The warm spring breeze blew in the sky over the capital, blowing the catkins all over the sky, and also blowing the infinite melancholy in people's hearts.

Walking out of the gate of Fan's Mansion and looking back at the tall gatehouse, the first thought that came to the beautiful lady's heart was: This kind of house is wronging my Fan Lang. Zhang Taiyue is too picky, why is the house where his son-in-law lives so simple?

Although from a factual point of view, the Fan family's house in Jingshi can also be regarded as second-rate, and it is also their own house. Compared with those fourth- and fifth-grade Beijing officials who are still renting houses, I don't know how strong it is, but for this noble lady, there are not many houses in the world that can enter her eyes, after all, her comparison standard is not the palace or the mansion of the noble prince.

The power of the relatives of the Ming Dynasty is not strong, Li Cailian, as the cousin of the Queen Mother, no one takes her into account in the power structure of the court. But in fact, she has a very strong influence on the Queen Mother, especially some suggestions that are not related to issues of principle, and the Queen Mother will basically not refuse.

If someone in the Beijing division can get through Li Cailian's door, what he asks for will basically not be in vain. Of course, the price of her Chrysostom is extremely high, and it is not easy for ordinary people to see her, let alone ask her for good words, this price is unaffordable.

Just like now, the price she wants is absolutely unbearable for Zhang Shunqing. In fact, she didn't think about begging Li Cailian. Although the two have a lot of origins, Zhang Juzheng has a very bad opinion of Wu Qinghou's family, and he is also very unfamiliar with his family and this Mrs. Li. Even if Zhang Shunqing asks for something, she will not think of asking Mrs. Li, but sometimes, this cousin of the Queen Mother is not a reasonable person.

She thinks that she has helped Zhang Shunqing, and she has a reason to ask for compensation, even if the content of the reward is half of this woman's husband, she will not think that there is anything unreasonable. What she wants to say this time is to transfer Fan Jin back to Beijing, don't wait until her term expires, otherwise someone will not be able to stand it.

When this person said to Li Cailian, she naturally meant Zhang Shunqing, as a person who came over, she could see that this prime minister's daughter had already reached the point of omnipotence with Fan Jin. Originally, women were not staying, not to mention those who had tasted it, it was naturally impossible to survive. Those who know the hard work can naturally understand Zhang Shunqing's suffering of staying alone in an empty room. Li Cailian's view has its own basis, for example, a big girl has never been through the door, and she serves her aunt here every day to manage the family business, you say that she doesn't want to be a husband but also has to be trusted. As for Li Cailian, she also comes to Fanfu every day...... That is social communication, the development of the faithful, after all, is a lofty purpose, different from Zhang Shunqing.

In fact, she knew very well that she was about to explode. In the past, the dead ghost husband gave her a very ordinary feeling, and she could bear it, and after experiencing Fan Jin, she let her boil up, it was simply torture. According to the decision of the current ministry, the magistrates are rotated every six years, and Li Cailian is afraid that she will rush to Jiangning by boat to promote her supernatural powers.

In addition to personal factors, considering Fan Jin's future, she also thinks that Fan Jin should come back. Staying in the place at a young age, if the Holy Grace is no longer there, it will greatly hinder the future. Especially at present, there are people in the Beijing division who are dedicated to Fan Jin's embarrassment, and the salt merchants from Yangzhou have not hesitated to spend a lot of money to make a point, and some people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate have begun to poke and poke and start stabbing knives.

Although they didn't dare to come out openly to engage Fan Jin, saying some strange things or pulling back their hind legs were all basic operations for Master Du. After all, no one is perfect, and you can always find fault with Shangyuan County. The terrible thing about the speech official is not that it is made out of nothing or fabricated facts, and the rumors and rumors are not used in such a way, and the speech officials who only believe in their words will not go far at all. Don't forget, even if the official is not guilty, a complete false accusation will also affect the performance appraisal and even be degraded. Not to mention Zhang Juzheng, Fan Jin's teacher Hou Shouyong is now in the middle of the matter, that is a powerful existence that is not willing to move after immediately raising the seventh level of use, and who dares to frame such a person? Needless to say, who would be stupid enough to send him to death casually. What they're really good at is telling the truth.

The power of facts is always greater than lies, and selectively stating facts is also a fact, and only choosing the bad side can accumulate a bad impression of a person in the emperor's heart. Once this negative impression accumulates, it is an extremely dangerous situation. Although Li Cailian is not in the court and has a lowly background, she is always familiar with these things in this high-level circle, and there are many officials who have laid out the layout for a few years and then put down at once.

For now, she can use her connections to speak well in front of the emperor and offset this negative impression as much as possible. But what will happen over time, no one can say. Of course, Zhang Juzheng can protect Fan Jin, but the Ming Dynasty is the world of the Zhu family after all, and it is the emperor who decides everything.

