Time quietly came to the end of December, the snow on the roofs of the capital became thicker, and the atmosphere of the New Year became heavier.

“Leizhou cotton cloth looks good and affordable!”

"Foshan iron pot, I won't change the pot for ten years!"

“Tokyo Bay Chili Fish Sauce, delicious and cheap!”

"Cantonese firecrackers and fireworks, the sound of wealth comes, and it is a must-have for the Spring Festival!"

...

The area around Gulou in the north of the city seemed very lively, with shops and street stalls constantly shouting at the dense crowds, waving customers.

Because the goods in this area have extremely high cost performance, the people near Shuntian Prefecture flocked here from different places and bought high-quality and low-cost New Year goods.

In the past year, they welcomed a new emperor. Although this emperor may not be a wise monarch, he is not considered a foolish monarch, at least not as big as Jiajing.

Although the court's finances were still in a difficult situation, the "extravagation" was stopped by the court, which led to an increase in their income this year and they also gained a lot of money.

In addition, the Ming army won a great victory in Shanxi in the middle of the year, and now they have restored their tribute relations with Altan, which has added some confidence in this dynasty.

Of course, they knew that the greatest hero of all this was not the new king Longqing who liked lust, nor the inactionary virtuous prime minister Xu Jie, but Lin Qingtian who was determined to transform the Ming Dynasty.

That's why the people of Shuntian Prefecture have more longing for the future and are also welcoming the upcoming Spring Festival with a good attitude.

This joy was also passed on to the officials in the capital, but they saw them gathered in front of the Ministry of Revenue and received their New Year’s goods.

"Haha... I didn't expect that there was Duan Inkstone. I really took my heart!"

"Compared with Duan Inkstone, I have a special liking for this pair of official boots!"

"No matter what was distributed this time, the court is always willing to do it, and I am very happy!"

...

A group of officials came out of the Ministry of Revenue to receive their New Year’s goods, with uncontrollable smiles on their faces, but they all sighed.

Thanks to the income of the Suzhou-Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, the income of the Lianghuai Salt Tax and the income of the Maritime Bureau, the Ministry of Revenue was the most abundant period. Therefore, Ma Sen, who was the Minister of Revenue at the time, proposed to distribute New Year's goods to officials in Beijing.

For senior officials with ice warriors and charcoal warriors, this small New Year goods are naturally not worth mentioning, but giving those officials at the bottom is undoubtedly a benefit.

It is precisely because when receiving this new year's goods that are not valuable, many low-level officials and officials who are in pursuing themselves seem quite happy.

"Someone is generous to the court!"

"Isn't it? No one knows that this time must be his Lin Ruoyu's idea!"

"When I am financially in trouble next year, I will definitely submit a memorial to him!"

...

Wu Shilai followed several colleagues to collect New Year's goods, but the censors of the Kedao looked angry, but they pointed their finger at Lin Qingran.

Xu Dang clearly had a boycott of the action of the Ministry of Revenue. Although it was Ma Sen's proposal on the surface, anyone knew that Lin Shiran was actually disturbing people's hearts.

Of course, this is actually the voice of the core circle of the Xu Party and the censor who likes to provoke trouble. Some Xu Party officials who live a tight life still strongly support this measure.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were the lowest in history. If they did not make money or could not get enough ice and charcoal warnings, then they would not even be able to bring their families to the capital like Hai Rui.

Although Lin Weiran's small move now cannot make them rich, it will also make their lives more decent.

I'm afraid they don't know it themselves. In a subtle way, Xu Jie is getting further and further away from the leader of the civil servant group, while Lin Weiran is getting closer and closer to the leader of the civil servant group.

At night, the capital was covered with a layer of twilight, and many official sedan chairs left the various yamen.

Lin Weiran, wearing a first-class crimson official robe, sat quietly in the sedan chair with his beard appearing thicker, his eyes become deeper, and his whole body is more powerful as a court elder.

Although he had already lost to Xu Jie, who was the Lord's War in the previous battle between Lord's War, he had received support from middle and lower-level officials.

In the current court, although he is still a long way from the throne of the prime minister, his influence in the court is even above the Xu rank.

