Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1142 Zhang Siwei Dingyou

Of course, the temple for newlyweds is not the temple for the ancestors, but it is similar in nature, and it is also the temple for ancestor worship.However, the Gao family's ancestral hall is in Xinzheng, so we can only put up the ancestral spirit tablet for a distant sacrifice. There are many rules, but it is not worth mentioning in detail, so I will mention it here.

As for visiting uncle and aunt, that is to say, the young couple first met Gao Cai and his wife at Baiyulou, and then went to visit Huang Chengzu at Chengguo Gong's Nanhu Courtyard.

After this trip, even if the wedding matters are done in ten or nine stops, Gao Wushi, who returns to Baiyu Tower, can wait to receive the gifts.

With a high level of practical connections and status, after this wedding, even the gift list is filled with six large desks, and there are more than 2000 gifts in different categories. This is not considered gold and silver of.

There are so many presents, of course it is impossible for Gao Yushi to count them one by one. This is all up to Gao Mo, the big housekeeper. He just looks at the first batch of gifts - to be exact, the most important batch gifts from people.

The No. [-] gift list in Tianzi could not be someone else's, it was the congratulatory gift of Zhu Yijun, the current emperor and Wanli emperor.

The emperor's congratulatory gifts consisted of three items: a piece of "Annan Dingbei" by Chen Han, two pairs of gold-inlaid jade chopsticks, and a statue of Avalokitesvara sent by Hetian Baiyu.

Needless to say, Annan Dingbei, gold-inlaid jade chopsticks are jade chopsticks inlaid with gold, and they are the same as the statue of Songzi Guanyin, which means "early birth and precious son".The most valuable here must be the Jade Guanyin, which is one foot and four inches high, but the most noble one is Chen Han written by the emperor's imperial pen.

Gao Pragmatism has surpassed the emperor's many Chen Hans, and this time Chen Han wrote the largest ones, which can be hung in the main hall.The only trouble is that Gao Wuzhen lives in Baiyulou now, and the decoration in Baiyulou is a typical French palace decoration, so it would be a bit strange to hang a picture of Emperor Chen Han inside.So after thinking about it, he decided to ask his father Gao Cai to bring it back to Xinzheng, frame it well and hang it in the main hall of Longwen Yayuan.

After the emperor's congratulatory gifts, there are the congratulatory gifts from the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and the Queen, but their congratulatory gifts themselves are not important, what matters is their identities, so there is no need to say more.

Further down are the congratulatory gifts from King Lu and the eldest princesses.This is rather strange, because generally speaking, Lu Wang cannot casually send congratulatory gifts to the current ministers.As for the two eldest princesses, although there is no such restriction, the former eldest princesses are usually more willing to be cautious and self-confident, and will not interfere with the favors between ministers of the DPRK and China.

Of course, these two eldest princesses have something to do with Gao Yushi, so it’s no big deal to send a congratulatory gift, the key is Lu Wang’s actions——Lu Wang’s mansion has not been repaired for so long, and he had already sent two python robes last time. This time, regardless of the feudal king's taboos, he sent a wedding gift again. If there is no deep meaning, even a fool would not believe it.

Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic has a headache.He is not a stingy person. If it is said that he wants to spend money to eliminate disasters, or that after giving a sum of money to King Lu, there will be no adverse consequences other than making the emperor and queen mother happy, then he does not mind paying 20 yuan. 30 taels, even if the money is definitely a huge sum of money in the private sector, it doesn't matter.

But the problem is that if the money is paid out, there will definitely be adverse consequences, and the impact will be very bad. A large group of people in the court are waiting for him to make mistakes!

"Spending a huge amount of money to be close to the vassal king, the heart of disobedience is clearly revealed!"——Who can bear this?

However, if King Lu dared to do this, it meant that there must be someone behind him, otherwise how would he dare?It's just that I don't know whether the person behind it is the emperor, the benevolent empress dowager, or both, and I can't ignore it.

Gao Yushi casually looked at these gift lists, and found that the items were rather ordinary, and they were all the kind that would not be caught by the spokesperson, so he didn't look at them any more.

Next came the congratulatory gifts from the nobles, and the gifts on the gift list began to become various and their value increased sharply.All kinds of gold, pearl and jade wares are just ordinary goods. The important thing is that there are many unique, rare and rare books handed down from generation to generation, all of which are rare and precious gifts among literati and refined guests.Adding these things together, it is highly pragmatic enough to hold an exhibition, and the specific value cannot be measured at all.

