The obedient official returned home, had dinner with his family, and during the banquet, he talked to Chen Jiru about things, and asked him to proclaim in the people's newspaper that the scholar wears a sword, and seeks a feudal marquis three thousand miles away, all kinds of such concepts, and he is powerless, which is the shame of the scholar...... Yunyun, causing Chen Jiru to complain, Fengzhang, I am also powerless!

Hearing Chen Jiru say this, the obedient official laughed, Zheng Liancheng saw that his son was in full swing with what Chen Jiru said, and he didn't want to delay the young man, Lao Zheng had a benefit, he didn't understand and wouldn't be a layman to command an insider, so he had to put a score in front of his son, so he ended it hastily, but in private, he went to the kitchen in person, and instructed the cook to clean up a small banquet and send it to the young master's room.

The cook is still the one who bought it back from the hands of the people, and used to work in a feudal palace, and was expelled because of some taboo things, but the kung fu in her hands is really not evil, and she has rectified a table of eight meat and eight vegetarian noodles to be sent to the good official's room, and the good official is talking in Chen Jiru's room, and I heard the people below say that my father personally went to the kitchen to take care of a small banquet, and my heart was moved, this is not mentioned, the original horseman Wang Hu, at this time, has done the work, and originally this kind of trivial matter does not need him to serve beside him, But firstly, he is an old man, when the incident of burning the Guozhang's Mansion was in trouble, but he shared hardships, and secondly, he naturally had to show his face more in front of the young master, no matter how deep the affection was, it would fade after a long time, so he was busy with ordinary servants, and hit the back of his head with his heels, so he asked, or, young master, is it feasible for them to send the banquet to the nephew's room!

The good official still remembered his name, smiled and agreed, and said some gossip to him, and heard that he is now married to a daughter-in-law, and touched his body, so he took out a short sword inlaid with jade and gold from his bosom and handed it over, and said, I am not here if you marry a daughter-in-law, this is a courtesy!

This sword is too good, Wang Hu was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and didn't even dare to say it, he now also comes into contact with some big men from time to time, and his vision has also been cultivated, although he doesn't know how much this sword is worth, but look at the decoration, he estimates how to get a thousand taels of silver, how dare he accept it. The obedient official dragged his hand and stuffed it, and said, "After you give birth to a son, I won't give a gift, young master, a few salutes and a salute, as long as you remember to do things well."

Wang Hu's huge man, holding the short sword in his hand tightly, was full of tears in his eyes, or Chen Jiru next to him broke the siege, kicked Wang Hu in a false way, and scolded with a smile: "Don't go quickly, I will have a few friends here in a while." ”

Wiping a handful of tears, Wang Hu got up and hurried away, Chen Jiru smiled and said to the obedient official: "Your hands are bigger than your uncle's hands now!" When the obedient official heard this, he didn't have anything suitable in his hands for a while, but this Wang Hu, although he was a little rougher, has been very loyal since he bought it, and he will be rewarded if he is rewarded.

As he was talking, he raised his eyes and saw a girl wearing a plain color back outside the door of the Shu brocade flower skirt, with her face twisted open, her hair combed into a woman's appearance on her head, standing at the door of the room a little cramped, and the eyes of the obedient official were matched, and she quickly lowered her head.

The good official is not a junior brother now, and he knows what this dress means, so he smiled and put his hands together at the moment, and sang a fat promise, "Sister-in-law is on top, and I will receive a salute from my younger brother." Rong Fu was so ashamed that his face turned red, and he said, "Less...... The young master ...... "She didn't open her mouth just now, she wanted to make a face for her master, but the obedient official called her sister-in-law, but she couldn't help but say that if she really took it and thought that she was really a sister-in-law, it would be too uninteresting."

Chen Jiru was also a little embarrassed, and explained at the moment: "Now that Rong Fu has a body, I will tell my uncle and lift Rong Fu up, Feng Zhang, you won't blame me!" "This is to be a concubine, for Rong Fu, who was bought back with ten taels of silver, it is indeed a phoenix that flew on the branch and boiled out.

"How not to blame." The obedient official deliberately lowered his little face, and before he could scare Chen Jiru, he scared Rong Fu first, his face was pale, and he was about to kneel down as soon as his knees were weak, "Young master, it's not ......good to be a slave and a maid."

grabbed Rong Fu, and the good official felt that he seemed to have made a joke, so he hurriedly remedied, "Sister Rong Fu, you are slapping me in the face!" Anyway, you also served me, and Brother Jiru didn't even have a bride price, so he coaxed you away......"

It's good to talk about it, Chen Jiru is already open-minded and frank, and he doesn't pay much attention to these things, so he added: "Fengzhang, my uncle said that he would marry his daughter that day, and he specially made up four maids to come over to serve." ”

Rong Fu blushed with shame, a man can change his fate by reading, but women probably don't have that fate, to get to this point, Rong Fu has long been satisfied, for her, at this time Chen Jiru is a genius, she has the heart to make a face for her master, afraid of calling a young master and losing the face of her master, in fact, the careful and obedient officials here also understand, and don't blame her, a fifteen-year-old girl, it is not easy to be like this, not to mention that the other party is now Chen Jiru's woman, call her sister-in-law, that is also right.

"Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, if the step-Confucian brother bullies you in the future, sister-in-law just tell me, and I will have ......a friendship with him," he said, clenching his fists and smiling deliberately, "I don't have a friendship with him with my big vinegar fist." ”

Rong Fu couldn't help but laugh, which relieved a little embarrassment, "Slave to the old master and the young master to clean up the table." The obedient official immediately opened his mouth and stammered, "Ah! Sister-in-law, that's not the case! Am I a generation shorter than my step-Confucian brother? No, you have to call me uncle. Chen Jiru knew that he was doing this on purpose, and he also knew that he was trying to lift Rong Fu, and smiled at him with a little gratitude, but now Rong Fu is indeed the flesh of his heart, and he is pregnant again, giving Rong Fu face, which seems to be more important than giving him face.

Under the encouraging eyes of Chen Jiru and Zheng Guofan, she called her uncle at this time, and she was happy in her heart, but she was too ashamed to do it, and hurriedly hid in the inner room.

Seeing her back disappear inside, Chen Jiru solemnly thanked the good official, and the good official hurriedly helped him, this brother is not formal, he can be so, he must still like Rong Fu very much, and he wondered in his heart, Ming'er asked Mu Yan to bring some women's head and face clothes or something, to find Rong Fu to talk, and then think about it, it is not appropriate, Mu Yan and Rong Fu are now different, I can't say, the two sides still think that there is something hidden in it, but it is not beautiful, after thinking about it, forget it.

At this time, the friends called by Chen Jiru arrived, and his friends were naturally more open-minded and didn't care about fame, and now they are all helping to do things in the people's newspaper, and good officials are equal to their bosses, but these years, talented people who have learned the ability to help you do things, but they are different from later generations, such as when Xu Wenchang was a staff member to Hu Ruzhen, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he was simply blind, and Hu Ruzhen also regarded him as a friend and treated him politely.

To tell the truth, the obedient officials still like these scholars very much, these people are equivalent to living in the ivory tower all the time, they are relatively young in the world, and there are not so many twists and turns in getting along, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have this benefit, once they have fame, they will enjoy the treatment of the state, if they can be willing to be poor, they can still do learning, although the purpose of most readers is [thousands of miles for officials only for food and clothing], but after all, there are still some dedicated to reading.

As soon as the good official said, these people immediately applauded, respecting the king and destroying this thing, which has existed in ancient times, the two sages of Gongzi Xiaobai and Guan Zi are still influential among the scholars, and if you want to do the things of respecting the king, you must have a strong capital, and the scholars practice swords, this proposal is good, but the fame is taken immediately, and we scholars can also open up territory.

In this regard, the Ming Dynasty has a benchmark surname, the new Bo Wang Yangming, the literary grandmaster and because of the military merits of the knighthood, I don't know how many literati worship, and Wang Yangming refining in the army, the long whistle in the middle of the night to shake the three armies, is also a god, so the proposal of the good official is not too contrary to the status quo of society, looking at the excitement on everyone's faces, the good official actually laughed secretly in his heart, his ultimate goal is to improve the status of the martial arts, the so-called Confucius is good at the sword, the scholar is not the sword is the shame of the Confucian, just the appearance.

"There are many Fusang swordsmen in my sword house, and my Uncle Shan is also the leading swordsman of the Daimyo, I am going to hold a Taohuawu sword discussion next year, the scope, the entire Ming Dynasty, including Fusang." The obedient official tapped his fingers and said slowly: "The first one, the reward is 30,000 taels of silver, and there is a title equivalent to the deputy thousand households of Jinyi Wei......"

Everyone gasped together, 30,000 taels, deputy thousand households, this is too scary, but everyone is a smart person, after thinking about it, I understand, this is a thousand gold city bones, and immediately laughed, one of them Zhu Zixiao said that he had practiced swords for a few years, and he also admired the swordsman characters in Pingyue, and said loudly when he stroked his palm: "Everyone, don't rob me, Da Ming should be self-reliant, I will do this article." ”

And the rest laughed at him, and said, "Centurion! Later, the history books said that our first martial arts conference in the Ming Dynasty would mention your name as soon as possible.

The obedient official hurriedly spoke and said, "Brothers, the rivers and lakes are also a corner of the country!" Back then, the Japanese invaded the south of the Yangtze River, and there were not many heroes who took the initiative to kill the enemy, and my Uncle Shan was also such a ranger back then, and later he was cast into Qi Shaobao's account......"

These people are a little bookish, and at that moment, some people raised their glasses and shouted, "That's right, the rivers and lakes are also a corner of the country, let's float a lot." ”

Everyone drank a cup in a commotion, Zhu Zixiao put down the cup and sincerely asked the good official how to do it, the good official told him carefully, and specially explained that the famous and old ones are given the name of a judge and referee, and the oldest person participating cannot be more than forty years old.

