On the twentieth day of the first month, the household department of Nanjing.

In the morning, Zhang Guowei, the waiter, was acting in the yamen, urging the three salaries in various parts of Nanzhili to settle the accounts, and he was also diligent.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Nanjing Sixth Department was originally a place for the losers of political battles to retire, and most of the officials did not pay much attention to what they did.

It's not that they don't want to be motivated, it's just that most of the people who can get here have already seen through the officialdom.

They all know that whether you can go one step higher and return to the northern center does not depend on whether you work hard or not, and whether you have achievements. The key is to see if the pit above can be vacated, whether any of the key members of the six departments of the capital have offended His Majesty Chongzhen and been taken out to make room, and at the same time, it is best to wait until the faction of his political enemies at the beginning is implicated and completely destroyed.

Whether you are promoted or not has nothing to do with your own political achievements, and most people naturally lie down for their lives.

Zhang Guowei, an official who ponders every day how to apportionment and collect enough salaries, is already a minority in Nanjing.

He was busy until near noon, intending to rest and have lunch, when he suddenly heard the staff come in and report that an important guest had arrived:

"My lord, Shen Shuren, the prefect of Huangzhou, passed by Nanjing on the way to his appointment, and I came to pay a visit, and I want to invite you to the banquet at noon."

Zhang Guowei was stunned: "It's Shen Tingyang's son, right?" I haven't had any contact with the Shen family in Suzhou for five or six years, why did he suddenly come to the door, he didn't bring any gifts, right? ”

"It seems to have brought a heavy gift." The staff replied truthfully.

Zhang Guowei frowned, afraid that something bad would happen, but he could only see it.

He and the Shen family are not completely out of friendship. Six years ago, when he was the governor of Susong, he overhauled water conservancy, built embankments along the rivers to protect the sea ponds, and dredged the Wujiang and Liuhe rivers to ensure that the overflowing Taihu Lake water could be discharged into the Yangtze River.

(Note: Because Nanzhili has six departments in Nanjing, it is impossible to set up ordinary governors in Nanzhili, which is called "Governor Capital Yushi", and the jurisdiction is generally much smaller than that of the province.)

For example, Shi Kefa's Anlu governor only inspected two prefectures under Nanzhili at first, and Zhang Guowei's governor Susong only supervised two prefectures. In areas other than the north and south, the governor is mostly directly in charge of an entire province)

When Zhang Guowei overhauled the water conservancy, he relied on the Shen family to fund and apportion the project funds in Suzhou, so Shen Tingyang was one of his financiers at that time.

The son of the old gold owner came to the door, but he couldn't refuse to see him.

……

The yamen of the six departments of Nanjing is not far from the Gongyuan in the south of the city.

So a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Guowei was invited to a painting boat on the Qinhuai River, and Shen Shuren was already waiting there with several courtesies.

This kind of high-end private banquet, dancing music and singing girls must be indispensable, but Shen Shuren doesn't want to go to the Qinglou to invite guests to talk about national politics.

He invited the Oiran girls from several famous buildings to perform on the ship, which not only did not damage the reputation of the invitees, but also fulfilled the courtesy.

Shen Shuren didn't know a few oirans, so he wasn't hypocritical, and he didn't look at the quality, he only picked the points that he had heard of the name.

Among them, there are a few who debuted early, and he saw them when he went to Guozijian and donating officials a year and a half, and they are also familiar.

For example, Liu Rushi and Gu Mei, who were invited today, are all seniors in their twenties, and they were present at the literary meeting where Shen Shuren slapped Gong Dingyu and Qian Qianyi in the face last year.

There are also a few little girls who have just entered the industry, or they only had a relationship with Wenhui before, or they have never seen each other, but after hearing the name, he also spared a lot of money to invite them to accompany the wine, including Li Xiangjun and Bian Sai.

These Oirans from all floors, when they come out to accompany a wine and sing a song, it is the cost of dozens of taels of silver, and they are not allowed to touch it.