Even Gao Cai, who was born in a family of officials, couldn't help trembling his hands after seeing so many elegant things. He urged Gao Yushi to keep them properly, and he must not be half-sloppy.Gao Wushi agreed with a smile, without seeming to care too much.Fearing that he would take it lightly, Mrs. Zhang confessed to Gao Mo alone.

After all these things were settled, Gao Wushi couldn't rest, so he took Huang Zhiting to greet his relatives, and checked his younger brothers' homework by the way.

As far as the literary spirit of the Gao family is concerned, Gao Yushi may have really absorbed it all by himself. In his opinion, the homework of the younger brothers is relatively average. There must be no problem in recruiting students, but it depends on luck.He came up with a big question at random, looked at their broken questions, and handed it to Gao Cai.

After reading it, Gao Cho thought about it for a while, then shook his head slightly, and said, "It's quite satisfactory."

"It lacks aura, but also lacks grandeur." Gao Yushi was much more direct than his father: "To break the topic of the current text is the general outline of the full text, and you must have a high-level view and an overview of the overall situation. Like you guys, this kind of problem-solving, Even if the following article is handed over to me to continue for you, it will not be a splendid one."

The younger brothers all looked dejected and didn't dare to say anything, but Mrs. Zhang still chimed in and said, "You guys usually think they're good at the clan school, what do you say for your mother? It's just you Be patient, the article is in front of the eldest brother, it looks good to you, should I accept it now?"

Gao Wuguan, who had already been adopted by Gao Gong and favored Shang Baosi, saw that his younger brothers were sluggish, so he still carried forward his elder brother's style and persuaded: "Brother is the number one scholar in the six poems, and it is inevitable that he has a picky eye. It’s not a good work, but it’s still a bit of a testament, and after reading it carefully for a long time in the future, it will naturally improve—brother, right?”

Gao Wushi nodded reluctantly, and said: "Originally I couldn't read your articles, and I should teach them myself, but you also know that I have so many things to do now that I really don't have much time to spare. How about that? I have a man named Xiao in the same year. His name is Liangyou. He is named Yizhan and named Hanzhong. He is the second in my list. Now he is an official in the Imperial Academy. I will go and tell him and ask him to come and give it to you. Do some counseling... You don't want to go back to Xinzheng, but stay in the capital from now on."

It stands to reason that the head of Sixth House is Gao Choi, and the others are here, even if Gao Yushi is the eldest son, he shouldn't make the decision directly on his behalf.But he, the eldest son, is really special, and he was talking about academic matters, so Gao Cai didn't dare to question the views of the top six champions, instead he could only follow his words: "Okay, okay, okay! If you can have Xiao Bang's eyes to guide you, you will feel at ease as a father."

Then he turned to Gao Wushi and said, "Wuzheng and Wuruo, why don't you stay here?"

Gao Wushi originally had six younger brothers, among whom Gao Wuguan was adopted by Gao Gong, and Gao Wuqin had already gone to Annan, and now they are all named as the generals of the Six Towns.In this way, there are two younger brothers, Gao Wujian and Gao Wuzhong, followed by Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo - the two youngest brothers are bastards, half-brothers with him.

The reason why Gao Xuan said this was, of course, that he was a little worried about whether Gao Yushi would be too clear-cut about his concubine's views, leaving only Gao Wujian and Gao Wuzhong, leaving aside Wuzheng and Wuruo.

But in fact, Gao Pragmatism basically doesn't care. He even thinks that in a family like Gao's family, the younger brother of the concubine is likely to be much more obedient than the younger brother of the real brother, and maybe he can teach him better.So he said without hesitation: "Naturally stay here, one sheep is chased, and a group of sheep is also chased, why bother."

When he said this, he glanced at his mother Zhang from the corner of his eye, and found that Zhang's expression was still calm, and there was no sign of being unhappy.After a little thought in his mind, he understood: probably in her opinion, even if the two concubine younger brothers worked hard to study, they would not be able to reach the height of himself as the number one scholar in the six poems, so he didn't care much.

He taught his younger brother a lesson here, while Huang Zhiting chatted with the three younger sisters on the other side.Among his three younger sisters, there are also two direct sisters and one concubine sister.Gao Wushi didn't communicate much with them, and he didn't have much interest in participating in the chats at their daughter's house, so he thought it would be good to communicate separately.

About half an hour later, the sky gradually began to darken, and the servants and maids had already started to set up a family banquet in the banquet hall, when someone came to pay a visit in a hurry.

At this moment, Gao Yushi was far away, but Gao Cai was closer. The person who came actually knew Gao Cai. Report urgently to Puzhou, the old man... is driving a crane."

This servant was in his forties, and he was full of air when he spoke, and everyone heard what he said.

