Zhang Zhou followed Xiao Jing out of the palace.
Xiao Jing is already giving instructions on how to react after meeting Pingjiang Bo Chen Rui, such as putting on airs, not giving Chen Rui a good look, giving him authority, etc.
< p>Zhang Zhou was also thinking.The last time I asked for a bribe, it was only vaguely. I just took the imperial decree in advance and ran to Wang Yue and Zhu Feng's house. This time I told him directly and openly that I could accept it as I wanted, and there was no need to accept it. Turn it over, and the more the merrier.
Sounds good.
But Zhang Zhou was also wondering whether the emperor was digging a hole for himself
"Mr. Zhang, did you hear that?"
Seeing that Zhang Zhou didn't respond for a long time, Xiao Jing couldn't help but ask.
Zhang Zhou smiled and said, "I understand, probably to let Uncle Ping Jiang know who is in charge."
"Yes, that's what it means." Xiao Jing laughed.
It would be nothing for him to ask for a bribe this time, but Chen Rui would definitely give him some benefits, and he would be happy to give Chen Rui "some advice."
Then Xiao Jing reminded him, "You don't have to be polite to Jiang Pingbo. His family has a big business, and just digging out some from him will be enough for a long time. His Majesty's intention is not to let him do more." Blood, he doesn't know it hurts."
"There are no consequences, right?" Zhang Zhou asked with a smile.
Xiao Jing was surprised and said, "How can there be any consequences of His Majesty's order? You can just take it and others will never know about it."
Zhang Zhou thought to himself, now that he doesn't know, the emperor is quite happy. , I feel that by asking others to help him pay the reward, the love can still be recorded on himself, which is "borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha".
But this is during the honeymoon period of the monarch and his ministers. If the emperor later has a problem with Zhang Zhou and feels that there is nothing wrong with him, the gifts he receives now will become his reminder. .
Li Guang is a negative example.
"Collecting property sounds good, but it is too ostentatious and easy to be criticized. There are no novel gifts. I heard that these noble families like to raise some singers and dancers from the south of the Yangtze River. , you can’t give me something like this."
Zhang Zhou immediately began to be picky about the types of gifts and the way of giving them.
"Ah"
Xiao Jing was startled.
This demand is indeed different from that of us eunuchs. It seems that Zhang Banxian does not need money.
Then you are usually so stingy
Xiao Jing seemed to understand that Zhang Zhou did not want to accept gifts. He thought about it, nodded and said, "If the singer and dancer are used as gifts, It can only be regarded as a personal gift, not a bribe. Besides, bribery requires favoritism and overthrowing the public affairs. You are not between the government and the public, so how can there be any public affairs to be abolished?"
Zhang Zhou shook his head and waved his hands, "I can't accept it if you don't do anything about the gift."
"Haha." Xiao Jing said with a smile, "It's just to give him a channel to give him a chance to get your advice." If you go to Liaodong and have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, he will definitely be happy to give it to you.”
"Really?"
Zhang Zhou thought to himself, there is someone who is particularly willing to give gifts
Thought everyone was Wang Weining
That guy really likes to please people. Moreover, he has to give gifts despite spending all his money, which is simply an example of sacrificing himself to light up others.
Xiao Jing continued to smile, "Uncle Ping Jiang has been having a hard time lately. After he returned to the capital, others called him Chen Erbai."
"Chen Erbai is not Chen Liang." Do you want wine?" Zhang Zhou asked with a smile.
Maybe someone is deliberately trying to mess with Chen Rui. Anyway, this reputation has spread in the capital recently. Now everyone knows that Chen Rui likes to drink cold wine because he is afraid of fire.
Xiao Jing said, "This time at Pianguan, Marquis Weining asked him to run away. He led his troops and ran out for two hundred miles in one day and one night, and then ran back two hundred miles in one day and one night. From then on, Chen Erbai It also became his nickname."
"This and that should be called Chen Sibai." Zhang Zhou sighed.
"Haha, it's all the same, all the same, but now I feel that he led the troops to run fast, but instead of going to fight the Tatars, he led the troops to escape. He himself said that he was rushing to delay the war. Sui resisted the little Tatar prince. If there was no partiality in this matter, others might still believe it, but who would believe it now?"
Xiao Jing was also teasing Chen Rui.
Zhang Zhou asked, "It's because of his bad reputation that your Majesty helped him."
Xiao Jing put away his scornful expression and approached Zhang Zhou and said, " In fact, he requested to come to our family through Jin Yiwei's relationship. Our family reported the results of the visit to His Majesty with the help of Dongchang's sitting recorder. Responsible for sending and receiving messages regularly at various government offices and city gates. As a Wu Xun who was laid off from the northwest due to circumstances, Chen Rui must have been "taken care of" by the East Factory after returning to the capital.
Only then did Zhang Zhou realize that it was Xiao Jing who was guiding Chen Rui.
This shows that Chen Rui has given Xiao Jing benefits in advance.
Zhang Zhou and Xiao Jing left the palace gate and had not yet waited for the carriage.
Facing a stench, Zhang Zhou covered his nose and said, "What's going on?"
Xiao Jing sighed, "Mr. Zhang, don't you know that the rivers in the city have been blocked recently? Since last year, the drought has been severe in the north, and since the beginning of spring this year, there has been no rain or snow. Recently, even the water in Xiya has almost dried up. The situation is not good everywhere in the city, especially where there are water canals near the palace. Place."
"Oh."
Zhang Zhou nodded.
