Chapter 160
Chapter 158 Integrity crisis
The two apples of Banxia are sharp weapons in the world, and they immediately broke through the bottom line of Wang Daxia, which was already low to the basement. He didn’t think too much at all, and ignited his little sanity. They were all burned out, and they surrendered.
Banxia still pouted her lips and asked him, “Does my rouge look good today?”
Wang Daxia was born with the problem of Aihong, and couldn’t refuse this temptation, so she had to let her be at the mercy of her, “It looks good.”
Wei Caiwei asked again: “Which gate will we leave tomorrow?”
Wang Daxia: “Chaoyang Gate.”
“Your lips are a bit dry today, be careful of peeling.” Wei Caiwei applied a layer of lip balm to him with her lips.
The rewarded Wang Daxia was guarded. The basket was full of holes. The hole was so big that it could fit in a spirited Wang Xiaoxia. Wang Daxia didn’t ask to recruit himself, “We’re leaving right now, you get up early. Don’t miss it.”
Wei Caiwei said: “Oh, I remember it.”
Wang Daxia stood still and wanted some rewards.
Wei Caiwei said: “When you arrive in Linqing, I will give you another rouge ointment.”
Wang Daxia: Life is precious, and the price of loyalty is higher. If it is Pinellia ternata, everything can be thrown away.
The next day, Lu Ying pretended to be a merchant selling ginseng and deer antler, and Wang Daxia and others pretended to be **** guards. Mao was meeting at Chaoyangmen and went out of the capital together. When they stopped for a meal at a post at noon, they heard the news from outside the door. Come to Lingling’s voice.
This is the voice of Youyi turning tiger support, intended to solicit business.
The voice stopped. You doctor took the tiger support and came in to eat. This person carried a bamboo medicine box with a banner hanging on the top of the box, and wrote the book “Wonderful Rejuvenation”.
Lu Ying felt that the words “Miaoshou Rejuvenation” seemed to be familiar to him, and it would be even more worthy if the banner of “Gynecological Master” was hung.
Doctor You put down the medicine box and took off the big hat on his head, “Little Er, come here with a bowl of plain noodles and half a catty of beef.”
It’s Wei Caiwei. Although she was wearing a robe with a stand-up collar, her face was painted yellowish and black, and she wore a black/net scarf on her head as a man, but Lu Ying could recognize it at a glance. The two of them were so familiar.
Lu Ying immediately turned his gaze to Wang Daxia at the next table: Your kid revealed the purpose of our trip!
Wang Daxia pretended not to feel Lu Ying’s scorching gaze. He seemed extremely hungry, lowered his head and slammed the rice. Seeing the enthusiasm of this meal, it was as if he had just picked up the rice bowl. He couldn’t tell that this was the first time he had eaten. Three bowls of rice.
Lu Ying didn’t allow Wang Daxia to pretend to be dead. She picked up a useless chopsticks, made a arrogant look, and poked Wang Daxia in the back of the waist, “I feel a little uncomfortable. Call the traveler to show me. ”
Wang Daxia had to put down his job and went to invite Wei Caiwei with a shy face, “Our boss is unwell, please come to see a doctor.”
Wei Caiwei carried the box to Lu Ying’s table, “Is the boss uncomfortable?”
The two looked like the patient and the doctor were asking for a diagnosis, but they weren’t. Lu Ying persuaded: “This action is dangerous, you should go back.”
Wei Caiwei said: “The more dangerous I am, the more I am going to see Ding Wu in Linqing. I miss him very much. I want to see him and hear him speak with my own ears. Besides, I participated in your Jin Yiwei operations several times, and that time was Is it a hindrance? Let me go, I’m useful to you.”
Wei Caiwei also used the method of radical generalization, “This time you are out of Beijing, your family members are also worried about your safety. They care about you. You still have to do what you should do. Will you give up because you are in danger? If so, don’t come to persuade you. I have gone back. I have decided that I will go to Linqing even if I am not on the same road with you.”
