On the fourth day after the meeting between Liu Haojia and Emperor Wanli, when the undercurrent in the capital had not completely subsided, four carriages came one after another in a village outside the city. The carriages came from different directions, but they entered the village almost at the same time, which shows that the coachman is a good worker!

These carriages may seem ordinary, but connoisseurs will know that the materials used in these carriages are all high-quality! And even the horse that pulls the cart is also extraordinary, and it is the best at first glance! The servants who followed the carriage were either shrewd and capable, or they were powerful, with a waist sword at their waists, which showed that they were all well-trained. This fully shows how extraordinary the people in the carriage are! But the strange thing is that these four carriages do not have any markings on them, so it is impossible to guess which noble family this is traveling!

The carriage did not fight for the road very tacitly, but came to a large house in the middle of the village and stopped one after another. This big house is very well repaired from the outside, simple and natural. Although the years have left traces on him, they do not look old, but have a leisurely atmosphere.

And the tiles of the gatehouse and the walls have been cleaned, and there is no moss at all! Especially the two vermilion lacquer gates, their colors have darkened with the wind and rain, but nothing has fallen off! The brass nails on the door are also polished! It can be seen that the servants here are diligent and capable!

If anyone who is familiar with officialdom here, they will know that this big mansion is the family residence of Zhang Qida, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites! This Zhang Shangshu was born in a family of eunuchs, and there are people in the family who have been officials in the court for generations, and there are officials attached to him from generation to generation, and he is extremely powerful! Moreover, Zhang Qida himself is also known for being clear, outspoken, and not afraid of the reputation of the powerful, and has a very high reputation in Shilin!

As the curtain was raised, the servants lowered their step stools, and four old men disembarked from the four carriages. They look like they're almost all in their prime, but they're still agile when they act! And although the clothes worn on the body look inconspicuous, they are all boutiques!

Let's just say that the green robes worn by a few people, this kind of fabric costs two taels of silver and one foot in the market of Jingshi! The jade pendant on the waist is worth a thousand gold! In particular, the jade pendant on the waist of one of them is clumsy in shape, and it is obviously an old object of the pre-Qin Dynasty!

As soon as several people greeted each other, the middle door of the mansion was already wide open, and the four old men laughed and entered. In front of the door stood an old butler about their age, leading them straight to the main hall. But instead of stopping at the main hall, they walked through the main hall and went straight to the study.

The old housekeeper pushed open the door of the study, and several people who were familiar with it entered the study directly, while the old housekeeper closed the door and left quietly.

The layout in the study is the same as the whole house, with a very ancient meaning, but all the materials are extremely fine! And the layout of this study is not quite the same as a normal study. There is no desk in this study, only five chairs in a circle. There is a small coffee table next to each chair, on which is a cup of fragrant tea, and the curling heat rises, which looks like it has just been put on, which shows that the servants have a good grasp of time!

As soon as they entered the study, an old man about their age was standing in the middle of the room. The old man did not wear a crown, and his hair was only tied up with a hosta, which looked very neat. A pair of sword eyebrows flew obliquely, and his eyes were not cloudy with old age, but became brighter and brighter! The three long whiskers hung down on his chest, quite like a fairy wind bone!

I saw him arch his hand and say to everyone: "Brother Yucai, Mingqing, Runze, Yuelin, hard work all the way!" “

The old man, known as Brother Yucai, laughed and said, "Buyuan, why didn't you go to the front to greet us today, and you were actually lazy and hid in the room!" ”

Zhang Qida laughed when he heard the accusation, took two steps up and said: "Everyone, atonement, it's not that I'm lazy, but that my foot disease has recurred, and I really can't travel!" ”

Everyone saw that he was walking with a limp, and it was indeed a recurrence of foot disease, so they laughed at each other and sat down. But if there are people who are familiar with officialdom and Shilin in this room, I am afraid that they will be shocked! Because in addition to the previous Ministry of Rites, the remaining four people are also extraordinary, and they all enjoy great prestige in officialdom and Shilin!

The first person who sat down from Zhang Qida's left hand in turn was Lin Huaiying, a great Confucian who was famous in the south of the Yangtze River! This person is a person from Jiangsu. In Jiangnan, he once presided over a academy by himself. It's just that he later closed the academy and went north alone, saying that he wanted to spread the righteousness of the saints to the north!

When he said this, although the northern Shilin was very dissatisfied, he could only pinch his nose and admit it! Because since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars cultivated in the north are far inferior to the south in terms of quantity and quality, resulting in Zhu Yuanzhang having to order the establishment of the North and South List when the Ming Dynasty was first established!

After Lin Huaiying came to Jingshi, a steady stream of silver came from the south, helping him open up a academy in Jingshi and start teaching and apprenticeship! And he did not disappoint the financiers, not only established a private academy in the suburbs of Beijing, opened the door to teach disciples, but also had many exchanges with the grandmasters in the north, showing a very high level of academic quality, and was very admired by the locals!

The second person is clearly called Hu Zhiyu, and his name is clear. His ancestral home is Henan. This person is not an official, but a Jinshi, the reason is that his father passed away when he was about to be awarded an official after he was admitted to the Jinshi, and he had to return to his hometown to guard the system! But after he returned to his hometown, he never went out again, but educated his children at home!

After hearing about education, there are now three Jinshi among his children and nephews! There are seven more lifters, and there are more than a dozen of them in the show! And his family is not only a large number of officials, but also very famous in the local area! The most critical point. Their family owns a lot of land in Henan, but these lands are hung on the family members, and their reputation is not obvious!

Moreover, the Hu family built bridges and paved roads in the local area, gave porridge and applied medicine, and did a lot of good deeds! Not only is the statement huge in his hometown, but even the names of the Hu family and Mrs. Hu in Henan Province are almost known to everyone! It's just that legend has it that Mrs. Hu ignored the world more than ten years ago and cultivated herself at home, but I don't know why she appeared in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Jingshi?

The third person was called Liang Xihan, whose ancestral home was Shandong. It is a jinshi of the Jiajing Dynasty and an old minister of the Three Dynasties! Zaishilin has a very high reputation! He was originally a re-Beijing teacher, but when he was in the Jiajing Dynasty, he once wrote a book criticizing the emperor for superstition and monasticism, which angered the Jiajing Emperor and was demoted to Nanjing. Later, he was gradually promoted to the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department.