Idle courtiers

Chapter 200 Tang Shunzhi Arrives

"what?"

"I want to go home."

Zhou Nan hastily interrupted him: "Brother Zhu, you just want to go home and go home, what do you want me for?" How to let this General Fengguo keep shouting, who knows what the strongest voice of the era he will make.

"How dare you go back?"

Zhou Nan persuaded: "Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, one mind. People often say that the strongest relationship in the world is between parents and children. In fact, I think it should be husband and wife. After all, parents will grow old one day, and you will always One day you will leave them, but your wife will spend the rest of your life with you. There is another saying, husband and wife don’t have overnight feuds, but fight at the end of the bed. Mrs. The temper is probably a little anxious."

"Don't be angry with her, just go home and say something nice, just to accompany the crime."

Zhu Congchen: "But, going home will inevitably lead to another good fight."

Zhou Nan: "Could it be possible that Mrs. Sister-in-law can beat you to death? Isn't she going to be a widow? What about the children at home?"

Zhu Congchen: "Beating to death is not enough."

"Then it's over. It's just a pain in the flesh. It's over if you grit your teeth and bear it. It's not a problem for Brother Zhu to hang out all the time. If you don't go home, it will completely intensify the conflict." Classmate Zhu lived all day. In his own home, Zhou Nan was also upset when he saw it, and it was not easy to push people away.

"To put it bluntly, it wasn't you who was beaten."

"Then I have no choice."

Zhu Congbai said: "You have a plan. By the way, when I was drinking with the clan's children earlier, I heard people say that Zimu, your teacher Tang Shunzhi has come to Beijing."

"Ah, Mr. Tang has come to Beijing?" Zhou Nan was pleasantly surprised, and immediately understood that Tang Shunzhi came to Beijing this time to say goodbye to his majesty.

The so-called Bici literally means that the court officials leave the court and bid farewell to the emperor in the hall.In fact, it refers to a political system in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It mainly means that after the local officials close to the people and Zhengyin officials were appointed by the imperial court, they would receive the certificate of confession and official seal after they had an audience with the emperor. Beijing office.

This is because Zhengyin officials such as magistrates and magistrates are herdsmen on behalf of the emperor, and they are the most important, and they are the spokespersons of the court and imperial power.That being the case, the emperor must get to know who is the magistrate of which county, and give a few words of encouragement, right?
So this thing became a system.

In addition, Zhengyin officials above the local fourth-rank magistrate had to go to Beijing to see them every three years.

Tang Shunzhi was appointed by the imperial court last year as Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, and he should go to Beijing to give his speech as a rule.

Zhou Nan was able to change from being an official to becoming an official of the court, all thanks to Tang Shunzhi's support, and Lao Tang was his destined nobleman.Speaking of which, he is our Lord Zhou's biggest backer.

Now, Zhou Nan's eyes are smeared in the capital, and his life is not satisfactory.Now that Tang Shunzhi entered Beijing, he suddenly gained some confidence.If you talk to Tang Shunzhi, maybe you can finish the matter of locking the hall.

While Zhou Nan was happy, he asked again: "Brother Zhu, where is Mr. Tang now? By the way, what does Mr. Tang's coming to Beijing have to do with your family affairs?"

"Mr. Tang has his own house in the capital." Zhu Cong said: "Tang Yingde is kind to my wife's natal family, if he can intercede for me, I think my wife will not be too embarrassing brother Yu."

It turned out that Tang Shunzhi was selected as the editor of the Imperial Academy after being a Jinshi in the eighth year of Jiajing. Three years later, he was transferred to the military department as the head of the military affairs of the two towns of Xuan and Da.

Zhu Congjin's father-in-law is from Datong, and has some dealings with the army.Later, when something went wrong, he was retaliated by his enemies and reported to the Ministry of War.When Tang Shunzhi investigated the case, he found that there was a grievance in it, so he vindicated it.

In this way, Mrs. Zhu Congchi's natal family owed Lao Tang a big favor.

After listening to him, Zhou Nan smiled and said, "Since my teacher is in Beijing, I will naturally go to see him. It will not be difficult to ask him to intercede for Brother Zhu."

Zhu Cong was overjoyed: "Thank you Zimu, thank you Zimu." After finishing speaking, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Zimu, did you make it possible for the sect to write a letter today?"

