The four eunuchs of the Bureau of Ceremony came back with "good news". For the four of them, this was also acceptable news, that is, Zhang Zhou did not have a marquis around at the moment, at least it would not have too much influence on their inner court affairs. direct impact.
"... Mr. Liu Ge and the others all agreed and said they would raise the matter in the court tomorrow so that Your Majesty won't have to worry about it."
When Dai Yi said this, he kept looking at Zhang Zhou sitting next to him intentionally or unintentionally.
Zhang Zhou and Zhu Youtang sat in front of the military map and talked for a long time. The four of them were not present, and they could not even know the content of the discussion between the monarch and his ministers afterwards.
"well!"
Zhu Youtang sighed heavily and looked at Zhang Zhoudao, "Bingkuan, are you sure you don't want this title, and you want to be a minister first? This is hard work and will bring you criticism from others, so why bother?"
Even the emperor knew that if Zhang Zhou continued to stay in the Hanlin Academy, he might not be regarded as the same by the civil servants.
Then why not go directly to the Governor's Mansion?
Even if I want you to continue to teach the prince, without the official position of the Hanlin Academy, why not give me a lecturer in the East Palace?
Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "I have just become a Jinshi and have been in the court for less than half a year. If I rise too quickly, not only will the civil servants feel that the order of the court has been disrupted, but even the martial arts will not be tolerated. I am also a lazy person. ...Your Majesty, please forgive me for being direct. I would like to have more time to freely allocate myself, so that I can study more about the sky. In the future, I may even study more about new firearms, and even spend more time making money and spending more time with my family. ."
"Yes." Zhu Youtang seemed to agree with this point of view, "Yes, no matter how successful you are in the court, you will also be seen by others in the eyes of others. You must be more considerate of yourself, especially the relatives around you."
As an emperor who has lacked family affection since childhood.
Zhu Youtang was controlled by Empress Zhang, and Li Guang and other sycophants appeared later, mostly because he needed emotional sustenance and was taken advantage of.
This time it was Zhang Zhou's turn to enter the scene.
Seeing Zhang Zhou's persistence, Zhu Youtang naturally stopped objecting and said to Xiao Jing, "Is Mou Bin here?"
"Your Majesty, Commander Mou is waiting outside. Do you want to summon him into the palace?" Xiao Jing asked for instructions.
Zhu Youtang shook his head and said: "You don't have to let him in, just let him coordinate the arrangements as soon as possible. Bingkuan, in addition to being given to you as the governor of the rear army governor's mansion, the position of Jinyiwei Qianhu that you got before is still not enough." Change, I said before that I would promote you to the post of Jinyiwei commanding Qianshi, but this time it should be implemented. In addition, there are still vacancies for a Jinyiwei Qianhu and deputy Qianhu, plus three hundred households. ...This is for the convenience of arranging for the people around you to enter Jinyiwei. You should be more careful when entering and exiting."
Now Zhu Youtang saw the "importance" of Zhang Zhou.
Nitroglycerin and sub-guns can be said to be epoch-making products. If Tatars or foreigners, or people with ulterior motives want to bribe Zhang Zhou, or kidnap Zhang Zhou...
The emperor is talking about protection, but in fact, it also means "surveillance" secretly.
I can give you the task of making new firearms and purchase them from you, which shows my complete trust in you, but you can't just say that you just left the city and found a place to build the weapon behind closed doors. While I sent people to protect you, It can be regarded as a reminder and warning to you, and you must not break my trust in you.
Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "Your Majesty, doesn't this mean that one person can achieve enlightenment..."
"Eh!" Zhu Youtang interrupted Zhang Zhou, "Bingkuan, you just speak directly, even so you don't say it clearly. Besides, based on your merits, is this really a lot given to you? Ask them? "
Dai Yi hurriedly said: "Not too much, not too much."
Zhang Zhou said: "Your Majesty, I don't dare to accept the position that is vacant for thousands of Jin Yiwei families. In addition, the people around me... are indeed not capable of serving as Jin Yiwei. How about..."
"It's given to you, just take it. If it doesn't work, wait until Zhijie returns to the capital and give him a part-time job as a guard in uniform, so that he can protect you."
Zhu Youtang was not polite either.
No matter how awesome you Zhu Feng is in Northwest and Liaodong, you have won two battles, making others think you are awesome, and they can even give you the position of Marquis of Anbian, but at best you are just an errand boy beside Bingkuan. Asking you to protect Zhang Bingkuan is an appreciation for you.
Zhang Zhou said: "Why don't you, your majesty, I have a suggestion? Let the grandson of the hundred households of Jin Yiwei next to me be promoted to the rank of thousand households."
