"Not bright enough!"

Yang Chao directly to Ruan Huangdao.

Ruan Huang is Ruan Dacheng's housekeeper. In the past few days, the servants of the Ruan family have been busy renovating the Ruan family's river house every day.

"The screens were all replaced with new ones. The lights are all lit up. ”

Ruan Huangdao was obviously a little unconvinced.

Yang Chao said: "You did a good job. But it's just not bright enough. ”

Yang Chao is also very sure.

Ruan Huangdao: "Then what do you say?" ”

Yang Chao frowned and said, "Change, replace them all!" ”

Ruan Huangdao: "Change? It's easy to say, so many people, so many days, you say change it? ”

"Change!"

This time it was not Yang Chao who spoke, but Ruan Dacheng, who said in a deep voice.

"Yang Gongzi said to change, what he said, is what I said."

Ruan Dacheng just walked in, he wasn't there all day, he just came back.

He has been accompanying one person for the past few days, Zhang Pu, as one of the two cores of this political meeting, Yang Chao on Qian Qianyi's side went to deal with it, and Ruan Dacheng on Zhang Pu's side dealt with it.

"Sir!"

Seeing Ruan Dacheng, Ruan Huang hurriedly saluted.

"The old gentleman is back."

Yang Chao smiled and bowed.

Ruan Dacheng nodded: "You have worked hard." I need you to be more attentive here. ”

Yang Chao said: "It should be." ”

Ruan Dacheng nodded and stepped out.

The so-called wise man works hard, and the mediocre man works.

Intellectuals like Ruan Dacheng do not need to work hard or labor.

As long as he wants to do something, he has someone to help him do it.

And they take it for granted.

This is not just the case for Ruan Dacheng, but also for the intellectuals of the entire country.

It's as if they just need to read and everything else doesn't have to worry about it.

So what is reading used for?

After the official passed the imperial examination, and then he took office, he could do nothing in office, and he worked hard, there were masters, and there were small officials at all levels.

A responsible official will also check and give orders, and if he is not responsible, he can eat, drink and have fun all day long, visit the Qinglou and enjoy the elegance to the fullest, but he will be considered a romantic scribe.

With Ruan Dacheng's support, Ruan Huang didn't dare to speak up anymore, Yang Chao said that he was unwilling not to speak, but he definitely didn't say 'no'.

But with such an attitude, it is impossible to let him do things sincerely, Yang Chao really cares a lot.

In fact, the layout of Ruan's river house is extremely elegant, every furniture in the room is very reasonable, there will never be more than one flower in the room, and the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall are also from famous artists.

Except for one thing, the lights weren't bright enough.

Yang Chao wants to be loud, and he doesn't care about being judged vulgar at all, because it is an evening meeting, and it is extremely important, without bright light, many things may be missed.

Yang Chao looked at every layout of Ruan's Hefang, and he already knew it in his heart, but it was too late, and the Jingjie drum had already been beaten, Yang Chao stayed in Ruan's Hefang for one night, and at the same time talked with Ruan Dacheng again, and also took the opportunity to report his work to Ruan Dacheng and communicate.

Ruan Dacheng had no opinion on the young talents invited by Yang Chao, but he was a little worried, afraid that when the time came, there would be a head-on conflict, which would lead to an unhappy breakup of the rally.

In the matter of Zhang Pu, Zhang Pu has been busy raising political donations, but he is not optimistic.

He traveled all over the south of the Yangtze River, and it cannot be said that he did not raise money at all, but it was far from enough.

Because most of the scribes visited by Zhang Pu were scribes, some of these scribes had solid family wealth, thousands of acres of fertile land, and some were relatively poor and had no money to spare, but they were not necessarily optimistic about Zhou Yanru, far less attentive than Zhang Pu, they were more willing to tie up with the current high-ranking officials, so whether it was money or effort, they were not very dedicated.

