Chapter two hundred and forty seventh do not raise waste
For the people of Zhao Guogong's palace and the emperor, Zhu Tingfang's return represented the phased end of the previous Northern Expedition.
For a large number of officials in the capital who once clamored that Zhao Guogong and his son were defeated and humiliated the country, and the crime was unforgivable, the once-missing heir to Zhao Guogong's mansion must come back in full body. Apart from looking a little thinner, there is no other big deal.
It was enough to make them impatient. Even if it was the time when the Yamen was sealing the New Year, they had to keep in touch with each other.
So on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, a news came out. It was said that when the Shuntian government office did not put up the notice board and put away the drumstick for beating the complaint drum, an old woman used
The white-haired head banged the drum, and he sued Luo Zhi, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who had once been the patrol censor, and forced the Fang family, a prominent local family who was kind and charitable, to be ruined.
After the incident, Wang Jie, the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, personally took the person into the Shuntian Prefecture and placed him there.
This was just the beginning. Until the evening, in front of the Daxing County Government Office, Wanping County Government Office, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department, even the Dengwen drum was beaten once, and a total of four censors were accused.
And these four people were all the most vicious people who jumped up and down to attack the Zhu family father and son.
An endless stream of news came one after another. Zhang Shou failed to eat well during the New Year's Eve meal at Duke Zhao's Mansion. And after he took the Wu family back and worshiped his ancestors, three more reports came, and the Zhu family was shocked.
The New Year's Eve dinner was not eaten well. Zhu Ying even smashed her chopsticks in anger and said angrily: "What do these messy things have to do with my family?"
As she said this, she started to protest: "If our Zhu family instigated this, how could we mobilize the victims to file complaints everywhere, and also let a lot of gray-haired old people take their lives to complain? This is simply a waste of human life! I think
Some people just want to muddy the waters, and they want to open the eyes of those censors who are so loud-mouthed! It is really despicable to use such a method!"
Zhu Er hadn't figured it out at first, but when Zhu Ying said it, he suddenly realized it, and he also patted the table and said: "As long as it is proven that these charges are false, then all these censors who have been slandering people will be cleansed!"
But as soon as he stood up, he was stared at fiercely by the Tai Fu, Jiuniang and Zhu Tingfang. He sat back down in panic and fright. Just when he thought he would be reprimanded, Jiuniang didn't expect him to.
Suddenly he looked at Zhu Ying and asked straight to the point: "Yingying, why are you so smart today? Did you figure out these mysteries yourself?"
"Of course not!" Zhu Ying confidently took back the chopsticks, and then said calmly, "It was Ah Shou who said it. Ah Shou told me before he went back at noon, if there is one, there will be two, and if there are three or four, there will be three.
There are more, so there is no doubt that they just want to completely disturb this muddy water and make our Zhu family a target of public criticism!"
Zhu Tingfang choked and sighed because of Zhu Ying's tone of mindless and just listening to others, but what Zhang Shou told Zhu Ying was exactly the judgment he made after discussing with his grandmother in the afternoon, so he couldn't help but criticize: "
Did your Ashou say what the Zhu family should do?"
"Brother, Ah Shou hasn't married me yet, he's not mine yet!" Zhu Ying glared at Zhu Tingfang, then shrugged and said, "Ah Shou said, nine out of ten, he is an enemy of our Zhu family, or he is an enemy of our Zhu family.
Those censors are causing trouble. Moreover, my father went on this expedition and won another battle, which blocked the way of many people. In addition, he was afraid that we would retaliate against them and sue them randomly. Of course, he acted preemptively and muddied the water."
She paused, and then continued calmly: "But Ah Shou said that people who do nothing will leave no flaws, but people who jump up and down and do a lot of things will leave flaws.
There are a lot of clues. Some people think they are smart, but they are just trying to be smart. So, what should I do? Hey, just do nothing first and see other people's paths clearly before talking."
Zhu Er was immediately unconvinced: "Don't do anything, just watch? Doesn't this seem like our Zhao Guogong Mansion is too easy to bully?"
"Standing unchanged to cope with all changes is true most of the time, especially when the emperor is watching. The emperor is not very old, but he has been on the throne for twenty-seven years this year. Look at the tricks of those ministers.
He doesn’t understand it for a day or two, he doesn’t understand it for ten or eight years, but after nearly thirty years, he still doesn’t understand it?”
Mrs. Tai smiled and signaled to Li's mother to give Zhu Ying a chopstick of pickled vegetables and eggs. Seeing that Zhu Ying hesitated for a moment and finally ate it with a frown, she said with a smile, "As much as I love eating these two bites, I don't care about this."
On New Year's Eve, if you like it or not, let someone prepare it and bring it to Yingying, who still has to eat it. The relationship between kings and ministers is similar to this, but more complicated."
