Idle courtiers

Chapter 166

"You are the official promoted by the Huai'an Criminal Justice Department, show me the official photo." Zhao Jing's expression was even more contemptuous.

Although Shuntian Mansion is just a mansion, it is a provincial administrative region.Yinzheng, the third rank of Shuntian Prefecture, is at the same level as the servant of the Six Departments.Therefore, the rank of officials in the mansion is also high. Taking his experience as an example, he is already from the seventh rank.

In his eyes, the local governor of the ninth grade is just a village old man.

Probably because it was snowing and cold outside, Zhao Jingli was greedy for the warmth in Zhou Nan's study, so he entered without invitation and sat down on the chair above him.

Zhou Nan frowned, found out his official photo and handed it over.

The so-called official license refers to the official ID card and work permit.It wrote the name, place of origin and any position, and roughly said the appearance, how tall, and what characteristics, it seemed very simple.

In ancient times when there were no photos, there were even weird incidents where bandits in remote areas killed officials and took their official photos to take office, such as Tang Seng's stepfather in "Journey to the West".

Of course, this kind of thing is only a possibility.In fact, you pretending to be an official in a remote area is not very lucrative for a bandit with no work experience.To be an official, the imperial court only gave one policy besides the salary of 30 taels a year.If you want to feed dozens of people under your command, you have to find the money yourself. If you don't have a lot of skills, you really can't maintain the operation of a yamen.

This is all gossip, let’s say that after Zhao Jin returned the official photo to himself, Zhou Nan asked: "Jian, this house is the private property of a subordinate official. My lord brought so many people here today, why? The subordinate came to Beijing only three day."

Hearing that Zhou Nan called him an adult, Zhao Jing was not happy, and said coldly: "Your house is a hidden imperial property, and you need to clear it up to enrich your internal funds."

"What, it's an imperial property, how is it possible?" Zhou Nan was shocked, and hurriedly handed over the property title deed: "Please look, my lord, this is the property deed issued by the Wanping County Government in Shuntian Prefecture. Is it still a fake?"

Zhao experienced: "It's true, but now I can't do it right."

"Why is this?"

Zhao Jing didn't bother to talk nonsense with Zhou Nan, and raised his eyebrows: "You can ask what you did." After finishing speaking, he shouted at the yamen servant outside: "Put the seal."

A few yamen servants took the seals and paste, and pasted the seals everywhere, so frightened that the two boys, Huangdou and Wotou, turned pale and trembled.

Zhou Nan was furious, isn't this too overbearing?Even if your rank is higher than mine, even if Beijing officials are more expensive than foreign officials, you shouldn't come and copy my house indiscriminately!
Although there was no such thing as sacred and inviolable private property in ancient times, what is the difference between you, a seventh-rank official, coming to seal people's yards, and robbery?
The problem is serious, the new house has only been bought for a day, and everything is not in place, so it will be confiscated. The loss is so huge that even he, who is quite rich, cannot afford it.

The key now is not to allow the people of Shuntian Mansion to affix the seal. Once it is affixed, it will have legal effect, and the mansion worth 600 taels of silver will be changed to Zhu.

What's going on, Zhou Nan didn't care about arguing with Zhao Jing, and pretended to be gentle: "Since I have official duties, it's not easy for the lower officials to stop me, and I have a theory. You can take the house away." , but I just bought the things in this house, some belongings need to be taken away, please wait for a while."

Zhao experienced impatiently: "Clean up quickly."

Zhou Nan lifted a chair against the wall and put it away, turned around and scolded Wotou: "You have no eyesight, you bastard, didn't you see that my master is going to pick up the calligraphy and paintings that are newly hung on the wall, why don't you come over and help them?" Chair. If you break my lord, I will break your leg!"

He yelled so loudly that Zhao Jingli subconsciously turned his head to look at the wall.When I saw it, I was shocked, and there was a buzzing in my head.

It turned out that there was a banner on the wall.

A set of scriptures reads "There is no goodness and no disgusting body. There are good and evil actions. Knowing the good and knowing the evil is the conscience, and doing the good and eliminating the evil is the investigation of things." It is the four formulas of mind learning, dripping with ink, majestic and inscribed by Wujin Tang Jingchuan Little friend Zimu.In addition to a few stamps, there is also a red official seal of the governor of Fengyang.

The writing on the other banner is worse, very elegant, and it reads: "The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring rocks flow upwards. The gentle wind blows the green fields, and the rising sun shines on the lotus flowers..." The signature is even more amazing, it is actually Zhu Lun.

Zhao Jing has been an official in the capital all his life, an old man in the political circle, how could he not know who these two are.

Isn't Tang Jingchuan the former governor of Fengyang and now Shangshu of Nanjing's household department Tang Shunzhi? As for Zhu Lun, he is naturally the governor of Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi.

Not to mention Tang Shunzhi, Wang Yangming is the direct descendant of Xinxue, a disciple of Xinxue who is extremely capable, so he is not easy to mess with.

As for the Jinyiwei Beiya, it even frightened the Beijing officials.

Who is this little magistrate in front of him, and what does it have to do with Tang and Zhu?
Zhao Jing immediately became cautious: "May I ask Mr. Zhou who are Tang Yingde and Zhu Zhenfu?"

Zhou Nan: "Xiaguan once traveled to the south of the Yangtze River to study, and he was taught by the Duke of Virtue. In my mind, I regard him as my father; as for Zhu Zhenfu, when he went to the local area to settle the case, the Xiaguan was lucky and made some contributions. , I just got the court’s decree to grant the post of Pedestrian Department Pedestrian.” Speaking of this, he deliberately sighed: “I came to Beijing this time to take up this post, but I don’t want to encounter such a thing just after I bought the house, causing trouble. I can't go home, the next official is really in a fog, Zhang Er King Kong can't figure it out!"

