Jinan City is a treasure land of Feng Shui in Northern China. The hills surround the city, leaving only a gap in the north, which blocks the whole city from the cold wind in winter. When you are in Jinan City, you feel like a baby lying in a cradle.
With the wind and snow outside and only the warm sunshine, it is really the perfect place for cats to winter in the north.
The day before, it snowed a little more, which made the dwarf pines on Qianfo Mountain darker and darker, making the top of the mountain even more white. It made people feel like they were in a gouache painting, with neither wind, rain nor sunshine. It was a great experience.
I don't want to move a finger.
When Jin Youzi braved the wind and snow for 800 miles, walked through the rugged mountain road, and saw the cradle-like Jinan City in the distance, he couldn't help but cursed: "This Wang Zhongde really knows how to find a place to win the winter!"
The attendants on the side said angrily: "The man named Wang doesn't take us seriously. We have arrived at the root of Jinan City, and no one comes out to greet us!" They are all close subordinates of Jin Youzi. After the new emperor ascended the throne,
, when a person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs will naturally ascend to heaven. Along the way, local officials pick up and send off, and the progress is so constant that they have long forgotten who they are.
Naturally, these followers were very unhappy with Wang Xian's neglect.
In fact, Jin Youzi was even more upset than them. He was now a close minister of the emperor who everyone was trying to fawn over. In the hope of the prime minister and his assistants, local officials were rubbing their butts and holding their butts, as if they still had lingering fragrance in their hands. He was spitting phlegm casually, for fear that others would get there first. How could that be possible?
Can he bear this kind of neglect? Fortunately, he still maintains a trace of reason and knows that the man in Jinan City cannot take him lightly.
"Shut up, everyone." Jin Youzi let out a deep breath, glared at the followers around him and said, "Be more honest when you get to Jinan City, and don't ruin this important matter for me."
"Hey..." The followers wanted to criticize him again, but when they saw Jin Youzi's unkind expression, they quickly changed their words and said with a smile: "Don't worry, bachelor, we know the severity."
"Hmph..." Jin Youzi snorted before getting on the carriage and the team continued to drive towards Jinan City.
After a long meal, the group arrived at the gate of Jinan City, where they saw dense crowds of people inside and outside the city, prosperous business travel, and endless carriages and horses. There was no trace of the scars of the military disaster. In fact, during the catastrophe last year, Jinan City was completely destroyed.
As the capital, it was not exposed to war. Once the situation calmed down, the government took various measures to vigorously reduce taxes, encourage workers and farmers, encourage industry and commerce, and use Jinan as the leader to restore people's livelihood in Shandong Province.
Therefore, in less than a year, Jinan City has become prosperous, even more vibrant and energetic than during the Yongle period.
"It seems that the man named Wang is not only capable of conspiracy and weapons," Jin Youzi looked coldly at the street while sitting on the carriage passing through the city, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "He also has a way of managing people's livelihood."
But he had a strong dislike for Wang Xian, so naturally his eyes would not just focus on the good aspects, and he quickly picked out the bones from the eggs... On the street, you can see the White Lotus cultists wearing white scarves everywhere. These cultists
He openly walked through the city, talking and buying and selling with ordinary people, without any incompatibility. The government servants even turned a blind eye to them, and even talked and laughed with them, just like a family.
'Absurd!' Seeing this scene, Jin Youzi was angry and relieved at the same time. He could finally despise Wang Xian with confidence: 'He actually indulged the White Lotus cult to this extent. What does Wang Zhongde want to do? This is still Wang Hua.
land?'
'Could it be that the rumors are true? He is really a high-ranking member of the White Lotus Sect? He wants to turn Shandong into a vacuum hometown?'
Along the way, Jin Youzi kept slandering and his anger towards Wang Xian continued to rise, but all of this was suddenly thrown out of the window when the car arrived in front of the Shandong Governor's Mansion!
The large flat outside the governor's office is four acres square. In the middle of the flat stands a three-foot-long flagpole with a bucket, with five eye-catching characters written on it: "The Duke of Daming Town". Facing the gate, "Shandong Governor's Office" is written in the distance.
'' plaque, and the pair of ferocious giant stone lions on both sides of the stone steps.
As far as the eye could see, except for a row of guards in brocade robes with embroidered spring knives on their backs, who were on full alert, there was no one alive. The vast square was solemn and quiet, with only the flags on the poles rustling in the wind, but
It further shows the vastness and majesty of the governor’s office!
Feeling this wordless majesty, Jin Youzi suddenly realized whose territory he had come to and what kind of person he was about to face?!
That is the most majestic, powerful, boundless, and vicious god in the world today!
Why is it that in just six months, my fear has become so vague that I have almost forgotten it? Is it because the distance makes people unfamiliar? Or is I too inflated and think that I am no longer inferior to Wang Xian?
There was no time to delve into the reason, Jin Youzi pinched the root of his thigh hard to wake himself up, took a deep breath of cold air, and said to Chang Sui who couldn't help shouting because he was blocked by the Jin Yiwei outside the carriage: "No.
rash."
Chang Sui then lowered his head angrily, wondering why Academician Jin, as an angel, had to be so humble and petty.
"This military master is so polite." Jin Youzi cupped his hands from the car window to the Jin Yiwei Baihu who was blocking the road for questioning, and said with a pleasant expression: "I, Jin Youzi, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the Minister of Rites, came to Jinan on imperial envoy to express my condolences to Duke Zhen Guo.
