"Brother Shen has a good reputation, and Ling Lang has only been in the national prison for more than a month, so he donated the official to take office, and the younger brother really didn't teach him for long. He can go to high school, all because of his family background and talent, how dare he be greedy for his own merits. ”

Facing Shen Tingyang's flowery sedan chair carrying people, Wu Weiye was embarrassed to be greedy, and hurriedly said a car of words to thank him for his humble resignation.

He is the "Jiangzuo Three Family", and he is the only one in the Jiang Zuo Three Family in history who has not been a traitor, so he is more embarrassed.

The Shen family is the richest man in Suzhou, he came to report the good news today, if he doesn't make his words clear, others will still think that he is here to make good money.

Sure enough, Shen Tingyang on the opposite side completely ignored his modesty, and didn't listen to what Wu Weiye said, so he directly asked Shen Shou to bring a plate of Korean pearls:

"A virtuous brother does not need to be humble, and teaching is not a matter of time. Knowing the son is more than the father, I know the original knowledge of the dog. He can have today, it must be the touch of the virtuous brother that opened his mind. ”

"How can this be made, it should not be deserved!" Wu Weiye was dumbfounded and repeatedly shirked.

He was sincere in his heart, but his fingers did not obey the call, as if he had suddenly had Parkinson's, his fingers curled up and stiffened, and he could not let go of the edge of the pearl plate.

Although the eyes are clear, the natural reflection of pearls reflects a little white light in the eyeballs.

"Deserved! Deserved! Shen Tingyang took advantage of the situation and finally succeeded.

Wu Weiye was embarrassed for a long time holding the pearl, and then he remembered to ask the scholar boy to find a bag to put it in. On the other hand, I secretly thought in my heart: You are in a good mood and change your way to find a reason to spend money!

The richest man in Suzhou has a Jinshi in his family, and this shot is magnanimous.

After harvesting, the two sat down as guests and hosts, and the maid served the first dragon well in front of the Ming Dynasty that had just been picked this spring.

Wu Weiye took a sip, and only then did he have the opportunity to show his respect: "Brother Shen, the junior brother is here, not just for our country's eunuch to produce a second-class jinshi. If it's just an ordinary science, we won't rush here.

The younger brother hopes that you don't care about Ling Lang's ranking, although he is the last in the second class this time, but there is a reason for it, I heard that when the emperor asked the right question, Wei Zaode and others won the first prize when they were flattering.

Ling Lang was seeking truth from facts, refusing to be inflammatory, and making a straightforward admonition, so he was deposed to the last place in the second class. But in the heart of the younger brother, this protégé is to enter the first class, and there is nothing wrong with it! This is all Brother Shen's family style and uprightness. ”

Shen Tingyang was surprised enough today, but after hearing this, he couldn't help but gasp a few times before he calmed down after a long time.

This is not written in the letter that his son gave him!

After all, the purpose of Shen Shuren's letter was to ask his father to prepare relevant resources in advance, so that he could use them when he came back to become a magistrate, and he must have reported good news and not bad news.

As for his "why he is only the last in the second grade, and it could have been better", of course, there is no need to write it to make people regret.

Thanks to the fact that he didn't write, Shen Tingyang could have an extra buffer period today, receiving a piece of good news in the morning and an upgraded version of the good news in the afternoon.

Otherwise, maybe Shen Tingyang would have had a high blood pressure attack.

Shen Ting raised his eyebrows and said: "It turns out that there are still these twists and turns, he is not very knowledgeable, his character is like me, I have always taught him, don't learn from those hypocrites and flattery, what does our Shen family say." The Ministry of Officials was able to grant him the revision of the Hanlin Academy, and it is estimated that this layer was also taken into account. ”

When he said this, his tone was very stiff. This is also the specialty of rich people, they don't need to pat others on the back, they are more "straightforward", of course, than poor scholars.

