In the last ten days of vacation after Zhang Juzheng returned to Beijing, the court was calm inside and outside, and there was hardly even the slightest noise.

For Wang Fulin, who was already determined to stay in the position of the head of the Guangdong Dao Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he was of course very satisfied with this relaxed atmosphere. Because now the only people left in the imperial history of Guangdong Province who can work are Wang Xuezeng and Gu Yuncheng, he doesn't want to have any moths at all. As for the fact that he directly invited Zhu Zongji, who was about to be promoted to imperial doctor in the Tai Hospital, to treat Wang Jiguang, a subordinate, there were different opinions in the Metropolitan Inspection Hospital.

Some think that he is fake for public benefit, and some think that he deliberately shows goodwill, but more imperial historians are very envious of Wang Jiguang's luck.

You must know that this is an era when cough and fever can kill you, and there are many poor imperial histories in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and there are many people who can only stiffen up if they can't afford to see a doctor!

And Wang Jiguang, who has always been sensitive, would never admit the three words of poor imperial history in the past, but he finally received a letter from home in the past two days, saying that his father was suddenly ill and spent money like running water, so he couldn't bring him money. What made him even more ashamed was the lesson after Zhu Zongji gave him a pulse.

"The body is your own, and you can't help it if you want to toss others, but Guangdong Dao is now only left with Wang Shiqing plus two imperial histories, if you don't encounter things like brushing the scroll and punishment, you can still be busy, in case you encounter any errands such as the Qing army and patrolling the city, how do you let him arrange it? It's so easy for you to change from trying the imperial history to actually teaching the supervising imperial history, if you give your life, where can you call it wronged? Within ten days, if you don't take care of it well, the disease will not improve, and don't think about it in the future! ”

Wang Fulin was the first day that Zhang Juzheng returned to the cabinet to do business, and when he went to visit Zhu Zongji to thank him, he learned that a certain imperial doctor who was deeply trusted by the emperor's relatives and Zhang Juzheng deliberately intimidated Wang Jiguang, and he couldn't cry or laugh. But it's good that he can invite people, and he doesn't bother to say anything about his bad taste. However, what surprised him was that at the time of parting, Zhu Zongji was a little drunk and said something that made him unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

"Before, Li Xiaohou sent someone to send him the collection of the snow-white mountain house, and I got drunk after reading it. Although the Beijing teacher is good, I sometimes want to leave this splendid future, go to Nanjing to talk about poetry, write calligraphy and painting, and come to see people, but it is much more comfortable than today. The Wang Jiguang you asked me to see, most of them are heart disease, and Yuanfu's body is gradually not as good as before, and most of them are also heart disease, and Wu Qingbo's family is rich and idle. In short, both inside and outside the court are full of flies and dogs seeking fame and fortune, which makes people look so uninteresting. Even you are not the Wang Fulin of the past. ”

He is indeed not the Wang Fulin of the past, there are too many scruples, there are too few people who can really rely on him, and it is even more of a dream to withdraw and retreat!

Compared with what he can do in Guangdong, now that he has returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in addition to reviewing the criminal name relatively fairly, it seems that there is only one thing left for him to do, and that is to spray people.

Of course, to put it nicely, that is to rectify the rule of officials.

For example, in the past few days, after Wang Fulin obtained the tacit consent of Chen Wei, the imperial historian of Zuodu, in advance, he connected three playbooks, and once the playbooks were on, corrupt officials and mediocre ministers were servants. But so what? Anyone who has the slightest relationship with Zhang Juzheng can't touch it, and the focus is only on those small characters who didn't worship Shoufu Mountain, but who have the audacity to put money in their arms!

But this little depression turned into nothing when Wang Fulin returned to his door in Chengjia Hutong. Wang Siming, who worked part-time as a porter in the tent, stuck out his head from behind Wang Ji and Wang Xiang, and said with a smile: "Son, someone from She County is here." Wu Gongzi of Xixi Nan was pushed by the government to pay tribute to the prison and went to study in the country, and the second aunt and grandmother came with him. ”

Wang Fulin was a little surprised by the two unheard titles, but when he walked two steps after entering the door, he immediately realized that it was Wang Erniang who followed her husband to Beijing!

When he first arrived and didn't understand anything, it was Wang Erniang and Wang Xiaomei, two younger sisters, who accompanied him, and they also managed to maintain the life of the family. When he had a good time, he began to raise his sister richly, but when he really picked his mother-in-law's family, he was rarely idle at home, and he couldn't talk about choosing people to check at all, until he finally sent his relatives, he grabbed his brother-in-law Wu Yingjie and asked about the marriage process. Even the last time he returned to his hometown, he only stayed for a few days, and he barely had much time to talk to his two younger sisters.

"Brother!"

