I studied in modern times

Chapter 373 The Broker
Gengzi (twelfth) in the leap month of the first year of Yuanyou.

The penultimate day before the Cold Food Festival.

Xing Shu was personally escorted out of the mansion by Cao Huan, Cao Yi's son.

"Stay at the left prison door!" Xing Shu handed over his hand.

"I'll leave you quickly!" Cao Huan bowed again.

Until he watched Xing Shu's figure on horseback disappear into the street.

Cao Huan turned around and returned home.

"Sent away?" Cao Yan walked out of the room with the support of the maid.

"Ah."

Cao Huan stepped forward, supported his old father, sent the maid away, then supported his old father and walked to the yard to sit down.

"Sir, is it true what Uncle Xinghe said when he came to visit today?" Cao Huan still doesn't believe his ears.

Xing Shu came to visit, not asking for gold or silver from their family, nor asking for help from their family, but he came specifically to give benefits.

This is incredible.

Cao Yi laughed and said, "Do you think that Uncle Xinghe represents himself?"

Cao Yi pointed to the sky.

"He is doing things according to orders!"

Cao Huan swallowed. Although he had thought of this possibility, wasn't it too bizarre?
If the emperor wants to reward the Cao family, he can just issue an edict.

Going around in such a big circle, what are you trying to do?
So, he asked: "If this is the case, what is God's will?"

Cao Yi shook his head and said, "How do I know?"

Accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. It is difficult to guess the emperor's thoughts.

What's more, the current one is not like the officials of the Zhao family in the past.

Not only is he young and mature, but he is also well versed in political tactics.

More importantly, everything he has shown so far is completely incomprehensible.

You say he is close to the old party, right?

Half of the governors in the capital are left by the late emperor.

The former prime minister Cai Que received an unprecedented honor for a minister - to go out of his hometown as a prime minister and personally preside over the opening of Quanzhou port.

This is the highest honor for a minister.

Except for the direct descendants of Confucius who are allowed to serve in Jeju when they become officials, only Han Qi, the Duke of Han and Wei, has this honor so far in the country.

Cai Que's treatment was even higher than that of Han Qi back then.

Because Han Qi was in Xiangzhou, he was just trying to appease Sang Zi.

However, Cai Que clearly had the mission of opening the port, and also had the task of sorting out Fujian's tea and salt laws.

As long as he can handle these things, Cai Chizheng will help thousands of families in Fujian become Buddhas.

Three to five generations of the Cai family in Quanzhou will inherit this legacy.

But you want to say that he is close to the New Party?
That's not necessarily true.

He treated Sima Guang with great respect, calling him his guardian, and treated Wen Yanbo with great courtesy. It was he who suggested that Wen Yanbo be granted the title of Pingzhang, an important military official.

Other old party ministers also received promotions and titles with the favor of His Majesty.

Feng Jing's military envoy, Han Wei, a scholar from Zizhengdian, knew Henan Prefecture, and Zhang Fangping's military envoy...

Cheng Hao unfortunately passed away, and he personally wrote a personal letter to the emperor, giving him a Shinto tablet saying: Mr. Mingdao.

Cheng Yi, a commoner, specially granted Jinshi status to serve as a storyteller for Jiying Hall and treated him with the courtesy of a disciple.

Not to mention, veterans like Lu Gongzhu and Han Jiang were willing to help.

This is what happened at court.

The same goes for other things.

Let’s take the current situation as an example.

On the one hand, he acted nonchalantly, as if he didn't care at all that others owed him money.

But actually?
Those who paid back the money were given secret recipes and invited to the Liao Kingdom to purchase other goods.

It makes people completely confused as to what kind of medicine is being sold in this gourd by His Majesty?

Cao Yan thought about this and said, "Let's take a look!"

“The truth will eventually come out!”

He has experienced four dynasties, and time has taught him that everything will come to light as time goes by.

"Do you want to remind me?" Cao Huan asked carefully.

Cao Yan immediately glared at him: "If a minister meddles in the affairs of the Tian family without permission, once he is discovered, it will be disloyal!"

Disloyal ones don’t have to!
This is the consistent characteristic of several generations of emperors.

The current one is no exception.

Cao Yi knew very well that a family like theirs.

In fact, it is a mascot, a clay sculpture painted with gold and powder in the temple.

Since the death of his sister, the status of the Cao family has been like this.

In other words, if the Cao family wants to continue to be prosperous, they must play the role of mascot and be a good clay sculpture.

Mascots and clay sculptures in temples all have one characteristic - they don't speak, they only let people look at them.

Cao Huan lowered his head and said weakly: "But, those are all relatives!"

Those are all the sons and daughters of the Cao family.

Cao Huan couldn't bear to watch them fall into the abyss.Cao Yi smiled: "Relatives?"