On the side, Wang Daxia should be a good husband, “You can agree with Dr. Wei to join us, she walks alone as a medical doctor, it is too dangerous.”
Lu Ying had to agree.
Wei Caiwei pretended to ask about her pulse, and gave Lu Ying some pills and asked for seventy dollars, which happened to be paid for today’s meal.
Moreover, Lu Ying and his party rushed to Linqing County, and the court also had a wave of storms.
After Lu Bing died, Lu Bing and Yan Shifan’s common family (the daughter of the Yan family married one of Wu Peng’s sons) and the official minister Wu Peng suddenly offered to resign for the elderly. The violent death of his old friend made Wu Peng reluctant and smelled that the building was about to fall. Feeling that, quickly resign and get out.
It is true that Wu Peng is very old. After Emperor Jiajing refused twice, he agreed for the third time. The staff department vacated the vacancy, and Yan Song, the first and second minister of the cabinet, strongly recommended Ouyang Bijin as the official secretary of the Ministry of Industry.
The Ministry of Officials is in charge of the dispatching of officials from all over the world, so it is called a heavenly official. Although they are all Shangshu, from the Ministry of Industry to the Shangshu, they are considered to be promoted, and they are expected to join the cabinet in the future and become cabinet ministers.
Ouyang Bijin is Yan Song’s younger brother-in-law, his sister Ouyang married Yan Song, and Yan Shifan is his nephew.
Why does Yan Song dare to blatant nepotism?
Because Ouyang Bijin was a capable minister, he was a scholar of two ranks, and he served as the Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. When the Ministry of Engineering is still writing, improve the design drawings and save costs.
When he was the governor, there was a rinderpest outbreak in the local area and a large number of farm cattle died of illness, which affected farming. Ouyang must go to the exhibition to read various ancient agricultural books and invented a manual tillage machine that uses pulleys to twist the rope to push the iron plough to solve the local urgent needs and avoid There was a famine.
Ouyang Bijin’s official voice and folk reputation are excellent, and Yan Song recommends his brother-in-law to be the official book, and even his opponent Xu Jie can’t fault it.
Emperor Jiajing agreed.
Ouyang Bijin thus became the official secretary. This time, his nephew Yan Shifan was so happy. With the dispatch of his uncle who was in charge of officials, it became more convenient for him to collect money and sell officials.
Officials came to Yan Shifan one after another to send money for promotion and dispatch. Yan Shifan is a principled person. He has to do things when he receives money. He takes the list and gifts and visits his uncle Ouyang.
Ouyang Bijin entertains his nephew, and both the gift and the list are accepted.
But within a few days, Yan Shifan was dumbfounded. Not only did the people on the list have not been promoted or transferred to their favorite positions, but even the officials were kicked out!
How is this going?
Yan Shifan received the money, but he couldn’t do anything for the first time. He lost his reputation for honesty, clearly marked prices, and childishness. He hurried to find Ouyang Bijin, “Uncle, that list is not for you to pick them.” The official hat is to be promoted, my dear uncle, you must have misunderstood, not to rectify them.”
Ouyang Bijin shook his head, “I have found out their political achievements over the years, but they are not good enough. The corpse is a vegetarian meal. What is the use of such officials? I wasted national salaries for nothing. I am the official official who is responsible for the dispatch of officials. Naturally, I have to choose suitable people. Go fill the pit.”
The nephew looked at the money, and the uncle looked at the people, obviously not the same.
Regardless of whether Yan Shifan persuades him or swears, his uncle Ouyang Bijin just refuses to let go, stubbornly like a stone, and persuades his nephew, “Can you just return the money? Anyway, what you have is money.”
Yan Shifan: Impossible! I am just a brave, I feed on wealth from all directions, swallow everything without diarrhea, and can only eat, how can I refund the money!
I won’t refund any money!
Ouyang Bijin also moved out all the gifts from his nephew last time, “You can take the gifts back, I don’t need them anyway.”
How could the gift from the nephew to the uncle be so retired, Yan Shifan still wanted to face him, so he said goodbye, “Uncle stay, don’t give it to the nephew.”
