As the saying goes: 'There is Beijing and Hangzhou.' It is said that the 3,500-mile Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the south end is Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the north side starts from Yanjing Tongzhou. Tongzhou is a large water and land wharf, and all kinds of livelihood supplies such as grain, silk, tea, rice, oil, and salt from the south must be transferred to the car in this place and transported to the capital for the millions of mouths to eat, wear and live.

The imperial court has a special warehouse waiter stationed here, the local people who live by the boats and the warehouse, I don't know how many of them, and at this time it is the peak season when Nancao gathers and the rice enters the warehouse, and the wharf is crowded, and the smell of sweat wafts everywhere, so that people can't intervene.

But this is the scene of the ordinary freight wharf, on the other side of the official wharf, it is another situation, the front is very spacious, the ground is paved with bluestone bricks, the water has just been sprinkled in the morning, it looks spotless, and the pergola by the wharf is waiting for the nobles who are waiting to pick up people, blocking the scorching summer day. They shook their folding fans lightly, spoke softly, and occasionally heard hearty laughter, as if they were separated from the pier on the other side.

But not everyone is afraid of the sun, a fat man standing on the official wharf, but wearing a cloth robe, is wearing a straw hat standing in the sun, one hand flashing a fan, one hand on both sides looking into the distance, as if someone's housekeeper is looking at the wind for the lord in the pergola.

But the officials present not only did not dare to underestimate him, but when they saw him standing in the sun, from time to time someone walked over and invited him into the pergola to rest, but he was impatiently pushed back...... ate the white of his eyes, but the adults took it for granted, and none of them felt embarrassed.

Because he is not an ordinary person, he is the famous first genius in Jiangnan, and he is currently a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, a close minister of His Majesty, and a long Xu Weizi. Can the officials be careless in offering and stammering?

This Mr. Wenchang is very knowledgeable, but his temper is also weird, no matter whether you are a relative of the emperor or a cabinet elder Shangshu, he always uses his nostrils to face each other, loves to answer and ignores, and looks like a living person who is not close, and I don't know how His Majesty can stand it.

But there is a saying that 'Qin Hui still has three good friends', and there are still people who can be close to him. No, the three young men walked up to him and said with a smile: "I said that Brother Wen, it's not interesting to get stinky sweat in the heat. ”

Xu Wei fanned his fan, shook his head and sneered: "Is it interesting to stand in the pergola and watch the people sweat like rain?" ”

A man in his thirties with a dignified face smiled at the two slightly young people on the side when he heard this: "Let me say, I can persuade this strong seed, but I can't find it in Yanjing City." ”

A man as handsome as a boy smiled: "Maybe it was in the past, but it's not right now," and he pointed to the distance and said, "Look, it's clumsy." ”

When everyone heard the words, they looked into the distance together, and sure enough, they saw an official ship, slowly sailing to the port, with a string of flags on the ship, and when they looked carefully, they saw a dazzling title on it: "The champion of the Ming Jiajing Bingchen year, the secretary of the Zhan Shifu has washed the horse, and he has been appointed as the doctor of the court, the former Hanlin Academy, the former right Chunfang and the right Zhongyun, the former Suzhou prefect, the former Jiangnan City Bo Si Jiju, and the former left governor of the imperial history Su Song. ’

Shen Mo, dressed in civilian clothes, stood on the bow of the boat, and smiled bitterly at an official wearing a crumpled seven-grade uniform beside him: "Do you have to put some signs?" ”

The official was sent by the Bureau of Economic Affairs to greet him, named Wang Qiming, who had a shrimp crawling face, and when he heard the words, his eyes widened and said: "This is the glory of adults, and you can't insert it when you enter Beijing...... implication beyond the words, if you don't insert it now, when will you wait?"

