Chapter 400: The Toad Lies on His Feet

(It's not easy, four hundred chapters!) )

No other dynasty has attached so much importance to morality and ethics as the Ming Dynasty, even to the level of perversion, and among them, the performance of officials is the most obvious.

For example, Zhang Juzheng, even if the power is overwhelming and his father dies and takes away his love, he is still criticized by the world, saying that he is not filial, if it is not for the emperor and the queen mother who rely too much on him and forcibly protect him, this alone is enough to ruin his political life. Later, although he succeeded in winning love, when Wanli liquidated him after his death, few people spoke for him, and a large part of the reason was because of the love seizure.

It sounds like it has nothing to do with what Zhang You is encountering now, but in fact, the two have the same fundamentals: To be an official in the Ming Dynasty, you must have no flaws in character, as long as you meet the moral norms, ability is secondary, even if you are heinous, even if you are greedy, lustful and arrogant, on the surface, you have to pretend to be sanctimonious.

You can disdain it, but if you offend, you will provoke public anger, public mouths, especially moral accusations, and few people can bear it.

Let's talk about why these people are so arrogant, first of all, don't be affected by Manchu film and television dramas, although the hierarchy concept of the Ming Dynasty is also very strict, but Zhu Yuanzhang was born reckless and is really good to the people, so under the governance of his descendants, there are no soft-legged and heavy-headed minions under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, and people are not servile.

Secondly, I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang, he set the imperial examination as the only way to pass the school, and although it has been loosened by the time of Wanli, the status of scholars is still very high.

But it is not that you can study if you want to study, especially the children of peasant families, at least after three generations of accumulation, it is possible to allow a child to concentrate on studying, and finally enter the county school, enter the government school, show talent, raise people, and enter the jinshi.

It is a long and expensive process that can only be successfully completed with the help of the neighbors.

When you finally jump over the dragon gate and become an official, you have to give back to those who helped you, right?

After a long time, an invisible rule has evolved, officials from their hometowns, you must be well entertained, try your best to meet their wishes, you dare to drive them out, spread the word, countless notoriety will fall on your head, although it may not be lost because of this, if you want to be motivated, but it is almost impossible.

In fact, the vast majority of the people are still kind and simple, they have their own dignity, and they will not come to the door unless they have to, for these people, of course, they can help, and they have no complaints.

But Li Laoshi and the others are very hateful, insatiable, inch by inch, they are simply shameless to the extreme, after listening to Li's words, Zhang You has the urge to blast them out on the spot.

Li Yan knew him too well, so she hurriedly reminded him, for fear that he would not care about stabbing the basket.

"Damn, it's really a toad lying on its feet, it doesn't bite, it's greasy and crooked!" Zhang You sneered and scolded, waved his hand, and said like a fly: "Forget it, don't you care about them, won't you just have a meal, just send Hanako." ”

Saying that, his face softened, and he asked Li with a smile: "Grandma, how is that kid Zheng Shuang, have you seen him?" ”

"I've seen it twice, the silver horn has a lot of things, he's busy with his front heel hitting the back heel, every time he goes to see me, he puts down his things and leaves, and he can't say a few words."

Li complained, but his expression softened.

Pinggu's silver number was operated by Zheng Shuang, and the business was doing well, and Zhang You pondered about training him for a while, so he sent him to Nanjing.

He had a hunch that building a treasure ship would not be smooth sailing, and sooner or later, he would have to go to the land of gold dust of the Six Dynasties.

"Young Master, are you back?" Wang Jiaojiao's surprised voice interrupted Zhang You's thoughts, she was wearing a water-green jacket skirt, and her upper body was wearing a light crushed flower armor, Qiao Shengsheng stood at the door of the small courtyard, looking at Zhang You with hot eyes, and when Zhang You looked at her, she lowered her head again.

Li Yan couldn't help but glance at Zhang You with a dark music.

Zhang You secretly complained, he forgot to mention it when he entered the palace, the girl Zhu Yijun took a fancy to always lived in his own house, what is this called?

The most embarrassing thing is that the other party seems to have misunderstood this matter, and listening to Lan Qi, she still wants to wait for herself to be a concubine after her wedding.

Obediently, this has to be killed!

"Uh...... That, I'm back, where's my mother? ”

"Madame is in the house, well, it doesn't seem to be in a good mood, Sister Lanqi is persuading her." Wang Jiaojiao said crisply, she was already spicy, and after a short period of shyness, she quickly returned to normal.

"Grandparents and grandparents, you two go and rest for a while, I'll go see my mother."

Li Quanfu promised to leave first, and Li advised: "It must be because Li is honest and those people provoked it, you can persuade your mother well, it is better than what we say." After Zhang You agreed, he left.

Li Yan became the captain of Zhang You's personal team, and under Qiu Desheng's crisis, Li Shuo personally arranged for her to live in Zhang You's single courtyard.

She also went back to the small courtyard, Wang Jiaojiao was knowledgeable and busy, and Zhang You went to see Li Shuo.

Li Shuo and Lan Qi are both goose egg faces, one is light blue, the other is light purple, one is reclining on a recliner, the other is nestled on the sofa, there is a fruit plate and tea on the small table next to him, and there is a yellowed book, which is the "Female Doctor's Miscellaneous" written by Tan Yunxian.

As for the sofa, it was naturally made by Li Quanfu himself, wrapped in thick cotton, and it must be simple in future generations, but now, it looks very luxurious.

Both of them were barefoot, and when they saw Zhang You enter the door, Li Shuo on the recliner hurriedly pulled on the embroidered shoes, and Lan Qi was busy getting up from the sofa, and he couldn't care about wearing socks, so he put Bai Shengsheng's feet into the embroidered shoes.

"You kid, there is no movement when you enter the door, do you want to scare our mother and son to death?" Li Shuo complained that she was not optimistic about Lan Qi, and she couldn't stand Lan Qi's friendship, but after a long time, she was very intimate with her, and she loved to talk to her about anything.

Zhang You's memories stayed in the astonishment brought to him by the slush on Li Shuo's toenails, and he was a little stunned and withdrew his gaze from the embroidered shoes, secretly sighing, fortunately, these women who are close to him are Tianzu, otherwise, he can't appreciate the beauty of that kind of perverted deformity.

"Do you see those people?"

Lan Qi's voice pulled Zhang You's thoughts back, and he smiled: "I'm sorry, who thinks you two don't have shoes...... Actually, it's nothing...... Uh, I saw them, I put them all in the house......"

Originally, Li Shuo was still a little embarrassed, but when he heard this, he was taken aback, and interrupted Zhang You: "How can you let them in, forget how they treated our mother and son in the first place?" ”