Qian Neng never expected that Chang Feng was both upright and atmospheric. The money is not collected, but the things are done.

What he didn't know was that Chang Feng used his good boy as a stand-in.

Qian Ning was not ambiguous, and "Puff" knelt down for Chang Feng: "Subordinate Xie Zhen's grace to the envoy!" ”

Chang Feng hurriedly went to help: "Hurry up, please get up." Brother Qian is a thousand-mile horse in Jinyiwei, with a bright future. ”

Often, venture capital is a peach, and money can be repaid with a plum.

Qian Neng said to Liu Bingyi: "Liu Siqing, there is a vacancy in the left waiter of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, can the public be interested?" ”

Liu Bingyi said with a smile: "Father-in-law Qian, my daughter, son-in-law and grandson are all in the capital, and I don't want to go to Nanjing." ”

Qian Neng said: "The Sixth Department of Nanjing is an idle yamen. The squire is sick at home, and it is common for him not to go to work under a name. ”

"Taichang Siqing's promotion to Nanjing Rite Department is in line with the rules of officialdom promotion."

"It's better to do this, I'll find an opportunity to recommend you in front of the emperor. If it does, you will take a leave of absence after taking your official certificate and stay in Beijing to enjoy the blessings of your children and grandchildren. ”

This is a classic exchange of interests. This has been the case in officialdom throughout the ages.

When it comes to this, if Liu Bingyi refuses again, he will not give face to the celebrant and supervisor.

He arched his hand and said: "Then there will be good words from the father-in-law of Lao Qian in front of the emperor." ”

Qian Neng smiled: "Wow! Good! Today's three joys are coming. Yixi Chang calmed down the envoy in charge of the North Division; Erxi Liu Siqing is expected to be promoted to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites; Sanxi Channing is about to be promoted to a thousand households to be inspected. ”

"Originally, I had to beg for a drink at your mansion. However, an hour later, it was my turn to go to the Qianqing Palace to be on duty. ”

"When Chang Zhenfu holds a promotion banquet, I will come to ask for a glass of wine to drink, and I will be happy."

Qian Ning thanked him a thousand times. Then he followed his father-in-law, Qian Neng, and left.

Liu Bingyi said with a smile: "Virtuous son-in-law, the blessed don't have to be busy, and the unblessed run out of their bowels." I'm naked with you again! ”

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty had two supreme pursuits.

One is to become a scholar or squire of the twelve departments of the two capitals, and become the "ministry hall" of the eight classics.

The second is to enter the cabinet as a cabinet member and become a well-deserved "cabinet elder".

Liu Bingyi said that he was not interested in promotion. When the title of "Ministry" was at my fingertips, I was so excited that I couldn't help myself.

"Woooooo I couldn't hold back for a while, and the old man who was close to the sixtieth birthday actually cried.

Chang Feng hurriedly convinceed: "Old Taishan, it is a good thing to be promoted." Don't cry. ”

Liu Bingyi wiped away his old tears and said angrily: "I cried because I was so stupid!" I ruined the marriage contract with your Chang family! ”

Chang Feng comforted him and said: "Old Taishan, it's eight hundred years ago, why mention it again!" ”

Changfeng has risen from the five products to thousands of households, and has risen from the four products to calm the envoys. The Sanjie was also promoted from General Wude to General Xinwu.

Beizhen Fu made the two commanders above vacant, and the two commanders were the Zhang brothers who obeyed Chang Fengyan.

Chang Feng is now in the Jinyi Guard, which can be said to be under Zhu Ji and above 8,000 people.

With such a big happy event, it is natural to set up a promotion banquet and celebrate it.

However, Chang Feng didn't want to make too much of a fuss about the promotion. The invitation was only sent to Qian Neng and his son and Wei Nei Paoze.

Civilian, military and military generals were not invited. After all, the emperors of the past dynasties were most taboo that the house slaves of Jinyiwei were too close to the foreign ministers.

invited Zhu Ji, but Zhu Ji said that he couldn't come because of something. It's better if he doesn't come, otherwise the robes will drink and feast with him, and the atmosphere of the promotion banquet will become like a funeral feast.

