golden scales

In the warm pavilions of rich families, ground fire dragons and fire walls are used, which are smoke-free and non-toxic, and the heat wave is roiling, so the windows can only be opened.Near the root of the window, a few spring grasses sprouted early due to the heat, and the dots of greenery made people happy to see.

Zhang Shenyan lay on the soft couch, closed his eyes and rested his mind, and let the thirteen or fourteen year old maid gently beat his legs for him.He believes in the principle of yin and yang, so he won't let women who are over sixteen touch him, let alone men.

The servants on the side were reading articles in the newspaper, which was the latest issue of Shilin Daily.An excerpt of Qian Qianyi's Shangshu was published in advance to avoid the crime of leaking the book—in fact, it just cut off the beginning.

"Stop!" Zhang Shenyan suddenly patted the soft couch.

Beating the legs and reciting both stopped at the same time, waiting for orders.

"Continue." Zhang Shenyan kicked his legs slightly, signaling the maid to continue the massage, looked at his entourage who had been with him for many years, and said, "Read that sentence again."

"How dare you love the stack..." The servant read it again, not knowing where the problem was.

This is really for checking people in.

A seemingly unintentional sentence can make some people feel sorry for each other.

Since you all say that the crown prince is doing something wrong, and the world is about to be thrown into chaos by him, why don't you leave now?

If the road is not good, take a boat and float in the sea.While scolding others for being unkind and inhumane, while not leaving, is it because they have lived in abalone's place for a long time and don't realize that it stinks?

"This...these people really don't know which side they are on!" Zhang Shenyan said rather angrily, "This is the same for Qian Muzhai! Being impeached and dismissed by Wen Tiren is one time, and being imprisoned by Wang Zhixin is another time, including this time It's been three times! It doesn't make sense at all!"

The servant didn't know what the master said, but he knew that he was not at fault, so he stood aside peacefully.

Zhang Shenyan was angry for a while, then suddenly raised his leg to let the servant girl out.Then he said to the servant: "You study and read by my side. It's not enough to take the test of merit, but it's like a bag to get a head in the female Dingke. Have you ever been tempted?"

The 40-year-old servant fell to his knees immediately, and said with a slight cry: "The little one has been with the master since he was ten years old, and he never thought about going out! Please don't drive the young one away!"

Zhang Shenyan got off the couch and walked to the window.He didn’t feel cold either, so he said slowly, “If it’s going to rain, we’ll have to hold umbrellas; if the sun is high, we’ll need shade. But now there are people who have to walk against the wind in the rainstorm, and walk in the sun under the scorching sun. I don’t know the reason for ‘letting nature take its course’.”

The servant knelt on the ground trembling, taking every word of Zhang Shenyan into his ears.

In Jiangnan and other places, it is no secret that servants of the rich and powerful entered the examination room with famous cards.Although it is true that some servants turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone after being on the list, the vast majority of people with brains would still live under the old master's tree and obey the orders of the master's family.It is this ethos.It became the beginning of the Manchu Qing's release of coated slaves to go out to become officials.

"Rather than go against the sky, it's better to go with the flow." Zhang Shenyan turned to look at his loyal servant: "You can send someone to go to the north to find a few sets of books written by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and let's open a private school and teach the students in the Fuzhong. Qualified slaves, let them take the female Dingke exam."

After all, this servant has been with Zhang Shenyan for many years.Immediately understand.If the imperial court wants to use Jinshi, every family must work hard to train their children to make arts.Guochao wants to use the woman Bai Ding, so naturally he has to keep up.

The real defenders of Taoism in the world are all giving lectures in the mountains. How can a person who is an official in the court have the reason to stick to the "sage's learning"?

If necessary, what kind of knowledge cannot be labeled as "holy science"?

After Zhang Shenyan made the arrangements, he said, "This old man should have a big birthday this year."

Zhang Shenyan is exactly seventy this year.Has reached the age of the official.Having a big birthday is just a good time to remind all parties to stop staring at him.

Speaking of it, he is really not a member of the Donglin Party!

He just brought the leader of the Donglin Party into the court...

Compared with Zhang Shenyan's old-fashioned seeking for the country, Lu Daqi showed the vigor of a "young man".He is only sixty this year, ten years before the legal retirement age.Moreover, as the Minister of the Nanjing Military Department, he is not willing to belong to the rivers and lakes.According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty official circles, like him, he went to the western frontier to serve as a governor, and then served as a governor in the heartland, and finally served in the Nanjing Ministry of War.One has to be given the position of Minister of the Nanjing Counselor, Mechanical and Military Department, and then he has the opportunity to be promoted to an official position.

"Why do you want me to wait for Qingliu to resign? Did I fall into the trap of a villain!" Lu Daqi read the newspaper and said with a sneer: "Go find some people and turn your finger on Ma Shiying and Wang Zhixin. They are the ones who bewitched the emperor." Prince! They should go if they want to go."

Wang Zhixin is an eunuch, so of course he should take the blame for the royal family.Once something happens, even if he is low-key, he will be criticized by the civil servants, let alone he is not low-key.In particular, the 20 million military pay and 50 shi grain pay he sent to the crown prince was taken from the mouths of all Nanjing bureaucracies.

Just imagine, if this amount of food and salary is handed over to military towns such as Zhejiang, Zhoushan, and Fujian, how much profit will it get?And these two years have been taken by the crown prince, who dares to ask him for a share of the profit?

