Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1122
After seeing off the imperial envoy and Zhu Zhilian also left, Cao Yong didn't think of it.That is, there is an extra Marquis in Qingyuan City, whose title is even higher than his uncle.

"That's good too, Zhu Zhilian has added confidence, and it is also a blessing for the people of Baoding Mansion!" Cao Yong was slightly touched when he thought of Dai Wang's case.

Song Hou has a different opinion, the Governor's Mansion is in the same city, so the relationship is delicate.However, due to the huge difference in grades between the two, they each go their own way, so it's not wrong.

Today, Zhu Zhilian is a Marquis, and his title is one level higher than the governor Cao Yong.

If the two people have the same political views in the future, it's fine, but if they have different political views, it will be troublesome.Even if the prefect's status cannot shake the governor's authority, if he really wants to be used by others, if the governor's mansion is dirty, right and wrong will arise.

Cao Yong didn't take it to heart. Separating powers and governing is the art of emperors.

Not to mention Zhili, even other remote provinces, it is not the governor who has the final say.Like Nian Gengyao, the situation is special because of the integration of the Northwest War in the early years.Today, it has become a disaster.

Cao Yong didn't feel embarrassed, but it made it difficult for officials of all sizes in Qingyuan City.

The imperial envoy arrived at Qingyuan on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. The magistrate's yamen opened the middle door to welcome the order. How many people saw it.

In just two or three days, all the officials in the city knew about Zhu Zhilian's appointment as Marquis.Although it is only the incense of the previous dynasty, the super-grade title is there, so no one should underestimate it.

The magistrate's yamen cannot be said to be full of people, but there are also constant congratulatory guests.

In the first years of the founding of the country, everyone would be jealous of the Miao descendants of the former dynasty; now, nearly a hundred years after the founding of the country, Zhu Zhilian is not a marquis of Xujue, but also serves as the magistrate, maybe he will be transferred back to the capital as a capital official at any time.

Of course there are many people who want to curry favor with them.

Who would thank guests behind closed doors for those who celebrate the New Year? At this time, even the "congratulatory gift" and the "annual gift" are filial, but it is the right time.

All the officials in the city, including the Governor's Mansion, sent people a "gift" to the magistrate's yamen.It's not that Cao Yong wants to curry favor with Zhu Zhilian, it's just that everyone carries the sedan chair.

In this city, there are quite a few people who pay attention to his movements.

If he doesn't save Zhu Zhilian's face, it will be a situation where the two are fighting in the eyes of outsiders.

Seeing that the governor's mansion is showing favor to the new Marquis, the magistrate's yamen is getting more and more lively.

Many officials have guessed that on the first day of the first lunar month, it is not known whether the governor's mansion or the magistrate's yamen are bustling.

The answer is obvious.

In the early morning of the first day of the new year, the front of the Governor's Mansion was tightly blocked by the cars and horses of officials who came to pay New Year's greetings.

Even Zhu Zhilian, who was watched by everyone, brought his family to the governor's mansion to pay New Year's greetings, which made everyone jealous.

They also want to bring their families to socialize with the Governor's Mansion, but they don't have the qualifications yet.

Yesterday, Liu Chuan came to send a greeting card, mentioning that Zhu Zhilian wanted to bring his wife and children to celebrate the New Year.

Zhu Zhilian's low profile made Cao Yong very surprised.

But then he realized that the other party was an old man who had been an official for more than 30 years. Even if he had been serving as the prefect all these years, he should not be underestimated.If he was really a nerd who didn't understand the world, he would have been stripped of his official position and turned into a citizen.

Zhu Zhilian knows the fun, and Cao Yong naturally welcomes him extremely.

Chu Yu, on the other hand, was quite happy.

The New Year's Eve should have been lively, but now they are far away in Zhili, but there are only three of them in their family.

Occasionally, female relatives came to pay their respects, and most of them were the wives and daughters of officials in the governor's mansion.

The magistrate's wife, Mrs. Liu, came here once during Chu Yu's birthday. She was well educated, reasonable, docile and introverted. Chu Yu had a good impression of her.

Hearing that she was coming to visit, Chu Yu had someone prepare a banquet, discussed with her husband, and invited two Guerrilla wives to accompany her.Guerrilla is from the third rank, and their wives are third-rank Shuren. Among the orders in Qingyuan City, the rank is not the highest.But because they are under the governor's mansion, and they are not subordinate to each other with the magistrate's yamen, it is not rude to invite them to be companions.

If she really came with a Daotai wife to accompany her, Mrs. Liu would feel uncomfortable instead.

Liang Chuanfu's wife, Zhao Jiashi, is in her forties, wearing a flag dress, and looks a little rich; Xie Tianlai's wife, Zhu Shi, is dressed in Han style. She looks fair and pretty. Average age.

Zhao Jia's temper is a little dull, and she doesn't like to talk too much; Zhu's is smart, eloquent, and the room is full of her babble.

Not only does she flatter her master, but she also does not forget to do her duty as a good companion. She has already changed her address for a cup of tea, from "Mrs. Hou" to "Sister Liu" to Mrs. Zhao, and "Sister Liu" to Mrs. Zhao Jia. Sister Zhao".

Only Chuyu has a noble status, she dare not come to the "sister and sister", but she also changes her address from "madam" to "princess master".

It's like leaving their husbands aside and wanting to make a few boudoir friends.

The originally somewhat unfamiliar atmosphere suddenly became active.

Among the four, Chu Yu, the youngest, is almost thirty, and everyone's topic cannot be separated from their children.

It's not the first time for everyone to come back to the Governor's Mansion, and they have seen Tianyou more often.I can't help but praise from Tianyou, even Zan Chuyu is so lucky that her three sons and one daughter are all descendants.

