Chapter 176 Observation
Qian Zheng is as famous as his name, and is strong, which has won him praise from the Scholars and the People's Government, but at the same time he has endured the ups and downs of his career.
He was a Jinshi from the second grade and was selected as a Shujishi. Later, he was admitted to the six ranks as a minister, and was the censor of Xuanfu. He was the second only to the Hanlin Prime Minister. He was the first to be a leap forward. After a little experience, he would probably be able to jump forward.
But he wrote letters to Nie Bao and Xia Yan one after another, Qian Zheng was exiled from the capital by the court, and he was reborn a few years later and could only serve as the magistrate of Huizhou. The road to return to Beijing was far away, which made Qian Zheng feel a little cautious while maintaining his nature.
Although it is rumored that he tried to make the taxes of dice silk and silk evenly distributed to six counties, Qian Zheng did not care. He could settle the matter as long as he came forward to clarify.
But at this moment, a sudden letter made him feel a little embarrassed.
"Yin Zhengmao, a second-class Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing." Gu Chengzhi said: "He was the first to be the chief minister of the Ministry of War, and later to be the chief minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing. Last year, Chen Yinglong, the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice, was impeached by him."
"She County native." Qian Zheng sighed, "I blame me for not coming forward in time. Now the five counties are in a turbulent situation, and She County is again..."
Gu Chengzhi hesitated for a while, whispered the conversation he had with Qian Yuan before, and finally said: "I checked it just now, it is very likely that it is indeed the news released by Li Zheng."
After a pause, Gu Chengzhi added: "In the 14th year of Jiajing, two people from She County, Wang Xiang and Cheng Peng, once submitted a document to Governor Yingtian, and both died suddenly two years later."
"It's not an exaggeration to submit a document to your hometown." Qian Zheng's mind turned rapidly, and after a moment, he whispered, "Go and check it."
Gu Chengzhi came back soon after leaving the house, and whispered with an ugly face: "Wang Xiang and Li Jun are in-laws."
Qian Zheng and Gu Chengzhi had the same feeling and frustration in their hearts.
A little official can use his strength to fight, and he will turn the clouds and rains, causing such a storm... It's really a storm. Someone in Wuyuan and Jixi have already made private statements. If you have the surname Qian, you must be really brave enough to see if we don't get thousands of people to surround the government office.
In real history, this kind of thing really happened, but it was during the Wanli period.
After his family moved to Huizhou Prefecture temporarily, Qian Zheng began to maintain the habit of going home to eat, but a traditional scholar-official doctor would not agree to the proposal of his nephew's family to sit together for dinner.
The widowed sister-in-law, niece, niece and wife are in the inner courtyard, Qian Zheng and nephew Qian Yuan, and good friend Gu Chengzhi are in the outer courtyard.
Seeing that his uncle was still frowning, Qian Yuan shook at Gu Chengzhi, and the latter nodded slightly to indicate that his previous guess was verified.
Qian Yuan felt relieved. Although his uncle was once a tough guy, he now knows how to weigh the pros and cons.
Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or modern society, when a group incident occurs, the first thing that is unlucky is the local officials. If they are lucky, they will be dismissed from office and return home, and their bad luck may not be able to keep their heads.
I believe my uncle can think clearly.
The cooks trained in the food garden were left to Wang. Today, the chefs are all hired by the local area. Typical Huizhou dishes are heavy oil, heavy flavor, and especially salty. Qian Zheng and Gu Chengzhi are used to it, but Qian Yuan can't stand it.
"They drink wine during the meal and drink tea after the meal." Gu Chengzhi smiled and said, "But you have one cup after another in the meal."
"Huizhou does not produce salt, so do they don't need to buy salt?" Qian Yuan stuck out his tongue.
"Hey, Hui merchants, at least one-third of Hui merchants are salt merchants." Gu Chengzhi mentioned: "It's hard to say other places, there is no shortage of affordable salt in She County."
"That's right." Qian Yuan took a few bites of rice and simply stopped eating it. He held the hot tea and sipped it slowly. "Sir, why did Officer Li expose the matter?"
Before Gu Chengzhi answered, Qian Yuan laughed and said, "Don't say that for the sake of his hometown, they can collect more taxes, and they can also have more money and water."
