It turns out that Princess Yongshou's prediction is very reasonable, and when Yang Chengzu arrived at home, there were already several waves of visitors to the house. The first to come were a few Jinyi Hall officials, as well as people in the martial arts noble mansion, or a few shareholders of Yang Ji.

Some of these people don't need to be received, and they can be sent away with only famous thorns and gifts, and some of them can also be received by the ninth sister, saying that the husband is not there, and visiting another day is enough to entertain. However, the guests who visited next were not easy to refuse, and the reception was also a little troublesome.

The Ministry of Rites is still a scholar, a scholar of the East Pavilion, a scholar of the Zhiwen Yuan Pavilion, and Gu Dingchen, who is now at the end of the Six Pavilions, this visitor can neither be treated slowly, but it is not easy to entertain, which is really a headache. Although he is only a small character in the cabinet, he doesn't even have the ability to speak at present, so he can only be an echo worm, but the problem is that the echo worm cabinet minister is also a cabinet minister, and he is not easy to offend, so he must be treated with caution.

When Yang Chengzu came back, the red peony was the same as in the past, waiting in the alley early, just like a wife looking forward to her husband's homecoming. Seeing him come back, he first stepped forward to help him sort out his official uniform, and said with some disgust: "My lord, you still know that when you come back, Chitose is also there, and the coming day is long, do you have to be in a hurry for a few days." Gu Ge has been waiting for you in the study for a long time. This person is not familiar with us, Mrs. is the daughter of the martial family, she has no friendship with him, and it is not easy to receive him, and the slave family is a subordinate, and now there is only one Yan Song to talk to him, what has happened to this, I am really afraid that he will brush his sleeves and leave. ”

"Gu Dingchen?" Yang Chengzu smiled, "It's okay, I don't think this person will really brush his sleeves away, besides, Yan Song and him are on the same list, everyone is very friendly, even if they talk all night, they can talk about it." Sister Peony doesn't need to worry, go down and prepare some tea and snacks, and I'll go talk to Gu Laoqian for a few words. ”

Seeing his unserious appearance, Red Peony was quite a little unruly, "Master, you are really, but you are an old man, you can't look like this......" Before she finished speaking, Yang Chengzu quickly kissed her on the face, and then swaggered towards the study, Red Peony had nothing to do except stomp her feet shyly.

In the study, Yan Song was like half a master, and he had a good conversation with Gu Dingchen, if he didn't know, he just thought that this was Yan's Mansion and not Yang's Mansion. can achieve the level of the cabinet, and the kung fu is very good, even if he really sits down overnight, he is completely competent, not to mention that Yan Song and Gu are on the same list, and they both have deep cultural cultivation, so naturally they don't have to worry about having no topics to talk about.

Today's Yan Song has been promoted by Jiajing and promoted to the priest of the country, and the significance of this position is not trivial in the Ming Dynasty. The Hanlin Yuan is a five-grade yamen, while the Guozi priest wine is a four-grade position, and it is a relatively upright official position. Therefore, this position is a springboard for Hanlin Qingliu, and if you make a transition in the sacrificial wine position, you can be promoted directly to the squire or the temple, and then you can move forward in the direction of Shangshu and Cabinet Minister.

Although Gu Dingchen was the first to reach the position of the minister, he did not despise this same year in the slightest, and still regarded him as an equal figure in his words. When Yang Chengzu came in, his attitude was even more respectful, and he actually took the initiative to come forward to salute and keep expressing his gratitude.

He is a native of Kunshan, Yang Chengzu exterminated the Japanese Kou, which can be regarded as preserving the old Sangzi, from this point of view, it is not wrong to say that he is a benefactor. But his thanks, obviously, are not so simple.

The news that Jiajing Tianzi promoted Gu Dingchen to the cabinet, Yan Song passed it on to Yang Chengzu through a letter early in the morning, after all, he had the obligation to let Yang Engong know about such an important personnel change. This person has some status in history, such as the cabinet ministers won the position with clear words, and won the appreciation of the Son of Heaven by writing clear words, which started from him and so on. However, for Yang Chengzu, he doesn't know much about these, and his main understanding of Gu Dingchen still comes from drama and quyi.

