Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 712
"Thank you, Lord Long En!" Zaiyi kowtowed deeply, and when she got up, tears were streaming down her face, she didn't dare to wipe it off, and she exited the hall step by step.

When Zai Yi returned to the mansion, her mind was still churning, staring blankly at a jujube tree outside the courtyard.Jingfang wanted to ask several times, but she didn't know if she was involved in the emperor's words, and it was inconvenient to ask directly, so she just sat on the side drawing and cutting flowers.

After a long time, Zaiyi suddenly sighed deeply, Jingfang was startled, and forced a smile: "What's wrong with you, you are silent, you have been in a daze for such a long time, and you have been punished by the emperor." Curse, if you tell me, I can help you come up with ideas together!"

Zaiyi smiled and said: "I have to go on a business trip in a few days, everything else is fine, but I just can't bear you." So he told the whole situation of the emperor's interview with him just now, and then said: "The time you met me This poem was written by a female thief from Taihu Lake. She thought I was a dirty official and wanted to assassinate me, but I captured her alive three times and released her. Unexpectedly, when I was about to return to Beijing, she actually asked someone to deliver this poem. Look It looks like she has genuine affection for me, I really don't know if I will see her again during this trip to Yangzhou, and if I do, I don't know how to treat her."

"What I said is that you don't think about tea or food." Jingfang took the ginseng soup brought by the girl and gave it to Zaiyi, and smiled on the table: "Go and capture her alive, and turn around and ask the emperor for help." With a pardon, as long as the master says a word, she will be yours."

Zaiyi laughed and said, "Aren't you jealous? You still say these sarcastic remarks."

"Aren't all men like that?" Jing Fang said with a smile: "If everyone becomes jealous, all the women in the world will be pissed off."

At this moment, Zaiyi gradually calmed down, and told Jingfang about her situation outside. The couple chattered, and suddenly the family members rushed in to report: "The prince has issued an order!"

"Please! Fire the cannon and open the middle door!" Both Zaiyi and Jingfang stood up at once. Jingfang changed Zaiyi's official uniforms by herself. , put a blue clear glass top on Zaiyi's place, Zaiyi sat on the chair, Jingfang changed the official boots, and ordered the maids to burn incense.As soon as the packing was done, Wang Shang had already walked in with two small guards and four eunuchs.Jingfang hurriedly avoided to the back room.Zaiyi only took two steps towards her, then turned around and knelt on the ground facing the north.

Wang Shang was expressionless, standing south behind the incense table, and shouted loudly, "Zaiyi listens to the order!"

"Minister Zaiyi," Zaiyi kowtowed loudly, "respectfully listen to the oracle!"

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor's Edict." Wang Shang read, "Duanjun King and Qianqingmen Guard Zaiyi was sent to inspect the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. He worked hard for the king's affairs. He has made outstanding achievements and is deeply in line with my heart. He wrote and walked in the study room on the second level. , and also led the Minister of Sanzhi, and gave half a month's leave to go to Yangzhou to inspect and handle money and food affairs. After returning to Beijing, I will go to the post. This is my honor!"

"Slave thank you Lord Ron!"

Zaiyi felt dizzy for a while, she didn't expect the emperor to make such a decision in less than two hours.It was as if a five-flavor bottle had been knocked over in my heart, full of all kinds of tastes, sour, sweet, bitter, and hot, and I stood up slowly in a daze.At this time, Wang Shang had already changed his smiling face, and greeted Zaiyi with a thousand children, "I congratulate you, my servant! The patriarch of Tiangong, Amitabha, who has ever seen someone like you, was promoted to the minister of the court before the age of 40!" It's not about being flattered by slaves and maidservants face to face, you, a blessed minister, will be the prime minister of peace for 50 years!"

"Take 50 taels of gold." Zaiyi smiled and said, "Give it to the prince!"

Wang Shang took the gold and left happily.Jingfang prepared a table of water and wine for her husband's farewell, and was busy packing his luggage for him. She was so busy that she even asked the housekeeper to pick a few capable servants to follow.Zai Yi smiled and said, "Do you want me to move the house and walk? You're so worried, why don't you pretend to be a girl and go with me, lest you worry about me being promiscuous outside, and I'm worried that you will steal a man at home."

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had intentions. Jingfang blushed and spat: "You have no conscience, you want to go out and attract others before you leave! You are not a careful person, I will not help you, who will help you?" Woolen cloth."

"I brought the guide from the personnel department, and there are post stations along the way. You don't have to worry about this." Zai Yi smiled and said: "I am on tour, and I can get anything I want. But I don't want anything. I want to visit privately along the way. "

Jingfang was folding clothes, she couldn't help being startled when she heard this, she hurriedly came over to stare at her husband and asked, "Really? Are you talking gossip?"

Zaiyi said: "This is not a gossip. If I go out all the way in the official sedan chair, or hang out in the officialdom, listen to them brag about their political achievements, and see their flattering smiles, what else can I tell the truth?"

Jingfang frowned and said: "I heard that there was a Hanlin who was released to be an official. Passers-by were killed. Others pretended to be him and took his official seal to take up the post. The case was not discovered until this spring. You If you want to go far away, I think it’s better to be brighter. If you want to visit privately, stay somewhere and come back in a day and a half, how safe it is.”