Hearing this familiar name, Wang Fulin came back from his trance, but found that he had arrived at the second gate. The little girl who used to be spicy and powerful is now wearing a round bun, plump cheeks, and the whole person is revealing a mature atmosphere, but at this moment, tears came out of her eyes, and she seemed to run forward with her skirt, but it reminded him of his sister at the beginning. He smiled and stepped forward, and when he stopped in front of him, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the stains on her face, whether it was sweat or tears.

"What are you running? It's all home, and I can't wait for these two steps, and I'm still in this temper after many years. ”

"How many years, I'm also your sister!" Wang Erniang only felt that the distance between so many years had been shortened all of a sudden, and after returning the veil, she said angrily, "Little sister heard that I came to the capital, not to mention how envious I was, she specially asked me to bring you a lot of things, all of which are specialties of Yanzhen......

After chattering for a while, Wang Erniang thought that she had forgotten her husband, and hurriedly turned around and pulled Wu Yingjie over to meet her eldest brother. The last time the two met was when Wang Fulin returned to Beijing from Guangdong last year, and stayed in Huizhou for a few days, but he didn't say a few words in total, and the last time was Wang Erniang's wedding and the days after marriage, compared to Wang Fulin's little brother-in-law, Fang Xiucai of the Fang family in Yanzhen, but he was more familiar. But that was just Wang Fulin's unilateral opinion, at least when Wu Yingjie was bowing at this moment, his face was quite serious and solemn, so that Wang Fulin, who reached out to help, couldn't help but sigh.

"It's not like you haven't seen me before, so you need to be so trembling?"

Although Wang Fulin has a warm attitude, Wu Yingjie set off from Huizhou to the capital, and happened to meet a few other Gongsheng who entered Beijing late, and heard a lot of rumors about Wang Fulin that he didn't know - such as ruthlessness and so on, plus Wang Fulin let him go when he got married, if he was sorry for Wang Erniang, even if he was in the south and north of the world, he would have to settle accounts with him, so now goodbye, he naturally accompanied him carefully.

At this time, he squeezed out a smile when he straightened up, and then said dryly: "Big brother has been an official for so long, I am really a little afraid of your official authority." ”

"What official authority? That's all about scaring people. Can't you believe those rumors outside, you can spread people to three heads and six arms, don't you see that he also has two eyes and one mouth? ”

Xiaobei came up and gaged a few words, and then welcomed everyone in. According to Wang Fulin's meaning, they are all a family, and there are only two couples and four people in total, and Cheng Naixuan and his wife, who have just won a daughter, are also called, plus Chen Bingchang, seven people can have a meal around the table, but Xiaobei saw that Wu Yingjie was a person who paid attention to etiquette, and he couldn't do anything like men and women sitting at the same table, so he stopped it quietly, and only sent Yan's mother to Cheng's house to invite him in person. After a while, Cheng Naixuan helped his wife, who had been pale and red after confinement, to come over.

Now, three women went to the inner room, and four men had dinner in the flower hall outside. After a few cups, Wu Yingjie saw that Cheng Naixuan and Wang Fulin, the two seniors who could be referred to as Kedao, were all without a fight, and gradually lost the initial nervousness, Chen Bingchang also relieved himself from time to time, and he gradually became fluent in speaking. Speaking of this trip to the Guozijian, he said sincerely: "I learned such a place in the government to get such a tribute student, originally went to Nanjing Guozijian closer to home, but the southern prison is now full, either you have to wait, or come to the north prison, I discussed with my family, and then went to the capital." Although the child is still young, the family is not at ease, so I let the lady follow me into Beijing. ”

"Come to Guozijian to study and bring your daughter-in-law, Wu Erlang, you will be happy." Cheng Naixuan glanced at Wang Fulin with a smile, and said happily, "The current Guozi Priest Wine should be Lu Min, and he is also a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, and he has a little friendship with my father-in-law." Although you are going to study in the North Prison, you don't need to alarm the relationship at the level of sacrificial wine, but if you have something, just speak when the time comes. However, as long as you sacrifice that you are Shuangmu's brother-in-law, no one in the Guozi Prison will dare to bully you, let alone those who bully the soft and fear the hard. ”

Wu Yingjie knew that Wang Fulin's eldest brother-in-law Xu Zhen was now in Nanjing Guozijian, and Wang Fulin's disciple Qiu Feng was also in Nanjing Guozijian, that is, his wife's brother-in-law, the one from the Fang family in Yanzhen, and it was said that he also planned to study as a prisoner in Nanjian, and try again to see if he could stand out in the field. Compared with the South Prison, the North Prison is actually more difficult to enter, and the world's Xiucai sharpens his head and wants to be among them, because the North Prison Supervisor can participate in the Beizhili Shuntianfu Township Examination, which is much better than the Nanzhili Ying Tianfu Township Examination! Thinking of Cheng Naixuan's big bag, he was suddenly a little ashamed when he deliberately concealed this point, and after taking a sip of wine, he said his little abacus.

