The edge of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

Fan Jin really wanted to write this sentence as a couplet and paste it on his door, not only as a self-encouragement, but also as a war letter, to give those who have a wait-and-see attitude, as well as the backers behind these officials, to take a good look at whether they can defeat themselves by these means.

Regardless of vision or identity, just in the harsh environment of Guangdong, he has struggled all the way to his current position, and the struggle in the process has never stopped. Use your heart and means, and play with your life when necessary. In that kind of place where you are fighting for your life with the sky, if you don't have a fighting heart, you can't get to where you are now. At present, these people actually want to use intimidation to make Fan Jin give up, so they naturally miscalculated.

From the very beginning, Fan Jin knew that getting on the boat of Zhang Juzheng was destined to be a thorny road. From the very beginning, the new law was intended to compete with others for benefits. Compete with the local gentry for interests, compete for interests with the officials and officials, take the benefits in their hands and hand them over to the court, and then try to link the contradictions between the people and the court, so that the service life of this house, which has gradually revealed the danger of collapse, will continue for a few more years, this road will definitely not be easy to walk.

When you are a pastemaker, you are destined to not be a good person and have a good reputation. What's more, he is a pioneer under the pasteer, and he is even more scolded by professional households. In other words, he is the head of the gun in Zhang Juzheng's hand, and if he stabs others, he will hurt himself, and if he is worried that the blade will be damaged, then there is no way to work for Zhang Juzheng. Once he becomes a useless person, how can he take a second look at himself, let alone marry his daughter.

In the face of this pressure, he never thought of backing down. Smash it with the momentum of Mount Tai to see who is afraid of whom in the end, this is the response he chooses.

After all, the economic system is the fragrant gluttony of the times, and I don't know how many people want to be it. Even under Fan Jin's management, its gray income is not as good as before, and some people are rushing to get as many benefits as possible from it. Besides, everyone is not stupid, the officials have existed for so many years, and if there is no accident in the future, how can it be that there is no benefit at all? It's nothing more than changing the name and changing the way, but there is always a way to leave it for yourself. As long as you become a bureaucrat, future generations will also be secured.

Frustrated literati, or clerks who never had a legal identity in the yamen, showed interest in these positions. Before Ma Xianglan made this request, in the past few days, someone had already secretly brought money or land deeds over to Fan Jin, hoping to be an economic official.

The Shangyuan County Ya was not monolithic, and after Fan Jin recovered the Ya Gong, some officials were actually afraid. Besides, cowpox was not done in vain, and many people were actually very grateful to Fan Jin. Besides, there are people who talk about morality and believe that Fan Jin is correct.

At first, they didn't dare to come forward, for fear of becoming the target of others' grudges. With the rise of resignations, they have become bolder and dare to stand up and publicly support Fan Jin. In addition to them, the wealthy and wealthy families in Jiangning City also secretly sent people to the Yamen to send heavy bribes to Fan Jin through Fan Zhigao.

Although they themselves are businessmen, they all have children in their families who are studying. Not everyone of those people has the ability to get into the examination or even the Jinshi, and many of them work hard to be a showman or donate a prisoner, and their future is bleak. If you can become a bureaucrat in the yamen, it will be of great benefit to your own future and your family.

The former yamen labor shortage has become overcrowded at this time, and the yamen is more lively than in the past. Each vacancy has its own reserve price, and everyone bids for it, and the one with the highest price wins. When Youlanju officially opened, Fan Jin sat in the VIP seat, swaying the folding fan in his hand with a smile on his face, he had regained his former chic and composure, and now he was no longer worried about no one available.

Sitting at the same table with him were Xu Weizhi and a cadre of honorable nobles, and Wang Shiqi and his friends in the literary world sat at another table. The two nodded to each other and went to watch the show again. On the stage, more than a dozen women danced gracefully, which was dizzying. In addition to the dancing women, the women who accompanied the accompaniment were not idle people, all of them were extremely popular girls in Jiangning City, and Wang Xuexiao, the champion of the literature, was among them, holding the jade flute and playing it with heart, willing to be a foil.

Not to mention the taste of the wine and food in this restaurant, these red people on the Qinhuai River alone are already worth the ticket price, and there is a background of Wei Guogong behind this restaurant. When it opened for business today, Xu Weizhi sent hot stamping invitations to the big businessmen in the city one by one, and whoever didn't go would not give Xu Weizhi face. Although this little grandfather is more decent than Huang Jien, who was born in a splashy background, he also wants to save face. If anyone doesn't give face to the little grandfather, their own good life will come to an end, at this point, there is actually no difference between the little grandfather and Huang Jien.