It's not like Zhang Zhou never thought of taking over the position of Jin Yiwei Qianhu and giving it to someone close to him.
But he can't help but recognize the situation.
Not only does he need to complete the protection task of the imperial court, he also needs to complete the task of monitoring and supervising. If this person is completely his, the emperor will not be completely relieved... In other words, the emperor is relieved now, but in the future there will be some rift between the emperor and his ministers. , some people will use this point to attack him, saying that he is so willful that even the people sent by the emperor to protect him must be used as one of his own...
It would be better to promote the people assigned to him by the emperor.
It can not only hold Sun Shangqi in check, but also avoid telling the truth.
Sun Shangqi was sent by your Jinyi Guards from the beginning, right? He used to serve as the foreman of the Jinyi Guards around me as a Baihu. Now my salary has been improved, and his salary has also been improved. Let him be a Qianhu, which is considered a benefit. Let's enjoy the credit together.
If you insist on attacking Sun Shangqi as one of my men, then what are the intentions of the person who sent Sun Shangqi here?
Zhu Youtang nodded and said: "It's good. He helps you with things and gets the rewards he deserves. His coming and going can be regarded as his merits. Haha, Bingkuan, this is their destiny. Let's walk around with you. , you can get the credit, but it wouldn’t be possible for someone else.”
Zhang Zhou wanted to say, it's not that it wouldn't work if he were replaced by someone else, but that it wouldn't work if he replaced another emperor.
It sounds like these positions of Guard of the Thousand Households, Deputy of the Thousand Households, and Hundred Households were created by me. It was obviously you who gave them to me, okay?
"As for Deputy Qianhu and Baihu, make good arrangements when you go back. When your son grows up, give him the command and control of the Royal Guards that are in short supply. In the future, let him practice more martial arts, and in terms of literature... Alas! You are the top scholar again ...It’s really difficult to handle.”
The child of the No. 1 scholar doesn't study, so he practices martial arts in preparation for inheriting the position of a royal guard and commanding the generals?
Even the emperor felt that this request might be a bit excessive.
Dai Yi, who was standing next to him, said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang should have more children. In this way, those who study literature and martial arts will have their own allocation, so they won't affect each other."
"Yes, yes." Zhu Youtang seemed to be suddenly enlightened, "Is there anything more to the story about the Empress Dowager helping Bingkuan as a matchmaker?"
The emperor also spoke frankly.
Regarding the marriage with the Lin Han family, the old lady is no longer needed. I am going to go to the battle in person to make peace.
Dai Yidao: "I'm still talking, but Minister Lin has never agreed."
"Go again!" Zhu Youtang said almost as if he was ordering, "Don't let the people around the imperial grandmother go, just let the people from Dongchang go directly with my wishes and let Minister Lin know that this is my wish. If he still has any doubts, don’t say that I intentionally didn’t give him a way to be promoted.”
This all carries a threat.
Although you, Lin Han, are a minister of the Imperial Academy and have an outstanding reputation in the academic world, your ability to serve as an official is not good. The officials and the cabinet do not have such high evaluations of you. Your promotion to the minister is far away, and twenty people will not be able to do it. Your share.
If you still want to be promoted to minister, then obey obediently, otherwise... Nanjing is a cool place, so you can stay there and retire.
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The reward given to Zhang Zhou by Zhu Youtang made the chief ceremonial officers jealous.
In addition to official positions, there were also a large number of gifts in kind. Even though the emperor was very stingy about keeping his money bag, he was not stingy at all when giving it to Zhang Zhou.
But Zhang Zhou also said that he is not short of money now, so it is best to give him something that is not available outside.
Then Zhu Youtang knelt down a bunch of gifts from the emperor and gave them to Zhang Zhou. He made a list. There were hundreds of jars of wine given by the emperor alone. This time, he finally no longer asked Zhang Zhou to " "Try it." Even Zhang Zhou felt that he was about to open a brewery, so he would give some to Old Man Jiang and let him study it slowly.
It would be great if a few bottles of wine could keep Old Chiang away.
I'm afraid that now that everyone knows that he has the real shortage of positions for Jinyiwei Deputy Qianhu and Baihu, everyone is vying to grab them. Isn't Old Jiang a common man? He doesn't want his son Jiang Shantong to join the Jinyiwei Baihu.
Zhang Zhou followed Xiao Jing out of Qianqing Palace.
Originally, Zhang Zhou was going to give lessons to Zhu Houzhao that day, but because of the good news, the lessons were skipped. It was equivalent to giving Zhang Zhou a few days off and putting Zhang Zhou's official position and future work first. Clarify.
The most important thing will be to show merit to Zhang Zhou in the future.
