For the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, they have been in a state of turmoil these days.●⌒,

After the prince went out of the cabinet and studied, he often ran around and contracted a disease. He had a high fever in the first few days. After detailed examinations by the imperial physician, he did not give an accurate cause of the disease. Queen Zhang was in a hurry to seek medical treatment and began to ask God for divination.

Zhu Youzhang himself believed in Taoism, and Empress Zhang was somewhat influenced by her husband.

The hopes of the Zhang family are placed on Empress Zhang and the prince. Whether they can be rich in the future depends entirely on whether the prince can grow up healthily and inherit the throne in the future.

It is a bad enough for the prince to be sick. In the past two days, Liu Daxia has set up a secret warehouse for stolen food inside and outside the capital. Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling suffered heavy losses. You should know that the money made by the brothers is not just about their own enjoyment. Many of them have respected Zhu Youzhang and his wife.

Although the emperor was rich all over the world, the palace expenses were all subject to account and fixed. Zhu Youzhang was unwilling to be too mean to his family, so he would not have the idea of ​​reducing expenses. But how should those who became emperors open up the source? The filial piety of the Zhang brothers solved Zhu Youzhang's big problem.

The Zhang brothers used the power given by the emperor to steal grain from the treasury and sell it, and then sent most of the money they earned to the palace. Therefore, when it comes to the leader behind the treasury grain theft case, it is actually Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhe.

It cannot be said that the Zhang brothers were introduced to take the blame. They wanted to please Zhu Youzhang, but they would not be able to do anything without spending some effort. They all thought they were very glorious. In fact, they had their own hardships. For their sister, brother-in-law, and the prince, there would be some criticisms against them.

To be a relative who is not criticized is a profound science, at least the young Zhang brothers cannot do it.

I have power, even the emperor is directed at me, why don’t I let my corruption and abuse my power and use my power for personal gain?

Before Zhang Heling decided to hold this banquet, he told his confidants that there were trustworthy people who wanted to be officials and just recommend them. Regardless of whether they could be put in the actual situation, they would collect the money first. In the past two years, the emperor became more and more nervous, and he relied on the Zhang brothers to make money.

His subordinates are very good at doing things. Today, the invited people prepared more money and gifts, and in the name of congratulating the new Jinshi, they were actually filial and bribing the Zhang brothers.

After a rough calculation, there were almost thousands of taels of silver in a banquet, and a large number of invaluable jewelry and calligraphy.

The eunuch who had just sent off the East Palace to pass the message, Zhang Yanling looked at Zhang Heling and said, "Brother, what do you think you should do now? The prince is sick, and it is not a solution to just wait stupidly. Why don't we go to the people to recruit some talented people and drive away demons and demons for the prince? Maybe it can make the prince safe?"

Zhang Yanling was named Jianchang Bo, and the title of "Governor Tongzhi" was the first-rank military general, but he actually had no military power. Zhu Youzhang also knew that his brother-in-law was not the material to lead the troops.

When the Zhang family became rich, Zhang Yanling was only in his teens and was only in his early twenties. His talent and cultivation were far less than his brother Zhang Heling. If anything, it was either the scheming Xu Qiong who came up with the idea or Zhang Heling was the decision.

Zhang Heling did not answer his brother's question, but instead asked Xu Qiong, who was sitting beside him: "How do you think about brother-in-law?"

Zhang Luan, the father of the Zhang brothers, was just a student of the Imperial College and was a minor official in the court. However, Zhang Luan knew very well about political investment and was beautiful in his daughter. When he heard that Xu Qiong took a concubine, he quickly sent his daughter. You must know that Zhang Luan was not as old as Xu Qiong, but became Xu Qiong's father-in-law.

