Li Zhi smiled and waited there for a while, then saw the doorman returning.
"The master is free, please come with me."
Li Zhi followed the servant around the screen wall and walked into the first courtyard. Li Zhi looked towards the west wing and saw several people waiting there. He had jumped in line.
Entering the main hall, Li Zhi saw a thin old man wearing a green shirt, sitting on the main seat with his eyes closed and concentrating. Li Zhi's name card was opened and read, and placed on the tea table aside.
The old man was not tall and very thin. I don't know if he had shaved his face, but I didn't see a beard. He had a pair of slender eyes sunk deeply into the eye sockets, and two deep nasolabial folds extending to the root of the nose.
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This is the influential Donglin Party leader Qian Qianyi.
Li Zhi stood in the main hall for a while. Seeing that the old man did not open his eyes, he bowed and said, "My military officer, Li Zhi, has met the old man from Dongjian."
Hearing this, Qian Qianyi opened his eyes.
As soon as the old man opened his eyes, Li Zhi felt two old eyes glancing at him, which made Li Zhi a little nervous. Although he had been idle for many years, Qian Qianyi has always had a huge influence as the leader of Donglin, and he has a certain influence in his every move.
The momentum of a superior person.
Qian Qianyi glanced at Li Zhi and refused to let Li Zhi sit down, saying, "Why did you come to see me?"
Li Zhi quickly asked several servants to bring the gift boxes and said, "I have admired you for a long time. I have prepared some small gifts for you today. It's nothing else."
Li Zhi opened several gift boxes, opened the ginseng and deer antlers and his two sets of glassware, and showed them to Qian Qianyi.
Those ginseng and deer antlers were okay. Qian Qianyi glanced at them and stopped looking at them. However, two sets of glassware caught his attention. He stood up and took out a small wine glass from the brocade box and looked at it. Qian Qianyi said: "This is
Glass from Taixi? It’s very difficult to transport these two sets of glassware from Taixi. I’m afraid it will cost one or two hundred taels of silver, right?”
Li Zhi shook his head and said: "This is glass produced in the workshop below. One set costs thirty taels, and two sets only cost sixty taels!"
Qian Qianyi's eyes flashed and he asked: "Is this the glass you produced?"
"Exactly!"
Qian Qianyi looked at Li Zhi again and asked: "Your glass is so cheap, where can you sell it?"
This was what Li Zhi was waiting for, and he quickly replied: "It is sold at Li's store in Tianjin. You will know when you go to Tianjin and ask about it!"
Qian Qianyi smiled, turned over the lid of the brocade box, and saw large calligraphy written on the back of the lid: "Produced by the Li family, a set of thirty taels."
It is said that people become better with age, so how shrewd is Qian Qianyi? After thinking about it, he had already seen through Li Zhi's intention and said: "Interesting!"
Li Zhi was stunned, but didn't know how to answer this sentence.
After saying "Interesting", Qian Qianyi took out a glass tea cup from another brocade box and looked at it.
"The stuff is indeed good stuff! Crystal clear!"
After looking at it for a while, Qian Qianyi put down the glass teacup and said calmly: "Okay, I understand, you can go back!"
Li Zhi felt nervous when he saw that Qian Qianyi had already guessed his intention to use him as an advertisement. But just now the old man said something interesting and praised his products. It seemed that he was not angry at his behavior. Maybe
He was happy to be his own live advertisement. Li Zhi thought for a moment, bowed quickly, and left Qian Qianyi's mansion with a few servants.
That evening, Qian Shisheng, the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of Dongge University, came to Qian Qianyi's home after a long journey.
Dongge University Scholar is one of the positions of the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty. The cabinet system was implemented at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At first, the cabinet ministers were only a secretarial agency for the emperor to consult and draft edicts, and had no decision-making power. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the power of civil servants expanded, and the cabinet ministers
On the outside, he is a civil servant leader, but on the inside, he has the power to participate in decision-making, and gradually becomes a real and well-known prime minister.
Qian Shisheng and Qian Qianyi were very familiar with each other, and they would meet every few days. On this day, Qian Shisheng came to Qian Qianyi's house empty-handed. When the servant guarding Qian Qianyi's house saw Qian Shisheng,
, and led him to the main hall at a trot.
After a while, Qian Qianyi walked in from the backyard, said hello to Qian Shisheng and sat down. After Qian Qianyi sat down, he said to his family: "Please use the new tea set to entertain Mr. Ge!"
The servant standing next to him quickly agreed and went down to prepare tea.
Qian Shisheng glanced at Qian Qianyi, went straight to the topic, and said worriedly: "Accept it, the emperor's holy heart favors the traitor, we can't shake it!"
Qian Shisheng called Qian Qianyi by that name to show his respect. As for the traitor Qian Shisheng mentioned, he naturally referred to the chief minister of the cabinet, Wen Tiren.
Qian Qianyi smiled and said: "Is there any unshakable person in this world?"
Qian Shisheng said: "In the previous period, the Fengyang imperial mausoleum was destroyed, and the treacherous Prime Minister Wen Ti Renpeng Wang Yingxiong protected the Fengyang governor Yang Yipeng and the patrol officer Wu Zhenying. We asked Zheng Er, the chief officer, to say that Hu Jiang attacked Wang Yingxiong and Wen Ti Renpeng was harming the country. As a result
Zheng Er said that Hu Jiang provoked the emperor's anger and was banished."
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month at the beginning of this year, bandits captured Fengyang and destroyed the Ming Dynasty Imperial Tomb. This matter was of great importance. Fengyang Governor Yang Yipeng and Inspector Wu Zhenying were naturally guilty. According to Emperor Chongzhen's temperament, they wanted to be beheaded. But Yang Yipeng and
Wu Zhenying had a good relationship with Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong, so Wen Tiren and Wang Yingxiong withheld the two sets of memorials reporting the fall of Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum. They withheld the two sets of memorials to the emperor until the memorials for the recovery of Fengyang arrived in the capital. They hoped that the emperor would
When I saw the memorial for the restoration of the imperial mausoleum, I became less angry and did not kill the governor and the governor. Such an operation by King Wen Ti Ren Wang Ying Xiong was obviously against the rules. The Donglin Party members seized this golden opportunity and concentrated their firepower to attack the head of the cabinet.
To assist in warming the body, Renhe Pavilion Laowang Yingxiong.
The person in charge, Zheng Er, said that Hu Jiang was a minor official and was the rock for the Donglin Party to test the waters and explore the way forward.
However, the emperor still relied on Wen Tiren at this time, and was very angry with the minor officials who dared to criticize Wen and Wang, and all punished them by demotion.
The emperor's anger shocked Qian Shisheng, but did not intimidate Qian Qianyi. Qian Qianyi had been in officialdom for many years and had rich experience in political struggles, and he immediately saw the way through.
Qian Qianyi asked calmly: "Zheng Er, the chief critic of the treacherous prime minister, said, how is Hu Jiang doing now?"
Qian Shisheng said: "The two of them are now doing things for us to anger the emperor, and they have been demoted by the emperor for the time being. On the surface, they have suffered a loss, but in fact they have gained reputation. When the limelight passes, we will naturally look for opportunities to promote them again. Although the two of them are now
Even though they were demoted, they are very sensible and have no emotions."
Smiling, Qian Qianyi said: "The two principals criticized the prime minister with slight words. The emperor did not kill them and he did not have a royal staff. There is something wrong in this!"
After listening to Qian Qianyi's words, Qian Shisheng suddenly cleared the clouds and saw the sun, and his eyes lit up.