The street was filled with cold wind, but a few leaves were blew from some corner, adding a bit of the feeling of the arrival of the end of the world.

Lin Fu walked in front with his head raised his chest. Since Lin Shiran was assassinated in Shanxi, he did not dare to take it lightly even in this capital with good public security.

After a fixed route, the sedan entered Lingshi Hutong smoothly. First, he entered through the open middle door, and then steadily fell into the cleaned front yard.

Lin Jinyuan bent over and lifted the curtain of the sedan chair as before, while Lin Qingran waited for the curtain of the sedan chair to be opened, and then bent over and walked out of the inside.

It has been more than ten years since he came to this era, and he also forgot the fact that he was a fear of marriage orphan in his previous life, but he felt the warmth of his family.

"I would like to welcome my grandpa back to my house!" Wu Qiuyu, wearing an imperial uniform, had already waited here first and bowed to the returnee Lin Weiran Yingying.

Lin Qingran looked at the wife who was more and more maternal, and asked gently as before: "All everything at home?"

"It's not time for everyone to worry about you, everything is fine!" Wu Qiuyu is already the most qualified mother of this era, and she responded with a smile on her lips.

Lin Weiran heard the same answer almost every day, but even if he heard this answer ten thousand times, it was the best answer, which was to walk inside and say, "It's cold outside, let's go back to the house!"

"Yes!" Wu Qiuyu likes Lin Qingran's husband who knows the cold and cold very much, and responds with a happy smile on his lips.

Although Lin Fu's respectful couple was commonplace, his eyes could not help but flashed with envy, and he silently took Lin Weiran as his role model.

Ali accompanied Hua Yingrong to the business situation of United Honeycomb Coal. Since she has not returned yet, she still cannot see these two women.

The two of them walked through the hanging flower gate and returned to the inner house.

Lin Qingran followed Wu Qiuyu along the Qingshiyuan Road toward the main hall, but asked casually: "How is your way into the palace today?"

"The queen's condition is not important, but she is obviously much haggard!" Wu Qiuyu had planned to go to the palace to visit the queen earlier, and then responded honestly.

Lin Xuran knew that the relationship between Queen Chen and Long Qing had deteriorated, and she seemed a little sympathetic: "This is probably her heart disease, and she has to adjust it herself. The medicine is afraid that it will not work!"

"I think the queen is not a heart disease, it has nothing to do with falling out of favor. Instead, I think the queen has been in the palace for a long time and is thinking about going outside to relax! Usually, her sister talks about things outside to her today, and she listens very seriously and looks much better!" Wu Qiuyu shook her head gently, but said her own judgment.

Lin Weiran knew that women of this era were actually quite pitiful. Not to mention the mother of a country, even the mistress of an ordinary family often had no freedom.

Just thinking of Queen Chen's exquisite face and beautiful figure, especially her noble temperament, she could only be locked in the palace for the rest of her life.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but shook his head with some pity, but there were too many women growing up in this wrong era.

"What I said is true. Today, my sister usually said that she wanted the queen to disguise herself and go out to the palace to play with her. I saw that the queen was very moved at that time!" Wu Qiuyu misunderstood Lin Shiran's head-shaking behavior and immediately said seriously.

When Lin Xuran heard that his sister wanted to abduct the queen from the palace, he immediately decided to draw a line for the wild girl and said, "Where is that wild girl?"

"My husband, this is all about our women's family, so don't worry about it, and the queen will not follow her usual sister like this!" Wu Qiuyu realized that she had missed her mouth and said angrily.

Lin Qingran thought about it and said that this is true. Although his wild girl was not afraid of heaven or earth, the dignified Queen Chen would not be so rude.

Thinking that this kind of thing would not happen, the Queen Chen from Zhuangduan would not do so, so she would dismiss the decision to issue a ban on Lin Pingchang.

"My husband, the emperor has been fascinated by Mandariwa recently, and he has resentment with Concubine Li!" Wu Qiuyu was afraid that Lin Xuran would pursue Lin Pingchang, so she found another topic.

Lin Qingran knew that Longqing was a lustful emperor and seemed helpless: "I also heard that Mandariwa is the pearl on the grassland, and it is not surprising that the emperor was fascinated by her!"