Zhang Pu completely wanted to complete his political ambitions and develop his own political ideas by supporting a Ming chief, so he had some differences in ideas with these scribes who only wanted to be officials.

caused many people to be reluctant to give money, basically for the sake of Zhang Pu's face.

In addition, the scribes were not all rich, so Zhang Pu raised less than 20,000 taels, and Zhang Pu needed at least 100,000 taels to bribe the event.

It was precisely because of the difficulty of raising donations that when Ruan Dacheng agreed to donate 10,000 taels, Zhang Pu didn't mind making friends with Ruan Dacheng, otherwise with his identity, it was really very unsuitable to have anything to do with Ruan Dacheng, who had a reputation for being a remnant of the eunuch party.

Yang Chao has already learned a little about Zhang Pu these days, and has read a lot of Zhang Pu's works, such as the famous one, which can be seen through the article, this person is determined, full of dissatisfaction with the politics of the current dynasty, and desperately wants to change the status quo.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Pu has strong political ambitions and aspirations, which may not seem to some people to be a good attitude, and Chinese literati emphasize indifference and tranquility.

Yang Chao didn't think there was anything wrong, on the contrary, Yang Chao felt that this was the behavior that a politician should have.

What is the difference between a person who engages in politics and has no political ideals and ambitions and a person who engages in business and does not want to become bigger and stronger.

On the contrary, it is not due diligence and dedication.

It's just that Zhang Pu didn't do some things above board, that is, the process was unjust, his purpose was good, but the means were deviated.

For example, seeking Zhou Yanru to come to power as the first assistant in order to realize his idea of reforming the politics of the Ming Dynasty, but he had to use bribes to achieve it by eunuchs, which was a bit clumsy.

With Zhang Pu's temperament, I'm afraid he is also very conflicted, he probably also wants to pursue fair and honest means, but unfortunately after many years of travel, he has seen through the filthy face of the Ming court, and he has to do so, and he has to do it.

But Zhang Pu still has a bottom line in the end, he refuses to pray to those businessmen, just asks for help from fellow literati, in the end, he has taken the first step to sell his dignity, but he has not completely abandoned everything, even his soul has been sold, he has not completely degenerated.

But once the first step is taken, it is often not far from the bottom line.

Yang Chao calmly analyzed Zhang Pu, and listened to Ruan Dacheng's situation, Yang Chao gave Ruan Dacheng a plan.

Let Ruan Dacheng tell Zhang Pu that a certain prostitute in the old courtyard redeemed himself, and because he had no money, the other sisters made up 20,000 taels.

A maid can get 20,000 taels of silver to redeem herself, but he is a famous person, but he raised so much donation, and he still ran around for a long time and saw how many people's faces before he got it.

He was no more than a servant of a great scribe.

With Zhang Pu's lonely temperament, he must not accept it, once he is negative in his heart, he will not care if the businessman gives him a donation at that time, and it is estimated that he will want money from beggars.

Ruan Dacheng said that he could give it a try.

The next day, Yang Chao went to Mingwa Corridor early in the morning.

still went to Liu's workshop, of course Liu Maocai still remembers Yang Chao.

"Liu Dongjia is sorry, I'm a little busy these days, and I didn't have time to send the silver over."

When Yang Chao asked Liu Maocai to help make the windows and roof of the carriage, he promised to give one hundred taels of silver, but he never came.

Now he immediately gave Liu Maocai all the silver, paid a deposit of fifty taels, and told Liu Maocai that he wanted a large number of large Mingwa lamps, and he didn't need to be fancy, there was only one requirement, that is, translucent.

Liu Maocai bluntly said that he had given too much deposit, and he could trust Yang Chao, so he didn't want a deposit.

Yang Chao said that he was very busy and might not have time to settle the bill, and the lanterns were less than anything, and the account was deducted from the deposit first.

In this way, Liu Maocai took the deposit, and invited Yang Chao to dinner with a warm attitude, Yang Chao shook his head and refused, and left.