.Chapter 784: Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion (Part 1)

Enter the Pavilion

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Qipan Hutong, Chenfuhouyuan.

The first snow this year came earlier than before. It started in the evening and continued until it was dark. It was not until the next morning that I woke up and heard everything outside was silent, and it must have been the snow that had stopped.

After opening her eyes silently, Ruohan was still sleeping beside her. She saw that her face was pure and tender, her eyebrows were curved like distant mountains, her eyelashes were slender and slightly twitching, and her smooth forehead made her face look extremely elegant. The fair and small nose and rosy lips, against the backdrop of her somewhat messy hair, add a bit of cuteness to her beautiful face, which looks very pleasing.

No matter how I looked at the silence, I couldn't tell that she was already a mother of three and a half children... She was still pregnant. There were no family planning tools in this era, and he had been in Beijing, so Ruohan didn't come last month and asked the female doctor in the palace to take a pulse. Congratulations to the master and congratulate Mrs. Xi, and he had it again.

When he was silent, he thought of Rou Niang's signs, so he asked the female doctor to show her, but it turned out to be. He was very happy at first, but after a second thought, he couldn't be happy anymore. What kind of fun is this kind of thing? Who will serve the master if he is too big? But when he thinks about the girls around Ruohan are really cute, he feels itchy and says that he will coax his wife well in some days to see if he can discuss it.

"What are you thinking?" But Ruohan woke up at some point.

"Uh, admire the sleeping beauty," Chen Si smacked his lips, "It's a pity that I can't eat it."

"Demonstration..." Ruohan chuckled and pinched him, and whispered: "Are you thinking about Xiutao and Liyuan?" That was her carefully selected personal maid. She had a slim figure, beautiful appearance, simple mind, and loyalty. She was the best weapon used by the eldest lady to protect the house.

"Ahem..." Seeing that his little thoughts were exposed, Chen Shen couldn't hold back and said with a stern face: "Who do you think of your master as?" He said that, he pulled the hanging line at the head of the bed and sat up.

The two maids sleeping outside had already gotten up, and kept listening to the movement inside. I don't know what they heard, and their little faces turned red. They were just stupid when the bell rang, which scared them. They quickly pushed the door gently from the outside. Seeing that the master was about to get up and the wife was about to stay in bed, Li Yuan quickly took off the master's clothes from the warm cage and served him on. Xiu Tao brought a Chenghua Doucai grape-patterned tea cup, brewed a cup of tea carefully, and delivered it to Ruohan, and quietly asked An: "Madam, please use tea."

When she got up in the morning, she could calm down her mind by siping a cup of orchid tea with purple pine roe. Ruohan had this habit every time she was pregnant. She took the teacup, her slender eyes were flowing brightly, looked at Xiu Tao's slightly red face, sighed in her heart, and then she absent-mindedly uncovered the lid of the teacup, put it on her mouth and gently blew the heat, took a sip, and rinsed her mouth in the spittoo that Xiu Tao brought. She slapped for a while before taking a second sip.

Miss Qianjin took a few sips of tea, and the silence was already dressed neatly. When she heard the door of the east wing opened, she remembered the sound of footsteps and couldn't help but laugh: "Two guys get up early. You can lie down for a while and I'll go see them."

Ruohan nodded, handed the teacup to Xiutao, then pulled the brocade quilt upward, and said with some concern: "I think this Mr. Li is not a big deal..."

"What?" Chen Mo took the tea and rinsed his mouth, and asked, "Are the two boys naughty again?"

"That's not..." Ruohan said: "I haven't been worried about it much in the past few months."

"Will it be over?" Chen Si picked up the winter hat and smiled, "This means it is right to find Mr. Li."

'If you want your son to be not naughty, just roll your eyes?' Ruohan couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "If you say they respect Mr. Li, they really became 'master and apprentice like father and son'. But Mr. Li was too personal to teach, so he asked them to sit in the school for half a day, and for the remaining half a day, either take them to the streets and tell them about the worldly affairs; or take them to the side courtyard to practice martial arts; even go to the military camp to teach them to ride horses and shoot arrows, and take the children all over the wild... Now, just dawn, I went to the front yard and followed Mr. Li to kick his legs..."

