Idle courtiers

Chapter 187 A Brainless Idiot
With five subordinates, Zhou Nan walked towards Li Wei's mansion excitedly.

That's when he didn't go outside the city, but went to Li Wei's other mansion located in the southeast corner of the inner city.The manor outside the city is just one of his other courtyards. He has more than 20 courtyards of different sizes in the city, plus the ancestral house of his hometown in Tongzhou, there are more than [-] sets.

There are [-] houses in the capital. What is the concept in modern society?
Besides, Lao Li's houses are all big, the small ones are at least a courtyard house, and the big ones are more than [-] square meters.

This shows that the Li family is rich.

Zhou Nan ran through Li Wei's information in his head. In fact, Li's family in Tongzhou is only a middle-class family, and its economic strength is similar to that of An Dongmei's family, and even worse than that of Huai'an Xun's family.

However, since Lord Li's daughter became King Yu's concubine and gave birth to a prince, she has soared into the sky.

This Li Wei used the brand of Wangfu to provide military horses and quilts for the Jiubian Town Army, and in a few years he made a fortune beyond rivals.

The Liaodong army horse case was created by Lao Li, and it also involved Zhou Nan.Up to now, Mr. Zhou has not closed the case, and the yamen of the imperial court have no intention of dealing with it.

When we got to the ground, we saw that Li Wei's mansion in the city was very large, with new bricks and fresh black paint on the gate. It looked like an antique building in an ancient town in later generations, with the atmosphere of an upstart.

Compared with his house, the big yard of Zhu Congji's house looks a bit shabby.

A man who owns thirty houses is a role model for us!

I posted a post, and soon, a follower of Li's mansion came out to lead a group of officials into the hall. Li Wei was sitting on the main seat, looking at Zhou Nan with resentment in his eyes.Sitting next to him was a thin young man in a Confucian robe, holding a teacup to appreciate the color of the soup inside and the jasmine flowers floating on the surface of the soup.

When Zhou Nan saw Li Wei's expression, his heart skipped a beat, as if he had entered a tiger's den.

Stepped forward to salute: "Pedestrian Si Zhou Nan has seen Yuanwai Li."

Li Wei snorted coldly, clapped the case and said, "You surnamed Zhou, you eighth-rank official the size of a sesame mung bean, who gave you the courage to seek this old man's bad luck? The old man just ignores you, but five times three times It's extremely hateful to post messages to harass you. Once or twice is enough, the old man doesn't count the faults of villains. You are getting more and more rampant, and there is no end to it. If XX kills you again, who will treat me as a fool in the future? What's going on?"

After that, he grinned and said, "Since you are here today, don't think about leaving so easily."

Zhou Nan was taken aback, this guy is a brainless idiot, I keep sending you messages, it means that we will never see each other again, and there is room for each other.You don't try to use personnel relations to solve this problem, but let me come here just to vent your anger. Is it interesting?

The problem is, this kind of thing was originally understood by everyone, and he couldn't open up with Li Wei to explain it clearly.

Whoever said that people in high positions have extraordinary political wisdom, this person surnamed Li is a rascal.

Originally, Zhou Nan had a little admiration for this man who owned [-] properties in the capital.At this moment, he couldn't feel his anger burning, and sneered, "Mr. Li, I'm not mistaken. The court has not yet reached a conclusion on the case of Zhao's sudden death in Shuntian Prefecture. I am here today. The country does not hesitate to injure its body seven feet. If something happens to Zhou, how can you stop the world from talking?"

Li Wei laughed domineeringly: "Haha, it's good that Mr. Zhou didn't talk about it, but he reminded the old man. It's obvious that there are villains who want to punish labor and management. You can't escape the suspicion of Zhou. Clean it up today After you are an eyesore, don't even think about leaving so easily. The old man doesn't beat you and scold you, he just punishes you to kneel down and think about your mistakes, and then asks someone to send you back to the pedestrian department. Haha, I didn't touch it You are a hair, if you die, you have nothing to do with the old man. Someone is here, help Master Zhou to kneel down!"

It was the same scene as last time in Li's other courtyard outside the city, and a group of servants with big sticks whizzed over.

This time, Zhou Nan's subordinates learned to be good, and immediately uttered a cry, turned into the wind, and fled like flying, leaving Zhou Nan alone in the hall.

As a time traveler, Zhou Nan naturally knows the prestige of the Li family in the next few decades.From the bottom of his heart, he really didn't want to have any conflict with Li Guozhang.To offend Li Wei is to offend the father of the future Concubine Li and the grandfather of the future Emperor Wanli, and he will never be able to stay in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

However, if he was forced to kneel and kowtow on the ground today, he would immediately lose face to stay in the capital.

His current path to officialdom has been fixed, that is, passing the imperial examination to become a Jinshi.Then get enough qualifications in the Pedestrian Division to work in the Sixth Ministry, and then enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and follow the route of clean speech, reputation is the most important thing.

Once it is broken, it will ruin your future.

The clay bodhisattva also has a three-point fire nature. Zhou Nan doesn't cause trouble, but he is also a person who is not afraid of trouble.

"Get out of the way!" Zhou Nan ruthlessly pushed away the two evil slaves who rushed forward, and shouted sharply: "Li Wei, I ask you, what is your identity?"

Li Wei yelled angrily: "Grandpa is your identity, don't you, a dog, don't you know, master, my daughter is the future of the palace and princess..."

Before he finished speaking, the young scholar coughed lightly and frowned slightly.

Li Wei knew he had slipped his tongue, and shouted again: "Anyway, who am I, Master, I don't need to talk nonsense with you."