Two years is just a moment for a young man to grow up and a white horse in the river. But for Wanli Tianzi, it has a great significance: he is married.

In the Ming Dynasty, the criterion for an emperor's adulthood was not his physical age or mental knowledge, but whether he was married. From the institutional point of view, the Son of Heaven who has been married is an adult and can handle the government, in other words, the seat that Zhang Juzheng set up next to the throne should be canceled.

At the beginning, the Son of Heaven was young and the first assistant regent, which was a last resort, and now it is natural to be in power. But even those who opposed Zhang Juzheng in the court knew very well that the current emperor simply did not have the ability to manage a country. The Queen Mother also decreed that the throne should be retained, Zhang Juzheng was the regent, and although the Son of Heaven was married, he still had to be the same as in the past. Especially last year, the Son of Heaven was drunk and messed around in the palace with a sword, saying that he wanted to kill Feng Bao, and also cut the hair of the eunuchs around him, which angered the Empress Dowager Li, and finally asked Zhang Juzheng to draft an edict on behalf of Wanli.

The Son of Heaven, who already showed an absurd appearance at a young age, naturally couldn't be pro-government, and now Zhang Juzheng still has the power in the court. But in Li Cailian's view, this state is not normal. Although he has no outstanding cultural knowledge, in a large family, the old housekeeper takes the financial power and does not return the young master in charge of the house, which is also very easy to be criticized. On the surface, Wanli is very approving of his mother's arrangement, but what he thinks in his heart, Li Cailian is not sure.

She always had a feeling in her heart that Zhang Juzheng's tree was too leafy, but it might not be reliable. This thought would have been laughed at, but she did, and felt it so strongly, and she couldn't even tell why.

In addition to this, Zhang Juzheng's illness at the beginning of this year also made Li Cailian worried. According to the Taiyi report, Zhang Juzheng was suffering from hemorrhoids. This disease is not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty Prime Minister's pile, the founder of the Chaling Poetry School, the famous genius and joker Li Xiya of the Ming Dynasty, is an elderly hemorrhoid patient.

The fact that there are many people suffering from this disease does not mean that the disease is not dangerous, according to the recital written by Li Dongyang himself, it is: In the early October of the 17th year of Hongzhi, he suffered from hemorrhoids, leakage of dirty poison and other certificates. In other words, this disease could be fatal in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhang Juzheng is known for his energy and physical fitness on weekdays, and the hemorrhoids attack did not last long, he handled official business as usual and had a banquet with a cadre all night. But Li Cailian also got two pieces of news from the imperial doctor: First, Zhang Juzheng's hemorrhoids are not curable, and the blood is very serious, which is different from ordinary hemorrhoids patients. Second, the best treatment for Zhang Shoufu is to rest, but the problem is that who dares to let the old man rest in the Ming Dynasty at the moment, then he has to be prepared for a long sleep, so he doesn't dare to mention this plan at all.

When you are sick, not only do you not rest, but you still socialize all day long, which is definitely not a good phenomenon. Li Cailian is not interested in caring whether Zhang Juzheng lives or dies, Fan Jin's future must be considered in the future. Either way, he has to be brought back. Not only that, but he also wants to give him a future, wealth, including this house, and the scenery he can live in, Zhang Shunqing can give it, and he can give it. Let him also see, in addition to being younger and more beautiful than himself, how else can this woman surpass himself?

Although Zhang Shunqing's attitude towards her was polite, there was always an indescribable contempt. That contempt certainly doesn't show itself, and the average person doesn't feel it. But what kind of person is Li Cailian? Naturally, I can feel the superiority of the children of Wenchen over a woman like herself. Besides, this woman is not stupid, she may be able to guess her relationship with Fan Jin, but so what? Zhang Shunqing didn't dare to expose all this, and even didn't dare to hinder her relationship with Fan Jin, she had already thought about it, even if Fan Jin got married, she would come to Fan's house, disgust this proud woman, and let her know that in Fan's family, she didn't cover the sky with one hand, and someone could treat her.

Since Wanli's wedding, my mother has come less here, and even less so after the sin edict incident. Although he was accompanied by his beloved son Lu Wang Zhu Yiyi and Princess Yongning, both of them were children who could only please and were not enough to talk about. For this cousin's visit, Empress Dowager Li welcomed her with both hands, and the relationship between the two was even closer than in her mother's house.

As soon as she saw her cousin's face, Empress Dowager Li looked at her face with concern, and then said worriedly that her cousin's face was haggard, and the supplements she had rewarded had no effect for some reason. Li Cailian couldn't answer, so she had to divert the conversation, and the two of them crossed their horses and bent their bows for a while before returning the words to Fan Jin.

