Idle courtiers

Chapter 114 The Plan Does Not Change Fast

The business was good, and then Yu Chongjiu made another vote.Zhou Nan received another three taels of silver, and his personal finances were very rich.

With food and shelter, and money, the reality is out of the skinny.

Apart from making accounts all day long, he was eating and drinking with Yu Chongjiu and the others. Zhou Nan had gained weight.

This time, two hundred catties of tangerine peel, two hundred catties of bupleurum, sixty catties of Chuanbei, and more than a dozen bags of medicinal materials with rather strange names, such as ground wire, Malan, licorice, and Liu Jinu, were lost.

Liu Jinu, isn't that Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, who was regarded as a blind medicine, so amazing.

Yu Chongjiu is quite principled. He doesn't touch bruises and wound medicines such as panax notoginseng and plaster, and picks out some worthless medicines that don't affect the treatment of frontline soldiers. Don't be tortured by conscience.

Zhou Nan couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this, you, a corrupt criminal, have to show your conscience, are you a tease sent by a monkey?

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"Old Xia, come, come, drink the medicine...cough, don't cough, bear with it, the medicine is sprayed out."

"Fatty Zhan, be honest. After drinking this bowl of hot soup and medicine, you will be a Daming person in the next life. Straight mother thief, when you eat meat, you gobble it up and move forward. Telling you to take medicine is like killing you."

"I'm also Mingqian. I met you two unlucky ones. I take care of your food and drink, and I have to feed your medicine. Take this boiled medicine as an example, and it will be divided into two cans. It's troublesome."

Zhou Nan kept nagging.

Holding the medicine bowl, Zhan said in a breath, "Zhou Nan, how did you talk to me? You are a small official, who gave you the courage to contradict the official of the seventh rank?" Seeing that Zhou Nan was too lazy to pay attention to himself, he Then he said with a bitter face: "Zimu, don't I like to eat? People like us who like to eat have a very tricky mouth and are very concerned about the taste. This medicine is so bitter, how can we swallow it. If you continue to eat like this , that is really going to end."

"Forget it, if you don't take the medicine quickly and reduce the fever, then you are really going to be a pill party." Zhou Nan said angrily: "Others get sick and get thinner and thinner, but you are getting fatter and fatter. It's strange, if they rob Lao Xia's food, they can't beat you to death."

Zhou Nan pretended to reach out to hit, Xia Yi suddenly sighed: "Zimu, the three of us beat my enemy to death more than 20 days ago, but now we are under the same roof, sharing weal and woe. Things in the world are really amazing. If it wasn't for you this time, I would really be a ghost from another land."

Fatty Zhan also said: "Zimu, my lord is also a seventh-rank official of the imperial court after all, and a distant relative of the palace, so my future prospects will be small in the future. I will not talk nonsense for your life-saving grace, and I will do it in wine." After finishing, He drank the bowl of medicine and wiped his mouth: "In the future, if you have something to do in the capital, speak up as soon as possible."

Zhou Nan was not in a good mood: "That refugee with the surname Zhan Ming, don't brag. In the future, we will talk about whether you and I can pass this test when we come to Beijing. I hope you will forget it."

Ever since he worked as an errand in the military warehouse, when he didn't meet medicine merchants who came to buy medicines, he would bring those merchants over to Zhan and Xia to see a doctor and give prescriptions.As for medicinal materials, there are plenty of them in the warehouse.

The merchants who deal in medicinal materials are all people who are well versed in pharmacology, and many of them have worked as doctors before.

Facts have proved that they are much more reliable than the white-haired so-called famous doctor in Jiangyin County.After taking a dose of medicine and keeping up with the nutrition, the condition of the two people improved greatly.

Zhan Tong's high fever subsided, only a low-grade fever every afternoon, and he had no strength.It looked like it would take ten and a half months to recover.

Xia Yi was still coughing, but she stopped vomiting blood.

Although the two of them are still in good health, they can still walk and can withstand the fatigue of the boat.

Seeing Zhou Nan making fun of Zhan Tong, Xia Yi laughed, and then coughed again.He had been ill for almost a month, and this tower-like man was tortured by the illness until he became thin like a vine.

Seeing that the two had taken the medicine, Zhou Nan said, "Lao Xia, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?"

Xia Yi: "Okay, Zimu, whether it's good news or bad news, don't whet your appetite if you tell them all together."

Zhou Nan: "You're really boring. Well, let's talk about the bad news first. The bad news is that Jiangyin's Jin Yiwei still won't come back within ten and a half months. It is said that he was sent out by Tang Shunzhi again. When he will come back, who knows. That is to say..."

"That is to say, we still can't leave?" Zhan Tong interjected.

Xia Yi is actually a very casual and kind person in life.On weekdays, no matter how Fatty Zhan robbed him of his food, he just laughed it off.Hearing Zhou Nan's words at this moment, he was in a bad mood, and shouted; "If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb."

Zhou Nan: "However, there is another piece of good news. Tang Shunzhi will be back soon, the day after tomorrow. I have six taels of silver in my hand now, and there is nothing I can't do with money these days. Old Xia, go from here How much money does the capital need?"

Xia Yi: "The main thing is to spend money on the boat, board and live on the boat, save some money, 20 taels for the three of us is enough."

20 taels of silver is equivalent to more than 1 Kuairen famous coins in later generations. Three people went from Jiangnan to the capital, a typical poor travel.It's a pity that everyone is not a beautiful woman, and it's a pity that they can't take the ride of the old driver.

