Tang Bing's junior fellow student, He Zichang, who once served as a political scholar in Jiangnan, celebrated his fiftieth birthday.
Yuzhu must go.
After He Zichang returned to Beijing after completing his term in Jiangnan, his official career suddenly became much smoother. He successively served as cabinet minister, Honglusi Shaoqing, doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and Imperial Academy minister, and now he is the fourth-rank minister of Honglusi.
He Zichang, who originally had an extremely difficult official career, suddenly seemed to be on a rocket. He was promoted from a sixth-grade official to one of the nine ministers of Honglu Temple. He must have a big backer behind him.
On the stage, everyone thought that He Zichang had gained access to a certain cabinet minister.
In fact, only a very few people knew that it was Yuzhu who secretly contributed.
He Zichang is a very proud man, and he originally did not want to send an invitation to Yuzhu.
However, over the years, he has never asked Yuzhu for help, but he has been cared for by Yuzhu all the way and climbed to the high position of Jiuqing.
If He Zichang celebrated his fiftieth birthday and didn't invite Yu Zhu over for a glass of wine, it would be really unreasonable.
The minister of Honglu Temple was called Dianke in the Qin Dynasty, and was called Daxingling in the early Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed it to Dahonglu. By the time of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the official name of Honglu Temple was first established.
Due to the establishment of the Lifan Yuan, most of Honglu Temple's responsibility for managing external vassals was taken away.
Today's Honglu Temple is jokingly called: Yanyan Temple.
He Zichang loved reading and editing books, but his ability to do practical things was far inferior to Tang Bing.
Therefore, the positions that Yuzhu secretly arranged for He Zichang were almost all official positions that involved little work and little money, but were very noble.
Unlike the greedy and talented Tang Bing, He Zichang is known as an upright official.
There is a very interesting rumor about He Zichang.
According to the unspoken rules in official circles, after the banquet at Honglu Temple was over, the various dishes on the banquet were tacitly allowed to be packed into boxes and taken away.
The officials of Honglu Temple all knew that He Zichang loved to eat meat. After each banquet, they would fill a large bowl full of meat for him and put it in a food box so that he could take it back and enjoy it with his family.
As time went by, He Zichang acquired the official nickname of "The Carnivore".
When He Zichang learned about it, he did not take it as an insult. Instead, he said very generously: In the past, I despised meat-eaters, but now I am a meat-eater.
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When Yuzhu arrived, there were not many carriages and horses in front of He Mansion.
Also, the Minister of Honglu Temple is nominally one of the Nine Ministers, but in fact, he does not have much real power.
In the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, almost all of the officials with real power were invisible rich people, except for a few individuals.
Not to mention anything else, it is said that Tang Bing's trusted butler Tang Wusi bought a large courtyard house in the capital, and had beautiful concubines and servants to serve him.
There is no other way. Anyone who wants to see Tang Bing must secretly give him a doorstep.
Naturally, Tang Wusi also became rich.
Yuzhu was extremely strict with those around him. Anyone who dared to collect the door's bag in private would be beaten to death and thrown to Wudaokou to feed wild dogs.
However, human nature is inherently profit-seeking, and torture alone is not enough.
Therefore, Yuzhu learned from Lao Si's method and invented the "duty silver" only for servants.
First-class servants, including Wu Jiang, Wu Sheng, Hu Biao and others, can go to Xiuyun at the end of each year to receive three hundred taels of silver.
These days, servants serve their masters diligently just to dedicate their youth in vain?
Sir, stop being ridiculous!
It’s no good, who gets up early?
In He Mansion, Tang Bing had already arrived with his disciples early.
Zhao Donghe stood behind Tang Bing, glancing in the direction of the door every now and then.
Tang Bing's son-in-law, Yue Ming, the magistrate of Liangxiang County, couldn't stand it, and secretly reached out and pulled Zhao Donghe's sleeves.
However, after Zhao Donghe calmed down for a quarter of an hour, he returned to his old ways and couldn't help but glance out the door.
Yue Ming, who had a sense of justice, couldn't stand Zhao Donghe's snobbish behavior. He deliberately moved half a step away and simply distanced himself from Zhao Donghe.
Tang Bing was quite literate. He and He Zichang talked about poetry, songs, classics and history, and the recently edited "History of the Ming Dynasty".
"Junior brother, have I heard that after the Qian family participated in the compilation of the history of the Ming Dynasty, the quality of the compilation of history was greatly improved?" Tang Bing asked He Zichang with a smile, holding a tea cup in his hand.
He Zichang snorted coldly and said: "The water is too cold and my scalp is itchy. I will go out of my way to repent. If I am in a hurry, all the dirty things will happen to the Qian family."
Tang Bing had always known that He Zichang had no good impression of the capricious ministers like Qian Qianyi.
He Zichang's ancestral home is Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and he is a proper fellow villager with Wang Bo'an, the great master of Xinxue and the originator of the Yaojiang School.
Han Chinese officials these days are not only not allowed to serve as officials in their native provinces, but the offices they serve must also be located more than five hundred miles away from their hometowns.
Therefore, He Zichang can serve as an academic administrator in Jiangnan, but it is absolutely impossible to serve as an academic administrator in Zhejiang.
"Junior brother, you still have that bad temper!" Tang Bing was helpless at He Zichang's overwhelming sense of justice.
As the saying goes, a country is easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to change.
He Zichang had been a stubborn official for half his life, so Tang Bing had no choice but to let him go.
