Chapter 40 The East Wind Overwhelms the West Wind?
Although it is no longer as grand as it was when it was still the imperial capital, there are many famous families in Jinling. Now Wei Guogong and Cheng Guogong are both guarding Nanjing, with their families around them. If you really want to say that Jinling is the youngest, naturally it will not be Wang Shikun's turn anyway. Only Wei Guogong
The older sons of Duke Chengguo have already married and started a family, and each has a share of the family business. The kind of jealousy, jealousy, and fierce fighting have long been discontinued, while the younger generation is not yet old enough.
It was the age to go out to be a dandy. Therefore, Wang Shikun, who was protected by Wei Guogong Xu, wanted to call himself the number one young man in Jinling, and no one would come out to compete with him in the ring.
As for the actions and movements of the No. 1 Young Master of Jinling, the leaders of the Nanjing Ministry and Yamen would just casually listen to them as a joke, but some Yamen would never let go of this kind of thing that the real big guys throw in the corner.
It's a trivial matter. In the evening of that day, the three cavalrymen turned out of Nanjing Jinyiwei Yamen, followed West Chang'an Street and crossed the Dazhong Bridge. After a while of galloping, they turned into Changfu Street.
Since Chang Yuchun's descendants had already committed crimes during the Yongle period, in the fifth year of Hongzhi, the fifth generation Sun Changfu obtained the post of commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei, but this was an empty title that did not take seriously, and the Chang family was almost in ruins after all.
, the Changfu, commonly known as the Kaiping Palace, has also belonged to someone else long ago. Since Yongle began to send Zhongguan to guard Nanjing, the Kaiping Palace has been occupied by the guarding eunuchs of the past dynasties. Only two guarding eunuchs have been appointed to live here.
People often have high and senior positions, as is the case with the current owner, Fu Rong.
Although he was a middle official, Fu Rong came from the study room in Zheng'er Bajing Palace. After guarding Nanjing, he had a lot of free time, and he preferred to paint a few landscape strokes when he had nothing to do. At this moment, he stood in front of the desk and motioned to the young eunuch next to him.
Holding the paper, he concentrated on coloring the three or two branches of peach blossoms. Seeing the light pink color all over the branches, he couldn't help but smile, put down the pen, and then put down the sleeves he had just rolled up, when a gentle sound came from outside.
A knock on the door.
"Eunuch, Mr. Chen is here, and he happened to meet Eunuch Zheng at the door."
"Oh? It's a coincidence that these two people met." Fu Rong motioned to the young eunuch to move the painting to the desk to dry first, and then smiled, "Since they are here, let's meet together and send someone to lead the way.
Study. Lao Zheng doesn’t go to the Three Treasures Hall without anything to do. I don’t think I’ll be here for long, so I can find the few taels of tribute tea that I collected earlier to entertain the guests!”
"Well, Eunuch Fu, although the tribute tea is expensive, how come you, a rich man, only only have a few taels?"
While he was talking, there was only a soft squeaking sound, and the outer door seemed to be pushed open. Not long after, someone opened the door curtain and came in. The person walking in front was an old man about fifty years old with a dignified appearance.
He was dressed in a light blue Hangzhou silk robe, wearing half-worn black cloth shoes, and tied with a somewhat white silver belt around his waist. He looked like an ordinary old scholar. He was holding the door curtain and turning sideways.
The old man passed through first, and then he put down his hand and walked in. It was Chen Lu who was wearing a brocade official robe.
Fu Rong raised his hand and asked the young eunuch to go down and pour tea, then he said with a smile: "What you said is not acceptable. You arrived in Nanjing ten years earlier than our family. Our family is rich, so you can't do it."
Are you the sponsor? If you like the tea, you can take it away, but you can’t guarantee that our family will go to your house tomorrow and just bring it back if you like it!"
The old man who came was Zheng Qiang, the eunuch of Nanjing garrison and Nanjing internal official. Although he was four years younger than Fu Rong, he took charge of Nanjing internal eunuch in the 16th year of Chenghua. In the 20th year of Chenghua, he was promoted to Nanjing garrison.
He had been supervising the construction of various treasuries in Nanjing for many years, and his seniority in Nanjing was actually longer than that of Fu Rong. Therefore, when he heard Fu Rong's ridicule, his eyes suddenly narrowed to a slit.
"That's good! Whatever you can see, Eunuch Fu, just take it!"
The two joked with each other for a while, and Chen Lu came up to greet him again. Fu Rong just shook his hand and said no. When the young eunuch brought three small porcelain cups from Chenghua kiln with a small red lacquer tea tray, the three of them came.
Each person took one in his hand, but Zheng Qiang, who said he was here to ask for tea, only took a sip and said directly: "Brother Fu, we are not outsiders, so we opened the skylight and spoke frankly. That son of ours
As you know, Yingtianfu student has been struggling for several years, and his studies are not improving. Our family is getting very old now, and we want to use this old face to finally help him and find a future for him. I would like to ask you to help me.
Item says item.”
"It's a matter of course." Fu Rong agreed, then glanced at Chen Lu hesitantly, and then looked at Zheng Qiang and said, "It's just that the limelight is not good now. If you can wait, Old Zheng, you'd better wait.