"Suit for the three days in summer and 30 days in winter, which is not bad." Chen Si said happily.

Seeing that he was so uneasy, Ruohan became anxious and raised her tone and said, "My son wants to be an official. He learns to ride horses and fight all day long, and has abandoned his studies." As she said, she said angrily, "If you don't persuade Mr. Li, I will ask another clever one." She is not angry. She is a top scholar and a scholarly family, but she finds a martial artist to be a teacher for her child. What is the way to do this?

"You dare" Chen Si frowned and shouted: "My silent son, don't read too much, learning skills are the most important thing."

"You..." Ruohan felt so angry that she wanted to cry, "What's the benefit of raising but not teaching?" She said angrily, "If the child in her belly is a daughter, then it's fine. If she is still a boy, she will strangle her to death when she is born."

"Oh... the woman's experience." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed, "You will know my intention in the future, and you will definitely not cheat the child." After saying that, he grinned at her, "Be good, don't be naughty, it's all the mothers of four children." After saying that, the lady, who was amused and crying, flashed out of the room.

In order to keep the interior warm, the door outside is not an outdoor, but a warm corridor covered with glass, with various flowers and trees inside. Under the warmth of the ground dragon, it is green and green, competing for beauty. When you walk to the end of the corridor, open the door, and lift the thick curtain, you suddenly feel the coldness of the winter morning.

But the air is really fresh. I took a deep breath in silence before looking at the scene in the yard. The snow had stopped and was frozen into ice again. I saw a tree of ice and snow in the yard, swaying and swaying. A gust of wind blew, and the snow on the leaves fell and fell on the white ground, and it was immediately invisible.

However, the white snow was not perfect. A black footprint extended from his feet to the moon gate. I couldn't help but shake my head, thinking that these two boys are so destructive.

Although he thought of this, he still followed their footsteps and walked into the small garden behind the front yard. After hearing a piece of bamboo covered with white snow, the shouts of the two children came from the sound of the two fists and the sound of the fists and feet. He stood up and saw Li Chengliang taking Aji and Shishi playing a set of fists. The sound of fists was naturally made by Li Chengliang. The two children could only use their mouths to cheer for themselves, but they were meticulous in every move, and the snow foam splashed as the fists and feet flies, which was quite powerful.

After watching Jingjing for a while, Chen Mo decided not to disturb them, so he quietly left the school and went straight to the study in the front yard. Wang Yin, the only family member, was having breakfast outside. When he saw Chen Mo coming in, he greeted him to have a meal together.

Of course, Chen Si would not be polite. He sat down and served himself with a bowl of soy milk, picked up a fried dough stick and took a bite, and said, "Today is the day to pay the salary, right?"

Wang Yin took a bowl of porridge and drank it in small sips, glanced at the almanac on the wall and said, "I'm twenty-seven today."

"That's..." Silent nodded, looking at Guangyingku, the Ministry of Revenue in the south of the city, and said quietly: "It's already a big fuss there."

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Guangyingku is one of the national treasurys that the Ministry of Revenue specializes in storing money and grain, and the garage is extremely tight. There are three warehouse doors, each one is two zhang high and three zhang wide, which means to store two capitals and one thirteen capitals and save property... Of course, this is just a good wish. Each warehouse door has two, with groove wheels installed on both sides when opening the warehouse, and pushing it to the middle when closing the warehouse, for use when the warehouse is in and out of the warehouse. There is a small door open on each warehouse door for the Ministry of Revenue personnel to check the warehouse when checking the warehouse. All personnel entering and leaving the warehouse must be searched, even the officials of the Ministry of Revenue are no exception.

