The affairs of the Pan family, after the lid was suddenly lifted, everything had already settled. Since the culprit, Mrs. Meng, had committed suicide by poisoning, and then found dumb medicine and other poisonous herbs in her room, as well as another packet of arsenic, and her girl couldn't bear to confess the matter, in order to make up for the matter, Nanhai County ordered Zhao Haitao to naturally go all out and handle the case into an iron case. After the Pan family sent a case against the second master Pan for disobedience, he immediately accepted it and settled it in court. Where the former high-spirited heir of the Pan family ended up after a painful battle, that was something that no one cared about.

People's eyes can't see the loser, only the old man Pan, who has been away from home for several years and has matured or experienced a lot of vicissitudes, took his sister Pan Baoer and brother-in-law Luo to return home and "reconcile" with his father Mrs. Pan. Before returning home, Mr. Pan sent the goods to Haojing, that is, Macao, in the name of the Pan family firm, with a total value of 40,000 taels of silver, which also confirmed the results of his wanderings over the years.

It's just that no one would have thought that the one million taels of IOUs written by Master Pan in his own handwriting were pinched in a soft wattle at this moment.

The owner didn't feel that there was anything to cherish in this thin but priceless thing, and after looking at it for a while, he threw it aside, and even sneered: "Could it be that in the future, he will sit firmly in the position of the head of the Pan family, and I will take the IOU drawn by him and stamped with his private seal, and go to the door to ask for debts?" If all he sent was this kind of insincere thing, then you don't need to show it to me! ”

"Miss, you're anxious again." Bizhu saw Xiaobei angrily kneading the IOU into a ball. And it was abandoned and still on the ground. She had no choice but to go up and pick it up. But he didn't unfold it, but just threw it in the box he was holding in his left hand, and then he presented the box with both hands, "The top is such an IOU, so I brought it to the young lady for fun, and there are other things underneath." ”

"See for yourself, I want to hear what else this old man Pan who is now in charge of the Pan family can get his hands on?" Xiaobei raised his eyebrows, and saw Bizhu holding things out. Among them, there are many valuable seal materials such as bloodstone, as well as various deeds of Guangzhou industry, and even various dead and living deeds of the shopkeepers, she can't help but change her face more and more, "Who does this person think of me and Wang Fulin?" Not to mention that these deeds have never been re-transferred to the government, even if he is really willing to transfer them to us, how can he make it clear in the future? ”

"Miss, here is a handwritten letter from Master Pan, take a look at it first."

Seeing that Xiaobei finally grabbed the letter, opened the seal and read it. Then his face turned slightly pale, and Bizhu knew that Master Pan must have explained this kind of behavior that was easily misunderstood. Of course. She didn't go over and follow without knowing the seriousness, and sure enough, the next moment, Xiaobei sighed softly: "I dare to worry that the shopkeepers in the Pan family or under the Pan family have other intentions and regard me as a place where important things are kept." Fortunately, he still has some conscience, there is a deed signed to Master Cheng as the shopkeeper, which should have been returned to him by Master Cheng, and I don't know if he volunteered at the beginning, or if Master Cheng asked him to sign it like that, it turned out to be a period of thirty years. ”

"Is there anything else mentioned in the letter?"

He said, whether it is Master Cheng or the Wang family, give him ten or eight shopkeepers, and he will make good use of them and let them be in charge. Especially Haojing, he is interested in Wen to take the lead. ”

Seeing that Bizhu took a breath lightly, obviously understanding, Xiaobei shrugged his shoulders and said, "When you turn around and Yu Wen comes over, you talk to him." But he has to learn Cantonese well, otherwise he will be deaf and dumb. When Fu Lin's term of office expires, when we go back, if you are willing to stay with Yu Wen, then it will be up to you. ”

There was no problem with the instructions in front of her, Bizhu nodded while listening, but when she heard the last sentence, she was stunned for a moment, and she stammered for a long time before she stammered: "Xiao ...... Miss, you ...... What does that mean? ”

"When we didn't come back, Yu Wen came to the door every day and waited, just to announce the news? But how can I hear that someone is asking about you? When the man is married, the woman is married, and he will marry if he sees the right eye, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, although he is not as important as Ye Qinglong's position, but he is not as smooth as that kid, down-to-earth, and very good. ”

"Miss!" Hearing Xiao Beiyue say more and more explicit, even if Bizhu's face is not so thin, he is a little overwhelmed at this time, "Let's get down to business, don't divert from the topic!" Even if there is Yu Wen, where will ten or eight shopkeepers be able to get together for a while and a half? ”

"You are underestimating Master Cheng and Ye Qinglong. Before, we chased after Fu Lin, and came out in a hurry, they were too late for a while, so they only selected one Master Pan and one Yu Wen, but since we know that these two people are here, in the near future, the next group of people will always come. Speaking of this, Xiaobei yawned lazily, and said with some interest, "I knew that there would be nothing to do here, so I might as well follow Uncle Lu and Mr. Zheng!" ”

Bizhu couldn't help muttering to herself in her heart, just Xiuzhu's girl outside is annoying enough to stalk all day long, if it is really Miss, you also follow Lu Guangwu and them to mix with pirates, I will not be beaten to death by my wife, but also by my master! Of course, first of all, my uncle can't spare me!