, there should have been a document sent by the court to inform the Governor's Office before, right?"
"Then we don't know." The Jin Yiwei Baihu were indifferent to the two identities that Jin Youzi deliberately mentioned, and still said businesslikely with an expressionless face: "But since he is a visitor from the imperial court, please wait in the concierge and wait for me to report.
"
"That's...ok." Jin Youzi didn't expect that after he revealed his identity and stated his purpose of coming, he still wouldn't get the treatment of opening the middle door and entering the mansion. However, he could only endure his dissatisfaction, got off the sedan, and went to the concierge with the Jin Yiwei.
Waiting in the middle. He could still stay in the porter's room with the stove on, but the followers below were not so lucky. They were shivering in the cold outside the porter's room, but they didn't dare to complain.
Those Jin Yiwei who look like wolves and tigers are really intimidating...
After waiting in the concierge for a long time, Jin Youzi finally heard the sound of footsteps approaching from far away. He quickly stood up and put on a humble smile. Unexpectedly, the person who came in was not the Duke of Zhen, but Chu Yan, the chief envoy of Shandong Province.
"It turns out it's really Bachelor Jin! I thought they were talking nonsense!"
Looking at the old face full of smiles and wrinkles, Jin Youzi felt depressed for a while, and said hastily: "Master Fantai, you are polite."
"Oh my, why are the magpies chirping non-stop this early in the morning? It turns out that a noble person is coming to visit!" Chu Yan seemed not to notice the change in Jin Youzi's expression, and still said with a smile on his face: "Bachelor Jin is here in Jinan.
The basil is shining, the basil is shining!"
"Master Fantai is joking," he extended his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man. Moreover, Chu Yan was also the civil affairs chief of Shandong. He was able to survive the extremely dangerous Shandong upheaval in the last years of Yongle and continue to serve as the chief envoy of Shandong, which shows that he is also an extraordinary human being.
Jin Youzi put away his displeasure and joked with Chu Yan: "A lower official is just a secretary to the emperor. He is a minor official doing miscellaneous things and running errands. He cannot be qualified as such!"
"Hey, the bachelor is too self-effacing. Who doesn't know that the emperor currently relies on several bachelors the most, and both the government and the public are called prime ministers and assistants!" Chu Yan still smiled humbly, stretched out his hand to invite Jin Youzi to come in and eat in the back hall.
Tea.
"It's okay to joke in private, but if these words were said publicly, we would be in trouble." Jin Youzi was humbled by Chu Yan, but he couldn't help but feel slightly complacent.
While talking, the two of them arrived at the flower hall of the Governor's Mansion. Chu Yan first asked Jin Youzi to go to the guest room to clean up and change clothes. After Jin Youzi had tidied up and came out with a new look, a guard in Jinyi served him tea and refreshments. Chu Yan smiled and invited him to sit down and said: "Bachelor, this is the way.
Thank you for your hard work. Let’s have some tea to relieve our fatigue.”
Jin Youzi sat down with a smile, drank a few cups of tea, ate a few snacks, and finally couldn't help asking: "Why haven't you seen the father-in-law yet? Is there something important?"
"Hehe..." A wry smile appeared at the corner of Chu Yan's lips, he nodded and said, "My father-in-law is indeed busy with something," he said, pouring a cup of tea for Jin Youzi: "Bachelor, please be patient, wait until my father-in-law is finished.
, I’ll see you back soon.”
"Hey, business matters, I'm not in a hurry..." Besides reluctantly accepting it, what else could Jin Youzi do?
In Wanzhu Garden, Wang Xian's face was full of tension, sweat appeared on his forehead, and he said anxiously: "Huahua, you must hold on!"
Beside him, three-year-old Wang You held his father's hand tightly, his little face was also full of nervousness, sweat was also looming on his forehead, tears were rolling in his eyes, his voice was tender and full of sincerity, and he said: "Huahua, I will definitely
Hold on!"
Behind the two of them, Yu She and the maids couldn't help laughing. Looking at the father and son squatting next to the doghouse, they had to hold back to keep from laughing... They never expected that they would kill decisively.
Wang Xian, the Duke of Shandong Province who was able to stop his children from crying at night, looked like this when he was playing with his son!
This story begins when Wang Xian returned to Jinan. Contrary to what Jin Youzi imagined, Wang Xian had no interest in governing this province. He handed over all the military, political and criminal duties of the province to Chu Yan, Wu Wei and Wei Yuan.
et al. In fact, the gathering of these capable people in this province is a serious waste. He does not need to point his fingers at all to make Shandong's governance prosperous.
Wang Xian was naturally happy to be lazy and turned a deaf ear to the government affairs he was dealing with. He only curled up in the Ten Thousand Bamboo Garden to accompany his wife and tease his son every day. In view of Wang You's strangeness and alienation towards him, Wang Xian took multiple countermeasures to increase peace and harmony.
His son's feelings. In addition to taking his son shopping, boating, riding horses, hiking, buying toys and delicious food for his son and other conventional weapons, he also got a puppy. The two of them spent a lot of time taking care of the puppy every day.
As things and things spend more time together, the relationship between the two of them naturally heats up rapidly.
How could Wang You withstand his father's cunning offensive? After half a year, he has regarded his father as the dearest person in the world, even incomparable to his mother and Aunt Yu who helped him grow up.
At this moment, the couple’s puppy ‘Huahua’ is two months pregnant and is having a hard time giving birth...