Seven days later, the Changfu held a promotion banquet.

The people who went to the banquet were all their own people, and this promotion banquet was naturally harmonious.

After eating and drinking, everyone drank tea and chatted in the living room.

Daoist Zhang is a flower priest who drinks wine and eats meat. The amount of good drink is still small. I drank a pot of wine at the banquet just now, and my face was drunk.

He boasted: "I am proficient in gossip, physiognomy, and Qimen Dunjia. ”

Xu Fatzi coaxed: "Will you meet?" Then you give the brethren face to face. See who's got the best luck in the hall! ”

Xu Fatzi is digging a pit for Daoist Zhang. If he says that so-and-so has the best luck, isn't that offending the rest of the people?

Daoist Zhang looked around, and then said: "In this hall, there is a person whose luck has prospered from childhood to old age. Shou Yuan is also very tall. It's just a lucky star shining a half! ”

"If anyone is related to this person, even bad luck can turn into good luck!"

Everyone's eyes were all focused on Chang Feng.

Today is Changfeng's promotion banquet, and most of the people Zhang Daoshi said are him.

Xu Fatzi asked: "Zhang Shenxian, are you talking about Chang Ye?" ”

Daoist Zhang shook his head slightly.

Xu Fatzi asked again: "Then you are talking about Grandpa Qian?"

Qian Neng is the person with the highest status at the promotion banquet. Xu Fatzi thought that Zhang Shenxian wanted to shoot Qian Neng's ass.

Daoist Zhang still shook his head.

Xu Fatzi asked: "That's Liu Butang?" Yesterday's holy decree promoted him to be the left attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites. ”

Daoist Zhang still shook his head.

Xu Fatzi was a little impatient: "Who is that?" ”

Daoist Zhang pointed his finger to the sugar candy who had just finished eating the avocafruits and wiped his hands with the dog: "The best luck is our little sister!" ”

Everyone was surprised: "The luckiest one turned out to be Xiao Shimei?" ”

Daoist Zhang said eloquently: "I have been psychic since I was a child, and I can sense the strength and weakness of a person's luck. Ladies and gentlemen, I have lived forty years and have never seen anyone so lucky! ”

"Let's put it this way, Chang Ye has risen all the way in the past four or five years, not how lucky he is, it's all because of the light of the world's sister!"

Tangtang was stunned by Daoist Zhang: "It's really fake?" ”

Daoist Zhang smiled: "It's true! There are good times and bad times for normal people's luck. Your luck will flourish from the age of six to the end until you are 96 years old! ”

"But you're ninety-six. Stepping past is a hundred years old. ”

"The people close to you will also follow your prosperity."

Chang Feng doesn't believe in fate. It's just that Daoist Zhang is coaxing the child.

However, Liu Jin on the side took this seriously.

Liu Jin arched his hand: "Zhang Baihu." What do you think of my luck? ”

Daoist Zhang took a closer look at Liu Jin's appearance, and then his face changed: "If I guessed correctly, you should have broken palms left and right." ”

Liu Jin was surprised: "You haven't seen my palmistry, how do you know that I have a broken palm?" ”

Daoist Zhang talked eloquently: "The left is broken to palm the soldiers, and the right is to be cut off to hold the treasury." Your countenance is the life of both a soldier and a riches. ”

"It's a pity that you didn't have good luck for the first thirty-six years. After the age of thirty-six, because you were stained with the light of a nobleman, your fortune began to improve. ”

"This noble man is like the key that opens the door to your good fortune."

"However, your true luck is far from coming. I guess fifteen years from now will be the peak of your luck. ”

Liu Jin was greatly surprised: in the autumn of the year when I was thirty-six years old, my father-in-law asked me to take care of the food and living of the Chang family brothers and sisters in the outer house.

Zhang Shenxian said again, who is next to Tangtang, who follows the light. My noble person must be Aunt Sugar Candy!

Oh! It really made Zhang Shenxian right. Recall that it was after meeting Aunt Sugar Candy that I began to rise all the way!