The north of the Ming Dynasty suffered from drought for four consecutive years starting from the eleventh year of Hongzhi. The drought was severe, especially in the eleventh and thirteenth years of Hongzhi. It was not until the fifteenth year of Hongzhi that the situation improved. There were still droughts in some places in the year. Just looking at Xiaozong's records, we know that in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, many places in the north were exempted from taxes for that year.
The abnormal climate is actually a precursor to the coming of the Little Ice Age. The current drought is in sharp contrast to the two relatively large Yellow River floods in the second and sixth years of Hongzhi.
It was from the eleventh year of Hongzhi that foreign invasions in the northern border areas began to become serious.
To put it bluntly, the tribes on the grassland are also under pressure to survive, so they continue to raid borders in order to give the tribe a chance to survive.
If you have hair, who wants to be bald
Xiao Jing said, "Recently, the Ministry of Works and the Shuntian Prefecture have made a petition, requesting your majesty to dispatch laborers to dredge the canals in the city. If it can be done in a few days, It’ll be fine if it rains. Sir, we need to go to Uncle Pingjiang’s house to inform you first. You might as well go back and wait. We won’t be with you then. It’s up to you to say goodbye.”
"Please."
Everyone got on the carriage and Zhang Zhou went home.
Zhang Zhou took a carriage home.
Wang Mingshan walked with him. Wang Mingshan was sitting opposite the carriage, but he called Wang Mingshan to come and sit next to him.
"Yeah"
As soon as Wang Mingshan sat down, Zhang Zhou's big hand went over and grabbed her waist.
For this cute girl with a body but no brains, she really didn’t know what Zhang Zhou was going to do, but she didn’t push him away.
One thing she knows.
She is already a member of the Zhang family, so she should call Zhang Zhou "Master". Zhang Zhou took her to see her father and uncle. Her elders had to kowtow to Zhang Zhou. More importantly, she was married as a woman. , although she herself doesn’t know what getting married is like.
However, Han Qing had told her a lot recently, some of which made her look hot after hearing some of them.
For example, now.
She also had some strange feelings in her heart.
"I've been busy recently and haven't given you any personal guidance. How much have you learned from Qing'er?" Zhang Zhou asked.
Wang Mingshan shook her head, roughly speaking, I didn’t learn much.
Even I don’t know what I should learn.
"After I pass the exam at a senior level, I will be admitted at a junior level. Do you know what that means?" Zhang Zhou asked again.
As expected, Wang Mingshan continued to shake her head.
Zhang Zhou thought for a while and asked this silly girl to learn in advance. It is better to use an indoctrination method and let her practice it first. After the practice is completed, she will naturally understand. Otherwise, with her head, it seems that I can’t figure out what happened that didn’t happen.
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"Sir, we have arrived." Sun Shangqi said as he drove the car in front.
Zhang Zhou suddenly felt that it was not a good thing that his home was so close to the palace gate. He could not even get acquainted with his confidante. When he returned home, there were always Jiang Pingyu and Han Qing. Many inconveniences.
It seems that only in the carriage, with nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, is it convenient to enhance feelings.
Zhang Zhou returned home.
He asked Xia Zhi to say hello to the people in the inner courtyard and tell them that he had guests to receive. Then he asked Wang Mingshan to sit on his lap and continue to be the shameless official Zhang.
But it didn’t take long before Chen Rui came to visit in person.
"Uncle Pingjiang is here, it's too late to welcome him from afar." Zhang Zhou didn't know what to say when faced with such a rough old man.
Chen Rui is not young anymore.
Historically, Chen Rui died in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, that is, the following year. There is no record of how he died. It would be good for a person like Chen Rui to leave his name in history.
But one thing Zhang Zhou knew was that Chen Rui "died with hatred" because in the 13th year of Hongzhi, he went to the northwest with Xu Jin, then the Minister of War, to defend against the Fire Siege invasion. He was too timid to move forward and delayed the fight. He was dismissed from his post and went home to live idle. He died not long after.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he died of worry and anger.
Chen Rui clasped his fists, knelt down on one knee and said, "I am a humble Chen Rui, I have met Mr. Zhang."
"Why is Uncle Ping Jiang so polite? Get up."
Chen Rui was helped up by Zhang Zhouxiang, but a child who came in with him handed him a small wooden box.
Just when Zhang Zhou thought that there should be some gold and silver jewelry inside, and it was here to give him as a gift, he saw Chen Rui opening the wooden box, and there was a portable charcoal stove inside, along with a Iron hip flask.
"This is"
Zhang Zhou looked at it curiously.
Chen Rui said with a smile, "I have stopped drinking cold wine recently. Even when I go out, I have to keep the wine warm at all times. I occasionally take a few sips. I feel so heroic."
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Zhang Zhou wanted to hit someone after hearing this.
You come to me empty-handed about feelings, and you are still showing your political attitude to me
I don’t have to accept the gift, but you can’t not give it
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You are like this, Xiao Jing actually recommended you to give gifts to Xiao Jing, but not to me
Chen Laoji
Zhang Zhou nodded and said, "Uncle Ping Jiang He is really a good drinker, but he is not good at it. He gets drunk after just a few sips." When Chen Rui heard this, his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of some very special idea.
Zhang Zhou knew that it was definitely not a good idea.
"There happens to be a batch of good wine here. I would like to invite Mr. Zhang to drink with me. Come on, please go back to your house and bring the good wine over. I want to get drunk with Mr. Zhang before I stop." Please remember to collect it. , the latest and fastest website for free reading without anti-theft