"Glory?" Shen Mo shook his head and laughed at himself: "It's all the former so-and-so, the former so-and-so, how can I feel like sarcasm?" ”

Wang Qiming's face wrinkled into chrysanthemums when he heard this: "Oh, my lord, just hold on, our Economic Bureau has not been able to open the pot for a few years, just waiting for a weighty adult to take charge, so we can be tough with the household department and ask for some life-saving money or something." ”

Since he said this, Shen Mo stopped squeaking, and seeing that he was about to reach the shore, he said to Ruohan, who was watching the children play behind him: "You will go home directly later, I don't know when I will be able to go back." ”

Ruohan nodded and smiled: "You're busy, don't worry about us." At this time, he suddenly asked, "Daddy, can we go to the Forbidden City to play?" "Silence is too open to his son's education, causing the children to speak surprisingly from time to time.

Suddenly, everyone looked at Wang Qiming silently, and when they saw him pretending to be nothing, they smiled lightly: "Without the emperor's summons, we can't go, if you are fortunate enough to be summoned by Your Majesty one day, you can go in and have a look." He smiled at Wang Qiming: "Children have never seen the world, and they say something inconsequential. ”

Wang Qiming hurriedly echoed and smiled: "Tong Yan is unscrupulous, Tong Yan is unscrupulous." ”

At this time, Aji on the side suddenly said: "Why do you want to listen to Your Majesty, didn't Daddy say that people should make their own decisions?" ”

Silent this sweat, he laughed dryly and said: "It was in Suzhou, and now that I have returned to the capital, I have to listen to the emperor." ”

Ruohan was also shocked and sweated, smiled awkwardly at Wang Qiming, and dragged the two unlucky children into the cabin, Aji and Shiwen were still there and said unwillingly: "We want to go back to Suzhou, we don't listen to the emperor's ......"

'Hehe......' The two babies went in, laughed silently twice, but didn't say anything, Wang Qiming on the side hurriedly continued: "Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wu Ji......"

"yes." Shen Mo nodded, glanced at Wang Qiming approvingly, and said, "Qiming, what position are you in now?" ”

"Ah, the subordinate is the seven-grade school book of the Bureau of Economic Affairs," Wang Qiming laughed at himself: "A librarian like me, there are more than a dozen in the bureau." ”

"Isn't it a waste of so many people?" Shen Mo said: "What is on the school book? ”

"Lord Hui, it is a six-grade inheritance, and there are few people." Although Wang Qiming is a mung bean official, he is more clever than those local officials in Beijing, and he knows that his chance to come out is coming, so he immediately spat at and said loyally: "My lord, I have no other skills, but I have a solid eye, from now on, I will be an adult in life, and I will be a ghost in death......

"Stop, stop." Shen Mo shook his head and laughed, "What do I want you to do?" ”

Wang Qiming smiled embarrassedly: "I am a metaphor ......"

"Alright, don't be analogy." Shen Mo patted him on the shoulder and said, "After I go back, you will be my inheritance, follow me and work hard, I won't let you suffer." ”

Let him shoot this time, Wang Qiming's bones are crispy, and he immediately kowtowed to Shen Mo and said: "My subordinates thank you, from now on, you let me go east, I don't go west, let me chase chickens and I don't chase dogs, in a word, let me do whatever I do." ”

Shen Mo kicked him and said, laughing and scolding: "Sycophant! It's almost here, so let's arrange to disembark. Although it was a scolding, it was through the unconcealable affection, which made Wang Qiming very useful, jumped up, and said energetically: "Get the order!" He jumped down like a monkey.

The boat docked, and Shen Mo saw Xu Wei, Wu Dui, Sun Ling and Zhu Dashou at a glance, beckoned vigorously and smiled: "Ran out to pick me up on a hot day, my brother is really sorry." ”

The four of them laughed together: "If we don't come, you won't be happy." ”

As soon as the boat stopped, Shen Mo couldn't get down, and the four of them hugged each other one by one, and they hadn't seen each other for several years, and everyone missed each other very much, so that you patted me and I beat you, expressing the joy in their hearts.