Zhou Nan said in a low voice: "Tomorrow there will be a business in the warehouse. I will persuade Ambassador Yu to do a big deal and get more money. Anyway, I will help him settle the account. I calculated it, and it should be able to Get more than a dozen taels. After getting the money, when Tang Shunzhi comes back, Lao Xia and Lao Zhan will go to see Mr. Tang, show your identity, and get the diploma of the way, and then you can go back to the capital. If you don’t know, Tang Shunzhi will send the two of you one What about Bi Chengyi! With public status, there are post stations for food and lodging along the way."

In the future, there will be more places to spend money in the capital, so he thinks he should get some money for self-defense before leaving.

Zhan Tong was so happy that he was about to cry: "God is sorry, Tang Shunzhi has finally returned, and I can be regarded as out of the sea of ​​suffering."

Xia Yi kept her face sullen and didn't speak.

Zhou Nan knew that he still had a secret mission that he had not given to the Jinyiwei here, so he persuaded him: "Old Xia, it is impossible to do anything. Going on like this is not a solution. How can a living person be suffocated to death by urine? The errands are of course important. But your own life is the most important thing."

Xia Yi coughed, "Speaking of which, I'm the one who burdened you. If you had just handed over the two of you to my subordinates and brought them back to the capital, you wouldn't have to suffer so much with me."

He sighed for a long time, and then murmured: "Zimu, don't look at me as a thousand households of the fifth rank, but I'm not worth much at all. I'm not reconciled, I want to be prosperous. But if I want to be prosperous, people like me who don't have money The little people in the background have worked step by step in the yamen for their qualifications, and they will be idlers until they die."

"What to do if you want to be prosperous, that is to get people and things."

"It's like officials and envoys. They are not afraid of things, but they are afraid that things are not big. It is best to make everyone in the world know, so that there is a possibility of being in the top position. The so-called wealth and wealth are in danger."

"I was so sick this time, and I figured it out after walking on the field of life and death. When a person is alive, safety is a blessing. I also have little savings, and I have no future in the officialdom. When I return to the capital, I will work hard." Being punished by the boss, it is a big deal to resign from office, and it is still a well-off family. According to Zimu, I don't care about the errand, and I will go to see Tang Shunzhi the day after tomorrow and ask him for help."

Zhou Nan rolled his eyes and said in his heart: "Don't, after arriving in the capital, I need you, Jin Yiwei, to take care of you! You resigned, and I have no relatives in the capital, isn't that very unlucky?"

Zhan Tong: "Why can't I understand what you are talking about?"

But no one paid any attention to him.

On the second day, under Zhou Nan's instigation, Yu Chongjiu did a big job, and a lot of money came out. Even the two soldiers got ten taels of silver each, and everyone was happy.

Zhou Nan couldn't help asking Yu Chongjiu: "Ambassador Yu, your income is good, but what are your goals in life?"

Yu Chongjiu: "What kind of ginseng... Oh, what do you think I plan to do in the future? It's nothing. I serve as a soldier and eat food, and I eat food as a soldier. It's just that our military households have a hard life, and we can't say when we will be dragged to Go to the battlefield. If this generation does not fight, it is difficult to guarantee that the next generation will not fight fiercely with others. I just want to save some money for my children in the family to study, take the imperial examination, become an official, and transfer to civil registration. I There are seven grandchildren at home in Jizhou, and the third one is still doing well in school, if you work harder and collect enough tuition fees, you should be able to pass the exam for a scholar."

Zhou Nan asked curiously: "Can military households take the imperial examination... Oh, it's really possible."

As far as he knew, Zuo Chunfang, the crown prince of King Yu's mansion, and Zhang Juzheng, a concubine of the Hanlin Academy, were from military households, so they were not the same as the chief assistant of the cabinet.The status of soldiers in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was low, that was in the officialdom.But military households are not untouchables. Once they are elected, they are also scholars and politically first-class people.

Thinking of leaving Jiangyin tomorrow, Zhou Nan knew that Yu Chongjiu was a good person after a few days of contact, and couldn't help but said, "Ambassador Yu is really far-sighted, and I admire him. I wish Lingsun every success in the examination field in the future, and the flag is set to win."

That night, Zhou Nan didn't go back to the warehouse, but slept in the earth temple.After he was ready to wake up, he entered Jiangyin City to go to Tang Shunzhi's residence with the badge of the military household.

Zhou Nan couldn't help being excited when he thought that he was about to get out of the predicament in front of him.

But then he thought again, after leaving Jiangyin for the capital, he would not have to be imprisoned as a prisoner. He didn't know what kind of fate awaited him in the future, so he was not interested.

The next day, I woke up, packed my bags, and actually had nothing to pack.Zhou Nan and the two of them were about to leave when suddenly a group of soldiers arrived, and the leader was that Sun Shuban who shouted, "Take it down!"

The poor three were caught off guard for a while, and Xia Yi and Zhan Tong were seriously ill, so their hands were cut upside down and they couldn't move.

Zhou Nan was shocked: "Sun Shuban, what do you mean by this?"

Sun Shuban yelled: "According to the order of the superior of Su Song's military preparation, Tian Erku was in Chongjiu, and his accountants Zhou Nan, Bing Ding Jia Yi, and Xu Guinong sold military supplies privately. Trial. If the charges are proven, they should be punished on the spot, so as to serve as an example to others."

The warehouse managed by Yu Chongjiu is Xingyuanhoujun Tianzi No. [-] Warehouse, or Tianer Warehouse for short.

Zhou Nan was shocked. He had planned to meet Tang Shunzhi today and then leave Jiangyin.Unexpectedly, the plan did not change quickly.

If one is not good today, maybe they will be dealt with by military law.

(End of this chapter)