Chapter 177: How about being a thousand households
After Zhang Hongying saw this kneeling woman, she almost screamed in fright, but living here, she was much bolder, and knew that no thief dared to come here.
When I looked at it, I saw that the style of clothes and satin fabrics, and the fur lining on the woman's body were all things that I had never seen but could feel that they must be good, and the weather was cold, and the woman's bare neck and palms could be seen to be unusually white despite being red from the cold.
The woman outside thought that she knelt down when she heard the door ringing, and then raised her head, looked at Zhang Hongying a few times in confusion, and said respectfully:
"Mrs. Wang, the concubine has something important to ask to see Lord Wang."
Looking at this appearance, although the age is twenty upwards, there is a lazy style in this beautiful appearance, especially temperamental, Zhang Hongying was stunned, but the face was red by this "Mrs. Wang" call, and her heart was pounding, she was not frightened when she went out just now, but she was panicked by this sentence.
Hurriedly jumped to the side, waved his hand again and again, and said:
"I'm not, I'm not, this is not Master Wang's house, Master Wang's house is next door!"
The woman kneeling on the ground looked stunned, her face was a little red, she muttered something in a low voice, got up with her hands and feet, and pointed to the delicacy restaurant uncertainly:
"Is this the room?"
In fact, the alley on the other side of the delicious restaurant is now the door of Wang Tong's house, Zhang Hongying doesn't know why, he is very wary of this woman who comes to kneel and worship, and is very reluctant to tell Wang Tong's location.
As soon as I arrived on South Street, I saw Zhang Hongying and the woman, there were already guys cleaning there at the entrance of the delicious restaurant, and I saw Wang Tong hurriedly and politely greeting him.
The woman who knelt outside early immediately realized this greeting, hurriedly lifted her skirt and trotted over, and when she arrived, she knelt down with a plop, held up a few pieces of paper, and said earnestly:
"Slave and maid Song Chanchan, I implore Lord Wang to take him in, be a cow and a horse, and would rather die than give up."
Wang Tong, who was still a little confused, suddenly sobered up, of course he didn't hear Zhang Hongying muttering not far away, "Don't be ashamed", Wang Tong lowered his head and asked Song Chanchan in wonder:
"What's going on?"
"What else can I do, Zhang Han has fallen, there is no backstage on the Qin Pavilion, sooner or later, the business and the old lady herself will be swallowed up, rather than being swallowed, it is better for the old lady to choose a backer by herself, Lord Wang, you are fair and fair, so my aunt ...... The little girl came to run. ”
This attitude is the attitude of defecting people, Wang Tong is a little crying and laughing, as for why this Song girl came to the door, he also knows in his heart, among the Beijing teachers, I don't know how many people are watching such a business as Qin Pavilion, as soon as Zhang Han left, he didn't even have a shelter, and it became a delicious delicacy with a fragrance.
"Lord Wang, every year in the accounts of the Qin Pavilion, the little woman takes five, the adult takes five, all the operating expenses, the girls' guys' accounts are all taken care of by the little woman, and the news that the Qin Pavilion knows can also be told to the adults as soon as possible, the Qin Pavilion is a good place to welcome and send to, if the adults want to entertain their colleagues, ......"
This Song Chanchan has a rare pungent surname for female surnames in this era, and this kind of chatter is not so much for refuge, but for where to complain.
Wang Tong thought it was very interesting about this Song Chanchan's performance, Qin Pavilion got it in his hands, there were all kinds of benefits, as for gossip, it was nothing, everyone would think that this was just the spoils of war harvested by the other party after Zhang Han fell.
Wang Tong casually took the land deeds presented by Song Chanchan with both hands, looked through them, and said with a smile:
"I accepted the Qin Pavilion, and the deed of the contract was to find a Chinese person in the government to be a witness, change it to my name, and keep the account clear, if someone comes to you for trouble, come to me."
After saying these words, Wang Tong walked in the direction of Zhenxing Building, Song Chanchan didn't expect this matter to be so simple, raised her head and looked at Wang Tong's back in a daze, and was just about to kowtow down, but heard Wang Tong in front of her not turn around, waved her hand and said:
"It's cold, go back quickly, just find someone to do the paperwork and contract."
The Song girl's movements froze there, flurry for a while, but with a smile on her face, she slowly stood up, at this time she heard a cold snort behind her, turned her head to look over, that Zhang Hongying had not moved the place, and when she saw Song Chanchan turn around, Zhang Hongying's face turned red all of a sudden, and the girl hurriedly walked into the delicious restaurant.
After Zhang Juzheng was robbed, everything in the court was restored to the way it was before, and if there was time after the court meeting, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, routinely gave a lecture to Emperor Wanli.
This kind of course, said to be the core meeting of the Ming Empire, the first and second people Feng Bao and Zhang Cheng have to come to accompany the teacher, the teacher is Zhang Juzheng, and the student who listens to the class is the Wanli Emperor, these people can almost decide all the things of the Ming Empire.
The performance of the little emperor of Wanli in the matter of Ding Wei's love, that kind of accurate judgment and firm persistence, made Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao think that the little emperor had grown up a lot.
