Wang Erlang was successful in his official career, but his life was not going well. He really wanted a daughter, but Song Ling'er gave birth to another baby girl for the second time.
Three sons!
Fortunately, when I was the governor of Zhejiang, I adopted a baby girl. Because she was too young to travel long distances from north to south, she had been fostered in the house of a wet nurse in Hangzhou. In ancient times, the medical and sanitary conditions made it dangerous for adults to travel long distances.
Now that the adopted daughter was four and a half years old, Li Long, the governor of Zhejiang Province, went to Beijing to report on his work. He brought corn, incarnations, and sweet potato seeds, as well as his adopted daughter and wet nurse.
"Baozhu, call me daddy quickly," the nanny instructed.
Baozhu is the adopted daughter's nickname. The girl was timid and hugged her nanny's legs and hid behind her. After coaxing her several times, she finally showed her head and said, as thin as a mosquito, "Daddy, grandma."
"Hey, you're so good!" Huang E stretched out his hand to hug Baozhu, but he was so frightened that Baozhu shrank back.
The wet nurse said awkwardly: "If you are timid, you will be fine once you get used to it."
Wang Yuan called Wang Ce and Wang Su and asked them to play with the orbs.
The children are more harmonious together, and they get to know each other in less than half an hour. Baozhu likes Wang Ce very much, chasing him and calling him "Brother Ce" all the way. Wang Su is not so popular. He is two months younger than Baozhu, so he has to continue to be a child.
younger brother.
The youngest son will be a hundred days old in a few days, and a barber will be asked to shave off the fetal hair. Wang Yuan also has to give his son a good name.
After thinking for a long time, I named him Wang Che.
Just because he was born in the middle of winter, the weather was freezing. After the midwife delivered the baby, the road was blocked by heavy snowfall when she returned home, and she stayed in the king's house for an extra day. Che means enlightenment. I hope he can break through the snow and ice in the future and overcome all kinds of difficulties.
Realize your ideals in life.
By the way, the name of the adopted daughter was also given, called Wang Hui (read "hun" here). Hui, a beautiful jade, also has the word "military", which implies that it was picked up outside the military camp.
Wang Hui, also known as Baozhu, was loved by everyone in the family because she was the only little girl in the family.
One day, Wang Yuan stayed overnight in Xiangxiang House.
After Xiangxiang undressed Wang Yuan, he hesitated and said: "Master, Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Song both have children. Can Huier be raised by my concubine? It will be more lively in peacetime. Don't worry, sir, I will definitely treat her as a child."
It’s like coming from one’s own self.”
Wang Yuan did not agree immediately, but said, "I will discuss it with the two ladies."
"Oh." Xiangxiang forced a smile.
Wang Yuan hugged this foreign beauty and said with a smile: "Isn't it easy to have a child? Let's have one as soon as possible."
Xiangxiang's pretty face flushed, and she suddenly hooked Wang Yuan's neck and gave him a flirtatious look: "Then I should be more brave tonight."
"When am I not brave?" Wang Yuan asked.
Xiangxiang smiled and said, "You must be particularly brave tonight."
The maid Qiyun is almost fifteen years old, and she is even more beautiful than Xiangxiang. She is of Persian, Mongolian and Uighur descent. Her brown-black hair is naturally slightly curly, her eyes are dark gray, and her eyelashes are very long.
The body develops earlier than that of the Han people. The breasts, slender waist and long legs can draw away the soul of a man.
Seeing that the master and his wife were getting tired, Qiyun left the room with a blushing face. She waited outside the door, and after the fighting inside stopped, she had to send hot water in to help clean.
The next day, Wang Yuan found Huang E and Song Ling'er, and they both agreed to let Xiang Xiang raise the treasure.
Although the three bedrooms have separate meals and accommodation, the two sons and one daughter have a good relationship and play together every day. The three mothers naturally get along harmoniously.
The corn, sweet potatoes, and peanut seeds that Li Long brought were all selected by Xingtai in Hangzhou. He also sent a student to guide farming. This student was equivalent to Wang Yuan's disciple. He was extremely respectful when he saw his ancestor, and took the Wang family with him.
The tenant farmers cultivated the land carefully, and at the same time experimentally summarized the differences in planting between the south and the north.
As soon as the three crops sprouted, Xi Shu, who was in charge of disaster relief in Shaanxi, returned to Beijing and visited Wang Yuan as soon as possible.
Wang Yuan took his wife, concubines, and children to the gate to greet him, and gave him plenty of papers. After arriving in the living room, Wang Yuan said again: "Master Xi, please take a seat!"
Xi Shu was very happy to receive such courtesy and hurriedly declined: "No, guests are welcome to do as they please. If you are interested, please take a seat first."
Wang Yuan sat down with his hands folded and said, "We haven't seen each other for so many years. How is Master Xi's health?"
"Not bad," Xi Shu sighed with emotion. "I think back to those days, when Ruoxu was still a weak young man, and in a blink of an eye, he was already in the left hall of the Ministry of Rites. The world is changing and unpredictable, which makes Zhijiao people sigh. And my two
Brother, thanks to Ruoxu for taking care of me."
