When Chen Ke arrived, the banquet had already started. I wanted to take out the invitation, and the two clerks quickly invited him in.
The so-called "recording affairs" is originally the name of the official who is in charge of the general record book. Therefore, the person who is responsible for the drinking orders during the banquet is also called "recording affairs". And because prostitutes are often responsible for supervising the drinking when accompanying the guests, over time, this "recording affairs" has become
Using the nickname prostitute makes it much less embarrassing when calling each other.
After turning around the screen, we saw that the hall was very lively. Four large Eight Immortals tables were placed in the small hall. The tables were filled with delicacies and wine. Sitting at the tables were the wealthy guests who came to support them. Each of them had a wine companion beside them.
There are prostitutes and kabuki performers who play, sing and dance, making it very lively and joyful.
But to be honest, this scene looks lively, but the quality is not high. But it is normal. Gu Xixi is not a top red sister, and Li Daguan's foundation in the capital is still shallow, so he invites many guests.
Mainly businessmen.
So when they saw Chen Ke coming, Gu Xixi and all the guests were flattered, and they all stood up to greet him. Li Jian, who was sitting on the main seat, had a bright face and said: "What do you think, let me tell you, Mr. Chen will definitely come!"
We must have this friendship!" He said and forced him to sit down.
"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense." Chen Keqian made concessions, sat next to Li Jian, and said with a smile: "Ms. sir, that's what you call the governors."
"Well, you won the Jinshi title this time, and you will become the prime minister sooner or later." Li Jian smiled nonchalantly: "Isn't it reasonable to address me earlier now?"
"Fuck you, don't hurt me." Chen Ke glared at him and said, "Don't talk about prime minister, I'm not even a Jinshi now."
"It's all the same, it's all the same." Li Jian slapped his hooves in flattery and laughed. Gu Xixi, who was beside him, hurriedly smoothed things over for him and said: "There are indeed many rules in officialdom, and high officials must also think about the young master.
He said with a smile and said: "For example, the flower house on the Bianhe River. In the future, the young master will only be able to visit during the holidays."
"Why, you are not allowed to come here at ordinary times?" Li Jian asked curiously: "Why do I look at those gangs of traitors? I wish I could live in a brothel?"
"Juzi is a scholar, Jinshi is a Jinshi." Gu Xixi explained: "The Song Dynasty did not prohibit scholars from going to brothels. But once they became officials, they couldn't do anything casually. Court officials involved the dignity of the country, so they were prohibited from entering brothels and brothels.
." She poured a glass of wine for Chen Ke and said, "However, New Year's Day is an exception. Officials also have a holiday."
"Isn't it accurate?" Li Jian said disapprovingly: "When I was in Chengdu, the officials I saw were more diligent in going in and out of brothels than in going to the yamen."
"The sky in Sichuan is high and the emperor is far away. Can it be the same as the emperor's feet?" Chen Ke said with a smile: "How else can I put it this way? How miserable is the little official in Beijing?"
"But fortunately, the young master was released as soon as he was in high school." Gu Xixi comforted him: "Local officials can call for events at the banquet to add to the fun, and the censor has nothing to do with it."
"How can it be compared to Bianjing City?" Li Jianda said disapprovingly: "I think being an official is not as happy as I imagined."
"The senior officials are joking." Gu Xixi said with a smile: "In the Song Dynasty, the official salary was very generous. Even if the officials did not go to brothels, they could still keep concubines at home. Sirs in Beijing, which family does not have a group of female musicians?
Her appearance, talent, and charming character are no worse than those of us official prostitutes."
Chen Ke nodded in agreement. The quality of the singers he saw at Ouyang Xiu's house was much higher than here.
While several people were talking, the big businessman Hou Yi came over to propose a toast. It is true that he is a small shareholder of Bianjing Money Company, but his main business is not this. In terms of wealth and influence, Li Jian really can't compare with him. So Hou Yi
Being able to come today is a great honor to him.
However, it can be seen that Hou Yuanwai valued Chen Ke more than Li Jian. He held the wine with a smile and expressed his warmest congratulations to Chen Ke.
"The life of Yuanwai must have been difficult recently." Chen Ke felt that he had something to say, so he asked the prostitute beside him to stand up, asked Hou Yi to sit aside and said, "If you can use me, just say it."
"You can't hide anything from me, sir." Hou Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Why do you think I am so unlucky?"
Hou Yi's main business is a large border trader, which is why he has contacts with Yishi Leye people. His business transports a large amount of materials to the western border every year, sells them to the Xixia people through the mutual market, and then purchases green salt and
The horses came back to Bianjing for sale. These two things are treasures, of course the horses. Green salt is a specialty of Hetao. Its delicate taste is very similar to the table salt eaten by Chen Ke in later generations. In this era when salt was coarse and bitter.
Such fine salt is naturally very popular among the rich and can be circulated as currency.
Hou Yi made a fortune from this back-and-forth trade and became one of the few super traders between Song and Xia. But his business came to an abrupt end this year... because the imperial court eliminated all the public and private markets in Xixia.
The cause of the incident must start with Sima Guang, the man who smashed the vat. During the Chinese New Year, the Ouyang Xiu family was full of talents, and a large number of cultural celebrities gathered together. Some people asked, why didn't Sima Guang get involved?