However, Xu Qiong quickly reciprocates. When he was choosing a concubine for the crown prince in the 23rd year of Chenghua, Xu Qiong secretly helped him, allowing Zhang Luan’s daughter to be elected as the crown prince’s concubine, thus establishing the rise of the Zhang family. Later, Zhang Luan and his two sons were also secretly helped him, so even if the sister of the Zhang brothers was just Xu Qiong’s concubine, the two obeyed Xu Qiong’s will.

Xu Qiong's performance happened to be in sharp contrast with Wang Yang, a junior at the Zhanshi Mansion and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

According to Wang Shizhen's "Chibei Occasional Talk", Wang Yang married Zhang Luan's daughter and the sister of the Zhang brothers. However, after Zhang Luan became noble, Wang Yang immediately broke off contact with the Zhang family, and even Zhang Luan took the initiative to show his favor, Wang Yang refused.

Xu Qiong was also the "uncle" of the prince. Now the prince is seriously ill and cannot sit idly by. He immediately made a suggestion: "The prince is protected by the gods, and will definitely be able to turn danger into safety. But if you listen to the words of the sorcerers in the world and pretend to be a ghost, you may suffer disaster. You should visit famous doctors all over the world."

Even if Xu Qiong is directed towards the Zhang family in some things, he is a scholar after all. He has climbed to a high position step by step with his own efforts. Zi Wu said that he is in a strange way. He has always been resistant to the emperor's belief in Taoism. He is the first to disagree with the Zhang brothers' recruitment of sorcerers to open the hall.

Zhang Heling didn't want to refute his brother-in-law's face and nodded, "That's fine."

It's not clear that this "well" is not clear. Zhang Yanling was a little confused when he heard it, but Xu Qiong knew that Zhang Heling was not going to listen to him, but continued to do his own thing and invite a warlock.

From the many Taoist priests who come and go to the Shouning Marquis Mansion on weekdays, you can see that the emperor and the Zhang family have a bad habit, that is, they believe too much in Taoist nonsense.

Xu Qiong's face was not very good-looking, but he didn't argue with his two brothers-in-law. After all, it was Queen Zhang's instructions to ask the sorcerer to save people. The Zhang brothers would only do things according to their sister's wishes.

A man in his forties next to him said, "The time for the meal outside is early, so I have to take care of it..."

This person has been silent and seems very humble, but in fact his status in the Zhang family is not low. This person is named Zhang Qi, Zhang Luan's younger brother, the relative uncle of the Zhang brothers, and was born as a Jinshi. He is now a censor in the court. However, because of his cowardly nature, even if he is invited to the banquet, he basically doesn't speak much.

Zhang Qi did not mention the banquet outside, and the Zhang brothers almost forgot that this happened. The prince was sick and the stolen food was investigated. The two brothers no longer had much intention to entertain guests outside. However, the two brothers were greedy for money. Even if they did not entertain, they still had to accept the gifts they should receive.

As for the guests, send a few confidants to cooperate with Zhang Qi to entertain him.

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It was already the second day of the second day when I came out of the Shouning Marquis' Mansion.

Shen Xi sat down and discussed the knowledge with Wang Shouren for more than an hour, mainly expressing his own opinions on the study of mind. Judging from Wang Shouren's attitude, he was quite inspired by the theories he talked about in Shen Xi, so that when he said goodbye, Wang Shouren respectfully saluted Shen Xi, not like a colleague, but as if he was treating a gentleman.

Shen Xi used Wang Shouren's future experience and in turn taught the other party, which was equivalent to pouring ready-made knowledge into Wang Shouren's mind, without the process of exploration and thinking.

Shen Xi knew that this was a bit like rushing the ducks to be put on the shelves. With Wang Shouren's current knowledge and attainments, there was still a lot of way to go to the great achievements of the Heart Sciences. Shen Xi just asked him to avoid detours.

But Chen Xi was a little puzzled. Since these theories of mind study come from him, is the future mind study of Wang or his Shen?

When it was mentioned before, it was "Lu Wang's Heart Study". If you mentioned it later, would it become "Lu Chen's Heart Study"?