Wang Fulin and Cheng Naixuan themselves broke through from the Devil's Township Test in Nanzhili, and the means they used were really not very glorious, so they all felt that it was normal for Wu Yingjie to use this method to fight for a background. Especially Wang Fulin knows that the college entrance examination in later generations will inevitably change household registration, so he will not despise his brother-in-law.

"You just have to go to your studies and ignore the gossip. However, even if Xiucai and Xiucai have to participate in the scientific examination or record the remains to get the qualification for the township examination, there are so many prisoners in the North Prison, if you want to break through and get the qualification for the Shuntianfu Township Examination, it is not so easy, among the six halls of the Guozijian, you have to strive to be promoted to the Spontaneous Hall first......"

Although Wang Fulin has never entered the Guozijian, he is still in the Beijing Division, and this kind of common sense is still there. As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Bingchang and said thoughtfully: "Little Brother Chen, I'll move your household registration to Jingshi for you." ”

Chen Bingchang was envious that Wu Yingjie could enter the North Prison, and when he suddenly heard Wang Fulin say this, he was suddenly startled. When he realized that Wang Fulin's implication was that he could try to take the exam from Beizhili, he only felt a rush of enthusiasm rushing to his brain, but then he pinched the tiger's mouth and forced himself to calm down.

"Brother Wang, I have only been in Beijing for more than a year, and if you want to take the exam in Shuntianfu, you must not only have a house and land, but also live in the local area for 20 years, so that you can take the exam, otherwise you will be impersonated. You are the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring, and moving the household registration is the most difficult thing in the world, don't do anything for me to know the law and break the law. ”

Wang Fulin didn't expect Chen Bingchang to be clear about the difference between registration and impersonation, and immediately laughed. He nodded slightly, and said kindly: "In this case, I will donate the prison to you." I remember that in the fourth year of Wanli, the imperial court issued a decree that the handsome children of the people and the children of the two capitals who were not enrolled in the school were to be imprisoned together. Don't be busy refusing first, you are a student of Huguang, and you want to return to your hometown if you raise a prison or a tribute eunuch, and it's not so easy, donating a prison is also a bad name, but are you a person who pays attention to false fame? ”

"But I was only epiphytic before...... It is said that the admission of epijutes is very expensive,......" Chen Bingchang said this, and suddenly quickly shook his head and said, "It's not a very expensive problem, Brother Wang, you can't have no one around you!" ”

"I said it all, now I'm not a patrol, there are not so many people who ask to meet and socialize on weekdays, letters and the like need to be returned, but with your sister-in-law here, it's not that you can't take care of it, although you often go to Xu's house to ask for advice, but Master Xu is not such an idle person, go to Guozijian to meet a few friends, and Yingjie can also have a companion. Epithetical students are not the most administered to the silver, remember that even those who are demoted to Tsing Yi can be enrolled, not to mention epistudents? ”

"Epiphytes pay two hundred and sixty taels of silver." Cheng Naixuan, who was born in a business and was the most sensitive to numbers, reported an accurate number in one mouth, "The student is one hundred and twenty taels, the enlargement is one hundred and ninety taels, and then there is epiphysis." Even the students who fall in the fourth or fifth class in the annual examination, as long as they can afford to pay three hundred and forty taels, they can also enter prison, what are you afraid of? It's just that if you donate to the prison, the hall will definitely be low, and I'll help you find a way to do this. ”

Wu Yingjie was born in the Wu clan in Xixinan, and he was rich, so he didn't care about the two hundred and sixty taels of silver at all. At this time, listening to Wang Fulin and Cheng Naixuan, you and I helped Chen Bingchang settle the matter, he said with a smile: "It would be best if Little Brother Chen was a piece, and he could also have a companion in Guozijian, and it would be best to be able to get a room, but I heard that Guozijian's room has always been a monk with more porridge and less ......."

"Do you know how many prisoners have donated to the prison in the country this year? Eight out of ten are donated prisoners, these guys don't sit in prison to study at all, and they are satisfied with the name of a student, so now the North Prison is said to be three or four thousand prisoners, and those who are really studying in the prison are five hundred, and more than half of these five hundred miles are tribute prisoners or recommendations, and those who donate rarely pay this effort. Two years ago, when Wang Xijue was a sacrificial wine, he insisted on getting all the noble children into it and forcing them to study, but now it is not so strict. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Naixuan squeezed his eyes and said: "Therefore, in the early years, the number room of four or five people in the fortress is now very wide, I will help you do this thing, and ensure that you can take care of each other in one room." ”

In the end, there is a father-in-law who is famous in the Hanlin Academy, Cheng Naixuan talks about the matter of the North Prison, and it is all on himself.

However, when he arrived at the Sixth Branch Corridor the next day, he was dumbfounded when he heard about an appointment that had just come down.

His late-blooming father-in-law changed from the Department of Economic Affairs to the Nanjing Guozi to supervise the sacrificial wine!

"Why isn't this the North Prison?" (To be continued.) )