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Chapter 88 It's not whoever is beautiful can be Qinhuai Bayan, but whoever is beautiful can be Qinhuai Bayan

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing.

In the morning, Zhang Guowei, the servant, was acting in the yamen for official duties, urging the settlement of the three salaries in various places in Nanzhili, and he was diligent in his work.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Nanjing Sixth Department was originally a place for the losers of political struggles to retire, and most of the officials were actually not very concerned about their work.

It's not like they are unwilling to make progress, but most of the people who can get here have already seen through the officialdom.

They all know: whether you can take another step up and return to the northern center does not depend on whether you work hard or have achievements.The key is to see if the hole above can be vacated, and whether any of the important officials of the Six Departments of the capital offended His Majesty Chongzhen and was removed to make room.

Whether you get promoted or not has nothing to do with your own achievements and hard work, so most people will naturally die as equals.

Officials like Zhang Guowei who think about how to apportion the payment and collect the three salaries in full every day are already a minority in Nanjing.

He has been busy until noon, intending to take a break and have lunch, when suddenly he heard an aide come in to announce that there is an important visitor:

"My lord, Shen Shuren, the magistrate of Huangzhou, passed by Nanjing on his way to his post, and came here to pay a special visit. I would like to invite you to a banquet at noon."

Zhang Guowei was taken aback: "Is it Shen Tingyang's son? I haven't been in touch with the Shen family in Suzhou for five or six years. Why did he come to the door suddenly? He didn't bring any gifts?"

"It seems to have brought a heavy gift." The staff replied truthfully.

Zhang Guowei frowned, afraid that something bad would happen, but he could only see it.

It's not that he has no friendship with the Shen family.Six years ago, when he was the governor of the capital in Susong, he did major water conservancy repairs, built dikes and seawalls along the river, and dredged the Wujiang and Liuhe rivers to ensure that the overflowing Taihu Lake could be discharged into the Yangtze River.

(Note: Because Nanzhili is governed by six ministries in Nanjing, it is impossible to set up an ordinary governor in Nanzhili. It is called "Governor Capital Yushi", and the jurisdiction is generally much smaller than the province.

For example, Shi Kefa's Anlu governor only inspected two prefectures under Nanzhili at the beginning, and Zhang Guowei's then governor Su Song also only inspected two prefectures.In areas other than Zhili in the north and south, the governor is mostly directly governing the entire province)
When Zhang Guowei was overhauling the water conservancy, he relied on Shen's family in Suzhou to contribute and apportion the project funds, so Shen Tingyang was one of his sponsors at that time.

The son of the old funder came to the door, but he couldn't refuse to see him.

……

The Yamen of the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing is not far from the Gongyuan in the south of the city.

So a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Guowei was invited to a painting boat on the Qinhuai River, and Shen Shuren was already waiting there with all due respect.

For this kind of high-end private banquet, dancers and singers are definitely indispensable, but Shen Shuren doesn't want to go to a brothel to entertain guests and talk about state affairs.

So they paid a lot of money to invite several oiran girls from famous buildings to perform on the boat, so as not to damage the reputation of the invitees, but also full of courtesy.

Shen Shuren didn't know a few oirans, so he didn't pretend to be pretentious, and didn't look at the quality, and only picked those who had heard the names.

Some of them made their debut early, and he met them a year and a half ago when he entered the Imperial College and donated officials, and he was familiar with them.

For example, Liu Rushi and Gu Mei invited today are all seniors in their twenties, and they were present at the literary meeting where Shen Shuren slapped Gong Dingzi and Qian Qianyi in the face last year.

There are also a few young girls who have just entered the industry, or have only met Wenhui once before, or have never met, but they have heard of the name, and he will spend a lot of money to invite them to accompany the wine, including Li Xiangjun and Bian Sai.

These oirans from various buildings come out to accompany a drink and sing a song, even if they start with a few dozen taels of silver, they are not allowed to touch them.

Old people like Liu Rushi and Gu Mei, even if they really touch each other, just add extra money.