It can be said with certainty that if Sima Guang was in the capital at that time, Ouyang Xiu would definitely invite him, because Sima Guang was so popular... and his reputation was also high, even more famous than Wang Anshi. There is no way, you have to become famous as early as possible, people
He became famous all over the world for smashing a vat at the age of seven and became the spokesperson for child prodigy. At that time, Wang Anshi was only five years old and was peeing everywhere in his crotchless pants.
And he is not a weird sage like Xiao Wang. His behavior, words and deeds can definitely be regarded as a model for scholar-bureaucrats, unlike Wang Anshi who is unhygienic and unreasonable.
But Sima Guang is not in the capital at the moment. He is eating sand in the frontier. Speaking of which, it is also a bitter tear. This is definitely not in line with Brother Guangguang's career plan. As a person...his father Sima Chi, he was an imperial minister.
As Chief Shi, a senior cadre of the Third Department's deputy envoy, Sima Guang's official career was naturally smoother than that of ordinary people.
And he was indeed up to par. At the age of seven, he was as awe-inspiring as an adult. When he heard "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals" being taught, he fell in love with it and retired to teach it to his family, then cut off his big finger. Since he couldn't let go of the book, he didn't know hunger, thirst, cold or heat...
People can tell "Spring and Autumn" to their family members at the age of seven. Chen Ke was only in cheating mode at the age of ten, and could teach people how to cook a dish.
Late bloomers are generally used for inspiration, and a truly outstanding person must be outstanding from beginning to end. An outstanding person like Brother Guangguang won the Jinshi early at the age of twenty. We all know that the official career is precisely designed.
And it's often something that mortals can't see through.
When Guangguang was a Jinshi, he was still a member of the imperial family and had a good foundation. His father's old colleagues and leaders valued him very much, so they wanted to make an exception and stay in the capital as a minister... This was extremely obedient, because
In the Song Dynasty, people who were Jinshi or later had to go abroad. Even if you were the top scholar, you had to go down and train for a few years. So everyone's official career was from the outside in, but Guangguang could be in the capital from the beginning.
, it’s really enviable that they are of the same age.
But he did not accept it and took the initiative to go to Hangzhou... Hangzhou in this era was not a paradise on earth for future generations, but a remote area. The reason was very touching. His father, who was a prefect in Hangzhou, was old and sick. Later he
He continued to serve his old father until his death. During the period of observing filial piety, he "attended to mourning for many years and destroyed everything as if it were a ritual". He almost died due to excessive grief.
After observing the filial piety for an extended period, Guangguang returned to the capital to take up his post.
We don't know what Guangguang's original intention was, but he did show his "most filial" side to the world through this incident. In this era of "non-filial sons and unloyal ministers", this is his capital. And he is not the first
A person who did this, Bao Zheng did it more thoroughly than him twenty years ago. He was admitted to the Jinshi, but he did not leave the country for ten years, just to fulfill his filial piety. But as soon as he came out of the mountain, he flew to the sky on a rocket, so he got
Named 'Bao Qingtian'!
I don’t know if Guangguang and his son learned anything from it.
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After that, he showed another excellent quality that was extremely important but not suitable for publicity. That was absolute, complete, and unreserved loyalty to the leader. But this leader was not the emperor, but the independent prime minister at the time.
Guangguang did not have the same luck as Lao Bao. After returning to Beijing, he deeply realized the harshness of the world. It turned out that during his long-term exile and extended filial piety, his father's old colleagues and old superiors either retired or were exiled, and they all left the capital.
Now, no one is praising him like a piece of cake.
After waiting for a long time, he was released as the magistrate of Weicheng County. Fortunately, he soon returned to the capital and became a judge of Dali Temple... So the work was very boring and there was no future.
Guangguang was very depressed during this period. But luckily, things turned around soon. His father's old colleague Pang Ji returned to Beijing and served as deputy privy envoy, and later became the prime minister. Sima Guang immediately went to visit Pang Ji and shared his memories with him.
Mr. Sima Chi had two or three things in his life. From then on, he loved and respected Pang Ji like a father.
Pang Ji liked Guangguang very much and naturally planned carefully for him. At first, he wanted to recommend him to be the school manager... This was the only way for senior cadres. But the prime minister did not approve it. However, two years later, Pang Ji became the school manager himself.
When he became prime minister, the first thing he did was to promote Guangguang. Since then, Guangguang has been on the rise, becoming the prime minister of Dali Temple and serving as the direct lecturer of the Imperial College, which brought him both real power and a good future.
However, the good times did not last long, and Pang Ji was defeated in the struggle. Because Xixia formed an alliance with Liao and wanted to jointly pursue the Song Dynasty, the officials were afraid, so they sent Pang Ji to the northwest to defend Xixia.
Pang Ji couldn't bear to leave Guang Guang and wanted to take him to the northwest with him. Sima Guang was helpless, but his face didn't show it at all. If he hadn't written a poem "Bitter Cold Journey", he said, "The ancients would die for their close friends, but they would only be afraid of freezing their bones."
Buried in the Bianting.' Everyone thought he was really happy with it.
But he also knew that this was a fast track to promotion - a large number of Qingli ministers, including Pang Ji, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, etc., all came from the northwest. But the prerequisite was that they had to make a name for themselves.
Then this guy got into big trouble...
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This update is not for today, but from now on, every day’s updates will be from 0:00 to 24:00. As for the number of updates, I will get up tomorrow morning and check the status... To be continued
