Inside the Qianqing Palace.

The four eunuchs came back with "good news", and for the four of them, this was also acceptable news, that is, Zhang Zhou did not have a marquis at present, at least it would not have too direct a direct impact on their inner court affairs.

“…… Liu Ge Lao and the others all agreed, saying that they would raise this matter in the court tomorrow and not let His Majesty bother. ”

When Dai Yi said this, he kept looking at Zhang Zhou, who was sitting next to him, intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhang Zhou and Zhu Youzhu sat in front of the military map and talked for a long time, but the four of them were not present, and they couldn't even learn what the two of them talked about.

"Alas!"

Zhu Youzhu sighed heavily, and also looked at Zhang Zhoudao, "Bingkuan, are you sure that you can't be this Hou, but want to be a waiter first?" It's hard work, and it will bring you criticism from others, so why bother? ”

The emperor knew that if Zhang Zhou continued to stay in the Hanlin Academy, he might not be regarded as the same kind by the civil officials.

Then why don't you just go straight to the Governor's Mansion?

Even if I want you to continue to teach the crown prince, without the official position of the Hanlin Academy, it is not possible to give the emperor an official of the East Palace?

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "The minister has just been in the court, and the time in the court is less than half a year, if the minister rises too fast, not only the minister will feel that the order of the court is disturbed, but even Wuxun will not tolerate it, and the minister is a lazy person...... Your Majesty asks for the minister's directness, and the minister wants to have more time for free deployment, so that he can study more of the celestial phase, the future, and even study some new firearms, and even spend more time to make money and his family. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhu seems to agree with this point of view, "Yes, no matter how successful you are in the court, it is also in the eyes of others, you must be more for yourself, especially for the relatives around you." ”

As an emperor who has lacked family affection since childhood.

Zhu Youzhu was controlled by Empress Zhang, and Li Guang and other ministers appeared later, more because he needed sustenance emotionally and was taken advantage of.

This time, it was Zhang Zhou's turn to enter the arena by himself.

Seeing that Zhang Zhou insisted, Zhu Youzhu naturally stopped opposing anything, and said to Xiao Jing: "Is Mu Bin here?" ”

"Your Majesty, Commander Mu is already waiting outside, have you summoned him to the palace?" Xiao respectfully asks for instructions.

Zhu Youzhu shook his head and said, "You don't need to let him in, just let him arrange it later." Bingkuan, in addition to giving you the governor of the rear army and the governor of the palace, the position of the Jinyi Guard you got before is still the same, and I said that I would give you a promotion to the position of commander of the Jinyi Guard, and this time it should also be implemented. In addition, there is a real shortage of 1,000 households and 1,000 deputy households, plus 300 households...... This is to facilitate the arrangement of people around you to enter the brocade guard, usually you have to be more careful when you enter and exit. ”

Now Zhu Youzhu sees the "importance" of Zhang Zhou.

Nitroglycerin and sub-mother cannon can be said to be epoch-making products, in case of Tatar or foreigners, or people with different intentions want to buy Zhang Zhou, or kidnap Zhang Zhou......

The emperor is talking about protection, but in fact, there is also a layer of "surveillance" in secret.

I can give you the task of making new firearms and purchase them from you, showing my complete trust in you, but you can't say that you just go out of the city and find a random place to do it behind closed doors, and at the same time, I send people to protect you, it can be regarded as a supervision and warning to you, and you can't break my trust in you.

Zhang Zhou smiled: "Your Majesty, isn't this a ...... One person has attained ......"

"Huh!" Zhu Youzhu interrupted Zhang Zhou's words, "Bingkuan, you just speak directly, even if this is the case, you don't want to say it explicitly, and besides, with your merits, is it really too much to give you these?" You ask them? ”

Dai Yi hurriedly said, "No more, no less." ”

Zhang Zhoudao: "Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to accept the position that is really lacking in Jinyi Wei Qianhu, plus the people around the minister...... It's true that he doesn't have the ability to do brocade clothes, so it's not as good as ......"

"What is given to you, you can just take it. If it really doesn't work, after Zhijie returns to Beijing, give him a part-time job as a brocade guard, and let him protect you around. ”

Zhu Youzhu was also not polite.

You Zhu Feng is awesome in the northwest and Liaodong, and you have won two battles, so that others think you are very awesome, and you can even give you the position of Anbianhou, but you are at best just an errand runner by Bingkuan's side, and letting you protect Zhang Bingkuan can be regarded as appreciating you.

Zhang Zhoudao: "It's not as good as Your Majesty, the minister has a proposal to let the hundred households of Jinyi Wei around the minister be promoted to a thousand households." ”

Zhang Zhou didn't think about it, and he took the position of this Jinyi Wei Qianhu and gave it to someone close to him.

