In the morning, Zhou Dingcheng accompanied Lian Daning to visit the sixth guard yamen of Jinyi.

Lian Daning was directly dumbfounded after looking at the office with Zhou Dingcheng and others, is this still a yamen, the furnishings inside are no different from Ouchi, the same color of imperial supplies.

"Isn't it taboo to do this?" Lian Daning pointed to the Nanmu tables, chairs and other imperial supplies, with a surprised expression, and his words were a little incomplete.

"It's all rewarded by the emperor, what's the taboo, those eunuchs in the palace also use these items, the yamen of the outer court is still the palace, we are not too particular, so-so." Zhou Dingcheng said with high spirits.

"It's still so-so, what else do you want?" Lian Daning gasped.

He had long heard that the sixth guard of Jinyi was completely set up with the emperor's internal money, and he didn't spend a tael of silver from the household department, but he didn't expect that even all the items were from Ouchi.

"And it's really so beautiful now? What the hell is going on here, flying so high all at once? Lian Daning couldn't react a little.

He had heard many rumors about the situation, and thought they were all exaggerates, but now he saw it with his own eyes, and he was even more shocked than the rumors.

"No one knows what's going on, we're all in a dream. But if you want to ask whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, then you don't know, anyway, you are getting more and more worried and entangled. Zhou Dingcheng sighed.

Lian Daning can understand some of Zhou Dingcheng's meaning, when the official reaches a certain height, he will have the feeling of being overwhelmed by the cold in a high place, such as facing the abyss, he is still just an inspector, and he often can't sleep at night, and he feels that the most stable day as an official is when he was the first county commander.

"Why is the emperor so favored?" Lian Daning asked.

"I don't know, I really don't know, I don't even know it, I don't know it, Lord Zhang doesn't know, maybe only the emperor himself understands. No matter how you think about this, even if the emperor wants to create a new Jinyi Guard, there are talents who are a hundred times stronger than the others, so he can't take his turn. Zhou Dingcheng smiled bitterly.

Although Zhou Dingcheng is not as worried as he is so worried, he often feels afraid, but since he entered Beijing, everything has been unable to be autonomous, and he can only go with the flow, no matter whether it is rich or rich, or disaster, he can only let it go and have no power to resist.

"The emperor will never reuse a person casually, there must be a reason, you use these royal items in violation of regulations, aren't you afraid that something will happen one day?" Lian Daning couldn't help but worry about the situation.

"Don't you see that there are more taboo things in the warehouse, a full set of honor guards for the prince's expedition, and ten royal horses." Zhou Dingcheng said with a sad face.

"The emperor wants to lead the troops to fight? Where is this material? Besides, how can prince-level honor guards and royal horses be rewarded to their subordinates? Isn't this messy! Lian Daning was even more surprised.

"That's what I'm saying, it's all unreasonable, but no one dares to ask the emperor." Zhou Dingcheng clapped his hands and said.

Lian Daning is also an old fritter in the officialdom, he can hear some taste, he thought about the situation carefully, and his heart trembled a little, to be honest, he didn't envy the current scenery at all, this is different from him, he first studied hard for ten years, passed all the way on the imperial examination road, and became a protégé of Xu Jie, and then began to embark on a career in office, from the county order to the prefect and then to the inspection envoy, although he also experienced hardships, but he came step by step.

Since ancient times, there has been no such way of making a fortune, it is too much, and it is simply an overnight fortune.

Literati can become famous overnight by relying on an article and a single poem, not to mention the title of the imperial examination scholars, and some people get rich overnight due to various opportunities, but this is not comparable to the case, and this way of making a career is that the ministers of all dynasties are rarely like this.

Now in the capital, most people's understanding of the situation is divided into two kinds, one is that he must be the illegitimate son of the emperor, and the emperor is embarrassed or unwilling to admit his identity, so he uses this method to compensate him, and the other thinks that he is a villain who has been favored for a while, a standard minister.

"Why are you so cold here?" Lian Daning's body trembled a few times.

It's summer now, and although the sun isn't yet blazing outside, pedestrians are wearing single clothes, but here it feels like late autumn.

"I feel it, it has nothing to do with us, next door is Beizhen Fusi, it is said that it is because there are too many people who have died unjustly, and the souls of injustice are not dispersed, so the yin qi around here is so heavy that it is very cold." Zhou Dingcheng laughed.

"Is that really true?" Lian Daning was a little unconvinced.

"They all say so in the north of Fusi, but it's not me who made their rumors. Fortunately, it's biting cold in winter, and it can freeze your soul. ”

"Can you stand it, then?" Lian Daning was in the same situation and became with Zhou Ding.

Although the yamen is luxurious, staying in this gloomy and cold environment every day will still cost a person's lifespan, not to mention whether he is afraid of the invasion of ghosts.

"It's getting used to it slowly, and we have a trick." Zhou Dingcheng took out the wine.

"Other yamen are not allowed to drink alcohol at work, we must drink here, otherwise we will not be able to stand it. Come, drink two glasses and warm up. ”

Lian Daning is not an alcoholic, and he is not used to drinking at work, so what kind of system is it? But now he really wanted to have a few drinks.