After serving in the palace for more than 30 years, he was not promoted, and when he met Aunt Tangtang, he was promoted. Where is this coincidence, it is clearly fate!

Since then, Liu Jin has offered Tangtang as an aunt and grandmother. While he was bent on being promoted, he had to order someone to send it to his "aunt and grandmother" if he had anything delicious and fun.

Daoist Zhang instructed Liu Jin again: "You write out the eight characters of your birthday, and I will take a look." ”

Liu Jin wrote the eight characters of his birthday.

After Daoist Zhang saw it, he was so frightened that he woke up!

He blurted out: "Emperor, the yellow calendar is good!" ”

Daoist Zhang deduced from the eight-character numerology he had learned in half his life that Liu Jin was the emperor's life!

But how dare you say the three words "the emperor's order"? Wouldn't it hurt people to say it?

Before I knew it, it was almost dusk. The crowd dispersed.

The next day, Chang Feng strode to the Beizhen Fu envoy duty room. Officially began his days at the helm of the North Division

Time is like a bull with firecrackers in its eyes, and it can't stop when it runs.

Two years later.

The fifth year of Hongji, autumn.

The Ming Dynasty has been in its prime.

Emperor Hongzhi was a good emperor who was lenient, diligent, and loved the people. But diligence does not mean tossing.

He was inwardly repetitive; flood control; repeal the Harsh Criminal Ordinance; reuse of virtuous ministers; Strive to be frugal.

He has never been good at crusading against the outside world. But he has always maintained a tough attitude towards foreigners. Basically, we abide by the principle of "if people don't offend me, I won't offend people." If anyone offends me, all the earthworms in the enemy territory will be split in half vertically."

In the six years since Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, the treasury income and the grain stored in the warehouse have increased year by year. Jiangnan is prosperous in commerce.

Politically, he reused virtuous ministers such as "Hongzhi Three Gentlemen, Wang, Ma, Liu", Li Dongyang, Xu Pu, Liu Jian, and so on. Although the rule of officials cannot be said to be like a pool of clear water, compared with the end of the Chenghua Dynasty, the official style has been greatly improved.

To put it bluntly: officials should be greedy, but at least they will take the initiative to do things.

Although the common people are far from having a level of food and clothing, at least there is no large-scale famine.

According to Huang Boren, the magistrate of Rongcheng County, he said that the common people can live like animals mixed with a mouthful of forage, which is already a prosperous age.

It cannot be said that there are no popular uprisings and rebellions, but they are not large-scale.

Emperor Hongzhi was a workaholic similar to Taizu and Taizong. Get up before dawn every day. The morning court, the afternoon court, and the large and small banquets are full.

He was also a noble man, a man who got rid of low tastes.

Throughout the history books, nine out of ten ancient emperors were lustful.

To tell the truth, if any man is given three palaces, six courts, seventy-two concubines, plus three thousand young beauties at will, any man will become lustful.

It's a matter of physiological instinct.

But Emperor Hongzhi has been on the throne for six years, and there is still only one woman, and that is Empress Zhang. He also issued three decrees in succession to reduce the size of the palace maids.

Compared with the two later Ming Emperors who died comfortably after taking aphrodisiacs, Emperor Hongzhi didn't know where to go.

He's not good. The treasures of the inner transport warehouse were repeatedly used by him for disaster relief. He cleaned up the inner transport depot, and the rats had to shed tears when they entered.

Even the civil servants of the household department, who have always opposed the private use of state funds, can no longer stand it. He took the initiative to fold it up and requested that 100,000 taels of treasury silver be transferred to enrich the emperor's inner treasury.

The emperor is powerful, and the courtiers are also powerful.

Wang Shu, who was in charge of the Ministry of Officials, did his best to eliminate mediocre officials. He can't change the historical problem that officials must be corrupt, but he tries his best to spur the officials under him to do some practical things for the people.

Ma Wensheng, who was in charge of the military department, made the nine-border garrison impregnable. The little Tatar prince did not dare to go south easily.

Mesozoic officials such as Li Dongyang, Liu Jian, and Xie Qian gradually began to provoke the girders.