But he can't help but know each other.

It is not only to complete the task of protecting the imperial court, but also to complete the task of monitoring and supervising, and if this person is completely his, the emperor will not be completely relieved...... In other words, the emperor is relieved now, but when there is a little dislike between the monarchs and ministers in the future, some people will attack him with this, saying that he is stubborn and self-serving, and even the people sent by the emperor to protect him must be used as his own people......

Then it is better to promote the people assigned to him by the emperor when he comes up.

can not only pull Sun Shangqi to stop, but also will not be realistic.

Sun Shangqi was sent by your Jinyi Guard from the beginning, right? He used to act as the foreman of the brocade guards beside me as a hundred households, but now my treatment has been improved, and his treatment has also been improved, so let him be a thousand households, which can be regarded as a meritorious enjoyment.

If you have to attack Sun Shangqi as my person, then what is the intention of the person who sent Sun Shangqi?

Zhu Youzhu nodded and said, "It's good, he helps you with errands, gets the rewards you deserve, and going in and out can be regarded as having his merits." Hehe, Bingkuan, this is their creation, walk around you, you can get credit, and you can't change others. ”

Zhang Zhou wanted to say, it's not that it can't be changed to others, it's that it can't be changed to other emperors.

It seems that these positions of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, Deputy Qianhu, and Baihu were created by myself, so you gave them to me, okay?

"As for the deputy thousand households and hundred households, you will make good arrangements after you go back, and when your son grows up, give him the command of Jinyi Wei, and let him practice martial arts more in the future, from the literary aspect...... Alas! You're the champion again...... It's really hard to do. ”

The children of the champion family don't study, and they are ready to inherit the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard?

Even the emperor felt that this request might be a bit excessive.

Dai Yi next to him said with a smile: "Then Mr. Zhang should have a few more children, so that those who practice martial arts from literature have their own distribution, so they will not affect each other." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhu Youzhu seemed to be suddenly enlightened, "The Empress Dowager helped Bingkuan talk about the matchmaker before, but is there a follow-up?" ”

The emperor was also blunt.

The matter of marrying the Lin Han family no longer uses the old lady, I am going to go into battle in person to make peace.

Dai Yi said: "I'm still talking, but Lin Shilang has never agreed." ”

"Go again!" Zhu Youzhu almost ordered the general saying, "Don't let the people around the imperial grandmother go, just let the people from Dongchang go directly, take my meaning, and let Lin Shilang know that this is my intention, if he still has any doubts, then don't say that I deliberately don't give him a way to be promoted." ”

It's all threatened.

Although you Lin Han is the prince of the country and has an outstanding reputation in the academic world, your ability to be an official is not good, and the evaluation of you by the officials and the cabinet is not so high, and your promotion to Shangshu is a distant matter, and the twenty people in the round do not have your share.

If you still want to be promoted to Shangshu, then obediently, otherwise...... The place in Nanjing is cool, and you can go to stay and retire.

……

……

Zhu Youji's reward to Zhang Zhou made the celebrant and the others blush.

In addition to official positions, there are also a large number of gifts in kind, don't look at the emperor is very picky in guarding the money bag, but when he gives it to Zhang Zhou, he is not picky at all.

But Zhang Zhou also said that he is not short of money now, and it is best to give something that is not available outside.

Then Zhu Youzhu knocked a bunch of imperial gifts, gave Zhang Zhou a gift, a list of them, there are hundreds of jars of imperial wine alone, this time it is finally no longer for Zhang Zhou to "taste", even Zhang Zhou feels that he is about to open a winery, go back to the old man Jiang and let him take it and study it slowly.

If a few bottles of wine can send Old Man Jiang away, it will be good.

I'm afraid that now everyone knows that he has a real shortage of Jinyi Wei deputy thousand households and hundreds of households, and they are all vying to grab it, isn't Old Man Jiang a layman? He doesn't want his son Jiang Shantong to be a Jinyi Wei Baihu?

Zhang Zhou followed Xiao Jing out of the Qianqing Palace.

Originally, Zhang Zhou was going to give Zhu Houzhao a lesson that day, but because of the good news, the class was exempted first, which was equivalent to giving Zhang Zhou a few days off first, and sorting out Zhang Zhou's official position and future work first.

Coming to Japan to face up for Zhang Zhou's performance is the most important thing.

"Grandpa Xiao......"

"You don't have to say, what His Majesty has given you, if you go out of the palace with your front foot, someone will find someone to count it and send it to you, whether you send it to the mansion or to the outer house, or where to send it...... Hey, you're up to the cracks. ”

Xiao Jing is now also learning "fine".