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"Wait?" Zheng Qiang suddenly frowned and said angrily, "Brother Fu, if you have any difficulties, please make it clear. We have not been working together for a year or two, so do you still need to use official accent?"
"It's not official." Fu Rongqing knew that Zheng Qiang was impatient, so he gestured to Chen Lu. Seeing him stand up and come to Zheng Qiang's side, he whispered a few words, then he picked up the tea cup and took a sip. When Chen Lu
Lu turned around and sat down, but Zheng Qiang had a look of anger on his face. He sighed and said, "The limelight is not good these days. Those clean people are looking at those redundant officials and redundant people. Even Chen Lu is not immune. Why are you bothering?"
At this time, you are going to pull your son out and use him as a target?"
"Those well-fed scholars!" Zheng Qiang squeezed the armrest tightly and snorted hard after a while, "Zheng Jie was looked down upon all the time in the private school. If we hadn't given him a hard lesson a few days ago,
After a pause, he almost couldn't say anything anymore! I think back then, Brother Fu, you and our family fought tooth and nail for the name of an internal school hall, but now they, the children, are fighting for other people's nonsense.
Being able to give up on yourself is really far inferior to what we did back then!"
"How can you compare your children to our time? They have never suffered so much, so naturally they cannot bear those words."
Fu Rong couldn't help but laugh. As soon as Zheng Qiang mentioned this, he gradually felt nostalgic and chatted with him about the old things in the palace study hall. After waiting for a long time to finish chatting, he saw that it was getting late and left Zheng behind.
He forced him to eat, but the other party refused, but when he left, he not only gave him three taels of tribute tea, but also took away his newly painted peach blossom picture, and even forced him to print that square on the picture.
"Song'an" Xinyin gave up. When he sent people all the way to the second door, and saw Zheng Qiang getting in the car and driving away, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Chen Lu next to him with his hands behind his back: "What do you mean?
, did he come to talk to our house because of the rumor?"
"Eunuch Zheng has been operating in Nanjing for twenty or thirty years, so he is naturally well-informed."
"Except for his children and grandchildren, he has nothing to ask for. Seeing how he acted just now, he was really annoyed." Fu Rong smiled, then turned around and walked in, until he saw Chen Lu taking a step behind from the corner of his eye.
, he asked in a low voice, "You, on the other hand, rushed here in such a hurry today, what news did you hear again?"
"It's not big news. After all, the memorial was only sent out two days ago, and it hasn't arrived in the capital yet, so how can there be any reply?" Chen Lu paused and then laughed, "It's a small matter among the people.
There was a fire in Taiping Lane last night and two courtyards were burned down, one of which is where Xu Liang, who Xu Xun said last night, lived, who saved the eldest son."
"Oh? Fire?" Fu Rong stopped for a moment. Seeing that the smile on Chen Lu's face was a little strange, he turned around and continued walking forward, "Since it comes from your mouth, I guess the word "fire" is debatable?
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"Although there is no evidence, it should have been set by the eldest son of the Xu family. Last night, Xu Xun went home after attending an appointment with his father-in-law. He hitched a ride with a wealthy businessman who came with Wang Shikun. When he discovered the fire, he immediately asked who
The wealthy businessman borrowed money and used rewards to encourage his neighbors to put out the fire. As soon as Xu Liang came back, he was forced to pay for the money, and was taken back by the Nancheng Army and Horses Division. As a result, Xu Xun went to the Nancheng Army and Horses Division early in the morning, and later
Somehow he managed to catch up with Wang Shikun. Wang Shikun personally went to Nancheng Army and Horses Division to discuss the matter. It was rare that Wang Shikun, the number one young man in Jinling, did not act arrogantly. He actually made Zhu Laosan of Nancheng Army and Horses Division speechless and had to
Put the person in jail first to settle the matter."
Chen Lu made a brief conversation, and Fu Rong couldn't help but feel a little interested. He stopped and asked carefully about the reason, and immediately laughed: "When encountering such a thing, he actually didn't kill our assassin.
He used it to open a way, but he actually found a new way to coax Wang Shikun into willingly taking action, and Wang Shikun, who has always been aggressive with his fists, actually became sharp-tongued? Okay, the plan is good, very good... Let's see what happens next!"
"Yes." Chen Lu agreed, but after a moment he lowered his voice again and said, "Eunuch, in this matter about the Xu family, a purge of Zhao Qin from the Engineering Department seems to be causing trouble."
"Zhao Qin?"
Fu Rong stopped again. After pondering for a long time, he said word by word: "Keep a close eye first, don't be alarmed, and first find out what's going on and how the Xu family will deal with it.
The Zhao family has deep roots in Jurong, and many things have been reported to Jinyiwei in the past, but every time they move, they get nothing, but it brings trouble to everyone up and down. It doesn't matter if Zhao Qin is alone, but he is Qingliu, and our family is not in the capital.
Around the emperor, such a person is always a coquettish person if he cannot be brought down! It has been many years since the east wind prevailed over the west wind. It is not so easy to change the situation! Our family knows that you are angry, but you have to eat one meal at a time and do things step by step.
, there’s no rush.”
Seeing Fu Rong's attitude, Chen Lu bowed and agreed, but there was a hint of darkness in his eyes.
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