The rising stars of officialdom represented by Yang Tinghe have also begun to emerge.

The famous "Hongzhi Zhongxing" in the history books is gradually getting better.

The suburbs of Beijing, the racecourse.

Autumn is high and cool, and everything is golden.

The twenty-seven-year-old Beizhen Fu envoy Chang Feng galloped wildly, and suddenly pulled the reins of the horse.

The horse raised its front hooves, neighed, and stopped running.

In the past two years, Changfeng's career has been smooth. The main reason is to bow to the prosperous era, and there are no big traitors in the court as opponents.

Under his leadership, the Beizhen Fusi escorted the national policies promulgated by Emperor Hongzhi that benefited the country and the people.

"Brother! How did it stop? Thirteen-year-old Chang Tian also reined in the horse's reins.

At the beginning, the soft and cute little sugar candy has become a girl, slim and slim.

Her temperament is very similar to her sister-in-law Liu Xiaoyan, who loves rouge gouache, swords, swords, and horses.

Chang Feng said: "I've run for two miles, don't tire the horse." Running a horse in autumn is not an eight-hundred-mile rush. ”

In the distance, Liu Xiaoyan was riding on a horse, holding Chang Ponu who was sitting in front of the saddle.

Chang Feng's eldest son, Chang Ponu, is already five years old. This guy is simply a naughty ghost who "wishes for cows to fight during the day and ghosts for the sky at night".

A few days ago, Liu Xiaoyan didn't look at it, he took a bamboo pole and stabbed all the tiles on the roof of the hall in the house.

As for what to use boiling water to fill the ant's nest and use firecrackers to blow up the big dung pit, it is his daily operation.

Huzi is too old to run. Converted to the age of a dog according to the age of the person, it is already in its seventies.

It lazily lay on the comfortable pile of horse feed, watching the big and small owners ride horses for fun.

It's late in the evening.

A fire was lit on the east side of the racecourse.

Chang Tian was a little anxious: "The two elder brothers Heling and Yanling said that they were going to hunt rabbits, why haven't they come back yet." They can't bring back their prey, so what are we going to roast? ”

Turning his head, Chang Tian said to Chang Ponu: "Zhuangzhuang, why don't you sprinkle salt and roast it!" If you have fine skin and tender meat, it must be very fragrant when grilled. ”

Chang Ponu pouted: "Auntie, if you want to roast, you have to roast my Uncle Xu Shi, he is fat and fat, and he is more fragrant than me when he roasts him." ”

Xu Fatzi, who was sleeping with a dog's tail grass in his mouth and a pillow in his hand, woke up when he heard this.

Xu Fatzi scolded with a smile: "Roasted me? You're not afraid to die! ”

A short time later, two young men rode up to the fire.

Sixteen-year-old Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling dismounted and untied five or six hares from the saddle.

Chang Tian complained: "Why did you come back? Starve me to death! ”

Zhang Heling hurriedly said: "Aren't we thinking about beating a few more fat rabbits for the sugar girl to eat!" ”

Chang Tian was a little unhappy: "Sugar candy was my name when I was a child!" How many times have I told you, I've grown up, call me by my name! ”

Zhang Yanling grimaced at her: "You just live to be eighty years old, and you are also our sister-in-law." What's wrong with my brother's name when I call my sister's name? ”

The two brothers are now born with a tiger's back. He is a well-known cousin in the capital. Bullying people is the foundation of happiness.

However, they are very fond of their sister Chang Tian.

It should be said that Chang Tian is now the favorite of the capital.

Empress Zhang likes her, the two uncles with different surnames spoil her, and Liu Jin, who is gradually gaining power in the palace, respects her.

A few days ago, Chang Tian casually said that he wanted to raise an invincible blue-winged iron-armored long-jawed fighting cricket.

Zhang Heling's two brothers directly transferred 500 regimental battalions and looked for crickets for her everywhere in the suburbs of Beijing.

Because crickets are yin insects, good crickets are born in the graveyard.

The two brothers Zhang Heling dug up more than a dozen ancestral graves of ordinary people. Only then did I find a good worm and give it to Chang Tian.