When they arrived at the scene, these people felt that this time they had not come in vain. The people who came today are either rich or noble, and they are all the leading figures in Jiangning City. Well-informed, the food and wine in the restaurant rarely attract them. But when I saw the names of the dishes on the table today, half of them were unknown to me, and I secretly wondered if the restaurant was deliberately engaging in a gimmick, or if it really had a means.

There are also people who look at the wine and food on it and secretly have curiosity, but they are not good at asking questions because of their self-respecting identity, so they have to keep drawing question marks in their hearts.

Someone at the table of Xungui's children couldn't help but say: "Jiangning is good, much better than our local bun place in Yunnan." Just like this bird's tongue, it is actually picked with the tongue of the yellow flower girl with tea leaves, and the double abundance is the place to cultivate tea, such a precious tea is unheard of in Yunnan. In vain, we have a tea horse ceremony, but we have never seen such a good tea. Cousin, can I get a share of this restaurant? Is it possible to sleep with these women if you buy shares? ”

The man who spoke was not very old, he was in the stage of the most hormonal exuberance, and the accent of the official dialect was strange, and if everyone hadn't taken his identity into account, they would have laughed out loud. He was richly dressed, his face was black and red, he was tall and strong, and his appearance was extremely imposing.

Everyone at this table knows that this young man's name is Mu Changzu, and he is the son of Mu Chaobi and his concubine. He was very partial to this son, and almost wanted to abolish his sister-in-law Mu Changzuo and make him the son. It is precisely because of this that as soon as the holy decree of the imperial court to keep a son and capture his father arrived, Mu Changzuo personally brought soldiers and horses to surround the palace, and then asked his father to recite the name of loyalty and goodness in the Mu family era with tears in his eyes.

Mu Chaobi felt sorry for this concubine's son, worried that his sister-in-law would follow suit, so he also killed his compatriots first, specially brought him with him, and asked him to come to the front station. He has been pampered since he was a child, and he is a second ancestor with little scheming. What's more, the Mu family is like a soil emperor in Yunnan, and there is nothing to worry about in acting, and if there is anything to say, his voice is loud, which provokes several tables of people to look at it.

Xu Weizhi said angrily: "If you talk nonsense again, don't want me to take you out." This is a restaurant, not Qinhuai River, not what you want. I warn you, if you dare to mess around here, I will be the first to spare you. Besides, let my little sister hear this, and see that I don't beat you up as a bastard! ”

"Understood! Got it! Are my cousin and aunt here, we have to check it, I understand......"

On the second floor, the curtain hangs in a private room, and four screens separate the inside and outside, so that you can't see the outside scene. Xu Liu and the women of the Rose Society are all sitting here. A middle-aged woman in her forties, who was tall and tall, and looked quite similar to Xu Weizhi, also complained loudly there.

After a while, the bird screen was removed, and nothing could be seen here, and the man was suffocated alive. I'm a monk, there's no difference between men and women, so what's there to avoid? Huh? Liu'er, just let you sisters and aunts become monks together, everyone is a monk, you don't have to be afraid of anything, you can go wherever you want, you can do whatever you want, and you don't have to be bound by these hellish rules. ”

Several women looked at the woman who almost stepped on the chair next to her, and they all fell silent. knows that this is the aunt and grandmother of the Xu family who is known for her manly personality and rudeness, and the sister-in-law of Xu Bangrui, the contemporary Duke of Wei, is said to be the most military general of that generation of the Xu family, known as the first gun stick in the Xu Mansion. Three days after getting married, she beat her husband to run for her life, and then she had to leave home. Today, these little chicks are released into the wind, and she is leading the team.

Xu Liu has always been close to this aunt, and the first few times she went in and out with Fan, she came forward and shook her arm under the banner of her aunt's entourage. Xu looked at his ill-fated niece with pity, touched her face and said, "Don't be afraid, little pitiful, no one dares to do anything to you with your aunt." If you want to go to the show, go to the show, who dares to sue and eat a stick from the poor. As he spoke, he shook his head, and his black hair swept by like a leopard's tail.

After the exposing incident, the Xu family not only sent their son today, but also asked their daughter to bring friends from the literary society to the banquet, and their attitude is self-evident. This attitude is enough to prove that the cooperation between the two companies is still the same, and the relationship is still close. Mu Changzu, who was standing in front of Mu Chaobi, also came here to eat, which was also an important signal.

Mu Chaobi, as a hereditary noble, has a Danshu iron coupon to protect the door in his family, even if he commits such a rebellious crime as his brother and sister-in-law, he will not really be executed. The imperial court's decree was to sentence him to Jiangning detention pending a careful investigation by the imperial court. In fact, he was sentenced to house arrest in Jiangning and not allowed to return to Yunnan for the rest of his life.