Xi Shu's two younger brothers, Xi Chun and Xi Tuan, have both passed the Jinshi examination and are both members of the School of Physics.
It's just that the two of them have no ambition to study physics and have stopped doing experiments with their classmates a long time ago.
Among them, Xi Chun not only passed the imperial examination, but also entered the Hanlin Academy as a shujishi. He is currently reviewing from the seventh-grade Hanlin Academy. Wang Yuan helped ask for an errand, and the emperor agreed to let Xi Chun serve as the prince's Spanish attendant and wait for the prince.
After starting to study the Five Classics, Xi Chun can study with the prince. As long as nothing happens, he can at least become a minister with enough qualifications.
Xi Tuo's fate changed even more because of Wang Yuan. This king historically served as a household minister. Because he advised Wuzong on his southern tour, he was demoted to Yiling as a judge. He was reinstated and died of illness on the way back to Beijing. Although Xi Tuan also advised him this time, he was demoted to Yiling as a judge.
For Wang Yuan's sake, the emperor did not punish him in any way, but instead promoted him to the rank of Hu Keyou and assigned him to Shizhong.
Taking care of his two younger brothers in this way, coupled with the teacher-student relationship, Xi Shu was naturally bound to Wang Yuan's boat.
Xi Shu suddenly asked: "How is Liu Yaozu doing now? At that time, among all the students in Guizhou, he was the one who studied the hardest. He was like a thorn in the side."
Wang Yuan smiled bitterly: "I hope he can win the exam next year."
"You haven't won the exam yet?" Xi Shu was quite surprised.
When Liu Yaozu was admitted to the imperial examination, he still read and graded papers and personally awarded him the title of scholar. How many years have passed, and he is still a scholar. There is really no way to explain the matter of the imperial examination.
In Xi Shu's opinion, with Liu Yaozu's knowledge, it would not be difficult to pass the examination in Guizhou.
But I just couldn’t pass the exam!
Among Wang Yangming's Guizhou students, Chen Wenxu and Ye Wu were the most knowledgeable, but brothers Tang Xun and Tang Xun had already won Jinshi, and Chen and Ye were still immersed in studying. Who can reason with this?
Zhang Cong is even known as the Great Confucian of Zhejiang Province. He took the exam for decades and only passed the exam last year when he was very old.
After chatting about old things in Guizhou, Wang Yuan suddenly asked: "Master Xi, how is the disaster situation in Shaanxi?"
Xi Shu shook his head and sighed: "Why am I going to provide disaster relief? I am just going to suppress bandits!"
Last year, disasters occurred in all provinces at the same time, and the imperial court's money and food were simply not enough to provide disaster relief. Various disaster relief ministers and the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each showing his or her magical powers to save as many victims as possible without causing chaos. In the end, they all became bandit suppressors.
Once someone started an uprising, countless refugees followed, and a lot of the disaster relief food became military rations. The disaster relief minister led his soldiers everywhere to suppress the uprising.
Now when it comes to rewards for merit, what we are talking about is not the merits of disaster relief, but the merits of various governors in quelling chaos!
Wang Yuan was helpless about this. God was too cruel. The feudal dynasty really couldn't withstand the climate of the Little Glacier.
"Oh, let's not mention it," Wang Yuan said, "Master Xi will return to Beijing this time, and his position as censor of Zuo Qiandu should be no problem."
Xi Shu whispered: "I heard that there was a fierce fight in the court a while ago?"
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "Yang Tinghe is currently the dominant family. His party members account for half of the cabinet, a small half of the official department, a small half of the household department, a large half of the rites department, and the entire criminal department. More than half of the officials in the science and education department are members of Yang's party. Moreover,
, the eunuch Zhang Yong has been given the power to hold the pen and can criticize the emperor on behalf of the emperor. Zhang Yong and Yang Tinghe have colluded together."
Xi Shu was dumbfounded: "Can eunuchs applaud the emperor on behalf of the emperor? This... is confusing!"
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "In my opinion, half of the emperor is really confused, and half of it is intentional. First, set two targets for the ministers. The emperor's cronies will occupy the key departments. After there is a commotion below, the emperor can take advantage of the chaos to do his own thing.
Things I want to do.”
Xi Shu lamented: "The king cannot be too political."
As long as Xi Shu hangs around in the capital for a while, he will know how powerful his students are. Not only is he favored by the emperor, there are two people in the cabinet who are close to him, and there is also a Liang Chu who is forced to get closer to him. The father-in-law is a household name.
Wang Qiong, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and Wang Qiong, the Minister of the Ministry of War, also wanted to form an alliance with him. The Ministry of Industry was directly controlled by him, and Liao Ji, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, also favored him.
Yang Tinghe's side was a political alliance, and Wang Yuan's side also had the embryonic form of a political alliance.
Moreover, the more Yang Tinghe and Zhang Yong go too far, the more stable Wang Yuan’s political alliance will be!