Chang Feng saluted Zhang Heling's two brothers: "Subordinate Chang Feng, I have seen two uncles."

Zhang Heling smiled: "Ha! Brother Chang, don't be so angry. You are the benefactor of our Zhang family. If you salute our brothers, we will lose our lives!"

Zhang Yanling said on the side, "My sister said it. This trip to Fujian with Brother Chang on an errand, I will listen to you all the way."

"Thou hast sent us east, and we will not go west. You make us shit, we don't fart."

Zhang Heling echoed: "Yes, yes. Even if you say it's dark, we'll all shout that it's darker than ink."

Chang Feng smiled, "It's almost a month before we leave. The two uncles are ready to prepare. It's hot in the south, so I'll have a little bit of mint oil."

Zhang Yanling said, "I received two firecrackers from the arsenal."

It is often heard that the color changes. He was afraid that the two teenagers would not make it, so he jumped on his feet again.

He said, "Don't bring the firecracker. We're going to worship the gods, not to fight. There is no danger in taking the canal to change ships."

Chang Feng was completely miscalculated this time.

Danger is not danger if it can be predicted.

Danger always comes before you know it.

Two small uncles came to the door. The Chang family naturally has to hold a banquet to entertain. Although they are small, they have a high status and cannot be inappropriate.

During the meal, Zhang Heling said casually, "The emperor is going to promote my father's official son again."

After Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, Zhang Luan, the national abbot, was specially awarded the Honglu Temple.

Chang Feng asked, "Oh? Is the kingdom going to rise again?"

Zhang Yanling said: "I heard my sister say that the emperor wants to promote my father to be a doctor of Ronglu and the governor of the Chinese army."

Tongzhi, the governor of the Chinese army, is the sixth highest permanent position among military generals. Second only to the military governors.

Chang Feng said "congratulations".

But he muttered in his heart: The emperor is fine anywhere. It's just too much to spoil my relatives.

The two twelve or thirteen-year-old boys became the commanders of the brocade guards, and they didn't say anything about the left and right. Guozhang, a landed prisoner, turned out to be the handsome man of the Governor's Mansion.

You must know that in order to dismiss the military attaché, Mr. Ma Wensheng was so busy that he offended a lot of people.

The emperor stuffed people into the army, and he was still in a high position.

Chang Feng is not a fortune teller, he would not have thought that this would be where to go. In a few years, Zhang Luan will be made a marquis.

Even Empress Zhang's dead grandfather and great-grandfather will be posthumously crowned marquis by Emperor Hongzhi.

No one is perfect, and so is an emperor.

Emperor Hongzhi was a typical cronyism in his treatment of his relatives. Fortunately, he favors Queen Zhang alone and has no concubines. The concubine's relatives are in the Zhang family.

Let's have a wine banquet. The little brother of the Zhang family coaxed Tangtang to play for half an hour before leaving.

Chang Feng went back to the bedroom with Liu Xiaoyan to sleep.

Since learning that Liu Xiaoyan was pregnant, Chang Feng never beat her at night. On the bed, he is honestly the same as his third grandson.

He fell asleep.

In a trance, he had a nightmare.

He dreamed that countless people in ragged clothes and covered in blood were chasing him.

The people shouted at him, "Give me back the Sea God Pearl."

Chang Feng wanted to run, but he didn't have the strength in his legs, and he couldn't run fast.

And the people pressed him down. Shouting "Return me Poseidon Pearl", he tore his body into pieces.

"Ahh Chang Feng woke up from a nightmare.

Liu Xiaoyan couldn't sleep, and was embroidering a child's belly pocket on the side. She asked, "Have a nightmare?"

Chang Feng shook the cold sweat on his forehead with his hand: "Hmm. I had a strange dream."

Liu Xiaoyan poured him a cup of tea, and Chang Feng drank it to suppress the shock.

The next day, Chang Feng went to Jinyiwei on an errand as usual.

It happened that Huaien came over to listen to Jinyiwei's case handling in the previous month. The governor of the East Factory supervises Jinyiwei, which is the rule.

After finishing his business, Wynne found Chang Feng to chat. chatted and chatted, and talked about going south to worship Mazu.