What a loss!

and so--

If you don't die vertically, the country is in danger!

As for Ma Shiying, there is nothing to say. He is a proper eunuch, and he doesn’t know what path he took. He jumped from the position of Governor of Fengyang to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, one of the three big bosses in Nanjing. up.

When Lu Daqi spoke, the students, writers, and sailors under his school moved one after another, and sure enough, everything was moving towards the routine of Qingliu and the eunuch party.

Ma Shiying knew that he had a bad reputation, so he pretended to be sick early in the morning, and going to court every day was more painful than going to the grave.When he had to speak, he could only hold his throat and pretend to be hoarse, making people think that he was seriously ill.

Originally, I thought it would be so low-key, so there is nothing wrong with it, right?But why did he suddenly become a traitor who bewitched the crown prince?

From the Crown Prince to Nanjing, I had only one audience with him alone, and that was a routine official job description!

Ma Shiying sighed and sighed, the life was so sad that he wished to stay behind closed doors, and naturally he would not see outsiders.

But there is one person who is not a foreigner, but a close friend who can travel across the house.

That person is Ruan Dacheng.

Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng were born in the same year as Bingchenke in the 44th year of Wanli, but Ma was from Guizhou and Ruan was from Nanzhi, so they had no deep contacts at that time.Later, Ruan Dacheng rebelled against Donglin with his political incompetence, which shocked the past and the present.

After Ma Shiying served as the local magistrate for three terms, he finally moved to Shanxi Yanghe Dao Deputy Envoy in the third year of Chongzhen.Just one month after he took office, he was denounced by the guarding eunuch Wang Kun for embezzling thousands of taels of public funds and donating them to the dignitaries in the court.

Logically speaking, Ma Shiying's official career was not smooth, and now it is completely destroyed, and there is no chance of recovery.

The turning point of the matter fell on Ruan Dacheng.

Ruan Dacheng and the commoner prime minister Zhang Pu moved around in order to restore Zhou Yanru.In particular, Ruan Dacheng contributed a lot, not only contacted Feng Quan to come forward, but also contributed 2 taels to dredge the joints.Zhou Yanru originally had a promise to Ruan Dacheng, but after recovering, he felt that Ruan Dacheng's reputation was too bad, and he felt a little repentant.

Although Ruan Dacheng was annoyed, he managed to be smart for a while, and instead of turning his face, he said: Since you don't need me, you can always use Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying was able to recover from this, and he became the governor of Fengyang, and even now he is the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. In fact, it is all thanks to Ruan Dacheng.What is particularly rare is that Ruan Dacheng replaced himself with Ma Shiying at that time, and he did not communicate with Ma Shiying at all, and he did not propose conditions afterwards, which is quite a gentleman.

In the evening of that day, Ruan Dacheng went straight into the gate of Ma Shiying's house, and went straight into the flower hall. When he saw Ma Shiying who was half dead sitting on the embroidered pier meditating, he smiled and said, "Don't come here without any harm."

Ma Shiying had no choice but to pretend to be sick in front of this old friend, so he could only ask: "Could it be that Brother Shi Chao has not seen the current situation?"

Ruan Dacheng laughed out loud, obviously very happy.

Ma Shiying's younger Ruan Dacheng was four years old, but after these days passed, he looked older than Ruan Dacheng by more than ten years.

"Don't be bored at home and sigh, let's go, and have a drink with Brother Yu."

"Whose banquet?"

"It was the Marquis of Funing who hosted a banquet. I heard that many dignitaries were invited." Ruan Dacheng is an official, as long as he can return to serve as an official, he can socialize with anyone, and he is willing to spend any amount of money.Even if he knew that he was scolding him behind his back, he didn't care.

Ma Shiying suffered from his lack of foundation in the court and was unable to help Ruan Dacheng recover.Hearing Ruan Dacheng's words now, he knew that no matter how sad he was, he had to support him.

"I'll go and change clothes." Ma Shiying said.

Ruan Dacheng stopped Ma Shiying and said, "Today there is a trick."

"What kind of pattern?"

"Only traveling with wealthy families." Ruan Dacheng smiled and said, "Except for the Marquis of Funing who pretends to be a member, the others only wear blue shirts and scarves, just like students and tributes."

"This……"

"I think Brother Xian's Taoist robe is not bad, it just fits the purpose!" Ruan Dacheng laughed.

Ma Shiying was distracted at first, and said: "Since the master is alive, I will be rude." He then ordered his family to bring some replacement Yanju clothes, and followed Ruan Dacheng to leave.

Although Ruan Dacheng was wearing an ordinary Confucian uniform, the carriage waiting outside was his own four-wheeled luxury car with gold leaf on it.After boarding the car, the two of them did not go to the Marquis of Funing's mansion, but drove directly to the Qinhuai River.It turned out that the Marquis of Funing had already chartered a big boat, and it was sailing slowly on the ten-mile Qinhuai River.In addition, there are six small painting boats for entertaining guests and guards, three in the front and three in the back, and large sanitation boats.

Seeing this, Ma Shiying thought to himself: Why pretend to be a rich man with such a grandeur?It's just a matter of playing the sign of Funing Hou's Mansion.

Unexpectedly, before he could think about it, the signs of the Marquis of Funing were displayed on the front and back boats, and a long string of lanterns with the words "Funing" were hung up, and the boats of other families on the river immediately avoided, not daring to approach.

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