One of the six Shangshu, one for each of the left and right servants, one for the left and right imperial histories, one for the left deputy imperial history or a number of imperial histories for the left, the officials of these ministries and courtyards are numerous, and most of the people in the capital will remember the names of these officials, so as not to hear people say that when someone says a certain ministry or a certain Shangshu, they are confused and don't know who is who at all, which is also a necessary alternative talisman for those who are officials in Beijing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But after all, Wu Yingjie had not been in Beijing for a long time, and he only went to Guozijian to study, so he heard that the king of the Ministry of Rites was coming, and Zhou Zhaichang immediately showed a solemn face, and hurriedly left after apologetically, he couldn't help but ask Chen Bingchang: "Who is the Wang Shilang of the Ministry of Rites?" ”

Chen Bingchang has been in the capital with Wang Fulin for more than a year, and he was the secretary in charge of clerical work before, and he also asked for advice under Xu Guomen, so he hurriedly pulled Wu Yingjie to the number room, and said in a low voice: "Wang Shilang of the Ministry of Rites is Wang Xijue, who is on the same list as the old Shen Ge, and he was just promoted to the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites at the beginning of the year, and he still wanted to resign from his illness, but it didn't work. Before, Lord Shoufu won the love, and he also went to block the door. ”

Wu Yingjie is a little showman, even if he doesn't think much of Zhang Juzheng's love in his heart, he will never say it, so he can't help but be surprised that Wang Xijue is still promoted against Zhang Juzheng. Wang Xijue of Taicang is also a well-known figure in Nanzhili, and even in She County, Huizhou, Wang Xijue is also a common example used by many wealthy Hui merchants to educate their children. After all, the Wang family started in business, it was a wealthy Taicang, and after his grandfather Wang Yong accumulated countless family assets, he began to train his children to study and go to the field.

It's just that Wang Xijue's ranking is much stronger than Wang Daokun's back then, and he is impressive, and he started from the compilation of the Hanlin Academy, and it is a standard phase storage route all the way. He was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and a priest of the country, and now he is serving as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, most of the time it is also the self-reserved place of the elders, which can be said to be the popular among the elders. It's just that compared with the champion Shen Shixing back then, Wang Xijue's pace is still a little slower. After all, Shen Shixing and Zhang Juzheng have a good relationship, but Wang Xijue obviously does not plan to take Zhang Juzheng's boat.

Chen Bingchang said as he spoke, and suddenly sighed softly: "I heard Brother Cheng say that Wang Shilang seems to be the northern supervisor of the second year of Wanli, and the fifth year of Wanli taught Shu Jishi, and when the prince of the country supervised the wine, he also wrote a book to let all the sons of Xungui enter the prison to study, which caused a sensation for a while. ”

"Well, according to you, it's probably true."

Wu Yingjie was interested in Wang Xijue, and seeing that Chen Bingchang was also interested in that Zhou Zhaichang, he was curious to inquire about it, and he was also very interested in talking.

"Zhou Zhai's name is Zhou Gu, he said that he was the head of the Frank Hall, in fact, he could have left the Guozijian to seek officials, but he really looked down on the official vacancies used to place the prisoners, plus the sacrificial wine and business of the Guozijian were all from the Hanlin Academy, and in the past, he didn't have time at all and couldn't manage the Guozijian that had rotted to the roots, most of the time he only put his hope in the Frank Hall, and finally simply selected a Zhai Chang with good learning and good character and strong ability to actually manage the Frank Hall, and led people to participate in the Shuntianfu Township Test every three years. Zhou Zhaichang has been the chief of Zhai for six years so far, and among the people who have been tested in the previous two township examinations, the Jinshi in the examination have a good reputation. ”

Speaking of this, even Wu Yingjie was a little amazed: "His own luck is really not good enough, and he failed in the two exams." But because he took those reckless hall inmates who went to the examination, several of them were fought for by him, and he snatched the places from some inmates who planned to go through the back door to fight for the opportunity to take the township examination, but there were a total of three jinshi among these people. Therefore, his prestige in the Frank Hall is very high, and everyone respects him as a senior. If I hadn't done well in the previous month's exam, he would have thought that I had real talent and real learning, otherwise he wouldn't have looked down on a rich kid like me. ”

"Brother Wu, you are a tribute eunuch, if you don't have real talent and real learning, how can the government school come up?"

Wu Yingjie couldn't help laughing when he heard Chen Bingchang say innocently, and actually touched his head as if he was doing it to his younger brother: "You must know that today's tribute eunuchs are not excellent in tribute studies, if they were really so good, they would have passed the scientific examination a long time ago, or they would have recorded their legacies and received a large harvest, and went to participate in the township examination, how could they do their best to study in Guozijian?" Today's tribute supervisors are the students with the longest years of tribute, but these students don't all want to go, and most of the time they sell places to people who need them to make money. It's a good deal. My article knowledge is quite so-so, so I plan to go to the North Prison to sharpen it. ”

The two talked and laughed and went back to the room, and talked about how to arrange when they went home on the New Year's Day holiday. At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the room, and Chen Bingchang hurriedly went up to open the door, but as soon as he opened it, he was stunned.