"If the court wants to implement something, it must be carried out by the ministers below, so different kings have different methods. If they are strong, they will get out if they don't do it, or even kill if they don't do it. Just like Qin Shihuang, he whipped the world and no one dared
If you don't obey, if you are weak, then the minister will do whatever he says, like a clay sculpture or a wooden sculpture, or even a puppet."
"Even Mingjun can be divided into two types. One is like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who cooperates with Wei Zheng tacitly and shows his humility to accept advice, but in fact, most of Wei Zheng's advice is what he actually intends to do.
The two of them just gained each other's reputation as a wise king and a wise minister. As for the other kind, they were passively coerced by the wise minister, and had to do what the minister wanted to be like a wise king. They were sprayed in the face with spit, and they just couldn't do it.
Be able to feel at ease."
The madam said this in one breath, paused, and then laughed again.
"The emperor is different. Most of the time, he doesn't insist on anything. He just implements the things agreed by the cabinet. But if anyone thinks that he can be suppressed by public discussion and public opinion, it is wishful thinking. Think about the emperor's initial rule.
His actions in those one or two years showed that he was a person who was willing to accept the soft rather than the tough. If it hadn't been for the Queen Mother, he would have been able to fight to the death with others."
Jiuniang couldn't help but laugh when she thought about what she knew about the emperor's character. She nodded and said, "Mother is right. If you think that striking first is the advantage and muddying the water can tarnish the military exploits of our Duke Zhao's palace, then...
You underestimate the emperor!"
While everyone was talking, the door curtain opened, and it was Mother Jiang who entered the house. Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing did not come back today, so the Chinese New Year at home was not particularly lively. After worshiping the ancestors, the masters had a banquet in the back, and the servants had a banquet in the front, and some
Fireworks and firecrackers were set up to celebrate the occasion, but no troupe was invited for the fun.
At this time, Mother Jiang still had a hint of fireworks about her body. She knelt down and saluted, then smiled and said: "Madam, madam, all the New Year rewards have been distributed. Everyone said that they want to come and kowtow to thank you for the rewards."
"We have worked hard for a year, but everyone deserves it, so I won't stay until after the night. This year's reward is to reward their hard work this year, but they will have nothing to do next year. So there is no need to kowtow, they will remember it themselves.
"Look, Zhao Guogong's government has always made clear rewards and punishments, and does not raise waste, but it also never treats others harshly. I don't want the matter of Zhu Yu and Zhu Gongquan to happen again."
When Mrs. Jiang saw Mother Jiang, she quickly agreed solemnly and was about to go out. She stopped people and said, "Today is New Year's Eve. On such a big New Year's day, our Zhu family will not care about those people with ulterior motives. After midnight,
That is to say, tomorrow is the New Year. You and Ah Li will make arrangements as I told you before. Do you want to get away with it by desecrating yourself? Haha!"
Seeing Jiang's mother agree and go out quickly, she swept away her daughter-in-law and three grandchildren, and then said with a smile: "After the New Year, our Zhao Guogong Mansion should also organize a few wedding events!"
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Ying smiled brightly, but Zhu Tingfang couldn't help but feel a twitch in his heart. He had already seen that the marriage between his sister and Zhang Shou was not only approved by his grandmother and stepmother, but even the emperor was clearly adding fuel to the flames. But
, even so, there was only one marriage, how could there be so many?
And even if Zhu Er is included, there are only two cases... Could it be that the elders also included him?
Zhu Tingfang thought that he had met a fortune teller by chance on the road during this expedition. People said that his life was too tough and would harm his relatives and friends. He didn't believe it at first, but then he thought about the fact that his mother died not long after he was born, and then his stepmother ran away, and so on.
His fiancée died young not long after the engagement, and now that he returned to Beijing, he suddenly learned that his wife had also passed away... Since he was destined to be like this, why bother hurting others?
Just when Zhu Tingfang's eyes flickered, the wife suddenly said with emotion: "Speaking of which, there are indeed many weddings to be held in the capital next year. There is a princess and two princesses. If Princess Yongping doesn't want to get married, I'm afraid there will be more marriages.
One more thing.”
"Princess Yongping doesn't want to marry?" Zhu Tingfang was stunned for a moment. He was deeply impressed by this golden girl who was born in the same year, month and day as his sister, because she had a completely opposite temperament to Zhu Ying. Zhu Ying was flamboyant, while Princess Yongping was reserved.
; Zhu Ying likes fancy clothes and beautiful ornaments, while Princess Yongping prefers elegance and simplicity; Zhu Ying likes riding horses and hunting, but Princess Yongping likes playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Of course, he always found it incredible that Princess Yongping actually liked eight-part essay...
After receiving Zhu Ying's irritating reply, and hearing that Zhang Shou was actually called by the emperor to accompany the selection of the consort and the guest of honour, in the end the three people who stood out were all from Zhang Shou's Banshan Hall, Zhu Tingfang felt more and more that Zhang Shou, the future brother-in-law, was a bit strange.