After Shen Tingyang finished his hard work, it was Wu Weiye's turn to be shocked - his news channel was an official report from the imperial court, which was sent five or six days earlier than Shen Shuren's family letter, and it did not mention what official position Shen Shuren had been given.

Therefore, the news point of "Hanlin Academy Revision", he is far less well-informed than Shen Tingyang.

"The last rank in the second class can still be awarded to the Hanlin Academy for revision? It seems that there are still ministers in the court, and they are willing to give preferential treatment to the younger generations who are guilty of direct advice. Could it be that Yang Ge's old trustee is out of the crowd? Wu Weiye gasped and analyzed.

The two of them touted each other again, nothing more than you said that I have a good protégé, and I said that you have a good son, and they are harmonious.

After getting Wu Weiye's report, the Shen family was not so cringe, and the efficiency of the lanterns was significantly improved.

Shen Tingyang stayed with Wu Weiye for several days to have a banquet, and said that he would go to Beijing to report on his work in the near future. If Wu Weiye has any words of encouragement to his protégé, he can help bring it.

……

With Shen Tingyang's pomp and efficiency, Suzhou Dijie naturally knew about his son's high school soon.

The old housekeeper Shen Xiang asked if he should have fun with his subordinates and subordinates.

Shen Tingyang was also very generous, and with a stroke of his pen, he gave his 4,000 tenants all exempt from this year's rent. Nowadays, the price of grain is expensive, and this alone is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is enough to pay for blood.

As for the sailors who received wages from the Shen family, each of them was rewarded with five taels of silver. One or two hundred ships, thousands of sailors, and tens of thousands of taels add up. There will be more rewards for family members and cronies.

Within two days, Zhang Xuezeng, the prefect of Suzhou, and the descendants of Xu Ge Lao over there in Songjiang all came to celebrate, and many guests came from Nanjing.

On the boundary of Susong Land, Cao Zhende of the River Yamen, because he was from Zhu Dadian, did not come to join in the fun.

Shen Tingyang raised his eyebrows fiercely, and from then on, no one questioned their family's "isn't it just a few stinky money, and even being an official depends on buying".

During the celebration, Shen Shuren's old friend Gu Yanwu also came to the door to say goodbye, and Shen Tingyang knew Gu Yanwu's academic reputation and received him very politely. Gu Yanwu also took out the letter that Shen Shuren gave him, which asked him to go to the capital to be a staff member.

After Shen Tingyang saw it, he immediately attached great importance to it, saying that he would also enter Beijing in the near future, and would arrange the best clipper to set off with Gu Yanwu.

Although his son was admitted to the Jinshi, Shen Tingyang still knew his knowledge and did not dare to float. The son invited Gu Yanwu, he must have known that the Hanlin Academy was not good at repairing, and he needed to find a pen to be a gunman.

Shen Tingyang was very willing to pay for his master, and directly gave Gu Yanwu a high salary of three hundred taels of silver per month.

After some stretching, he set sail north.

……

Shen Shuren is in the capital, and he has not been idle these days.

On the one hand, he sorted out the outlines of the political and philosophical articles he was going to write day and night, so that Gu Yanwu could get started immediately after he arrived in Beijing.

On the other hand, I went to the Hanlin Academy every day to familiarize myself with the environment, do some daily work, and by the way, I used my authority to consult ancient books and understand the ideological tendencies of other "academic authorities of political philosophy" at that time.

By the way, I will deal with Chongzhen's summons every now and then, and answer questions about the shortcomings of the Caoyun reform.

A month passed in a flash, and Shen Shuren could clearly feel the increasing pressure from the environment - since he entered the Hanlin Academy, Wei Zaode, Gao Eryan and others sneered at him,

The words are nothing more than "a second-class last position can be a reviser, and even a Jishi is not worthy".

Officials under Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, have recently questioned more and more about the disadvantages and false accounts of Caoyun's reform of the sea, and they need to see a move.

On this day, it was April 12, and it was also the day when Shen Tingyang and Gu Yanwu arrived in Beijing. The fast horse messenger of the Shen family, when the master arrived in Tianjin, disembarked and reported the news, so that the young master could get the news a day in advance.