You don't have to ask for it yourself, I took the initiative to arrange what you want to say to you clearly, and it seems that our family will do things, right?

"By the way, Mr. Zhang, when our family went out today, we specially brought you something, but because it is a copper piece, you can't just bring it into the palace gate, this is not just out of the people to bring it to you, you see."

Xiao Jing said, handing a key to Zhang Zhou.

Zhang Zhou smiled: "What is this?" ”

Xiao Jing looked at Mu Bin, who came out with him on the side, and Mu Bin was very familiar with each other and stood a little farther away from each other, not to be an observer.

At this time, Xiao Jingcai reminded with a smile: "You forgot? This is the yard that Ping Jiangbo gave you the golden house to hide Jiao, you can rest assured, there are people to watch the yard these days, the people inside, the money, there is no loss, you take the key to open the door, the yard deed and the title deed he sent you, and then you will be sent to the house. ”

"Huh."

Zhang Zhou was laughing.

If Chen Rui did say that he would give him those things at the beginning, but Chen Rui was not very good at how drunk and how sober he was, didn't Chen Rui regret it at all after he woke up?

But it was the emperor who forced Xiao Jing to forcibly get these gifts back...... Zhang Zhou wanted to say, this seems to go against my nature of convincing people with virtue.

Zhang Zhou sighed: "This is a house and a land, as well as silver and a singer, and a widowed daughter of Uncle Pingjiang, right?" This kind of gift, in order to make him feel at ease before the war, I accepted it, but I should still return it afterwards. ”

He said so, but with a twist of his hand, the key was already in his pocket.

Xiao Jing smiled and said, "The more now, isn't it normal for you to receive this gift?" Didn't Your Majesty say it all? In the future, Ping Jiangbo should be allowed to stay in Liaodong for a period of time, and he should be let know how to do things for the imperial court in the future. ”

Zhang Zhoudao: "But I heard that Ping Jiangbo seems to regret it." ”

"What? Does he want to send it? Xiao Jing put away his smile and even became a little angry.

Do you take yourself too seriously? At that time, you were ordered to send gifts to the house, did you dare to carry people and things from the inside afterwards?

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "It seems to have been said that when Pingjiang Bo was in Ningyuan, he mentioned to An Bianbo that he wanted to marry him with his daughter...... This is not clear, is it talking about this person in the house? ”

"Uh......"

Xiao Jing was also embarrassed.

Everything else is okay, even Xiao Jing feels that it is a bit unreasonable to directly let Chen Rui give his daughter to others as a maid.

Chen Rui may have felt at first that the words had already been spoken, and it was impossible to take them back, plus his daughter was already a widow, so there was no way to stand up for her.

Afterwards, he was unwilling, it was always Chen Rui's daughter, even if her husband died, she shouldn't have been sent out so hastily, and she actually ran to talk to Zhu Feng about marriage, which is a bit of "one daughter marrying two husbands".

"Everyone is here with you, and when you turn around, let Dongchang send someone to Shuntianfu and handle the registration, and the person is your Pingjiang Uncle who can't get it back if he wants to." Xiao Jing said.

"Huh."

Zhang Zhou was laughing again.

The heart said that there was a factory official in the East Factory to help ask for bribes, and sure enough, even the efficiency was not ordinary.

Even people can directly give their citizenship, which is equivalent to saying that in the future, the daughter of the Chen family will no longer be Chen Rui's daughter, but his concubine Zhang Zhou, and Chen Rui has no way to take his daughter back.

Zhang Zhou thought about it, this seems to be not bad to him, but who did the Chen family's daughter provoke? is a well-behaved lady, even if her husband dies? was sent back and forth like this, and even married for no reason......

Sure enough, women in feudal society have no human rights.

Zhang Zhouxin said that he must be severely criticized.

Go home and gather Jiang Pingyu and the others, have a family meeting, sit down to criticize together, and then call Lin Yi, who is about to get started...... If there are others......

……

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Chengguo Mansion.

Cheng Guotai's wife, Zhu Hushi, learned that there was a war report in Liaodong, so she hurriedly came from her own courtyard, found Zhu Lin and asked, "Your second brother is fighting in Liaodong?" ”

Zhu Lin had a look of indifference: "Where did grandmother know?" ”

"Is there any?"

Zhu Hu was also anxious.

This eldest grandson is usually too unusual, and talking to him is like a hammer smashing on cotton, not only can it not make a sound, but it is easy to bounce the hammer back.

