Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1987 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) What is boldness?
Neither Chen Ju, Liu Ping, nor Gao Yushi expected at this moment that when they were still discussing whether the current admiral of Dongchang could be trusted, Li Wenjin, the seal of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, was still in Guangjinfang.

Guangjinfang is the casino whose background is the property of Wang Xijue's family.However, the background of this casino is not just Wang Xijue's family, there are other forces behind it.

Li Wenjin was not gambling at the moment, but was sitting proudly in the secret room of the casino, crossing his legs and squinting his eyes to look at the person in front of him.

The person in front of him is a middle-aged man with a yellowish face, a thin body, a long beard and a long beard, and he is graceful.The man smiled and said, "People in the capital say that horses are shrewd. You should know that this 10 taels is not difficult to get. After all, I just want to know the number of guards in Kunning Palace within one month from today, and their respective strengths. What is the rotation of the department? Such a trivial matter is not difficult for Yuma, let alone dangerous, it is really a windfall."

"Our family has been a hard-working person since we were young, and we never believed that any windfall could come to our family." Li Wenjin snorted softly: "No, our family lost more than 3000 taels this afternoon. Are there any other people with backs of hands like ours?"

The middle-aged man chuckled, and said: "There are too many things to do this afternoon. It's just that in order to invite Yuma to come here for a meeting, I specially found a few masters to play games. Where is the back of Yuma's hand? If Yuma I am willing to help you with this small favor, and I will return the gambling money in the afternoon."

Li Wenjin's attitude towards money has always been "If you make a profit, you lose it." When he heard that the money he lost this afternoon would be returned, he couldn't help but look better.However, he still refused: "How important is the Kunning Palace? Although our house is in the hands of the Yumajian, the Yumajian doesn't care about the Kunning Palace. Where can we get the information you want? ?Don't joke, don't joke."

"I'm not joking, is it the royal horse?" The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, the uncle of the emperor, and the seal of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the guard of the palace. Can't you still ask?

Besides, I am not asking you to adjust the guards now, but I just want to know the situation of the guards every day. You can know the details casually, and then send a small yellow door to inform me casually. What's the point of this? difficult? "

Li Wenjin suddenly turned his face hard, and said coldly: "What about the ban on the Kunning Palace, is it something you can ask in white clothes? If you want to know about this, what is your plan? Before our family has any murderous intentions, persuade me Come on honestly!"

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man didn't panic, instead he said in a calm manner: "Yu Ma is worrying too much, I just want to confirm whether these guards are doing things honestly, what plans can they have?"

Seeing that he wasn't afraid at all, Li Wenjin didn't press the question anymore, but just looked at him coldly for a while, then suddenly shook his head and said, "You've seen the world, but that's useless, you can't talk about such things. If ...You guys are really interested in this news, so let your boss come forward and talk to our family."

"Okay, Yuma is really bold." The middle-aged man smiled, got up and raised his hand, and said: "Please wait a moment, Yuma." After saying that, he turned around and went into another secret door of the bookcase.

Li Wenjin didn't care, picked up a cup of clear tea on the table, and took a sip comfortably.He wasn't worried about the poison in the tea, after all, it was obvious that the other party wanted something from him, and it was impossible to harm him.Besides, he is also very confident in his identity. In these four or nine cities and at the emperor's feet, no one dares to do anything to him, the empress dowager's younger brother and the emperor's uncle.

Soon, the secret door was opened again, and the middle-aged man came back, and there were two more people who came with him.Li Wenjin took a glance and found that one of them looked vaguely familiar, so he couldn't help staring at him and pondering.

The man also seemed to have guessed that Li Wenjin might know him, smiled, and bowed his hands in a salute, "Your horse is fine, student Qian Menggao is being polite."

Li Wenjin recalled it now, and suddenly said, "Oh, it's you?" But he didn't continue, and looked at the other person.

The man didn't hesitate, he smiled and cupped his hands: "Student Zhong Zhaodou, I have seen the imperial horse."

Li Wenjin said with a half smile: "The two section chiefs are so mysterious, if our family is not an internal official, just this scene will make us tremble with fear."

This "section chief" is not the "section chief" of later generations, but the common name given to the six departments in the Ming Dynasty, and the left and right departments of the six departments are commonly called "deputy section chiefs".Today, Qian Menggao was in charge of the criminal department, and Zhong Zhaodou was in charge of the engineering department. They were indeed "section chiefs".

Qian Menggao said with a smile: "Yu Ma was joking, the two students are asking for Yu Ma today, besides how honorable Yu Ma is, who in the world dares to break ground on Yu Ma's Tai Sui head? Even if he just came back today The one in the court must also dare not."