Yan Shifan went to his father Yan Song non-stop, and in the first month of the spring and cold weather, he was sweating, and said that Ouyang Bijin refused his request, “…How obedient is Wu Peng, the former official secretary, what the son said, he did what he said. He was more obedient than a dog. He suddenly said that he was resigned because of his sincere uncle’s violent death. He resigned for retirement. His father recommended his uncle. The son was still happy for a few days. From now on, the court will still belong to our Yan family. Don’t give your son face.”
When Wu Peng was in office, “every officials advance and retreat, obey Yan Shifan’s orders, dare not to be self-directed, but they are full of positions, Chinese and foreign people are all contemptuous” (Note 1).
Accustomed to Wu Peng’s docile and obedient, he never said a word, Yan Shifan asked his father for help, “Father, you can change to an obedient official official book now, and get your uncle down. The son can’t stand it anymore, he has lost his credibility, and what happened to the son? Doing business? Hurry up and change someone to be a book, so that the son can arrange the person who gives the money properly.”
Yan Song was copying the 3000-word scriptures of the Taoist Emperor Taishang with gold lacquer on a black Taoist robe, which was prepared to be given to Emperor Jiajing, and his pen was like a dragon. “The money you have earned in these years is enough for our Yan family for generations , Glory and wealth, it’s time to stop.”
Yan Shifan shook his head repeatedly, “No, there is a time when you can earn enough money.”
Yan Song put aside the golden pen, “Have you not found that many things have changed since the death of Uncle Zhongzheng? King Jing can’t stand up anymore. King Yu gradually gained power and entered the palace for the first time to celebrate the New Year. The memorial to the emperor’s early establishment of the country has every day. Prophet Chunjiang Plumbing Duck, Wu Peng, a clever ghost, went away first, and in the name of remembering his loyal uncle, the emperor gave him some gifts to send him home.”
“You and my father and son have been in control of the government for many years, have made countless enemies, and have repeatedly made grievances with the King Yu-you have deducted the salary of the King Yu Mansion several times. After the death of Uncle Zhongzheng, the emperor gave birth to gray hair overnight, and he is much older. The power belongs to the new emperor. Neither you nor my father and son can retreat like Wu Peng did. If we retreat, we will be torn apart by others. So, don’t always think about making money, but think about finding a way out for the Yan family.”
Yan Song has always been with the emperor and has a strong sense of crisis. If King Yu becomes the emperor, the Yan family will definitely be liquidated.
Yan Shifan heard this and said, “There is a way out, so my son will arrange it.”
Yan Shifan called his confidant Luo Longwen, “You are familiar with various places overseas. You go south with some gold and silver jewelry, buy a few big ships, buy a few dead soldiers, and put them in reserve. Fly across the sea, find a few safe places to save Hidden wealth, buy a house and buy land, prepare a few more, cunning rabbits and three caves, just in case. Open up an escape route from the capital to overseas, and you will not be caught off guard in the future. You can usually do some smuggled/smuggled goods trading. Isn’t it a compromise? ?”
Luo Longwen was a master ink maker. Later, he was famous for helping the famous anti-Japanese general Hu Zongxian persuading the great pirate Xu Hai to surrender. He had the experience of mediating with the pirates and Japanese pirates. Therefore, Luo Longwen knew the coastal areas of Ming Dynasty and overseas well and was appreciated by Yan Shifan. Become its staff.
“We will not humiliate Dongweng’s mission.” Luo Longwen took the order and went south with part of Yan Shifan’s wealth to stay at the Linqing post.
Lu Ying and others arrived first and were eating. Luo Longwen walked into the station. Wu Xiaoqi recognized him first, and whispered: “Boss, Luo Longwen is here.”
Wu Xiaoqi’s father died at the hands of Yan Shifan. He swore revenge. He knew all the staff around Yan Shifan.
The author has something to say: Ouyang must enter this uncle, which is more of a nephew.
Note 1: From “A Textual Research on the Official Book of the Ming Dynasty”