"Brother, I have something I want to tell you." He Zichang said seriously, "Qin Benchu, the chief master of Jiuhua Academy where Yuzhu once studied, was very thoughtful and wanted to serve in the imperial court. But, I
If a person speaks softly, he will not be able to do anything."
Tang Bing was as shrewd as a ghost, and he understood as soon as he heard this.
It must be that the imperial court's control over Jiangnan scholars became more and more severe, and its attacks became more and more ruthless, which made Qin Benchu feel uneasy.
Qin Benchu was not only the Duke of Jieyuan in the Jiangnan Provincial Examination, but also the Tanhualang in the imperial examination in the 29th year of Kangxi.
It's just that this gentleman has no interest in officialdom, but is active in teaching and educating people.
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, as long as you pass the Jinshi examination, you are qualified to be an official.
Now, as long as someone in the court helps to say a few solid words, Qin Benchu can become an official anytime and anywhere.
Hearing that Yuzhu had arrived, He Zichang still sat motionless, and Tang Bing was too embarrassed to openly greet his disciple.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhao Donghe rolled his eyes and took the initiative to ask for the mission of welcoming Yuzhu.
Therefore, Zhao Donghe and Li Zhengren, the eldest disciple of He Zichang and the current right-hand member of Zhan Shifu, went out to meet Yuzhu.
"Greetings to Mr. Zhu." Zhao Donghe bowed to the ground respectfully.
Zhao Donghe's waist is too soft, and Li Zhengren just doesn't like it.
Li Zhengren stood up straight on purpose, cupped his hands in a perfunctory manner, and said with a faint smile on his face: "Master Yu, I would like to thank you for taking the time to come."
It's just that Li Zhengren's smile was too fake, and he looked like he was smiling but not smiling, which was very annoying.
Yuzhu secretly felt that it was funny. If there is a teacher, there must be a disciple.
Yuzhu had known about He Zichang's temper eight years ago.
He has an arrogant and aloof personality and will not bow down for five buckets of rice.
Therefore, over the years, Yuzhu and Li Guangdi secretly made a deal, pushing He Zichang without asking for anything in return, and gradually rose to a high position in the capital.
"Disciple Yuzhu pays homage to his uncle." After entering the door, Yuzhu bowed to the ground without hesitation and paid homage to He Zichang respectfully.
He Zichang sneered and said, "I dare not call myself your uncle." There was a thorn in his words.
Tang Bing smiled and said: "You are my serious junior brother, aren't you Yuzhu's uncle? Unless, you don't recognize your mentor."
This is absolutely true, and He Zichang cannot refute it at all.
Disciples of Confucianism pay special attention to inheritance.
Tang Bing and He Zichang both studied under Li Bai of Meixian County, a great scholar of Neo-Confucianism at that time and one of the "Three Lis of Guanzhong".
Li Bai of Mei County, Li Yindu of Fuping and Li Yong, the "great scholar in the country", were collectively known as the "Three Lis of Guanzhong" and were admired by scholars all over the world.
None of the three Lis in Guanzhong served as officials in the Qing Dynasty. However, most of their disciples became officials in the Qing Dynasty.
If you are good at learning, you will become an official.
Before the concept of modern nationalism was established, it was the norm to become a scholar of literature and martial arts, and to join the imperial family.
Yuzhu stood beside He Zichang for half an hour, but few officials came to congratulate him.
It is normal for people to follow the trend and have red hair and white hair, so don’t make a fuss about it.
After the birthday banquet started, Yuzhu carefully looked at the dishes served on the table. Yes, boiled tofu with green vegetables and fat meat, stir-fried bean sprouts, and fish head soup. They were all home-cooked dishes.
That's all, the wine served was white wine drunk by the lower class, not the Beijing rice wine often drunk by the nobles.
Yuzhu has also seen the style of upright officials, but not many.
Moreover, according to Yuzhu's secret observation, among the ministers who discuss government affairs, the cabinet's bachelors, the six ministers, and the governors of various provinces, the so-called honest officials are really rare.
Of course, there are very few people who are as greedy as Longkodo.
In most cases, the annual gray income of first- and second-grade officials with real power is between 50,000 and 200,000 taels.
Objectively speaking, with the salary of the Beijing officials alone, not to mention the troupe, even the sedan bearers, grooms and horses cannot be afforded.
When Zeng Guofan was a junior official in the capital, he often demolished the east wall to repair the west wall and lived by borrowing money.
"Everyone, I spent all my meager salary to buy books. I can only buy this shabby banquet. Please forgive me." He Zichang admitted that he was very poor.
Yuzhu smiled slightly. Although Uncle He was not greedy, he was actually quite clever.
Back then, there were so many academies in Jiangnan. Why did He Zichang choose Yuzhu to go to Jiuhua Academy where Qin Benchu was?
People who can pass the Jinshi exam are actually rare and are pure nerds.
He Zichang’s purpose,
Looking at it now, the intention was actually to let Yuzhu owe a favor to Jiangnan scholars, so that when Jiangnan scholars get into trouble in the future, they can ask Yuzhu for help.
Yuzhu knew it in his heart, but pretended not to know.
Helping is a matter of affection. Not helping is a duty. He has a clear idea in his heart about how to help and who deserves to be helped.
If Qin Benchu was in trouble, Yuzhu would definitely try his best to save him. As for other Jiangnan scholars, hey, I can't say for sure.
However, no one thought that while Yuzhu and the others were drinking, something big had happened in Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River.
A thousand words are worth less than a word of silence!
Yuzhu never writes books, let alone anti-poems!
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