Wynne said, "Oh yes. You didn't before

I have done a business trip out of Beijing. There are some things I have to give you an account of."

"Whether it is handling a case, a disaster relief, an inspection or a sacrifice, as long as you go out of Beijing, the magistrates along the way will rush to pay filial piety to the silver."

"Because no matter what the Qin mission does in Beijing, he has the responsibility of understanding the people's conditions and officials in various places along the way, and writing an excerpt to report to the emperor."

"The magistrates are afraid that the chincha will talk nonsense. and gag his mouth with silver."

"You can't take the money. You know, you have a short hand, and you have the shortest cannibalism."

Chang Feng nodded: "Remember Grandpa. I have to be a clean official like Ma Wensheng and Ma Mintang."

Wynne said, "Yes. I want to go to school with Marven more. In addition, you are going to pass through Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will definitely beg to see them."

"Thou shalt not take their money. But you can't offend them either. The most important thing to offend is the gentry."

"We are not emperors and officials who rule the world at all. but the gentry rule the world."

Chang Feng was a little strange: "Grandpa, where do you start with this?"

Wynne explained, "Think about it. There are 40,000 or 50,000 people in a medium-sized county in Daming. But what about the officials sent by the imperial court to the county seat? There are only three people with grades: the magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief bookkeeper."

"Three people rule 30,000 or 40,000 people, how can they be cured? Even if they had one hundred and eighty servants and servants, they would not be able to control hundreds of times as many people."

"The imperial decrees were passed down to the prefecture one by one. It is the gentry who really do it."

"Therefore, Wang Shu said to the emperor a few days ago that the Ming Dynasty is actually a gentry who rules the world."

Chang Feng nodded frequently: "What Grandpa said makes sense."

Huaien said: "Among the gentry, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the most powerful. Because Jiangsu and Zhejiang are places where the literary style flourishes. They have countless sons, relatives and friends who are officials in the court."

"If you can not offend them, try not to offend."

"Although you have the emperor's favor now. But you don't dare to say that you will be favored for the rest of your life, and you will not memorize words."

"Those people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry have never used knives to kill people, only pens."

"Sometimes, the pen is sharper and more terrifying than the knife."

After all, Wynne is an old man, who has served in the palace for decades and has been through the weather.

No matter how shrewd and capable Chang Feng is, he is only a twenty-two-year-old young man. Talking to Wynne is very beneficial.

Chang Feng said: "Grandson remembers Grandpa's teachings. After leaving Beijing, I will never offend people with flying and domineering."

On a business trip in the evening, Chang Feng returned home, and he was dumbfounded.

In the front yard, the nine girls were sitting and chatting with Liu Xiaoyan face to face.

Chang Feng said in his heart: How did these nine girls find my house?

Chang Feng asked, "Nine girls, why are you here?"

The ninth girl smiled, "Oh, Brother Chang. I'm here to give you a share of the profits."

After speaking, she opened a small wooden box in her hand, and in the wooden box was more than four hundred taels of silver.

Chang Feng said: "I told you, you just give Father-in-law Li a share of the profits. I cannot take it."

The ninth girl smiled, "It's your business whether you take it or not. I have to send it. That's the way things are in business."

"Since Brother Chang refuses to be thousands of miles away, I'll just take it."

Although Liu Xiaoyan is not very smart, she always has the sensitivity of a woman.

She could hear the clue in the voice. When the Nine Girls said "rejecting people from thousands of miles away", it seemed that they were referring to more than just silver.

After the ninth girl left, Liu Xiaoyan said, "It's been a year and two months since we got married. It seems like it's time for you to take a concubine."

"Who is an official in the court who doesn't have a few concubines?"

What Liu Xiaoyan said was the truth. Even if he is honest and just like Hai Rui in later generations, he also has two concubines.

Because there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater. There is a legitimate reason for officials to take concubines: to spread the branches and leaves, pass on the lineage, and fulfill filial piety.

Chang Feng was stunned: "Why did you suddenly say this? Oh, I'm nothing to do with the Nine Girls."

Liu Xiaoyan smiled: "There are no three hundred taels of silver here, right? I didn't say what you and the Nine Girls have

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