"Master Zhao, these two banners are my personal property, can I take them away?"

"Naturally, naturally." Zhao Jing kept twitching his eyelids, screaming in his heart, and secretly said: In the past, the owner of this house was not easy to mess with, and the house has been confiscated until now.Just now I heard that it has been sold to someone, and the buyer is a small local official, so I brought someone here, but I didn't expect this person to have a background.Judging from these two words, this man surnamed Zhou might be a student of Tang Shunzhi, a disciple of Xinxue.It's hard to say that he has friendship with Zhu Lun, otherwise he would get the job of pedestrian.It would be bad luck to offend the two masters behind him.This man surnamed Zhou won the post of pedestrian at such a young age.In the future, once he has the power in his hands, who can bear it if he wants to take revenge?

"Oh no……"

Seeing the change of color on his face, Zhou Nan felt complacent, and asked, "Why not?"

Zhao experienced: "It should be a misunderstanding, and this matter is handled impartially by the officials." He hurriedly shouted to the yamen servants outside: "Wait a moment to put the seal on!"

Complacent, Zhou Nan thought to himself: It's really easy to use the tiger skin as a banner!

It turned out that when Zhou Nan left Tang Shunzhi's Xingyuan, he went to Mr. Tang to beg for a pair of calligraphy.At that time, he didn't think much about it, but he just felt that Old Tang was a cultural celebrity after all, and he was a master of Confucianism. His calligraphy was kept at home and passed on to his descendants.

As far as this word is concerned, if it is auctioned at the modern Sotheby's auction, it will be worth several million!
In order to add value to this cultural relic, he took the official seal of the governor of Fengyang and stamped it with a "Duo".

But I don't know that it's okay if the official seal is not covered, but if it is covered, it will be indecent, and it will also weaken its literary value, which is similar to that of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.

Later, Zhou Nan came to his senses and was very depressed for a few days.

Later, after getting acquainted with Zhu Lun, Zhou Nan couldn't care whether this guy's calligraphy was of artistic or collection value, so he had the cheek to ask for it.

Zhu Zhenfu and Zhou Nan cooperated for more than ten days, and the subordinates came to beg, but it was hard to lose face.Besides, he was an otaku, and he was really afraid of chatting with the eloquent Governor Zhou, so he wrote a random banner and sent him away.

Just now Zhao Jing ran over to collect the house, with a bad attitude, Zhou Nan's heart moved, and then he deliberately picked up the two banners, which means that I, Mr. Zhou, also has a background, and I can't let you bully me.

Sure enough, Mr. Zhao was caught by the tiger.

This trick is called a fox pretending to be a tiger... Pooh, who is a fox?

In fact, this trick is too common in modern society. Many entrepreneurs will put a photo with a certain leader in the office.

"Thank you Zhao for your experience."

After confirming that the surname Zhou was not so easy to mess with, Zhao Ching clasped his hands and said with a smile: "Zhou Xingren, I was disturbed by a misunderstanding. I will wait for the next official to set up a banquet to apologize to you."

Zhou Nan didn't take this seriously, and said with a smile: "I just arrived in the capital, and my affairs are complicated. I am very kind, and I will meet again by fate. I don't know about one thing. The deed of this house was issued by the Wanping County Government, and I am not a criminal. , I will accept it as I say, and please experience my doubts.”

Zhao Jingli sighed: "Zhou Xingren is also unlucky. It is estimated that he spent a lot of money to buy this yard. He really should think of a way, otherwise the loss will be huge."

It turned out that the reason for this matter was very simple - Emperor Jiajing had no money - Emperor Jiajing believed in Taoism, and since he succeeded to the throne, he has overhauled the palaces in the capital, engaged in feudal superstition, and wasted a lot.For another 40 years, he ate up all his money.

After all, the money allocated by the national treasury to the palace is limited every year. If you want to spend more, you have to find another way.Yan Song is his white glove, and he can raise hundreds of thousands from the emperor every year, which is why Yan Ge has been in power for so many years and still remains a holy family.No way, the emperor can't leave him.

However, there is a saying that goes like this: Desires are hard to fill.

The money Mr. Yan Ge made every year was not enough for the emperor to eliminate the disaster, so Jiajing put his idea on expanding the Huangtian Huangzhuang.

The middle and late Ming Dynasty was an era of intense land annexation, especially in the capital.Many princes, vassal kings and even princes have been embezzling imperial lands for various reasons such as court rewards since the Hongzhi year.

Up to now, the royal manor in the capital has shrunk to [-]% of what it was in the Yongle year, and the royal income is also less than a year.

When Jiajing saw it, he was furious, you thieves, you are so bold to embezzle and embezzle me.

He ordered Shenyang, the censor, and Zhang Dahua, a doctor of the household department, to clean up the Zhuangtian in Jinai.From April last year to the present, more than 520 hectares of hidden farmland have been cleared.

This amount is only the tip of the iceberg, and naturally it cannot satisfy the emperor, and the matter of Qingzhang Farm has a tendency to expand further.

Zhou Nan's house was originally the property of Wang Zhen, the eunuch of the Zhengde period, and it is said that it was a reward from the emperor at that time.After Wang Zhen was liquidated by politics, he lost several hands for some reason, and now it is in Zhou Nan's hands.

According to the policy, it is also within the scope of clearance.

This Zhao experience is the experience of Shuntian Mansion. He has experienced the daily affairs handled by the secretary and is familiar with local customs and customs. He was seconded by Shen and Zhang as a servant.

(End of this chapter)