Later generations of Shanghai Opera and Suzhou Pingtan all have special stories about Gu Dingchen, because of the business relationship, he is a little more familiar with this old man than Wang Shouren. Gu Dingchen was not from a good background, his father was a businessman who sold needlework and thread, and he was still a strict wife, and he had no heirs, and his wife did not allow him to take concubines or accept maids.

Later, when it rained, the maid who went to the store to deliver him food couldn't go home in time, so she stayed in the store to avoid the rain, so she was forcibly pushed by the old man Gu who was fifty miles away, and she really got pregnant. Later, Gu Dingchen was born.

However, Gu's wife did not have a good opinion of this old child, first denied it, and then deliberately murdered, including throwing the newborn child into the mill, and various means. There was even a time when Gu Dingchen lived in his adoptive father's house.

After he won the championship, Gu's wife still did not allow him to recognize his biological mother, and finally relied on the persuasion of relatives and friends to let his mother and son recognize each other and return to their ancestors. At that time, Gu Dingchen's biological mother was still making tea in the Gu family's stove, doing rough work.

After Yang Chengzu got the news of his entry into the cabinet, he also did something in Kunshan, he was very powerful in Nanzhili, there was a group of nobles to help, and there were also people in the six departments of Nanjing, the Gu family was not qualified enough to be regarded as a wang clan, and it was actually difficult to withstand his pressure.

Gu Dingchen's biological mother was no longer alive at this time, he just expressed his attitude, found someone to say a few words, and the Gu family buried Gu Dingchen's biological mother and Gu's father together, and the tomb shape system was the same as that of his wife. By the way, although the main room of the Gu family died, her relatives were still there, Yang Chengzu just chatted casually, and the family was cleaned up very badly, and finally had to pull down his face and write a letter to Beijing to ask Gu Dingchen for help.

These things, Gu Dingchen is actually inconvenient to do, no matter how big a person's official position or authority is, it is external, not internal. You can't use your prestige on your family, because after he won the champion, the eldest lady of the Gu family is not afraid of him, and even after he becomes an elder, he can't seek justice for his biological mother, and even the eldest woman's family can still ask him for benefits openly.

Yang Chengzu did these things, which can be regarded as a sigh for him, and he has also fulfilled the filial piety of the son of man, Gu Dingchen's visit today is naturally to express his gratitude to Yang Chengzu. He is at the end of the Six Pavilions, no matter how you look at it, Yang Chengzu will not come to deliberately please him, he wants to admit this favor.

As a Confucian, Gu Dingchen can talk to the emperor about cultivating the truth, and then introduce him as a confidant and be promoted to the cabinet, so he knows that his personality is naturally very different from that kind of hard-headed minister. In a sense, he is a bit like Yan Song, more feminine, not very assertive, quite a bit of the potential of the clay sculpture pavilion's wife to eat the prime minister, maybe Jiajing promoted him, but also took a fancy to this?

Yang Chengzu had some malicious speculation in his heart, and at the same time, he also felt that if these qualities were not pretended, he should increase some support for Gu in the future to ensure that there were such people in the cabinet in the future.

After a few words of greeting, the three of them sat down with each other, and Yan Song laughed, "Yang Dudu is busy, I shouldn't bother it, but Brother Gu Ren is so anxious that he can't even wait to pay the order, so I have to bring people recklessly, Yang Dudu shouldn't be surprised." ”

"Yes, Gu Mou was reckless and disturbed today, but in fact, he also had a hard time. Yang Dudu is a hero, and he is bent on making friends, and if he comes here today, I can still ask for a bowl of tea, if he comes tomorrow, I am afraid that the ladies will use big sticks to drive people away, so I have to come to be a villain. ”

Yang Chengzu had a smile on his face, and his tone was also very flat, "Weizhai Xianggong, is it the cabinet, ready to do something to the subordinates or the new army?" ”