Idle courtiers

Chapter 168 Why Are You, Why Are You Always

When they heard that Zhou Nan was going to be hired, all the passers-by were indignant and shouted in unison: "Si Zhengming learned that the system cannot be abolished. Could it be that your lord is old with this Zhou?"

"Little scholar, officials and miscellaneous people are also pedestrians. It's a big joke in the world. We will never tolerate it. I will write to the cabinet to impeach Qin Sizheng."

"Yes, go to the book."

"The sun is shining, Mr. Qin, although you are the boss, you can't stop me waiting for you."

"Si Zheng is in a daze!"

……

Zhou Nan smiled wryly in his heart: Lao Qin, Lao Qin, your friendship is appreciated.But in front of everyone, you want to keep me in the job. Isn't this putting labor and capital on the fire?The pedestrians of this pedestrian department will all be in charge of affairs in the future, and they will not be easy to mess with.

Indeed, Qin Liang's move was indeed an outrage against the scholars and bureaucrats of the world.As the chief officer of the first division, he attracted his subordinates to write a letter of impeachment. If it were him, he would naturally be furious at this moment.

But Qin Sizheng sternly shouted: "I also act impartially. You and other scholars think that reading sage books for ten years is the talent of the country? In fact, in the eyes of the old man, he is just a person with high eyesight and low power. You are a useless scholar who can talk about your heart. Otherwise, this time there was an order from the imperial court, why did everyone shirk and pick it up? The old man Zhou Xingren knows it. Got it. Get down!"

It's strange to say that when Qin Liang scolded him, all the passers-by were ashamed.He stopped making trouble, and retreated with his hands folded.

When everyone went down, Zhou Nan hurriedly saluted again: "Your Majesty is now in the Department of Pedestrians, and you are disturbing my lord."

"Haha, I've heard about Zhou Xingren's incident. I was wronged more than ten years ago, and my future was ruined. People in the world sighed after hearing so much, and I couldn't bear it." Qin Liang said kindly and sympathetically: " The colleagues in the company don't know what's going on, and they are dissatisfied with your appointment as a pedestrian with the reputation of a scholar, which is also human nature, so don't worry about it."

Zhou Nan felt warm when he heard this.Secretly said: That's right. Although I was born as an official, I was the seed of reading before. Speaking of which, everyone is a scholar, and the scholars in the world are one family.Comparing my heart to my heart, I have suffered such a great injustice, and I am afraid that any scholar will feel the same.I was able to get the position of pedestrian this time, I am afraid it is the compensation for me from Grandma Chaozhong.

It is also a blessing to have such an amiable and understanding boss.

Zhou Nan hurriedly said: "Those who don't know are not guilty. I have tasted the warmth and coldness of human beings in the past ten years, but I don't care about it. That's right, Zhou Nan only has the reputation of a scholar, and it is really inconvenient to hold a position in the Department of Pedestrians. I have obtained the decree of grace and ordered the official lock hall to take part in the imperial examination. I came to Sili this time to go through the relevant procedures. The lord's kindness is appreciated by the officials, but he will not embarrass Sizheng."

"You, you, you are just a scholar who retreats when you encounter a small setback." Qin Liang looked sad, pointed at Zhou Nan and shouted: "I have to take the imperial examination, Mr. Zhou, I All the officials are Jinshi, and they are all well-educated. You are working in the yamen, and it is good for your future to learn skills and improve your education with your colleagues."

After all, he waved his hand without waiting for Zhou Nan's objection, and ordered the deputy Gao Si to go through the relevant procedures for Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan was very helpless, and smiled wryly in his heart: Lord Qin, Lord Qin, of course you have good intentions, but I am a scholar who stays in the Jinshi all day long, and it feels uncomfortable to be excluded!

Soon, Zhou Nan was assigned to a small room as an office.

This one had just joined the job, and before Zhou Nan's ass was warmed up on the bench, Qin Liang on the other end sent someone to pass it on, saying that he had something to explain.

"This is to put a burden on me!" Zhou Nan thought to himself: "Is it to deliver the decree on behalf of the court, or to condolences to the veterans? Don't go on an envoy to a foreign country, because there will be dead people. In the second year of Zhengde, it seems A passerby was sent to Zhancheng and died there because the water and soil were not acclimatized. If that happened, it would be troublesome.”

The so-called Champa is the Vietnam of later generations.At that time, the capital of Vietnam was located in Champa, which was later Nha Trang, one of the tourist attractions in East Asia.

Come to think of it, this is impossible.Going abroad as an envoy is a beautiful mission, and most of the passers-by who go on a mission will be promoted to the imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate after completing the mission.

He walked into the ear room where Qin Liang worked, and asked, "What orders does the elder have?"

Qin Sizheng still had the kind expression that made people feel like a spring breeze, and smiled: "The thing is like this, the imperial court ordered Yushi Shenyang and household doctor Zhang Dahua to clean up the farmland in Jinei. There are many acres and manors involved, and many farmlands don't know how to transfer them. After a few hands, one reasoning can even reach the year of Hongzhi, and the myriad of clues are very complicated. Only relying on the two adults, Shen and Zhang, can't figure it out for a while..."

Because the matter was too complicated and manpower was limited, the two had been busy for more than half a year, and only now have they recovered more than 520 hectares of royal farmland.

To put it bluntly, Emperor Jiajing was short of money and wanted to kill pigs.

However, the 29 hectares of land were not worth much money at all, and instead caused dissatisfaction among the people in Beijing, and the cost was not beneficial.

The emperor was so angry that he decided to further intensify his work.Didn't you say that you don't have enough manpower? Well, I'll send you more manpower.Also, the two of you clearly don't work hard, and you have resistance to the great government of the court, so I no longer trust you.