These treasury areas are usually quiet and deserted. Today it was not dawn, but mules, horses and carts were densely packed in the square in front of the trunk, and there were also many porters carrying baskets and loads. There were also long queues outside the door, including the Eighteen Yamen’s official yamen signs in soap shirts, patrol officers from the Five City Military and Horses, and the official craftsmen from the Ministry of Works, all kinds of mixed together, laughing, scolding, shouting, and shouting, making people dizzy.

Today is the day when officials in Beijing receive their salaries. In addition to these unparalleled officials, the officials from various yamen are also listed... Of course, the adults will not show this, so naturally there are subordinates to collect their salaries for them. So most of the people who come to receive their salaries early in the morning are officials under the fifth rank. However, they will not get together with those rough people, but line up six rows at the door, frowning and closing their mouths, looking back with contempt from time to time. Obviously, they are very dissatisfied with these rough people receiving their salaries today. In the past, they were collected in separate periods, but now Zhang Juzheng, who is in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, believes that the front line will be too long and it will be delayed until the end of the month, which will delay the ministry affairs. At this time, the Ministry of Revenue is sufficient, so it can send more people and all departments will pay at the same time, so that two days can be saved and what should be done.

Xu Yangzheng reminded Zhang Juzheng, saying that this would be abhorrent of the officials and would cause criticism? Zhang Juzheng believed that it would be worth saving two days a month and enduring some rumors. Besides, even if there was criticism, he could only talk privately and could not get the top spot, so he still insisted on doing this.

It was right when the sky was dawn and the snow stopped. Three small doors in Guangyingku opened. The officials carried the heavy desk tables and placed them next to the small door to prevent someone from rushing into thekuri.

The piles of money and grain were already neatly stacked behind the desk. Officials from the Ministry of Revenue also stood behind the desk and prepared to pay their salaries according to the department.

The officials who were almost frozen finally began to pace and move their numb limbs, preparing to go in and get their salary and leave this cold and noisy place.

An official from the Ministry of Revenue, who looked like a doctor, came out to shout, "It was nothing more than abiding by order and not violating the laws of the kings." Then he explained the positions of the yamen to the collection of the yamen and began to let people in. The officials walked to the location where the yamen were, reported their positions and names, and the ambassador Cang quickly found the corresponding bag of money and grain. After all, the officials were disciples of Confucius and Mencius, so they were embarrassed to be petty, so they mostly didn't open it to check. After signing for it, they walked straight in, and then went out from the other door to Guangyingku.

However, the innermost warehouse gate is specially issued to officials from the Censorate, Hanlin Academy, Imperial College, and Liukelang. These four yamen are all clear and clear, and they are the ones who impeach officials to correct current problems. Compared with the other yamen, they are the most poor, but they are the most difficult to provoke, and they are invincible in their skills. Putting them in the innermost is to avoid too much entanglement and affecting other yamen collections. Of course, this is understandable and unexplainable.

At first, the distribution here was normal, until several young officials with bad faces appeared in front of the case...

The head of the Ministry of Revenue who was in charge of signing in, asked without raising his head: "Which yamen is there to serve, and the name is honored?"

A cold voice said: "Censorate of the Censorate Zhan Yangbi"

This name is well-known. The head of the Ministry of Revenue looked up at him and found that it was a young and thin face with a dark blue face. He thought he was cold, but the head of the company didn't care, so he casually said: "I'm so respectful, please wait."

At this time, the clerk beside him had already found the book with the "Criminal Office" written on the cover from the list in front of him. He flipped it backwards from the back cover and found the three words "Zhan Yangpi" and sang: "Mr. Zhan is the seventh rank, give rice one stone, two taels of silver, and thirty stags of money."

The head turned over the list, put it in front of Zhan Yangpi, and handed it to him and said, "Please sign it."

The man quickly took the pen, and under the space where his name was written, Long Feifengwu wrote the three words "Zhan Yangpi". At the same time, a small bag of money and grain from a seventh-rank official was placed on the table.