She was about to comfort the bored young lady when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the window, and she was stunned. Although this is a temporary apartment, there are not as many rules as at home, but there is no such thing as knocking on the door but knocking on the window! Just when she frowned, she didn't want Xiaobei to get up from the chair all of a sudden, so she suddenly opened the latch of the window and directly pushed the carved branch out of the window. As the window rose up, she saw the man carrying the lantern outside, not to mention the surprise.

This couple is really, last time the young lady had a surprise attack in the inn in Xiangshan County, and this time it was my uncle's turn?

However, seeing the scene of the two looking at each other through the window, Bizhu of course would not leave in the way, and quietly opened the door and went out, and when he saw that Wang Fulin did not enter the door, but stepped forward, holding the window with one hand and talking to Xiaobei with a smile. She finally couldn't help but chuckle. When he found out that Xiaobei was glaring at him angrily from the window. Only then did he quickly speed up his pace and slip away.

"It's forbidden at night, and you dare to come here!" Saying this, when Wang Fulin finally entered the house, Xiaobei still felt very happy in his heart. She closed the door casually, and was about to point to the box on the table to explain what Master Pan had sent, but when Wang Fulin picked her up, her words came to an abrupt end.

"I know you're going to be bored these days, so I rewarded you for not running around. I'm coming! ”

When the clouds and rain dispersed, when he heard Wang Fulin say such a sentence, Xiaobei almost choked to death, hated this guy's strong sense of revenge, and at the same time secretly scolded Bizhu for being his own wedding girl, but he listened to Wang Fulin's words and managed himself to death. She didn't see it once! Thinking of this, she couldn't help but pinch Wang Fulin's arm hard. When he saw his grinning expression, he stopped in relief, and then told him about the things that Master Pan had sent before.

"The matter of the Pan family will end here for the time being, let Yu Wen go over first, and wait for the next group of people from Huizhou to come over and then make plans. Of course, the deed must be signed with Master Pan at that time, otherwise he is now the head of the Pan family, and he will inevitably have to worry about returning to the business and changing his surname to Cheng or Wang. ”

Wang Fulin secretly thought that he didn't want to swallow the Pan family - after all, the Pan family used to be the top of the Guangfu merchant gang, and now the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Pan master who has just joined the Pan family will not have no bottom line, and his term of office as the governor of Guangdong is even more uncertain, and he will have to listen to the imperial court arrangements wherever he goes next, what he wants is a nail wedged into the maritime merchants, or an agent, not just a fancy to this piece of fat. Thinking of the resentment and boredom that Xiaobei had just shown, he took out Du Maode, who was the first on Xu Xiucai's recommendation list, and of course the annotations on Lu Guangwu's notes were indispensable.

"Huh? Is there such a person? Xiao Beideng's eyes lit up, and he immediately rubbed Wang Fulin's calf lightly with his toes, with a somewhat flattering smile on his face, "Do you want me to help you recruit him?" ”

"Of course not." Seeing that Xiaobei's face suddenly froze, and then as if he was about to blow up immediately, Wang Fulin said with a smile, "But since he has joined Lin Afeng, I think you can send Bizhu and Xiuzhu together to inquire in his village, of course, I will come to solicit things, and you will come to inquire about the work, this is the division of labor, if it is smashed, you don't want to go anywhere next, and it is not only Bizhu who is looking at you, I will transfer a few more people to see you to death day and night." ”

"Cross the river and tear down the bridge!" Xiaobei was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he was finally aroused to be competitive. She took a deep breath and finally said confidently, "That's it, if you can be a pirate strategist, I'll give it a try." Fortunately, I haven't been bored these days, and Bizhu has learned a lot of Cantonese dialect, and I can already speak decently. ”

"That's good, I'll have to take the township test next, and I'll leave it to you."

It has always been used as a patrol of the imperial history, in addition to the great power that everyone envies like the minister of the small Qincha, the patrol of the imperial history in the year of the township examination has another very eye-catching responsibility, that is, to cooperate with the two divisions to select the examiners of the township examination. According to the ancestral system set in the Xuande period, in addition to the two capitals, the selection criteria for the chief examiner and the examiner of each political secretary are "those who are under 50 years old and above and honest in literature according to the imperial history of the second division and the same patrol according to the imperial history".

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for so many years, except for the township examination examiners in the north and south of the country, who are from the Hanlin Academy, the chief examiners and fellow examiners of other provinces have always been determined like this. But because the grade of the examiner is too low, it is basically often influenced by the external curtain officer, that is, the promotion, the invigilator, etc., in other words, that is, by the department leader, this system has been criticized. During the Jiajing period, because of the strong support of several cabinet elders in the court, Beijing officials were also sent to various places to preside over the township test, but each time they were met with strong local resistance, and in the end they had to restore the current ancestral system.