"Eunuch Xiao..."
"You don't have to say that the things His Majesty has given you, as soon as you leave the palace, you will find someone to count them and send them to you. Whether you send them to your house or to another residence, or wherever... Hehe, You have the final say."
Xiao Jing is also learning "fine" now.
You don't have to ask for it yourself. I will take the initiative to arrange what you want to say clearly for you. It also seems that our family can handle things, right?
"By the way, Mr. Zhang, when we went out today, we specially brought something for you, but because it is a copper item, you cannot just bring it into the palace gate. Why don't we have someone bring it to you as soon as you come out? You see. "
Xiao Jing said and handed a key to Zhang Zhou.
Zhang Zhou smiled and said, "What is this?"
Xiao Jing looked at Mou Bin who was coming out with him. Mou Bin knew enough to stand aside and not listen.
At this time, Xiao Jingcai reminded with a smile: "Have you forgotten? This is the courtyard given to you by Ping Jiangbo to hide his beauty. Don't worry, there are people watching the courtyard these days. The people and money inside have not been lost. You go over and open the door with the key, and the deed to the yard and the title deed he gave you will be delivered to your house later."
"hehe."
Zhang Zhou is laughing.
If Chen Rui did say that he would give him those things at first, but Chen Rui was still quite drunk and sober and said it was not good, would Chen Rui not regret it at all after he sobered up?
But it was the emperor who forced Xiao Jing to get these gifts back... Zhang Zhou wanted to say, this seems to go against my nature of persuading others with virtue.
Zhang Zhou sighed: "This is a house, land, money, a singer, and the daughter of Uncle Pingjiang who is widowed, right? This kind of gift was accepted before the war to make him feel at ease, but afterwards
I should just go back."
He said this, but with a twist of his hand, the key was already in his pocket.
Xiao Jing said with a smile: "Now, isn't it more normal for you to accept this gift? Didn't Your Majesty tell you already? We will let Uncle Ping Jiang stay in Liaodong for a while in the future, and we should let him know how to serve the court in the future."
Zhang Zhou said: "But I heard that Uncle Ping Jiang seems to regret it."
"What's the matter? Does he want to give it away?" Xiao Jing put away his smile and even got a little angry.
Do you, Uncle Ping Jiang, take yourself too seriously? At that time, I ordered you to deliver gifts to the house. How dare you carry people and things out from inside afterwards?
Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "It seems to have been said that when Uncle Ping Jiang was in Ningyuan, he mentioned to Uncle Anbian that he would marry his daughter... Isn't this obvious? Are you talking about this person in the house?"
"Well……"
Xiao Jing was also very embarrassed.
Everything else was fine, but even Xiao Jing felt that it was a bit unreasonable to directly ask Chen Rui to give his daughter to someone else as a servant girl.
Chen Rui may have initially felt that it was impossible to take back what he had said, and since his daughter was a widow, he could not stand up for her.
Afterwards, she was unwilling to accept that she was Chen Rui's legitimate daughter. Even if her husband died, she shouldn't have given it away so hastily. Instead, she went to discuss marriage with Zhu Feng, which was a bit like "one daughter marrying two husbands"
.
"Everyone is here with you. I'll ask Dongchang to send someone to Shuntian Mansion later to get the registration. He is your Pingjiang uncle and he won't be able to take it back even if he wants to." Xiao Jing said.
"hehe."
Zhang Zhou was laughing again.
I thought someone from Dongchangchang was helping me collect bribes, but it turned out that the efficiency was not average.
Even people can be directly given birth certificates, which means that from now on, the Chen family's daughter will no longer be Chen Rui's daughter, but his Zhang Zhou's concubine. Chen Rui has no way to take his daughter back.
Zhang Zhou thought for a while, this seemed good to him, but who did the Chen family daughter offend? She was a well-behaved lady from a well-known family, so what if her husband died? She was sent around like this, and even got married for no reason.
…
Sure enough, women in feudal society had no human rights.
Zhang Zhouxin said, we must criticize severely.
Go home and summon Jiang Pingyu and the others, hold a family meeting, sit down and criticize together, and then call Lin Yi who is about to get started... If there are others...
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Cheng Guogongfu.
Mrs. Zhu Hu of Cheng Guotai learned that there was a battle report in Liaodong. She hurriedly came from her villa, found Zhu Lin and shouted, "Is your second brother fighting in Liaodong?"
Zhu Lin looked like it had nothing to do with him: "How did grandma know?"
"Is there any?"
Zhu Hu was also anxious.
This eldest grandson is usually so arrogant. Talking to him is like hitting cotton with a hammer. Not only does it make no sound, but the hammer can easily bounce back.