When Mrs. Zhang heard of her father's death, her vision went dark, her whole strength seemed to be drained, and she fell back after shaking. Fortunately, Gao Wujian and Gao Wuzhong were close, and they quickly supported her mother.

Gao Wushi also hurried forward to check, but luckily, Mrs. Zhang just burst into blood. After being supported by her two sons, she came back to her senses. When she saw Gao Wushi, the eldest son she was most happy with, two lines of tears flowed at once. He fell down, but there was no sound in his mouth, he just whimpered and cried.

Huang Zhiting also trotted over quickly. She had experienced the pain of losing her mother, and she could empathize with it far more than Gao Yushi. She helped Mrs. Zhang to sit down, and comforted her in a low voice.

Gao Wushi felt that he should cry a few times too, but he didn't have any sorrowful thoughts. Instead, he secretly felt lucky: Fortunately, the matter of adding ministers was done first, otherwise it would be a bad idea?

Then I thought: No, I still have to cry some tears...

Unexpectedly, when he glanced at him, he happened to find that his father Gao Cai also had a troubled expression on his face, and seemed to be in the embarrassment of wanting to cry but not being able to cry.

Gao Wu said sincerely: "This... Dad doesn't cry, I'd better not cry either, so as not to make him more embarrassed, then I might as well take some responsibility."

So he immediately shouted: "Come here, check the carriages and horses, they will be used tomorrow morning! And you, you, you, you guys, go and pack things for the grandfather and wife, and you will leave with the carriage tomorrow."

Mrs. Zhang listened and sobbed, "Don't leave tomorrow, just leave tonight!"

Unexpectedly, Gao Cho stopped him, saying: "Not tonight, but tomorrow." As he spoke, he winked at Mrs. Zhang.

It was only then that Mrs. Zhang realized that today was really not an option, her son's wedding was just finished today, so what's the point of leaving tonight?He quickly grabbed Huang Zhiting's hand and said, "Zhiting, I'm so confused for my mother..."

Huang Zhiting didn't care too much, she quickly said that she could understand, and then continued to persuade her.

Gao Xuan pulled Gao Wushi aside, and said with a wry smile: "I planned to stay with you for a while, but it's a pity that things didn't go as planned..."

These days, filial piety is greater than the sky. Of course, Gao Yushi will not express his displeasure, but said with a sad face: "Grandpa is gone now, and my son has an official position, so I can't leave easily. I can only work hard for my father, my son." Unfilial..."

The father and son talked nonsense for a few words, so Gao Jian went to comfort his wife and released Huang Zhiting.

Huang Zhiting didn't know if she was infected by Zhang, but she even shed some tears along with her. When she was pulled aside by Gao Yushi, her eyes were all red.

It's a pity that Gao Yushi didn't have so much sentimentality, and he said it was a matter of business: "Grandpa passed away, and my uncle will definitely resign Ding You tomorrow morning. Although he is Yuanfu, generally speaking, he should resign in two or three days. At that time, I may be very busy for a while..."

"The slave family knows, Mr. Xiang doesn't have to worry, just deal with the changes in the court."

Gao Wushi nodded and said nothing more.

There was no court ceremony early the next morning, but Gao Wushi left the house before dawn to wait for news at the Ministry of War office.

All yamen will have some contacts in the General Administration Department, and the Ministry of War is no exception. Before the morning was over, the news of Zhang Siwei's resignation and Ding You came.

However, the emperor did not approve immediately, but rushed from Qianqing Palace to Wenhua Palace to summon Zhang Siwei.

The conversation between the emperor and the chief minister was very secret, everyone was ordered to wait outside, even Chen Ju was no exception, so Gao Wushi didn't know what they talked about.

The only follow-up news is that after Zhang Siwei left the palace, he sent someone to tell Gao Wushi that he would leave in the afternoon.

In the Ming Dynasty, "going to work" was also very important. Gao Yushi stayed until noon, and hurried to Zhang Siwei's mansion to see him off - of course seeing him off was secondary, the important thing was to see what the uncle had to say.

The Zhang family is a wealthy family, and the death of the old man was a sign, so when Gao Wushi rushed there, the Zhang family's motorcade was already ready.

When Gao Wushi arrived, Zhang Siwei sat alone in the flower hall in a daze, seeming a little absent-minded.When Gao Wushi called him, Zhang Siwei came back to his senses and waved to his nephew: "Sit down."

Upon hearing this, Gao Wushi sat down and said, "My uncle's condolences."

Zhang Siwei shook his head slightly, and sighed: "Don't say these things, let's talk about business, I'm a little worried and want to talk to you."

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "Uncle, please tell me."
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