Of course, sometimes the chief examiner of the township examination will also be because of the far-sightedness and insight of the officials of the two divisions of the patrol and the cloth, and there will be important figures, such as Wang Shouren Jinshi and the first few years to become the chief examiner of the Shandong Township Examination, which is the reason. But most of the time, the probability of such a thing is very small.

Because of this, compared to the examiner who conventionally becomes a teacher, which plays a great role in the career of a jinshi, the chief examiner of the township examination is often rarely regarded as a teacher—because the examiner is only a professor of the highest seventh-grade Fuxue, and his position is low. On the contrary, some external curtain officials and prison officials are often regarded as sitting teachers by some people in the examination, and there will be a bunch of protégés after a township examination. Among them, there are not a few people who claim to be the protégés of the imperial historian.

However, because Wang Fulin took office quite suddenly, the former Guangdong Governor Shi Yushi had already finalized the matter of hiring instructors from other provinces as the chief examiner and fellow examiner together with the two divisions. Because this work can often accommodate his relatives and friends, and he can receive a lot of oil and water, in the eyes of others, Wang Fulin can be said to have missed a good opportunity to fish for oil and water, but he is happy to have less trouble. Except for Master Feng, the former teacher of Qianshe County, who knows the current leisure, he basically doesn't know other instructors, and he can't send favors if he wants to, as for the problem of money, he thinks that the young master lacks nothing and is not short of money, so naturally he will not have any annoyance about this.

In case the examiner has any problems, it has nothing to do with me!

Before the start of the township examination, there were two main examiners and six examiners, who were the inner curtain officials; Han Shouyu, the chief secretary of the Lingnan Dao, served as the promotion officer, and the examiners were Zhou Congwen, the deputy envoy of the Haidao Division, and Zhou Kang, the deputy envoy in charge of academic administration. There are more than a dozen of these people in charge of the exam.

In addition, it is necessary to add the heads of the two divisions, that is, Zhang Tingfang, Chen Youjie, the political envoy of the political secretary, the envoy Yuan, the prefect of Guangzhou, Pang Xianzu, and Wang Fulin, the patrol of the imperial history. The first two are the heads of the two divisions, of course, they are not allowed to enter the autumn season, otherwise as soon as they enter the main post, half of the work of the political secretary and the judicial secretary will be abolished. Pang Zhifu, as a landlord, had to come and show his face. And if Wang Fulin, the governor of the imperial history, hadn't been reminded by Governor Ling Yunyi earlier, he had always thought that the township test had nothing to do with him. However, it turned out that at the time of the township examination, the supervisor had always been in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and at least one person was obtained.

Ling Yunyi was busy with the use of troops and couldn't get out, so he had full authority to entrust him with this patrol imperial history.

When a total of nearly twenty people met each other, they were clearly divided between the inside and outside curtains, and they were as awe-inspiring as they were to the guests. Wang Fulin found that he was just in his early twenties, nested in the middle of a large group of middle-aged uncles, and he was really out of place.

Thinking back to three years ago, he himself was a candidate who took the township examination in Yingtianfu, Nanjing, but now he has become one of the invigilators, and he also feels that his life experience is really magical.

The chief examiner and the same examiner of the Guangdong township examination are all senior instructors hired from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and there are professors of government studies and county studies, and they should not be very familiar with the matter between the various government offices in Guangdong, but the actual situation is obviously different, Wang Fulin keenly noticed that there are the most flattering Zhang Tingfang and Chen Youjie, the two political envoys, and there are very few who dare to find topics and talk to the envoys, but none of these are the examiners he chooses, but there are a few who are desperately close to him. There are even people who hint that one of his relatives is in Huizhou, so he is also a fellow countryman, which makes him cry and laugh.

On the contrary, Zhou Kang, who is the most justifiable academic administrator, is unexpectedly welcomed by no one - because the township examination qualification test, that is, the scientific examination, the posthumous examination and the big harvest, are all presided over by the student, so in order to show fairness, the appointment of this examiner has nothing to do with the promotion of learning, plus I have never heard of two consecutive academic politicians, so these instructors who acted as examiners this time are not worried that Zhou Kang will become the current manager, and they have no relatives with him, plus they can get the beauty of the township examination examiner, without exception, they are well-informed, Therefore, he put aside the great master of the great school and ignored it.

In the face of this isolated situation, and seeing that several examiners directly complimented Wang Fulin as a heroic and talented man, and his future was immeasurable, Zhou Kang finally couldn't help but be angry, and said in a deep voice: "After so many years, the number of people in Guangdong has increased again and again, and now there are eighty people. However, Lord Shoufu's rectification of academic politics is thought-provoking, and I also ask you to strictly control the township examination on the occasion of this township examination, and would rather lack than abuse! ”

PS: In the late Wanli period, the chief examiner of the township examination outside the north and south was officially designated as the Beijing official (to be continued.) )