Among the four, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhao Jia married their daughters-in-law, so they had to say a few more words about mother-in-law.

Chu Yu listened, just smiled and listened.

She is not afraid of any discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the future. The Cao family passed on filial piety to the family, the elders set an example, and the younger generations are also filial and obedient.If he really talked about a disobedient daughter-in-law, even if she didn't speak, the son would not obey.

In the early years, she heard from her husband that she wanted her children to marry after they were eighteen, but Chu Yu thought it was too late.In the past few years, as the children grew up, Chu Yu became grateful to her husband again.

Whether it is to hand over her son to the woman next to her or her daughter to the man next to her, she is not at ease as a mother.Maybe when the children grow up and be more considerate, she can really let go.

Only Mrs. Zhu listened very seriously, and couldn't help asking a few more questions, which made everyone laugh.

Although she is also the mother of four children, she has three daughters and one son. The son is young, only two or three years old, and is still babbling.

"Sister Zhu thought too early. It will take more than ten years for your brother Jin to marry a wife." Liu said with a smile.

Mrs. Zhu said with a bitter face: "Brother Jin is my lifeblood. I think that one day I will give it to another woman, and I feel sour in my heart. Poor mothers in the world, I also had Brother Jin, so I realized that my mother-in-law Why don't you wait to see me!"

With the elders in these words, it will be difficult for others to answer the words.

Mrs. Zhu also realized that she had made a slip of the tongue after she finished speaking, and hurriedly said: "Look at my bad mouth, fortunately I was in front of the princess and sister, if I was in front of others, I would make people laugh..."

Zhao Jiashi and Zhu Shi are old acquaintances, and they opened their mouths to help her and said: "Sister Zhu is right, the night my boss married his wife, I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep well. I just thought it was a happy event, but I still felt bad. My son was robbed, but I can only hold back the fire with myself. It will be fine when I have a grandson, children are unreliable, they always have to marry, only the grandson is my own."

Mrs. Liu also echoed: "That's right. How can you care about your son when you see your grandson? Everyone has survived from their daughter-in-law. Who can laugh at whom?"

While talking and joking, Chu Yu seemed to realize something.I am no different from Mrs. Zhu, every time I think of my son marrying a wife, I feel sour in my heart.Is this true for all mothers in the world?

Thinking about how lucky I was when I married into Cao's family, my mother-in-law loved me so much and didn't make things difficult or dissatisfied.

After seeing off the guests, Chu Yu mentioned to her husband that after the fifteenth day, she would go back to Beijing to pick up her mother-in-law.

Originally, he planned to ask Tianyou to pick him up, but Tianyou was already fourteen, half a young man.

Cao Yong thought about it, if all the people in the mansion came to Zhili, there would be a lot of things to take care of the luggage and objects to be taken with the servants.It's good for Chuyu to go back once, so as not to make a mess of the old and the young.

In a blink of an eye, after the fifteenth day, Chu Yu brought Tianyou back to Beijing to pick up the people, and the yamen opened their seals.

I don't know how Zhu Zhilian worked, Dai Xingguo passed a pleading paper to Baoding Mansion after the year, to defend his wife Dai Wang, and sued the wealthy gentry Mao Renxing for committing suicide.

Cao Yong didn't know the details, but just asked people to inquire about it in the Qingyuan county government. In Dai Wang's case, the Qingyuan county magistrate accepted bribes and received 500 taels of silver from Mao Renxing.

On the day Zhu Zhilian received the pleadings, he ordered Mao Renxing to be arrested.

Qingyuan officialdom was in an uproar.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xie Tianlai's wife, Zhu Shi, recognized Zhu Zhilian as "clan brother".The two are from the same hometown and have the same surname as Zhu. Such marriages are also common in officialdom.

In order to marry this relative, Zhu Zhilian bought two tables of wine and invited Xie Tianlai and his family to visit the magistrate's yamen.

Who would have thought that in just two days, Zhu Zhilian had arrested Xie Tianlai's cousin Mao Renxing.

The most surprising ones were Xie Tianlai and his wife.

One must know that the recognition of Zhu Zhilian as "clan brother" was instigated by Mao Renxing.

According to his words: "A servant who is dressed in clothes has become a descendant of the acting king; the cousin's sister-in-law's family also lives in Datong for generations, maybe she is the descendant of the acting king."

Zhu's heart was moved by what was said, and Xie Tianlai also wanted to receive help in the officialdom, so he had the act of "acknowledging his brother".

Even with Mao Renxing, they went to the magistrate's yamen, thinking that they had more relatives with real power.

No, there was such an accident.

Xie Tianlai was shocked and went to the magistrate's yamen to plead for mercy.

However, Zhu Zhilian presented personal and physical evidence. In the first half of the year, he had already collected all the evidence.In addition, several other lawsuits related to Mao Renxing were also found out, including the embezzlement of the property of the shop, and the suicide of the needlewoman.

Xie Tianlai is not a fool, he saw that Zhu Zhilian had intentions to do it, so he was angry and annoyed, so he walked away.

He sent someone to send a letter to the capital, but he also knew that the long-distance water could not quench the near-thirst. When there was news from the capital, the case would probably be closed here.However, it might not be easy to keep Mao Renxing alive.

Under the desperation, he could only grit his teeth and entered the Governor's Yamen, begging to see Cao Yong.

Cao Yong has always called people's attention to the case, and is not surprised by Xie Tianlai's visit.

In Qingyuan City, the only one who has the right to interfere with the magistrate's handling of the case is himself, the governor and governor.

Xie Tianlai was full of earnestness, and finally said something: "Lord Duxian, Mao Renxing can't judge him. He is from Prince Zhuang's mansion, and he is the external steward of Prince Zhuang's mansion. For the sake of the lord, please help me..."
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