Back to the old capital, things and people are wrong

Seeing the world is nothing but pleasure

After arriving in Chuzhou, Xu Pingyang went to Lin'an. When he returned, he seemed to be a different person.

Returning to Lin'an, which had been absent for a long time, Xu Pingyang, who was in the year of the sixtieth year, soon understood what it means to be a person and a person, and it is not what it used to be.

There are more and more shops in the city, the banners of the wine shops are swaying in the wind, the customers are overflowing, the courtesans and dancers are all showing their flowers, laughing and laughing, and the Goolan Washer is side by side, which is very lively, and it can be said that it is more prosperous and prosperous than a few years ago.

The scenery of West Lake and Phoenix Mountain is becoming more and more beautiful, especially the South Garden, where the pie field, landscape, flowers and trees are better than the royal garden.

Today, among the officials above the fourth rank of the court, he basically does not see familiar faces, and there are some little-known figures among the rulers. The two prime ministers know each other, but they have no friendship at all. Xie Shenfu is a native of southern Fujian, is a fellow villager of Liuzheng, and he recommended him to enter the court, at first in the academy, and later in Zhongshu, as a living houseman, although he skimmed the official dialect of Lin'an, he still made people half-understandable. In his impression, this person was a little shrunken, silent, and always looked cautious. Now that I have become the prime minister, I really don't know how many talents I can have for strategizing and being resourceful and decisive.

Yang Wanli is over seventy years old, and he has become a scholar, and suddenly, on a whim, he wants to get an earl. Xie Shenfu was his student and the prime minister of the dynasty, so this task naturally fell on his head. Coincidentally, Han Yanxuan asked Yang to compose, but Yang refused on the spot. Can Han Yanxuan agree to the promotion of earl?

For the sake of the teacher, Xie Shenfu risked being rejected by Han Yanxuan, and asked Lord Han, who knows, Lord Han not only did not object, but also said that it was okay to be promoted to a marquis.

Wu Bogang is a snob, a mother with milk, he is determined to climb up, impeach Zhu Xi, oppose Taoism, jump up and down, such a person is also on the right.

Chen Zhishan, who is nearly seventy years old, has been in the dynasty for three years, rising step by step, and has been ranked in power, a low-level subordinate who is submissive and has mediocre qualifications, how can he be in a high position, isn't it because he is Han Yanxuan's teacher?

Also, Zhang Yan was originally an unknown person, because he had Jing Yutang as the backstage, he joined the army from a manager, and directly entered Beijing to serve as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and it didn't take two years for him to be in power.

There are also Su Shicheng, Zhou Yunluan, and Shi Dazu, all of whom are some fallen sons, and I am afraid that they have not finished reading the four books and five classics, and they have changed from a scribe and a poor to a Beijing official of six or seven grades.

Where were the people who fought side by side with Zhao Ruyu back then? Zhao Ruyu, Zhu Xi, and Lu Zujian have become ancient, and Chen Qida and Yang Wenduan have returned to their hometowns; Chen Junliang first went to Hengzhou, then to Guangzhou, and now he is recuperating outside Lin'an City, and he is seventy years old; Ye Zhengze still likes to work hard, and he was sent to Mingzhou as a shipping envoy in Yangzhou, but as a result, he banned pseudo-learning, and was also blacklisted, and arranged to do idle jobs in Jiangxi; When Zhao Yantong went to Sichuan, he was reluctant, and when he was leaving, he stabbed Zhao Ruyu in the back, and in less than three years, he returned to Beijing to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and suddenly fell ill and had to go back to his hometown to recuperate; Guo Jun went to Wuxing, Sichuan, and it is said that he soon fought with the Wu family, and gradually became fire and water, and the imperial court still maintained the status quo except for pacification on both sides.

What surprised him even more was that the dictatorship of Han inside and outside the government and the opposition had reached the point of turning a blind eye and colluding with the same people, and except for the scholar Ye Zutai Fu Que Shang, no one in the Manchu Dynasty had openly opposed Han Yanxuan. As for the people, there are still many people who say good things about Han.

Once, he pretended to be a scholar from other places and went to the most popular Fengyi teahouse in Lin'an to drink tea. Ask Dr. Cha:

Man, how has this way of drinking tea changed?