Who is the one who just returned to court today?Wouldn't it be about Dong Yiyuan and Liu Ting, let alone that they are no more than military officials, they have no such status at all, so what about their rank?The two are just military generals from outside the town, so how can they return to the court?

The so-called "returning to the court" can only refer to the Shaofu of the current dynasty, the prince and the grand master, the scholar of the Wenhua Palace, the minister of the household department and the Pingwa Jinglue, and the Nanning Hou Gao Yushi.

But Li Wenjin didn't seem to like this kind of flattery, he waved his hand and said, "Don't put a high hat on our family. Think about it, the Marquis of Nanning is a civil servant who was enshrined as a prince, super-class hereditary, and rested with the country, even if it's not other things Official position, he is definitely not comparable to our family. If you have something to talk about, we can talk about it if we can, but don't talk about what is there or what is not."

Qian Menggao and Zhong Zhaodou looked at each other, and when they were about to speak, Li Wenjin pointed to the middle-aged man before him, and said to Qian and Zhong, "You two understand your masters, we don't need to ask who you came here for." , but this...hehe, he hasn't explained the origin clearly yet."

It turns out that Li Wenjin said earlier that the "people behind the scenes" should come forward to talk to him, but that was actually just what he said.He vaguely guessed in his heart that the "person behind" this incident was absolutely extraordinary, not the kind who would easily go to such an unpopular place as Guangjinfang.However, Li Wenjin couldn't bear the middle-aged man's delay in revealing his identity.

Qian Menggao and Zhong Zhaodou turned their heads to look at the middle-aged man, who was not pretentious, bowed his hands solemnly, and said: "Student Dongyang student Xu Lingjiu, I have seen the imperial horse."

Xu Lingjiu, I'm sure Li Wenjin has never heard of this name, but...

"The Xu family in Dongyang?" Li Wenjin asked seriously, "I don't know what is the relationship with the former Prime Minister Shen Gong Rumo?"

Li Wenjin's question seems a bit strange. What is the relationship between the "Xu family" in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province and the Shen family in Changzhou, Suzhou? How can they be connected?
There is indeed a reason for this matter, but it is related to Shi Shixing's background.Many years ago, a wealthy businessman surnamed Shen went to other places and met a very beautiful nun by chance. After some pursuit, the two actually fell in love.Soon the nun found out that she was pregnant and soon after gave birth to a boy.

This is not a big trouble, because this Mr. Shen is a man with a wife, but he also made the nun's belly bigger.If this matter is spread, the face of the old Shen family will be lost, so the child must not be brought back to his own family to raise, and can only be helped by others.And this child is undoubtedly the later Shishihang.

Since Shen Shixing's father was a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, of course he would not give his child to ordinary people for adoption, but to Xu Shangzhen, the prefect of Suzhou at that time.

Xu Shangzhen was always a person who liked children. After getting the child, she didn't dislike him as the son of a nun at all, so she named him Xu Shixing.

But then there was a little accident, because it didn't take long for prefect Xu to resign and go home.Fortunately, he is also a retired official, not to mention having worked in such a prestigious position as the prefect of Suzhou, unless he is Hai Rui, he will never be poor.

Therefore, the prefect Xu's family background is quite good, and Xu Shixing was considered to be famous for eating spicy food when he was a child, enjoying endless glory and wealth.Even his cheap father found many good teachers for him, allowing him to learn a lot of skills.

Of course, all of this is just an external cause. The internal cause is that Xu Shixing himself is really very intelligent, smart and eager to learn. He was admitted to Juren at the age of 20. In the eyes of ordinary people, he already has a bright future, but at this time a small problem arises.

When Xu Shixing was 28 years old, he went to the capital to rush for the exam. Before leaving, his adoptive father Xu Shangzhen told him: Son, you are actually not my real son.Before the stunned Xu Shixing could ask questions, the prefect Xu told everything.

People who are already parents may find it very strange that your son is going to take the exam, so don't add some extra psychological burden to him at this time!This is not a great thing, why do you have to say such a thing at this time?
But everything that happened afterwards proved the prefect Xu's foresight.They just want to tell Xu Shixing: From now on, your way out can only depend on yourself, and there will be a lot of hardships and obstacles waiting for you ahead.My cheap daddy can't help you for too long, the only one you can rely on is yourself.

In fact, this was Xu Shangzhen's last encouragement to his son. Of course Xu Shixing understood his father's loyalty, because he won the number one prize back then.However, he has not forgotten Xu Shangzhen's kindness to him in nurturing him, and he still hopes to belong to the Xu family.

