Shen Shuren's original plan was very clear: to promote the reform of the Lijin, he had to deal with the key people of the three parties.

The first is Zhang Guowei, the second is the Zheng family, and the third is Yang Sichang and Fang Kongzhi.

Yang Sichang and Fang Kongzhi's priorities can be slightly delayed, considering the geographical restrictions and their own itinerary, those things can only be dealt with after Shen Shuren returns to Huguang to take office.

Zhang Guowei and the Zheng family must be completely cleaned during the period of their stay in Nanjing.

Now Zhang Guowei has just done it, and the rest is mainly the Zheng family.

If there is no accident at the moment, Shen Shuren will mainly focus on going to Wu Weiye, the secretary of the Guozijian Department, in the next few days of staying in Nanjing.

Let Wu Weiye raise his noble hand and write some praiseful evaluations for Zheng Chenggong, who is still a prisoner.

Then Shen Shuren tried to find a way to hook up with the Nanjing officials, find the real power yamen that could decide the local official positions in Nanzhili, buy officials and award officials, and mediate and mediate. Scoop up some grassroots officials, including Zheng Chenggong, for their own use, and sell a bunch of favors by the way.

As long as everything goes well, the Zheng family will of course admit their affection and cast a bogey, and they will be willing to cooperate with the tax payment by Shen Shuren.

Fortunately, now that I understand what happened to Li Xiangjun, Bian Yujing and others, I can't delay long if I sell the favors that I can. And by the way, you can also understand what is the relationship between Bian Yujing and Wu Weiye today.

After Shen Shuren's mind was quickly calculated, he confirmed that this newly emerged "side quest" would not hinder the progress of his "main quest", and every step was valuable, so he took the time to listen with peace of mind.

At all times, he is focused on the great cause, and will never let his lower body dictate his decisions.

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Thinking about the pros and cons, Shen Shuren immediately changed his face to a more amiable face, pretending to care about Li Xiangjun's experience:

"Miss Li, I remember we met before, right? You'll know in the future, I don't have any skills, I just squander my money with righteousness, and I will protect my acquaintances if I can. If there is a small difficulty, you can speak. ”

He said a few words first, not because he was afraid that Li Xiangjun would think that he had other plans, but because he took care of Chen Yuanyuan's feelings on the side and asked her not to worry about it.

If you just have a private chat with Li Xiangjun, you don't need to hide it at all - even if Lao Tzu has a plan, what's the matter? Since he is the Oiran Qingqi of Meixianglou, he should have been coveted for beauty.

Li Xiangjun obviously also knew the meaning of the string song, and inadvertently glanced at Chen Yuanyuan next to him, showing a hint of envy: Sister Yuanyuan's life is really good, although she is also from a bitter background, her son-in-law spoils her so much and takes care of her feelings.

After sighing, Li Xiangjun immediately collected his emotions and replied with a smile:

"Who said it wasn't, more than a year ago, didn't the slave family see Gongzi at the Bailuzhou Literary Conference? However, at that time, the slave family was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he had never been on stage, and it was normal for the son not to remember the slave family.

At that literary meeting, the son bought the official so much that he didn't even bother to hide it, he was really bold and open-minded. It's a pity that at that time, the slave family didn't know Gongzi's literary talent, and thought that Gongzi was heroic, but he was afraid that he was not good at learning. Unexpectedly, after turning over the years, Childe was able to enter the high school rankings twice and won the name of Geng Jie in the world. ”

Li Xiangjun's talent is similar to Chen Yuanyuan, and he is also known for his music and music. It's just that Chen Yuanyuan is in Kunshan and sings Kunqu Opera, and Li Xiangjun is in Nanjing and sings Nanqu (Nanqu does not refer to "Nanjing's song").

More than a year ago, she just debuted, so she is not famous, and now she is the first master of Jinling Nanqu, Qin Se Pipa, Di Xiao Gong Hou, and also have superb skills.

Talking about this, Bian Yujing next to him also came up, leaned on Li Xiangjun and said:

"Yes, yes, the sisters who have participated in the literary meeting all say that the son is humble and hidden, and he admires him tightly."

Bian Yujing was the youngest, and she didn't have the opportunity to participate in that literary meeting, when she was still being trained behind closed doors and couldn't see guests.

"The First Evolution"

Shen Shuren was complimented by the beauties, and it was impossible to say that he was unexpected, it was purely an instinctive reaction.