"What's the matter, sophisticated, if you can't get along in the officialdom one day, come here, be a commander and a fellow intellectual, and also a third-grade official, although there is no room for rise, but except for the emperor, no one can harm you." Zhou Dingcheng lay on the chair and drank comfortably.

"Be the head of the brocade guard? Not interested. Lian Daning hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

He is still the orthodoxy of a literati, and only by being promoted to the departments of the Sixth Metropolitan Procuratorate is the right way, and Jinyiwei is not the way out for civil officials after all.

"What, you look down on Jinyiwei? Lord Liu, the pacification envoy of the Beizhen Fusi, is also a Wenchen, and his qualifications are no worse than yours. Zhou Dingcheng squinted and said.

"I didn't mean that, it's ...... We'll talk about that then. Lian Daning said in a little panic.

In fact, what he wanted most was to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then seek the post of governor, and then he would have the qualifications to be a squire in the Sixth Department in the future. It's a pity that now that Xu Jie's has fallen, it's hard to say whether he can even keep the official hat of the inspector, so he doesn't dare to think about anything else.

When Zhou Dingcheng saw him say this, he didn't say anything anymore.

led Lian Daning to visit the yamen and persuaded Lian Daning to choose the opportunity to transfer to Jinyiwei to take up his post, which is the meaning of the situation.

Besides, he originally thought that after he arrived at the coast, it would be best for Lian Daning to be able to serve as an envoy or even a governor in a certain coastal province, so that he could complement him. However, thinking of the wealthy families he will face in the future, he is afraid of dragging Lian Daning from the tiger's den into the wolf's den.

According to his thoughts, it is best for Lian Daning to go to the book and retire to the forest, which is the best ending. If Xu Jie had become a scholar a few years earlier, he would have been much more prosperous than now, and his disciples might not all suffer, and now it would be difficult for him to retire decently, let alone protect his disciples, which is all caused by greed for power.

However, Lian Daning has always been ambitious, and he will never be willing to retire, even if he knows that the future is difficult, he will continue to fight. In this way, it will be unpredictable in the future, whether it is Gao Gong or Zhang Juzheng, they can only protect him for a while, and it is impossible to protect him forever.

Last night, he found Zhou Dingcheng in private, told him about the tragic image of Lian Daning outside the Gaogong Mansion, and at the same time told Zhou Dingcheng his thoughts, that is, let Zhou Dingcheng persuade Lian Daning today.

Besides, after all, he is Lian Daning's protégé, and many words are not easy to say directly, but Zhou Dingcheng is an old friend of Lian Daning, no matter how he says it, he will not lose face.

After Lian Daning drank two glasses of wine, his body warmed up, and he said with a smile: "What you said just now means besides, right?" ”

Zhou Dingcheng said: "Of course he meant, what right do I have to let you come over as his deputy?" The so-called deputy is a position, if you really come over, will he treat you, the teacher, as a deputy? Besides, he mainly doesn't want you to be calculated outside. ”

"I know his intentions, and I understand them, so let's talk about them." Lian Daning smiled, but he smiled very reluctantly, and his face was a little stiff.

"By the way, you seemed to say last time that someone wanted to be a staff member, or if you asked Xu Jie, why didn't you move later?" Zhou Dingcheng suddenly thought of this.

"Who else can there be, it's your nephew Wen Bin, I originally thought that I shouldn't be Zhang Xiang's staff, I don't know if I can let Wen Bin give Zhang Xiang a staff member, and then I put this matter aside when there were many things."

"Isn't Wenbin studying in Guozijian?"

The two of them were talking, and they stepped forward and heard what they were saying.

"You're back? What did Zhang Whale ask you for? Zhou Dingcheng asked.

"Let's not talk about this first, how did the teacher say that Wenbin wants to come over?" Besides, he asked.

"Yes, he saw that you were so beautiful here in Beijing, and he was tempted." Lian Daning laughed.

"It's okay for him to come, it's no problem to be a staff member, I'll just go and talk to Master Zhang. I haven't seen Wenbin in over a year, and I really miss him. Besides, he laughed.

"What's the point of being a staff member in Master Zhang, it's better to do it here ourselves, no matter what, it's our own people." Zhou Ding became enlightened.

"You can't say that, you don't want to have a big career when you enter the brocade clothes, if you really want to go to the top of your career, you have to go from the right path, and be a staff member with Master Zhang for a few years, at least your vision should be much broader, and you can also have more contacts, which is beneficial to becoming an official in the future." Besides, seriously.

"That's true, I also served as a staff member for my mentor back then, and that experience was very helpful to me in dealing with people and things later." Lian Daning Road.

"It's helpful to fart, the most helpful thing is to be a backer, without a backer, you can expect to be able to experience qualifications and become an official? Sophisticated, those squires, are you less talented than them, or are you less capable? I see that you are much stronger than them, but you can't even keep the envoy, you say, this is not a backer problem, what is the problem. Zhou Dingcheng hit the nail on the head.

Lian Daning was so ashamed by what he said that he almost couldn't raise his head, but he couldn't help but admit that his words were reasonable.

To be an official is to be an official, to be an official of the emperor, but to be compared with their respective backers, you can't be an official without a backer, at least you can't be a big official.