Liu Ruis and Gu Mei are these old people, even if they really touch it, just add extra money.

Li Xiangjun and Bian Sai, these young Qing people, if they really can't control it, they will at least be defrauded of a few thousand taels of silver - these Oiran's carding silver will generally cost more than a thousand taels, and it is still a fair deal negotiated in advance. If it is a lawsuit after the first cut, it is possible to pay compensation several times.

Fortunately, the major events planned by Shen Shuren and Zhang Guowei have at least tens of thousands of taels of gifts, and the two hundred taels of money for inviting people to sing songs don't matter.

As soon as Zhang Guowei got on the boat, when he saw this pomp, he suddenly changed color, and it was difficult to go back.

He had seen at least three of the women on board. The other two were raw, but their appearance was no worse than that of the three women they had seen.

Especially the woman sitting next to Shen Shuren, she was even more gorgeous. Not only were the visitors surprised, but even the other four sisters who had been invited were a little ashamed.

As everyone knows, everyone guessed wrong, this most beautiful and closest woman to Shen Shuren is actually just Chen Yuanyuan, who is the private maid of the Shen family.

Zhang Guowei looked around, just put on a posture of educating the younger generation, and sat down with a wry smile:

"The virtuous nephew is good Yaxing, but you also have to be more restrained, how can you be shocked in this Nanjing city, the old man has never seen any Guozijian from the country, even this little Bian girl dares to invite."

"Really? However, the little nephew has been in the field for a long time and does not know much about the recent situation in Nanjing, thanks to Shibo's allocation. Shen Shuren said lightly.

Zhang Guowei is forty-six years old this year, one year older than Shen Tingyang, so Shen Shuren calls him Shibo.

While the two were talking and laughing, Bian Sai, a young beauty who was mentioned by them and was only fifteen or sixteen years old, hurriedly smiled and explained:

Zhang Shilang laughed, the little woman and Wu Shanchang, the eunuch of the country, did not have a deep relationship, and they were all misinformation. Wu Shanchang is a leader in the world's literary world, how can we climb high.

However, Shen Futai can be called the conscience of the world, and the talents of Nanjing Guozijian who have gone out over the years are afraid that there is no one else who can do it. The little girl is young, and she didn't have a chance to visit her in the first two years, and when she heard her sisters mention it, she admired it tightly. ”

When Shen Shuren heard this, he also smiled confidently: "I see, if you really have a friendship with Wu Shanchang, it is inconvenient for me to ask you to sing the song abruptly." Don't trap me for not respecting my teacher enough. ”

Bian Sai's original name was Bian Sai, which was not well known to the world, but her later monk's name "Yujing Daoren" was widely known and known as Bian Yujing.

But when she first fell into Qinhuai Gentle Township, she also thought about admiring Wu Weiye, the secretary of Nanjing Guozijian at that time, but Wu Weiye had no money, and secondly, he probably didn't want to be entangled for the rest of his life, so he didn't let go of his promise.

Bian Sai was disheartened in the end, and couldn't wait for her lover to get her out of the sea of suffering, so she saved enough money to redeem herself and become a monk.

Of course, none of this has happened yet, in history, this is all a broken thing after the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and now it is only the beginning of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and Bian Sai has just met Wu Weiye.

Shen Shuren, who is familiar with history books, sees through these every time: the so-called Qin Huai Bayan, most of the people in it are not really able to absolutely crush other Oiran in terms of appearance. The key is that they have a lot of contacts with famous literati, so they leave their names.

Let's just say that of the four women invited today, three of them in history married the "Jiang Zuosan family" as concubines, or at least tried to marry people as concubines.

Li Xiangjun is the same as Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan in history, and it should have something to do with the "Four Sons of Jiangdong", which encompasses six of Qinhuai Bayan.

Only the oldest Ma Xianglan is deceased, and she has little intersection with the Jiangdong writers in the late Ming Dynasty, plus the youngest Kou Baimen has no sense of literati presence in the circle.