"What do you want with so many relatives?"

"Rebel?"

Cao Huan quickly knelt down and said, "How dare you, my son?"

"If you don't dare, then don't treat them as relatives."

"If something happens to them in the future, please come to their door. In case I'm not here anymore..."

Cao Yi stared at Cao Huan and said seriously: "You remember!"

"Be reconciled to those who deserve to be divorced, scolded to those who deserve to be scolded, and despised to those who deserve to be spat on."

What if that person is not Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, but Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty.

Then quickly shrink your neck and pretend to be dead.

But don't leave any allusions about "the emperor was drunk and beat Cao's relatives".

……

Xing Shu visited five relatives in a row.

The last family is the Li family, which is also the smallest and weakest family among the relatives.

The Li family is the foreign clan of Renmiao's biological mother, Queen Zhang Yi (Concubine Li Chen).

The most prosperous period of the Li family was the Renmiao period.

Renmiao's favor was endless. Not only did Empress Zhang Yi join the real temple, but she also conferred the titles of Empress Zhang Yi's brothers Li Yong and Jiedushi, and even conferred Li Yonghe's son Li Wei on his eldest daughter, Princess Fukang, in order to make the Li family Live forever with the royal family.

However, people are not as good as heaven.

There were problems with this marriage from the beginning.

Although Li Wei, the Prince Consort, was very talented and learned, he was even more outstanding in painting.

Despite her ugly appearance, Princess Fukang was unhappy with the marriage on the first day she married Li Wei.

As a result, Zhongren Temple was always full of farce, and there were even countless scandals and explosive gossip.

Because of this, Princess Fukang was privately evaluated as: the most likeable princess of the Tang Dynasty in this dynasty.

To be honest, if there is no current official will.

Xing Shu would not dare to enter the Li family's door even if he was beaten to death.

reason?

Very simple!
Li Wei once did the same thing as Wang Shen.

Persecution and abuse of the princess!
The late emperor once said privately to the governors: The eldest princess of Qin State (posthumously named after Princess Fukang) was ill during her lifetime, so she blocked her husband from seeking medical treatment. When the princess was seriously ill, she even had to make a fire to keep herself warm, resulting in burns on her face. .

The late emperor, like today's officials, attached great importance to family ties.

So he heavily blamed the Li family, removed Li Wei from his status as Prince Consort, and made him live in Chenzhou.

Therefore, after Wang Shen's incident happened, the nobles in Bianjing City sighed with emotion: "As expected of father and son!"

One Li Wei, the other Wang Shen, both were painters, and they both bullied the princess... Then one was a supervisor, and the other simply died in unknown circumstances, and they did not even dare to bury their bones in their ancestral graves.

But then again.

The current Li family and Li Wei have nothing to do with each other.

Because the head of the family is Li Sihui, who was selected from the Li family by the imperial decree of the late emperor and passed to the eldest princess of Qin as his heir.

Because the late emperor removed Li Wei's status as consort, the father-son relationship between Li Sihui and Li Wei has been severed. In terms of etiquette, he is enshrined in the incense of the eldest princess of Qin.

The person who just sent Xing Shu out was Li Sihui.

And Li Sihui's son, Li Yuanshen, is now the youngest companion around today's emperor - only 14 years old.

Thinking of this, Xing Shu also sighed.

In the past, the famous Li family was a relative of Renmiao.

Now, it has been reduced to the point where the head of the family needs to personally send him, the little middle school student, out, and he has to thank him profusely.

It is even true that Li Sihui was the heir of the eldest princess of Qin named by the late emperor's imperial edict.

Xing Shu suspected that the Li family might be doomed now.

After leaving Li's house, Xing Shu rode to Sun Ci's home and talked with Sun Ci in the study for half an hour.

Then Xing Shu took two pots of Sun's newly brewed "Three bowls of but not enough" given by the emperor to Dutingyi.

When the pure white wine is poured into the wine glass.

Every Liao man's eyes widened and his breathing began to quicken.

After they drank the wine in the cup.

Everyone shouted loudly: "Good wine! Good wine!"

“This is the kind of wine a man should drink!!”

Compared with the wine they drink now, the wine in the past was just water.

So, before Sun Ciren even went out, he had already received a big order.

A full [-] bottles of "three bowls are not enough".

Five guans per bottle is equivalent to [-] Wen per dime of wine, which is comparable to the best lamb wine in Yuxian Zhengdian.

Of course, Sun Ci only got [-] guan.

The remaining [-] guan, [-] guan is a kickback, and the [-] guan is an introduction fee.

Moreover, Sun Ci had to buy high-priced wine koji, pay waste money, and hire people to make the wine himself.

After all, he was lucky enough to earn ten thousand yuan from this transaction.

　Today, I can’t finish the fourth update, so I can only postpone it to tomorrow.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)