Therefore, Jiajing let these two be the nominal hosts, but ordered the various discipline inspection departments to send personnel and mix them into several work teams to divide the area and implement people to clean up and hide Zhuangtian according to the list.

In the future, the pedestrians of the Pedestrian Department will either work for Shizhong, or go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the standard discipline inspection cadre backup training class, and this time there will also be someone in charge of a group.

After talking about the ins and outs, Qin Liang smiled and said: "Lord Zhou, all the people in the department have been in poverty for ten years. After being a Jinshi, they were directly assigned to the department of pedestrians. They didn't even go to the Six Departments to observe politics, and they knew nothing about external affairs. This time Qingzhang Jingshi The imperial property involves a lot, and asking them to lead the errands is afraid of doing bad things. It's not as good as Mr. Zhou, who changed from a yamen servant to an official, and then to the magistrate of the criminal office. He is well-versed in human relations, shrewd and capable. The old man means to send you to do this. .”

While talking, he asked the book office to serve Zhou Nan a cup of good tea, with an expression of "Young man, I am optimistic about you!"

There are not many other things in the capital, but there are many officials and nobles.Those who are qualified to conceal the royal property are either upstarts or veterans of the previous dynasty. No one knows who will be offended if this investigation continues?
Take Zhao Jing who came to ask for trouble yesterday as an example. He made it clear that he was a ninth-rank foreign official who wanted to bully Zhou Nan, but he flinched when he saw the banner written by Tang Shunzhi and Zhu Lun himself.Standing behind a little Zhou Nan is a big official of the frontier and a governor of Jinyiwei. The capital is a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, who knows what else will happen?
Reason told Zhou Nan that this was impossible.

However, the old man Qin was really kind to him, and he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, so it was not appropriate to refuse him like this.I still have to stay in the Pedestrian Division for another year. If I annoy Qin Sizheng, life will not be easy.

Just as he was thinking about it, Qin Sizheng sighed again: "This time we are in charge of the farmland of a descendant of Qingzhang. There is a large farmyard with three thousand acres of dry land. According to the usual practice, he will return hundreds of thousands of land. That's all for the mother, everyone needs to have an explanation. Who would have thought that this family would run rampant and dominate the court, which is really a headache!"

Later relatives, chasing stolen goods, Zhou Nan suddenly became energetic.

What is a descendant, as the name suggests, a relative of the concubine in the palace.On the surface, it seems that the royal relatives are absolutely not to be messed with.

Don't forget, this is the Ming Dynasty, not the Han Dynasty.

That's right, in the Han Dynasty, Hou Qi controlled the government, flamboyant and domineering, and was indeed feared by everyone.That's because the Han Dynasty has the tradition of the emperor and the harem, and the descendants are the representatives of the political power of the empress.In the Han and Han dynasties, big families such as the Lu family and the Huo family came out.

In view of the evil consequences of the later relatives interfering in politics, later generations will strictly guard against the relatives of the concubine, as if they were thieves.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was even more stipulated that neither the queen nor the concubine could be the daughter of a wealthy family.Many concubines were of very low background, and most of them were born in the seventh rank or from the family of seventh rank officials.

Once your daughter is selected into the palace and canonized, I'm sorry, you will never want to be a high-ranking official in the future.Stay at home honestly and be a prince or marquis, and take your salary!
Not only that, but Yousi will come to you from time to time to give you a lecture on "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" that touches your soul, making you blush and sweat before you give up.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was never a good thing to be a relative of the royal family.The same is true of the vassal kings everywhere, and the same is true of the descendants, and they are called the two great tragedies of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Nan asked: "My lord, this family who is going to Qingzhang this time is an official of the imperial court, but they have titles, so I can call them later."

This was a skillful question. Seeing that Zhou Nan had already decided to take charge, Qin Liang smiled and said, "This family's surname is Li, and they don't have titles or official positions."

Then there is nothing to be afraid of, Zhou Nan's eyes brightened, and he said with pride: "Zhou Nan got the court's favor, the reward of eating the king, and the matter of loyalty to the king, dare you be the first?"

A descendant, who still has no title or official position, must be an old man from the previous dynasty, and has no affection in the palace, so just do it.Moreover, according to Qin Liang, the family surnamed Li occupied [-] mu of land, and it would be enough to return [-] mu of land.It is not a matter of one's own words to withdraw more or less.There is a lot of room for manipulation in this, maybe he can knock some money out of him.

However, Zhou Nan didn't have much interest in making a fortune through this. The capital city is different from other places. If there are only yellow and white things in the eyes, the pattern will be too small.

If you want to do it, you can do it big and withdraw all the [-] mu of land from the Li family.One is to get outstanding political achievements, and the other is to use this downtrodden relative to brush up my Master Zhou's reputation as a capable minister who is not afraid of power and brave to do things.

Qin Liang beamed and praised Zhou Nan solidly, and finally said: "Master Zhou has the courage to do it, and let the imperial court see my strong character and integrity."

Zhou Nan was very helpful when he accidentally squeezed into Qingliu's team.

The next step was to organize the troops, and the Pedestrian Secretary allocated a secretary and two yamen servants to order him.In addition, the Yingtian government office will send someone over to act as his assistant.

Zhou Nan received the three direct subordinates, and after the lecture was over, people from the Shuntian Mansion came.

Seeing his deputy, Zhou Nan was stunned: "It's you?"

That person: "It's you."

Zhou Nan: "Why is it you, why is it always you."

It turned out that the person Shuntian Mansion sent to be Zhou Nan's assistant was actually Zhao Jing who broke into Zhou's house yesterday and stuck the seals everywhere.

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