"The daughter of the Zhang family is not young, the Zhang family doesn't say it, but in fact, she is very anxious, the girl always stays at home, it's not a thing. The Queen Mother thinks about it, last year, the old lady of the Zhang family made the decision and betrothed Miss Zhang and Fan Jin, isn't this just a hurry. If you keep procrastinating, you won't be able to do it. It is not easy for Taiyue Xianggong to work for the country, everyone is tired and sick, and we can't help with anything else, so we should always lend a hand. A prime minister's daughter, if she has nothing to do, she goes to her mother-in-law's house to talk to an old lady from the countryside, which is not very decent. It's better to transfer people back as soon as possible, let him get married, and the people are down-to-earth, so that they can contribute to the court. ”

Empress Dowager Li peeked at her cousin, although all she said was Zhang Shunqing, but seeing her mention Fan Jin's radiant appearance, she was too lazy to hide her false intentions, how could she not guess her true thoughts? She said that Zhang Shunqing grew up in the Fan family, why didn't she talk to the old lady in the countryside of the Fan family every day, and also paid to help a housekeeper and mother-in-law of the Fan family open a restaurant?

Empress Dowager Li sighed secretly in her heart, poor cousin, what is this. I know very well that what my cousin needs most at the moment is not ginseng Ganoderma lucidum but Fan Jin, but Fan Jin has become a relative, how can it be convenient for you to interact with him again. Once the incident happens, what will happen to him?

According to her own intentions, it is best not to let Fan Jin get married, and then arrange her cousin to do Buddhist things in Jiangning to fulfill her thoughts. But Zhang Juzheng is kind to himself, and he is not good at treating his daughter too lightly, not to mention that his cousin has said so, and he should also be a favor. As for the future, Zhang Juzheng's daughter will not be too unreasonable, right?

She thought for a while: "I heard that Fan Jin did a good job in Shangyuan, and last year he stopped weaving, and abolished the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau and the Shenbo Hall and replaced them with official procurement. There are also some slaves and maids who talk in private, saying that they are afraid that the palace will use satin to cause trouble. As a result, not only was there no shortage of satin last year, but the texture was also better than that sent by the Internal Weaving and Dyeing Bureau in the past. Counting the cost, it is more than 30% less than the previous internal weaving and dyeing bureau. In addition, the number of people and acres of land in Shangyuan have increased by several percent compared with the past, and there is a surplus of taxes paid by a county to the monks of the surrounding three counties in a year. That's it, there are ginseng to him, saying that he is beggar-thy-neighbor, what kind of person is this? At this time, if I transfer him back, I am afraid that everyone will think that this crime has been confirmed, and I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of loyal ministers. ”

Li Cailian said: "This matter is not difficult to do, Fan Jin has not come to Beijing in the past two years, as soon as he said that the gentry in the local area will block the city gate and not let him go, even the governor can receive a post, and the local gentry will keep people." No one can bear such a good official. But if it goes on like this, if you still can't go in six years, it will be a real delay. If he did not make the following decree, he would be announced to return to the court to report on his work, and he would not be allowed to leave as soon as he returned. As for who will take over his class, let him protect him. ”

Empress Dowager Li nodded, "Well, this is a solution." It's still thoughtful that the imperial sister thinks. But now that the emperor is older, it's not good for us to take his place, come here, invite Banzai over and talk to him about this matter in person. ”

Princess Yongning on the side said: "Queen Mother, when that Fan Qing's family comes back, will he still enter the palace to give a lecture to the imperial brother?" ”

Empress Dowager Li glanced at this daughter vigilantly, she was not a competent mother, especially in the treatment of children, there was no fairness at all. If it weren't for Li Cailian's request, she wouldn't even plan to let her daughter and son appear in her palace at the same time, because she didn't have a good look at her daughter's problem, but asked with a cold face: "What are you doing?" ”

"Erchen...... Erchen wanted to thank Fan Qing in person. I heard Mama say that if it weren't for this coal stove chimney, many people would have died in the palace in previous years, and even the nobles of the heavenly family might not be safe. Since we have this, we don't have to be afraid of charcoal poisoning anymore. Yongning was used to being disciplined by his mother, and he didn't react too much to his mother's attitude, but just said it honestly.

Zhu Yiyi also said at this time: "Queen Mother, the imperial sister is right, the son also heard the eunuch say so, in the past winter, there will be dead people in the palace, and children are the most dangerous." Since Fan Qing's family dedicated the coal stove chimney, the eunuchs were not afraid. Erchen also wanted to thank him in person. ”

Empress Dowager Li's attitude towards her son became obviously gentle, and she nodded: "You will remember to tell your imperial brother this later." You know at a young age that Entu is very good, and if your imperial brother can be like you, the mourning family will be relieved. This time, I have to talk to him well, so that he understands that he must know how to be a man and not be ungrateful. Mr. Taiyue's grace and Fan Qing's merits must be repaid, and people must be transferred back! ”