Because the person standing outside the door turned out to be Zhou Zhaichang Zhou Gu, who he had seen before!

Zhou Gu saw that Chen Bingchang's face was full of astonishment, so he smiled and said, "Young Uncle wants to meet the two." ”

Shao Zongbo is another name for the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, which was originally just a retro elegant title popular among literati and ink writers, but now it is often called this on the streets and alleys. But Wu Yingjie was not used to it, and after thinking about it, he understood who this meant. He used to be in his hometown, and after he went to Beijing, he visited his fellow villagers and classmates at most, and he never dreamed that the protagonist who was discussing with Chen Bingchang just now wanted to see him, and he was suddenly a little in a hurry.

You must know that it is Jiajing's forty-one year leader, who has been in charge of the Hanlin Academy and the Guozijian, has taught Shu Jishi, and now he is a squire of the Ministry of Rites, and he is very likely to enter the cabinet!

Chen Bingchang behaved more calmly than Wu Yingjie. After all, he had seen Xu Guo, and he had also been ordered by Wang Fulin to send letters to various mansions, although most of the time it was those staff members who received him, but occasionally he was able to meet some big people, once he was born and twice cooked, but he was used to it. At this time, standing behind Wu Yingjie, he quietly stabbed the other party in the back, and then said without humility or arrogance: "Brother Wu and I are just new prisoners, how could Uncle Shaozong suddenly summon him?" It must be Senior Zhou that you mentioned us, how embarrassing is this! ”

Zhou Gu smiled on his face, and there was still some muttering in his heart, but Chen Bingchang, who was quite shy at first, put a high hat on himself with one mouth, he couldn't help but secretly blame himself for being careful, and shook his head after coughing: "It's just that Uncle Shaozong asked me if there are any newcomers in my country's eunuch recently, and I mentioned the two, so Uncle Shaozong asked me to invite you over, where can I talk about anything." ”

After such a short period of adjustment, Wu Yingjie has recovered, but he is showing some sincere fear at the moment. When he and Chen Bingchang followed Zhou Gu over the way, he could only hear Zhou Gu say: "Brother Wu Xian, you don't have to worry, Uncle Shaozong has always been informal, and there are not so many rules. You have to learn from your eldest brother, I heard that when he first entered Beijing to take the exam, he met Lord Shoufu. The Jinshi who is a serious person does not dare to come out in front of Lord Shoufu, but he talks eloquently, and now he is even in and out of the big yarn hat alley Zhang Furu into his own home, and he doesn't know how many people he envy. ”

Can I compare with Wang Fulin? Do you know that his great achievements in Huizhou were enough to write a few books!

Wu Yingjie was crazy in his heart, but at the same time, he couldn't help but be in awe of Wang Fulin. In any case, Wang Fulin said the same thing in his hometown, it can still be said that it is the power of the eunuch, but he also stands firm in Beijing, and now that Wang Daokun has returned to his hometown, the meaning is completely different. So, he told himself repeatedly in his heart that he was Wang Fulin's brother-in-law, and he couldn't lose face, and of course, more importantly, there were some things that he couldn't agree to casually!

However, when he saw Wang Xijue, he found that his tense nerves were completely redundant. Now that he is in the third grade, Wang Xijue, who is enough to be on an equal footing with Wang Daokun when he was the biggest official, is actually a person who speaks humorously and has no big shelf. Because they are all from Nanzhili, this waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who has only been in office for a few months, talks about the world, and shows that he is very eager to return to the southeast. Not only that, but Wang Xijue was also very interested in Chen Bingchang's hometown Huguang and Guangzhou, where he had stayed for several years, and even learned a few words of Cantonese dialect.

So much so that when this meeting finally ended, Wu Yingjie returned to his room, and he only felt that his head was like paste. Because Zhou Gu had already sent Wang Xijue away, he couldn't help but ask, "Junior Brother Chen, what do you think Uncle Shaozong is seeing us for today?" ”

"I don't know." Chen Bingchang shook his head honestly, but after a while, he said with some uncertainty, "But I guess, maybe it's waiting for us to go home and tell Brother Wang about this?" ”

On the fifteenth day, when Wang Fulin waited for Wu Yingjie and Chen Bingchang, who were returning home from Guozijian's vacation, and heard his brother-in-law talk about the fact that he had met Wang Xijue, his brows immediately wrinkled into a big pimple.