Zhu Lin said: "Yes, an internal official just told me that my second brother relied on the artillery given by Zhang Bingkuan in Ningyuan to defeat the Hulu cavalry, captured and killed nearly a thousand Hulu people. The details are not clear yet. But he also said that it might be
I’m going to give my son the title of Border Marquis!”
"Sure enough, it's me, the son of the Zhu family!"
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 him and said, "Grandma, I think it's better not to be too anxious about this matter. It's not decided yet."
As for Zhu Lin, old lady, are you so excited?
No matter how great your achievements are, your second grandson has already opened his own mansion. Is your focus going to Yansui?
But don’t forget that we are the Duke of Chengguo. The situation of your son, my father, in Yansui affects the future rise and fall of the Duke of Chengguo.
I heard that your eldest son, who is also my old father, has been having a very difficult time in Yansui recently.
Yan Guan clings to him, and maybe he will be dismissed and come back. If you gain or lose, you may suffer a big loss.
"Zhiyi." Madam Zhu Hu said with a straight face, as if giving a lesson to his grandson, "You lack the experience and knowledge to serve as an official in the court. If it were an ordinary person, your merits of Zhijie might not be recognized by the court, but
There is Mr. Zhang behind Zhijie. If Your Majesty doesn't reward him, who will you reward?"
Zhu Lin narrowed his eyes and felt constricted.
Aren't there Jianchang Bo and Jiang Bo, as well as Ningyuan local garrison commanders, eunuchs, etc.?
Who said you can only reward your second grandson?
"Grandma, my siblings..."
Zhu Lin just made an opening statement, and Zhu Hu's face instantly darkened.
This obviously belongs to which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted.
"Call her here. I have something to tell her!" Zhu Hu said sternly.
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Ning Tong was called alone to the back hall of Chengguo's official residence.
Zhu Hu sat alone on the main seat, with Zhu Lin standing next to him. No one else was present, and even the domestic slaves were not allowed to observe. Obviously, this incident harmed the prestige of Chengguo Duke's mansion.
Ning Tong's face looked a little haggard.
At first, she was kept in the woodshed for the whole day, but before nightfall, Mrs. Zhu Hu put the master and servant back into the yard, but ordered them not to go out of the yard. She had to find someone to carry the door in for food and drink.
But this did not affect Ning Tong's determination to leave the Chengguo Palace.
Zhu Hu said: "If you know how to deal with him and achieve great victory in Liaodong, the court may promote him to Anbianhou in the next few days."
The intention was to give Ning Tong a show of strength.
Look at your husband, he is so awesome and you still want to divorce her?
Are you stupid? Come and beg me, I can forgive you for your ignorance, short-sightedness and short-sightedness.
Ning Tong didn't even kneel down, she just turned her head to the side and said, "It has nothing to do with me."
When Zhu Lin saw this posture, he almost went over to persuade "grandma to calm down", but if nothing else worked, he was very good at speaking in a scene.
But when he turned around, he found that Mrs. Zhu Hu just looked like a red tiger, not angry at all.
Zhu Lin turned his head away from his siblings again angrily.
Zhu Hu said: "I have heard about your story. Someone gave you a book. It seems that they also mentioned the matter of reconciliation and separation to you and encouraged you to do so... You are like this, so I can't blame you."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Lin glanced at the old lady again.
Is this a way for the siblings to find a way out, so that both parties can resolve their misunderstandings and place all the blame on the "initiator"?
its not right.
Wasn't the instigator Zhang Bingkuan?
Complain with him?
Crazy?
As if performing a one-man show, Zhu Hu said bravely: "Tell me, did that person...that is, Jinshi Zhang Zhou, instigate you to do this?"
Ning Tong did not expect that Zhu Hu could find Zhang Zhou.
She glared at Zhu Hu and said: "This is a matter between me and Zhu Feng. Now even Zhu Feng himself agrees to divorce... Even if it is not reconciliation, he gave me a divorce letter and even said that I was defeated."
Virtue, I also admit it! But please don’t implicate it on someone who has nothing to do.”
"Okay." Mrs. Zhu Hu said coldly, "As expected, you have the same demeanor as I did back then. I didn't know that you were a hero among women. If Zhang Bingkuan asked you to do this, there must be a reason, or it's because of you and my grandson.
The horoscopes are not compatible, or your presence will affect his future, so if Zhang Bingkuan raises this matter... there is still room for discussion on this matter."
"Ah?" Zhu Lin said in shock, "Grandma, are we..."
The four words "principle" were not spoken.
Zhu Hu said angrily: "Shut up, what do you have to do here? Just go away!"