There are six left, not because they are beautiful to be Qin Huai Bayan, but because they have a story with a top writer, they can do Qin Huai Bayan. If the top writer changes to a group of women, Qin Huai Bayan will be the other eight people.

Therefore, since Shen Shuren has crossed over, there will be no Qin Huai Bayan in this world in the future.

When the future history books evaluate the women of this era, they will only use one standard to measure their beauty: whether this woman is a woman of Shen Shuren or not.

He knows that he is a history maker, and does he still use philatelic fetishes to collect famous women? No!

Whoever Lao Tzu sleeps with is on fire, who will go down in history, and the relationship between cause and effect cannot be reversed.

……

After chatting and laughing a few words with a few sisters who sang songs, after three rounds of drinking, Shen Shuren and Zhang Guowei also cut to the chase.

Shen Shuren took out his own gift first, and there was no doubt that he opened the way with North Korean specialties such as ginseng and Dongzhu.

It's not that these things are valuable, but that they can be used as an excuse for "local specialties" to make people relax their guard.

Zhang Guowei was very cautious, worried that Shen Shuren would bend the law for personal gain, so he couldn't help asking:

"No merit is not punished, Brother Ji Mingxian (Shen Tingyang) and the old man have not been in contact for five or six years, how to receive such a heavy gift today, it is not appropriate."

"Eh, pearls are like local ginseng and vegetables, but they are just some local specialties in the countryside. If he had the opportunity to go to North Korea, he would know that these things were not worth much in the local area. ”

Shen Shuren paved the way for a while, and then changed his mouth and gave a good step down,

"Shibo, to be honest, this time I came to ask for a meeting, first of all, I wanted to ask Shibo for a favor - you should have heard that the little nephew and his father presided over the Caoyun to change the sea a year and a half ago, and later were pressed by His Majesty to settle Caomin.

During the year, we built wharves, dredged waterways, and excavated mulberry fish ponds in Wuzhong to dissolve these surplus labor. But there are many people and many things, and it is inevitable that they will be inefficient later.

Fortunately, the little nephew heard that at the end of the year before last, Shibo wrote a "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Book", covering the three Wu and seven mansions of water conservancy.

The little nephew occasionally got a copy, and if he got a treasure, it really saved our father and son. Today's gift, just ask Shibo to authorize the little nephew to carve out the book, a little pearl, the right to moisten the pen, our gentleman is not profitable, and I want to think that Shibo will not account for too little. ”

Zhang Guowei is already mentally prepared to be corrupted by the other party, but he is just thinking about how to make himself more face-saving.

Unexpectedly, Shen Shuren actually found such an entry point, which made him feel extremely refreshed mentally and materially all of a sudden.

As a literati, the most reasonable way to collect money is to be admired for your writings, and others beg you to let him engrave your books and stuff you with money.

"The Complete Book of Wuzhong Water Conservancy" is just a little experience of Zhang Guowei in water control during his six years as an official in Susong, and it was originally written and played by checking and filling in the gaps. Now that others are to be guided by this, of course he feels honored.

For a moment, Zhang Guowei felt that the nephew in front of him was closer than his own son.

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PS: Two more tomorrow as usual.,After 12 o'clock tomorrow night.,It's Monday.,12:30 a.m. can open the shelves of chapters.。 There should be four shifts at that time, and two more shifts during the day on Monday.

On the first day of the shelf, there was no accident to strive for six watches, and the alliance leader "Brother Yun's FANS" added more.

Trying to improve myself, I know that creating a supporting role is my shortcoming, and this book is also an experience.

The good results of the Three Kingdoms before, it is equivalent to taking advantage of the same humanities, and the supporting roles have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and do not need to be shaped, I only need to create a protagonist.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few supporting roles, such as Chongzhen Dorgon's image, which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the other supporting roles used had to be shaped by themselves. The problem of my character level was immediately revealed.

However, living to learn all the time, this book is not good to write, it will never be able to progress, this is also an experience of life transformation. Therefore, no matter what the results are, I will write with a calm mind and write well, and only by persevering to the end can I make progress.