Chapter 15 Stealing the Dragon and Turning the Phoenix Fifteenth
Qin Tai and his wife pretended to be the little officials who came to report to Zhang Juzheng, and talked to the porter. Qin Tai not only wanted to wait for Zhang Juzheng to go home here, but also wanted to inspect this porter for Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng is a very strange person, the food has its own characteristics, and he usually eats at home. Even if you don't go home for dinner, you will send someone to bring food from home to eat. This habit is not known to outsiders, only Zhang Juzheng's family and cronies know, and it just so happens that Qin Tai is also a knowledge**. The reason why he did this was because of Zhang Juzheng's carefulness, although Zhang Juzheng likes to eat the food cooked by his family, but not to the point where he has to eat it every day. However, after Zhang Juzheng saw that someone poisoned and poisoned officials, he felt that eating and drinking his own things was the most reassuring. Therefore, there is an unwritten rule in Zhang Juzheng's family, Zhang Juzheng's diet is responsible for a special person, from procurement to firing, to serving and eating, it must be responsible for people. Even if Zhang Juzheng is eating out, he needs his cronies to pick it up directly from the kitchen at home. Even Zhang Juzheng's dishes and chopsticks are special, just to distinguish and identify. For this reason, Zhang Juzheng usually eats at home, and Zhang Juzheng will not eat out unless he has to. However, as Zhang Juzheng's status becomes more and more important, Zhang Juzheng may not go home for lunch, but even if he doesn't go home for dinner, he will still send someone to pick up food at home.
Qin Tai and the porter chatted without a word, and found that the porter not only liked to chat, but also had a bit of a "chattering" taste. Although the porter and Qin Tai and his wife were not familiar with each other, and they didn't even know the true identity of Qin Tai and his wife, a few flattering words from Qin Tai and his wife made the porter open the conversation. The porter not only told Zhang Juzheng's family about everything these days, but also boasted about his relationship with Zhang Juzheng. Although Zhan Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, she knew her husband's temper very well, and Qin Tai would definitely suggest to Zhang Juzheng to replace this porter. The concierge should not only be loyal to the master's family, but also keep the master's family secret. Although the porter is a relative of Zhang Juzheng and is absolutely loyal to Zhang Juzheng's family, he can't control his mouth, and it is very likely that he will harm Zhang Juzheng. As a friend of Zhang Juzheng, Qin Tai would not fail to tell Zhang Juzheng this.
As for the reason why the officers and soldiers did not stop Qin Tai and his wife, it was because the middle-aged man played by Zhan Xiaoxiao had a waist card hanging on his waist, which was the waist card of the secret agent of the East Factory. Because of this waist card, no officers and soldiers dared to interfere in the conversation between Qin Tai and his wife, and even avoided Qin Tai and his wife a little, only this porter was still bragging stupidly.
Soon after, it was time for dinner, and the porter was more dutifully waiting for Zhang Juzheng to go home at the door. He also had to casually introduce Qin Tai and his wife to Zhang Juzheng. didn't know that this kind of enthusiasm actually indirectly harmed himself and made him lose his job. However, this point is not Qin Chu, if Zhang Juzheng doesn't point it out, he will never understand it for the rest of his life.
Zhang Juzheng really didn't go home for lunch, but just sent a cronie home to pick up the food. Since Zhang Juzheng became the deputy assistant of the cabinet, he has not gone home for lunch for several days. These days, Zhang Juzheng not only has no time to go home for lunch, but also has no rest days. Zhang Juzheng, the nominal cabinet assistant, is actually responsible for the daily affairs of the imperial court, not only the cabinet, but also the daily affairs of the six ministries. This was acquiesced by Emperor Longqing, and it was also in preparation for Zhang Juzheng to officially take over the first assistant of the cabinet in the future and become the first minister of the DPRK and China. Although Zhang Juzheng likes power very much, he gradually feels that things are cumbersome. However, Zhang Juzheng was not a pedantic person, and in addition to appropriately extending his working hours and efficiency, he also began to cultivate his cronies to share responsibilities for himself. Although these people are still middle- and lower-level officials, as Zhang Juzheng's position becomes more and more stable, these people gradually move towards the peak of power and will become Zhang Juzheng's right-hand man in the future. In this way, a new party has emerged, and Zhang Juzheng is a well-deserved leader and the soul of the core.
The cronies went home to get food, but they nodded with the porter, and it didn't mean that Zhang Juzheng didn't come back to eat. But the porter said it without permission and told Qin Tai and his wife the news that Zhang Juzheng would not go home for dinner. not only talked about Zhang Juzheng's not going home today, but also told almost all of Zhang Juzheng's whereabouts in the past few days.