Chen Xi was still young and had no idea about teaching and making a name for himself. He didn't mind returning the thoughts that should belong to Wang Shouren to the other party. In the era when the learning of mind was in its infancy, there were actually many people who were silently exploring the mysteries of mind like Wang Shouren, but Wang Shouren was at the forefront of everyone.

If Wang Shouren really succeeded in his mind, he would probably add the allusion of discussing the mind study with Chen Xi, the new top scholar in the Shouning Hou Mansion.

After the banquet, Chen Xi almost "escaped" from the Shouning Hou Mansion.

Fortunately, the prince was sick and the Zhang brothers were unintentional to host the banquet, which made him less likely to meet and communicate with this pair of evil relatives.

If the Zhang brothers insist on forcing the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce to use it, Chen Xi really couldn't refuse. Could Chen Xi be an enemy of the queen's family? Not to mention that he has no official position now, even if he is a noble person like Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, he can only turn a blind eye to what the foreign relatives do.

Chen Xi left the Shouning Marquis Mansion, and did not go to find Yu Niang or go back to Dongsheng Inn. Instead, he ran all the way through the streets and alleys in the dark, heading towards his own courtyard.

After being stared at by Yu Niang for more than two months, Chen Xi felt like a prisoner. Now that Liu Daxia has begun to clear out the thieves who have robbed food, he is an unnecessary person. It is better to take this opportunity to escape from Yu Niang's control.

This feeling of being played with on the palm of his hand made Chen Xi not happy even if he won the top scorer, the real carp jumped over the dragon gate.

But even though Chen Xi had good anti-tracking ability and had been able to get rid of it after several years, he was sure that no one had followed him, and when he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly found that Yu Niang's slim figure was standing in front of him.

"Young master doesn't go back to the inn, where are you going?" Yu Niang smiled and stopped her in front of her. Her appearance made Chen Xi feel the urge to go up and strangle her to death.

Chen Xi spread his hands with a wry smile, without saying a word, but he expressed his intention to go home. Yu Niang smiled and said, "If you come later, or you really can't find the young master. Lord Liu is invited... The young master has gone to see Lord Liu first and consulted him for his opinions. What do you think?"

Chen Xi frowned and thought. Since Liu Daxia wanted to see him, it means that Liu Daxia had already known about him coming to the Shouning Marquis' Mansion tonight for a banquet. But if Liu Daxia took various measures to deal with this, if he had an accident in the Marquis' Mansion, he would take the initiative to rescue him, Chen Xi still didn't believe it.

After leaving the street with Yu Niang, a carriage was parked there.

The carriage didn't even have a window, just like a dim cage. Chen Xi sat inside and pounded for about a stick of incense before the car stopped.

Chen Xi jumped out of the car and took a look around. The place where he went was not like a yamen or a secret stronghold of the factory guards. It was just an ordinary alley, with a small courtyard gate in front of him.

When you enter the courtyard with small doors and small households, you can see the lights flashing in the room in front. Yu Niang leads the way. When you reach the door, Yu Niang no longer walks in.

Chenxi collapsed across the threshold and saw Liu Daxia splashing ink and writing on the desk on the right side, while Jiang Liwei stood by holding a candlestick.

Hearing the sound of Chen Xi entering the door, Liu Daxia looked up at Chen Xi slightly and greeted: "Come?"

Chen Xi did not dare to be negligent and went forward to salute: "The student has met Mr. Liu."

Jiang Liwei glanced at Chen Xi coldly and said, "It's time to change his name to Secretary Liu. Your Majesty just issued an order to take charge of the Ministry of Revenue."

Chen Xi thought about it and said that Zhou Jing was still a reviewer during the palace examination. Why was he dismissed in just two days? But it was true that the Ministry of Revenue Grain Deposit had such a big case, and tens of thousands of stones of grain disappeared. Zhou Jing, as the Minister of Revenue, had an unshirkable responsibility.

But in this way, history has deviated again.

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