Laughing slightly, Wu Dui reminded him in a low voice: "Others are here too." Shen Mo nodded imperceptibly, and then smiled at the three people not far away: "Brother Taiyue, Brother Ziwei, Brother Siji, you are really clumsy to come here." ”

I haven't seen him for a few years, Zhang Siwei is still like that, and he smiled at Shen Mo: "Brother Humble Yan has returned to the dynasty in triumph, how can a brother not greet him?" ”

Zhang Juzheng was much calmer, and said with a smile: "Humble words, don't come to harm." ”

Brother Siji is the former prefect of Hangzhou Tang Ruji, when he was inspected, he also got excellent, was transferred to the capital, and was appointed Zuo Chunfang Zuo on virtue, he felt that he and Shen Mo were old friends who shared hardships and sorrows, so he stepped forward affectionately, and Shen Mo almost said: "Brother Clumsy Yan, we are really fateful, together in the Hanlin Academy, go to Jiangnan together, and now come back to the capital one after another, and you can be closer in the future." This is a little abrupt, if you follow him, maybe some moth will come out.

Silently withdrew his hand without a trace, and said with a smile: "It's close enough, and if you kiss again, you have to move the quilt to Brother Siji's house to sleep." It made everyone laugh, and they bypassed the stubble.

At this time, the officials on the dock who were not welcoming Shen Mo also came over to greet him, Shen Mo smiled in return, and when he got rid of it, it was already close to noon.

Everyone was about to board the bus and enter Beijing, when Tang Ruji suddenly proposed: "It's time to have a meal in Tongzhou, and then go back in the afternoon, just in time for dinner to go to Beijing." He said so, even if everyone didn't follow him all the way, but today they all came to pick up Shen Mo, and it was not good to say anything.

Tang Ruji led everyone to the most famous restaurant in Tongzhou, "Food is the sky", he was obviously well-intentioned, had already booked the most luxurious box, ordered the most precious wine and food, and as soon as everyone arrived, they immediately opened the banquet.

These people are all from Hanlin, dragons and phoenixes among people, who doesn't understand, what Tang Ruji's pretentiousness is for, I have the heart to remind Shen Mo not to fall into his way, but forget it after thinking about it...... The person who can calculate this guy is probably not born yet.

Then it was to arrange the seats, Shen Mo was the guest of honor today, so he naturally sat in the main seat, Tang Ruji sat on his right hand side of the main escort, everyone wanted Xu Wei, the highest official position, to sit on Shen Mo's left, but he blinked and smiled: "Let's invite Zhang Taiyue to sit, Brother Taiyue is the predecessor of Jiajing for twenty-six years, let's follow the rules." After speaking, he sat down opposite Shen Mo, and couldn't persuade him.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother Wen, you are cold to me." Having said that, he sat down on the silent left-hand side. Everyone sat down according to the first year, and then passed the dishes to the feast, and toasted the silent reception, which was naturally not a problem.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, it is natural to gossip, but what makes Shen Mo strange is that these people just speak in unison and ask him about Suzhou City...... Such as the city, anti-Japanese and so on. For him to ask about the affairs of the capital, he was vague and diverted the topic, as if he was taboo about something.

So he didn't ask, and the meal passed in this strange atmosphere. On the way back, he shared a car with Xu Wei, and when the carriage rumbled, and he couldn't hear the conversation inside, he opened his mouth and asked, "How is Jingli now?" ”

"It's still like that on the surface, but there is a turbulent undercurrent in private, and you don't spit out bones when you eat people." Xu Wei shook his head and smiled: "I have to say, humble words, you shouldn't enter Beijing at this time." ”

"As if I wanted to come." Shen Mo rolled his eyes and said, "If you can, who wants to leave the Suzhou-Hangzhou paradise with red flowers and willows and come to Yanjing to eat sand?" ”

Sun Ling smiled and said: "Yanjing is not livable, I am asking for a transfer and going back to the south to be an official." "He is currently a student at the Hanlin Academy, and he has been idle for several years, and he wants to go out to be an official.