But he was very able to control his emotions, and raised his hand to stop the topic: "It's all old people, there is no need to talk about this." Let's talk about Miss Li, didn't you just say that someone wants to buy you as a gift? If you don't want to, we can think of a way. ”

Li Xiangjun's heart tightened, a little apprehensive, and he also felt a little ashamed, but the opportunity was rare, and after hesitating for a while, he said:

"Originally, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized. We who are suffering from life, but if we can receive the grace of our guests and are willing to spend a lot of money to save the sea of fire, it is all creation, and we should not pick and choose.

Shen Gongzi, among people like you, you may not be able to meet one in a few years. After I sang on stage last year, some guests also admired their faces. My mother wanted to save up for a grand event and invited the VIP to comb the cage for me......

If you look at the person in the slave family, Shen Gongzi should also remember that it was Hou Fangyu Hou Gongzi who had a trouble with Gongzi at the meeting more than a year ago - the slave family still remembers that Hou Gongzi tried to ask for bribes from you and other prisoners, but you made it yellow.

Later, he was unable to raise enough money, and the matter was put on hold for several months. My mother took pity on me, but she didn't force me to comb the cage as soon as possible, and allowed me to continue to sing on stage every day.

Who knows, until the end of last year, Hou Gongzi's mind suddenly changed greatly. He pulled down his face and colluded with the eunuch scum Ruan Dacheng, and suddenly scraped together enough money, even enough to redeem me directly.

The slave family thought that he was willing to fall for me, and they couldn't bear to blame him. Later, I heard that he was planning to ransom the slave family and give it to his world friend, the general Zuo Liangyu, as a concubine.

Although the slave family is lowly and does not despise the uncivilized and martial arts, now that the Ming Dynasty is in trouble, the imperial court really needs military ministers. However, those military bandits who were disloyal to the court and raised thieves, even though the slave family was in a lowly position, was ashamed to be with them, alas...... There are such fortunate people in the world. ”

Shen Shuren didn't think much of this at first glance, but his expression gradually became solemn when he listened to it, and he soon realized: All this seems to be related to the butterfly effect caused by himself!

According to "Peach Blossom Fan", Hou Fangyu found the eunuch Ruan Dacheng to get enough silver, so he should go up in person, and now he actually wants to give it out as a gift, it must be that the situation of the Hou family is worse than that of the same period in history, so he has to tie up more people to pull them, right?

Shen Shuren immediately asked quietly, "Why did he do this?" It should be that the Hou family is in trouble, right? ”

Li Xiangjun opened his mouth, but did not answer: "Childe, although the slave family also knows some news that is half a claw, but those words were all said by Hou Fangyu's lucky person when he explained to me and begged me for understanding. Since he wants to redeem me, I cannot betray him, whether I am willing or not. ”

"What's this, if you don't say it, I can roughly guess it." Shen Shuren smiled, not taking this difficulty into account at all.

Li Xiangjun's slight pedantry stimulated his sense of intellectual superiority and desire to deduce.

"Let me guess, with the original situation of the Hou family, although Hou Sui has been imprisoned for several years, he will not worry about survival. Zuo Liangyu has been using Yang Kou's self-respect to put pressure on the imperial court last year, hoping that the imperial court will release Hou Sui and reinstate the official, and His Majesty is also a little shaken. So under normal circumstances, the Hou family categorically has no need to suddenly increase their efforts to curry favor with Zuo Liangyu.

However, Zuo Liangyu framed and impeached me in November last year, but I was refuted by my real efforts to defeat me. Later, there were a series of household transfers in Beijing, which should also be His Majesty's dissatisfaction with Zuo Liangyu.

Therefore, even Hou Sui, who was protected by Zuo Liangyu, was even more dissatisfied, and wanted to clean the Hou family more and more, knock on the mountain and shake the tiger to let Zuo Liangyu be divided. The Hou family must have gotten the news, Hou Fangyu was so shameless and wanted to send his daughter to Zuo Liangyu not to abandon the Hou family. ”

Shen Shuren spoke eloquently, without expressions and tone fluctuations throughout the whole process.

But Li Xiangjun was dumbfounded, and the cherry mouth had to be round, and he could stuff a quail egg.

Bian Yujing, who has nothing to do with himself, and Liu Rushi and Gu Mei, who are well-informed and watch the play from afar, although they can't distinguish between truth and falsehood, but as soon as they look at Li Xiangjun's expression, they know that Shen Gongzi guessed right.