Zhu Lin said: "Yes, just now an internal official said that the second brother relied on the artillery given by Zhang Bingkuan in Ningyuan to break the Hulu cavalry, capturing and killing nearly 1,000 Hulu, what is the specific, it is not clear." But he also said that he may have to promote his son to the border marquis! ”

"Sure enough, it's my Zhu Jiaerlang!"

Compared with Zhu Lin's calmness, Zhu Hu couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and the bun on his head stood up almost instantly.

Zhu Lin comforted: "Grandmother, I don't think this matter is too anxious, the matter has not yet been decided." ”

For Zhu Lin, old lady, are you excited?

No matter how great your second grandson's credit is, he has already opened his own mansion, is your focus on Yansui?

But don't forget that we are the Chengguo Mansion, and your son, that is, my father's situation in Yansui, involves the future rise and fall of our Chengguo Mansion.

I heard that your eldest son is still my old father recently, and he has a very difficult life in Yansui.

The official is stubbornly pestering him, maybe he will be dismissed and come back when he turns around, and there will be gains and losses, maybe you can lose a lot.

"Zhiyi." Zhu Hu said with a straight face, as if teaching his grandson, "You lack the experience and insight of being an official in the court, if you change to an ordinary family, the credit of Zhijie may not be recognized by the imperial court, but behind Zhijie is that Mr. Zhang, who can Your Majesty reward if he does not reward him?" ”

Zhu Lin narrowed his eyes, and his heart was narrow.

Isn't there also Jianchangbo and Pingjiangbo, as well as Ningyuan's local town guard commanders, eunuchs, etc.?

Who said that you can only reward your second grandson alone?

"Grandmother, brother and sister, ......"

Zhu Lin just made an opening and made a head, and Zhu Hu's face sank instantly.

This obviously belongs to which pot is not opened.

"Call her, the old body has something to say to her!" Zhu Hu said sharply.

……

……

Ning Tong was called alone to the back hall of the Chengguo Public Office.

Zhu Hu sat on the main seat alone, and Zhu Lin stood next to him, and no one else was there, and even the house slaves were not allowed to observe, obviously this matter damaged the prestige of the Chengguo Mansion.

Ning Tong's face was a little haggard.

At first, she was locked in the firewood room for a day, but before nightfall, the Zhu Hu clan put their master and servant back into the courtyard, but ordered them not to leave the courtyard for a single step, and they were all looking for someone to send the door in, but this did not affect Ning Tong's determination to leave the Chengguo Mansion in the slightest.

Zhu Hu said: "Knowing him, he has achieved a great victory in Liaodong, and the imperial court will promote him to the Marquis of Anbian in the next few days." ”

was supposed to give Ning Tong a dismount.

Look at your husband, so awesome, you still want to reconcile with her?

Silly, right? Come and beg me, I can forgive you for your ignorance, short-sightedness, and short-sightedness.

Ning Tong didn't even kneel, just turned his head to the side: "It has nothing to do with me." ”

When Zhu Lin saw this posture, he almost went over to persuade "grandmother to dissipate his anger", but nothing else, he said that the scene was a must.

But when he turned his head, he found that Zhu Hu was just like a Zhu tiger, and he didn't get angry at all.

Zhu Lin turned his head to his younger siblings again.

Zhu Hu said: "I have heard about you, and someone has given you a book, and it seems that he has mentioned to you about reconciliation and separation, and encourages you to do so...... You're like that, so I can't blame you. ”

Zhu Lin glanced at the old lady again when he heard this.

This is to find a step down for the younger siblings, and the two sides will resolve the misunderstanding with each other, and blame all the blame on the "initiator"?

That's not right.

Isn't the initiator Zhang Bingkuan?

Deal with him?

Crazy, right?

Zhu Hu seemed to be singing a one-man show, and said stubbornly: "You say, is that person ...... That is, Jinshi Zhang Zhou, instigated you to do this? ”

Ning Tong didn't expect Zhu Hu to find out about Zhang Zhou's head.

She glared at Zhu Hu and said, "This is my own business with Zhu Feng, and now even Zhu Feng himself agrees and leaves...... Even if it wasn't for Heli, he gave me a letter of resignation, and even said that I was defeated, and I admitted it! But don't implicate people who don't do it. ”

"Okay." Zhu Hushi said coldly, "Sure enough, you have the demeanor of an old man, but I don't know that I think you are a heroine among women." If Zhang Bingkuan asked you to do this, there must be a reason, or because you and my grandson do not agree, or because you are affecting his future, so if Zhang Bingkuan brings up this matter...... This matter is still negotiable. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Lin was taken aback and said, "Grandmother, are we ......?"

I didn't say the words "principle".

Zhu Hu said angrily: "Shut up, what's your business here?" Go with the cat on the side! ”

(End of chapter)