"You don't have much to do there, you can go." Zhu Dashou said with envy: "Like me, I haven't finished the "History of the Yuan" until now, and I can't go anywhere." ”

Shen Mo asked with concern: "It's been six years since I left the Hanlin Academy, and you have been doing that job for the past six years?" ”

"Hey," Zhu Dashou glared at him angrily and said, "You provoked Li Mo and then patted your ass and left, but you made me and Duanfu a good pit." "Today, when the Hanlin bachelor stage accepted the revision results of the "Yuan History", the two of them could not both come, so one was the representative, and the other stayed at home. Zhu Dashou said with some relief: "But the past few years have not been in vain, and the Yuan Dynasty is not long, it is estimated that it will be completed by the end of the year." ”

Wu Dui said with a smile: "This is a great achievement, once it is completed, the two of you will definitely become famous, and it is possible to even upgrade to the third level." ”

"I'd rather continue to be buried in the pile of old papers," Zhu Dashou shook his head and said, "That way I can sleep peacefully, and I won't be worried all day long." ”

"How?" After listening silently for a while, he asked, "What, is the atmosphere tense now?" ”

"It's not just tension, it's tension." Sun Ling made an exaggerated gesture and said: "The people on both sides are fighting openly and secretly, and they are almost pinched." ”

"This is not like Xu Ge's style." Shen Mo shook his head.

"What Xu Ge Lao." Xu Wei shook his head and said, "It's King Yu and King Jing." ”

"Both of them?" Shen Mo was secretly taken aback and said, "Why haven't I heard of it." ”

"This is last month," Wu Dui silently decomposed: "King Jing, who had never had a queen, gave birth to a son, and King Yu's son died, and suddenly the status of the two sides was reversed, so that the strict party elements who originally sat on the wall and watched suddenly waved their flags and shouted for King Jing. ”

The background of this is known to Shen Mo...... Today's Shengshang Wanshou Emperor Jun Jiajing Emperor, because he has been weak and sick since childhood, and he took pills indiscriminately when he became an adult, resulting in the very poor quality of tadpoles, and he struggled to give birth to many sons, but he did not feed a few, and finally became an adult, that is, the old Sanyu King and the old Sijing Wang, two lonely seedlings, but also as if congenital insufficiency, the body of the two is worse than the other, less than thirty years old, they are sick, empty against the house full of concubines, just can't give birth to dolls.

Although King Yu is slightly longer than King Jing, King Jing also has his own advantage, that is, he looks like Emperor Jiajing. In addition, the emperor has always had an ambiguous attitude and refused to establish a prince, so the people in the court almost unanimously agreed that whoever can give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson will be the future prince! The two parties are also convinced of this.

So, a vigorous war began, in the first few years, the two sides wanted to rely on their own ability, hard work throughout the day, sprinkled rain and dew, hoping to plant a wide range of crops, but helplessly their father's seeds really failed, the land planted a lot, but did not grow crops.

Later, I had to ask someone to help...... Uh, no, ask someone to help give birth, but ask someone to help give birth so that they can give birth to a baby.

The brothers have different surnames and choose very different paths. Let's talk about King Jing first, because he looks like his father, he feels that this is the biggest capital, words and deeds can be imitated, and even the fanaticism of Taoism, blue out of blue and better than blue, so he asked the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain to help, hoping to make a doll with the help of the magic of the gods.

On the side of King Yu, this master was weak and very obedient, and his teacher, the priest of the country, Gao Gong, said: "Don't believe those things, they are all lies." King Yu didn't believe in those monks, and sought medical advice in the orthodox way, and finally got a prescription from Li Shizhen to nourish his body and strengthen his kidneys, persisted for a few years, and finally gave birth to a son. Then he died a month...... It doesn't matter, regenerate, this life is longer, when he left Suzhou silently, he also heard that King Yu celebrated the birth of his son at the age of two, who knew that he had just entered Beijing and died again...... At the same time, however, King Jing gave birth to ...... It's fun now.

(To be continued)