"That's wrong." Gu Chengzhi shook his head, "In the 14th year of Jiajing, his legitimate cousin Wang Xiang was also a household clerk. He once submitted a document to Governor Yingtian and died suddenly two years later. I believe Li Zheng was unwilling to accept it."
"It's true before." Qian Yuan murmured for a few words, then suddenly looked up and said, "Why did you choose uncle..."
Gu Chengzhi glanced at Qian Zheng and smiled and said, "I asked, he wanted to find a boss with a strong personality and a reputation in Shilin to be the leader of She County. Your uncle naturally meets this standard very well."
Indeed, Qian Zheng met this standard very well, but it was a bit simpler to think about it. Qian Yuan shook his head slightly.
After tilting his head and thinking for a while, Qian Yuan asked again: "How many years have you been in the house for Li Zheng?"
"It's been a few years, at least we were there before we came to Huizhou Prefecture."
Qian Yuan tsk twice and stopped talking.
Qian Zheng glanced at his nephew, "The filial piety period will be released next month. I will not go back to Songjiang for the time being, so I will worship and remove clothes from the air here."
"Yes." Qian Yuan lowered his head and thought about it.
"You need to put more effort into making art." Qian Zheng habitually scolded, "The three articles yesterday still did not make much progress. If you can pass the provincial examination, you will be lucky. If you are not lucky, you will be the deputy list."
"Yes." Qian Yuan said casually.
Qian Zheng sighed slightly. Although this nephew is considered hard-working in his studies, he obviously has been more concerned about other places in recent years.
However, Qian Zheng also knew that once he passed the Jinshi, those sour and smelly eight-legged essays would be basically useless. The abilities that my nephew has developed over the past few years are actually strengths.
Not to mention the others, just relying on rumors to find suspicious points, and following the clues, they directly pulled out the instigators behind the scenes. There are really few people who have a very meticulous thought.
After dinner, as usual, Gu Chengzhi and Qian Yuan entered the study and took out the three eight-part articles yesterday, reviewed them in detail, and broke them apart a little bit and even explained one by one.
After adding oil lamps twice, the night reading ended. Qian Yuan waved his hand and let Yang Wen, who was waiting outside the door, come in.
"Ask?"
"Young Master, I've asked clearly."
Yang Wenchui stood solemnly, respectfully, and Gu Chengzhi, who was beside him, glanced at him with admiration.
Several times before Qian Yuan went to the government office, Yang Wen was with him. An old man from the government office who had been on the battlefield privately said that this man was extremely bloody and he was afraid that he would have more than ten or eight lives on his hands.
Gu Chengzhi later asked Qian Yuan and learned that Yang Wen always fought bravely in Chongde and Jiading battles, and the number of Japanese pirates cut down was enough to make people look at it.
In fact, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang had asked privately that Yang Wen had started at least one of the generals in the military camps, but unfortunately he refused to leave the Qian family.
Yang Wen, who was standing there, kept silent. Only then did Gu Chengzhi realize that he was about to get up and leave.
"Mr. Gu is not an outsider." Qian Yuan smiled and reached out to Yang Wen, "That guy Zhang San is too careless, you are too cautious."
Yang Wen's face remained unchanged, and he coughed twice, "Young Master guessed that Li Yuan was the confidant of the former magistrate of Huizhou Prefecture, and it is said that he still has contacts."
"The former Huizhou General magistrate..." Qian Yuan nodded with a smile, "Tsk tsk, Li Zheng must have been rejected by that guy, so he chose his uncle to take off the firewood from the back."
Gu Chengzhi's mind turned three times before he came to his senses. In recent years, Qian Zheng was not the most famous one. His former Huizhou General Zhao Zhenji wanted to steadily suppress him.
Li Jun wanted to use the famous officials to overturn the case of She County in the Silk Silk case. It is very likely that Zhao Zhenji was chosen before, but this famous famous scholar at home and abroad was not stupid, and it was Qian Zheng's turn before.
Li Jun also learned his lesson. He used Qian Zheng's weaving method to turn silk into silver, and used a cauldron to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot, trying to push Qian Zheng up.
Chapter completed!