Qin Tai not only did not thank the porter, but also discovered the problems in Zhang Juzheng's family. Not only is there a problem with the concierge of this so-called relative in Zhang Juzheng's hometown, but even the cronies and entourage in Zhang Juzheng's family seem to have problems. The porter can know what Zhang Juzheng is doing at home, but it is impossible to know where Zhang Juzheng is and what he is doing during the day. Only the entourage around Zhang Juzheng knew where Zhang Juzheng had gone and what he was doing outside during the day. However, the general professional entourage not only has the same mind as the master, but also strictly keeps the whereabouts of the master's family secret. Just like the eunuchs around the emperors of previous dynasties, they not only have to serve the emperor well, but also keep the privacy and secrets of life for the emperor. For this reason, the royal and imperial courts also set up a special rule for the emperor, and no one was allowed to snoop on the emperor's private life. Even if it is a close minister around the emperor, a concubine of the palace or a prince of the current dynasty, no one can inquire or monitor the emperor's whereabouts. The crime of spying on the emperor's privacy is equivalent to assassinating the king, and it is a major crime of raiding the family and destroying the family. As a cabinet member, Zhang Juzheng, who is most likely to become the future head of the cabinet in the future, is as important as security and confidentiality. For his own safety, Zhang Juzheng can insist on eating his own home-cooked meals every day, which shows that Zhang Juzheng is already very careful. But he had absolutely no idea that the people around him would be so careless, and even betrayed him directly. Not to mention professionals like Qin Tai, even ordinary people with a heart, as long as they spend a little time with dim sum, they can know Zhang Juzheng's whereabouts. If you want to assassinate or poison, or even frame Zhang Juzheng, there are countless opportunities. It seems that the people around Zhang Juzheng have to have a big blood change.
Qin Tai and his wife did not thank the concierge, nor did they directly reprimand the concierge on behalf of Zhang Juzheng. It's just that the couple did something that others couldn't understand, and the two followed the relative directly into Zhang Juzheng's house. Then Qin Tai and his wife divided into two ways, Zhan Xiaoxiao went to the inner courtyard to find Zhang Juzheng's wife, and Qin Tai followed him into the kitchen of Zhang Juzheng's house. Although everyone didn't recognize the true identity of Qin Tai and his wife, they didn't care if they saw that the two of them were familiar with Zhang Juzheng's family.
Qin Tai and his wife are more and more dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng's safety, such a guard, such a concierge, plus such a subordinate, what safety is there in Zhang Juzheng's house? For the safety of his friend Zhang Juzheng, and for the sake of the future cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Qin Tai had to bother to help Zhang Juzheng investigate the actual situation.
When the middle-aged man in a small costume appeared in the inner courtyard, the maid next to the lady was already so frightened that she was about to faint. Compared with the frightened maid, Mrs. Zhang was more calm, but her shaky legs betrayed her heart. After all, she is just a woman from a good family, and she has not experienced the battlefield. Suddenly, a big man I didn't know appeared in the house, and of course I would be scared by this man.
"Sister, it's me. I'm the fourth. Zhan Xiaoxiao didn't have time to recover his original appearance, and was worried that Mrs. Zhang or the maid would call loudly, so he had to use his original voice to remind Mrs. Zhang. Due to the special relationship between Qin Tai and Zhang Juzheng and Tan Yan, there is also a special relationship between Zhan Xiaoxiao and Mrs. Zhang. At that time, Zhang Juzheng and Tan Yan were both the attendants of Emperor Longqing, who was still King Yu, and the two families were as sick as King Yu. Due to the relationship between Yuwangfu, Zhang Juzheng's family and Tan Lun's family had to stand on the same front. Although Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Tan have known each other for a long time, Mrs. Zhang is from a beautiful background, and Mrs. Tan is a small jasper. Mrs. Zhang is more atmospheric and steady, Mrs. Tan is more capable and capable, although the tempers of the two are different, but there is a taste of seeing each other late. At that time, Zhang Juzheng and Tan Yan had a good relationship, so the two ladies became handkerchiefs, and they became Jinlan sisters at the moment. At this time, under the planning of Concubine Li, the side concubine of Yuwangfu, who was later Li Guifei, three ladies with different personalities and statuses became the three sisters of Yijie Jinlan. The three of them are divided by age, Mrs. Zhang is a well-deserved eldest sister, Mrs. Tan is the second, and Concubine Li is the youngest and the third. At that time, Yuwang's economy was not good, and Yuwang's mansion was almost out of food, so Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Tan Ron, as Concubine Li's sisters, often helped Yuwang's family. Later, after Qin Tai met Zhang Juzheng and Tan Yan, he called the two ladies sisters-in-law, and Mrs. Zhang also jokingly said that she wanted to introduce Mrs. to Qin Tai. Later, after Zhan Xiaoxiao disclosed her identity and became Qin Tai's wife, the relationship between the three ladies has become more awkward because of their respective husbands. In order to maintain the relationship, in order to ease the relationship between their respective husbands, Concubine Li suggested inviting Zhan Xiaoxiao to join their sorority. Zhan Xiaoxiao is a generation of heroines, and a heroine who killed widows, and was a role model for all women at that time, and of course the three sisters agreed. It's a pity that in the environment at that time, Zhan Xiaoxiao did not return to the capital to officially meet with the sisters. However, the ranking of the four ladies still came out, Mrs. Zhang is the eldest sister, Mrs. Tan Yan is the second, Li Guifei is the third, and Zhan Xiaoxiao is the fourth, that is, the eldest. So Zhan Xiaoxiao called Mrs. Zhang the eldest sister, but there was nothing wrong with it. It's just that Zhan Xiaoxiao has only met Mrs. Zhang, the eldest sister, a few times, and Mrs. Tan has been accompanying her father in her hometown all these years because Tan Lun's father-in-law is not in good health, so she has no chance to meet Zhan Xiaoxiao. As for Concubine Li, she disdains to meet with ordinary people, so the relationship between the two of them is dispensable, and the relationship between the four sisters has existed in name only.