Chang Feng knew about this, reprimanded his sister and two little brothers severely, and sent someone to send silver to the people to compensate.

In the entire capital, I am afraid that there are only four people who dare to reprimand the two small uncles, Emperor Hongzhi, Empress Zhang, Zhang Luan and Chang Feng.

The autumn moon has risen in the sky.

Everyone gathered around the fire and roasted the hares, which was very pleasant.

Huzi lay on his stomach beside the fire, squinting lazily.

Zhang Heling said: "Brother Chang." My sister said that when our eldest nephew is crowned the crown prince and the prince, the emperor's brother-in-law will give our brothers and sisters the title of uncle! ”

Last year, Empress Zhang gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Houzhao. Emperor Hongzhi was afraid of breaking it in his hand, and he was afraid of melting in his mouth.

Emperor Hongzhi has decreed that the crown prince canonization ceremony will be held this month.

Chang Feng was surprised: "Both of you are uncles? ”

Zhang Heling nodded.

Emperor Hongzhi's favor to Empress Zhang's family is simply incomprehensible.

At the beginning of this year, the old national abbot Zhang Luan was promoted from Shou Ning Bo to Shou Ning Hou. The number plus the word Yiyun, the step of the gate into the Guanglu doctor, Lu plus 200 stones, still give it three generations, give coupons, descendants hereditary.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty's knighthood system is extremely strict. Many military generals have been fighting horses on the nine sides for a lifetime, and they have made countless meritorious contributions, but it is difficult to seek the title of marquis.

Not to mention the civil servants. Even if he has great merit, he doesn't dare to expect to be an earl.

Chang Feng said: "Congratulations to the two of you." When you become an earl, you have to be more restrained. Don't have anything to do digging people's ancestral graves, burning people's houses, and robbing people's daughters. ”

Zhang Heling said with a smile: "The grandson of the turtle robbed the people's daughter!" Our brothers are good big sisters who are proficient in blowing, playing and singing in Yihong Mansion! ”

These two boys are now serious boot brothers with Xu Fatzi, and they have slept with Saitanghong.

Liu Xiaoyan was displeased: "In front of the two children of Tangtang and Zhuangzhuang, what are you talking nonsense?" ”

Zhang Heling hurriedly shut up. For Liu Xiaoyan's sister-in-law, the two brothers are both respectful and afraid.

Liu Xiaoyan is not only their sister-in-law, but also their bow and arrow, sword and gun teacher, and the female master of the eight classics.

The autumn horse race and roasted game are over. And they all went back to their homes.

In the early morning of the next day, Chang Feng came to Beizhen Fusi on a business trip.

Now Xu Fatzi has also risen to thousands of households. It's the same as before, running errands behind Chang Feng's ass every day.

However, among the five thousand households in the North Division, the most powerful one is not Xu Fatzi, but Qian Ning.

Qian Ning is Chang Feng's stand-in. The errands of killing, rectifying people, and framing people, Chang Feng has always asked Qian Ning to stand on the bright side.

Officials in the capital "changed color when they heard the money of thousands of households". That's it.

Qian Ning put a small box in front of Chang Feng: "Master Chang, the home of the predecessor Shuntian Mansion Yin Li Dakang has been copied, and a few rare things have been copied. ”

After speaking, Chang Feng opened the small box. There are five silver tickets inside.

With the prosperity of the national power of the Hongji Dynasty, commerce developed. Shanxi's Qianzhuang ticket number has been opened all over the country.

Ready-to-redeem silver bills have appeared on the market. Gradually, officials no longer carried large boxes of bribes, but gave and received silver tickets that could be carried in their sleeves.

Chang Feng picked up a silver ticket: "This thin piece of paper can be exchanged for thousands of taels of silver in the ticket number of Shanxi Laojiao." ”

"It's all paper, but it's worth a tael. Ahem, that's weird. ”

"It's better than a silver ingot, it's hard to find!"

In the words of later generations, Chang Feng is "an old copyist who has encountered a new problem".

(End of chapter)