Therefore, the current course, in addition to telling the truth of the sages and the gains and losses of the past dynasties, sometimes will also discuss government affairs, and will also come up with the promotion rewards and punishments of officials in a certain place, and the Wanli Emperor will make a decision.
"Since the beginning of the Qingzhang land, the prefect of Changzhou Prefecture has not increased by one more acre of land in the Fuzhong, but many people in the Fuzhong have written secret letters to Beijing to complain, Yan Ming how many acres of land have been donated under the name of a certain household, and how many acres have been encroached upon by a certain household, Your Majesty, how should this be handled?"
The so-called "contribution" is related to the fact that the meritorious people of the Ming Dynasty do not have to pay taxes, and the families who do not have the merit entrust their land to the names of the meritorious celebrities, and pay very little money to the entrusted person, but they save a large amount of taxes, which is often the merit of the family who takes the opportunity to swallow the donated land.
Not to mention others, Zhang Juzheng is in his hometown of Jiangling, Huguang, and his family has 30 hectares of land, but there are nearly 600 hectares of land donated by the local family surnamed Zhang.
When Emperor Wanli heard the question, he put down the book in his hand, groaned and said:
"The prefect of Changzhou fined him for one year, transferred to Laizhou Mansion as the prefect, and sent the head of the household department to Changzhou Mansion to host the matter."
Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other, Zhang Cheng on the side also nodded slightly, Zhang Juzheng asked with a smile:
"The minister dares to ask Your Majesty, Qingzhang has acres of land in the world, several ineffective people in Shanxi have been exempted from official questioning, and the two magistrates in Henan who participated in the hidden fields have been killed, why is the governor of Changzhou Mansion only fined for one year and transferred to Laizhou Mansion?"
"More than seventy percent of the officials above the fourth rank in the DPRK are from the provinces of the south of the Yangtze River, and they serve as magistrates in the rich prefectures and counties of the south of the Yangtze River, so they must be tied, and the pedestrians they meet on the street may be relatives of the adults in the Beijing Division, how can they manage it, Xu Ge's hometown has more than 400,000 acres of fertile land in Songjiang Mansion, Hai Gangfeng has gone to investigate, and he has not lost his official position and returned to his hometown, even Hai Rui can't manage it, he is a small prefect, how can he manage it, this is the reason for not being demoted."
Speaking of the allusion of Hai Rui and Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng was a little embarrassed, Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Jiajing Dynasty and the Longqing Dynasty, after returning to his hometown, wantonly encroached on the fields and purchased a huge foundation, Hai Rui investigated and ordered the return of the encroached fields, but he didn't expect Xu Jie to buy off the officials at that time to Dai Fengxiang in the matter, but he participated in the impeachment of Hai Rui for mutilating the gentry, this matter Zhang Juzheng is quite related, and he was very uncomfortable when he heard Wanli mention it.
"But the errand arranged by the imperial court, as a herdsman official, did not make an inch, and was transferred to a remote place such as Laizhou Mansion, and a one-year fine was a punishment, and at the same time the head of the household department was sent to supervise, if it was not good to handle it again, the widow would have to use the eunuchs in the palace and the messengers of the brocade guard!"
Emperor Wanli said while thinking about it, and quickly said a set, several bigwigs in the study looked at each other a few times, and Zhang Juzheng praised with a smile:
"Your Majesty's disposition can be said to be arbitrary, but the minister wants to explain one point, this prefect transferred to Laizhou Mansion to be fined for one year is not a punishment, if it is really decreed, it will be a great reward."
Emperor Wanli was stunned, and Feng Bao said softly on the side:
"Long live the Lord, the prefect of Changzhou Mansion has no oil and water, and there are families of officials everywhere below, and he has to deal with the errands of the imperial court, he has to do a search, and the official position is immediately difficult to protect, and he can be transferred to the position of Laizhou Mansion, although the place is poor, but there is no big family, but you can let go of the looting and making money, and it is nothing, and it will be fat immediately."
"With the court's money, I still have to be greedy for ink, and I also want to learn from my grandfather to peel them and fill them with grass."
Emperor Wanli was a little angry when he was said, and he said something viciously there, and several bigwigs in the room looked at each other and smiled, and changed the topic, the governor of a province can only earn two hundred taels of silver a year, and how to feed a family and how to communicate with officialdom if he is not greedy.
However, Emperor Wanli also had other thoughts, and when the topic changed, he mentioned with a smile:
"Mr. Zhang, the king of Jinyi Wei Baihu is reliable in commuting, and he has made meritorious contributions recently, I am thinking about promoting him to a thousand households, what does Mr. think?"
The smile on Zhang Juzheng's face was still there, and he asked gently:
"The minister dared to ask Your Majesty, what credit Wang Tong has, but the minister has not heard of it."
Emperor Wanli was stunned when asked, hesitated but thought of something, and said with a little excitement:
"Mr. Ding was worried about love some time ago, and the government and the opposition talked about it, but this Wang Tong was the first to suggest to me, saying that Mr. Zhang worked hard and made great achievements, and the Ming Dynasty was indispensable.
The smile on Zhang Juzheng's face gradually faded, and Zhang Cheng, who had been standing on the side, sighed unnoticed and shook his head slightly.
(To be continued)