Chapter 172: Xiangguo Cai Jing (II)
Not long after, a middle-aged man in a purple official uniform walked into the study quickly, this person is Cai Jing's eldest son Cai You, Cai You in history is Cai Jing's political enemy, and he can't wait to put his father to death, but that is later, at present, there is no conflict of interest between their father and son, Cai You's power is far from being comparable to his father, and this is also the best period for their father-son relationship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Cai You is currently only forty years old, he looks more like his mother, with beautiful eyebrows and fair skin, and he looks very shrewd and capable.
Although the father and son look different, but the personality is exactly the same, the same scheming, the same obsession with power, the same charming Son of Heaven, when the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji was still the king, he was the warden of the Tailoring Institute, only in his early twenties, every time he can meet a hundred officials to retreat from the court, he will observe Zhao Ji's next court route every day, and then appear on time Zhao Ji passed by the side of the road, bowed to him, after a long time, Zhao Ji remembered this smart and clever young man.
Cai You knelt down and respectfully saluted his father, "The child sees his father!" ”
"Get up!"
Cai You stood up and stood in front of his father with his hands down, and Cai Jing asked, "How is your second uncle's condition?" ”
Cai You's second uncle is Cai Jing's brother Cai Bian, only one year younger than Cai Jing, and he is also the prime minister of the imperial court, but he is upright, and Cai Jing's relationship is the same, the two brothers have long turned against each other, never communicated, Cai Bian asked for leave at the beginning of the year to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, but fell ill in the middle of Jiangning Mansion, Cai Jing got the news, he asked his eldest son to go to the brother's house for him to inquire about the situation.
"Back to my father, the second uncle is seriously ill, and the imperial doctor has already asked the house to arrange the funeral."
Cai Jing snorted, "This is the end of going against me, I live well, but he can't do it, okay, if he goes, you go to worship for me." ”
"The child obeys!"
Cai Jing took a sip of tea and asked, "Let's get down to business!" What did Mr. Yuan Miao say? ”
Mr. Yuan Miao is the Taoist priest Lin Lingsu, entered the palace last year, he boasted that he could peek into the wonders of heaven and earth, good at refining elixir, although Zhao Ji was the first time to see him, but felt that he was extremely familiar, as if he had seen it in his previous life, he told Zhao Ji that he was the king of Shenxiao Yuqing, the immortal emperor descended to earth, he was the emperor under the alchemy boy, and told Zhao Ji about the wonders of Shenxiao Wonderland, so that Zhao Ji was leisurely fascinated, and he trusted him very much from then on, Lin Lingsu flattered Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other powerful people were immortal officials in their previous lives, for a time, Lin Lingsu was praised by the full dynasty, known as the Golden Gate Yuke.
In February this year, Lin Lingsu was ordered to preach in the Shangqing Baozhen Palace that the Qinghua Emperor descended to the Xuanhe Hall at night, and there were more than 2,000 Taoist priests attending the meeting.
Cai Jing once sent someone to visit Lin Lingsu's old place, and learned that Lin Lingsu was very good at women, especially like virgins, so Cai Jing sent eight extremely beautiful girls to Lin Lingsu as the furnace, and asked Cai You to date him, and the relationship between the two began to be close.
Cai You said: "My father's expectation was very accurate, and Mr. Yuan Miao said that the official family really regretted making the prince too early. ”
Cai Jing smiled, "Sure enough, it's not what I expected!" ”
"Father thinks the official family really intends to support another powerful king to contain the crown prince?"
"It's hard to say, although the emperor's art lies in balance, but there is no precedent in this dynasty, even if the official family has this heart, it may not be revealed, if I guess correctly, he will support King Jia little by little, let King Jia slowly sit up, at least three or four years before you can see a little clue."
"So what do we do?"
Cai Jing said lightly: "The most taboo thing in the battle for the heir is to stand in line too early, we just stand by the sidelines, and it is not too late for us to stand in line after the situation is clear." ”
"Got it."
At this time, Cai Jing remembered something again, and hurriedly said to his eldest son: "I got the news that Suzhou officials jointly sued Zhu Mian and his son, and this matter is probably a bit serious. ”
Cai You was secretly taken aback, he thought for a while and said, "Zhu Mian has given a lot of property to the child, is this a trick?" ”
"You go back and take stock of everything and donate them all to Neku."
Cai You's heart really hurts, the property that Zhu Mian gave him is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, how can he be willing to donate it like this?
"Father, Zhu Mian has bribed a lot of people, the court has more than five grades, and almost every family has the Taihu Lake stone he sent, why don't others donate, but we have to donate?"
"You fart!"
Cai Jing was a little angry, "How can I have a stupid son like you, can others compare with me?" Zhu Mian is the person I promoted, if something happens to him, of course I have to take responsibility, and he is an arrogance and a private army, don't you understand? If we don't draw a clear line with him, will the Son of Heaven let our Cai family go? ”
Cai You saw his father angry, and he was so frightened that he trembled and said: "I'm afraid that the amount of property is too large, and if we donate it, we will be suspected of taking stolen goods!" ”
"You don't have to worry about this, the official family is not afraid that you will take the stolen goods, but they are afraid that you will rebel, the more greedy you are, the more assured he will be about you, you go back and count it, and then hand over the list and property to me, this matter cannot be delayed any longer, you must give me the list tonight."