Li Xiangjun, Bian Sai, these young courtiers, if they really couldn't control themselves, they would be extorted at least a few thousand taels of silver - these oirans usually ask for more than a thousand taels of silver for combing cages, which is still a fair deal negotiated in advance.If you get into a lawsuit by cutting first and playing later, it is possible to pay several times the compensation.

Fortunately, the big event planned by Shen Shuren and Zhang Guowei, the gifts are at least tens of thousands of taels, the 200 taels of money for singing, it doesn't matter.

As soon as Zhang Guowei boarded the boat, seeing this scene, his color suddenly changed, and it was difficult to go back.

He had seen at least three of these women on board.The other two are strangers, but their looks are no worse than those three women they have seen.

Especially the woman sitting next to Shen Shuren was even more beautiful.Not only the visitors were surprised, but even the other four invited sisters felt a little ashamed.

They didn't know that everyone guessed wrong, the most beautiful woman who was closest to Shen Shuren was actually just Chen Yuanyuan, the Shen family's private maid.

Zhang Guowei looked around, just put on a posture of educating the younger generation, sat down and smiled wryly:

"Nephew is very elegant, but you have to be restrained. How can you shock the world in Nanjing city? I have never seen anyone from the Imperial College. Even this little Bian girl dares to invite you."

"Really? My nephew has been out of town for a long time, so I don't know much about the current situation in Nanjing, thanks to Shibo's advice." Shen Shuren said calmly.

Zhang Guowei is 46 years old this year, one year older than Shen Tingyang, so Shen Shu people call him Shibo.

While the two were talking and laughing, the young beauty mentioned by them, Bian Sai, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, quickly explained with a gentle smile:

"Zhang Shilang was joking. The little girl does not have a close relationship with Wu Shanzhang of the Imperial Academy. It is all a misinformation. Wu Shanzhang is a leader in the world's literary circles. How can we be able to climb up to him.

On the contrary, Shen Futai can be regarded as the conscience of the world, and the talents who have come out of Nanjing Guozijian in recent years are probably second to none.The little girl was young, and she had no chance to visit her in the past two years, but she heard her sisters mention it, and she admired her very much. "

Shen Shuren also smiled confidently when he heard the words: "So that's the case. If I really have friendship with Wu Shanzhang, I wouldn't be inconvenient to ask you to sing a song abruptly. Don't trap me in not respecting the teacher."

Bian Sai's original name was Bian Sai, but this name is not well known to the world, but her later monastic name "Yujing Taoist" is widely known, and she is known as Bian Yujing in the world.

But when she first fell into the gentle hometown of Qinhuai, she also thought about admiring and clinging to Wu Weiye, the then secretary of the Nanjing Imperial College, but Wu Weiye had no money, and secondly, he probably didn't want to be entangled for the rest of his life, so he didn't let go of his promise.

In the end, Bian Sai was disheartened, and he saved enough money to redeem her and become a monk until her lover rescued her from the sea of ​​suffering.

Of course, all of this has not happened yet. In history, this was all a mess after the fall of Nanming. Now it is only the beginning of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and Bian Sai has just met Wu Weiye not long ago.

Shen Shuren, who is familiar with history books, sees these things clearly every time he sees them: most of the so-called Qinhuai eight beauties are not really able to absolutely crush other oirans in terms of beauty.The key is that they had a lot of contacts with famous literati, so they left their names.

Let’s just say that among the four women invited today, three of them were married to the “Three Great Masters of Jiangzuo” as concubines in history, or at least attempted to marry others as concubines.

In history, Li Xiangjun, like Dong Xiaowan and Chen Yuanyuan, should have something to do with the "Four Princes of Jiangdong", which covers six of Qinhuai's eight beauties.

Only Ma Xianglan, the oldest, was deceased and had no connection with Jiangdong writers in the late Ming Dynasty, and Kou Baimen, the youngest, had no sense of literati presence in the circle.

