately asked: "But is it for the matter of the vassal king proposed by my father-in-law?" ”

"After all, this matter has a great backlash, and the emperor used my strategy, but he had to find a way to appease the vassal king, so when I was finally transferred to Nanjing, it was considered to calm down the crowd. There is at least half a year or even a year to do a lot of things. Even when I arrived in Nanjing, I didn't stop there, there were still things to do. Gu Zuo cleaned up the capital procuratorate in the capital, but no one paid attention to it in Nanjing. ”

Since worshipping under Du Zhen's door, the mentor Zhang Yue has always seen has always been frank and frank, as if nothing can be overwhelmed, and at this time, seeing Du Zhen smiling indifferently, he couldn't help but admire it spontaneously in his heart. He is like this, let alone Wanshijie, he actually pushed the table and got up all of a sudden, first poured it for Du Zhen, and then himself, and finally held a bowl of wine with both hands and sighed deeply: "Father-in-law, I won't say anything else, I will respect you for this bowl of wine, I will do it first!" ”

Du Zhen looked up and drank it in one gulp after seeing the toast on the Wanshi Festival, and then drank it in one go, and then drank it all in one go, and saw that Zhang Yue was also holding the porcelain bottle, and felt even more funny. After accepting the toast of the two sons-in-law, he felt that the last bit of depression was swept away, and said in a deep voice: "If I go to Nanjing, you two stay in the capital, and others will have nothing to gossip about, especially the Yuan Festival, which will definitely not be in charge of the military department again, and you can stay in it safely and securely during the World Festival. As for the Yuan Festival, I won't give orders, and besides, I'm not leaving now, so don't put on a face to see you off. ”

Seeing that his father-in-law still had the mind to joke, Zhang Yue calmed down, and Wan Shijie instinctively went to get the porcelain bottle again, but after pouring it, he found that he had finished drinking, so he threw down the thing, and then raised his head and said with a smile: "That is, it is not a demotion to an official, where is not to be an official, my father-in-law's ability can be displayed everywhere!" When I work for another twenty years, I will go to my father-in-law's land to open a academy, and when the time comes, I will teach and educate people, and I will save so much trouble! ”

A sentence of teaching and educating people made Zhang Yue's heart shocked, and when he saw Du Zhen nodding with a smile, he suddenly woke up in his heart. Yes, he didn't have to wait until he was seventy or eighty years old to step down from his seat, and built a small academy in the capital and a bigger one in Nanjing, so that the family could live in peace and security in Nanjing, a place with a pleasant climate.