Zhan Yangpi put down his pen, picked up the money and grain bag, opened it and found that there were three taels of silver, a stack of treasure money, and a stack of grain coupons from the "Fengdengxing" in the capital... With this ticket, you can go to this famous grain shop in the capital to get the corresponding amount of grain. This is also the trick created by Zhang Juzheng. It is said that it can save time and effort and withdraw flexibly. However, the imperial court's rice and he also had to go to the merchant's shop to collect it, which made him feel a little unhappy.

But the greater unhappiness was not this, but something else. He reached in, took out the three taels of silver, put it on the table, and said with a dark face: "Change it."

The head was stunned and said, "What's the point of changing?" He said, "Is there anything you can change?" He picked up the snow-shaped silver with one or two ingots, looked at it, "What else do you want to change to?" He handed it back to Zhan Yangbi's hand.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Yangbi didn't answer at all, and a few words popped out from his teeth and said coldly: "I think this money is dirty."

Then the head realized that the other party was here to make trouble, and his face was a little angry: "It's just such a dal, don't pull it down."

"I am the imperial court official and I only take the imperial court's money," Zhan Yangbi slapped the table and said to the chief officer: "Don't give it to the profiteering businessman."

He was immediately furious behind him, and countless heads came over, and countless pairs of exploratory gazes stared at the head and said, "Where did this silver come from?"

"Why don't I know what the profiteer gave it to?" the chief shouted: "These silver is shipped out of Curry now, what does it have to do with the merchants?"

"Just make up for it." Obviously Zhan Yangpi was not alone, and another official next to him shouted: "The deposits in the warehouse have been moved away by the Ministry of War. Could it be that you will convert the money?"

"The Ministry of Revenue is not just a Guangying warehouse. Can't it be transported from other warehouses?" The head of the company was not clear, so he could only say: "If you don't have money, you have money, and if you have money, you have money, you have money. Do you still let us live?"

"This matter must be explained clearly." His voice was quickly drowned in the excited roars of everyone: "You can't let the stinky smell pollute Shilin." "Yes, let Zhang Juzheng and Xu Yangzheng come out to confront each other. If we make it clear, we will take it. If we can't understand, we won't take it."

"The master of the ministry is holding a meeting in the cabinet, and I can't see you now." The head of the government could not resist it, so he quickly asked his doctor to come and put him in the battle. The doctor had been angry inside, so he came out to fire this shot and stabbed the hornet's nest immediately.

"If we don't explain clearly, we won't take it." The officials shouted. Not only this door, but also the two doors outside also heard the movement and stopped collecting them.

"I have an inner brother in Rishenglong. When I was drinking last night, he complained to me that Rishenglong was almost unable to pass, and he still had to help the Ministry of Revenue. I really don't know what their boss thought." At this time, a doctor from the Imperial College suddenly shouted: "I scolded him for talking nonsense, but he patted his chest and told me that the day before yesterday, he escorted a large number of cash to the Ministry of Revenue, and he secretly turned his hands several times, as if he was afraid that people would know."

This unproven news ignited the emotions of the officials in the three sects. They refused to collect the silver. Those who had already received it insisted on returning it. Of course, the Ministry of Revenue did not do it. For a moment, the angrily cursed, noisy and shouting filled the scene in front of Guangyingku, and the scene was in a mess.

The police officers on the other side received the police and the soap officials saw a joke and said strangely: "What money can't be spent? It's not for sale. If you really don't want to take it, just give it to us, so that it's not dirty." The strange laughter made the officials look unhappy and scolded, "You are so arrogant, you know what kind of moral integrity is small, and you know if you lose your moral integrity?"

It caused another strange laughter... Anyway, no one recognizes anyone else if there are too many yamen. If you don't take advantage of this, you may never have this good opportunity again.

The ridicule made the officials angry and embarrassed. I don’t know who was the first to turn the money and grain bags in their hands into a meteor hammer and throw them on the face of a Ministry of Revenue officials. The others followed suit. While scolding, they threw the money and grain bags out, smashing the people in the Ministry of Revenue to run away... They didn’t think about what the whole family had to eat next month.

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