The remaining six are not only beautiful to be Qinhuai Bayan, but because they have stories with top writers.If the top writers changed their story to a different group of women, Qinhuai Bayan would be the other eight people.

Therefore, since Shen Shuren has traveled here, there will be no Qinhuai Bayan in this world in the future.

When future history books evaluate women in this era, they will only use one standard to measure their beauty: whether this woman is Shen Shuren's woman.

He already knows that he is a history maker, so he still uses stamp collecting to collect famous women?Need not!

Whoever I sleep with will be recorded in the annals of history, and the causal relationship cannot be reversed.

……

After chatting and laughing with a few sisters who sang the song, after drinking for three rounds, Shen Shuren and Zhang Guowei also got to the point just right.

Shen Shuren took out his own gift first, and undoubtedly opened the way first with North Korean specialties such as ginseng and Dongzhu.

It's not that these things are valuable, but that they can use the excuse of "native products" to make people relax their guard.

Zhang Guowei was very cautious, worried that Shen Shuren would find him to pervert the law for personal gain, so he couldn't help asking:
"You will not be rewarded for meritorious deeds. Xiandi Ji Ming (Shen Tingyang) and the old man have not seen each other for five or six years. How can you accept such a heavy gift today? It is not appropriate."

"Hey, pearls are like soil and ginseng is like vegetables. They are just some local specialties in the countryside. If Shi Bo has the opportunity to visit North Korea, he will know that these things are not worth much at all in the local area, so there is nothing to worry about."

Shen Shuren paved the way, then changed his tone and gave a good step down,
"Uncle Shi, to be honest, I came to see you this time, first of all I wanted Shibo to help me with a little matter--you should have heard that my nephew and my father have been in charge of water transportation and sea transportation since a year and a half ago. His Majesty was again given a mission to resettle Caomin.

During this year, we built wharves, dredged waterways, and excavated mulberry fish ponds in Wuzhongguang to relieve these surplus labor.But there are too many people and things are complicated, and it will inevitably be inefficient later.

Fortunately, my nephew heard that Uncle Shi wrote a "Complete Book of Water Conservancy in Wuzhong" at the end of the year before last, covering the key points of water conservancy in three Wu and seven prefectures. Why does my uncle just let people copy and borrow such a good book in private, and not publish it in engraving? ?
My nephew occasionally got a copy, which was like a treasure, and it really saved our father and son's urgent need.Today's gift is just to ask Shibo to authorize my nephew to engrave this book. A few pearls can be used as capital to enrich the pen. "

Zhang Guowei was already mentally prepared to be corrupted by the other party, but he was just thinking about how to make himself more face-saving.

It never occurred to Shen Shuren to find such an entry point, which made him feel extremely refreshed both mentally and materially.

As a literati, the most straightforward way to collect money is to get your books appreciated, and others beg you to engrave your books and give you money.

"Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book" is just Zhang Guowei's experience in water control during his six years as an official in Su Song. It was originally written for fun.Now others want to use this as a guide, of course he feels honored.

For a moment, Zhang Guowei felt that the nephew in front of him was closer than his own son.

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PS: There will be two changes tomorrow as usual. After 12:12 tomorrow night, even if it is Monday, the chapters on the shelves can be opened at [-]:[-] in the morning.There should be four more changes by then, and two more during the day on Monday.

On the first day of its release, it was not surprising to strive for the sixth update, and also the leader of the "Brother Yun's FANS" to add updates.

Trying to improve myself, I know that shaping supporting roles is my shortcoming, and this book is also an experience.

Before the Three Kingdoms achieved good results, it was equivalent to taking advantage of the same humanities. The supporting role has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and there is no need to shape it. I only need to shape a protagonist.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were only a few supporting roles, such as the image of Chongzhen Dorgon, who was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the other supporting roles used had to be shaped by themselves.The problem with my character level was immediately revealed.

However, if you live and learn from old age, you will never be able to make progress if you don't write this book well. This is also an experience in life transformation.So no matter what the grades are, I will write with a calm mind. Only by persisting to the end can I make progress.

(End of this chapter)