I have to say that Altan's methods are very clever, but he openly brought Longqing a beautiful woman with a strong political flavor.

Although Mandariwa would not have conspired to murder Longqing, her appearance will undoubtedly have a certain impact on politics.

For example, the earlier peace talks, the reason why Longqing chose to reach peace talks with Altan's mission was a very important factor.

The more favored Mandariwa is now, the closer Longqing's attitude towards Altan will be, and Xu Jie's resistance to the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia will be to reduce the resistance to the mutual market.

"I saw Mandariwa today. She is not very beautiful, at least her appearance is far inferior to the queen, but she is dressed a little..." Wu Qiuyu accompanied Lin Qingran into the main hall, and said with a look of silence.

Lin Weiran did not have the chance to enter the harem, so naturally he had never seen Mandariwa, so he asked curiously: "What are some?"

"I'm not careful!" Wu Qiuyu searched for the words and finally said with certainty.

Lin Weiran probably knew what was going on, so he said for granted: "This harem is the same as the officialdom. The lower the ethics of an official will be more likely to be promoted!"

This is indeed a current situation. Although many officials see the country and the people being extremely upright, few of them are Zhen Hairui, and more are politicians who are good at political speculation.

"My husband is walking around himself!" Wu Qiuyu reminded him kindly when he heard this metaphor.

According to Lin Qinran's theory, Lin Qinran is now a senior secretary of Wenhua Palace and Minister of War at a young age. Isn't he an official with low ethics?

Lin Xuran was about to change his official uniform, but when he saw Wu Qiuyu laughing, he reached out and patted her hips and said, "You dare to tease me, I will definitely deal with you tonight!"

Wu Qiuyu always looked free and comfortable, but when he heard Lin Weiran's dirty words, his delicate face turned red.

Time flies. Although she is no longer the girl who is shy about running away with a kite, or the girl who deliberately goes to the Hanlin Academy to deliver food to her father in order to meet Lin Qingran, she still cannot hear such a joy in the boudoir.

As night fell, lights lit up in the entire capital.

A snow came quietly. Under the reflection of the light yellow light, white snowflakes fell into the yard, dyeing the yard a layer of white.

The lights in Lin’s study were already on. Lin Yanran’s life was monotonous and boring, but he was already sitting quietly at the desk, flipping through the information that had just been delivered from another place.

Because it is winter, there will be a lot of information from the south and west here at night, which is also the disadvantage of the traditional information transmission method in this era.

But for him, this disadvantage is looking for a solution, and a secret technology has been secretly carried out in Leizhou Craftsman Academy.

The first thing Lin Weiran opened was the information from the west. The secret exploration department had penetrated into the armies of the nine sides and was well aware of the major events in the army.

With the improvement of the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Altan, and the cold winter is now, the nine sides are now peaceful, and no war has happened since the beginning of winter.

Lin Qingran did not lose his guard against Altan. The wolf still had to eat meat after all. If Altan could be dismissed with just a little tribute gift, then Altan would not be able to rise from a leader of a small tribe, and would not be able to become a new generation of prairie lords.

What made him worried was that he originally wanted to use Altan's military threat to quickly improve the military capabilities of the Ming Dynasty, but now his direction is no longer under his control.

Once the Ming and Mongolia really trade together, the Ming army will miss the best opportunity to rise, which is also a foreshadowing for the destruction after a 60-year-old.

But his idea is destined to be difficult to be recognized by most officials, and even many so-called pro-war factions are just pseudo-pro-war factions.

But he has to admit that although he is in the Ming Dynasty officialdom and is the leader of the strongest party, he seems a little out of place with this officialdom that only seeks immediate interests.

Even within his Lin Party, many people only thought about how to overthrow Xu Jie and divide the cake, but did not consider how the Chinese nation would rise in the future.

"The road is long and arduous, I will search up and down!" Lin Qingran sighed secretly, not intending to surrender to the status quo, and he felt extremely firm in his heart.

Things in the world are often accompanied by good things. When we open up the information coming from the south, it is suddenly Hai Rui’s memorial to impeach Xu Jie.
Chapter completed!