Unspeakably miraculous, he couldn't help but make fun of Zhu Ying when he was distracted.
"Yingying, in terms of appearance, Princess Yongping is slightly inferior to you. In terms of riding skills and shooting skills, you are better than her countless times, but in terms of talent and scheming, she is better than you countless times. From childhood to adulthood, you have been competing in everything.
We all have to fight for her, but knowing that you like Zhang Shou so much, she didn’t even think of competing with you for her husband?"
"Brother, you are really bad at learning!" Zhu Ying was so angry that she kicked someone with her foot. As a result, she kicked the person with her toes, but the leg she touched was like an iron plate, motionless. She was afraid of hurting her brother, so she immediately retracted it.
Feet. Facing Zhu Tingfang's vague smile, she said angrily, "Who made Yong Ping so ignorant? Not only did he look down on Ah Shou, but he also allowed others to make things difficult for him..."
Zhu Ying told Zhu Tingfang in a few words what happened at Yuehua Tower, and emphasized that Zhang Shou and Princess Yongping had not seen each other very much since then, and they had not even spoken to each other, so she was very confident. At the end of the day, she
Two more domineering declarations came: "She is a proud and arrogant person, and she will not be so shameless as to compete with me for my husband! Of course, even if we compete, she will never be able to compete with me!"
"A sneeze, a sneeze, a sneeze!"
Standing in the courtyard of the Ge family, watching the group of little guys he and Wu brought to celebrate the New Year with Ge Yong, setting off firecrackers, Zhang Shou was agitated by the cold wind, but couldn't help but suddenly sneezed a series of times, and beside him,
Ah Liu was still reporting the situation on his own.
"The old woman who went to Shuntian Mansion to complain, Deng Xiaodai said, Wang Dayin has been identified. She is a beggar woman who has been begging for many years next to a local temple in the outer city. She has nothing to do with any prominent family in the place."
Zhang Shou didn't care to answer. He went back to the room and took a stack of paper to solve the image problem. Then he came out again with a slightly red nose. He said with a smile: "Anyway, the people who bribed them can't be caught.
In the eyes of others, this dirty water was not thrown by Duke Zhao's Palace, but by Duke Zhao's Palace... It's okay, Mr. Zhu is back, and there are many capable people in Duke Zhao's Palace."
Ah Liu turned his head and looked at Zhang Shou to make sure that his tone of abandonment was not a joke, but serious. He suddenly said gloomily: "But I asked someone to investigate."
Because Ah Liu had just said a lot of words, but now he suddenly returned to the language habit of just a few words, Zhang Shou didn't react at first, but when he suddenly realized that Ah Liu said that he wanted people to investigate, not to investigate personally.
, he immediately turned around and looked at this boy who was acting out of common sense.
"Are you asking people to trace you? Where do you come from? Are you Hua Qiye? Si Li Jianwai Yamen?" It's no wonder that Zhang Shou thought of these guys who also have spy functions... It's because he has personally experienced Ah Liuna sending people.
Ability!
Ah Liu looked at Zhang Shou with some confusion, and emphasized in a more serious tone: "They are not from the Zhang family!"
In view of the fact that Ah Liu emphasized the issue of Hua Qi's ownership and his own ownership last time, Zhang Shou breathed a sigh of relief. But then he felt nervous again and quickly asked: "Then who did you ask to investigate?
? These boys in our family can't do this kind of thing."
"Of course they can't." Ah Liu showed a mocking smile as if they were all idiots, and then said calmly, "I have found a few suitable people. Whoever can find out the results will be a member of the Zhang family from now on.
.The Zhang family does not raise waste."
Although Ah Liu belonged to the Zhang family, Zhang Shou was very satisfied with such a title, but the message conveyed by Ah Liu in and out of words made him dumbfounded. He immediately said with a straight face: "Who said
Are you so bold to recruit people randomly?"
When he found that Ah Liu didn't answer and just stared at him, Zhang Shou couldn't help but feel even more angry: "Why, you still want to say that I ordered you? When did I say this?"
"When you came out of the courtyard of Prince Lu's Mansion that day, you told the eldest lady that the garden was too big and I didn't know how many people would be needed to clean it."
Zhang Shou felt that one person was bigger than the other, and he raised his voice unknowingly: "But I'm talking about Sasou!"
"The people I'm recruiting now are the people who do the cleaning and housekeeping!" Ah Liu seemed a little confused, "I haven't even started looking at the people who are looking after the homes and nursing homes, and they don't have the ability either!"
Zhang Shou simply felt that he was like a scholar meeting a soldier, unable to explain why. Whose sweeper actually had to be able to track down a conspiracy? Was he hiring a servant or a master of detectives?