"Your husband is not an idiot, how could he be assassinated for no reason?" Zai Yi took a sip of tea, put the cup on the table, and said with a smile, "You just want a few more people to watch me."

Jingfang laughed angrily and said, "I don't care about you. There are a lot of whores on Spring Breeze Street in the Ten Miles of Slender West Lake. You just have to be careful not to get sick, and then you will repay the world! Why, you want to go out?"

Zaiyi put on a moon-white waistcoat, buttoned it up, and said, "I'm going to see Mr. Xiong, he is the real prime minister of the imperial court. I'm going there to learn scriptures. I'm not going out for a stroll. Slender West Lake, after you come back, you will have a prelude to the emperor, if you don't find out the people's sentiments, wouldn't you be scolded by the emperor?"

As soon as the emperor was mentioned, Jingfang smiled and said: "If you say that the emperor is still the emperor, every move of the court ministers is under his control." Speaking of the emperor, Jingfang suddenly became excited.

Zai Yi suddenly turned his face down, sneered and said in a sly manner: "Hmph, the old man is indeed a saint." After finishing speaking, he stopped talking to Jing Fang, and went out as soon as he lifted the curtain.Only Jingfang was left in the room in a daze.

Zaiyi didn't take the car either, and walked all the way to Xiong Xiling's mansion, but saw Xiong Xiling and Zhirui enjoying the cool and talking in the courtyard, seeing Zaiyi coming, the two rushed out to greet him.Zhirui is only about 40 years old, with straight eyebrows and a square face. He wears a sauce-colored pegasus-style lamb baturu vest, a rain-coloured azure leather robe, and a pair of black cloth shoes with a layered sole. Holding a sandalwood fan in his hand, he walked gracefully, and he and Zaiyi were also very familiar, as soon as they met, they jokingly said: "Wow, what fragrant wind has brought the majestic Prince Duan here."

Zaiyi also laughed and said: "I dare not be so, the emperor's will let me go to the southern province for business, and before I leave, I will go to Master Xiong to ask for advice. I didn't expect you to learn from here too!"

"Really?" Zhirui said seriously, "Isn't it? I come to learn scriptures when I have nothing to do. A conversation with Xiong Xiangye is better than ten years of reading."

Xiong Xiling said with a smile: "Don't interrupt the old man, you are no outsider when you come here, sit, sit."

The servant moved another chair and put it under the grape arbor, and the three of them sat down together.

Xiong Xiling said: "Zhirui came to see me, and brought a pack of Dahongpao along the way."

"What's so rare about Dahongpao tea?" Zaiyi sat on the chair and said with a smile: "If you like to drink it, I will give you twenty catties. Let me see and drink it. This tea is still called good tea, Zhirui, Zhirui Rui, it's not that my brother said you, but this kind of tea is sold in the tea shop at the entrance of the alley in my house, so you have the nerve to give it to Mr. Xiong."

"You are so bold!" Zhi Rui laughed. "The real Dahongpao has only one tea tree. It was once destroyed by lightning, and only half was left alive. Call it Linglong, put tea here, put gold there. Even the tribute to the emperor is mixed with the tea trees nearby. When you open your mouth, it is twenty catties!"

A few words made Xiong Xiling excited, leaning back on the chair and laughing: "So what I drank in the past was also fake? I want to taste it today!" After speaking, the maid had already made three cups, and used a small The tea tray was brought out by herself, and Xiong Xiling picked it up to see that there was no floating tea in the cup, only a thin layer of white mist on the mouth of the cup, and the faint fragrance was refreshing.

"This is called Yaochi Wusheng." Zhirui pointed out with a smile, "Look, the tea in the cup has five layers of color, green and red are clear, and the leaves turn yellow after being soaked in water. It's just that it doesn't have a cold fragrance, and you can't distinguish the five colors, this is the difference between true and false!"

Xiong Xiling looked at it carefully with a smile, put the teacup close to his nose and sniffed it lightly, took a sip from his lips, sipped the fragrance of the tea and said: "It's mellow but not thick, the fragrance is not strong, the color is not, it's refreshing, it's good." !"

Zaiyi's mind was not on the tea, he had been thinking about his own thoughts just now, and after hearing what Xiong Xiangye said, he took a sip from the teacup and said with a smile, "The tea is good, and the tea is good, it's rare that all five colors come together !"

"Xiong Xiangye," Zaiyi immediately returned to the subject, took another sip of tea and said, "I just received the decree, I want to go to Yangzhou Mansion to check the money and food. I made a special trip to visit you today to ask you for advice. I am young and inconvenient. I have high hopes and I am entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and I am really afraid that I will fail the job.”

Xiong Xiling stroked his beard and said with a smile: "I have read all the papers you handed out outside. Those articles are so detailed that I would not be able to write them when I was young. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. I have been thinking these days, It is indeed time for you young people to contribute to the master."

"This is Xiong Xiangye's humility. When I was trained by the emperor, the emperor said that we should learn from Xiong Xiling and not from Yuan Shikai. Xiong Xiling has been respectful and careful in handling errands for decades, diligently and impartially, and benevolent to colleagues. No matter how complicated or simple, there is no slacking off. In the future, when Master Xiong returns home with his clothes and brocades, he must give a royal banquet, and hold a send-off ceremony in a grand manner, so that the name of a generation will be complete from the beginning to the end."

(End of this chapter)