Zhou Nan smiled sarcastically: "Li Yuanwai was questioned by the official, right? Well, let me talk about the identity of the official first. The official Zhou Nan, a student of Huai'an Prefecture, a pedestrian of the eighth rank of the pedestrian, and an official of the court. Officials kneel down to the fathers of heaven and earth, and kneel down to their parents. Dare I ask what title Li Yuanwai is now and what position he holds? In the end, you are just a commoner, so how can you make me kneel down?"

This is already a complete confrontation with Li Wei.

Li Wei jumped into a rage and cursed: "There is nothing left for a dog to eat. I want to make people kneel today. If you want to sue, go ahead and see who dares to back you up. Oh, drink, you still have a scholar with a reputation. An official of the imperial court, a stinky ass. A young scholar is also worthy of being a pedestrian. If you are punished by Lao Tzu today, I am afraid that everyone in your pedestrian department will applaud. Hurry up and hold him down!"

Zhou Nan was stunned, and his heart groaned.

Yes, he is just a scholar now, but he has become a passerby with everyone's eyes.The people in the department also ostracized him a lot. If he suffered a loss this time, I'm afraid those people would be secretly relieved, and the pedestrian department would not stand up for him to seek justice.

Is this going to be humiliated today?

When he met Li Wei, a rough man who didn't know the severity of the situation, but only knew how to act recklessly, Zhou Nan really felt a bit like a scholar, but he couldn't explain why he was reasonable.

In the middle of the noise, Zhou Nan thought of the situation when the scholar coughed just now, and his heart suddenly moved.This person has the aura of a superior person, even the arrogant and domineering Li Wei is extremely polite to him, is it someone from the palace?
In this way, things will be easy to handle.

At that moment Zhou Nan yelled loudly: "Whoever dares to go up, my official position is humble, my sleeves are clean, and I have nothing but arrogance. I have read the books of sages all my life, but I also know the truth that a scholar can be killed and cannot be humiliated. I am humiliated today. , has no face to live in the world. Li Yuanwai, there will be no future."

After saying that, he slammed into the wall.

The scholar was shocked and shouted: "Stop him!"

The two servants hurriedly grabbed Zhou Nan.

Li Weiwei shouted: "What to stop, he is going to die, he should die himself!"

"Mr. Li, don't say a word!" The young scholar shook his head in distress, and cupped his hands at Zhou Nan: "Master Zhou, I'm sorry, Mr. Li has such a temper, don't take it to heart. Please come here today, everyone It’s all official business. Let’s come and send Mr. Zhou back to the manor.”

After leaving the Li residence, Zhou Nan secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and murmured: "Fortunately, the scholar is a man who knows the severity, so he asked someone to stop me at a critical moment. Otherwise, when the wall hits, I will still be there." It would be embarrassing if you don’t hit it.”

At this moment, the five attendants who fled Li's residence in a hurry came over and asked cautiously: "Master Zhou, is it all right?"

Zhou Nan was furious, pointing at several people and scolding: "You bastard, you abandon your superiors, you lowly bastards!"

Today is also bad luck. I thought that after Li Wei got into trouble with Zhao Jing, he would restrain himself and accept the imperial court's Qingzhang obediently, and he would easily get a piece of credit for himself.Unexpectedly, Li Guozhang was like a stone in Maosi, smelly and hard.

He said again: "My lord is a dignified court official, what can happen. After listening to my lord's reprimand, Li Wei was ashamed and repented, so he naturally made an apology. Seeing his sincere attitude, I am a lord and don't care about villains. "

Everyone naturally didn't believe it in their hearts, but they said verbally: "I admire, I admire."

"Then who are the scholars, Gao Gong, Li Chunfang, Zhang Juzheng?" Zhou Nan wondered.

After thinking about it, Gao Gong is an old man, Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng are both middle-aged, and their ages are obviously not the same.Moreover, these three people are all bachelors of the Imperial Academy, and they are going to be ministers in the cabinet in the future. How can they degrade their status and go to Li's residence.If someone impeached him for clinging to his relatives, what face would he have to gain a foothold in the officialdom?Don't even think about being a minister in the future.

After being frightened by this today, Zhou Nan didn't have the heart to go back to the Pedestrian Department, and went home to read and study for homework.

At this moment, in the Li Mansion.

Li Wei said angrily: "Feng Daban, what are you doing to that plague student? He wants to die. I didn't do it. Everyone can testify to me. You can't blame someone."

"Evidence, who will prove it for you, me?" The scholar smiled.

That's right, this person is Feng Bao, the big companion of Prince Yu's Mansion.

The so-called big companion refers to the entourage of the prince or crown prince in the palace when he was young.As the name suggests, it is the playmate of the prince.

This is a good job in the palace. Once the crown prince grows up and takes over the throne, generally speaking, the big companion will become the steward of the inner palace.

Because of the damn thing that Erlong didn't meet, Jiajing didn't establish a prince.But everyone in the world knows that King Yu will be the emperor in the future, and Feng Bao has a bright future.

Speaking of Feng Bao, he is a man of talent and learning. He was born in Neishutang and studied for more than ten years.

The supervisor of ceremonies is responsible for approving awards on behalf of the emperor, and his palm prints are called internal ministers, which are extremely powerful.

After all, Feng Bao was young, and suddenly he was in a high position, so he couldn't control himself, his whole body swelled up, and he wanted to invite favors in front of Jiajing, but he offended the old man in the prison, and was sent to the prince's mansion by the palm seal Huang Jin to be the eldest son's companion .

(End of this chapter)