Although he is guilty, he is still a minister of the country, and no one knows when he may recover. When he arrived in Jiangning, he was still not comparable to ordinary Wenchen military generals, and if he deliberately made it difficult for Fan, he could also make Yuan Ji uneasy. He sent his son to this restaurant to cheer, not only to say that he would not oppose Fan Jin, but also to defend himself, if someone came here to make trouble under the name of Mu Guogong of Yunnan, he could also get rid of it.

In fact, before the banquet, Mu Changzu had already met Fan Jin privately and sent some Yunnan native products to express his father's admiration for Fan Dacai. Its content is nothing more than some red gold, amber, pearls and the like, which is worth enough to build three orchid houses.

Come to think of it, it was those assassins who claimed to have been hired by Mu Guogong that made Mu Chaobi afraid and had to pay sincerely. Thinking about it now, Zheng Chan is smiling at those gold and amber, she is the same as herself, she is poor, but what is not as good as her own is that she has no way to make money, so she likes these things very much. Even if the money doesn't belong to her, she's willing to look at them and laugh. Moreover, Fan Jin also deliberately did not weigh the weight, and only said that it would be sent to the home, which was also to test whether Zheng Chan would secretly take some of it as a private room.

With this in mind, the banquet has already begun. The people who served the food were all women who used to be in the Youlan Restaurant, and their speed was much slower than that of the regular running hall, but this slowness did not attract complaints from diners, such as Mu Changzu, who was still looking forward to them being as slow as possible.

Walking like the wind swinging willows, curling Tingtingting, try to show the attractiveness of your body. He was wearing a tulle shirt again, giving him enough benefits. It's very serious, but it always makes diners think of other levels. Mu Changzu couldn't help but pull the woman who gave him the dish on the table and asked her name, and then pointed to the dish on the table and asked, looking like he was concerned about the food, but in fact he was still hanging his arms.

The name of Ma Xianglan Qin Huai's eldest sister is by no means false, this restaurant opened today, and dozens of popular women came to cheer her on. Even Wang Xuexiao, a woman who has always been not quite right with her, has to come to perform on a voluntary basis. These women all have their own well-known benefactors, and these people alone can bring initial traffic to the restaurant.

The gimmicks of Youlanju don't stop there, such as the tobacco leaves rubbed on the girls' legs are provided for free, and the high-priced wine is sold in quantities every day, which is much higher than the price of the market, and the reason for the restaurant is kept secret and not forced to sell. But in private, well-informed people will reveal that those wines are actually made from the juice after the woman crushes the grapes barefoot, and these delicate women can only step on a few grapes a day, which is naturally more expensive.

News like this is endless, making people curious about this restaurant. When the food is actually served, it is even more eye-opening for these people. At present, the customers of Youlanju are all high-class people in Jiangning without exception, and there are many gourmets who have even tasted the skills of the imperial chef, and the ordinary dishes are no longer attractive to them.

At present, Wu cuisine is on par with the banquet of Hegong Yamen, the family banquet of Confucius Mansion in Shandong and the banquet of Yangzhou salt merchants, and it has become a system in itself, with some excellent dishes and no shortage of famous chefs. The local tycoons in Jiangning are close to the water, and they have long eaten the delicacies of the world, and no one thinks that the restaurants opened by a few Qinglou women can make any outstanding dishes.

But when they really started to move their chopsticks, these people realized again that they had miscalculated.

Mu Changzu was pulling a waitress and refused to let him go, and he refused to let him go until the other party fed him a mouthful of food. The woman was so handy that she could deal with this kind of hairy boy, and she pretended to be shy with anger and anger, which made Mu Changzu's bones crisp by half. As soon as the dish was eaten, he first chewed and nodded, and then suddenly slapped the table, startling the woman and thinking that something had happened. Who knew that Mu Changzu looked at Xu Weizhi and shouted:

"Big cousin, you are not righteous! Everyone, you are close to each other, why did I come to your house and refuse to entertain me with such delicious food? Your family is so extravagant, I don't want you to be so stingy, what is the reason for keeping the good dishes for yourself to eat secretly, and only taking some ordinary banquets to entertain me? I'm going to find my aunt to reason! ”

"Bastard don't talk nonsense!" Xu Weizhi pointed at Fan Jin and said: "If you want to theorize, just look for him, this guy is a restaurant in his house, and the Fan fish you eat is his handiwork." The chef at home with such good skills has never entertained me. Ask the people here, who hasn't eaten this for the first time? It's easy to eat well, just keep an eye on him. Today, our brothers will join forces to drink this stingy county order to death. ”[.]