This Zhu Zixiao is really not a layman, he was stunned when he heard this, and immediately said: "In this way, wouldn't it be appropriate for Nan Zhili Shuangbi to take the top five?" If nothing else, the first and second are these two. ”

The obedient official laughed, he had seen Shi Jingyan, and he had also seen the process of Chongdou, in his opinion, as long as his own Uncle Shan didn't make a move, if Fusang's old ones such as Fukita Bungoro did not participate in the sword debate, it should be Cheng Chong Dou Shi Jingyan and the two of them fought for the first place, and there were many Fusang sword heroes under him, such as Tomita Jingsheng, if he was lucky, he should be able to compete for the top 20, as for a meaty guy like Yi Neng Jingzhai, don't think about the top 50, maybe you can enter the top 100!

Zhu Zixiao was a little hesitant, since it was said that both the Ming and the subject countries of the Ming Dynasty could participate, if there were no swordsmen from the first ten countries in the first ten miles, it seemed a little inappropriate.

Looking at his face, the obedient official knew what he was thinking, and couldn't help laughing, and said: "Brother Centurion, I heard that when Jingtai was in the year, Ni Ke of Nanzhili asked Ni Tanhua to be ordered to envoy to North Korea, and at that time, there were North Korean officials [in front of him, kneeling and staying upstairs], Ni Tanhua immediately composed three poems, and the North Korean officials were shocked, [every poem came out, then all the officials gathered to recite it, and they all shrank their necks and stuck out their tongues, and marveled at Xi]. The vassal kingdom is not as good as my Celestial Empire, so that's a matter of course! ”

"Feng Zhang is really well-read and has a good memory." Chen Jiru praised him with a smile, "This is recorded in the "Korean Chronicle", Baifu, what Feng Zhang said is that our court has been too polite and tolerant to the vassal state in recent years, which is not good." ”

Many people think that the tribute paid by the ancient vassal kingdom was a loss for our Celestial Empire, because I was a country of etiquette and the Celestial Empire, and if the vassal country paid tribute worth 3,000 taels of silver, our dynasty would definitely return the gift worth 6,000 taels. In fact, this is not the mainstream, yes, there are people like Emperor Yang of Sui, who let the feudal domains enter the realm of the Celestial Empire and eat and drink at will without giving money, but this is a small part, most of the time, my Celestial Empire wants benefits, especially in the founding stage of the dynasties, almost all of them are the same.

The ancients were not stupid, for example, after Zhu Yuanzhang canonized the king of Joseon, he levied horses, cattle, palace maids, eunuchs, and prescriptions on the border of Korea. Gold and silver, cloth, paper, straw mats, eagles, leopards, dogs...... And so on, all called Fang Wu, once also levied relics, North Korea turned the national temple to the sky, and offered 300 relics to the Celestial Empire.

Jeju Island, where the country is today, was asked by the Celestial Empire to raise horses, and the Celestial Empire collected tens of thousands of horses in Korea at that time, and considering these, Jeju was given to North Korea.

By the way, the virgin is also recruited, as soon as the will of the Celestial Empire arrives, the king of North Korea will immediately issue an example to prohibit civil marriage, and the Korean folk are slammed, [their parents and relatives cry on the road], and then the number of levies is more, and North Korea also has countermeasures, and sends envoys in advance to inquire about the news in Yanjing, once it is to be recruited, the fast horse passes through the post station to inform, and when the court angel arrives in North Korea, the errand has been done, and the envoys sent by the court are also blind most of the time for the convenience of the errand.

I have this problem with the literati of the dynasty, we take advantage of others, make a fortune in a muffled voice, do not squeak, and are taken advantage of by others, and the history books are written and written over and over, resulting in future generations not reading much history, thinking that the ancestors are weak and bullied all day long, in fact? The ancestor bullied others all day long, and occasionally suffered losses, but he also had to hide his courage and ask for it back sooner or later.

Zhu Zixiao and everyone nodded when they heard this, the imperial court has been very happy in recent years, and it has indeed spent a lot of money on appeasing the feudal domains.

Now, since you want to respect the king, you naturally want to let the vassals know that our Heavenly Dynasty is an outstanding person.

When the good official said this, he looked at Zhu Zi and smiled, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Baili, how about I give you a number?" Zhu Zixiao hurriedly listened to it, although they don't have much pursuit of fame and fortune, it doesn't mean that they really don't understand anything, it's one thing for a good official to be polite to them, but they will never really call the good official's nickname on the old god, this kind of thing, and Mr. Xu Wenchang, who is above the top, is embarrassed to do it, so Xu Wenchang has never made an official in his life, he is too good at being a man, Hu Ruzhen, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, is polite to you, you really take it up, you are very talented, It's just a lifter.

"It's better to tell Bai Xiaosheng how to !!" The good officer smiled with a stealing smile.

(To be continued)