"No." Zhou Nan denied it categorically: "Brother Zhu wrote that love letter. You were so drunk at the time, so naturally you can't remember clearly."

Zhu Congzhu looked confused: "Did I really write it?"

Zhou Nan: "This is a good thing, the clan is thinking of your affection now."

Zhu Congchen: "That's right, I'm going to bed." He still generously occupied Zhou Nan's guest room.

Nothing happened all night, Zhou Nan felt that this was the most peaceful night he had slept since he came to Beijing.For a while, Tang Shunzhi went to Beijing, and he finally had a backer.The most important thing is that there is finally no dispute over the property rights of this house, which made him breathe a long sigh of relief.

On the second day, he went to the Department of Pedestrians to order the Mao as usual, then left the yamen, and happily went to Tang Shunzhi's mansion in the capital.

Zhou Nan went to the pedestrian department to work, but no one cared.It flickered like a firefly, and no one cared, it just came and went freely.

I don't know if it's because the Scholars wanted to reject him, or because they were afraid of being stuck with his bad star.

Desiring to get close to this mentor, Zhou Nan was generous, bought many gifts, let a porter carry the burden, and went to Tang Shunzhi's residence.

Lao Tang was born in a prominent family in Changzhou. His grandfather Tang Gui was a Jinshi, and he was appointed as a household secretary. His father Tang Bao was also a Jinshi. He was the prefect of Xinyang in Henan and Yongzhou in Hunan.

Since he became an official, he was first an editor of the Imperial Academy, and then served as the head of the Ministry of War. After several ups and downs, he became the governor of Fengyang, and now he is the secretary of the Nanjing Household Department.He basically served in the central government when he was young and in his prime, and he lived in Beijing for about 20 years.

Like other Beijing officials, Tang Shunzhi also bought a house in the capital for the convenience of living.

The Tang Mansion is not many miles away from Zhou Nan's new home. It is located in a narrow and secluded alley.

Today the alley was full of carriages and horses, and it was so crowded that there were many servants and servants standing outside the door waiting.

When Tang Shunzhi was the governor of Fengyang, he held the military power in his hand, and he was a big official in the frontier, with great power.After defeating the Japanese pirates at sea, he was transferred to Nanjing as the Minister of the Household Department after he made great achievements. On the surface, it seemed that his rank was one level higher, but in fact he was greatly degraded.

Where Nanjing No. [-] is, it is a nursing home.

Ordinarily, when Old Tang came to Beijing this time, he should have neglected the traffic and horses in front of the gate, but it is strange that it is so lively today.

The concierge knew Zhou Nan, and when he saw him, he warmly welcomed him in, saying: "Zimu came just in time, Da Si Nong just got up, and was catching up with some old friends in Beijing, you happened to see him."

Zhou Nan asked: "Who is here?"

The concierge reported the origins and names of several people, none of whom had official positions, and they should be colleagues from the Xinxue school and the scholar circle.

However, one of the names caught his attention, Wang Shizhen, the leader of Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli literary circles, and the leader of the last seven sons.Now he is serving as the Deputy Envoy of the Inspection Department of Shandong Province, and he is serving in Qingzhou.

Zhou Nan asked strangely: "Isn't Wang Yuanmei from Shandong? Why did you come to the capital?"

Porter: "But I don't know."

Zhou Nan suddenly felt a little excited. As a former Wenqing, in his mind, Wang Shizhen's status was higher than Tang Shunzhi's.

I heard that "Jin*mei" was written by him.

His original intention of writing this book was to satirize the elder Yan Shifan of Xiaoge, and to ruin the reputation of the Yan family.Xiaoyan, whose nickname is Qing'er, is the prototype of Ximen Qing, a senior official of Ximen.

I can't beat your Yan family, but I can write you badly in the book!Anyway, I used a pseudonym, what can you do to me?
Although there are many descriptions of romantic scenes in this book, full of obscenity and robbery, it has to be said that it is really well written.After reading it, it is like a picture scroll of the city in the Ming Dynasty slowly unfolding in front of your eyes.

In any case, "Jin*mei" is a mountain that cannot be bypassed by Ming and Qing literature, and it is the first-hand material for studying the culture of the Ming Dynasty.

The villain who wrote pornographic novels became famous and famous, this person is really powerful.

(End of this chapter)