In the past, Lin'an people boiled group tea or cake tea in boiling water, boiled for a while, and then drank it, which was called boiled tea; There are also tea leaves in the cup, with a large kettle to boil water, the water boils, lift the pot, pour water into the cup, wait for the tea to sink to the bottom, the water temperature is right to drink, called some tea. Nowadays, the tea leaves are placed in a small pot, and in front of the guests, a few cups the size of wine cups are placed, the water is poured after boiling, the first time it is poured out, the second time it is filled, and then the tea soup is poured into a small cup for the guests to taste in small sips.

Dr. Tea told him that this is the most popular way to drink tea at the moment. Thanks to the Korean government.

Korean Gong? Xu Pingyang was a little puzzled.

He is the most powerful Han Daren today.

I've heard that Lord Han's reputation isn't very good. Xu Pingyang lowered his voice.

Who is talking so nonsense, let me tell you, after our shopkeeper made tea knows, after letting the Han Mansion know, Lord Han specially asked him to go to the mansion to make tea. The shopkeeper saw that many officials in the DPRK and China drank like this, so he decided to open a teahouse, asked Lord Han to take a name, and said that he would make half of the money. Guess what Lord Han said?

How so?

You make money by yourself, and I don't participate in taking as much as you want.

After the teahouse opened, many officials came to drink tea, and the first one was Chen Zhishan Chen, who came almost every day.

This time, Xu Pingyang figured it out:

What is the use of worrying about the country and the people, what is the use, what the court does not want to do, no matter how good it is, it is useless for you to roar to the sky. It is better to eat, drink, and enjoy life like many dignitaries.

So, he spent money to renovate the mansion and build a back garden.

Hearing this, Yang Yuandao said, isn't that good, the public affairs should be done well, and the life of the family should also be done well.

Those who are out of the cabinet are still to come. Mrs. Jiang said, I'm embarrassed to say. I don't know where I found it, and I bought six little women one after another, some of them studied ink and paper in his study, some played the piano and sang songs, and some accompanied the wine and sold pretty, and the maids were not concubines or concubines, it was a mess.

In this dynasty, the officials were rich, and their wives were not alone, and some, in addition to their wives and concubines, also had beautiful maids. Yang Yuandao knew that when his father-in-law was an official in Beijing, he had married two concubines, and later one died, should he still marry?

His brother-in-law told him that at the beginning of the year, his old father married another one, in his thirties, who was born in Leying, was delicate, lavish, and the whole family was not at peace. A few days ago, I went back to my parents' house.

Recently, the old man suddenly wanted to marry a nineteen-year-old prostitute. The whole family was unanimously opposed, and he said confidently, Zhang Xian is over eighty years old, and he can marry, but I am only sixty-three, why can't I? The old lady wanted to die and live twice before she gave up, but she didn't give up.

Zhang Xian was an official during the Song Dynasty, and this public was literary and romantic. When he was eighty years old, he was deaf and clear-sighted, and his family was like a prostitute, and he married an eighteen-year-old concubine. Su Shi was also invited, and Scholar Su deliberately asked the old man aloud at the wedding banquet how he felt. Zhang Xian shook his head and said casually: "I am eighty years old and eighteen, and I am red and white-haired. It is the same as the Qing upside down, only separated by a sixtieth in the middle. Su Shi immediately wrote a poem: "Eighteen brides and eighty langs, pale hair and red makeup." The mandarin ducks are stacked into a stacked night, and a pear tree presses begonias. The crowd burst into laughter and fell into a tumultuous manner. Since then, "pear blossom begonia" has become synonymous with "old husband and young wife". It is said that when Zhang Xian was eighty-five years old, he married a concubine and held a banquet again. Su Shi admired it very much, went to participate again, made another poem, and quipped: "The poet is old and the warbler is here, and the son is busy when he returns", "Yingying" refers to Cui Yingying in "The Legend of the West Chamber", and "Yanyan" uses the "Yanzilou allusion" of Guan Panpan and Zhang Jianfeng.

Yang Yuandao smiled secretly in his heart, my old Taishan is really not simple, the older I get, the more romantic I become. However, speaking of which, he also felt that his father-in-law was indeed different from before. Two days ago, I took him to eat flower wine, and his words and deeds in front of the prostitute were indeed a little presumptuous, and could even be said to be debauched.