"The child obeys!"
Helpless, Cai You had no choice but to bow and leave in a hurry.
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At night, several small boats loaded with dozens of large boxes and other items arrived at the dock of Cai Jing's mansion, and more than a dozen strong men moved the large boxes into the mansion.
In the study, Cai Jing carefully looked at the list of belongings sent by his son, 1,500 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, a box of jewelry, 10 strange stones, two sets of precious furniture, and 100 hectares of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River and three houses in Suzhou, all of which were worth at least 50,000 yuan.
Cai Jing looked at it for a moment, then asked the big tent standing on the side, "What about our list?" ”
The big tent is surnamed Hua, and everyone in the house calls him Hua Weng, who is about sixty years old this year, he has been following Cai Jing for fifty years, and has been Cai Jing's scholar since he was ten years old, and until today, he has become Cai Jing's most trusted person, in charge of all the wealth of Cai Jing.
The big tent took out two lists and presented them to Cai Jing together, "According to the master's orders, I have separated the house, fertile land, and gold and silver wealth. ”
Cai Jing took the list and looked at it, the property he accepted from Zhu Mian was even more staggering, there were as many as five beautiful houses in the capital alone, and one house was worth 100,000 yuan, not to mention hundreds of hectares of fertile land, more than 100 precious stones, and even more innumerable gold and silver jewelry.
After reading it, Cai Jing said to the big account: "The categories of gold, silver and jewelry are managed, and the real estate, fertile land and strange stones are added to the list in the big ya." ”
The big account room sighed secretly in his heart, this is actually to let his son take the blame for him, and only the old man can do this kind of thing, people say that tiger poison does not eat children, but in the eyes of the master, as long as he can keep power, even his own son can still be sacrificed.
The big account room was helpless, so he had to agree, took the list and withdrew.
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Li Yanqing returned to the capital at noon, and after returning to Beijing, he broke up with Zhao Kai and returned to Taixue.
Li Yanqing first went to the Taixue livestock shed to store the horses, and then returned to the dormitory, just arrived at the door of the dormitory, he heard someone behind him call him, Li Yanqing turned around, and the person who called him was a miscellaneous manager of Taixue, surnamed Qian, who was usually in charge of Taixue's logistics and miscellaneous affairs, and he was followed by two servants.
"Is there something wrong with the money manager?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.
Steward Qian was quite fat, and he couldn't breathe, he panted and said: "I'm here to tell the little official that your dormitory has been changed to Xiqing Yuan, which is the third courtyard of the seventy-fourth Zhai, and the monthly rent is two times a month, Zheng Yanei has paid for you for two years, and the little official can move over now, and then give me the key to the old room." ”
As he spoke, he handed a bunch of copper keys to Li Yanqing, "These two servants are here to help you move, and the little official will go and pack up your things first!" ”
Li Yanqing was really surprised, Zheng Fat Man had already arranged his new dormitory, and he was ready to submit the application in two days, although this Zheng Fat Man spent all day drinking, did not learn and did not know, but he was very righteous and helpful to his friends, Li Yanqing was moved in his heart, and turned around and asked this fat man to drink and thank him.
Li Yanqing didn't have many things, only a few boxes, he simply packed up, at this time, the servant came with a donkey cart, loaded the boxes into the car and drove towards Xiqing Courtyard.
Taixue is composed of five pieces of land altogether, the earliest is the old land of Guozijian, called Xiqing Yuan, and then gradually the surrounding Wucheng Wang Temple, Ma Jun Du Yu Hou Gongxuan, Chaoji Yuan assigned to Taixue, so that the teaching and Tai students accommodation conditions have been greatly improved, ten years ago, Cai Jing presided over the reform of Taixue, and established an area of thousands of acres outside the south of the city of Biyong, as a new school building for Taixue, also called to live in the outside of the school, at present 3,000 students are basically living in Biyong.
Xiqing Yuan is also called the Plum Garden, it is also the dormitory area of the upper house, there are a total of ten fasts, each fast has five single houses, which is also Cai Jing's welfare for the envelopment of students, considering the actual situation of students, many students have been married and have children, so there are two kinds of dormitories in the inner house and the upper house, one is a single dormitory, and the other is a single dormitory.
However, this kind of benefit can only be enjoyed by the inner and upper students, but not by the lower students, who still live in a two-person dormitory, and the conditions are much simpler.
Li Yanqing's new dormitory is a single courtyard, a bit like a townhouse in later generations, a long row of houses, separated by brick walls into small courtyards, each small courtyard is of different size, Li Yanqing's courtyard belongs to the medium to small, in fact, it is composed of two suites, one corner of the courtyard is planted with a plum tree, and the other corner is a well.
The most satisfying thing about Li Yanqing in this independent courtyard is that it is very independent, and he doesn't have to share the well with other students, and just now he found that there are maids living in other courtyards, which shows that Zheng Fatzi is right, Taixue allows students to bring their families and maids, and he can also take the magpie and Qing'er together.
At this time, the two servants had already moved his luggage into the room, and Li Yanqing rewarded the two of them with twenty yuan, and the two of them saluted and drove the donkey cart away.
"Lao Li, how is this courtyard? It's my brother, I picked up the yard for you. Behind Li Yanqing came the familiar voice of Zheng Fatzi.