People who deal with the layout of officialdom every day compare their knowledge with boudoir women, and it is logical to crush them, and they will not win.

Shen Shuren saw that Li Xiangjun was speechless, and continued to add with confidence:

"It seems that all of the above is correct, so I'll continue to guess by the way. The reason why Hou Fangyu chose to send women to curry favor with Zuo Liangyu was most likely because Zuo Liangyu had recently lost his concubine, or because he had a favorite concubine at home who had trouble with him, Hou Fangyu got the news, so he took advantage of his favorites-

I remember that when Liu Xiyao entered Huangzhou last year, he was killed by me and killed many local gentry families in Huangzhou, including two of Zuo Liangyu's new concubines in the local area. Could it be that the two concubines are having trouble with Zuo Liangyu. ”

Shen Shuren was not too sure about the last words, but he just guessed casually according to the inertia of deduction.

But this was enough for Li Xiangjun's psychological defense line to completely collapse, she was dizzy for a while, and sighed completely convincingly:

"It's not all right, but it's not far off. Yes, I heard Hou Fangyu say that after the Battle of Huangzhou last year, two concubines in Zuo Liangyu's family died and had an awkward relationship with him, and one of them died of illness because of excessive sadness.

Hou Fangyu wanted to buy a slave family to invite pets to fill the pain of Zuo Liangyu's concubine. The child's mind is quick, and he has no last resort, but as if he saw it in person, the slave family was happy and convinced. ”

The women next to them were all moved when they heard Li Xiangjun's personal admission.

Shen Gongzi basically guessed it! Only rarely guessed that "one of the concubines died because the clan was all wiped out and was overly sad".

But this is already very exaggerated, and this last little point is originally something that can only be thought of unless you open your eyes.

"There is such a delicate person in the world, but he is only in his early twenties. How could other powerful sons in Jinling City have such insight and vision? People are still two Jinshi, and they have the name of Geng Jie in the world. ”

Liu Ruis and Gu Mei were in a complicated mood, and they sighed a little curiously. Bian Yujing has not been deeply involved in the world, and there are not many men he has seen, and he admires it very much.

This can't be blamed on Bian Yujing, but the endowment preferences of each girl are naturally like this-

Now that Shen Shuren has seen Qinhuai Liuyan, Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun are good at music and music, Chen Yuanyuan sings better, and Li Xiangjun is unique in music.

Liu Ruis and Gu Mei are good at reciting poems, and they are quite literary and good at creating.

Dong Xiaowan needless to mention, she is the only one of the six who was born in a rich family, so those who have had less talent to please men since elementary school are relatively little, just obscene embroidery and needlework female red, and Suzhou embroidery is famous all over the world. Now, under the guidance of Shen Shuren's crooked science and technology tree, it is estimated that in the future history books, he will be a textile inventor of the zodiac woman.

The last remaining Bian Yujing, known for his beautiful calligraphy and familiarity with historical books, likes to discuss the lessons of the rise and fall with the writers, and the mirror of governance.

Therefore, Shen Shuren's incisive analysis of current affairs, the other three girls didn't feel that they had any common language, but just admired their intelligence. Bian Yujing not only admired his intelligence, but also listened to it with relish, and wanted to ask for more advice.

Shen Shuren didn't notice this, he saw that Li Xiangjun was completely impressed, so he said sincerely:

"Miss Li, since that's the case, I don't hide it. I have no personal grudges with the Hou family, and it is not a big deal to look down on Hou Fangyu's greed before.

However, Hou Sui's protégés and former officials in the household department have always obstructed the change of the law and emboldened the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and his father, Jiang Shilang and Zhang Shilang must also fight them to the end. Out of public interest, I will also thwart Hou Fangyu's conspiracy.

In this case, you don't want to be enslaved by disloyal and unrighteous people like Zuo Liangyu, but we have common interests - when did you Meixianglou originally set to redeem you? If it is undecided, there is no need to fight and coax, I can always pay for the money to help you redeem yourself.

However, whenever I want to offend and humiliate Zuo Liangyu in the future, you have to listen to my arrangement. As long as you can understand the general situation, I will give you an explanation in the future. ”

Li Xiangjun's heart was pounding, she didn't expect this officialdom whirlpool to encircle her, and finally end up like this.