What is puzzling is that Xu Shangzhen refused his request and closed the door when Shen Shixing came, and refused to open the door no matter how much Shen Shixing begged.

This is a child who has just won the number one prize and is returning home!

However, in Xu Shangzhen's eyes, it seems that she really only pays and does not ask for gains.So, moved unspeakably, Xu Shixing bid farewell to Xu Shangzhen and returned to Shen's house.

If it was 20 years ago, Shen's family would not be very happy to let the old Shen's family accept this child, but 20 years later, he will already be the number one scholar. Beating gongs and drums welcomed Xu Shixing into the house.

However, Xu Shixing's biological father had passed away at this time, so when he returned home, he changed to Shen Shixing.

Of course he knew that his biological father only gave him a skin, and his adoptive father trained him to become an adult.Therefore, in his life since then, he has always tried his best to support and reuse the members of his adoptive father Xu's family.It is also because of this that when Li Wenjin heard "Dongyang Xu's family", he immediately thought of Shen Shihang.

"Yu Ma is really astute. The student was appreciated by Shen Gong when he was young, and he was once a scholar of Yuan Zhu Gong." The middle-aged man replied modestly.

Yuanzhu is the name of Shen Yongmao, the eldest son of Shen Shixing.

Li Wenjin was surprised now, and frowned, "So, this matter is still related to Shen Zhenglang?"

Zhenglang is a common name for a doctor in a certain department of the Six Departments. Because the doctor is the chief officer of the department, he is called Zhenglang.At that time, Shen Yongmao was a doctor in the Ministry of War.

According to Li Wenjin's thinking, if Shen Yongmao also intervened in this matter, it would seem to be a bit complicated in nature.

Shen Yongmao represents not only himself, but also Shen Shixing.Although Shen Shixing has retired and returned to his hometown, he has been a cabinet minister and even chief assistant for so many years, and there are so many disciples and old officials in the court, it is obviously not a joke, so the Shen family is still a big force.

Who knows that the situation seems to be more complicated than Li Wenjin imagined, because Xu Lingjiu seems to be polite, but in fact he said: "The Shen and Wang families are one, and Yuma must know this... Otherwise, how could the students today?" Will it appear in Guangjinfang?"

Good guy, it really has something to do with Wang Xijue.Li Wenjin looked at Xu Lingjiu, then at Qian Menggao and Zhong Zhaodou. He had always been daring in his affairs, and at this moment he couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

Xu Lingjiu represents the "Shen Wang Family", that is, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue; what about Qian Menggao and Zhong Zhaodou?
Fortunately, Qian Menggao said that he was Shen Yiguan's disciple and confidant, obviously representing Shen Yiguan.But Zhong Zhaodou is not particularly sure, he didn't recognize his master at the beginning, but voted under Fang Shi Zhao Zhigao's door, could it be that he really came here on behalf of Zhao Zhigao now?
It is no wonder that Li Wenjin was a little skeptical. After all, Zhao Zhigao, a sickly old man, does not usually seem to be involved in party disputes. Hand Pavilion old" demeanor.

Could it be that even Zhao Zhigao directly intervened in today's matter?Li Wenjin frowned.

If even Zhao Zhigao really got involved, then looking at today's ostentation, wouldn't it mean that all the bigwigs from the Heart School are here?Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Zhao Zhigao, Shen Yiguan...the former ministers and present ministers of the Mind School represent a great assembly.

Although Li Wenjin has always been daring, relying on his special status and experience, he even extorted money from Gao Yushi many times at the beginning—it seems a bit exaggerated to say extortion, but he did hint a few times, and Gao Yushi did give it. And every time the number is not small.

But in any case, today's high pragmatism is no longer the high pragmatism of the past.Now the Pragmatic School is in full swing in the court, and the emperor has been in power for many years, and his trust in Gao Yushi is well known in the court... If there is any meaning in today's incident that is different from Gao Yushi, even if Those who are as bold as Li Wenjin have to weigh carefully.

However, Li Wenjin is Li Wenjin after all, and his "balance" is really unusual.

"It seems that today's matter is really a big deal. Hehe, our family thought about it carefully, and 10 taels is too little..." Li Wenjin sneered: "20 taels, one tael less will not work."
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PS: This chapter was posted yesterday, and it was posted late because some information here is too difficult to find, especially the relationship between the characters... It can be seen that the outline is easy to write, but the details are difficult.The outline only needs to arrange the outline, but when it is detailed, it needs to arrange every individual character. Before writing these characters, you have to check a lot of their relationships, such as their backgrounds, teachers, what they have done in history, etc. They are all ancient books without punctuation, and I fell asleep after reading them last night.

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