Shen Shuren also made preparations early, specially invited a day off, prepared carriages and horses, and went out of the southeast of the capital sixty miles to Tongzhou to meet him.

When father and son meet, red tape is still indispensable, but Shen Tingyang grabbed his son and asked him to be exempt.

Shen Shuren saluted Gu Yanwu again: "Brother Gu, the junior brother knows that you Geng Jie, but the errand of the Hanlin Academy, the junior brother is not able to catch it, so I have to bother you to enter this world." ”

Gu Yanwu also had a righteous face: "You and I are confidants, what are you doing here, I heard that you have made a blunt admonition to Your Majesty and refused to cater to Your Majesty, so I respect your character and help you do things." ”

"Understand, Brother Gu's character, how can the younger brother not know." Shen Shuren does not put on the stinky stand of rich people. He knew that Gu Yanwu's family was also a wealthy family in Kunshan, and he was not short of money to spend on a daily basis.

It's only three hundred taels a month, how can it be possible to win Daxian by buying it - when Bao Chen Yuanyuan sang songs, it took three hundred taels a month.

Several people returned to Beijing in a carriage, and Shen Shuren explained to Gu Yanwu along the way, so that he could start work as soon as possible.

……

After returning to the capital, Shen Tingyang didn't have a long rest.

It only took a day or two to recuperate and adapt to the water and soil, and on the day of the April 15th court, he followed the court. It was inconvenient to discuss the details of the government in detail at the court meeting, so Chongzhen left him in the palace to give a banquet, and then played a report on his work in the afternoon.

Shen Shuren didn't need to attend, he was no longer the river money and grain official.

However, Hanlin Xiu can also be transferred to the emperor's side and listen to the system at any time, Chongzhen considered that their father and son had handled this errand and understood the situation, so he left Shen Shuren to listen to it.

To put it bluntly, after his father's debriefing for a while, if the emperor needs to make any will, the emperor will dictate a general meaning, and Shen Shuren will draft it.

Not to mention, this matter is quite challenging for Shen Shuren, because since he has been working in Hanlin for a month, he has always been doing private work in a mixed life, and he has not drafted a will for the emperor.

Fortunately, he was also mentally prepared for this, and secretly made up all kinds of model texts a few days in advance, and also consulted Gu Yanwu privately to discuss rhetoric together. Gu Yanwu had never seen the part, so Shen Shuren secretly consulted Ge Shizhen in the same year.

After the luncheon, Shen Tingyang went to the Wenhua Hall to face the monarch.

What he didn't expect was that he actually saw an important minister in the Wenhua Hall who had not seen him for several years, but had been stumbling on the Shen family-Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun.

Zhu Dadian's yamen was stationed in Huai'an, and the road was far away, and he rarely went to Beijing to report on his work. It is necessary to first take the section of the canal between the Huanghuai River to Linqing, Shandong, and then cross the Yellow River from Linqing to Tongzhou.

Even if Shen Tingyang made a great contribution this time, it was nothing more than to be the Langzhong of the household department, and there were also waiters and scholars above. At least at the level of Shangshu, it is possible to break hands with the feudal officials at the level of governors.

Now that he has to face Zhu Dadian, Shen Tingyang also feels a lot of pressure, even if he does save money for the imperial court and the accounts are very clear, he is still very nervous.

Zhu Dadian dared to come to stop it in person, and he didn't know how much black material he had collected about the shipping faction these days, could it be that he wanted to carry out a "sneak attack on evidence" in front of the emperor and completely stink the shipping faction in one go?

Thinking of this, before Shen Tingyang could speak, he had some stage fright.

There is no way, it must come, he has been preparing for this for several years.

Even at the beginning of Shen Shuren's crossing, he also faced the pressure of Zhu Dadian for the first time. Today, either move this mountain and completely cut through those intertwined grievances, or don't mess around.