Back to the next place, Tang Chao felt very tired, and chatted with Zhuan Xin, it was late at night, and he was about to go to bed, but he heard someone knocking on the door carefully.

Tang Dynasty opened the door and saw that it was the Zhang family who came with a large package, and the person who knocked on the door just now must have been this gentleman, and he couldn't help but show a slight displeasure: "Lord Zhang, it's so late, is there anything wrong with you?" ”

Zhang Jiazheng's face was full of joy, booed, made a silent gesture, flashed inside, and then closed the door, and then whispered: "Lord Tang, great joy!" ”

Tang Chao was slightly stunned in his heart, listening to you talk about the etiquette of the last dynasty today, it was annoying enough, why did you come so late, but I heard that you can also listen to it, so I said lazily: "Lord Tang, many officials in the court heard that Lord Tang Dynasty was going to be promoted to Huangmen Shilang, and they all wanted to express their goodwill to Lord Tang, but considering that they are not familiar with Lord Tang, they will entrust the next official to send it to you!" ”

The Tang Dynasty was really happy: ***, the gift is coming, but it will not be accepted in vain, but he still has to pretend to be honest on his face, and coughed: "Sit, Lord Zhang, please sit!" ”

Zhang Jiazheng sat down diagonally, opened the bag with a bang, and there were a lot of jewelry and jade, as well as some high-end juan silks, which crowded a bag to the brim, and the brilliance was dazzling in front of the Tang Dynasty. Where has the Tang Dynasty seen so many jewels in his life, and his eyes suddenly opened wide and couldn't close together, picked up this jade horse to see, picked up the agate and barely drooled down.

He had a youthful temperament, and played with it for a while, before he came back to his senses and tightened the bag: "This, such a heavy gift, I can't accept it, what if I am sued?" ”

Zhang Jiazheng smiled slightly: "Don't worry, Lord Tang, Xia Guan took this into account, so he sent it over in the dead of night, and the people in the hotel are all familiar with me, I came in through the back door, Lord Tang can rest assured!" ”

said that he presented a gift list, but it was the amount of money and treasures for each gift.

There is a long list, and I can't remember the names of many people, but the official positions hanging in front of the names made the Tang Dynasty tongue-in-cheek, either assassins or generals, including Zhang Yupo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, all gave gifts, among them, Zhang Jiazheng gave the most gifts.

Tang Chao picked up the jade horse he gave and said, "Lord Zhang, this thing is very valuable?" ”

Zhang Jiazheng saw that the Tang Dynasty appreciated his jade horse, and he was overjoyed: "It's nothing, a little bit of courtesy, please Tang Daren smile." ”

Tang Chao said with a smile: "Lord Zhang, how much do you have in a year?" ”

Zhang Jiazheng said humbly: "The official position is humble, and there are not many, that is, 2,000 quintals of rice, 300 horses of silk, and there are some routine rewards from the emperor from time to time. ”

"Oh, do you have a family?"

"The Xiaguan family furniture is in Beijing."

"Oh, so it seems that there are a lot of people in the family?"

"Thank you Lord Tang for your care, the villain's family of seventeen can only be regarded as a medium number."

"Oh, I'd like to know who it is."

Zhang Jiazheng was a little strange, he didn't know what medicine was sold in the stomach of the Tang Dynasty, but he had to answer truthfully: "There is a grandmother, one father, three mothers, one of whom is a mother and two aunts, a wife, five children, three boys and two girls, two concubines, the eldest concubine has two sons, and the younger concubine has just given birth to a child, and she is not yet one year old, so much in total." ”

When Tang Chao heard this, he laughed: "Oh, it's really rude not to catch up with Zhang Shilang's youngest son to celebrate Baixi." ”

Zhang Jiazheng was flattered and shook his hand again and again: "Lord Tang said such a thing, it is really a killing of the lower officials." ”

Tang Chao said: "Lord Zhang, you are a dignified official of the imperial court, a servant of the Ministry of Rites, in front of me, a small envoy of Nanzhao, there is no need to be so humble to tell you that I can't accept your courtesy." ”

Zhang Jiazheng was shocked: "Lord Tang, are you thinking that the etiquette is too light?" ”

Tang Chao shook his hand again and again: "No, no, it's not light at all, on the contrary, it's too heavy, so heavy that I don't dare to accept it, what you just said, the salary is actually not very high?" ”

"Yes, this salary of the lower officials can only be regarded as a medium level in the imperial court, hehe, a medium level."

Tang Chao's face immediately sank: "Zhao, your salary, to support a family of seventeen people, of course there is no problem, but I don't know, it's this jade horse, I'm afraid Lord Zhang can't buy a year's salary, you, where did you get so much money?" ”

Zhang Jiazheng was greatly frightened, suddenly knelt down, and cried: "Lord Tang, please believe the lower officials, this, this is the money I have saved little by little for 23 years as an official, if Lord Tang does not believe it, you can go to investigate, I promise, this is by no means the income of corruption and bribery." ”

Tang Chao saw that it was enough to trick him, and thought to himself, even if he became a waiter of the Yellow Gate in the future, there was still a place to rely on this old boy, so he quickly pulled him up: "Lord Zhang is serious, in fact, even if it is a bribe, there is nothing wrong with it, I know, there is probably not one in the world that does not accept bribes, and there is probably not one out of 10,000?" ”

As he spoke, he pulled him up and patted him on the shoulder, as if patting the buttocks of a pet dog, as a sign of comfort.

Zhang Jiazheng was overjoyed, only then did he know that Tang Dynasty was originally testing him, and he shook twice with his liking, like a dog rolling happily in the ground, haha followed Tang Dynasty and smirked.

Tang Chao said: "In this way, this matter is only known four times? ”

"What?" The second monk of the Zhang family was puzzled.

Tang Chao said: "I said that only you know, I know, God knows, and the earth knows, only these four know." ”

Zhang Jiazheng was greatly admired: "Lord Tang is really peerless, and he actually came up with such a wonderful word!" His face was full of admiration. With a slap of this high-quality sycophant, Tang Chao suddenly felt warm in his heart, and felt that although this Zhang Jiazheng hated it, he was also a person who really liked himself. He didn't know that Zhang Jiazheng was able to climb to the high position of the Ministry of Rites at the age of fifty, since he was a master who was proficient in patting horses, he knew that such a little white face in the Tang Dynasty relied on the relationship of the eldest princess of Yuzhen, and climbed to such a high position as the Huangmen Shilang at the age of not yet the weak crown"The goldfish jade belt is a ragged buckle, the soap cover is covered by the five marquis, the mountains and rivers are judged at the tip of my pen, proud of the autumn, and the emperor is worried." Such words and phrases, that is a kind of admiration to the sincere knot, he was an outstanding master of patting horses, and because of this reason, the current tide of words is like a tide, and the Tang Dynasty is gradually submerged.

In fact, a young man like the Tang Dynasty, where did he receive such flattery in his life, and when he heard it, he naturally turned Zhang Jiazheng into a confidant, and after talking for a long time, Zhang Jiazheng said goodbye.

Tang Chao thought about his previous indifference to him, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and said sorry a few times.

Zhang Jiazheng's face was full of spring breeze: "Lord Tang, those who don't know are not guilty, you must not say such things, you can accept my gift, that is, you can afford me, and the fate of Zhang Jiazheng's life depends on you!" After a deep sigh, he took his leave.

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