He has never dealt with Wang Xijue, but he has heard Xu Guo mention it, and if he says it well, he is very persistent, and if he doesn't say it well, he will do his own thing. Last year, Wang Xijue went to block the gate of Zhang's house, and then broke in directly from the side door of Zhang's house, if he hadn't gone sideways to instigate Wang Jiguang to fight with someone, Wang Xijue almost rushed directly to Zhang Juzheng's study to find someone to theorize, and he didn't know whether Wang Xijue knew about this stubble. And this time Zhang Juzheng returned to his hometown to bury his father, and hundreds of officials jointly asked the emperor to summon him back as soon as possible.

Even so, Zhang Juzheng didn't let Wang Xijue move to the left, and put people in the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites!

And Wang Xijue's younger brother, Wang Dingjue, who was admitted to the second-class Jinshi during the Longqing period, previously served in the main and guest department of the Ministry of Rites, because of the principle of avoidance, he should have released foreign officials, but now he has been put in Nanjing, which is quite a special situation!

You must know that the previous one who enjoyed this kind of treatment that you opposed me, and I want to promote you, is Ma Ziqiang, who is older than Wang Xijue in the Hanlin Academy, and has now been in the cabinet for a few months!

"What did Wang Xijue say to you, you two recall it carefully."

Although Wu Yingjie was taken aback when he heard Chen Bingchang's speculation before, when he thought about it carefully, because the content of the discussion was too trivial, he couldn't completely repeat it at the moment. What surprised him was that Chen Bingchang was able to piece together eight or nine without leaving ten. When Chen Bingchang said that Wang Xijue mentioned that his father was old, he was a southerner, and he was not used to the northern climate, so his health had not been very good, Wu Yingjie couldn't help but pat his thigh and said: "Yes, Wang Shilang repeatedly said at that time that all their brothers were out, so there was no one to support the father in the family!" ”

"Okay, needless to say, I know it all."

Wang Fulin thought that Wang Xijue had gone to see Wang Daokun off, but this time he directly found his brother-in-law and Chen Bingchang, and he couldn't guess Wang Xijue's intentions.

This is determined to draw a clear line with Zhang Juzheng, and he is also determined to return to his hometown to raise hope! Unlike Wang Daokun, who left in his early fifties, even if he is fortunate enough to recover in the future, it would be good to continue to be a waiter. Wang Xijue's qualifications are completely enough, as long as his reputation is sufficient, even if he returns to his hometown this time, as long as someone pushes him in the future, he will be able to enter the cabinet together!

Chen Bingchang didn't have a big reaction to Wang Fulin's attitude, Wu Yingjie didn't get along with his eldest brother in the end, and couldn't help but ask worriedly at this time: "Are we in trouble?" ”

"It's okay, without you, Wang Xijue might use other methods to spread the word." Wang Fulin said this in his mouth, but what he thought in his heart was, where did Wang Xijue get the confidence that he would help?

At this moment, Chen Bingchang suddenly said: "By the way, Brother Wang, Wang Shilang also asked you when you went to the Santun camp in Jizhen Town to see Qi Dashuai, and whether you had seen the two swords of Qi Dashuai and Shao Sima match." Brother Wu and I don't know much, so we just say we don't know. ”

This time, Wang Fulin's face was really a little dark. When he first went to Jizhen, Qi Jiguang regarded him as a close junior, of course, because of Wang Daokun's relationship, and later because Xiaobei was the daughter of Hu Zongxian, so this Jizhen general soldier has always been good to him in recent years. He gave gifts during the New Year's holidays, and Qi Jiguang returned the gifts, and he has always been a friend of the world, even if Wang Daokun returned to his hometown last year by taking advantage of illness, it did not damage this close relationship. What does it mean for Wang Xijue to break this layer?

Because Qi Jiguang sent Lou Dayou and others to escort Wang Jiguang and his party back to Beijing before, he suspected that he and Wang Daokun sang a double reed? How is this association possible! Wang Xijue is not Xu Guo, who is originally from She County and has an in-law relationship with him, even Yin Zhengmao has never guessed that direction, after all, he and Wang Daokun began to "turn against each other" earlier last year!

Although the more he guessed, the more outrageous it became, Wang Fulin saw that Wu Yingjie had obviously begun to fall into confusion and confusion, so he stopped putting pressure on this brother-in-law, and immediately ended the matter lightly, and then began to divert the topic, and told Zhu Zongji and others about borrowing the Li family's Qinghua Garden to invite people to the Poetry Society, and asked him to go to Wang Erniang to get the post. When only Chen Bingchang was left, Wang Fulin began to continue to ask about every detail, and in the end, Chen Bingchang's excellent memory played a huge role.

"Wang Shilang seems to have talked about Hu Zongxian when he mentioned those outstanding figures in Nanzhili." (To be continued.) )